Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal. I'm that for me, I'm
Speaker 1: a man, I'm forty.
Speaker 2: I've heard so many players say, well, I want to
Speaker 2: be happy.
Speaker 1: You want to be happy for dake Edo State. Is
Speaker 1: that woo woom? And Dan and Tye.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Celebrabo Boys and Girls. My name
Speaker 3: is ty Hildebrand. I am joined as always by my
Speaker 3: good friend and colleague and co host of many years
Speaker 3: and tonight with me in spirit. His name is Dan Rubinstein,
Speaker 3: and apparently he went to Mexico City. I do not
Speaker 3: believe he took his USB microphone with him. If he did,
Speaker 3: he didn't tell me, which means that he will not
Speaker 3: be part of the podcast this evening, at least not
Speaker 3: for the next couple of minutes or so. Hopefully we
Speaker 3: can team back up next week because it's National Signing
Speaker 3: Day and we got to talk about that and Brent
Speaker 3: Musberger retired and maybe getting into sports handicapping, and Tommy
Speaker 3: Slash Tom rees is returning to Notre Dame, which means
Speaker 3: that Reesus is returning to Earth in twenty seventeen. Lord knows,
Speaker 3: We've got a lot to discuss. In a week or so.
Speaker 3: We are staring down the barrel of a loaded show.
Speaker 3: Don't forget we will be posting once a week all
Speaker 3: throughout the off season. If you're just tuning in, you
Speaker 3: can subscribe to all our shows at iTunes dot com
Speaker 3: slash Solid Verbal. As for tonight, we're going to play
Speaker 3: back an interview we did with Adam Amin from ESPN.
Speaker 3: He was down in Tampa for the National Championship, so
Speaker 3: we invited him to stop by the booth, you know,
Speaker 3: do something normal like commentate a game of Techmo super
Speaker 3: Bowl with us that we could post a Facebook. He
Speaker 3: could not have been any more willing to be part
Speaker 3: of that. Not only that, but he hung around for
Speaker 3: like another forty five minutes or so. He let Dan
Speaker 3: and I ask a bunch of weird and probing questions
Speaker 3: about his life and career and his innermost thoughts. He
Speaker 3: could not have been more gracious with his time, and
Speaker 3: it really was a pleasure to get to know a
Speaker 3: little bit more about him. If you're not familiar with
Speaker 3: Adam Amine's work, my hunch is that you will be.
Speaker 3: He is a play by play guy for ESPN. We
Speaker 3: know him in the college football world because he called
Speaker 3: college football with Mac Brown. But he also does the NFL, basketball, baseball,
Speaker 3: you name it. He's a super talented guy. He's on
Speaker 3: his way up. Great sense of humor. Also a secret
Speaker 3: verbal survivor from last season, which is certainly notable here
Speaker 3: on the show. We had a ton of fun getting
Speaker 3: to know Adam a little better. I suspect you will too.
Speaker 1: Have a listen. All right, so we are joined by
Speaker 1: the great Adam aman Man.
Speaker 4: You give him really good introductions, colleague to me, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's true.
Speaker 3: That's the that's the up and coming play caller. He's
Speaker 3: made booth play by play guy. We just did play
Speaker 3: by play.
Speaker 1: True.
Speaker 2: That was all my last super verbal, the verbal Tecmo,
Speaker 2: super verbal.
Speaker 1: Oregon, Notre Dame, ugly all the game, blowout City thirty
Speaker 1: five to ten final. It was not pretty. I did not.
Speaker 4: I did not need that punctuation on the Organ season.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I'm gonna tell you from my emotional wellbeing,
Speaker 1: I'm not in a good place.
Speaker 4: But you are here in Tampa because you are. He's
Speaker 4: waving at everybody audio. I just like waiting at people.
Speaker 4: Is there anything wrong with that? Just a friendly guy, Dan,
Speaker 4: I'm so happy. I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 2: Honestly, like I I ran it our good buddy Nicole
Speaker 2: Auerbox last night. Yes, she's around, and a bunch of
Speaker 2: the writers that I follow and admire very greatly. And
Speaker 2: I told them, I was like, I'm surrounded by people
Speaker 2: I like, people I love, and people I admire, and
Speaker 2: it's like, it's my first time being in an event
Speaker 2: like this.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's a great time. I've never done it.
Speaker 4: This is sort of secretly it's it's college football media
Speaker 4: prom without. This is without the outward dancing at the
Speaker 4: end of the not a lot of awkward dancing. Some
Speaker 4: if you've seen Andy Staples around, okay, but yeah, no,
Speaker 4: we'd dancing. No weird dresses or suits, awkward fitting. It's
Speaker 4: just a good time. Maybe it's like a convention. I
Speaker 4: don't Know's are some weird suits. There are don't sell
Speaker 4: it short.
Speaker 3: There are some I don't name names decisions on here.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's wait, can they Okay, So let's paint
Speaker 2: a quick picture for the folks, real quick. And and
Speaker 2: we're leaning in, and we're at a table together, and
Speaker 2: we're all leaning in and to our immediate right, there
Speaker 2: are some interesting pants.
Speaker 1: Those are those John Day pants. Pink.
Speaker 2: It's like the pink Ranger like made her Power Ranger
Speaker 2: suit into pants.
Speaker 4: It's like a gumball machine came to life and threw
Speaker 4: up everywhere.
Speaker 1: That's what it looks like. I think that's fairly I
Speaker 1: taste the rainbo. I mean, that's pretty much it.
Speaker 4: So you're here and Monday night during the game, you
Speaker 4: will be on the fields, Yes, with Taj Boyd Clemson
Speaker 4: Greats quarterback, Barrett Jones All American Center, Farmer Center for
Speaker 4: Alabama and uh and Joe Tests.
Speaker 2: The Great Joe Tests. He's the Great Joe Test, the
Speaker 2: Great Joe Tests. So what will you what will that
Speaker 2: function be? You don't usually call a game from a field, No,
Speaker 2: of course not. And it's and it's a new concept
Speaker 2: in the last couple of years. Uh, and we see
Speaker 2: we've seen this kind of bleed over into other sports
Speaker 2: now and this is we've kind of dubbed it as
Speaker 2: a crew as the Homer Cast, Yes, just because it's
Speaker 2: it seems catchy, but it's part of the Mega Cast
Speaker 2: that we've now done for three years. Yeah, three or
Speaker 2: four years now at this point. And the Mega Cast
Speaker 2: has been a huge hit the last several years. And
Speaker 2: we keep adding things and coming up with different ideas,
Speaker 2: and a couple of years ago they said, let's get
Speaker 2: some people from these programs that are former players and
Speaker 2: guys that have some semblance of an idea of how
Speaker 2: to analyze games. And Taj and Barrett are very sharp
Speaker 2: guys who know what they're doing and know what they're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 1: So we figured, let's let's get their take.
