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Speaker 2: so much for joining us.

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Speaker 3: I am thrilled to be here. Don't tell Ian Eagles.

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Speaker 3: This is one of my greatest in my career, chance to.

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Speaker 2: Definitely want to take a picture of that shirt. It's

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Speaker 2: a game day today, so thanks so much for taking

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Speaker 2: some time. We're about seven hours before the game. I've

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Speaker 2: read that you're an over preparer for games. You like

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Speaker 2: to prepare for games. I'm sure you've already done that

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Speaker 2: for today. Would you consider yourself somebody who gets very

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Speaker 3: I just I feel like it makes me more comfortable

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Speaker 3: having as much information as possible. As I mentioned, I

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Speaker 2: What are we taking you away from today here? What

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Speaker 3: If I'm being honest, so well, I'm a little you

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Speaker 3: the weather. So this is actually a perfect thing. Normally

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Speaker 1: the film. Yeah that's a good idea.

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Speaker 3: But you guys, you guys are you guys are are

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Speaker 1: We can do a bar three class, go to work,

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Speaker 3: I think there's been a lot of differences here to year.

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Speaker 2: In esthetically speaking, because you're a former player yourself, is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they believe they're better than a five hundred ball

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Speaker 1: with that. What's kind of irving, Like, I mean, look,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what's he like like that's I'm so curious of

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Speaker 3: all these outside opinions that that aren't around that don't

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Speaker 2: Well, you're wearing a hat right now. You're not going

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Speaker 3: think Spencer's emergence changes what they think of Kyrie Irving.

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Speaker 4: So that's one of these strengths, isn't it that Kenny

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Speaker 3: I don't think Kenny could change. And I say this

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Speaker 6: Like with what he sees Kyrine meaning and how he

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Speaker 3: The team beat his best. I don't think Kenny overthinks

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Speaker 3: When this is I think you should challenge the coach's challenge,

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Speaker 3: you know, small things. I think that's always a work

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Speaker 1: Back too, didn't I saw a clip Spencer Dinwide says

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Speaker 1: So you should be on the nets, you should be

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Speaker 3: I gotten not really, but I don't know if Spencer

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Speaker 3: I I adore Spencer. He is one of my absolute favorites.

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Speaker 3: And so someone had sent us from the Brooklyn nets

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Speaker 3: I am not a funny person. I say this all

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, so I thought that was funny. And

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Speaker 3: then people thought, which maybe you did that, you actually say, yeah, Spencer,

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Speaker 3: I do think I am. This contest will happen.

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Speaker 2: Well from three point Land in your four years to Paul,

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Speaker 1: For sure you're gonna have.

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Speaker 3: But Spencer doesn't give compliments out like I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: Well, most NBA guys are wired that way too.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I mean there's the reason why they're there. So yes,

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Speaker 3: Clear it all up. He'll be glad to know.

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Speaker 1: I'll ask for Lee as well, because I know he's

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Speaker 1: Did Lee's gonna want in too?

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Speaker 3: You're totally in?

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Speaker 3: Is it all in? Who did this stuff? Curtent?

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Speaker 3: What's the uniform? Yeah, taken Brooklyn, that's Jersey uniform.

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Speaker 4: I love the way up Lee is always for what

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Speaker 4: how many All Star weekends have you tried to hit twenty?

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Speaker 1: We do the three point contest, so he's done it

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Speaker 1: We do the racks and everything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a shooter.

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Speaker 3: Start shooter.

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Speaker 1: You can't get a layup to save his life.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you can't mislaps if you don't take him anymore.

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Speaker 3: No one cares about layups exactly.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm glad we did clarify that Spencer, did we

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Speaker 1: because I I saw that tweet? I was like, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: video game court. Like it doesn't just because it's black

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00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,199
Speaker 2: and white like shades of gray. It doesn't look like

437
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,080
Speaker 2: a basketball game. It doesn't look like it's yeah, a

438
00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:58,159
Speaker 2: modern day NBA game. I like it. I actually like

439
00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,440
Speaker 2: it a lot. I think it looks really really cool

440
00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:01,600
Speaker 2: because it's different.

441
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 1: It's very unique. The colors popped jerseys pop on it.

442
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:06,720
Speaker 1: They were wearing the nets.

443
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,040
Speaker 5: We're wearing gray at home, and I think it was there.

444
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:10,920
Speaker 3: The was it the green?

445
00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:12,520
Speaker 5: It must have been it must have it must have

446
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,560
Speaker 5: been the BK at a y n Ones, but they

447
00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:16,639
Speaker 5: were playing the rockets, and the rockets were wearing white

448
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,280
Speaker 5: with just like a little tiny bit of red, So

449
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,120
Speaker 5: it was basically a black and white game with these

450
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:20,800
Speaker 5: pops of red.

451
00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,800
Speaker 1: It looked incredible. It's a it's a different look.

452
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:23,480
Speaker 5: But I'm in on it.

453
00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,919
Speaker 1: But you're right, people seem torn about it, like this

454
00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 1: is amazing, this is so unique, and other people like,

455
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:28,520
Speaker 1: get rid of it.

456
00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,080
Speaker 3: I love I love it, I love it. I'm into it.

457
00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 3: I also in person, I'm not quite sure it's as

458
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,679
Speaker 3: as unique or to it's unique, but it doesn't feel

459
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 3: quite as poppy.

460
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's very different. On television,

461
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,320
Speaker 2: it looks a lot different. Yeah, it looks it's I

462
00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:46,639
Speaker 2: don't know who came up with it. I don't know

463
00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,400
Speaker 2: if jay Z is still doing stuff, but the game

464
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:54,760
Speaker 2: is probably I think, yeah, but he's Since we were

465
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 2: just talking about shooting challenges, et cetera. Stephan Bondi of

466
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Speaker 2: the New York Alien News.

467
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 3: Oh, I'll let I'll get on this one.

468
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,919
Speaker 2: You dusted him, You dusted him? Did he challenge you

469
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:09,160
Speaker 2: to a one on one competition?

470
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what happened because this this this recurs

471
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,440
Speaker 3: on Twitter quite a bit. That was when Kevin Garnett

472
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,440
Speaker 3: was on the team, and so KG you know, likes

473
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:27,879
Speaker 3: to rile things up, so anyway he would we would

474
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 3: sometimes shoot around before after shoot arounds, some of the

475
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,360
Speaker 3: members of the media or whomever, before the players got

476
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 3: in there, and he had heard about that, and so

477
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 3: they weren't in there. We were not shooting yet, but

478
00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,280
Speaker 3: we were waiting. We did our question the normal media

479
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,920
Speaker 3: availability getting players, and so Kevin was the one who

480
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 3: started saying that he wanted to see us play one another,

481
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,200
Speaker 3: and I I said no, I said no, no, no, no,

482
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 3: we don't need to do this. And then I think

483
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Speaker 3: bond and seventh Bondy is a dear friend of mine

484
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 3: and he also likes the stir things up. So then

485
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 3: I think he started yapping a little bit. And then

486
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,399
Speaker 3: long story short, the team had waited and watched this,

487
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 3: and so we that was it. What was on video

488
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 3: was just we had like the winner takes all.

