1 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to another edition of Orlando Magic Pod Squad. 2 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 1: This edition we catch up with long time Orlando Magic 3 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: television producer Tie Eastam as we go behind the scenes 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: on the broadcast on Valley Sports, Florida and we have 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: a big reveal at the end. You certainly do not 6 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: want to miss this episode. It's brought to you by 7 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: the Forida Department of Transportation. Reminds you that fans don't 8 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: let fans drive drunk. If you've been drinking, don't get 9 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: behind the wheel. Instead, find a sober driver or catch 10 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: a ride service. Remember, drive sober or it gets pulled over. 11 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: I have a great night and drive safe, all right. 12 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: We have a lot of fun with Tye east of 13 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: here when it takes to put on a Magic television broadcast, 14 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: maybe some stories from behind the scenes, the genesis of 15 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:50,480 Speaker 1: is this anything and everything that goes into Orlando Magic Television. 16 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 1: A behind the scenes look on the broadcast with Tie 17 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: Eastam on this edition of Magic Pod Squad does spawns 18 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: of our. 19 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 2: Enough to Orlando Magic. 20 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 3: This is Cole Anthony, this is Suggs, This is Paulo, 21 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 3: Dan Carroll, the Orlando Magic and you're losening to the 22 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 3: pod Squad. 23 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: And welcome everyone to another episode of Orlando Magic Pod Squad. 24 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: Dante Marcatelli, Jeff Turner, David Steele, George Galatee, and oh, 25 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: we're gonna have some fun here with this one. Joining 26 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: us on this edition is Ty Eastam. He is the 27 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: producer for all Magic telecasts on Bally Sports Florida, the 28 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: vice president of broadcasting for the Orlando Magic and we 29 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 1: thought would have some fun peel back the curtain a 30 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: little bit on what it takes to put a broadcast 31 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: on on Bally Sports Florida. And the guy responsible for 32 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 1: keeping all of us in line is this guy east 33 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: That is not an easy That is not an easy job. 34 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 2: To do, Tie, is it? I would imagine it's. 35 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 4: It's similar to being like a kindergarten teacher. 36 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 2: I think, yes, I would imagine. 37 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 4: Is this yeah, this night where we're going? Okay? 38 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 5: Is this? 39 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: Is this a nightmare for a producer to have a 40 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: day off and have to see all of us again 41 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: right away? 42 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 4: It's like, let's just start talking about tomorrow. 43 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 5: Yeah, let's do it. We'll get on our meeting meeting. 44 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 4: That should be what it is. It should be the 45 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 4: production meeting right now now that don't hit a good podcast, 46 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 4: that would be well, we could do that. 47 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: We could have a little, a little little production meeting 48 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: at the end. We might have a reveal on this podcast, 49 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: by the way, so you definitely want to stay tuned 50 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: for that, right, We might have a little little reveal 51 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: at the end, and technically tie all all five of 52 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: us are on the broadcast every night, right, the three 53 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: of us and then George. If the official makes a 54 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: bad call. 55 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 4: That squeaky voice you here through the headsets. I know 56 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 4: I'm always I'm always too loud. 57 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 6: When Dante looks over me and he goes, hey, settle down. 58 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: You can enter George every home game right behind David 59 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 1: and JT. 60 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 4: But my question is do the rest know that they 61 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 4: don't know it's you? 62 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 5: Now. 63 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 4: I feel like I've masked it. 64 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 3: I have. 65 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 4: I have a pretty good routine. I like to you know, if. 66 00:02:58,080 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 5: I've seen it. 67 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 4: I like the shouts. 68 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 2: It's just this, by the way, it's just this, that's all. 69 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll look to act like I'm looking off to 70 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 4: the side. 71 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 6: I do one of those like I'm not paying attention 72 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 6: to the game at all, Like like one of those 73 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 6: Joel things. 74 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 4: I should get the COVID mask back on. Though COVID mask. 75 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: For that certainly helped you. Well, Ty, give us a 76 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: little insight for everybody listening to Magic fans and all 77 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: that kind of the day to day what it takes 78 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: to to kind of put a television broadcast on it. 79 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 1: We'll get a little bit into your background and stuff 80 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: like that, tell some fun stories of a young David 81 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: Steele and Jeff Turner, But what kind of the day 82 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: to day on what you're responsible for now? 83 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 7: Well, like today, you know, we're the day before a 84 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 7: game tomorrow, you know, so I'll sit down here soon 85 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 7: and try to map out what we're going to talk 86 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 7: about in our pregame show with you guys, and then 87 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 7: what we're going to do in our open before the tip, 88 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 7: and just some of the sponsored elements throughout the game. 89 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 7: You know, what those graphics, sir, video might look like. 90 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 7: Figure out what Dante's moment's going to be with you, 91 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 7: and then we'll have a meeting tomorrow after a shoot around. 92 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 7: So tomorrow there'll be a shoot around, so we'll all 93 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 7: meet at the Advent Health Training facility. We'll watch a 94 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 7: little bit of practice and then we'll go into a 95 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 7: room and we'll kind of meet and I'll tell you 96 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 7: guys what I came up with, and you guys would 97 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 7: tell me, let's change that. And now most of the time. 98 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 5: You do it. 99 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 1: But gotchaate, So I got to play for the findouts anymore, 100 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 1: right exactly. 101 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 5: We'll find out. 102 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 7: What is this anything is tomorrow and then we'll we'll 103 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 7: so we'll meet that and then I get to the 104 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 7: truck around twelve o'clock. Who gets around twelve thirty and uh, 105 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 7: and I, you know, print out all the rundowns for 106 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 7: everybody and they they start building the graphics and building 107 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 7: the uh, all the video and everything like that to 108 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 7: get us ready for the game that night. 109 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 4: Now, would you can describe what it's like in the 110 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 4: truck during a game? What what is like controlled chaos? Uncontrolled? Yeah, 111 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 4: it's controlled chaos. 