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Set 1: Syracuse Livin' (w/ Sean McDonough) · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that uh, Chuck Norris was chasing the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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  Speaker 3: Wow that Prime Time.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I had a crush on Betty Rubbell. I honestly,
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  Speaker 1: until after the segment ended and we went to commercial break,
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  Speaker 1: had no idea that Jonathan Coachman was black.
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  Speaker 3: He caught them the game last night, although they won
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening just to Godson Company.
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  Speaker 5: So Mikey, I told my friend Sean McDonough I was
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  Speaker 5: doing the show today from the New House School. He
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  Speaker 5: graduated from Syracuse University, the New House School.
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  Speaker 2: He's very proud of.
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  Speaker 5: That, and he has concerns that I'm going to tarnish
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  Speaker 5: the good name here of the New House School at Syracuse.
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  Speaker 3: Like, how am I arriving at the same place where.
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  Speaker 2: You graduated from, Sean McDonough, Well, I'm glad to see
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  Speaker 2: you finally got in a new house. You know that
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  Speaker 2: this would be the only way that you were able
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  Speaker 2: to do it. I'm glad to see that beautiful s
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  Speaker 2: orange s behind you. And it's quite a facility, isn't
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  Speaker 2: it In all seriousness? I mean, you can see why
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  Speaker 2: young people want to go there in droves because you know,
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  Speaker 2: not only is there the great history and there's a
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  Speaker 2: great program, but the facilities now are top shelf as well.
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  Speaker 3: Oh they're amazing.
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  Speaker 5: I was telling the folks and the folks who work
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  Speaker 5: here are incredible. I was telling Olivia, who you know,
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  Speaker 5: that if I had these kinds of facilities, I'd actually
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  Speaker 5: be good at this.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Olivia is the best. Olivia Stompsky, who runs
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  Speaker 2: the New House Sports Media Center up there, does a
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  Speaker 2: great job. You know. I've talked to a lot of
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  Speaker 2: students over the years who realize how blessed they are
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  Speaker 2: to have her leading the program too. She's another big
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  Speaker 2: part of the reason why it's such a popular program.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm up here for my daughter's graduation. What do
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  Speaker 5: you remember about your graduation? Shaw McDonough, Remember.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much went straight there from whatever we were
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  Speaker 2: doing the night before.
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  Speaker 3: I'm certain you did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pretty sure we did. You know, I remember
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  Speaker 2: several things. Actually shockingly, Dan Rather was the speaker, right,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, he was terrific, and he said several things.
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  Speaker 2: I remember one of which was the most important thing
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to paraphrase this in life is sincerity. And
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  Speaker 2: as soon as you learn how to fake that, you're
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  Speaker 2: all set. From a credible news anchor, yeah, exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: So every time I go up there to that beautiful
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  Speaker 2: campus where you are right now, and I speak to
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  Speaker 2: broadcasting students, I always say, the most important thing in
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  Speaker 2: broadcasting is sincerity. Pause, pause, and as soon as you
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  Speaker 2: learn how to fake that, you're all set. And they
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  Speaker 2: all look at me like it's a joke, people, it's
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  Speaker 2: a joke. So but I remember the other thing. I
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  Speaker 2: remember my dear departed dad. You know, the late great
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  Speaker 2: Will McDonough was a great friend of Al Davis, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the legendary football man best known for being the Raider's owner.
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  Speaker 2: And when I went to Syracuse there he called a
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  Speaker 2: great friend to his doctor, Luke Laporta, who was high
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  Speaker 2: up in the development office, and said, this kid, Sean
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  Speaker 2: mcdonn is going there. You need to take great care
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  Speaker 2: of him while he's there. I wasn't on campus for
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  Speaker 2: a day. The hall of phone ring. Some kid knocks
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  Speaker 2: on my door. You McDonough, you have a call on
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  Speaker 2: the house phone, like who's calling me? I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but Sean, this is Luke Laporta. I'm a great friend
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  Speaker 2: of Al Davis. He told me to take great care
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  Speaker 2: of you. Come down and see me as soon as
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  Speaker 2: you can. So I went down to see him, and
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  Speaker 2: for four years Luke was you know, took care of
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  Speaker 2: me and everybody's like my godfather there, including in graduation
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  Speaker 2: when he got my family, including my dad a sweet
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  Speaker 2: in the carrier. Don't then the carrier, don't now or
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  Speaker 2: so Dan Rather at one point said well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: stay end up and wave at your parents and salute
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  Speaker 2: your parents, and you know it's a big dome. So
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  Speaker 2: most of my buddies I've sent with I don't know
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  Speaker 2: where my parents And I was like, well, I know
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  Speaker 2: where my family is because they're at a big shot
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  Speaker 2: box that Luke got us right there. Thank you Al Davis.
