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Speaker 4: guests coming up this week. It is Neil Everett, longtime

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Speaker 4: Sports Center anchor. Really good dude, cool vibe. Fellow deadhead

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Speaker 4: mikey A. I am very excited about this because I

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Speaker 4: hold Neil Everett in such high regard. He is absolutely

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Speaker 4: in my top five Sports center anchors of all time.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's a big lit. I know, top five sports.

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Speaker 6: I'll tell you this, He's definitely one of the top

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Speaker 6: five people that I actually got to work with at

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Speaker 6: ESPN in terms of just just a cool dude, just

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Speaker 2: Top five. I think he makes my list too.

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Speaker 3: He was so Mike, He's so good at TV. He's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's Yeah, we're gonna do this, aren't we We're

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Speaker 3: A top five.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna be top five sports of all time, each

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Speaker 3: We're gonna do a list.

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Speaker 4: As we headed to Neil Everett right now, because I'm

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Speaker 4: excited he was let go by ESPN.

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Speaker 3: He's not the only one.

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Speaker 4: There's been a ton of people who have been let

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Speaker 4: go recently by ESPN, and I've told you this for

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Speaker 4: a number of weeks now. In a number of months,

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Speaker 4: ESPN has shifted its priorities away from kind of the talent.

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Speaker 4: Now you'll see, you know, guys like Scott Van Pelton,

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Speaker 4: Mike Greenberg, and those guys Rhees Davis who are very

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Speaker 3: They'll be hosting all the main things that ESPN has

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Speaker 4: But ESPN has shifted its focus to a play by

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Speaker 4: play company, and they should quite frankly, I don't even

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Speaker 4: it three hours after the fact. Social media is going

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Speaker 4: to ruin it for you. And so Neil Everett was

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Speaker 4: one of those casualties. He's a great friend. I'm certain

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Speaker 4: being at ESPN. I am gonna give him some advice, mikey,

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Speaker 4: They take the ESPN card away from you. Okay, they

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Speaker 6: Okay, you gotta get a die hard sports fan that

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Speaker 3: I man, listen, I just put together my list.

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Speaker 4: It is impossible to do this without hurting somebody's feelings, right,

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Speaker 3: Give all five right now.

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Speaker 6: And for me, for me Sports Center anchors, I go

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Speaker 4: So feel Good Edition was unbelievable. Remember that, the Feel

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Speaker 6: Always on, all right. So for me, Number five, I

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Speaker 6: Bob Lee's and the and the Chris Burman's. Number four.

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Speaker 2: Number two I got Stu, I Gott Scott.

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Speaker 6: And he's really the appointment watching today.

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Speaker 3: He's great sport. He is, No, he's fantastic. That's a

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Speaker 2: I imagine looks the same. Maybe.

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Speaker 4: I think I think Scott van Pelt would tell you

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Speaker 4: would be embarrassed that you put him above ahead of

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Speaker 4: Stuart Scott. It's your list, though, that's my list. Tell

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Speaker 3: Why are we having some conversation that never happened. It

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Speaker 2: But we're having we're having a fake argument with s

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Speaker 3: He hasn't even comment, nor will he all right, So

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Speaker 2: I think I think we probably have four of the

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Speaker 4: And different orders probably, all right. So for me, a

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Speaker 4: like that's over over time there have been some great.

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Speaker 2: All right, So you're gonna sneak in a sixth one

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Speaker 3: Or something like that.

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Speaker 4: Number five Jamel Hill and Michael Smith want to run.

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Speaker 4: It was a short run, a controversial run, but what

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Speaker 2: I already see where this is going.

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Speaker 4: I love both of them. I did Number four Zubin Mahenti, Zubanium.

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Speaker 4: What happened to him in the mornings at ESPN Radio.

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Speaker 2: Zubanium?

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Speaker 3: Number three Jonathan Coachman coach the coach. He was great,

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Speaker 4: Why are you laughing at me. What's wrong with my list?

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Speaker 2: Nothing? Not a damn thing is wrong.

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Speaker 4: Number two Neil Everett. Okay, yeah, yeah, I mean top five.

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Speaker 3: I'm only going to tell you this.

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Speaker 4: I will not tell Neil this, Okay, and hopefully Neil

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Speaker 3: Okay, Stan Barrett.

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Speaker 8: You're an ass. Don't out.

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Speaker 3: Don't tell Neil. Don't tell Neil, Mikey Neil.

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Speaker 2: Neil would argue that you're right, let's have that. Probably would.

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Speaker 4: But the reason I'm saying don't tell Neil is because

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Speaker 3: He's the greatest sports center anchor of all time in

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Speaker 6: Again, what would What would Scott van Pelt argue about it?

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Speaker 5: I don't care.

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Speaker 3: Tell him it's our list, Okay, weird open to a

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Speaker 3: weird show. Hey, van Pelt, back off, it's our list.

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Speaker 6: Because I'm mad at van Pelt for arguing with me

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Speaker 3: Let's get to our friend.

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Speaker 4: I will tell you this quick story on Neil on

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Speaker 4: Neil Everett. When Dan and I started at ESPN, our

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Speaker 3: But a guy who got it very very quickly was

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Speaker 4: Why because he's cool, he's got a great vibe, he's

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Speaker 3: I had never met Neil before.

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Speaker 4: It was unbelievable to get that note from a guy

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Speaker 4: Because he is a legend and he is great so

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Speaker 3: He did not need to do that, he did it.

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Speaker 3: I shared it with Dan. It touched both of us.

