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Tribute to Peter Wein · Sports Exchange

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  Good he everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Sports Exchange. This
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  is going to be a very very very special night, and this is a
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  tribute to Peter Ween. But before I go in any details of the show,
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  I want to pass out our deepest sympathies to the folks out in Kansas
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  City that went through that parade and unfortunately there was a casualty there. So
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  you know, our hearts and prayers go to each and everyone. You also,
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  my hearts are always going to be out to Marjorie Stone and Douglas out
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  here in Parkland. I know that there was a Valentine's Day shooting that occurred
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  a few years back, so I know the pain is very fresh in their
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  mind losing. You know, in both cases, these incidents happen to happen
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  beyond Valentine's Day, So we have a really, really good show. Let
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  me go ahead and introduce the crew. First, Candy, I'm gonna be
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  a part of this. This is going to be unbelievable. And then we
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  got Denzel Snipes who's going to be on here as well. Candy, glad
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  that you're on. Glad you are this is a and Denzel, welcome back
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  from Las Vegas and Candy mess with the camera, so I don't know who's
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  talking who wasn't, whether I'm seeing double triple or whatever. It doesn't Candy,
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  you look different. Sorry, that's Denzel. Oh yeah, Denzel's back
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  from Las Vegas. All right, Denzel, glad to have you back on
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  the Hero with us. Hey, thanks for having me back. Man.
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  It was an awesome time out there. And I'll shed a little bit more
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  light about my experiences tomorrow and Punny, Punny, but I do notice a
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  very special episode for you, so you know, all right, Candy,
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  once again, I'm glad that you're going to be the master producers here.
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  I want you to give everybody a little bit about what's in store for tonight.
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  So Peter Ween was Scott's co host on the Sports Exchange when he started
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  it back up, oh gosh, ninety eight years ago, about i'd say,
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  And they did it on Peter's network. It was the Wei Network.
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  It was an internet radio and they did two hour shows Tuesday and Thursday nights
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  from five to seven pm. And they would get guests, but the two
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  of them would talk. And Peter was a New Yorker and you could tell
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  from his accent and him against the MotorCity mad Mouth, and they had some
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  interesting discussions and debates and they had some great chemistry and it was awesome because
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  I would sit in the studio and I would watch them and it was just
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  a delight to see both of them so happy and excited about talking about sports
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  and the sports from their tone, and they had some great guests on and
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  it just it's neat and it's too bad Peter fell ill and he unfortunately passed
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  away. So rest in peace, Peter. This is a tribute to you
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  and how you and Scott did reunited the Sports Exchange and started it back up.
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  You know, we were again about four to six thousand people on our
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  shows, which was really unbelievable. And I'm going to miss the time when
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  Peter used to mispronounce my name Morgan Worth all the time, as you guys
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  are going to find out. Oh so I don't feel guilty now for all
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  the time. Well, Peter did it in a way the guys from Queens,
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  New York in the New York area, so whatever he did, it
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  was just so funny coming from this guy. I could sit there and tell
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  you I can't say I looked up to Peter Ween at all because he was
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  shorter than I am. But I looked up to the waste. But it
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  was unbelievable. We had a good time. I used to say, I
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  know you're never going to get it right, to just keep getting it wrong
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  anyways. And there's a picture to the right part of the screen with Peter
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  and I and you can see the height differential. There was no hat there.
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  But and he is in my book, by the Way, Lessons from
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  the Microphone, and there's a good special part in there as well. Peter
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  died on Saturday at the age of seventy three. And a boy you talk
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  about a guy who to me, you really there needs to be more Peter
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  Ween's out there. So you know, Jacob, Yeah, yeah, how
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  you doing tonight? I'm doing all right. I'm doing no, Sorry about
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  the voice a little bit down. But you know something I think about this
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  with we all have our I was thinking about this with Ween, with Peter
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  Ween, and it's like, we all have our You could say this mentors
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  people that you said look up and everything though you are taller, but you
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  we all have. They all come into our life in some which way.
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  You know, there's a reason for them to be there, you know,
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  to get it to that next level. You you and George came in mind
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  you know, Denzel all everybody side and I came through, and it's like
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  everybody can have a skill, but we all need that extra oof and it
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  sounds like Peter was yours. Sure, and you know what, George,
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  Iicorn appeared on a lot of shows with Peter and I. George, why
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  don't you give you some of your feelings about Peter and then Candy will roll
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  the first opening and then we'll have another clip later. Go ahead, Georgie.
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  Yeah. And unfortunately, with the Super Bowl and everything going on there,
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  I kind of got the news late and not that's on that's on me,
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  not on you. And I was really really sorry. I just felt
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  that, uh, you know, you guys had great chemistry, Scott and
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  and and Peter. Uh you know, you you had your your teams and
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  that that you've covered or in Peter's case, he's really pulling for certain New
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  York teams. But you know, you guys had amazing chemistry. I mean,
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  I was so glad when you hooked up with him. You know,
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  it meant a lot to me, Scott because I know you were searching,
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  you know many years ago, you know, you moved down to Florida and
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  that, so I figured it was gonna happen sooner or later. And I
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  was just I was just so happy for you too, and for Candy.
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  But I mean that Peter came into your life and and was there as a
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  partner, and you learned a lot from him, he learned from you,
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  and it's just one of those things, like Jacob said, you know,
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  you always remember somebody that either mentored you or became sort of like an idol
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  for you. And to follow his example is just tremendous. I mean,
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  he had all those shows on his Wii network, and he really laid the
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  groundwork for for what you and Sideline and and Candy and South Florida a journal
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  has has been working on these last couple of years. So he's a great
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  man. Great man for sure. Well, Well, the way the partnership
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  came together, And if I wanted to get into the radio business a lot
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  sooner than I return, I could have bought airtime for any of the terrestrial
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  radio I would get do that. There's no way I'm going to do it.
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  Why I feel I should get paid okay, like any professional. But
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  again, part of the reason I didn't do it was mainly because a lot
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  of those stations would not allow you to use their stations as a way to
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  get credentialed to games, and that was one of the sticking points I had.
