Welcome to South Beach Sessions. I'm really excited about this one because I've

never told this man how I actually feel about him beyond being a pioneer and

someone who gave me and others like me permission shared the stage with me.

He's the original gangster. He taught all of us what sports writing could be,

what friendship and partnership with someone you love could be, changing

television with one of the best sports television shows ever made and a long

journalism career before that before you gravitated toward the cotton candy

and one of the hardest workers I've ever met. I don't know where your ambition

comes from but I'd like to ask you a bunch of questions that I have never asked

you before but first to express my profound respect and love for a

legitimate teacher of mine. You and Tony showed me the way. That's just a weird

possible. I'm 10 years older than you and that means Tony's 20. You know, Dan,

first of all, that means a lot to come from you. It means a lot to come from

the people that are in a group that are half, if generation is 20 and you know

half generations 10, I mean you and Stephen A Smith and certain people that are

exactly you know 10 years younger. We don't think of you guys as being younger

but you are and if we showed anything, if we did anything that reveals some sort

of humanity, my mother was a teacher taught public school in Chicago for 35

years so teaching is important. So that's a that's that's a hell of a compliment.

Thank you for saying that. I'm so grateful to you and Tony and

Ride Home and Keller her in the entire environment that you had around you

because it showed me what kind of environment I wanted around me. I tell

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