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The Right Time with Bomani Jones
Elle Duncan gets REAL on Alex Honnold's climb on Netflix, leaving ESPN | 01.30
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A
Foreign. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Right Time A Wave original. My name is Bomani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. It is the long awaited L. Duncan Friday. L. Duncan of the Netflix. What's going on?
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B
What's up, Bo?
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A
Yeah, man, we go. I've decided that I'm moving into that age where it's the Netflix. We got to start putting the in front of things as I reach this robust age.
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B
Yeah, exactly. Pretty soon you're going to be saying things like on tomorrow and on yesterday.
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A
You know what, let's start breaking it out. Like, I think we need to go ahead and start getting it in there on tomorrow. The, the important one when you know you really made that switch over is when you start saying McDonald's.
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B
Yes, McDonald's salmon. All of a sudden it becomes that chipotle. You just like, like things that are very common that everyone knows. You just like to start putting a little bit of a. A curveball on.
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A
Well, so with salmon is interesting because I'm learning Spanish and it is salmon in there in their language. So I'm afraid that I'm a start, like misunderstanding. Which one is when. Because if I say salmon over there, they're not going to know what I'm talking about.
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B
No, they're not. They're not. But you're more often than not here. So I would just like really encourage you to say salmon while you're here.
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A
Yeah, I do. I mean, I have always been a salmon. See, I let people slide for stuff like that. You know what saying you, you, you, y'.
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B
All.
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A
I'm trying to think if there's any one of those mispronunciations that like truly drives me up a wall. Although somebody did send me a video montage of Candace Owens saying debackle because she think that's how you say debacle. But it was a montage like repeatedly saying debacle.
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B
It's so bad. We, we were having this conversation literally yesterday with my kids just about how you say different versions of things, you know, in the tomato, tomato, potato, potato. And then we realized like, no one calls them a tomato or a potato, but like the root route. But then there is just a right way to say things and just a wrong way to say things. And in Webster's version, if that's not what it is, like I always just refer to the dictionary Fair, fair.
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A
But I'm a little too Southern for all of that. And I'm gonna be honest with you. One of the benefits of being Bomani Jones is y' all gonna ride with it on some of these. Like, I've made some decisions that I want to say things the way that I want to say them. For example, when I went to Iceland, I decided it's Iceland now. And you have to admit that Iceland sounds better than Iceland.
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B
Well, yeah, and it's. It's very literal. I mean, it's the Iceland. It's a land of ice. So it makes total sense.
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A
That's what I'm saying. Right. So, like, I'm making some calls that over here, we gonna do things a little differently. There's a little modality in my jazz when I do this over here.
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B
Well, so. But would you. Would you balk at someone saying Portland.
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A
Or if they could pull it off? You know what I'm saying? Like. Like. Like, if you can pull it off, you go ahead and do that. Like Mike Hitman, he could pull it off.
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B
Okay.
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A
You know. Yeah. All right. But I was speaking of pulling things off, the ability to pull things off that I could never pull off. This is a mean segue. You was over there in Taiwan with my man Alex. And for those of you who don't know who Alex is, Alex climbs stuff. It's free soloing, I believe, is what they call it. There was a documentary called Free Solo that people have told me about. And the description of it is, it's really stressful. So I haven't seen it because that uncut gym is not really my idea of a good time. Right. Like, oh, my God, I'm afraid this guy might die. Now, we know he not going to die because he keep doing stuff. But even still, that was kind of sort of. Would they have made that documentary if he died? I think that's the question. I always have, maybe.
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B
I mean, they've definitely done that with documentaries. And honestly, like, you know, let's be real, like, sort of in our society, like, something like that would actually do particularly well. I don't think when they made Free Solo, it was like thinking that it would be some, you know, box office. That's not why you make nature videos or climbing videos or any of those things. It was just so compelling. I had seen Free Solo years ago. Then when I got this project, I watched it again, you know, with more of an eye of, like, wanting to ask him these things that I was feeling when I was watching it. But it is but that's the beauty of that, that I think that movie is that you knew he lived and there was still just this dread and this anxiety. And we all knew that Alex was, like, perfectly capable of climbing this. Like, technically, it wasn't super challenging. I mean, he did El Cap, which is like, the most technically challenging free solo ever. Which is why I did it and spent three years on it. Alex just always wanted to, like, climb a skyscraper. And this one's climbable, and. And everyone felt like he could do it, but there was still just like, so much dread and anxiety and tension.
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A
All right. And for people who don't know what it means to free solo this thing, and you correct me if I'm wrong here, he climbs it just with his hands and feet.
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B
Yeah, Radh.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Just raw dog the building. There's no ropes, there's no harnesses, there's no parachute. There's no net. Like, if you fall, you die.
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A
And that's the same thing he did with El Capitan, right?
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B
Yeah, absolutely. If you fall, you die. Like, it's just as simple as that.
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A
Yeah. You know what I gotta say, man? You know, we are all different kinds of people. Right. But if you tell me, on one hand you get to the top and you get amazing views, on the other hand, you die. And you die is not like, way off on the board of possibilities. Right. Like. Like, you die on its face seems even not probable. Even if not possible, simply on the board, you'd be able to bet on it. I would not do this. You had experience being around climbing world and getting ready for this. And when he decided to. And how tall is they, so. And catch people up also, he climbed this skyscraper. Was it Taipei 101, right. And is that 101? Because it's 101 stories.
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B
Yeah, 101 stories. But then he went above that and he climbed the tower, which is like, not floor, so. But it was another, like, 300 meters.
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Yes. Okay. And it's a building.
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B
It was almost 1700ft. Yeah. That he climbed.
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A
So what. What did you pick up as you were immersed in this world?