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  But the relationship I worked out with Peter was there's a guy with internet
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  radio, and I had just started a pledgling publication called the South Florida Tribune,
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  So I said, bring me on a couple of times a week,
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  Tuesday and Thursday. We worked out we had to find times that it didn't
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  interfere with his programming. That way, we start the week off with updates
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  and then you end the week with previews about the weekend. And we were
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  able to work out a time that was mutually beneficial for both sides. We
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  would go out there and network a lot. He would do a lot of
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  cross promotion with me when we went to Train Media, which is in Boca
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  Raton as well, So we were able to do that where we made a
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  trade. And you know what his name is. We created a Facebook page
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  which was really good with us, we really did. And then we'll stay
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  there forever. He's on the South Florida Tribune anyways, and he'll never leave
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  there, and he's in my book. So Peter Weing may not be with
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  here physically, but he's there spiritually and he's going to be with me wherever
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  I go. So that said, let me just get some other stuff out
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  then I want to go to some clips that are really good. Just want
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  ahead, and let's let everybody get to know a little bit about Peter Ween
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  and the Sports Exchange. So I'm going to preface this by saying this was
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  their intro to one of their shows. And here it goes. Yeah,
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  ready, it's time for this what six games, talk, interview, opinion,
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  and a lot more sports from around the globe. It's time with Scott
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  morgenor and Peter Ween. Good afternoon, everybody. I even Scott Morgan from
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  MotorCity Mad mouthed in the house with Peter Ween and Samuel Kay and well,
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  guys, we got ourselves a great show today, don't we. You were
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  listening to the Yeah we do. Yeah, it's been a show I've waited
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  a long long time for and our featured guest year this afternoon is going to
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  be my childhood idol, Mickey lolog the MVP of the nineteen sixty eight World
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  Series. But before we get into a lot of those who did they who
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  did they be in the World Series? Lewis Cardinals and mister Rowlidge, although
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  non't nemember call him that on air, he doesn't like it. Won three
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  games and hit a home run in Game two of that series, and they
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  were three complete games. So Mickey, uh, he's not in the Hall
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  of Fame as anybody's yet before we going to the agenda this afternoon, we
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  all have to ask him his opinion of what why he's not in the Hall
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  of Fame. Well, there was a thing exactly to talk to about.
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  Okay, that's gonna be a good question. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure
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  I hope an answer for that and a whole lot more. But before we
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  go into today's agenda, there has been a change in the schedule for this
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  Thursday. The Sports Exchange will not, and I repeat, will not be
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  covering the Gator Nationals. Instead, I got a very good opportunity to cover
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  the Sea Bring twelve hours right up the road in Seabring, Florida. So
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  I'm looking forward to doing your there. Oh yeah, my wife's friend over
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  at Chase Bank, Fallendard told me that, Scott, that's a heck of
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  an event that you're going to go to. Yeah, and that's big.
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  That's like in golfood would be one of them four majors, right, And
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  there's no question I'm glad I could hook you up with that. Yeah,
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  I'm sure you can not. Okay, I got connections all over the gold
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  but as you call it, the network, But yeah, Ken Breslauer and
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  I talked about it, and uh, you know, he's we're working on
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  trying to find guests. He'll be on. It's all those kinds of things
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  where you try to find people, uh you know, in the paddock and
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  the area and the media center. And no goal is to make sure we
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  have a very energetic couple of hours and that's what I'm going to be.
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  So so a lot of you folks that we're thinking about Gator Nationals there,
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  Gator Nationals has been is no longer on the agenda for Thursday, and the
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  Sea Bring twelve hour Race is going to be an incredible event and I'm looking
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  forward to bringing you live coverage of that event on Thursday. So myself and
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  Ken Breslauer will be there with great gas last Tuesday, wasn't they He gets
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  over a lot of good rivers. So you're looking for I'm interested to get
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  your take on the course being part cement, part nut cement. Right.
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  Well, I'll give you that take when I get up there and see it
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  firsthand. All I know is I had a chance to drive by it a
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  while back with my wife Candy, and you know, we had a chance
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  to look at it, but until I got serious into this project, and
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  I'll be spending an awful lot of time there come Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
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  Well there you go. You know, we previewed the show what we
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  were doing there, and as you can tell, Peter Ween was true to
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  his style. Morgan Worth Okay, so then those nipes pretty easy. Long
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  before anybody else watched my name, he did it or And the thing about
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  him is he used to do it all the time. So you once you
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  figured out what it really was, it was okay. But Peter was so
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  you know, George, give me your impressions of what you saw with that
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  little clip. Well, you know, Peter is uh, you know,
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  he likes to be obviously in control of all the situations. I like it
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  he's trying to take credit for for setting you up there at Seabring and uh
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  and I don't know if he's just doing a little pop quizm and who did
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  the Tigers beat Scott in nineteen six? And cardinals Stewart was just having some
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  fun with you. I'm sure, of course we'll never forget who they beat
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  and I I just it's part of his personnel and his persona, you know
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  where you know, he kind of likes the one liners or kinds of little
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  troll a little dark and see if you can, if you can hit the
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  bullseye with it. It's just kind of his style. That's what I note
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  are supposed to involve there. We're you know, he's having a little bit
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  more fun with you. What about you, Denzel, what'd you take out
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  of that? From just looking at with mister ween And I know you wouldn't
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  get the reference because you're not a comic book head, but his appearance kind
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  of reminds me of Jacob you would know this. His appearance kind of reminds
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  me of Whistler from Blade and and and those of y'all who know about the
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  character don't know about the character, Whistler is the one that taught Blade everything
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  that he knows, and so tying that to this, this is the guy
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  that taught everything that you needed to know, at least past the college level.
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  And I think it's really important, and I think that you're lucky to
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  have formed a partnership on the air with directly with your mentor. You know.
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  You know, this is a little different because it's not like you know
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  your mentor somewhere off screen and then it's like you talk about the episode,
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  talk about some rights and wrongs, and then you go on the air and
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  then you execute what you learned, you know. But this is you guys
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  on the air and having that chemistry and then you can have the luxury're talking
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  afterwards. You know, I believe, I full on believe that the foundation
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  to any success is a mentor. Someone has to teach you the ropes,
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  someone has to point you down that road, you know. And it really
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  seems like he was that type of guy in your life that you know,
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  taught you everything and made sure that your well being was great on the air
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  and off the air as well, and that you were well taken care of
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  in your profession. And so you know just from what I've seen, just
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  from the post and on that clip right there, most definitely sounds like an
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  awesome guy and you and you may not be the only one he may have
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  mentored you know a lot. You can probably tell better than I can,
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  you know, but that's what you're supposed to do when you get in your
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  later years, much like what you're doing right now, Scott, is when
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  you get to a certain point, you know, you're supposed to be the
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  teacher. You're supposed to be the professor with your pupils. You're supposed to
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  be the one putting ones on. And that's something that he followed because someone
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  minuted him and then he paid it forward. And so I know you're greatly
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  appreciative of somebody like that in your life, because anybody would. Well,
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  let me tell you this, I've been in the business forty four years and
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  I picked up a lot of things from him. Though. Let me tell
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  you, but we would talk in the morning all the time I was old.
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  Every day we would, and when we got together, he would ask
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  me a lot of tricks about some of the things I had done in the
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  past too. So it's one of those things where I'm mentoring him because of
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  his words he's or he mentoring me because any words of wisdoms. It's onally
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  like older than I am. He's seventy three out he once he got about
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  a dozen years. So I would pick his brain, but he would pick
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  mine too, because he knows I had interviewed an awful lot of people and
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  been around the business. But when you had a situation with the two of
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  us, you had totally two different personalities what you did. And yeah,
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  yeah, he mentored me in a lot of ways. He's just a smooth
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  character, this guy. I mean he had ten twelve shows out a day.
