Nicolas Cage

No, no, no.

I mean, every once in a while you get a critic who's decided that they're going to take you down for the pretentiousness with which you've decided to approach baseball or some other such thing or

Maybe you find a jazz or rotty guy who thinks that, you know, because you left out the second sideman in Count Basie's band between 47 and 48, you've failed miserably, that you weren't the telephone book.

So you do have some critics.

It's a really nice sort of thing, and it's kind of cool to be able to respond to them.

Because you always go and you say, okay, so who of today's...

Or a criticism that you didn't do modern jazz guys.

Who are of today's jazz guys are as important as Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane.

And they'll go, well, we won't know for 25 years.

Yeah.

And that's called history.

Right.

And there's your answer.

And there's your answer.

I hate it only when they call me Curb.

But doc's okay.

I don't ever use it when people say, yeah, I like docs, meaning they don't like docs.

Oh, I didn't know it.

I mean, I knew baseball.

I grew up.