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Vern Glenn: How Sports Build Communities and Change Lives · Get Real with Jim Weiss

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  Speaker 1: I have a forty nine ers when now the words
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  Speaker 1: are the great Kirk Cousins.
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  Speaker 2: You like that? You like that?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, definitely, No, we all do.
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  Speaker 2: Man, We're all right.
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  Speaker 1: So I started off quick. I won my first four
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  Speaker 1: years for best sportscaster. For me to win this sixth
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  Speaker 1: to one in this category in craft achievement voted by
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  Speaker 1: your peers, it really does mean something.
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  Speaker 2: And we're rolin.
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  Speaker 3: We're rolling very I'm not nervous at all, you know,
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  Speaker 3: being around a pro like you. But I'm gonna try
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  Speaker 3: to do my best emulate you know. I've learned a
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  Speaker 3: lot from you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I feel like I feel like I've made it
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  Speaker 1: because in the last few months, I've done a show
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  Speaker 1: called soul Beat, which is based in Oakland by Buddy
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Johnson runs that I've always wanted to be on
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  Speaker 1: soul Beat.
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  Speaker 2: And now here I am. Yeah getting real.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Jim, let's get real with Vern Glenn. All right, So, Vern,
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  Speaker 3: before you get into how you came out here to
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  Speaker 3: the Bay.
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  Speaker 2: Area where they think they've pretty enough, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, I wanted to ask one question maybe throughout
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  Speaker 3: your career, I feel like in newsrooms, you know, everybody
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  Speaker 3: does everything did you cover other things besides sports?
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  Speaker 2: I've only done sports.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: No fires, no murders, nobody losing her house, no politics.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I try to do now, try to carry.
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  Speaker 3: The tourist of reporting. You're called mister involvement. I am right.
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  Speaker 3: What inspired you to be so hands on?
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  Speaker 1: All my career, I've wanted to be involved with whatever
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  Speaker 1: sport or whatever subject that I was covering. And like
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  Speaker 1: I may have said on the show, anybody can walk
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  Speaker 1: around with a microphone, have a camera person and just
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  Speaker 1: ask questions about what it's like.
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  Speaker 2: I needed to find out what it really is like.
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  Speaker 1: So I would suit up and practice with the Niners
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  Speaker 1: or the Warriors or the Santase Sharks, and I would
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  Speaker 1: get in there just being the just just being the
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  Speaker 1: regular house potato schmoe that gets off the couch, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe through my experiences, the civilians watching would give some
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  Speaker 1: kind of a would get some kind of an idea.
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  Speaker 1: Not every not everybody was doing it as I understand it,
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  Speaker 1: in the history of various sports, Wayne Walker, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: was famous of doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Wayne would he would challenge a.
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  Speaker 1: Cable car and race a cable car up California streets it.
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  Speaker 1: But that's that's what I want, That's what I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do, and that's what I did. So when I
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  Speaker 1: got to San Francisco, did the same thing. And every
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  Speaker 1: time I came back, Gary on the air would go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's involved, he's involved again, he's mister involvement, and that stuck.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are twenty twenty six, and I'm known around
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  Speaker 1: the market as mister involvement, and and and some people
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  Speaker 1: they kind of forget, they get excited to go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's mister environment. It's you know, it's mister excitement. But
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  Speaker 1: but but it was mister involved in in that's tra.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, has anybody ever come up and done something
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  Speaker 3: not that cool that has made you want to back up?
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  Speaker 3: Or do you have to do? Did anyone ever do anything?
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  Speaker 1: No, There's only been a couple of instances where I've
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  Speaker 1: I've done a live shot. I remember doing a live
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  Speaker 1: shot at Oracle Park one time, and and and this
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  Speaker 1: this woman that had the Liquord courage came with me
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  Speaker 1: while while I'm on the air, came kissed me right
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  Speaker 1: on the cheek. That sounds great, yeah, So I I
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  Speaker 1: just simply turned and went, thank you very much and
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  Speaker 1: just kept on in character. And then another time because
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  Speaker 1: I project I was doing a live shot at an event,
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  Speaker 1: and uh and and and and but I just it's
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  Speaker 1: just my thing. So I'm on the air and this
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  Speaker 1: woman who was seated didn't know that we were live,
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  Speaker 1: and she and she came up to to whisper, could.
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  Speaker 2: You kind of keep it down live on the air.
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  Speaker 1: I go, thank you, missed, thanks for those kind words,
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  Speaker 1: and then I just kept the way.
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  Speaker 3: Gary Radnan said he become the main anchor. Did he did?
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  Speaker 2: Gary came.