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  He had more shows faster than the auto industry could go out there and
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  produce automobile. They were all in and out of that studio like you would
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  believe who next, next, next? And then when he was down with
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  me for two hours, he didn't have to go in every hour, and
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  you know, he got to grind it out of May. And you know,
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  the one thing that Pew people know about Peter Weeno is we did a
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  sports show, but he did a lot of things outside of sports. And
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  one of the things that he did was he was big in the entertainment business.
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  One of my former colleagues who I'm still in tough to us. Her
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  name was Rachel Galvin, who was the former editor of the Deerfield Beach Observer.
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  Is heavy in the entertainment, and Peter used to work with her a
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  lot, and her and I talked about Peter recently, and of course Rachel's
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  gonna be doing stuff with us eventually down the road here on the network.
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  But Rachel, to me benefited because of his entertainment involvement, and you know,
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  and they both work well together. Rachel and I work well together at
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  the Observer. But Peter and I were just two different birds. Yeah,
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  he mentored me a lot in certain areas of words of wisdom, but when
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  he wanted to pick my brain about what I used to do years ago,
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  oh, it was a different animal. And it was like, you know,
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  he always love mentors because their father figures, mother figures or whatever.
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  Candy, why don't you to describe before we turned over to Jacob, what
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  that was like between the two of us going back and forth, you know,
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  exchanging information. One of the things I wanted to say too, kind
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  of with what Denzel had said, Yes he was a mentor, but Scott
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  you had. You hadn't been in radio for a little while at that point,
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  and you your background was radio and writing for many years. And this
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  brought you into internet radio, which is a realm that you hadn't been in
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  before. And then not only was it internet radio when what's internet radio?
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  Because it was on screen as well as just you know, like everybody says,
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  oh, I have a face for radio, you know, or I
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  have a voice for radio, but now you're you're on screen as well,
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  and so that's something that was different for you that you hadn't had as much
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  exposure to or it had been a while, and so it helped you propel
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  the Suth Florida Tribune into this YouTube channel and what we're doing now. And
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  it was exciting to watch you transform from being just a writer into back into
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  because I had never seen that part of you with a radio side of you
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  exciting on air and bringing it to life and then bringing it to on screen,
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  and so it was always interesting to watch how that developed and how you
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  let's see how the technology side of both of you came through, should I
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  say, from the Internet radio and then how unfortunately, when Peter got sick
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  a number of years ago him and his and his wife got really sick and
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  had a stroke and he took a step back and he had the stop and
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  all of a sudden, Scott was like, well, what do I do?
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  I want to keep so excited at doing this, but he's not there
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  for you know, for me to do it with. And so that's what
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  really when we decided to go into podcasting, and we started with just the
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  podcast side, and then we're like, well, wait a minut we also
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  are missing that visual side, this side where you can see us talking and
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  we can talk with each other and interact and see facial expressions and stuff like
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  that, and how interesting that was. So I think it was he was
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  really the person that precipitated that really got us going and moving into this direction,
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  and so I think that was cool. And he introduced us to other
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  people because that he was the reason why you got involved with Lisa Bartola,
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  who was into entertainment, and she's the one that got you with noticing that
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  Chuck Wetner came to town. And so you interviewed Chuck Wettner, who is
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  the real Rocky for those of you that know that, yes, yep,
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  And you also interviewed Muhammad Ali Junior and talked to him and have an interview
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  with him. And so I think it's just interesting how it's people that you
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  know, helped get you doors and get you interviews with people that you might
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  not have necessarily met, and through Peter is what was the common ground with
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  all of that and what he did for you and your career and you're broadcasting
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  was just so exciting to see and the relationship the two of you had on
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  the air, the excitement you could hear it and see it, you know,
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  two hours every Tuesday and Thursday night. It was awesome. Thank you,
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  Candy. You know what's interesting though, when Peter fell ill, and
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  we talked about this when I saw him last June, and of course I
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  talked to him recently on the phone before he passed. He said, because
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  I got sick. I'm proud of you that you forced yourself to learn the
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  college side what you didn't like, and I'm proud that you went out there
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  and stayed with it and went out there and forced yourself and willed yourself to
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  learn and you've become well. And I'm proud that you're a guy that was
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  able to mentor and you know, it's just unbelievable. Well, you know,
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  Denzil, you do a lot of producing shows of your own, right.
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  There may be some things in the business you don't like to do,
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  but you have no show he's about to do it, or it doesn't work
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  out. And I think that that's what made it. So. You know,
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  remember George and I are from terrestrial Radio Days was my first act being
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  on ABC Radio. But you know that's not Peter and I did. We
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  were just he's in a pod where you know, he'd laugh at me,
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  and you know we talked afterwards, critique the shows, cross promotion, all
• 23:27
  that, and yeah, Lisa and Chuck Webber, Muhammad Ali Jr. You
• 23:32
  know. And I'm glad Jacob that you're absorbing all of this too, because
• 23:36
  I'll turn to you in about a moment. But I think the thing that's
• 23:40
  about when you reach an individual like this is not only is he well rounded,
• 23:45
  not only on the air, he did other things before he got an
• 23:47
  internet radio. It's a successful businessman, but his personality wasn't natural for this
• 23:52
  business. And when you take a look at the old school versus the news
• 23:56
  school, and Kandy's got a picture to the right part of our screen With
• 23:59
  Peter and I, we've blended well because we came from different eras, So
• 24:03
  I was educating him early and then I acclimated to what he's doing. And
• 24:08
  that's why when we built the self Ward Tribute network, we started with audio
• 24:12
  and then we moved on to zoom and then we brought it over to stream
• 24:15
  yard and the YouTube channel. So there's a progression with everything that you do,
• 24:19
  just like we've tried to do it. The sports have change in Pundit's
• 24:22
  Funded. I know with Pundit's fund that you guys only knew of the visual
• 24:26
  way until you guys became familiar when we brought it over are and that there
• 24:30
  was an audio side that Denzel was excited about when he knew it was on
• 24:33
  Spotify. But we had a lot of the same type of transitional pieces as
• 24:37
  well. But Peter was just unbelievable. He really was, But we were
• 24:41
  just too I mean, he got me, you know what. I'll turn
• 24:44
  over to Jacob in the moment I got to mention this story. We're over
• 24:47
  at Meser Park, you know, trying to see if we can find out
• 24:49
  some sponsors. So I don't like to wear these weird hats. They said,
• 24:55
  Oh, come on, Scott, you gotta do it. It's okay.