489
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 2: Of you ever made the first you shut him down defensively,

490
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:22,160
Speaker 2: he had to settle for an outside jumper clank and

491
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 2: then like your description, and I liked this better I

492
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 2: like that we don't have video and then you size

493
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,120
Speaker 2: them up and just blue biom, he looked like he.

494
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:36,640
Speaker 3: Was You said, Blue bo, I feel like my quickness

495
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,160
Speaker 3: is no longer existence.

496
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 2: And the Nets players were there and they loved it,

497
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,560
Speaker 2: and they ran to the tunnel like they do and something.

498
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,120
Speaker 3: It was maybe my greatest moment.

499
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Speaker 7: With That's actually a great because we showed it on

500
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 7: a broadcast later and Iron was talking through but I

501
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Speaker 7: don't know.

502
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 3: If he actually made that. That's the next step. I

503
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:02,880
Speaker 3: like it. I like where your head is that, like.

504
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: You're doing the yoga. We talked about. Do you still

505
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: play ball?

506
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 2: Like?

507
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: Do you as much?

508
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 3: So? I used to play. So a ton of the

509
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 3: Brooklyn Nets staff will play later after practices or in

510
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 3: the summertime. And I've started to realize as I get

511
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 3: older and they hire younger player of the strength and

512
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 3: conditioning team, so many these guys are legit and they're

513
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,679
Speaker 3: fresh out of college. And I used to be like, oh,

514
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 3: I'm just going to get a good run in, you know,

515
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:38,400
Speaker 3: outside shot. But whatever. Yeah, So I play sparingly now

516
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 3: I still try. I'll still shoot, I'll still shoot. I Also,

517
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,120
Speaker 3: I'm in that phase of I never ever thought about

518
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,120
Speaker 3: getting injured before. You just go and you play. And

519
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 3: now it's I'm like, what's happens when I kill it?

520
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: You're traveling around?

521
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 3: How does this balance? So? I still I play a

522
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 3: decent amount, but not I used to for a while

523
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,479
Speaker 3: play about once or twice a week, and now it's

524
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 3: it's not quite that often.

525
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this just because you're here, because I've

526
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 1: tweeted it out before, we've talked about it before. I

527
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 1: believe on the podcast even I think you Eagle and

528
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 1: Richard Jefferson, when you've got the three of you, he.

529
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 3: Just drags us out. Well, I'm glad to say.

530
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: The best I think you know booth going in the NBA?

531
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 1: Do you have I was gonna say, do you have

532
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: any funny Richard Jefferson stories that you could share on

533
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 1: the air, And then the other and then the other

534
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 1: part is why don't you think we have more three man,

535
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: three women booths in the in the NBA? There's not.

536
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 1: There's only a handful. I know the Mavericks obviously, which

537
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 1: can wait in the mix. The Rockets sometimes do it.

538
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 1: They have three on the call. But and then you guys,

539
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,120
Speaker 1: and that's a great.

540
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 3: Question, because we really only do about ten those games. Yeah,

541
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 3: I don't know, if it's to make it more special. Also,

542
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 3: sometimes from our perspective, some of it's scheduling or just

543
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 3: having availability when you're play by play guys are so

544
00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 3: tremendous of which we have with high n Eagel and

545
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 3: Ryan rue Go, sometimes it takes away from from some

546
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,879
Speaker 3: of their time. Yeah, I know, that's a great question.

547
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 3: That's a great question. He is such a treasure. He's

548
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 3: such a treasure. He just is. And for as much

549
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,400
Speaker 3: as he I always say he's loose lipped and he'll

550
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 3: say crazy things and we create every time we're doing

551
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 3: a broadcast. Our great producer Frank to Grace Will will

552
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 3: always be like, just like, just don't make me have

553
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 3: different fringe, Like there's always one thing every game. You

554
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 3: say that it's like, oh, Richard, let us keep our jobs.

555
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 3: But no, But he is. He's one of the kindest people,

556
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 3: and he works so hardly. He is so serious about

557
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 3: being great at this and in I think he already is,

558
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 3: uh the inside, he has the experience, he has the personality,

559
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 3: brings to the table all the things that you would

560
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 3: want in a broadcaster. But he works his.

561
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 1: Because some of these guys just sit down.

562
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 3: And some of them are so good that you can't.

563
00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 3: I mean, some of them are so just already naturally

564
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 3: engaging that you can get away with that. So that

565
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,640
Speaker 3: I will say, and he is a dear friend. He's

566
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 3: just off the wall. Like he's just so off the wall,

567
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 3: the things he thinks, the things he says, the things

568
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 3: he sees.

569
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: Because he was making news recently, the whole Knixt comment.

570
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 3: He loved joking. But like to him, that's something that

571
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,719
Speaker 3: he so appreciates.

572
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: Excuse me, you've made our guests sick. It's definitely.

573
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 3: I just don't want you guys to be sick when

574
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 3: I leave. Now.

575
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 2: It's look at this room, were work and we share germs.

576
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: Well, we have not gone a podcast. I think we're

577
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: up toill, Like, yeah, fifty plus podcasts here in this studio.

578
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,680
Speaker 1: We haven't gone a show with somebody coughing up along

579
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 1: at least once or twice in the show, keeping the

580
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: streak alive. I appreciate it.

581
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 3: Maybe it was Richard thinking about Richard no the Knicks,

582
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 3: but he he loves that, he enjoys that, he embraces the.

583
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: He's like a wrestling sort of character away villain or heel.

584
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 3: And when it comes to the Knicks, I think he

585
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 3: feels like he has free rain.

586
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 5: So did y'all hear from the Knicks about one second

587
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 5: after he said that, or did you have to wait

588
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 5: for press?

589
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 2: They did say that, saying that, hey, we never offered

590
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 2: Richard a job. It's hilarious. Yeah, there was there was

591
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 2: no need to put out a press release, but they

592
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 2: felt the need for some reason.

593
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 5: It seems like they feel a little bit threatened because

594
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 5: Kevin Durant also this summer said the Knicks aren't cool,

595
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 5: the Nets are cool and signed with the Nets, do

596
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 5: you guys kind of relish that being the cool kids?

597
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 3: And times? I don't think I personally, I so, I'm

598
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 3: born and raised in Chicago, so I don't quite get

599
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 3: in on the mix of For me, it's more of it.