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  Speaker 1: Gary came into this market in nineteen eighty five and
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  Speaker 1: just took the market by storm. Nobody was doing what
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  Speaker 1: he was doing. Nobody was asking Gary. Would Gary like
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  Speaker 1: like a boxing match? Gary, Gary, kind of like soft
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  Speaker 1: me up? First couple of rounds, you know, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of puns. Yeah, and then and then bam, go for
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  Speaker 1: the knockout blow of a question. He was softing up
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  Speaker 1: and then asked the question, let's take Roger Craig for
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  Speaker 1: a sec for for example, just got into the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame. Well, if you're a Niner fan, you know
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  Speaker 1: the Niners were going for three straight Super Bowls and
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  Speaker 1: they lost to the New York Football Giants on a
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  Speaker 1: fumble at Candlestick. I mean they were driving together and
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  Speaker 1: he got he got hit fumbled anyway, So we had
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  Speaker 1: Roger on and Gary would soften him up.
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  Speaker 2: And he would go, do you think he'd still be
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  Speaker 2: a forty nine er if you hadn't fumbled?
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  Speaker 1: Tough question, you know, but but but he put it
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  Speaker 1: in a way where Roger was able to give an
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  Speaker 1: elegant answer, and Hetty pretty much admitted that he probably would.
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  Speaker 3: Do you ever want the big anchor job so much?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I have now yea?
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  Speaker 3: But or do you like that?
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  Speaker 1: When when I was younger, I, like everybody else, wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go to Bristol, Connecticut and and be on Sports Center.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they were I mean, come on, I could
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  Speaker 2: I could you not?
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  Speaker 1: I mean they were, they were in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were in.
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  Speaker 1: But but but looking back now, I mean, I get married, kids,
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  Speaker 1: the roots are here.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't pick up a move and go
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  Speaker 2: to Bristol.
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  Speaker 1: What if what if I did and my act didn't
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  Speaker 1: work at ESPN?
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  Speaker 3: Well about just being the main guy for kron or
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  Speaker 3: or you know, kp i AX. What if you were
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  Speaker 3: the main anchor, you know the.
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  Speaker 2: You mean like the news. Oh no, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to news.
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  Speaker 1: Why probably for be able to get real about it, Jim,
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  Speaker 1: Delivering the news is mostly bad and nobody wants to
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  Speaker 1: tune in to bad news. And between and between that
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  Speaker 1: rhetoric and the cell phone that that that you have,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, those are two things that have killed our industry,
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  Speaker 1: just killed us. Used to be conditioned to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta I'll come home, I'll watch the five o'clock news,
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  Speaker 1: six o'clock news, the eleven o'clock news, and then I'll
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  Speaker 1: go to bed. But then now viewing habits are changed,
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  Speaker 1: and we've had to adjust. We're in the streaming world.
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  Speaker 2: Now, and and you've adjusted, well, I have.
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  Speaker 1: But the reason why we appeal to an older demographic
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  Speaker 1: is because those same people watched before the great digital
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  Speaker 1: world de seeped dead. But there, kids, they're not watching us.
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  Speaker 1: If you're younger than fifty five, come on, you're not
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  Speaker 1: what you're not traditionally watching local TV news. So we
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  Speaker 1: have to come with ways to get at that audience,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's social media, streaming stuff like we've had to
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  Speaker 1: adjust too. So it's it's I'm telling you, it's a
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  Speaker 1: challenge and that's one of us one of the reasons
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  Speaker 1: why we've we've taken we we just completely just just
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  Speaker 1: dived into this virtual reality, augmented reality TV set that
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  Speaker 1: you've seen, you visited, and and it's it's unlike anybody
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  Speaker 1: is doing in this market. Nobody else has complete green
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  Speaker 1: screen sets. Yeah it is, it is so we so
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  Speaker 1: it's this is about as close as it is to
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  Speaker 1: performing in a video game as you're going to get.
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  Speaker 2: What we do at KPI X.
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  Speaker 3: They do good. It all comes across. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 3: coming to the Bay Area, because you know that was
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  Speaker 3: us Vicious in nineteen ninety. What has this market in
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  Speaker 3: sports done for your career than any other city wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have because you've been here, you know the whole time.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people bounce around.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've been in the game almost forty one years
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  Speaker 1: in the last thirty seven year, and.
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  Speaker 2: This market has done more for me.
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  Speaker 1: In my career than than than any other I mean,
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  Speaker 1: aside from just being around these these major sports teams.
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  Speaker 1: It's allowed me to go to the Olympics, It's allowed
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  Speaker 1: me to cover US Opens, it's allowed me to to
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  Speaker 1: to cover like major giant events that you always dreamed
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  Speaker 1: about as a kid, and it's allowed me to get
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  Speaker 1: with these athletes, some of which some of them I'm
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  Speaker 1: calling actual friends. I mean, I on the way over,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I mean, I'm texting Chris Mallen, I mean, come on,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Mallin, testing him cool. And then and then and then,
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  Speaker 1: when he was alive, Willie Mays call me pee wee.
