Welcome to another South Beach session here with our young old friend Meena Kimes. I'm gonna say something that is

awkward and

probably parental at the start of this that I have not told you. I don't think I have ever told you. Oh God.

I am so proud of you.

Off the jump! You have started with, I am so proud of you. You have gotten so strong.

Like you have gotten so strong. I don't think people listening to this have any earthly idea

the degree of difficulty of what you have done to get to where you are and I'd like them to know it.

I'd like them to see it. Will you help me or do you not want to participate in this portion of it because the degree you got to

sports journalism knowing sports but knowing next to nothing about sports journalism and

ESPN's history right like you were as raw as a novice could be. I think more importantly next to zero

experience being in the public eye more than the institutional institutional knowledge

go read these guys all had all the fun or whatever and you can get a great cut of it. But

being on TV being on radio that was the bigger change for me having an audience. Okay, you say that and understood.

I will get to that in a second because that was turbulent and unpleasant and

this constituency even hours can be really caveman and so what you endured from my vantage point

felt unfair but I would say you're

shrugging your shoulders on

learning what it is to be a competent strong

football voice on a sport that not many people are smart on like you downloaded that like a computer you downloaded

football intelligence like a computer like artificial intelligence and you're telling me well I could read

read about ESPN read one book about ESPN like the matrix like Keanu Reeves and inserted here and I know

how to fly helicopters but it ain't that easy. Yeah, I think feeling confident enough about the sport

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