Latest / Earn Your Leisure / EYL #149 Joy Taylor on Broadcasting, & The Business of Sports
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- 3:07Speaker 4: All right, guys, welcome back e y l l A edition.
- 3:11Speaker 4: We're on the legendary run here. It's probably our best
- 3:14Speaker 4: content that we've ever shot, and we've done a bunch
- 3:16Speaker 4: of sports episodes. Shout out to be Diddy, our boy
- 3:19Speaker 4: parent David. Shout out to John.
- 3:21Speaker 2: Sally the first time we had shout at him.
- 3:25Speaker 4: Harrington. That's that's the brop but common denominated. There's a
- 3:29Speaker 4: lot of testosterone in these these interviews there's a lot
- 3:34Speaker 4: of testosterone in these interviews that we're doing, so it's
- 3:38Speaker 4: only right that we we balance things out or try
- 3:40Speaker 4: to balance things out. But this is actually the first
- 3:43Speaker 4: episode that we have ever done with a sports commentatory,
- 3:48Speaker 4: so you're breaking ground for us. Joey Taylor one of
- 3:52Speaker 4: our favorites ever since she was with the other network.
- 3:55Speaker 4: I don't know if there's beef with that situation, but
- 3:58Speaker 4: he's what ESPN, no other show, the show on the show?
- 4:02Speaker 6: Oh no, no no.
- 4:03Speaker 4: I get that a lot though, because it feels like
- 4:05Speaker 4: it was on.
- 4:05Speaker 6: Because like trolls will be like, that's why you got
- 4:07Speaker 6: fired for people. Get I used to work for the
- 4:12Speaker 6: ESPN affiliate when I did my show in Miami, so
- 4:15Speaker 6: that's where the confusion may lie. But you're not really
- 4:18Speaker 6: working for ESPN when you're an affiliate stations. But no,
- 4:21Speaker 6: there's no beef with Undisputed.
- 4:23Speaker 4: Okay, okay, shout out to undershoot it.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, wait, what happened? Wait? I gotta wait
- 4:28Speaker 2: another hour. I got like two hours.
- 4:31Speaker 4: Okay, But now she's on the Herd and co hosts
- 4:34Speaker 4: Yes the fact, and we watched these shows a lot.
- 4:37Speaker 4: I used to watch it a lot more, but when
- 4:39Speaker 4: I had more free time. But I was always in
- 4:41Speaker 4: the sports debate shows, in sports shows. So it's an
- 4:45Speaker 4: interesting dynamic because these are conversations that we have all
- 4:48Speaker 4: the time.
- 4:48Speaker 2: They get pretty heated.
- 4:49Speaker 6: Yeah, well, yeah, that's what sports I mean, that's fan
- 4:52Speaker 6: is short for fanatic. So we don't like to think
- 4:55Speaker 6: of ourselves that way, but that's that's what sports conversations are.
- 4:59Speaker 6: There's a lot of opinion.
- 5:01Speaker 4: You know what we didn't have who I'm moderator, Yeah,
- 5:04Speaker 4: we did EYL Sports coming soon. So I'm excited to
- 5:09Speaker 4: have this conversation because I feel like all of the
- 5:12Speaker 4: sports conversations that we've had on the show have been
- 5:14Speaker 4: with athletes, but we've never had anybody from it that's
- 5:18Speaker 4: in the sports world that's not an athlete. And I'm
- 5:22Speaker 4: interested to get your perspective. I'm interested in to hit
- 5:24Speaker 4: the business out of it, your journey, the whole nine yard.
- 5:28Speaker 4: So first and Foremoal, thank you for joining us, appreciate it.
- 5:30Speaker 6: Now, thank you for having me. I'm sorry I pooled
- 5:32Speaker 6: the LA thing late, made it happen, so edit that
- 5:38Speaker 6: part of.
- 5:41Speaker 4: It's so good. It's so good, all right, So let's
- 5:44Speaker 4: jump into it. So how did you get started into this?
- 5:46Speaker 4: Because you know, I was thinking about it. It's actually
- 5:49Speaker 4: probably you know how they say, like it's like one
- 5:51Speaker 4: in a million chances to be in the NBA. But
- 5:53Speaker 4: there's like three hundred and some of my players in
- 5:56Speaker 4: the NBA. But there's only probably like twenty people that
- 5:59Speaker 4: actually commentate on sports on major networks. So it's probably
- 6:02Speaker 4: even rarer to even do what you do if you
- 6:05Speaker 4: look at it from that standpoint, there's not a lot
- 6:06Speaker 4: of people that do that, especially if they're not athletes.
- 6:10Speaker 4: So how did you get into this?
- 6:12Speaker 2: Well?
- 6:12Speaker 6: I played sports growing up. I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 6:15Speaker 6: If you know anything about Pittsburgh or that part of
- 6:17Speaker 6: the country, I mean, the sports is like a way
- 6:20Speaker 6: of life, like they wrapped the babies in terrible towels
- 6:22Speaker 6: when they're born, like it's not adoption. And I actually
- 6:26Speaker 6: grew up around a lot of women who were very
- 6:28Speaker 6: passionate about sports. My grandmother and my aunts, my mom
- 6:32Speaker 6: were just like hardcore sports fans, like they would really
- 6:36Speaker 6: be mad if the Steelers lost, and whatever was going
- 6:39Speaker 6: on during the day, like once the game comes on,
- 6:42Speaker 6: cut whatever we're doing we're watching the game. So I
- 6:45Speaker 6: played sports growing up. I played basketball, volleyball, soccer, and
- 6:48Speaker 6: ran and ran track in college and then obviously my
- 6:51Speaker 6: brother I played from you know, as long as I
- 6:53Speaker 6: can remember. So I've always been around sports and kind
- 6:59Speaker 6: of I have that I guess that traditional broadcasting story.
- 7:02Speaker 6: I've heard a lot of people who are in news
- 7:04Speaker 6: be like, oh, you know, I used to do broadcasts
- 7:06Speaker 6: with the you know, hairbrush and stuff. My mom had
- 7:09Speaker 6: gotten us this old school camera that you put the
- 7:13Speaker 6: whole VHS tape. If you're probably under the age twenty
- 7:16Speaker 6: five year idea, what that is that you put a
- 7:19Speaker 6: whole tape in the whole camera thing. So we used
- 7:22Speaker 6: to shoot like Kung Fu movies and you know, news
- 7:26Speaker 6: broadcasts and stuff. So I probably always was meant to
- 7:30Speaker 6: be on the broadcasting side. But I just always loved sports.
- 7:33Speaker 6: I wanted to be Michael Jordan, which you know five
- 7:37Speaker 6: to two, so that's not happening. Yeah. So I just
- 7:40Speaker 6: always had an opinion about sports. Like we were saying
- 7:42Speaker 6: before we started recording, like if you're a sports fan,
- 7:44Speaker 6: you have an opinion about everything, like you care like
- 7:46Speaker 6: you're a fanatic, you care about your teams, You care
- 7:48Speaker 6: about what they should do, you care about who your
- 7:50Speaker 6: favorite player is, and you know, being a college athlete,
- 7:54Speaker 6: you kind of start to understand how hard it is
- 7:57Speaker 6: to go from it's hard to go from high school
- 8:00Speaker 6: to play in college, but from college to the pros
- 8:02Speaker 6: is as you said, it's really rare. It's hard to do.
- 8:05Speaker 6: So I had all this kind of background in sports
- 8:08Speaker 6: to begin with, and then I went to Barry University
- 8:10Speaker 6: in Miami for broadcast journalism. And when I got to school,
- 8:15Speaker 6: one of my professors had one of the managers of
- 8:19Speaker 6: the radio station, which I didn't even know that we
- 8:22Speaker 6: had at the school, come in and talk to our
- 8:24Speaker 6: class and was like, you know, we're looking for radio
- 8:27Speaker 6: hosts for the radio station here, And I was like,
- 8:30Speaker 6: how did I even have spots? Like we're all and
- 8:32Speaker 6: so we should all be trying to do that. So
- 8:34Speaker 6: I went down and signed up for a show and
- 8:37Speaker 6: just started learning the basics of radio, which I always
- 8:40Speaker 6: really loved radio. I loved Howard Stern, I loved listening
- 8:43Speaker 6: to morning shows. I liked the idea that you could
- 8:46Speaker 6: bring somebody into the room with you, like theater of
- 8:50Speaker 6: the mind. You know, when you listen to a good
- 8:52Speaker 6: radio show, you feel like you're a part of their life,
- 8:54Speaker 6: like you want to know, like what happened with that.
- 8:57Speaker 6: You know they got in a fight with their wife
- 8:59Speaker 6: last night, they're going to talk it or this prank,
- 9:01Speaker 6: and you feel like you're in the room with them,
- 9:03Speaker 6: and you really establish kind of a relationship because it's
- 9:06Speaker 6: your routine to listen to them every day. So I
- 9:08Speaker 6: love that. And on the business side of things, I
- 9:13Speaker 6: try to look ahead at what the direction the business
- 9:16Speaker 6: was going in, and a lot of people think like
- 9:19Speaker 6: you got to start as a reporter or a writer,
- 9:22Speaker 6: and to me, I saw what was happening with politics.
- 9:25Speaker 6: Most political shows are really just opinion shows. They're labeled
- 9:29Speaker 6: as news, but we know they're not news. Their opinion.
- 9:32Speaker 6: It's news opinion. Sports and politics have a lot in
- 9:35Speaker 6: common because it's really and now even more become the
- 9:38Speaker 6: last live thing you can really watch. So opinion is
- 9:41Speaker 6: very valuable because people watch it live and then they
- 9:43Speaker 6: want to hear what you think about it. So I
- 9:45Speaker 6: felt like it was the right move for me to
- 9:48Speaker 6: go into an opinion direction, and radio gives you that
- 9:50Speaker 6: format because what are we doing here? We're just talking
- 9:53Speaker 6: so started interning at sports radio station in Miami, and
- 9:58Speaker 6: then I interned on a music morning show, DJ Laz
- 10:02Speaker 6: Power ninety six, and that gave me sort of a
- 10:04Speaker 6: background in you know, and entertainment and booking guests and
- 10:10Speaker 6: how do you create a following and that kind of
- 10:13Speaker 6: energy that I was talking about where people are like
- 10:15Speaker 6: in the room with you and get to know your character.
- 10:17Speaker 6: So that was kind of like my my base and
- 10:19Speaker 6: how I really started to get into the business and
- 10:21Speaker 6: learn the business.