600
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 3: It was always more of a North side south side

601
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 3: thing for Chicago. You take pride in that. Yeah, I

602
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 3: think I think with the Nets, I don't know if

603
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 3: they relish in it. Sean Marks as always said, for us,

604
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 3: if our focus is the Knicks and being better than

605
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 3: the Knicks, and then we're not doing things right. We're

606
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 3: right the right way, however, I did. But I do

607
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 3: think there's a handful of the players on the team

608
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 3: that enjoy that. And I think anytime that players are

609
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 3: willing to kind of rib it other teams or like

610
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 3: that builds a rivalry. That's the fun part of sports,

611
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 3: that's the competitive nature of it. I'm so I love

612
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 3: their broadcast team for our purposes. I adore them, and

613
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 3: of course my brain and well Rebecca harl all the rest.

614
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 3: So I have no I I get nothing out of

615
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 3: that party. However, Yeah, I think it's I think it'll

616
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 3: be fun. There's nothing that I believe would be better

617
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 3: than if both New York teams were great at the

618
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 3: same time. I mean that that would be. That would

619
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 3: be a dream, that would be tremendous. I don't know

620
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 3: when or if that will happen, but but that would

621
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 3: be That's when it would be the real deal.

622
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be good for business. Like we're saying, even

623
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: with the Clippers and Lakers right now, it's exciting. They're

624
00:29:58,240 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: both good at that.

625
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 3: And then there's real discussion. Yeah, then there could be

626
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 3: real back and forth about it. So that'd be that'd

627
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 3: be a good thing.

628
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: NBA broadcasting is in the news recently because of ratings,

629
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: you know, I think sports business journals just on Monday

630
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: had the tweet out there TNT down twenty three percent,

631
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: ESPN down twenty percent, some of the regional sports networks

632
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: down thirteen percent. Are you being in the business concerned

633
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: it all about NBA ratings being down? And if you are,

634
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: or even if you're not, you know, what's what is?

635
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: Is there an answer to this or is this worth

636
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: not getting far?

637
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not someone that gets overly concerned

638
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 3: about things that are that are out of my control.

639
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 3: I feel like you think about the things you control

640
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 3: and for what we do in our broadcast, and you

641
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 3: try and put out the best broadcast you can and

642
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 3: after that. I don't know, but it's fascinating to me

643
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 3: because it feels like the game is more popular than

644
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 3: ever totally, but it's just the way it is. You

645
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 3: all know, the way in which social media and digital

646
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 3: platform the way in which people are consuming games are

647
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 3: consuming the league has changed so dramatically, So it's interesting.

648
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 3: I'm always interested to hear what Adam Silver has to

649
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 3: say that or his approach or how to help this

650
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 3: or just where the focus is during the regular season

651
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 3: as supposed to the playoffs, and just how that kind

652
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 3: of counterbalances one another. But yeah, it's not something that

653
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 3: I'm actively thinking about and concerned with. However, I think

654
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 3: for all of us and all of us in this

655
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 3: business and how much we appreciate and are grateful for

656
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 3: what we do, it is it is something to kind

657
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 3: of make you wonder, given the popularity of the game,

658
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 3: and not only in the States but globally.

659
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you think of the proposed ideas that

660
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: we've seen kicked around here this mid season tournament? The

661
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: playing games? Are you a fan of it?

662
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 3: Or I think there's push pull. I'm not someone that's

663
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 3: necessarily a total traditionalist that thinks you can't change things

664
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 3: to help improve the game. However, I think it's the

665
00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 3: same token. There's always so much that goes into some

666
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 3: of these changes, and thinking about the effects, are different

667
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 3: impacts or the trickle down effects of it the mid

668
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 3: season tournament, I don't know. I feel I'm not really high.

669
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 3: I'm not real high. I'm not real high on that.

670
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what exactly that would do. I also

671
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 3: think it I'm not sure it would have the punch

672
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 3: or have the effect that they're looking for in helping

673
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 3: to validate some of these earlier games.

674
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: Because you don't think the players would really care at all?

675
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 3: Is that I think? Yeah, Like, I still think the

676
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 3: end goal would be the NBA title, the championship. So

677
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 3: I'm not sure, and not to say they wouldn't care.

678
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 3: But with all of these ideas, everything always takes time.

679
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 3: So we say this now, and maybe the first few

680
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 3: years it wouldn't have the same same weight, but maybe

681
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 3: a decade from now or what. Like, you're thinking about

682
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 3: the longevity of the game, and so I think then

683
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 3: you look at it and you're like, Okay, maybe in

684
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 3: another ten fifteen years, this will continue to build something

685
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 3: and it will have the effect that we eventually want,

686
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 3: like the playing games, the playoff format, like all of

687
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 3: those things, the you know, top sixteen teams, right, there's

688
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,239
Speaker 3: a lot of things that I like about that, Like

689
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 3: those those type of ideas I'm into. However, I just

690
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 3: think you you start to think, Okay, how do we

691
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 3: change the scheduling, how does traveling? And those I know

692
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 3: are the the natural questions to those ideas, but those

693
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 3: I'm much more into. I just don't know how you

694
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 3: get owners from the east currently if this is where

695
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 3: you're at from the east thinking that that's a good idea,

696
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 3: or you.

697
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: Know right, you're saying getting rid of the conferences is

698
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: just taking those sixteen best teams. Yeah, now that's who

699
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: they have to convince. I guess you know so.

700
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 2: Well, it's clear we're fans of your work and we

701
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 2: just want to say we appreciate you being fans of

702
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 2: our work. And by that I mean the wedgie.

703
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 3: I truly would get so I would hope so hard

704
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 3: for wedges for you guys. I really I I been

705
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 3: fans of your work for as long as as you

706
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 3: can imagine. But that the one thing, the wedgies. Every time,

707
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 3: I was like, thank goodness, I can shout out the starters.

708
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 3: We can give them some love.

709
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: One thing that stuck. Yeah, well, if you get a.

710
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 3: Edge, it wasn't the only thing that stopped.

711
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: The Just remember if you do get the wedgie and

712
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: fingers crossed, you do on the next call, even what

713
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: if it happens to it's going to Yeah, you just

714
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: got to remember, because I know all you all the

715
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: broadcasters like, okay, they're not the starters anymore. Now there

716
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,240
Speaker 1: no dunks. You're no dunks, No dunks the No Dunks podcast.

717
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm into no dunks. This is this is pard.

718
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 1: I just want to get that out there now. That

719
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: was even for everyone else listening as well.

720
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 2: Well. I've done a lot of work on not just

721
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 2: pass as I mentioned, you know, NFL done work on

722
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 2: hockey games. Is there any any sport that something I

723
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 2: don't know that you really love being on the sideline

724
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 2: for just being around. We're Canadians, we love hockey. We

725
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 2: just there's there's something.