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  Speaker 2: That was his pet name for me. I mean, come on,
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  Speaker 2: Willie Mays is calling me pee wee.
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  Speaker 1: That's that. That's another story. The first time I met him.
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  Speaker 1: But when he was joking around, he called me pee wee.
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  Speaker 1: But when he was serious, he called me Vernon. Oh wow,
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  Speaker 1: like a Vernon. Don't tell a whole lot of people
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing this because he would.
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  Speaker 2: He would.
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  Speaker 1: He would sit down and do interviews with me, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that if it got out, well, he'd have to do
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  Speaker 1: interviews for everybody. Right, but but but but I for
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  Speaker 1: some reason, he liked me, and I got in backtracking
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  Speaker 1: my first year nineteen ninety I'm playing in a Joe
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  Speaker 1: Montana celebrity golf tournament and and I'm I'm playing I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna you know, I'm I'm in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: fairway and I'm I'm and I'm lining up my shot,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but I'm but I'm I'm taking my time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm by I'm being Sergio, you know. And and anyway,
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  Speaker 1: there's a group behind me, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: hey pee wee hit the already rattling. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who that was when I hit the ball with finished
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  Speaker 1: round fly. It's Willy Mays. So I seek him out
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  Speaker 1: and we and we're he's got this cackle, but he's
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  Speaker 1: he's holding court.
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  Speaker 2: And and from that point on we were friends. He
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  Speaker 2: was great. He was great.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'd bring my kids around and be like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: bring around, I'm good with kids. Hen It's just just
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  Speaker 1: just just great and and and through him, I was
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  Speaker 1: able to strike a friendship with Willy McCovey and and
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  Speaker 1: and some of these other guys and and uh, I
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  Speaker 1: just I'm just real blessed at some of these people,
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  Speaker 1: these that that I but Wayne Gretzky, I mean, I just.
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  Speaker 2: Just these greats of greats. It's it's been awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, who what other what other profession And I
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  Speaker 1: be in where I could just hang out with Shaquille
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  Speaker 1: O'Neill court side before a game, and and I'm like, hey, Shaq,
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  Speaker 1: can we get a picture?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Has he? And he would and each stand up. I
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  Speaker 2: came up to like his waist, right.
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  Speaker 1: But Jim, I mean, I am living a great I'm
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  Speaker 1: living a great life for a kid that grew up
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  Speaker 1: always wanted to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I am living a great life.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you act like you do. You've been sports director
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  Speaker 3: at KPI X now since twenty twenty three. What do
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  Speaker 3: you love about that role? How's it different than Kran?
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  Speaker 3: Why did you leave Koran?
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  Speaker 1: If that's another interesting story. At the time that I
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  Speaker 1: left Kroan, Krin had fallen on hard times. We were
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  Speaker 1: no longer INBC, we were in independent station. For the
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  Speaker 1: great history even today, what happened between Koran, NBC and
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  Speaker 1: Young Broadcasting still to this day regarded as the worst
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  Speaker 1: transaction in the history of local television. The family that
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  Speaker 1: owned US also owned the San Francisco Chronicle. The family
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  Speaker 1: sold the Chronicle newspaper, and then we were next. And
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  Speaker 1: NBC was licking their chops because finally this was a
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  Speaker 1: chance for them to come in and get an owned
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  Speaker 1: and operated station in the NBC family in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to buy us for years and the family
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't sell. Why because it's a cash cow. And so
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  Speaker 1: when the family finally got around to it, NBC bid
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred million dollars to buy Crime.
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  Speaker 2: Seven hundred million now is toward the end of this
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  Speaker 2: is like ninety nine.
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  Speaker 1: And so just before that deal was done, Young Broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: comes in with Deutsche Bank money backing them up.
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  Speaker 2: They came out and they bid.
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  Speaker 1: They bid, Yeah, the eight hundred and twenty five million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy crazy, And so the shareholders they took that bid.
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  Speaker 1: NBC gets pissed and they go to Young Broadcasting, if
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  Speaker 1: you do this deal, you're gonna have to pay us
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  Speaker 1: for our programming. Normally, the way it works, kids networks
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  Speaker 1: pay their affiliates to air their programming and they split
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  Speaker 1: the advertising costs. Now, if it's you know, Jimmy Bob's
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  Speaker 1: Auto dealers, and you say, then you keep all that.
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  Speaker 1: But if it's a national spot, then you you split
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  Speaker 1: the revenue costs. So Young Broadcasting said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll just we'll just be an it.
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  Speaker 2: We'll just be an independent. We don't need you. Sale happens.
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  Speaker 1: I remember Jay Leno show, he gets up off his
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  Speaker 1: set and he he goes to this this this makeshift
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  Speaker 1: switch kind of pulls it down and you get that
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  Speaker 1: little little electric sound. And then and then that was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be the separation from NBC and KRON. And
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  Speaker 1: and so the next day, New Year's Day, this is
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and one, instead of tuning into KRAN to
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  Speaker 1: watch your Rose Bowl ray, you weren't getting it.