Speaker 2: Let's have their perspective, their Homer perspective on these teams
Speaker 2: and what we can do and put it all together.
Speaker 2: So now all four of us are going to be
Speaker 2: on the field and we're quasi calling the game, and
Speaker 2: you know, will you be moving We'll be moving like
Speaker 2: through up and down the sideline, people behind the end zone. Basically,
Speaker 2: it's a free for all and in the best way
Speaker 2: possible because we were not confined to the rules, the
Speaker 2: typical rules of television, So it'll be really fun. We
Speaker 2: have a skeleton, but we get to kind of fill
Speaker 2: in the muscle like however we want to.
Speaker 3: So it's not a conventional broadcast you're accustomed to doing.
Speaker 3: How do you prepare for something like this as opposed
Speaker 3: to what you normally do.
Speaker 2: It's more streamlined and a lot of it is just
Speaker 2: going to be leaning on Barrett and Taje and their perspectives,
Speaker 2: and we really want to see their emotion of it
Speaker 2: when Clemson scores. I want to see Taj Boyd react excitedly.
Speaker 2: I want to see pump for it.
Speaker 4: I should mention it's Alabama if Clemson scores, right, Yes,
Speaker 4: we just have to and this will be we will
Speaker 4: be airing this probably after the game, right, ty is
Speaker 4: that is that correct? But it is cool to hear
Speaker 4: so when you listen back. If Adam Imin gets run
Speaker 4: over by both Scarborough, this will be the last audio.
Speaker 1: Time for the game. Buddy ever hears me on a podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough, Which, by the way, that's not out
Speaker 2: of the realm of possibility that bos Garber literally just
Speaker 2: runs me over.
Speaker 1: Here's my requests.
Speaker 4: I don't ask for much, but it feels like because
Speaker 4: it's so first person, you're on the sideline, you're so
Speaker 4: close to the action. The sport that really has that
Speaker 4: much more so than than football, is basketball. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: want you to drop. You don't have to do more
Speaker 4: than one. I want one and one mixtape scream. I
Speaker 4: just want like an old baby, That's all I want.
Speaker 4: You can call anybody you want hot sauce or you
Speaker 4: know Barrett Jones an accomplished student, right, he had like
Speaker 4: a four roh. Absolutely, you can call him the professor.
Speaker 4: You can just all happily drop that down.
Speaker 3: See that was that was a Brent Musburger thing. He
Speaker 3: would come up with a professor. He would come up,
Speaker 3: that's true, come up with a pet nickname, right for
Speaker 3: like major Applewhite was the major. Yeh, Darren sprolls right,
Speaker 3: he was a little tank. So this is something perhaps
Speaker 3: to as as.
Speaker 1: An opportunity, opportunity for yeah, I think on Monday night.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I just want and one add one whatever
Speaker 4: with his name to come up with just on the
Speaker 4: fly catchphrase like listen, will you get fired from ESPN
Speaker 4: for ad libbing too much?
Speaker 1: Maybe?
Speaker 2: But this is your legacy, this is this is the
Speaker 2: mark that I wanted to leave. And then both Scarborough
Speaker 2: will wun me over.
Speaker 1: He will run you over. He will run you off
Speaker 1: social media superstardom. I think if Scarborough runs you.
Speaker 4: Up, oh both Scarborough is oh if if he runs over,
Speaker 4: if he runs that's true, you you increase your queue?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, what's that thing on Twitter? Like you
Speaker 2: clout clouds score is gonna be like four.
Speaker 1: Bit I'm gonna pump that thing up at least four points.
Speaker 2: Absolutely will something. I'm at like a forty eight right now.
Speaker 2: That's if we can jump over cloud cloud score work.
Speaker 4: I've met two people I have two friends now who
Speaker 4: have been run over on a football sideline, and both
Speaker 4: of them ended up like Sports Nation, they end up
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, show of course.
Speaker 1: So well here's our story. What do you have.
Speaker 3: So we met for the first time about two years
Speaker 3: after we did the show, that's true, and we had
Speaker 3: a connection at the time early days. We were on
Speaker 3: the field for Texas against Nebraska two thousand and nine
Speaker 3: and nine ten. Yeah, we're standing in the end zone
Speaker 3: and have you called the game in Nebraska?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, yeah, I love it. Okay, so you'll know
Speaker 1: you'll understand this then.
Speaker 3: So somebody kicks off I think it was Texas and whoever.
Speaker 3: The kicker was beams one through the end zone and
Speaker 3: it's coming right at me.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's hot, it's coming in hot. Yeah.
Speaker 3: This was the first game I had been to, at
Speaker 3: least on the sidelines in the end zone.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: So I'm sitting I'm like, what's the move. Do you
Speaker 3: try to catch the ball? Am I going to get
Speaker 3: kicked out if I catch the ball? The guy next
Speaker 3: to me, who I later learned had been doing the
Speaker 3: kicking nets for like forty years, decides he's going to
Speaker 3: reach out one hands, it, goes out, takes a step out,
Speaker 3: holds it up, gets the entire round of applots from
Speaker 3: Memorial Stadium. I found out after the fact that this
Speaker 3: was like the moment in his life. He wants this
Speaker 3: on his tombstone. I didn't know what to do. I
Speaker 3: was terrified.
Speaker 4: It should be noted there's about four and a half
Speaker 4: feet between the back of the end zone and the
Speaker 4: wall Lincoln. There's not a lot of rooms, so like
Speaker 4: we legitimately could have been run over by somebody in
Speaker 4: that So.
Speaker 1: My point is that was my moment to maybe shine
Speaker 1: and I faltered. So don't be like me. If you
Speaker 1: have the opportunity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like, take a fat moment comes, embrace it, wrap
Speaker 2: your arms around it and never let go of it.
Speaker 1: Will you have your hands free? Is it just a
Speaker 1: headset situation.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have We're gonna have stick mics, oh will
Speaker 2: so we're gonna be because we've got to be able
Speaker 2: to run around and go down the sidelines and all
Speaker 2: that stuff.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have stick mikes. Okay, we've got stick mics.