- 10:22Speaker 3: From a financial standpoint, because a lot of people will
- 10:24Speaker 3: stop their dream because they'll say it doesn't pay enough
- 10:27Speaker 3: at this point. Are you doing other things to supplement
- 10:30Speaker 3: income or was this something that was paying for your
- 10:32Speaker 3: life at the time.
- 10:34Speaker 6: You know, it's funny. I was talking to a young
- 10:37Speaker 6: girl who's graduating school in a month or so, and
- 10:42Speaker 6: what they don't tell you about broadcasting is you're not
- 10:45Speaker 6: going to make any money.
- 10:48Speaker 2: That's what I've heard.
- 10:49Speaker 6: Don't get in the business. If that's your plan. If
- 10:52Speaker 6: you have you know, a trust fund, or you got
- 10:54Speaker 6: like some other kind of situations, that's that's that's good.
- 10:59Speaker 6: Make sure you're hung though, because that's not going to
- 11:01Speaker 6: help you move up either. You just don't make any
- 11:04Speaker 6: money when you first get in the business. My first
- 11:05Speaker 6: job ended up being at the place I interned at
- 11:09Speaker 6: five sixty q AM in Miami, and I think I
- 11:11Speaker 6: made like eight fifty an hour or something in Miami.
- 11:14Speaker 6: So that's not enough enough, so I bartended and freelanced it.
- 11:20Speaker 6: Like I mean, I think at one point I had
- 11:22Speaker 6: like ten jobs, so writing anywhere, picking up shifts on
- 11:26Speaker 6: the weekends. I had two bartending jobs. I mean there
- 11:31Speaker 6: was a month out like I really worked every single day,
- 11:34Speaker 6: like bartended every single day, and freelance on the weekends.
- 11:38Speaker 6: Like you're just not going to make any money when
- 11:40Speaker 6: you first get in the business. It's just how it is.
- 11:42Speaker 6: They don't tell you that. And because it's television, it
- 11:45Speaker 6: seems like it's like a it's a glamor job, even radio,
- 11:48Speaker 6: like it's a glamour job, and it is, but it
- 11:50Speaker 6: just doesn't pay until you get to the highest, highest,
- 11:53Speaker 6: highest level. So yeah, I mean it's you always have
- 11:57Speaker 6: to have other income from the beginning. And really actually
- 12:02Speaker 6: even the guys and women who at the highest level
- 12:04Speaker 6: always have multiple jobs because it's a very unpredictable business.
- 12:07Speaker 6: And I think we all saw that this past year,
- 12:09Speaker 6: like it's you could not have sports and then what
- 12:12Speaker 6: do you do.
- 12:14Speaker 3: I'm still wondering why people are broadcasting from home because
- 12:16Speaker 3: I feel like if they're going into these situations like
- 12:18Speaker 3: these arenas, I'm looking at it like why are we
- 12:22Speaker 3: at home doing a game when we could just be
- 12:24Speaker 3: in the boxes at the game.
- 12:26Speaker 2: What do you mean?
- 12:27Speaker 4: Like broadcasters they are at the game. A lot of
- 12:30Speaker 4: them are doing it from home. Like Chris Webber, that's him,
- 12:36Speaker 4: that's not him.
- 12:38Speaker 3: Like I watched Ryan ROOKLD the other day, he was
- 12:40Speaker 3: doing it from his boss.
- 12:41Speaker 6: A lot for the industry's changed a lot because of
- 12:45Speaker 6: the pandemic. One thing that a lot of the studios
- 12:49Speaker 6: have learned that you don't have to be in studio.
- 12:52Speaker 6: So like for us, we used to never have guests
- 12:55Speaker 6: unless they were in studio or unless they were like
- 12:59Speaker 6: at a studio with a studio camera and studio connection.
- 13:02Speaker 6: Like we would never do skype, very rarely do phone calls,
- 13:06Speaker 6: so we were actually kind of limited when it came
- 13:08Speaker 6: to guess you had to be in la so a
- 13:10Speaker 6: lot of times if the network would fly you out.
- 13:13Speaker 6: That's why they have the you know the what am
- 13:16Speaker 6: I what's the word I'm looking for? Like the spin cycle,
- 13:20Speaker 6: they put you through the cycle and all the shows
- 13:23Speaker 6: because they've flown you out for a couple days. So
- 13:25Speaker 6: they're flying out you out to Bristol. Say a ESPN,
- 13:27Speaker 6: you're going to do every single show for a couple
- 13:29Speaker 6: of days. And same with us because the network's paying
- 13:32Speaker 6: to put you up and has to pay for your
- 13:33Speaker 6: meals and the whole thing. Now you could do it
- 13:37Speaker 6: all on zoom. So why we need to fly people out?
- 13:39Speaker 6: You can say, rightse your house. The connection's great. The
- 13:42Speaker 6: audience doesn't care because they know why you're not there.
- 13:46Speaker 6: So for a lot of networks and shows, they're like, well,
- 13:50Speaker 6: we're paying for all the studio space for It was
- 13:53Speaker 6: always a concern for the audience. I think a lot
- 13:55Speaker 6: of people felt like it didn't look polished, so the
- 13:57Speaker 6: audience wasn't going to take the show seriously. But now
- 14:00Speaker 6: we all know why everyone's home. We know that it's
- 14:03Speaker 6: more affordable, it's easy. We kind of like the rawness
- 14:08Speaker 6: of some of these shows being that we're like seeing
- 14:10Speaker 6: people at home and it's not the whole studio setup.
- 14:13Speaker 6: So some shows that actually serves them. So I mean
- 14:16Speaker 6: eventually we'll get back to it's much easier to broadcast
- 14:18Speaker 6: a game or call a game in person that's not
- 14:21Speaker 6: being there. But for a lot of shows they're going
- 14:23Speaker 6: to stay home in some capacity.
- 14:24Speaker 4: But do you think that, I don't know. I just
- 14:27Speaker 4: felt even talking like Charlomagne when we went to the
- 14:28Speaker 4: Breakfast Club, he was very adamant that we do the
- 14:31Speaker 4: Breakfast Club in person because he was like, it's just
- 14:33Speaker 4: not the same when they're doing it in Zoom, and
- 14:35Speaker 4: we feel the same way, like, you know, we have
- 14:38Speaker 4: done Zoom episodes, but it's not the same, Like there's
- 14:41Speaker 4: nothing like in person experience. So for you personally, even
- 14:45Speaker 4: though you guys don't have a lot of guests, but
- 14:46Speaker 4: you still are interacting with other people on set, do
- 14:49Speaker 4: you prefer the in person experience or it doesn't really
- 14:52Speaker 4: matter to you.
- 14:53Speaker 6: Oh, in person is always better. You get the energy,
- 14:57Speaker 6: you know, the cadence. You don't have to worry abou
- 15:00Speaker 6: technology freaking out on you, which you know hasn't doesn't
- 15:02Speaker 6: happen a lot, but it's still a liability. Can happen
- 15:05Speaker 6: at any time, So that's you know, that could ruin things,
- 15:07Speaker 6: or it's you know, it's delayed or things like that.
- 15:09Speaker 6: So in person is always preferred and better, but for
- 15:14Speaker 6: everything it's not necessary. So like for Colin and I,
- 15:18Speaker 6: we've had to do some shows where we're not in
- 15:20Speaker 6: studio together because of code, and it's very difficult, especially
- 15:24Speaker 6: for us because we have a lot of like banter
- 15:27Speaker 6: back and forth and we at this point we know
- 15:29Speaker 6: each other as like Cadence and all that. But when
- 15:32Speaker 6: you have to give it an extra second because of
- 15:34Speaker 6: the delay, it's like it's very choppy. It's hard to do.
- 15:38Speaker 6: So that's definitely not preferred. But for guests like you
- 15:40Speaker 6: know here and there, it's it's not a massive difference,
- 15:43Speaker 6: and it opens up so many more guests for us
- 15:46Speaker 6: because we can have players like we have players from
- 15:48Speaker 6: you know, literally walk off the practice field in their
- 15:50Speaker 6: car like we would never get them, you know, during
- 15:52Speaker 6: the season before because there's no access.
- 15:56Speaker 3: I was going to say so because I'm thinking in
- 15:58Speaker 3: your career, I watched it. So you did the broadcast
- 16:02Speaker 3: radio and then you hosted Fantasy Football for CBS and
- 16:06Speaker 3: in twenty sixteen Fox Sports, which one of those moments
- 16:09Speaker 3: was the you know what, I'm in the right place.
- 16:12Speaker 2: This is what I should be doing with my career.
- 16:14Speaker 6: And actually started in Miami because I was the executive
- 16:17Speaker 6: producer of the Hawkman and Zaslow Show at seven to
- 16:21Speaker 6: ninety the Ticket and I had a kind of a
- 16:24Speaker 6: significant on air role as the executive producer. And Hawkman left,
- 16:29Speaker 6: so they were looking for a co host for the
- 16:30Speaker 6: morning show there and Zasla was going to be hosting
- 16:34Speaker 6: the show co host and he was like, you know,
- 16:38Speaker 6: I want joy and so they offered it to me
- 16:41Speaker 6: and I took it. And once we started rolling with
- 16:43Speaker 6: that show, and I saw kind of like the impact
- 16:46Speaker 6: that the people that listened to the show, like you
- 16:49Speaker 6: go out in the city and people would be like,
- 16:50Speaker 6: I love the show, Like you guys do such a
- 16:52Speaker 6: great show. We listened every morning, like my daughter listens,
- 16:54Speaker 6: my family listens, like you got my wife listening to
- 16:57Speaker 6: sports talk radio. Because of the show that we were doing.
- 17:00Speaker 6: That's when I really felt like I could I could
- 17:03Speaker 6: maybe break through with this, Like I feel confident. You know,
- 17:06Speaker 6: you start to hit your stride and that's really when
- 17:09Speaker 6: you lean into your personality and and for me, that
- 17:13Speaker 6: was when I really got my confidence in what I
- 17:15Speaker 6: was doing in broadcasting.
- 17:17Speaker 4: Let me ask you this, what is the process of
- 17:19Speaker 4: actually getting hired to be a broadcast? Is it, like
- 17:22Speaker 4: you an actor, you have to actually read apart, like
- 17:24Speaker 4: do you actually have to give you a hypothetical five
- 17:27Speaker 4: minute thing and you have to talk? And then I
- 17:29Speaker 4: noticed like you have a unique voice, Like I feel
- 17:31Speaker 4: like work has are so polished way they talk. I'm
- 17:34Speaker 4: embarrassed to how I speak, Like listen like they're saying.
