December 19, 2025 • 41 mins
Doug wraps up his time at FOX Sports Radio by taking you through a journey of his radio life. Doug welcomes former co-worker Louise Cornetta, former tech producer John Ramos, and former radio producer Adam Klug on to reminisce about the good time.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
What's it take to make it well? You gotta have
work at you gotta be willing to work when other
people are not. That's that's that's really it. I was
very fortunate to not have to grind the way that
Dan Beyer did early on coming up because at being
a former college basketball player and a fairly notable one.
I got a really good shot in Oklahoma City, making
(00:46):
way more money than you normally do in your first
radio show, and then I was on like a rocket
rocket ship to go to ESPN a year later. But
I do think that it's when you do a radio show,
a TV show, when you do anything. Now, coaching a college,
BEUS team, staff is everything. Surrounding yourself with really good people.
(01:06):
I came here eight years ago. Ryan Music was my producer.
I didn't know Ryan from Adam. What do you remember
Ryan about when we first started linking up and working.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I will tell you, Doug, it was a great pleasure
to get to work with you and launch the show.
And one of my favorite things about you was, after
being your producer and only knowing you for about three months,
you traveled to Israel to coach the Jewish national team
and you asked if I could drop you off at
the airport. I said, no problem, that's not an issue.
(01:39):
And then as we arrived at the Burbank airport, you said,
all right, here's my tesla and have fun for the
next three months. And I was like, okay, I guess
I have myself a brand new Tesla for the next
month or so. While you were in Israel, when I got.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Greg, you said you said it shakes it one twenty.
I was like, dude, easy, Now you're like, yeah, it
shakes it one twenty on.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Oh me either.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I thought Elon had this whole thing figured out with
aerodynamics and rocket ships, but hey, no, listen, Tug. It
was nothing but a pleasure. And obviously the great people
of Green Bay have a good one and know that
you'll only do great things as you lean into this
and purduce the building a great program.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Here's the big question we want to ask, Hey, you're
now Collins producer. Do you take his picks as we
do and bet the opposite? Do you fade all of
his picks in his blazing five? If so, you would
be a multi millionaire right now.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
For this year.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Well, Doug, the fact that I am still Collins producer,
if that map checks out, probably not actually the case.
It's kind of like if you'd won the power Ball,
you'd probably never see me again.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So well, listen, from humble beginnings, you've become a star
from seasun as a volleyball player to my producer now
living in Chicago, living the high life, doing volume stuff
and calling stuff. Congratulations that everything, and thanks you're joining me,
and thanks for all your hard work.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Thank you, Doug.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
That's Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Coming
up next. There's one individual human being that's changed the
trajectory of my life in sports radio more than anyone else,
anyone else. I'm gonna say thank you, yeah, thank you,
and we'll go down memory lane of how I got
(03:23):
started this racket that's up coming next to the Doug
Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
It's the final show on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
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Speaker 4 (03:38):
Hey, what up with you?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. Hope you're having a
great day. What comes you alive? Well, last time from you,
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(04:02):
you hadn't heard, excuse me my last live sports radio
show for the time being, and take a little.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Break from this.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And I'll still do a podcast, just do it, you know,
off business hours, do it from my house. And that's
been really successful, really well received, and I love the
long form aspect of it, and I'll get into that
probably sometime here this hour. So we got one hour left,
and Jason Stewart's like, dude, dude, this is your radio life.
(04:32):
So I am kind of going out of chronological order
a little bit, and I'll I do want to explain
why sports radio means so much to me. I think
I'll do it now. My dad died eleven years ago,
and you know, I mean, like anyone's dad, I would
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think again, how I know is mine?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
He's complicated.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
There's things that were great, there were things that weren't.
But we shared a love of sports, obviously basketball specifically,
but my dad, we love sports. We'd get up every
morning and we had the Orange County Register, the LA Times,
Orange County. He had the New York Post delivered to
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our house even though it was three days late, and
USA Today, and then for that short period of time,
wonderful time, the National Sports Daily. Do you guys remember that?
And we'd have the newspapers out and we'd pass them
around and I would we'd look at box scores and
talk sports. That's what we did for breakfast and when
we were in the car. And then it became sports radio,
(05:44):
and uh, to be on ESPN Radio and to hear
the pride in your voice is something that I can't
quite describe, but I think you all can hopefully understand, right,
(06:09):
hopefully understand. And it was always amazing me because my dad,
he's that classic like Jewish parent where it was like, well,
maybe one day you'll have his show as big as Collins,
Like I have my own show on he has to
me right like I'm doing okay. You know, it was
never quite enough, so there was always a hey, that's great,
(06:31):
but there's still more out there for you. When I
was at CBS Sports Radio, I took the job.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Two reasons.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
One I wanted to do the Final Four and I
wanted to move back to California.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
My dad had had about.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
With cancer, with skin cancer, and I just I also
thought I wanted to have a life and I'll never forget.
ESPN had offered me a five year guaranteed contract worth
way more. It was really interesting how they do business.
They tell you six in a months in advance, they
want to re up you like three months in advance.
(07:12):
They lowball you, and then it comes down the last
wire and finally they get to the number that they
should have got to originally. So they got to the
right number. There was just some things missing in it
that I didn't like, and then I would have had
to I was at Foxwoods Casino. I just a couple
of big casinos in Connecticut. Foxwoods is the lesser known
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of the two, and husbands and wives and we all
went out. The women were going to a Sarah McLachlan concert.
The guys were just going to go and throw the dice,
have a good time. And I'm walking around the casino
with one of my buddies and he was like, Man,
coach your girls in soccer, first time ever.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
That was awesome. You should do it next year.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And I was thinking to myself that I was doing
four to seven radio and for five months out of
the year, I turned off the radio and I'd walk
down the hallway. I'd put on makeup and a tie,
and then I'd do TV until one in the morning.
It was great money, but my kids were going to
school age and I would literally never see them for
five months and I would never see there. I wouldn't
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be there in the afternoon for you know, eleven months,
twelve months of the year. So when I took the
CBS deal, the idea was it was twelve to three
radio in California. I would do a nighttime TV show
at night to night, I'd have every afternoon of my kids.
Didn't work out as great as I thought it would
work out, and two years in they moved me back
(08:35):
to New York where I did my show. It was
simulcast CBS Sports Network and CBS Radio, but my dad
was only live for those last I think four months,
and I was furious that they made me move. I
had the conversation with my boss, which I will never
(08:58):
forgive him for, was, Hey, could I just get six
more months out here?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
It's not great.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
It's spread to his brain and my boss said, you're
Our business with you is in New York. We're giving
you more money to move to New York. But it
ended up being a blessing because my dad saw me
every day for those four months when I was on TV,
and then we talk on the way home every night
except for the ninety past, and him seeing me reinstilled
(09:29):
something which I know to be true. Radio, real talk
radio is a relationship. The people that are really good
at it. You know about their wives, their kids, their lives,
what they do, what they do on the weekend, not
just sports stuff. And many of you have been with
me for this ride the whole time, and I appreciate
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you and we are friends. We just have never met
in person like There's a kid from with state of
Wisconsin who I wanted really, really bad. He went to
a powerful school, powerful school, and I'm friends with the dad,
but the dad doesn't do We didn't know each other,
but we knew each other because he'd listen to me
(10:12):
on air for years. We're still friends now. He turned
us down, went to a bigger school. It's all good,
but it's because radio is a relationship, and relationships are
what business is about. You're never going to get in
unless somebody sticks their neck out for you. You're just
not plenty of guys that can talk sports. When I
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was at Oklahoma State, I wanted to be on the
Jim Rome Show, but Rome was it was very sporadic.
So on ESPN Radio, the only show that would constantly
book me was Todd Right All Night. Todd Right all Night,
and I was the college basketball contributor. Todd's show was
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on overnight. It was outstanding, and my first shot at
national sports radio was my first year out of college.
I was at home in between things.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It was after I played in Russia for a year
and nine to eleven happened, so everything got pushed back
overseas and I got to get a I got a
call from our next guest who invited me to come
up to Bristol, Connecticut and host Todd Wright's show for
two nights because Todd didn't want to fly to Bristol.
