September 5, 2024 • 36 mins
Dan Martinez is running for Congress CA-31st District...Trying to make a difference in reducing the suicide rate among veterans.// Dan Martinez making a difference supporting our veterans // Eric Shanks, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Producer of FOX Sports. // Eric Shanks on producing the Superbowl in New Orleans 2025
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
It is hot.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's hot, and I don't have to tell you that.
Anywhere you are in southern California, you are pissed. And
here's my tip. I know Angel Martinez. It's may may
have saved her life a couple of times, and I
may give it to you.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Here it is on a daylight today and tomorrow and
Saturday and Sunday went to one hundred degrees. If you
see a guy whose windows are open in his car,
do not honk at him. Do not use your horn,
don't flip him off, don't cut him off. Please don't
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honk at him. You know why. He's on his last nerve.
It's one hundred and thirty in his car. He's pissed
at the air conditioning doesn't work. He's probably either out
of or close to empty in the wallet, and he
could snap when you honk at him. That could be
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what sets him off. Please don't honk at him, not
on a day like today. I wouldn't honk it anybody today,
but especially a guy whose windows are open. He has
no ac and he has no patience either. All right,
here's an update on the guy in the trench. The
man rescued from the trench after six hours, six hours
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to trying to get this guy out of the trench.
He's working in some pool in Low's, Low's Los Felees,
so he said on the radio or on the TV,
Los Felice earlier, Los felis out there working on a
pool and this is the day that he gets caught
in a trench. And the LA Fire department had to
sit there for six hours and try to get this
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guy out. He was buried up to his chest in
dirt and rocks and clay, and they finally got him out,
finally got him out. But can you imagine all these
guys with the hard hats, the coats, you know, the pants,
these firemen who are working their ASTs off. They're probably
dehydrated and just spent.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I wonder how many of them were just thinking to
themselves or even maybe even saying it out like dude,
what are you doing.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Out here today? Right?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
And how many of those guys they'll never say this, right,
but how many of the guys thought to themselves, let's
just put more dirt on this.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
That's when you empathize with like first responders of any
kind of especially on days like this when they got
to help or save people.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That why, yep, I'm with you. Why are we dealing
with this person? I know?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And it wasn't like there were three firefighters. There were
twenty five guys out there working on this, twenty five
and they spent six hours. And it wasn't like they
spent you know, from six am till noon. They got
there like at eleven am or noon. No, they got
there at eleven am, I think ten thirty eleven, and
all the way through the real teeth of this heat,
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they had to sit there and try to get this
guy out of the trench.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
And you got to wonder how serious it is in
the sense of whoever's turn it was to make the
chili back at the station.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Did they just stay back at the at the station? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But also you I imagine at some point the patients
of these firefighters snapped and they probably said to the guy, look,
you didn't put this trench in properly. These are not
proper supports. We're gonna get you out of here, but
you got to get out of this game. This is
not your business. This is not for you, buddy, and
we're tired, we're exhausted. We're going to pull you out
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of here, but we're not coming back again to get you.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
You wonder how many of those guys in the trench
are thinking the same thing. Yeah, this is the last
time I'm doing anything like this.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But you know, Krozer, I always wondered that if you know,
when when firemen are sick, if anyone you know stays.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Home, All right, let's talk. We finally got a hold
of this guy.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
This guy is great, Dan Martinez as well as he's
running for Congress and he's trying to make a difference
among our veterans. And we're going to talk to him
for a little bit here. Sorry, Dan, I had trouble
with my headphones. We finally got that cleared. Dan Martinez,
our you ser.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I'm doing wonderfully and it's an honor to be honest you.
I've been listening since about two thousand and two, two
thousand and three.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I always remember, yeah, And I've always wanted to say
thanks because you passed on some advice that I believe
you got from your dad, which was your kids won't
remember the things you buy them, but they will remember
the places you take them.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Wow, man, oh man, I can't believe you remembered that.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Yeah, and some one of my best memories of my
dad were on different vacations. And also because of that,
I've gone on vacations with friends about and traveled about
forty five different countries. So wow, I just wanted to
say thanks. I appreciate that, buddy.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I am so thrilled. I am so moved that you
remember that.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I of course got that from Jesse Jackson because we
used to do a bit on the show called What
the Hell Jesse Jackson Say, And we played Jesse clips
and people would try to guess what he's saying, mostly kids,
because kids picked up on it pretty quickly. But I
was I was listening to a recording in two thousand
and five. This is two weeks after my daughter was born,
and I'm listening to a Jesse Jackson recording and I'm
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marking down times on the tape to see if we
can use some of the you know, some of the
quotes from that show. And then he said something he
said in that show. It was like literally like October
twentieth two thousand and five. He said, if you're a
new mom or your new dad, it's not what you
buy the kids, it's where you take them. And I
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and I played that back a couple of times and
I said, oh, I said, I'm going to try that.
And after that, every single time I left the house,
I took my daughter with me wherever I went, whether
it was home depot, whether it was the grocery store,
to work, to the racetrack. She went everywhere with me.
And man, you know, knock on word would She's turned
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out to be a really solid, beautiful human being. And
I have to think that Jesse Jackson played a big
part in that. I'm glad that that was transferred onto you.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I appreciate that. That is great. Now did you do
that with your kids? Is that work? Or how old
are you? By the way, I'm forty years old. My
wife and I don't have kids yet.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay, but but you spend a lot of time with
your dad and you picked up on that. That's really
really cool, man. That's I mean, that was that was?
That was twenty years ago, twenty three years ago?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, memory, Yeah, all right, So now you're a beautiful man,
you're helping veterans out. We got to take a break.
Can you stay with us? Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
CA, Okay, all right, this is great. This is Dan Martinez.
He's running for Congress in California's thirty first district and
he's trying to make a difference here with the suicide
rate amongst veterans which is always way too high.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And so we come back, we'll talk to him.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
He is a teacher, a lawyer, an advocate, and man,
this guy's doing something great.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
And I can't believe he remembered that.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So it was eighteen years ago, eighteen and a half
years ago that I said that on the radio and
this guy remembered it.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
That is great.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Dan Martinez is whe us. He's running for Congress in
District thirty one. And mister Martinez, I used to be
a real geography buff, but I'm thinking District thirty one.
That's like San Dimas, Almonte, Baldwin Park, Covina, dwart A, Monrovia, Glendora, Laverne, Belinda,
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Azusa and Irwindale areas.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
That's exactly that's where I was born and raised thank god,
well I was.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Technically I was born in Pasadena's just outside the district,
but raised in the district and lived in Dwarty, Glendora.
Laverne graduated from Damion High School in two thousand and two.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Okay, and who you're running against.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Gil Ciscenarios. He's a lottery winner who's from Orange County.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
All right, all right, that's cool. And what are the polls? Say?
You got a shot here? I do have a shot.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I mean I actually I ran in twenty twenty two
and I got within ten points and the incumbent, Grayson Paulatano,
had been in.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Office for something like twenty years.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Okay, I'm eighty six years old, so yeah, so I was.
