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Speaker 1: Better Up. Welcome to Nobunds, the podcast for the casual

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Speaker 1: baseball fan. Here on the Athletic Baseball Show, I'm tas

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Speaker 1: Mellie in studio with me as always making the magic happen.

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Speaker 1: It's super producer JD. Hello, what's up? JD? And my

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Speaker 1: co host all season long from Taiwan, Joel McMillan. Joel,

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Speaker 1: how you doing.

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Speaker 2: I'm splendid task Thanks for asking.

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Speaker 1: Always, Joel, and great to hear the words splendid. You

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Speaker 1: don't hear that enough. You really do a little break

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Speaker 1: from our normal podcast today. If you're looking for MLB

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Speaker 1: trade deadline news, check the Athletic Baseball Show podcast feed.

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Speaker 1: Check the Athletic website. Reporters podcasters doing incredible work on

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Speaker 1: that front. As for this show, a little bit different today,

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Speaker 1: we've got somebody who's been on the other side of

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Speaker 1: the camera, been part of the game for a long

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Speaker 1: long time in a different capacity in studio. Here, we've

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Speaker 1: got Larry French, who is a handheld camera op for

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braids for a long long time, finally paid

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Speaker 1: off a couple of years ago with the World Series championship.

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Speaker 1: He was also part of our basketball show No Dunk

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Speaker 1: Slash the starters at Turner Broadcasting for several years. So

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Speaker 1: we'll get into that and a whole lot more. Larry,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot for coming in. We appreciate it. Hello,

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Speaker 1: sweet world, It's still sweet.

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Speaker 3: This is awesome. I've always been fans of you guys,

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Speaker 3: and when we first started working together. You know, I

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Speaker 3: don't know if you realize this, but whenever the cruise

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Speaker 3: sheets would come out and they would have you scheduled

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Speaker 3: to work certain shows, we'd all talk amongst ourselves and

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Speaker 3: it's like, no, they don't have me on the starters

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Speaker 3: this week. So that was like a fighting between all

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Speaker 3: of us wanting to get on the starters and worked

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Speaker 3: the show. I know it was a favorite of most

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Speaker 3: of the guys in the studio. So this is an

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Speaker 3: awesome treat and I'm so excited about being here.

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Speaker 1: Oh thank you. That's a very nice confident. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: This is that tree for us too, because Larry, I

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Speaker 4: don't know if you know this, but whenever we saw

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Speaker 4: your name on the cruise heat hell yeah, Larry French

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Speaker 4: on the case, and usually that was only when we

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Speaker 4: were on the road. We usually got you on the road,

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Speaker 4: which is awesome, because you are incredible.

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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you why. I was mostly on the road,

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Speaker 3: and I'm saying this jokingly, so I can remember when

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Speaker 3: we started doing the starters. We did it in a

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Speaker 3: and we had a really big studio in there, and

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Speaker 3: JD had us I think there was three cameras, there

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Speaker 3: the end, and so I'm excited about I think it

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Speaker 3: was the first one that I did. And so JD

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm nervous, and so he's told me my

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Speaker 1: Supposed to happen. Oh, I remember being seeing that at

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh, JD. You know, in that moment, I

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Speaker 3: I remember JD going, oh, that was it. There was

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Speaker 3: So anyways, that was I remember that day like it

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Speaker 1: So do we Yeah, awesome stuff. I was at a

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Speaker 3: I was going through some back issues, and that was

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Speaker 3: And I was like, Yep, you're right. I'm going to

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Speaker 5: Stretching I do.

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Speaker 5: So this is a great question I get.

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Speaker 3: And then the third would be how I got into it,

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Speaker 3: Real quickly as to how I became who I am

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, I'm skateboarding Sunday. We're all skateboarding. No,

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Speaker 1: And so thanks you're taking me back to my driver's license.

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Speaker 5: I love Wendy's. So we drove to Wendy's and.

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Speaker 5: Something with her meal got messed up. And the lady comes.

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Speaker 3: supervisor that worked with me in the food industry would

438
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,400
Speaker 3: sort of walk by me and do a double take

439
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 3: in was that Larry? And it's like he worked for us,

440
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,240
Speaker 3: and so that sort of is where. And then I'd

441
00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 3: go to a sales meet and they're like, did I

442
00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:00,199
Speaker 3: see you at the Braves game.

443
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:02,639
Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't think that was me.

444
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,399
Speaker 3: And after a while you couldn't you know, I couldn't

445
00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 3: hide it anymore. It was just but I've always double dipped.

446
00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 3: I'll tell you, really, I'll try to keep this brief.

447
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 3: I'll tell you a quick story. I was on Sundays.

448
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:20,520
Speaker 3: You have to have the food orders in on your

449
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,720
Speaker 3: laptop by three o'clock in the afternoon. All Braves games

450
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,359
Speaker 3: started at one thirty. On this particular day.

451
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 5: I always make sure.

452
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,000
Speaker 3: My customers give me the orders of the night before

453
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,240
Speaker 3: or early in the morning on Sunday. On this particular day,

454
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 3: I had somebody very late. They call me up about

455
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,240
Speaker 3: three o'clock and I look down on my phone. I'm

456
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,919
Speaker 3: in the third bait stugout with a camera on sticks

457
00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 3: and I'm shooting Chipper Jones. And they call me and

458
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 3: I answer and I'm like, hello, you need to place

459
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 3: an order?

460
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:51,359
Speaker 1: What do you need?

461
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,679
Speaker 3: And so I'm literally have a bag by me. I

462
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 3: pull the laptop out, I opened the laptop. I go

463
00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 3: back to the framan on Chipper to make sure he's

464
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 3: framed up. The computers coming up. How many French fries

465
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 3: do you need? And I'm literally keen in a food

466
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 3: order on a laptop on the ground while I'm shooting

467
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 3: Chipper Jones.

468
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:12,120
Speaker 5: That's the true story.

469
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 3: So that's sort of that's how that's when it was

470
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 3: really bad.

471
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,360
Speaker 1: But that's why we get along, Larry, because you work

472
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 1: your ass on. Yeah.

473
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 4: Hustler man hustling.

474
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like the the No Ducks, the Starters, the

475
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 1: Basketball Jones, the free Agent's crew. That's why we've always

476
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,400
Speaker 1: we've always seen eye to eye.

477
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 3: Like I said, it's you won't find anybody else really

478
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 3: in the industry that did what I did.

479
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:45,120
Speaker 1: Honestly, I'm assuming no, I'm assuming there's no chance there's

480
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:46,399
Speaker 1: nobody double dipping like you.

481
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 3: I don't recommend it to anybody, And to be quite

482
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 3: honest with you, not only until but literally recently, really

483
00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:01,440
Speaker 3: this year is i've I'm not doing anything else but TV,

484
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 3: and it really has been the best couple of months

485
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 3: of my life, Like it has been such a joy

486
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 3: just to concentrate and focus on that and do only that.

487
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:17,199
Speaker 1: So okay, yeah, well, since you brought up Chipper Jones,

488
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,439
Speaker 1: you came in here wearing the shirt, let me just

489
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,040
Speaker 1: ask you about that, so I don't forget about it.

490
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: Poor Larry a crown on your shirt. So it's a

491
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 1: it's a brave, Brave Steam shirt that they came out with.

492
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 3: I was not working this game. I was I was

493
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 3: still traveling doing hockey. I was doing hockey this year,

494
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:42,440
Speaker 3: traveling around with Wayne Gretzky.

495
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 5: That was pretty cool.

496
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:49,120
Speaker 3: But on this night, I guess they had Chipper Jeff Francour,

497
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 3: they had all the guys in the booth and they

498
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,919
Speaker 3: were calling the game. And on this particular game, there

499
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,199
Speaker 3: was a walk off home run. Aussie Alby's walked it

500
00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 3: off and hit a home run and the call came

501
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 3: from Francour, Poor Larry a crown, and so I guess

502
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 3: they ran with it. And then the next day if

503
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 3: you brought your driver's license and your name was Larry, uh,

504
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 3: you got a free crown, which that's a pretty cool.

505
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 1: Free bottle of crown.

506
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 5: I don't think it was a bottle of crown. I

507
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 5: think it was a shot.

508
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: And Arry and Larry there's had nothing to do with

509
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,679
Speaker 1: any brave on the field, had to do with Chipper.

510
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 5: I thought they were talking about me.

511
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: No, Chipper Jones name.

512
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 3: Is that's so Chippers. Jones' name is Larry Wayne Jones

513
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:37,959
Speaker 3: and I'm Larry Wayne French.

514
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,640
Speaker 1: Okay, So Jeff was saying it for for Larry Wayne.

515
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:42,679
Speaker 5: For for Larry Wayne.

516
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, not this Larry Wayne, not this Larry. But that's

517
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: the cool shirt.

518
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 3: I Uh. I asked for one from Peter Moyland, but

519
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 3: evidently he was out, so I had to order this.

520
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: Well, you said to Larry Wayne, you talked to you

521
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: just mentioned Wayne Grecy being with him because he's doing

522
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: the NHL broadcast and he's you know, we're Canadian here,

523
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,919
Speaker 1: so I have to ask about Wayne. How was it

524
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,719
Speaker 1: being with Wayne on the road and doing hockey in general?

525
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 3: So this year was great. So leading into the hockey

526
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 3: season or the Stanley Cup playoffs. When you're on the crew,

527
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 3: everybody is talking to each other about where are we

528
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,959
Speaker 3: going to end up? What are the two cities we're

529
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,479
Speaker 3: going to end up? Are we going to end up

530
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:29,159
Speaker 3: in Winnipeg?

531
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 1: Canadians say it that way as well.

532
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 3: Everybody was just dready, am I right?

533
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 1: Am I? Right? Joel? Would you not want to go

534
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: to Winnipeg? If there's any Canadians, any Canadian hockey city,

535
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,160
Speaker 1: it's got to be Winnipeg.

536
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 2: I could do with that, Winnipeg. I'm sorry, I could do.

537
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,679
Speaker 1: Winnipeg, Winnipeg or Ottawa? Which which one would you at

538
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: least not want to go to? Both both Larry and

539
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: Jel as I can ask that, which one would you?

540
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 2: I'm going to Ottawa for sure, Mike, no contest.

541
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, Winnipeg's called, So you didn't have to go to Winnipeg.

542
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we didn't have to go to Winnipeg. So

543
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 3: like as the you know, as these games are being played,

544
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 3: you're in the studio and you're rooting for certain teams. Right,

545
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 3: it's not bleeding over to the talent on the set.

546
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,439
Speaker 3: They're all neutral. But as we got further and further

547
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,719
Speaker 3: into the season, there at the very end you realize

548
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,959
Speaker 3: that you're possibly going to go to Las Vegas and

549
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 3: you're possibly going to go to Fort Lauderdale. And when

550
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 3: that happened, it was just like the most euphoric feeling

551
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 3: in the studio to know those are the cities that

552
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 3: we were going. And so it was the greatest I

553
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 3: think it was twenty days, and it was the greatest

554
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 3: twenty days seriously of my entire career, as far as

555
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 3: who you worked with, the venues, we worked, in the weather,

556
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 3: just everybody getting along. We had a day off in Vegas.

557
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 3: We had a day off in Fort Lauderdale. I had

558
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 3: never been before. Laudadell. We're walking down the strip. Charles

559
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 3: Barkley is walking down the strip with his bag. He

560
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 3: bought some stuff. Everybody's taking pictures with him. Ran into

561
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 3: biz on the strip. So it was a great trip.

562
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 3: And in the top it off, my birthday was on

563
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 3: the trip, and my birthday fell on the day the

564
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 3: Las Vegas clinched it and won it. And after the broadcast,

565
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 3: we're all shutting off cameras, everybody's taking pictures and everybody's hugging.

566
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 3: Wayne Gretzky walks over to me, sticks his hand out

567
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 3: and says happy birthday, Larry, And I was like, I

568
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 3: didn't you know you knew my name? And he walked

569
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 3: all the way across the set to shake my hands

570
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 3: and then I got a great picture with him, and yeah,

571
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 3: that that made the trip.

572
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 5: That was icing on cake. So yeah, hockey this year

573
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 5: was a phenomenal trip.

574
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 3: What a legend it was, you know, I don't know

575
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 3: it was. It doesn't happen like that every day, and

576
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 3: it was.

577
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 5: He's a he's a joy to work with.

578
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 3: And he's uh, very professional. He's very old school, you know,

579
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 3: and uh, but he's he's uh, he's very courteous with

580
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 3: his time and uh uh he loves sign autographs on occasion.

581
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 5: H Uh.

582
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 3: He's very hospitable the people that are around the set,

583
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, it's really cool to be around

584
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 3: those people. They're rock stars, you know, and every it's

585
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 3: really cool to watch that.

586
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 1: All right. So, moving from where you were as a

587
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: super ute that's a great term, by the way, just

588
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: being the utility got super the ben Zobrist, the Tony

589
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: Phillips or or or whatever. Moving into in house entertainment

590
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: is where you worked, right, You worked there for a

591
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: long time? What what what is Atlanta Braves in house entertainment?

592
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: And so.

593
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 3: How I go into it real briefly is that became

594
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 3: break number three and four. Break number two was the

595
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 3: ESPN stuff. Break three and four was when I got

596
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 3: a phone call from a tapeop. His name was Josh,

597
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 3: and he said, Hey, can you come over here and

598
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 3: run camera for a ma Giano's Lunch with the Braids. Basically,

599
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 3: the Braves had this thing where the players would come

600
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 3: to ma Giano's restaurant.

601
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 5: They were up there eating. People would come to the stand.

602
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 3: And say, can you explain how the hot box works?

603
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 3: And these players didn't want to be there, you know.

604
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 3: It was just like an hour long thing with the

605
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 3: season ticket holders. And so this was the first job

606
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 3: I had where I was going to have to like

607
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 3: shoot four different players and not screw it up when

608
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,959
Speaker 3: the question when they were answering the question, so I

609
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 3: had to like sort of be on guard to see

610
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 3: where the question was going. I did that, I didn't

611
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 3: mess it up, and we packed the truck up and

612
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 3: the event was successful.

613
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: Do you have anything for my Giano's?

614
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 5: I think I did.

615
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 3: I think they did give us a to go box

616
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 3: to leave. You just said that.

617
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: You're speaking you talk food, you're speaking our language. I

618
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: know Joel's over there taking notes over there.

619
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wendy's, I've never never been.

620
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 3: What kind of restaurant? It was my Giano's and Buckhead.

621
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Italian food chain. It's uh, definitely a step

622
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: up from Olive Garden, good step up. Yeah, definitely a

623
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: step up, you know, but it's a fast food chain.

624
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: Back to Wendy's really quickly, because Ourmanngel is a fast

625
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: food connoisseur. Have you ever seen anyone in a Wendy's

626
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 1: with white pants? Old Derby hat that that doesn't happen anymore?

627
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 2: Obviously you thought Wendy's colors were like black and like

628
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 2: almost maroon, Yeah, black and red.

629
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, back then it was a very strict dress code,

630
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 3: you know, like the white pants were in and And

631
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought up Wendy's because at the very

632
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 3: end of this I have a really sad.

633
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 5: Wendy story to share with you with a co worker.