• 24:56
  I promise you won't be that bad. So if i's two hands out,
• 25:00
  there's Peter. I'm really uncomfortable to doing it. Scott, It's okay,
• 25:03
  don't worry. So he comes up with these two ants, which one
• 25:07
  do you want? Well, you know what I did. I took the
• 25:10
  police officer's hand and he took some other little weird hat out there. If
• 25:12
  you look on my Facebook page you'll see the different ass. Okay, well
• 25:15
  he's happening. We took a picture of the photo. He said, well,
• 25:19
  good cop, bad cop, and I'm wearing the cop hat. He's
• 25:22
  wearing whatever he's wearing. So you didn't care what had I at least he
• 25:26
  was able to get me to do it. And that's what it's all about,
• 25:29
  all right, Jacob, you've been patiently waiting. Go ahead, Okay,
• 25:33
  Denzel you call him whistler, I call him the agi. Just take
• 25:37
  shorder. Yeah, but by taking a look at that, I mean I
• 25:41
  mean a little more of a beard, I guess, but look at you
• 25:45
  know. Considering YouTube going back and forth, Scott, I get the feeling
• 25:49
  I missed a big opportunity to go back and forth with this guy. He
• 25:52
  and I could have had some one lighters, like crazy, We could have
• 25:57
  had some one lars. This would have been fun. But you know,
• 26:00
  the big thing is that you know, another comparison, I'll say this also
• 26:03
  George, and if anybody goes into the economics references, we've got the Charlie
• 26:10
  Munger and warn Buffett there. It's like as like ones, the grumpy kind
• 26:14
  of grumpy grouch and says what he feels and the other just kind of laid
• 26:18
  back and you know, says it, says it all smart and waits.
• 26:22
  And that's what it felt like also with watching those two. You know what
• 26:26
  I'm saying, But you know it like one of the things about it is
• 26:33
  sometimes it comes earlier than others. Sometimes it comes late when you get a
• 26:36
  friend like these. You know what I'm saying, I'm definitely later. You
• 26:40
  know, I'm like you, I caught mind all of mine. That's like
• 26:42
  forty one. You know, it's this fourth year now forty two. Maybe
• 26:47
  it's like this could have been. It's this just shows people never be and
• 26:51
  never is it never too late to keep building something up. It's like you
• 26:56
  find somebody in the middle of everything. And it's like the ones that quit
• 26:59
  are the one I mean, they can regret it. And this had to
• 27:03
  be it had to be fun to do a show with him every day.
• 27:06
  It doesn't even feel like work. You want to know another thing, It
• 27:07
  feels like Denzel, you'll get my reference Gorilla and Bobby of course, yeah,
• 27:12
  of course, yeah, you'll get the reference. It's Bobby for it
• 27:17
  feels like it's just two sniping back and forth to each other. Well you
• 27:21
  stop, like I'm gonna knock you out, you know, I kind of
• 27:25
  thing. That's what it felt like with those two. And it's like,
• 27:30
  and that's the thing. It's fun to have bs My dad used to call
• 27:33
  it in a cleaner way on the air, but bsers, it's fun to
• 27:37
  have bsers around you. It's why Cheers was so fun for eleven years.
• 27:41
  Just have bsirs. You're not taking things that seriously. It's it's life.
• 27:45
  You're having fun. That's what the thing is. Life should be that fun.
• 27:49
  Just like, don't be so bag tight. Just the joy each other.
• 27:55
  Don't get so offended. And I can see you too having fun like
• 27:56
  that. If you look at our Sports Exchange page, on Facebook, and
• 28:02
  I encourage folks that are on Facebook to look at the Sports Exchange. Andy
• 28:06
  took this incredible picture of us without boxing and me putting my fists right to
• 28:11
  his jaw and him trying to undercut me. It was unbelievable. Then again,
• 28:15
  I'm all of that he is. I always used to like to take
• 28:19
  those pictures. Anyway, Oh he did it to me. Guys, Scott
• 28:25
  would get this folks show to that Facebook page to look for Sports Exchange.
• 28:32
  You'll see Peter and I And that's just exactly what he said. Really is
• 28:37
  Facebook, Yeah, whatever I said, And then you'll see what a comic
• 28:41
  this guy was. So you know, that's the way. So that's what
• 28:44
  we do. A couple of things we're gonna get to. But you know
• 28:47
  what, again, you look at the right part of your screen. Peter
• 28:49
  Ween and I over at the Transmedia Studio, so talk a little bit of
• 28:55
  sports. So I'm going to turn over to Jacob first. Okay, I
• 28:59
  want to ask you, Jacob, you know everybody you know, take whatever
• 29:03
  time you need. But you know, we have a couple of other topic
• 29:04
  too. Oh you're off with Jacob. Who's the biggest mentor in your life,
• 29:07
  Jacob, I'll say this, it started it was obviously my father for
• 29:15
  all my life. Okay, he's been got since twenty ten. It was
• 29:18
  obviously that I've been everybody I've been. See it's everybody with this thing,
• 29:23
  and you and George especially. But I will say this, it's been tough
• 29:29
  after Dad went because I was a lot of people's mentor for doing different things
• 29:33
  I have been, so you don't think you need it in your own head.
• 29:37
  But then there's people that live longer, you know what I'm saying.
• 29:41
  There's people that live long that have lived longer that's seen it. You know,
• 29:45
  it's like and then you and then you've always got to have them around.
• 29:48
  They give you a little bit of a reality check of things. So
• 29:52
  it's like ever since I had that first show with JB and everything, and
• 29:56
  then we run it to you guys, and it's like, so I wanted
• 29:59
  Georgia the first place, with this show and everything, I have no question
• 30:02
  you guys. You two you know what I mean. And it's like,
• 30:04
  because you've had just even if I have everything that I see on you know
• 30:11
  that I you know that I put out the topics and I see things that
• 30:14
  I've gotten might have a little bit of wisdom, and I appreciate people thinking
• 30:15
  that, you know what I'm saying and doing that. Even if I have
• 30:19
  those type of deals, it's just the fact that the bit of people that
• 30:26
  have lived longer seen more in things I'm not gonna know, just because it's
• 30:30
  like when you're forty five and someone's in their sixties, it's like a ten
• 30:33
  to fifteen year old, you know, It's there's things that are just not
• 30:37
  going to know. And that's the same within a sixty five talking to an
• 30:41
  eighty five year old. Maybe it's about aging, maybe it's about pain that
• 30:45
  you don't see yet. There's just things. So I'm gonna say you too,
• 30:48
  no question about it. Thank you. You know what. Before I
• 30:52
  turn it over to Denzol. For those of the one who know my mentors,
• 30:56
  okay, I'll tell you a great place to find them. Lessons run
• 30:59
  up microphone, okay, tuning into the enduring wisdom of visionary leaders, Okay.
