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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stupidity, home of the greatest media mind ever

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Speaker 1: to walk the planet. Okay, sure, here's the deal.

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Speaker 2: He's a true icon in every sense.

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Speaker 3: Of the word.

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Speaker 1: He's loved and feared more than any being to Grace's planet.

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Speaker 1: There's got a man with a voice that sounds like

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Speaker 1: Erry White and be got to say, Hey, let's do it, baby,

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Speaker 1: God himself would pay thirty nine ninety nine for a cameo.

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Speaker 1: Fact of the matter is, you are about to embark

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Speaker 1: on a transcendent experience that can only be described as

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Speaker 1: psychological nudity. This is Stu GOTX and this is Stupidity.

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Speaker 2: Here we go, Jim to.

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Speaker 4: Welcome into another episode of Stupotody, the biggest podcast in

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Speaker 4: the world, and one of the final episodes of Stupotody,

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Speaker 4: as we are going to rebrand this thing very very soon.

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Speaker 4: Mikey A, you are a big of Stupidity. We'll have

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Speaker 4: more information for you on that in the coming days

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Speaker 4: and weeks here. But Mikey ed, are you sad that

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Speaker 4: stupidity is going away something that you were a big

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Speaker 4: part of.

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Speaker 2: I am a little sad.

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Speaker 5: I mean, there's nothing like trying to impress people like

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Speaker 5: I did when this first came out, by showing them

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Speaker 5: a podcast with a picture of the host sitting on

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Speaker 5: a toilet. I remember showing that to my mother in law,

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Speaker 5: my future mother in law at the time, and her

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Speaker 5: just going and this is who my daughter wants to.

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Speaker 2: Marry, not the guy in the toilet, you know. But

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Speaker 2: I was proud of me. I was proud of it.

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Speaker 4: Right, I'm proud of it as well. It was the

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Speaker 4: biggest podcast in the world at one point. It was

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Speaker 4: bigger than Oprah. It was number one everywhere. Tony Reality's

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Speaker 4: going to join us. His show is coming to an end.

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Speaker 4: Around the Horn I have said about this, Tony Reality

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Speaker 4: is on the mount rushmore of beloved people to ever

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Speaker 4: work at ESPN and Around the Horn, which started I

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Speaker 4: think twenty three years ago.

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Speaker 2: What a run.

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Speaker 4: The final episode is coming up this Friday, Mike, that's sad.

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Speaker 5: That's over half my life, over half my life, Around

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Speaker 5: the Horn has been on and now it's just ending.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 4: Tony Reality has been the host of that show for

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Speaker 4: twenty one years, I believe since two thousand and four.

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Speaker 2: He's going to join us here in a second.

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Speaker 4: As the final episode is coming up on Friday, and

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Speaker 4: so I am interested in Tony's feelings headed into the

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Speaker 4: to the final episode, and I want to hear about

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Speaker 4: what's next for our friend Tony Reality. Mike, are you

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Speaker 4: sad that Around the Horn is going away?

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Speaker 5: I'm probably more sad that Around the Horn is ending

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Speaker 5: than Stupotody because Stupotody is going to get rebranded Around

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Speaker 5: the Horn is not right?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 4: Well, should I be upset that Tony Reality has, or

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Speaker 4: anyone for that matter, at Around the Horn that they

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Speaker 4: haven't reached out to me to make a final appearance

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Speaker 5: It's definitely something we need to ask him about. But

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Speaker 5: the thing I want to ask him about is give

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Speaker 5: me a name of somebody who would say something bad

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Speaker 5: about you. That's who I want to know if there's

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Speaker 5: because I don't think there is one.

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Speaker 4: Oh I'm certain he knows somebody and his name is

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Speaker 4: Tony Kornheiser.

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Speaker 3: My man, how are we great? Man? I really am.

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Speaker 3: People are talking to me like I'm dying, but I'm

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Speaker 3: doing great. You know, this is like you know, especially

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Speaker 2: How do you know what are the emotions like this week?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I just I can't even get my head

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Speaker 3: There's some calls. I can't even get to this point

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Speaker 3: You know, the connection, you know, I feel it. I

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Speaker 3: I'm like easerobio. But uh but you know you could

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Speaker 4: You know, it's a great show, Tony. People have fallen

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Speaker 4: in love with a show. I mean, it's a twenty

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Speaker 4: There are very few things you can count on the media,

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Speaker 4: and this is one of those things, and it's going on.