634
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 5: I got a share.

635
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: Okay, hey, I'll make that note.

636
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 3: We can end on a sad note and Wendy's he

637
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 3: ask me about it, all.

638
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: Right, no problem, all right, So back to my gianos.

639
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: You got your to go box.

640
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 3: So I got to the go box, we got the event,

641
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 3: we got it in the can, and the truck drives

642
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 3: away and we're all going home.

643
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 5: I'm feeling pretty good about it.

644
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 3: I'm leaving. I'm not gone five minutes. Josh calls me back.

645
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 3: I'm like, what did I mess up? I said?

646
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: Hello?

647
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 3: Josh says, hey, the Braves just call me. They're looking

648
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 3: for a camera operator. I'm like, you're kidding. He goes, Nope,

649
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 3: he goes, here's the phone number. Give her a call.

650
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 3: Her name is Jennifer. I call her. I'm literally driving

651
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 3: seventy five eighty five south and she says, oh, yeah,

652
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 3: what kind of experience.

653
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: Do you have?

654
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 3: Well, you can either tell her the truth or tell

655
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 3: her the truth. And the truth was I had recently

656
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 3: shot an event for the Braves at a restaurant called

657
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 3: ma Giano's and it was all the players, and yeah,

658
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 3: I have experience.

659
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 5: She says, Well, next.

660
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 3: Time you're in the area, can you come over and

661
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 3: we'll we'll talk to you. I can come over right now.

662
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 3: She goes, no, No, whenever you're in the area. I said,

663
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 3: I'm in the Grady Curve. I'm literally she goes, oh really,

664
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 3: and okay, well, I'll meet you down in the players

665
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 3: parking lot. Literally ten minutes from doing the Masiano's I'm

666
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 3: driving the Braves parking lot. I go in the security,

667
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 3: I meet her, We fill out the paperwork, and I'm

668
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 3: now working as a camera operator for Brad's vision. Wow,

669
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 3: that was break three and four and it happened on

670
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 3: the very same day. And the way that job works

671
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 3: is you're sort of a temporary higher. You're brought in,

672
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 3: you run camera, and then at the end of the

673
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 3: season they don't go to the World Series, you're sort

674
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 3: of terminated, you're let go. I mean, it's just like

675
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 3: a temporary position, and then you have to rehire.

676
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 5: You have to rehire for the next season.

677
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 3: And so when I started, I ran the hard camera

678
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 3: on high first and I shot fan shots and.

679
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: So forth, way about first base.

680
00:33:54,960 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 3: Above first base, So every position has a name. So

681
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 3: my experience at the Braves was phenomenal. I had the

682
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,959
Speaker 3: best manager in the world, Matt Montameer, and he set

683
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 3: me up for success.

684
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 1: So what year is this.

685
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:19,280
Speaker 3: This would have been two thousand, two thousand, two thousand

686
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 3: and six, two thousand and six, two thousand and eight.

687
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 3: So I start working for them. So I'm going through

688
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 3: that process of getting hired, doing a season, and then

689
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,240
Speaker 3: getting fired. So we do that for three or four years,

690
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 3: and then one year we have it. Every time you're hired,

691
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 3: we have an orientation meeting. And so we come to

692
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 3: the orientation meeting. It's in the cafeteria at the old

693
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 3: Turner Field and I walk in and everybody is sitting

694
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 3: there and there's this brand new camera on the table.

695
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 3: It's got a brand new white angle lens. It's got

696
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 3: this RF receiver on the back. And I come up

697
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 3: and I ask another guy that I work with. I said,

698
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 3: what the heck is that?

699
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 5: He goes, that's the RIF camera.

700
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 3: They just bought it.

701
00:34:58,400 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 5: I think they're going to ask you to run it.

702
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 3: And in that moment, it was like, I mean, it

703
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 3: was just in that moment, I knew everything was going

704
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 3: to change. I knew what Matt was wanting to do

705
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 3: with that thing, and I knew what I wanted to

706
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 3: do with that thing and the RF camera. That moment

707
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 3: changed my life. It was it was I've been a

708
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 3: big critic about movies. I think movies today are horrible.

709
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 3: I just don't like movies, and I've always felt like

710
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 3: I would be a good screenplaywriter or I could make

711
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 3: a good movie, and looking at the camera to me

712
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 3: made me that director, because if you look at an

713
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 3: RF camera, you get to do everything. You're the You

714
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 3: control the audio, you control the video, you you write

715
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 3: the script.

716
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 5: Everything that you shoot. You're sort of in charge of.

717
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 3: If I do a walk off home run, the director

718
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 3: has no time to tell me what to do. I'm

719
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 3: doing it, and then he has he's along for the ride.

720
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 3: So that was that was sort of the start of

721
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 3: a lot of things you start. Well, just to explain

722
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 3: how that worked, the RF camera had a signal or

723
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 3: a feed for the big screen. So if you're in

724
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 3: the stands, we shoot kiss cam. You know, I'm running

725
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 3: around shooting fans in the stands. But at the same time,

726
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 3: the network had my feed, so sort of they had

727
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 3: a free camera, and so if there was a walk

728
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 3: off home run, I would run out there and shoot

729
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 3: it and it would be broadcast on the big screen. Well,

730
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 3: at the same time network is using my feed and

731
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 3: they're showing that on screens all over the world, and

732
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 3: so you have to sort of be in conjunction with

733
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 3: the director to know what to do and what not

734
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,839
Speaker 3: to do, so you don't whip off the shot while

735
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 3: you're live. So I actually shot for Network for seven

736
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,720
Speaker 3: years without any comms or knowing I was on the air.

737
00:36:58,600 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 5: For the network.

738
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: So he didn't have an ear piece.

739
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 3: I didn't have an earpiece, and the way it worked,

740
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 3: and I know he doesn't mind it. He's the same director,

741
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 3: Mike Miller. He's a phenomenal director, one of the most

742
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 3: experienced directors in the country. We literally he would be

743
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 3: sitting in the cafeteria eating his lunch, and I would

744
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 3: come in the cafeteria and I would walk by him

745
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 3: and i'd have a drink, and then he'd look at

746
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 3: me and he'd go same thing, and I'd go, same thing.

747
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 3: And what that meant was we had this unspoken rule

748
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 3: that we knew that I would stay on the shot

749
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 3: going into the dugout until the player walked down the steps,

750
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 3: and I knew that's when he was going to cut

751
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 3: off my shot. So every now and then he would

752
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 3: say something different, and we'd have this little lunch pass by,

753
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 3: like I would go buy him.

754
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 5: He'd be sitting.

755
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 3: There, he'd go, hey, how about the run around the

756
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 3: other way on that picture tonight? And it was sort

757
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 3: of an unspoken rule.

758
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: Kind of kind of a blessing they didn't have comms

759
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: or an earpiece, right, because then you're you're exactly right,

760
00:37:58,200 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: you're the director.

761
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 3: And that still holds true today. When I shoot baseball games,

762
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 3: the what we call the awayside or the visitor visiting team,

763
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:13,800
Speaker 3: they have my feed and uh so just this past weekend,

764
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 3: I've shot for them and they use that camera and

765
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 3: you just sort of have to communicate with them and

766
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 3: they know when to cut off my shot, so they

767
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 3: sort of have a free camera. The away side has

768
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 3: a free camera AND's had that for a long time.

769
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:30,280
Speaker 1: Fantastic stuff.

770
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 3: So the in house is, uh in house would be

771
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 3: when you go to a stadium, any anything, anything, basketball, hockey, baseball,

772
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 3: when when there's a break in the action, if there's

773
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 3: a commercial, there's a TV time out. That's when entertainment

774
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 3: kicks in and they start doing the stuff on the

775
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,240
Speaker 3: big screen and it's designed to keep your attention while

776
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 3: you're waiting on the commercial to end.

777
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, you started not working specifically on the broadcast

778
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: that everyone's he's a TV at correct. At home, you're

779
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: doing everything for the in house production correct for a

780
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: long correct a long period of time, a long period

781
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 1: of time. Any favorite moments from there that stand out?

782
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 3: So when I started, when I started, uh, we got

783
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 3: that RF camera and Matt Montimera.

784
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 5: One day I came into work and he goes, hey,

785
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 5: are you scared of heights?

786
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 3: And I'm like, i am, absolutely, I am. Don't ask

787
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 3: me to do anything up in the upper deck. He's like,

788
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 3: give me your give me your sold security number. And

789
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 3: I'm like, what do you need that for? And so

790
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 3: I give him my sold security number and he goes, hey,

791
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 3: I want you to come in at ten o'clock tomorrow.

792
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 5: And I'll fill you in.

793
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: And I'm like all right.

794
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 3: So I go home. I come back the next day

795
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 3: at ten. I have no idea what's going on. And

796
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 3: he goes, hey, you checked out, you're not a terrorist.

797
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 3: So do you you want to fly in a black

798
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 3: hawk over the stadium?

799
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 5: And I'm like, uh, what are you? What are you

800
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 5: talking about?

801
00:39:58,040 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: He goes, well, you're not allowed to talk about that,

802
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 1: hence the alert on your on your computer.

803
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 3: That's that's right, that's exactly what just happened. And so yeah,

804
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 3: basically I go. His plan is for me, it was

805
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 3: a Memorial Day and they have the they do the

806
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 3: American flag on the field. His envision was on the

807
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 3: flyover for me to shoot the flag from the helicopter

808
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 3: and show that as a live shot on the big screen.

809
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 3: Very ambitious. I was so excited and stoked about this.

810
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 3: A little nervous, A little nervous I do. I'm petrified

811
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 3: of heights. And so I get to these I get

812
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 3: to Dobbins, I meet the lieutenant and we go out

813
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 3: to the tarmac and there's these four black Hawk helicopters

814
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 3: sitting there. And so I've got the what's called a vericam.

815
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 3: It's a RF camera, but it has tape capacity on it.

816
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 3: It's got a P two card in it and I

817
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 3: can tape stuff. So they're going through all the pre

818
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 3: flight check stuff, and they've got this glass beaker that's

819
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 3: four foot hig they're checking the fuel and making sure

820
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 3: everything is good. And I'm out there like with the camera,

821
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,280
Speaker 3: like filming planes landing.

822
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 5: And the lieutenant comes up, is.

823
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: It a Larry.

824
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 3: This is a high security airport and you're not supposed

825
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 3: to be shooting those a wax taking off. If you

826
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 3: could stop doing that, I'm sorry, sorry about that, and

827
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 3: so I stopped shooting the high level security uh A

828
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 3: wax that were taking off.

829
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 5: So we load up in the black House.

830
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 3: A wax is Yes, it is a terminology. It's one

831
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 3: of those planes that has that it looks like a

832
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 3: big round saucer on the top and it's like a

833
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 3: sonar or radar, some type of thing to do high

834
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 3: altitude stuff. So we get in the black Hawks and

835
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, all four well the black

836
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 3: Hawk I get into, they take out all the seats

837
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,720
Speaker 3: in the middle right, so it's just an open cargo area,

838
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 3: and then I can see the pilots sitting there. Well,

839
00:41:55,960 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 3: all these pilots are weekend warriors, their National Guard. They

840
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 3: had to earn time to do this flyover and they're

841
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 3: not paid for it.

842
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 5: That's what it was explained to me.

843
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 3: So we get in the helicopter and I have a

844
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 3: hat on, and I put the hat on backwards and

845
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 3: then the guy straps me in to the helicopter and

846
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 3: then he gets back in the front. So I've got

847
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:22,319
Speaker 3: this eighty thousand dollars camera that I have no no

848
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 3: strap or anything.

849
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 5: I'm just like holding it.

850
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,720
Speaker 3: And then and then I kind of realized the seat

851
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 3: belts are not They're not that tight. They're like like

852
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 3: a go cart, you know, like a I'm like, holy cown.

853
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,839
Speaker 3: So I'm you know, I'm making sure that I'm good.

854
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 3: So anyways, all of a sudden, they crank this black

855
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 3: Hawk up. The rotors start turning, and all four of

856
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 3: the helicopters take off at the first at the same time,

857
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 3: and now we're hovering about four foot and bam, we

858
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 3: take off. And about this time, I realize that we're

859
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 3: going about one hundred miles an hour. And this went

860
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 3: like if I lean out a little bit out the window,

861
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 3: it would have ripped my hat off. So now I'm

862
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 3: like trying to figure out how am I gonna take

863
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 3: the camera shot of the field. I got to lean

864
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 3: away from the helicopter to get past the metal part

865
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 3: of the helicopter, and so I figured out I got it.

866
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 3: And then now we're heading toward the field. And the

867
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 3: way this works is they have a guy that's on

868
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,760
Speaker 3: the field with like a walkie talking and he's singing

869
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 3: the national anthem as the pilot's listening. So they know

870
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 3: about how far out they are so national anthem, what

871
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 3: is like two and a half minutes. That's the over

872
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 3: and under a Super Bowl less less thirty or something.

873
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 3: So we're we're we're going along there flying beautiful day

874
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 3: and Memorial Day, and I hear the pilot go, man,

875
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 3: we are early and uh so all of a sudden

876
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 3: we start banking like this steep bank and I'm like,

877
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 3: I just hold the camera in my seat and we're banking.

878
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 3: All four choppers are like in this heavy bank. It's

879
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 3: like coming in, you know, like you're attacking. And we

880
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 3: do like three loops circles in this same place, and

881
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 3: I never forget the pilot go, I bet everybody in

882
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 3: Piedmont Parks dumping their pot right now.

883
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 5: And I'm like, wow, that's pretty crazy.

884
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 3: So all of a sudden we start heading out and

885
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,399
Speaker 3: I can see the stadium up ahead.

886
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 5: Right, and I'm like, man, this is cool.

887
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:26,839
Speaker 3: And we're just sort of at a certain speed and

888
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 3: we're coming along, and then all of a sudden, we're

889
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 3: crossing the stadium and I'm I'm I got the camera out,

890
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 3: I'm shooting the flag and I see the flag go

891
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 3: underneath me, and at the same time, I'm recording again.

892
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 3: I'm recording at the same time, and uh.

893
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 1: You're taking any orders for French Fridays.

894
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,919
Speaker 3: No at this time, I'm not. I know that's impossible.

895
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 3: And so we're flying over the stadium and I look

896
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 3: at the big screen because I'm pointing at the flag

897
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 3: and I can see the big screen, and I'm looking

898
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,720
Speaker 3: and the big screen is showing a shot of somebody

899
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 3: on the field, and I'm like and then we pass by,

900
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 3: and I'm like, well, maybe maybe he used it and

901
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 3: I just didn't catch it. So anyways, we land, I

902
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 3: go back, we go back to the stadium. I think

903
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 3: I catched the last in and I walk in with

904
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:15,359
Speaker 3: the camera and unfortunately the RF signal what's what's called pixelating,

905
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 3: It was pixelating. It was unusable and so we couldn't.

906
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:19,800
Speaker 1: Use the shot.

907
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 3: But uh, that was still a highlight.

908
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: Did they bank it because they banked it, Yeah, we

909
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: used it.

910
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,760
Speaker 3: We showed it at a different day. Uh, they showed

911
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 3: it and they incorporated in the video.

912
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 5: You know.