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B
Yeah, I got a chance to go out and spend time with Alex at his house. And I spent the day with him and his wife, who I absolutely adore. She's amazing. Sonn and their kids, like, I, you know, played in the kitchen with his daughters. I think what I learned through that, through the process of just watching everything that Alex has ever done and, like, interviews and documentaries that he's done, is it's not about the views. Like, I'm sure that that's, you know, I've. I've asked them about that. They're like, by the time we do something like that, we've scouted it, right. Like, we've done test climbs. Like, it's not about the views so much. It's about, like. And why specifically he. Free solos is like, the mastery of something that you would be willing to put your life on the line because you are. You have such a belief that you've mastered this thing and that you are so calculated that you've planned. I mean, he keeps, like, you know, these extensive journals. You know, this isn't. I think there was just like this misconception that he's just this like, hippie weirdo robot dude who just, like, is reckless and just has, like a death wish and is a thrill seeker. Like, that. It couldn't be more opposite. He's actually like a quite sensible, super smart. He is so smart. Like, he's like Mensa smart and insightful and questions a lot. He's very direct. Like, I really like him as a person, and I think he just makes a really compelling argument about, like, facing fear, about taking risk. And, you know, he made me think, like, a lot differently about my life and the challenges and, and things that we're willing to take and how you have to really, like, put yourself in tough situations in order to sort of appreciate not making mountains out of molehills. You know, he. We talked about even horror movies, and he was like, people do those cheap thrills because they want to feel, like, safe fear. They want to feel a little bit of, like, jump scare fear. And if they faced anything real in their life, then they wouldn't need that to feel fulfilled, you know, and it's. He's just a really interesting dude. And what I learned is that, like, he loves climbing. Like, he has loved climbing since he was a little kid. And it's. It's not for us to conceive why he would put his life on the line, but he is that he works that hard at this. And he's just said, like, I love the air around me. I don't love the ropes. He really, really makes sure that it's something that he believes he can accomplish. He's talked about the fact that of course he visualizes everything, but he visualizes his death because it's a possibility and he doesn't run from fear. It's not that he doesn't feel fear. And Bo, there's a lot of that going around right now, his amygdala thing, you know, he has a no fear response. And he's like, that's not true. It's just that he faces fear so much because rock climbing in general, by nature is a very dangerous sport, even with ropes that he's just learned to work through fear because he's faced it a lot.
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A
First of all, shout out to him for being mensa smart and having a wife.
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B
Yeah.
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Let'S throw that out there. Well done.
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B
Like a beautiful one. Like beautiful. Sweet.
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You said it first. I just looked her up and I was like, oh, hey, way to go. Hey man, get good at something. People that, that'll, that'll. That'll help get you into places. You know that number, you know, we got that number two. It was interesting that he, he said that the idea that people do like horror movies in the Cheap Thrills because they've never done anything real and if they've done anything real then they wouldn't need all those sorts of things. And I was like, look at Alex Honnold. Sounded like every black person talking about white people doing shit like bungee jumping and climbing mountains without ropes. Little did he know that he is on both sides of the continuum.
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B
Right.
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As a discussion that he's having right there.
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B
Right? Absolutely. And like, and I do think, you know, it's so funny too. I think it's culturally, you know, I'm a black girl from the South. Like black people do not understand this world. I was getting text messages from friends that were like, this is truly us witnessing white history, you know, and I'm laughing. But I think what I learned about spending time with the climbers in all honesty and genuinely is that like what they believe and sort of the ideals that they have don't have to be relegated to just like white people. Now proximity is important. Like most of these people grew up, you know, with very active parents or they're from Colorado or they're from Tahoe. You know, these places that are very outdoorsy. So proximity to rocks and mountains and all that obviously helps like foster a love of this. But you know, like connecting with nature, taking risk, focus. I'm very add and I learned just even playing around in Alex's gym because I have never climbed a day in my life that it really focus you, forces you to like, focus on like one move at a time and strategy and like that part is really cool. And I don't think that that has to be something that is just for white people. So while I'm not advocating that Black people, you know, start going to Red Rock and climbing every week. I'm not saying like that's that we all need to aim to do that. I think that we can be more open minded about people like that because they are the most interesting people. Like Bo, you know, the end we're like, you know, we're all having drinks at the bar like just to celebrate that it's over and Alex lived. And you're asking, you're asking all the crew members who by the way are also all climbers and, and things like that, you know, what are you doing after this? Right? And like one of them is like, oh, I'm going to like a base camp in Papua New guinea because I've been helping a tribe there who's trying stop the loggers from taking their village. And then you ask someone else and he's like, I'm going to repel down an Argentinian volcano to try to find like they're, they've traveled the world, they're so it's an exclusive sport and that not a lot of people do it. But they're so inclusive and open minded and they're wonderful people. And so I don't know, I just think like their spirit of adventure and seeing the world is, is something that like we can all be inspired by.
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I think I just started reading a book called, called Awe Awe and it is about the idea, the science behind the feeling of awe and the different ways that awe is generated within people and all of these things. And it's really interesting and it's something. I had some of these observations though induced somewhat chemically, but it was the idea that the importance of finding things in your life that generate awe and the kind of humbling nature that comes from awe and how it can allow you to like improve your levels of focus and things like that to consistently. And there, you know, there and made the point that there's small things in your life that generate awe. So what was interesting, having read that yesterday and hearing what you were just saying is the number one thing that brings out awe is I think moral beauty was the term that they use. But like watching people do incredibly kind things generates awe in those who observe them. Right. And so hearing you talk about these people who are clearly talking about a sport that induces awe in a number of reasons, ways. Right. Like for example, awe which is not always generated like in this positive sense, sometimes you can be in awe of worst case scenario. Right. The magnitude of what could be bad, which I think would be an example of what happens if you don't get it right on a climb, for example. But it would stand to reason that the people who look at who, who engage in that awe inspiring activity would also engage in this moral sense of awe, you know, awe inspiring of, hey, we're gonna go help some people turn some shit around where they are or whatever it is.
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Yes, absolutely. Like, I think, and I just think it's a byproduct of like traveling the world, you know, and like going to these places and to your point, like really respecting nature, they respect nature so much. Right. That, that they know that to take on these really big challenges and obstacles that nature's thrown our way, they have to be practiced and they have to, you know, really like, think about the logistics and they have to think about strategy. And it's because they love the earth that much, they want to be in it, they want to be challenged by it. I just think it's, you know, I truly like every space that I've ever been in that I was unfamiliar with and had to learn about. I can always glean, you know, really interesting things that lead me to want to support that sport. But man, I got to say, with this in particular, just being around them really made me like start to sort of like ponder, not to sound too existential, but ponder like my life in general and the way that, you know, I calculate risk and you know, I dangled off of the building at 90 stories because I just was so inspired to like do something that maybe scared me and to see, you know, I didn't know if I was scared of heights because I'd never tested that. And it turns out I actually kind of was, wasn't. Like there were some moments that freaked me the out. But like, for the most part I felt, you know, really good and comfortable. And so, you know, it really stretched me in a way that was like necessary at this time in my life when I'm doing some evolution and some metamorphosis anyway. And I was just really grateful to be a part of the project.
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A
Got that. All that, all that.
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B
All I did. I really did.