- 17:36Speaker 4: It's like what's best? Yeah, addiction is just so perfect
- 17:40Speaker 4: and the voice structure, like is that natural or do
- 17:43Speaker 4: you have to actually go to classes to learn how
- 17:46Speaker 4: to speak like that?
- 17:47Speaker 6: What's funny? I was looking for an agent in my
- 17:52Speaker 6: second contract in Miami, and I had an agency tell
- 17:55Speaker 6: me that I needed to go to voice like a
- 17:58Speaker 6: voice coach. They're like, your voice isn't strong enough for something.
- 18:01Speaker 6: I was like, I don't know, fucking curse on here.
- 18:08Speaker 6: Out of four hours of radio every day, I don't
- 18:14Speaker 6: need a voice code. But you know, it's things like
- 18:18Speaker 6: that actually that motivates you. So the process, at least
- 18:21Speaker 6: for me, I'll tell you what my experience was because
- 18:23Speaker 6: I can't speak for every network, but generally you're going
- 18:28Speaker 6: to have a reel so you'll have a radio reel,
- 18:32Speaker 6: a TV reel, which is essentially like cuts of your
- 18:36Speaker 6: best work or not necessarily your best work, it could
- 18:39Speaker 6: be a kind of yeah, but it's it's stuff you've
- 18:43Speaker 6: already done. So, like, one of the hard things about
- 18:46Speaker 6: broadcasting is nobody wants to hire you if you don't
- 18:49Speaker 6: have experience, but you can't get hired. You can't get
- 18:51Speaker 6: experience peop unless you get hired, So it's like what
- 18:54Speaker 6: do you do? So that's why building stuff up in
- 18:57Speaker 6: college is really important. And now kids that are in
- 19:01Speaker 6: college or you know, early on in the broadcasting careers
- 19:04Speaker 6: have a great advantage in YouTube and Instagram and you know,
- 19:08Speaker 6: all these things that when I was coming out of
- 19:10Speaker 6: school really weren't strong. Like you can really build up
- 19:13Speaker 6: a good solid amount of like tape and reputation and
- 19:17Speaker 6: you know, material to send to people before you're even
- 19:20Speaker 6: out of school now. So that's like definitely something that
- 19:23Speaker 6: people should take advantage of. But a reel is essentially
- 19:26Speaker 6: it's like a three minute it's a highlight reel. Like
- 19:29Speaker 6: it's just like if you were playing sports, like you
- 19:30Speaker 6: it's your best highlights, or if it's a specific job,
- 19:33Speaker 6: like maybe you're going for a reporting job over hosting job,
- 19:35Speaker 6: you would cut your best reporting reel and send that
- 19:38Speaker 6: to the station or the network so they'll watch that.
- 19:42Speaker 6: They'll definitely look into your references. Generally, people don't want
- 19:46Speaker 6: to hire people that are difficult to work with, that
- 19:48Speaker 6: you know, aren't consistent, they don't try when they're at work,
- 19:51Speaker 6: or they don't get along with anybody, So your reputation
- 19:54Speaker 6: is really important. References are important, which is why internships
- 19:57Speaker 6: are so important, because it's just like any other those
- 20:00Speaker 6: people want to hire people they know, like they prefer
- 20:02Speaker 6: to hire someone they know or someone that they know
- 20:04Speaker 6: knows over somebody that just walks in up the street.
- 20:06Speaker 6: You have good references, but you know, you want to
- 20:09Speaker 6: feel like this is if I'm bringing somebody into my company,
- 20:11Speaker 6: I'm gonna give them this job, this opportunity of this
- 20:13Speaker 6: role that I know they're not going to like make
- 20:15Speaker 6: me look bad or cause problems. So that's super important.
- 20:20Speaker 6: But you're real your resume, your references are the most
- 20:23Speaker 6: important things. So once you get an interview, depending on
- 20:26Speaker 6: what it is, like, I didn't do a audition for radio.
- 20:32Speaker 6: When I got hired for radio, I did the interview.
- 20:35Speaker 6: They had my radio reel from the last station. They
- 20:39Speaker 6: knew what I've done at Barry, they knew the you know,
- 20:41Speaker 6: the the reputation that I had at q AM, and
- 20:44Speaker 6: I got the job as an executive producer. But I
- 20:46Speaker 6: had a lot of producing experience at that point. I
- 20:48Speaker 6: had two internships as a producer and then I worked
- 20:50Speaker 6: as a producer for I think a year and a
- 20:53Speaker 6: half at q AM, plus all of the other ten
- 20:57Speaker 6: jobs that I had. Yeah, so you really want to
- 21:01Speaker 6: have like a strong reel and send it to people
- 21:04Speaker 6: in the business to give you critiques on it, because,
- 21:07Speaker 6: like anything else, once you get bored, they're going to
- 21:09Speaker 6: move on to the next thing. So you really wanted
- 21:11Speaker 6: to be like strong, keep somebody's attention that represents who
- 21:14Speaker 6: you are. So those are generally the things that will
- 21:16Speaker 6: get you the interview. Now, when you get to the
- 21:18Speaker 6: network level, you're still going to have a real so radio,
- 21:22Speaker 6: real reporting reel, hosting reel, you know, whatever it is
- 21:27Speaker 6: that you're going for. So when I got to Fox,
- 21:28Speaker 6: then you have to audition, So it's it's kind of
- 21:33Speaker 6: I mean, I've been to some acting auditions, so I
- 21:35Speaker 6: guess it's like that but it's there's no script, so
- 21:39Speaker 6: that's the difference. So I came in and did well.
- 21:42Speaker 6: They called a test, so it's not that they don't
- 21:44Speaker 6: call it an audition. They called it a test, but
- 21:46Speaker 6: it's an audition, so you go in. Well, I went
- 21:49Speaker 6: in and you know, we had this set and had
- 21:53Speaker 6: a few people like auditioning testing with me, and they
- 21:58Speaker 6: do like a segment, so they did camp. It was
- 22:02Speaker 6: I mean, this was twenty sixteen, right, so Cam Newton
- 22:07Speaker 6: someone was in Carolina still and the newspaper there had
- 22:13Speaker 6: published some letter to the editor from some old lady
- 22:17Speaker 6: who was like mad at Cam Newton about having a
- 22:21Speaker 6: baby and not marrying his girl. Okay, and it was
- 22:25Speaker 6: like super bizarre, but I get everyone was talking about it,
- 22:28Speaker 6: and so we kept talking about it. You know, We're
- 22:32Speaker 6: going around the panel and everyone's like giving their opinion
- 22:36Speaker 6: about it. And I was like, are we really talking
- 22:40Speaker 6: about a man having a baby out of Like we're
- 22:43Speaker 6: using the term out of wedlock in twenty sixteen, Like
- 22:47Speaker 6: this man is supporting his child, he's claving his woman,
- 22:51Speaker 6: he's good in the community, he's the face of the organization.
- 22:54Speaker 6: Like who cares if he buries her? Or not. What
- 22:56Speaker 6: are we talking about? Like the only person should be
- 22:58Speaker 6: met about this is her, like if she had fne
- 23:01Speaker 6: But like, why are we worried about what this old
- 23:03Speaker 6: lady is saying about Cam Newton? I married his girl
- 23:05Speaker 6: who he's taking care of the child. Like I'm very
- 23:07Speaker 6: confused as to why we're talking about this. So that
- 23:10Speaker 6: was that was our audition, Like that was I had
- 23:11Speaker 6: multiple auditions, but like that's basically what happened. Like they
- 23:14Speaker 6: gave you a topic, you research it and.
- 23:15Speaker 2: Like give your opinion when you were creating your reels.
- 23:18Speaker 3: Because when you said you were an athlete, you looked
- 23:20Speaker 3: up to Michael Jordan, and so in the broadcasting world
- 23:23Speaker 3: you look and you said you listen to Howard Stern.
- 23:25Speaker 3: Were there broadcast analysts that you were looking up to?
- 23:28Speaker 3: And were they male or female? Like was it like
- 23:30Speaker 3: Stuart Scott or was it like, uh, Robin Roberts.
- 23:34Speaker 6: And Robin Roberts Stuart Scott, I mean honestly, like al
- 23:40Speaker 6: Michaels was the man? Yeah, I love now Michaels. I
- 23:45Speaker 6: mean you got John Madden, you know, I just I
- 23:49Speaker 6: really loved football, like in like Monday night football to
- 23:52Speaker 6: me when I first gone the business. That was my goals,
- 23:54Speaker 6: like I'm going to be the first woman to like
- 23:55Speaker 6: call Monday night football games full time, And then I
- 23:58Speaker 6: realized how hard played. Play by play is no joke,
- 24:02Speaker 6: although I did do play by play this year for
- 24:04Speaker 6: Prime Video on Thursday Night Football with Bucky Brooks and
- 24:07Speaker 6: Daniel Jeremiah, So I guess the dream is still alive.
- 24:11Speaker 3: But there's a difference between play by play and color coordinator.
- 24:15Speaker 6: Right, yeah, so play by play and color commentary commentary. Yeah, yeah,
- 24:20Speaker 6: So play by play is traditional play by play, which
- 24:25Speaker 6: isn't what we did on Prime Video is more of
- 24:26Speaker 6: like a conversation, but we still had to do some
- 24:29Speaker 6: elements at play by playing and color. So play by
- 24:31Speaker 6: play you'll see like them line up, so it'll be
- 24:34Speaker 6: like it'll be Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, Like Joe
- 24:37Speaker 6: Buck is play by play, Troy Aikman is the color.
- 24:39Speaker 6: So basically, the play by play will explain what's happening,
- 24:43Speaker 6: how they're lining up, who through to who, what's that
- 24:46Speaker 6: like down in distance, how much time is left, whatever,
- 24:50Speaker 6: shot clock, things like that, and color will add the
- 24:53Speaker 6: elements of the play. So this is why they called
- 24:56Speaker 6: that there if you if you watch so and so's
- 24:59Speaker 6: in motion like so there's a balance to it and
- 25:02Speaker 6: timing and the best duos like Joe about Ben troyk
- 25:05Speaker 6: Man like have that cadence totally down to Yeah, Tony's amazing,
- 25:10Speaker 6: Tony's amazing. He's amazing. Yes, and he So that's that's
- 25:14Speaker 6: exactly how it is. So he adds he has the
- 25:17Speaker 6: color like the play by play, it does the outline
- 25:20Speaker 6: and the color is the colors, if that makes sense.
- 25:23Speaker 6: It's very simplistic.
- 25:24Speaker 2: But the colors.
- 25:25Speaker 4: Yes, color coordinator. That's that's a new that's a new position.