913
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 3: Other I'm a big Leonard skinnered fan. We used to

914
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 3: have concert series at the stadium, and so I was

915
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 3: able to shoot the Leonard skinnered in the stadium.

916
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 5: That was great.

917
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 3: Uh, you guys are familiar with kiss cam. One year

918
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:47,479
Speaker 3: we uh, well, one year Jimmy Carter and Roslynd Carter,

919
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 3: the President, they come to a lot of the games

920
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 3: and he was.

921
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: At that game. Well yeah, yeah, oh really, yeah, your

922
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,240
Speaker 1: your shot must have it was on those.

923
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 3: So yeah, this was about a little after he had,

924
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 3: you know, he had made public his issues, his health issues,

925
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 3: and you're thinking, you know, is this the last time

926
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 3: he's going to come to the game. And so on

927
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 3: this night, I started texting the network and then the

928
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 3: in house and I was like, hey, here's my idea.

929
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 5: Why don't you know?

930
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 3: First of all, I had to find out where they

931
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 3: were doing kisscam that night, and I think they put

932
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:24,959
Speaker 3: it together after I started texting. And so the first

933
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 3: thing I had to do and I knew the Secret

934
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 3: Service guys because I had gotten a secret Service pen

935
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 3: from him earlier, and I just asked his permission to

936
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,879
Speaker 3: talk to the president about doing kiss cam and he says, yeah,

937
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 3: go ahead.

938
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 5: So I go up to Jimmy.

939
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 3: Carter and I was like, mister Carter, and I had

940
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 3: told him a story about where I when I was

941
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,800
Speaker 3: fifteen years old. He was running for president, that he

942
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 3: threw some softballs at a church function that they videotaped

943
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 3: for the election, like election coverage, and I was like

944
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 3: snuck in line to bat against him. He was going

945
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 3: to throw a softballs to three people, and I slid

946
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,959
Speaker 3: in line to be the third person. And so he's

947
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 3: throwing softballs and so he throws one. I hit it

948
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 3: to the third baseman. He throws a second one. I

949
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 3: hit to the shortstop. He throws a third one, and

950
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 3: I literally take his ear off, and while the ball's

951
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 3: passing by him, you can hear the photographer's cameras going

952
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 3: and then they were like, that's it, We're done, and

953
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 3: then everybody gets off the field. But I had told

954
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 3: him that story, and he had I had sent him

955
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 3: a picture of the group picture that he took and

956
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 3: he signed it.

957
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 5: I think he signed it.

958
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was a stamp, but I

959
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 3: think he signed it and sent it back.

960
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 1: But uh, and the Secret Service still let him talk

961
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 1: to you.

962
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:48,359
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, And so I asked him, I said, hey,

963
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 3: can you can can we do kiss cam with you

964
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 3: and Rosalind? And he's like, he looked at Roslyn, he said,

965
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 3: what you say and she goes kiss cam, kiss cam,

966
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 3: and he's like, yeah, he gives me the thumbs up.

967
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 3: So I tell everybody that it's the thumbs up, and

968
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 3: then everybody, you know, okay, kiss cam next in and

969
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 3: and uh so you know they're counting it down, and

970
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 3: so we we show all the other fans in the stands.

971
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 5: Right, he's going to be the last one on the

972
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 5: kiss cam, and.

973
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 3: They show about ten couples and then all of a sudden,

974
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 3: you know, ready nine, take nine, and then I've got

975
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 3: the tally light in the camera. I'm live, and then

976
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 3: I'm shooting the two of them and they kiss and

977
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 3: the stadium goes bonkers, and you know, moments like that.

978
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 3: Then they become they come on an ESPN on the

979
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 3: top ten plays of the night and and and replays

980
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:34,760
Speaker 3: and so forth.

981
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 5: So that was that was a great moment.

982
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,240
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to take claim to something that I invented,

983
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:46,439
Speaker 3: and and they they might be disputed, but you you're

984
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 3: familiar with kiss cam, you're familiar with hug cam.

985
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 1: It's just a standard hug I actually am not. It

986
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: doesn't really so let me tell you sorry on your invention.

987
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 3: No, that's okay, not a lot of people know that

988
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 3: I invented it. So Freddie Freeman was with the team

989
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 3: and he was a big hugger. He hugged everybody. He

990
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 3: hugged over the players and so forth. And so one

991
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:12,239
Speaker 3: day I just went up to Matt and I said

992
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 3: we should do hug Kim and He's like, uh, yeah,

993
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 3: that's not a bad idea, Larry, And I think he

994
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,800
Speaker 3: regretted having to say that's not a bad ideal, Larry.

995
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:23,319
Speaker 5: I don't think he wanted to give me credit. But

996
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 5: we we.

997
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 3: Started that and that was like ten years ago and

998
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 3: they still do it, and I think a lot of

999
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 3: other teams do the hug camer So I'm the hug him.

1000
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: Same idea people two people.

1001
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 3: On camera, given a hug, and then they end they

1002
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 3: end the shot every game with a visiting fan and

1003
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 3: a home fan hugging. So that's sort of a uh

1004
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:49,760
Speaker 3: other moments.

1005
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: Uh.

1006
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 3: Bill Murray was at a game one day and he

1007
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 3: was he was on the cub side and he was

1008
00:49:55,160 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 3: with his brother and the Brave the Network I think

1009
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 3: it was Chip Carry.

1010
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 5: I think it was Chip at the time.

1011
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 3: He said, hey, we'd love they saw him on camera, Hey,

1012
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 3: we'd love to do an interview with him, and so

1013
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 3: I just go up to Bill Marie and said, hey,

1014
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 3: do you mind coming upstairs. He goes, I just ordered

1015
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 3: some food, me and my brother, and we're.

1016
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 5: Gonna eat right here.

1017
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 3: And I was like, well, we got food upstairs. And

1018
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,839
Speaker 3: then he's like, yeah, we're just gonna stay here. And

1019
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 3: then so they were like staying on me about him

1020
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:29,240
Speaker 3: coming up, and then so you know, he was sitting

1021
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 3: there in another couple of outs.

1022
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 5: And I was like, they really want you to come up.

1023
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 3: If you'll go up there and do the interview, they're

1024
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 3: going to give me the day off tomorrow. He's like

1025
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 3: all right, and so him and his brother reluctantly walk up.

1026
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,840
Speaker 3: I'm walking up behind him. He comes up and he

1027
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 3: does the interview. I take a picture with him, and

1028
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 3: he goes, they gonna give you the day off and tomorrow.

1029
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 5: And I was like, I just made that up. So

1030
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 5: that was there's the.

1031
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: Truth, and then there's the truth, and there's.

1032
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 3: The truth, and then you know it's it's from there.

1033
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: Uh.

1034
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 3: The walk offs and the and the feeds that the

1035
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 3: they got the network had from the RF is sort

1036
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 3: of how I sort of growing for getting recognition and

1037
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 3: getting other jobs.

1038
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:23,359
Speaker 1: So then you moved over via another break to network TV.

1039
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 1: Did you like going to network TV? And by that

1040
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 1: I mean in studio working for Turner Broadcasting that had

1041
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: a bunch of other properties.

1042
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, So my fondest memories are really of Brave's vision,

1043
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:40,880
Speaker 3: because how can I say this, Like, you make a

1044
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 3: mistake on network television, it's sort of unforgiving.

1045
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:49,240
Speaker 1: Uh, you make a yeah.

1046
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:54,360
Speaker 3: But you you know, I think the big screen is

1047
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 3: a little bit less forgiving. You know what, I gotta

1048
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 3: I gotta share this real quickly. I didn't write it

1049
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:02,280
Speaker 3: down and I just thought of it. So I'm using

1050
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:08,240
Speaker 3: this P two camera or the RIF camera, and Billy

1051
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 3: Wagner is the reliever for the Braves, and so I'm

1052
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 3: shooting him as he's at the end of the game.

1053
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 5: He's won the game, and.

1054
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:20,439
Speaker 3: I'm shooting all the players high five and as they're

1055
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:22,319
Speaker 3: walking down right, I'm out on the field and I'm

1056
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:23,399
Speaker 3: and I'm and I'm hot.

1057
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 5: Everybody's high fiving.

1058
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 3: And so every time the tally light works on the camera,

1059
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 3: it's recording. There's a recording on the card, on the

1060
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 3: P two card. So let's say that was a Friday game,

1061
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 3: I shot that, and then the end of the game

1062
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 3: we all go home. The next day we have the

1063
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 3: similar situation. A different reliever is relieved. Braves win. I

1064
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 3: run out on the field. I'm getting them high fiving. Accidentally,

1065
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:52,280
Speaker 3: I have the camera on my shoulder and accidentally, somehow

1066
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:55,359
Speaker 3: I hit the record button and it pulls up on

1067
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 3: the card what I reported the previous day. So for

1068
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 3: about five seconds, everybody in the stadium saw Billy Wagner

1069
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 3: again on the big screen, and I'm sure it was like, wait,

1070
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 3: what what just happened? And then after about five seconds

1071
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 3: it goes back to my actual camera, and I think

1072
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 3: fans were like, what the heck just happened? And nobody upstairs,

1073
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 3: like they were talking in the studio, and I could

1074
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 3: hear Matt Marner and say, wait, what what happened? And

1075
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 3: so I you know, and then he looked at it

1076
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 3: later and it's like, oh, and he always does this.

1077
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 3: Whenever I screw up, he'll go and he'll always he'll

1078
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:36,439
Speaker 3: always give me one of those.

1079
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: So but network TV less less forgiving, Yeah, less forgiving.

1080
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 3: It's there forever, it's it's there, it's there forever.

1081
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, what properties did you work on When we're

1082
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: talking Turner Broadcasting.

1083
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 5: You you're talking about networks.

1084
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's so many name you.

1085
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 5: Know, I worked on him.

1086
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 3: You know, I started with I did the very last

1087
00:53:58,640 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 3: ABC Sports production.

1088
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Speaker 5: It was at East Lake.

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Speaker 1: Uh. Okay, so we're outside Turner you just just did. Yeah.

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00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 5: I'm a freelancer now.

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00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 3: So at this time, you've established all your contacts with

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00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 3: so many different entities NBC Sports, ABC, CBS, Outdoor Network.

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00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 3: Back then there was the Speed Channel. Did a lot

1094
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 3: of stuff with the Speed Channel. Back when direct TV

1095
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 3: was you could buy a driver and then have his

1096
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 3: Uh you could buy a certain driver's look for the

1097
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 3: entire day. Yeah, and then you could have the inboard camera.

1098
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 5: His pit camera and so forth.

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00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:34,760
Speaker 3: Did a lot of stuff, uh, you know, for for

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00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 3: for Fox. Uh, Fox was a big one that I

1101
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 3: worked for. But you know, I've done everything from you know,

1102
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 3: a couple of World Series, a couple of Super Bowls

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00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 3: to the Cornhole Championship at the World Congress Center. So

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00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 3: you know, everything that you can think of. Uh, there

1105
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:54,320
Speaker 3: is a Cornhole Championship.

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00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 1: Hey man, I watch it. I sometimes tune into ESPN

1107
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: and watch it. There is there's some talented.

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00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 3: Cornhole going on TV right now. There's you know, I'm

1109
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 3: not saying pickleball is weird.

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00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 4: Hey watch it, watch Larry.

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00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 3: I'm not. I know everybody that I talked to about

1112
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:17,359
Speaker 3: pickleball has a strong reaction, like you do. They they

1113
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:18,880
Speaker 3: believe in their pickleball.

1114
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 1: Uh, And there's nothing wrong with cornhole. I I get

1115
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: glued to it.

1116
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:29,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's like it's weirdly compelling cornhole. It's like darts.

1117
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 4: Kind of darts is fun to watch too, right.

1118
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 1: So, oh, you said that they filmed that in the

1119
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: Congress Center. So that's yeah, a huge convention center here

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00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:38,240
Speaker 1: in Georgia.

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00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a it was a it was the

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00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 3: weekend of the SEC Championship.

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Speaker 5: And uh so.

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00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:48,240
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't know I'd be asking about cornhole today, Larry.

1125
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:51,319
Speaker 1: But I got no problem asking about cornhole. I didn't

1126
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 1: think it would be in a convention center, but why

1127
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:54,360
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be any conventions?

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00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:57,720
Speaker 3: And you know, like on that on that weekend, somehow

1129
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 3: I didn't get asked to do the SEC Championship and

1130
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 3: I did. I've got asked, like sometimes you're you get

1131
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:08,360
Speaker 3: directed to a what you call lesser event. Than somebody

1132
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 3: that more important event, if you will. And I know

1133
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 3: my friends were like, you work in the SEC Championship weekend.

1134
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:18,759
Speaker 3: I said, I sure am. You know.

1135
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 5: They never knew. You know, there's a guy tossing.

1136
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 3: The bag and you have like a tight shot of

1137
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:29,719
Speaker 3: the hole on the board and the bag going through

1138
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:33,280
Speaker 3: the hole. So yeah, I'm working the SEC Championship weekend.

1139
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 1: So would you classify that as one of your top

1140
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: five moments in TV?

1141
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 3: That one was not the top you want to go

1142
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 3: top five?

1143
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 1: You got a top five list for us, Well, we

1144
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 1: got a top five sting for us. Let's do by

1145
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: top by top five, top by, top by top five.

1146
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: Here are Larry Franch's top five moments in TV from

1147
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: behind the camp. We're spanning a long, long career here, Larry,

1148
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:04,279
Speaker 1: you took us wherever you want to go.

1149
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 3: It's uh, you know, well, the top five the fifth one,

1150
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 3: and at the time it was the number one. But

1151
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:12,880
Speaker 3: I had gotten a call from a Fox director, Matt Gangele.

1152
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 3: He worked with me a lot in Atlanta, and he

1153
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 3: called me up and said, hey, can you work at

1154
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 3: Yankee Stadium Saturday?

1155
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:24,080
Speaker 5: And I was like, Yankee.

1156
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 3: Stadium And for a minute. I was going to say no,

1157
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 3: I'm busy, you know. I was like I was nervous,

1158
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 3: and I was like, yeah, I guess I could, and

1159
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 3: he goes, yeah, it's Alex Rodriguez's last game. We'd like

1160
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 3: for you to work for us for Alex Rogen's last game.

1161
00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 3: And so they asked me late and we couldn't get

1162
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 3: a flight on Friday. I flew in on Saturday and

1163
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 3: met with Matt and he said the only thing that

1164
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 3: I want you to do is when he comes to

1165
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 3: home plate, he's gonna tip his hat to the crowd.

1166
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 3: I want you to be two feet from him when

1167
00:57:56,280 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 3: that happens. And you can google that moment because I

1168
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:02,919
Speaker 3: do this little three sixty turn at the home plate

1169
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 3: and I actually walk over home plate, the signal passes

1170
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 3: through my body. The antenna is up in the behind

1171
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:13,000
Speaker 3: home plate, and the signal actually pixelates and I use

1172
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 3: the word pixelate. It actually breaks up a little bit.

1173
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 3: But uh yeah, that was the moment. Side story of

1174
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 3: that is when he came out of pregame, they gave

1175
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 3: him a cake, the Yankees Game of Cake, and it

1176
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 3: was old production. We came on the air at seven.