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We got to start talking about that on that show. Moments where it's just like, hey man, that all that all strikes you right? Like it could be something beautiful that you see. The magnitude in nature, I think was like the third one that was listed on that. It's like the idea of it. So it's interesting you were doing this, which was in a much more man made situation. But like constructions of man were another thing that Were on the list of things that are awe inspiring. Like, the mere idea of a skyscraper still is kind of crazy when you think about it. The fact that somebody could construct this at all and that it stands and everything else, let alone try to climb it.
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B
Absolutely. And this particular building, so beautiful, Beau. It's so pretty, you know, when you see it in person and, you know, all the ornaments on it, and it's stunning. And it just, you know, Alex says that's why it always interested him is because it's so singular. It literally just juts out of this city. You know, it's like, you have a lot of really tall buildings in Taiwan, but then you just have this just monstrosity that sits out in a beautiful way, though. And it really actually, like, I don't know, that skyscrapers always, like, make the landscape better, but somehow it does in Taiwan. I don't know, it's. It's. Or in Taipei, it's pretty cool.
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So it was interesting. I was reading some of this before we came on, and I did not realize that there had been some, you know, and I saw the way that you talked about it, like, discussion about what it was like for you observing this and calling the actual event because, like, play by play on a. He might die. That is a lot. And I thought it was interesting to hear you say, like, hey, you know, while I was doing it, I thought I was holding it down and in total control. And then I went back and listened and was like, oh, okay. I was amped up. I don't know how you're not amped up. That's one of those things you can only get the practice of doing by actually doing it. So you don't get a chance to be like, yeah, well, we just watched somebody practice climb a building. And now I'm cool. I'm straight.
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B
Yeah. I mean, and we tried a couple times. Like, he was supposed to do some practice climbs, but it rained so we wouldn't. And again, it's not the same thing. He has a rope on. Like, we know he's fine. You know, like. Yeah. I mean, I think again, like, you know how when you're doing something, like, in the moment, you're like, yeah, I'm in my flow state. Then you go back and you're like, whoa, not in my flow state day. I think, you know, legitimately, I think I went in with, like, some objectives. Like, it was so important to me to try to tell Alex's story because I had just had this opportunity to, like, really consume a lot of Alex and learn a lot from him and learn a lot about him. So I was like, so amped to, like, share with people at home, you know, that were going, who's this crazy white boy? Like, I wanted to be like the one to help contextualize. And, you know, I wanted to contextualize the greatness of him doing this at 40 years old. You know, we talk about Tom Brady and LeBron James, like, look at this dude's doing at 40, right? And I wanted to talk about him as a dad. Like, these are all sort of things that people always bring up about Alex. How irresponsible. And so I kind of went in with these objectives and we didn't know what the tone was going to be like at first. Like, would he be very serious on the climb or not? And right away, he. He seemed to be really be reveling in it, you know, and he was being a showman and he's waving and he's high fiving people through the glass. So to me, the tone from where I'm sitting is like more celebratory. I have all of these people around. I mean, the people of Taiwan showed up. There was thousands of people on the street. And so we're at this park and we have all these people. And the energy, to me, like, from where I was sitting on the desk felt very much like the energy I was used to at sporting events, you know, or it's just like, oh, my God. Like, everyone's like cheering and they're groaning, and so I'm feeding off the energy. And when I went back and watched it, it was like, oh, my gosh. No, no, no, no. Right? Like, I'm also getting traffic, right? Like, I have a prod reset, like all of these things, right? So, you know, like a million things are happening at once, which is fine. That's. We're used to that. And so I. But when I went back to watch it, I was like, oh, man, my tone was just wrong. Like, my tone was off because I was broadcasting for sort of the energy that was around me. But there was millions of people at home and it was in their living room and it was tense and it was like. And all of that could have breathed so much more and my energies just didn't meet that particular moment. And that's okay. Like, again, I. I went in with, like no information or blueprint because no one's literally done this before. We just didn't know what it would feel like. And now that I've seen something like this, you know, I sort of laughed and I'm like, I said yesterday when I was talking to Awful announcing, like, you kind of go, man, if I had another crack at it. But it's like, whoever is going to do something like that again, right? It was such a unique situation. So, yeah, like, I'm trying not to beat myself up too bad. I'm critical of myself always. But I think, you know, ultimately it was still like a really tough thing to do. I'm really proud of myself for attempting to do it. Even though I had, you know, no experience and no blueprint. We were the control. And if Alex decides to climb, I don't know, the Burj Khalifa or something, I think we would all do things differently, you know, and so namely me. So, you know, but you live and you learn. And it was, listen, getting to do this product, like, getting dunked on, on social media is like such a small price for getting to do this project. It was so fulfilling. And I'm not gonna let anybody take that from me. I am. So I talked through it. I don't want to listen to myself talk for two hours either. I get it. Even in radio, right? I was able to break up my voice with songs, so I get it. But yeah, I think, I hope that people still revel in the actual, like, cinema of it. I mean, they got like cinematography level cameras. They didn't get regular TV cameras. They, like, had to create a rigging system. Bow, like, this was a logistical marvel how they pulled this off to give what I think was one of the most beautifully shot things. So watch it and just like mute it. If you don't want to hear me, it's totally fine. You should just like, still watch it and just see this incredible feat.
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A
First of all, I admire your confidence in being able to be like, yeah, you know what? Could have been a little bit better. But I really enjoyed it. Da da da. And like, the tone that you have in saying that is truly something admirable to watch and observe. The other thing that I thought was interesting in hearing you say it and I thought is actually something a lot of people who want to do this can learn from what you've said. And honestly, a lot of people who still do it need to understand that it's kind of like the Star Spangled Banner. You can't start all the way up here when you sing the Star Spangled Banner because that last note is so high that you're never going to be able to get there. Right? And you're always stuck at this height that Makes it impossible for you to get any higher. And a lot of people have that. Like when I did game theory, a point that I learned while doing it was if somebody would say to me, hey, give us more energy by reflex, I would get louder because that is the proxy for energy. But then you don't give yourself anywhere to go when you do that, right?
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B
Absolutely.
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And so for something like, start at a 10. Right? And so for something like that, you're. It only makes sense that you start high. But then it's like, damn, we gonna be here the whole time. Like, I once watched an AC DC concert on YouTube and that shit was great for like 25 minutes, but I can't keep up AC DC energy for two hours.
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B
Right.
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A
It was just too much. I had to turn it off.