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Speaker 4: So with that said, let's bring on the greatest Sports

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Speaker 4: Center anchor of all time, Neil Everett.

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Speaker 3: Mike ya one of.

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Speaker 4: My favorite people and certainly a top five sports center

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Speaker 2: Do you agree with that?

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Speaker 4: Before we get started with Neil here, who is coming

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Speaker 6: Mike Ya, Of course, he's a top five sports anchor

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Speaker 6: I think Neil said hello, and forty five minutes later

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Speaker 4: I said, Neil, that the beauty of Bill Neil, that's

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Speaker 5: And he's got it going. Love the guy, he's the best.

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Speaker 7: Well, my dad was a good golfer back in the day.

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Speaker 5: He golfed at Stanford. He was good back in his day.

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Speaker 7: Well, thank you. You know, I think it really, it's

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Speaker 5: Neil, I know I wouldn't let them. I wouldn't let them.

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Speaker 5: I got out.

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Speaker 4: Uh well, if you don't mind me asking, because we

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Speaker 5: Now, Uh, you know I was.

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Speaker 4: It seems like ESPN and and Neil, I don't think

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Speaker 7: And you know, I just you know, it's so the

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Speaker 3: Neil, let me tell you something.

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Speaker 4: For at least the next five years, when you're making

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Speaker 7: Okay, well, I think it's like I think it's like

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Speaker 7: My wife was a rose princess in Portland and there

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Speaker 7: I think I think we're we're I'm always going to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm still doing it, Neil.

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Speaker 4: I'm three years removed and it's still heysty got from

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Speaker 5: So I thought you guys are on ESPN. That shows

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Speaker 3: Know you thought we were still there.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I thought, John Skipper, and I'm like, it must

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Speaker 4: I know, I think I heard an interview with you

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Speaker 3: And I don't blame them.

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Speaker 4: By the way, so where they have all the play

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Speaker 4: You got to watch it live. Social media will ruin

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Speaker 3: So you saw coming.

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Speaker 4: But what was it like when you actually found out, Hey, Neil,

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Speaker 7: I was I was prepared for it, so you know, listen,

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Speaker 7: I mean again, twenty three years at any place and

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Speaker 7: the one who coined the term rip city, and he

447
00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,360
Speaker 7: had passed away eighty something years old. And we're at

448
00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,960
Speaker 7: this memorial and Lillard is standing in the corner by

449
00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,360
Speaker 7: himself and my wife's and I had never met him

450
00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:15,919
Speaker 7: because I only did away games. So I when I

451
00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,919
Speaker 7: go up there there on the road, so people are like,

452
00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,520
Speaker 7: what's Lillard Like, I'm like, I don't know.

453
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Speaker 5: I have met him.

454
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Speaker 7: He's in Phoenix tonight. I'm in I'm in Portland doing

455
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Speaker 7: the game. So my wife's like, go over and introduced,

456
00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 7: and I'm like, no, no, And I'm super introverted except

457
00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:29,800
Speaker 7: when the red light comes on.

458
00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:31,119
Speaker 5: I can. I can blow it up.

459
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Speaker 7: But when there's no red light, I'm in second gear.

460
00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,320
Speaker 7: And my wife said, maybe not even second, maybe first.

461
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,320
Speaker 7: But she's like, go go, You're gonna regret it if

462
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Speaker 7: you don't go.

463
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Speaker 5: I go, okay, all right.

464
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Speaker 7: So I walk up and I go, hey, Dame Neil Everett,

465
00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,080
Speaker 7: and he goes, I know who you are, man, And

466
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,200
Speaker 7: I said, well, you know, yeah, we've never met, and

467
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,040
Speaker 7: I just wanted to come over and you know, thank

468
00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,080
Speaker 7: you for you know, all the entertainment and all you do,

469
00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,439
Speaker 7: you know, how you represent Portland. He goes, man, we

470
00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:02,760
Speaker 7: met before, and I'm like, oh, damn, I don't remember

471
00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,439
Speaker 7: meeting Dame. This is uncomfortable. I said, I said, we

472
00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,159
Speaker 7: met before we're at and he said it was my

473
00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:13,160
Speaker 7: rookie year. I was in Eugene at this bar called

474
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 7: Tailor's and I met you, And I'm like, your rookie

475
00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,439
Speaker 7: year at a bar. Okay, I'm going to give myself

476
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Speaker 7: a pass on that one that I don't.

477
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Speaker 5: Remember meeting that.

478
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Speaker 7: I don't remember meeting you from Weber State then, but.

479
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Speaker 2: He remembers you, Neil.

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Speaker 7: I mean, geez, well, you know what, Let's get to

481
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Speaker 7: the Let's get to the bones of it.

482
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Speaker 3: That is what's.

483
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Speaker 5: Impressive, isn't I kind of felt the same way. I

484
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:39,800
Speaker 5: went back to my wife. I go, I met him before,

485
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Speaker 5: but he remembers meeting me.

486
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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's funny.

487
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Speaker 7: It's funny, ste guys, because I don't know if you

488
00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:45,719
Speaker 7: get if you get this feeling.

489
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Speaker 5: You know, I'm sixty one.