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00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 3: It was a special one hour pregame show. We came

1178
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 3: on at seven. At seven o'clock, the storm front started

1179
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:39,840
Speaker 3: moving in and the bottom dropped out about thirty seconds

1180
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 3: of us coming on the air, And while I'm shooting

1181
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 3: Alex Rodriguez, there was sort of a bolt of lightning

1182
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:47,040
Speaker 3: on the horizon, and the bolt of lightning looked like

1183
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 3: it hit his head as you're looking at the camera shot.

1184
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 3: So the rain starts pouring down. We all run in

1185
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 3: into the dugout, and there's so many rules at Yankee Stadium.

1186
00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 5: You can't go on the dugout.

1187
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 3: You can't work past this first base line, and next

1188
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 3: thing just everything unraveled. Like Alex Rodriguez, the rain stopped,

1189
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 3: he had to warm up and stretch. He was running

1190
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 3: in right field. I wasn't supposed to go to right field.

1191
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 3: I ran out there. Yankee security is running after me.

1192
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 3: You can't be out there. You can't be out there,

1193
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 3: And so I'm shooting him as he's coming back and

1194
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 3: we get the shot. So I looked at somebody, a

1195
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:26,959
Speaker 3: beat writer, and I was like, I was like talking

1196
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 3: about the lightning striking. I was like, God hates Alex

1197
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:36,160
Speaker 3: Rodriguez cause it's like everything came apart, right in this

1198
00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 3: big celebration. And so the next day, I'm in the

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Speaker 3: hotel lobbying, I'm leaving, I'm getting ready to take my

1200
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 3: flight back home, and I don't know if it was

1201
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:46,680
Speaker 3: a New York Post or some publication, and right there

1202
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 3: on the cover of the newspaper it said, God hates

1203
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 3: Alex Rodriguez. I swear to god.

1204
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 5: I couldn't believe.

1205
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 3: I was like, that's what I said. So that.

1206
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 5: Was moment number five.

1207
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: What a headline. Yeah, they're really really going for it

1208
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 1: with that headline.

1209
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 5: It was I never forget that.

1210
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 3: It's like I said that yesterday. So number four, same director.

1211
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 3: He gives me a call and says, hey, you're available

1212
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 3: to go to Philly Saturday. Bryce Harper is it's his

1213
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 3: first game as a Philly and I'm like, yeah, absolutely great.

1214
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 3: And I wasn't a big Bryce Harper fan, but you know,

1215
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 3: it was a big deal, big moment in baseball, and

1216
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:35,320
Speaker 3: so so I positioned myself in one of the dugouts

1217
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 3: for home runs. So when a home runs hit for Fox,

1218
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 3: they want me to run all the way to third

1219
01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:42,880
Speaker 3: base and then follow, you know, run down the baseline

1220
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 3: with the player as he goes into the dugout and

1221
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 3: so you're sitting there. I can't remember what in it is,

1222
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,600
Speaker 3: but he comes to bat and boom, there it goes

1223
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 3: his first home run as a Philly. I'm on third

1224
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 3: base and they're me and Bryce running down from third

1225
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 3: base to home. I follow him to the dugout. He

1226
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 3: comes out and does a curtain call, and uh, pretty

1227
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:05,200
Speaker 3: cool moment.

1228
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: Number do you like him now?

1229
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 3: Real quickly, when he played for a different team, I

1230
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:20,080
Speaker 3: was working a Fox game and we had a stand

1231
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:23,320
Speaker 3: up that has already been planned. Yeah, and we're coming

1232
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 3: on the air with a stand up, and all of

1233
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 3: a sudden, one of the cameras said, oh, Bryce is

1234
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 3: coming up in the dugout, and they said camera nine,

1235
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 3: shoot Bryce, and then literally they were counting down live

1236
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:36,360
Speaker 3: on the air. He says five four, and I turned

1237
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 3: from the stand up position to a live shot of

1238
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 3: Bryce coming up the dug up steps and I'm shooting

1239
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 3: in and he's looking at my lens and he says,

1240
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 3: don't shoot me now, I have a tally light. I'm

1241
01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 3: shooting him, and then he's expecting me to whip away

1242
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 3: from him, and I can't because I'm on the air.

1243
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:57,720
Speaker 3: And he looks at me again like don't shoot me.

1244
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 3: And next thing I know, his hands reaching up, he

1245
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 3: grabs my lens and he pushes the lens down. I'm

1246
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:06,160
Speaker 3: live on the air and got a little tally light

1247
01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 3: and then he releases the camera. I go up and

1248
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 3: he walks away from me, and then it cut off

1249
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 3: my shot. We go to commercial and the director says, hey, Larry,

1250
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 3: was that a bit?

1251
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 5: I was like, no, that was not a bit.

1252
01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 4: So oh that's oh man, Yeah he was.

1253
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: You know, you're allowed, You're allowed to dislike.

1254
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:26,040
Speaker 5: Him, right.

1255
01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:30,760
Speaker 3: Somebody I do like immensely would be Freddie Freeman. Highlight

1256
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:36,280
Speaker 3: number three would be Freddie coming back to the Braves

1257
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:40,000
Speaker 3: as a dodger. And so we did an interview with him.

1258
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 3: Kelly crowl was a sideline reporter and it was me,

1259
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 3: Kelly and Freddie on you know, in the grass there

1260
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:48,840
Speaker 3: and we did the interview and it was a long

1261
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 3: interview and it was heartfelt and the stadium got just

1262
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:58,640
Speaker 3: remarkably quiet listening to his thoughts and you know he

1263
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 3: was he was in a tough place that time.

1264
01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 5: You know, his decision and.

1265
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:05,880
Speaker 3: Why he did it, So just that meant a lot

1266
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:08,920
Speaker 3: to me. The whole interview, because the interview was lengthy

1267
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:12,560
Speaker 3: and it was heartfelt on his end.

1268
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 1: That was a memorable weekend.

1269
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 3: It was a memorable weekend, and everybody had it on

1270
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:23,439
Speaker 3: the calendar waiting on him to come back. Number two

1271
01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 3: is going back Aways. This was sort of as I

1272
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 3: was running the RF camera for the Braves and I

1273
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 3: was getting some not publicity, but some of the replays

1274
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 3: were being shown nationally. John Smoltz had just gotten his

1275
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 3: three thousand strikeout and I had just started running the

1276
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 3: RF and the three thousand strikeout happened. I think there

1277
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:46,680
Speaker 3: was either one or two outs in the inning and

1278
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 3: finally got his third out and he came over to

1279
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:52,600
Speaker 3: the dugout to come in and he saw I just

1280
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 3: made the decision to walk out there and sort of

1281
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,800
Speaker 3: catch him coming off the field, and so he saw

1282
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 3: me coming at him, and I guess he stopped and

1283
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:03,840
Speaker 3: he took his hat off and he waved at the crowd,

1284
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:06,960
Speaker 3: and he started doing this counterclockwise rotation and I was

1285
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:09,480
Speaker 3: gonna go with him, and then I started going the

1286
01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 3: same direction he is, and he changed directions. So he's

1287
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 3: going counter I'm going clockwise. And it sort of produced

1288
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:20,000
Speaker 3: this really cool, like three sixty shot, and you know,

1289
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:22,400
Speaker 3: ESPN had it on that day and that was my

1290
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:26,440
Speaker 3: first like ESPN replay, and you know, I think I

1291
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:28,280
Speaker 3: stayed up to like four in the morning to watch

1292
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:29,560
Speaker 3: ESPN like five.

1293
01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:33,479
Speaker 5: Times to see the replay. So that was really cool.

1294
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 3: And then the top my top memory is just really

1295
01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 3: of the final season for Chipper Jones. Those were that

1296
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 3: was such a great season because every home stand, you know,

1297
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:50,200
Speaker 3: the other teams were recognizing Chipper, they were giving him

1298
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 3: gifts at home played it just every weekend Chipper Jones.

1299
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:58,680
Speaker 3: It just was a remarkable. So they had a Bibblehead

1300
01:04:58,760 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 3: Night for Chipper.

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Speaker 5: Jones in his final season, and you know.

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Speaker 3: It's probably the number one replay that I like, is

1303
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:10,400
Speaker 3: him hitting home run and walking it off on Bibblehead

1304
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 3: Night and I am meeting him at third base and

1305
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 3: it's sort of an iconic video. It's where he tosses

1306
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:19,640
Speaker 3: his helmet toward the pitcher's mound and then he goes

1307
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:22,400
Speaker 3: in and it's really Network had it live and then

1308
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 3: it was a big deal on ESPN and all the networks.

1309
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:30,960
Speaker 3: And then his final game, you know, we shot his

1310
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 3: final game. He had his parents in the front stands

1311
01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:37,720
Speaker 3: and I sort of was like really really close, like

1312
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:40,400
Speaker 3: way too close with the camera and just showing them

1313
01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:41,520
Speaker 3: hugging and kissing.

1314
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:41,800
Speaker 5: And so forth.

1315
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:45,600
Speaker 3: But on the last inning that he ran out on

1316
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:49,760
Speaker 3: the field, the players do the thing where they stop

1317
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 3: and let him run out there by himself, and he

1318
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:54,360
Speaker 3: didn't realize that the players had stopped. And so it

1319
01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 3: was that moment that the stadium could recognize him as

1320
01:05:57,400 --> 01:06:01,040
Speaker 3: this a moment, and the director and said, Larry, get

1321
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:03,919
Speaker 3: out there. And so I'm running out there and it's

1322
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:06,200
Speaker 3: just me and Chipp are like three feet away, and

1323
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:08,560
Speaker 3: the crowd is recognized. He's tipping his hat and I'm

1324
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 3: sort of doing this three sixty around him. So it

1325
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:13,560
Speaker 3: was it was a cool moment.

1326
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:14,400
Speaker 5: It was.

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01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:18,000
Speaker 3: To be blessed to be on the field, you know,

1328
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 3: to be on the baseball field. You know, I'm sixty

1329
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 3: one years old and I'm running around with these players

1330
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:28,320
Speaker 3: on the field. To this day, it really is, I

1331
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 3: to this day can't believe I do it. I pinched

1332
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 3: myself and I respect it. And I've always shot to

1333
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:40,000
Speaker 3: try to give the fan that point of view. I

1334
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:42,480
Speaker 3: want to see. I shoot what I'd like to see.

1335
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:44,600
Speaker 3: If I'm sitting at home. I'd like to see what

1336
01:06:44,680 --> 01:06:46,600
Speaker 3: the fabric of the stitching looks like on the back

1337
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:48,880
Speaker 3: of somebody's jersey on a walk off home run. You

1338
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:51,120
Speaker 3: can always get a wide shot, but you can never

1339
01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:53,440
Speaker 3: be absolutely where you can reach out and touch them.

1340
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:55,600
Speaker 3: And I sort of try to try to do that

1341
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 3: when I shoot, is give people a feeling that they're

1342
01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:00,120
Speaker 3: right there.

1343
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:03,600
Speaker 1: So that's the that's the top five, we could have done,

1344
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 1: top hundred. We've also we've also embedded plenty of moments here,

1345
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: you know throughout this this interview that yeah, you've you've

1346
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:16,120
Speaker 1: seen a lot, Larry. And then the World in the

1347
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 1: World Series didn't make it, I guess because they were

1348
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:19,479
Speaker 1: on the road.

1349
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:22,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were on the road. I did a lot

1350
01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:27,200
Speaker 3: of coverage for the World Series for Fox really where

1351
01:07:27,320 --> 01:07:30,320
Speaker 3: my wheelhouse is, and that is with the fans, and

1352
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:33,400
Speaker 3: so they had me when Fox was here with their

1353
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:36,120
Speaker 3: set in the battery. They had me out in the battery,

1354
01:07:36,680 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 3: and so that to me.

1355
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:43,240
Speaker 1: Was the battery, the area around Truist Park.

1356
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:46,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Battery in Atlanta such a phenomenal place. If

1357
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:48,440
Speaker 3: you're if you live in the Atlanta area and you

1358
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 3: haven't been to a game I encourage people all the

1359
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 3: time just go down to the battery, even if you

1360
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:55,960
Speaker 3: don't have tickets, just go down there. A lot of

1361
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:58,200
Speaker 3: people will just sit on the lawn they have a

1362
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:00,760
Speaker 3: little green space there and just watch the game with

1363
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:04,600
Speaker 3: hundreds of other fans. And and if we're fortunate enough

1364
01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:06,680
Speaker 3: to go to the World Series again, that's where a

1365
01:08:06,680 --> 01:08:09,200
Speaker 3: lot of people end up that don't have tickets, that

1366
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 3: grand space in the battery.

1367
01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:13,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's just watching on a big screen. It's like,

1368
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:18,160
Speaker 1: you know, for basketball fans, it's Jurassic Park in Toronto. Uh,

1369
01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:20,120
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's a great experience. What's up with the

1370
01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:23,679
Speaker 1: uber situation there at Truest Park. I know you're a driver,

1371
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:25,200
Speaker 1: so you never have to deal with that, but there's

1372
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:27,599
Speaker 1: got to be people talking about it. When people try

1373
01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:29,280
Speaker 1: and leave and try and get a ride shair and

1374
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:31,560
Speaker 1: get a car out of there to get it to

1375
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:33,880
Speaker 1: get an uber to get a lift, they don't come.

1376
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:37,320
Speaker 1: It's like a it's like the signals breaking up. They

1377
01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:38,920
Speaker 1: just they literally don't show up.

1378
01:08:39,439 --> 01:08:43,000
Speaker 3: We we did not plan this conversation at all. No,

1379
01:08:43,800 --> 01:08:47,160
Speaker 3: So I started hearing about this from different type of people,

1380
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:50,160
Speaker 3: Like you know, they they would like they'd see me

1381
01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:52,559
Speaker 3: with the camera on and a T shirt and they go, hey, man,

1382
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 3: y'all got to fix that Uber situation over there. We're

1383
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:56,840
Speaker 3: not gonna come to the game.

1384
01:08:57,240 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, So for you to bring that up.

1385
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:04,639
Speaker 3: So on my Facebook page is a pitcher and it's

1386
01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 3: of a famous baseball player that used to pitch for us.

1387
01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:11,560
Speaker 3: And we're all leaving the parking lot and this individual

1388
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 3: is waiting on an Uber ride and it's Craig Kimball

1389
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:18,080
Speaker 3: really and Craig just pitched and I think he beat

1390
01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:18,760
Speaker 3: us that day.

1391
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:20,960
Speaker 5: He was with I can't remember if he was with it.

1392
01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:22,400
Speaker 5: I don't remember who he was with.

1393
01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:24,600
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know I remember who he was with,

1394
01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 3: but he's with the other team. And we're all walking

1395
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:29,920
Speaker 3: up the hill to go to the media parking lot

1396
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 3: and there's Craig looking at his phone and we're like,

1397
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:36,800
Speaker 3: the hell you doing out here? Don't wait my damn Uber.

1398
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:41,679
Speaker 3: And so yeah, it affected h. So I didn't realize

1399
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:44,440
Speaker 3: this was a thing until every.

1400
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:46,759
Speaker 1: Time, literally every time, four years.