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B
Absolutely. It has to build. It really does. And, and you know, I super recognize like, that I was also dealing with like, just the anxiety of, like, again, I've built a bit of an affection for Alex. And like, you know, five minutes before we go on air, you know, this, this lovely woman walks over and hands me a, you know, a card that's just sitting on my lap the whole time. That was a reminder that every time he made one of those moves that he could die and I would have to pop on camera. Right. And you know, when I get nervous or anxious, I just, like, I'm a fast talker and you know that about me. I really tried to intentionally slow down when I'm broadcasting, but in that moment, I just like, talked through it, you know, it's like, so, yeah, so I get it, you know, I, I. But it is, it's a lesson too for broadcasters that, like, you have to remember who you're broadcasting to. And you have to remember, you know, the tension and all of those things were innate. You know, I didn't have to tell you how dangerous it was. It was clear how dangerous it was. Right. So it's just more about like getting out of the way. And I was intentional about getting out of the way. At the end. I wanted to do that one line of like, you know, Alex Honnold's done it. He's made history. And then I laid out for like five minutes, seven minutes maybe, you know, So I tried to, to at the end sort of get my mic green on and get out of the way. But I, I definitely needed to do it a lot earlier. And as soon as I started watching it back, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, this is. I started here and I stayed there the entire time just didn't fit.
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A
Had the Broncos already lost yet?
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B
No.
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A
Okay.
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B
I'm taking all kinds of L's.
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I knew you had that on your mind. Like, Brian and I talked about this when we were, like, somewhere right now. It's six o' clock in the morning in Taiwan, and Elle is at some bar screaming, and the people around don't know what's happening.
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B
No, they didn't have any. They did not have any Broncos football. Nothing. So I was getting, like, live texted by my mom and Omar, my husband, the entire time. Like, you know, and their. Their interpretations of the games are so funny. You know, my mom is, like, a true Broncos fan. Omar doesn't care. He's Falcons fan still. He is still on the narcotic boat. And so she's like, you know, that mother decided to go for it. That goddamn. You know. And Omar's like, man, Sean Payton out here. Sean Paytoning. And I know exactly what that meant. That's all he had to say. So I'm just getting, like, live texts, and listen, I haven't. I had no expectation to win, but it's one of those where you go in super chill because you're like, whatever, I'm gonna win this game. We're playing with Jared Stidham, and then you have, like, a few opportunities to win the game, and so you get, like, really invested and then you get more pissed. But, yeah, it is what it is, man.
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Hey, since you brought it up and I forgot about this, is Omar one of these Falcons fans that is down on the. Stefanski higher in the name of Dion and Shador?
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I literally. This is what I. What he said when I was like, oh, what do you think about Stefanski? He went. And then he just walked out of the room. So that's.
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That.
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That's his level of investment at this point in the Falcons. Like, you know, listen, we all know where this is headed. You know, two years, fired again, like, I don't know where do you weigh in on that? Like, do you believe that? You'd have to believe Falcons fans are invested enough to care to be outraged.
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Like, so what I think I find most interesting about this, this is the idea that there could still be this level of investment in Deion Sacris. Right? Because. Okay, Deion is. Deion is. Deion is. Deion is Deion. Right?
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B
Yeah.
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The thing about. I was talking to somebody who did some work in Atlanta back in the day, and he said from out of town and said. The point that that was interesting to them was that because Atlanta had done so little winning. Who the stars were that people embraced were not about whether or not they won anything. Because that mean you wouldn't care about anybody. Right?
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B
Right.
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So Dominique Wilkins, who's. I mean, that's my guy. Dominique Wilkins never got past the second round of the playoffs. Yeah. You know what I mean? Dion, who is interesting because he's also a Braves guy at a time when, for lack of a better term, we'll call it the culture, still really cared about the Braves. Right?
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Oh, yeah.
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A
It's big, it's giant, it's everything else. Stefanski clearly did not want to play Shador Sanders, but Shador Sanders also stunk. Like, I don't know why people can't, like, take that. So we can't. We can't have him coaching our other black quarterback. Look what he did to Shador. Hey, man, stop. Yup. Stop. Stop doing that. Like, I don't know. Maybe he'll be good, maybe he won't. I don't think it was a particularly situation that was really conducive to winning up there, especially after they went and got desean Watson on nasty ass. And then he was terrible, and then he was hurt, and then they had to go to everybody else. But it is the. The. The locals are. Are holding. They gonna want some results from that man very, very, very quickly. And if something happens and, like, Kirk Cousins is still there, and it's Stefanski and Cousins, and they start off 4 and 1, she. It might tear the country whole. Whole city apart. It might be like when Vic got arrested.
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B
That bad. Damn.
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A
I'm just saying, the way they out here riding in the name of Dion.
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B
I know. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I think, you know, when it comes to the. To black people caping for, like, Shador, we. We. I love us in so many ways, but we won't. Won't we, like, make excuses and defend someone? We just do. If we decide that, we're gonna, like, go hard for you. I mean, you know who we are. Like, when. When one of us is being attacked for being who they are, we have a tendency to, like, overlook a lot of evidence and just kind of go with, like, well, we're blaming this person or we're blaming that person. Right? Like, God, there's nothing more evident of that than, like, O.J. simpson or, like, I don't know, Kanye West. Like, it was the Kardashians that turned him into a racist. It's like, nope, it wasn't any of that. So, like, we will always find a way to blame somebody else when we want to sort of like, defend someone. I do think that, like, it was all the innuendo around Shador, I think, is where people got creative with the stories because there was a lot of it. There was like some, you're right. Like, he, he looked bad at a lot of times, and he also looked good at times. He looked like he had something there. You know, he looked like a lot of other rookie quarterbacks. But it was just all of the innuendo about certain decisions and the stories that would get leaked that really were a breeding ground for all of these conspiracies. And, you know, and so I think there's a little bit of truth in both sides. But like, the, the, I just still have a hard time believing that. Like, but like, so, okay, so they're upset about the hire, but, like, what.
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A
Are they gonna do?
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B
They're like, not gonna go to the games. Like, like you're either gonna go to the games. You're either compelled after what you've seen the last 10 years to still go to these games. If you're still going to Falcons games after what you've witnessed over the last 10 years, then you don't really give a who the coach is. Like, you just, clearly you just, you, I don't know, maybe you just like the dome, you like the food, or you just like the team, but you don't really care who's the coach. If you've been supporting all this time, it's been bad.
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A
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B
Yeah.
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A
Yeah.