112 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 5: I mean, you know it. 113 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 7: It's uh, if things are going well, it's it's a 114 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 7: pretty smooth operation. We've all done it so much that 115 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 7: it's I know, if somebody on the outside coming in 116 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 7: looks at it and go, oh my gosh, you know all 117 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 7: these monitors, all the you know, everything going on, it's 118 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 7: it's crazy. But after you've done it, you you know 119 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 7: where everything is, you know what what's going on, and 120 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 7: it's it's it's not that it's not that crazy to me, 121 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 7: so you know, I don't see it. But you know, 122 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 7: it gets crazy when you know there's technical issues which 123 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 7: we have, and uh, you know, it gets it gets 124 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,119 Speaker 7: crazy when there's big moments. That's when it gets really 125 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 7: you know, chaotic, because we're all trying to you know, 126 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 7: organize everything, all the replays, all the graphics and you know, 127 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 7: things like that, and uh so when there's a big moment, that's. 128 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 4: Ah, it gets a little more amped up. 129 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 3: Is the craziest time, though, time when David Steel's monitor 130 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 3: goes out at the desk, you know, and and he 131 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 3: starts yelling on his talk back. I mean, is that 132 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 3: is that the really the hardest for you? It pretty 133 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 3: much is that's when my iire gets up. I'm like, 134 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 3: oh my gosh, the monitors out. Yeah, we have good audio. 135 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 2: That's pretty good impression. 136 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 4: It's like, uh, well, you know, the thing is is 137 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 4: when you've got an obstructed juice to begin with, which 138 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,239 Speaker 4: is what we're gonna Yes, I try. 139 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 5: Coming out and calling the game like this. 140 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 2: It's a jealousy. 141 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 7: It's you know, but but the bigger challenge is I 142 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 7: can literally not do anything other than rely on someone 143 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 7: else to do something. So I can, like, you know, 144 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 7: and and I'm on headsets and I'm we're yelling at people, hey, 145 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 7: get this fixed, blah blah blah, but we have no 146 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 7: idea what they're physically doing. All we can say is 147 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 7: we're working on it. We're working on it. So I'm like, 148 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 7: you know, meanwhile, the game's going on, so I got 149 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 7: to you know, focus on that. 150 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 5: But you know, luckily we did get your monitor backed 151 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 5: last night. 152 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 4: Yes we did, after forty five minutes. It was quick, 153 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 4: I'd realize that. Yeah, yeah, no, I think. 154 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 5: Those are frustrating things for me. 155 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 4: Those are pretty sands for me as well. Fans, you know, 156 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 4: if we do it right, fans have no idea that 157 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 4: that there's crazy things going on. And in Mexico City, 158 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 4: I was not there, but Jeff and Dante had just 159 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 4: an insane situation and tie you too in that situation. 160 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 4: I mean, it was a challenging night for everybody. But 161 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 4: but I you know, I was at home and I 162 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 4: watched the game, and as I told all you guys afterwards, 163 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 4: I couldn't tell that you guys were having all those problems. 164 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 4: You pulled it off so seamlessly, so that that's a 165 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 4: credit to the what you guys do. Yeah, Mexico City was 166 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 4: probably the worst broadcasting. 167 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 7: Experience of my career. It was really, really a bad one. 168 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,559 Speaker 7: I think that's fair. I think that we would probably 169 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 7: second that. It takes a lot to get JT worked up. 170 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: But he took his headset off and said, I've never 171 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: been a part of anything like that in my life. 172 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 5: I saw JT on the soup cam throw his headset. 173 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 4: That's exactly right, that's exactly what I'm gonna say. 174 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 6: I was sitting next to those guys and as soon 175 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 6: as Dante goes good night everybody, both of them just 176 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 6: took their headsets off, swammed them on the. 177 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 4: Table, looked at the guy next to him. I was like, 178 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 4: that was the worst thing we've ever done. 179 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 7: First, we had a I had a former director a 180 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 7: while agoes when someone would go bad and we'd be like, 181 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 7: got at. 182 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 3: Home, don't know? 183 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, an auto at home, don't know. Then 184 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: it's all right, Yeah, I know it's funny. You know 185 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: what's funny is the A two in Mexico City. There's 186 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: a language barrier. So the audio people in Mexico City 187 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: gave me the same look as the audio people in 188 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: Charlotte's For some reason. There's certain cities you go to 189 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:00,079 Speaker 1: where you know you're going to have trouble. But I 190 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:01,680 Speaker 1: think what would be interesting, guys, wouldn't it? 191 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 7: Uh? 192 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 1: You know, Ty, you used to be with the team, 193 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: used to travel with the team and go to every city, 194 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 1: and you know, the everybody's seeing the big television trucks 195 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: that are out in front of these big arenas, and 196 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 1: you do that at home, but that truck, you're no 197 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 1: longer with us on the road. Kind of the way 198 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: technology has evolved, and that kind of lends to what 199 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: you're talking about. You're you're very limited in being able 200 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: to help us on site because because you're not there, 201 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: which is kind of interesting, right. 202 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 4: So the industry it's called cloud control now. And there's 203 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 4: still a truck. 204 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 7: There's a truck at the arena, at the venue, so 205 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 7: like last night, where were you last night? 