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My next guest, who I love dearly, I can't stand
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up nice things.
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About, Scott Kaplan. I already have this morning a bunch
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of times and many other times in the.
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History of this show.
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He's got a horrible governor, too, there, Gavin Newsom, who's also,
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he's on his way out, though.
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Hochul can stick around with a win.
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Newsom is going to leave, and it looks like the
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Democrat Becerra, who's garbage, is going to beat my guy,
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Steve Hilton. But more importantly, Scott Kaplan was the guy
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that gave me my first opportunity in radio, believe it
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or not, almost 30 years ago. Next year will be
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30 years that he gave me that shot on internet radio.
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We had a couple of ups and downs many years ago,
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just like many people in this business. But we are
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closer than brothers. And I love this guy so much.
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And he's so smart. And he had all the answers
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he really did 25 years ago. He's a big star
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out in California, San Diego, Los Angeles, all over the state.
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My first partner and brother, Scott Kaplan.
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Scotty, good morning, buddy. How are you?
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Hello, Sidney.
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Oh, very good from the great movie Scream. Hello, Sidney.
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How are you this morning out there in California?
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Oh, I'm doing great, man. I'm so excited for you.
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I honestly have been thinking to myself, though, how the
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hell did this happen? You know, like, how did you
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become a Hall of Famer? And then I thought another thing.
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which is like when a football player or a baseball
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player goes into a Hall of Fame and they've played
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on multiple teams and you say to them, you say, hey,
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who are you going in as? And I thought to myself, Sid,
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there's been many different iterations of Sid Rosenberg in New
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York radio. And I thought, which Sid Rosenberg is going in?
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What hat are you wearing when you're going in? I'm
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so excited for you guys.
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You know, Scotty, it's not.
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I'm more excited for you than you.
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I know, but it's not just New York.
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I mean, don't forget, I had that 11-year stint where
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I was at 790 The Ticket, 560 WQAM, and the
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last one, which really enabled me to get back to
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New York, 640 Sports, and it all started in Fort Lauderdale,
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Florida with you. So my career is really kind of
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split between Florida and New York. Yes, some big stations here, WFAN,
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WNEW with you, 10-10 wins, and now WABC, but there's
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plenty of Florida love to go around tomorrow as well.
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You know that.
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Oh, I do. Listen, Sid, in the late 90s when
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you and I first started, I mean, the fact of
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the matter is none of us knew what we were doing.
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We were little kids in the business, right?
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I don't know. You were pretty smart. I'll give you
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the credit, man. Say you don't know what you were doing.
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You were pretty smart, Scott.
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Well, thank you. But I mean, all I was doing
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was I was doing the things that I'd heard other
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people do. You know, I'd heard I hear just as
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we were rejoining, I heard that. And I know exactly
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where that comes from. And I listened to Neil Rogers
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as a kid, you know, down in Miami. And I,
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you know, I was I loved Howard Stern. And I,
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you know, I just I was a young kid who
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just desperately wanted that microphone. And then when I was
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given that opportunity, because I really talked my way into it,
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no big surprise. um I just didn't have around me
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what I needed because I was not really like us
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I didn't know everything I didn't know every player I
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didn't know every team I didn't know every coach I
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didn't know all the details I just had a lot
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of strong opinions but you you knew all the details
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back then I'm sure you still do but you literally
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would walk around the office like the mayor of the
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place And your shirt was wide open and you showed
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off your pants and you're walking around to everybody.
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Not, Hey, how you doing?
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Hey, good to see you. I'm like, who the hell
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is this kid? And, and you know, when, when you
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and I started to talk, I realized I know some stuff.
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He knows a lot of stuff. So if I could
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just spout about the stuff I want to apply it about,
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Sid's going to fill in every last detail. And that's
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where in the earliest of days, Sydney, that's where our
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partnership began. Yeah.
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Yeah, it was great. It was a great partnership. It
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was great right the whole way through to New York.
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And you're right. We complimented each other very, very nicely.
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You know, you were a really good talker. You knew
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the business. And I knew the players and the numbers.
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And we could sit down, for example, like we did
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every year on Radio Row at the Super Bowl.
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And you can schmooze the guy. And then I can say, hey.
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I remember when you played Green Bay and you had
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six catches for 133 off the field.
