Jeff Pearlman

And I want to thank you guys, all of you, one and all, for playing that.

I know you didn't do it on my behalf, but that was a beautiful moment for me and my family.

I'm just going to tell you that promoting a book is very stressful, and that may have been the salt bath that I needed right there.

So thank you for taking me to the spa and giving me that.

It's stressful.

Number one, you don't know if the book is going to sell.

Number two, to be honest with you, it is way outside my comfort zone as far as I know how to promote a sports book.

I know how to come on the different sports shows, but I don't I don't have inroads in hip hop.

I don't have inroads in rap.

There are a lot of hip hop outlets, podcasts, et cetera, that you need to promote a book on.

And I it's just it's a lot harder than promoting a sports book for me.

I'm just being honest is a lot harder to promote.

There's a lot of the term is a culture vulture.

That's where you get a lot of here comes a culture a lot.

And then you just have to show your knowledge on the subject, which I've really been trying to do and show how much work you put in.

You know, why is a white guy writing this book?

I understand actually that question.

I think it's a fair question.

um but i think you have to show your research and so look i wrote this book because i wanted someone to write a great great great deep dive look into his life go to marin city knock on his apartment door go to baltimore knock on the door of his row house meet all his neighbors interview all his old classmates that kind of book so i've been fighting and i think it's i think it's been going okay i don't know

It's not even a matter of, it's a great question.