- 25:30Speaker 4: Color coordinator. How difficult is it to read off of teleprompters.
- 25:38Speaker 6: It's so it's scary, but it takes like once you
- 25:42Speaker 6: get the everyone has their own system. So for me,
- 25:45Speaker 6: I'm like a bit of a perfectionist. And you know,
- 25:48Speaker 6: you're working with Skip and Shannon, so yeah, it's a
- 25:53Speaker 6: whole lot.
- 25:53Speaker 4: Of room for error.
- 25:55Speaker 6: But the first time a telepromper breaks on you is
- 25:57Speaker 6: when you really like respect like, okay, this is not
- 26:00Speaker 6: because you're so reliant on that and the purpose of
- 26:03Speaker 6: the teleprompter is to set something up precisely or to
- 26:06Speaker 6: read a commercial precisely, like otherwise you would just have
- 26:10Speaker 6: notes and you would talk like you freesyle it with
- 26:13Speaker 6: maybe with notes, but like you're not gonna read it,
- 26:15Speaker 6: so it's meant to make you look like you're talking
- 26:18Speaker 6: but you're actually reading. So one you can't just sit
- 26:21Speaker 6: there like and coming up next, like is you got
- 26:24Speaker 6: a top like you would normally talk but you're actually reading.
- 26:28Speaker 6: Can't but listen, but listen. That's how it is. That's
- 26:30Speaker 6: why that's funny, because that's really how it is. Like
- 26:32Speaker 6: you rely on this machine. Sometimes it just goes down
- 26:36Speaker 6: and like sometimes somebody will put the wrong word in
- 26:39Speaker 6: and then you get messed up, or they're going too
- 26:41Speaker 6: fast or they're going too slow, and then you're like
- 26:44Speaker 6: coming up. So it it is a it's a bit
- 26:47Speaker 6: of an art to learn it. For me, I would
- 26:50Speaker 6: always have paper like my script next to me and
- 26:54Speaker 6: there and I would make marks like okay, so this
- 26:57Speaker 6: is I'm gonna break here, I take a breath, he year,
- 27:01Speaker 6: so that if the prompter went down for any reason,
- 27:03Speaker 6: or if they were reading too slow or anything was wrong,
- 27:05Speaker 6: then I could just look down and keep going. And
- 27:07Speaker 6: I would always flip so you'll notice when when people
- 27:11Speaker 6: do news broadcasts and they're moving their papers, that's what
- 27:13Speaker 6: they're doing. So they're keeping up with the prompters so
- 27:15Speaker 6: that if the prompter goes down, they can just read
- 27:17Speaker 6: off the script and just keep it going.
- 27:18Speaker 3: Okay, I stole that fe We saw people writing notes
- 27:21Speaker 3: and we're like, what are they doing.
- 27:24Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what that's what they're doing. Yeah, they're just
- 27:26Speaker 6: they're keeping they're keeping pace with the teleprompters so that
- 27:29Speaker 6: if it goes down, because it's scary, like you're just
- 27:31Speaker 6: out there and you're not memorizing this stuff because it's
- 27:34Speaker 6: on it's supposed to be there for you to read.
- 27:36Speaker 6: So if it goes down, then you got to like
- 27:38Speaker 6: ad lib and what you know, maybe that was a
- 27:40Speaker 6: specific quote you were supposed to read, so I don't
- 27:43Speaker 6: want no parts of messing that up.
- 27:44Speaker 4: So that's like in middle school when the teacher used
- 27:47Speaker 4: to ask me to read. I used to try to, like,
- 27:49Speaker 4: you know, you got a group assignments, like I would
- 27:51Speaker 4: read my part in my brain like five minutes four
- 27:55Speaker 4: or you know, you don't want to get embarrassed. A
- 27:57Speaker 4: lot of people got embarrassed in the class when.
- 27:58Speaker 2: She used to make y'all read.
- 28:00Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a that's a different conversation forget. That is
- 28:04Speaker 4: a fact, though not because people don't fully respect how
- 28:08Speaker 4: they think. You just go out there and you just
- 28:09Speaker 4: talking about sports. But it's like this stuff is hard
- 28:12Speaker 4: and it's a high level of anxiety, Like you got
- 28:16Speaker 4: to read something and there's somebody if you mess up,
- 28:18Speaker 4: like everybody's looking at you, and it's like it's not
- 28:20Speaker 4: as easy as people think it is.
- 28:22Speaker 6: Yeah, and then you're a woman. So yeah, there's no.
- 28:25Speaker 4: Room for let's let's get into that. Let's get it,
- 28:28Speaker 4: let's get into that conversation. So sports every well, unfortunately everything,
- 28:32Speaker 4: A lot of industries are male dominated, and sports is
- 28:36Speaker 4: no different. Right, So even like most shows, they'll have
- 28:41Speaker 4: one woman, but they might have like three guys or
- 28:43Speaker 4: two guys or whatever. So how is it breaking into
- 28:49Speaker 4: that being a woman? How has your experience been in
- 28:54Speaker 4: the world of sports being a woman.
- 28:58Speaker 6: Well, I think it's changed throughout my career. Like I
- 29:01Speaker 6: was thinking about it the other day, because I run
- 29:03Speaker 6: into situations where I think sometimes like I expect the
- 29:08Speaker 6: men around me to fight for me, and then I'm like, man,
- 29:12Speaker 6: how many men have really fought for me throughout my career,
- 29:15Speaker 6: Like I can think of one situation where I was
- 29:18Speaker 6: really getting disrespected and the host went out of his
- 29:21Speaker 6: way to make sure that that's not dip by by
- 29:25Speaker 6: like someone else in this in the station.
- 29:29Speaker 4: Like a a boss.
- 29:30Speaker 6: Yeah okay, and and he just what I told him
- 29:33Speaker 6: what happened, and he just wasn't having it. But that
- 29:36Speaker 6: situation actually ended up pushing me out of that station,
- 29:41Speaker 6: which led me to the next station, which led me
- 29:43Speaker 6: to the show, which led me here. So sometimes, you know,
- 29:46Speaker 6: when you reach a block in life, or someone's telling
- 29:48Speaker 6: you know, or you're being made to feel uncomfortable, it's
- 29:51Speaker 6: sometimes because the universe is telling you it's time to disrupt,
- 29:55Speaker 6: like it's time to move, and you know, uplift and
- 29:58Speaker 6: try something new or go another direction. But I've been
- 30:03Speaker 6: really blessed that the talent that I've worked with has
- 30:07Speaker 6: been very supportive of me, has been very big advocates
- 30:12Speaker 6: for me, big allies for me. I don't know that
- 30:16Speaker 6: I can say that for every woman in the business.
- 30:18Speaker 6: I've also had horrific experiences and you know, Ben sexually
- 30:23Speaker 6: harassed and Ben put in you know, compromising situations, and
- 30:29Speaker 6: you know had gotten a job, and then you know,
- 30:33Speaker 6: God had a reference to be like, yeah, so what's up,
- 30:36Speaker 6: because you know what I'm saying, you got this job,
- 30:37Speaker 6: like this job first of all, like, so, no, I
- 30:42Speaker 6: don't owe you anything, but it's you know, it's it's
- 30:46Speaker 6: a very specific industry because we are mostly covering men,
- 30:51Speaker 6: and there is an expectation as a woman in sports
- 30:55Speaker 6: that you you're only there to be on TV or
- 30:59Speaker 6: to be famus like you don't actually really care about sports.
- 31:02Speaker 6: You don't actually really follow or know anything about sports.
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- 32:19Speaker 6: And I don't know that other industries really come with that.
- 32:21Speaker 6: Like if you're a you know, a female doctor, obviously
- 32:25Speaker 6: it's very male dominated space, but nobody's gonna be like
- 32:29Speaker 6: do you really care about medicine? Like yeah, I'm a doctor.
- 32:33Speaker 6: I a lot get to become this doctor, Like yes,
- 32:36Speaker 6: I care about what I do. Whereas sports, you constantly
- 32:40Speaker 6: have to prove yourself every day, which is my point
- 32:42Speaker 6: about messing up, like I don't I'm crazy about like
- 32:45Speaker 6: my notes. Everything has to be perfect has to be
- 32:48Speaker 6: triple checked because I don't want to go on air
- 32:50Speaker 6: and say something and it's like the wrong team or
- 32:54Speaker 6: something something silly like oh, you know, I say you
- 32:56Speaker 6: got traded and he really got cut and picked up.
- 32:59Speaker 6: Because for a man, they can and say that, nobody's
- 33:01Speaker 6: going to be like, oh, he doesn't know anything about
- 33:02Speaker 6: sports or he doesn't care about sports. For a woman,
- 33:05Speaker 6: that's like they're gonna look at you like it's an
- 33:07Speaker 6: avalanche of people telling you that you know, you don't
- 33:10Speaker 6: belong there, or it invalidates you in some way. So,
- 33:14Speaker 6: I mean, we've seen many examples of that. But that's
- 33:18Speaker 6: really the difference to me and other industries, because I
- 33:20Speaker 6: agree with you most industries are now dominated. Sports isn't
- 33:23Speaker 6: unique in that space, But what is unique is that
- 33:25Speaker 6: if you do make it to any kind of level
- 33:28Speaker 6: of esteem in the business, you have to constantly prove
- 33:30Speaker 6: you belong there, why you belong there, And if you
- 33:32Speaker 6: do anything outside of sports, it's like, up, see.
- 33:35Speaker 2: I told you he really doesn't like sports, really doesn't like.
- 33:39Speaker 6: She really watches movies, and that's like that's the difference.
- 33:43Speaker 3: Is that something that you're consistently battling because obviously when
- 33:46Speaker 3: you start, the doubt is obviously there. But I mean
- 33:49Speaker 3: we've watched you, you know your stuff, like it's ridiculous.
- 33:52Speaker 3: Is that something that continues You're battling right now?
- 33:55Speaker 6: Yeah? On every level. Like it's not just fans, like
- 33:57Speaker 6: it's fans, it's other uh, talent in the business earners.
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- 36:52Speaker 6: Sometimes there's other women in the business, and it's certainly executives.
- 36:55Speaker 2: Like what's that relationship like with other women in the business.
- 37:00Speaker 6: More whelmingly, women in this business are very supportive of
- 37:02Speaker 6: each other with like any kind of you know, humans interacting.