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The guy goes, how do you know that? I go,
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I know all that. And it was just perfect. I mean, we,
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you know, we, I.
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Remember was talking about this this week and God, I
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felt badly bringing it up, but I have to, because
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this is such a moment to stay tomorrow. But there
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was a guy in Florida who you were friendly with
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and he was a big time program director and his
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name got rest his soul. He got a very young
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man was Andrew Ashwood. And when Andrew Ashwood found out
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that you were going to, embark on your career with me.
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He went to you and he said, because we're about
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to be syndicated about 75 markets across Wisconsin.
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I know exactly where you're going.
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Scott, you got to get rid of this guy. This
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guy's got to, Thick Brooklyn accent. It ain't going to
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work in lacrosse. It ain't going to work in Clarksville.
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And God rest his soul, he could not have been
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more wrong. We would get off the plane. It was
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like the Beatles. And these people loved us. And they
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loved me with the accent. And by the way, at
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no point during my career, and I am in New York, right,
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so it's kind of easy. But at no point in my.
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Career did any of that stuff come back and bite
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me in the ass.
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No, no. And I'll tell you something, Sydney, you know,
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Andrew Ashwood, as you said, God rest his soul. He
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was a great program director.
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He really was.
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He got he got a lot of things right. In
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this case, he got one thing really, really wrong. And
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what he what he didn't understand was is, you know, listen,
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America loved America. Seinfeld. They love Jerry Seinfeld. They love
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this show. And outside of New York, people were like, boy,
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that Jerry Seinfeld sure is an interesting character. And in
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New York, in New York, everybody's like, yeah, that's like
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my neighbor, Jerry, you know, everybody knew him. And so,
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and so the people that weren't in New York found
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him interesting. And the people that were in New York
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found him familiar. And, and I kept saying to Andrew,
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I don't think so. I think in other parts of
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the country, they're going to find Sid's accent interesting and funny.
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They're not going to be offended and turned off like, oh,
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the whole world revolves around New York. So he was
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wrong on that. But you, you were right about something
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you just said. We were so young and we got
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syndicated into all these markets through Westwood One. And we
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would go on these tours because we were trying to
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drum up business because at the time, you know, for
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everybody who's listening at the time, Jim Rome was the
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biggest thing going in sports. And Jim Rome, he had
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this thing called, he was going on these tours and
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he would almost like sell out arenas and he would
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show up in a certain town and all the star
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athletes of the town would come because it was like a,
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it was a celebration of your community that somebody big
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time like him was going.
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To show up.
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You and me, when we show up in these small towns,
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cause we were trying to, again, we were trying to
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grow and, When we show up in these little towns,
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people freaking went crazy.
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They were nuts.
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Because they felt special. They felt special that we were
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leaving South Florida and they were listening to us every day.
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And we actually would show up at their little town
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and broadcast to them. And we would pack these places.
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And we were on our way. And for you, I
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just remember this so vividly, that after we went to
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our first Super Bowl, this was in Atlanta. Do I
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have that right? It was our first Super Bowl.
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Our first Super Bowl together, you and I, was San Diego.
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It was the Packers and the Broncos. You had gone
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the year before to New Orleans with Allison and the
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crew for Parcells and the Packers.
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But me and you did Brett Favre versus John Elway.
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Right.
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But then the next year, the next year was Atlanta,
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as I recall.
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No, the next year, no, the next year, Atlanta played
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in the Super Bowl, Dan Reeves' team, but they got
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walloped by that same Bronco team, but the game was
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in Miami.
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Okay.
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See, here we go. I still got the details, Scotty.
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You see?
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Dude, amazing. Amazing memory. Where were we when we— this is
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how cheesy.
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Oh, no, no, no, no, no. It was.
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It was.
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No, you're right. 1999, Atlanta.
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We were there for the Rams and Titans. Remember when
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they tackled Dyson inside the one, Mike A.
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Jones? You're right. It was Atlanta, Super Bowl, Rams, and Titans.
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Okay. We got back. That Super Bowl ended. We had— this
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is so funny. Nowadays, you go to these Super Bowls,
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these Radio Rose, everybody's got produced like sets and they've
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got signage and everything's very professional looking. Back then, it
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was nothing. We had a guy draw a caricature of
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the two of us on a piece of poster board.