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Speaker 3: You and I have a similar we have a similar

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Speaker 3: Philbins in the Guinness Book of World Records for about

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Speaker 3: when I was able to say or find out from Wikipedia,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and fortunate. It's it's unfortunate running our business.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we know what this is. I mean, on Monday

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Speaker 3: Friday's your last day. That's what they usually tell you.

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Speaker 3: I've had I've used this expression, the Italian goodbye, you know,

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Speaker 3: It feels like my my plan was to thank everybody

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Speaker 2: Know, Yeah, you feel a love though Tony, I really don't. Yep.

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Speaker 4: And the appreciation, How did you? How did this show

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Speaker 4: I know you weren't the host at the beginning. I

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Speaker 3: At some point they may have stopped halfway through. I

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Speaker 2: What do you remember about that first show? Is there

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Speaker 3: I remember saying a prayer before I went on the air.

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Speaker 4: That's how long you've been hosting this fucking show reality,

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Speaker 4: Jesus Christ, it was a different look back.

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Speaker 3: Shoulder pads were in that point, my friend, it really were.

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Speaker 3: And then I remember, you know, so you know, I

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Speaker 4: You called me because I was wondering how I did.

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Speaker 3: or play down a character if you like, or you

433
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Speaker 3: could be one to one ratio. Is how I try

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Speaker 3: to operate, because that's what makes me feel right. When

435
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Speaker 3: I'm in that space, I can goof it up. I

436
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Speaker 3: did an episode at Seinfeld once. You know for Halloween.

437
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Speaker 3: People are like good impression and you already look like

438
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Speaker 3: him because your face is like a horse. But you

439
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Speaker 3: know you had to score the show. Stop stop with that?

440
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Speaker 3: What's it deal with this? No? No, no, you know,

441
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Speaker 3: so I need to dial that down. I get it.

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Speaker 2: You're so great. What's the biggest blessing that shows given you, Tody?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll say this. You know this is sad now, right.

444
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Speaker 3: I went through the toughest moments of life with my

445
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Speaker 3: wife and my family, and we lost our son in stillbirth,

446
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Speaker 3: and we welcomed the Enzo at the same time. And

447
00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,240
Speaker 3: that's just the duality of life in your face. And

448
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Speaker 3: I'm somebody who is a sharer.

449
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Speaker 2: My wife.

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Speaker 3: Is not. And we talked about this in advance, you know,

451
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Speaker 3: but be able to be open like that on TV

452
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Speaker 3: the way that I decided to be, of course, that

453
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Speaker 3: felt for me like something. But what came back in

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Speaker 3: return is what I'm talking about, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I'm still getting notes sent to me about that or

456
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Speaker 3: just about people's lives. I've called people, send letters. They

457
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Speaker 3: call people on the phone and they're home, you know,

458
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Speaker 3: they don't expect it. I've read some of the most

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Speaker 3: heartfelt letters that I'm worried about the person on the

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Speaker 3: other side of the letter. This was this week, John,

461
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Speaker 3: And I'm still trying to get to somebody to pick

462
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Speaker 3: up a phone because I'm worried about somebody this is

463
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Speaker 3: I don't know them right, and that's so it's not

464
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Speaker 3: all good, but it is all it's all real and

465
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Speaker 3: it's all full. So I never you know, especially in

466
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Speaker 3: those early days. You know, I couldn't even get my

467
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Speaker 3: head around. How do you have a conversation where you

468
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Speaker 3: don't score the debate on the show that has the

469
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Speaker 3: scoring system. You gotta score it. You can't do anything heavy,

470
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Speaker 3: you gotta score it. You know where I would score

471
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Speaker 3: something heavy and feel like stupid because I think in

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Speaker 3: the background of something very heavy. But once and again

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Speaker 3: I'll take feedback. The show was better before you opened

474
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Speaker 3: up too much. Okay, you know, but this was this

475
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Speaker 3: was how I chose to do it and live my life.

476
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Speaker 3: And some people appreciate what that is and others don't.

477
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Speaker 3: And I get that. I'm not. I don't. I'm a pleaser.

478
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Speaker 3: But you know, I can recognize people's tastes are what

479
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Speaker 3: they are, and they change, you know. I know, I've

480
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Speaker 3: lived in my skin for forty six and a half years. John,

481
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Speaker 3: I know when I'm in a room with somebody, we're

482
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Speaker 3: getting we're getting a law. You know, No, But I

483
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Speaker 3: mean people have written things in the last week and

484
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Speaker 3: are so nice. And people have also written things about politics.