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B
I just feel like, I don't know, I feel a lot of like, no place is perfect. I really felt compelled because I just, I got so tired of the entire time I was here, somebody on air would do something or say something. And sometimes a lot of times it was me. And there would just sort of be this monolithic approach of, like, criticism. Like they, you know, like they. As if ESPN is just like this, like, you know, just the absurdity of, like, that we all get together with an agenda of who we should be, like, talking about. It's so weird and it's wacky and, you know, you worked there. Like, it's filled with a lot of really hard working people who have really dedicated themselves to in a lot of situations, a thankless job and who are wonderful people. So I just wanted to find a way to shout them out and remind people that, like, when you're taking issue with stuff that people on air say or do, like, you're. You're also, like, taking aim at people that just don't deserve it. So. But I think in general, like, I always err on the side of gratitude. I've had some breakups that, like, I'll never really talk about with different networks and. And have talked about a little bit in the past, but things that have happened, grievances that I've had, things that I'll probably say for a book one day or maybe a show that I write, where you'll go, these stories can't be true. And I'm like, oh, they're very true. These are all based on a true story. But I just think in general, like, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to go to Netflix without all the things that ESPN gave me. They took a risk on me. I didn't have, like, I had two years of experience, experience doing sports when they hired me, like, they did not have to give me a shot, and they did. And then they kept promoting me and giving me more. Like, I can't. How can I be upset with them? You know, like, you always wish that, you know, things could have gone a little bit differently or you. You wouldn't have left, right, the relationship. But this is as close to like, a Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Martin, conscious uncoupling. Like, we're cool. You know, like, we're. We're all good. Like, I think, you know what I'm saying, it's all good on this side.
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A
Now, espn, and I think you made an interesting point there of when people talk about what ESPN is, it means something different to. Different to just about everybody. So if you're an uninvolved party, the entity is the entity, right? Like, any. No matter what you want to decide is espn. You can kind of decide when you work there. It kind of breaks down into different individuals. Who is this? Who is that? Whatever it is. I found for a significant stretch of time when people were really what they didn't like about espn, there was one person who absolutely embodied that, and that was Norby. Like, that was the one when people had there. I want to say what I don't like about espn, and you wanted to put a face to it, he was willing to be that face, too. But it was that guy. That guy don't even work there anymore. Like, there's nobody in my head that I could think about when I look at the place and be like, oh, this is the person. And it does hit people on the way out really hard, because I think that people go into es, go into it, loving ESPN so much. Like, it is the brand that everybody believes belongs to them in some form or fashion. And something like that can never live up to it, no matter what, because once you get in there, somebody gonna do something you don't like. Like something I realized or I read in this book that made a very good point, which is what it takes for you to say you love somebody forever. Just think about what those things are now. Think about what it takes for you to say, I ain't never gonna speak to them again. That second one is so much smaller. Like, yes, someone has to do something to save your child's life, right? Your house was on fire, and they went and called the fire department and they broke out the water hose. That's what it takes for you to love them forever. Hate you. She thinks she cute. That's all it is. And then, boom. You never, ever speak again. So when you go work at a place, no matter what the place is, that last part typically gets people. And this is also for people as viewers and as the way that they receive the people that they see on screen. It takes so little for people to check out on it, but to be on it, even people who work there, like I said, I can tell you what happened for my time at espn. Everything changed. And I mean that in a good way. And it still surprises people that my outlook on it is not. Man, it.
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B
Right. I mean, listen, I also, like, I. I always said this, too. Whenever there would be stories that would come out about ESPN or treatment of women or, you know, really anybody at espn, and I would always say, I am not invalidating anybody's story at all. Again, I know this place is not perfect. I'm not, like, you know, an idealist in that way. But, like, my experience was really good. I. You know what I mean? Like, it was like, I don't. I wish that I had something more salacious or, you know, it really, for me was just getting to a place in my life where I was like, man, I feel like in many ways, I'm on a little bit of a treadmill. And it was like I just wanted to see. And it was the amount of work to still feel like I was sort of doing the same things that I very much enjoyed, by the way. But I just, you know, when you do those things at espn, there is no opportunity to sort of look around and say, is there anything else that might be interesting to Me, you know, I've been wanting to write like a, a pilot for a show for a long time and, and I've, you know, gotten it very, very close and things like that, but I don't have the bandwidth, the energy to do any of those things because I was sort of on the perpetual cycle. And that's the way that you succeed at ESPN is you try to do as much as you can, as much as possible. Your value is your volume, right? Like everybody knows it. As much as you can work the better. And, and you get it. Like they got a lot of content hours to fill. Like, so, so I get it, you know, and it just got for me, like up to a point where I was like, man, I don't, I don't know if I might be a good writer. I don't know because I've never had the chance. I don't know if I want to go do something outside of sports and host a reality show or host disguise, rape your life. I don't know if, you know, I'll be good at like just chilling and, and being like lot room mom and like, I don't know, I don't know any of those things. Beautiful. But what I do know is that I am not currently feeling very fulfilled at what my life looks like right now. Like that I knew, I knew for sure something had to change and I just chased the unknown and like, and I really respected ESPN for giving me the send off that they did. Like, that was rare. I was humbled. It was almost like getting eulogized. It's about being alive. Like, I was like, oh, wow. And overwhelming. It was really wonderful. And they were, they were wonderful about me leaving and they understood because they just knew like they couldn't compete in terms of opportunity. No exclusivity. So the ability to go work with a lot of different partners and chase a lot of different avenues if I want, and then a ton of time at home, just a chance to be, have full autonomy over my schedule. It's the first time in my professional career I have the ability to work as much or as little as I want. And it's great.
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A
It is a consuming world. Like the way you describe it is interesting. Is your volume, is your value. There's that, but there's also the other part of that. Since it is the center of the sports media ecosystem, you can almost forget about how much else is out there. Right? Like it is the, in, in our world, it is the making it right. Like, like you are at ESPN regardless of what the Capacity is that you serve in. Now, once you get in there, then you find out there's levels, right? There's levels inside whatever it is. But once you get there, there is this feeling of making it. That happens. And when you get to a place where you describe where you don't feel fulfilled, and in my time, I don't think while I work there, I ever really got to that place. But I applaud you for being able to look at it and realize, like, no, I got to do a little something else. Because a lot of people, for understandable reasons, get a little bit, like, nervous about the idea of walking away from an institution that's so big, Especially when you get to a place where you're comfortable and you feel like they'll keep rolling you over. But I imagine that once you got out and for me, doing stuff with hbo, I kind of felt this. You do get into other stuff and be like, oh, man, there is actually a whole lot of this business that I had not gotten a hold of. Like, you had worked another In a. I think a bit of a wider range of places than I had at that point. But both of us had never done anything that was on the scale or magnitude of espn. Then when you get out to what some of this other stuff is, you're like, oh, man, I didn't know this other stuff was here.