Speaker 1: Now should we throw at him? Let's have a cup
Speaker 1: of water. Pies, pies pies? Is there? Wait, nobody got
Speaker 1: that reference? That's fair?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Will there be as an organizer from Saturday Night Live? Okay,
Speaker 1: let's fine.
Speaker 2: I haven't watched Saturday Night Live recently that I think
Speaker 2: it was like five years ago when Will Forte was
Speaker 2: still on it. Okay, so it's like a decent chunk
Speaker 2: of time at this point. John Ham was was the Yeah, yeah, yeah, toast.
Speaker 4: It sounds familiar. I'm not gonna pretend like I know
Speaker 4: understand the reference. I mean, I'm not like the we're
Speaker 4: not all gonna hit hit up percent. We're not gonna
Speaker 4: We're not gonna absolutely not. Is there a cherry picker
Speaker 4: that anybody in the broadcast will be involved with that's
Speaker 4: running along the sideline?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Because that's what I would ask you for thing that
Speaker 1: we get run over? Is no.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping that like, instead of tossing it down to
Speaker 4: the field, you toss it up to somebody in the
Speaker 4: picker that's what I want.
Speaker 2: Great view from up here, guys, I don't think we
Speaker 2: have access to that unfortunately. Okay, so you are or
Speaker 2: I might just get up on like Barrett's shoulders.
Speaker 1: Smart that could smart might be the best world.
Speaker 4: You are in Chicago, Yes, so you're sort of removed
Speaker 4: from the greater ESPN galaxy. Everybody seems to be in Bristol, La. Yeah,
Speaker 4: a lot of people in the South to to sort
Speaker 4: of get to games. Yeah, a lot of Charlotte folks.
Speaker 2: And it's it's fun to come to one of these,
Speaker 2: Like I said's my first time coming to one of these.
Speaker 2: I think it's so cool because I'm looking around, like,
Speaker 2: you know, what are we at Audio Avenue they're calling it,
Speaker 2: Like I'm looking around. I know like five people that
Speaker 2: I've worked with or have a relationship with, and some
Speaker 2: like it's great. It's so cool to be a part
Speaker 2: of this. And you don't get to see all the
Speaker 2: other play by play anounts, or or all the other
Speaker 2: analysts or the reporters or people that you've worked with
Speaker 2: in the past, you don't necessarily work with on a
Speaker 2: consistent basis now and we're all in the same room.
Speaker 1: We're all in the same town.
Speaker 2: We're covering the same game, and it's such a rarity
Speaker 2: and it's really fun. Last night we go to the
Speaker 2: you know, ESPN has some kind of party, which you know,
Speaker 2: they're like, oh, you're going to that party. This is
Speaker 2: this is how not famous I am? Okay, Like, if
Speaker 2: you're Carrie Champion, you're getting like an invite to everything
Speaker 2: sure in Tampa, like everybody wants you to come out.
Speaker 1: We have not invited Carrie Champion on the solid Parbol
Speaker 1: just to be clear.
Speaker 2: Well, see, and this is why I'm happy to be
Speaker 2: here because it makes me feel like I'm you're a
Speaker 2: I'm a somebody today. But like they don't want they
Speaker 2: don't they want Carrie, they don't want me. So everybody's like,
Speaker 2: you're going to this party, right, You're going to this party.
Speaker 2: I'm like no, like I don't get I'm not that guy.
Speaker 2: And then like an hour before this thing is supposed
Speaker 2: to happen, somebody's like, hey, you have to go to
Speaker 2: this thing, like it's an ESPN thing. They want you
Speaker 2: to go, you should go, And I'm like, well, thanks
Speaker 2: for telling me. I'm literally wearing like jeans and a
Speaker 2: T shirt and like, can I put on a sweater?
Speaker 2: Can I do somewhat presentable at some point? So we
Speaker 2: show up. We get to the blue carpet because I
Speaker 2: think all State was sponsoring it, so it's a blue
Speaker 2: carpet rather than a red carpet. And one of the
Speaker 2: PR guys, our buddy Derek, goes, hey, you want to
Speaker 2: walk the blue carpet. We want you to to walk it.
Speaker 2: I'm like, sure, you're joking, right, Uh huh, you're you're kidding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, open up your jacket pockets. There's nobody cares.
Speaker 2: Like I walked in with Mac and Max's wife, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, Mac can do it.
Speaker 1: Because they want Mac.
Speaker 2: They want to talk to Mac, they want to see Sally,
Speaker 2: they want to take a nice photo.
Speaker 1: That's all good. They don't want me.
Speaker 2: Who are you wearing Guilden guilt? Well it's guild Dan, Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's not.
Speaker 1: It's not. I called the bowl. I have to know
Speaker 1: it now. Yeah, that would make sense. But like somebody
Speaker 1: they're like, no, no, no, you can do it. You go go.
Speaker 1: They want you to walk the blue carpet.
Speaker 2: And somebody is like writing a name, you know, my
Speaker 2: name down, like they have like name plates for everybody.
Speaker 2: So somebody walks behind you and says, this is like
Speaker 2: the name plate says who you are.
Speaker 1: They don't have a name plate. Somebody's sharp being.
Speaker 2: My name, uh huh, and they spelled my last name
Speaker 2: incorrectly that I'm like ad Nan Verk. They're like a
Speaker 2: niche a niche sra Kevin Nigani. Uh So I'm like Derek.
Speaker 2: Nobody like, this person doesn't know who I am because
Speaker 2: they're spelling my name wrong.
Speaker 1: And I don't blame them. That's cool.
Speaker 2: There's no reason for them to know who I am.
Speaker 2: So nobody should like care if I walk the blue carpet.
Speaker 2: Derek's like, yeah, yeah, you're good.
Speaker 1: Like same page page sold. Okay, how was the party?
Speaker 1: It was really cool. It was cool.
Speaker 2: It was cool to be in the room with all
Speaker 2: these people and hang out for a little bit, and
Speaker 2: you know, you get to meet some some of the
Speaker 2: ESPN people that you watch but maybe you've never worked with,
Speaker 2: Like met Jamel Hill last night, got to got to
Speaker 2: talk to her for a little bit at John Butcher Gross, Like,
Speaker 2: those are cool people to hang out with and talk
Speaker 2: to you for a couple of minutes at a time.
Speaker 4: And how many people at that party, and this is
Speaker 4: going to be very important to tie for mathematical purposes.
Speaker 4: How many gentlemen at the party wore suits with sneakers?