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  Speaker 2: So I remember that from my commencement as well. That's
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  Speaker 2: about it. But congratulations to your daughter, thank you. She's
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  Speaker 2: had a great experience there because everybody does. And congratulations
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  Speaker 2: to you because you just got about a ninety thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars a year raise.
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  Speaker 3: I'm duessing, yes, I look forward to those bills. No
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  Speaker 3: longer coming to my email.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I barely made it through Syracuse financially back then
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  Speaker 2: when it was a lot, you know, less expensive, when
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  Speaker 2: we were passing the dinosaurs on campus on the way
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  Speaker 2: to class, when they were roaming the earth, and I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have gotten through were it not for the great
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  Speaker 2: help of our late great football coach Dick McPherson. But
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  Speaker 2: that's a story for another time.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I will ask you that story at a different time.
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  Speaker 5: I am wondering here. So Tarrico's doing the commencement speech.
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  Speaker 5: I'm excited for that.
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  Speaker 3: I have been texting.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a boring year. Nothing's happening. This will be
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  Speaker 2: the least exciting the Olympics. He needed something to kind
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  Speaker 2: of liven up his ear a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Right, he hasn't had enough.
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  Speaker 2: Right, he'll do a terrific job. I do hope that
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  Speaker 2: they have, you know, some sort of large step stool
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  Speaker 2: for him to stand on so you can see the podium.
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  Speaker 2: But he will do a fantastic job. Fantastic Is that
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  Speaker 2: how it works? So like Syracuse Syracuse.
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  Speaker 5: ALAM New House alumni, they can only make fun of
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  Speaker 5: each other. But if God forbid, Mike Greenberg said that
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  Speaker 5: about Mike t Rico, there would be a right.
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  Speaker 2: It's you know, when it comes from people from other universities,
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  Speaker 2: it's just jealousy, all right. I say that to Mike
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  Speaker 2: out of love. He's a dear friend, but I do love.
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  Speaker 2: Like we all got together up there last fall for
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  Speaker 2: the Marty Glickman Award ceremony, and it was Mike and
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  Speaker 2: Iron Eagle and Marv and Bob cost this. I felt
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  Speaker 2: like Wilt Chamberlain. I am five nine and a quarter
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  Speaker 2: and I tower over that. So there must have been
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  Speaker 2: something in the water up there that stunted our growth.
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  Speaker 2: But you were broke to be in a room maternity
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  Speaker 2: that you're really proudly you know. When you get up
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  Speaker 2: there and Olivia says to you you're gonna be on
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  Speaker 2: a panel with Marv and Bob and I an Eagle,
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  Speaker 2: You're like three apples in an orange, which one of
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  Speaker 2: us doesn't belong here, you know, but I'm happy to
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  Speaker 2: be included.
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  Speaker 3: You'll take any room in which you're the tallest person
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  Speaker 3: in that.
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  Speaker 2: I should say three oranges in an apple, right, yes? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: So how long?
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  Speaker 5: So I've been texting withinto Rico and trying to negotiate
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  Speaker 5: a shorter speech.
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  Speaker 2: There's no chances, there's no chance. You've seen the way
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  Speaker 2: Mike prepares for everything, you know, and I've jabbed him
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  Speaker 2: a few times over. There's one time he was doing
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  Speaker 2: the Orange Bowl and I think it was Stanford, might
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  Speaker 2: have been Jim Harboss last game at Stanford and Condoleeza Rice,
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  Speaker 2: you know, faculty member, and Stanford was on the sideline.