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B
Like, you nailed it 100. And, like, you know, people that don't work there anymore will tell you that, but there is this sort of imposter syndrome part of you that's like, well, maybe, you know, like, maybe ESPN is the only one that saw it. And, like, they're. They get me and they understand me, which is why they are giving me all of these things. And, like, maybe I don't really have that much, like, cachet or maybe. Maybe, like, nobody even knows who I am. And I'm gonna have to, like, start back at the bottom and, like, you know, try to pitch myself. And then you get out and you realize that people just weren't reaching out to you because they knew you weren't available, you know, because they knew you couldn't work with them because you had exclusivity. And you get out, and it's like, I've got to be honest. I've had more interesting meetings in the last, like, months since, like, the news came out that I was leaving than I have in the last, you know, 10 years with just a lot of different avenues and a lot of different, like, spaces for creativity. And it's really cool and feels rewarding that, you know, you can, you can leave. I remember that, though, the best thing that happened to me, Bo, was getting laid off at V103. Like, it really, really was because I was having those same feelings of, you know, I know I wanted more. I, you know, I never wanted to. And I just say, just. I don't mean it in a disrespectful way, but I never wanted to only be a radio personality. I wanted to be on sport, on television, doing sports, like that was the goal. But I, I got into it and I was okay at it. And they kept giving me jobs, and before you knew it, I was eight years in and I really lulled myself to sleep and. And they laid me off in such a surprising way. And it really, like, it really changed me at a cellular level because I remembered at that point feeling like I would never get another job again, that that was the only opportunity I had, that I was going to starve. You know, this scarcity mentality. And, you know, fast forward. I did okay after I got laid off. And I reminded myself then the same thing that I reminded myself when I was leaving and transitioning from espn. You know, you take your talent with you and everything that you learned is foundational and fundamental to the next place, but, like, you can't be afraid and you'll never know. And I also felt like I have such a great relationship with ESPN that, like, people have come back to ESPN after they. Oh, yeah, the face of their company, Stephen A left. Right. So, you know, I was hopeful that if we had a really great, like, ending, that if there was ever a time that I did, you know, decide, like, okay, I've looked around, I've seen the landscape and, like, it's ESPN for me, that there would be an opportunity to go back. But I just, I had to see Beau. Like, it was my first time being a proper free agent and I just wanted to see.
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A
Yeah, well, let me tell you what else you're going to see. And I think you've probably gotten a handle on this. And I figured this out on my end. They put me in a lot of really great positions and let me do not just really cool stuff, but stuff that was important to them. Right? But at the same time, espn, they run a system, okay? Like, they are like one of these teams where it's like, we got a system and we'll put you in that system. Every now and then you get some people that get to run their own plays and call their own number, but by and large, they are viewing everybody by where you exist in this system, which is a reasonable thing for them to do. They have had a highly successful system. Right, right. But I realized not too long after I got out of there and even in the later parts, I was like, oh, no, no, no, no, no. They didn't, they didn't really get me at all, to be honest. They got me a lot. They got parts of me. But if a place is thinking about how they get you to work in the system that they have, there's only but so much of you that they are even thinking to look at. And there's certain things that you may be capable of or that you want to do, but that's not, that's not what they're asking of you. Right. They're like, they haven't thought of it because that's not something that they think of. And so next thing you know, you, you doing a thing with the man climbing the building. Right? Next thing I know, I'm doing, calling the show hbo, for example, and things like that. And that is not, again, that is not an indictment of espn. But I do know for you, and it's going to be interesting to watch. You're going to have the opportunity to do so many cool things because the people who do cool things, they all watch espn. Like, that's the other part. All these places and there's zillions of things that you might be able to do, and it's a result of the fact that they watch ESPN and they saw you there and were like, hey, you want to give this a try? Yeah, why not? Worst that could happen is we do a meeting and it doesn't go good, right? Like, oh, Damn, I lost 30 minutes.
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B
Absolutely, you're right. Like, a lot of these, like, sort of production companies and things that I've been meeting with are like, I'm a big sports fan, you know, I love blah, blah, blah. So you're absolutely right. And I think that's what's so interesting is that, like, you go to these, like, you know, Hollywood ish type events and all of these, like, famous actors and actresses are there and the sports people are always like the redheaded stepchildren. Please excuse me. To all the redheaded listeners, I love you, but like, you know, we're kind of like the black sheep a little bit. It's like, who are you? Like, you know, they don't know who and that's fine. Like, why would we. We're not the actual athlete. Like, it's all good. But then you Realize that, like, sports does have reach. ESPN has a ton of reach. That's what I'm saying. That's why I'm so rooted in gratitude. Like, I don't have the opportunities that I have if I didn't have a showcase there. And they did put me on big stuff. But I think to your point, like, you know, people keep asking me, like, in fact, they asked me yesterday on the podcast, like, do you want to. What were spaces that you didn't get a chance to work at at ESPN that you wanted to? And I was like, you know, football for sure. You know, it was always sort of an aim to me. It's my favorite sport. I love football.
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A
And.
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B
And. And let's be real at espn, like, all their most important people are on football, so you got to get on football to be one of their most important people. But the hard part about that is all their most important people are on football already, so it's really hard to break through. And I think, like, ESPN just has, like, a ton of talent. And you're right, like, they have zillion people. Yeah, they have a zillion people. And it's not that I don't, you know, you know, revel competition, because I think colleagues that are great and inspirational keep. You know, like, I work with so many people where I'm like, I've got to be better. Like, I'm gonna do a hit with me to Kimes. You know what I mean? Like, so all of that is great, but it's just, like, not in my DNA to go after things that are already occupied, and that's difficult to do at a place like that because everything's occupied. So, you know, I got women's basketball because Maria left, right? So. And I was. I was so grateful to have that opportunity, but it's like, you go to a place like Netflix, who. Yeah, they don't have the. The profile yet, but they're building, and you get a chance as a broadcaster to, again, stretch, push yourself, do major events. Like, you know, we just announced the Tyson Fury fight, right? So, like, that's going to be happening in April. I'll be doing that. I've got baseball coming up. Like, getting a chance to just immerse yourself for these, like, major events, that's like. That's kind of the dream for me. You know what I mean? As opposed to, like, committing to 182 days of doing it. It's like, I love baseball. I do. I'm a baseball girl. I grew up playing baseball. But at espn, if you wanted to do anything for baseball, you had to do everything for baseball, right? And, like, so I think this. This current sort of like, model that Netflix is under is, like, perfect for me because I get to dabble in all of these things that I love without having to, like, commit to their.
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A
Whole season, you know, it just dawned on me. They gonna make you do something with Jake Paul.