Speaker 1: Even?
Speaker 2: I can't even and there not enough digits? No, like
Speaker 2: I it's it would take everybody's fingers and toes.
Speaker 3: Here we have a secret histogram where we're plotting all
Speaker 3: of these suit and sneaker combinations that we're seeing down
Speaker 3: here in Tampa.
Speaker 1: It's a lot, it is, Yeah, it is robust. It's
Speaker 1: a significant robust. Did you go suit and sneaker? No?
Speaker 2: Because I didn't have Like I literally showed up in
Speaker 2: like jeans and a sweater good and I was like
Speaker 2: a man of the people.
Speaker 1: I'm casual guy here. I like that. What's the eating
Speaker 1: plan here in Tampa?
Speaker 4: All the foods, I think is what I'm going to
Speaker 4: for just all the food. I would recommend Columbia for
Speaker 4: Cuban food.
Speaker 1: Well, where did you go? Because you went? You went
Speaker 1: twice to get you to get Cuban food.
Speaker 4: We went to Columbia, which I think is the superior option. Okay,
Speaker 4: it's like what a ten minute uber from where we're
Speaker 4: sitting right now, and it's been around since like early
Speaker 4: twentieth century. Wow, And they come around, they hand You're
Speaker 4: just a hot loaf of Cuban bread when you sit down,
Speaker 4: and you feel terrible eating it, but you feel wonderful
Speaker 4: at the same time.
Speaker 3: All the waiters have tuxes on. It's a very authentic experience.
Speaker 1: It's a very old school experience. Would commend Columbia.
Speaker 2: That sounds delightful, I know, and I've done all, like
Speaker 2: the steakhouses and stuff anywhere. Yeah, you want something that
Speaker 2: has you want to kill her to it? Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 4: That's a great any stables ate a donut burger, which
Speaker 4: I can't recommend, and good nons.
Speaker 1: So you're not a fan of the donut burger.
Speaker 4: I like donuts. I like burgers. Try to impress. What
Speaker 4: are you trying to prove by doing that?
Speaker 1: Have you had one? I think I don't think you
Speaker 1: have to try to impress. Yeah, I've had that and
Speaker 1: it's good. It's it's just the mix.
Speaker 2: Of sweet or like savory and sweet and now salty
Speaker 2: and sweet.
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like nobody eats a good hamburger
Speaker 4: bun and thinks, but what if we did more?
Speaker 1: But if we glazed this well remember like the double down.
Speaker 2: I do remember that, and like, so who was like,
Speaker 2: you know what we should do, Let's make it into bread.
Speaker 4: There's the KMC double down. There was the bowl, the
Speaker 4: famous bowl. Is that what it was called? Oh, he's
Speaker 4: just the sadness piles failure bowl or something.
Speaker 1: Like the sad Bowl of salt and sadness.
Speaker 4: See, that's that's to me, is too much when you
Speaker 4: start making it a gimmick like fried chickens good as is.
Speaker 1: So where do you stand then? On the doritos locos tacos? Oh,
Speaker 1: and again I love those? Is it great?
Speaker 2: I like the cooler ranch ones. But you know what
Speaker 2: you have to do? This is a good like rule
Speaker 2: of thumb. Have to add sour cream.
Speaker 1: Why is that?
Speaker 2: Because just like the taco bell taco is, it's fine,
Speaker 2: but I would go supreme to add the tomatoes and
Speaker 2: the sour cream because for whatever reason, it goes really
Speaker 2: well with the dorito's.
Speaker 4: I was going to say, like, it feels like it's
Speaker 4: so seasoned. You need something to cut that that heavy seasoning,
Speaker 4: and the sour cream might too.
Speaker 3: That sounds actually a big, big reason why I'm not
Speaker 3: normally a fan of the novelty type stuff.
Speaker 1: I feel like I would try that.
Speaker 3: I feel like because that that literally rescued Taco Bell
Speaker 3: from going the way to the Diamos.
Speaker 2: And then they're like, oh now let's do breakfast, and
Speaker 2: everybody loves the Taco Bell breakfast.
Speaker 4: They have like that weird egg tortilla octagon. I don't
Speaker 4: know what it's called. Oh yeah, breakfast trun trap.
Speaker 2: When the crunch Rap came out, I was in high
Speaker 2: school and I thought it was God's gift really us,
Speaker 2: Like I was so happy because there was a Taco
Speaker 2: Bell right by our high school. So we'd go to
Speaker 2: like volleyball practice, basketball practice, we'd get done immediately go
Speaker 2: to Taco Bell because at seventeen eighteen years old, your
Speaker 2: metabolism is such that you can you can pound like
Speaker 2: three of those and nobody would be the wiser because
Speaker 2: you're not gonna change it all. We u some playing
Speaker 2: now and I can't ever close down. I am I
Speaker 2: feel it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: We used to get Taco bell before playing like street
Speaker 4: football in high school.
Speaker 1: Like after school, we would drive through Taco Bell.
Speaker 4: You'd eat a taco bell eat like the Mountain dew
Speaker 4: Baja blast whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which also I love. It's terrific.
Speaker 4: I would pound god two or three double decker tacos
Speaker 4: before playing football. Always a mistake, always the great, always
Speaker 4: just wonderful.
Speaker 2: What was your like tremendously like, tremendously awful decision when
Speaker 2: it came to fast food.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Applebee's is considered fast. Give me
Speaker 1: something that has a drive throw yeah, yeah, it's got it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a has to have a driver.
Speaker 3: Up at Penn State in college, they would offer this
Speaker 3: deal at the local McDonald's. You'd get five cheeseburgers and
Speaker 3: a basket of fries for six dollars. Wow, cheeseburger five
Speaker 3: like regulation sized cheeseburger Like a dollar now, I think five.
Speaker 1: Cheeseburgers and a full basket of fries. McDonald This might
Speaker 1: have been like the pre dollar. Yeah that's true.
Speaker 3: True, these were early days, so many moons ago, right,
Speaker 3: thank you. This would be a thing after a long
Speaker 3: night of whatever. Yep, Friday, Saturday night, anyone want to
Speaker 3: go to McDonald's and pick up a couple of these
Speaker 3: five cheeseburger basket fries deals. I can't tell you how
Speaker 3: many of those I ate on my own.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't be able to tell by the way I spelt
Speaker 2: physique first time in person, getting I prefer chiseled.
Speaker 1: He dipped on the carbs. He dipped on the carbs
Speaker 1: and made a difference.