490
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:52,200
Speaker 7: I still feel like a kid when I run into

491
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Speaker 7: people who I admire. You know, who are who are

492
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,240
Speaker 7: who are kids compared to me? Lillard's thirty two thirty

493
00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,879
Speaker 7: three years old, and I'm like nervous to go up

494
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 7: and introduce myself to him, and then I'm all excited

495
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 7: that he remembered me, you know, so, And I think

496
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,880
Speaker 7: that's the that's part of the beauty of this gig

497
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:15,480
Speaker 7: is you know, the the legends that you meet, and

498
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 7: then if you're able to leave any kind of impact

499
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Speaker 7: on them or memory with them, that's just I mean,

500
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Speaker 7: that's just gravy, like like through through ESPN in the

501
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,159
Speaker 7: in the Heisman Heisman Trophy, I've worked with forty five

502
00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,479
Speaker 7: of the sixty Heisman Trophy winners that are still alive.

503
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Speaker 5: Wow, you know, and.

504
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Speaker 7: It's like like what a what a great run? What

505
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Speaker 7: I mean, like, what are we doing? What are you

506
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 7: and I doing? If we're not doing this, I mean,

507
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 7: it feels like.

508
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Speaker 5: I'm not going to speak for you. I can speak.

509
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 5: It feels like it's going to be a huge drop off,

510
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Speaker 5: you know.

511
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, No, I could speak for myself. I'd be

512
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Speaker 4: slinging BEAUTI bonds, That's what I'd be doing.

513
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Speaker 7: I'd be digging ditches. I think something are you know?

514
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 7: Or well, welcome to Walmart right.

515
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,399
Speaker 4: Well, levettalk and I always say that all of us

516
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 4: should be doing these jobs with ski max on, that

517
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 4: we're we're stealing for a living.

518
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Speaker 7: Neil, Absolutely, it's just yeah, it's been, it's it's it's great.

519
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Speaker 2: It's uh.

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Speaker 4: I love that dame. Remember was your wife every impressed

521
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 4: that Dame remembered you?

522
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 7: Oh my, my wife doesn't pay much attention to sports

523
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 7: or me.

524
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,400
Speaker 5: So you know, she's she's.

525
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,880
Speaker 7: She's she's the bomb. You know, she's a therapy help.

526
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 7: She's actually helping people in this life.

527
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, unlike you and I.

528
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

529
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Speaker 3: Yeah, But Neil, here's the thing with what we do.

530
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Speaker 4: Okay, not to you know, not to get too into

531
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Speaker 4: ourselves for a second, but the greatest compliment that Dan

532
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 4: and I get is we took someone through a very

533
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,879
Speaker 4: difficult time in their life. And I am certain that

534
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 4: you've gotten some of that from fans and for that

535
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 4: that makes us at least feel good, and I'm certain

536
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 4: it makes you feel good, because Neil, people do. They're

537
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,399
Speaker 4: glued to us. They watch you every night on Sports

538
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,440
Speaker 4: Center and our We listened to our show every day.

539
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 4: And do you hear someone say, Hey, I'm a military vet,

540
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 4: I've had a down time in my life. You guys

541
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 4: got me through it. You made me laugh. To me,

542
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 4: that's the greatest compliment that someone could pay any of us.

543
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 7: Oh, one hundred percent, you know, I mean through ESPN,

544
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:22,119
Speaker 7: I got involved with a nonprofit called Heroes Movement Heroes

545
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 7: Movement USA dot org, where we bought gym memberships for

546
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,919
Speaker 7: veterans across the country. That all started with me meeting

547
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:30,399
Speaker 7: somebody through Sports Center.

548
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:34,199
Speaker 5: There's the there's my friend Ryan in Virginia, born with

549
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 5: cerebral palsy.

550
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,199
Speaker 7: Who they said was he was going to be a

551
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 7: vegetable and he says, now I eat vegetables. He comes

552
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,639
Speaker 7: all the way out from Virginia with his mom and

553
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 7: dad to visit me because I'm his favorite Sports center anchor.

554
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 7: You know things, There's there's so many stories like that

555
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 7: that are just you know what, you wish. I just

556
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 7: wish I had a better memory, and I wish I

557
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 7: had jotted these down, kept a journal because there's so

558
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 7: many good stories that were a result of the position

559
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 7: that I was in, and.

560
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 5: There will still be good story.

561
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Speaker 7: I mean, you know, I'm walking down the street and

562
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Speaker 7: ask story Oregon the other day and a guy comes

563
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Speaker 7: by and goes.

564
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Speaker 5: Hey, Neil Evertt.

565
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 7: I go, yeah, hey, what's up, you know, and then

566
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 7: he says, I want you on Sports Center.

567
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 5: I'm gonna watch you. When are you on next? I go,

568
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 5: I'm never on again, bro.

569
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Speaker 7: So but it was, you know, I'm like, yeah, but

570
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 7: hey man, life goes on and you know, it's it's

571
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,719
Speaker 7: it's you know. What I feel like, Steve Gotts, is

572
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 7: that I have I've been outside my body, which I

573
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 7: have been. I've been outside my body watching this life

574
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 7: that I've been living.

575
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Speaker 5: Right.

576
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Speaker 4: I want to tell you something because early on with

577
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 4: Dan and I started out at ESPN, and this meant

578
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,160
Speaker 4: the world to me. And this is why, I mean,

579
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 4: there's a million reasons why I think you're a great

580
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 4: person and you really are a top five Sports center

581
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 4: aker for me all time. Okay, but you sent me

582
00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 4: a note just saying how much you enjoyed what it

583
00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 4: is is that Dan and I did. And I could

584
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 4: promise you we were not getting a ton of notes

585
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 4: like that from anyone at esp but Neil ever reached

586
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 4: out to me and I showed it to Dan and

587
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 4: it meant a lot to both of us, sir, So

588
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 4: thank you.

