Hour 1: Thank You, Tony Reali
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What a run. Holy shit. What a run.
All right.
Oh, my God. Oh, one of the great stories in the history of ESPN. 23 years on television. That's a good point, Dan.
Thank you. You know, I don't do interviews often, though I love talking. But when family calls, you pick up the phone on a day like today. Dan, you've done this has happened before. This has happened to all of you guys before. But there's a day when you open up Google and your face is on there and you're the top of the news story. Dan, you like you like saying things that get you in trouble. And that happens from time to time. I'm not somebody that's courting that per se. So there was my face. Look at that.
But I hope. I hope you are absorbing today. Okay. Because there's an outpouring around the horn is finished after 23 years. And Tony reality did something damn near impossible from doing sports trivia in sports bars on campuses. He parlayed a community at ESPN that is heartbroken today because a generation grew up on this show. And so it might feel like a sad day in some ways. I hope it does not. But I wish to celebrate you because I can't believe the run, Tony. 23 years, 23 years climbing from basically intern to a legitimate sports television personality that could have had his choice of jobs at God Bless America or I'm sorry. Good morning, America. No, and have arrived at 23 years doing this. It's crazy.
yeah i mean i felt every every minute of of it the last 23 years i i'm a present person dan you know this about me and i'm an intentional person you know that about me as well uh so i felt it throughout every show never felt like work still doesn't feel like work the next two months won't feel like work i enjoy doing it i enjoy performing uh i felt connection to the audience every day for the 23 years So to see what happened yesterday in the release or the comments I need to say, I am overwhelmed, of course, because my goal is to respond to everybody. That's a goal of mine. I'll take the next two months and respond to everybody because that's how I feel. That's why I'm in the business, Dan. I know why you got into the business. To bang a drum on it.
brilliant and you're a drummer, much like myself. You take these meetings, I march the beat to my own drummer and I am my own drummer because I play the drums and I thought of Dan doing that. But the whole point is, I got into the business to be with people, to perform. You got because you're an amazing writer, And intellectual and and you're gonna get to the bottom of stories. I want to feel you know And that's what I tried to do on horn especially after by my first hundred episodes where I was just hanging on for dear life Now Tony I know you are a very humble person in real life, right?
But none of this can be shocking to you, right? You you have to know that people love this show, right?
Yeah, I mean, I do. Like I said, I felt every bit of that. I'm not somebody who, you know. Doing a daily TV show, I mean, and watching every game or covering every bit of the research every day, it's like storming Normandy Beach, you know? I mean, every day. I've done 4,000. I mean, we're at 4,905 right now, I think, today. And I've done, whatever, 4,700 of them. And then I did PTI every day, and I was doing double duty every day. I didn't come up for air, and I don't. I don't need to come up for air. My energy is just the same as it was the day I took over the show and my love for that sort of thing. What I evolved in is how I see my role maybe as host.
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