- 37:06Speaker 6: You're not going to get along with everybody, but at
- 37:09Speaker 6: least for me, the people that I don't get along
- 37:12Speaker 6: with you'll never know because I don't believe in that,
- 37:14Speaker 6: Like I'm not no matter what happens. Pretty much yet
- 37:18Speaker 6: like no matter what happens. I'm not going to put
- 37:21Speaker 6: anybody out out there for that, even if it's personal,
- 37:25Speaker 6: because one, it's too hard for women, especially Black women,
- 37:30Speaker 6: to get into this business and to get opportunities. So
- 37:34Speaker 6: I don't like reinforcing any type of stereotype that like
- 37:37Speaker 6: women are catty with each other, because really that's not
- 37:39Speaker 6: the truth. Like I want other women to be in
- 37:42Speaker 6: the business. I want other women to have opportunities because
- 37:44Speaker 6: the more women, the more Black women, the more diversity
- 37:48Speaker 6: there is, the less of a thing it is. And
- 37:50Speaker 6: then we're not talking about this.
- 37:52Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like black women have dominated.
- 37:54Speaker 3: Like I remember growing up watching ESPN and like Craig
- 37:57Speaker 3: Kilbourne and Carl Rabbits I knew though names, and Stuart
- 38:00Speaker 3: Sky and now Jamail Hill, who obviously is not with
- 38:03Speaker 3: the ESPAN anymore, but you carry champion. I feel like
- 38:06Speaker 3: El Duncan I know those names more than I'm looking
- 38:09Speaker 3: at the guys, like who's this guy sitting next to him?
- 38:11Speaker 2: Now? Like there's been a shift, would you.
- 38:14Speaker 6: Say, I definitely think there are more opportunities now, and
- 38:18Speaker 6: I think that more companies are seeing the value and
- 38:20Speaker 6: having diversity. Not only does it bring in other audiences,
- 38:25Speaker 6: but it brings in different perspectives which only enriches the
- 38:29Speaker 6: conversation and you know, the opinions and the shows. But
- 38:34Speaker 6: also I will say, because women and particularly black women
- 38:38Speaker 6: have to work twice as hard for half as much.
- 38:41Speaker 6: When you do get an opportunity, you're a fucking baller
- 38:44Speaker 6: because you're so much better than you had to be
- 38:47Speaker 6: to get that job. So it's never a surprise to
- 38:49Speaker 6: me when we thrive, because it's like, do you know
- 38:52Speaker 6: what I had to do to get in this door?
- 38:55Speaker 6: Like I'm excellent, I'm not good because you can't be good.
- 38:58Speaker 6: Good is not enough. You got to be excellent. You
- 39:01Speaker 6: can't be as good as the man. You gotta be
- 39:03Speaker 6: noticeably better to get the same opportunity and then not
- 39:06Speaker 6: get paid the same.
- 39:09Speaker 2: That's another that's another topic.
- 39:10Speaker 4: Well, that definitely something that we have to speak about.
- 39:12Speaker 4: Let's jump into that. So equal pay is a very
- 39:15Speaker 4: big topic, not only in sports but all over. But
- 39:19Speaker 4: sports has been highlighted, I believe when the US soccer
- 39:23Speaker 4: team won the gold medal again all the men's team
- 39:29Speaker 4: didn't even make the qualify qualify, but the men's got
- 39:32Speaker 4: paid more. It's a whole thing. We can go tennis everything,
- 39:36Speaker 4: all right, So this is no different in the in
- 39:38Speaker 4: the broadcasting realized soon where we see like Stuart Scott,
- 39:44Speaker 4: you got like ten million dollars, right, so Steve Smith,
- 39:47Speaker 4: rec Scott, steven A Smith. But we haven't seen those
- 39:51Speaker 4: kind of numbers for a woman yet. So how do
- 39:54Speaker 4: you feel about that pay situation?
- 39:57Speaker 6: Well, talent is kind of is kind of an interest space,
- 40:00Speaker 6: like and every time I talk about equal pay on
- 40:02Speaker 6: social media, people always go to the WNBA and like
- 40:04Speaker 6: I'm not talking like why are you what is this?
- 40:08Speaker 6: Did somebody hurt you? Like what are you talking about
- 40:10Speaker 6: WNBA for? Like, w NBA players are not asking for
- 40:12Speaker 6: the same amount same pay as NBA players. Who told
- 40:16Speaker 6: you that? Stop saying that. That's not what That's not
- 40:18Speaker 6: what's being advocated for. Like the soccer team, that is
- 40:22Speaker 6: a legitimate conversation. We need to make it the same.
- 40:26Speaker 6: Not only we have more ratings, we're bringing in more
- 40:28Speaker 6: revenue and y'all not even making the World Cup. So
- 40:30Speaker 6: focus on yourselves, yes, like fix yourselves first. This is
- 40:35Speaker 6: this is These are different conversations and it's similar to talent,
- 40:38Speaker 6: Like this is Hollywood, it's really the entertainment business that
- 40:41Speaker 6: we work in. Yes, it's broadcasting. Yes, you can go
- 40:44Speaker 6: to school and get a degree in it. And it
- 40:47Speaker 6: is like a legitimate structure in some spaces to move
- 40:50Speaker 6: up like producers and you know, kind of behind the scenes.
- 40:54Speaker 6: But when you're talking about talent, it can we can
- 40:57Speaker 6: be a wide range of what people are getting paid,
- 41:00Speaker 6: men and women. And when you have leverage, when you
- 41:03Speaker 6: have audiences, that changes things. And that's for anything that's
- 41:06Speaker 6: for entertainment shows, is for you know, homely modeling shows,
- 41:10Speaker 6: like there is no real structure like this person makes
- 41:14Speaker 6: this much when they hit this, So it gets kind
- 41:17Speaker 6: of nuanced when it comes to like you know, see
- 41:19Speaker 6: what Steven as making or what Skip is making, Like
- 41:21Speaker 6: you know, there's a lot that goes into those contract negotiations.
- 41:25Speaker 6: Part of it, to me, why there's not women making
- 41:28Speaker 6: that kind of money is because women don't get put
- 41:31Speaker 6: in those those roles and those shows in.
- 41:34Speaker 4: The first place, right, we don't have the opportunity.
- 41:36Speaker 6: Yeah, So Jamelle is obviously a great example of that.
- 41:38Speaker 6: And Jammel's done great for herself. She's one of the
- 41:40Speaker 6: very few women that I've ever been in that I
- 41:42Speaker 6: mean I used to watch her show and be like,
- 41:44Speaker 6: that's what I'm trying to do. Like she has her
- 41:46Speaker 6: own show with Michael and she gives her opinion every
- 41:49Speaker 6: day and she's on every single she's doing a daily show,
- 41:52Speaker 6: and like that's her show. She's not asking people questions,
- 41:55Speaker 6: she's not in a role, and that is like the
- 41:58Speaker 6: next shift to me. And it is happen like there
- 42:00Speaker 6: are more women getting opportunities, but like, you don't have
- 42:04Speaker 6: women in those seats, So how could women make that
- 42:06Speaker 6: kind of money if they're not in those seats to
- 42:08Speaker 6: begin with?
- 42:09Speaker 3: Yeah, carry it as well at the charriage. Yet she's
- 42:11Speaker 3: actually on a black effect.
- 42:13Speaker 4: Shout we did a commercial for her.
- 42:16Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, she's We're on the same team, so shout shot.
- 42:18Speaker 4: Let me ask you this. Let's get into this conversation.
- 42:21Speaker 4: As far as sports, right, it's just I'm pretty sure
- 42:27Speaker 4: there's numbers to back this up, but definitely by the
- 42:28Speaker 4: eye test, growing up, sports was everything, Like sports figures
- 42:32Speaker 4: were like demi gods. Everybody loved basketball, football and all that.
- 42:36Speaker 4: I feel like the enthusiasm for sports has died down
- 42:39Speaker 4: tremendously during the pandemic. And I don't know, I just
- 42:42Speaker 4: feel like you just on social media. I don't see
- 42:44Speaker 4: the same enthusiasm for the general public has for sports.
- 42:50Speaker 4: You're in the sports world. How do you feel about that?
- 42:55Speaker 6: I disagree. I think I think the admiration may for
- 43:00Speaker 6: athletes has changed a little bit, But I don't think
- 43:04Speaker 6: that has anything to do with people's desire to watch sports.
- 43:07Speaker 6: I think that is access. So I guess it's like
- 43:11Speaker 6: two different things. So as far as athletes go, we
- 43:13Speaker 6: just live in a different world. Like you can tweet,
- 43:15Speaker 6: you can cameo, you can Instagram live. We feel like
- 43:19Speaker 6: we have closeness to people that used to be to
- 43:24Speaker 6: your point, demigods, Like you didn't used to be able
- 43:26Speaker 6: to reach Michael Jackson right, Like you didn't used to
- 43:30Speaker 6: be able to go hang out with Diana Ross, Like
- 43:33Speaker 6: these were untouchable superstars, next level gods. Really, like you're
- 43:38Speaker 6: not gonna run into Madonna right now. You feel like
- 43:42Speaker 6: you kind of like everybody kind of feel like they
- 43:44Speaker 6: know Lebron a little bit. Like you're on Instagram Live,
- 43:46Speaker 6: like you got an Instagram page. Yeah, Like we feel
- 43:51Speaker 6: like we're apart, like we can see them more. It's
- 43:53Speaker 6: not like, oh, you're not in front of your television
- 43:54Speaker 6: at this particular moment, at this particular time, and then
- 43:58Speaker 6: maybe you can see Michael Jordan. That doesn't exist anymore.
- 44:01Speaker 6: You have so much access, so I think there's so
- 44:03Speaker 6: many other ways to get famous, right, you can be
- 44:06Speaker 6: on YouTube.
- 44:07Speaker 4: That's what not to cut you off. But that's what
- 44:08Speaker 4: I was like kind of hitting that because I feel
- 44:10Speaker 4: like this is my personal thesis. NBA players, there's like
- 44:13Speaker 4: twenty four players that matter the All Stars, probably even
- 44:16Speaker 4: less than that. NFL there's like two players that matter.
- 44:22Speaker 6: No.
- 44:22Speaker 4: But when I say matter, I mean like walking down
- 44:25Speaker 4: Melrose like they're not going to know who the two
- 44:27Speaker 4: the linebackers.
- 44:29Speaker 6: That's like the is. But I think that that is
- 44:33Speaker 6: a reflection of like the society that we live in,
- 44:36Speaker 6: the access to people have. There's so much content you
- 44:40Speaker 6: have access to, so that I think has to your
- 44:44Speaker 6: I understand your point there that I would agree with,
- 44:45Speaker 6: But I don't think that's because people care about sports less.
- 44:47Speaker 6: I think it's because people a think that they're kind
- 44:49Speaker 6: of famous.