589
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 7: Oh man, Well I'm listening you guys, are you guys

590
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 7: get it done?

591
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 5: Man?

592
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 7: You know what is it's it's reminiscent. I think of

593
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 7: what Stan and I did. If you watched the show,

594
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 7: you said, those guys are having fun. Yes, and and

595
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 7: if you're not having fun, why why are you doing it?

596
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 7: And and it and and and if we're having fun,

597
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 7: then hopefully we're entertaining you because there's you're on the

598
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 7: same wavelength as we are to some degree, or you

599
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 7: wouldn't have dialed us in to begin with. Sure, So

600
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 7: you there's something about our personalities that that you that

601
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,640
Speaker 7: you take the heart. And now if we can make

602
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 7: you chuckle, you make you think, uh, make it, give

603
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 7: you chicken skin, you know, then we've You're part of

604
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:57,919
Speaker 7: our family.

605
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 5: Man, You're part of this.

606
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Speaker 7: You know, you're a part of Stan, of my family

607
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 7: at late night, part of you know, part of Dan

608
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 7: and Stu gotts is fam you know, you know. And

609
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 7: you know when they show that, they show your producers

610
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,640
Speaker 7: and all you guys are cracking up, and it's like

611
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 7: those guys are having a good time.

612
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 5: Man, they're getting paid.

613
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's sports, man, it should be fun.

614
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we're not caring cancer.

615
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 4: Okay, But Neil, I think the thing is it is

616
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 4: just being relatable. None of us played like I know.

617
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 4: We all played sports growing up in high school, some

618
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 4: of us in college, most of us were high professional athletes.

619
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Speaker 3: And I think there's a reason.

620
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 4: The audience relates to someone like me and you Stan

621
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Speaker 4: Dan as opposed to someone like Matt Hasselback.

622
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Speaker 3: And I say that with all due respect to Matt Hasselback,

623
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 3: but he's lived a different life than we've lived.

624
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Speaker 2: Neil.

625
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Speaker 5: Yeah.

626
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, when they give Steve Young his walking papers, it's

627
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 7: different than when they give Neil Ever his walking paper.

628
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 3: That's exactly right, Neil.

629
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Speaker 4: Were you even nervous because you have such a great vibe,

630
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 4: It doesn't appear you ever get nervous.

631
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Speaker 3: You're so cool, and I am wondering, were you nervous

632
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 3: before your first sportsetter?

633
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 5: Don't even remember it? Really? So? No, No, all.

634
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 3: I remember you weren't joking?

635
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 7: No I all I remember is I go back to

636
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 7: Hawaii and I tell that my you know, the the Ohana,

637
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 7: the friends, the family. I'm like, hey, I'm I'm doing

638
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,479
Speaker 7: Sports Center now, And all anybody said is when are

639
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 7: you going to do a Sports Center commercial?

640
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 5: That's all anybody cared about.

641
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 7: Yeah, so it was nice that the Federal commercial turned

642
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 7: out to be able to live live for so long

643
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 7: and they played that on my last show and all that.

644
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 7: But uh, yeah, I don't you know, there's all you

645
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 7: got to have a little bit of you know, it's

646
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 7: I don't know if nerves is the right word, but

647
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 7: you better be on your game. Like I'm not a

648
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 7: good go out there and we'll just we'll just wing

649
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 7: this thing. I am not a winger. I worked that

650
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 7: Sports Center job every night. I showed up and I

651
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 7: did my homework.

652
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 5: You know, I'm not. I can't tell you. I couldn't

653
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 5: tell you what's going on with the Miami Marlins.

654
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 7: But if I can see I got that highlight that night,

655
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 7: it'll sound like, damn, that dude knows the Miami Marlins.

656
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 5: It's not what I know, it's what you think I know.

657
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 5: And you think I know more than I know.

658
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 7: So I better do I better do my homework because

659
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 7: I do not want to be exposed for what I

660
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,239
Speaker 7: don't know. Because, to be honest with you, duduts, I'm not.

661
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 7: I'm not that huge of a sports fan like I'm

662
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,239
Speaker 7: you know, I don't I don't sit at home and

663
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 7: watch games. Uh, you know, there's there's you know, the

664
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 7: sports took enough of my life as it was. You

665
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 7: know when Monday through Friday, from you know, four to

666
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Speaker 7: midnight or whatever, I was gonna be watching sports. So yeah,

667
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Speaker 7: I like, I can't tell you the last NFL game

668
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 7: regular season NFL game I watched just pay pay know

669
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 7: what one is because I stopped gambling, So that's out. Uh,

670
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 7: and it's Sunday and I had Sunday Mondays stop. And

671
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 7: it like if I said to my wife, Hey, we're

672
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 7: gonna sit around here and we're gonna watch the Titans

673
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 7: and the Browns today, she'd be like, whoa are we really?

674
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Speaker 4: So noi' stop gambling when gambling became legal, which is

675
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 4: good because I tell all the time, I got to

676
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 4: miss the days where I meet a guy in a

677
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 4: back alley and hand them a paper bag of money.

678
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Speaker 3: You know.

679
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 7: Yeah, listen, there's a lot of ices that you can

680
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 7: fill in the blank on that one on So yeah,

681
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 7: you know it's you.

682
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 5: Know, if nobody knows, if everybody knows you're doing it,

683
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 5: what fun is there in it? Yeah?