Speaker 2: Nobody looks at me, and it's like, oh, you're you're
Speaker 2: you've never been fat for But I I don't know
Speaker 2: what it is about my body.
Speaker 1: It puts fat in very odd place. I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I am a tremendously odd shaped person. Fair like I've
Speaker 2: I like, I've got fitted for a suit the other day.
Speaker 2: My buddy's getting married and had to go get fitted
Speaker 2: for the groomsman suit and the guys are like, you
Speaker 2: know what you are?
Speaker 1: You're a triangle And I'm like, what is Wow? That's rough.
Speaker 1: What It's not as bad as being called a rhombust.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, at least at least like the sides
Speaker 2: are equal, I guess. But like he's He's like, you
Speaker 2: have broad shoulders and you have very like you have
Speaker 2: no hips and no butt, so buying jeans and pants
Speaker 2: is impossible for you. And I'm like, wow, you really
Speaker 2: really mad me for seven minutes and you want to
Speaker 2: sell you a suit. You ripped me apart physically, you.
Speaker 1: Have commitment issues. I'm like, yes, so now you have
Speaker 1: a low level of self and is getting married. I
Speaker 1: am getting married. That's right in Chicago.
Speaker 2: The fiance. I remember it was when you and I
Speaker 2: talked about milkshakes. Yes, the first time around. I remember
Speaker 2: you talking on the podcast about your the fiance yelling
Speaker 2: about the Cubs Indians game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is shore, this is one hundred percent. He
Speaker 1: has yet to get his suit, that's true. When's the
Speaker 1: wedding late? May I have time? Oh?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Do you have any advice for him? As he was
Speaker 1: just looking at his frame? I'll stand kind of suggestions.
Speaker 1: You literally could buy off the rack and you're fine.
Speaker 2: You are you like you are the most commonly shaped
Speaker 2: human being I think ever, other than being like a
Speaker 2: couple of inches taller than average, highter, like for what,
Speaker 2: what's what's average male height? Now is considered than average.
Speaker 2: But you could buy off the rack and you'd be golden.
Speaker 2: I think you can never buy off the rack. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: or if I do, I have to get a tailored
Speaker 2: a million suit wise for the upcoming the wedding is
Speaker 2: just basic black, simple, traditional black. I got to hit
Speaker 2: it for a different suit the other day. It's like
Speaker 2: royal blue.
Speaker 4: See I'm going with a darker navy type situation.
Speaker 2: So like to like I'm I'm gonna wear like navy
Speaker 2: on on Monday, but I'm showing Dan this suit. This
Speaker 2: is like the weirdest, like wow, that's like Verruca salt.
Speaker 2: Oh that is blueberry and like ballooning up and you
Speaker 2: can really see his weird body in that shot.
Speaker 1: I have a very odd.
Speaker 2: Pot look at this truck, like I think you can
Speaker 2: actually see like an Illuminati trying.
Speaker 4: And he's not at all like big, Like it's it's
Speaker 4: not a chunk thing. It's just a layout thing. It's
Speaker 4: like walking into a living room and you're like the
Speaker 4: couch is where That's what it is. If I'm gonna
Speaker 4: paint the picture for our listen, I think you did
Speaker 4: a fabulous job, and do thank you, by the way.
Speaker 4: It'd I have a lot of fast food thoughts, and
Speaker 4: I know you feel passionately about this one.
Speaker 1: Have you done Jack in the box tacos?
Speaker 4: No, it doesn't sound like they should have tacos, but
Speaker 4: they do because everything is on their menu. You've talked
Speaker 4: about this excellent. They're terrible all at the same time.
Speaker 4: They're like grease sleeves. I don't know what kind of
Speaker 4: meat is there, but it's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: Also, I've done ten McDonald's cheeseburgers in a sitting, just
Speaker 4: to jump in. Yeah, and I've done.
Speaker 1: Ten or twelve.
Speaker 4: It's two for a dollar Jack in the box. By
Speaker 4: the way, the two tacos, two tacos for a dollar.
Speaker 4: You should try it and independently come up with your
Speaker 4: own conclusion. Okay, but they're very weird and good though.
Speaker 4: I will do the jack in the box. I think
Speaker 4: the most cheeseburgers I've eating, no one shitting.
Speaker 1: And the dollar Yeah. Yeah, she's the real small Donald's.
Speaker 2: I would say probably probably four and a like four
Speaker 2: or five. It's reason yeah, but ten is a ten.
Speaker 2: College we had like an eating competition. It was eight
Speaker 2: or ten did go afterwards, there was we did weird stuff.
Speaker 2: We did jack in the box, sockers with McDonald's cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2: We did water, which is actually super bad for you.
Speaker 2: You can get water poison.
Speaker 1: You have died. Yeah, that was the most gallon of water.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was uncomfortable. I had two roommates that did
Speaker 4: the Milk Challenge and died very poor. Always the same too, well,
Speaker 4: no and two different ways. There's multiple your own adventures.
Speaker 4: So I wasn't involved in the milk Challenge, but one
Speaker 4: and one entry. One entrance just stopped before the gallon
Speaker 4: and felt horrible for like three days, like his body
Speaker 4: was just a fish tank of slushing milk.
Speaker 1: Oh Man.
Speaker 2: The other one lumbering around trying to maneuver like a
Speaker 2: human being.
Speaker 1: Yes, possible.
Speaker 4: The other one finished, completed the gallon, but then looked
Speaker 4: like a boxer and like, who's the fight should be called?
Speaker 4: And he's just sort of woozy and you see him
Speaker 4: just like rearing back, and like three minutes after produced
Speaker 4: something just in the vomiting realm that was not great
Speaker 4: and it not on my comforter in my dorm room.
Speaker 1: Okay, just a nightmare, so don't do that. Okay. Could
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Speaker 4: So you also tweeted something I don't know a few
Speaker 4: weeks ago at this point, yeah, which I thought was underrated.
Speaker 4: One of my favorite tweets of the year, not because
Speaker 4: it was just like worded in like a super clever way.
Speaker 4: Was not a joke. It just had a story that
Speaker 4: I need to hear. That's behind it. And I have
Speaker 4: minimal experience with dating apps, but you tweeted something that
Speaker 4: you got asked by I guess a match on a
Speaker 4: dating apps about I don't know how to get into
Speaker 4: broadcasting or something like career advice via a dating via
Speaker 4: a dating app? So what is Are you comfortable telling
Speaker 4: this story?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 4: And how how soon did this person ask you? Like,
Speaker 4: was there any flirtation to begin with?