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Speaker 3: Nobody ever in the world in a room I'm in

486
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Speaker 3: some it is like reality, You're to this, You're to

487
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Speaker 3: this politically? Are you serious? Do you know my family?

488
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Speaker 3: You don't know my family. I'm the guy who wore

489
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Speaker 3: an ash on TV every day for twenty three years. Okay,

490
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Speaker 3: that's who I am, you know I mean that. So

491
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Speaker 3: I have to be able to take absolutely everybody says

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Speaker 3: about the show, because what it is with all communications, John,

493
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Speaker 3: you know this, the second it comes out of mouth,

494
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Speaker 3: it doesn't belong to me anymore belongs to you. So

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Speaker 3: they will take whatever they said. I could say, I

496
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Speaker 3: would like to take back four or five or ten

497
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Speaker 3: things I said in five thousand episodes. You know I

498
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Speaker 3: can be completely truthful my eye. Yes, it meant the

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Speaker 3: show went one way for you. Ten things I said

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Speaker 3: in five thousand episodes. I can live with that. Nobody

501
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Speaker 3: from Bristol ever called me full stop period in twenty

502
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Speaker 3: three years. But maybe I talked twice in my life

503
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Speaker 3: and it was always keep on doing what you're doing.

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Speaker 3: There was never a controversy, There was never anything.

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Speaker 2: Never years.

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Speaker 3: You can't go a week now and hear about other

507
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Speaker 3: people who are in stuff you have never heard about

508
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Speaker 3: that with this show, not once.

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Speaker 2: Me and Levatar were getting five calls a day precisely.

510
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Speaker 3: So I have a very I'm a confident person. I

511
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Speaker 3: have a very thick skin about some things, and I'm

512
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Speaker 3: more than happy to have any conversation with anybody that's

513
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Speaker 3: in good faith at all times, which is why I

514
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Speaker 3: liked going on Twitter people. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody,

515
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Speaker 3: but you know, I'm happy to go on there and

516
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Speaker 3: meet people, and that's what I want to do going forward, John,

517
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Speaker 3: I want to have some great jobs in sports and

518
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Speaker 3: I will the best and the biggest sporting events, and

519
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Speaker 3: I will. But I also think there's still a place

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Speaker 3: what's real. It's connecting with people, and this is what

521
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Speaker 3: the last six months reaffirmed to me. I already knew

522
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Speaker 3: this to be true, but you know, I'd love to

523
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Speaker 3: play around the horn with the viewers somewhere in a

524
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Speaker 3: digital space where you don't have to worry is it

525
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Speaker 3: getting whatever. I don't know if ESPN cares about ratings.

526
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Speaker 3: Our shows rating very well, so I don't think it

527
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Speaker 3: was about that. But I'm just I can go in

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Speaker 3: a digital form. I don't care who's watching it, but

529
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Speaker 3: I want to get people an experience.

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Speaker 2: I'm in on that, by the way. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 2: I think you'd be great on that, the digital version

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Speaker 2: of a version.

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Speaker 3: Of Around the Horn with average fans just dropping on

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Speaker 3: my website tonyreality dot com. Yeah, just ripping it at

535
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Speaker 3: five o'clock. You know I can do that for for

536
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Speaker 3: for a long time.

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Speaker 2: I can.

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Speaker 3: I can. I'd be happy to do that.

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Speaker 2: I'd be happy to be there with you Tone Mount Rushmore.

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Speaker 4: Okay, this is I'm gonna put you in a bad spot,

541
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Speaker 4: but give me the Mount Rushmore of Around the Horn panelists.

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Speaker 3: I I I thought about this because no one's had

543
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Speaker 3: the onions to ask that question, by the way, so

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Speaker 3: thank you very much, John. You know, no one's nobod

545
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Speaker 3: It's like, let's put reality on this spot. They've been

546
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Speaker 3: able to ask them a different way. How I think.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you're gonna upset anyone, so no, of

548
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Speaker 2: course not.

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Speaker 3: But this is not about upsetting. This is my Mount

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Speaker 3: Rushmore is, and who's best my Mount Rushmore's Who would

551
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Speaker 3: literally survive on Mount Rushmore? Who are the last four

552
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 3: surviving debaters? We're talking about endurance, we're talking about expert

553
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 3: analytical arguments. We're talking about the will to do with

554
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Speaker 3: the other person won't in a sports debate, and for me,

555
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Speaker 3: it starts with Bob Bryan. Now we're talking peak, Bob Brian,

556
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Speaker 3: you're not getting Tony. Let me tell you another, Tony.