And it was the first weekend of sports being back
after nine to eleven. By the way, that first show,
(11:29):
Dan Byer was the day that Tom Brady had to
play because Drew Bledsoe got knocked out by the Jets.
I was watching the game at Sliders, which is a
bar about two miles from Bristol from ESPN, and all
the Pats fans were going Jets fans were going crazy.
And on air that night, this is mid November, Okay,
(11:55):
mid November in two thousand and one, I said, the
Hats season is done because Tom Brady, who couldn't even
win the job full time at Michigan, is now their
their savior.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Oops.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Thank god there was in freezing code. Cold takes that.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The woman who stuck her neck out for me was
Todd Wright's producer. She became my producer, executive producer, my boss,
my work wife. Luis Cornetta joins us now on The
Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio, Luis.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (12:35):
That Scottlieb one of my favorite humans. I am great,
and I am enjoying reminiscing and hearing of the stories.
You have a better memory than I do, because I
forgot about the Tom Brady bit. You think I would
remember that, being a Bostonian, But yes, I remember. We
wanted you to come and join us shortly after. You know,
(12:56):
you were our college basketball expert for what you were playing,
but you had bigger dreams and wanted to continue playing basketball.
So off you went to Russia and other places, and
we were glad when you came back and you said
I'm ready, and yes, we had you fill in, and
wasn't long before we paired you with people like Chuck
(13:16):
Wilson and other veterans on ESPN Radio. But you were
so good we had to give you your own show.
The Doug Gottlieb Show was born.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Well, it wasn't at first the Doug Gottlieb Show, remember, okay,
So it was it was Game Night for three years,
three to six, and then it was the Pulse. And
the pulse was that it was seven to ten at night,
seven to ten at night, and then it became The
Pulse with Doug Gottlieb, and then I believe it was
two thousand and eight, Scott mess Teller came to my
(13:47):
house and said, how'd you like to have the show
named after you and do four to seven? And I said,
let's do it.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Let's roll.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Well.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
I have some memories and I was thinking about you
a lot, and one of the memories I have is
there's a lot of qualities about you that I admire.
One of them is your work ethic. You are certainly
the son of a coach because you were very coachable
on air. You listened and were eager to learn. But
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I remember your work ethic being so strong that, like
you were saying, you would do radios then go to television.
But I remember Hayes being born. He was born during
March madness, right, and and you, you know did you
went to the hospital and then raced to get to
be on TV that night and you didn't want to
miss it. And that was you. You would, you would work.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yourself to the bone.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
And another quality I remember about you and that you
still have is your fearlessness. And it is probably the
quality I admire the most about you. You were not
afraid to ask the tough question. I remember a very
cantankerous interview with the Late Time.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I mean, look, Borda takes out my momy.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
I don't even remember what it was about. But you
were not afraid to ask a tough question where other
people wouldn't. But also when controversy would find you, you
were not shy to say, hey, here's what happened, let
me explain you would you know, meet it head on?
Most people would try and hide. Not you, And I
(15:24):
think that's an incredibly admirable quality.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I get.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I got my favorite story by a favorite story. It's
a sales story. You guys ready for this one? This
is a good one. So the way it worked at
ESPN when Louise would come in and she say, hey,
sales wants to know if you'll do a KFC KFC
read uh And I said, I don't know, Louise, I'm
doing I'm doing this big P nine y X campaign.
(15:52):
If I do KFC, I don't know if that works.
And You're like, look, ads, don't run back to back.
I said, how about this? KFC at the time had
grilled chicken, so I said, I'll do it. Can we
do something about grilled chicken, like, I'll see what I
can do. So that's like, I don't know. Three months later,
I get a script and basically it's like read this.
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So I read it, and I'm doing the P ninety
X campaign. And back then we had a screen with
text messages. The text line right, and I'll never forget.
I'm at a break and we don't hear all the
everything that's running. But apparently back to back was the
KFC ad which was for the double Down. Now, for
people who don't remember the double Down, the double down
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was a piece of fried chicken, another piece of fried chicken,
two pieces of bacon and cheese, and a breadless sandwich
which was a cardiologist dream. Okay, but if you're on
trying to do P ninety x a nightmare and at
the end sales must have gotten to put it or
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try it grilled like I like it, right, And when
I tell you, I got lit up on the text
line from people call me a hypocrite and whatever it was. Uh,
And no, I did not leak the P ninety x
pictures to Sports by Brooks.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
That did not happen. They did not.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Those were internal pictures that that that somebody, somebody liked.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Louise.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
We got to go as you know where I'm always
I always I do have clock issues constantly.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Yes, okay, well.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Then I'm gonna up in thirty seconds quick. That. The
last thing I want to say is I remember a
pivotal one in your career was you would had just
become a dad, and you were whether to be like
the cool young guy on the air or the dad.
And I said, you've got to find out who your
authentic self is. And you did. You said I'm a
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dad and you went all in. And I think because
you just you figured out who your authentic self is
that really had carried you well on the air. And
I am so proud of you for being your authentic
self and saying I want to coach. And you were
following dreams.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Do what.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You do, upshair this day with you, Louise, you mean
the world to meet. You're following your dreams as well
as you're singing and acting in Florida. And I saw
your show last year. It's awesome. It's with every ounce
of my soul. I thank you. I thank you, no no, no,
no, no no no. You change my life forever. You know
(18:26):
you don't you don't get to ESPN list. Somebody goes
in and says, hire this guy, and you and Keith
Kowski did it.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
And I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
You made me proud, you always do. All right, We'll
talk to my friends, all.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Right, Love you, Louis, Thanks so much. Have you heard
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Speaker 4 (18:57):
All right, coming up next, I'll keep it together.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Coming up next. Uh, there's Ramos is gonna join us.
All right, we'll talk some. Yeah, we'll talk. We'll talk
some Ramos, some Fox Sports Radio plus my boy Adam Klug,
who was my producer at at ESPN and uh for
every year at CBS as well. H. I moved his
family back and forth across the country to two different times. Uh,
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but a dear friend who's been with me for this journey.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
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it's super fun? It really is, like I haven't actually worked.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I used to do this all the time.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And when I go and speak to little kids at camp, like, hey,
how many of you guys love sports? How many guys
talk about sports? How many guys get paid to talk
about sports? And I'm like the only one with my
hand up you know it's step So why And I think, uh,
something that's more perception, right, Like the reality is my
(20:21):
basketball team is better this year. And yeah, I've hired
a personal assistant, I've done some things to adjust my
schedule a little bit. But can it be done? Of
course it can be done. There's a little bit of
that Chris Rock. You know, you can drive your feet
your car with your foot, But that don't make it
a good idea, right, so you can do it, doesn't
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make the bigger thing, though, is you gotta have a life, right,
You gotta have a life and I'm still gonna be
doing podcasts.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I'll still be doing stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I don't know what to do with myself when I
you know, when you're just sitting around at home and
we have the podcast all set up, it's been doing well,
and we'll we'll adjust things and you'll be able to
see it.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
On YouTube as well.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But the point is that live sports radio is an
incredible passion of mine. But my dream has always been
to be a head coaching division on Ben's basketball. And
I don't want I don't want to. Haven't gotten this
opportunity to look back and go, you know what, if
in year two I hadn't taken a shot at seeing
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what it's like to not do a live show every day.
I'll tell you there's a guy who we used to
work with who walked away from this place, and he
did so because he wanted to coach. He also wanted
to see I think his daughter and son go to
high school and be kind of a part of that process.
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And when you work, especially when you're in production in
sports radio, you work a lot. You do a lot
more than on air talent. Does you make less money,
You work way harder, You're way more important. John Ramos
is that guy. He's also he walked away from Fox
Sports Radio to work at his daughter's high school, but
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also coach softball, and he's coached baseball for his son
as well. Just I want to be a dad. Ramos,
how are you?
Speaker 6 (22:14):
I'm good, Doug, how are you doing?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
We won a game the other night, got a little chance,
got it, did some recruiting, got some sunshine.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Headed back for one more game here before break.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
All good, all good, yes, yes. By the way, it's
hard to follow somebody who's who you tell them that
you change their lives.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
So.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Trying to follow that person like you changed my life
and next to.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
John Ramos, Sorry, so sorry about that, wrong Ramos, if
you changed my life as well?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Ramos. There you go, there you go, there you go
all part of the promos. Uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
The best part about Ramos is and it's something that
I've come to try and do even in my job now.