206 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 5: Cleveland? Cleveland last night? So there's a. 207 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 7: Truck outside still and our director is there. We still 208 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 7: have our technical director, all our cameras, the same crew 209 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 7: that would normally be there, but myself, our editor, our 210 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 7: graphics operator, and our score bug operator all stay back 211 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 7: in Orlando and we work out of a room called 212 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 7: the Cloud Control Room, and basically we're just watching everything 213 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 7: on monitors and our graphics operator Derek and Nate, our editor, 214 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 7: they can control their machines through basically an Internet connection, 215 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 7: and the controllers there in Orlando, but they they're hooked 216 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 7: up through internet connection and they can control their machines 217 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 7: and see everything, and we see all the monitors that 218 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 7: we would normally see in the truck, and then we're 219 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 7: just on headsets with everybody in Cleveland in the truck 220 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 7: and kind of you know, directing them that way. 221 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 5: So it's a different way to do it, you know. 222 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 7: So it's literally when David's monitor goes out, I cannot 223 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 7: do anything from our landown other than tell somebody. But 224 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 7: but it's actually, you know, when it first started, before 225 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 7: last season, I was a little skeptical of it, you know, 226 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 7: I you know, one I didn't you know, I like 227 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 7: being on the road with you guys as far as 228 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 7: you know, we come up with ideas and the dinners 229 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 7: and things like that. We really, you know, we talked 230 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 7: magic basketball all the time and you know, a lot 231 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:10,439 Speaker 7: of things are you know, start up from that. But uh, 232 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,439 Speaker 7: you know, we we do these zoom meetings now and 233 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 7: you know, actually the broadcast. I don't think, like I said, 234 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 7: nobody can tell at home that it's that it's different. 235 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 7: I think it's worked out pretty well. And uh, my 236 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 7: wife really likes that I don't travel, so I can 237 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 7: imagine great for the family. Great for the family. And 238 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 7: I enjoy it too. I like getting home, Like last night, 239 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 7: I was home by midnight. I don't know what time 240 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 7: you guys got home, but. 241 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 5: It wasn't midnight. There wasn't midnight midnight. You know, not good. 242 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 5: I wasn't in Cleveland the night before. 243 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 4: That's true. 244 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 2: That's what you didn't get. 245 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 4: You didn't get Mabel's barbecue. 246 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 2: So that's right. 247 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 4: The downside, that's what I miss. I missed the food 248 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 4: and I missed the company. 249 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 2: Well we miss it, Pi, we do. He does. 250 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 3: PI Isny is a he's a triple D guy. He's 251 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 3: a diner, dives and drive ins, dying and needs time. Sir. Yeah, 252 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 3: he's a foodie. And we've found Mabels in Cleveland because 253 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 3: of time they'd read about it. So do you miss 254 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 3: that part of it time do you just just the 255 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 3: restaurants and different dining dining coordinator we missed for sure, and. 256 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 4: I don't miss I don't. 257 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:30,079 Speaker 7: I kind of don't miss the pressure you don't eat. 258 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 5: It's always a lot of pressure. 259 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: But for those that don't know, David's tie comes up 260 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 1: with the venue and David's got to get us there. 261 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: So that's kind of the arrangement, right, there's a pressure 262 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:41,319 Speaker 1: on both. 263 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 2: Of you guys. 264 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 4: It's hard. Listen, it's hard for us to go get dinner. 265 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 6: Now when David and time trip, I don't I don't 266 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 6: even know how we go eat start. 267 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 7: But luckily, luckily we've established our places in different cities, 268 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 7: so we've now we know, oh, preachers that place. 269 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 5: Yeah. 270 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 7: So so those triple D spots that we like in 271 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 7: certain cities we tend to go back to, like like 272 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,439 Speaker 7: Mayboles and stuff. Oh, the Mabels is in a triple 273 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 7: D spot. 274 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 5: It's a chef Eric's. 275 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 4: Michael Simon's restaurant, you know, celebrity Shyes, there you go. 276 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 4: This is barbecue place, very good, very good. 277 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 5: Just so you know, lead dive. 278 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 2: These guys have had nothing but oatmeal and grilled cheese. Sandwiches. 279 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,959 Speaker 4: One more peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Good God, do 280 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 4: I think that? 281 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 5: Oh? 282 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:33,720 Speaker 2: Go ahead? 283 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:37,200 Speaker 6: So when was the first I was in the truck 284 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:39,719 Speaker 6: for the first time? When I was an intern, I 285 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 6: I didn't even know what the truck was. I got 286 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 6: sent out there to do something for for an NBC 287 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 6: national game. I had to do stats, but you had 288 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 6: to do it from the truck. And I had no 289 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 6: experience of what the truck was, who was in the truck, 290 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 6: what happens in the truck. And I remember when I 291 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 6: went out there, it was so intense and so crazy 292 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 6: that when the game was over, like I was, I 293 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 6: had nothing to do other than give the guy the 294 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,079 Speaker 6: score or something like that, and it was I left there. 295 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 4: My eyes were just like boulding out of my head. 296 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 4: It was so intense. People were cursing at each other. 297 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 6: It was it was why what, what was your first 298 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 6: experience in a TV truck? 299 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 4: Like, how did that come about? Well, after my. 300 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 7: Junior year of college, I read to tell him where 301 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 7: to go ahead, go ahead, just kidd of course it 302 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 7: was Indiana University, the mess college in the land. So 303 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 7: after college or after my junior year at Indiana, I 304 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 7: did an internship at then Sunshine Network, and it was 305 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 7: it was during the summer. 306 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 5: You know, it's for of course credit also. 307 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 7: But I knew I I kind of knew about Sunshine Network. 308 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 7: I kind of started to know about these uh sports 309 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 7: networks a little bit and I was interested in it. 310 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 5: So I interned with them. 311 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 7: And it was during the summer, so they didn't have 312 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 7: a lot of things going on, a lot of events 313 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 7: going on. They did Orlando Predators football, They did the 314 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 7: Florida Georgia High School All Star game that was at 315 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 7: over at the Citrus Bowl then, and I believe that 316 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 7: might have been my first experience was in the truck 317 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 7: for that Florida Georgia High School game, or it might 318 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 7: have been a Predators game, but it was. It was 319 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 7: that summer, and you know, just seeing everything that went 320 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 7: on those those events were a little less hectic than 321 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 7: you know, an NBA game or national broadcast, but it 322 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 7: was It's still as soon as I saw it, I 323 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 7: was like, I was hooked. 324 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 4: I was like, this is you know, this is this 325 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 4: is great. 326 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 7: And you know, I will say thirty years ago, the 327 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 7: industry was a lot different. There was a lot more 328 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 7: cursing and yelling at people in the trucks back then, 329 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 7: but nowadays it's a little more hr friendly. 