Scott Van Pelt
Appearances
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Let me call a golf shot real quick.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
You don't know anything.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I have the Genghis Khan stat.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Yeah, baby.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
You know, we're an area where not a ton of people have made it to the big time as evidenced by the fact that they were like, who can we put in? Like Van Pelt? Yeah. He threw like 75 when he was in high school. We don't have a ton of people from around here that have made it. But what makes it cool is the people that have that have made it to the league or wherever. Those folks are a big deal.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And it was really it was it was an honor that they thought this is all just the broadcasting piece of it. And it was it's flattering. It was not for my sports prowess. Yeah, I mean, I was, you know, I was like the classic high school guy. I was a good basketball player. I was a good pitcher. But that was that was the extent of it.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I'd say hoops. Before the age when people started redshirting their children in elementary school, I would have really benefited from one more year. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. In the area where I'm at, there's 20-year-old high school seniors that have been held back a few years, and then they end up getting...
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
for sure scholarships to go play lacrosse at an ivy league and you're like you know there was a there was a method to the madness but i was i was like a 17 year old high school senior my nickname was fungo i was 6 4 170 and by my freshman year in maryland i'm 6 6 205 like i'd have been i'd probably had a chance somewhere just because my i was just physically completely you know what i mean for sure
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
whatever i was a decent hoop player so i mean at maryland like there were a bunch of people in like the intramural system that were like could have played college somewhere but just you know whatever but i was that's it i was you know frustrated thought when i was little i thought i would be the guy people were talking about but as it works out i get to be the person talking about the people and that that career lasts a hell of a lot longer thankfully as as we sit here now much you're one of the best man you're one of the best one of the icons i appreciate that
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
It was a big bummer.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
They were looking – Had a chance, but Florida's really good. And then the end coincided with the coach leaving, and we talked about that on the pod just because Kevin Willard went to go to Villanova, which is a great job, and I think totally get why – that job would be appealing. It's just the way it ended, like there's a way to go. And it got really sticky.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And so the Maryland folks were really bummed about that. But the good news, the really good news in our household is my wife is a gator. And this was the coolest thing on SportsCenter. We had Coach Golden on. in advance of it. And I'm like, look, I got a problem in my house. If Maryland plays Florida, my kids are just, they're really stuck because they love the Gators and they love the Terps.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
What do I do? And he had this great answer about being a supportive husband and tell them that it's, you know, you support mom and you're just going to be happy for the Gators. And if Maryland loses, it's fine, blah, blah, blah. I'm like,
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
that's a bullshit that's wrong that's not true what you just said it was a lie to my kids right it was a great answer it was a great answer but it was wrong and then we had just gone on a trip we come home and the gators they sent a box fellas and i believe that my name image and likeness of my children belongs to the gators because they got more swag from gainesville than they knew what to do with and so
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
To 14.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I believe that the combination of Florida winning that game and the swag that was sent from down in Gainesville to my kiddos, I believe they belong to the Gators. So we're all good, man. It was a fun run. The end got real bumpy. That's how the SEC gets you. That's how they get boxes.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Oh, hell yeah. Bro, he had on a Gator headband. He's like, Dad, look at this, man. I'm like, you want to go to the closet. We got plenty of Terps gear. But the Gators represented in a SEC level, Trav. You called it, man.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Oh, man.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Well, we started off with a bang. I believe the first on camera he said his tits were out.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
It was early. Just lost them out.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Just set the expectation. I think in life, most of life is managing expectations. No. Listen, I'm interested in his perspective because it was right around now, it was last spring when you had made the official decision that you were going to head into our world on the TV side. And you were coveted by everybody. And I mean, I've sort of shared this backstory.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I reached out and I was like, look, man, I appreciate your space. I'm not trying to get in it and
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
try to bother you but i also wanted to represent that i knew espn was interested in having your brother and and uh in whatever capacity it was going to be and so i tried to be as honest as i could about what i thought our place was and now he comes in and the thing about the business is there's a million things about this is where i'm going to talk about you jay like you're not there okay okay cool there's a million things about your brother that make him perfect 14 they can keep the keep the cans on
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Perfect for TV, but you still, there's a process of learning the mechanics of TV that it's not innate. He's innately entertaining and engaging and people love him, but learning how to, okay, when's it my turn? And what I would try to tell him is, look, man, your mic's always on. You don't need me to ask you to go. When you're ready to go, go.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
but there's a couple of guys in swag and RC that, that we have a built in kind of chemistry. We know how it goes and swag can get going on a tangent and like, you just got to let them go. And so it's, it's a challenge when it's for people that are talking to figure out, you know, how to get in where you fit in.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And it was a blast because the things, um, about, you know, the stories and what's genuine about him, what's authentic about him is all right in front of you. And then seeing it get better and better where you're like, okay, you can tell, um, that he's more comfortable. And by the way, you're more comfortable by the end of the year than you are at the beginning, obviously.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And he'll get only more and more comfortable as time goes on. So I had a blast. We blew out a port. My guy Dumpf blew his ACL out week two in Philadelphia.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
We were sure that his knee, ACL, PCL, MCL, all blown out. Somehow they were intact. No, we had fun. But the TV piece, it's a different kind of grind, man. You don't get a tour at all to be on, but you're on planes and you're trying to figure out how to bring entertainment to the masses. But again, what he's innately great at, you can't learn how to do. And so we were thrilled with it all.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I'm curious what your assessment of it was.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
You can't watch the all 22 of every game by the time you get to the Monday because we're not going to break down all of it. But if there's something, because what we try to do is talk ball. And Trav, you've been kind about that. What's the role of a show? And I think if you can educate and entertain, I mean, everyone's going to say some version of that.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
But I think that's really the core of what we're trying to do. And I think what we had Jason do is break stuff down. You don't want to limit it to just tackle the tackle, but I think you can help people understand why something works, why a team's really good at it. And I thought that you brought a lot of that to the table and the personality as well.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