1401
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:51,040
Speaker 4: So our conspiracy, it's said the battery. The businesses in

1402
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:53,800
Speaker 4: the Battery want you to stay after the games, so

1403
01:09:53,840 --> 01:09:58,519
Speaker 4: they they jam a signal like Larry French's body blocking

1404
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:02,080
Speaker 4: that RF shit right, that's what they do. It's the

1405
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 4: you know. I mean, how Matt you were there for

1406
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:07,320
Speaker 4: what three extra hours because you couldn't get an uber

1407
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:07,840
Speaker 4: the last thing.

1408
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 1: No, that's there. I gave up.

1409
01:10:10,479 --> 01:10:12,400
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that's what I mean. And you went bowl,

1410
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:14,080
Speaker 4: you went, You stayed in the battery.

1411
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:18,080
Speaker 1: Yes, spending all your Yes. Yes, there's not a.

1412
01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:21,240
Speaker 3: Night that goes by because we're fortunate we have really

1413
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:25,000
Speaker 3: good parking TV production, But there's not a night that

1414
01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:27,840
Speaker 3: goes by when we're walking across that. There are I

1415
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 3: wouldn't say one hundred people, but there are a lot

1416
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:32,519
Speaker 3: of people that are standing out there looking at their phone.

1417
01:10:32,560 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sure they're waiting on some type of ride.

1418
01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 1: Craig Kimberl can't get a carg Kimberle didn't even get

1419
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 1: a car. So yeah, you're you're you're an amazing camera

1420
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:44,880
Speaker 1: person with fans. There's absolutely no doubt about that. And

1421
01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:48,720
Speaker 1: that's why JD had you on fan duty when we

1422
01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:53,040
Speaker 1: did our live shows in Toronto. Totally now probably like

1423
01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:55,200
Speaker 1: the same amount of people waiting for an uber in

1424
01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 1: terms of fans for our show. You didn't have to

1425
01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:01,439
Speaker 1: deal with too many people there there. But I'm surprised

1426
01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:03,519
Speaker 1: you didn't say that week in Toronto for the Toronto

1427
01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:05,760
Speaker 1: All Star Game, didn't make number one, didn't make your

1428
01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:09,840
Speaker 1: top five, didn't didn't even level up to the last

1429
01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:11,639
Speaker 1: month of your hockey cover. I'm kidding.

1430
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:16,519
Speaker 3: No, So, driving up here like last night, I didn't

1431
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:18,519
Speaker 3: know what I was gonna wear. So I go to

1432
01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:23,760
Speaker 3: my closet and uh, for an hour, I go through

1433
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:27,000
Speaker 3: all my T shirts and I have I'm proud to

1434
01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:29,839
Speaker 3: say I have eighteen starter shirts.

1435
01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:32,680
Speaker 1: Wow, my goodness, we had that man, and I have

1436
01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 1: what a wist I have?

1437
01:11:34,760 --> 01:11:37,280
Speaker 3: I have three that still have the tags on them,

1438
01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:40,960
Speaker 3: and then what a wist? So I had this hole

1439
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:43,280
Speaker 3: and I have them in the in my vehicle right

1440
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:46,240
Speaker 3: outside here, I have all the shirts. And in that

1441
01:11:46,280 --> 01:11:48,360
Speaker 3: stack of shirts that would be the choices of what

1442
01:11:48,400 --> 01:11:51,320
Speaker 3: I was gonna wear today are three Toronto All Star

1443
01:11:51,439 --> 01:11:54,960
Speaker 3: Game shirts. And I also have the Toronto All Star hat.

1444
01:11:55,080 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 3: So no, those were some of the greatest memories. Were

1445
01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:05,759
Speaker 3: walking the streets of Toronto, me and another camera operator

1446
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:09,400
Speaker 3: his name is Todd, and we were working together and

1447
01:12:09,439 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 3: we leave the hotel one day to go to work

1448
01:12:12,320 --> 01:12:15,559
Speaker 3: and no, I'm saying. This is about the fifth day

1449
01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:20,680
Speaker 3: and we're walking along the sidewalk and I this is

1450
01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:25,439
Speaker 3: gonna sound horrible, and I'm like, this couple passes us,

1451
01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:28,960
Speaker 3: and I'm like, that's the first bad looking couple I've

1452
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:32,960
Speaker 3: seen all week. And I couldn't get over the people

1453
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:35,760
Speaker 3: in Toronto. I mean, it was just like everybody is

1454
01:12:35,800 --> 01:12:39,479
Speaker 3: gorgeous up here. I mean it's just everybody's game is

1455
01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:44,719
Speaker 3: on up here. So Toronto was a really really cool

1456
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 3: loved everything about it. It was sort of we were just

1457
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:51,200
Speaker 3: getting to know you guys, and we were just starting

1458
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:53,800
Speaker 3: to work with y'all, and just great memories of the

1459
01:12:53,960 --> 01:12:57,839
Speaker 3: shows up there and and the you know, I've always

1460
01:12:58,200 --> 01:13:01,120
Speaker 3: enjoyed being with a startup, anything that's a startup, and

1461
01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:07,600
Speaker 3: you guys were beloved by everybody, players everybody.

1462
01:13:07,680 --> 01:13:09,440
Speaker 5: So yeah, great times.

1463
01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:13,240
Speaker 1: Great great time, Toronto. You reminded me of Todd loving

1464
01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:17,719
Speaker 1: swish La as much as my man Joel does. Joel,

1465
01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:21,760
Speaker 1: we worked with Todd. He he had he had a

1466
01:13:21,760 --> 01:13:23,760
Speaker 1: great swish La shirt. You remember that shirt? Yeah, he

1467
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:25,280
Speaker 1: brought it back. I did, Joel, do you have a

1468
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:29,439
Speaker 1: swish La shirt? We have not, I do not. Oh

1469
01:13:29,439 --> 01:13:31,160
Speaker 1: they have great I gotta get one. I got great

1470
01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:35,479
Speaker 1: baseball tease, nice tie in. Yeah, no doubt actually working

1471
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:37,679
Speaker 1: with us back then. We were also on the road

1472
01:13:37,720 --> 01:13:41,880
Speaker 1: when Guy Fierry came on our show that was New Orleans,

1473
01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:44,519
Speaker 1: and you were just telling us off air that you

1474
01:13:44,560 --> 01:13:46,800
Speaker 1: think that you got him on our show. Yeah.

1475
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:50,640
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to make some type of discrepancy or

1476
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:53,880
Speaker 3: bring something up like that that you guys misreported something.

1477
01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:58,439
Speaker 3: But like when you guys recently on your your Top

1478
01:13:58,439 --> 01:14:00,800
Speaker 3: seventy five Guest show, we're talking about.

1479
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:02,840
Speaker 1: Thank you for the plug. Yeah, yeah, and the No

1480
01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:05,120
Speaker 1: Dunks feed. Yeah, we did. It was fun. That was

1481
01:14:05,160 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 1: a fun Top seventy five going through all our our

1482
01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:12,439
Speaker 1: old guests that were phenomenal, Guy Fierry being one of them. Yeah.

1483
01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:15,240
Speaker 3: We were, Todd and I were having dinner and uh

1484
01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:17,800
Speaker 3: we look over and you know, everything was it was

1485
01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:19,840
Speaker 3: a buzz in New Orleans. Everything's going on, the All

1486
01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:23,639
Speaker 3: Star Game, everybody's out having dinner and we Todd looks over,

1487
01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:25,599
Speaker 3: and I look over and I say, is that Guy Fierro.

1488
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:30,000
Speaker 3: He's like, that's Guy Fierro. And then like he's like,

1489
01:14:30,120 --> 01:14:32,200
Speaker 3: let's go over there and talk to him like now,

1490
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 3: and it's like we better not. And so he had

1491
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:36,479
Speaker 3: a whole group of people and so we were eating dinner,

1492
01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:38,960
Speaker 3: we have a couple of drinks, and as we're having drinks,

1493
01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:41,320
Speaker 3: we're like, no, I think we should talk to him.

1494
01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:45,240
Speaker 3: And then so yep, we pay our bill or get

1495
01:14:45,280 --> 01:14:47,240
Speaker 3: our check and we walk over there and there's Guy

1496
01:14:47,320 --> 01:14:50,640
Speaker 3: Fierro and he knows doesn't know who Larry or Todd is.

1497
01:14:51,600 --> 01:14:54,600
Speaker 3: And we start telling them like, yeah, we're with the Starters,

1498
01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:57,240
Speaker 3: like we would love for you to come on the show,

1499
01:14:57,360 --> 01:15:01,680
Speaker 3: and now we're spokespeople for spokes people for the Starters,

1500
01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:05,080
Speaker 3: and so yeah, he goes, yeah, I know the Starters

1501
01:15:05,160 --> 01:15:07,440
Speaker 3: very well, and he's very hospitable.

1502
01:15:07,600 --> 01:15:10,280
Speaker 5: And then you know, the next day, me and.

1503
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:13,240
Speaker 3: Todd are at the set and lo and behold there

1504
01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:18,040
Speaker 3: comes Guy Ferro walking down. Guy Fierro, and he's like, uh,

1505
01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:21,439
Speaker 3: I mean he's just bigger than life, you know, the hair,

1506
01:15:21,680 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 3: the jewelry, the whole thing. I mean, he's just like

1507
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 3: one of those Hollywood entities.

1508
01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:28,760
Speaker 5: And he was great.

1509
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:31,280
Speaker 3: He signed the starters thing.

1510
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:36,000
Speaker 1: There like yeah, the posters. Yeah, so yeah, he drew

1511
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:37,639
Speaker 1: some mustaches on our faces.

1512
01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 3: So yeah, we felt like we had helped produce the

1513
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 3: show that day. Like the guests, we were always very

1514
01:15:45,200 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 3: excited about that.

1515
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:50,280
Speaker 1: You obviously always do you make things happen. Yeah, before

1516
01:15:50,280 --> 01:15:52,800
Speaker 1: we get to a little bit more braves, just just

1517
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:56,080
Speaker 1: a little bit more of the inside baseball here with

1518
01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:59,120
Speaker 1: you know, no dunks and the starters. Do you remember

1519
01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:03,280
Speaker 1: the time in Vegas now where you got us into

1520
01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:08,120
Speaker 1: Dre's nightclub? We couldn't get in, And obviously hearing all

1521
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:11,640
Speaker 1: these stories, it's like putting one one one together, you

1522
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:14,160
Speaker 1: make things happen, So it makes sense that we were struggling.

1523
01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:15,760
Speaker 1: We were in a lineup, we couldn't get in. Here

1524
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:18,839
Speaker 1: comes Larry French. Guess that's in no problem.

1525
01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 3: So I literally like, I'm the guy that is always

1526
01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:26,800
Speaker 3: calling my wife at home saying, hey, will you look

1527
01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:28,799
Speaker 3: to see if I left my debit card on the dresser,

1528
01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:32,840
Speaker 3: and I can't remember stuff from yesterday. So when we

1529
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:35,600
Speaker 3: when I saw this conversation brought up, I was like,

1530
01:16:36,040 --> 01:16:39,599
Speaker 3: holy cow, I remember like it was yesterday, and I

1531
01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:42,120
Speaker 3: remember that I had gone up first and it was

1532
01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:44,559
Speaker 3: up there for a while and then came back down

1533
01:16:45,240 --> 01:16:47,599
Speaker 3: and then ran into you guys that could not get

1534
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:50,880
Speaker 3: in there and it was an elevator involved, yeah, and

1535
01:16:51,280 --> 01:16:54,080
Speaker 3: I can't remember if it was something that I was wearing,

1536
01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:57,000
Speaker 3: but I basically told these guys you know that were

1537
01:16:57,000 --> 01:17:01,000
Speaker 3: stopping you, like, oh, no, these guys are with me. No, no,

1538
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:04,120
Speaker 3: they're with us. And then next thing I know, we're

1539
01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:06,200
Speaker 3: in the elevator and we're going up and we're in

1540
01:17:06,320 --> 01:17:11,560
Speaker 3: dres So I just assume like I belonged and that

1541
01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:13,920
Speaker 3: kind of worked. And I do that a lot in life.

1542
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:15,960
Speaker 5: I got to be honest with you, it's worked for you.

1543
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 3: It's yeah, that was I do remember the night and Drace,

1544
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 3: that was pretty cool.

1545
01:17:21,240 --> 01:17:25,000
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, let's get to the field here, because you

1546
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 1: do have an incredible job of being on the field,

1547
01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 1: trailing these guys around for their home runs, their trots

1548
01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:37,599
Speaker 1: and around the plate. How do you think, just from

1549
01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:42,320
Speaker 1: a production standpoint, things have changed over the years and

1550
01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:45,280
Speaker 1: how have they improved? I mean, just even you talking

1551
01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:50,479
Speaker 1: about trailing guys as they trot around third base, like

1552
01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:54,639
Speaker 1: that feeling of being at home and watching it has

1553
01:17:55,240 --> 01:17:58,240
Speaker 1: transformed my viewing experience over the last you know, whatever

1554
01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:02,400
Speaker 1: it's been fifteen years or whatever. It's added so much

1555
01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 1: and I just want to know from your perspective, how

1556
01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:09,160
Speaker 1: and what has been added to change TV production, Because

1557
01:18:09,160 --> 01:18:11,639
Speaker 1: I think that's that's part of why I've gotten back

1558
01:18:11,680 --> 01:18:15,439
Speaker 1: into the game, because the product has been so much better.

1559
01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:19,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh so the length of time I've been

1560
01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:22,960
Speaker 3: doing it. So the camera compliment we use now at

1561
01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:26,320
Speaker 3: a baseball game is basically the same as it's been

1562
01:18:26,439 --> 01:18:31,639
Speaker 3: for a long time, right low first camera, a low low,

1563
01:18:31,720 --> 01:18:36,599
Speaker 3: third camera high home that does the games that game.

1564
01:18:36,960 --> 01:18:39,680
Speaker 3: Camera two, the high home cameras. When the balls hit,

1565
01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:42,840
Speaker 3: that's the first camera goes to. Camera four. Dead center

1566
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:45,000
Speaker 3: is the camera that they use for the framen of

1567
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:47,880
Speaker 3: the pitcher and the catcher. So for the most part,

1568
01:18:48,360 --> 01:18:51,559
Speaker 3: all those cameras have stayed the same for a long time.

1569
01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:55,479
Speaker 3: The changes that have happened over and I'm going to

1570
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:58,679
Speaker 3: say the last three years thirty six months have been

1571
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:01,559
Speaker 3: the four K or five K whatever they call it

1572
01:19:01,720 --> 01:19:04,000
Speaker 3: with some people call it the meglaedon camera, that out

1573
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:06,640
Speaker 3: of focused camera that you see that's sort of the

1574
01:19:07,880 --> 01:19:11,479
Speaker 3: latest and greatest that's come about now. And some dependent

1575
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:14,080
Speaker 3: on who the director is, depending on who the company is,

1576
01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:16,720
Speaker 3: whether or not they're going to subsidize or bring that

1577
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:21,840
Speaker 3: camera at the cost is how that would change for us.