And it's different when it's negative ten outside and we
lost a lot of games last year. I never saw
you in a bad mood. How did you maintain that
level of joy?
Speaker 6 (23:08):
I don't know. You know what's funny is even here
at the high school. The teachers will go by and
be like, you're always so happy? Why is that? Like,
I don't know. I think it's just the way I am.
I've always been that way since I was a kid.
Never really had anything to be angry about. So I
enjoyed doing radio for all the years I did it.
I enjoy being here at the high school around the
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students and coaching softball, which this year I'm moving up
to varsity assistant. You should be proud of me, Dug.
I moved up from jav nivarsity assistant this year, coming
up and guess what I'm teaching broadcasting and media and
stuff and so today, so students gave me a plaque
and stuff like that teacher and stuff. So it's been
really great, and I know for you it's going to
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be wonderful as well.
Speaker 9 (23:53):
Does that plaque say sleepy John Ramos on it like
at the White House?
Speaker 6 (23:59):
It way up?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
John. You know why we had you on, right.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Because because you thought I was one of the greatest
techo directors you ever at.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, sure that and because we all just your laugh
is infectious.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
It's literally right, just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Of not a little bit a lot, okay, A lot,
a lot.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
They get it here, but it's during lunchtime and nobody
can hear it.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Oh nobody.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
You know, there's been a lot of great things said
about Doug in this last ninety minutes or so. I
think John can attest to this. When someone says like,
Doug will take the shirt off his back for you,
it's true because it actually happened with John Ramos one
time you wore a Nike.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Do you still have?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
John, I still have that shirt. Dog.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Every time I put it on, I Mike. I hope
I can't take a picture with it because Doug will
be like, Hey, that's the shirt I gave wrong.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Do you remember this?
Speaker 9 (24:59):
You were wearing a Nike, John goes, I like that shirt,
and I don't know what happened, but you just took
it off and gave it to him. Yes, literally took
the shirt off your back.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Yeah. Don't just say it. Live it. Don't just say
it John the next day without washing it as well.
It was crazy, John.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
John one last thing walking away from from from radio
to pursue coaching.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Uh worth it?
Speaker 8 (25:28):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (25:29):
You know?
Speaker 6 (25:30):
I miss I miss radio a lot, I really do.
It was my life, my career for thirty years. It
just was so much fun. I just heard you say
it doesn't even feel like you're working. It doesn't. And
so yes, I do miss it. But I enjoy where
I'm at right now. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy just
like you're gonna. We're already doing it, but just going
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to kind of pull that one hundred percent into it.
And I think the boys or the grown young adults,
however you want to call them in college, it's gonna
advance from you for that.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
So Romise, you're the best. We love you here, we
miss you.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I truly appreciate all those times of making us just
feel good when it wasn't always a great day.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
You're the best, man.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Thanks Ma, Doug, thank you for those eight years. Man,
it was great. And just keep up the great work.
I'm gonna keep following you the do on Instagram and
and all the different social media places and and I
can't wait to see you guys get into the NCAA
tournament at some point.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
You from your lips to God's ears. Yes, not breaking news,
not official, but we're bringing the bringing the Phoenix back
to southern California next next year.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Thanks so much, John, Okay, Doug, have a good one.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Doug gotlib show here on Fox Sports Radio. This show
has been in three different networks, and my producer my
final year at ESPN eventually joined me at CBS Sports
Radio for all five years we are there. He now
runs a radio station in San Diego, the Padres Radio
Station in San Diego. His name's Adam Klug. He joins
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us now here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Cleugar, how are you?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
I'm doing great? Doug? How are you?
Speaker 4 (26:59):
I'm good?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I know I'm getting nostalgic one because I'm old, and
too because I'm not going to be doing live Afternoon Drive,
which you know you and I did together for for
six hours and took so seriously. I think what's most
interesting is, like Jason wouldn't He actually has no idea
about how my approach has changed and how differently he
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and I worked together, as opposed to you and I
work together in setting up topics. So Jason basically lays
out the topics and I just kind of go with it.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
I trust him. He's got good instincts.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
He knows and not that you don't, but you used
to pitch him to me, and guys, I'm telling you
we had knockdown, drag him out arguments.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Do we not?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
We absolutely did. Those are some of the most fun
times though, Like you know, anytime we would get into
it and like look, we would get heated sometimes and
managers remind myself like this, like this is our job, right,
We're just discussing, like what kind of sports to talk
about on the radio, Like what could be better than that?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
And I'm going to apologize for the line that it
was probably once a year I would say the.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Line, it's a show.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Correct, is that the That is that the doucious thing
you could say at the time.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
No, that's not what we should do. We should do this.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
That's clearger. We should do this, and here's why. And
there's one good talk about and I said, that's great.
But you know what the show is called. No, what's
the show called?
Speaker 7 (28:30):
This is the Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Damn right, it is that dog forgot it? So how
you doing, man.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
I'm doing I'm doing great. I'm following you from Afar
and you know, I know that you've been getting nostalgic
and I know that you're you know, I'm not going
to say quitting the national radio scene I'm gonna say
putting it on pause, because you know, you've had such
a tremendous career and I'm sure one day you'll be
doing it again. But I just got to say that
I am so thrilled that you've got this opportunity to
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chase your dreams and become a college basketball coach. I
kind of went through the peaks and valley to hide
and lows with you, And there were some times back
when I worked with you, I was like, man, he
is he leaving me high and dry here, and you know,
going to to become a coach at various stages and
you know they didn't come to fruition, but certainly glad
that you got this opportunity.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Think about we've been friends long enough. You were a
long suffering Atlanta Falcons, Georgia Dog, Georgia Bulldog sports fans.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Still long suffering Falcons.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yes, it's fine, Okay, Braves have won a World Series,
Dogs won two national championships, might well win third?
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Correct?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
What are your thoughts on their chances this year?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
I think that George's got as good a chance as
any other team in the college football payoff, right, Like
I don't think I don't think this Georgia team is
as good as the ones that won the national title.
And I don't really think there's any dominant team. I
think people may have thought Ohio State was that team,
but I don't think that they are. And so I
think that it's a wide open field. Georgia gets to
gets to experience the first round by and I think
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that gout as good a show as anybody.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I mean, it used to be. Listen, it used to
be a yearly thing. Guys.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Where I mean the worst was the super Bowl? Right
that was That was the lowest of I think that
was lower than any other point.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
We did the show, the Doug Gottlieb Show in Houston
for a full week when the Falcons were in the
Super Bowl facing the Patriots. And I'm born and raised
in Atlanta, and so I did everything. I tried all
I could, pulled all the strings I could to try
and stay for the game, because you know, the job
work paid for us to be out there Monday through
Friday and then the plane right home Friday after we
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were done at Radio Row. So I was like, I
gotta change my flight. I got to try and book
additional hotel night and it's not cheap.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
You know.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
The week of the Super Bowl, I got to find
a ticket into the game, and it was going to
cost me a lot of an arm and a leg,
and I decided, you know what, I'm just not going
to do this. I'm going to go home and make
sure that we're all buttoned up and ready to be.
You know, the Monday after the Super Bowl is a
huge day in sports talk greatest. I'm gonna make sure
we're dialed in and ready to go. And boy, was
that one of the worst, you know me, worst sporting
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event I've ever watched as a fan. And I can't
even imagine if I would have dropped out of what
whatever was five or ten grand to stay for that
game and experience that.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
My lord, yeah, you might have left because you were
You're a leave early guy too. You might have left
when when the when the game was game was twenty
twenty eight, twenty eight to three.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
I am a leave early guy. And I kept telling
my wife of like, we got this, we're gonna win,
We're gonna wait. She like, Adam, you're an Atlanta sports fan.
You can't say that you know you've seen this before.
I go, no, No, this time is going to be different.