But it's interesting to hear you talk about it because it's probably not unlike learning a teammate, right? For sure. If you've got, you know, a guard to your left that you know is really good at this but maybe not as good at that, you've got to figure out how to help him be good at the thing he's not as good at.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And that's really what the TV piece is about, like just figuring out how to make – put everybody – my job, try to put everybody in the best lane to do what they're great at even better. You know what I mean? Yeah, for sure. It's – I don't know. We had a blast doing it for sure because it's big, man. Monday Night Football, I mean –
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
it's a it feels like a thing yeah it feels like a thing and you hear that thing in your in your ear and like i mean you guys lived it where you were the guys in the arena i i wasn't but for me monday night football as you're watching back in the day howard coso whatever there was nothing bigger than that and like you hear that music and you're the one sitting there you're going to talk and you're like you know this is an event man it's it's it's a blast i love it man
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I think the one thing that has happened for me throughout my career, and I'm grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, is I've never been a guy that was playing chess. I was never planning three or four moves ahead. I didn't have my eye on anything as much as my eye on right now.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I think I've been really good at that, being present in my present, appreciative of this moment, try to be as good as I can be at what I do. and trust that if you do that, then you'll get another shot at it tomorrow in some other role. Yeah. I've told the story before, but it's true.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I have a Post-it note that's in a little window box frame that sits on my desk, and it says, I will never work at ESPN. And when I was at the Golf Channel, which is where I started way back in the day, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Thank you.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Thank you.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
The masters is a completely different level of lunacy. Like when you know that it comes on the air and it's a picture and it's whatever it is, it's the Hogan bridge or it's, it's the 13th and it's that, that like the iconic shots that you can go into that corner. Right.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
You can close your eyes and see him in corner and you hear that, that, that sort of melodic piano and you're the voice that says whatever it is that you have to say. And the masters begins and you're the one doing it. there's no way I can explain the depth of appreciation for the fact that I'm the person sitting in that chair. It's something I share with my pop.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
My, my pop died when I was in college and, um, I'm going to tell you a quick one about like, so it'll be Thursday at three Eastern. We'll come on the air.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Yeah.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
You know, you start, you rehearse a little bit. All right. We're going to show these highlights. Sheffler on six and Rory on 10. Okay. We just make, all right. I know how we're going to come on the air here. And at some point in the last minute, all right. I'm sitting there and I'm getting ready.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And then there'll be about a 30 second bit where I just sort of get into this Zen sort of place where I'm just... My mind is still... My heart is grateful and I think of my father. And I think... Pop, it's like I don't say it out loud. I just think, let me be calm. Let me do my job well. Let me speak slowly and clearly and let me do my job well.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And I think of him and I think, man, if my father were here, they say a young man that loses his dad early in life spends the rest of his life trying to make him proud. And I know damn sure sitting in that chair that my pop is, is proud of his boy. And then we come on the air and that last little five seconds, it's like, I swear to God, it's like time stops for just a second.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And I'm like, we good. Here we go. And then off you go and you do your job. But I give, I give myself like that very focused attention to that feeling, like what you feel in that moment. And, and, it's just gratitude just exploding in your soul. Uh, I don't mean for this to sound over right now, man. I don't mean for it to sound too goofy or heavy, but it's sincere. It's sincere.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And so I'm here and you know, Jim Nance is there and you know, Jim, it's his show. I'm just there to sort of welcome people on. I don't do a hell of a lot of heavy lifting, but that's, that's the gig for the week. Um, that's the main focus of it. Wednesday's my favorite day. I'm doing the par three, the contest this year, which is a blast.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
It's like, you know, the kids are caddying for their, for their dad. And it's just this beautiful day. And it's this minute, this par three course is sort of a miniature version of the big course. It's incredible. The whole thing's incredible, but there's a lot wrapped up into that week, as you can tell from what I'm sort of saying here. Heck yeah, man.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I think, I think Travis, that, that, I don't know. I don't know what the timeframe is. I think that they'll sort that out. I think we'll get back to a little bit.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Well, I mean, the whole thing got real sideways where dudes took money and the PGA tour is like, that's don't do that. And then the PGA tour was like, well, maybe we'll do that too. Yeah. That's a funny game. Oh, well, we got to compete. Yeah. Yeah, that's an interesting trick. I mean, imagine being like Rory and you passed on God only knows how many hundred millions of dollars.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Yeah, right. I heard numbers. I don't know what the truth is, but I'm surprised. Certain that there were nine figures involved. That much I know. But the point you make about just not seeing them compete that often, that does make the majors feel a little bit different. But honestly, we do the PGA Championship on ESPN. We'll be down at Quail Hollow in Charlotte in May.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And that's a great field too. But to me, the star of the Masters Week is not even the players. It's the stage. It's the venue and the feelings associated with the venue. It's going back there every spring. It's the friendships that get rekindled like among – You know, patrons and people that work there. And, you know, it's just the whole week is so, so special.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
So you're right that those events have added significance. But the Masters is just feels like what it feels like because of the place more than who's competing in it.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Agreed. And I've been so lucky going there through through the years that the people that you walk past. Well, you know, I talk about my friend, Miss Nadine. She's she's a security. And years ago, I walked past her in her station by the par three course. And I hear this voice say, you look nice. And I stop and I look and that's Miss Nadine.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And so I walk over to Miss Nadine and she said, let me see that tie. And I looked at it. I'm like, OK. And she said, I'm Nadine. I'm Scott. I walk by the next day. She said, come over here. OK. She's like, I don't like that tie. Like, who asked you? And she's like, okay. So, like, it became that week. Every day I go by. And by the end of that week, me and Miss Nadine were like this.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I get Christmas cards from her. She gets Christmas cards from me. We see each other and we hug. Like, every single day I give her a hug. That's my girl, Miss Nadine. Like, we've been friends for 20 years. And this is a place where there's this –
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
grill where we're allowed to eat this room that you know it's the greatest sandwich and fries on a china plate you've ever had in your life okay and years ago is it pimento cheese or what well yes that that is part of the lore of the place for sure but one year i ordered a grilled cheese and bacon with tomato wasn't on the they just made it
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And if I walk in there now, my guy Tony will just give me a nod, and they'll just bring it to me. They know I'm not a member at Augusta National. I'm just some bozo that's been coming for a few years, but these are my friends. That's so awesome, man. They know what to bring me. You know what I'm saying? Yes. That's so cool. That's the level of attention to detail and the friendships that you –
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
that you revisit every year. And my wife may come down this year. And I said, I don't care if you see the golf course. I just want you to get to hug Miss Nadine. I just, you know, because she knows my family. Like, again, like Christmas cards with each other every year. So, like, those are the people that are part of it. And then, as you say, the history of it, the actual golf. Every hole, right?