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  Speaker 2: You weren't getting any you weren't getting any programs. Oh
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  Speaker 2: it was, it was, Oh it was. It was awful.
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  Speaker 2: And so then the price of Cron stock went right
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  Speaker 2: through the floor.
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  Speaker 1: And and and they were and they were just hemorrhaging
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  Speaker 1: money by the by the day. And it got to
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  Speaker 1: a point where the filed chapter eleven, right, and so
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  Speaker 1: they filed chapter eleven and h and and and everybody
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  Speaker 1: took everybody had to take haircuts.
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  Speaker 2: I lost forty five percent of my salary.
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  Speaker 1: And I just bought a home in Mill Valley and
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  Speaker 1: so and I and I had I just bought a
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  Speaker 1: high I had had two young kids at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, and so that was that.
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  Speaker 2: Was a stressful time.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, our news director had left to go to
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  Speaker 1: Channel five kpi X and the news director calls me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm at the Pebble Beach program. This is February of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twelve. He calls me and says, hey, let's go
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  Speaker 1: get a coffee. I go, okay, fine, So we meet
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  Speaker 1: him at Ilfernio then on Battery Street off for the embarketer.
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  Speaker 2: I was covering it.
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  Speaker 1: I was covering it for Krian, And so he's asked
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  Speaker 1: me all these questions about the one man band system
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  Speaker 1: which we had, we we'd gotten down to out of necessity.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm in front of the camera and behind
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  Speaker 1: the camera I'm doing I'm doing everything you have to
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  Speaker 1: do it all back then, and so I'm answering all
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  Speaker 1: these questions. And then he calls me the next week
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  Speaker 1: and says, hey, I want you to meet my boss.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have lunch.
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  Speaker 1: Well his boss was a guy named Ron Lnjinnatti who
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  Speaker 1: was the general manager at kpix.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, what's this And so we go
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  Speaker 2: we have lunch. And then maybe a day.
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  Speaker 1: Or so after that, news drinking calls me and says,
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  Speaker 1: why don't you why don't you come over and do
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  Speaker 1: for us what you're doing for Krian. And that was
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  Speaker 1: and and that was it, but I didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: burn any bridges because at the time, the US Open
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  Speaker 1: was coming up at the Olympic Club and I was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to the lead reporter for our coverage, and so
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  Speaker 1: I go to him, I say, look, this happened. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna take it, but look I'm not gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 1: put my two weeks notice and go hey SEEA I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna give you six weeks to figure it out. And
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the US Open, then I'm going
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  Speaker 1: across the street. That was an agreement that I made,
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  Speaker 1: and so that's that's what happened. Final round was over,
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  Speaker 1: I signed off. I was processed out on Monday, had
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  Speaker 1: ale exit interview, did some laundry on Tuesday, and then
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  Speaker 1: that Wednesday was my first day at kPa X. I
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  Speaker 1: liken this to the end of an officer and a
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  Speaker 1: gentleman strongly recommended recommend. Seeing that movie, my news director,
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  Speaker 1: Dan Rosenheim was Zach Mayo, then Richard gear and I'm
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  Speaker 1: Debra Winger in the factory and so he comes in,
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  Speaker 1: swoops me out of the factory KRIN and carries me out.
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  Speaker 2: All these workers are like the clapping like you made it.
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  Speaker 1: You made, and so I'm back on the reservation working
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  Speaker 1: for CBS as a CBS.
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  Speaker 3: No offense Verne. But I love that movie. You do
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  Speaker 3: not remind me of Devor Winger. I don't. That's not
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  Speaker 3: how I think about you. Well, I felt like her, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: well she was great. How did you balance your demanding
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  Speaker 3: job with all the.
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  Speaker 1: Kids, because you had three, It's tough. It's it's still
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  Speaker 1: a struggle for me. I mean, I work late. I
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  Speaker 1: get home about twelve fifteen, twelve thirty. Everybody's asleep. Now
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  Speaker 1: two of the boys aren't in the house anymore, but
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  Speaker 1: everyoney's asleep, and so it's just me and you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the dog, if a dog wants to hang with me.