330 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 5: I would say, you. 331 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 2: Know, David has been a good evolution. I would think 332 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 2: all those early days. 333 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Tye is he's great. 334 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 4: You know, I've been sitting here thinking what probably fans 335 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 4: don't understand is that the producer of a game is 336 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 4: like another broadcaster. 337 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 2: Yeah. 338 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 4: I mean he really is, because he's uh, he's in 339 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 4: the truck like you said, or in the cloud whatever 340 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 4: wherever you are. 341 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 5: Now. I still don't understand how that works. 342 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 4: But you're in you know, you're in our ear and 343 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 4: we've talked with ty about what we're doing, you know, 344 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 4: throughout the day, and so we're all on the same page. 345 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 5: And it's like having. 346 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 4: An announcer who's not on air that is part of 347 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 4: the broadcast team. 348 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 5: And Tie is that's what a. 349 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 4: Good producer is, and that's what a really good producer does. 350 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 5: And Tie is he's the best. 351 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 4: He's right there with us and helps us figure out 352 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 4: the topics and how we're going to present ideas that 353 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 4: we have. So yeah, he's he's top notch. Come a 354 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 4: long way from those early days, that's for sure. 355 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 7: Still got me going early on, said this is what 356 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 7: we should do in and open, this is what we 357 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 7: should do here, and I started to grasp it started. 358 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 2: Along the way. 359 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 1: You know what's interesting. I remember walking out of a 360 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 1: game on the road. Sometimes Brian Hill and I will 361 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: travel to do the pregame show, and I remember walking 362 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 1: walking to the bus with Brian. This was early in 363 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: his broadcasting career. And he looks at me and he goes, 364 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,919 Speaker 1: you know, because there was some I forget where Rhoda was. 365 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: There's some interesting people in TV time. There are some 366 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: very interesting people behind the scenes in those television trucks 367 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 1: and working in these arenas. And he looked at me 368 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:45,360 Speaker 1: and he said, what makes these people want to do this? 369 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,639 Speaker 1: Where did these people come from? But how do you 370 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 1: answer that? I mean, right, there's there's Certainly it's great. 371 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 1: It's a great group and we love and we have 372 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 1: a blast every night. But there are some interesting characters 373 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: along the way, for sure. 374 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 4: Arthur, Well, ty ty ty, tell me if I'm wrong time, 375 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:01,640 Speaker 4: and I think we've talked about this. You at one 376 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 4: point you thought you wanted to be an on air 377 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 4: play by play or sportscaster, right or earlier, maybe in 378 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 4: college or prior to that. 379 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,360 Speaker 7: No, No, I don't know what you got that one 380 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 7: I wanted to do that. 381 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 5: I knew I was behind the camera. 382 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 2: That was Al Michaels. That's when you talked to Al Michaels. Yeah, 383 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 2: I guess. 384 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 5: So let's got an al mixed up. 385 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 7: Maybe I took some classes, you know, obviously I took 386 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:28,880 Speaker 7: a lot of production classes in college. 387 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 4: And that there are some tapes of me on camera, 388 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 4: and oh, i'd love. 389 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 5: To see that. 390 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 4: Now you're not going to see that. 391 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 1: That'd probably be better than us producing though, I'll tell 392 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 1: you that. But yeah, but what But there's some interesting 393 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:42,919 Speaker 1: characters and what made you right and what made you 394 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: get into that? That's what you right. When you got 395 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: in early is when you knew this is what you 396 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,639 Speaker 1: wanted to do. Did It's not something you always knew. 397 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 2: You wanted to do. 398 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 4: No, you know, I went to Indiana. You know, I 399 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 4: grew up here in Florida. I went to Lake Holle 400 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 4: High School. 401 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 7: Drop another one there, But I I grew up in 402 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 7: Indiana until I was thirteen, and I always wanted to 403 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,199 Speaker 7: go to IU. And so after I got to from 404 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,679 Speaker 7: high school, I went back to Indiana, went went to 405 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:08,159 Speaker 7: college there. 406 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 5: I was going to go to business. I really wanted to. 407 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 7: Get into advertising, and because I like to be creative, 408 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:16,399 Speaker 7: I liked you know, I watched a lot of TV 409 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,399 Speaker 7: as a kid. I watched you know, obviously commercials and 410 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 7: things like that, probably too much, but so I wanted 411 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 7: to get into advertising. And I was you know, Indiana 412 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 7: has a good business school, So I was going to 413 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 7: go there for business and I figured I'd learned marketing 414 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 7: and advertising to the business school. Well, I guess my 415 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:38,959 Speaker 7: research wasn't very good because once I got there, they said, well, 416 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 7: we don't have an advertising track in the business school. 417 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 7: I'm like, oh, okay, well, how do you know? 418 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 5: How do I do this? 419 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 7: Then and there then they directed me to telecommunications, which 420 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:52,400 Speaker 7: is radio and television department. 421 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 5: I knew nothing about it, so. 422 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,360 Speaker 7: I started reading there you know, syllabus and reading about 423 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 7: the classes like, okay, cool. So I took a class 424 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:03,159 Speaker 7: that was kind of an introductory class about television and 425 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 7: cable television, history of television, all this. 426 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 5: Kind of stuff. 427 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 7: And I took it and I loved it. And from 428 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 7: from that point on, I decided I'm going to go 429 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 7: into you know, radio television. You know, track and then 430 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 7: go into advertising, and they had advertising classes in there, 431 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 7: so I did that, but then I also took production classes, 432 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 7: you know, while I was doing that as well, because 433 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,880 Speaker 7: it's part of the degree. And then once I took 434 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 7: my first production class, that was I was kind of 435 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,919 Speaker 7: hooked on that and slowly I realized I'd rather go 436 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,399 Speaker 7: into the TV the production side of it, than the 437 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 7: advertising side of it. 438 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,199 Speaker 4: So and the advertising. 