- 44:50Speaker 4: Well YouTubers and yeah, they become more famous Tom.
- 44:53Speaker 6: Yeah, and there's just more, there's more to pay attention to,
- 44:56Speaker 6: Like for us, you know, I'm recording Michael Jordan's games
- 44:59Speaker 6: and rewatching them even though I already know what happened.
- 45:01Speaker 6: You know, that's like you have so much access to
- 45:04Speaker 6: stuff now and information and content, so that I think
- 45:07Speaker 6: is just a little bit more watered down. Yeah, I
- 45:09Speaker 6: don't think we will Like Lebron Box on the street.
- 45:11Speaker 6: He's gonna have a crowd.
- 45:13Speaker 4: Lebron's kyrie kad.
- 45:16Speaker 6: But back in the day, like anybody, anybody the Celtics.
- 45:21Speaker 4: Now it's like, okay, he played for the Celtics too.
- 45:25Speaker 4: You know my two.
- 45:28Speaker 3: I don't know who is it, Tom Brady, Odell Beckham
- 45:30Speaker 3: and Tom Brady.
- 45:32Speaker 4: As far when I say mad, in no disrespect, we
- 45:33Speaker 4: got a lot of support in the NFL. I love
- 45:35Speaker 4: all my guys in the NFL. When I'm just saying,
- 45:36Speaker 4: as far as recognizable super stopping shutting down Times Square,
- 45:40Speaker 4: tom Brady might not shut down Times Square. I'm be
- 45:42Speaker 4: honest with you. He might get they might not recognize.
- 45:46Speaker 6: I mean, I think Patrick Mahomes will have a little.
- 45:48Speaker 4: Crowd Patrick Mahomes shout.
- 45:50Speaker 6: I think I actually think like Juju Jujus ms.
- 45:52Speaker 4: Schuster, it's gonna be tough for Juju to shut down
- 45:56Speaker 4: to Square Games Square.
- 46:00Speaker 2: Are you man? Yeah, of course Georgio has that game
- 46:07Speaker 2: in though.
- 46:07Speaker 6: He's that game like other other scenes too.
- 46:10Speaker 4: But I know just exactly.
- 46:14Speaker 6: I think that's just a reflection of society. I think
- 46:17Speaker 6: it's people because to my point earlier, sports and politics
- 46:20Speaker 6: are the last live things. That's it. Like I recorded
- 46:24Speaker 6: the Oscars the other night, Like I don't need to
- 46:26Speaker 6: watch that live. You don't have to be in front
- 46:28Speaker 6: of your television to watch really anything doing Netflix, YouTube,
- 46:33Speaker 6: Like there's just everything is on demand. So if you
- 46:35Speaker 6: want to if you want to know what happened, you
- 46:37Speaker 6: have to watch sports right then and there, Like you're
- 46:40Speaker 6: not going to rewatch a game, you know when you
- 46:42Speaker 6: already know the outcome to it. You want to know
- 46:45Speaker 6: who the president is going to be, you got to
- 46:47Speaker 6: watch the presidential coverage to find out what's happening. So
- 46:50Speaker 6: there's very few things, there's very few content items that
- 46:54Speaker 6: are live anymore. And sports gambling is about to be
- 46:58Speaker 6: legal everywhere, so that that's a game changer entirely, Like
- 47:02Speaker 6: that's a whole new level of money coming into the industry,
- 47:06Speaker 6: jobs and eyeballs from people who weren't necessarily gambling before.
- 47:11Speaker 6: On sports. Who will start because it's going to be
- 47:14Speaker 6: very accessible.
- 47:15Speaker 4: Let's get let's get into that conversation.
- 47:17Speaker 3: Here's something that that with Well, I wanted to because
- 47:19Speaker 3: we talked about some of the disadvantages that your face.
- 47:22Speaker 3: Are there advantages of being a woman in sports?
- 47:25Speaker 6: Well, I think being a woman is an advantage in
- 47:27Speaker 6: all areas of life because I love being a woman.
- 47:30Speaker 4: But it's smarter and more productive than men.
- 47:32Speaker 6: Well, I love I'm not a man. Hey, I love men,
- 47:41Speaker 6: but I will say, you know, women, I literally just
- 47:45Speaker 6: had this conversation conversation yesterday. At least for me, I'm like,
- 47:49Speaker 6: I look at things from a different perspective. I played,
- 47:53Speaker 6: I ran track in college. I've seen my brother go
- 47:56Speaker 6: through every level, high school, college, not making you know,
- 48:01Speaker 6: not going to college and getting money under the table
- 48:03Speaker 6: from a big school like going to Akron, and then
- 48:07Speaker 6: you know, third round, having to earn a spot on
- 48:11Speaker 6: the roster with the Dolphins, then getting traded and getting cut,
- 48:14Speaker 6: and then the Hall of Fame. So I look at
- 48:16Speaker 6: everything from a kind of maybe more personal space than
- 48:20Speaker 6: the average man who's just reporting on sports, because sometimes
- 48:25Speaker 6: we can talk about what's happening in sports from a
- 48:27Speaker 6: very callous place. Like it's just like they're just items
- 48:30Speaker 6: that are being moved around. So and so got traded, okay,
- 48:33Speaker 6: Like it's like okay, but when someone gets traded, their
- 48:37Speaker 6: whole family has to move. So their wife's got to
- 48:40Speaker 6: stay behind, pack up the house, go find another place
- 48:44Speaker 6: to live and bring their kids, and they got to
- 48:46Speaker 6: move there, and like no one's you're getting paid well, right,
- 48:49Speaker 6: So it's like a crimea river okay, But that's still
- 48:52Speaker 6: a personal element to it, like you still have to
- 48:54Speaker 6: find your new way to work, like your routine is
- 48:56Speaker 6: completely changed. So there's just like when I talk about sports,
- 48:59Speaker 6: when I look at stories, I try to look at
- 49:01Speaker 6: them from very personal space. And then when we're talking
- 49:06Speaker 6: about even you know, more serious things in sports, I
- 49:10Speaker 6: try to be more measured and not reactive. I think
- 49:12Speaker 6: the you know, there's this thought that women are like
- 49:15Speaker 6: hysterical and like we don't we just like freak out
- 49:19Speaker 6: that like we're all emotional, but in fact, women don't
- 49:22Speaker 6: do that, Like we're very calculated and not like in
- 49:26Speaker 6: a maniacal way, but like we just have to be
- 49:28Speaker 6: because we know the consequences of like doing certain things
- 49:31Speaker 6: without thinking. And that's just how we have to like
- 49:34Speaker 6: I have to be aware all the time, like even
- 49:37Speaker 6: just walking down the street, Like I can't just walk
- 49:39Speaker 6: down the street and be on my phone like messing
- 49:40Speaker 6: around whatever, Like I gotta be always paying attention. I
- 49:42Speaker 6: walk to my car, gotta watch and make sure nobody's around,
- 49:44Speaker 6: Like I gotta get my car real quick, shut the door.
- 49:47Speaker 6: Like that's just women just are always on operating at
- 49:49Speaker 6: a higher frequency. Not because we're like smarter than men,
- 49:55Speaker 6: but once we have to be like that's that is
- 49:58Speaker 6: a survival mechanism that we have to have. Yeah, so
- 50:02Speaker 6: I think like from that perspective, I look at that
- 50:05Speaker 6: as an advantage. And then you know men, you guys
- 50:10Speaker 6: are visual creatures, so it helps visual creatures.
- 50:14Speaker 4: Although I know, yes, what does that mean?
- 50:16Speaker 6: Well, I'm pretty so it helps you know, Okay, Although
- 50:20Speaker 6: lately everyone's been telling me that, I like, the pandemic
- 50:22Speaker 6: didn't do me any favors. But it's fine.
- 50:26Speaker 2: We didn't say that. No no, we never said that.
- 50:30Speaker 4: No no, no no no.
- 50:32Speaker 2: But that's that's an issue.
- 50:33Speaker 3: It's too right image self image, Like is that I mean,
- 50:36Speaker 3: do you feel like obviously men and women are not
- 50:38Speaker 3: gonna be critiqued the same.
- 50:39Speaker 2: Is that added pressure every day?
- 50:41Speaker 6: Yeah, of course, I mean, and it's not something that
- 50:44Speaker 6: is a requirement. I think a lot of people feel like, oh,
- 50:47Speaker 6: like I have to look a certain way or you know,
- 50:50Speaker 6: I have to be sexy or something to like be
- 50:52Speaker 6: in the business. Like you definitely don't at all, and
- 50:56Speaker 6: in some ways, well I don't want to say it
- 50:58Speaker 6: helps not to be, but like, you know, I get
- 51:02Speaker 6: met with like I'm not legitimate because of the way
- 51:04Speaker 6: I look, or like I only have my job because
- 51:06Speaker 6: of the way I look, which to me, I'm like,
- 51:08Speaker 6: that's just silly. There's whole supermodels, Like there are actual
- 51:11Speaker 6: supermodels walking the earth.
- 51:15Speaker 2: Doing this.
- 51:15Speaker 6: Yeah, like I mean, and this is just I was
- 51:17Speaker 6: an amazing business woman. But like if it was just
- 51:20Speaker 6: about looks, why wouldn't they just hire models to do
- 51:23Speaker 6: my job? Like why what am I up there for
- 51:27Speaker 6: if that's the case. So like it just doesn't make sense.
- 51:29Speaker 6: But you know, it's just there's different elements to it. Yes,
- 51:32Speaker 6: I get critiqued about what I look like every day,
- 51:34Speaker 6: all day every day. If my hair is not looking good,
- 51:37Speaker 6: somebody gonna let me know if I'm looking a little fluffy,
- 51:39Speaker 6: that day, someone gonna let me know if my shoulders
- 51:41Speaker 6: are out too much, someone gonna let me know. Like
- 51:43Speaker 6: it's it's very much a visual aspect of it as well,
- 51:47Speaker 6: and sometimes it benefits you and sometimes it definitely knows
- 51:49Speaker 6: not because some people don't take you seriously. I like, thanks, well,
- 51:54Speaker 6: you know it's you. I keep telling calm, like, you
- 51:56Speaker 6: know you're all going on the natural journey with me.
- 51:59Speaker 6: Is that what's going?
- 52:00Speaker 4: Well?
- 52:01Speaker 2: There?
- 52:01Speaker 4: You have it? Nothing controversial.
- 52:10Speaker 2: I say it all the time.