I overperformed out of any candidate that cycle.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Good for you. And now you're working to say veterans.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I can't think of anything more honorable than doing that
type of work.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah. So I crossed paths.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Actually, I had a traumatic experience with the parental suicide
in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Oh no, and there was.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Classic symptoms of PTSD that came from that, And I
crossed paths with a brilliant PTSD specialist who happened to
also work with a network of veterans, in particular a
network of Navy fields and Army rangers. Very amazing group
of people, and amongst them, their suicide rate actually is
quite high, much higher than the average veteran population because
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of the subject matter that they actually see on a
daily basis.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Oh man, that's uh, that is the worst.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And I know that you know, suicide obviously affects uh,
you know, not only family, friends, co workers. I mean,
it really has a ripple effect on the on a
lot of people in the community exactly.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I mean, and you'd be surprised that how many times
when I when I speak about this with people, I
would say at least one in three, possibly one in
two says I know somebody that that that went through
went through that went through something similar.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Wow. And and I know, I.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Know a lot of people contemplate suicide, you know, they
think about it as they're driving to work or driving home,
and they'll never do it. They just think out, you know,
that's the easy way out. But man, does it leave
uh you know scars that that are some that are
most of the time permanent.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Well, and it so when you experience classic symptoms of PTSD.
You can imagine it as if you have circuit breakers
in your cerebral cortex that go off because of sensory
slash emotional overload, and then you enter a state of.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Being known yeah, yeah, no, I'm in.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
And if you imagine one of these the veterans that
return home from deployment and like they see their spouse
and they can recognize their spouse, like the left side
of their brain says I know this person, I love
this person, we have kids together.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But they don't feel anything.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Wow, I can't imagine any more anything more debilitating. I
mean to sit there and when you wake up in
the morning, even when you're healthy and you wake up
in the morning, it's hard to get out of bed.
It's hard to start the day. You start, your mind
wanders like what do I have to do? What didn't
I do? Are my kids? Okay? But then you have
you know, obviously you know the chemicals in your brain
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or as you say, you know the circuits that aren't firing.
It makes it impossible for some people and they sit
there and they suffer in silence.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Yes, and the treatments that are available at the VA
in particular are quite ineffective. But on the positive side
of things, there are groups. There are groups of these,
these veterans that have found treatment protocols that have been
shown to be up to eighty five percent effective. Introducing
symptoms of PTSD traumatic brain injury, suicide in negation.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
If somebody is somebody listening right now has PTSD, or
if they have a family member that does, where's a
good resource. Where's a good either website or a phone
number that you can give them so they can start
the journey.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Well, they can contact me personally and I can put
them in contact with with whoever would be best student
for this specific situation.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Okay, and how do the people? Is there a website?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
If they if they send me email, they can send
me an email. With my campaign websites, it's Dan at
Dan Martinez the number, four Congress dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Dan at danmartinezfour dot com, for Congress dot com, Oh
four Congress, All right, Dan at Dan Martinez Fourcongress dot com.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
And And a funny story. Actually, when I was collecting
signatures to get my name qualified for the ballot, I
entered one of the local like gastro pub establishments, and
I saw a local who's who was drinking at the
bar by himself, and noon on a Friday, he was
in overalls, and so it's easy to talk to somebody's
alone as opposed to a family when you're collecting signatures. Sure,
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And he asked me why I was doing this, like
why I would want to run for office, and I said,
I'll work with this group of veterans and they have
a training, a protocol for PTSD and suicide mitigation that
if implemented, could meaningfully reduce the twenty two a day
suicide rate, because it's a twenty two a day, which
is something like two hundred thousand since since since I
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started listening to your showable. The numbers are outrageous. And
so it turns out that that long story short, he
ended up being a veteran who had had PTSD himself.
And I was showing him some of the artwork that
one of the seals walks them through during this protocol,
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and they do before and after pieces and you can
see a visual representation of their emotional state beforehand and
then again afterwards. And then he showed me some of
his artwork, which was essentially before pieces, and so then
I put him in contact with one of the networks
that I have in San Diego. Ended up having to
drive him down the following week because he couldn't quite
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make the drive, and then he painted me one of
the afters, like two weeks after Christmas.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh my god, and you saved that man's life.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I tried to keep my ego in check as much
as possible.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Right, but it was just you know, as an outside
guy looking at observing.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
It, you save that man's life. Thank you? All right?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
So this is this is great if anybody needs help.
Dan at Dan Martinez forocongress dot com.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yes, excellent, buddy. I really appreciate you listening. I really
I love the fact that that you picked up on that,
on that small little tidbit you know, eighteen and a
half years ago that I picked up from Jesse Jackson.
I hope a lot of people had heard that. Again,
it's not what you buy your kids, it's where you
take them. And that changed my life. It absolutely, you know,
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I think more than any one person that I've ever
listened to my life, Jesse Jackson in that one comment
had more to do with my life than anybody I've ever.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Heard in my life. Which is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Buddy, I wish you, I wish you luck and and
please come back again. And I and I and I
and I and you're doing God's work and I think
you should be absolutely awarded for it. I think you
should win by twenty points.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Thank you very much, and a special thanks to everybody
your staff.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You have one of the nicest and.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Like the best energy staff I've ever encountered.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Let's not go crazy, you know, please? All right, Dan,
really appreciate coming on. Good luck and come back with us.
All right, big talk with you. That guy's run it
for congress man.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
There are few things that people can all agree on,
especially in this political climate, but I think this is
something that he hit on that I think everybody should
be able to agree on and support.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah. That what a wild story, man.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
That is great, and what an accomplished guy to you know,
he's a he's a teacher, a lawyer, an advocate, and
you know, born and raised here in southern California.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
We need more people like that, more people like that. Yeah,
I agree with you. All right, we win, come back.
Eric Shanks is with us.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
He is the president, the big wig, the CEO of
Fox Sports nobody is above him in Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
He only reports to the Murdochs. How about that.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
He can fire anybody right now in Fox Sports. So
you guys better behave.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Up too late. Yeah, and we'll talk about Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
They desired Tom Brady and gave him three hundred and
thirty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
That is wild.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I know it's hotter than hell out there. We're gonna
get to when this thing will finally disappear. It doesn't
look like we're gonna get any relief until Monday.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
The National Football League has started, or it's going to
start in about ten minutes there in Kansas City. And
Eric Shanks, who runs Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Is with us. Man, this is great. Nice to see you, buddy.
What are you slip? Is Mike on there?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
What is what an unbelievable day to come in on
the opening day of the NFL.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Yeah, I'm glad you invited me. Yeah, it worked out great.
What a coincidence. I love of the I know you're
a great family man, and to prove that. I remember
last time or one of the times we talked to you.
You were doing the I think it was the Super Bowl.
Was it in Houston or Dallas? They was Houston?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Okay, Houston, And you told me something, and I think
you told me on the air, so I think I
can talk about it.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
But you're such a family.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Guy that that you'd be in Houston and you got,
you know, seven hundred people working for you, and every
position has a redundancy, so if somebody passes out, that
somebody else can fill in for them. And yet every
night you would leave at three o'clock or four o'clock,
take the jet back to your home here in Los
Angeles to have dinner with your kids.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Isn't that true?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
I don't know about every night. I think we did
it once because we were there so long.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Okay, all right, well I tell that story that it's
every night. Yeah, I tell a different version of it
for my wife's cooking. That's right, Yeah, that's exactly right.