557
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Speaker 3: It's not about the it's not elbow jumper is the

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Speaker 3: most important shot and again not that threat pointer, Tony.

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Speaker 3: All right, Oh my god, I can't believe I just

560
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Speaker 3: did they? Okay, So, so that Bob Bryan encyclopedic in

561
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Speaker 3: his sports and his love. You know what. So Bob

562
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Speaker 3: Brian whatoody Paige? What he pages the good of around

563
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Speaker 3: the horn? And he won the debates and he would

564
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Speaker 3: be indefatigable in some ways, So so that would be great.

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Speaker 3: I have a wild card here in this and it's

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Speaker 3: Sarah Spain. Sarah Spain a force of nature from back

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Speaker 3: when forces of nature were old forces of nature. Yes,

568
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Speaker 3: pointiest elbows that we had on our show. You know,

569
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Speaker 3: she would cut you. You wouldn't even know you were bleeding,

570
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 3: but you look down and it be a pool of

571
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 3: blood at your feet. Yeah, be very poetic, and you know.

572
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Speaker 2: We called it the commission on our show.

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Speaker 4: She would just I mean, you know, the next thing

574
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Speaker 4: you like, she would just say something, and the next

575
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Speaker 4: thing you knew, you were looking on the floor dying.

576
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Speaker 3: And the last spot. This is going to sound like

577
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Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm serving no other person we came across

578
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Speaker 3: in our universe, even Lil Wayne, who's won Grammys or

579
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 3: even had a movement come out and say he needs

580
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 3: to be in the show like you did. Still, so

581
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Speaker 3: it would be between Stu and Bomani. Jones would be

582
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Speaker 3: my last two because Bomani has never lost a sports debate.

583
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Speaker 3: He's just allowed it to end. But the STU Army,

584
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 3: the STU Army would be somehow able to transport you

585
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Speaker 3: the weapons you need to conquer Mount Rushmore in that moment.

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Speaker 3: That's how That's how I would answer it for you.

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Speaker 2: I like that, Mike.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you feel like he's only saying that to me

589
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 4: because I'm the one doing the interview right now, the only.

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Speaker 3: One who asked, you know what, though, having the guillones

591
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Speaker 3: to ask that question, I have put Sue higher up.

592
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Speaker 3: Dan Patrick's not asking that question. I mean, let's be honest,

593
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Speaker 3: You're still.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah. Uh, Tim kleins Shaw's gonna be so pissed.

595
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Speaker 2: So is Jack.

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Speaker 3: Oh god, I love him. I love him so much,

597
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 3: you know, because he had to. He had the dry

598
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 3: sense of humor, you know he I mean that that

599
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Speaker 3: was that was great about that. He still doesn't know

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Speaker 3: what show what he was doing. He knows we're doing

601
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Speaker 3: around the Horn, but I don't know what show that

602
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Speaker 3: guy's did.

603
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Speaker 2: Right, He's so it's it's it's just us a.

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Speaker 4: It's such a fantastic to have sports writers a journalist

605
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Speaker 4: kind of come out of their shell and you get

606
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Speaker 4: to see for the first time, like you get to

607
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 4: see a little bit behind the scenes with Bob Ryan

608
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Speaker 4: and what he's all about.

609
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Speaker 2: I thought that was the best part of the show.

610
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Speaker 2: We don't know these people, and you brought it out

611
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Speaker 2: of him.

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Speaker 3: Tony, That's what that was the goal. Thank you for

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Speaker 3: saying that. I mean, now we can recognize, you know,

614
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Speaker 3: when this show signs off on Friday, gets signed off

615
00:28:55,680 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 3: on Friday, it will be the end of that journalism

616
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 3: on Deadline writers appearing on TV. Tony and Mike I

617
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 3: love him, their journalists with the Capitol J. But they're

618
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Speaker 3: now riding on Deadline for The Washington Post this week.

619
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Speaker 3: Tim Kalishaw, we were up in the air two days

620
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Speaker 3: ago about whether he was gonna even be able to

621
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Speaker 3: be on the last show of Around the Horn that

622
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 3: he's given his life to because Stars Oilers is playing

623
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 3: an Edmonton that weekend and we can't. I'm gonna get

624
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Speaker 3: him a shot a rogue camera, you know, That's what

625
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Speaker 3: I've said. So we got guys on deadline, so when

626
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Speaker 3: when we're gone, that's it. There ain't no more of

627
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 3: that type of show. Now we're seeing, of course, athletes

628
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 3: coming out and having wonderful podcasts, and I know we

629
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 3: can appreciate what that is, but we could also see

630
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 3: with our eyes how it's different, right, and and and

631
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 3: it's and it's different.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Tony, I'll get you out of here in just

633
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Speaker 2: a second.