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Like 13, you remember when Phil hit it off the pine straw past a tree. And 16, you remember Tiger hits it up and it rolls down the hill. And Vern, have you ever in your life? And 17, again, Vern, Jack Nicklaus, maybe. Yes, sir. I mean, every hole has a picture and a moment in time. I mean, I could keep going. The 10th hole, Bubba and a playoff.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Bubba can't see a straight shot in his mind. That's right.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
He prefers to have an angle on it. Exactly.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
It's actually better for him to be in there in a tree and go, all right, if I hook this sumbitch 90 yards around a tree, I can, you know what I mean? And so everybody has their shots and their moments. And that to me is what makes, you know, that's what makes it,
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Oh no, I went 97 and I was covering it for, I worked for the golf channel at the time. And, um, you know, you'd never, and it's amazing. It's amazing traffic, how much it's changed. I mean, and, and yet it has this incredible ability to evolve and, And that and yet stay timeless. It's impossible. It's a trick you can't pull off.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And yet they do where everything about it every year feels like it's been this way forever. And yet so much of it has changed in terms of the golf course, how they stretched it out, made holes longer, tougher, change this undulation, that undulation, whatever. So, I mean, like the snapshot of 97 in my mind, it feels like the same place, and yet it's so very different.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
But they get everything exactly right. Every detail is just perfect. And I haven't been to every one since 97, but, I mean, there's similarities for you guys maybe with seasons, with football, right? When you're in a sport, and you do something every year and then like you, there's a, there's a pace to the season and then there's your off season.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And then the next thing you know, it's like, all right, we're back at OTAs and then we're in camp. And then the season starts again. And it's like, it feels like time's not passing in some ways. And so like I was just at Augusta in my mind, only I wasn't, I mean, it was a year ago and I'll be back there and it'll be master's week.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And you think to yourself, Oh, it's probably been three or four years since that. And then you go, Oh shit. That was 15 years ago. You know what I'm saying? Like I, it can't possibly be almost 30 years since I was there with tiger in 97, but we're damn near there. And that's where I, that's where I just look at myself and go, good Lord. Like how, how lucky are you to be able to keep doing this?
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And so it's a, it's crazy how, again, how time passes. And yet when you're there, it feels like time hasn't moved.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
All right now. All right. All right now. Come on now. Come on now. I know some people that know some people. If you left your boy at home, he would not be pleased with that, would he?
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I cannot offer anything to that baby. How's that go? Let's just workshop this. Let's workshop this conversation, boys. We're three semi-smart people. How do we play that? How do we say, hey, listen, we're just going to leave you alone. Just mosey down there.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Mosey. I think mosey's the key. I think it's not – I'm not going.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And then I'll zip right back. Mosey and zip. It's a mosey and zip scenario.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
We know folks – A few pimentos.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
A few eagleness. What are they? The beers? Are they eagleness? I forget what it's called. Azalea. People enjoying azalea. There you go, an azalea.
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Scott needs help for the par three. Scott's doing the par three. He can't do it by himself. That's right. That's right. You've seen him on TV. He can barely form a sentence. He can barely speak coherently. We need him. Come on.
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Yeah. That's... Sometimes you got to just know what you can and can't pull off. Hey, by the way, he mentioned just as in passing, we play golf. Your brother, his practice swing, like the divot pattern. Are you familiar with the flank steak size divots this man takes out of the earth?
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Ridiculous.
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Why are you doing that on the tee box on a par five, Jason? And we played on a day where it rained really heavily, and so the ground was super sort of – Oh, yeah. It was not firm. And so those practice swings, you'd look up and be like, this is like a full yard of sod in the air. And that's just a practice swing. I'm like, well, you're going to have to hit the ball here.
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We're going to have a trench here where we can bury a squirrel, man. He's got a nice swing, though. Obviously, a lot of power involved.
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Well, getting that left shoulder behind the ball, that's important. It's hard when you have that. It's all fused together. Your tempo, though, you can really swing at it, Trav. Trav's talented.
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Agreed. And the key for the big guy is to recognize that if you draw a line from the ball back to the top, back to the bottom, for a tall guy, it's a mile long. So I think – I always think Jon Rahm – and it doesn't need to be as abbreviated as Jon Rahm, but you also don't need to wrap that son of a gun around your neck because – John Daly. Really difficult.
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But if you just turn to the point, if your shoulder's behind it, all you got to do is get back to the bottom and you're going to be, you're going to knock it a long way. Your swing's really good though. I appreciate that. What's your handicap?
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But you could, if you got a cook and you're like, you're thinking I might, maybe I might could shoot something that started with a seven, right? Yeah. All right. That's what I thought.
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No, you're 99th percentile.
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Seriously. Yeah. I always get a kick out of people that like reverse sandbaggers. Like people that sandbag that say, I'm probably like a 12 and then they shoot 75. You're like, that's bullshit.
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Yeah.
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But people that say, oh, no, I'm like a 9. And then they go shoot a 100. You're like, a 9 what?
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That's a good question. That's actually a really good question. But the guy that says he's a 14 that goes to some member guest and shoots 75, that's very, very poorly looked upon.
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Right. So I think –
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I think the person that says that they're a 12 that shoots 108, you could live with that. Like, yo, I just had a bad day. Well, no, you actually, you have a bullshit 12 is what you're having. And there are a lot of those. But don't be the sandbagger. Don't be a sandbagger. That's bad luck. Bad luck, man.
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I'm happy to do it.
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Well, let's do the math. I'm 58. So what did that put me at 2001? I'm not good at math. I was 20, 35-ish. Yeah, 35-ish, mid-30s. Nice. And you were with Golf Channel up until that? I was. I was. I mean, I told you the story about having the note. I wouldn't work at ESPN, but it was kind of...
