WEBVTT - The Dave Pasch Podcast - Jim Nantz 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:06.880 Everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Dave Pash Podcast. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.840 I'm your host, Dave Pass ESPN and Arizona Cardinals play 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:12.560 by play announcer. Our guest this week is the Great 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.760 Jim Nance, who's been with CBS since nineteen eighty five. 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.720 He's called the Final Four since nineteen ninety one, been 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.840 a part of the NFL going back to ninety eight, 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:24.920 and called play by play as the lead voice since 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:27.840 two thousand and four. Jim will talk with us about 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.319 what's going to be his final Final Four in two 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.559 thousand and twenty three. We'll talk about the timing, and 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.280 then I'll also discuss when he hopes to finish as 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.120 the voice of the Masters. This will be his thirty 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:45.159 eighth consecutive year calling the golf at Augusta coming up 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.800 in twenty twenty three, I would like to be there 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.040 for the hundredth playing of the Masters, and then we'll 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.720 reevaluate because I'm only going to be seventy six. Lookno, 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.760 many of our friends are still working at the stages 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.080 later than that, like Al Michaels and on and on 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.760 and on. But that's the goal. How much longer will 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.000 he continue to call the NFL. We'll talk with Jim 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.200 about that. 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Twenty 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.160 one years of age or older to wager Arizona only. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:49.240 All promotions are subject to qualification eligibility requirements. Please gamble responsibly. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.800 Gambling problem called one eight hundred. Next step, Time to 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.360 talk with the voice of CBS Sports and one of 0:01:55.400 --> 0:02:05.200 the all time great guys in this business, Jim nance. Well, Jim, 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.120 first of all, it's it's an honor to talk to you. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.360 You're one of my favorites. You're one of the best 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.359 in our business of what you do, and you're such 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.760 a great guy. I'll never forget. Well. First of all, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.040 I met you for the first time when I was 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.959 doing the Final four for NCAA International back in It 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.000 was one of the two Florida Championships two thousand and six, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:27.079 I think. And then I'm sitting at a restaurant in 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.440 New York City, delf Friscoes with my wife, and all 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.880 of a sudden, the waitress comes over and says, hey, um, 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.799 this gentleman next to you here would like to buy 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.560 you guys a drink. I look over and it's you, 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.240 and and then you come over and hang out and 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:48.280 we're chatting it up for a while. So that's that's 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:50.400 what the fact. I remember that like it was yesterday. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.160 I think it was two and ten. I was doing 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:53.679 the Big East Tournament in New York and I can't 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.160 remember what you were there for. Maybe you were just 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:59.120 out to dinner with your bride. But I'll never forget that. Jim, Well, 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.320 you know, I didn't think you would actually remember that day, 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.760 but I remember it vividly. We were neighboring Booths, and 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:06.600 it was a real thrill to meet you. And we 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:12.600 have the gift and of being in the same industry, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.440 which is the childhood dream for each of us. And 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.519 we also share, you know, not only a love of 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.160 college basketball, which you are absolutely exceptional at fall in 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.240 those games, I like you are with everything, but I 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.080 get to see a lot of your work on college 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.880 hoops when you're doing your Cardinals work during the fall. 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:30.600 I'm always on at the same time, so I don't 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:35.480 get to enjoy it. But Pat McGrath, famous stats guy. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.280 Oh yeah, I worked with you a ton and I've 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.880 had Pat by my side or I've been by his 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.360 side more like it, for thirty something years on college hoops. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.000 So a lot of people out there, you know, you 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.360 hear things in the industry, and everybody admiers and has 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.520 great respect for who you are not only is a broadcaster, 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.840 but more importantly what you like off the air. Oh 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.960 I appreciate that. Yeah, Pat has been He's been with 0:03:58.000 --> 0:03:59.920 you probably twice as long as he's been with me. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.400 But and I think Doug Collins, I don't know if 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:03.880 it was you, I think it was Doug Collins that 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:08.280 gave him the nickname Pat the Rat or PTR for short. 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.680 But Pat's a great statistician. He's as good as there is. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:17.920 I think Pat the Rat the nickname belongs to Hankstram 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.520 That okay. He and Hank were close and I worked 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.279 with Hank years and years ago, and one time I 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.839 was on the air on him BBS and I was thinking, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.920 everybody on the crew and our great stats guy, Pat 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.919 the Rat McGrath. Well, about two days later, Pat called 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.600 sheepishly and said, would you do me a favor? I said, 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.520 what is it? He said, Please don't ever call me 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.240 that on the air again. I don't mind off the air, 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.760 but my mom was watching and she was so confused. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.920 Why did he call you the rat? And she didn't 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.880 like that, and I said, never again, never again. On 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.440 the air, He's just Pat McGrath. But yeah, optional guy, Jim. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:59.200 I've always thought somebody needs to do and I would 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.280 love to pitch at ESPN. Somebody needs to do a 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:05.520 thirty for thirty, a documentary on the life of the statisticians, 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.159 because next to the players, the coaches, the broadcasters, no 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.200 one has a better seat for the biggest events. And 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:16.800 if I'm not mistaken. Pat McGrath has done thirty Final 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:21.640 fours and twenty five to thirty Super Bowls. Yeah, he's 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.520 at thirty one Final fours and the super Bowl count 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.080 is up there, really high all those years with the 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.120 CBS Radio network in Westwood One, And that would be 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.000 a fascinating thing to see because these guys kind of 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:38.760 they come in with no fanfare. You're right, they're sitting 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.400 right at mid court or the fifty yard line and 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.720 they have this incredible access and the plus the fact 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.240 that they can crunch numbers and how they just go 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.960 about the mechanics of executing their jobs. It's pretty funny. 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.719 But it's an interesting group. They all know one another. Yeah, 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.520 they're all very close knit. The stats guy from one 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.040 crew knows stat guy from another. You know, Al Michael's 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.440 stats guy knows my stats guy, et cetera, et cetera. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.120 So that's a good idea. I gotta get it to you. 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.440 That would be an interesting doc just the idio different 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:16.520 idiosyncrasies for these guys too, right, there's some different characters 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.840 out there. Yeah. I have a guy on football, Ethan Cooperson, 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:27.000 who he walks into the booth like he did yesterday 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:31.400 in Tampa and it might be fifteen minutes before kickoff. Now, 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.320 he's done a lot of good prep work that he's 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.960 forwarded than me during the week. But where's he been? 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.360 How did he get here? He just kind of comes in, leaves, disappears. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.360 You don't even know he's there. But you get in 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.159 the heat of the battle. This guy can come up 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.120 with things like they all can, like Pat can. Yeah, 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:51.000 just amazing. Well, Pat will be with you for the 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:55.160 Final Four in twenty twenty three, which, as was reported 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:59.280 a couple of weeks ago, will be your last with CBS. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.560 And I'm just as Jim, what went into that decision? Why? 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.760 Why the timing for you to turn that over to 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.840 Iron Eagle after this upcoming Final Four? Well, it was 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.720 time because my chest have been on what I'd like 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:17.280 to call the Golden Hamster wheel for thirty seven years. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.160 I have been a part of the NCAA Tournament and 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.720 the Masters, in the PGA Tour and in as well 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.760 as football, and there was really not an offseason for me. 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.880 One season ends, the next one begins. Sometimes like the 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:33.600 very next week, you go from the Final Four in 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.280 the championship game and I'm in Augusta the next day, 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:40.120 and it's it's thrilling, it's exciting, it's exhausting too, when 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.480 you get past the age of sixty. Has started doing 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.200 all this when I was twenty six for CBS, so 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.000 I've been at it for more than half my life 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.160 and I needed to get some time back. I've got 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.720 two young kids and an older daughter, but my little 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:56.400 ones are six and eight, and I just cannot go 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.640 through another ten years of basically Daddy only home five 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.600 or six weeks a year or weekends a year. And 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.360 it started there. I've known for a long time that 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.680 that was gonna be the sport that would have to 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.760 come off the schedule, but it would still leave me 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.320 with a full NFL schedule with Tony Romo for many 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.480 years to comber both sign up for a long long 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.200 time and anchoring the golf, so I still got forty 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:25.280 weeks a year. It's just that five or six weeks 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:29.320 removed what my basketball obligations were will make a profound difference. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.480 And it came up on a year too, when the 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.000 Final Four is in Houston, which was my gateway city 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.840 to the industry coming out of the University of Houston 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:38.959 and being around the basketball program there and being the 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:44.360 public address announcer in the embryonic stages of Phi Slam 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.520 a jama That's when I got my start with that 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.000 basketball team, and it just felt right to come back 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.400 to Houston and closed down baskets where it all started 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.920 for me. I thought it might have been because you 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:59.920 just couldn't take Bill Raftery anymore, not on the air, 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:04.200 but after the game. I worked with Bill when he 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:08.800 was at ESPN, and like, if you left dinner before 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.559 two in the morning, like you got an evil look. 