684
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 4: What was what was Stan's reaction when you heard the

685
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 4: news because Sports Center for me early on, the attraction

686
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 4: was the duos. Whether it was Dan Patrick and Keith

687
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 4: Olberman were the feel good addition, I think it was

688
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 4: Haber and Kilbourne, which was fantastic, and you would stand,

689
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 4: I think were the last kind of the last of

690
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 4: the duos there. And you guys were so great together,

691
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 4: such great chemistry, and you could tell how close you

692
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 4: were just on air, just what good friends you guys were.

693
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 4: Why do you think ESPN got away from that? And

694
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Speaker 4: I am wondering what was Stan's reaction when you heard

695
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Speaker 4: that you were you were no longer going to be.

696
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 2: There with them.

697
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 7: I don't know why ESPN got away from that. That

698
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 7: you'd have to ask, you know, the people that make

699
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 7: those decisions. But that it is interesting because you know,

700
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 7: we're at that point where where you know, you already

701
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 7: know who won the game, right, you know, by the

702
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 7: time we come on, for the most part, unless it's

703
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 7: a super late West Coast.

704
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 5: Game, you know one, you probably have seen the highlights

705
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 5: on your phone. So the so the reason to.

706
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 7: Turn in that show is to see what kind of

707
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 7: spin the two guys, the two people whoever that may be,

708
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 7: can put on it and and and as we just mentioned,

709
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 7: what kind of spin can Dan and Stu Gots put

710
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 7: on whatever? You know, whatever they're gonna whatever. The topic

711
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 7: of the day is what kind of spin can Kneel

712
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 7: and Stan put on? The highlights of the day? I

713
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 7: know all the scores already. What are they going to

714
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 7: tell me that?

715
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 5: I don't know? How are they going to make me laugh?

716
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 5: What are they going to say that's memorable?

717
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 8: Uh?

718
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 5: And that's what we did. That's what you guys do.

719
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 7: And uh yeah, and that's you know, and and the

720
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 7: thing is, my fastball is still popping right, and but

721
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 7: you know that's hey, you know it's Dave Roberts.

722
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 5: They took out in the fifth.

723
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 3: So well for a middle reliever. I mean that that

724
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 3: was well done by you.

725
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 5: Neil. I like that.

726
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 4: What are you doing with all the free time now

727
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 4: besides playing golf and wonder rend criticizing everyone of the game.

728
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I was up in Quarterlaine, Idaho for a week.

729
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 7: That's that's beautiful country up there.

730
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 5: Uh. Went to the Dead Show. Didn't run into you,

731
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 5: but saw some dear friends there.

732
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 7: Went to a Neil Young concert at a twelve hundred

733
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 7: set outdoor auditorium in LA that I didn't even know

734
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 7: existed until Neil book five nights in it.

735
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 5: And now I'm up here for a week. Up here,

736
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 5: you know, I got a few things going.

737
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 7: You got the you know, negotiating with the Blazers, trying

738
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 7: to figure out, you know, if I can do a

739
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 7: little more since I've got a little more.

740
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Speaker 5: Time, a lot more time. Uh and uh, you know,

741
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 5: Hawaii's in the mix. You know, some things going on there.

742
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 7: And fortunately, you know, I didn't make a ton of

743
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 7: money at ESPN, but I made enough that and I

744
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 7: saved it that I don't have to do anything right

745
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 7: now if I don't want to, but I want there's

746
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 7: you know, something will pop its head up and.

747
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 5: And and we'll go from there.

748
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 4: You want to roll with me, I mean, I don't

749
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 4: know what we'll do, but I'm ready to roll with you, Neil.

750
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 4: I mean I can tell you that right now. West

751
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 4: Coast correspondent, what do we think it is?

752
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 5: I told you, I told you that's the one thing

753
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 5: your show had does not have. You are East coast bias?

754
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 3: Yes we are.

755
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 5: You need a West Coast correspondent.

756
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 2: Damn love it, Tart.

757
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 5: This is my audition team.

758
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 3: You don't need to audition. I mean, I could just

759
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 3: hire you, Neil, if you like.

760
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 5: There you go, there you go. We know who's got

761
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 5: the real power in that relationship.

762
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 3: No, I don't. It's Mikey.

763
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 5: Hey, what do we do here?

764
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Speaker 3: What do you think I'm thinking of West Coast corresponding

765
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 3: Neil Everett?

766
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 5: What do you think?

767
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 6: Nothing wrong with that, as long as you send me

768
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 6: out there every once in a while just to make

769
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Speaker 6: sure he's got everything he needs.

770
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going to need that com rex tied up.

771
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Speaker 3: You know.

772
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 5: I am not going to be able to figure out

773
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 5: how to do that thing with that. Yeah.

774
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Speaker 7: I mean I still got a VCR and an eight

775
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 7: track tape player, so I may need some technical help.

776
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 3: What is the uh, Neil? These are two very different questions.

777
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 4: So this one first, the most meaningful text you got

778
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 4: after leaving ESPN, The most meaningful one you got.

779
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 7: I think Chris Berman, because I didn't know Chris Berman

780
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 7: had my note. I didn't know Chris Berman texted first

781
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 7: of all. That's uh uh and uh so I think

782
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 7: that Chris Berman reached.

783
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 5: Out to me.

784
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 7: Bob Lee sent me an email. You know those guys

785
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 7: are the those guys are the legends. Those guys you

786
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 7: talked about Top five, those guys are they're beyond You're like,

787
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,240
Speaker 7: they're you know, it's like when you go, what about Berman,

788
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,879
Speaker 7: what about Lego? Oh yeah, they're they're they're above top five.