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  Speaker 2: They showed her and Mike was doing the game and
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  Speaker 2: he said, there's the sixty sixth Secretary of State of
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  Speaker 2: the United and who knows them? I mean, we all
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  Speaker 2: barely know what number of the presidents are, and so
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  Speaker 2: I en with the details. Now you're just showing off
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  Speaker 2: like that's a bunch of ps, right, So he will
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  Speaker 2: be very well prepared, and I would not bet on
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  Speaker 2: it being brief. It'll be great, it'll be insightful, it'll
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  Speaker 2: be interesting, funny, I'm sure, but I would I would
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  Speaker 2: take the over on brevity.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, over thirty minutes, your sir, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Were's some comfortable clothing. Well, I don't know whatever they
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  Speaker 2: told him to be. I'm sure he'll be right on
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  Speaker 2: time because he's probably rehearsed it ten times to make
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  Speaker 2: sure it's right on time. Yes, I do one commencement, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll two. I couldn't do the one right I was
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  Speaker 2: asked to do this year, but I did one for
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  Speaker 2: Southern Vermont College. I told me, we'd like you to
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  Speaker 2: speak for twenty to twenty five minutes, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: no one wants. I don't want to hear myself speak
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  Speaker 2: for twenty to twenty So I got into about fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 2: And it was on this hillside in Bennington, Vermont. So
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  Speaker 2: there were people that were there was a tent, and
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  Speaker 2: some people were in the tent, like the president of
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  Speaker 2: the school and some other people. And then but there
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  Speaker 2: were a lot of people on the hillslope and I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't see all of them because they went up the hill.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm already thinking in my mind, this speech is
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  Speaker 2: too long. I knew I shouldn't have tried to go
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  Speaker 2: for twenty minutes whatever. And all of a sudden I
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  Speaker 2: heard and it was a thunderstorm. There was people were
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  Speaker 2: running down the hill into the tent, and I said, literally,
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  Speaker 2: this is God's way of telling me this speech is
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  Speaker 2: too long. Good luck, congratulations, I'm sure you'll all do Greg,
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  Speaker 2: let's give them their diplomas. Done so, and then my
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  Speaker 2: question to you guys is, you know I've got the
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  Speaker 2: Doctor of Humane Letters. I got all the whatever you
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  Speaker 2: call the outfit with the hat and the tassel, and
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  Speaker 2: the college went out of business, which is probably why
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  Speaker 2: I have not been invited to only one other school since.
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  Speaker 2: So am I still a Doctor of Humane Letters?
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  Speaker 3: Wow? For a school that doesn't exist anymore.
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  Speaker 2: School that it existed at the time. Yes, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: God for been Harvard went out of business, you'd still
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  Speaker 2: be a Harvard grad, right, I mean that's at least
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  Speaker 2: that's what I'm going with.
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  Speaker 3: It's Mikey, what do you think? It's a great question.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have a ruling here?
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  Speaker 6: No, they can't take that away from you.
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  Speaker 2: You have it, it's done, it's yours. Yeah, they can't
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  Speaker 2: take that from the school. Have the hat. I'm claiming it.
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  Speaker 4: You're kissing death.
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  Speaker 3: But done up.
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  Speaker 2: I know I put the school out of business. My
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  Speaker 2: friend who had just invited me to speak at another commencement,
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  Speaker 2: which I can't do because it's next weekend and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be in the middle of the hockey playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: I said, I'm very honored in the interest of full disclosure.
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  Speaker 2: The only school I did this for went out of business,
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  Speaker 2: so I was financial health of your school. You know
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  Speaker 2: that we possibly survive the fact that I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be your commencement speaker and the history is not good.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I read recently that you said you have no
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  Speaker 5: plans of slowing down anytime soon, which I find amazing
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  Speaker 5: considering how fast it is that you go.
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  Speaker 3: So no plan. You love this so much. No plans
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  Speaker 3: of slowing down anytime soon?