But this is a big year, not only for Fox,
but for the NFL. We just talked about how much
money is being gambled on these games. Thirty five billion.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Dollars, yeah, I heard, and that's just what they count. Yeah,
I mean, that's legal now right here. That's not with
even with bookies. Yeah, you know, that's not like you know,
me making a bet with Krozer.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
On the Cowboy.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Think it is probably double this yeh, it's probably gonna
be seventy billion dollars. But I remember, and when you
first started with Fox Sports, it was probably towards you know,
the end of this era. But if any of these
announcers even got close to mentioning the line, they were
suspended or fired.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
I mean you I think on the drive over here,
you're talking about Al Michaels. Yeah, Al used to hide
those little easter eggs and only people who bet, you know,
would know what it was. And we were all looking
forward to it, and he would try to get one
in every game.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
He was great. Yeah, he was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
And and I and and now you watch a football
game and they'll tell you the line.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Oh, sometimes they overdo it ytty much a little bit
because not everybody gambles, that's right, And sometimes they do
get a little over the top. But yeah, I mean
it's a great way for people to pay more attention
to the game later on, like the field goal, like
if a game's out of hand, and you're going to
hit the.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Over right, you're watching right, And even though I'm not
betting on a game, I always like to know what
the line is anyway. Yeah, you know, just so you know,
a guy in Cleveland who's bet his house on it
is on the right side of Ye I was.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
And it's amazing how they're right all the time. It's unreal,
it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
It and more times than not, they get within a
point or two, you know, of of the actual line.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I heard there's one guy in Vegas that does it.
Is that true? I heard there's one guy in Vegas too.
I think I met that guy one time.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I think we've had him on the show too, And
and you know, years and years ago, but there's one
guy that does it.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, I don't that's incredible. I don't understand it. All right.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You guys hired Tom Brady. He didn't he didn't do
any announcing last year. I imagine you've had him in studios
and had him, you know, warming up and practicing for
his big debut, which is going to be this weekend.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Yeah, Dallas at Cleveland is Tom's first game on air
for the world to see.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
And yeah, Cleveland's a great place to watch a game.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Oh, Cliff is a great place to watch a game,
as long as the weather holds up, which it looks good,
it's not one hundred and twelve. But the you know,
Tom has been great, you know over this time of
you know, being able to commit to something once he
made the decision to actually come in and Kevin Burkhardt
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and Aaron Andrews and Tom Ornaldi have been spending a
lot of time doing rehearsal games. We set up these
fake rehearsal games either in studio and we've also taken
them on the road and done kind of a shadow.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Shadow game not on the air. Oh that's cool. Yeah,
So he's really getting the hang of it obviously.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
And you know, just like I remember when if you
look at John Madden's first game and his first on camera.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's horrible. It wasn't It wasn't the John Madden that
everybody remembered.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, it wasn't the tured Ducan or whatever, that stupid thing.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Let's see, you know, just just I think I'm excited
for the country to see the game through his eyes.
I mean, like there's there's nobody that sees the game
like he does.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Do you see do you see similarities in the way
he prepared for you know, as a as a players,
as opposed to what he's doing right now, as far
as his preparation.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
Yeah, I mean last night I talked to me said
he had thirty four pages of notes, which is basically
like a game plan, right and his I think he'll
tell you that he wasn't the most talented quarterback, uh,
but he worked harder than everybody else. And you know
he has he has an eye for the game and
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an and an IQ and a commitment to the game
that that clearly nobody else ever had.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, he's going to see things that you know that
that we don't. It's like Hersheiser with the Dodgers. Since
he started broadcasting with the Dodgers, he can tell you
exactly what pitch is coming next. I mean, the guy
knows you know more about baseball and pitchers than anybody
and it helps it helps me watch the game.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
It makes it more interesting.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I mean we in certain rehearsal games, we would just
throw up random plays that he had never seen before,
and he would tell us what was going to happen. Beforehand,
and we would pause it and say, how do you
know that is that right? And he would tell us
and it was exactly what would happen. Wow, that is great.
Just by the way the offense was lining up. Yeah,
the offense who the center was pointing out for protections
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really who the quarterback was looking at somebody differently, and
he could tell that they weren't on the same page.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
And he said, oh, this is going to go badly.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
The center doesn't know that he's going to hand off
to the left, The hands off to the left, and
the play is completely blow up.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
So that's kind of like a step up from when
we saw Tony Romo come into the booth and everybody
always talked about how he was calling plays out before
they happened.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Like you know, I think from a production perspective, I
personally don't think fans want to hear that all the time,
right right. I think you want to let the game
breathe and you know, look, there's a chance that you
know you're not right, And so I think that'll be
finding his footing with the producer and director to figure
out exactly how much of that versus strategy versus is
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it in a two minute warning?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Things like that.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
It's those moments that nobody else has performed better in
when the game is on the line, you know, final
drive of the game.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Can you stick around? Yeah? Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Eric Shanks with us, he's the president of Fox Sports,
CEO Fox Sports, and you don't respond to anybody other
than the murdocks. I respond to a lot of people, right,
but you don't have to report to anybody other than
the guys who run on the whole place. I still
have a number of bosses, and you your division must
make more money than all the other divisions combined.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I know you're not gonna admit that, but that's probably true.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
I think we're a public company, so I think people know. Okay,
all right, okay, but it's a lot. It's uh, we do, okay,
a lot. It's just a you know, it's a it's
a mom and pop.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Eric Shanks is with us. He runs five Sports. How
long you've been running Fox Sports? Oh gosh, h since
like twenty ten? Is that right? Okay? What is it now?
It's twenty twenty four to fourteen years, fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Wow, you know I started in this same year here
at KFI in twenty ten. Really yeah, in January of
twenty ten, because I remember I started on January fourteenth,
and which was a Monday, and I worked Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and I asked Robin for Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Off, and she goes, got it, mighty. You just you
started here, you worked for three days. You want two
days off?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I said, I know, but I like to front load
my vacation in case it doesn't work out.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
You were the original millennial.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
That's right, Yeah, that's right. Yeah, let's work. But you
talking during the commercial break. You guys now have the Belmont.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
We do have the Bellmon. I think we've had it
for a few years now. And yeah, the last League
of the Triple Crown. We haven't had one yet, so
we're doe all right, But that's gonna be. I mean,
that is the most important one. If somebody can sneak by.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Look, somebody's always going to win the Kentucky Derby, but
that horse can come out and win the Preaked is
every All the eyes are on New York and Belmont
for the third Triple Ground.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Uh, you know, they just are major reconstruction up there too,
So it's gonna be a it's gonna be an amazing facility.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It's gonna be done. And then you guys have the
ND five hundred two.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Yeah, we just got the rights to the IndyCar Series,
including the Indy five hundred. Super excited about that. I
grew up like forty five minutes from that track. Oh, really,
go into it all the time. Where'd you grow up?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Brazil, Indiana?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Okay, I went to Bowling Green State, you know, south
of Toledo, and I used to drive through. I used
to have a friend in Northwestern so I used to
you know, get on the turnpike and drive through there
all the time.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
It's it's it's it is where it is, and it's
the same as it's always been.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
What's the big get in college? Is it? Is it
Notre Dame? Is it the Big Ten?