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And everybody that would come by who would guest with
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us would sign the poster board. So you and me
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are sitting there one day and Joe Namath, who we
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both knew at this point because of our relationship with
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Joe down in South Florida, um, through the company sports
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line that we worked for, Joe comes over to sit
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with us and Sydney, I don't know if you remember this,
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I'm getting goosebumps talking about all of a sudden, a
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crowd of people came around. It's you, it's me, it's
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Joe name. It's one of the biggest stars in the
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history of the NFL. And again, this is the late nineties.
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And there must've been hundreds of people standing around just
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listening to us. And in that moment, I could just
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see from you that how much you loved it. And
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then when we got back, I just remember thinking to myself, Sydney,
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calm down, man. Like, we're going to get there. And
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you were like, no, I want it now. And that
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attitude of I want it now in 1999 is why
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you are a Hall of Famer today. Because you wanted
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it so badly. But then after all the years and
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different iterations and moving from sports into news talk slash
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now political talk, it takes so much courage and guts
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and balls to say the stuff you say with conviction.
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by the way, and to put yourself out there when
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your opinions may or may not be the most popular.
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It just takes courage, man. So when you combine where
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you were, which was, I want it now. I actually
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wanted it yesterday versus where you are today, which is,
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I'll say what I want to say. I'll say what
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I think needs to be said. Those are the bookends
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of what makes you now a freaking Hall of Famer.
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Wow, thank you, Scott.
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I remember using the word star too back then when
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Tommy and Allison said, this guy, he's been in this
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thing for 15 minutes. What do you mean he's going
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to be a star? I remember all those conversations I do.
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And listen, They worked for me, you know, and your
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career has been every bit as good as mine. You're
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a tremendous success in California. And you went about things
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a little differently. But you said to me way back
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when we were about 90 seconds to go, you said,
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you know, if you ever lose this job and everybody
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knows my history with drugs and drinking and gambling and
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all my issues, you said you're going to miss the
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microphone more than you miss the drugs. And in the
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many times that I've been fired very publicly over the years,
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you son of a bitch, you are right again. You
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are right again. Man, did I miss that microphone. I
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never want to be there again. You know, Scott, I'm
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going on 11 years here at WABC, 11 years. I
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ain't never leaving this microphone again until they drag me out.
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Of here, if you know what I mean.
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Yeah, that's the way you got to do it, man.
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I mean, really, like, I literally look at Howard, and
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I look at Don before Howard, and I go, why
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would these guys continue to do this? Why wake up
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so early? Why continue to prepare? Why do they do this?
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And it is like a football coach that can't give
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up coaching football.
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That's right.
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It just... It's just something that you are. It's something
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that is normal for you every day. And rather than
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give it up and go live the good life, like
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you could. And I'm saying, you know, if you have
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all the money in the world, it's just, it's just
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part of what you do, man.
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I don't have that.
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If I had Howard's money, I wouldn't be doing this anymore.
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And he's not even good anymore, which is horrible to
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say because he is the greatest of all time. I'm
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with you, but he's not even good anymore. Let me
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just say this. I would not rewrite my career any differently.
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And I really believe in my heart of hearts, I'm
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not patronizing you, Scotty, that I am where I am
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today because I started with you. You were just so smart,
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so prescient. You knew this business when you didn't even
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know the business. That's what I say about Scott. You
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knew the business when you didn't even know the business.
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And you turned out to be right about just about everything.
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You were a wonderful partner. You were a great friend
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and a brother to me. And I love you so much.
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So thank you so much, Scott Kaplan.
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Sydney, I love you, man. I'm so proud of you,
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like I said. And you deserve this honor. And you
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know what, though? This is not the end. Just because
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you're going into the Hall of Fame doesn't mean it's over.
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This is just another chapter in the book of Sydney
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Arthur Rosenberg.
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And in that book, you are in the biggest chapter
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of all. Scott Coppin, I love you. Thank you so much.
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What a great appearance today. Thank you for the video, too.
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Have a great day out there in California today. And
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tell George Satano he sucks, okay?
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I won't do that. That's my brother, too.
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No, I love him, too. Good to talk to you, Scotty.
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Thank you. Great job. Great job.