726
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,280
Speaker 3: Can I tell you something special? There was a time,

727
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 3: so take you back. So I did. Before I came

728
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 3: to New York, I was working in Chicago and in

729
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 3: a heavy part of what I was doing was covering

730
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 3: the Chicago Blackhawks, but also I did Game four versus

731
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 3: which is now the NBC Sports Network. But I started

732
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 3: covering hockey so much that people in I had a

733
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 3: Chicago accent, and they were like, can you try and

734
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 3: lose accent? And so all this stuff. Really yeah, who

735
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,280
Speaker 3: knows what was happening. But point being, I was asked

736
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 3: often if I was from Canada, and I wanted to

737
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 3: say yeah, but hockey was always I when I started

738
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 3: covering hockey, I knew nothing about it. The black Hawks

739
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 3: were just starting to get it was the early years

740
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,760
Speaker 3: in the prime of with Patrick Kane and Jonathan Taves

741
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 3: and all the rest of that core. I just I

742
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 3: love hockey, and now I've grown to love it and

743
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 3: still watch it. But I think it's one of those

744
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 3: games that if you're watching on TV or for so

745
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 3: many people that don't pay attention to on your rink

746
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 3: side and get a chance to actually see the talent

747
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 3: of these guys and what they're doing. Yeah, the speed,

748
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 3: the physicality, the fact that they're on skates, with the

749
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 3: things they're doing with the puck with a stick, like

750
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 3: just the whole, the whole thing of it. And maybe

751
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 3: because I never played hockey or that wasn't a part

752
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 3: of my wheelhouse of sports I played growing up, but

753
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 3: but that that really is to me, that's something that

754
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 3: everyone should go do, is go to a hockey game.

755
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: How did you get into the analyst role? Like? Was

756
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: that your goal?

757
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 3: I actually started. I had no intentions of getting into

758
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 3: television actually, so I was in I was in grad school.

759
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 3: I was finishing grad school my fifth year while I

760
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 3: was at to Paul and I was getting my master's

761
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 3: in Corporate and Multicultural communication, so I was going to

762
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,280
Speaker 3: do something with speaking and speech writing and oh, okay,

763
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 3: the television and was not at all on my on

764
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 3: my brain of what I want to do with my career.

765
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 3: And during that time I started just being a production

766
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 3: runner for ESPN's Big Ten football game. Because I was

767
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 3: in Chicago, all the areas were close by. I thought

768
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 3: it would be fun. And all of a sudden I

769
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 3: sat in a production truck and watch how a game

770
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 3: must produce. This is it like I want to do.

771
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 3: I want to do this if you can get this

772
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 3: adrenaline rush.

773
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:27,879
Speaker 1: And see I was gonna say, yeah, what was the draw?

774
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 3: Just the adrenaline rush, and there was there was the

775
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 3: live nature to it of you know, success or failure,

776
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 3: similar to when you're playing like that. It really I

777
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 3: was drawn to that aspect of it. And I always

778
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 3: have had a love of sports, all sports, basketball being most,

779
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 3: but so I think just those combination of things is

780
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 3: what initially drew me to that. But then when I

781
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 3: started doing some more things, my first by nature having

782
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 3: just played, oh we can put you on as an

783
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 3: analy do on a high school tournament or a high

784
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 3: school game or a college women's college game. So my

785
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 3: start in TV actually was doing analysts work for basketball,

786
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 3: and then it parlayed into some of the other things,

787
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 3: and you start doing other jobs just to continue getting

788
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,359
Speaker 3: better and improve, and so so you started to.

789
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: Fall in love with TV sports broadcasting. Someone came to

790
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: you and said, Hey, would you talk about would you

791
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: call this high school game? Yeah, okay, I'll give it

792
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: a go.

793
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 3: Absolutely wow, And so one thing led to another, and

794
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 3: then I was working in Chicago. But then the opportunity

795
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 3: with Brooklyn that kind of returned me to my core

796
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 3: of like, I just missed the NBA and when all

797
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 3: is said and done, like the NBA was was my

798
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 3: greatest love of what I was doing, So I wanted

799
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 3: to get back to that. And yeah, in the analyst job,

800
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a a scheduling quirk and I

801
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 3: had been sideline reporting for the team and the producer

802
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 3: I mentioned, Frank tin Grace and my boss, John Philippelli

803
00:38:56,200 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 3: and some others were like, Sarah do you we do

804
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:01,879
Speaker 3: we talk to you, we know you, we know your prep,

805
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 3: we know how do you think you'd be able to

806
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 3: do this? And it was just a fill in for

807
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 3: one game. However, Yeah, it went, it went well, and.

808
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: And you became the first full time female color commentor.

809
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: Stephanie Ready had had done part she was part time, right,

810
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: was that right?

811
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 2: She was doing it with Delca.

812
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 3: She was.

813
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 2: Just a lot of tea, just like, Yeah, there's a

814
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 2: lot of words. Yeah, Like there's a lot of you know, stats,

815
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,839
Speaker 2: a lot of records get thrown out there every single night.

816
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 2: There's you're the first female solo analyst period in the NBA.

817
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 2: Solo analyst. Stephanie Righty was part of three three person booth.

818
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,399
Speaker 2: Carol Lawson now does it with the Wizards as well,

819
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 2: but it was a few weeks after I think that

820
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 2: you you were for three weeks you were the lone.

821
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 3: None, the last. What I love now is that there's

822
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 3: a lot more of it and its and whether it's

823
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 3: in the studio, or whether it's on games or we

824
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 3: see with so many different organizations, or or obviously on

825
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 3: the national level, or you know, you can go on

826
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 3: and on. But now I think it's it's it's becoming

827
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 3: more of a regularity and it's not something that people

828
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 3: necessarily turn their heads about it. Yes, I was like,

829
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, there's a woman doing this job, and

830
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 3: so that like, that's that's what I think is the bad.

831
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think that was just a

832
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,399
Speaker 1: perfect example. We didn't bring it up until what forty

833
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: minutes in here, right, and I thought, that's that's the hope,

834
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's the goal.

835
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 4: Do you remember your first game with Iron? And you know,

836
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 4: those first couple of games, I guess because even though

837
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 4: you're experienced and you've done plenty of it at at

838
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 4: a lower level, it must have been still pretty nerve

839
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 4: wracking going into an NBA.