789
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 7: You know, they're Hall of Fame, you know, they're you know, Emeritis,

790
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 7: you know. I mean, they got so they're so o

791
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Speaker 7: g they they get their own category. So I think

792
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 7: that was I thought that was really cool because I

793
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 7: have so much respect for both those guys.

794
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 5: I mean, they they built that play.

795
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 7: The one that was most unexpected. I got a text

796
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Speaker 7: from Dan Fouts.

797
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 3: Wow.

798
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 4: Well, I was going to ask you, what's the coolest

799
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 4: text you got, which is a very different question.

800
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 7: And it seems like Fouts, well, you know Dan Fouts,

801
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 7: Like I didn't know Dan Fouts even really knew who

802
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 7: I was, and and we both went to Oregon, and

803
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,280
Speaker 7: I've talked to him a couple of times.

804
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 5: But it's not like I had Dan Fouts's number, and

805
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 5: it's not like he had mine. He had to have

806
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 5: asked somebody in our chain of acquaintances, how do I

807
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 5: get a hold of Neil, And the fact that he

808
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 5: did that that was very meaningful to me.

809
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:36,879
Speaker 2: That's very cool.

810
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,399
Speaker 4: You're right about the Dead and Company shows. We both

811
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 4: went to the first night in San Francisco. Did not

812
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 4: see each other. Did you see Walton by the way.

813
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 7: No, but I was in touch with my wife is

814
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 7: dear friends with Laurie wollt wife, and she was so

815
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 7: she was texting me telling me to telling me where

816
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 7: they were to come down to the floor and dance

817
00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 7: with them.

818
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 5: And I'm like, it's it's not that easy. You don't

819
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 5: just I can't disquie. I'm with Bill. Uh, this is funny.

820
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 5: So one time and when we were in Bristol and

821
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 5: Bill was.

822
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 7: Working for ESPN, and he got a hold of me

823
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 7: and he says, hey, you want to go to the

824
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 7: rat Dog concert with me tonight? And it was the

825
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 7: rat the Rat Dog and the Almond Brothers playing at

826
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 7: that Hartford Amphitheater and I'm like yeah. And so I

827
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 7: show up and I get to the seats and Bill's

828
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 7: not there, and we know we're like row seventeen or whatever,

829
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 7: and I'm like, Bill's not there, and then I look, well,

830
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 7: Bill's standing in the front row, of course, and so.

831
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,240
Speaker 5: I go up and Bill's like you know, I got boom.

832
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 5: We watched we watch rat Dog and he goes, come on,

833
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 5: we're going backstage.

834
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 2: Jeez.

835
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 7: We go backstage, there's you know, there's Greg Almond backstage,

836
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 7: and oh you know that, you know the dudes from

837
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 7: rat Dog. And I'm like, are you kidding me? I'm

838
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 7: meeting Bobby Weir? Are you kidding me?

839
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 5: You know, just yeah, what you know? I mean, look

840
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 5: at that.

841
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 7: I mean that alone makes sense, that that alone makes

842
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 7: everything worth it that one night.

843
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna flip my phone over to it in

844
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 3: a second because I want you to see how easy

845
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 3: it is to get down to Bill Walton, the guy.

846
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 3: Can you see that?

847
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 5: Did you get that? You next to him? That is me?

848
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 4: For some reason, Bill made me push my belly out

849
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 4: and lift my hat up. I don't know why I

850
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 4: did that, but that is me and Walton at the

851
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 4: File Dead Company show in San Francisco front of House

852
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 4: the Best, and was hanging out with Miles Teller right

853
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 4: before that.

854
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 5: Ah, so so you were on you were on there,

855
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 5: you on the floor all three nights. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

856
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 5: I was up. I was up in the bleachers.

857
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 7: But you know what, and and I'm usually such a

858
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 7: seat snob, but I didn't get the tickets, and my

859
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 7: buddy got him. Eric Epstein shout out to E. J. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

860
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,320
Speaker 7: And actually it was kind of nice to be to.

861
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 7: Not I'm not a huge crowd guy like that anymore

862
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 7: in this but the the video presentation was excellent and

863
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 7: I and I don't know how you can see I

864
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 7: don't know how well you see it from the from

865
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 7: the ground level, but boy, uh like you could really

866
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 7: see the chimini on the on the piano. Really, you know,

867
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:19,280
Speaker 7: they's just watching him go at it and up close

868
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 7: by uh Bob Weir and then he you know, they

869
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 7: take the break and he comes out in his Yellowstone

870
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 7: outfit and uh and uh Mayor and just you know,

871
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 7: he's like, you know, just all the facial expressions. So

872
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 7: I really I really enjoyed it from from that point

873
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:35,319
Speaker 7: of view, you know, it was it was a good

874
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 7: way for me to see what is probably the last

875
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 7: show or you know, who knows how they're gonna what

876
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 7: they're gonna do next.

877
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 3: Of this iteration, there'll be another one, Neil. Yeah, yeah,

878
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 3: I'll tell you a quick, funny Walton story.

879
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 4: So I'm at the New Year's show out in Goldens

880
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 4: at the Chase Center where the Warriors play. And so

881
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 4: my wife, my kids are with me, but they leave.

882
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 4: It's getting late and it's just me and Walton. You know,

883
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 4: sound where on the side is yeah, And he had

884
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 4: someone else with him. I don't remember who it was.