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  Speaker 1: And I watched just just some mindless TV over a
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  Speaker 1: glass of wine. It's to kind of wind down, be
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  Speaker 1: you still got the nervous energy of being on the air.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: It's it's been an adjustment for It had been an
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: adjustment for Nicole because of the demands of my schedule
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: in my job, I could I wasn't always available to
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: do stuff with her on the weekends, with miss parties,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: with miss weddings, with miss family stuff. Only because I
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I I gotta work, Daddy, Daddy got to pay the bills.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: So but but when when the kids came along, we
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: made we made the sacrifice that she was going to
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: stay at home with the kids while I worked, and
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: and when I found time, made time, then I would
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: be able to come to the kids plays.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Games, practices, stuff like that. I would try.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I would try and make time and and just just
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: tell myself, sleeps overrated.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I'll just I'll just catch up on the back end.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: And you know, you're pretty normal ish.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: But but I also became that debt. But I also
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: became that debt like you, because I've seen you chronicle everything.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I was the one that shot every kid's swim meet, track,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: baseball game, and and and not only would I shoot it,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I would make broad cast quality highlights out of it,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: and then I would send it out to the parents.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I'm the popular parent now because
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: they knew they could have these, these, these these polished highlights.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: But so I so I'm the guy. Now, I've got
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: this video family library. I'm ready for any kind of
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: rehearsal dinner whatever. I mean, I got it. I mean
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I'm able to just boom chronicle. It just just just
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: throw it on the timeline and bam, whip it together.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about sports and impact. How do you
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: use your platform, you know, to invigorate and and help
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: your community. Have the Verne Glenn Invitational come up, I'd
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: love to talk a little bit about that. What else
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, people call on you, I'm sure
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: to do this thing or that thing. And over the years,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: what's it like to give back to the community.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: It's like it's like being Santa Claus for for every
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: event I do. I just, I just I love helping people.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I think this came from my mom and dad. My
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: sister is just wanting to kind of, you know, give back.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm one that that does not really buy
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: into the fact that nice guys finished last. I want
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: to I want to be the nice guy. That's that's
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: always kind of, you know, talked about. And so I've
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: always been treat people the way you want to be treated.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Just just do that.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I instill that into my boys and and and and
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: that's kind of a little thing that I go by
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: every day. So I'm in this barbershop, I'm getting a haircut,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: and one of the Barbers, who's an avid golfer, says, yeah,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you're years old, is dirt. You've been around for a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: long time. You know we should we should have a
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: tournament and just put it in your.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Name and and and we'll raise a little money and
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: we'll and we'll we'll give her to charity.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, Joe boll, I mean, I'm busy
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: as this.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I could take that on anyway,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: thought about it, thought about it, talked me into it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: And then in twenty twenty four we have the first
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Burn Glynn invitation. We we we have it in Oakland
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: or Country Club.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: It was it was great.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Turnout was huge, more than I expected. But but I
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: had so many people from Marenn County where I live
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: come over and and and bid high and participate and
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: have a good time.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: If I do this again, I owe it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: To the county to bring it to Marin And so
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I knew some people over at Marine Country Club. Deal
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: was made and then last year we did it again
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and now we're doing it again.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Who benefits? What are the charities?
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: We have three marine based foundations that we support. One
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: is called play Merin, which is based in Marin City,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: which is the highest concentration in people of color in
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: MORENN County, which is less than three percent black. And
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: so this is a this is a foundation that gives
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: educational and recreational experiences to kids and families.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: From diverse backgrounds.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: And they don't have, you know, they don't have the lofty,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: you know, big time expensive budget that some of these
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: other counties do.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: But they do the best they can and the.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Payoff for them is now they have families bringing their kids,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: whether they're in San Encelmo, Pataluma, whatever, come and bring
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the kids all the way down to Marin City.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: And then when the Paul Austin who started it, says
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: well why are you coming down here, they always say
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: the same thing, Well, my kids go to schools that
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: are ninety nine percent white.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I just we would like our kids to be around
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: other kids that kind of look like them. And so
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: that started in twenty twelve. Two of my kids were
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: part of the play Merin program when we briefly lived
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: in Marin City, and and I just they have just
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: grown by leaps and bounds, and so I as said
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to myself, if I was in a position to help them,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna help them, So that's why I do play Morin.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Then I went to a function.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Put on by a foundation called Beyond Differences, and Beyond
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Differences also is for kids and families for kids that are.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Bullied, left out, picked on.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: And then there's there was a whole big, the whole
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: big thing about you know, violence, domestic violence, violence in schools,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: gun violence, right around the time that Sandy Hook had
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: that terrible incident back east, and so Sandy Hook that
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: foundation swallowed up Beyond Differences. But it's such a it's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: such a cause that I that I just fell so
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: strongly about. I wanted to help them, so I helped them.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: And the third one is the Widows and Orphans Fund
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: run by the Marin Public Safety Officers Association. I've been
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: with them since nineteen ninety seven when it started, and
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: sadly it started from the death of the Captain of
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: the sauce Lego Police Department, Mark Thomas, who had a
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: brain aneurysm driving home from the station, crashed, died, left
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: a wife, two small kids, no money, and so they
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: were able to start this Widows and Orphans Fund, and
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: now that has grown by leaves and bounds and I
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: do their event every year to help raise money and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: so so those those are the three that we that