840
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 3: My gosh, yesh. Yeah, and especially with someone the thing

841
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 3: with with Iron, he is a dear friend. I consider

842
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 3: him family and I had of course the utmost respect

843
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 3: for him as a broadcaster. So on that same token,

844
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 3: you're like, I I want to be good enough because

845
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 3: I'm sitting next to you. I want to I want

846
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,760
Speaker 3: to earn the seat and deserve the opportunity to actually

847
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 3: sit here with you and call this game. And so

848
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 3: that I took for as for as much as you

849
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 3: want to be good for the viewers or you want

850
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 3: to you know, set for the broadcaster in general, Like

851
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 3: to me, it was like I just want to make

852
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 3: sure I do enough for the people that I respect

853
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 3: so much that gave me this opportunity. You know, my producer,

854
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 3: whether it's I and you name it. And so I

855
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 3: remember before my very first broadcast with him was in Philadelphia.

856
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 3: It was a NET seventy six ers game, and he's like,

857
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 3: He's like, I don't want you to think about anything.

858
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 3: I don't want you to worry your concern He's like,

859
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 3: let's just sit here, like we were sitting on the

860
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 3: couch and watching a game, and just talk and tell

861
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 3: me what you see and we're gonna go about this.

862
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 3: He's like, you know the routine, you know, but just

863
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 3: he's like, don't think about anything other than like you're

864
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 3: sitting with your friend and what do you see and

865
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 3: let's just talk about the game. And he and it

866
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 3: was amazing because for his nerve wrecking is or the

867
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 3: things you think about really getting an opportunity to work

868
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 3: alongside of him as soon as the ball tipped, as

869
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 3: soon as you get going it really I was at

870
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 3: such a just comfort level because I'm like, you know,

871
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 3: you know, you can't fail when you're sitting next you know,

872
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 3: when when you're with the best of the best, you know,

873
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 3: it's you just and it's that security blanket, it's that

874
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 3: safety net. Yeah, but I think it's still the same

875
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 3: thing that motivates you and drives you because it's like,

876
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 3: you got to make sure every you earn this every

877
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 3: single day if you're going to have the opportunity to

878
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 3: work with such tremendous people. So yeah, I just can't

879
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 3: say enough good things about him.

880
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,280
Speaker 5: Has he ever caught you off guard with his sarcasm?

881
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 5: Because there are so many moments with like him and

882
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 5: Fortello where they would be just you know, zinging each

883
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 5: other back and forth, and people are like, these guys

884
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 5: hate each other friends.

885
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's he's so fun More so, I get

886
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 3: caught of my hand on the cough button, like keeled

887
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 3: over and last and that I can't speak because he

888
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 3: really is just one of the funniest people. But yeah,

889
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 3: but I think that's the as you guys all know,

890
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 3: because you hear this is why people love, love love

891
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 3: listening to you. When you have friendships that are real,

892
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 3: when it's genuine, you can make fun of each other.

893
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 3: You could joke with each other, or you could say

894
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 3: or do things because you know one another so well.

895
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 1: You're comfortable.

896
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, And I think too that goes back to

897
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 3: just the preparation with all that he knows he could

898
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 3: throw anything at me, and that I will know what's good,

899
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 3: whether it's across the league, whether it's with the t whatever,

900
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 3: and same with him. So there's there's that sense of

901
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 3: just knowing that whatever I put at you. The only

902
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 3: thing I never have any clue about is all of

903
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 3: his television and movie references because I grew up I

904
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,439
Speaker 3: never watched it, Like I think when I was a kid,

905
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 3: we were always outside playing. I never even now don't

906
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 3: really watch a lot of TV. And he is like

907
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 3: the king of television references. And he will make a funny,

908
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 3: funny line after funny line that everyone gets, whether it's

909
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 3: sign felt like you name it, and he always looks

910
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 3: and so now it's it's become a joke that do.

911
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: You ever do the fake laugh like I always do?

912
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 3: I know that I know that something, and I know

913
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:12,720
Speaker 3: I just have no idea what it's problem.

914
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: That's incredible. I like that you sort of said when

915
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: you do the broadcast, you want to like get it

916
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 1: into you're just like as if you were sitting at

917
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 1: at home watching the game with a friend and you're

918
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 1: just you know, you're just talking about the game. And

919
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,720
Speaker 1: I always like like to watch sometimes the broadcast boosts

920
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: and see their body language and because they're you're doing

921
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: a television product, and TV can be pretty you know

922
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: what will be the word for it, like fake in

923
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: a weird way at times. Television can. But you see

924
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: them and like they got their arms on the back

925
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 1: of the chair and like they like broadcast duos or

926
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 1: you know, trios, like they'll just turn to each other.

927
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 3: Talking and talking. Yeah, well you ask about Richard. This

928
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 3: is what I always tease Richard Jefferson about because we

929
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 3: so we'll do a three man booth and I'm in

930
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 3: the middle of him and Iron and God bless Richard.

931
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 3: He like he he emanates so.

932
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 8: Much heat, Like he's so sweaty and has so much

933
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 8: so like I'm sweating, so I always and he just

934
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 8: kind of hangs on and he's all up in your

935
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 8: face and he's talking to you and saying things and

936
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 8: he's hitting you.

937
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 3: And so after the I'm like, at some point I

938
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 3: was like, you got to give a little space here,

939
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 3: But we're just in this, we're doing it. I'm like

940
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 3: no like, So I always tease him, I'm like, your

941
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 3: body heat is just it's too.

942
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 4: Much for physical Yeah, we need.

943
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 3: To get you like a uniform to put on rather

944
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 3: than those suit because it's not helping.

945
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,280
Speaker 1: What what is, in your opinion, the most difficult thing about,

946
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 1: you know, being a color commentator.

947
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 3: Being concise, getting in the things you see in a

948
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 3: manner that's digestible and understandable and its appropriate timing. And

949
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 3: I think in this is I'm still I've got so

950
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 3: much more to improve on and just things that I

951
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 3: work and there's so much that I continue trying to

952
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 3: work on. But I think you see so much through

953
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 3: a game, and it's the timing of how do I

954
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 3: fit it in and whether oh there's a timeout or

955
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 3: or a break, or we're going to run a promo

956
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 3: or this they're they're going back to up the other

957
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 3: and then the moment passes and it's not applicable. So

958
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 3: I think there is just figuring out so many moments

959
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,879
Speaker 3: within a game of how you get in the point

960
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 3: you're trying to get in at the right timing, where

961
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 3: you're saying it in a manner that's that viewers can

962
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 3: understand and quickly get to and I think that's that

963
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 3: continues to be something I think about because two, there

964
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 3: could be you know, three or four possessions where you're

965
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,879
Speaker 3: seeing something or there's something really hey got something really

966
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 3: good and it just and it just it just doesn't

967
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 3: it doesn't fit in or it doesn't work or you

968
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 3: wait for you know, and you always want Iron a

969
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 3: Ryan Ruko to be able to make their calls or

970
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 3: make calls. So I think it's just the nuance of

971
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,879
Speaker 3: that or the balance of that. The flow. Yeah, the flow,

972
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 3: and it's it's important.