1578
01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:25,559
Speaker 3: The change that occurred maybe about ten years ago is

1579
01:19:25,560 --> 01:19:29,680
Speaker 3: that all broadcasts were done by trucks being in the

1580
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:32,120
Speaker 3: loading dock, if you will. That did a baseball game,

1581
01:19:32,240 --> 01:19:34,240
Speaker 3: you'd have two trucks, one truck for the home side

1582
01:19:34,280 --> 01:19:35,080
Speaker 3: and one truck.

1583
01:19:34,840 --> 01:19:36,599
Speaker 5: For the wayside or the visitors.

1584
01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:40,679
Speaker 3: I actually met the guy that invented this, but there's

1585
01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:43,760
Speaker 3: a gentleman who wrote up on a bar napkin. He

1586
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 3: showed them how he could compress the two trucks and

1587
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:50,559
Speaker 3: take some of the stuff that was being done in

1588
01:19:50,640 --> 01:19:52,679
Speaker 3: one truck and put it in the first truck and

1589
01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:56,160
Speaker 3: call it a duel. And so some of the responsibilities

1590
01:19:56,160 --> 01:19:59,120
Speaker 3: of audio and video became part of a duel. So

1591
01:19:59,160 --> 01:20:02,559
Speaker 3: when we come to a production, we'd say what kind

1592
01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:04,679
Speaker 3: of shows this and they'd say, it's a side by side,

1593
01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:07,120
Speaker 3: and that meant there was two trucks that were going

1594
01:20:07,200 --> 01:20:10,120
Speaker 3: to work the game, or it was a duel, and

1595
01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:13,240
Speaker 3: that means that some people. So the the concept of

1596
01:20:13,280 --> 01:20:17,080
Speaker 3: the duel now has has even grown more to where

1597
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:20,720
Speaker 3: now you're you're hearing the word cloud and so now

1598
01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:26,400
Speaker 3: you have where there are certain productions, certain companies, you know,

1599
01:20:26,920 --> 01:20:29,759
Speaker 3: ESPN is one of them where they have the cloud

1600
01:20:30,160 --> 01:20:34,560
Speaker 3: and they have an area where people come mostly probably Bristol,

1601
01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:37,760
Speaker 3: and they they produce games in a room and the

1602
01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:40,320
Speaker 3: only thing that's on side are the camera operators. So

1603
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:42,439
Speaker 3: a lot of the tape stuff being done, all the

1604
01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:45,120
Speaker 3: replays that are being done are being done in the

1605
01:20:45,160 --> 01:20:48,960
Speaker 3: cloud wherever that is, wherever there might be in the cloud.

1606
01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:51,760
Speaker 5: So the word cloud has come about a lot.

1607
01:20:52,880 --> 01:20:55,920
Speaker 1: So what is the dual system produce?

1608
01:20:56,479 --> 01:20:59,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, so a duel would be where you would use

1609
01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:02,640
Speaker 3: certain you might have a tape op that's doing the

1610
01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:06,600
Speaker 3: same role for both sides home and away. Most of

1611
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:11,240
Speaker 3: the times in the duel, it affects audio because audio

1612
01:21:11,360 --> 01:21:13,679
Speaker 3: is sort of universal in that sense.

1613
01:21:14,600 --> 01:21:16,280
Speaker 1: Audio has gotten better on broadcasts.

1614
01:21:16,560 --> 01:21:21,280
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it definitely has. This gentleman that rode up

1615
01:21:21,320 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 3: the instructions on a bar napkin, he basically took one

1616
01:21:25,439 --> 01:21:30,080
Speaker 3: side of the the owayside truck. And you know how

1617
01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:32,320
Speaker 3: you see like a tractor trailer of the cab and

1618
01:21:32,360 --> 01:21:35,080
Speaker 3: it's got that air that the airfoil on top of

1619
01:21:35,120 --> 01:21:36,559
Speaker 3: the hood that that makes the.

1620
01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:37,519
Speaker 5: Air go over the truck.

1621
01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:42,080
Speaker 3: Well, that cab area of the truck where a regular

1622
01:21:42,120 --> 01:21:46,679
Speaker 3: over the hall driver would sleep at night. That areas

1623
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:49,599
Speaker 3: of those trucks is where they created the audio department.

1624
01:21:49,960 --> 01:21:52,760
Speaker 3: So that sort of almost eliminated another truck and they

1625
01:21:52,800 --> 01:21:54,040
Speaker 3: started calling it a duel.

1626
01:21:55,880 --> 01:21:59,959
Speaker 5: But you know the thing that were that every.

1627
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:02,920
Speaker 3: Company ay is you know budget cuts, you hear in

1628
01:22:02,920 --> 01:22:04,680
Speaker 3: the news all the time. You see what's going on

1629
01:22:04,760 --> 01:22:07,000
Speaker 3: with the talent that just recently.

1630
01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:07,320
Speaker 5: Got let go.

1631
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:13,439
Speaker 3: Everybody is. We're in influx right now in in in TV.

1632
01:22:14,280 --> 01:22:16,639
Speaker 3: There's some changes that are going on as to how

1633
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:20,680
Speaker 3: they're going to produce games. I think robotics are going

1634
01:22:20,760 --> 01:22:21,880
Speaker 3: to be more of a thing.

1635
01:22:22,240 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 5: I think.

1636
01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:28,200
Speaker 3: They're gonna share feeds a little bit more with cameras.

1637
01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:32,679
Speaker 3: So we're in that mode where a couple of years ago,

1638
01:22:32,720 --> 01:22:35,160
Speaker 3: we're in the growing mode, you know, trying to reinvent,

1639
01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:38,360
Speaker 3: trying to change telecast, make them better. And I'm not

1640
01:22:38,400 --> 01:22:41,479
Speaker 3: saying they're not trying to make them better, They're just

1641
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:46,400
Speaker 3: they're they're in that bottom line situation where these contracts

1642
01:22:46,439 --> 01:22:49,960
Speaker 3: are so astronomical get the rights to broadcast stuff. I mean,

1643
01:22:50,040 --> 01:22:52,160
Speaker 3: I have no idea how they even come to the

1644
01:22:52,200 --> 01:22:55,120
Speaker 3: price of what a Super Bowl is. And then now

1645
01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:57,920
Speaker 3: you know, we've heard mentioned that. You know, you you

1646
01:22:58,040 --> 01:23:03,240
Speaker 3: might hear that app does the Super Bowl or Amazon

1647
01:23:03,320 --> 01:23:06,040
Speaker 3: does a Super Bowl. Those are players now that we're

1648
01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:09,360
Speaker 3: hearing about that. You know, you just don't know. And

1649
01:23:09,400 --> 01:23:12,680
Speaker 3: they all produce their product differently. They all have a

1650
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:15,000
Speaker 3: way they want to they want to do things. So

1651
01:23:16,200 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 3: for the most part, you know, we're being told that

1652
01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:20,200
Speaker 3: nothing's really going to change as far as the type

1653
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:22,120
Speaker 3: of camera. You know, where the cameras are going to be.

1654
01:23:22,479 --> 01:23:25,040
Speaker 3: These cameras, the design of the cameras have really not

1655
01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 3: changed over like twenty thirty years. The lens, the camera,

1656
01:23:29,240 --> 01:23:32,320
Speaker 3: the head, the tripod, they're they're all basically the same.

1657
01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:35,559
Speaker 3: The newest stuff have been what you see you might

1658
01:23:35,600 --> 01:23:37,960
Speaker 3: see during the World Series. A little guy running around,

1659
01:23:37,960 --> 01:23:41,320
Speaker 3: he's got arm, two hands on a gimbal, he's got

1660
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:43,880
Speaker 3: a little intenna, he's got a backpack that's an RF.

1661
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:47,160
Speaker 3: For the most part, that's been really the only major

1662
01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:50,200
Speaker 3: change in You've seen it in football games in the NFL.

1663
01:23:51,120 --> 01:23:52,800
Speaker 3: Some people call it the out of focus camera.

1664
01:23:53,520 --> 01:23:53,640
Speaker 1: Uh.

1665
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:58,280
Speaker 3: People love that or hate that. I work with a

1666
01:23:58,320 --> 01:24:01,120
Speaker 3: gentleman at the braze and and he's running one of

1667
01:24:01,160 --> 01:24:04,439
Speaker 3: those and we're experimenting with that right now, and I

1668
01:24:04,439 --> 01:24:07,799
Speaker 3: think it's a good look. It's uh, it's uh definitely

1669
01:24:07,920 --> 01:24:13,080
Speaker 3: adds something to the telecast, I think, but uh yeah,

1670
01:24:13,160 --> 01:24:17,719
Speaker 3: that's uh, that's you know, we're nothing really has changed

1671
01:24:17,760 --> 01:24:20,639
Speaker 3: other than the cloud is the biggest thing. I would say,

1672
01:24:20,680 --> 01:24:24,120
Speaker 3: the cloud and what the cloud will become. What I

1673
01:24:24,160 --> 01:24:25,840
Speaker 3: would be interested in what the cloud is going to

1674
01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:26,240
Speaker 3: look like.

1675
01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:27,839
Speaker 5: In five years? Uh?

1676
01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:28,799
Speaker 1: Uh?

1677
01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:31,080
Speaker 3: Is there going to be permanent cameras put in the

1678
01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:37,120
Speaker 3: stadiums and will they be robotically operated? So I'm sixty one,

1679
01:24:37,760 --> 01:24:42,160
Speaker 3: so you're good. I'm I'm okay, I'm all right.

1680
01:24:42,320 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 1: But you're from your camera, from your point of view. Yeah,

1681
01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:49,799
Speaker 1: it's not taking that over. Yeah, somebody on the field

1682
01:24:49,840 --> 01:24:51,640
Speaker 1: trailing players.

1683
01:24:52,280 --> 01:24:57,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, like, uh, I just started. You know, when you start,

1684
01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:00,680
Speaker 3: I'm not saying I look at TikTok, but every now

1685
01:25:00,680 --> 01:25:04,920
Speaker 3: and then I literally TikTok. And you know, uh, it

1686
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:08,519
Speaker 3: seems like AI. You're starting to hear buzz about AI.

1687
01:25:08,680 --> 01:25:11,360
Speaker 3: You heard AI year ago, two years ago, but now

1688
01:25:11,560 --> 01:25:15,800
Speaker 3: you're really starting to hear about AI. I will honestly say,

1689
01:25:15,800 --> 01:25:17,920
Speaker 3: in the telling in the TV word, we're not really

1690
01:25:18,320 --> 01:25:21,320
Speaker 3: hearing that buzz. If you will, you're not. You're not

1691
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:25,320
Speaker 3: hearing people say, oh, you know AI is gonna do this.

1692
01:25:26,080 --> 01:25:29,640
Speaker 3: I I was listening to some I can't remember what

1693
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:34,679
Speaker 3: the radio was, and they were playing AI of rap

1694
01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:39,400
Speaker 3: artists that had passed away singing current songs. I was like,

1695
01:25:39,600 --> 01:25:44,040
Speaker 3: how does that work? So I wasn't aware that that

1696
01:25:44,160 --> 01:25:44,519
Speaker 3: it was.

1697
01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:45,840
Speaker 5: It was at that level.

1698
01:25:46,120 --> 01:25:51,920
Speaker 3: I'm a sort of a I still have an AOL email, so.

1699
01:25:53,439 --> 01:25:54,120
Speaker 5: I'm getting there.

1700
01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:55,720
Speaker 4: I love it.

1701
01:25:56,160 --> 01:25:58,960
Speaker 1: Did you contact Larry on his AOL email?

1702
01:25:59,200 --> 01:25:59,800
Speaker 4: Absolutely?

1703
01:26:00,520 --> 01:26:01,639
Speaker 1: As you know, you.

1704
01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:05,320
Speaker 3: Know when you have an AOL email, it then becomes

1705
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:09,040
Speaker 3: a rite of passage and you're like, like somebody says, well, like,

1706
01:26:09,439 --> 01:26:13,400
Speaker 3: I think I've missed work because my email starts out

1707
01:26:13,439 --> 01:26:16,160
Speaker 3: with the word prab and a prab is a prabula.

1708
01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:18,240
Speaker 3: It's the first job I had in TV. It's the

1709
01:26:18,280 --> 01:26:21,200
Speaker 3: little round mike you see the guys on the sideline hold,

1710
01:26:21,960 --> 01:26:25,160
Speaker 3: And that was my first job I ever did, was

1711
01:26:25,439 --> 01:26:28,040
Speaker 3: holding the sound mic on the field. And so that

1712
01:26:28,160 --> 01:26:30,040
Speaker 3: was my email. So now I've had the email for

1713
01:26:30,080 --> 01:26:31,479
Speaker 3: thirty years. I can't leave it now.

1714
01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:33,759
Speaker 1: Now it's like now it's a part of you. Yeah,

1715
01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:37,120
Speaker 1: how do they grab Speaking of audio, a guy hits

1716
01:26:37,120 --> 01:26:41,840
Speaker 1: a double reacts at second base like pound in his chest.

1717
01:26:42,520 --> 01:26:44,519
Speaker 1: You know, he's excited, and they grab the audio from that.

1718
01:26:44,680 --> 01:26:49,160
Speaker 3: What mic is that on so at at the Truest Park,

1719
01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:54,000
Speaker 3: we have two perabulas which are really round. So if

1720
01:26:54,040 --> 01:26:56,800
Speaker 3: you watch the broadcast and you see the shot of

1721
01:26:56,840 --> 01:27:00,519
Speaker 3: the batter, you can sort of make them out there

1722
01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:04,479
Speaker 3: these green boxes that are behind the catcher and it's

1723
01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:06,840
Speaker 3: a prabula and they're pointed in a in a in

1724
01:27:06,880 --> 01:27:07,439
Speaker 3: a direction.

1725
01:27:07,720 --> 01:27:11,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're sort of within the advertisement or just above direct.

1726
01:27:12,280 --> 01:27:18,639
Speaker 3: So for for I think it's Fox or maybe some broadcasts.

1727
01:27:18,640 --> 01:27:22,200
Speaker 3: So some broadcasts do have the micd bags and so

1728
01:27:22,240 --> 01:27:25,040
Speaker 3: when you hear that guy slide, it's like, oh my god,

1729
01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:27,519
Speaker 3: you can hear every rock in the ground, you know,

1730
01:27:28,120 --> 01:27:32,960
Speaker 3: and so you'll see I'll see an audio guy. Not

1731
01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:35,120
Speaker 3: to say that we don't do that on an everyday basis,

1732
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:38,360
Speaker 3: because we we don't on the everyday game, but when

1733
01:27:38,400 --> 01:27:41,120
Speaker 3: they have the bigger games, if it's Sunday Night Baseball

1734
01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:43,760
Speaker 3: or if it's a Saturday Fox, I know, Fox does

1735
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,599
Speaker 3: a lot of the micing of the bag. They they

1736
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:50,040
Speaker 3: actually own their own bag that has a cutout with

1737
01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:55,000
Speaker 3: the uh with the little micros. But these prabulas, they're

1738
01:27:55,320 --> 01:28:00,720
Speaker 3: very directionally pointed. Uh. I used to be on the

1739
01:28:00,760 --> 01:28:03,160
Speaker 3: football field pregame with the prival and I was sort

1740
01:28:03,200 --> 01:28:05,479
Speaker 3: of like pointed at people to see what they were saying,

1741
01:28:05,840 --> 01:28:09,080
Speaker 3: Like it's kind of like listen to the coach and

1742
01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:11,439
Speaker 3: I mean these things could pick up from one side

1743
01:28:11,439 --> 01:28:14,080
Speaker 3: of the football field to the other, like, uh, they

1744
01:28:14,120 --> 01:28:16,400
Speaker 3: pick up a lot. But yeah, in the in that

1745
01:28:16,840 --> 01:28:19,360
Speaker 3: it's either where the privult is picking it up and

1746
01:28:19,400 --> 01:28:23,400
Speaker 3: your audio tech is riding that replay. So they might

1747
01:28:23,479 --> 01:28:25,920
Speaker 3: let's say they go to replay and it's a tight

1748
01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:30,400
Speaker 3: shot of him sliding and they've tracked the audio guys

1749
01:28:30,439 --> 01:28:33,439
Speaker 3: tracking that, he'll ride that track. He'll just bump that

1750
01:28:33,560 --> 01:28:35,639
Speaker 3: up to maybe ten, you know, bump it up high

1751
01:28:35,760 --> 01:28:39,200
Speaker 3: so in the replay it really accentuates the.

