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Now bad thing number one in our hearts at least he'd like to think so. It's the Jim Day podcast.

Oh, here we are again. It's another edition of the Jim Day podcast. Thanks for hanging out with us. However you're listening wherever you are right now.

We're going to the dark side as one Hall of Fame broadcast. You should say about the TV side was the dark side while I'm gonna reverse it and say we're going to the dark side. We're going to the radio side today.

I'm getting a chuckle from the gas and that would be Tommy Therall the big league side. We're going to the big.

The varsity side. We are going to the varsity level. We've just been called up diversity. None of this small time TV stuff. We're going to the radio booth with

Reds play by play man. Can I call you the voice of the Reds now? It really makes me uncomfortable. Why? I don't know, but it really does. I mean you can call me whatever you want.

But and I do trust me. You do. Yeah, most of it probably not airable for this forum, but yeah, I don't know. I've.

Yeah, I think part of it is the fact that I still look at at Marty as the voice of the Reds who? Yeah, some fella that was sitting in that chair for 46 years. What was his name?

Marty. Marty, I believe. Okay. Martin Francis. Maybe I don't know. But no, that's part of it. And then you know, it's not just me in there. Jeff to or Chris. So yeah.

You're the voice. It's it's it's your gig now, man. Yeah, but it's it's still it's still crazy to think about like it. Yeah.

I'm still waiting for it to hit me to be honest. Well, how about I mean, it's you know, they'd say taken over for a legend is not easy.

Because family 46 years, you get used to one voice. And one way that he does the games and it was as unique as you get that breed has died now.

Not literally figuratively. So you know, fans that transition, it's just weird for fans after 46 years. So did you have a plan?

Going in about that. No, of course not. No, I really think the biggest thing was just looking at it and saying, I'm not him. I'm not Marty.

I can't be Marty. So all I can be is me anytime you try to be somebody you're not. And I'll be honest with you. That is something that I struggled with for a long time coming up the ranks.

I think that was the hardest thing for me to overcome was becoming myself as a broadcaster. I grew up listening to the same guy forever. I mean, it was I grew up in Kansas City. I listened to dine Matthews.

He's still there. And it's just well, would it be weird for you to hear someone else calling it Kansas City Royals game. Yeah. I mean, the first time I remember. Yeah, no, there's no question. So I understood what it was like for red fans. There's no no question.

But you can't get caught up in all that. But, but you know, you grow up knowing what you want to do. You listen really carefully to broadcast. And it's you get to a point where you can't just listen to the same broadcast all the time. You have to listen to others. And I listen to Marty and Joe and Marty and Jeff.

Just, you know, once once it became available to where you could listen online, I would listen to all kinds of different broadcasts. And you find some that you really, really like. I would come home from games when I was in the Midwest league and turn on the Giants games because I loved listening to John Miller. But you listen to somebody too much. And you start to become not them in a way, but you're your style almost replicates what they're doing. And you can't do that. You have to be your own person.

So I guess I'm getting what I'm getting at is I, it took me so long to just become who I am as a broadcaster. And it's really should be the same person as who I am off the air. I think if people listen to me.

Hopefully when they meet me in person, they'd be like, oh, that's the same guy. And and you don't want it to be somebody different. So that's all I knew how to be was just myself. And, you know, you get wrapped up and everything else. And you're just going to, I mean, it could be paralyzing.

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