634
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna say a few names that I know are

635
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 4: important to you when you say whatever you want about

636
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 4: those people, Okay, The final episode of Around the Horn

637
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 4: coming up this Friday, five o'clock on ESPN.

638
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Speaker 3: Eric ryde Holme, Well, he gave me so much freedom. Honestly,

639
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 3: it was a gift to be able to know I

640
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 3: could go into a show every day and just start cooking.

641
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 3: And I mean he's the one who interviewed me for

642
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 3: PTI and picked me out and said you're gonna be

643
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 3: stat boy too. So I mean I would say we

644
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 3: call him the genius for a reason. But the genius

645
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 3: as it applied to around the Horn and for me,

646
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Speaker 3: was he gave all of us all the space to play.

647
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Speaker 2: He is a He is a genius. There's no question

648
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 2: about it. Matt Kelleher.

649
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 3: Matt Keller is you know, one of the greats, one

650
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 3: of the greats. Yes, godfather to his child. He's godfather

651
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 3: to my child. That's all I need to say about that.

652
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 3: I will say he's the most underrated person in the

653
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 3: entire ESPN universe and in the entire PTI story. More specifically,

654
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 3: the most underrated person is Matt Keller makes that show go,

655
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 3: makes that show be the success it was is it

656
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 3: is the trenches every day with Corneiser and Wilbond. But uh,

657
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 3: I just said the word genius, So I need to

658
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 3: come up with a word that's better than genius, because

659
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 3: because I feel like there's there's a masterful nature to

660
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 3: my friend Matt Kellerher and.

661
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,239
Speaker 2: He had this unique a wait.

662
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 3: Basically, I mean, let me hit the button here. He's

663
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 3: the best man.

664
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 2: I know, he's the best man. You know, he has

665
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 2: this listen.

666
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 4: He has a unique ability and you know this is

667
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 4: difficult to do. Just looking at Matt he can get

668
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 4: hosts just to calm down and slow down.

669
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 2: He did it to me all the time.

670
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,479
Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, that's wonderful. Yeah, yeah, best man.

671
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 2: I know, he's awesome. Aaron Solomon.

672
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 3: Aaron Solomon is the the muscle of around the horn.

673
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 3: He is what makes it move. He's the one who

674
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 3: keeps us on, keep it short. Yes, by your cell

675
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 3: answers is the first thing that came to mind. He

676
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 3: has to work with a host who was twenty five

677
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 3: and absolutely tireless. Absolutely you know, my ears needed to

678
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 3: be opened a little bit more to other suggestions through

679
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 3: the years because I have such a review. So he

680
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 3: was able to work with me, and that is that

681
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 3: is not you know, something I take for granted.

682
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 2: And I'm thankful for that last one page.

683
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 3: What he Paige. You know, nobody would feel this way

684
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 3: but me, you know, because I know him a little

685
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 3: bit differently. I mean, there's a heart in there. I

686
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 3: know how much those wins and those losses really meant

687
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 3: to him. I know how he's viewing Friday Show. I

688
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 3: mean it's existentially, this is the end of a show.

689
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 3: What's the next, you know? Ending. I know that I'm

690
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 3: gonna think of two moments, you know, at my apartment

691
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 3: and him dunking on my kids, dunk dunk on our

692
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 3: rim in the in the basement, and I'm going to

693
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 3: think of standing right next to him and introducing him

694
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 3: at a benefit dinner for UH Suicide Prevention. Joan rivers

695
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 3: what he page myself, I mean, what a what a

696
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 3: great room that was. Joan was wearing six and chiels

697
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 3: and I had to kind of like help her down

698
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 3: the stairs, but I remember so so it's about heart

699
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 3: with what he one more name, I'm gonna say Josh Bart.

700
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 2: Oh, I forgot that, Josh, Sorry, Josh.

701
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 3: Call her is the PTI universe and Josh Bart is

702
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 3: the Around the Horn universe. This is, you know, this

703
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 3: is your life reality. I'm just going through all the

704
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 3: people and Josh Bart is also you know, a brain

705
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 3: and a soul of Around the Horn and the way

706
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 3: he works with UH, with the panelists every day. But

707
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 3: also he was the one that would say Okay, that's

708
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 3: all right, reality, here we go, and and I love

709
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 3: him for that.