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  Speaker 2: Huh. No, I'm sixty three. I'll be sixty four next week.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you thirteenth? If your massive audience wants to
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  Speaker 2: send gifts, that would be nice, you know, probably in
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  Speaker 2: an envelope. My dad used to like listening to those
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: religious shows like the Reverend Ike, and he'd say, don't
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  Speaker 2: send a postcard. You can't put money in a postcard
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  Speaker 2: when you give the address if you want to support
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  Speaker 2: you know, the ministry or whatever was so, Yeah, I'd
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  Speaker 2: prefer envelopes. No, I'm kidding, of course, but no, I
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  Speaker 2: love it. Yeah, I'm I'm in reasonably good health. I think, uh,
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  Speaker 2: try to take good care of myself. No, it's uh,
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  Speaker 2: I still think I'm doing my job as well as
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  Speaker 2: I have. Hopefully other people feel that way, and hopefully
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  Speaker 2: my bosses feel that way. The audience feels that way.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I see a lot of people who
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  Speaker 2: are significantly older than me who are still doing this
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  Speaker 2: and doing it at a high level. So yeah, it's fun,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know what else I do. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if I play golf three or four days
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  Speaker 2: in a row, I think, oh gosh, if I ever retired,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't do this. I couldn't do this twelve months
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  Speaker 2: a year. I'd go crazy. So right, it's fun, right,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm going to be in Montreal on Sunday
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  Speaker 2: night doing an NHL playoff game, and the greatest venue,
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  Speaker 2: one of the great sports venues in the world, really,
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  Speaker 2: the Bells. I mean, the atmosphere there is crazy, and
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  Speaker 2: the fan base is incredibly passionate. So why would I
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  Speaker 2: want to stop doing that?
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  Speaker 3: No, don't stop doing it.
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  Speaker 2: You're great at it.
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  Speaker 5: What are the greatest venues that you've called a game
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  Speaker 5: in besides Montreal?
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  Speaker 3: Like, can you think of two or three others?
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  Speaker 2: Off the NHL?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, anywhere, I mean, Fenway is a pretty good selling.
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  Speaker 2: Number one on my list. You know, I've done hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of games. There been in the thousands, probably hundreds.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway, are there places where you walked in and you're like,
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  Speaker 5: oh my god, I can't believe I'm here, Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just wating Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, You're leading the witness, and you're doing
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  Speaker 2: it very well, really, because I'm sitting there struggling to answer.
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame. Last year, the first college football playoff game
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  Speaker 2: ever on a campus was at Notre Dame at night
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  Speaker 2: when they played Indiana. It's a year ago, and you
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  Speaker 2: know it, it was cold, but it's this beautiful, clear
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  Speaker 2: night and it's Notre Dame and over there is the
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  Speaker 2: grotto and touchdown Jesus, and you know, and I thought,
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  Speaker 2: what can be cool? I mean, I'm getting goosebumps literally
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  Speaker 2: right now thinking about it. Yes, you know, so, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: doing a football game at Notre Dame. Especially when we
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  Speaker 2: got there, I think it had been like third four
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  Speaker 2: years since anybody other than NBC had televised a game
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  Speaker 2: from there, because they've had the rights. It's amazing how
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  Speaker 2: time flies, right, Yeah, NBC's had it for fifteen years
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  Speaker 2: or so. It's like thirty something years. So unless you
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  Speaker 2: worked for them, and we're lucky enough to do a
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  Speaker 2: game at Notre Dame, nobody had so yeah, that would
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  Speaker 2: be high in the lists. And unfortunately, unless it's another
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  Speaker 2: home playoff game, we probably won't do another game there
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  Speaker 2: anytime soon, as long as NBC has the rights.
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  Speaker 5: Do you feel like Buffalo has become it's weird? I
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  Speaker 5: think so many people want to see the city of
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  Speaker 5: Buffalo just win something. They feel so bad. So I
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  Speaker 5: feel like they've become almost America's team here in hockey.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy. Yeah. I got a text message from a
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  Speaker 2: friend of mine who's a big Ranger fans. Oh, the
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  Speaker 2: Rangers made the playoffs. Who'shid cheer for? I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 2: why not Buffalo, right? I mean fourteen years they weren't
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs, longest streak in the history of the league,
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  Speaker 2: Eighteen years without between winning a playoff series. And they're
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  Speaker 2: such great fans and on they love their team. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I hope we get our group gets a game in Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't been there yet because T and T's had
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  Speaker 2: the first two games of the series in Buffalo. So
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  Speaker 2: I hope we get there because I'm dying to do
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  Speaker 2: a game there. You know. I used to go there
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  Speaker 2: when I was at Syracuse, the Harvard of Central New
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  Speaker 2: York where you're sitting right now. A lot of my
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  Speaker 2: buddies were from Central New York, Western New York. Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Papa, the great announcer for the Raiders and now
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  Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers, has done a lot of other things,
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  Speaker 2: and shout out to him. He was in a really
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  Speaker 2: rough battle with cancer right now. We're praying for him
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  Speaker 2: every day. But you know he's from He's from Buffalo,
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  Speaker 2: so we us when the Bruins used to play them
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: in the old odd we used to drive out there
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: and go to some you know, really some great games
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: back in the day. You know, they just beat the
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: hell out of each other. And so I love the
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: people of Buffalo are great. Love going there. Really hope
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: that we get a chance to go. But I do think,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: you know, if you don't have a rooting interest, there'll
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: be a lot of people picking up their banner.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: Just quickly to hear what's a baseball? Were you surprised
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: that the Red Sox got rid of Cora.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, I was, you know, especially to do it so
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: early in the season. And I think what surprised me
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: more is that they wiped out five or six coaches
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: with them. I mean, that's that's very hard to replace, right. Yes, Well,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: let's call up the batt impact practice pitcher from Newton
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: South High School and see if he can come coach
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: their base You know, it wasn't quite like that, but
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: it seemed like it was, you know, so that that
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: surprised me, and that Jason Veritek was one of them.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Who's a you know, a franchise icon. I mean, if
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: you really had your touts about that many members of
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: the coaching staff, why did you start the season with
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: them right?