973
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,439
Speaker 5: Don't blowout, like do you have it like a well

974
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,399
Speaker 5: of stories just like if this goes south, I got

975
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 5: a good one for us.

976
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 3: This is why I an eagle as a king to

977
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 3: just make jokes and me but no, I think you do.

978
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 3: I think with blowouts it's also and I say this

979
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 3: with a ton of love. And in the first season

980
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 3: that I was calling games, there was there was a

981
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 3: handful of losses and there were some blowouts. So it's

982
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,320
Speaker 3: one of those things where you're walking the fine line

983
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 3: of figuring out how to appropriately uh say things or

984
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 3: talk about things. And so yeah, I think it's just

985
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:46,479
Speaker 3: it that's where you really rely on the the back

986
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 3: preparation of knowing stories or knowing guys or even and

987
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 3: even if it's opponent, like we know in this league,

988
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 3: there's so many great stories of these individuals of what

989
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 3: they've done to get to the point where they're at,

990
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 3: or whether it's their backgrounds or the coaches or coaching staff.

991
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 3: I think there's so much good knowledge that you have

992
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 3: with the NBA. And sometimes if it's if it's the

993
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 3: side of whatever team you're calling, it's it's you could

994
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 3: at least laugh and joke and you know, tell some

995
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 3: fun stuff, but have fun with with that that extra

996
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 3: time you have. I think it becomes tough when you

997
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 3: got you got to keep it straight and then what

998
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 3: are you Yeah, you're kind of you're kind of walking

999
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 3: those lines, but no, But I think the give and

1000
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 3: take of that is it gives you a good opportunity

1001
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 3: to get in some stuff you may not in a

1002
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:32,359
Speaker 3: lot of type games.

1003
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: Who are your favorites, your heroes in like sort of

1004
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: the broadcasting world, I.

1005
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:41,919
Speaker 3: Think naturally, thinking about the position I'm in, I think

1006
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 3: of like an Myerstreisdale and dorisburg by nature, those are

1007
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 3: the ones that really pop out. I think even some

1008
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 3: of the others, you know, I look at the ones

1009
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 3: I work with, you know, with Iron Eagle and Ryan

1010
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 3: will Go and just seeing how they go about their

1011
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 3: business I've always respected so much much like I I too,

1012
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 3: though think about whether it's it's the guy like Grant

1013
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 3: Hill is someone who I always have appreciated his approach

1014
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 3: or how he looks at things. You know, Steve smith

1015
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 3: Is is a favorite of mine on how he breaks

1016
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 3: things down or his approach to the game. I think H. B.

1017
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:20,439
Speaker 3: Brown was someone that I always I just and even

1018
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 3: now to this day, love love listening to just his

1019
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 3: coaches approach of breaking down every place that obviously with preparation,

1020
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 3: the work that he does. My list can go on.

1021
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: And but you listen to these other broadcast booths and

1022
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: I'm sure you say you must be listening and going, oh,

1023
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: that's an interesting way to tackle.

1024
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 3: It, or or like how they or just how you

1025
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 3: say that. And I also, I'm someone who I know

1026
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 3: we joked about that I'm not I'm not a real

1027
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,360
Speaker 3: hot take, like I'm not going to go at people.

1028
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm I'm not someone that necessarily is going

1029
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 3: to take a hard stance approach on But like I,

1030
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 3: I appreciate the guys who are a little more like

1031
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 3: you listen to Chris Webber, you listen to Regimen, or

1032
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 3: you listen to guys who who had been there and

1033
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 3: been in those shoes and played in that they can

1034
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 3: throw a little more fire at things. So I think

1035
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,240
Speaker 3: in all regards, I just have a ton of respect

1036
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 3: for just the difference that everyone brings to the table.

1037
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 3: And I think when people are genuinely themselves, like you

1038
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,879
Speaker 3: feel like who they are on television, who they are

1039
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 3: and broadcast is very much like who they are in person.

1040
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 3: That I just always like when I meet someone and

1041
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, that's really how they are. That's really

1042
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 3: a good a good kind of example of their personality

1043
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 3: and of their approach and of their personal act.

1044
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 1: Any have you ever have you ever said something about

1045
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: a let's say, a particular player and heard back from

1046
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: that player and like, hey, what.

1047
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 3: I haven't And I think about that often. I always think,

1048
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:59,879
Speaker 3: I I can't remember who had originally told me this,

1049
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 3: and I know my brain says this a lot. And

1050
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 3: there's others who probably take the same approach, but just

1051
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,240
Speaker 3: don't ever say anything on a broadcast that you wouldn't

1052
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 3: say to someone's face. Yeah, And I think I feel

1053
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 3: that way with you know, a lot of the players,

1054
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 3: whether it's on the nets or an opponent, Like I

1055
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 3: would say what I would say or say about a player,

1056
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 3: go back and look if they want to be like, wait,

1057
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:23,839
Speaker 3: why'd you say? I would feel strongly about That's how

1058
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 3: I feel, and I would say it to you who

1059
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 3: you are, and if you don't like it, you don't

1060
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 3: like it. And I think that goes back to any

1061
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,439
Speaker 3: anything in this business, like you need to have thick skin.

1062
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 3: You need to understand that you will get just as

1063
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 3: much scrutiny and criticism on you for your job as

1064
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,440
Speaker 3: any you know anything. So just an understanding of that

1065
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,839
Speaker 3: and whatever you say or comes out of your mouth,

1066
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 3: which may not always be perfect, be able to live

1067
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 3: with that and be okay with that.

1068
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 2: Well, Sarah, well we'll let you get out of here.

1069
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 2: Save your voice for the broadcast tonight.

1070
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 3: I was just going to send one of you guys

1071
00:51:57,040 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 3: to I may we maybe need to and all of

1072
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 3: you five man booth.

1073
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 1: We've done one game in your role in doing a

1074
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: in calling a game. They let us have a game

1075
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: at a Summer League.

1076
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 3: Did you enjoy it?

1077
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 4: Oh?

1078
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 2: It was.

1079
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: It was a blast. We had a blast, was working sidelines.

1080
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: We had we had the three man booth going. It

1081
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: was fun. But it's also very, very difficult. It is.

1082
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 3: It's just different. It is. It is, and it's different

1083
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 3: than what you think when you're sitting just watching. There's

1084
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 3: a lot of there's a lot more moving parts than totally.

1085
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: Yes, that's a good way to put it. It's like,

1086
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 1: are you talking too much? Am I not talking enough?

1087
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 3: But it's always that let it breathe say something. But

1088
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 3: it was.