Speaker 1: Was this the opening line? Like? It was not the
Speaker 1: opening line? Okay, at least that's good.
Speaker 2: So I got matched up with a young lady and
Speaker 2: she works in Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 1: Okay, and thrown a wide net out there from Chicago. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I was, I was in Okay, Okay, gotcha?
Speaker 2: And it was very interesting because she works for like
Speaker 2: I think she works for the Rockies as like like
Speaker 2: some kind of like in game entertainment person or something
Speaker 2: like that in the business in some capacity. And we
Speaker 2: get matched up and he's like, hey, are you in
Speaker 2: town for a game? Like what's going on? And like
Speaker 2: very cute, very very seem like very personable, just based
Speaker 2: off the initial initial messages and things like that. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm here in town, what like, what's what's going on
Speaker 2: with you? Like just basic dating app went back and forth,
Speaker 2: and I was like, all right, maybe this might be like, hey,
Speaker 2: you want to go grab a drink or something like
Speaker 2: that type naturally, and literally like eight messages in, she's like,
Speaker 2: so what do you do? And I'm like, and that's
Speaker 2: a typical question to ask as well. I'm telling I'm
Speaker 2: a broadcaster. I happen to be calling this game. And
Speaker 2: she goes so and it began like it's dot dot
Speaker 2: dot and I'm like, all right, so she's writing something
Speaker 2: out It is like a paraground now eating app.
Speaker 1: Of just which seems even longer on a phone.
Speaker 2: I'm like, if I have to scroll to get through
Speaker 2: the entire message, that is a long message. And essentially
Speaker 2: it was what you know, like what can I do
Speaker 2: to get into the industry? Like but I'm I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's it, I'm done, so and I and I gave
Speaker 2: her the advice, by the way, sure because at this point,
Speaker 2: all right, clearly I had in the PostScript in the
Speaker 2: PostScript that I think my tweet was, uh, got to
Speaker 2: respect the hustle absolutely, like.
Speaker 1: Like so stupid.
Speaker 2: I'm like, it's like it's like gets a guy gets
Speaker 2: matched up with girl on dating app? Girl ass how
Speaker 2: to get into broadcasting. I've put a sad face of mooji,
Speaker 2: but got to respect the hust got to.
Speaker 1: Respect the hustle.
Speaker 4: I mean, she honestly could have just said, Hey, is
Speaker 4: there a good email address to contact you on?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Are you on LinkedIn? Yeah? Can I get Can
Speaker 1: I get that linked in? That's incredible?
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's so it's the awkwardness. It didn't work out. No,
Speaker 2: it did not work surprisingly enough. That is the only time.
Speaker 2: That is the awkwardness of my dating life. Okay, like
Speaker 2: I have the weirdest day. It's impossible to have any consistency,
Speaker 2: Like I mean, it's great, I'm in Tampa. Now I'm
Speaker 2: going straight to start to Fayetteville, Arkansas. Then I go
Speaker 2: to Cincinnati. Then you know, like it's just hard to
Speaker 2: find the time.
Speaker 1: And it's it's I.
Speaker 4: Will say, with love being so Digital twenty seventeen, ty,
Speaker 4: if you do a job that's on camera like I do,
Speaker 4: like Adam does, and you have been on camera a lot, obviously.
Speaker 1: Uh, there is very little.
Speaker 4: Mystery when somebody starts stalking you, like when they start
Speaker 4: dating you.
Speaker 1: So it's not like, yeah, your life is out there.
Speaker 2: Your personality is out there, like and I take pride
Speaker 2: in that, Like I take pride in being like good
Speaker 2: at my job, and that's me at my best. Like
Speaker 2: the three of us, I know how hard you guys
Speaker 2: work at this and every other endeavor that you guys
Speaker 2: are involved in, and that's you at your best essentially,
Speaker 2: Like I put so much work into all of the
Speaker 2: projects that I do. I want people to see me
Speaker 2: like that. That's me at my best. But how do
Speaker 2: you handle the worst of it all?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: an interesting dynamic.
Speaker 2: For people who are in this business or on camera
Speaker 2: or have a job that requires their personality to be
Speaker 2: out there constantly.
Speaker 1: It's there are weird conversations, Like I've had a conversation
Speaker 1: with my now fiance but she said, yeah, she was
Speaker 1: talking to one of her friends. You're very easy to
Speaker 1: find and you have a lot of Twitter followers, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know how to respond to that.
Speaker 1: It's it's jokes about tacos, right, Like you can go
Speaker 1: back and look at every single dumb thing I've ever
Speaker 1: said on Twitter.
Speaker 2: God, there there are so many dumb things I've said,
Speaker 2: and it's they're easy, easily and.
Speaker 1: Readily area And the search feature on Twitter isn't good
Speaker 1: for that. You know it just true. It always tends
Speaker 1: to dig up the dirt. Yeah. Yeah, that's gotten me
Speaker 1: a couple of times. So social media is not always
Speaker 1: the best friend.
Speaker 4: You knew your your now wife before kids, so you're
Speaker 4: You're fortunate.
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of weird conversations. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now I haven't necessarily gone there with it, but she
Speaker 3: is aware of it. Like if she wanted to dig
Speaker 3: something up on me, she could in a heartbeat.
Speaker 4: Because all right, so what's twenty seventeen for Adam Imin?
Speaker 1: It's been cool so far? What's the plan? What's what's
Speaker 1: moving forward?
Speaker 2: The plan is to keep doing this. I mean honestly,
Speaker 2: it's it's a it's a fun time. I mean, work
Speaker 2: in every sport and being able to cover everything it
Speaker 2: gets cover.
Speaker 1: I mean, what am I going this? I'm the luckiest
Speaker 1: do of course it is soo I mean this is
Speaker 1: so cool. Is what are you doing basketball in the spring.
Speaker 1: College basketball.
Speaker 2: NBA will move out to Major League Baseball once the
Speaker 2: season starts, we'll do I still do college softball.
Speaker 1: Like what's your favorite series?
Speaker 2: And I can't say for sure, like baseball is like
Speaker 2: the sport I grew up on. That's the fan in
Speaker 2: me is a huge baseball fan, but as a broadcaster, honestly,
Speaker 2: like it's the job that gets me excited.