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a lot of life is this right sort of serendipitous like a guy named jimmy roberts who actually is a maryland guy and was at espn covering golf left to go to nbc and that was in the middle of tiger woods just laying waste to all humanity in the game i mean he was breaking records you know winning every major and espn really kind of needed a guy that had an in with tiger sure I was that guy.
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Yeah. I mean, literally, my entire career exists because of Tiger Woods. That is a fact. And maybe I could have found some of this without him, but almost certainly not. And so I went in 2001 because ESPN really kind of needed a golf guy. And I lived down in Orlando at the time. And I stayed in Orlando and I was covering golf and a little bit of this, that and the other thing.
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So that was when it started. That's so cool.
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Oh, yeah. I remember it vividly because we were in Australia to cover a golf tournament. It was the world match play, and we're in Australia. This is actually cool. I can picture it as clear as day. We were going to follow a Syracuse basketball game, and we're just waiting for it to end. And I'm sitting in like this, it's like a tent.
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When you cover, when you're doing a golf event, you know, they build these little, you've seen them. If you go to like a major or whatever, like it's a TV compound with, you know, you're outdoors, but there's a tent over the top of it. And I'm sitting there with my guy, Andy North. And when the game ends, there used to be this like, and you guys are ESPN heads.
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Like there was this animation that like, it was like sort of a circle and it says ESPN. And there's this voice that says ESPN. This is a presentation of ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports. And that's, like I told you about the Masters moment where I'm waiting to talk. Well, this is 2001, and I've never done it, and I'm like, oh, shit, I have to talk, and it's me, and I'm on ESPN.
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Ah!
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You know what I'm saying? It got as real as it could get. And I'm just like, don't talk fast. Don't freak out. This is what you do. You can do it. Only I got news for you, boys. I kind of couldn't do it like that at that point. And yeah, so I'm in a tent in Australia with Andy North at the World Match Play. And that's the first event I did. And then the next...
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It was a two-week thing because we went from there to Kapalua to do what used to be the Mercedes. And I'm doing a two-week junket in Australia and Hawaii. And I'm like, bro, your boy's on ESPN and I am living right. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
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No, this is a good introduction.
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It's Australia. It's Maui. And it's like life is good. I am wavy, bro. And this is real real good look at your boy um then that's how that's how it started and then it was actually a really unfortunately sobering moment because i it's i come home and i'm sitting at my house one day it's february and it was the daytona 500 and i get a phone call
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from ESPN that says, Hey Scott, we were, uh, we're getting word that Dale Earnhardt might've died in this crash. And I'm like, Oh, that's awful. And then they said, I'm, I'm not processing this. Right. And there's, we need you to go there. And I'm thinking, well,
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wow i mean i had only done golf right and so i had just done these golf events which was a very familiar space for me and now all of a sudden i'm hopping in the car driving up to daytona to cover as big a story as there could be in the sports world and that's where it was a real reality check of the, like you're in the deep end of the pool, man.
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And, and, and I, I remember vividly sports center started that night with a report from me at Daytona, given the news that Dale Earnhardt had died. And it was, it went from like everything's whatever to the reality of what the stage you were on and, and the fact that you were covering everything. And then,
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Obviously, from there, there's far less serious stories, but you added more to the plate as time went on.
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Yeah.
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And now Dale Earnhardt is gone. But from my perspective as, all right, can I do this? It was, you're not going to be asked to cover something more significant than that. And I was able to do it. And then it was just the recognition of, all right, you're, you're in a different place now than at the golf channel where you just go on to the next, you know, tour stop and
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That was all that we were going to do. And then, as I say, it was more used to do some NBA things like Tracy McGrady and Shaq and people like that were the magic at the time. You do some of that. And it was just around that summer was when they said, hey, we want you to come up and maybe do some SportsCenter. And I'm like, all right, I can do that.
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And then the next thing you know, it's like, hey, we want you to move up here. and do it. And I'm, I mean, leaving Orlando where it was 75 and sunny every day for Bristol was, that was, that was a different kind of reality check. Like who, what am I doing? Sure. Sure. That was a rough adjustment initially.
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I mean, I don't think I had... as much of a sort of a, of a guide, as much as I just, there's, there's a person and you would know this name cause you know him. And he's the guy that's now in charge of, of all things at ESPN, a guy named Mike McQuaid. He's a behind the scenes guy who's has been as instrumental in helping me get where I am as anyone.
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Just what he did, what he did, Jason was, he basically just said, you know what to do, just go do it. And, and was great with feedback. Um, You told me something when we played golf that day. You said, I like being coached. And I thought, that's great news. Because not everybody does. Everyone says they want feedback. You know what feedback they want? They want grab ass, you're awesome, attaboy.
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They don't want, hey, that's bullshit. You can't do this. That was bad. Here's why this sucked. But that's what you need. And having a guy like that that was really helpful and just trusted that I would do the work and put in the work and wherever the bumpy spots were, I'd figure him out. He was great from a behind-the-scenes standpoint. But then, as I mentioned, Stuart Scott was awesome.
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And we had this... we had this kind of admiration from afar because he and Tiger were boys and I was as well. And so we had kind of seen each other from across the aisle. And then when I came, I had kind of the endorsement from Tiger with Stewart. And then I was an ACC guy from Maryland. He was a Carolina guy. And we had that kind of common thing.
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And then he and I just found this rhythm with one another that was really helpful from a sports center standpoint. But I mean, I've been so lucky with people that I worked with from like And if I start naming people, I'll leave them off. But like Stuart was big. Neil Everett was a partner of mine that I worked with a ton. And he's just like, that's my brother forever.
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So I've just been so lucky that the people that I've sort of shared the set with and, you know, traveled with and worked with were all great teammates that helped elevate me that hopefully I helped... make them the best version of them and you kind of ham and egg it. But, you know, it wasn't like we had a, you know, sit down and here's this and here's that and here's the other.
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They just kind of trust you to figure stuff out. And what you don't, you know, they're going to help nudge you back towards the center.