710
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 2: There's nothing like getting laughter from Josh Bard in your

711
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 2: ear set.

712
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 3: Good laughter, good laugher, and better jokes. You know, he

713
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 3: was a ghostwriter for a lot of the jokes, and

714
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 3: those writer for a lot of the scripts.

715
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 2: Tony Man.

716
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 4: So listen, you have a godfather, You have some of

717
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 4: your best friends, you created a family and around there.

718
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so I needed more of a godfather

719
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 3: in the industry. I would say that this is one

720
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 3: of the things.

721
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 2: I learned at home, isn't he.

722
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 3: Well yes, but he plays godfather in a different way.

723
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm happy and and happy to be taking

724
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 3: and meeting so many great people who are who are now?

725
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 3: Who know where the doors are in this innight? That's

726
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 3: what I'm looking I'm going to be be opening doors now,

727
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 3: and that's that's that's pretty exciting.

728
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 2: What do you want to do next?

729
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 3: I want to do everything. I want to have one

730
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 3: of the best. No, no, no, I say that I've

731
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 3: done one show. I've done one show for twenty three years.

732
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 3: I want the exact opposite of that now and fit

733
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 3: my personality and my energy in some ways I want

734
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 3: to review with the biggest sports in the world, you know,

735
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 3: biggest game of the year and the biggest sports in

736
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 3: the world. And I want to do meaningful, heartful television.

737
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 3: There doesn't mean game call, doesn't mean a show that

738
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 3: a chair that exists right now. I want. I want

739
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 3: to invent the next chair. I want to do game shows.

740
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 3: I love game shows. I wrote game shows when when

741
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 3: I broke into this business. I love how interactive we

742
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 3: can be right now in game shows, and that's another

743
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 3: way to stick with people. I want to do kid shows.

744
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 3: I want to do parenting shows. I want to do

745
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 3: things like that. I wanna be a I want to

746
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 3: be a sport all right. I want to be living

747
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 3: in this space and then I go this, I go this,

748
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 3: I go this, I go this. That's where I want

749
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 3: to be.

750
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,240
Speaker 2: I love that that feature personality.

751
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 4: Mikey, I had a question here on the way out,

752
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 4: but also at the very end here, what I would

753
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:32,800
Speaker 4: like to do was for the three of us to

754
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 4: try to pronounce Irish wristwatch.

755
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 2: And say five times quickly together. Okay, Mikey, Hey go ahead.

756
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 5: I'm wondering if there's anybody who would say something bad

757
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 5: about Tony really.

758
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 3: That I've been sitting here. Read me twice while we

759
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 3: were doing the show. Cloneizer called me twice while.

760
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 2: That was the beat, Mike was going to tear your

761
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 2: head off. I mean, it was freaking I just assumed

762
00:35:58,680 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 2: it was you.

763
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 3: Well, I will say this, Mikey, once you ask that question.

764
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 3: The light did come on me. Right, So we know

765
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 3: the Pope is a sports fan. So there we go. Okay,

766
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 3: I'm not drawing uh people, people I know like, oh,

767
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 3: you should run for president. That's been set of people.

768
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 3: You run for pope. Okay, that's a joke. Oh oh no,

769
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 3: there are. There was a time in my life, Mikey

770
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 3: and and levantar noses more than than studos, you know,

771
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 3: where I was a very energetic young man who would

772
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 3: take liberties with refs and cyo games and and and

773
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,399
Speaker 3: all these other type of three on three and five

774
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 3: on five, these where I would argue calls. Most importantly,

775
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 3: I would know it was not that referee who gave

776
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,439
Speaker 3: me the fouls call. It was another That's not your call.

777
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 3: That's not your call. I like. I mean, I am

778
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,720
Speaker 3: a goodie two shoes, Mikey, and I am a pleaser,

779
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 3: and I'm a I like to live stress free life,

780
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 3: which means, you know, treating other people like I like

781
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 3: to be treated. But I've also have a strong personality

782
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 3: and I'm a contrarian, so there is plenty of times

783
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 3: there needs to be conflicted in a newsroom, in an

784
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 3: office space to get the best show out. And I'm

785
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 3: not a doormat. I will never be accused of being

786
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 3: a doormat. Even though you want to be a kind

787
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 3: person in life, You're not a doormat, right, don't don't

788
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 3: don't let people walk over you, so uh though you know,

789
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 3: uh sod find people, please go ahead. I'm I can

790
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 3: sleep great at night knowing you know I did my

791
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 3: best and that other people are gonna take it whatever

792
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 3: they want, where they want. You know, whenever you're in

793
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 3: a relationship with somebody.