1089
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 2: That's why we do podcasts. We can. We have a

1090
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 2: few rapid fire questions for you before you go, Yeah,

1091
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 2: you must have travel item.

1092
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 3: Coconut oil.

1093
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 1: Wife is going to love to hear that.

1094
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 3: I can't live without it.

1095
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:02,239
Speaker 2: Okay, next one, did you need more exclamence? I left it.

1096
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 2: I left up to you. Coconut oil and.

1097
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 3: Great. And here's the thing. Coconut oil.

1098
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I'm always preaching the benefits of apple vinegar.

1099
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 5: It's nice to get another product.

1100
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:22,839
Speaker 3: It's natural, it's great for your skin, great to moisturize

1101
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:26,439
Speaker 3: your hair, same thing. But it's it's good warm weather.

1102
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 3: So if we're down in Miami and you want to

1103
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 3: get out, good for you. It helps insulate you too

1104
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 3: in cold weather. So if you're in Denver and you

1105
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:38,280
Speaker 3: want to go off for a it's yeah, so I'm

1106
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 3: all in. I have extra So if anyone.

1107
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 2: So, is it just pure coconut oil or is it

1108
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 2: in products? It's just it's pure. You mentioned Miami. What's

1109
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 2: your favorite city to travel?

1110
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 3: I always get asked this, and it's this is very

1111
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 3: tough because I like, I'm I'm pretty simple. So there's

1112
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 3: no city I don't like to. I enjoy them all

1113
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 3: because I appreciate the uniqueness that they all bring. And

1114
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 3: I don't do a whole lot, like I really do

1115
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 3: think about cities by like running routes and where's the

1116
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 3: yoga studio, and like you like the arena and what

1117
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 3: are the good restaurants? So I do. I have an

1118
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 3: affinity for Miami just because of the sun, and it

1119
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 3: gets me a little little tande la. I love l

1120
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 3: A big fan of Denver, Sam and I'm going to

1121
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 3: start listening all this time, however, I will I will

1122
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 3: say Chicago. Always getting a chance to go back home

1123
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,400
Speaker 3: and and growing up in Chicago and growing up with

1124
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:42,440
Speaker 3: the the Bulls championship teams and and all of that.

1125
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 3: Every time I work a game, and I covered so

1126
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,319
Speaker 3: many games for the black Hawks and Bulls at the

1127
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 3: United States now going back and like sitting in the

1128
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 3: analyst chair and calling a game and it's it's really special.

1129
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 1: Are you going to be going for All Star weekend

1130
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 1: plans twenty twenty?

1131
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 3: I dog, I actually some time, I think I may

1132
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:04,920
Speaker 3: be some more warm. We'll see. I don't know. I

1133
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 3: love that, but I'll see them another time.

1134
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of Chicago, I think I think you were

1135
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:13,439
Speaker 2: working there when you got into the ring with Kendall Gill. Yes,

1136
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 2: former NBA player Kendall Gill, friend of the program. The

1137
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 2: question did you like punching his face?

1138
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 3: Okay, so.

1139
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 2: It's okay to say yes.

1140
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 3: I have crushed these rapid fire questions, the long answers.

1141
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:31,759
Speaker 3: So Kendall Gill and I had a I grew up

1142
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 3: idolizing Kendall Gill, even when he was at the Hornet,

1143
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 3: But I thought we're both from the South side of Chicago,

1144
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 3: so he and he's comfortable with this because he looks

1145
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:42,359
Speaker 3: like he's twenty, but he's a bit older than I.

1146
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 8: Am.

1147
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is staying quite fish, isn't it. Yeah?

1148
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:49,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh it's crazy. But so then when I started

1149
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 3: working in Chicago, he was our Bull studio host, so

1150
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 3: got to know him. Long story short, we ended up

1151
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 3: having a show together. It was a half hour show.

1152
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 3: It's called Mind and Body. And so it was a

1153
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 3: variety of like we would work out with people, we

1154
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:06,360
Speaker 3: do different work it. It transformed into a lot of

1155
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 3: different things. So we would work out quite a bit

1156
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:13,360
Speaker 3: then together. So prior to me punching him in the face,

1157
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:17,760
Speaker 3: which he was asking for with the boxing, he took

1158
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:20,840
Speaker 3: us it was right before that out he wanted to

1159
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:25,239
Speaker 3: do a uh like power run or something. He took

1160
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 3: us out to the United Center parking lots and had

1161
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 3: us push push his which was an s u V.

1162
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 3: I don't know, it was a lander over whatever it was,

1163
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 3: but made us push push the car and I don't

1164
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 3: know if you've pushed the car before, and we did

1165
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 3: it on camera and it was embarrassing for me. And

1166
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:48,799
Speaker 3: it was so it was like this long day and

1167
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 3: so this was the final part of the day and

1168
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 3: well no, and then he was asking for it. So

1169
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 3: if you gonna believe himself over he is. He is

1170
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 3: a dear friend and I adore Kendel, so yeah, but

1171
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:08,279
Speaker 3: he's never lived that down. I don't know if he's

1172
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 3: happy or sad about that.

1173
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 2: You're one guilty pleasure, just one.

1174
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 3: I don't I feel like you should be gentle with yourself.

1175
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 3: So like I eat. Those who travel with me know,

1176
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,919
Speaker 3: like I really like desserts, but I don't really feel

1177
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 3: guilty about it when I do it.

1178
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your go to dessert?

1179
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 3: No? I When we're on trips and there's a group,

1180
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 3: I'm known for saying like, let's just get one of

1181
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 3: everything so we can try it. We don't have to

1182
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 3: finish it. Yeah, like I would say, I don't know

1183
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 3: a sour patch kid Swedish fish. But again, yeah, but

1184
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 3: those are like, I don't know if it makes you

1185
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 3: happy with you.

1186
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 5: You mentioned growing up in the South Side with the

1187
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 5: balls championships. Who was your ninety He's bulls role player

1188
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:05,479
Speaker 5: Like my sister loved bj Armstrong. I was a big

1189
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 5: Judd Bushler fan.

1190
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 3: Kerr, Randy Brown, all of them, just all of them.

1191
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 4: Have you ever met Michael, Yes, But.

1192
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 3: I don't think who I know better now relatively speaking

1193
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 3: of Scottie, because in Chicago we would play after shoot around,

1194
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 3: we would get a run in at noon, and it

1195
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 3: was when Scotty had just come back to be an

1196
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 3: ambassador doing some more work with them, so he would

1197
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 3: play with us. So I yeah, it was tremendous. So no, Michael, though,

1198
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 3: I think, I I mean, I think the last time

1199
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 3: I actually met Michael was when I was maybe like

1200
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 3: in high school and showed up at at some game

1201
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 3: or something and I said hello to him. So yeah, yeah,

1202
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 3: but it's it's it's crazy to think about that because

1203
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 3: I assume that all teams just one champ, all your

1204
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 3: favorite teams just one champions.

