WEBVTT - 06/08/21 DPS Hour 3 Jared Greenberg 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.240 Sports Radio. Got our goggles, got our rain slickers, we 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:11.360 got our champagne. The only thing missing is this sports 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:15.880 Emmy Tonight YouTube dot com slash the Dan Patrick Show. 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:20.200 The festivities start at eight eastern and we look back 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:22.880 on the last year with the show. A lot of 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.720 memorable moments, red and carpet, and of course the host 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.120 that you would expect for a big time moment, Dan Ge, 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.960 who was the voice of the American on Athletic Association 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:37.000 of America Basketball Tournament. I think he graduated, right, Did 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.239 Dan g graduate from high school or college college? Yea 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.519 graduated from college. So dan Ge will be host of 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.480 the festivities tonight. When you think of a big time event, 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:48.919 you think of Dan Ge. Yes. Boy. You know how 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.360 when us anyone wins an award, they always get up 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:52.960 there and said, I wish I could thank everyone, but 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.560 I can't. Yeah, you could easily thank everyone who works 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:57.120 on this show. And under thirty second, yes I can. 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.000 I could do that. Full names, I probably middle name, 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.880 Yes I could, Yes, I could. I think there's maybe 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.720 ten people, ten eleven people that work on their show. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.759 Seven work hard. We have eleven. I think that work 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.319 on the show, yes, and just the fact I know 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.360 we keep talking about it, but I'm still whenever I 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:20.400 look at the names on that list and then I've 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.240 like think back of their story how they got here 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.279 to the show. People working at like a bait store 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.000 like this is, and now you're winning an Emmy for 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.840 like the or well you're nominated for an Emmy in 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.240 the show that Now you do graphics, or you're running 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:38.040 sound on or It's just the wildest thing I know. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.040 I don't like. Tyler's job used to be to smoke 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.119 cigarettes and take care of the big Germans dog, and 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.440 he crushed that so he got promoted and now us 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.280 he's the host of chat Row. Tyler his whole career 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.400 was basically made off of one day somebody was out 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.720 for Meet Friday and he on his own decided to 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:00.960 go get a bunch of brots and hamburgers and stuff, 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.080 and we were like, this guy is amazing. You know 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:08.440 Dylan who got us breakfast for so many months. One 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.720 day I said, hey, I think I need a graphics guy. 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.280 We're going to do a TV show and he said 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.640 I'm in. I said, have you ever done graphics. He 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.240 said no, he said, how difficult can it be? And 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.560 then when I asked the big german, who is a 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.160 was the general contractor. He was kind of like the 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.120 office manager. You know, we went from one man cave 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.799 to this one, and his job was to oversee that transition. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.120 And then one day I said, hey, we need to 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.480 do a TV show and we need to have kind 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.160 of a director. Can you direct a TV show? And 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.160 he goes sure, And I said, well we need the equipment. 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.320 He goes, all right, I'll borrow it from my college. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:48.080 So he asked his college for a switcher, like, you know, 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.880 the nuts and bolts to be able to be a 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.880 director of a TV show. So that's it. That's our 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.760 in our camera operators, and you know, it's it's been 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.960 pretty impressive. What what the guys in the back everybody 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:06.200 really has been able to do. And you know, we're lucky. 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.720 It's very emotional. It's going to be a very emotional night. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.160 But we will not cry. We will we are celebrating 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.400 with champagne. We will celebrate tonight even if we don't 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.520 happen to win, not if we lose. If we don't happen, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.320 it went, yes, tid that's very well put. Thank you 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.720 to the right attitude to have. We say good morning 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.960 to our radio partners numbering nearly four hundred cities around America. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.720 TV partners Peacock. You can stream the show all three 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:34.320 hours download the app. We talked a little bit about 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.760 what happened with the Nets and my Milwaukee Bucks last night. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.960 There was bums and then after the game there was 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:45.480 an exchange that caught my eye my ear and it 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.160 went like this. Jared Greenberg is the sideline reporter NBA 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.560 on TNT, and after the game he got a chance 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.080 to talk to Kevin Durant and it went like this. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:59.160 Tomorrow we'll mark two years since you initially injured your path. 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.680 I know you worked your butt off to get to 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.160 this point, but did you ever think you'd be this good? 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:10.200 Is that a real question? Of course? Would you want 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:11.920 me to say to that? Of course, I think it's 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:13.920 pretty impressive. What are you being able to do? Thank you? 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:15.880 I appreciate that, but I mean that was two years ago. 