Speaker 8 (25:48):
What?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
What's the big like the games? Damp?
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Well, clearly I would say the Big Ten because that's
our kind of main conference. And now it has USC
and UCLA, Oregon, Washington, so it's truly the only now
national conference. And then a lot of people would argue,
it's between the Big Ten and the SEC you know,
are the two kind of powerhouse conferences.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
And were you're going to Michigan for a game.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Yeah, We've got Texas at Michigan on the Game of
the Year on Saturday at noon Eastern. And then and
then we pop over to Cleveland, Dallas and Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Okay, first game and I imagine you're not, you know,
taking a greyhound to these cities.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I got to leave, But I love that, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I think it was like six or seven years ago
and you were listening to the show and you were
trying to figure out because you guys always do a
video before the Super Bowl, and then you heard us
play a song that Ragged Old Flag on this station,
and that was the idea for your video.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
It's weird.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
I remember exactly where I was on the four five
exit I was on when I heard that, and then
I think I I asked, Doness, how do I get.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
In touch with you? Right?
Speaker 7 (26:59):
And it Then we talked about it and it really
struck a chord with me, and we used it three times,
I think three different videos.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
We had.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
We had Medal of Honor winners, we had re enactments
that that.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Song was great.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
So it's a Super Bowl year and I'm trying to
figure out exactly what to do.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Hi, we'll get to word. They goin for you.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I think you know, other than yourself, as far as
executives in the sporting world, that Don Martin is great man.
That guy has more passion for sports. You know, a
lot of these guys get into sports, and you know,
these guys they burn out on sports. You know, they
don't care about these games anymore. This guy is still
every day with the Dodgers and you know, with the
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Chargers and talking about these games.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
He's still into it.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
Yeah, I mean, he's just he's such a low energy guy. No, Don,
Don is unbelievable. He'll run circles around you every time.
And if the thing is with Don, and I think
he gets this from Julie, who I think is his boss.
If something doesn't go right, it is like they're running
a sports teams like okay, next play, like I got
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I got to have the next play, and so they're
always ready with something ready to go.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Eric Shanks with us, he runs Fox Sports. You guys
have the Super Bowl again coming up in New Orleans,
it's in New Orleans.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
And how about that right up and Down magazine eating
every night the US. It's one of the places we've
done the most Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
And is that Mercedes Stadium? Is that what they still
call it? I think now it's the least Caesars Caesars. Oh,
that's right, Caesar. Yeah, I think it's Caesar's. And so
we got a lot of great plans.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
It's it's I kind of wanted the one in twenty six.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Because the I think it'd be cool when the country
celebrates the two hundred and fiftieth of seventeen seventy six.
But I've been reading a lot of books on seventeen
seventy five, and we may celebrate the two hundred and
fifty Oh, that's seventeen seventy five, because argue, a lot
of historians will tell you it's more important.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
It's a more important year than seventeen seventy six.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Step us, your MIC's offt oh, he wanted you want
to ask who are the who are the who are
going to be the teams in the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (29:14):
You know, you know, we we pay people a lot
of money to make those predictions. But I would say uh,
you know, from Fox's perspective, first of all Cowboys versus anybody,
and then Cowboys Chiefs would be pretty good, right, Well.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Is the ultimate the ultimate two teams in the Super
Bowl would be Cowboys Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah, that would be awesome. The most popular teams in
the league, is that right? Yeah? Bye? By far? I guess, yeah,
by a good chunk.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Do you remember when when they sold the Clippers and
you know, nobody everyone thought they were going to get like,
you know, fifty grand, sixty grand when they sold the
Clippers and they sold for two billion dollars in.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
A fire sale basically, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
And and then all of a sudden, all these teams
they were worth one hundred and fifty two, three hundred
million dollars are all now to three billllion dollar teams.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Yeah, I mean if and people always think it's got
to stop somewhere, but it's not.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
It's not stopping. I remember what was it.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Steinbrenner bought the Yankees for like eighty million bucks, and
when it was two fifty they said it's got to stop.
And today it came out the Cowboys are worth over
ten billion.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Wow? Is that right? Yeah? They are?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
They the the I mean, if you're going to buy
the premier team, it's the Cowboys and all sports.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
Yeah, at least the ranking that I saw today, I
think they're the most valuable in the world.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, and they get they get of all the teams
out there. Like Krozier is a Cowboys fan, but he
he's never been to Dallas in his life, what sorry,
once in his life and and so but every time Dallas,
you know, plays in LA or Miami or New York, whatever,
half the stadium is Dallas fans.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
We had an amazing stat like five years ago that
was something like, of all the NFL fans in the country,
only four percent have ever been to a stadium. Really
ninety six ninety seven percent only consume and become a
fan of the NFL on television.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Is that right? I did, Man, it's that it's that low.
Only four percent of ever gone. Yeah, that's incredible. It
doesn't sound right, No, it doesn't sound but you know
what it is, it's repeat business. Yeah, you know the
and and then if you ask the four percent how
many games you've been to, it's like one hundred. Yeah,
you know, they keep going and and I look There's
something about going to a game, you know, where you're
sitting in the stands is great, but man, watching it on.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
TV is so easy. It's pretty good. You know, it's
pretty good. It's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
When when you have the Super Bowl in New Orleans,
first of all, you guys are probably already working on them.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Oh one, plans are basically done.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh they are, yeah, and you who's and also when
I have a million questions for you, but who are
the you have it? Like in Fox Sports you have
an eighteen b C and d uh. I don't like
to say that about them, but.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
Yeah, I would say that the cruise that do the
top two games each week will be Tom Brady and
then Greg Olsen, okay, and then the rest of the
cruise just kind of get a signed to a game.
I wouldn't say that there's necessarily a pecking order below
that there. We we think we have the deepest bench,
you know, in all of television, So anybody can do
any game.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
But it's not just the guys who do play by
play and color for the games. But you guys have
you know, all the guys come to Los Angeles you
know to uh, you know, for that whole day of football.
Oh yeah, Bradshaw and all these guys. Yeah, we have
who's that team going to be this year?
Speaker 7 (32:33):
So we have an annual seminar that we bring literally
everybody to to, you know, just kind of set up
some camaraderie before the season starts and talk about football.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
But then you get up there and talk to all
these guys as little as possible.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
The the uh, the pregame team really hasn't changed in
thirty years, right, It's Jimmy Johnson, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long,
Michael Strahan and now we have Gronk.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yeah, and we have.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
On on the on the pre pre show is uh,
you know, Charles Woodson and Michael Vick and Julian Edelman.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Gronk is great. Yeah, Grenk is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah, And I know a lot of a lot of
people say that you got Gronk so you could, you know,
go out and to get you know, de Brady, But
I never bought into that. I think Gronk brings in
that young audience.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Yeah, when you're out with Gronk, it is like being
out with one of the Beatles, right if you're if
you're in that in that target audience, and he'll literally
he's such a team player, he'll literally literally do anything.