439 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 7: Side I learned was very competitive as well in Chicago 440 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 7: and the big you know, the the glorified advertising executives 441 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,159 Speaker 7: that's you know those pitch meetings and things like that 442 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 7: you see on TV. 443 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 4: It's hard to get to so hode. 444 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 7: So yeah, so so yeah, so once I once I 445 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,479 Speaker 7: did the production classes and everything and got in in 446 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 7: into all the editing and the camera work and all 447 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 7: that kind of stuff, I was I was voting and 448 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 7: that's when I when I knew I wanted to work 449 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 7: in this business. 450 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, so, Ty, where was your favorite class at I 451 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,640 Speaker 3: do you know? I mean, you gotta gotta tell that story, 452 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 3: come on. 453 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, my favorite class was coaching Basketball by Bob Knight. 454 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: Ah so yeah, that it's an actual class that they 455 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 1: taught and it taught everybody how to coach. 456 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 7: Well, he taught, he taught. It was an eight week 457 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 7: course that he taught at Assembly. 458 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 5: Hall in a room and you go in a room and. 459 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 7: He would lecture for an hour, walk up and down 460 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 7: the aisle, lecturing, and it was mostly I mean, he 461 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 7: would tell you from the beginning that it was a 462 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 7: it was the only people that were in there should 463 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 7: be education majors, because he was he was trying to 464 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 7: teach people how to coach basketball at like a high 465 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 7: school and and be a teacher as well, and kind 466 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 7: of manage your time and all that kind of stuff. 467 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:16,399 Speaker 7: So so he would lecture for an hour about you know, 468 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 7: setting up you know, practice, you know, routines and and 469 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 7: managing your. 470 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 4: Time and things like that. 471 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 7: And then afterwards then you would go out to the lab, 472 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,479 Speaker 7: which was to go out to the actual court at 473 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 7: Assembly Hall, and the assistant coaches would run you through 474 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 7: drills and teach you all these different drills that you 475 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:37,640 Speaker 7: would you know, that you should use as a high 476 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 7: school coach and stuff. So that course went on for 477 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,120 Speaker 7: like eight weeks, uh, and it was it was awesome. 478 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,719 Speaker 7: It was awesome just to you know, growing up, you know, 479 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 7: admiring Bob Knight and having him like, you know, just 480 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 7: walking right by you in the in the aisle of 481 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 7: the classroom. 482 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 5: It was great. 483 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 7: And uh, you know, he would bring in you know, 484 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,160 Speaker 7: he's got a lot you know, JT. You know, he's 485 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,399 Speaker 7: got a lot of friends that are just you know, 486 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,120 Speaker 7: through this industry, and so, you know, so he would 487 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 7: have friends stop by just to see him, and he 488 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 7: would bring him in to the lecture and have them 489 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 7: talk to us. Like one day Dick shapp talked to 490 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 7: us for an hour, gave us, you know, a little lecture. 491 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 7: Was it was great, you know, so definitely my favorite class. 492 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,160 Speaker 7: And I got a name, get a name. How difficult 493 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 7: was it in to get in that class? 494 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:24,880 Speaker 2: That must have been. 495 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 4: I would think a lot of students that I wanted 496 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 4: to take that class. Yeah, you know, I had to 497 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 4: have been. And I don't remember. 498 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 7: I remember trying to get in, and actually myself and 499 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 7: my roommate got into it, so we took the class together. 500 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 7: So I don't know, I don't remember it being difficult 501 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 7: to get in. It had to have been to get in, 502 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 7: but somehow I got lucky, we got it. So because 503 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 7: it's only an eight week course and he only teaches 504 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 7: it for what eight weeks during this during the year, 505 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 7: so we took our senior year. 506 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 5: We were able to get in. That's great. 507 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: Well they were there for some good who your teams too, 508 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,479 Speaker 1: I imagine, right, so that that experience could have only helped, right, 509 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: So getting to getting to be around that entire experience. 510 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 2: From a ballot, yeah, standpoint. 511 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 7: Yeah, we went to a final four. Iieve it was 512 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 7: my uh sophomore year, you know, Calvert Channing, Red Calbert Cheney, 513 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 7: it was my neighbor my junior year. 514 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 5: We had Yeah, we had some some great guys. 515 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 1: So well to take us take us back to so 516 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 1: now you're you're out of college, you're here, you're trying 517 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: to get into this TV industry, and now you've got 518 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,439 Speaker 1: a team that burst onto the scene. Right, You've got 519 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,199 Speaker 1: an expansion team down here in central Florida. There's a 520 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: huge buzz in town. I've only seen the videos, but 521 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: I see Maddy Gucas with this giant olive garden pin 522 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,360 Speaker 1: on him. Right, Like, take us back to some take 523 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 1: us back to some of the early TV as. You're 524 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: trying to get this network started and you got a 525 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: new franchise some of the some of the fun maybe 526 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: funny things that that you guys were doing back then. 527 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 5: Yeah. 528 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 4: So, I mean I I came, you know, I was 529 00:24:58,640 --> 00:24:59,639 Speaker 4: in I was in. 530 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 7: Sorry. 531 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,360 Speaker 4: I graduated from high school in nineteen eighty nine. 532 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 7: That was the year the Magic came along, and so 533 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 7: I immediately went, you know, to IU and the team 534 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 7: started year. So I didn't really have much I wasn't 535 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 7: around the city or that much during the early years 536 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 7: other than just every once in a while seeing them 537 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,360 Speaker 7: on TV and stuff. 538 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 5: And when I would come. 539 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 4: Back, I would try to get tickets and come to 540 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:23,680 Speaker 4: a game. 541 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 7: But then after you know, after I graduated, moved back, 542 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 7: you know, I immediately started working in the in arena 543 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 7: in the dumbotrot room, and that was like you know, 544 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,959 Speaker 7: so that was nineteen ninety three, and yeah, I mean 545 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 7: it was it was just a different time. I mean, 546 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,360 Speaker 7: you know that, you know, when I started, that's when 547 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,159 Speaker 7: things were really good, all right, right, teams, So with 548 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 7: Shaq and you know, Penny was my first year and everything. 