I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

And welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

Today we actually have one of my favorite people.

He doesn't even know this, but he's one of my favorite people to watch because he always comes with a bang and knows what the hell he's talking about.

None other than Jay Glazer, how you feeling today, man? I'm living the dream man. How you doing?

I have no issues. I don't have any concerns at least none you really want to hear about how about that

I always want to hear about people's issues man that's what I'm doing these days

I hear you I hear you so, you know, we start each one of our shows uniquely by asking all of our guests the same question because people sometimes see you and they, I guess they think you just like, fucking fell out the the sky they don't know how you got to where you are.

Yeah, but walk us through the arc of your career.

You're a familiar face to folks who watch the NFL and UFC.

But talk to us about how you got your start in the business of sports journalism.

Man, I got my start actually interned back in 1989 for W.F.M. radio and I kind of walked in that.

I had no experience and no education. I was doing stand-up comedy, boxing,

bouncing all that in New York and I just sold myself hard to the programming

directors over there and they're like, man if guy does some comedy, then he got some balls.

So we will give him a shot.

And then once I got in there, I'm like, man, how could I be different?

And I just try to stand out from everybody else.

And I was one of the very few guys who got on the second internship.

Well, I did the same thing. That kind of got me to cover the Giants in 1993 for a whopping like $0.00.

But I walked to that giant locker at 93. I'm like, man, how can I be different? And I looked at all the other reporters there and I said, man, if these guys work, you know, 40 hours a week, I'm not going to out 40 hours a week I'm not going out working by a little I'm I'm not working by a lot and I work out working by you know I'll go a hundred hours a week and and

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