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.000 I'm looking forward to just getting up tomorrow. I'm going 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.720 to practice, watch your family and uh, let's see how 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.160 we can get better. But you know, I appreciate that, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:24.760 but you know that was that was so long ago. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:26.360 All right, well, I'll come up with some more real 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:30.479 questions for you next time. Thanks Kevin Love. Hey, let's 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.000 bring in Jared Greenberg, the NBA on TNT sideline reporter. 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.240 All right, in the moment, what are you thinking when 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:41.279 it starts to go south? The Emmys are tomorrow night. 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:45.320 I'm probably not going to win. This is not going 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:50.359 to be nominated for anything. No, you know, Dan, you 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.760 know this. Appreciate you having me on Those end of 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.799 game scenarios that you did for so long are absolute 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.200 fire drills and not to make any excuses for, but 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.440 you know, you got ten different things going on. You 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.800 got producers screaming in your ear. We've got another game 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.400 to get to to tip off. I know I only 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.039 have a limited amount of time with Kevin Durant, and honestly, 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.320 I wanted to get his take on the fact that, 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.080 you know, there were people out there that didn't know 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.440 Kevin Durant would be able to play, let alone play 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.960 at a time this year he was in the MVP 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.080 conversation and for him to put up, you know, more 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.160 than thirty points against what was supposed to be one 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.400 of the best defenses in basketball this year. I just 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.719 wanted to get his mindset. Probably didn't word it the 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.280 best I could have worded it, but I don't know. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.280 I was taken aback by him not think he was 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.200 a real question because I wasn't putting him down. I 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.680 was trying to get his thoughts. Do you think that 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.560 he thought that you. I think he goes into these 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.960 interviews that there's a chip on his shoulder, like he's 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.520 a little defensive here. And I don't know if he 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:56.240 felt that way with that question. Initially, no question, but 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.680 I don't know that he thought that I was being 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.640 disrespectful to him. I think he thought, how dare you? 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.679 How dare you question whether I could have been great again, 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.839 which you know, as you know, as the great basketball 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:14.680 player you are, Dan, and Achilles is a devastating injury. Yeah, 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.680 I just wondered when I could feel the wind up 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.280 and then there was the pitch, and then I could 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:24.080 just tell it was like, oh god, you know, just 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.880 kind of indulge him a little bit, let him off 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.440 the hook here because you were trying to be complimentary. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.640 But I could see where Durant's like, oh yeah, another 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:34.919 member of the media who didn't believe in me or 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.039 something like that. What kind of relationship do you have 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:42.240 with durant I? You know, I've interviewed him going back 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.440 to his days in Oklahoma City. My first year at 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.040 Turner was the year that they went to the finals 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.760 against Lebron and the Miami Heat. So that's when I 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.920 first started, you know, doing one on one interviews with him. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:55.680 I don't I don't know that he knows my name 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.520 or whatever, but I know he watches a lot of basketball, 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.080 you know, I'm sure he watches us on MBA A 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:04.400 TV and on t NT, and you know, um, I've 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.039 always had great relationship, but there's no question he is. 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.560 He definitely comes in with his uh, with his gloves up, 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:15.680 if you will. Who did you hear from after that interview? Eric? Um? 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.200 So the funny part about it is that, you know, 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.280 you always wonder when you're doing these games, are people watching? 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:23.960 And then you know, at one point in the game, 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.080 the nets were up by forty nine, so I'm like, 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.360 all right, nobody's watching this game. And then as soon 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.120 as I lift up my phone, you know, the phone's 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.120 blow it up, and you know, I'm like why why 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.440 are you people still watching this game? It was it 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.600 was disgusting, It was it was a terrible game. Don't 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:40.920 you guys have something else to do? It wasn't like 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.680 the Bachelorette or something last night. If you interview Durant 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:50.240 after game three, oh yeah. Can you have fun at 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.880 all with what happened after game two? Yeah? Oh absolutely. 