• 31:04
  Available. I can't do all that, Amazon, and then you get
• 31:07
  to read it all I'm not. And that's where I'm leaving it, all
• 31:10
  right, sure, all right, I don't have one solid one, so
• 31:17
  it's gonna go and go through like stages of my life, you know,
• 31:21
  just like Jacob of course, you know, the first one is your is
• 31:23
  your pops, you know, and then a little bit after that, uh
• 31:27
  and also just kind of intermediate with him with like my my my uncles and
• 31:32
  my family you know as well. And then I get into the military,
• 31:36
  and there's four throughout my time period there. One of them was now retired
• 31:42
  Seeing Master Sergeant Gary Watts, and also now retired Chief Master Sergeant Darryl Doue.
• 31:49
  And then a little bit later on there was now retired Master Sergeant Sorenson,
• 31:55
  and then retired uh, Seeing Massive Sergeant Suzanne Sokat those four, I
• 32:00
  you know, when it came to shaping me, like in the military,
• 32:05
  and not only as you know, not only as you know, someone that's
• 32:09
  going to be a leader and someone that became a leader as well. They
• 32:13
  were very very staple in that. And then after that, you know,
• 32:16
  I got out. I went to college and one of my main professors doctor
• 32:22
  doctor Doug Minden Hall out of Abilene Christian University currently still there. He was
• 32:28
  one of my professors for a lot of classes I was in, and he
• 32:30
  also was mental Still he's still a mentor to this day. I still contact
• 32:35
  them and update them on everything. Uh. He's with the Journalism and Mass
• 32:38
  Communications uh department up there at ACU. Uh. He actually has uh he
• 32:45
  actually has an awesome editorial that puts out there. Uh. So please,
• 32:51
  you know, go and check him out. Also on Facebook, Doug Minden
• 32:53
  Hall on Facebook. I believe that's that's the only platform that he's on really.
• 32:59
  Uh. And then then I came across Uncle Scott, Uncle George and
• 33:01
  that Candy, and here we are, you know. Uh. And so
• 33:07
  it just it's like at every stage that I've been in life, I've had
• 33:09
  somebody look out for my well being. And I'm always appreciated of that because
• 33:15
  you know, when I get my fifties, sixties and letter, you know,
• 33:17
  that's the same thing that I want to do as well. Uh.
• 33:21
  Now there are some in their twenty somethings right now, I'll be forty two
• 33:23
  years older. Year. There's some twenty somethings you know that I still offer
• 33:27
  advice to and everything like that. So I'm getting to the mentor, you
• 33:30
  know area. But I do know that this business, there's a lot a
• 33:36
  lot just like you Scott George, there's a lot, a lot, a
• 33:39
  lot to learning. You never stop learning, you know so, But I'm
• 33:44
  getting to that point. But I know I got a long way to go.
• 33:46
  But as far as mentors in my life, by stage, that's who
• 33:52
  was the most important to me and who I still revere sta all right,
• 33:55
  one person I grew one as though. As far as my writing, and
• 34:00
  George knows them all too well because he introduced me to him, Tony DeMarco
• 34:05
  is my mentor in writing. And I'm going to tell you Tony is the
• 34:07
  most unbelievable person on the planet. I'll leave it at that rest you read
• 34:12
  in the book. But Tony DeMarco taught me how to write, and now
• 34:15
  I've been able to do it for a long time. When I talked to
• 34:17
  him again, I'm sure Tony's noticed the fact that I wrote a book part
• 34:21
  a cry from the guy that he went out there in Florida who gave me
• 34:24
  a sporting news and start reading other writers so I could get an idea how
• 34:28
  the good ones do it. And here I am Gray and all killing it.
• 34:31
  So Tony, you're out there watching vying. Otherwise we're gonna be talking
• 34:35
  at some point or another. And thanks the acknowledgment, Denzil, you and
• 34:38
  Jacob to me, become a part of the family jb ellis as well.
• 34:44
  And to be able to watch you guys grow on a weekend and week out
• 34:47
  basis to me is nothing short of out standing. Gu Ry Jacob, you
• 34:51
  got something you want to add to it? Yeah, I wanted to add
• 34:52
  to what I said because I forgot just because I had my reas. Okay,
• 34:58
  if I got to say one, I'm gonna I'm just gonna have to
• 35:00
  say my brother Tom there is a pundit pundit because of him. I lived
• 35:07
  with them for fourteen months, and I lived together in a house for fourteen
• 35:08
  months. I got this big, enormous, giant basement in this place.
• 35:15
  He gets the upstairs. You know what I'm saying. And let's just say,
• 35:19
  I'm just gonna say this part. It wasn't fair. Like my room
• 35:23
  got to be a whole studio practically, even though it was going hardly any
• 35:28
  stuff in it. You know, you get to basically it's one of those
• 35:30
  places where you can definitely live during COVID if I stayed in doors, of
• 35:35
  course, you know, which I didn't. But here's the thing, though,
• 35:39
  he had to be. He had to be a mentor to give advice
• 35:46
  with a very stubborn little brother. You know, we're so different a personality,
• 35:54
  and I am not gonna go into that. Think it'll take too long,
• 35:57
  to take too much time. We're too stubborn of personsonality for everything.
• 36:00
  And he's able to get through it anyway. It's slowly chip because he had
• 36:04
  to chip away at me, and I had to kind of chip away at
• 36:06
  him. I always, I always say to little things about each other.
• 36:09
  We had to learn a lot about each other. He might have known more
• 36:13
  than I thought he did about me, you know what I'm saying. But
• 36:16
  he did that, And there is no Pundit's pundit without him. There isn't.
• 36:21
  I came up with the name, but he thinks up with the idea
• 36:23
  that I need to do with sports while we were in the COVID and ends
• 36:28
  up jab meets me and then everything goes from here and there is nothing without
• 36:30
  him. And there's nothing. There's not a lot of things without his stubborn
• 36:35
  willingness to make me listen. And I'm like, okay, okay, chip
• 36:40
  away away. He's a good he is a good brother, which is there's
• 36:45
  just so much different in our personality, you know what I'm saying. I'm
• 36:49
  glad you added that I got. I was over at the funeral yesterday and
• 36:52
  it's really good to be able to pay my respects to Pete. And I'm
• 36:55
  talking to his youngest daughter, Rachel Lean what a sweetheart really is. And
• 37:00
  so I told her, I'm Scott, I work with your dad on the
• 37:04
  sports say, oh, I know all about that show, thinking, oh
• 37:07
  gosh, how do these people think of did Peter tell us what? So
• 37:09
  she jokes around with me, and you know, she says, I don't
• 37:12
  know nothing about technology. You know, she says in her own sweet way.
• 37:15
  The only thing Dad knew about technology was what he knew in the studio.