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That is my first partner, one of the most decent
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and good people you'll ever meet, my friend Scott Kaplan.
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What the heck is going on here?
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My next guest, who I love dearly, I can't stand
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up nice things.
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About, Scott Kaplan. I already have this morning a bunch
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of times and many other times in the.
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History of this show.
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He's got a horrible governor, too, there, Gavin Newsom, who's also,
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he's on his way out, though.
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Hochul can stick around with a win.
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Newsom is going to leave, and it looks like the
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Democrat Becerra, who's garbage, is going to beat my guy,
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Steve Hilton. But more importantly, Scott Kaplan was the guy
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that gave me my first opportunity in radio, believe it
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or not, almost 30 years ago. Next year will be
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30 years that he gave me that shot on internet radio.
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We had a couple of ups and downs many years ago,
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just like many people in this business. But we are
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closer than brothers. And I love this guy so much.
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And he's so smart. And he had all the answers
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he really did 25 years ago. He's a big star
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out in California, San Diego, Los Angeles, all over the state.
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My first partner and brother, Scott Kaplan.
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Scotty, good morning, buddy. How are you?
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Hello, Sidney.
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Oh, very good from the great movie Scream. Hello, Sidney.
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How are you this morning out there in California?
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Oh, I'm doing great, man. I'm so excited for you.
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I honestly have been thinking to myself, though, how the
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hell did this happen? You know, like, how did you
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become a Hall of Famer? And then I thought another thing.
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which is like when a football player or a baseball
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player goes into a Hall of Fame and they've played
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on multiple teams and you say to them, you say, hey,
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who are you going in as? And I thought to myself, Sid,
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there's been many different iterations of Sid Rosenberg in New
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York radio. And I thought, which Sid Rosenberg is going in?
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What hat are you wearing when you're going in? I'm
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so excited for you guys.
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You know, Scotty, it's not.
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I'm more excited for you than you.
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I know, but it's not just New York.
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I mean, don't forget, I had that 11-year stint where
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I was at 790 The Ticket, 560 WQAM, and the
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last one, which really enabled me to get back to
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New York, 640 Sports, and it all started in Fort Lauderdale,
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Florida with you. So my career is really kind of
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split between Florida and New York. Yes, some big stations here, WFAN,
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WNEW with you, 10-10 wins, and now WABC, but there's
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plenty of Florida love to go around tomorrow as well.
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You know that.
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Oh, I do. Listen, Sid, in the late 90s when
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you and I first started, I mean, the fact of
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the matter is none of us knew what we were doing.
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We were little kids in the business, right?
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I don't know. You were pretty smart. I'll give you
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the credit, man. Say you don't know what you were doing.
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You were pretty smart, Scott.
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Well, thank you. But I mean, all I was doing
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was I was doing the things that I'd heard other
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people do. You know, I'd heard I hear just as
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we were rejoining, I heard that. And I know exactly
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where that comes from. And I listened to Neil Rogers
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as a kid, you know, down in Miami. And I,
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you know, I was I loved Howard Stern. And I,
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you know, I just I was a young kid who
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just desperately wanted that microphone. And then when I was
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given that opportunity, because I really talked my way into it,
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no big surprise. um I just didn't have around me
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what I needed because I was not really like us
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I didn't know everything I didn't know every player I
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didn't know every team I didn't know every coach I
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didn't know all the details I just had a lot
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of strong opinions but you you knew all the details
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back then I'm sure you still do but you literally
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would walk around the office like the mayor of the
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place And your shirt was wide open and you showed
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off your pants and you're walking around to everybody.
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Not, Hey, how you doing?
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Hey, good to see you. I'm like, who the hell
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is this kid? And, and you know, when, when you
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and I started to talk, I realized I know some stuff.
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He knows a lot of stuff. So if I could
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just spout about the stuff I want to apply it about,
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Sid's going to fill in every last detail. And that's
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where in the earliest of days, Sydney, that's where our
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partnership began. Yeah.
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was great right the whole way through to New York.
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the business. And I knew the players and the numbers.
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every year on Radio Row at the Super Bowl.
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And you can schmooze the guy. And then I can say, hey.
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I remember when you played Green Bay and you had
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six catches for 133 off the field.