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Yeah.
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Right. And I mean, I... Dan and Keith made SportsCenter something different. They took it to a different place, I think. Berman's the godfather. Bob Lee as well, obviously. But then Dan and Keith took it to a thing where it was different. And then Stuart and Rich were a big-time team. They had a lot of us that kind of worked together. And you, you team up with different people at different times.
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But then the idea was if you could create, you know, people that work together quite a bit, then you create chemistry, which makes a ton of sense, right? Like you become like an old line. There's this energy and Hey, I could slide out the tackle if I need to, but if we can get some reps together, we can make this a thing. And so honestly, I mean, and it's still like that and it's different.
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I'm down in DC and I'm not in a cubicle and you know, sitting, next to Rich or Stuart or whomever back in the day. But it's the same idea. I'm going to go in and watch games and then I do a show. It's a joke. My dad worked for a plumbing company. I always say this. He wore boots to work. I wear Ferragamo's and a little light dusting of powder on the head. I mean, that's what I wear to work.
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And I just watch games all night. It's absurd. And so I think what the genius of those ads kind of captured was that. People are like, this is what it's like? Well, yeah. I'm not actually sitting in LeBron's chair in a throne, but it's like that. And the cool thing about that spot is it's – and he was on me recently. It's like still a joke that we go back to. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Like I saw when he was on with you about, you know, he's about when he, this fuckery won't continue. And then now he's 40 and he's like, when I'm 50, like, I mean, I saw him reference that, like the idea that, holy smokes, like he's still doing this at that age. He was a baby when he did that ad with me. And so now we can kind of still reference it.
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And, you know, I got a note from his folks, like, you know, clutch fuck, like I was texting back and forth with Rich Paul about, I said, you know, what's cool is like, We've both been doing this for 20 some odd years and can still kind of do it. I'm not comparing myself as an anchor to LeBron James. But we're still in that respective place and we can still play at a certain level.
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You're still in the biggest spots of TV.
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Going back to who he was as a 21, 2-year-old, maybe at the time when we did. He might have just been 20. When we did that spot, because I joked to them, I said, you know, I think when you and I did that ad, I might have been around 40. And that was right around the age when I realized there was stuff physically I kind of couldn't do. And you're 40 and there's nothing like what is it you're doing?
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You know what I mean? Like, how are you still this guy? He's not human. The freaking nature. My favorite one, other than the LeBron one, was me and Stewart. We're with Arnold Palmer and all the, the ad is 15 seconds and it's Arnold in the cafeteria and Arnold Palmer makes an Arnold Palmer, a little iced tea, a little splash of lemonade. No words are said.
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Then he walks off and it's me and Stuart Scott. And all we say is that was awesome.
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Yeah.
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And Stuart's like, I know. Yeah. And it's a 15-second spot. And that's it. And so it's like, is this what ESPN was like? I'm like, yeah, kind of. We just kind of sit in our cubes, go to the cafeteria. Again, Arnold's not there making an Arnold Palmer. But that ad was just what I thought was just genius.
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So simple. Yep.
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It's interesting that you guys doing this and, you know, you were straddling the back end of your career, Jason Trav, thankfully. Run it back. I like that. That's great news. Still in it. Let's do it. There's a clear understanding among athletes that you own your voice. And you are in charge of your voice. And you have agency over yourselves to share that voice the way you want to.
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And I think it's been great for people to learn about athletes in a different way. share your lives as much as you're willing to share, share your lives with the public. And that's tricky, right? You got to pick how much of it, how much of them do you want to know about your new baby? By the way, I hadn't said congrats and I didn't.
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Thank you.
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God bless you. That's awesome. But that, that's a tricky thing. And it's, it's up to you to decide how much you want to share it with people because athletes have a space that, that they control the, not the narrative, but what it is, the narrative, it's their narrative and, It's it's very different. And you guys joked about it a couple of years ago. Jason, you're still playing for Philly.
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And we I thought we're going to talk to you. And then you had cramps and they sent somebody else out. And I think I said on SportsCenter, I thought we were talking to Kelsey, but I guess he wants to save the content for the podcast. And I was just joking. But then you guys covered it. Trav had my back. It's like, how are you going to blow up SVP like that? Which you didn't.
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No, you don't ever do that. Which you didn't. But I think what I'm saying is I think that it is interesting that if you have something impactful and important that you want to say, you want to say it on your platform the way you want to say it. But I do think what I have with athletes –
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is a a trust i think people respect that i respect them and know that i'm not trying to you know you're not going to get got like it's not what that's about i'm trying to have a genuine conversation and i'm interested in in the things that are related to the competition
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And I think I'm good at having conversations that can pull out the, the emotions and the answers that are related to that, that are interesting to me in the audience. I still think we can have those conversations. Even if you have a lane that you want to be the driver of that content, I get it. So it's different. But I also think it's made guys and men and women more comfortable with
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And talking about themselves in a way that it's maybe less guarded when you do have the conversations. Does that make sense? For sure. There's a tonnage of voices and content out there these days. And so I've done it long enough that I don't meet strangers, if that makes sense. Even if we haven't talked, I've done it long enough that... I'm not saying this to be an ass, but I mean, you probably...
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have some idea who i am and i know who you are so we're not even if we've never talked we're familiar with each other and hopefully you're familiar with the way i approach things
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Absolutely.
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I think hockey guys. There's a sincerity to hockey guys. And they fascinate me because I can't skate. These guys will play through like a severed limb. What they're willing to go through is... is beyond my comprehension. Like I get, you know, dude's got to take a shot to be available and your availability is your best ability.
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I appreciate what you guys put through yourselves through rather, but hockey guys just totally fascinate me. Like there's guys whose mouths, their teeth, it looks, look like they ate a fucking grenade and they're still playing. Like,
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It's a rite of passage. They brag about it. Right. What are you doing? If that happened to me, I'd be incapacitated for a week.
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And they're, like, out there for the next shift. So there's a curiosity I have about them. And I'm not talking about them like they're zoo animals. Like, what are you? No, they are. They are. They're zoo animals, for sure. They're zoo animals. I played golf once with Oshie and Carlson, a couple of capitals here in town. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. You can play, man.