• 37:21
  But when he got out of that studio, knowing his only equipment,
• 37:22
  he didn't know much afterwards. So it was just funny. Rachel's sweetheart,
• 37:28
  as a lot of the Weeds are. But I got to know her probably
• 37:30
  the most of it. And I think, you know, his oldest daughter,
• 37:35
  Alexandria got to know her a little bit, but Rachel is just Rachel,
• 37:38
  and we just joked around my technology or lacked her up and his limited
• 37:43
  But you know, when we talked about the Sports Exchange, there are a
• 37:45
  lot of people that knew about that show. And again between him and I
• 37:49
  talked to what would you expect anyways? Can't do anything? You want to
• 37:52
  add to it? Real quick? About your mentor? Turnover to George.
• 38:00
  Oh, where do I start? There's all kinds of mentors. I mean,
• 38:04
  I would say my first mentor, or one of my very first,
• 38:07
  was one of my grandmothers. She lived to be ninety six years old.
• 38:15
  She managed one hundred and ten acre crop farm all by herself for the last
• 38:20
  ten years of her life, but her family had owned the farm for over
• 38:24
  one hundred years. So she taught me so much and mentored me. And
• 38:31
  then of course both my parents, and then I would really say my first
• 38:36
  boss, Jim Zilky. He really mentored me. I worked for him for
• 38:44
  fifteen years. He was in the military, and he taught me lots.
• 38:52
  And I'm lucky if I'm part of the person that all of those people,
• 39:00
  you know, I think as a as a mentor, if you take a
• 39:02
  little bit of each of them and make them yourself, you're that much more
• 39:07
  better. And so I'm grateful and thankful to all of them. And I'm
• 39:10
  gonna I'm gonna say, at this point in my life, I would say,
• 39:15
  my husband, Scott, you are part of my mentor as well,
• 39:19
  because you were bringing me along in this journey and helping me grow in this
• 39:22
  journey and in this phase of my life. So thank you, well,
• 39:27
  thank you, Candy. I appreciate your dad as a mentor of some sorts
• 39:30
  of me a little. And the reason why I say that is because this
• 39:32
  guy had the greatest sension. I can get into stories and stories about him.
• 39:37
  I'm just glad he wasn't my math teacher. I have a son.
• 39:42
  Although I can only read it all those conversations, Oh my god, because
• 39:45
  math is my worst subjects. At least you're not my math teacher, and
• 39:47
  I'm your I empathize with you, totally math away from me. Numbers.
• 39:54
  Numbers are my favorite, but I just not get it out. Yeah.
• 39:58
  Well, here's the deal. Don't feel too bad for a lot of you
• 40:00
  folks are tuning in. If you're great at English, you're bad at math,
• 40:06
  So don't feel too by, right, Well, but that's why you
• 40:08
  have calcula. So there's a rare bird for everybody not an English guy.
• 40:15
  Well, okay, so there's a rare bird. Okay, and I can't
• 40:19
  say to you are you crazy? Because we're all crazy, because you know
• 40:22
  both we only don't want I missed my are you crazy? Moment for this
• 40:25
  show. We thought to keep it all right, all right, George,
• 40:29
  know your mentor. I don't want to get to a couple of sports subjects
• 40:31
  before you wrap it up with being god. George. Yeah, there's uh,
• 40:35
  there's there's just got you know, my mind is going crazy right now.
• 40:40
  Besides my parents, of course, my late parents. Uh, there
• 40:44
  was a gentleman that took me under his wing at at my church that I
• 40:49
  went to, mister Cara Magno, dominant Carara Magno, and he was my
• 40:53
  mentor as I grew spiritually and I grew with my violence heroism at my church
• 41:01
  and just a great guy. In fact, he owned a business and he
• 41:06
  would I worked for him for a while for some pay and just became a
• 41:10
  great, great person to be around. And as far as the writing of
• 41:15
  the radio business, I'll tell you there's so many of them. I mean,
• 41:17
  I got I got a break with a fellow named Ron Cameron and as
• 41:23
  Scott and I know that was the ABC owned and operated outfit w x y
• 41:29
  Z Radio. That was a tremendous opportunity for me. I'm sorry things didn't
• 41:34
  work out at the end there, But then you know, there were opportunities
• 41:38
  at Wayne State University. And you mentioned Tony DeMarco, and Tony was the
• 41:44
  sports editor at the Wayne State newspaper and and he brought me on board as
• 41:49
  one of his sports writers. So I'm always grateful to him. He was
• 41:52
  a great and still is a great man and a great writer, great humanitarian.
• 41:58
  There's of how could we forget an know, Scott's going to have a
• 42:00
  lot of these people in his book, but the great Ernie Harwell and uh
• 42:05
  and what Ernie did and and and his sidekick Paul Carey, and how they
• 42:10
  you know, kind of coached and and let me learn from them. There
• 42:15
  was at Wayne State there was a teacher named Judy Rose, and Judy was
• 42:21
  a former newspaper writer for the Detroit Free Press and and she guided some of
• 42:27
  my uh aspirations, if you will, in a certain direction. And how
• 42:31
  can I ever forget my late editor and publisher, Horace Man, I mean
• 42:36
  Horace Man from the from the Detroit Monitor. I mean, you know,
• 42:39
  Scott and I came up, and Scott's mom came up with some great story
• 42:44
  ideas and and and also uh, you know, Horace, he just let
• 42:50
  us he he he let us go. He let us obtain the knowledge that
• 42:53
  we needed and to make the Monitor. Uh, even though it was a
• 42:58
  weekly paper, it really put it on the map. And and the coverage
• 43:01
  that that me and Scott especially gave to the to the local teams and and
• 43:07
  on the national stage as well. As Scott has mentioned before, he's been
• 43:10
  to Super Bowls. I've been to Super Bowls. We've been to playoffs and
• 43:15
  all that I had a chance to cover, uh, you know, the
• 43:17
  winner Olympics a little bit. And you know, so Horace, we miss
• 43:22
  you, Horace. And and Paul, you're doing a great job with the
• 43:24
  Monitor right now. But I can never forget him. And like I said,
• 43:30
  you know, George Blaha, it's always been a friend of mine and
• 43:32
  always giving me advice on different things, and and and and of course Scott
• 43:37
  and I know Tom Gage and Lynn Henning. So there's so many professional professional
• 43:42
  writers and broadcasters that we've been fortunate enough, you know, being in a
• 43:45
  big city like Detroit, that weve been able to partner with and talk to
• 43:49
  and and seek advice from and mentoring. So I think it's it's probably the
• 43:53
  best that I stopped right there, because I'll get too long winded. I've
• 43:57
  already said a lot, but I look back and big thank you to all
• 44:00
  of them. That and of course Scott, you know, being a partner,
• 44:04
  but Scott's also been a mentor and and and I know I've tried to
• 44:07
  do that, uh you know, with him as well. And and so
• 44:10
  we've we've bounced a lot of things off each other, and so that thing
• 44:15
  goes hand in hand. But thank you for letting me share though, Oh
• 44:19
  no problem. Hey, listen, you know what without mentors, you know,
• 44:22
  we don't have guidance. I mean, I'm not gonna sit here and
• 44:24
  say my dad's been a mentor in a lot of ways, but I don't
• 44:28
  have that much time to get it everything he's done. But I mention he's
• 44:30
  been on there. Another guy by the name of Harold Kolewaal taught me about
• 44:35
  treating life as a chess game, which has really benefited me greatly. And
• 44:38
  of course Ernie Harwell and I you and I and Ernie used to hang out
• 44:43
  all the time, so it was a big deal. But have somebody like
• 44:45
  Ernie in your core giving you tipts on the insine what to do my dad,
• 44:49
  Harold Kowall and all that. So you know, I'm glad you had
• 44:52
  a chance. This is an opportunity for us to pay tribute to a guy.