She's like Adam, and she ended up being right. It
was not different.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I know everybody in this room is good at what
we do. Me and you together at super Bowls five
years a row was magical because you would be tracking
people down.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Brett Favre stopped.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
What he was doing and was leaving and came back
in to do to give us probably a half hour offset,
and the two of us working together where you'd set
them up and I'd knock him down and wouldn't know
Who's coming up next, and still understand how to carry
on a conversation and do these unbelievable interviews.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
It's the best we've ever been.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
I felt like I was in my element at Radio Row.
And it's funny because I was giving this thought when
you know, when Jason reached out to have me on,
I was thinking about kind of some of our highlights
in one of in terms of the interviews, and that
Radio Row in Houston. Do you remember who our final
guest was of the entire week?
Speaker 4 (32:28):
I don't.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
So.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
The Falcons are in the Super Bowl that week against
the Patriots had Arth We had Arthur Blank, the owner
of the Falcons, booked and so the owner of one
of the teams in the Super Bowl. That's a great interview, right.
I mean he was at Radio Row, but we had him,
and so he was on with you. We had the
big stage because the show was on TV simulcast and
all that stuff. So we had the big lights in
the stage, and you're talking to the owner of the Falcons,
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Arthur Blank. And I look over and there's like a
crowd of people kind of leaning on the stage. And
I look over, and who's leaning on the stage. I
assume you remember this, Mike Vick. Michael Vick is leaning
on our stage. And I take my head set off.
I jumped down from my from the little table I
was at and I run over. I kind of grab
his arm and I pulled him up on the stage
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and walked him over in the middle of you talking
Arthur Blank, like, here we go, former Falcons, you know,
franchise quarterback. And obviously this is well after his arrest
and incarceration and out of jail and al there's time
of the Eagles, and it's like, here's the Falcons in
the Super Bowl, and here's the owner of the Falcons,
Arthur Blank, and Mike Vick on The Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Very awesome.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Hey man, you were great at it. You're great to me.
We were an awesome team. Maybe maybe together again someday soon.
But in the meantime, go Dogsco Phoenix rooting for your
boys in the in the playoffs. I'm you know, I've
become a Georgia Bulldog fan. Loved your family. Happy Hanukah
to you. Let's talk soon.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Thank you, Doug. Same to you, and I love you
so much and I wish nothing but the best for you.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
You're the best man.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Have a go one, Doug out the show on Fox
Sports Radio. I forget which one I'm supposed to read.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
What do I owe you? Okay, we're all good. We're
all good.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I got a lot of people to think for most
of the guys in this room. That's coming up next.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Snug Gotleib Show here on Fox Sports Radio. My absolute
favorite Christmas song. Part of it is my mom Jane
in Orange, California, who listens to all of my shows.
Loves that King Cole. Also Johnny Mathis is her favorite.
But my dad used to love that King Cole. So
(34:44):
if you're just joining us my last show on Fox
Sports Radio and the live radio feed, of course, you
can download my podcast All Ball. That's where all the
content will go. So if you already have a subscription
for you, it'll still work, and if not, download it
wherever download podcasts. I've worked here for eight years. Dan
(35:05):
Byer's been here all eight of those years and probably
ninety percent of the shows, and we we today it's
streamed live on YouTube, but we've since I've moved to
Green Bay, we have a zoom which you know could
have been a live stream as well. And I told
him this off air, and I'll tell hi an on air.
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Dan's like a calming influence on me. Right, He's so solid,
so prepared, so knowledgeable, and just he has that calming
kind of voice that honestly when he when we when
I press the zoom button and I can see him,
I just I feel automatically better about the day in
sports radio because I know that if I screw something up,
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he'll know it. If there's a fact that I need,
he knows it, and he also is not afraid to
speak his mind, and that's what this is supposed to
be about. So I don't know what the future of
this portion. I don't have control over that, but I
(36:09):
can tell anybody who's listening, including our bosses, if there's
any ever somebody who deserves an opportunity to have a
weekday show, it is you, Danbyer, because you treat people well.
That's important, but also you're prepared, you have an opinion,
and you just have a great way of speaking in
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your intonation of your voice, the pacing of it, all
of those things, they just work.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
And I truly appreciate our time with the last eight years.
Speaker 9 (36:39):
Well I've appreciated, and it's very kind of you to
say the eight years have gone by. I remember meeting
you in the courtyard, but it wasn't the first time
that I met you. Have told this story before. It
was when you were doing the Great Outdoor Games for
ESPN in two thousand and four and I was working
at an iheartstation in Madison. We were an ESPN affiliate
at that time. You were with ESPN, and you came
(37:00):
over and we just chatted us up, and so I
always had this impression of man, Doug Gottlieb's a good guy,
just comes over shoots the bull. Never would have thought
that thirteen, fourteen years later or whatever it would be,
that we would form an eight year relationship, but travels here,
there and everywhere, teeing it up. It's been an honor,
been an honor to share the microphone with you for
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these eight years.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Thanks Sammy.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
You you've probably been with us the least amount of time,
but you are a resident Cliff Claven and you're colorful,
and I've also your love and knowledge of college football.
It tickles the heart of me and Dan, especially because
you're out here in California, you know where people don't
care as much.
Speaker 11 (37:40):
You know what's funny is I actually got I got
here to Fox Sports Radio. It'll be ten years in May,
but I got here like right before you did. But
I worked with you a lot on filling basis, and
it was always like, I gotta work with Doug. He's
going to keep me on my toes. You sharpened me.
You sharpened me as a tech producer because be throwed
to update, throw this sound, throw to that, and you
really got to be ready.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
But I want to say that.
Speaker 11 (38:01):
Maybe I say you about fifteen, maybe even twenty years ago,
I saw you on TV and I'm like, who is
this Doug Gottlieb. He's a smart ass. He's like he's
really really hard on teams. Maybe Steve Alford was coaching
IOWA and I remember seeing you on TV and I'm like,
I don't know if I like this guy. I never
thought I would be working with you all these years later.
So it's been an experience, I'll tell you that. And
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we have, Phil. I have worked with you off and
on for like the last eight years. How long have
you been here in the last two and a half
two years or so full time? But we'll miss you, Doug,
and we'll miss all the crazy high jinks on the show.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
And now I grew up listening to Rome and Jay
Stu was part of Rome, so we've known each other forever,
and I begged him to join us a couple of
years before he ultimately join us. Jacet, you've been awesome, man.
Speaker 10 (38:47):
Well, I appreciate it back at you and I did well.
You told the story earlier in the show, but soon
after Will Hancock had reached out to me and said this,
Doug Gottlieb wants to be your college basketball correspond it.
I got a phone call in my office one day.
I don't know if I arranged it or if you
just felt the need to call it to sell me
a little bit more. And I talked to it. Was
nineteen ninety nine, November nineteen ninety nine. Maybe flash forward
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twenty two years. We're in the middle of the pandemic.
Scott Shapiro calls me and says, Doug wants you to
produce this radio show. This business is full circle, full cycle.
And I appreciate everything that you've done for me in
my career, and I appreciate our friendship.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Thanks Shejay to those of you who listened for the
last twenty three years. You've been moving through basketball, different jobs, marriage, kids, divorce,
now coaching. I appreciate your radio's relationship. Consider me your friend.
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If I said something to piss you off, is just
because I thought your sports team of your player wasn't
as good as some other sports teamer player. It was
for the most part and never personal. And it's it's
it's a pleasure you zoom out of your life and
I'm not yet fifty. I always dreamed of being on
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TV playing basketball.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
I did that.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
I always dreamed of doing this, of talking about sports,
and I've always dreamed about being a Division one men's
head basketball coach. And you know, I don't know if
this clears up more time to have a better life.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
I've worked Chris.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Christmases, Thanksgivings, any holiday, anytime. I'm a never say no guy.
Can't say you want something and go well, I want
it on my time. Doesn't work that way. It doesn't
work that way. But to the people at iHeart to
Scott Shapiro and Don Martin who brought me over here,
I appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (40:53):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
To Chris Olivero at CBS Sports Radio, I thank you.
I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
To Luis Cornetta, to Bruce Over who is then at
ESPN Radio, I appreciate you. And to my kids that
I missed a lot of stuff. But you've got a
lot of stuff because I got all this time on
sports radio. Try and be a better man, try and
be a better dad, and I'll try and be a
better coach. It's not goodbye forever. You can still check
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out the podcast, but for now it's bidding I do
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
What's it take to make it well? You gotta have
work at you gotta be willing to work when other
people are not. That's that's that's really it. I was
very fortunate to not have to grind the way that
Dan Beyer did early on coming up because at being
a former college basketball player and a fairly notable one.