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: we help out and and this verng Glen Invitation has
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: kind of taken on a life as well because we
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: are now a five on one C three nonprofit.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Right that's awesome? Yeah, well, how what did give us
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: a date? Give us a how like.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be It's gonna be a Monday, June eighth.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Usually when you do these things in country clubs, it
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: has to be on a Monday. So it's gonna be Monday,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: June eighth.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: We have we got title sponsors.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Now we got to look at we got a little
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: little seed money to kind of kind of go off
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: and huh check intot eight thirty, we'll have Lucille from
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the Giants will be back to kind of entertain people.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: We'll have a pudding contest at ten uh with full
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: of like ex athletes and celebrities, and then balls are
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: in the air at eleven and then then you'll you'll
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: come off the course with your stogie, with your spirits,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: and then we'll have another little cocktail hour with a
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: silent auction and then Dan Dirkin from Petty Theft If
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you know of the group Panty. He's gonna perform and
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: then six o'clock it'll be a sit down dinner. Last
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: year it was chicken pacata and it was awesome. This
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: year it's gonna be another kind of chicken. But man,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: this is gonna be this is gonna be great. That
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: nothing beats being served. You know, you get the salads
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: out the plate at dinner. There's no you know, get up,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: chuck Wagon fix the plate goes at that.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, right, we did that the first year.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we did that the first year, but but not
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: so much this time. This is a this is a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: sit down dinner run of show. And we have a
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: band and uh and and this band's gonna perform, and
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Liam maclamb is gonna be my auctioneer and uh and
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna have a nice, nice run of show
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: and and and we got some dynamite live auction items
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: anywhere from a a Sonoma, Napa get away to a
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: a rental of a Stintson Beach home to uh uh,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: there's there's one where I offer my I come to
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: your house and I cook for ten.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, your uncle Burne's kitchen goes on the road.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Special.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, because cook when I my fortune of solitude
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: is my kitchen, and I have two things to kind
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: of handle my stress.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: One's cooking and one is this blue ball.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: This is a Warriors little little squeeze little ball. This
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: is where where all the tension goes. I just got
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: kind of handle this and squeeze that. It just kind
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: of your tons.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: I'm making your tons.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: But it's it's just it's just you know, my.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Team won the first tournament.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, that's right, the twenty twenty four champion,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: that's right.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Wee watress, that's right. Massive. Well, you know a lot
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: of what we focus on here at this podcast Getting
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Real is about health. And I wondered, given all the
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: charities you've worked with, and is is there something about
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: sports that is helpful to both development, childhood development and
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: mental health? Because I worked with the Junior Giants. You know,
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: we did pro bon OPR for that organization and we
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: really saw some pretty awesome impact, but especially with these
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: kids that are bullied and all these other points, like
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: is getting involved in sports away through you know, potential
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: mental health.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Getting involved in sports helps. It's a great avenue. But
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: but I have learned. Being inside of sports, there's especially
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: with the better athletes on the team, there's that pressure
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: to perform.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: You're carrying the team.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: And and in mental health it's a big hot button
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: issue in sports.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: And so now just about all teams.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: All I'm talking about college teams, maybe some of the
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: more established high school teams have some sort of mental
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: health assistance by somewhere. A kid could just go and
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: talk to somebody, blow off steam instead of like internalized,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: because if you internalize it, it's it's also bad for
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: your for your your your your mental health. And so
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm seeing that, I'm seeing that every day. I mean,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: whether it's giants, forty nine ers, whatever, I mean, they
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: there's there there is an avenue for for them because
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: these athletes now they live with a lot of pressure,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: especially in this day and age of nil, which is
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: a whole other.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Right, I'm doing an event at Syracuse next week with
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Jim Beheim on that. I'll send you the flyer and
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: you could you know.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Ni L has chased a lot of coaches away because
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the coach isn't allowed to just coach. Now now you
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: have to deal with, oh how much are we going
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: to pay this guy to play for my team. Now,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: some of these unit well yeah, and so some of
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: these some of these colleges, they hire general managers just
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: to take care of the nil.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Name, image, name, image and likeness. So so so.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: As you have the right so nil, you know, let's
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: let's explain it for everybody. NIL is name, image, likeness.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: And that has come on over the last few years.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: There was a change in law and policy that really
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: now enables you know, high school into college kids to
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: really essentially sell their own likeness that was always owned
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: by the university.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Usually usually when you signed with the school, they they
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: own you. You're you're you're you're an employee of that university,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and they're giving you free education, freeboard, free food. Well
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: that's these schools were making so much money over their
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: star athletes through merchandise, ticket sales, stuff like that.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: I mean, the kids sold, you know, jerseys.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe, I believe it really first really came
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: on the radar. I believe when Chris Webber was playing
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: for Michigan, and Weber had maybe two dollars in his
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: pocket to get something to eat. Yeah, he looks through
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the window and there's there's a Webber Weber jersey that's
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: that's on sale.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: For like, you know, eighty bucks something like that.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: And and and those jerseys were just flying off the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: shelves and Webb wasn't getting any of it. And so
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: now any any athlete now is getting paid for the
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: school to use their name, image and likeness. I believe
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the University of Texas is paying Peyton Manning's nephew six
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: million dollars a year.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: That bigs I mean, what do you think about it?