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B
I've interviewed Jake Paul. He was. He was quite pleasant. He was quite pleasant.
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A
He was not.
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B
He wasn't pleasant to you. He was pleasant to me.
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A
I'll send you some. I'll send you some links.
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B
You'll send me a clip.
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A
It was a.
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B
It was a. I feel like all I have to do is Google it.
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A
Yeah, you can. That's all me and him. It was a. It was a thing, man. That boy, I tell you, this boy, what's his name, Anthony Joshua, who apparently it was very interesting when that fight was streaming because apparently the. The. The. The. The young ladies of America had not grown. Had not heard of Anthony Joshua yet.
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B
I didn't know how funny is.
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A
And, yeah, they. They got a hold of him. They saw what time it was. And meanwhile, he had that boy jaw on spree Wells. He hit. He hit Jake Paul and broke his jaw up, man. Had that thing in slow motion. I'm surprised he ain't choke on his jaw because it wrap around his neck.
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B
It looks crazy.
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A
Yeah, just tug his ass up. I can't believe I. I was just thinking about that. However much money he made for that fight, I don't know if you could show me a video of somebody getting a jaw spun around their face and tell me, okay, you willing to do that for $30 million? I mean, yes and no.
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B
I mean, I would probably do it. I think he got a lot more than $30 million, too. I listen, I give him credit for that. Like, everybody gave him a lot for, you know, fighting nobodies and retired dudes and postal workers. Anthony Joshua was like, for real. For real. He knew he had no shot. He knew. He knew he was in for an ass who. And, like, he took one, but he knew it and he knew he was going to. And so I give him credit, you know?
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A
Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I got. I got. I really watched that as it happened, and I was saying to myself, would you. I just going out there and knowing this about to happen, and, like, he had the option of doing what I probably would have done, which was, why are we belaboring this? Right? Just give me one good one right here. Right in the forehead.
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B
Get it over with.
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A
Yeah, yeah. I'd be out there, like, when you go watch that Michael, Mike Tyson, Michael Spinks fight. And it is very clear, before this gets started, Michael Spinks is like, okay, we ain't got to do this for very long. There's. There's no need for me to, like, why, why, why. Why am I getting my ribs broken, right? Not just my jaw, my ribs.
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B
He's like, not worth it.
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A
No, no. Wasn't no parts of that. Wasn't no parts of that. So what else you got going? We got anything coming up?
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B
Yeah, I mean, I'm heading out to the super bowl next week. Like, I'm now on my. You know, now that I have all this time on my hands, by the way, I'm telling you that all these dudes are like, I'm going here to hang out with this tribe and, like, you know, go add a Walter water filtration system to an orphanage and wherever they're like, what about Ul? I'm like, I'm gonna go make these grilled cheese sandwiches for these kids. I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be at Fun Max on Saturday at a birthday party. But, no, I've got, like, I'm doing a lot of, you know, hosting brunches. I'm a lady who brunches now, so I've got a brunch that I'm hosting, a sports power brunch.
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A
Oh, you're doing the power brunch? Yeah, I crashed the power brunch one year.
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B
Did you? I heard it's a great event.
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A
It is a great event. I have an amazing story. I'll tell you about that later. But, yeah, I just. Somebody told me Jasmine was like, hey, at this brunch, why don't you pull up? I said, okay. I didn't know it was such a big deal. So I show up in a hoodie and sweat. I'm wrinkled, as I tend to be, and I just show up and I'm like, oh, this is a big thing. I'm just hanging the back. Oops. Yeah. I mean, but, dog, look, if you act like you supposed to be there, so will everybody else, 100%.
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B
They'll be like, he must. He must be a basketball player.
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A
No, no, no. Once. Once I got a little closer, I was Bomonti Jones.
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B
Oh, there it is.
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A
Like, once that happened, it was just.
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B
Like, oh, okay, I'm here as myself.
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A
Yeah. Nobody's gonna come up and be like, sir, you have to leave now.
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B
Never. No, absolutely not. Especially not at that event.
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A
Plus, I got a long track record of crashing events. Like, I was just thinking about the other day when me and my homie James. This is now almost 25 years ago when we snuck in the back door in California. We saw Bishop don Magic wands Cadillac in a parking garage. And so my man followed him and he got. Then he calls me because it's a long story, but he calls me and he's like, this is a lingerie fashion show. Okay. So I'm waiting on the tow truck to come because I had left my car door open, left the lights on, and so my battery was out, so I needed them to come turn it on. So I was like, cool. Just once they came, started the car, let it run, get it back up. We rolled up in that piece and it was a lingerie fashion show. And the Bishop had like two of them on each arm, right? I'm wearing a Gap hoodie, some khaki cargo pants, and some beat up Tims. I'm 22 years old and I'm just like. But we here now because it's la. I could have been anybody. Don't tell it who I was. Just post it up.
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B
Oh, my goodness. Was there a pimp cup?
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A
Of course.
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B
Okay. Oh, wow.
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A
I love sneaking.
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B
How did you break it? How did you sneak in?
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A
He somehow found a back door. Wow. He saw somebody, like, come out the back door. And then he got in the back door. And then I was like, all right, I'm on the way. And he pulled up and like, that's the part I don't quite remember, but, like, he was 18.
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B
Like, we have no.
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A
I love being in a room that I have no business being. Yeah, that's what. That's a. That's a great feeling when that happens.
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B
See, this is the difference in our. In our upbringings because, like, when you mentioned, like, breaking into stuff, I'm like, oh, me and my friends used to do the back door thing at the movie theater. Like, you know, the direct. It's like the movie theaters have the direct access outside, right? Oh, you go buy one ticket and then you just open that door and you let your six friends in. It was amazing. Did you do that as well?
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A
Yeah, I got a long. You know, my mama listened to this, so she's about to. So she could. No, no, no. She can learn retroactively about a few things. But no, I've figured out. I've told many times over the years about the time that we snuck into the super bowl at the Georgia Dog.
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B
How Did you sneak into a Super Bowl? Now, that's like Ocean's eleven level.
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A
This close. I was this close. And I will tell people this before we roll out, because it is one of my favorite stories ever. So I was with my homie Lurch. And the thing you got to understand about Lurch was Lurch's email address was klepto yahoo.com. and he lived that. He lived that life. That's what.
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B
That's what he was proudly stealing.
