95% of the people who have negative opinions about our show don't watch it or never did.

They're just going off with what somebody said.

Because the people that say is the show that only talks about race and it only talks about politics and it doesn't talk about sports and doesn't give us the news, that's bullshit.

Because I've been there for every single one of those motherfuckers and I'm telling you we were at the front of the news cycle every day.

Whereas most of the shows that come on before us were discussing yesterday's news.

I think he'd get labeled as, oh, you guys have that stick. Well I never wanted to have a

stick. I wanted to have a personality and there was a big difference and we got

to the point I think with if you say the whiff or a home run or whatever it might be that was

just in-house to entertain us but when we realized outside of ESPN we're sort of the all you guys do those things that your stick it made us

recoil a little bit because I didn't want to be known for that and neither did

Keith and then every other anchor who came in thought,

I got a great catchphrase, man, I could be a sports center anchor and we're thinking, oh my God,

what did we just do? Mike Tereco and I had an intervention with him in a bathroom at the Estes.

All it was was really out of love was that you're so talented and you're so good

if maybe you ease back a little bit and maybe fit a little more into the standard

traditional norm, then maybe there would be even bigger and better opportunities

for you out there.

And he politely listened and dismissed it

because he never changed.

At that moment, I'm 24 years old,

and they had me record the sign-off announcement for when we go off the air

Sunday night which I did on this little 635 EV microphone which that was my

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