WEBVTT - Life Chat with Adam Amin (1/25/2017) 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the solid verbal. I'm that for me, I'm 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:08.200 a man, I'm forty. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.119 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:10.639 be happy. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.440 You want to be happy for dake Edo State. Is 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.120 that woo woom? And Dan and Tye. 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.119 Welcome back to the Celebrabo Boys and Girls. My name 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:24.680 is ty Hildebrand. I am joined as always by my 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.280 good friend and colleague and co host of many years 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:32.479 and tonight with me in spirit. His name is Dan Rubinstein, 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:41.199 and apparently he went to Mexico City. I do not 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.680 believe he took his USB microphone with him. If he did, 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.519 he didn't tell me, which means that he will not 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.640 be part of the podcast this evening, at least not 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.400 for the next couple of minutes or so. Hopefully we 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.840 can team back up next week because it's National Signing 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.000 Day and we got to talk about that and Brent 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:07.280 Musberger retired and maybe getting into sports handicapping, and Tommy 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:12.399 Slash Tom rees is returning to Notre Dame, which means 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.520 that Reesus is returning to Earth in twenty seventeen. Lord knows, 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.080 We've got a lot to discuss. In a week or so. 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.680 We are staring down the barrel of a loaded show. 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.680 Don't forget we will be posting once a week all 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.480 throughout the off season. If you're just tuning in, you 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.959 can subscribe to all our shows at iTunes dot com 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.720 slash Solid Verbal. As for tonight, we're going to play 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.760 back an interview we did with Adam Amin from ESPN. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.440 He was down in Tampa for the National Championship, so 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.120 we invited him to stop by the booth, you know, 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:49.040 do something normal like commentate a game of Techmo super 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.800 Bowl with us that we could post a Facebook. He 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.680 could not have been any more willing to be part 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.600 of that. Not only that, but he hung around for 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.160 like another forty five minutes or so. He let Dan 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.480 and I ask a bunch of weird and probing questions 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.639 about his life and career and his innermost thoughts. He 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.760 could not have been more gracious with his time, and 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:13.840 it really was a pleasure to get to know a 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.000 little bit more about him. If you're not familiar with 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.520 Adam Amine's work, my hunch is that you will be. 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.400 He is a play by play guy for ESPN. We 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.000 know him in the college football world because he called 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:33.120 college football with Mac Brown. But he also does the NFL, basketball, baseball, 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.240 you name it. He's a super talented guy. He's on 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:40.400 his way up. Great sense of humor. Also a secret 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.720 verbal survivor from last season, which is certainly notable here 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.880 on the show. We had a ton of fun getting 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.000 to know Adam a little better. I suspect you will too. 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.760 Have a listen. All right, so we are joined by 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.600 the great Adam aman Man. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.760 You give him really good introductions, colleague to me, Yeah, 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:01.160 that's true. 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.560 That's the that's the up and coming play caller. He's 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.560 made booth play by play guy. We just did play 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:07.960 by play. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:08.600 True. 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.920 That was all my last super verbal, the verbal Tecmo, 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:14.280 super verbal. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:19.480 Oregon, Notre Dame, ugly all the game, blowout City thirty 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.800 five to ten final. It was not pretty. I did not. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.200 I did not need that punctuation on the Organ season. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.600 I didn't. I'm gonna tell you from my emotional wellbeing, 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:27.560 I'm not in a good place. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:31.519 But you are here in Tampa because you are. He's 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.200 waving at everybody audio. I just like waiting at people. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.120 Is there anything wrong with that? Just a friendly guy, Dan, 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.520 I'm so happy. I'm so happy to be here. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.720 Honestly, like I I ran it our good buddy Nicole 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.040 Auerbox last night. Yes, she's around, and a bunch of 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.600 the writers that I follow and admire very greatly. And 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.720 I told them, I was like, I'm surrounded by people 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:51.640 I like, people I love, and people I admire, and 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.120 it's like, it's my first time being in an event 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:54.480 like this. 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.200 Oh, it's a great time. I've never done it. 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.080 This is sort of secretly it's it's college football media 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.480 prom without. This is without the outward dancing at the 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.160 end of the not a lot of awkward dancing. Some 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:09.000 if you've seen Andy Staples around, okay, but yeah, no, 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.800 we'd dancing. No weird dresses or suits, awkward fitting. It's 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.680 just a good time. Maybe it's like a convention. I 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.520 don't Know's are some weird suits. There are don't sell 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:16.880 it short. 