• 44:55
  Let's go talk a little sports. We don't have to really be too
• 44:58
  opinion on these other couple of subjects, but I do want to get a
• 45:00
  couple in. I do want to congratulate the Kansas City Chiefs for defeating the
• 45:04
  Fan Francisco forty nine ers. Unfortunately, at the parade day in Kansas City,
• 45:08
  ten people were injured. The last time I got one was killed on
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  Valentine's Day again, another mass shooting that took place. I dealt with this
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  thing with the Marjorie film in Douglas And a few years ago. As I
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  mentioned some quick thoughts, and I mean really quick here, Jacob, about
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  this occurrence in Kansas City. You don't have to worry about me. I'll
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  tell you you know so that we have a we have a we have a
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  real mental illness problem with about other things, real anger problem. With people.
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  We do people. There's a different anger. It's been really exacerbated since
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  COVID. There was other things, but we just really do. And it's
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  like maybe it wouldn't be as easy with other weapons, but other webs that
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  be used with people. People are just angry. People are just ugly to
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  each other. And the thing is that you want to know, we all
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  talked about mentors, and then there's people that don't have mentors, and this
• 46:00
  is what happens. They don't have that one to talk to. They don't
• 46:02
  have the therapist to talk to, the psychiatrist talk to. They don't have
• 46:06
  somebody on that thing. It's all social media, which is antisocial. And
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  this is what we have and this is what we do and it's gonna keep
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  happening. Unfortunately, whatever happens that I hate to see it. Okay,
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  all right, Hi Eddie Prayler, thanks for coming and on YouTube. We
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  appreciate it. That's all. Some talks about the unfortunate occurrences in cancer study.
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  Oh man, you know, I flew back Sunday morning. I landed
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  here in Houston, and of course I was coming back and I was gonna,
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  you know, get unpacked, get unwinded and you know, kind of
• 46:40
  get ready for the game later. And at Lakewood Church, which is uh
• 46:46
  formerly known as the Summit the Rockets Old Venue, there was a there was
• 46:51
  a shooting there. It was all over the news and everything, and I
• 46:53
  was just like wow on Super Bowl Sunday and now you get this, you
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  know, you know, a team that had to overcome all odds and win
• 47:04
  the Super Bowl and then someone comes in there during the parade and decide that
• 47:08
  they want to take lives. I mean, you think back to when COVID
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  happened and people were afraid to go outside obviously because of the disease, and
• 47:20
  you know, it's almost like it's getting back to people afraid to come outside
• 47:22
  because they don't know if they're gonna catch a bullet. You know. But
• 47:25
  something does have to be done about this. I'm not gonna go into politics,
• 47:30
  because that's not what we're about. I'll just let people use their imagination
• 47:34
  whenever I say that, But something absolutely has to be done because for somebody
• 47:38
  to go and what will be one of the biggest days well obviously not now
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  it's a bittersweet, but what should have been one of the biggest days of
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  twenty twenty four for the city against the city to you know, celebrate a
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  Super Bowl victory and just going and ruin the fund. Something has to be
• 47:59
  done about. I know this caught the attention of some big wigs, and
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  I would expect something to come down in the coming weeks, if not months.
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  But yeah, thoughts to those out there who are affected by this.
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  It's just a shame. This is a total shame. Yeah, really all
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  right, George, Yeah, I was shocked to hear the news, very
• 48:22
  disappointed, of course, you guys know, I mean, we have a
• 48:24
  tremendous event coming here in a couple months called the NFL Draft. There'll be
• 48:30
  thousands of people visiting and thousands more coming from all over the state and the
• 48:35
  city. And when you hear something like this, oh my gosh, you
• 48:39
  just think back to, you know, all the planning that has to go
• 48:44
  into place. But you know, we can't have policemen on every corner.
• 48:47
  We can't have a policeman and everybody's home. And like you said, until
• 48:52
  we attack this problem, until we're able to choose something to these people that
• 48:58
  seek help but need have, well we just held you know, Scott had
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  the sad anniversary. We just had the one year anniversary of the three students
• 49:06
  at Michigan State University that got killed, you know, on Lincoln's I think
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  it was one day before of Valentine's Day last year, February thirteenth. And
• 49:16
  of course we got four students killed in the suburb of Oxford a couple of
• 49:22
  years back, and the trials going on for his parents. But we need
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  to do something as a nation, We need to do something and rally around
• 49:30
  together to try to prevent these things from happening, because it's just it's just
• 49:36
  a shame that this is putting such a terrible stain on our celebrations and on
• 49:40
  our communities right now, Okay, one thing I want to mention real quick,
• 49:45
  turnover to Candy, and I'm just going to touch down a couple of
• 49:47
  new subjects here is on Candy and I had an opportunity to go to the
• 49:52
  and call it an opportunity, so we had to do go to the Parkland
• 49:54
  situation at funeral out there to see coach Aaron Fie as well as all the
• 50:00
  casualties that parlonam. It was just sad. This stuff has to stop.
• 50:04
  Candy, some quick recollections I'll get to a couple of new stories real quickly,
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  and then we'll turn it over to Peter to finish it off. Six
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  years ago today, Nicholas Cruz walked into Marjorie Stoneman Douglas and shot and killed
• 50:21
  seventeen children when they were at school. Today we witnessed, well we didn't
• 50:30
  witness, but we've heard of. There was twenty two injured shot going to
• 50:36
  a parade to celebrate the Super Bowl champions One was fatally shot. Also in
• 50:44
  down here in our neck of the woods, there was a shooting today at
• 50:49
  them all. This is getting to be and I hate to say this,
• 50:53
  but this is getting to be the norm. And we're not even hearing about
• 50:57
  these stories and all these but here's what one of the things that whether you
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  and I'm not going to get into the politics about it, but this is
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  one of the things President Joe Biden said, Today's events should move us,
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  they should shock us, and it should shame us into acting. We know
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  what we have to do. We just need the courage to do it.