885
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 4: But we're front of house, you know, side of the

886
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 4: sound stage. And the second set ends, and I knew

887
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 4: there was a third set. It would start at midnight.

888
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 4: It's New Year's Eve, and Walton's like, all right, Stu,

889
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 4: gotta go, and I'm like, all right, Bill was a pleasure.

890
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 4: It was nice to see you're leaving for the third set.

891
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 4: He's the ghost to next thing.

892
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 5: I know.

893
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 4: Bill Walton's on stage in a costume, counting him down

894
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 4: to midnight. It was unbelievable.

895
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 2: The guy's amazing, he really is.

896
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,879
Speaker 5: Oh he's the best. He's the best. First First Dead

897
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 5: show you ever saw was win Oh gosh.

898
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 4: First Dead show I saw was RFK Stadium, Washington. I

899
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 4: believe it was eighty eight or eighty nine. They played Loser.

900
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 4: I mean, it was just it was amazing.

901
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 3: So how about you.

902
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 7: Mine was the eighty five New Year's show in Oakland,

903
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 7: Damn ken Kesey got on the the.

904
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 5: Drum box and went nuts.

905
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 7: And that was the first show I'd seen again with

906
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 7: Big John and Eric Epstein. And then I moved to Hawaii,

907
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 7: so I never saw another show for fifteen years.

908
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 3: That's crazy.

909
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 4: I'm actually looking at it now because it's on Spotify.

910
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 4: July seventh, nineteen eighty nine. JFK State Even Philly. Yeah,

911
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 4: Little Hell in a Bucket, Ica, Little Red Rooster, Rabela

912
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 4: Rose and a Loser.

913
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, unbelievable. Now what do you think of

914
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 3: the show? Mayor's incredible?

915
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 5: Right, you know, it's funny. There's a place in New

916
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 5: Haven you might remember it called Toads.

917
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,439
Speaker 7: Yeah, a little hole in the wall. I went down

918
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 7: there years ago to see Buddy Guy, and Buddy Guy says,

919
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 7: I'm gonna bring out a little friend of mine, and

920
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 7: out comes this fourteen year old kid, maybe it's John

921
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 7: Mayer who lives down there or did, And this kid

922
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,320
Speaker 7: comes out and just you know, you were like, damn,

923
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 7: this kid can play. Yeah, And then he got into

924
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 7: the you know your I Love your Body tonight or whatever,

925
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 7: and I'm like, oh God, please stop. And then he's

926
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 7: on stage with the dad, And I mean I think

927
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 7: even Jerry from upstairs would be like on, nice job, kid,

928
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 7: nice job, No doubt that was you know.

929
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 4: I was hesitant when they first started because I'm like, man,

930
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 4: that catalog of music is tricky, and just being able

931
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 4: to jam with those guys is really like the to

932
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 4: improvise the way. But it was a little slow at

933
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 4: the beginning, and then he's slowly gained confidence. They slowly

934
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 4: gained confidence, got faster and faster. What you saw at

935
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 4: the end there was them at their absolute best, you know.

936
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 4: So I'm glad you got a chance to see him.

937
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that that Friday show, those first four songs,

938
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 7: they came out just boomed like I mean, they smoking,

939
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 7: like they were taking the lead in the race.

940
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 5: And they were not gonna get caught. Yep. Neil uh.

941
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 4: It's i gotta be honest, Like turning on sports thatter,

942
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 4: not seeing you anymore, it makes me emotional, it does.

943
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 4: I'm certain it makes you emotional as well. What are

944
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 4: you going to miss most about that place, that job

945
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,720
Speaker 4: and what you did for for over two decades.

946
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 7: Well, I put Parental Walk on my TV so then

947
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 7: I just don't have to see it because it's kind

948
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,879
Speaker 7: of like seeing an old girlfriend make out with somebody else.

949
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 7: So I think that was I think that was the

950
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 7: best way to go to go about it. So, you know, again,

951
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 7: I don't you know, I'm not a huge sports watcher.

952
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 7: You know, it's it's not a show I would watch

953
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 7: in my spare time to begin with, right you know,

954
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 7: the live programming is which goes back to, hey man,

955
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 7: this is where they this is where they put their dough.

956
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 7: You know, I'll watch a college football game and all that.

957
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 7: But you know, it's just it's it's a tremendous part

958
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 7: of an unbelievable journey for me. And it was a

959
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 7: lot of there were a lot of steps in twenty

960
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 7: three years in that journey. But you know, it's what's next.

961
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,280
Speaker 7: Can't wait for what's next. There's so many great stories

962
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 7: out there. There's so much fun to have there. You know,

963
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 7: we got you know, I'm in the I'm on the

964
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 7: back nine. You know, I'm probably you know, I'm playing

965
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 7: thirteen right now, you know, and you know, and I'm

966
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 7: hoping we go to sudden death because uh, you know,

967
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 7: I just I just want to enjoy it. And I

968
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 7: did enjoy it. I had a hell of a good

969
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 7: time and a great run. And I meant so many

970
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 7: cool people. I'm talking to you right now. Uh you

971
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,359
Speaker 7: know this, you know, I mean, come on, Waltonnoy says

972
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 7: he's the luckiest guy in the world. Listen, there's a

973
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 7: lot of room on that planet for lucky guys. And

974
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 7: I feel like I'm on it.

975
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:27,919
Speaker 3: With him, no doubt about it. Mike, Yeah, you had something.

976
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, take the point the locks off. She

977
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 6: might be making out with a new guy, but that

978
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 6: guy is ugly, man. Just just go ahead and just

979
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 6: watch it.