Speaker 1: Let me frame it like this, what's the hardest the
Speaker 1: most difficults.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say it's probably football preparation level is
Speaker 2: so high sat pace, there's the pace of it. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's so many variables in a football game, and where
Speaker 2: you might take a broadcast, you have no clue. Basketball
Speaker 2: it's more so much more self contained. Like here's a
Speaker 2: four minute segment, here's a for minute segment, here's you know,
Speaker 2: five minutes of play.
Speaker 1: All right, it's late in the game, it's close. Let's
Speaker 1: focus on the game.
Speaker 2: But you can manipulate it a lot more Baseball there's
Speaker 2: a lot of time where you can injecting to explore,
Speaker 2: you can converse about various subjects. But with football, it
Speaker 2: is a dictated pace, It is a dictated game.
Speaker 1: It is difficult to really like.
Speaker 2: I have so much respect for Like TV football producers
Speaker 2: are like some of the smartest people.
Speaker 1: In that truck. And it is like a chaotic symphony. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is that.
Speaker 2: That is a beautiful way to describe it. It's a
Speaker 2: chaotic symphony. The guys who you know, the guys and
Speaker 2: women in this business that make that happen to make
Speaker 2: it look as good as they do.
Speaker 1: Incredible to me.
Speaker 4: I feel like we're on a great first date with
Speaker 4: Adam Am. I feel like that's what's happening, right. We've
Speaker 4: gotten to know him. We know him professionally, we know
Speaker 4: him personally a little bit, we know about his fast
Speaker 4: food tastes.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: Now, So to avoid future situation with a young lady
Speaker 4: perhaps hustling a little bit too hard on a dating app,
Speaker 4: what was your path?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 4: What is what has worked for you professionally to get
Speaker 4: to a very impressive point at a You're pretty young,
Speaker 4: all things considered. The people that are doing your job
Speaker 4: in this industry are generally older. So what has been
Speaker 4: your path? After Valparaise that was where you went to school.
Speaker 4: So now that all the young ladies, all the potential sutresses.
Speaker 1: All the Sutresses. That is phenomenal because Sudourettes, Sudourettes, I
Speaker 1: don't know, does that work. He's he's he's clearly a
Speaker 1: prized high So what is that path so that they
Speaker 1: can skip trying to get that information out of you
Speaker 1: and just know you as a person. Yeah, see, this
Speaker 1: is this is well framed. Keep cuting.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the deepest of cut I do. I
Speaker 2: do try this is B side what I do? This
Speaker 2: is this is B side. Right now, this is rubber soul.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the B side.
Speaker 1: What is the path? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I would say for me, it was going to a
Speaker 2: small town, you know, working a couple of radio stations
Speaker 2: that were in it's out of three thousand people and
Speaker 2: learning how to be on air, like learning. I had
Speaker 2: been on air a ton in college, but you get
Speaker 2: to these you know, these jobs. It's a very niche audience,
Speaker 2: very small, but they're the ones who listen. They care,
Speaker 2: they they care about the content and being on air
Speaker 2: where it was a spirit Lake, Iowa.
Speaker 1: Okay. That was the first my first full time job
Speaker 1: out of college.
Speaker 2: And you're on air four times a day for sportscast
Speaker 2: and then you're doing basketball and football and wrestling matches
Speaker 2: and things like that. You're on the air all the time.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of reps. Then I went to Central
Speaker 2: New Jersey. You do a minor league baseball job there.
Speaker 2: You're on air one hundred and forty times in one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty days. It's impossible to duplicate that amount
Speaker 2: of repetition. Like it's that's the way you learn how
Speaker 2: to do this stuff. And then it was doing freelance TV,
Speaker 2: and it was meeting the right people, and it was
Speaker 2: trying to make good impressions. And really it's not a
Speaker 2: science by any means, but you kind of take everything
Speaker 2: for what it's worth and you try to do the
Speaker 2: best you can at it and try to make sure
Speaker 2: that people are on you appreciate it.
Speaker 4: And so what was your first at was ESPN? Your
Speaker 4: first National Spotlight shops. So what was your first responsibility
Speaker 4: at ESPN?
Speaker 2: I worked the HBCU college football package on ESPNU tape
Speaker 2: delayed ten thirty Eastern time at night. Jay Walker and
Speaker 2: I did that package together. I did a couple of
Speaker 2: like live games with David Diaz and Fontes, like it
Speaker 2: was the Whack when the wax still existed, so it
Speaker 2: was like yeah, and like it was like a couple
Speaker 2: of BYU games and then like Fresno State was in
Speaker 2: the whack at that time.
Speaker 1: Nevado, Hawaii. How old were you at this? I was
Speaker 1: twenty four when I got hired. Wow.
Speaker 2: So it's been six years since I started at ESPN.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And you know, doing college softball and college volleyball, college basketball,
Speaker 2: doing the high school basketball stuff with all the recruiting.
Speaker 2: I did a couple of years of high school football
Speaker 2: at ESPN. So I really didn't know how to call
Speaker 2: football either, right, I didn't call much of it until
Speaker 2: I got to ESPN. I started calling the NFL when
Speaker 2: I was twenty five on radio, which accelerated like the
Speaker 2: learning problem. You have to know the sport if you're
Speaker 2: going to call the NFL, and just getting reps for
Speaker 2: that that accelerated the whole process. Is there is there
Speaker 2: anyone that you try to emulate on the radio, It's
Speaker 2: Kevin Harlan.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I think he's one of the
Speaker 2: most descriptive radio announcers ever and I've really taken that
Speaker 2: to heart. And on the TV side, I don't know
Speaker 2: if I emulate anybody maybe Mike Tarico, just because I'm there.
Speaker 2: I try to Again, I'm not a guy who came
Speaker 2: in knowing everything about it. But you learn as much
Speaker 2: as you can, and you try to take the intelligent
Speaker 2: man's approach to the game and try to accentuate that
Speaker 2: with your analysts and things like that. But you pick
Speaker 2: up a little bit from everybody. I've picked up stuff
Speaker 2: from Joe Tessitour and from Chris Fowler, and you know,
Speaker 2: Brett the brad Nessler's of the world, and Brent and
Speaker 2: everybody that's in front of you. You're constantly watching and
Speaker 2: going I like that. That doesn't fit with me. Maybe
Speaker 2: I can implement this.
Speaker 1: I should. I can hear myself make that mistake. I
Speaker 1: should avoid that.
Speaker 2: Like you pick up stuff from everywhere, you're always kind
Speaker 2: of pinching, you're sampling constantly.