549 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 7: So it was just it was just electric and then 550 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,919 Speaker 7: you know, we were you know, back then TV the 551 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 7: technology wasn't what it is today, but we were just 552 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,439 Speaker 7: you know, we were you know, I was logging highlights 553 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,399 Speaker 7: and things like that, and we were editing things, you know, 554 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 7: like just the old you know, linear way, and it 555 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 7: was just but it was a lot of fun. I 556 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 7: mean we we were I was in the edit suite 557 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 7: with you know, Rick Price and Kevin Cosgrog and with Watson. 558 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 7: We'd be there late at night editing features and things 559 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 7: like that, and so you know, you know, we did 560 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 7: deep dives into the into these players and interviews and 561 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,679 Speaker 7: things like that that we did for halftime features and 562 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 7: things like that, which we've kind of gotten away from 563 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 7: a little bit. I mean, we have the access the 564 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 7: inside the magic shows and stuff we do, but I 565 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 7: feel like back then, we really did a lot of 566 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 7: a lot of profiles of the players. 567 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 5: And things like that. 568 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 7: Got to know, you know, Shaq and Nick and Penny 569 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 7: and those guys, and you know even the you know, 570 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 7: Anthony Bowie's of the world and Donald Royle's and every 571 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:52,879 Speaker 7: once in a while we did talk to j T 572 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 7: and stuff. 573 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 5: But uh, but yeah, but no, it was. 574 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 3: Ty. 575 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 6: So when when you guys are having production meetings, there's 576 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,880 Speaker 6: a lot of there's a lot of cooks in the room. 577 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 6: How do you manage everybody's ideas, including your own ideas 578 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 6: and Greg Vartung's ideas, and how do you manage what 579 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 6: is going to make it into the broadcast that night. 580 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 7: Well, ultimately it's it's you know people, Yeah, someone has 581 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 7: an idea. It's it's a matter of how are we 582 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,360 Speaker 7: going to present the idea, you know, video wise, graphically, 583 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 7: how is it going to look? And if we can 584 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,959 Speaker 7: make it look good and they want to talk about it, 585 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 7: then that's what you know, that's what we'll do. So 586 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 7: there there are sometimes there's ideas you're like, well, I 587 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 7: just don't know how we're going to present that. You know, 588 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,879 Speaker 7: it's a great idea in your head or whatever or 589 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 7: in my head or whatever, but I just don't know 590 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 7: how the best way, and we don't. We don't have 591 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 7: a lot of those. I mean usually, I mean obviously 592 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 7: we're we're we're a tight. 593 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 5: Nique group, we're a gig group. 594 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 7: So if somebody has an idea, you know, it's usually 595 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 7: pretty good and we're usually able to figure out the 596 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 7: best way to present it, and that it's it's mostly 597 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,880 Speaker 7: just a conversation of of how we're going to do it. 598 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 7: It's rare that you know there's something. You know, somebody 599 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 7: comes up with something and we're like, no, that's that's 600 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 7: so good. 601 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 4: It's usually Dante's idea where you go now. 602 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 5: You're very good. 603 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: Well yeah, but I started I start talking. Everybody's zipping 604 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 1: up their bags right as soon as hey, what do 605 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 1: you guys think about? Okay, well, time to go, time 606 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:30,159 Speaker 1: to go. 607 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 5: Thing. 608 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 4: It's like, can we get this and this and this 609 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 4: and this. I'm like Dante, there's only like so many 610 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 4: hours of the day. 611 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:36,199 Speaker 5: I can't do that. 612 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,959 Speaker 4: Well, we got one hundred and twenty sponsors to get into. 613 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. That's true. 614 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 3: Is that. 615 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 4: Let's get a word from Florida Lottery. When I'm in 616 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 4: the truck, those are my favorite. I when I when 617 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 4: I know, when. 618 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 6: I get your tie, say all right, roll out for 619 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 6: whoever steak and shake, roll roll out for Florida Lottery. 620 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 4: I put somebody my favorites. 621 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, gotta tew right tag you gotta fail again, tyd, 622 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 1: How would you explain for everybody? 623 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 2: Give us an example of is this anything? 624 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: So we go through our meeting, We've got it all 625 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: laid out and you always save it for the end, 626 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,959 Speaker 1: all right, David, what you got for is this anything? 627 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 7: So? 628 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 2: How is it? 629 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: Let everybody know how it's presented to us, and how 630 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: we alt ultimately. 631 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 2: Land on is this anything? 632 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 7: Every night, well, usually David, he'll start out with, well, 633 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 7: I was wondering, right, and she says on, I mean 634 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 7: truthfully that what he says on the air is not 635 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 7: too much different than what's in the meat. 636 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 2: That's a good point. 637 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 3: Well, I was. 638 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,280 Speaker 7: Wondering, and he explains it, you know. But and then 639 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 7: he'll lay something out and we'll go, yeah, okay, but 640 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 7: right then I got something, but I got something else 641 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 7: blah blah blah, you know, and then then we're like yeah, 642 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 7: but then there's this other thing. 643 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 4: And so usually two or three get he saves the best. 644 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 7: One for last money knows we're gonna use, you know, 645 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 7: but you know, sometimes there's like, well this one we 646 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 7: could use you know later, you know, you know, when 647 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 7: we play Cleveland next week, or you know, let's wait 648 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 7: until you know, we'll see how this plays out. 649 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 4: For a little bit longer, and and everything like that. 650 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 5: So you try to say too much sets me up. 651 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 4: He doesn't want to say much because he doesn't want 652 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 4: to tip whether he's whether it's going to be a 653 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 4: bell or a buzzer, And I don't want to totally 654 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 4: give away who's deciding that, but let's just say he 655 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:24,200 Speaker 4: saw this podcast. 656 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 2: But the thing is, hold on. 657 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 5: Oh so do we happy? 