We were at the Air Force Academy last year and
we had him jump out of a plane with a football.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
And he was strapped to a guy and the guy
was like a third of his side and he said, hey, uh,
if this thing can, if we get separated, you can
come get me like Tom Cruise.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Right, that's classic. But you know what he comes on,
Gronk comes off on TV. When he first started. I remember,
you know, with brad Shaw and Straighthand and Jimmy Johnson Long.
He is so respectful of those guys. You know he's
in he's in a different league when it comes to
playing football, but he knew he was not in his
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league going into that studio, and man, he didn't jump
on anybody's lines. He didn't you know, try to you know,
overshadow any of these guys. He was the most respectful
guy in the on that set. Yes, definitely he was.
And I think a lot of that comes from being
on winning teams, right, winning teams that have had to
stay together and support each other and respect greatness. That's
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definitely what Gronk, does you know on on on Sundays.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
What do you guys do with NASCAR this year? What
are the big races NASCAR?
Speaker 7 (34:47):
We do Daytona five hundred every year, yep, and then
next year what do we have?
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Next year?
Speaker 7 (34:54):
We go all the way through what they call the
All Star Race, which is so we do you know,
like Darlington and a lot of those classes.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Is there is there any talk of you know, the
NFL doesn't start with the Super Bowl. I know World
Series does, is not the beginning of the season, but
for some reason they still do the dayton at the
beginning of the season.
Speaker 7 (35:13):
Yeah, I mean they still do it. It's a good kickoff
to their year.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
But it's their super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
It is their super Bowl, and they start with it.
And now they do have playoffs at the end, right,
but it doesn't end with a big race.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
It ends with the championship.
Speaker 7 (35:25):
But they've done some things to try to get you know,
more at the end of the year with kind of
a playoff style format.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Buddy, I really appreciate going by. Yeah, thanks for having me,
got dinner with all.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
The Yeah, exactly right, somebody else is paying Yeah, all right,
thank you, man. I really appreciate it. Thanks for the gift. Best. Yeah,
you're welcome, all right, all right, Eric Shanks.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Everybody the NFL on Fox this year. I relyve on
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Speaker 2 (35:47):
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
It is hot.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's hot, and I don't have to tell you that.
Anywhere you are in southern California, you are pissed. And
here's my tip. I know Angel Martinez. It's may may
have saved her life a couple of times, and I
may give it to you.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Here it is on a daylight today and tomorrow and
Saturday and Sunday went to one hundred degrees. If you
see a guy whose windows are open in his car,
do not honk at him. Do not use your horn,
don't flip him off, don't cut him off. Please don't
(00:47):
honk at him. You know why. He's on his last nerve.
It's one hundred and thirty in his car. He's pissed
at the air conditioning doesn't work. He's probably either out
of or close to empty in the wallet, and he
could snap when you honk at him. That could be
(01:09):
what sets him off. Please don't honk at him, not
on a day like today. I wouldn't honk it anybody today,
but especially a guy whose windows are open. He has
no ac and he has no patience either. All right,
here's an update on the guy in the trench. The
man rescued from the trench after six hours, six hours
(01:31):
to trying to get this guy out of the trench.
He's working in some pool in Low's, Low's Los Felees,
so he said on the radio or on the TV,
Los Felice earlier, Los felis out there working on a
pool and this is the day that he gets caught
in a trench. And the LA Fire department had to
sit there for six hours and try to get this
(01:53):
guy out. He was buried up to his chest in
dirt and rocks and clay, and they finally got him out,
finally got him out. But can you imagine all these
guys with the hard hats, the coats, you know, the pants,
these firemen who are working their ASTs off. They're probably
dehydrated and just spent.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I wonder how many of them were just thinking to
themselves or even maybe even saying it out like dude,
what are you doing.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Out here today? Right?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
And how many of those guys they'll never say this, right,
but how many of the guys thought to themselves, let's
just put more dirt on this.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
That's when you empathize with like first responders of any
kind of especially on days like this when they got
to help or save people.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That why, yep, I'm with you. Why are we dealing
with this person? I know?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And it wasn't like there were three firefighters. There were
twenty five guys out there working on this, twenty five
and they spent six hours. And it wasn't like they
spent you know, from six am till noon. They got
there like at eleven am or noon. No, they got
there at eleven am, I think ten thirty eleven, and
all the way through the real teeth of this heat,
(03:07):
they had to sit there and try to get this
guy out of the trench.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
And you got to wonder how serious it is in
the sense of whoever's turn it was to make the
chili back at the station.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Did they just stay back at the at the station? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But also you I imagine at some point the patients
of these firefighters snapped and they probably said to the guy, look,
you didn't put this trench in properly. These are not
proper supports. We're gonna get you out of here, but
you got to get out of this game. This is
not your business. This is not for you, buddy, and
we're tired, we're exhausted. We're going to pull you out
(03:40):
of here, but we're not coming back again to get you.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
You wonder how many of those guys in the trench
are thinking the same thing. Yeah, this is the last
time I'm doing anything like this.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But you know, Krozer, I always wondered that if you know,
when when firemen are sick, if anyone you know stays.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Home, All right, let's talk. We finally got a hold
of this guy.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
This guy is great, Dan Martinez as well as he's
running for Congress and he's trying to make a difference
among our veterans. And we're going to talk to him
for a little bit here. Sorry, Dan, I had trouble
with my headphones. We finally got that cleared. Dan Martinez,
our you ser.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I'm doing wonderfully and it's an honor to be honest you.
I've been listening since about two thousand and two, two
thousand and three.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I always remember, yeah, And I've always wanted to say
thanks because you passed on some advice that I believe
you got from your dad, which was your kids won't
remember the things you buy them, but they will remember
the places you take them.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Wow, man, oh man, I can't believe you remembered that.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Yeah, and some one of my best memories of my
dad were on different vacations. And also because of that,
I've gone on vacations with friends about and traveled about
forty five different countries. So wow, I just wanted to
say thanks. I appreciate that, buddy.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I am so thrilled. I am so moved that you
remember that.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I of course got that from Jesse Jackson because we
used to do a bit on the show called What
the Hell Jesse Jackson Say, And we played Jesse clips
and people would try to guess what he's saying, mostly kids,
because kids picked up on it pretty quickly. But I
was I was listening to a recording in two thousand
and five. This is two weeks after my daughter was born,
and I'm listening to a Jesse Jackson recording and I'm
(05:14):
marking down times on the tape to see if we
can use some of the you know, some of the
quotes from that show. And then he said something he
said in that show. It was like literally like October
twentieth two thousand and five. He said, if you're a
new mom or your new dad, it's not what you
buy the kids, it's where you take them. And I
(05:35):
and I played that back a couple of times and
I said, oh, I said, I'm going to try that.
And after that, every single time I left the house,
I took my daughter with me wherever I went, whether
it was home depot, whether it was the grocery store,
to work, to the racetrack. She went everywhere with me.