794
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 5: Tony, I'll I'll just say this. I remember the first

795
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 5: time I knew how loved you were. I am also

796
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 5: a fordum ram and I was I was in college

797
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 5: and you were coming back to call a game for

798
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 5: fore and I'll never forget. I couldn't get in the

799
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 5: arena and was it wasn't it had nothing to do

800
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 5: with the basketball team.

801
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 2: It was because you were out there, I got you

802
00:37:58,320 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 2: in the area.

803
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 3: Yes, well this, now that I know this, oh my goodness. Yeah.

804
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 3: I think it's important to you want to feel good

805
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 3: about yourself, do things for other people. I mean, I

806
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 3: think that's important. I mean, I don't. I don't want

807
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 3: to say this too much, but I knew. I was

808
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 3: on TV, an international TV and in one hundred and

809
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:33,479
Speaker 3: twenty countries and with a lot of great young people

810
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 3: watching specifically, and I'm comfortable modeling how one way is

811
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 3: to go through life. And and that doesn't mean it's

812
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 3: the right way. That doesn't mean, uh, I might not

813
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 3: blow up at a Cyo referee every now and then.

814
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 3: But you know what I mean. I made a joke

815
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 3: on TV once that I hated. It was about Mitchell Trubisky,

816
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 3: the quarterback, and it was about it, and you know

817
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 3: what it was. It was a joke on myself, but

818
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 3: I wanted to not feel bad. I had a terrible

819
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 3: paper toss. This is ridiculous that I'm emitting this. I

820
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 3: had a terrible paper toss. And then I said, I

821
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 3: Mitchell Trubisky did right. And then I'm like, oh God,

822
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 3: what am I doing. I'm the one who had a

823
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 3: bath throw. Now I'm making a joke about somebody else

824
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 3: who's only one of the sixty greatest athletes in the world,

825
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 3: that is profession right fit thirty really at that time,

826
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 3: funny joke, though, Well what did I do? I got

827
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 3: a hold. I made the calls that I needed to make.

828
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 3: I admitted it immediately on social media, tried to amplify

829
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 3: it as much as I could, say, you know what

830
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 3: I did there? That was about me, that wasn't about them.

831
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 3: This is how you know, what is his cause? Cleats

832
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 3: for a cause? What is his donation here? Let's talk

833
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 3: about what Mitchell does? Really great? Who's the person behind that?

834
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 3: My bad move on?

835
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 2: Right?

836
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 3: You know, that's that's one way to do that, you know,

837
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 3: I get understand. I drew more attention to myself afterwards

838
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 3: and now always so nice for doing that, But that's

839
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 3: how I felt. I'm gonna I mean, I was in

840
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 3: tears at five point thirty two. My wife was sitting

841
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 3: right next during the pandemic. I remember this, I remember this.

842
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 3: I mean, these are the things that stick with you.

843
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 3: I'm like, why did I do that? You know? So?

844
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 3: So I I feel a lot, guys, John, you know

845
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 3: this so that's what that was. You know, that probably

846
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 3: wasn't the best the right reaction. The right reaction was

847
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 3: to apologize. But I shouldn't have been doing that way.

848
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 3: And that's why I go to talk therapy or you know,

849
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 3: that's why I'm a big believer in that.

850
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 2: You know, you're everything I wish I could be.

851
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 4: I mean, say it like that, I wouldn't make that

852
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 4: trubisky joke and don't even think for a second about it.

853
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 3: Okay, it is a joke, and I'm I can acknowledge

854
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 3: that's that's more hyper reactive on my end. But once

855
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 3: it played out that way, you know, I also live publicly.

856
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 3: Let's let's let's let's draw this out and show people.

857
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 3: I mean, I respond to people who are very critical

858
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 3: on Twitter and their eggs right, and they got three

859
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 3: followers and everyone knows what that is. That ain't a

860
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,959
Speaker 3: real person. But I respond and I retweeted out because

861
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 3: I work in TV and we have re errors, so

862
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 3: I have no problem redoing and posting it over and

863
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 3: over again as a model. So this is how you

864
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 3: how I show you where I was coming from. Is

865
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 3: I'm gonna model my intention. I thought about what I

866
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 3: was doing there. Yes, you're right, I probably could have

867
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 3: gone back to them this way, or yes, you're right,

868
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:15,800
Speaker 3: I could have framed it this way. Here's what I

869
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 3: was thinking. And then you move on and you know,

870
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 3: just say, you know, I hope you go back into

871
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 3: a cave.