658 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: Are we making our big reveal here? Is this our 659 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: big reveal? Are you saying Ty Eastam is responsible for 660 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: the bell or buzzer? 661 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 5: Possibly? 662 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 2: Possibly? 663 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 4: But is that from what I hear there? There's uh 664 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 4: sometimes a boat goes on in the truck? 665 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 5: Is that right, Ty? Yeah, it's not. 666 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 4: It's not totally on me. I mean, I'll I'll take 667 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 4: a poll sometimes in the truck and say what do 668 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 4: you think? 669 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 5: You know? What do you guys think? You know? 670 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 7: You don't have a lot of supporters in the truck. 671 00:30:54,800 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 7: So the times we're overruled a little bit hard on 672 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 7: that's final? Say top tie is the final word I 673 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 7: used the truck. 674 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,239 Speaker 3: Yeah, I just make let's just let's just get this 675 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 3: out of the way, guys real quick. For for me, 676 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,640 Speaker 3: for David's is this eighth on Twitter? And all that 677 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 3: tie is the truck? Right? 678 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 4: JT doesn't have a buzzer under the tape. JT's not 679 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 4: out to get David right now. 680 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 3: I wait in and I'm sure time maybe think about 681 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 3: maybe what I say, probably not, probably trips some of it. 682 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 6: Sometimes I'm relying on JT to help me. Right, has 683 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 6: JT ever swayed you tie? Has your decision been made? 684 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 6: And then all of a sudden, JT makes an argument 685 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 6: on the air and you go, oh, that's not that's 686 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 6: not a bad point. 687 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 4: I've never been swayed from a bell to a buzzer 688 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 4: or vice versa. 689 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 7: You like, when I've been what I've been on the fence, 690 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:58,760 Speaker 7: that's when it's like, I don't know. 691 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 5: And then then I got a. 692 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 3: Buzzer to a bell, a buzzer to a bell, yes, 693 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 3: but not a bell to a buzzer, right, just get that. 694 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 4: Let's lay it out there. 695 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:10,520 Speaker 3: Wait. 696 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 4: JT gets very sensitive when well you got this is. 697 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:17,320 Speaker 5: This is George. 698 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 3: People will walk up to me and you know, and 699 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 3: it's like bell or buzzer tonight it's a buzzer. Oh 700 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 3: wait to go, JT. 701 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 4: You know, I mean, but no credits for the ballast. 702 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 4: David gets all the credit. David gets the credit for 703 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 4: the bells. 704 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 7: Yeah, my favorite is like David in the meet or 705 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 7: even like when we look at elements, I show them 706 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 7: elements before, you know, before the game, so they can 707 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 7: see everything we've built, and he can see his graphic 708 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 7: before we go on the air and everything, you know, 709 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 7: in the meeting and then and the grat you know, 710 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,120 Speaker 7: where we're doing it. You know, it's nothing. He's like, 711 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 7: he's saying, it's nothing, you know, and I'm like, don okay. Yeah. 712 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 7: Then when he gets on the air, it's like, oh, 713 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 7: this is the greatest thing ever. Listens definitely, I've got 714 00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 7: I've got. 715 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 5: That sale it you gotta sell. 716 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 7: And he tries to reel be in like it's you know, 717 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 7: it's not anything. But then you know, then he starts 718 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 7: to make me feel bad, like you know, yeah, but 719 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,240 Speaker 7: you know when both ways because in the meeting, you'll 720 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 7: you'll you'll give me the old. 721 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah that yeah, let's let's go with that. 722 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 5: I like that one. 723 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 4: And then you know, I sell it hard and then 724 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:22,720 Speaker 4: rope that. 725 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,240 Speaker 3: It's interesting this like a lot of times time we 726 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 3: don't know, like David has all this other information he 727 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 3: doesn't reveal right at leading everything. So oh yeah, there's 728 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 3: a little bit of a surprise for us. 729 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 4: You know, we weren't where there's a there's a game 730 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 4: within within the game that comes on. 731 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 7: Really, I will I will say though he's he's got 732 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 7: a lot of bells this year. 733 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 4: Yes, it's yeah, Well there's a lot of material, good 734 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:53,120 Speaker 4: material out with. 735 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,880 Speaker 5: Yeah, I do. I love a good buzzer. 736 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,959 Speaker 1: What's the impetus? That's the what's the impetus for a buzzer? 737 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 1: Before he even finishes speaking, when do you decide? 738 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 5: Just decid? 739 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 4: Well, we've done that a couple of times that day. 740 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:09,759 Speaker 5: Those are fun. Those are fun. 741 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:12,319 Speaker 2: Those are fun. 742 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,280 Speaker 1: But you know what, David, you did this what says 743 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,600 Speaker 1: it's seven years to seven or eight years ago. Seventh 744 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,360 Speaker 1: year we started just because of what we're all talking about, 745 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 1: entertained ourselves because the team was not waiting, you know, 746 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:25,920 Speaker 1: not waiting many games. 747 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,240 Speaker 4: So you know, we we came up with this idea 748 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,840 Speaker 4: collectively to do something fun because I'm always at meetings, 749 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,319 Speaker 4: production meeting throwing out, you know, crazy things that I've 750 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 4: found in my research. So we just decided to put 751 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,279 Speaker 4: that in the show every night. And here we are 752 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,040 Speaker 4: seven years later, and I can't get rid of. 753 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:47,680 Speaker 6: It because because you know, it's not just basketball things 754 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,919 Speaker 6: where that pops up, like we'll be at dinner talking 755 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:51,880 Speaker 6: about something and you'll throw something out there and go, 756 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,239 Speaker 6: is that anything like like that's we had become part 757 00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 6: of the vernacular. 758 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, this is certainly a lot more fun when 759 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 1: you're winning. I guess, ty, I guess as we close 760 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,480 Speaker 1: this thing out, like, what would your advice be. There's 761 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:07,879 Speaker 1: a lot of people that are trying to break into 762 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: this industry, and you know, there's opportunities behind the scenes. 763 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 2: I think that maybe people. 764 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,320 Speaker 1: Aren't aware of you know, you don't know that everyone 765 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 1: can can get to kind of where you're at. But 766 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,359 Speaker 1: what would your advice be two people that are kind 767 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: of coming into this industry and then what you've seen. 768 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 1: I mean, we're we're we're a close knit group. 