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.680 There are some I don't name names decisions on here. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.320 I mean, let's wait, can they Okay, So let's paint 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.880 a quick picture for the folks, real quick. And and 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:27.719 we're leaning in, and we're at a table together, and 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:32.160 we're all leaning in and to our immediate right, there 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:33.400 are some interesting pants. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.719 Those are those John Day pants. Pink. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:41.520 It's like the pink Ranger like made her Power Ranger 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:42.520 suit into pants. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.200 It's like a gumball machine came to life and threw 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:47.040 up everywhere. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.400 That's what it looks like. I think that's fairly I 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.160 taste the rainbo. I mean, that's pretty much it. 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.240 So you're here and Monday night during the game, you 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.719 will be on the fields, Yes, with Taj Boyd Clemson 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.800 Greats quarterback, Barrett Jones All American Center, Farmer Center for 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.640 Alabama and uh and Joe Tests. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.920 The Great Joe Tests. He's the Great Joe Test, the 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.800 Great Joe Tests. So what will you what will that 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.560 function be? You don't usually call a game from a field, No, 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.080 of course not. And it's and it's a new concept 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.560 in the last couple of years. Uh, and we see 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.400 we've seen this kind of bleed over into other sports 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.840 now and this is we've kind of dubbed it as 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.039 a crew as the Homer Cast, Yes, just because it's 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.600 it seems catchy, but it's part of the Mega Cast 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.280 that we've now done for three years. Yeah, three or 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.599 four years now at this point. And the Mega Cast 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.680 has been a huge hit the last several years. And 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.200 we keep adding things and coming up with different ideas, 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.160 and a couple of years ago they said, let's get 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.240 some people from these programs that are former players and 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.560 guys that have some semblance of an idea of how 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.039 to analyze games. And Taj and Barrett are very sharp 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:51.560 guys who know what they're doing and know what they're 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:52.159 talking about. 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.680 So we figured, let's let's get their take. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.680 Let's have their perspective, their Homer perspective on these teams 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.360 and what we can do and put it all together. 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:03.960 So now all four of us are going to be 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.760 on the field and we're quasi calling the game, and 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.760 you know, will you be moving We'll be moving like 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.120 through up and down the sideline, people behind the end zone. Basically, 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.440 it's a free for all and in the best way 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.800 possible because we were not confined to the rules, the 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.200 typical rules of television, So it'll be really fun. We 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.320 have a skeleton, but we get to kind of fill 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.080 in the muscle like however we want to. 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.120 So it's not a conventional broadcast you're accustomed to doing. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.159 How do you prepare for something like this as opposed 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:32.240 to what you normally do. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.919 It's more streamlined and a lot of it is just 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.520 going to be leaning on Barrett and Taje and their perspectives, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.159 and we really want to see their emotion of it 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.600 when Clemson scores. I want to see Taj Boyd react excitedly. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:44.920 I want to see pump for it. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.839 I should mention it's Alabama if Clemson scores, right, Yes, 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.600 we just have to and this will be we will 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.040 be airing this probably after the game, right, ty is 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:54.800 that is that correct? But it is cool to hear 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.560 so when you listen back. If Adam Imin gets run 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.080 over by both Scarborough, this will be the last audio. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.920 Time for the game. Buddy ever hears me on a podcast. 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.120 Yeah, fair enough, Which, by the way, that's not out 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:07.960 of the realm of possibility that bos Garber literally just 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:08.520 runs me over. 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:09.400 Here's my requests. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.840 I don't ask for much, but it feels like because 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.080 it's so first person, you're on the sideline, you're so 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.920 close to the action. The sport that really has that 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.880 much more so than than football, is basketball. Yeah, I 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:22.880 want you to drop. You don't have to do more 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.680 than one. I want one and one mixtape scream. I 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.760 just want like an old baby, That's all I want. 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.080 You can call anybody you want hot sauce or you 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.480 know Barrett Jones an accomplished student, right, he had like 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.760 a four roh. Absolutely, you can call him the professor. 