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Why did you bring them all back?
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and especially when there's plenty of conversation here locally
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: about the roster construction was the biggest problem, you know,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: not the managing or the coaching. And you know, there
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: are the people who have been chanting at the ownership
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: group to sell the tea team since before they fired Alex.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think Alex had a pretty long run
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: relative to most coaches and managers right in professional sports,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: and particularly given that, you know, the World Series championship
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: was in twenty eighteen. The results since then have just
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: been kind of okay. So usually the manager takes the
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: fall for that. So in some ways I guess he
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: lasted longer than he might have. But yeah, the timing
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: of it, I think, more than anything, was surprising, and
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: the magnitude of it.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: Sean It's said to me, as a Yankee fan, what's
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: become of the Red Sox? Because I missed the rivalry.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: Our our executive producer was ready to say that.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I mean it was to do right now, we wouldn't
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: be listening to this about going somewhere with that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: I was going somewhere with it if you let me,
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: if you didn't interrupt.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Mett I interrupted you. No, Stu Gott's interrupted me. You
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: just talked.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: Our Taylor, our executive producer, could not root for Roman
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Anthony during the World Baseball Classic like what. He was
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: rooting for Team USA until Roman Anthony got up and
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: then he turned his back on that.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Then he became he became a Mexican.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Yes, but I imagine I do I do imagine Red
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Sox fans maybe did the same thing to Aaron Judge,
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: like they wanted USA to win, but they didn't want
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: to hurt Judge would be.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: The reason a hit. They wanted hit him to take
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: a fast all off the helmet and then to get hurt.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I was cheering for all of them. Yes,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: me too. I'm not allowed to say this, but uh
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: you know, I do not wish ill upon the Yankees,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: because I did at least one season of Monday Night Baseball.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I think too, with Aaron Boone, who is as decent
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: a human being as I've ever met doing this. I
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: mean I've worked with over one hundred people. I think
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: it's one hundred and fifty different people, analysts, Sideline Report, hosts, whatever,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: in all these different sports, and Aaron Boone is at
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: the top of the list. I mean, he is a
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: great guy. I think he's a really smart baseball guy.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I know Yankee fans like to dump on him, and
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of people who thought he shouldn't be
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: back this year, but you know, maybe this is their year.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so I don't I don't wish any ill
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: upon the Yankees because I'm a huge Aaron Boone fan.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: All Right, we're gonna get you here.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: John Sterling, by the way, yeah, oh yes, yes, yeah.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: We had Mike Francesa on talking about John Sterling and
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: what he meant to that fan base and just what
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: it's like.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Sean.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: It's incredible the impact you could have, especially on a
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: fan base like yours. They they love John Sterling. I'm
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: certain Boston fans love you. But did you have any
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: interactions with John Sterling.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you've certain of it over all these years.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: You know, he did it for thirty six years and
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: I was around the Red Sox for a lot of those.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: You know, he was just uh I read the word eccentric, eccentricities,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: you know a lot of the articles and tributes, and
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: you know that's really true. You know, he was a
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: He was a real character in a world that is
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: incre singly devoid of characters. And he just always seemed
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: to me to be a guy who was always performing.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: You know, like even in a conversation, regular conversation, you'd
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: be walking down the hallway in the press box and
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Fenway or Yankee Stadium, and you know it was he
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: didn't just walk up, Hey, how you doing. It was
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: always hello, Shannie, you know, in that voice, and you
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: know it was kind of theatrical, and you know you
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: saw it in all the tributes the last few days.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I think everybody who knew John really appreciated him. He
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: had a great heart and you know, obviously a legendary career.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: When they start asking out loud, should announcers be in
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: monument park, I think that says a lot about the
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: impact that he had.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: We're going to get you out of here in just