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.079 And then there were sometimes if you did leave, I'd 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:16.880 be going to the airport for six am flight and 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:18.679 he's just walking in. So I thought maybe it was 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.920 because of raff I want your audience to know this 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.680 is not embellished at all. Okay, this is so true. 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:29.319 Raft is such a treasure and he was my first 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.520 basketball partner, by the way, Dave. Back in the nineteen 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:36.320 eighty six and SA tournaments, my first tournament game I 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:40.040 ever called was Duke against Old Dominion in Greensboro, North Carolina, 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.400 nineteen eighty six. So now all these years later, I'm 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.199 going to come to my final tournament as a broadcaster, 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.640 and there is a site at Greensboro the first week 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.320 of the of this year's tournament, and you know Duke 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.920 and North Carolina will an all likelihood be sent there, 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.640 which means will be sent there. So it all comes 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.280 full circle. You know. I got to start with I'm 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.839 going to end with raft and the Great Grant Hill 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.000 was just such a gym, such a wonderful guy and 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:10.240 a broadcaster that has really seized it and has just 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.400 done super with it and will continue for years. But 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:17.200 I love my teammates and I'm going to miss that 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.040 part of it. Tracy Wilson. I gonna miss that part 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.800 of it more than anything. But I do feel really 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:24.920 great about I and getting a chance to do it. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:30.080 He deserves to have that chance. Here's a stat for it, 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.000 which is typical of Pat to come up with it. 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:36.400 But before I transitioned from being the host of the 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:40.320 Final four to calling the lead INCA a tournament package, 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.400 Brent Musburger was doing the games, and Brent was a 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.760 great mentor and friends, and I couldn't believe I was 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.800 in his company the first six years of my career. 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.800 But bent Brent called six final fours in championship six 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.720 he tied the record that belongs to Dick invert so 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:05.440 Wrent and Dick that sticks championships each This coming tournament 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.360 will be my thirty seconds. So it's been a long time, 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.560 and you know, I don't want to get greedy about it. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.640 It's been a long time, and I've thought for several 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:20.040 years that maybe it was time to start scaling back 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.560 just a little bit and just reduce it to NFL 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:27.000 at golf. But with Houston out there off twenty three, 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.559 this was years ago when they got they got the 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.600 nod for the twenty three Final four. I told CBS 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:34.719 even then that will be my last, so it came 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:39.319 as no surprise to them, and just now it's official. Well, 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.640 you will obviously be missed. But if there's anybody who 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:47.600 is not only talented, but can handle Raftree and also 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:53.600 just be a great ambassador for CBS and for college 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.959 basketball to follow in your footsteps, it's it's Iron because 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.800 he's so good and he's such a great guy. I'm 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.160 Jim about the Masters. I think this is thirty eight 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:04.959 in a row for you. He talked about the run 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.600 with college basketball, but longer on the Masters, how much 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.679 longer do you think you'll go why would you ever 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.400 stop with the Masters. I mean, that's well, I don't 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:17.440 want to, but takes its course. But thank you for 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.960 saying that I have one more Masters than I do 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.200 NCAA tournaments because in the pandemic they canceled the tournament. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.920 That you're the NCAA tournament, so they're off by one. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.880 But yeah, this will be thirty eight coming up at 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:34.280 a custom and long ago, Dave, I'm talking nineteen eighty six, 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:38.520 when Jack Nicholas won that historic sixth Green jacket. I 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.920 was making my way back to the compound when Ken ventory, 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.600 the legendary commentator on Hall of Fame golfer, pulled up 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.760 in a golf cart and he said, where are you going, 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.000 young man? I said, I'm walking back to the compound. Sir, 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.400 he says, jump in, Jimmy, I'll give you a ride. 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.680 I was honored to be riding with him. This was 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.240 my first Masters show, and I'd watched Ken my whole life, 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.360 not realizing one day we'd be in the eighteen tower 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.439 together for a long long time and he became a 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:06.040 huge mentor of mine. But anybody, Ken says, how old 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:10.200 are your son? And I said him twenty six? He said, well, 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.920 I'm gonna make a prediction for you right now. One 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.360 day you're going to be the first golfer to ever 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.640 broadcast this event fifty times. I thought, Wow, that's profound. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.440 I can't believe he thinks I have that kind of ability. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.840 Plus he called me Jimmy, which my mom, my, dad, 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.440 my friends all call me because my dad was jim 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.440 I was Jimmy still ams and my family members and 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.600 close friends. Anyway, he said, you'll be the first to 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.120 ever do fifty. But I'll tell you one thing, Son, 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.520 You'll never live to see a day greater than this. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.400 Around AUGUSTA, so I had all these highs and lows, 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.600 and that one little movie scene I had the high 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.880 of Ken Ventrury calls me, Jimmy calls me Son, is 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:53.240 very father figurish. He thinks I have a modicum of 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:57.000 ability to be able to make this outlandish prediction. I'll 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:02.160 do this for fifty fifty years. And anyway, I look 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.679 at it years later, Dave, and he'd really in a 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.520 lot of ways to define my career. He set up 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.640 what I wanted my career to be like. At the end, 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:15.040 I wanted to do what Conventuri recognized that day. I 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.000 wanted to do fifty and I used to say that 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.840 too to close associates until a few years later, I 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.760 was actually being introduced. As bizarre as this sounds, Bib 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.720 Venturi and Jack Whittaker and an event at Bellair Country 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.920 Club They've jointly presented me, and I got up and 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.720 told this story that I just told you about fifty masters. 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.880 We retired that night after the speech over at the 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:43.720 Hotel bel Air bar, and Jack Whittaker looked at me 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.800 talk about an idol for me. He said, I heard 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.960 what is set up there, Jimmy about fifty masters. I said, yes, sir, 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.080 does sound crazy. He says, no, not at all, but 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.520 you need to adjust the count. I said, why is that, sir? 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.680 He says, you need to do fifty one. I said, well, why, 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.200 he says, because if you do it, the math on it, 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.200 the fifty first masters for you will be the one 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:11.520 hundredth playing of the Masters tournament. He said, you'll want 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.520 to be there for that, but I think it's important 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.120 for the masters that you be there for it too. 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:21.760 So I tweaked it and that became the goal. Is 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.640 weird as that number sounds, it's fifty one that would 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.280 take me to twenty thirty six. God willing that I 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.600 get that chance. The help holds up and everybody still 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.280 wants me to do it. Let me add that I 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.040 would like to be there for the hundredth playing of 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.200 the Masters, and then we'll reevaluate because I'm only going 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.520 to be seventy six. Loo kind how many of our 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.640 friends are still working at the stages later than that, 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.320 like al Michaels and on and on and on. But yeah, 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.000 that's the goal, fifty one Masters. If I can get there, 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.080 and I don't want to be greedy about it, that 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.400 would be that would mean a lot to me in 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.160 my heart. Well, I work with Hugh by Brown on NBA. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.400 He's eighty nine and he's still going strong. Jim you 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.320 can do one hundred and fifteen Masters or Jimmy? Sorry? 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:02.880 Can I call you Jimmy now? The rest I didn't 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.240 realize everybody that you're you're friends with, and I would 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:06.880 hope that we can call each other friends. I'm gonna 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.600 call you Jimmy. Um. But the fact that that would 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.880 be you would have at that point have done more 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.320 than half of the Masters. I mean, you'd be a 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.560 synonymous and I think you already are because of you know, 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.360 when people think of the masters, they they they hear 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.320 your voice, they hear the music and then your voice 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.800 coming up. Um, Hello friends. I'm sure you've been asked 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.560 that so many times. When when did that start? What 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.800 was the When was the first time you used it? 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:38.440 And wow, uh he say, my dog, he heard hello 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:48.840 friends right on from my family protector. They're getting all 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:55.000 wound up. The term hello friends was never intended to 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.520 be anything that had lasting power or I would be 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:03.760 associated with. It was purely the circumstance of me trying 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.760 to come up with something that my father would know 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.800 that I was thinking of him when I when I 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:15.159 said goodbye to him at his bedside in two thousand 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.440 and two. It's only been around since O two. My 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:22.760 father was fighting Alzheimer's disease and the mind was slipping 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.879 by the day, and I would play these little tricks 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.359 and word games with him. And as I left his 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:34.120 side in Houston, I said, Dad, I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.480 come on the air this weekend. I'm gonna say your 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.080 name because my name is his name, and I'm gonna 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.119 