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He had literally just had surgery on like a sports hernia a week before. And him and Carlson are talking about that moment when you're passing out from the anesthesia about like that last couple of seconds. And they were talking about it with joy in their eyes before they go under for surgery. And I couldn't get over just how those dudes are wired, man. So I – hockey guys –
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Hockey guys fascinate me. Those are the guys I enjoy the most because I have the least understanding of them.
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And everybody's got a Nick, you know, everybody's it's no, one's just Jason or Travis. It's, you know, it's a J-Bow and Jen, you know, everyone's, you gotta, I'm doing a shitty job of what they call Wayne. Oh, way. No, that's what me and Steve, every time we bring up way. No, Like this is the greatest player that's ever played.
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And the Canadian guys talk about skating down the ice side by each, like side by each. Okay. I get it. You're, you're next to each other. And there's, it is, there's a different language and the boys and the room, the way they talk about the room. I, that's my favorite thing. Uh, the, the, It's the locker room, but the room, the way they talk about it, it's like a sacred place. Oh, yeah.
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And you guys know it because you live it, but the hockey guy's room is a whole other level. There's nothing like it. Last year, I talked to Paul Maurice after they won, the Florida Panthers won, and he gave the greatest answer ever. I ask, you know, you've spent your life in pursuit of this thing and now you've done it. And in what way does that change your life?
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He took this really deep pause and then he gave this sincere thing. He said, I hope it doesn't. I hope I've lived my life in a way where it won't change me. And then he says, but next year when we go to camp, I'm going to skate the hell out of the boys because I got carte blanche. You know, it was like it was this surreal, sincere moment. But then right back to the way Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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The one coach missing.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. P P P P gener gener gener gener P P P P P P I said, well, just tell him I'll just do it. Whatever it is, it's fine. It's a cameo. No big deal. No, he really wants to talk to you. Okay. So I end up on the phone with Sudeikis.
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God, damn it.
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And we end up talking for like an hour about life and how we held a lot of similar views about gratitude and all the stuff I was kind of talking about. And what a cool man. What a great dude. What a fun guy to talk to. And he just wanted me.
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It was really important to him that I understood what this guy was about and then how much they wanted me to be sort of the guy that set the tone in that very first episode with the SportsCenter thing about this coach that's going to go over. And I'm like, sure, of course.
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But what I got out of it was this really, really meaningful conversation with this guy right before this thing became this phenomenon. And so it was really neat because – Jason, you mentioned when you brought me on, it was nice. I've been nominated a lot. I've been nominated eight times for an Emmy. I've never won one. Well, when they won everything, I'm like, hey, man, I was in an episode.
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Do I get a trophy?
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How's this work?
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You told me how important it was for me to be part of it. I was in one. How far down the line of credits do we go? Yeah. I was kidding.
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I didn't really want one.
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Whatever is on. Well, I wouldn't say that. I love college basketball. I love the tournament. When the Stanley Cup is on, I'm mesmerized by that. Playoff hockey overtime is the most tense thing there is because at any moment, the game just ends. And then when I'm watching that, I'm like, there's nothing that's cooler than this.
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But then like, look, college football, you turn it on if it's a big, big 10 game, a big SEC game, whatever, whatever league, I don't care. But then like when we're at Monday Night Football and it's, you know, a couple of years ago when, you know, When Philly came to Arrowhead, you knew the stakes were high for a regular season night. There was juice that was real that's hard to manufacture.
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So I guess what I'm saying is I'm real whichever way the wind blows. The place that I'm at right now, I love that. And I love baseball. It's just that it gets by August and we're dragging. You're just waiting for football to kick at that point. But then when we get to the playoffs, man, playoff baseball is incredibly intense, too. So I I'm like you all, man. I grew up with it. I love it.
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And whatever we got tonight, I'm excited because something will happen that I don't know is going to happen.
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For me?
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Things that happened to me or things I did on SportsCenter?
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Bro, your boy's done. Just tell us to fuck off.
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I'm old and feeble. This brain is mush. And I've done a lot of shows, man. I, you know, I don't know. I don't know.
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Hey, listen, continued success in all things, boys. You guys, you know it. Yeah, be grateful for what we get to do. I know you guys are and do, but I think it's important that people hear that. That Edinburgh story I told, I'm sincere about it. Going to the Masters, being present, being grateful, I just think that's a great sort of place to stay. I try my best. I love what you guys have.
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I love the bond. I love you guys sharing your lives with people because they're interested. It's fun to stop in and say hello, so keep doing what you guys are doing. You're the best, brother.
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Thank you, dude.
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All right. Fuck off.
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That's so good.
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There's one coach not there. Could not make it.
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What question would you like me to ask the machine real quick? I'll do it. I'll do it for you, Jason. What is? What is? What is?
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okay we'll see where this goes what is the best body part to make appendix boring tonsils boring gallbladder oh oh arm hand legs head head you can make that's like uh
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Mm-hmm. Get a new body. Just get a whole new body.
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Okay.
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Because he asked me to. My job is to do what you guys asked me to do. I don't.
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Every time. Can you imagine coat checking your dick?
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Jason, you of all people, your dick would be like in the car in a sock.
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You need to keep that attached.
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Jake, Jake, you're always like, what do I make quote cards? What do I make quote cards? There's your quote card for the week, Jake. Make that a graphic. Put it out immediately. Jesus Christ. Let's hit the brackets. Let's get out of here. God damn it.
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You won.
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Maybe the most pointless game we've ever played. Congrats, Jason. What a big weekend for you. New baby, winner of Guess the Coach game.
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It's kind of like when you give yourself your own nickname and you try to, like, get other people to do it.
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Everyone celebrated.
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Yes, I saw that.
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Did you really just say walk us through your emotions?
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What are we doing with this? Fanta nailed it the other night. This tournament has largely lacked those moments that make the tournament the tournament. Then we get one, but because we live in this space now where we can't exist unless we're pissed at everything, oh, he walked. Yeah. Okay, well, Sterritory said he didn't. I could show you a video of a Colorado State guy doing the exact same thing.