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The guy goes, how do you know that? I go,
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I know all that. And it was just perfect. I mean, we,
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you know, we, I.
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Remember was talking about this this week and God, I
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felt badly bringing it up, but I have to, because
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this is such a moment to stay tomorrow. But there
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was a guy in Florida who you were friendly with
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and he was a big time program director and his
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name got rest his soul. He got a very young
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man was Andrew Ashwood. And when Andrew Ashwood found out
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that you were going to, embark on your career with me.
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He went to you and he said, because we're about
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to be syndicated about 75 markets across Wisconsin.
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I know exactly where you're going.
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Scott, you got to get rid of this guy. This
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guy's got to, Thick Brooklyn accent. It ain't going to
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work in lacrosse. It ain't going to work in Clarksville.
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And God rest his soul, he could not have been
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more wrong. We would get off the plane. It was
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like the Beatles. And these people loved us. And they
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loved me with the accent. And by the way, at
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no point during my career, and I am in New York, right,
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so it's kind of easy. But at no point in my.
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Career did any of that stuff come back and bite
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me in the ass.
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No, no. And I'll tell you something, Sydney, you know,
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Andrew Ashwood, as you said, God rest his soul. He
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was a great program director.
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He really was.
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He got he got a lot of things right. In
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this case, he got one thing really, really wrong. And
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what he what he didn't understand was is, you know, listen,
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America loved America. Seinfeld. They love Jerry Seinfeld. They love
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this show. And outside of New York, people were like, boy,
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that Jerry Seinfeld sure is an interesting character. And in
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New York, in New York, everybody's like, yeah, that's like
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my neighbor, Jerry, you know, everybody knew him. And so,
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and so the people that weren't in New York found
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him interesting. And the people that were in New York
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found him familiar. And, and I kept saying to Andrew,
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I don't think so. I think in other parts of
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the country, they're going to find Sid's accent interesting and funny.
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They're not going to be offended and turned off like, oh,
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the whole world revolves around New York. So he was
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wrong on that. But you, you were right about something
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you just said. We were so young and we got
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syndicated into all these markets through Westwood One. And we
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would go on these tours because we were trying to
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drum up business because at the time, you know, for
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everybody who's listening at the time, Jim Rome was the
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biggest thing going in sports. And Jim Rome, he had
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this thing called, he was going on these tours and
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he would almost like sell out arenas and he would
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show up in a certain town and all the star
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athletes of the town would come because it was like a,
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it was a celebration of your community that somebody big
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time like him was going.
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To show up.
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You and me, when we show up in these small towns,
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cause we were trying to, again, we were trying to
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grow and, When we show up in these little towns,
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people freaking went crazy.
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They were nuts.
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Because they felt special. They felt special that we were
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leaving South Florida and they were listening to us every day.
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And we actually would show up at their little town
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and broadcast to them. And we would pack these places.
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And we were on our way. And for you, I
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just remember this so vividly, that after we went to
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our first Super Bowl, this was in Atlanta. Do I
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have that right? It was our first Super Bowl.
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Our first Super Bowl together, you and I, was San Diego.
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It was the Packers and the Broncos. You had gone
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the year before to New Orleans with Allison and the
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crew for Parcells and the Packers.
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But me and you did Brett Favre versus John Elway.
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Right.
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But then the next year, the next year was Atlanta,
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as I recall.
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No, the next year, no, the next year, Atlanta played
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in the Super Bowl, Dan Reeves' team, but they got
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walloped by that same Bronco team, but the game was
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in Miami.
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See, here we go. I still got the details, Scotty.
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You see?
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Dude, amazing. Amazing memory. Where were we when we— this is
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how cheesy.
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Oh, no, no, no, no, no. It was.
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It was.
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No, you're right. 1999, Atlanta.
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We were there for the Rams and Titans. Remember when
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they tackled Dyson inside the one, Mike A.
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Jones? You're right. It was Atlanta, Super Bowl, Rams, and Titans.
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Okay. We got back. That Super Bowl ended. We had— this
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is so funny. Nowadays, you go to these Super Bowls,
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these Radio Rose, everybody's got produced like sets and they've
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got signage and everything's very professional looking. Back then, it
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was nothing. We had a guy draw a caricature of
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the two of us on a piece of poster board.
