i tell you man uh just in this whole
you see on my feed i have the thankful
addition
and i'm just in that space i'm just in
that space
um of just being and i know i know it's
really strange to say because
it's 2020. everybody's complaining about
2020 there's some great memes about 2020
and every time something happens we all
go here we go again but
i really am uh i do have the attitude of
gratitude
uh right right around today and probably
around this week and i can complain with
the best of them so don't don't think
that
i'm just always here but today i really
had to think about it
and mike you know part of part of my
appreciation is
this show that we're doing right here
brother from another
and i say brother from another in
freedom because
i've been doing this for a while i first
got paid to write
an article the first time i got paid for
real for real for real
to to write i was 19. i was an intern at
the akron beacon journal so that was the
first paycheck i got
so i'm not 19 anymore neither am i 29
nor 39. anyway
i've been doing it for a while as my
point and
this is the most freedom
i've ever felt in my career this show
represents me i feel more represented in
this
show than i have ever in my career
and it's always been like assignments
i've you know done some really cool
things i'm grateful for that
you know been some great places uh
around the world around north america
just amazing covers some uh
some signature sporting events but it's
always been
on somebody else's terms so hey i need
you to go here even if you're going
somewhere great
like hey i've been to australia i need
you to go to australia cover the
olympics i need you to
do this do that and it has never really
been
complete completely me i think this is
the first time
i know this is the first time in my
career where
everything i bring to the show is what
i'm
honestly feeling some days i'm really
excited to talk about
the nfl so i talk about the nfl but if
i'm not feeling it
that day and something has happened at
home or something has happened in the
country
i'll talk about it i'll share it and i
just never had
a position like that mike we got a long
way to go
don't get me wrong we got a long way to
go we can we're a young show
we're an expansion team uh we still got
some improvements to make and some
things we could do
to make this even better but i i'm just
thankful for
what we have right here i look forward
to this
daily um
i appreciate that i i know all of that
and i'll tell you how i know all of that
and um but i appreciate that
because i i i need to hear that because
and i made this promise to myself and to
everybody involved in the show and we
started uh
late august september
you know i said that because i've been a
part of
this is my fourth quote new show launch
um sometimes been a whole new show
other times it's been uh just renamed um
but i've i've been privileged and i've
been blessed to to do this quite a few
times
this is the most creative freedom i've
ever had not by much
um but i have been there and done this
before
to some extent not with you of course
but i made the promise at the very
beginning
i think you remember me saying this is
that i was going to i was going to enjoy
this more than i had the previous
uh iterations of my talk shows i was
going to
appreciate i was kind of looking back at
some old pictures and videos and i was
like damn man that was fun i just
i didn't realize how much fun i was
having at the time because i was always
the way you just ended they we just
ended what you said
is the way i'm always thinking and
everybody from you to gary to courtney
to kai to cabrillo
everybody you know casey kevin everybody
associated with this i think they know
this about me now
is that i'm always thinking and i'm not
saying you're not
but i'm like consumed with how i can get
better how we can get better
every single day like i i really just
enjoy
i'm not a stop and smell the roses kind
of guy i don't i have no flowers around
my house
i'm not that's not what i do i think
about your name what do we do today
what can we yeah what could we do
tomorrow how can we be better
and i i and even though i i've not kept
that promise is what i'm saying
to to stay to just enjoy this and enjoy
the process and enjoy every
conversation we're privileged to have on
peacock every day i have not kept it but
hearing that from you
reminds me that i should because i mean
a year ago at this time michael
and i got a couple more things i want to
tell you about that which because you
said a lot this i want to pack it a
little bit
a year ago at this time i was a few
months removed from uh
from leaving a place of employment that
i was again blessed and privileged to be
at for 15 years
and so i was still trying to figure out
what my next chapter looked like and i
was on startup
number two this time a year ago
you know because startup number one was
was re
was was being reimagined and rebranded
into startup number two
now i'm on startup number three my own
startup um
you know so i think about inflection
point entertainment and what i'm doing
day to day i think about this because
again a year ago and even six months ago
if you don't call me up and say
hey um you know got this opportunity
i want you to do this show with me i'm
telling you man i wasn't looking
i wasn't looking to get takes off
anymore man like i'm a storyteller i'm
fine being a developer and a producer
someone looking to get tape
takes off and so what i'm about to so so
i'm like
a year ago i was trying to figure it out
now uh
i feel like i'm truly working for myself
now because to me the definition of
working for yourself is when your days
your weeks your months
when they look like what you want them
to look like
now you're not punching somebody else's
clock when you're on your schedule for
the most part i mean the only thing
that's scheduled for me
every day is three to five with you uh
but how we get here is completely up to
us to your point
but uh but what you said this this is
the most representative you've ever
uh represented a show you've ever been a
part of the most represented you've ever
felt
um i'm saying this not for credit and
you don't owe me anything
because i because uh a part of me i
needed to do this show
a part a part of me needed to do this um
for myself for my own reasons but a part
of my doing this
was not only because it was you but for
you
because i knew you never done this and
you needed to do this of all the things
you've done in your career
new york times best selling author six
times over radio host
you've been you've done national
television you do more shows
every time i look at you on tv i'm like
wait you you know another show like you
do six shows now for crying all out
i gotta talk to my professor all the
things you've done i knew that you had
never done by the way this i knew you'd
never done this kind of programming
and so part of my motivation for doing
it was like yo my man needs me
you know my my guy is one of those like
you know
a gm or a coach gets a job and they're
like hey man
i need you and basically that you were
like yo i need you dude
and i was like oh god hey you know i
ain't got it no more man i ain't got
this grind in me no more so but here we
are
so i'm i'm thinking can we tear down the
curtain all the way
oh you know i don't like the curtain up
can we turn it all the way we got two
minutes before the music starts playing
go ahead
all right i'm gonna tear it all the way
down for y'all
so i asked michael smith to do this
he he was my he was my first choice my
second choice my third choice my fourth
choice i just want to do it with michael
smith
don't you know this fool told me no
at one point at one point he said
no i'm not doing it
and i was like oh man you know i wasn't
i wasn't mad at you i wasn't mad i
really wasn't because i feel like you
had
you had good reasons for it you did you
actually did you shared it with me yeah
and i'm not gonna
i ain't tearing the curtain all the way
down but you can say that all the way
down
tell them tell them about you tell them
about the fact i was like i'll give you
an hour
you know you had some reasons
but i wasn't mad i was thinking okay
now what now what because i just
couldn't imagine
like it would it would be something it
would happen it would happen it just
wouldn't happen the way
it's happening now so yeah uh and
there's a lot more on that
i know you're shocked that uh with 35
seconds to go
i'm laying out i can't beat the music by
30 seconds
you you beat the music um because i'm
not gonna be not going into it until
after the break yeah i know i think no
don't no i think that's enough
self-indulgence for one show don't you
yeah
like we got we don't know
that one but there's some other there's
some other stuff not for me not on me
and you
that you're thankful for people yes some
folks that we are
surrounded by yeah hey thanks for
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