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Oh, that happened earlier in the game. Well, they got two points and no one gave a shit because that's just basketball in the modern era. Anyway, the emotions were insane. I am, look, I thought as I got older, I'd, grow away from this. That's not been the case. I really, really like Maryland basketball. I have a lot of fun with it. This team's been fun.
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Queen was a kid that they hoped they'd keep in Maryland, and he stayed. He could have gone anywhere. Five-star guy, lottery guy, and then he has an incredible moment. And I talked about this with Stanford Steve on our pod, and Big Ken, I look forward to the days when you're telling me this version of your story. I'm out with my youngest kid, and he's very, very zen. He's very stoic.
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He's like, we're good. We're going to take it home. Colorado State makes it three. He's like, Dad, I don't think we're going to win. And I said, buddy, you got to stay in the fight, man. And then they make it and it's just absolute chaos. The family jumping around. It was, it was, it was unreal. I mean, like Maryland's lost a lot of heartbreaking games this year at the buzzer.
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I thought it was going to be another one. And then it wasn't.
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Well, I mean, old school off glass. And I mean, in real time, it's like it's like happening in slow motion. And I'm like, oh, that's so far off. And then it's no, it's actually not. It's perfect off glass. And yeah, I mean, it was it's like, you know, it's a Hoosiers moment. I'll make it Jimmy Chitwood. And, you know, I did an interview with the Baltimore Sun last week.
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And the legend goes, when he was, you know, coming up in Baltimore, they called him Black Baby Jokic. And, you know, he's He's not the most fast-twitch, put-your-elbow-above-the-square dude. He's not muscle-bound, but Jokic has changed the entire paradigm of what you're supposed to look like.
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You can look like whatever if you've got high IQ and a ton of talent and big balls, and Derek's got all that.
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If for no other reason than the back of his triceps or where his triceps would be if he had them to look like they've been ginsued. I mean, every year it's like, what happened to this dude, man? It's crazy. You're right. I think the long sleeves is the play. Yeah.
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I really don't.
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I was trying to be polite and answer the question.
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No, I said it. I believe I started by saying, I know you're wildly unimpressed by yourself, but what you just did, no one's ever done. And I thought that was an on-ramp to maybe invite the guy to think about it. Now, supposedly, later in the locker room, I saw Malone said that he was busting Westbrook's balls, like, you never got a 30-20-20 game? Like, he didn't know. Yeah.
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And the thing I wished I did, if I was a real J journalist, what I would have done is I would have asked him this question. What would you have to do for you to right now say, holy shit, I played quite a game? Like, I don't know the answer to that because I don't I don't know that it's possible that he could do something where he would be like, yeah, that was pretty good. It's an impossible task.
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So you go into it knowing that. And I tried to open the door. He just didn't walk through it.
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I have talked to LeBron very few times, but when he came on after they beat the Clippers, I got a bunch of notes from people, just industry people, sports people. They're like, it's clear that you guys have this respect. There's a way that an interview subject can show kind of an appreciation.
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If they just refer to you by name because they know who you are, and then they give you a depth of an answer that's more than just like, The sort of obvious, yeah, we played great, you know, blob on to the next one. And LeBron's always been really gracious in that way. We haven't done it a lot, but I got from his camp to me, like just an appreciation for how I do my job.
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And there's kind of this goofy thing that goes back to the chair that I always bring up because we did a commercial a hundred years ago. So I'd say him. I appreciate the times that we talk where I think he gives you more than just the garden variety. Guys like Jeter, Tiger, LeBron, people that you've known for 20 years, they've been interviewed a billion times.
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So when they seem like they're invested and actually present in a way that they're, I don't want to say into it, but that it isn't a chore, that's the best you can hope for if you're me. So that's a long-winded answer, but I feel like LeBron's always been really cool in that way.
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Uh, I can't think of a, I can't think of anyone that wept. I know one time we talked, we talked to Dabo Sweeney after they won the title and we weren't on the air, but we were, it was like in a commercial break, like before we come on with you and you're like, all right, here we go. And I saw him kind of put his head down and sort of shake his head. He was sitting by himself.
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And I said, and I saw him and I said, it just hits you, didn't it? And he looked up. And he shook his head. He goes, man, he goes, I said, yeah, you just beat Alabama. You're the national champs. And he wasn't in tears, but I saw a guy in real time feel that thing like, holy shit, we did it. And that was really cool.
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Well, look, it's guys standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. I don't know what I'm doing right now. That was pretty good. No, that was good. No, but what I love, you guys show him respect and love, which is cool. And the coolest thing about Boom is that he's a legend, but he appreciates people still caring. You know what I'm saying? It's like...
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You're Chris Berman, and you're always going to be Chris Berman. I don't know. But I love how much respect you show that guy.
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I love how honest and vulnerable he is. You know, he he's talked openly with me about imposter syndrome, which imagine that you're the son of you're the son of that guy and you're the brother of the other guy. It's a lot. And he had this imposter syndrome. But now he's shared how his egos, you know, it's hard to fight. And he's talked about being an a-hole like I love all of that.
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But you also just have to be honest about the parts that you don't love. And if he's going to act like that. and you're a UConn fan, then you've got to just say, well, yeah, that could be better. Two things can be true at once. You can love the vulnerability. You can love that edge. And you can also say that there's times that that goes too far, and you should correct that.
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There's an out-of-bounds, and if you step on it, then you're out-of-bounds. And if somebody says you're out-of-bounds, they're not being an asshole for saying you're out-of-bounds. So I'm with you. I used to be real anti-Hurley. When he was at Rhodey, I'm like, this guy's out of his mind. He should... Take a hike.
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And then he evolved and became, I think, a better guy, an incredible coach, a thoughtful guy. And this year was a lot for him. So I don't know. I mean, I think he's on a journey and he's just sharing it. I appreciate the vulnerability more than any of it.
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Agreed. And can't we at least me, I can relate way more to that guy because I know people like that. Right. You know, I have friends like that. I love them. But then there's times but there's times that you just got to have somebody in your life that can sit you down and go, shut the fuck up. Right. I don't mean him. I mean, I mean, me or my friend. You're like, enough, enough.