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A
Yeah. Yeah. And looking back on it, he probably had a disorder, but, like, it was amazing how natural cry for help, like, stealing and back door stuff was, right? But he was in the band at Clark, and the band had an arrangement that they would volunteer for events at the Georgia Dome. So every Falcons game, if you were in the band, you could go say you were volunteering, you do some work there, and you got to go to the Falcons game. But also, they were able to do it for the SEC championship game. So this was the year the Titans and the Rams played in the super bowl, and we decided to give it a try. My man gave me a band T shirt so I could act like I was in the band. And we was about to go see if the band volunteering thing goes. Now, the thing is, man, you know, I'm a bit of a square in this regard. I do generally what I'm supposed to do. You know, I enjoy a little mischief, but, you know, my game isn't just, I'm not Lurch. And you'll understand what I mean when I say that. We go and I'm waiting in line, and we about to figure out this volunteer thing. And he goes to the front of the line. I forget what happens. And then he comes back and is like, no, we're in the wrong line. We need to go to the other line. I'm like, all right, cool. So we go. We in the other line. I'm waiting with him. He goes to the front. He's doing something like this, and I don't understand what's going on. And he comes back to me, and he goes, charles Greer. I'm like, what? He's like, charles Greer. John Wilson. Like, what are you talking about? And so he's ahead of me, and they're like, what is your name, sir? He goes, john Wilson. And they look on the page, and they're like, oh, John Wilson, here we go. Hit it with a highlighter. And they gave him a bunch of stuff like the costume that you wear to be a vendor, right? So they gave him his Costume. So they come to me and they're like, what's your name? I said, charles Green. And they look on the list and they're like, I don't see Charles Green. And I look and I see. What happened. I had the name wrong. I say, no, it's Charles Greer. Greer. And I go, oh, okay. And she looks and she goes, oh, Charles Greer. She hits it with the highlighter. She hands me the stuff, and it's all. And popping, man. We take a couple of steps. Next thing I know, some big dude with a. With a blazer on and a key ring around his belt. He stopped and put his hand on my chest. And he says to me, wait a minute. What's your name? I said, charles Greer. He goes, you're not Charles Greer. Now, the problem, of course, is I am not Charles Greer. He was correct. He had that with all the money. And since I did not leave my house planning to tell lies, and we were just cooking up this plan along the way, I didn't have a backup. All I knew is that when he got on that walkie, it was time for me to walkie. You understand what I'm saying?
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B
You gotta run.
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A
Yeah, yeah. I gotta get outta here. Like, I wasn't gonna run. Cause running is gonna be too much. But I needed to have a. Here, hold the stuff. I'm out of here. Like. Like, this is a fun story if I don't go to jail. So I walk it. And my man, because he is who he is, is like, no, no, no. We could go around this way. I'm like, man, I'm going home, right?
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B
I'm done.
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A
What are you talking about? Like, I gave it the old college try, and I. I was this close, though. This close.
- [57:39]
B
So you left after that. Right. Okay. I was gonna say, no one scare. You Tip fate once. Like, you don't do it twice. Your friend sounds like. Is your friend currently incarcerated?
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A
Nobody. It could have been.
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B
Okay, I was gonna say.
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A
Last time I checked, he was preaching.
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B
Oh, so not okay, so. Got it. All right.
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A
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, it was when the Venn.
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B
Diagram, there's a yeah, yeah, yeah.
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A
No, no, no. It was a dicey. It was a dicey situation. At that point, I was just kind of like, no, no, no.
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B
This was so scary. You chose. He chose the one name where the guy was like, no, I know. Charles Greer. Yeah, exactly him.
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A
Exactly. So. But this is the thing, right? This dude was from New Jersey. It's a different situation to a. When your parents actually Live in the city like mine do. Right? Did. And number two, and this is very important, out of my friends, I was the one that had money. Like, if I needed to get to pass, that had to get me out of jail. The friends are not going to be able to help me get out of here. The girlfriend perhaps could, probably would not. And we're not calling Mac and Barbara.
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B
About this at all.
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A
We're not. This. There's. There's. There's. Like, this is. Compared to some of the things my brother did, this is low on the list. But we're still not doing that. So I. I ran all that math and I was like, how about we just go home?
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B
Yeah. Feels good to me. Nice and safe. It's the prudent decision. And that's why you are where you are. And while he's preaching.
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A
Yep, yep. There we go. There we go. That is El Duncan, who, by the way, got out of ESPN and is staying in Connecticut. Shout out to you, Omar. Shout out to you. My favorite. My favorite line you've ever told me about, Omar is, I moved to Boston for you. You can never say anything else. When the black man say, I moved to Boston for you, he's like, what?
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B
What else do you need for me to show you my love? A black man moved willingly to Boston. Boston in the winter.
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A
In the winter.
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B
Real love.
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A
It's the truest love of all time.
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B
100 enduring.
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A
All right, Elle Duncan. Check her out at Netflix and forever else she's about to be. Congratulations. I was telling you, you are literally our favorite guest to have here. So we are so glad that you can come and continue to talk to us. And now you got a little bit more free time.
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B
I got a lot more time now, Bo. So when you hit me up, you know, there's a. There's a greater than good chance I will have the time to jump on.
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A
I am here for it.
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B
Know I love you. You know, you tell them, Bo, who hit who up about coming on.
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A
L hit me up. Let me tell you. L hit me up. I told Ryan that. L hit me up. And the beam that Ryan had on his face, we were like, see, she loves us, too. Because I've been trying not to press you because, you know, you have lots to do. You got family, you got all those things. But I told you we would have you all here twice a week if we could. Like, nobody. The people are never happier to have anybody on than they are when they know that you are on. And I'm also curious to see after you've done all that ESPN volume, and you've done this. You start off with all them plans of all the things that you're going to do. Or you may wind up like me, who I then decided I've taken two years off of doing anything that I did not have to do. Like, I'm just coming back around.
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B
I realized, yeah, it's really nice. I mean, it is. I just. I mean, I'm looking forward and reveling in, like, what it feels like maybe to be bored or, like, you know, like, I. It's just a feeling that I haven't in a really long time. So, you know, this is just going to be a period of, like, sort of growth for me. And I'm. I'm excited to just, like, see what it looks like.
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A
Hey, man, bring the kids to New York, too. I had never got to meet the. The second one.
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B
I know you've never met Xander the Pinky and the Brain. I will bring them, yes. Because I've got time. I got time.
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A
You know what I'm saying? Just let me know. We will be here.
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B
Oh, yeah.
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A
All right, ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us here on the right time. We do this four times a week. Ryan Brumley handed everything behind the scenes. Thank you, sir. Hit the voicemail line. 323-59-67767. Remember, follow the right time. Subscribe like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. We'll talk to you guys in a couple of days. Take it easy.
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B
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