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.960 And and so we unfortunately do not have the series 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.440 unless it goes to game five. ESPN A B has 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:04.120 the next two. But if it goes game five, I'm 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:05.880 a matter of fact, as soon as we hang up 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.000 here today, I'm texting the netspur staff saying, if the 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.040 Nets win Game five, I want to rant. I don't 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:15.200 care whether he got held scoreless. What have we learned 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.160 about James Harden's status? So the Nets are being incredibly 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.840 vague about the whole thing. They're just saying that it's 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:27.840 hamstring tightness. And what's scary is that it's the same 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.560 hamstring tightness that costs him twenty one games in the 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:34.319 regular season. But what I have kind of surmised here 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.400 from talking with people around the Nets is that those 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.560 twenty one games, sure it was a serious injury that 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.120 they were monitoring, but it was the regular season and 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.319 they knew what their ultimate goal was, so they were 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.760 being ultra cautious. If it comes down to it, they 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.320 certainly don't want to compromise or jeopardize his short term 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.679 or long term future, especially with the nets. They hope 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.000 they have a long runway here. But they'd be more 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.880 willing to play him in a game right now then 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.800 they were in the regular season because of what's at stake. Well, 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.760 good luck, get ready for that next question. Maybe many suggestions, 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:14.200 an open ended question. Yeah, don't don't give don't give 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.400 him a chance to say yes or no, right, because 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.920 I thought he was going to do that. That's happened 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.160 to me with Tiger Woods. There's a couple of athletes 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.440 who will they'll they'll give you a yes or no 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.800 if you give them the opportunity for a yes or no, 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:33.040 open ended get him talking um. That would probably be 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.520 my advice in a situation like that. Maybe I just 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.800 actually start with an actual fake question this time. This 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.520 way he's wondering if it is that a real question. No, 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:47.400 it's a fake one, the real one. Yeah, don't ask 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.000 him about that, damn Achilles anymore? All Right, that's such 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.720 a long and don't ask about his dating life either. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.040 Just he just wants to be a hooper. He just 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.439 wants to talk about That's all he wants to do. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.600 Thanks for in a good sport. Jared. That's Jared Greenberg. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.679 He covers the NBA on TNT sideline Reporter T and 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.400 T the exclusive home of the twenty twenty one Eastern 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:15.319 Conference Finals. You go into those situations and I've had 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.160 numerous ones that have gone well, and I've had ones 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:22.120 that didn't go so well. You're not quite sure, and 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.760 if you're not quite sure, you got to be careful 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.079 in how you word your question. If it's somebody you know. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.280 And I'll take you back when I was doing Sports 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.240 Center and I would be at the NBA Finals with 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:40.120 Michael Jordan. Jordan gave me the luxury of being able 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.920 to have fun with him, not necessarily at his expense, 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.959 but to have fun with him, and he was able 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:48.880 to come back. You know, we went back and forth 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:53.480 with one another and there was respect, mutual respect. But 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.560 I was lucky with that. Now, there are times if 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.720 you know, John Stockton came in or Carl Malone might 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.719 not be the same kind of back and forth Greg Popovich, 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.080 Phil Jackson. There were times when you would ask if 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:12.520 pat Riley pat Riley could be tough. Where you're asking 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.880 a question and you think it's sort of, you know, 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:20.240 a random harmless question just to get into a conversation, 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.200 and all of a sudden, you can tell this is 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.320 not going to go as scripted. This is an uphill climb. 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.640 And I have great admiration for those sideline reporters because 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.280 you don't know who you're talking to, and you don't 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.000 know what you're going to get, and you're also somebody's 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.080 in your ear. You have what is called an IFB. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.520 So unless you have a headset on, you have somebody 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.520 who is talking to you, and they might say wrap 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.120 it up, wrap it up, wrap it up, or you 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.319 can ask one more question, or hey, ask one more 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:54.079 after that, because it's all about filling time or getting 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.240 to the next game. And there's a lot of things 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.400 that go on behind the scenes. When I'm, you know, 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.600 handing out the Super Bowl trophy, I had my producer 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:09.160 in my ear telling me you got one more question, Hey, 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.280 don't forget about you got Belichick. And then you know, 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.240 if you want to get Edelman, you can get him 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:18.520 and then then wrap it up. So you're I'm I'm 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.120 actually asking a question. I could be asking a question 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.200 to Tom Brady and my producer is saying to me, Hey, 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.160 you know, get Gronk, get Gronk after this, and I 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:30.040 don't even know what Tom is saying. Tom could say, 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.760 you know, I think you're incredible, and I think you're 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.240 the greatest broadcaster of all time, and I could be going, okay, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.440 all right, well thanks, hey, Tom, congratulations there. Let's bring 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.559 in Rob Grenkowski and then the same thing happens there. Hey, 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.760 you got thirty second, don't ask another question, don't ask it, 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.079 get get mister Craft in there, get him, and then 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.520 send it back up to Bob. And it's it's chaos, 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.000 but you have to make it seem like there's nothing 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.640 going just smooth. It's like you're a duck on the water. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.160 You don't see that that little guy is paddling, you know, 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:08.200 for his life. It's just you're your swan out there. Yeah, Polly, 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:09.960 And if you're a guy like Jared Greenberg, you've been 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:11.720 doing this a while, but you don't know. If you 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:13.800 have a relationship with Kevin Durant, you don't know if 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.440 he knows your name, your face, and what can I 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.520 say back? Can I joke back? Can I jab back? 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:20.800 You know, if he's talking with Charles Barkley, Kenny and Shack, 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:22.560 there's gonna be a back and forth and they can 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:23.959 get away with her, or a former player can get 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.520 away with well. Kevin Durant shut down Barkley before. Yeah, recently, 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.640 He'll do to anybody, yes time. But you would also 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.840 think after a win, a big win at home and 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.720 you're up two oh and everything, you have to at 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.640 least assume in the back of your mind, even if 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.960 the person you're interviewing maybe a little sterili at times, 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:39.680 that they're going to be in a relatively good mood. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:44.280 You certainly wouldn't have not that team though, not that 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.360 team you got. Kyrie's got a chip on his shoulder, 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.079 Harden's got a chip on his shoulder, Durant has a 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:58.280 chip on his shoulder, both shoulders. I mean, yeah, that 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.000 would be I would have trepidation going into a situation 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:02.719 like that, but I would not know what I was 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.000 going to get. I'd probably ask for Steve Nash or 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.760 Joe Harris instead. Maybe I know when I'm going to 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.000 get there. Yeah, bully, Joe Harris is such a nice guy. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.320 He'd apologize for not giving a more thoughtful answer. A 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.560 couple of phone calls in here eight seven seven three 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.680 d P show Pete and Virginia. Hi, Pete, what's on 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:30.080 your line today? Hey? Dane seventy two? So I was 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.800 curious if you were going to compare your time at 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.440 the end of your run at ESPN to one of 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.480 the quarterback in franchise situations? Which would one would it be? 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:45.880 And why? So? Since since I've left ESPN, Well, no, 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.400 since the time the end of your run, So are you? 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.920 Are you like Brady where you were kind of new? 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.480 You're on your way out, You're looking for your next opportunity. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.480 Was it like Aaron Rodgers? You're going to be hanging 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.640 out for a little bit, holding out, trying to get 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.600 a new contract? What was it most like? Gosh, I 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:06.680 don't even remember. Thank you, Pete. I knew that I 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.400 wanted to move on. I just wanted to do it 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.000 and see if I could do it on my own, 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:16.520 because when you're at ESPN, ESPN makes you feel like 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:21.520 you're a lot better than what you are, and you know, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.640 it's like beer muscles. This was network muscles, like I'm 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.520 at ESPN, and then you step out of ESPN and 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.760 then you realize that you're not as good as you 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.480 think you are or were, or the people on the 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.160 outside looking in don't view you the same way that 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.240 you think they do or would or should. That was 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.440 I had a hard time getting people to take this 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.680 radio show when I first started. I had to go 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.760 door to door, and I thought I was on three 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:55.920 hundred stations at ESPN. Then it got up to three 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.360 fifty and then I thought, well, I'll just step out 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.440 and they're going to take my show. Well, I got 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.160 out and all the ESPN affiliates were told, you can't 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.880 take his show or we will drop you as an 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.480 ESPN affiliate. And I understood that, and then I had 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.600 to go knock on the door of all these other 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.080 stations that I was competing against when I was at 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:21.600 the Mother's Ship. If I don't get on KLAC, we're 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:26.120 not here today. It was that important because Morning Drive 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:30.480 and to be part of people's lives for what thirteen 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.960 years every morning in Los Angeles, and that opened the 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.920 door for all these other stations. So I had I 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:42.120 had a second life but there was a I need 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.720 to go elsewhere. Now I don't want to say Brady 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.680 because he's the greatest of all time, but there was 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.280 that ESPN probably didn't want me to stay, and I 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.400 didn't want to stay, and then I decided to leave, 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.080 and you know, I was able to bring in my 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.840 free agents here with Seaton, Paulie, Fritz mc loving sort 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.600 of like he did with Gronk and Antonio Brown, and 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.600 we're going to win what is the super Bowl for 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.800 this industry? The Sports Emmy coming up tonight? You an McLean. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.879 I think the Brady analogy works in a way like 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.600 you weren't sure what was Brady, what was Belichick? So 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.360 you yourself weren't sure what was me what was ESPN? 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.920 And then you get a second ring, whether we win 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.120 or tonight or not. It's it's like there is I'm 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.359 not saying you're saying you're the goat, but there's that 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.320 analogy works in some ways. Yeah, that I won Sports 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.080 Emmy's at ESPN, but that's the power of ESPN. Now 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.160 you're on your own and it's it's just different. Well, yeah, 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:36.840 but you were a big player. It's not like it 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.560 was just ESPN. Yeah, but it certainly helped. Yeah, point, 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:42.919 I have these show rundowns from our first week on 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:45.480 air in October of two thousand and seven, and it's 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.720 fascinating what the trade topics are. The topics are the 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.200 biggest topic that entire week was is Chicago going to 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.160 trade for Kobe Bryant? And there was a package in play. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.000 I got the stories here the Bulls and Lakers are 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.840 deep into conversations to trade for Kobe Bryant, lual De, 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.520 Ben Gordon, Tyrris Thomas, Joe Him Noah for Kobe and 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:07.119 picks and it seemed almost imminent at the time, and 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.159 then it all went away and the report was that 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.320 they didn't want to give up Ben Gordon, they want 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.560 to do a package where Ben Gordon wasn't involved, and 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.000 who knows it was. We had Phil Jackson on that 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.240 We Phil, you know, David Beckham. Beckham was on that 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.280 week because he just joined the Galaxy. Yeah, yeah, we 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.600 we were. We had some really good guests that first week. 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:29.960 Um second week, Todd kind of took that week. You 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.520 always got him get add something, a little tagget with something. Yes, 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:35.639 that's not fair. He had to go get coffee, as 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.199 I recall, Oh, no, no, I think there's some garbage. 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.720 Do you realize that we have people who they have 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.320 other jobs here and they also one guy will you know, 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.040 Marvin will answer phones and do other things. And then 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.480 my wife thought I handled that poorly? You did or 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.520 whatever it's worth. No, you did. Absolutely. I still think that. 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:01.440 And and Todd had already booked the show and he 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:03.200 wasn't going to be on the air, And I said, Todd, 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.080 would you go get some coffee for us? He's like coffee? 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:10.600 And I realized that I should That was not the 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.040 right person or right time to ask. It wasn't about 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.239 to going for a run for coffee. It was more 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.159 for I felt like I was like, well, you you 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:18.919 booked your guests, you're kind of you could kick your 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:20.320 feet up, you're done for the day. You don't need 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.080 to actually that is start of the show anymore, and 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:26.800 follow along and listen to was true, like you you 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.080 weren't on the air. I know you were in my attic. 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.920 I I guess I felt insulted that like that, you're 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.560 kind of dismissed. You don't need to, you know, follow 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:36.080 the show for the next few hours. And it's not 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:38.520 like I asked you to brew coffee because it wasn't 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.119 about coffee. It was about like a we'll take it 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.359 from here a booker boy, and then go get some coffee. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.360 We'll talk you later. That's kind of unfortunately how I read, 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.639 and that's why I was upset. Would you go that 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.880 was a long time That was too what I'm gonna 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.440 be like Durant? Now that was a long time ago. 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.000 Would you go get me some coffee? Now? If I 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:55.320 knew how to make coffee or a way of the 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:59.440 coffee machine what popped it was, I would consider doing that. Yes, 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.560 we love that's your problem. Seaton and I are the 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.000 coffee atticts here. We would have gladly got I'll always 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.880 go to Starbucks now hates coffee. Didn't make him sick 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:10.600 for a month. No, I get like a chocolate shake 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.720 at McDonald Just coffee. Oh did I ask you to 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.119 take the garbage out one time too? I think I 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:19.760 may have rolled my eyes. We have guys who so 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:25.160 my cameraman Weeks is an unbelievable cameraman. He mows the 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.880 grass out front. I've seen it a number of times, 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.960 pulling out of the Joyway. These guys do literally everything. 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.159 And he's better at mowing the grass than he is 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:36.879 camera work out. I mean he's really good guy, you know, 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.640 pushing the mower. The team player, Yeah, Marvin is doing 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:46.200 it something extra. Tyler, Dylan, the big german, cooking French kids, 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.679 all kind of stuff, carrying boxes out of cars. I 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:53.520 haudacity to ask you to go get what a horribly 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:56.280 non team player. But did you listen to your wife? 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:59.119 Did you say, yeah, honey, you're probably right. No, I 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:01.000