Speaker 3: The danger with that, I would imagine, is that you
Speaker 3: have a tendency to either a over thin it or.
Speaker 1: Be edit yourself. Yes, how do you avoid falling into
Speaker 1: that trap?
Speaker 2: I think again, the reps helped the fact that I've
Speaker 2: gotten a chance to do so many games. You learn,
Speaker 2: like your voice, like I've I've you guys know my
Speaker 2: humor because we all tweeted each other all the time
Speaker 2: and we have a good time with it. I finally
Speaker 2: feel comfortable injecting that a little bit. I finally feel
Speaker 2: comfortable like being a little bit more of myself on
Speaker 2: the air than maybe I ever have. And it took
Speaker 2: five years to get there, you know, it takes that long.
Speaker 2: And I'm a guy who does like eighty ninety one hundred,
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifteen hundred and twenty games a year nationally,
Speaker 2: and it's it still took that long for me. And
Speaker 2: it's like the ten thousand hour rule for me, Like
Speaker 2: I had to do all this stuff to even feel
Speaker 2: comfortable doing it. And I've watched old footage of myself, so, oh,
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't go to the TV route. I started on
Speaker 1: the internet.
Speaker 4: So I got a job at SI dot com when
Speaker 4: I was twenty four, so roughly the same age, but
Speaker 4: like I was one man banding it, like when I
Speaker 4: was going to football games and stuff like that. And
Speaker 4: I guess the good thing with TV is once you've
Speaker 4: done a broadcast on a local TV station or a
Speaker 4: minor league, it's gone forever. Nobody can ever dig that up.
Speaker 4: It is very easy to find, some very poor broadcasting
Speaker 4: and videos that I've Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I mean I still have tapes in my
Speaker 2: first radio broadcast. I have the tape of my first
Speaker 2: football game, and I cringe. Yeah, I've gone back maybe
Speaker 2: once or twice in the last few years, and I'll
Speaker 2: be like, let's pop this in for old time sake
Speaker 2: and see what it looked like and see what it
Speaker 2: sounded like.
Speaker 4: And oh, I have I have one final question. We
Speaker 4: let him get lunch, interact god, hand whatever. So there
Speaker 4: is a possibility that and I won't be fully in
Speaker 4: my hands.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to move to Chicago. My fiance is from.
Speaker 4: There, right, and I am a soft Southern Californian who
Speaker 4: is accelerating and sort of intensely exploring all of my
Speaker 4: geographical options to perhaps not make this so convince me
Speaker 4: that it might not be so bad.
Speaker 3: And I'll prefab saying this every time he mentioned Chicago.
Speaker 3: It's all about the weather.
Speaker 1: I think he loves. So I loved, I like the people,
Speaker 1: I love the food I love.
Speaker 4: You can get around really easily, but him, she until
Speaker 4: this year, did not let even let me visit. Between
Speaker 4: November and March, she just did not want me to
Speaker 4: see it, right, So convince me that it's workable.
Speaker 2: Food in the winter time tastes better in Chicago. Hot food,
Speaker 2: great restaurants. The food is just better in the winter time. Okay,
Speaker 2: I think that's important to know for especially for somebody
Speaker 2: like you who loves food the way you do. You
Speaker 2: love exploring restaurants. You will appreciate going to get a hot,
Speaker 2: good meal. Ramen San one of my favorite places in
Speaker 2: the city, Japanese Ramen Place. Went there the other night,
Speaker 2: freezing cold, we walk inside hot bowl of ramen in
Speaker 2: front of you.
Speaker 1: It's true.
Speaker 4: I mean, I live in New York now, so like
Speaker 4: I am familiar with like food, but like the difference
Speaker 4: in Chicago is kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: Like no, and I agree with that.
Speaker 2: And again, eight months out of the year, as far
Speaker 2: as I'm certain, best city in the country, wonderful place,
Speaker 2: and the summertime, I don't think you can beat it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, there are those couple of stretches of time
Speaker 2: where it's just not I mean it's brutal.
Speaker 1: You look good in jackets, that's always good jackets time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got a good six foot one frame over
Speaker 2: here off the rack off the trade. Are you in
Speaker 2: the city, are you out light.
Speaker 1: In the heart of the city, which I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: what's your address? You address? I come over the cross
Speaker 1: the streets. You have a favorite neighborhood I really liked,
Speaker 1: like the wicker Park.
Speaker 2: Wicker Park might be the best. It's just I mean
Speaker 2: the restaurants, they are fantastic. River North is great for
Speaker 2: like the trendy hip right restaurants, and then wicker Park
Speaker 2: is great for like dive bars.
Speaker 1: More New York.
Speaker 2: He to me, it is Yeah, I would say that
Speaker 2: that's like that's to me, like that's Brooklyn. Like wicker
Speaker 2: Park to me is like kind of like Brooklyn. Like
Speaker 2: that's like it's trendier like Manhattan is like Downtown for Chicago.
Speaker 2: That's kind of how I would equate those two things.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I don't mean, of course, I think the
Speaker 4: broadcaster of the solid Verbo the the he's gonna.
Speaker 1: Be an undernet legend by the time we get that.
Speaker 1: Absolutely So when he's hosting the Oscars, we're getting it.
Speaker 2: Like that's just howually I get Like, I think you
Speaker 2: get like five passes for the Oscars if you host
Speaker 2: the Oscars. He's gonna wait that is that is the
Speaker 2: most made up thing I've said on this podcast. I
Speaker 2: don't I don't know, Like, how do you determine that
Speaker 2: is the most like non sequitur thing I gotta come
Speaker 2: up with just then, I appreciate, but you'll be in
Speaker 2: when I.
Speaker 1: If and when done.
Speaker 2: Grammys and then you guys like, no, it's okay, Latin Grammys.
Speaker 2: Remember the Remember like the Simpsons used to like rip
Speaker 2: on the g like Grammys all the time. Of course
Speaker 2: I've got you got this Grammy And then he tosses
Speaker 2: it away, like why do they rip on the Grammy
Speaker 2: so much?
Speaker 4: They rip on the greatest, They rip on the Grammys,
Speaker 4: they rip on the sister schools in the Northeast faster
Speaker 4: Williams Like they just find the greatest things that nobody thinks. Yeah, so, Adam,
Speaker 4: I mean, thank you very much for your thank you.
Speaker 1: You can't wait to have your back best. I love
Speaker 1: it all right again, that was our interview with Adam.
Speaker 1: I mean from es. Hope you enjoyed it.
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