And man, you know, knock on word would She's turned
(05:57):
out to be a really solid, beautiful human being. And
I have to think that Jesse Jackson played a big
part in that. I'm glad that that was transferred onto you.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I appreciate that. That is great. Now did you do
that with your kids? Is that work? Or how old
are you? By the way, I'm forty years old. My
wife and I don't have kids yet.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay, but but you spend a lot of time with
your dad and you picked up on that. That's really
really cool, man. That's I mean, that was that was?
That was twenty years ago, twenty three years ago?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, memory, Yeah, all right, So now you're a beautiful man,
you're helping veterans out. We got to take a break.
Can you stay with us? Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
CA, Okay, all right, this is great. This is Dan Martinez.
He's running for Congress in California's thirty first district and
he's trying to make a difference here with the suicide
rate amongst veterans which is always way too high.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And so we come back, we'll talk to him.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
He is a teacher, a lawyer, an advocate, and man,
this guy's doing something great.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
And I can't believe he remembered that.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So it was eighteen years ago, eighteen and a half
years ago that I said that on the radio and
this guy remembered it.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
That is great.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Dan Martinez is whe us. He's running for Congress in
District thirty one. And mister Martinez, I used to be
a real geography buff, but I'm thinking District thirty one.
That's like San Dimas, Almonte, Baldwin Park, Covina, dwart A, Monrovia, Glendora, Laverne, Belinda,
(07:36):
Azusa and Irwindale areas.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
That's exactly that's where I was born and raised thank god,
well I was.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Technically I was born in Pasadena's just outside the district,
but raised in the district and lived in Dwarty, Glendora.
Laverne graduated from Damion High School in two thousand and two.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Okay, and who you're running against.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Gil Ciscenarios. He's a lottery winner who's from Orange County.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
All right, all right, that's cool. And what are the polls? Say?
You got a shot here? I do have a shot.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I mean I actually I ran in twenty twenty two
and I got within ten points and the incumbent, Grayson Paulatano,
had been in.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Office for something like twenty years.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Okay, I'm eighty six years old, so yeah, so I was.
I overperformed out of any candidate that cycle.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Good for you. And now you're working to say veterans.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I can't think of anything more honorable than doing that
type of work.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah. So I crossed paths.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Actually, I had a traumatic experience with the parental suicide
in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Oh no, and there was.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Classic symptoms of PTSD that came from that, And I
crossed paths with a brilliant PTSD specialist who happened to
also work with a network of veterans, in particular a
network of Navy fields and Army rangers. Very amazing group
of people, and amongst them, their suicide rate actually is
quite high, much higher than the average veteran population because
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of the subject matter that they actually see on a
daily basis.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Oh man, that's uh, that is the worst.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
And I know that you know, suicide obviously affects uh,
you know, not only family, friends, co workers. I mean,
it really has a ripple effect on the on a
lot of people in the community exactly.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I mean, and you'd be surprised that how many times
when I when I speak about this with people, I
would say at least one in three, possibly one in
two says I know somebody that that that went through
went through that went through something similar.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Wow. And and I know, I.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Know a lot of people contemplate suicide, you know, they
think about it as they're driving to work or driving home,
and they'll never do it. They just think out, you know,
that's the easy way out. But man, does it leave
uh you know scars that that are some that are
most of the time permanent.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Well, and it so when you experience classic symptoms of PTSD.
You can imagine it as if you have circuit breakers
in your cerebral cortex that go off because of sensory
slash emotional overload, and then you enter a state of.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Being known yeah, yeah, no, I'm in.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
And if you imagine one of these the veterans that
return home from deployment and like they see their spouse
and they can recognize their spouse, like the left side
of their brain says I know this person, I love
this person, we have kids together.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
But they don't feel anything.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Wow, I can't imagine any more anything more debilitating. I
mean to sit there and when you wake up in
the morning, even when you're healthy and you wake up
in the morning, it's hard to get out of bed.
It's hard to start the day. You start, your mind
wanders like what do I have to do? What didn't
I do? Are my kids? Okay? But then you have
you know, obviously you know the chemicals in your brain
(10:53):
or as you say, you know the circuits that aren't firing.
It makes it impossible for some people and they sit
there and they suffer in silence.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Yes, and the treatments that are available at the VA
in particular are quite ineffective. But on the positive side
of things, there are groups. There are groups of these,
these veterans that have found treatment protocols that have been
shown to be up to eighty five percent effective. Introducing
symptoms of PTSD traumatic brain injury, suicide in negation.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
If somebody is somebody listening right now has PTSD, or
if they have a family member that does, where's a
good resource. Where's a good either website or a phone
number that you can give them so they can start
the journey.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Well, they can contact me personally and I can put
them in contact with with whoever would be best student
for this specific situation.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Okay, and how do the people? Is there a website?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
If they if they send me email, they can send
me an email. With my campaign websites, it's Dan at
Dan Martinez the number, four Congress dot com.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Dan at danmartinezfour dot com, for Congress dot com, Oh
four Congress, All right, Dan at Dan Martinez Fourcongress dot com.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
And And a funny story. Actually, when I was collecting
signatures to get my name qualified for the ballot, I
entered one of the local like gastro pub establishments, and
I saw a local who's who was drinking at the
bar by himself, and noon on a Friday, he was
in overalls, and so it's easy to talk to somebody's
alone as opposed to a family when you're collecting signatures. Sure,
(12:31):
And he asked me why I was doing this, like
why I would want to run for office, and I said,
I'll work with this group of veterans and they have
a training, a protocol for PTSD and suicide mitigation that
if implemented, could meaningfully reduce the twenty two a day
suicide rate, because it's a twenty two a day, which
is something like two hundred thousand since since since I
(12:53):
started listening to your showable. The numbers are outrageous. And
so it turns out that that long story short, he
ended up being a veteran who had had PTSD himself.
And I was showing him some of the artwork that
one of the seals walks them through during this protocol,
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and they do before and after pieces and you can
see a visual representation of their emotional state beforehand and
then again afterwards. And then he showed me some of
his artwork, which was essentially before pieces, and so then
I put him in contact with one of the networks
that I have in San Diego. Ended up having to
drive him down the following week because he couldn't quite
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make the drive, and then he painted me one of
the afters, like two weeks after Christmas.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Oh my god, and you saved that man's life.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I tried to keep my ego in check as much
as possible.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Right, but it was just you know, as an outside
guy looking at observing.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
It, you save that man's life. Thank you? All right?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
So this is this is great if anybody needs help.
Dan at Dan Martinez forocongress dot com.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yes, excellent, buddy. I really appreciate you listening. I really
I love the fact that that you picked up on that,
on that small little tidbit you know, eighteen and a
half years ago that I picked up from Jesse Jackson.
I hope a lot of people had heard that. Again,
it's not what you buy your kids, it's where you
take them. And that changed my life. It absolutely, you know,
(14:36):
I think more than any one person that I've ever
listened to my life, Jesse Jackson in that one comment
had more to do with my life than anybody I've ever.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Heard in my life. Which is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Buddy, I wish you, I wish you luck and and
please come back again. And I and I and I
and I and you're doing God's work and I think
you should be absolutely awarded for it. I think you
should win by twenty points.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Thank you very much, and a special thanks to everybody
your staff.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You have one of the nicest and.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Like the best energy staff I've ever encountered.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Let's not go crazy, you know, please? All right, Dan,
really appreciate coming on. Good luck and come back with us.