I got a really good shot in Oklahoma City, making
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way more money than you normally do in your first
radio show, and then I was on like a rocket
rocket ship to go to ESPN a year later. But
I do think that it's when you do a radio show,
a TV show, when you do anything. Now, coaching a college,
BEUS team, staff is everything. Surrounding yourself with really good people.
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I came here eight years ago. Ryan Music was my producer.
I didn't know Ryan from Adam. What do you remember
Ryan about when we first started linking up and working.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I will tell you, Doug, it was a great pleasure
to get to work with you and launch the show.
And one of my favorite things about you was, after
being your producer and only knowing you for about three months,
you traveled to Israel to coach the Jewish national team
and you asked if I could drop you off at
the airport. I said, no problem, that's not an issue.
(01:39):
And then as we arrived at the Burbank airport, you said,
all right, here's my tesla and have fun for the
next three months. And I was like, okay, I guess
I have myself a brand new Tesla for the next
month or so. While you were in Israel, when I got.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Greg, you said you said it shakes it one twenty.
I was like, dude, easy, Now you're like, yeah, it
shakes it one twenty on.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Oh me either.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I thought Elon had this whole thing figured out with
aerodynamics and rocket ships, but hey, no, listen, Tug. It
was nothing but a pleasure. And obviously the great people
of Green Bay have a good one and know that
you'll only do great things as you lean into this
and purduce the building a great program.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Here's the big question we want to ask, Hey, you're
now Collins producer. Do you take his picks as we
do and bet the opposite? Do you fade all of
his picks in his blazing five? If so, you would
be a multi millionaire right now.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
For this year.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Well, Doug, the fact that I am still Collins producer,
if that map checks out, probably not actually the case.
It's kind of like if you'd won the power Ball,
you'd probably never see me again.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So well, listen, from humble beginnings, you've become a star
from seasun as a volleyball player to my producer now
living in Chicago, living the high life, doing volume stuff
and calling stuff. Congratulations that everything, and thanks you're joining me,
and thanks for all your hard work.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Thank you, Doug.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
That's Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Coming
up next. There's one individual human being that's changed the
trajectory of my life in sports radio more than anyone else,
anyone else. I'm gonna say thank you, yeah, thank you,
and we'll go down memory lane of how I got
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started this racket that's up coming next to the Doug
Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
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Speaker 4 (03:38):
Hey, what up with you?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
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(04:02):
you hadn't heard, excuse me my last live sports radio
show for the time being, and take a little.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Break from this.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And I'll still do a podcast, just do it, you know,
off business hours, do it from my house. And that's
been really successful, really well received, and I love the
long form aspect of it, and I'll get into that
probably sometime here this hour. So we got one hour left,
and Jason Stewart's like, dude, dude, this is your radio life.
(04:32):
So I am kind of going out of chronological order
a little bit, and I'll I do want to explain
why sports radio means so much to me. I think
I'll do it now. My dad died eleven years ago,
and you know, I mean, like anyone's dad, I would
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think again, how I know is mine?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
He's complicated.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
There's things that were great, there were things that weren't.
But we shared a love of sports, obviously basketball specifically,
but my dad, we love sports. We'd get up every
morning and we had the Orange County Register, the LA Times,
Orange County. He had the New York Post delivered to
(05:20):
our house even though it was three days late, and
USA Today, and then for that short period of time,
wonderful time, the National Sports Daily. Do you guys remember that?
And we'd have the newspapers out and we'd pass them
around and I would we'd look at box scores and
talk sports. That's what we did for breakfast and when
we were in the car. And then it became sports radio,
(05:44):
and uh, to be on ESPN Radio and to hear
the pride in your voice is something that I can't
quite describe, but I think you all can hopefully understand, right,
(06:09):
hopefully understand. And it was always amazing me because my dad,
he's that classic like Jewish parent where it was like, well,
maybe one day you'll have his show as big as Collins,
Like I have my own show on he has to
me right like I'm doing okay. You know, it was
never quite enough, so there was always a hey, that's great,
(06:31):
but there's still more out there for you. When I
was at CBS Sports Radio, I took the job.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Two reasons.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
One I wanted to do the Final Four and I
wanted to move back to California.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
My dad had had about.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
With cancer, with skin cancer, and I just I also
thought I wanted to have a life and I'll never forget.
ESPN had offered me a five year guaranteed contract worth
way more. It was really interesting how they do business.
They tell you six in a months in advance, they
want to re up you like three months in advance.
(07:12):
They lowball you, and then it comes down the last
wire and finally they get to the number that they
should have got to originally. So they got to the
right number. There was just some things missing in it
that I didn't like, and then I would have had
to I was at Foxwoods Casino. I just a couple
of big casinos in Connecticut. Foxwoods is the lesser known
(07:34):
of the two, and husbands and wives and we all
went out. The women were going to a Sarah McLachlan concert.
The guys were just going to go and throw the dice,
have a good time. And I'm walking around the casino
with one of my buddies and he was like, Man,
coach your girls in soccer, first time ever.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
That was awesome. You should do it next year.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
And I was thinking to myself that I was doing
four to seven radio and for five months out of
the year, I turned off the radio and I'd walk
down the hallway. I'd put on makeup and a tie,
and then I'd do TV until one in the morning.
It was great money, but my kids were going to
school age and I would literally never see them for
five months and I would never see there. I wouldn't
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be there in the afternoon for you know, eleven months,
twelve months of the year. So when I took the
CBS deal, the idea was it was twelve to three
radio in California. I would do a nighttime TV show
at night to night, I'd have every afternoon of my kids.
Didn't work out as great as I thought it would
work out, and two years in they moved me back
(08:35):
to New York where I did my show. It was
simulcast CBS Sports Network and CBS Radio, but my dad
was only live for those last I think four months,
and I was furious that they made me move. I
had the conversation with my boss, which I will never
(08:58):
forgive him for, was, Hey, could I just get six
more months out here?
Speaker 4 (09:01):
It's not great.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
It's spread to his brain and my boss said, you're
Our business with you is in New York. We're giving
you more money to move to New York. But it
ended up being a blessing because my dad saw me
every day for those four months when I was on TV,
and then we talk on the way home every night
except for the ninety past, and him seeing me reinstilled
(09:29):
something which I know to be true. Radio, real talk
radio is a relationship. The people that are really good
at it. You know about their wives, their kids, their lives,
what they do, what they do on the weekend, not
just sports stuff. And many of you have been with
me for this ride the whole time, and I appreciate
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you and we are friends. We just have never met
in person like There's a kid from with state of
Wisconsin who I wanted really, really bad. He went to
a powerful school, powerful school, and I'm friends with the dad,
but the dad doesn't do We didn't know each other,
but we knew each other because he'd listen to me
(10:12):
on air for years. We're still friends now. He turned
us down, went to a bigger school. It's all good,
but it's because radio is a relationship, and relationships are
what business is about. You're never going to get in
unless somebody sticks their neck out for you. You're just
not plenty of guys that can talk sports. When I
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was at Oklahoma State, I wanted to be on the
Jim Rome Show, but Rome was it was very sporadic.
So on ESPN Radio, the only show that would constantly
book me was Todd Right All Night. Todd Right all Night,
and I was the college basketball contributor. Todd's show was
(10:55):
on overnight. It was outstanding, and my first shot at
national sports radio was my first year out of college.
I was at home in between things.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It was after I played in Russia for a year
and nine to eleven happened, so everything got pushed back
overseas and I got to get a I got a
call from our next guest who invited me to come
up to Bristol, Connecticut and host Todd Wright's show for
two nights because Todd didn't want to fly to Bristol.
And it was the first weekend of sports being back
after nine to eleven. By the way, that first show,
(11:29):
Dan Byer was the day that Tom Brady had to
play because Drew Bledsoe got knocked out by the Jets.
I was watching the game at Sliders, which is a
bar about two miles from Bristol from ESPN, and all
the Pats fans were going Jets fans were going crazy.