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And everybody that would come by who would guest with
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us would sign the poster board. So you and me
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are sitting there one day and Joe Namath, who we
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both knew at this point because of our relationship with
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Joe down in South Florida, um, through the company sports
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line that we worked for, Joe comes over to sit
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with us and Sydney, I don't know if you remember this,
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I'm getting goosebumps talking about all of a sudden, a
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crowd of people came around. It's you, it's me, it's
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Joe name. It's one of the biggest stars in the
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history of the NFL. And again, this is the late nineties.
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And there must've been hundreds of people standing around just
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listening to us. And in that moment, I could just
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see from you that how much you loved it. And
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then when we got back, I just remember thinking to myself, Sydney,
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calm down, man. Like, we're going to get there. And
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you were like, no, I want it now. And that
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attitude of I want it now in 1999 is why
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you are a Hall of Famer today. Because you wanted
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it so badly. But then after all the years and
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different iterations and moving from sports into news talk slash
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now political talk, it takes so much courage and guts
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and balls to say the stuff you say with conviction.
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by the way, and to put yourself out there when
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your opinions may or may not be the most popular.
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It just takes courage, man. So when you combine where
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you were, which was, I want it now. I actually
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wanted it yesterday versus where you are today, which is,
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I'll say what I want to say. I'll say what
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I think needs to be said. Those are the bookends
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of what makes you now a freaking Hall of Famer.
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Wow, thank you, Scott.
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I remember using the word star too back then when
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Tommy and Allison said, this guy, he's been in this
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thing for 15 minutes. What do you mean he's going
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to be a star? I remember all those conversations I do.
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And listen, They worked for me, you know, and your
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career has been every bit as good as mine. You're
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a tremendous success in California. And you went about things
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a little differently. But you said to me way back
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when we were about 90 seconds to go, you said,
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you know, if you ever lose this job and everybody
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knows my history with drugs and drinking and gambling and
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all my issues, you said you're going to miss the
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microphone more than you miss the drugs. And in the
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many times that I've been fired very publicly over the years,
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you son of a bitch, you are right again. You
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are right again. Man, did I miss that microphone. I
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never want to be there again. You know, Scott, I'm
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going on 11 years here at WABC, 11 years. I
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ain't never leaving this microphone again until they drag me out.
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Of here, if you know what I mean.
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Yeah, that's the way you got to do it, man.
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I mean, really, like, I literally look at Howard, and
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I look at Don before Howard, and I go, why
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would these guys continue to do this? Why wake up
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so early? Why continue to prepare? Why do they do this?
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And it is like a football coach that can't give
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up coaching football.
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That's right.
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It just... It's just something that you are. It's something
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that is normal for you every day. And rather than
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give it up and go live the good life, like
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you could. And I'm saying, you know, if you have
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all the money in the world, it's just, it's just
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part of what you do, man.
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I don't have that.
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If I had Howard's money, I wouldn't be doing this anymore.
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And he's not even good anymore, which is horrible to
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say because he is the greatest of all time. I'm
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with you, but he's not even good anymore. Let me
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just say this. I would not rewrite my career any differently.
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And I really believe in my heart of hearts, I'm
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not patronizing you, Scotty, that I am where I am
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today because I started with you. You were just so smart,
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so prescient. You knew this business when you didn't even
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know the business. That's what I say about Scott. You
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knew the business when you didn't even know the business.
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And you turned out to be right about just about everything.
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You were a wonderful partner. You were a great friend
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and a brother to me. And I love you so much.
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So thank you so much, Scott Kaplan.
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Sydney, I love you, man. I'm so proud of you,
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like I said. And you deserve this honor. And you
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know what, though? This is not the end. Just because
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you're going into the Hall of Fame doesn't mean it's over.
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This is just another chapter in the book of Sydney
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Arthur Rosenberg.
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And in that book, you are in the biggest chapter
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of all. Scott Coppin, I love you. Thank you so much.
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What a great appearance today. Thank you for the video, too.
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Have a great day out there in California today. And
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tell George Satano he sucks, okay?
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I won't do that. That's my brother, too.
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No, I love him, too. Good to talk to you, Scotty.
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Thank you. Great job. Great job.
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That is my first partner, one of the most decent
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and good people you'll ever meet, my friend Scott Kaplan.
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