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.440 You can just all happily drop that down. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.800 See that was that was a Brent Musburger thing. He 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.640 would come up with a professor. He would come up, 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:47.960 that's true, come up with a pet nickname, right for 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.120 like major Applewhite was the major. Yeh, Darren sprolls right, 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.440 he was a little tank. So this is something perhaps 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:55.040 to as as. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.240 An opportunity, opportunity for yeah, I think on Monday night. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.440 So yeah, I just want and one add one whatever 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.760 with his name to come up with just on the 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.520 fly catchphrase like listen, will you get fired from ESPN 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:08.560 for ad libbing too much? 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:09.160 Maybe? 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.640 But this is your legacy, this is this is the 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.480 mark that I wanted to leave. And then both Scarborough 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:14.040 will wun me over. 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:15.920 He will run you over. He will run you off 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.280 social media superstardom. I think if Scarborough runs you. 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.160 Up, oh both Scarborough is oh if if he runs over, 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.960 if he runs that's true, you you increase your queue? 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:28.520 Oh yeah, absolutely, what's that thing on Twitter? Like you 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.480 clout clouds score is gonna be like four. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.000 Bit I'm gonna pump that thing up at least four points. 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.680 Absolutely will something. I'm at like a forty eight right now. 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:40.240 That's if we can jump over cloud cloud score work. 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.760 I've met two people I have two friends now who 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.680 have been run over on a football sideline, and both 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.040 of them ended up like Sports Nation, they end up 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:49.320 Oh yeah, show of course. 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.800 So well here's our story. What do you have. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.960 So we met for the first time about two years 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.280 after we did the show, that's true, and we had 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.600 a connection at the time early days. We were on 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.160 the field for Texas against Nebraska two thousand and nine 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.000 and nine ten. Yeah, we're standing in the end zone 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.640 and have you called the game in Nebraska? 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.200 Oh gosh, yeah, I love it. Okay, so you'll know 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:13.520 you'll understand this then. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.840 So somebody kicks off I think it was Texas and whoever. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.160 The kicker was beams one through the end zone and 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:21.320 it's coming right at me. 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.720 Oh, it's hot, it's coming in hot. Yeah. 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:25.679 This was the first game I had been to, at 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.360 least on the sidelines in the end zone. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:27.679 Okay. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.640 So I'm sitting I'm like, what's the move. Do you 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.120 try to catch the ball? Am I going to get 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.880 kicked out if I catch the ball? The guy next 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.280 to me, who I later learned had been doing the 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.280 kicking nets for like forty years, decides he's going to 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.520 reach out one hands, it, goes out, takes a step out, 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.920 holds it up, gets the entire round of applots from 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.640 Memorial Stadium. I found out after the fact that this 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.200 was like the moment in his life. He wants this 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.680 on his tombstone. I didn't know what to do. I 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:56.240 was terrified. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.040 It should be noted there's about four and a half 0:09:58.120 --> 0:09:59.599 feet between the back of the end zone and the 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.000 wall Lincoln. There's not a lot of rooms, so like 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.040 we legitimately could have been run over by somebody in 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:05.600 that So. 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.720 My point is that was my moment to maybe shine 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.440 and I faltered. So don't be like me. If you 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:12.160 have the opportunity. 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.400 Yeah, like, take a fat moment comes, embrace it, wrap 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.120 your arms around it and never let go of it. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:19.400 Will you have your hands free? Is it just a 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:20.599 headset situation. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.400 We're gonna have We're gonna have stick mics, oh will 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.520 so we're gonna be because we've got to be able 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.440 to run around and go down the sidelines and all 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:26.839 that stuff. 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.280 So we're gonna have stick mikes. Okay, we've got stick mics. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.880 Now should we throw at him? Let's have a cup 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.360 of water. Pies, pies pies? Is there? Wait, nobody got 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.240 that reference? That's fair? 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:38.840 Uh? 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.040 Will there be as an organizer from Saturday Night Live? Okay, 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:41.520 let's fine. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.360 I haven't watched Saturday Night Live recently that I think 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.680 it was like five years ago when Will Forte was 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.960 still on it. Okay, so it's like a decent chunk 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.920 of time at this point. John Ham was was the Yeah, yeah, yeah, toast. 