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: I think it. I mean, I think there's some sensibility
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: to it because these kids, you know, obviously are going
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: to go on to pro careers and for the most
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: part of modern college that long in many cases the
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: best ones, you know, the very best ones are moving
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: into pro pretty quickly. So it seems like it was
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: a good adjustment. Maybe there should be a few like
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: guardrails around it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Well, like anything else, there's talk next week.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like like like anything else, there's there's there's there's
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: monkey wrenches, and then there's there's there's some there's some wrinkles.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: But but the way the system is now, you can
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: be like coach Signetti and just replace an entire roster
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: on your football team and then come back the next
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: year and win the National Football Championship.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: That's it's crazy, but but but but it happens.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, these these all these coaches, Like I talked
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: to one the other day, Kyle Smith, he's the head
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: coach at Stanford.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: He spends most of his free time just looking at
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: the transfer portal. Who's in there? How can I improve
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: my team?
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: You know, during the final four, you know, the tournament,
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: they kept referring to how this has become a portal sport.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's and it's been an impact on a
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: lot of these programs. At Stanford, they don't normally take transfer.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Now they'll take a transfer if they can get two
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: years out of you. But but it used to be like, oh, well,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: but you know, Stanford's Stanford's a program that's fallen on
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: hard times because they haven't been able to really kind
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: of compete with some of these big boys for these
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: national championships like they used to when it was an
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: even playing field.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: What do you like covering more college, high school pro what?
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: What's what's the most exciting for you?
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: I like covering high schools because some of these players,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: they may evolve into something. And and these players usually
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: they remember you when when you cover them as as
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: as a.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: High school look good.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: So that makes you feel good, you know, like uh
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and and so so that's that's good. But but overall,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: give me a good NFL playoff game.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: I'm yours. I am absolutely yours.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: But that said, you give me a an NHL playoff game.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: And that looks like where maybe the Santa Sharks may
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: be headed. There's an electricity about it being in that
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: arena that you that doesn't translate through TV. You of
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the Big Four, you have to go to that game.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean covering the transition and growth of Steph
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Curry must have been fun, right, you know you went
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: from really us being you know, just have not.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: To both the haves. Yeah, it is.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: It is because I can remember one of his last
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: games was that Saint Mary's in the n I T
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: playing for Davidson. There's a little skinny kid who could
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: who could just shoot lights out with the ball. And
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: then he's seventh overall pick in the NBA, like all right, fine,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: and then remember when he joined the team that was
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: that was Monte Ellis's team and and so they traded,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: they traded Monte and and and then it was just Oh,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I mean the fan base was just taking a back.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Is that where you're met Chris Mallen.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, I've known Chris Mullen since since I John when
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: I when I got to yeah, the Johnnies. When I
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: got to this market, Mullin was on the on the Warriors.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: This was during the run TMC days with Tim Hardaway
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: and Mitch Richmond. Yeah, they were they were fun to watch.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all those guys are great. Well listen, you know,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: as we wrap up, I always like to ask a
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: few questions. Go all right, and I know you're gonna
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: love this one. What's one thing you're trying to get
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: real about this year?
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I would like to get real about free time and
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: what I do with that free time. I'm I'm at
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: an age now where I'm kind of realizing, you know,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: my mortality. I got what maybe twenty twenty five years
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: left to walk in the crve. What am I going
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: to do with it? And and and all I.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Do, Jim is work. That is all I do. I mean,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: even when I'm home, I'm working at something. I don't
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: sit around and watch the grass grow I get five
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: weeks of vacation a year.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I'm lucky if I take ten days.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Because it's sports is very seasonal that there's there's there's
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: no there's no downtime.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Now there's people.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: In the newsroom that just do straight news, and hey,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: if they want to take two weeks and go to
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Portugal or whatever in the in the middle of the
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: NBA seat, But they're going to do it, But I can't.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: It's the NBA season. So the NBA season will.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Then will it'll die down and then and then then we'
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: we have we have baseball and then and then we'll
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: have the NFL and we have It's just there's just
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: never there's just never any let up time.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: My slowest time of the year used to be July.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: What's taking that up?