1752
01:28:39,120 --> 01:28:39,960
Speaker 5: Sound that you're hearing.

1753
01:28:40,479 --> 01:28:40,599
Speaker 3: Uh.

1754
01:28:41,240 --> 01:28:43,320
Speaker 5: But that yeah you're hearing You're hearing a mic in

1755
01:28:43,360 --> 01:28:43,759
Speaker 5: the bag.

1756
01:28:44,080 --> 01:28:48,200
Speaker 1: Yep, that's awesome. Yeah, I like, I don't mind geeking

1757
01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:52,080
Speaker 1: out a little bit. Any any any technical questions you

1758
01:28:52,160 --> 01:28:53,599
Speaker 1: got over there, JD while.

1759
01:28:53,640 --> 01:28:54,639
Speaker 4: And we're going deep.

1760
01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:58,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted to know where that one came from.

1761
01:28:58,880 --> 01:29:01,720
Speaker 1: Mike in the bag, I.

1762
01:29:01,680 --> 01:29:05,639
Speaker 3: Gotta tell you one, you know, memories, good or bad.

1763
01:29:07,360 --> 01:29:10,800
Speaker 3: One bad memory I had was I just started with

1764
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:13,080
Speaker 3: the Braves, and I was We did a thing called

1765
01:29:13,120 --> 01:29:15,720
Speaker 3: the pop Fly Contest, and so that was sort of

1766
01:29:15,720 --> 01:29:20,080
Speaker 3: the entertainment at the beginning of the game. And so

1767
01:29:20,120 --> 01:29:22,160
Speaker 3: they shot a ball up in the air, and the

1768
01:29:22,200 --> 01:29:25,920
Speaker 3: host would have a contestant that would be out in

1769
01:29:25,920 --> 01:29:29,120
Speaker 3: the outfield and he's all right, I've got Steve here

1770
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:31,400
Speaker 3: from Duluth. Steve, you catch all three of these balls,

1771
01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:34,960
Speaker 3: you're gonna win this fabulous T shirt. And so I

1772
01:29:35,040 --> 01:29:36,880
Speaker 3: was out there, you know, shooting, the two of them

1773
01:29:36,920 --> 01:29:39,639
Speaker 3: talking and then all of a sudden, all right, Steve,

1774
01:29:40,080 --> 01:29:43,680
Speaker 3: let's see you do it. And then Mark Owens was

1775
01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:46,160
Speaker 3: the host. He'd walk away and then I'd get away,

1776
01:29:46,200 --> 01:29:49,679
Speaker 3: and then they'd shoot these three balls. So he'd catch

1777
01:29:49,760 --> 01:29:51,400
Speaker 3: the first one, I'd sort of run toward him and

1778
01:29:51,680 --> 01:29:53,200
Speaker 3: get a shot of him catching it, and then I'd

1779
01:29:53,240 --> 01:29:56,160
Speaker 3: walk run away from him, then run back when he

1780
01:29:56,200 --> 01:29:58,639
Speaker 3: got the second one, and then the third one. Whether

1781
01:29:58,680 --> 01:30:01,000
Speaker 3: he got it or not, we'd come back together. Mark,

1782
01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:03,760
Speaker 3: in an interviewed, oh, Steve, you almost had that third one,

1783
01:30:03,800 --> 01:30:06,360
Speaker 3: but it just was a little too high. And so

1784
01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:09,519
Speaker 3: on this particular day, the guy was running away from me,

1785
01:30:09,560 --> 01:30:11,559
Speaker 3: and I was running toward him so I'd be ready,

1786
01:30:11,880 --> 01:30:13,799
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, I guess he realized

1787
01:30:13,800 --> 01:30:16,400
Speaker 3: hed run too far. He turned and ran back toward me,

1788
01:30:16,840 --> 01:30:18,880
Speaker 3: and I didn't catch that that he was running back

1789
01:30:18,920 --> 01:30:21,400
Speaker 3: toward me, and by the time I caught it, I

1790
01:30:21,560 --> 01:30:24,000
Speaker 3: ran into him and the ball fell on the ground

1791
01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:28,960
Speaker 3: and I got booed by about thirty thousand people. And

1792
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:37,400
Speaker 3: that was when I got this from Matt. So that

1793
01:30:37,600 --> 01:30:40,600
Speaker 3: was a bad moment. Did the guy get a T

1794
01:30:40,720 --> 01:30:46,400
Speaker 3: shirt shirt? I think he got a T shirt on

1795
01:30:46,439 --> 01:30:52,080
Speaker 3: that day stick And then one other this was at

1796
01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:58,040
Speaker 3: a Hawks game and I'm ran a commercial and the

1797
01:30:58,120 --> 01:31:01,960
Speaker 3: director is saying, let's come back with n you get

1798
01:31:02,040 --> 01:31:05,759
Speaker 3: that opportunity with a wireless camera to talk to fans

1799
01:31:05,760 --> 01:31:07,720
Speaker 3: and say, hey, I'd like for you to do this.

1800
01:31:08,080 --> 01:31:10,080
Speaker 3: We're gonna come back from a commercial.

1801
01:31:10,080 --> 01:31:11,160
Speaker 5: How about doing some cheering?

1802
01:31:11,720 --> 01:31:15,519
Speaker 3: So I had nothing and he's like, you ready, nine

1803
01:31:15,560 --> 01:31:18,559
Speaker 3: down there? You got somebody. And there was a girl

1804
01:31:18,600 --> 01:31:21,920
Speaker 3: that was in this really skimpy outfit at a Hawks

1805
01:31:21,920 --> 01:31:24,479
Speaker 3: game and they hand out candy and chocolate to.

1806
01:31:24,560 --> 01:31:26,760
Speaker 5: All the the uh people.

1807
01:31:27,080 --> 01:31:29,800
Speaker 3: Front row and so I'm shooting this and I didn't

1808
01:31:29,800 --> 01:31:32,000
Speaker 3: realize this happened at the time. So they go three

1809
01:31:32,120 --> 01:31:34,880
Speaker 3: two one, take nine, and I'm just framed this girl

1810
01:31:34,960 --> 01:31:36,880
Speaker 3: up and she's handing candy out and she's going down

1811
01:31:36,880 --> 01:31:39,360
Speaker 3: the line. Well, unbeknownst to me, I didn't see it.

1812
01:31:39,439 --> 01:31:42,320
Speaker 3: Everybody started laughing about it after they got the shot.

1813
01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:45,519
Speaker 3: Al Horford's little brother, that's the Al Horford.

1814
01:31:45,560 --> 01:31:47,120
Speaker 5: That's the Al Horford what I was.

1815
01:31:47,320 --> 01:31:48,479
Speaker 1: Just thinking about.

1816
01:31:48,680 --> 01:31:52,640
Speaker 3: And so he checking her out and he this is

1817
01:31:52,760 --> 01:31:56,880
Speaker 3: like his great awareness of this and this is, you know,

1818
01:31:56,960 --> 01:32:00,160
Speaker 3: this girl with this little outfit on, and he's like

1819
01:32:00,320 --> 01:32:04,080
Speaker 3: whoa and he turns his head and then they get

1820
01:32:04,120 --> 01:32:05,519
Speaker 3: off the shot and I didn't even see.

1821
01:32:05,360 --> 01:32:05,840
Speaker 5: Him do it.

1822
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:08,320
Speaker 3: And then some he says, hey, man, that thing's got

1823
01:32:08,360 --> 01:32:10,000
Speaker 3: like a million hits already.

1824
01:32:10,120 --> 01:32:11,320
Speaker 5: It's like an hour later.

1825
01:32:11,920 --> 01:32:14,720
Speaker 3: So I think the next that night or the next night,

1826
01:32:14,760 --> 01:32:17,240
Speaker 3: it was on Jimmy Kimmel's show and they showed it.

1827
01:32:17,280 --> 01:32:21,040
Speaker 3: But uh so the next game, Al Horford's mom comes

1828
01:32:21,120 --> 01:32:24,519
Speaker 3: up to me and she's like, you know good, you

1829
01:32:24,640 --> 01:32:28,080
Speaker 3: know good. I said, I'm sorry, I just was.

1830
01:32:28,320 --> 01:32:30,479
Speaker 5: And then she laughed about we've since laughed about it.

1831
01:32:30,400 --> 01:32:34,719
Speaker 3: Since then, So that was incredible, pretty cool moment.

1832
01:32:35,400 --> 01:32:39,479
Speaker 1: I had no idea that is a yeah.

1833
01:32:40,200 --> 01:32:42,360
Speaker 3: Got any videos that went viral and I have to

1834
01:32:42,400 --> 01:32:45,920
Speaker 3: throw that in. I was like, they're thinking great sports

1835
01:32:45,960 --> 01:32:50,320
Speaker 3: shots and Al's little brother checking out, the checking around.

1836
01:32:50,680 --> 01:32:52,160
Speaker 4: It's only human only.

1837
01:32:52,240 --> 01:32:56,160
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, Well, yeah, let's let's briefly just wrap up

1838
01:32:56,160 --> 01:33:00,640
Speaker 1: here with the Braves team better obviously kick ass and

1839
01:33:01,320 --> 01:33:03,400
Speaker 1: are in line to kick ass for a long time

1840
01:33:03,439 --> 01:33:06,439
Speaker 1: here with the way they've structured their team. How was

1841
01:33:06,479 --> 01:33:10,720
Speaker 1: it just being around that clubhouse, that group of guys.

1842
01:33:11,520 --> 01:33:16,439
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's been it's been a joy to see.

1843
01:33:16,760 --> 01:33:20,680
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say Ozzy and Akuna or the Architects,

1844
01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:25,760
Speaker 3: but the whole relationship those two guys have and started,

1845
01:33:26,360 --> 01:33:31,320
Speaker 3: uh sort of have manifested its way where you know,

1846
01:33:31,439 --> 01:33:35,320
Speaker 3: Austin Riley and Matt Olsen are the little they sit together.

1847
01:33:35,439 --> 01:33:37,679
Speaker 3: If you watch the game, they always sit together after

1848
01:33:37,720 --> 01:33:40,000
Speaker 3: they both hit home runs and then they sit next

1849
01:33:40,000 --> 01:33:44,400
Speaker 3: to each other and they like myself, they're great looking,

1850
01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:51,200
Speaker 3: and they're they're just everybody is jelling right now and

1851
01:33:51,280 --> 01:33:55,479
Speaker 3: like the team one through nine is like there's no weakness,

1852
01:33:55,560 --> 01:33:59,080
Speaker 3: right now it's like you you almost you pray that

1853
01:33:59,160 --> 01:34:02,200
Speaker 3: this doesn't change. But I don't think I've ever felt

1854
01:34:02,200 --> 01:34:05,920
Speaker 3: this good about a baseball team in a lot of years.

1855
01:34:05,920 --> 01:34:07,720
Speaker 3: And I know the d H had something to do

1856
01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:10,280
Speaker 3: with that as far as you know one through nine.

1857
01:34:10,840 --> 01:34:15,200
Speaker 3: But right now, everybody is Uh. Azuna was in the

1858
01:34:15,280 --> 01:34:17,600
Speaker 3: dugout the other day and he walked by me and

1859
01:34:17,640 --> 01:34:19,599
Speaker 3: I slapped him on the back and I was like, uh,

1860
01:34:20,360 --> 01:34:23,880
Speaker 3: you're you're red hot, and he goes, yes, it's about time.

1861
01:34:24,479 --> 01:34:26,920
Speaker 3: And he you know, he was that guy. You knew

1862
01:34:26,960 --> 01:34:30,479
Speaker 3: he was great. Uh, he just needed to find his swing.

1863
01:34:31,080 --> 01:34:36,439
Speaker 3: And uh, I'm excited about the rest of the season. Uh,

1864
01:34:36,720 --> 01:34:39,280
Speaker 3: it's it's just a joy to be down there. There's

1865
01:34:39,400 --> 01:34:43,360
Speaker 3: these guys are not They're not tight. They're not They're

1866
01:34:43,360 --> 01:34:45,640
Speaker 3: never they're never tight. They're always cutting up. There's so

1867
01:34:45,720 --> 01:34:48,879
Speaker 3: much chemistry throughout the team, whether it's with Ron Washington

1868
01:34:49,439 --> 01:34:52,280
Speaker 3: working with the players, pregame doing his warm up bit.

1869
01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:56,679
Speaker 3: Uh snit is just that is that is that no

1870
01:34:56,680 --> 01:35:02,000
Speaker 3: nonsense coach. There's no drama about him. Everybody, all the

1871
01:35:02,040 --> 01:35:05,760
Speaker 3: players know he is all about business. He's about the

1872
01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:12,760
Speaker 3: bottom line, and so I you know, I'm not fearful

1873
01:35:12,840 --> 01:35:15,880
Speaker 3: of other teams. You know, I'm not fearing the Dodgers

1874
01:35:15,960 --> 01:35:20,280
Speaker 3: and don't really fear the Yankees. The Braves will will

1875
01:35:20,320 --> 01:35:24,080
Speaker 3: be playing the Yankees here in Atlanta, which will be exciting.

1876
01:35:25,040 --> 01:35:28,799
Speaker 3: And I think California is playing here the Angels.

1877
01:35:28,960 --> 01:35:31,479
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we're in the midst of it right now.

1878
01:35:33,360 --> 01:35:33,559
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1879
01:35:33,640 --> 01:35:36,880
Speaker 1: I regret as well if we didn't talk briefly about

1880
01:35:36,880 --> 01:35:40,320
Speaker 1: the Hazels and Wendy's story that you think I will

1881
01:35:40,360 --> 01:35:42,760
Speaker 1: wrap up with that with a sad one. Unfortunately, after

1882
01:35:42,840 --> 01:35:44,479
Speaker 1: all these incredible stories.

1883
01:35:44,680 --> 01:35:47,160
Speaker 3: So when I worked at Wendy's, there was this girl

1884
01:35:47,200 --> 01:35:49,000
Speaker 3: that worked at Wendy's. Her name was Hazel. She was

1885
01:35:49,040 --> 01:35:51,080
Speaker 3: the kesher in the front and I really liked her.