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And, you know, whoever that person is with him, I'm sure, you know. He'll find him.
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Couldn't agree. You were asking about that earlier, like when you interview somebody, like if somebody would just give you something that's true and honest and real, then that's all you can ask for.
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Hello, friends. I was worried about this. Like, this is way out of character for us. Does this mean that postmasters, when my house may or may not be on fire, am I allowed back in? Is that too close a revisit?
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like that he's actually mad at you he's mad at you i know i know that was bad there's a little hanging fruit i took it asshole move that was my danny hurley moment sometimes i cross the line i've learned from it i'm gonna move on you're not you're not wrong i mean you're not wrong it's the first time in a long time so i'm happy to come on anytime and if it's postmasters uh i mean i i always just pencil it in mentally
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I have absolutely no idea.
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My phone?
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I don't know. I always just had a sticker, and I was allowed to have one on the low low. So I don't know. Are you allowed to have them?
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It would be shocking because that would be such a 180, but who told you this? Someone named Beef?
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Oh, Beef. Your guy, Beef. Yeah, yeah. It's our guy, Beef. I mean, Beef knows stuff, so it could be.
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Beef is a gem. Hey, I got one for you. I'm thinking. I'm thinking. I got a name. He's not, like, way off the grid, but no one's going to say Sepp Straka. Sepp Straka, Georgia Bulldog. I like that. Take a nibble on Sepp. Okay. All right, I'm in.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
Yeah, that's Beef. I saw that video. That's Beef. And Beef's from somewhere in the south, clearly.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
So, yeah, he's a club pro. That's a very southern play, hat off, handshake. Yeah.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
Yeah. So, on balance, beef, good on the hat, takeoff, very polite, bad on the info regarding Masters technology.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
OK, confidence level is five because you it's I always say be optimistic because it costs the same. I'm also realistic. So five. I don't think they haven't gotten crushed all year. I don't think they'll get crushed, but it's going to take a great game to beat a great team. The problem with when will I tell my family to leave me alone? My wife is a gator and my children are in the crossfire.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
And at some point in the day, Big Cat, what I'll make them do is I'll make them make a life choice. You're either riding with me or you're riding with mom.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
You know, at night. Choices have consequences, kids. Choices have consequences. Think about it.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
No, it's funny. Our kids are all mortified. I think they're taking it very seriously. Like, this is like, I either have to ride with mom or ride with dad. They had Golden on last week. I asked him, he gave an incredible answer. I'm like, what am I supposed to tell the kids?
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
And he's like, you tell the kids you're here to be a great dad and you support mom and you're thrilled to see the Gators do so well. He gave an amazing answer. It was wrong. Again, the right answer is you better buckle up and ride with that here. But no, I don't. I wish it were later. I got to go, and I know you do too.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
But are you the guy like me where I just want to kick the can down the road as far as possible? I wish the game started at 10 so I had more time for it not to be happening. Yes. Because the longer in the future it is, the better. Is that weird?
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
Right, and the fact that this was a Sunday game and then it's like they're playing on Thursday. I'm like, what is this? I want another day of the... Because the end is coming. Even if you win it all, the end is coming. So the longer into the future something is... For some reason, I think I find it's better. I think we agree, but I don't understand what that's... There's some psychology of that.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
I don't know what it is. I'm just odd, I'm sure.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
Stress-free. stress-free, and it's somebody else's, like, honestly, and this is true, like, watching Wisconsin, and of course, it's not just you, Big Cat, it's Andy North, who's like a, you know, like a family member, and I'm in agony watching that end, because I'm like, that sucks, and, but I'm like, well, at least we don't have to deal with that for another day because we were the next day.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
You know what I mean? That's really what it comes down to.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
And the way the world works, it'll be – but Gardo, I was just giving Gardo credit for reinventing the team. They played a very fun style, and they got a bunch of dudes that changed the team in one year. So they can do it again, but it'll be a brand-new team. That's just – that's the world we live in now. Like, there's no – very rare to have four-year guys. So if you get some, you enjoy them, so –
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
All right, Scott. We'll root for the Terps. We'll hope the kids make good choices, and we hope the family isn't just horribly, irreparably fractured after Thursday night.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
Yeah, do that. Happier than anything in the whole world.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
All right, fellas, I appreciate you.
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SVP Talking Terps & Tournament, Russ Wilson and Jameis On The Giants, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And Listener Submitted Guys On Chicks
63.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
Yeah, somebody, a politician or somebody.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
It's not that tough a word to spell.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
Okay, let's all ride those bets, I'll tell you that. All of them sound great to me. I'm on it. This is what it sounds like, Greg Cody steering the ship.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
It is an awkward transition.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
I don't know. What? I'm a professional broadcaster.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
Okay, I need a referendum on today's show. What people loved and didn't love. Because when I hear... the UFO guy introduced as the most popular guest in the history of the show. I'm going to have to doubt that a little bit.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
Yeah, most people are crackpots. What did you learn, Juju, from this guy's appearance?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
As far as I'm concerned, there are friends that we haven't met yet.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
If I see a UFO, if I see a guy with a big giant green head, I'm going to invite him out to lunch. We're going to have a relationship.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
Exactly.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
I have to know whether the Ford Tagliabue was the winning poll answer.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
All right. I betted Betty.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
I like that. I think he's like a faux formal, like Mr. Levitard. I think he might just give you a, yo.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
Uh-huh. Let me tell you something, Dan. There was no line. All there was was mayhem and lawlessness and chaos for the survival of the fittest. It was kill or be killed. And did we break the line? Allegedly. I popped to all of this on the podcast that we did. We came in. Yes, we did. We came in at the door.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
I know where to go. There's nowhere to go. So I'm standing there and there's no, no one's helping. No red jackets helping. And we look and we said, this isn't going to work. And I'm like, wait, is this even a line? Let's go down there and see. So we wandered down towards a different door where if you came in that door, you just blended into the line because there wasn't a line.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
So that's what we did. And if that's against the law, then I am guilty as charged.