All right, big talk with you. That guy's run it
for congress man.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
There are few things that people can all agree on,
especially in this political climate, but I think this is
something that he hit on that I think everybody should
be able to agree on and support.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah. That what a wild story, man.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
That is great, and what an accomplished guy to you know,
he's a he's a teacher, a lawyer, an advocate, and
you know, born and raised here in southern California.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
We need more people like that, more people like that. Yeah,
I agree with you. All right, we win, come back.
Eric Shanks is with us.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
He is the president, the big wig, the CEO of
Fox Sports nobody is above him in Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
He only reports to the Murdochs. How about that.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
He can fire anybody right now in Fox Sports. So
you guys better behave.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Up too late. Yeah, and we'll talk about Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
They desired Tom Brady and gave him three hundred and
thirty million dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
That is wild.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I know it's hotter than hell out there. We're gonna
get to when this thing will finally disappear. It doesn't
look like we're gonna get any relief until Monday.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
The National Football League has started, or it's going to
start in about ten minutes there in Kansas City. And
Eric Shanks, who runs Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Is with us. Man, this is great. Nice to see you, buddy.
What are you slip? Is Mike on there?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
What is what an unbelievable day to come in on
the opening day of the NFL.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Yeah, I'm glad you invited me. Yeah, it worked out great.
What a coincidence. I love of the I know you're
a great family man, and to prove that. I remember
last time or one of the times we talked to you.
You were doing the I think it was the Super Bowl.
Was it in Houston or Dallas? They was Houston?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Okay, Houston, And you told me something, and I think
you told me on the air, so I think I
can talk about it.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
But you're such a family.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Guy that that you'd be in Houston and you got,
you know, seven hundred people working for you, and every
position has a redundancy, so if somebody passes out, that
somebody else can fill in for them. And yet every
night you would leave at three o'clock or four o'clock,
take the jet back to your home here in Los
Angeles to have dinner with your kids.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Isn't that true?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
I don't know about every night. I think we did
it once because we were there so long.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Okay, all right, well I tell that story that it's
every night. Yeah, I tell a different version of it
for my wife's cooking. That's right, Yeah, that's exactly right.
But this is a big year, not only for Fox,
but for the NFL. We just talked about how much
money is being gambled on these games. Thirty five billion.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Dollars, yeah, I heard, and that's just what they count. Yeah,
I mean, that's legal now right here. That's not with
even with bookies. Yeah, you know, that's not like you know,
me making a bet with Krozer.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
On the Cowboy.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Think it is probably double this yeh, it's probably gonna
be seventy billion dollars. But I remember, and when you
first started with Fox Sports, it was probably towards you know,
the end of this era. But if any of these
announcers even got close to mentioning the line, they were
suspended or fired.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
I mean you I think on the drive over here,
you're talking about Al Michaels. Yeah, Al used to hide
those little easter eggs and only people who bet, you know,
would know what it was. And we were all looking
forward to it, and he would try to get one
in every game.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
He was great. Yeah, he was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
And and I and and now you watch a football
game and they'll tell you the line.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Oh, sometimes they overdo it ytty much a little bit
because not everybody gambles, that's right, And sometimes they do
get a little over the top. But yeah, I mean
it's a great way for people to pay more attention
to the game later on, like the field goal, like
if a game's out of hand, and you're going to
hit the.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Over right, you're watching right, And even though I'm not
betting on a game, I always like to know what
the line is anyway. Yeah, you know, just so you know,
a guy in Cleveland who's bet his house on it
is on the right side of Ye I was.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
And it's amazing how they're right all the time. It's unreal,
it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
It and more times than not, they get within a
point or two, you know, of of the actual line.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I heard there's one guy in Vegas that does it.
Is that true? I heard there's one guy in Vegas too.
I think I met that guy one time.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I think we've had him on the show too, And
and you know, years and years ago, but there's one
guy that does it.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, I don't that's incredible. I don't understand it. All right.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You guys hired Tom Brady. He didn't he didn't do
any announcing last year. I imagine you've had him in studios
and had him, you know, warming up and practicing for
his big debut, which is going to be this weekend.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Yeah, Dallas at Cleveland is Tom's first game on air
for the world to see.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
And yeah, Cleveland's a great place to watch a game.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Oh, Cliff is a great place to watch a game,
as long as the weather holds up, which it looks good,
it's not one hundred and twelve. But the you know,
Tom has been great, you know over this time of
you know, being able to commit to something once he
made the decision to actually come in and Kevin Burkhardt
(20:24):
and Aaron Andrews and Tom Ornaldi have been spending a
lot of time doing rehearsal games. We set up these
fake rehearsal games either in studio and we've also taken
them on the road and done kind of a shadow.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Shadow game not on the air. Oh that's cool. Yeah,
So he's really getting the hang of it obviously.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
And you know, just like I remember when if you
look at John Madden's first game and his first on camera.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's horrible. It wasn't It wasn't the John Madden that
everybody remembered.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, it wasn't the tured Ducan or whatever, that stupid thing.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Let's see, you know, just just I think I'm excited
for the country to see the game through his eyes.
I mean, like there's there's nobody that sees the game
like he does.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Do you see do you see similarities in the way
he prepared for you know, as a as a players,
as opposed to what he's doing right now, as far
as his preparation.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
Yeah, I mean last night I talked to me said
he had thirty four pages of notes, which is basically
like a game plan, right and his I think he'll
tell you that he wasn't the most talented quarterback, uh,
but he worked harder than everybody else. And you know
he has he has an eye for the game and
(21:38):
an and an IQ and a commitment to the game
that that clearly nobody else ever had.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, he's going to see things that you know that
that we don't. It's like Hersheiser with the Dodgers. Since
he started broadcasting with the Dodgers, he can tell you
exactly what pitch is coming next. I mean, the guy
knows you know more about baseball and pitchers than anybody
and it helps it helps me watch the game.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
It makes it more interesting.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I mean we in certain rehearsal games, we would just
throw up random plays that he had never seen before,
and he would tell us what was going to happen. Beforehand,
and we would pause it and say, how do you
know that is that right? And he would tell us
and it was exactly what would happen. Wow, that is great.