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  There's a lot of things we need to do. There's a lot of things
• 51:27
  that are wrong in this world today. And I'm not saying I'm pro guns
• 51:31
  or anti guns or anything like that, but we need to help individuals because
• 51:36
  it's individuals that are doing this. We need to help them with their mental
• 51:40
  health. We need to help them period so that we can have more of
• 51:45
  what today is about, which is supposed to be Valentine's Day and it's about
• 51:50
  love instead of violence. Well, all right, Candy, can I say
• 51:57
  we're real fast? Candy, let me tell you this big time, and
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  you're completely correct on things. But when you have a world where everybody has
• 52:06
  to be one hundred percent right instead of trying to work together to build something,
• 52:13
  everybody has to be everybody has to be one hundred percent right. You
• 52:15
  have to one hundred percent of everything instead of trying to come to a thing
• 52:20
  and and debate each other and come to a consensus. When you have that,
• 52:22
  that's the arrogance and ego that's killing chances to make any kind of difference.
• 52:28
  And it's and it's an unfortunate situation. A couple of news stories.
• 52:32
  I want to get to real quickly. Then we're going to everybody do their
• 52:35
  introductions. We're gonna end it on Peter. When you lose a super Bowl,
• 52:37
  somebody's gonna pay for it today. San Francisco Fire defensive coordinator Steve Wilkes
• 52:43
  after one season. Prior to that, he was the Carolina Panthers. Also,
• 52:47
  you know Doc Rivers took a job with the Milwaukee Buck. Somebody's got
• 52:51
  to replace from the preferred person. JJ Reddick will reportedly replace Doc Rivers on
• 52:55
  the NBA Finals broadcast team. Those are a couple other which as well.
• 53:00
  But that said, Cliff nelse Version, everybody, Dan tell everybody know how
• 53:04
  they can get a hold of you. A Hi. Denzel Sniper thirteen on
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  Twitch, Denzel Knipe thirteen on YouTube, Denzel Snip's on Facebook, non nol
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  thirteen on Twitter, slash X. Tune in to the Gauntlet on Friday Night.
• 53:20
  It's gonna be our first episode of the NFL All Season. Season four
• 53:23
  will be debuting soon, so stay tuned. Jacob four shows a week,
• 53:30
  sometimes five. When I'm called off the bench, it's Jenny, Jake the
• 53:37
  Pundit on Twitter, Jake de pugnit one on TikTok, and a few things
• 53:40
  in between. George, you can follow me at the South Florida Tribune under
• 53:49
  the Motor City Tribune banner, where I write a sports column. You can
• 53:52
  also see and catch me on one hundred and eighty Stitches Baseball on the sports
• 53:57
  exchange fire Up and of course it's pundit and you can follow me to send
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  me an email at gicorn at yahoo dot com or on Twitter at sand g
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  Sports ninety nine. Okay, I'll preface this show to Peter Wing. I
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  love you very much. Peter. I'm gonna miss you. Candy, is
• 54:15
  there something you want to say really quickly before we turn it over as we
• 54:20
  leave? I was gonna say. You can find me on Three Chicks in
• 54:24
  a Pod or Chicks and Salsa Tuesday nights, typically around seven thirty, and
• 54:30
  then you can catch me tomorrow night on Fire Up on South Florida Tribune's YouTube
• 54:36
  channel. Very good. Thank you and the e the Barryman who wrote a
• 54:40
  song Peter, I love you very much and he had a song called this
• 54:45
  One's for you, So Peter, this show is for you. I love
• 54:47
  you very much. Rest in peace. Candy, take it away for the
• 54:52
  for the finale and you are going to be at Seabring. Yeah. I
• 54:59
  will be at Bring on Thursday, Friday, Saturday. This chair will be
• 55:02
  occupied by Candy Ebling. She'll be sitting across the table with you matcha what's
• 55:07
  Sanders? Well, I burned through a couple of cell phones and had that
• 55:12
  tar around me the whole time. I seem to answer the phone, the
• 55:16
  answer the phat we'll see the end of the phone, you, I said,
• 55:20
  I hope we remember to Well, you know what I got. I'll
• 55:22
  be working on my tan if you don't. Yeah, okay, so you
• 55:25
  know, I mean it'll be a pretty high octane. It's pretty neat about
• 55:29
  when uh, I was talking to Mickey a while back. Then, whatever
• 55:32
  you do, I can't talk to you about the order. All right,
• 55:37
  it's humor time. We've got it like a minute and a half left.
• 55:38
  Okay, how did you walk through his glass door? How did I walk
• 55:44
  through it? I walk into the house, okay, and I see the
• 55:47
  door closed, But because I had so much energy going in there, I
• 55:51
  didn't realize that it was closed until I hit it, hit it. And
• 55:55
  he was asking me about this earlier today, I said, have you walked
• 55:59
  any more doors? Do you walk into him at home? So no,
• 56:01
  I'm Mickey. The only difference between your video door, or as we call
• 56:05
  him back in Detroit, door walls is yours connects to a patio. My
• 56:08
  patio door goes to the back to the backyard. But we got to kick
• 56:14
  out of it, you know, as you get to know him. The
• 56:17
  other day, but I walked into his glass door, and I know people
• 56:24
  who've done that. It's you know, but he's still laughing about it.
• 56:28
  I mean, I've heard of break in the ice, but I wasn't looking
• 56:30
  to break the glass. I mean, that's a different story. But you
• 56:32
  know what it was that you got. People have to understand when I was
• 56:36
  meeting him for the first time in person, a guy grew up with And
• 56:38
  now I'm thinking to myself, you know what, now instead of being a
• 56:42
  fan, I got to put my business cap on here, right and therefore,
• 56:46
  you know, it's a different situation. But it worked out real wide
• 56:50
  break and I do want to end this show up my saying special thanks to
• 56:53
  my friend Tom Gage, was a long time uh former, longtime sports writer
• 57:00
  who's a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame for helping me set this up
• 57:01
  with Mickey Lolich. Tom Gage will be a future guest on our show,
• 57:07
  and he is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. In the writer's
• 57:10
  Wing. So Tom, if you're listening out there, thank you very much.
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  Mickey, thanks for being on the program. And Tom and I will
• 57:15
  be into our so meanwhile, I will be on the road to Sea.
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  Bring you'll be here, Canny will be here, and Sam, I'm glad
• 57:22
  you were here and you had to taste some baseball history today, Buddy.
• 57:25
  Thank you, Thank you guys for Peter Waen, for Scott Morgan, for
• 57:31
  go from quick to Quick on Thursday. All right, have a great you
• 57:37
  bet ay bye. Well, Peter did get the name right there, so
• 57:45
  we have to mention that Denzil. But then again he's heard it a lot,
• 57:49
  so that's a That concludes this edition of the Sports Exchange Tribute to peer
• 57:52
  Ween Candy, take it away, all the music, and we'll do this again