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: The Golden State Valpyries and we and we have the
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: broadcast rights to those games. Oh well absolutely, Yeah.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: You love it when you love it, when you're into.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: It, I can see you doing this into your lighties.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Well, I have I have a plan.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I I I have some sort of the begin of
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: some sort.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Of Yeah, yeah, I I there's there's a there's a
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: there's a there's a.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Very popular number in mind, that's considered the punch out number.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: But you I want to move on to the next phase,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: but you still want to leave. Yeah eighty five, budd,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: but you still want to leave a little gas.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: And that's why they have longevity medicine. All right, we
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: just you just got to get yourself.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: All Oh, give me some of that.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: You mentioned vacation. What's the best vacation you ever did take?
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Wow, Jim Man, that's maybe my honeymoon. That was what
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: ninety seven. We went, we went, we went to we
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: went to we went Hawaii, Bali. Wow, back to Hawaii.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: That was a good time.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: But even then, because I'm so naive, I'm so into sports,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: I'm i'm I get upset. I'm in Bali and I'm like, well,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: let me let me see what's going on in the
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: sports world. And so so oh look they got ESPN.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I turned on ESPN. It's rugby, it's soccer. I'm like, what, wait, where,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: where's this is October?
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Where?
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Where? Where? Where?
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Where's the football? That's the only football they do over there?
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's come here though, You're got to cover the
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: World Cup.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: We'll cover it somewhat.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Levi Stadium paybal Park, didn't didn't get like the best draw,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: if if, if, if the US comes and plays, then great.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: But again, it's not ours, it's we're CBS. We don't,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: we don't have it. We'll cover it as an event,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: but it's it's it's not our.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: It's until the outit it if they're you know and
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: I love music. What's the album that would be the
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: soundtrack of your life? Oof?
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: The album is the soundtrack of my life. Stevie Wonders
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: songs in the Key of Life. How about that? That's right,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: pull that one out.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Boom, I'll just take it. We'll move on. We're gonna
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: play a quick round of Bay Area sports hot takes.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, you ready go?
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Will Steph Curry win another championship before he retires?
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: No?
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Will Logan Webb win a Cy Young Award? No? Which
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Bay Area team is under the most pressure to win
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: right now?
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to say the forty nine ers. Okay,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to say the forty nine ers that
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: we're entering year ten in the Shanahan era.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, name the name, name me, the.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Coaches that they've been around that long, not won a
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and they're still employed.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Right, and you know because they just you know, they're
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: always good, but not good, you know.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Not just knocking at the door and they just can't
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: kick it down. Talk to him about that, not not personally.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: The only time you get the only time, the only
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: time you get.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Around Shanahan is is when he speaks to us in group.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Okay, you can't get one on one.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: No, that's tough. One.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: What's your favorite sport to cover in the bay? You
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: mentioned the Valkyries? You like that or what is it.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Favorite sport to cook? Probably anything Niner related?
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: The Niners driving to get the Niners drive the bus.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: In this market, let me tell you about this. The
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Niners are so important in this market. If if brock
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Purty grabs a glass and takes a sip, we got.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: A report on it. Any other team, anybody else, nobody
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: cares even stuff.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Well basketball isn't football.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Right, Well, it's tough. I mean, Steph's played with thirty
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: two games. It's tough. It's tough. I mean, this is
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: a market where this is a what have you done
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: for me lately? Market?
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Really are But but as uh, someone pointed out at
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: the Giants Yankee game, that, you know, they felt we're
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: very polite around here as a as a fan base.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Do you think that's real that the fans Oakland since
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: the Oakland and since the Raiders left. I would think maybe,
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: you know, yeah, we got that route.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Well you've got I mean, you've got some rabid fans
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: who are just like really passionate about it.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: But then then you.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Have the the the the realistic thinking fans. They're like,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: come on right, I mean, you you you hope, well, okay,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: the Yankees are coming in. Maybe you hope maybe get
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: a game of them. But I mean, but I I
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. It's Spotify, but I mean,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Yankees came in and it was built the ass from
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: from from the beginning, and uh and and so. But
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: but the Yankees and the Yankees are the Yankees are
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: a team. Let's face it. They're built to win right now, Yes,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: they are right now, stay ahead of the Red Sox
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: and win the whole thing.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Right now.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: It's been a it's been a minute because the Dodgers
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: now they've they've at the mojo.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: How does the how did the how did we get
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: the mojo back? That's the Giants who what do we need.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: You need you need a good farm system which has
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: been depleted because a lot, a lot of their a
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: lot of their upcoming talent has been traded away because
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: they were trying to get these free agents and and
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: and and try and stay with the Dodgers and and
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: get a chance to, like you, get into that second season.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: And so they they they've mortgaged their future and the
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: farm systems have have suffered. And that and that's really
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: where it begins. They it's it's a team where it's
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: a team that's been slow on on player development. And
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: that's the and and and it's come back to bite them.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: All right. Well, Vern, thanks for stopping by.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Thanks for giving me a chance to get real.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for getting real with me. So good, so
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: good to see you. All right, thank you, you got
• 41:59
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• 42:05
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