1886
01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:53,960
Speaker 3: And so I was playing baseball in high school for

1887
01:35:54,040 --> 01:35:57,360
Speaker 3: a team in Columbus, and we had their baseball banquet,

1888
01:35:57,439 --> 01:35:59,080
Speaker 3: and at the banquet, you know, you have all the

1889
01:35:59,120 --> 01:36:02,760
Speaker 3: teams that are football, wrestling, baseball. So I invited her.

1890
01:36:02,840 --> 01:36:04,800
Speaker 3: She said, sure, I'll go. So I pick her up.

1891
01:36:04,880 --> 01:36:07,320
Speaker 3: We go to the school that's where the banquet is

1892
01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:10,080
Speaker 3: and then so you got to wait for your segment

1893
01:36:10,160 --> 01:36:15,120
Speaker 3: of the h ceremony to happen and so boom baseball happens.

1894
01:36:15,520 --> 01:36:19,639
Speaker 3: Coach Maddox is our coach, and so no relation Greg,

1895
01:36:19,920 --> 01:36:24,519
Speaker 3: no relationship to Greg. So he's like, uh, you know,

1896
01:36:24,600 --> 01:36:26,920
Speaker 3: going through the rundown. Well, I wasn't a really good player.

1897
01:36:26,920 --> 01:36:30,200
Speaker 3: I was a backup catcher. The starting catcher was John

1898
01:36:30,680 --> 01:36:33,519
Speaker 3: White and he was recruited by he was drafted by

1899
01:36:33,520 --> 01:36:35,760
Speaker 3: the Pirates, and I was I was behind him, and

1900
01:36:35,800 --> 01:36:38,800
Speaker 3: I was not I was not good, but I had

1901
01:36:38,800 --> 01:36:41,120
Speaker 3: a really good senior year and I was thinking, maybe

1902
01:36:41,240 --> 01:36:44,679
Speaker 3: I'll get that most Improved you know, that little award

1903
01:36:45,040 --> 01:36:49,960
Speaker 3: or mentioned. So coach Maddox has everybody up and he goes,

1904
01:36:50,000 --> 01:36:52,280
Speaker 3: all right, here's our senior players, and he brings up

1905
01:36:52,520 --> 01:36:55,360
Speaker 3: on stage and then and our most improved player. I

1906
01:36:55,400 --> 01:36:58,120
Speaker 3: didn't get it, and so he introduces him, and then

1907
01:36:58,160 --> 01:37:00,439
Speaker 3: he goes, let's give a big round of a applause

1908
01:37:00,520 --> 01:37:04,720
Speaker 3: for your nineteen eighty Carver Tigers. And then everybody's like,

1909
01:37:05,080 --> 01:37:08,559
Speaker 3: I'm sitting here next to Hazel. I'm like, I must

1910
01:37:08,560 --> 01:37:11,400
Speaker 3: be getting some really cool award, like they're about to

1911
01:37:11,439 --> 01:37:14,360
Speaker 3: call it. And then the host goes, all right, we'll

1912
01:37:14,400 --> 01:37:19,320
Speaker 3: now go to the wrestling team. The coach forgot to

1913
01:37:19,680 --> 01:37:21,680
Speaker 3: bring me up on the stage. He didn't have me

1914
01:37:21,760 --> 01:37:25,439
Speaker 3: on the sheet of paper. And I'm like, I'm like,

1915
01:37:25,640 --> 01:37:28,040
Speaker 3: I look at Hazel. I'm like, I swear to God,

1916
01:37:28,080 --> 01:37:31,519
Speaker 3: I'm on the baseball team. And so she's like, oh,

1917
01:37:31,560 --> 01:37:33,960
Speaker 3: that's okay, and so I like bring.

1918
01:37:33,800 --> 01:37:34,840
Speaker 5: Her over to coach Maddox.

1919
01:37:34,920 --> 01:37:38,439
Speaker 3: I'm Manick, you forgot me on the Oh my god, Larry,

1920
01:37:38,439 --> 01:37:39,320
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry.

1921
01:37:39,840 --> 01:37:41,080
Speaker 5: I was like, no problem.

1922
01:37:41,360 --> 01:37:43,320
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, I had the date here and

1923
01:37:43,600 --> 01:37:46,000
Speaker 3: I just want to make sure, you know, everybody's cool.

1924
01:37:46,479 --> 01:37:50,280
Speaker 3: So so we go home. I dropped Hazel off, and

1925
01:37:50,320 --> 01:37:54,400
Speaker 3: you know, you know, I find another job and we separate.

1926
01:37:54,439 --> 01:37:58,000
Speaker 3: We go our different ways. Fast forward to about fifteen

1927
01:37:58,080 --> 01:38:02,479
Speaker 3: years later. I'm working camera the Brave Stadium and uh,

1928
01:38:02,600 --> 01:38:05,400
Speaker 3: I'm walking by and all of a sudden, Hazel's right

1929
01:38:05,439 --> 01:38:09,080
Speaker 3: there in the stadium. It's Hazel, and I'm like, Hazel,

1930
01:38:09,680 --> 01:38:12,559
Speaker 3: she's like Larry. And then I look and then next

1931
01:38:12,600 --> 01:38:16,040
Speaker 3: to her looks like looks like some kids, and she's

1932
01:38:16,120 --> 01:38:20,240
Speaker 3: like these my two sons. I'm like, what, that's awesome

1933
01:38:20,280 --> 01:38:22,960
Speaker 3: and fist bump them. I got the camera and then

1934
01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:27,439
Speaker 3: she goes and you know, Robert. She's married to Robert

1935
01:38:27,479 --> 01:38:34,400
Speaker 3: he played on the baseball team. I don't know. I

1936
01:38:34,400 --> 01:38:36,639
Speaker 3: don't know how that happened. I don't know when they

1937
01:38:36,800 --> 01:38:37,639
Speaker 3: started talking.

1938
01:38:37,800 --> 01:38:39,240
Speaker 5: I don't know if it was when I.

1939
01:38:39,280 --> 01:38:45,160
Speaker 3: Was in Coach Maddox. So anyways, there, you know, everything's good.

1940
01:38:45,200 --> 01:38:48,720
Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm she works at a bank that I

1941
01:38:49,000 --> 01:38:52,519
Speaker 3: frequent and uh and so i've we've laughed about it

1942
01:38:52,920 --> 01:38:56,080
Speaker 3: many times, and so I'm I'm good. Everything, Uh, everything

1943
01:38:56,080 --> 01:38:56,799
Speaker 3: worked out.

1944
01:38:57,120 --> 01:38:59,080
Speaker 1: Does she wear a uniform with white pants and a

1945
01:38:59,080 --> 01:39:02,360
Speaker 1: little derby.

1946
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:04,599
Speaker 3: She did wear one day for a promotion, the little

1947
01:39:04,600 --> 01:39:07,240
Speaker 3: Windy's wig with the little the little.

1948
01:39:06,960 --> 01:39:08,760
Speaker 1: Red wigad thing.

1949
01:39:08,880 --> 01:39:09,200
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1950
01:39:09,280 --> 01:39:13,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, Wow, what a memory, What great, great time. Glad.

1951
01:39:13,320 --> 01:39:16,400
Speaker 1: We ended with that, Joel, I have ignored you like

1952
01:39:16,680 --> 01:39:18,760
Speaker 1: Coach Maddix ignored Larry way back.

1953
01:39:19,160 --> 01:39:21,800
Speaker 3: And I know I was long winded today.

1954
01:39:21,439 --> 01:39:24,280
Speaker 1: Taking it on that great stuff, great stuff. Any any

1955
01:39:24,360 --> 01:39:27,439
Speaker 1: last words, Joel before I wrap up. We that was awesome.

1956
01:39:27,560 --> 01:39:28,960
Speaker 1: That was a lot, well, Larry.

1957
01:39:29,160 --> 01:39:31,639
Speaker 2: Larry said that he doesn't like movies. I'm gonna I'm

1958
01:39:31,640 --> 01:39:35,360
Speaker 2: gonna suggest you go see Oppenheimer this afternoon. It's it's

1959
01:39:35,400 --> 01:39:36,640
Speaker 2: a cinematic masterpiece.

1960
01:39:36,680 --> 01:39:37,000
Speaker 1: Larry.

1961
01:39:37,120 --> 01:39:40,599
Speaker 3: Okay, So I took my wife to a movie last week,

1962
01:39:40,880 --> 01:39:42,960
Speaker 3: and I was like, these are your choices, the one

1963
01:39:43,040 --> 01:39:45,400
Speaker 3: you just mentioned, or we can go see Mission Impossible.

1964
01:39:45,800 --> 01:39:47,599
Speaker 3: And I don't think she had an opinion about either.

1965
01:39:48,040 --> 01:39:50,160
Speaker 3: And we ended up going to Mission Impossible, and I said,

1966
01:39:50,200 --> 01:39:52,920
Speaker 3: you know, we really need to see part one, part two, whatever,

1967
01:39:53,240 --> 01:39:56,759
Speaker 3: so we went. I can't tell you how I'm upset

1968
01:39:56,760 --> 01:39:59,120
Speaker 3: at the movie. So the last two movies I saw

1969
01:39:59,240 --> 01:40:01,920
Speaker 3: was Top Gun with Him with Tom Cruise and the

1970
01:40:02,000 --> 01:40:05,120
Speaker 3: Mission Impossible. There's not a bullet that will hit him.

1971
01:40:05,160 --> 01:40:08,040
Speaker 3: He can't die, he can't fall off a train. There's

1972
01:40:08,160 --> 01:40:13,360
Speaker 3: nothing that will kill this guy. And it's unbelievable. So

1973
01:40:13,520 --> 01:40:15,679
Speaker 3: the movie you mentioned, I think that's where I'm going

1974
01:40:16,000 --> 01:40:16,639
Speaker 3: next weekend.

1975
01:40:17,600 --> 01:40:19,800
Speaker 4: All right, He's still see movies. You'll still see a movie.

1976
01:40:19,800 --> 01:40:21,679
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, you just hate them.

1977
01:40:22,040 --> 01:40:23,599
Speaker 5: I just yeah, I hate them.

1978
01:40:23,880 --> 01:40:25,960
Speaker 1: Well, we'll get you back in for a film session

1979
01:40:25,960 --> 01:40:29,599
Speaker 1: because sometimes we review some films. JD is the number

1980
01:40:29,600 --> 01:40:30,880
Speaker 1: one film critic in here.

1981
01:40:32,120 --> 01:40:36,960
Speaker 4: Yeah that's true, I guess, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I

1982
01:40:37,040 --> 01:40:39,280
Speaker 4: like Mission Impossible, but I'm a sucker.

1983
01:40:40,560 --> 01:40:46,400
Speaker 1: I like Maverick, but I'm a sucker. All right, Larry,

1984
01:40:47,120 --> 01:40:48,519
Speaker 1: got it. I can't thank you enough.

1985
01:40:50,720 --> 01:40:51,960
Speaker 5: I have a special announcement.

1986
01:40:52,720 --> 01:40:57,160
Speaker 1: What do you got for us, Larry? What's in this bag?

1987
01:40:57,200 --> 01:40:58,160
Speaker 1: What you've got in that bag?

1988
01:40:58,439 --> 01:40:59,639
Speaker 3: I have something for you?

1989
01:41:03,160 --> 01:41:07,200
Speaker 1: Here we go. Oh wow, this is an Atlanta Braves

1990
01:41:07,240 --> 01:41:11,760
Speaker 1: World Championship, World Championship replic the ring minute I got open,

1991
01:41:12,200 --> 01:41:14,120
Speaker 1: I want to open. What did you call it a ring?

1992
01:41:14,720 --> 01:41:14,920
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1993
01:41:14,920 --> 01:41:17,440
Speaker 1: But you said I said the word replication.

1994
01:41:17,720 --> 01:41:21,800
Speaker 5: Said that I thought this was the ring company replica.

1995
01:41:27,560 --> 01:41:33,280
Speaker 1: Well accept it. Your autograph that you got that was

1996
01:41:33,320 --> 01:41:36,920
Speaker 1: a replica. That wasn't a real one. Who gave you

1997
01:41:36,920 --> 01:41:41,679
Speaker 1: that replica autograph? I already forget this was a replica. Listen, Wow,

1998
01:41:41,840 --> 01:41:43,320
Speaker 1: look at this looks real to me.

1999
01:41:44,360 --> 01:41:46,120
Speaker 3: I had that size. See if that fits you?

2000
01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:49,000
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? You had this size?

2001
01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:52,479
Speaker 3: Look at that.

2002
01:41:52,720 --> 01:41:54,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can focus here in the studio.

2003
01:41:55,479 --> 01:41:56,240
Speaker 3: You got to put that on.

2004
01:41:56,360 --> 01:41:58,479
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm going to put it on. You're the man, Larry.

2005
01:41:58,479 --> 01:41:59,120
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

2006
01:41:59,800 --> 01:42:01,559
Speaker 5: I told him size seven.

2007
01:42:02,200 --> 01:42:05,280
Speaker 3: Yes, Oh wow, yes, this is great.

2008
01:42:05,400 --> 01:42:09,760
Speaker 1: Wow, this is awesome. One more, one more shot, one

2009
01:42:09,760 --> 01:42:11,960
Speaker 1: more shot before we go. Let's get this right. This

2010
01:42:12,160 --> 01:42:14,680
Speaker 1: This ain't no Magdalen.

2011
01:42:15,160 --> 01:42:17,000
Speaker 3: Slowly focusing in for effect.

2012
01:42:17,200 --> 01:42:21,599
Speaker 1: This is great. Wow, you close the show. Larry right

2013
01:42:21,640 --> 01:42:26,320
Speaker 1: there to produced this thing. Awesome. Thank you so much man, awesome.

2014
01:42:26,360 --> 01:42:27,639
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you guys.

2015
01:42:27,640 --> 01:42:29,480
Speaker 5: This was fun. I appreciate it.

2016
01:42:29,720 --> 01:42:35,599
Speaker 1: The replica replica so good. Yeah. Shout out to Justin's

2017
01:42:35,960 --> 01:42:40,200
Speaker 1: this is this is no Did you did you ask

2018
01:42:40,240 --> 01:42:46,880
Speaker 1: for a size NOA because it fits so well? Yes?

2019
01:42:47,000 --> 01:42:50,639
Speaker 1: I did. That's why you've been married this long. Larry?

2020
01:42:52,200 --> 01:42:54,120
Speaker 1: All right, that does it for nobots this week. We

2021
01:42:54,160 --> 01:42:56,320
Speaker 1: will see you next Wednesday. Subscribe where we get your

2022
01:42:56,320 --> 01:43:00,479
Speaker 1: positive The Athletic Baseball Show watch live every Wednesday. Check

2023
01:43:00,479 --> 01:43:02,800
Speaker 1: out some of our shorter videos Joel doing his magic

2024
01:43:02,840 --> 01:43:06,439
Speaker 1: on Instagram or on our YouTube channel for Joel, for JD,

2025
01:43:06,600 --> 01:43:09,559
Speaker 1: for Larry French. Incredible stuff. Larry, thanks for coming in.

2026
01:43:09,520 --> 01:43:10,920
Speaker 3: With appreciate it.

2027
01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:15,240
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you a little long winded, perfect winded