say hello friends. And that's for you because you have 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.480 nothing but friends. So when you'd see me on camera, 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.199 you know, at that very moment, I'm thinking to you, Okay, 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:49.480 you got it. I got it. Well. I walked out 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.960 of the room realized there's probably a pretty good chance 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:56.359 he had already forgotten it badly. But I carried that 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.560 in my heart and from a golf event and Hazel 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:03.000 team in Minnesota, I open up the third round coverage 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.840 with a hello, friends, Jim nance here, you know, And 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.119 next thing you know, the show ends. I get a 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.480 call from a very close friend of mine and said, hey, 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.639 I heard you say all friends on the here. What 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:15.639 was that about. I said, I passed them along a 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.520 message to my dad. He said, well, that sounds like you. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.240 You ought to do that all the time. So I 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.560 did it for the fourth round, the following weekend and 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:29.120 every weekend thereafter. And you know, my dad's been gone 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.040 since oh eight days, has been gone a long time. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:35.280 But for that very bleeding little moment, as I'm on 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.040 the air and trying to get get us started, I 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:42.240 look into that lens that gives us absolutely no feedback. 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.920 As you know, you look into that dark camera lens 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.600 and you don't think about the millions of people on 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.520 the other side. But I look at it and I 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.679 think of him. For I just it flashes in my 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:57.399 head every time yesterday, and for me it's a nice 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:01.520 comforting moment. I feel like he's right with me and 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.919 it calms me. That makes sense. I think the public 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:11.359 would be surprised that you get on some of these shows, 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.639 maybe every show, but the bigger ones, and you do 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.960 have those butterflies, at least I do, and the most 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:23.280 if you will. Anxiety you feel feeling as a broadcaster 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.600 is just when you're coming on the air, just going 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:29.240 through the blocking and tackling of getting the show started, 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:32.200 particularly when they come to me on camera. It's it's 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:34.720 not like the first t Jitters, but you know, maybe 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:38.199 a modified version of that. But everybody's so worked up, 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:39.840 you've been preparing all week and you just kind of 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:43.399 want to get on the air cleanly. And it made 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:47.359 me better in that moment because it distracts me and 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:51.359 it makes me think of my hero, my dad, And 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.800 that's what it's all about. It's not any cheesy saying 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.280 to try to create some sort of reaction. It was 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.400 just born out of a son trying to pass along 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:06.600 a message that is that's awesome, Jim. That is like, man, 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.840 I had not heard that story, and I'm pretty sure 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.560 most people out there that are listening to us probably 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:15.760 if not. That is incredibly inspirational, just another reason to 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:19.920 watch you. And I think the best broadcasters are those 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.440 that connect with the audience. And I mean you had 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.520 that connection. That's why you're still doing what you're doing, 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:27.760 you know, forty years into it with CBS, is because 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.960 of how likable you are. And I think a lot 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.399 of times when you say that, I think you know, 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:36.040 the audience looks at you as their friend. So when 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:40.159 you say hello, friends, it's it's mutual and it's just 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:44.000 one more reason to be in love with Jim. Nance Well, 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:47.520 thank you know. I walked through airports and it's all 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.840 of it is truly a little surreal. And again, I 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:53.840 know I'm saying things that you can relate to. But 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:56.040 when we wanted to get into this business, we got 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.439 into this business because we wanted to tell stories. We 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.000 wanted to be at these big events and be the 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.560 narrator of these things that we're going to unfold. It 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:08.359 wasn't about being on television or radio or people knowing 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:11.840 you or having a following, or people asking for a 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.240 picture or your autograph. I've never even thought about any 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.280 of that stuff that would be a part of it. 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:23.520 So it's still after thirty some odd years, it's still 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:26.240 a little strange to get used to that people actually 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:31.120 not everyone obviously, but people actually know you and they 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.440 feel like they know you. And I can be walking 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.159 through an airport and I can just get that shout 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:42.040 out stadiums all with my hello friend, Hey friends, you know, 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:46.080 kind of go around with it and it's a connection point. 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:49.920 But I hear it all the time, and it still 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:53.320 catches me a little off guard, you know, dealing with 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:58.960 some of the recognition, I guess is the word It 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:02.000