And on air that night, this is mid November, Okay,
(11:55):
mid November in two thousand and one, I said, the
Hats season is done because Tom Brady, who couldn't even
win the job full time at Michigan, is now their
their savior.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Oops.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Thank god there was in freezing code. Cold takes that.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The woman who stuck her neck out for me was
Todd Wright's producer. She became my producer, executive producer, my boss,
my work wife. Luis Cornetta joins us now on The
Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio, Luis.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (12:35):
That Scottlieb one of my favorite humans. I am great,
and I am enjoying reminiscing and hearing of the stories.
You have a better memory than I do, because I
forgot about the Tom Brady bit. You think I would
remember that, being a Bostonian, But yes, I remember. We
wanted you to come and join us shortly after. You know,
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you were our college basketball expert for what you were playing,
but you had bigger dreams and wanted to continue playing basketball.
So off you went to Russia and other places, and
we were glad when you came back and you said
I'm ready, and yes, we had you fill in, and
wasn't long before we paired you with people like Chuck
(13:16):
Wilson and other veterans on ESPN Radio. But you were
so good we had to give you your own show.
The Doug Gottlieb Show was born.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Well, it wasn't at first the Doug Gottlieb Show, remember, okay,
So it was it was Game Night for three years,
three to six, and then it was the Pulse. And
the pulse was that it was seven to ten at night,
seven to ten at night, and then it became The
Pulse with Doug Gottlieb, and then I believe it was
two thousand and eight, Scott mess Teller came to my
(13:47):
house and said, how'd you like to have the show
named after you and do four to seven? And I said,
let's do it.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Let's roll.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Well.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
I have some memories and I was thinking about you
a lot, and one of the memories I have is
there's a lot of qualities about you that I admire.
One of them is your work ethic. You are certainly
the son of a coach because you were very coachable
on air. You listened and were eager to learn. But
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I remember your work ethic being so strong that, like
you were saying, you would do radios then go to television.
But I remember Hayes being born. He was born during
March madness, right, and and you, you know did you
went to the hospital and then raced to get to
be on TV that night and you didn't want to
miss it. And that was you. You would, you would work.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yourself to the bone.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
And another quality I remember about you and that you
still have is your fearlessness. And it is probably the
quality I admire the most about you. You were not
afraid to ask the tough question. I remember a very
cantankerous interview with the Late Time.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I mean, look, Borda takes out my momy.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
I don't even remember what it was about. But you
were not afraid to ask a tough question where other
people wouldn't. But also when controversy would find you, you
were not shy to say, hey, here's what happened, let
me explain you would you know, meet it head on?
Most people would try and hide. Not you, And I
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think that's an incredibly admirable quality.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I get.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I got my favorite story by a favorite story. It's
a sales story. You guys ready for this one? This
is a good one. So the way it worked at
ESPN when Louise would come in and she say, hey,
sales wants to know if you'll do a KFC KFC
read uh And I said, I don't know, Louise, I'm
doing I'm doing this big P nine y X campaign.
(15:52):
If I do KFC, I don't know if that works.
And You're like, look, ads, don't run back to back.
I said, how about this? KFC at the time had
grilled chicken, so I said, I'll do it. Can we
do something about grilled chicken, like, I'll see what I
can do. So that's like, I don't know. Three months later,
I get a script and basically it's like read this.
(16:15):
So I read it, and I'm doing the P ninety
X campaign. And back then we had a screen with
text messages. The text line right, and I'll never forget.
I'm at a break and we don't hear all the
everything that's running. But apparently back to back was the
KFC ad which was for the double Down. Now, for
people who don't remember the double Down, the double down
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was a piece of fried chicken, another piece of fried chicken,
two pieces of bacon and cheese, and a breadless sandwich
which was a cardiologist dream. Okay, but if you're on
trying to do P ninety x a nightmare and at
the end sales must have gotten to put it or
(16:57):
try it grilled like I like it, right, And when
I tell you, I got lit up on the text
line from people call me a hypocrite and whatever it was. Uh,
And no, I did not leak the P ninety x
pictures to Sports by Brooks.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
That did not happen. They did not.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Those were internal pictures that that that somebody, somebody liked.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Louise.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
We got to go as you know where I'm always
I always I do have clock issues constantly.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Yes, okay, well.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
Then I'm gonna up in thirty seconds quick. That. The
last thing I want to say is I remember a
pivotal one in your career was you would had just
become a dad, and you were whether to be like
the cool young guy on the air or the dad.
And I said, you've got to find out who your
authentic self is. And you did. You said I'm a
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dad and you went all in. And I think because
you just you figured out who your authentic self is
that really had carried you well on the air. And
I am so proud of you for being your authentic
self and saying I want to coach. And you were
following dreams.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Do what.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You do, upshair this day with you, Louise, you mean
the world to meet. You're following your dreams as well
as you're singing and acting in Florida. And I saw
your show last year. It's awesome. It's with every ounce
of my soul. I thank you. I thank you, no no, no,
no, no no no. You change my life forever. You know
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you don't you don't get to ESPN list. Somebody goes
in and says, hire this guy, and you and Keith
Kowski did it.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
And I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
You made me proud, you always do. All right, We'll
talk to my friends, all.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Right, Love you, Louis, Thanks so much. Have you heard
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Speaker 4 (18:57):
All right, coming up next, I'll keep it together.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Coming up next. Uh, there's Ramos is gonna join us.
All right, we'll talk some. Yeah, we'll talk. We'll talk
some Ramos, some Fox Sports Radio plus my boy Adam Klug,
who was my producer at at ESPN and uh for
every year at CBS as well. H. I moved his
family back and forth across the country to two different times. Uh,
(19:22):
but a dear friend who's been with me for this journey.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
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it's super fun? It really is, like I haven't actually worked.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I used to do this all the time.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And when I go and speak to little kids at camp, like, hey,
how many of you guys love sports? How many guys
talk about sports? How many guys get paid to talk
about sports? And I'm like the only one with my
hand up you know it's step So why And I think, uh,
something that's more perception, right, Like the reality is my
(20:21):
basketball team is better this year. And yeah, I've hired
a personal assistant, I've done some things to adjust my
schedule a little bit. But can it be done? Of
course it can be done. There's a little bit of
that Chris Rock. You know, you can drive your feet
your car with your foot, But that don't make it
a good idea, right, so you can do it, doesn't
(20:41):
make the bigger thing, though, is you gotta have a life, right,
You gotta have a life and I'm still gonna be
doing podcasts.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I'll still be doing stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I don't know what to do with myself when I
you know, when you're just sitting around at home and
we have the podcast all set up, it's been doing well,
and we'll we'll adjust things and you'll be able to
see it.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
On YouTube as well.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But the point is that live sports radio is an
incredible passion of mine. But my dream has always been
to be a head coaching division on Ben's basketball. And
I don't want I don't want to. Haven't gotten this
opportunity to look back and go, you know what, if
in year two I hadn't taken a shot at seeing
(21:23):
what it's like to not do a live show every day.
I'll tell you there's a guy who we used to
work with who walked away from this place, and he
did so because he wanted to coach. He also wanted
to see I think his daughter and son go to
high school and be kind of a part of that process.
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And when you work, especially when you're in production in
sports radio, you work a lot. You do a lot
more than on air talent. Does you make less money,
You work way harder, You're way more important. John Ramos
is that guy. He's also he walked away from Fox
Sports Radio to work at his daughter's high school, but
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also coach softball, and he's coached baseball for his son
as well. Just I want to be a dad. Ramos,
how are you?
Speaker 6 (22:14):
I'm good, Doug, how are you doing?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
We won a game the other night, got a little chance,
got it, did some recruiting, got some sunshine.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Headed back for one more game here before break.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
All good, all good, yes, yes. By the way, it's
hard to follow somebody who's who you tell them that
you change their lives.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
So.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
Trying to follow that person like you changed my life
and next to.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
John Ramos, Sorry, so sorry about that, wrong Ramos, if
you changed my life as well?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Ramos. There you go, there you go, there you go
all part of the promos. Uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
The best part about Ramos is and it's something that
I've come to try and do even in my job now.