980
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 3: Ain't Elvert, that's for sure, right about that, Neil. Yeah,

981
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 3: Stan doesn't love that new guy the way he loves you.

982
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 3: I don't care what. I don't care how he looks

983
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 3: at him.

984
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 5: Yeah.

985
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 7: You know the problem is I can't stay up that late.

986
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm I'm in bed before that show goes on.

987
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 7: And you know, I was sitting out there was stand

988
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 7: some nights going like, man, how do we do this

989
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 7: five nights a week? Because you know, now we're doing

990
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 7: it like three nights week and back East, you know,

991
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 7: we were coming on at one in the morning.

992
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 5: I was getting off at three, going to bed at five.

993
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:12,760
Speaker 5: In the morning. And I wasn't a young guy. Started

994
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 5: at ESPN when I was thirty eight. You know, I

995
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 5: was late.

996
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 7: I was a late ad. I was a late fine

997
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 7: and you know, and I just continually out kicked the coverage.

998
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 7: And then I was like, Okay, now I'm a made man.

999
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 7: And uh but whoa I'm going to My wife says

1000
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 7: I'm going to bed. I'm like, I'm going to bed too.

1001
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 3: What time you get into bed?

1002
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 5: Like eight? No? Nine? Nine? Yeah? Nine?

1003
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mikey, we're all old. Poor Van pelts up at midnight. Still,

1004
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:47,359
Speaker 4: oh yeah, right for now at least anyway. Yeah, anyway, Neil,

1005
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 4: thank you so much. It was a great not a

1006
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 4: good run, a great run. And Mikey A and I

1007
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 4: both meet it when we say top five sports in

1008
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 4: a ranker, I'll thank you. I'll put you ahead of Bermitt,

1009
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 4: I will, and I am. I'm putting you ahead Chris Berman.

1010
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,439
Speaker 5: How about that? Well, see, he's in a whole nother league,

1011
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 5: so you.

1012
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 3: Know, I remember more with TJ than I do on

1013
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 3: Sports Center, though, like you.

1014
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 5: Know, yeah, but you know, I mean, he's just you know,

1015
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 5: you got to give those guys.

1016
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 7: You know, Steiner, he built it yeah, yeah, and you

1017
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 7: know Linda Kohane even Linda's still there, but you know,

1018
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 7: you know she you know, Hall of Fame.

1019
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 5: Those guys are you know, those are the people that

1020
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 5: you know.

1021
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 7: It's funny, like I remember real quick because I know

1022
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 7: we're I remember like the first time I did a

1023
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 7: show with Dan Patrick, the first time I did a

1024
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 7: show with Kenny Maine.

1025
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,720
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm on the air with Dan Patrick.

1026
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 5: I'm on air with Kenny Maine, Like what, like, what's

1027
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 5: going on here?

1028
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 7: Like I felt like I'm the guy who you know,

1029
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 7: like I walked backwards into the movie theater when the

1030
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 7: show was letting out so then I could get in,

1031
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 7: you know what I mean. And it was like I'm here,

1032
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 7: and uh what what a great time? Don't don't don't

1033
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 7: wake me up, man, Even though I'm not there anymore,

1034
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:00,439
Speaker 7: and still I'm still living the dream.

1035
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 4: I don't think people understand that, Like for people, at

1036
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 4: least for me who grew up watching Sports Center and

1037
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 4: ESP had so much what it was like the first

1038
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 4: time I was on First Take, or when I was

1039
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 4: I was the guest picker on college game Day because

1040
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 4: a Rod and j Lo had to cancel and that

1041
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 4: poor camera crew woke up that morning thinking they were

1042
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 4: going to a Rod and j Loo's house and ended

1043
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:18,439
Speaker 4: up at mine.

1044
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 5: Neils, that's a good story. I had heard that story.

1045
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's a great story.

1046
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,879
Speaker 4: But uh yeah, working with those people and having conversations

1047
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 4: with Dan Patrick and and have them be, you know,

1048
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 4: friends of mine till this day.

1049
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 3: And I'm certain you feel the same way, and you do.

1050
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 4: Was it meant a lot. It meant for a kid

1051
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 4: growing up wanted to be a broadcaster. It meant more

1052
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 4: meeting those guys that it has. The relationship that I've

1053
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 4: developed here with Travis Kelcey or Aaron Rodgers.

1054
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 3: I love those guys. But man, I'd rather hang out

1055
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 3: with you and Dan Patrick any day of the week.

1056
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?

1057
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 7: Absolutely same, same, SAME's true. And when you're out on

1058
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 7: the West Coast, holler at me and it'll be good

1059
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 7: to catch up in person.

1060
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 3: Well do we appreciate you?

1061
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 4: You've always been kind to me with the exact right

1062
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 4: words at the right time when I needed them, Neil,

1063
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 4: So thank you very very much.

1064
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 3: I sent them right back to you, exactly what you

1065
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 3: wrote to me. But uh, it was a great run, man,

1066
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 3: I'm happy for you and good luck with what's next.

1067
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 3: And what's next is West Coast Sport correspondent for the

1068
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 3: Dan Lebotard Show. Its Stigot's Okay, long may you run, brother,

1069
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 3: Long may you run, Sir.

1070
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 4: I'm going to make this happy, Neil, you and I

1071
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 4: are going to roll together, Okay, all right, brother, I

1072
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 4: love it.

1073
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:32,359
Speaker 5: Lo Mike