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: a second. I know you have to go golfing.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I think you're a getting the hook. I saw you
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: to given like Olivia or somebody.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, Olivia is just being patient with me.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: She's making sure that we're connected to the radio station
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: here because I had to Oh.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Well that's important. Yes, yes, this is important, but you
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: have bigger fish to No.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: No, I don't have bigger fish to fry. This is important, though.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: The question I'm about to ask you is what's important? Okay,
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Mikey knows. We started playing this game around here called
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: one Table. So there's one table in the restaurant, and
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Tom Brady in his prime, walks in around any time,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: it's Tom Brady.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm trying to think of the per I'm gonna go. Oh,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Mikey wants me to go Poppy, I'm gonna go Tom Brady,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Larry Bird.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: They both walk in, one table is left, who gets
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: the table?
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Uh? Now that happened today?
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well yes, today today, it's a tough one.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say it's a really tough one. Yeah. Tom
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Brady is kind of checked anybody off. Yeah, whereas you
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: know Tom, I don't begrudge Tom the right to leave
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: or you know, in some ways he was kind of
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: shoved out right and go win. I think he proved
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: this point, you know, we're talking about who was the
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: most important person to the Patriots success all this years,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Brady Belichick or Craft when he left and went to
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay and won a Super Bowl? Like, okay, could
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: we stop having that conversation, you know, and and the
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: whole Belichick record with Brady without you know, at a
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: certain point you know that that's not a coincidence either.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: So you know, I think Tom's a great guy. I
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: had the great pleasure of playing a lot of golf
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: with his dad right here at Boston Golf Club, where
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: his dad was a national member and much loved great
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: guy Tom Brady Senior. So you know, I think they
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: probably find a table for both of them. They probably say, hey, mcdonna,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: you have to go there, both of these guys, and
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I bet they'd sit together, right, because they're both a
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: kind of guy who probably enjoyed the hell out of
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: each other's company and conversation.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, all right, show, we appreciate it.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: As always, I'll try to keep this place intact for
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: you and try not to ruin anything that you guys
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: have created here, because it's a wonderful facility.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: I don't belong here. I feel ashamed that I here.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, well, clearly you didn't belong there many years ago
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: when you applied and didn't get in. But thank god
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: your daughter is really sharp and really talented. Not the
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: great things. And no, it's great to see you up
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: there and enjoy it. You know. Not only is the
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: New House School awesome and world renowned, but it's a
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: beautiful campus. You know, people think, oh, it's a city school,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: and it's not a city school. It's up on that hill.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: We can see the trees behind you. It was a
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: as important as really anything that's ever happened in my life.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: We're very close to it the time that I spent there,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: and it remains a very special place to me and
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: it always will. I'm glad you're that. Yeah, that's awesome.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: My daughter's had a wonderful four years here.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: It's been a great place for me my family to
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: come visit.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: So I'm glad, and I listen. I get why you
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: guys love it so much. I do. Haven't come here.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Whatever people asked me, friends of mine, say, hey, my
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: daughter's considering going to Syracuse, my son, my nephew, whatever.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I always say, Well, I never know. I never knew
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: anybody who went there and didn't it, you know, and
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I think we're all really proud of it and have
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: a great time. All right, thank you.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: You're gonna listen. You're gonna have a better time. You're
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: golfing and eating lunch with friends. But uh, but so
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: you have a good time.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I'll be one last round of golf because I think
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: we're really back into the hockey grind after this. You know.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: We we get through the second round, then we have
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: a con every game of a conference final, in every
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: game of the Stanley Cup final, so there'll be no
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: more golf probably till the end of June. So we're
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: gonna enjoy today. You'll be okay.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: We look forward to all your calls. Thank you, Sean McDonough.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: We appreciate it as always my pleasure.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Thanks