769 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:24,279 Speaker 2: We really are. 770 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,240 Speaker 1: It's kind of like family through the course of a season, 771 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,160 Speaker 1: all the time we spend together. I know that helps, right, 772 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 1: you have good chemistry with the people you work with. 773 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:32,800 Speaker 1: But maybe maybe some some advice for people trying to 774 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 1: get in. 775 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,799 Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I obviously it's been the same thing 776 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,840 Speaker 7: for me and for years it's like just if you 777 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,440 Speaker 7: can get in, just work hard and just try to 778 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,520 Speaker 7: learn as much as you can and show that you 779 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,720 Speaker 7: you know that you're valuable, that you can be of value, 780 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,760 Speaker 7: you know, you know, just whether it's you know editing 781 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,200 Speaker 7: or you know, taking the initiative to edit your own 782 00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:57,200 Speaker 7: stuff and things like that. 783 00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,000 Speaker 4: I mean to in today's world with technology. 784 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,239 Speaker 7: You know, it used to be when I started, if 785 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:06,040 Speaker 7: I wanted to edit something, I had to go go 786 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 7: to a room that had you know, a million dollars 787 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,360 Speaker 7: worth of equipment, you know, expensive equipment to edit with. 788 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,560 Speaker 7: Now you can edit on your laptop. Any any any 789 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,920 Speaker 7: college student can get one hundred dollars or whatever it 790 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,280 Speaker 7: can get editing equipment on their laptop. 791 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 4: And and just. 792 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:25,640 Speaker 5: Just start editing stuff. 793 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,440 Speaker 7: You know, you can get stuff off the YouTube, off 794 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,080 Speaker 7: the internet, you can and make videos and things like 795 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,640 Speaker 7: that and just show that you can tell stories and 796 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,960 Speaker 7: things like that. So it's a lot easier to show, 797 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,080 Speaker 7: you know, what you can do or to practice and 798 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,319 Speaker 7: be creative than it used to be. So that's what 799 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,160 Speaker 7: I would tell somebody that wants to get in the industry, 800 00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:47,279 Speaker 7: is like, like, use the technology that that's out there 801 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,920 Speaker 7: that anybody can get to and show. I mean, people 802 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 7: edit stuff on their phones and things like that. You know, 803 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,480 Speaker 7: it's it's crazy what they can do. So if you 804 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,480 Speaker 7: if you have that interest, you know, do that and 805 00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:58,360 Speaker 7: show that to people. 806 00:36:58,400 --> 00:36:59,359 Speaker 5: And then, you know. 807 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:03,040 Speaker 7: Just make sure your research. You know the the industry 808 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,799 Speaker 7: and know where where the internships are and where the 809 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,880 Speaker 7: opportunities might be. But don't be afraid to you know. 810 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:11,759 Speaker 7: You know a lot of times, you know, people are like, well, 811 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:12,600 Speaker 7: I'm not getting. 812 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:13,360 Speaker 5: Paid for this or whatever. 813 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,960 Speaker 7: You got to just pay your dues and just get 814 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,640 Speaker 7: out there and work. And you know, that's how That's 815 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,400 Speaker 7: how it worked for me. So I had no idea 816 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:27,160 Speaker 7: about I had no idea about sports television until I 817 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,759 Speaker 7: took a class in college and I had to do 818 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,960 Speaker 7: a paper. I was a sports television class, so I 819 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,880 Speaker 7: had to do a paper on something to do with 820 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,520 Speaker 7: sports television. So I reached out to the people at 821 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,600 Speaker 7: Sunshine Network and asked them, like, you know, can you 822 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,239 Speaker 7: send me some info? And they sent me a whole 823 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,319 Speaker 7: pamphlet of stuff and all this all this information. I 824 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:48,440 Speaker 7: had no idea about it. 825 00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,960 Speaker 4: And then I was like, hey, you guys have the 826 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,560 Speaker 4: internships and they're like, well, we haven't before, but we're 827 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,640 Speaker 4: going to start this year. So I was actually Sunshine 828 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,359 Speaker 4: networks first intern just because I reached out to them 829 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:01,440 Speaker 4: and ask them about it. 830 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,200 Speaker 5: Oh so yeah, so that's just you. 831 00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:08,400 Speaker 4: Just gotta's got to do the work, be proactive. I 832 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,880 Speaker 4: think your advice is good pretty much in any profession. 833 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:16,840 Speaker 4: Everything you said is true, George, I'm sure in your world. 834 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:18,719 Speaker 4: And you know, I talked to a lot of young 835 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,239 Speaker 4: broadcasters and tell them that too. You know, they've got 836 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,680 Speaker 4: so many opportunities now that we didn't have with the 837 00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,720 Speaker 4: Internet to get experience or at least get a tape 838 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,239 Speaker 4: or I don't even know. You don't even call it 839 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:31,840 Speaker 4: a tape anymore, do you. I don't, I don't know 840 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,520 Speaker 4: what you call it whatever, But you've got a big file, 841 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,160 Speaker 4: you son of a file instead of a file. Yeah, 842 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,120 Speaker 4: but uh yeah, the opportunities are out there. Just you 843 00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,640 Speaker 4: just got to find what your niche niche is and 844 00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:45,439 Speaker 4: and go for it and and do the work. 845 00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:49,160 Speaker 5: Like you said, Ty, that's great advice. Yeah. 846 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:50,359 Speaker 2: Well thanks for joining us, Ty. 847 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,600 Speaker 1: We figured once we got our third interview with Peg 848 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,640 Speaker 1: from Finance that it was time to have tie on. 849 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,880 Speaker 2: You know, it's not that's way overdue, way overdue. 850 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,720 Speaker 1: With thirty we don't work with you for thirty years 851 00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:03,600 Speaker 1: and we've never had John, So this was great to 852 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,360 Speaker 1: finally great to finally catch up with you. 853 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,040 Speaker 4: This is this isn't your first podcast. I thought it 854 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:12,759 Speaker 4: was the first guest. Oh yeah, you guys have been 855 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:13,479 Speaker 4: doing it a wife. 856 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:14,799 Speaker 5: Thanks for you. 857 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,240 Speaker 4: Aren't you in charge of us? You oversee? 858 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:21,760 Speaker 2: Well, let's see if we can't. 859 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,000 Speaker 1: Work in one more dinner at Cattleman's or something before 860 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,319 Speaker 1: this is all, before this season is all said and done, right, 861 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,319 Speaker 1: or you're you're not missing this road at all type, 862 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,040 Speaker 1: You're not missing being on the road at all. 863 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,640 Speaker 5: Only the food and the company. 864 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:35,920 Speaker 1: All right, Thanks so much, Ty. That'll do it for 865 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,560 Speaker 1: this edition of Magic Pod Squad. We'll see you next time.