1205
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: Well I can actually say my team, I congrats.

1206
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 2: All of you. Last one here. This one's for Ian.

1207
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 2: What's your favorite movie ever?

1208
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 3: I was asked this not long ago. I have trouble

1209
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 3: with this, but I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with this

1210
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 3: since I'm wearing my Yankees hat a Bronx tail. Have

1211
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:30,959
Speaker 3: you ever seen a Bronx tail?

1212
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 5: I don't know if I have commentary right, Like, how

1213
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 5: old is this movie?

1214
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 3: It's very old.

1215
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:42,600
Speaker 5: This is unlocking the car door.

1216
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, so our college coach would always it's it's like

1217
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 3: a love story, but it's also about growing up, the

1218
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 3: mobs involved, Like there's all these things. But my college

1219
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 3: coach at Paul Doug Bruno, would always make us watch

1220
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 3: it before every season, and it brought up all these

1221
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 3: like just different conversations about growing up and maturity. You

1222
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 3: talk about race, you talk about just different backgrounds, demographics,

1223
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 3: all there was just a whole variety of things. And

1224
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 3: I probably but so whenever I think about a favorite,

1225
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 3: because I have a lot of I have movies that

1226
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 3: I appreciate, and sure I.

1227
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: Have seen movies sound normal. I have gone to the

1228
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 1: cinema and see a movie.

1229
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 3: Like, what's the last movie I took. I took my

1230
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 3: niece who just turned seven, and her best friend to

1231
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,200
Speaker 3: see Frozen two. Okay, I did the same last Sunday.

1232
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:42,320
Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's not Frozen one.

1233
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 3: Oh I I've never even seen Frozen.

1234
01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: I thought, how.

1235
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 2: Do you know Frozen one destroys Frozen?

1236
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 3: Really? Oh yeah, see I the kids. What the kids

1237
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 3: are saying is that Frozen two.

1238
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 2: I think there's some Recncy bias with those kids. They

1239
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 2: are they're living in the Frozen one. My god, it's

1240
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:06,960
Speaker 2: got Frozen two had to play off all those things

1241
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 2: that happened in Frozen one. They'd start this do you

1242
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 2: want to be us? Or do you want to build

1243
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 2: a snow man? And then this whole new song they

1244
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 2: had to live off the glory of Frozen one.

1245
01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:19,600
Speaker 3: But what I think you're just being nostalgic. I think

1246
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 3: it's just because everyone sings let it what's.

1247
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:23,320
Speaker 2: The song let it Go?

1248
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 3: Let it Go?

1249
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:25,520
Speaker 2: Which isn't the best song.

1250
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 3: Frozen. Let It Go is the best song on that soundtrack,

1251
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 3: for sure. I guess your guys favorite movies are Moana.

1252
01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be a Disney movie.

1253
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 5: Mine was probably The Godfather, the first, the first Godfather,

1254
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:49,600
Speaker 5: first one, a mob Man as well.

1255
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 2: It is hard to be asked this question, Sarah, I

1256
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 2: give it.

1257
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 3: There's so many and then I feel like I need

1258
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 3: to look at a list. Right.

1259
01:01:57,320 --> 01:01:58,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, mine is rad.

1260
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:01,920
Speaker 3: Should I know what that is?

1261
01:02:02,520 --> 01:02:03,919
Speaker 1: It would be weird if you did.

1262
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 4: If iannoys about it?

1263
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 1: Maybe, yeah, that's guy and nineteen eighty six BMX movie

1264
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 1: called Rad. I never had a BMX bike when I

1265
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 1: was a kid, but I think I wanted it. Yeah,

1266
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 1: and I've always talked.

1267
01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:15,840
Speaker 3: To you skateboard.

1268
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 1: No, I didn't, but it's funny you said that. I've

1269
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:19,919
Speaker 1: always had it in my head if I if I

1270
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: if I don't really believe in reincarnation, but if I

1271
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:24,720
Speaker 1: do come back and I get another chance, I'm going

1272
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 1: to like really lean into skateboarding and X one thing

1273
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 1: over seriously, Like I'm happy with my life.

1274
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:34,720
Speaker 5: I love this job, but wow, that would have been

1275
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 5: a great hob grind on a half.

1276
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 3: I see every time I look at someone skateboarding, I'm like,

1277
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 3: don't go so fast. What if you fall? It seems

1278
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 3: I'm like.

1279
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:49,800
Speaker 1: Go faster like disaster. You got Lee's your favorite movie?

1280
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 3: I like that.

1281
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:52,480
Speaker 4: I like Missus Daffi's hilarious.

1282
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I have seen that, and I love Kindred Spirits.

1283
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,440
Speaker 4: I'm telling you because I wasn't a big rouble Williams

1284
01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 4: fan in the sort of eighties early nineties, and then

1285
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 4: I went to Missus Doubtfi with some friends and I

1286
01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 4: laughed and laughed and laughed.

1287
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:09,720
Speaker 2: It was hilarious with you. Yeah, I'm with you.

1288
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 4: And it was on Delta for like two years, and

1289
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 4: then they dropped it and then it came back, so

1290
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:17,040
Speaker 4: I'll watched it again. It's just it's just hysterical, right,

1291
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 4: Robin Williams is unbelievable.

1292
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:20,440
Speaker 1: You watch it every time you take a delta float?

1293
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:22,520
Speaker 4: Yes, if you are, I mean not every time, but

1294
01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 4: you know, pretty frequently a lot of times.

1295
01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing.

1296
01:03:25,240 --> 01:03:25,640
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think I also had a bit of a crush

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Speaker 4: on Sally Field from the from the eighties movies Jdi

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Speaker 4: what those what was the smoking the yeah? Smoking the bandit?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know that one.

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Speaker 1: Fascinating end to this.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you so much, Sarah for coming here.

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Speaker 2: We really really appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it. You

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Speaker 3: guys are the best.

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Speaker 1: Come back anytime, careful, Okay, well, Frank, some coconut oil.

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Speaker 5: February I think is the next time. But that's a

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Speaker 5: an Atlanta I'm not mistaken. Maybe cool, I need for

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Speaker 5: a run, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for Sarah Chuz Thuck. You can check

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Speaker 2: out or work obviously on NETS, Broadcast and a lot

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Speaker 2: of other places. Make sure you check out our sneaker draft,

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Speaker 2: our mail bag episode coming out on Thursday, our daily show.

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Speaker 2: Of course, we will talk to you next time.

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Speaker 3: You could stay boo every day and I be happy

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Speaker 3: every minute. It's been so long. That your the mona

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Speaker 3: way it's happened already. It's gonna be gravy.