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.720 It sounds familiar. I'm not gonna pretend like I know 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.400 understand the reference. I mean, I'm not like the we're 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.520 not all gonna hit hit up percent. We're not gonna 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.680 We're not gonna absolutely not. Is there a cherry picker 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.839 that anybody in the broadcast will be involved with that's 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:06.040 running along the sideline? 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:06.800 Uh? 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:08.719 Because that's what I would ask you for thing that 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:09.840 we get run over? Is no. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.120 I'm hoping that like, instead of tossing it down to 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:13.880 the field, you toss it up to somebody in the 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:15.640 picker that's what I want. 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:19.079 Great view from up here, guys, I don't think we 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:22.040 have access to that unfortunately. Okay, so you are or 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.320 I might just get up on like Barrett's shoulders. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.360 Smart that could smart might be the best world. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.079 You are in Chicago, Yes, so you're sort of removed 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:35.079 from the greater ESPN galaxy. Everybody seems to be in Bristol, La. Yeah, 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:36.800 a lot of people in the South to to sort 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.120 of get to games. Yeah, a lot of Charlotte folks. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.760 And it's it's fun to come to one of these, 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:43.559 Like I said's my first time coming to one of these. 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:47.800 I think it's so cool because I'm looking around, like, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.920 you know, what are we at Audio Avenue they're calling it, 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:51.640 Like I'm looking around. I know like five people that 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.320 I've worked with or have a relationship with, and some 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.080 like it's great. It's so cool to be a part 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.800 of this. And you don't get to see all the 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:00.679 other play by play anounts, or or all the other 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.800 analysts or the reporters or people that you've worked with 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:05.440 in the past, you don't necessarily work with on a 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.000 consistent basis now and we're all in the same room. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:08.760 We're all in the same town. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.840 We're covering the same game, and it's such a rarity 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.400 and it's really fun. Last night we go to the 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:17.280 you know, ESPN has some kind of party, which you know, 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.040 they're like, oh, you're going to that party. This is 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.080 this is how not famous I am? Okay, Like, if 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.160 you're Carrie Champion, you're getting like an invite to everything 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.719 sure in Tampa, like everybody wants you to come out. 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.000 We have not invited Carrie Champion on the solid Parbol 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:30.760 just to be clear. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.440 Well, see, and this is why I'm happy to be 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.560 here because it makes me feel like I'm you're a 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.960 I'm a somebody today. But like they don't want they 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.640 don't they want Carrie, they don't want me. So everybody's like, 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.080 you're going to this party, right, You're going to this party. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.840 I'm like no, like I don't get I'm not that guy. 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.000 And then like an hour before this thing is supposed 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:50.640 to happen, somebody's like, hey, you have to go to 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.679 this thing, like it's an ESPN thing. They want you 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.880 to go, you should go, And I'm like, well, thanks 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:56.480 for telling me. I'm literally wearing like jeans and a 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.160 T shirt and like, can I put on a sweater? 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.320 Can I do somewhat presentable at some point? So we 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.839 show up. We get to the blue carpet because I 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:06.680 think all State was sponsoring it, so it's a blue 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.360 carpet rather than a red carpet. And one of the 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.760 PR guys, our buddy Derek, goes, hey, you want to 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:14.719 walk the blue carpet. We want you to to walk it. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.120 I'm like, sure, you're joking, right, Uh huh, you're you're kidding. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.240 Yeah, open up your jacket pockets. There's nobody cares. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.160 Like I walked in with Mac and Max's wife, and 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:26.600 I'm like, Mac can do it. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:27.720 Because they want Mac. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:29.880 They want to talk to Mac, they want to see Sally, 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:30.920 they want to take a nice photo. 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:32.560 That's all good. They don't want me. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.880 Who are you wearing Guilden guilt? Well it's guild Dan, Yeah, 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:37.160 let's not. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:42.840 It's not. I called the bowl. I have to know 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.320 it now. Yeah, that would make sense. But like somebody 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.160 they're like, no, no, no, you can do it. You go go. 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:49.439 They want you to walk the blue carpet. 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.000 And somebody is like writing a name, you know, my 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.120 name down, like they have like name plates for everybody. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.440 So somebody walks behind you and says, this is like 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:57.719 the name plate says who you are. 