And it's different when it's negative ten outside and we
lost a lot of games last year. I never saw
you in a bad mood. How did you maintain that
level of joy?
Speaker 6 (23:08):
I don't know. You know what's funny is even here
at the high school. The teachers will go by and
be like, you're always so happy? Why is that? Like,
I don't know. I think it's just the way I am.
I've always been that way since I was a kid.
Never really had anything to be angry about. So I
enjoyed doing radio for all the years I did it.
I enjoy being here at the high school around the
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students and coaching softball, which this year I'm moving up
to varsity assistant. You should be proud of me, Dug.
I moved up from jav nivarsity assistant this year, coming
up and guess what I'm teaching broadcasting and media and
stuff and so today, so students gave me a plaque
and stuff like that teacher and stuff. So it's been
really great, and I know for you it's going to
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be wonderful as well.
Speaker 9 (23:53):
Does that plaque say sleepy John Ramos on it like
at the White House?
Speaker 6 (23:59):
It way up?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
John. You know why we had you on, right.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Because because you thought I was one of the greatest
techo directors you ever at.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, sure that and because we all just your laugh
is infectious.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
It's literally right, just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Of not a little bit a lot, okay, A lot,
a lot.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
They get it here, but it's during lunchtime and nobody
can hear it.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Oh nobody.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
You know, there's been a lot of great things said
about Doug in this last ninety minutes or so. I
think John can attest to this. When someone says like,
Doug will take the shirt off his back for you,
it's true because it actually happened with John Ramos one
time you wore a Nike.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Do you still have?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
John, I still have that shirt. Dog.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Every time I put it on, I Mike. I hope
I can't take a picture with it because Doug will
be like, Hey, that's the shirt I gave wrong.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Do you remember this?
Speaker 9 (24:59):
You were wearing a Nike, John goes, I like that shirt,
and I don't know what happened, but you just took
it off and gave it to him. Yes, literally took
the shirt off your back.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Yeah. Don't just say it. Live it. Don't just say
it John the next day without washing it as well.
It was crazy, John.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
John one last thing walking away from from from radio
to pursue coaching.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Uh worth it?
Speaker 8 (25:28):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (25:29):
You know?
Speaker 6 (25:30):
I miss I miss radio a lot, I really do.
It was my life, my career for thirty years. It
just was so much fun. I just heard you say
it doesn't even feel like you're working. It doesn't. And
so yes, I do miss it. But I enjoy where
I'm at right now. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy just
like you're gonna. We're already doing it, but just going
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to kind of pull that one hundred percent into it.
And I think the boys or the grown young adults,
however you want to call them in college, it's gonna
advance from you for that.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
So Romise, you're the best. We love you here, we
miss you.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I truly appreciate all those times of making us just
feel good when it wasn't always a great day.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
You're the best, man.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Thanks Ma, Doug, thank you for those eight years. Man,
it was great. And just keep up the great work.
I'm gonna keep following you the do on Instagram and
and all the different social media places and and I
can't wait to see you guys get into the NCAA
tournament at some point.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
You from your lips to God's ears. Yes, not breaking news,
not official, but we're bringing the bringing the Phoenix back
to southern California next next year.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Thanks so much, John, Okay, Doug, have a good one.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Doug gotlib show here on Fox Sports Radio. This show
has been in three different networks, and my producer my
final year at ESPN eventually joined me at CBS Sports
Radio for all five years we are there. He now
runs a radio station in San Diego, the Padres Radio
Station in San Diego. His name's Adam Klug. He joins
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us now here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Cleugar, how are you?
Speaker 5 (26:57):
I'm doing great? Doug? How are you?
Speaker 4 (26:59):
I'm good?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I know I'm getting nostalgic one because I'm old, and
too because I'm not going to be doing live Afternoon Drive,
which you know you and I did together for for
six hours and took so seriously. I think what's most
interesting is, like Jason wouldn't He actually has no idea
about how my approach has changed and how differently he
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and I worked together, as opposed to you and I
work together in setting up topics. So Jason basically lays
out the topics and I just kind of go with it.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
I trust him. He's got good instincts.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
He knows and not that you don't, but you used
to pitch him to me, and guys, I'm telling you
we had knockdown, drag him out arguments.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Do we not?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
We absolutely did. Those are some of the most fun
times though, Like you know, anytime we would get into
it and like look, we would get heated sometimes and
managers remind myself like this, like this is our job, right,
We're just discussing, like what kind of sports to talk
about on the radio, Like what could be better than that?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
And I'm going to apologize for the line that it
was probably once a year I would say the.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Line, it's a show.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Correct, is that the That is that the doucious thing
you could say at the time.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
No, that's not what we should do. We should do this.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
That's clearger. We should do this, and here's why. And
there's one good talk about and I said, that's great.
But you know what the show is called. No, what's
the show called?
Speaker 7 (28:30):
This is the Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Damn right, it is that dog forgot it? So how
you doing, man.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
I'm doing I'm doing great. I'm following you from Afar
and you know, I know that you've been getting nostalgic
and I know that you're you know, I'm not going
to say quitting the national radio scene I'm gonna say
putting it on pause, because you know, you've had such
a tremendous career and I'm sure one day you'll be
doing it again. But I just got to say that
I am so thrilled that you've got this opportunity to
(29:03):
chase your dreams and become a college basketball coach. I
kind of went through the peaks and valley to hide
and lows with you, And there were some times back
when I worked with you, I was like, man, he
is he leaving me high and dry here, and you know,
going to to become a coach at various stages and
you know they didn't come to fruition, but certainly glad
that you got this opportunity.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Think about we've been friends long enough. You were a
long suffering Atlanta Falcons, Georgia Dog, Georgia Bulldog sports fans.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Still long suffering Falcons.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yes, it's fine, Okay, Braves have won a World Series,
Dogs won two national championships, might well win third?
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Correct?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
What are your thoughts on their chances this year?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
I think that George's got as good a chance as
any other team in the college football payoff, right, Like
I don't think I don't think this Georgia team is
as good as the ones that won the national title.
And I don't really think there's any dominant team. I
think people may have thought Ohio State was that team,
but I don't think that they are. And so I
think that it's a wide open field. Georgia gets to
gets to experience the first round by and I think
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that gout as good a show as anybody.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I mean, it used to be. Listen, it used to
be a yearly thing. Guys.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Where I mean the worst was the super Bowl? Right
that was That was the lowest of I think that
was lower than any other point.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
We did the show, the Doug Gottlieb Show in Houston
for a full week when the Falcons were in the
Super Bowl facing the Patriots. And I'm born and raised
in Atlanta, and so I did everything. I tried all
I could, pulled all the strings I could to try
and stay for the game, because you know, the job
work paid for us to be out there Monday through
Friday and then the plane right home Friday after we
(30:40):
were done at Radio Row. So I was like, I
gotta change my flight. I got to try and book
additional hotel night and it's not cheap.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
You know.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
The week of the Super Bowl, I got to find
a ticket into the game, and it was going to
cost me a lot of an arm and a leg,
and I decided, you know what, I'm just not going
to do this. I'm going to go home and make
sure that we're all buttoned up and ready to be.
You know, the Monday after the Super Bowl is a
huge day in sports talk greatest. I'm gonna make sure
we're dialed in and ready to go. And boy, was
that one of the worst, you know me, worst sporting
(31:06):
event I've ever watched as a fan. And I can't
even imagine if I would have dropped out of what
whatever was five or ten grand to stay for that
game and experience that.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
My lord, yeah, you might have left because you were
You're a leave early guy too. You might have left
when when the when the game was game was twenty
twenty eight, twenty eight to three.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
I am a leave early guy. And I kept telling
my wife of like, we got this, we're gonna win,
We're gonna wait. She like, Adam, you're an Atlanta sports fan.
You can't say that you know you've seen this before.
I go, no, No, this time is going to be different.
She's like Adam, and she ended up being right. It
was not different.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
I know everybody in this room is good at what
we do. Me and you together at super Bowls five
years a row was magical because you would be tracking
people down.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Brett Favre stopped.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
What he was doing and was leaving and came back
in to do to give us probably a half hour offset,
and the two of us working together where you'd set
them up and I'd knock him down and wouldn't know
Who's coming up next, and still understand how to carry
on a conversation and do these unbelievable interviews.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
It's the best we've ever been.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
I felt like I was in my element at Radio Row.
