I've ruled out uni because I want to live at home.

I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money.

I've ruled out uni because of my grades.

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So I want to say that Jeff Passon was really kind of saying, I don't know that I'd have a TV career

without Jim Rome because he put me on the air when I was 30.

True, but I put him on the air when he was 30 because I got to tell this guy was brilliant.

Really, really smart and really, really good at it.

Just like I would never ever take credit for a once-in-a-generation broadcaster in Steve Smith, Stephen A. Smith.

But I put him on very early when he still worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer because I knew there was something really

different about him even back in the day. See, once again, when I came up in the business

early on in the 90s, the print media could not disrespect the electronic media any more than they did.

They hated us. They treated us with disdain. They looked down their noses at us. They thought we knew

nothing about nothing. And because newspapers were enormous at that time. But their feeling was,

we are journals.

You are slap bleeps.

So what I did was, well, no, no, I might not have the journalistic chops that you do,

but I care a hell of a lot.

And we're talking about different formats.

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