- 52:12Speaker 4: That is a fact. That is a fact. Let me
- 52:16Speaker 4: ask you this. As far as the political conversation, so
- 52:20Speaker 4: we see athletes taking a stance with Lebron and d
- 52:23Speaker 4: Wade and shout out to all those guys, and it's
- 52:25Speaker 4: you know, always been a big thing Colin Kaepernick, the
- 52:27Speaker 4: need NFL. And we see that some sports commentators Jamel
- 52:33Speaker 4: Hill went into that realm and she lost her job
- 52:39Speaker 4: because of it. Stephen A. Smith said that she shouldn't
- 52:42Speaker 4: have said that because she's an employee of ESPN and
- 52:44Speaker 4: you have to conduct yourself a certain way. But I mean,
- 52:47Speaker 4: Lebron is a technically and employee of the Lakers, and
- 52:51Speaker 4: he doesn't necessarily have to conduct himself a certain way
- 52:54Speaker 4: by saying something. So do you feel like, what's your
- 52:56Speaker 4: stance on that? For sport's commentators, do you feel like
- 53:01Speaker 4: they have a voice they should have a voice, or
- 53:03Speaker 4: how do you feel about that.
- 53:05Speaker 6: I think whatever you're passionate about, you should do so.
- 53:10Speaker 6: I don't think you should get involved in things that
- 53:12Speaker 6: you don't really have an opinion about just because everyone
- 53:16Speaker 6: is talking about it, especially on you know, we're talking
- 53:19Speaker 6: about social justice and politics like these are very serious
- 53:22Speaker 6: issues that are life and death, you know, the vaccine,
- 53:27Speaker 6: like the these are things that are really affecting people's lives.
- 53:30Speaker 6: And so I think anything that you talk about you
- 53:33Speaker 6: should be researched in. And that is something I like
- 53:36Speaker 6: very much believe in. I don't I don't go for
- 53:39Speaker 6: affirmation news like I believe in real actual research. I'm
- 53:43Speaker 6: not going to somewhere that's just gonna tell me like
- 53:45Speaker 6: I feel a certain way. Let me go read this, Okay,
- 53:48Speaker 6: Now I feel better because that's what I thought anyway.
- 53:49Speaker 6: All right, Well there's people who don't agree, so what
- 53:52Speaker 6: are they saying? And then come to your own conclusion.
- 53:54Speaker 6: But most people just get their their news off of memes.
- 53:57Speaker 6: These days, which is dangerous because that's not that's not news.
- 54:01Speaker 6: That is a sticker. Like you got to figure out
- 54:04Speaker 6: what it is that your opinion about things are. And
- 54:07Speaker 6: when you're say in a position like me or Jamel
- 54:11Speaker 6: or Shannon or Skip or call On or any of us,
- 54:15Speaker 6: we have massive platforms, and I think you have a responsibility,
- 54:22Speaker 6: if you believe in that, to talk about it.
- 54:26Speaker 4: All right. So you know, I watched these shows and
- 54:30Speaker 4: I feel like a lot of guys have characters that
- 54:33Speaker 4: they I don't want to say play, I don't want
- 54:35Speaker 4: to like to mean them, but you know, it's like
- 54:37Speaker 4: kind of like acting well. I don't feel like Skip
- 54:40Speaker 4: is really that big of a Lebron Haye. I feel
- 54:42Speaker 4: like he's intelligent enough to know Lebron Lebron is the
- 54:45Speaker 4: ability got of this situation and stop, don't do that.
- 54:50Speaker 2: He's a Micah don't.
- 54:52Speaker 6: Yeah, he does not think that Lebron's definitely.
- 54:56Speaker 4: He's a go No, he don't.
- 54:58Speaker 6: He only believes in one go. It's not a multi
- 55:02Speaker 6: goat multi. That's Michael Jordans. He genuinely believes that.
- 55:10Speaker 2: And he wears the Kicks too.
- 55:12Speaker 6: He loves Dallas Cowboys.
- 55:14Speaker 4: But I still feel like he's not that big of
- 55:17Speaker 4: a of a hater. He's kind of a hater, let's
- 55:20Speaker 4: just be No, that's a fact, Shannon. I'm not necessarily short.
- 55:25Speaker 4: If he actually smokes black and mouths and drinks Tennessee,
- 55:28Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe he does, he does, Maybe he does,
- 55:30Speaker 4: Maybe he does it. Barkley even got talking about Barkley,
- 55:36Speaker 4: So have you ever do you think that this is
- 55:40Speaker 4: something that you have to do to reach like the
- 55:42Speaker 4: highest level of success in that field. And if so,
- 55:45Speaker 4: have you ever thought about taking on an alter ego character.
- 55:53Speaker 6: No, I don't think that you have to be a
- 55:56Speaker 6: character to reach the highest level. I do. You have
- 56:00Speaker 6: to be a personality. And I get that fans who
- 56:04Speaker 6: watch the shows, people that watch the show can sometimes
- 56:06Speaker 6: kind of feel like, you know, it's a little over
- 56:09Speaker 6: the top or you know, that's not really who they are.
- 56:13Speaker 6: But there's also there's some brand recognition that has value
- 56:18Speaker 6: in that, like you know, and this happens all the time,
- 56:21Speaker 6: and this wasn't something that Colin manufactured. Like Colin had
- 56:24Speaker 6: his opinion about Baker Mayfield before the draft and then
- 56:27Speaker 6: Baker and him have gone back and forth on Twitter.
- 56:28Speaker 6: Now anytime anything happens with Baker rushed people to come
- 56:32Speaker 6: watch the show to see what Colin's gonna say about Baker.
- 56:34Speaker 6: And then like when Colin says something, everybody rushes the
- 56:37Speaker 6: Baker to see. So it's like and that wasn't manufactured,
- 56:39Speaker 6: that just happened organically, organically, So there is a value
- 56:44Speaker 6: in Colin has his opinion about Baker. Colin loves Seahawks
- 56:49Speaker 6: and Russell Wilson, like Colin's kind of opinionated about Aaron Rodgers.
- 56:55Speaker 6: He loves Tom Brady, like Skip loves the Cowboys. You
- 56:57Speaker 6: know he's gonna be talking about the Cowboys, you cowboys fan,
- 57:00Speaker 6: or if you hate the Cowboys, you know you're gonna
- 57:01Speaker 6: want to hear what he has to say about that.
- 57:03Speaker 6: Shannon loves Lebron. You know he's gonna come in with
- 57:05Speaker 6: his goat mask the day after he you know, has
- 57:07Speaker 6: a big game. So there's it's not so much about
- 57:09Speaker 6: characters in the sense of like WWE or something like that,
- 57:12Speaker 6: where like you're constantly living your life as this alter ego.
- 57:15Speaker 6: It's more about a brand. So for me, like I
- 57:18Speaker 6: don't I've never really I don't like can't I can't
- 57:21Speaker 6: play a character. I can't. I don't have the like
- 57:24Speaker 6: the function of being consistently fake, so it would just
- 57:27Speaker 6: would not work, like I can't, I don't. I don't
- 57:29Speaker 6: operate well in that space, so I would forget. I'd
- 57:32Speaker 6: be like what did I say yesterday? So I'm just
- 57:35Speaker 6: kind of me, but I have you have to dial
- 57:38Speaker 6: up certain things like the camera, as you guys know,
- 57:41Speaker 6: because you do this, the camera sucks a little energy
- 57:44Speaker 6: out of out of who you are and what you
- 57:45Speaker 6: do and what you say. Like if you you can
- 57:47Speaker 6: tell when somebody hasn't been on camera, they're like and
- 57:50Speaker 6: they think they're like talking normal, but you're like, bro,
- 57:52Speaker 6: you gotta lift it up a little bit, you know.
- 57:56Speaker 6: So there is some of that to it, you know,
- 57:58Speaker 6: us a television show. So there I'm not gonna sit
- 58:01Speaker 6: here and say, like you don't turn it up a
- 58:02Speaker 6: little bit when lights come on, you have to or
- 58:04Speaker 6: it's gonna look like you don't even want to be there.
- 58:07Speaker 6: But there's you know, there's elements to it. Like there's
- 58:11Speaker 6: been times I've told I've been told to like dial
- 58:14Speaker 6: it back and be like less of myself.
- 58:16Speaker 4: Less of yourself.
- 58:17Speaker 6: Yeah, like I'd like to say you can just be
- 58:19Speaker 6: yourself all the time, but it doesn't you know, it
- 58:22Speaker 6: doesn't always work out like that.
- 58:24Speaker 4: When somebody told you to be less of yourself? What
- 58:26Speaker 4: did you what did you say?
- 58:27Speaker 6: I mean, I was mad about it. I'm gonna put
- 58:29Speaker 6: it in a book one day. But because for me,
- 58:31Speaker 6: I felt like, you know, it was more of like
- 58:37Speaker 6: you need to fit in that, you need to play
- 58:39Speaker 6: this role and like fit into this box, like you
- 58:42Speaker 6: need to kind of pretend to be a square. And
- 58:46Speaker 6: I'm like, okay, like I'm going to do that, but
- 58:48Speaker 6: there better be some benefits to me being a square.
- 58:51Speaker 6: And then it turned out there weren't any benefits to
- 58:53Speaker 6: me being a square, and I'm like, hold up, was
- 58:55Speaker 6: like that isn't even who I am. And now it's
- 58:58Speaker 6: kind of like people were people looking at me funny,
- 59:02Speaker 6: hold like I'm the only real in this place, like here,
- 59:08Speaker 6: what is happening? So you know I was it was
- 59:13Speaker 6: not It didn't sit well with me, but you know
- 59:16Speaker 6: it's you work for coporate companies sometimes, you know, especially
- 59:20Speaker 6: as women, they don't want you to really be like
- 59:23Speaker 6: edgy or out there, and whereas the men it's like,
- 59:28Speaker 6: man like, do whatever you want you know, there's there's
- 59:31Speaker 6: an expectation that you're supposed to like behave a certain way,
- 59:33Speaker 6: and like, now I'm at the point, partly because I'm
- 59:36Speaker 6: at a point in my career where I feel like
- 59:39Speaker 6: I can do it. I guess we'll find out I
- 59:46Speaker 6: can't handlenes. Once in college and I was like, this
- 59:49Speaker 6: is not this is not my liquor, Hennessy and rum.
- 59:53Speaker 6: We're going to stay away from those. But now I'm like,
- 59:57Speaker 6: you know what I'm not. I'm gonna do me like,
- 1:00:01Speaker 6: I'm gonna be as authentic to me whatever it is.