And it's funny because I was giving this thought when
you know, when Jason reached out to have me on,
I was thinking about kind of some of our highlights
in one of in terms of the interviews, and that
Radio Row in Houston. Do you remember who our final
guest was of the entire week?
Speaker 4 (32:28):
I don't.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
So.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
The Falcons are in the Super Bowl that week against
the Patriots had Arth We had Arthur Blank, the owner
of the Falcons, booked and so the owner of one
of the teams in the Super Bowl. That's a great interview, right.
I mean he was at Radio Row, but we had him,
and so he was on with you. We had the
big stage because the show was on TV simulcast and
all that stuff. So we had the big lights in
the stage, and you're talking to the owner of the Falcons,
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Arthur Blank. And I look over and there's like a
crowd of people kind of leaning on the stage. And
I look over, and who's leaning on the stage. I
assume you remember this, Mike Vick. Michael Vick is leaning
on our stage. And I take my head set off.
I jumped down from my from the little table I
was at and I run over. I kind of grab
his arm and I pulled him up on the stage
(33:14):
and walked him over in the middle of you talking
Arthur Blank, like, here we go, former Falcons, you know,
franchise quarterback. And obviously this is well after his arrest
and incarceration and out of jail and al there's time
of the Eagles, and it's like, here's the Falcons in
the Super Bowl, and here's the owner of the Falcons,
Arthur Blank, and Mike Vick on The Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Very awesome.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Hey man, you were great at it. You're great to me.
We were an awesome team. Maybe maybe together again someday soon.
But in the meantime, go Dogsco Phoenix rooting for your
boys in the in the playoffs. I'm you know, I've
become a Georgia Bulldog fan. Loved your family. Happy Hanukah
to you. Let's talk soon.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Thank you, Doug. Same to you, and I love you
so much and I wish nothing but the best for you.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
You're the best man.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Have a go one, Doug out the show on Fox
Sports Radio. I forget which one I'm supposed to read.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
What do I owe you? Okay, we're all good. We're
all good.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I got a lot of people to think for most
of the guys in this room. That's coming up next.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Snug Gotleib Show here on Fox Sports Radio. My absolute
favorite Christmas song. Part of it is my mom Jane
in Orange, California, who listens to all of my shows.
Loves that King Cole. Also Johnny Mathis is her favorite.
But my dad used to love that King Cole. So
(34:44):
if you're just joining us my last show on Fox
Sports Radio and the live radio feed, of course, you
can download my podcast All Ball. That's where all the
content will go. So if you already have a subscription
for you, it'll still work, and if not, download it
wherever download podcasts. I've worked here for eight years. Dan
(35:05):
Byer's been here all eight of those years and probably
ninety percent of the shows, and we we today it's
streamed live on YouTube, but we've since I've moved to
Green Bay, we have a zoom which you know could
have been a live stream as well. And I told
him this off air, and I'll tell hi an on air.
(35:26):
Dan's like a calming influence on me. Right, He's so solid,
so prepared, so knowledgeable, and just he has that calming
kind of voice that honestly when he when we when
I press the zoom button and I can see him,
I just I feel automatically better about the day in
sports radio because I know that if I screw something up,
(35:48):
he'll know it. If there's a fact that I need,
he knows it, and he also is not afraid to
speak his mind, and that's what this is supposed to
be about. So I don't know what the future of
this portion. I don't have control over that, but I
(36:09):
can tell anybody who's listening, including our bosses, if there's
any ever somebody who deserves an opportunity to have a
weekday show, it is you, Danbyer, because you treat people well.
That's important, but also you're prepared, you have an opinion,
and you just have a great way of speaking in
(36:33):
your intonation of your voice, the pacing of it, all
of those things, they just work.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
And I truly appreciate our time with the last eight years.
Speaker 9 (36:39):
Well I've appreciated, and it's very kind of you to
say the eight years have gone by. I remember meeting
you in the courtyard, but it wasn't the first time
that I met you. Have told this story before. It
was when you were doing the Great Outdoor Games for
ESPN in two thousand and four and I was working
at an iheartstation in Madison. We were an ESPN affiliate
at that time. You were with ESPN, and you came
(37:00):
over and we just chatted us up, and so I
always had this impression of man, Doug Gottlieb's a good guy,
just comes over shoots the bull. Never would have thought
that thirteen, fourteen years later or whatever it would be,
that we would form an eight year relationship, but travels here,
there and everywhere, teeing it up. It's been an honor,
been an honor to share the microphone with you for
(37:21):
these eight years.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Thanks Sammy.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
You you've probably been with us the least amount of time,
but you are a resident Cliff Claven and you're colorful,
and I've also your love and knowledge of college football.
It tickles the heart of me and Dan, especially because
you're out here in California, you know where people don't
care as much.
Speaker 11 (37:40):
You know what's funny is I actually got I got
here to Fox Sports Radio. It'll be ten years in May,
but I got here like right before you did. But
I worked with you a lot on filling basis, and
it was always like, I gotta work with Doug. He's
going to keep me on my toes. You sharpened me.
You sharpened me as a tech producer because be throwed
to update, throw this sound, throw to that, and you
really got to be ready.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
But I want to say that.
Speaker 11 (38:01):
Maybe I say you about fifteen, maybe even twenty years ago,
I saw you on TV and I'm like, who is
this Doug Gottlieb. He's a smart ass. He's like he's
really really hard on teams. Maybe Steve Alford was coaching
IOWA and I remember seeing you on TV and I'm like,
I don't know if I like this guy. I never
thought I would be working with you all these years later.
So it's been an experience, I'll tell you that. And
(38:24):
we have, Phil. I have worked with you off and
on for like the last eight years. How long have
you been here in the last two and a half
two years or so full time? But we'll miss you, Doug,
and we'll miss all the crazy high jinks on the show.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
And now I grew up listening to Rome and Jay
Stu was part of Rome, so we've known each other forever,
and I begged him to join us a couple of
years before he ultimately join us. Jacet, you've been awesome, man.
Speaker 10 (38:47):
Well, I appreciate it back at you and I did well.
You told the story earlier in the show, but soon
after Will Hancock had reached out to me and said this,
Doug Gottlieb wants to be your college basketball correspond it.
I got a phone call in my office one day.
I don't know if I arranged it or if you
just felt the need to call it to sell me
a little bit more. And I talked to it. Was
nineteen ninety nine, November nineteen ninety nine. Maybe flash forward
(39:13):
twenty two years. We're in the middle of the pandemic.
Scott Shapiro calls me and says, Doug wants you to
produce this radio show. This business is full circle, full cycle.
And I appreciate everything that you've done for me in
my career, and I appreciate our friendship.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Thanks Shejay to those of you who listened for the
last twenty three years. You've been moving through basketball, different jobs, marriage, kids, divorce,
now coaching. I appreciate your radio's relationship. Consider me your friend.
(39:50):
If I said something to piss you off, is just
because I thought your sports team of your player wasn't
as good as some other sports teamer player. It was
for the most part and never personal. And it's it's
it's a pleasure you zoom out of your life and
I'm not yet fifty. I always dreamed of being on
(40:12):
TV playing basketball.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
I did that.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
I always dreamed of doing this, of talking about sports,
and I've always dreamed about being a Division one men's
head basketball coach. And you know, I don't know if
this clears up more time to have a better life.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
I've worked Chris.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Christmases, Thanksgivings, any holiday, anytime. I'm a never say no guy.
Can't say you want something and go well, I want
it on my time. Doesn't work that way. It doesn't
work that way. But to the people at iHeart to
Scott Shapiro and Don Martin who brought me over here,
I appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (40:53):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
To Chris Olivero at CBS Sports Radio, I thank you.
I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
To Luis Cornetta, to Bruce Over who is then at
ESPN Radio, I appreciate you. And to my kids that
I missed a lot of stuff. But you've got a
lot of stuff because I got all this time on
sports radio. Try and be a better man, try and
be a better dad, and I'll try and be a
better coach. It's not goodbye forever. You can still check
(41:20):
out the podcast, but for now it's bidding I do
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
This is the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Host
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