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.640 They don't have a name plate. Somebody's sharp being. 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:01.719 My name, uh huh, and they spelled my last name 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.360 incorrectly that I'm like ad Nan Verk. They're like a 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:09.960 niche a niche sra Kevin Nigani. Uh So I'm like Derek. 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.680 Nobody like, this person doesn't know who I am because 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:13.640 they're spelling my name wrong. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.400 And I don't blame them. That's cool. 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.720 There's no reason for them to know who I am. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.720 So nobody should like care if I walk the blue carpet. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.960 Derek's like, yeah, yeah, you're good. 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:29.080 Like same page page sold. Okay, how was the party? 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:30.840 It was really cool. It was cool. 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:32.080 It was cool to be in the room with all 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:33.720 these people and hang out for a little bit, and 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:35.560 you know, you get to meet some some of the 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.400 ESPN people that you watch but maybe you've never worked with, 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.080 Like met Jamel Hill last night, got to got to 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.200 talk to her for a little bit at John Butcher Gross, Like, 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.960 those are cool people to hang out with and talk 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.200 to you for a couple of minutes at a time. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.360 And how many people at that party, and this is 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.000 going to be very important to tie for mathematical purposes. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.160 How many gentlemen at the party wore suits with sneakers? 0:14:58.680 --> 0:14:58.880 Even? 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.520 I can't even and there not enough digits? No, like 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.280 I it's it would take everybody's fingers and toes. 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.360 Here we have a secret histogram where we're plotting all 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.760 of these suit and sneaker combinations that we're seeing down 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:11.360 here in Tampa. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.720 It's a lot, it is, Yeah, it is robust. It's 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.520 a significant robust. Did you go suit and sneaker? No? 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.840 Because I didn't have Like I literally showed up in 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.160 like jeans and a sweater good and I was like 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:23.080 a man of the people. 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.160 I'm casual guy here. I like that. What's the eating 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:27.560 plan here in Tampa? 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:29.760 All the foods, I think is what I'm going to 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.840 for just all the food. I would recommend Columbia for 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:33.480 Cuban food. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.160 Well, where did you go? Because you went? You went 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.800 twice to get you to get Cuban food. 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.640 We went to Columbia, which I think is the superior option. Okay, 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.360 it's like what a ten minute uber from where we're 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.320 sitting right now, and it's been around since like early 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.240 twentieth century. Wow, And they come around, they hand You're 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.680 just a hot loaf of Cuban bread when you sit down, 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.160 and you feel terrible eating it, but you feel wonderful 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:54.840 at the same time. 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.680 All the waiters have tuxes on. It's a very authentic experience. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.800 It's a very old school experience. Would commend Columbia. 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.640 That sounds delightful, I know, and I've done all, like 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:07.080 the steakhouses and stuff anywhere. Yeah, you want something that 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.480 has you want to kill her to it? Yeah, that's awesome. 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.360 That's a great any stables ate a donut burger, which 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.000 I can't recommend, and good nons. 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:15.880 So you're not a fan of the donut burger. 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.120 I like donuts. I like burgers. Try to impress. What 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:21.480 are you trying to prove by doing that? 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.160 Have you had one? I think I don't think you 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.240 have to try to impress. Yeah, I've had that and 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:26.800 it's good. It's it's just the mix. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.040 Of sweet or like savory and sweet and now salty 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:29.480 and sweet. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.800 I mean, I feel like nobody eats a good hamburger 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.040 bun and thinks, but what if we did more? 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.080 But if we glazed this well remember like the double down. 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.680 I do remember that, and like, so who was like, 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.640 you know what we should do, Let's make it into bread. 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.960 There's the KMC double down. There was the bowl, the 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.840 famous bowl. Is that what it was called? Oh, he's 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.480 just the sadness piles failure bowl or something. 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.960 Like the sad Bowl of salt and sadness. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:57.840 See, that's that's to me, is too much when you 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.080 start making it a gimmick like fried chickens good as is. 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.640 So where do you stand then? On the doritos locos tacos? Oh, 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:06.800 and again I love those? Is it great? 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:08.800 I like the cooler ranch ones. But you know what 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.560 you have to do? This is a good like rule 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.840 of thumb. Have to add sour cream. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:15.640