- 1:00:04Speaker 6: People like it if they don't like it. I feel
- 1:00:07Speaker 6: a responsibility to, like the next generation of women coming
- 1:00:10Speaker 6: up in this business, to not encourage them to like
- 1:00:14Speaker 6: compromise really what they want who they are to fit
- 1:00:17Speaker 6: into a box, because the more we go into the box,
- 1:00:20Speaker 6: the more they want that box to exist.
- 1:00:22Speaker 3: So being authentically you, I'm glad you said that because
- 1:00:26Speaker 3: earlier you said if I try to venture out, they
- 1:00:29Speaker 3: might think, oh, I don't really love sports. Everybody at
- 1:00:31Speaker 3: this point you know that you love sports. Do you
- 1:00:34Speaker 3: see yourself venturing into other industries? You said you hosted
- 1:00:36Speaker 3: the Oscars this past week, are the other things that
- 1:00:39Speaker 3: you want to explore.
- 1:00:41Speaker 6: No, I did not host segment watch I love the
- 1:00:47Speaker 6: host Oscar. The Oscars need a host. No, I mean,
- 1:00:53Speaker 6: I definitely I love entertainment. I love culture. As part
- 1:00:57Speaker 6: of the you know, our podcast, so we talk about
- 1:00:59Speaker 6: movies and shows, watching what's going on in social media
- 1:01:02Speaker 6: and music. So you know, I have lots of other interests,
- 1:01:05Speaker 6: just like everybody else. I would. I'm not like on
- 1:01:08Speaker 6: Skip's level. You know, Skip really just watched the sports
- 1:01:11Speaker 6: all day long, like that's that's it. Like maybe one
- 1:01:15Speaker 6: episode of Jeopardy with Ernestein, but like he is a
- 1:01:17Speaker 6: literal like sports addict, like that's his whole life and
- 1:01:23Speaker 6: it shows him what he does. But you know, I
- 1:01:26Speaker 6: really just want to be able to get to a
- 1:01:28Speaker 6: space where I can talk about what it is that
- 1:01:31Speaker 6: moves me. So obviously sports is always going to be
- 1:01:34Speaker 6: a part of my life and what I do for
- 1:01:36Speaker 6: a living. But I feel like I'm the at my
- 1:01:40Speaker 6: best when it's whatever comes naturally, Like if we're talking
- 1:01:44Speaker 6: about you know, Falcon in the winter Soldier and the
- 1:01:46Speaker 6: next we're talking about the draft tomorrow. Like sports and
- 1:01:49Speaker 6: culture have such a connection anyway, And now we're seeing
- 1:01:53Speaker 6: it even more. I think because of social media and
- 1:01:56Speaker 6: athletes being involved in different things that that's that's where
- 1:02:00Speaker 6: you know, eventually I want to I want to get
- 1:02:01Speaker 6: to but yeah, I definitely have other interests outside of
- 1:02:04Speaker 6: sports too.
- 1:02:04Speaker 4: One last question before we wrap the sports gambling situation.
- 1:02:07Speaker 4: You had mentioned it earlier. Yeah, it is coming. It's
- 1:02:11Speaker 4: not it can't be stopped. Uh, the raids are in
- 1:02:14Speaker 4: Vegas now, and this is something that has always been
- 1:02:16Speaker 4: an issue for sports Pete Rose, he was, you know,
- 1:02:21Speaker 4: still they got they got to make that right at
- 1:02:24Speaker 4: some point. Free please, So how do you feel about
- 1:02:29Speaker 4: sports gambling? How will it affect the sports industry, the
- 1:02:34Speaker 4: sports world, players, all of that, because it seems like
- 1:02:37Speaker 4: sports leagues are still scared of it, but they're embracing
- 1:02:41Speaker 4: it because it's just kind of it's going to happen regardless.
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: So like it or not.
- 1:02:45Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I mean it's it's it's legal federally now.
- 1:02:48Speaker 6: So it's just it's moving state by state how they're
- 1:02:50Speaker 6: going to regulate it and make it accessible to people,
- 1:02:53Speaker 6: but it's it's going to be legal everywhere eventually in
- 1:02:57Speaker 6: the next couple of years. I think about half the
- 1:02:59Speaker 6: states now have already legalized it, so yeah, I mean
- 1:03:03Speaker 6: it's a it's a major game changer. I mean, I
- 1:03:06Speaker 6: don't know about you guys, but like, I definitely gamble
- 1:03:08Speaker 6: on sports.
- 1:03:09Speaker 4: He's I don't, but he's one of these FanDuel I was.
- 1:03:14Speaker 3: I was, I got too addicted and I realized it
- 1:03:17Speaker 3: was too much and there's no disrespect. The moment it
- 1:03:19Speaker 3: hit me was I think it was like mid May
- 1:03:21Speaker 3: and there was like two playoff games.
- 1:03:23Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet on those already, and then.
- 1:03:25Speaker 3: I started picking like the WS and I was like,
- 1:03:28Speaker 3: I never even watched the WM. I'm just picking players.
- 1:03:30Speaker 6: You're just doing it a game.
- 1:03:31Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just doing responsible.
- 1:03:33Speaker 6: If you have a problem, contact somebody for real.
- 1:03:36Speaker 4: For real.
- 1:03:37Speaker 6: I don't want people out here betting their mortgages, losing
- 1:03:41Speaker 6: their families. It was a good decision by you.
- 1:03:45Speaker 4: Thank you.
- 1:03:46Speaker 6: No be responsible, but yes, like that, And that's part
- 1:03:49Speaker 6: of that is why leagues have been so resistant to
- 1:03:53Speaker 6: because it hasn't really been It's not legal, you know,
- 1:03:56Speaker 6: so how do you lean into it When it's not legal?
- 1:03:59Speaker 6: You can be you know, influencing people to go to
- 1:04:01Speaker 6: bookies and stuff.
- 1:04:03Speaker 2: It's funny though, because it's not.
- 1:04:04Speaker 3: It wasn't legal, but every game you watch on the
- 1:04:08Speaker 3: ticker it's DraftKings or it's fan duel, and it's put everywhere.
- 1:04:11Speaker 6: Well recently now yes, so recently yes, but for years
- 1:04:15Speaker 6: and years, Yeah, they didn't want and they didn't want
- 1:04:18Speaker 6: you know players. How Al would be notorious for that
- 1:04:21Speaker 6: Musburger talking about the you know, the spread and you know,
- 1:04:25Speaker 6: we know it was gonna be a lot of people
- 1:04:27Speaker 6: happy if this field goal goes in, like you know,
- 1:04:29Speaker 6: they're always kind of under the tone about it. Yeah,
- 1:04:33Speaker 6: but it's just something. It's the future, and it's gonna
- 1:04:35Speaker 6: be everywhere, and it brings in a ton of money
- 1:04:39Speaker 6: into the business. It's great for the business. It just
- 1:04:42Speaker 6: means more jobs, more content. As far as the players go,
- 1:04:46Speaker 6: it doesn't really change anything for the players because players
- 1:04:47Speaker 6: have never been able to gamble on sports, so it's
- 1:04:50Speaker 6: not it's never been legal for players to gamble even
- 1:04:52Speaker 6: on other sports.
- 1:04:53Speaker 4: But no, Floyd gamble's on his fights. He's done that before.
- 1:04:57Speaker 6: Well, boxing is a little different. They're they're in their
- 1:05:01Speaker 6: own category. If you were, if you're working with the league.
- 1:05:04Speaker 6: You can't gamble on sports like publicly, like you know,
- 1:05:08Speaker 6: I mean maybe you do some you know, on the low,
- 1:05:12Speaker 6: but you can't. You're not supposed to do that. And
- 1:05:14Speaker 6: Pete Rose is a unique situation because he was throwing
- 1:05:17Speaker 6: his own games, like he was involved in his own games, Like,
- 1:05:20Speaker 6: you definitely can't do that unless it's Blue Chips.
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: Blue Chips. That was a great movie. Shock. Yeah, the type,
- 1:05:30Speaker 2: the type what did you do?
- 1:05:34Speaker 6: It's not gonna be that. It's it's definitely the future though,
- 1:05:37Speaker 6: Like to your point, the Raiders are in Vegas now
- 1:05:40Speaker 6: and that was a big deal because they were like,
- 1:05:42Speaker 6: you can never put a team in Vegas because you know,
- 1:05:44Speaker 6: players are gonna gamble like players gamble on like Pars
- 1:05:48Speaker 6: to Vegas time. But as far as gambling on sports, like,
- 1:05:51Speaker 6: it's not it's no more uh to me, it's no
- 1:05:54Speaker 6: more temptation, Like you could gamble on sports anywhere. You were,
- 1:05:57Speaker 6: so like, why is Vegas gonna be more to influence
- 1:06:00Speaker 6: to gamble on sports? Because there's sports books there, like
- 1:06:02Speaker 6: and you're going to see a player walking into a
- 1:06:04Speaker 6: sportsbook and putting a bet down, Like that's not somebody
- 1:06:06Speaker 6: you che have on your team. It's not very smart.
- 1:06:08Speaker 6: So it's a great thing for the industry. It's definitely
- 1:06:12Speaker 6: a game changer. It's gonna bring in a lot of money.
- 1:06:13Speaker 3: We said that, especially with the pandemic hit in a
- 1:06:16Speaker 3: lot of these states, they have to raise revenue.
- 1:06:18Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a couple of ways.
- 1:06:19Speaker 3: You can raise taxes, which is going to be tough
- 1:06:21Speaker 3: because youve got to vote, or you could legal sports.
- 1:06:23Speaker 6: And people were gambling on sports anyway. Like obviously it's
- 1:06:26Speaker 6: going to give more people access to gamble on sports.
- 1:06:29Speaker 6: But it's not like this is new, like they're just
- 1:06:32Speaker 6: inventing gambling on sports. Like we were putting money on
- 1:06:36Speaker 6: games for many, many, many, many many years. It's just
- 1:06:39Speaker 6: then now it's digital, so it's going to be more accessible.
- 1:06:41Speaker 6: They're going to be more sports books and more casinos,
- 1:06:44Speaker 6: so that's going to change things. But overall, it's going
- 1:06:46Speaker 6: to be good for good for the leagues, and it's
- 1:06:49Speaker 6: going to be good for the business, for our business,
- 1:06:50Speaker 6: for the content business, because there's just going to be
- 1:06:53Speaker 6: so much more money coming in.
- 1:06:54Speaker 3: I think there's a few shows that are about to
- 1:06:57Speaker 3: be launched just on base.
- 1:06:59Speaker 6: Trackings and Levatar fifty million, yes yesterday. It's it's a
- 1:07:03Speaker 6: it's a big, big deal for the business.
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