872
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, Tony, what are younna miss most?

873
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 3: What am I going to miss? Most? I don't know.

874
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 2: I think it's the pre show ship man before the

875
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 2: show better than the stuff on the show.

876
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 3: I mean that, that's what it is for everybody. The

877
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 3: priests show stuff, the locker room, the in between the

878
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 3: commercial breaks was great. I still I still found out

879
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 3: things about my friends. What he page told us a

880
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 3: story about about hanging out at Elvis Presley's house and

881
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 3: eating those sandwiches the bacon peanut butter mayonnaise sandwich or

882
00:41:55,600 --> 00:42:00,800
Speaker 3: marshallow sandwich with Elvis's inn, and and that was like

883
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 3: last month, And I'm like, how did this not come

884
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 3: up in twenty three years? Bob Brian A four years? Yeah, yeah,

885
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 3: Bob Bryan last one ton of stories, you know. So

886
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 3: that's yeah, that's the stuff.

887
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 2: You miss, Tony.

888
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:17,280
Speaker 4: It's been a tremendous run. You're a tremendous person, tremendous

889
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 4: host and a great friend. And congratulations to you.

890
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 2: I do feel like we're we're doing a recap of

891
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:24,280
Speaker 2: your career. You're just fucking again.

892
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm not going anywhere. I mean, I hope

893
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 3: you guys see me on YouTube next week. You know.

894
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 3: The page is up and running next week, my website

895
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 3: up and running next week. It's not going anywhere. I'm

896
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 3: gonna be in Miami for a week in June.

897
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 2: You know this is yes and yeah, all right, we'll

898
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 2: see you down here. Congratulations to you, great run and

899
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 2: to the entire crew. What a show, What a run.

900
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 4: You don't have runs like that often in TV. And

901
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,720
Speaker 4: to you for you, Tony, to host it for twenty

902
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 4: two years. What an incredible ride.

903
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 3: Man.

904
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 4: Best of luck to you moving forward. Appreciate your friendship.

905
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 4: And I appreciate that show very much. I love that show.

906
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 4: I'm gonna miss that show. I'm gonna miss you, Tony.

907
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 3: Thank you, Johnny. You know what I owe it all

908
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 3: to me. Irish Schristwatch, Irish Risk Watch.

909
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 4: All right, all right, I'm gonna count us down, okay,

910
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 4: three two one, Irish Irish Watch, Iris Watch Watch Watch,

911
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 4: Swiss Wrist watch a batch of mixed wrist watches.

912
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 3: Russell Restbrook, The Rascally Russell Westbrook. Where's an Irish wristwatch?

913
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 3: The Rascally Russell Westbrook? Where's an Irish wristwatch?

914
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 2: Steve Gotts. I want to tell you something.

915
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 5: We just we just talked to Tony really for thirty

916
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 5: five minutes, and I'm gonna say something that I don't

917
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 5: know that I've ever said about anyone or any guest

918
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 5: we've ever had. I would be very proud if I

919
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 5: raised my son to be like him.

920
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yep, he's because he lives life the right way.

921
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,359
Speaker 2: Is what he really does.

922
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,839
Speaker 5: And it's and it's not and we've had we've had

923
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 5: like we have people on that I love, that I

924
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 5: adore that I think is some of the nicest people.

925
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 2: But he lives life the way I would strive to.

926
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 5: And that's that's That's probably as high a compliment as

927
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 5: I can give somebody.

928
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 2: Yep, he's, Uh, he's what you want your children that

929
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 2: turned out to be.

930
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, he really is, like you know, and it's not

931
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,399
Speaker 5: just a kindness, it's not just a niceness. It's also

932
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 5: a strength to like he doesn't back down from anything.

933
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 5: He's not afraid to say what he wants to say,

934
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 5: but he also says everything with a level of respect

935
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 5: that oozes out of.

936
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 3: Him, and that is That's not something you find a lot.

937
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 2: Of No, I agree with everything you just said.

938
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 3: He is.

939
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 4: He's a great friend. He's been a mentor, He's been

940
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 4: a huge help for me in my career. I will

941
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 4: only say this though, that Mitchell Trubisky shit, like, are

942
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 4: you fucking kidding me?

943
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 3: You would love that low hanging fruit