Just by the way the offense was lining up. Yeah,
the offense who the center was pointing out for protections
(22:20):
really who the quarterback was looking at somebody differently, and
he could tell that they weren't on the same page.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
And he said, oh, this is going to go badly.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
The center doesn't know that he's going to hand off
to the left, The hands off to the left, and
the play is completely blow up.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
So that's kind of like a step up from when
we saw Tony Romo come into the booth and everybody
always talked about how he was calling plays out before
they happened.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Like you know, I think from a production perspective, I
personally don't think fans want to hear that all the time,
right right. I think you want to let the game
breathe and you know, look, there's a chance that you
know you're not right, And so I think that'll be
finding his footing with the producer and director to figure
out exactly how much of that versus strategy versus is
(23:04):
it in a two minute warning?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Things like that.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
It's those moments that nobody else has performed better in
when the game is on the line, you know, final
drive of the game.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Can you stick around? Yeah? Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Eric Shanks with us, he's the president of Fox Sports,
CEO Fox Sports, and you don't respond to anybody other
than the murdocks. I respond to a lot of people, right,
but you don't have to report to anybody other than
the guys who run on the whole place. I still
have a number of bosses, and you your division must
make more money than all the other divisions combined.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I know you're not gonna admit that, but that's probably true.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
I think we're a public company, so I think people know. Okay,
all right, okay, but it's a lot. It's uh, we do, okay,
a lot. It's just a you know, it's a it's
a mom and pop.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Eric Shanks is with us. He runs five Sports. How
long you've been running Fox Sports? Oh gosh, h since
like twenty ten? Is that right? Okay? What is it now?
It's twenty twenty four to fourteen years, fourteen fifteen.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Wow, you know I started in this same year here
at KFI in twenty ten. Really yeah, in January of
twenty ten, because I remember I started on January fourteenth,
and which was a Monday, and I worked Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and I asked Robin for Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Off, and she goes, got it, mighty. You just you
started here, you worked for three days. You want two
days off?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I said, I know, but I like to front load
my vacation in case it doesn't work out.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
You were the original millennial.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
That's right, Yeah, that's right. Yeah, let's work. But you
talking during the commercial break. You guys now have the Belmont.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
We do have the Bellmon. I think we've had it
for a few years now. And yeah, the last League
of the Triple Crown. We haven't had one yet, so
we're doe all right, But that's gonna be. I mean,
that is the most important one. If somebody can sneak by.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Look, somebody's always going to win the Kentucky Derby, but
that horse can come out and win the Preaked is
every All the eyes are on New York and Belmont
for the third Triple Ground.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Uh, you know, they just are major reconstruction up there too,
So it's gonna be a it's gonna be an amazing facility.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It's gonna be done. And then you guys have the
ND five hundred two.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Yeah, we just got the rights to the IndyCar Series,
including the Indy five hundred. Super excited about that. I
grew up like forty five minutes from that track. Oh, really,
go into it all the time. Where'd you grow up?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Brazil, Indiana?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Okay, I went to Bowling Green State, you know, south
of Toledo, and I used to drive through. I used
to have a friend in Northwestern so I used to
you know, get on the turnpike and drive through there
all the time.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
It's it's it's it is where it is, and it's
the same as it's always been.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
What's the big get in college? Is it? Is it
Notre Dame? Is it the Big Ten?
Speaker 8 (25:48):
What?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
What's the big like the games? Damp?
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Well, clearly I would say the Big Ten because that's
our kind of main conference. And now it has USC
and UCLA, Oregon, Washington, so it's truly the only now
national conference. And then a lot of people would argue,
it's between the Big Ten and the SEC you know,
are the two kind of powerhouse conferences.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
And were you're going to Michigan for a game.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Yeah, We've got Texas at Michigan on the Game of
the Year on Saturday at noon Eastern. And then and
then we pop over to Cleveland, Dallas and Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Okay, first game and I imagine you're not, you know,
taking a greyhound to these cities.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I got to leave, But I love that, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I think it was like six or seven years ago
and you were listening to the show and you were
trying to figure out because you guys always do a
video before the Super Bowl, and then you heard us
play a song that Ragged Old Flag on this station,
and that was the idea for your video.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
It's weird.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
I remember exactly where I was on the four five
exit I was on when I heard that, and then
I think I I asked, Doness, how do I get.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
In touch with you? Right?
Speaker 7 (26:59):
And it Then we talked about it and it really
struck a chord with me, and we used it three times,
I think three different videos.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
We had.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
We had Medal of Honor winners, we had re enactments
that that.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Song was great.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
So it's a Super Bowl year and I'm trying to
figure out exactly what to do.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Hi, we'll get to word. They goin for you.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I think you know, other than yourself, as far as
executives in the sporting world, that Don Martin is great man.
That guy has more passion for sports. You know, a
lot of these guys get into sports, and you know,
these guys they burn out on sports. You know, they
don't care about these games anymore. This guy is still
every day with the Dodgers and you know, with the
(27:43):
Chargers and talking about these games.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
He's still into it.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
Yeah, I mean, he's just he's such a low energy guy. No, Don,
Don is unbelievable. He'll run circles around you every time.
And if the thing is with Don, and I think
he gets this from Julie, who I think is his boss.
If something doesn't go right, it is like they're running
a sports teams like okay, next play, like I got
(28:06):
I got to have the next play, and so they're
always ready with something ready to go.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Eric Shanks with us, he runs Fox Sports. You guys
have the Super Bowl again coming up in New Orleans,
it's in New Orleans.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
And how about that right up and Down magazine eating
every night the US. It's one of the places we've
done the most Super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
And is that Mercedes Stadium? Is that what they still
call it? I think now it's the least Caesars Caesars. Oh,
that's right, Caesar. Yeah, I think it's Caesar's. And so
we got a lot of great plans.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
It's it's I kind of wanted the one in twenty six.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Because the I think it'd be cool when the country
celebrates the two hundred and fiftieth of seventeen seventy six.
But I've been reading a lot of books on seventeen
seventy five, and we may celebrate the two hundred and
fifty Oh, that's seventeen seventy five, because argue, a lot
of historians will tell you it's more important.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
It's a more important year than seventeen seventy six.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Step us, your MIC's offt oh, he wanted you want
to ask who are the who are the who are
going to be the teams in the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (29:14):
You know, you know, we we pay people a lot
of money to make those predictions. But I would say uh,
you know, from Fox's perspective, first of all Cowboys versus anybody,
and then Cowboys Chiefs would be pretty good, right, Well.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Is the ultimate the ultimate two teams in the Super
Bowl would be Cowboys Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah, that would be awesome. The most popular teams in
the league, is that right? Yeah? Bye? By far? I guess, yeah,
by a good chunk.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Do you remember when when they sold the Clippers and
you know, nobody everyone thought they were going to get like,
you know, fifty grand, sixty grand when they sold the
Clippers and they sold for two billion dollars in.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
A fire sale basically, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
And and then all of a sudden, all these teams
they were worth one hundred and fifty two, three hundred
million dollars are all now to three billllion dollar teams.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Yeah, I mean if and people always think it's got
to stop somewhere, but it's not.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
It's not stopping. I remember what was it.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
Steinbrenner bought the Yankees for like eighty million bucks, and
when it was two fifty they said it's got to stop.
And today it came out the Cowboys are worth over
ten billion.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Wow? Is that right? Yeah? They are?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
They the the I mean, if you're going to buy
the premier team, it's the Cowboys and all sports.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
Yeah, at least the ranking that I saw today, I
think they're the most valuable in the world.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, and they get they get of all the teams
out there. Like Krozier is a Cowboys fan, but he
he's never been to Dallas in his life, what sorry,
once in his life and and so but every time Dallas,
you know, plays in LA or Miami or New York, whatever,
half the stadium is Dallas fans.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
We had an amazing stat like five years ago that
was something like, of all the NFL fans in the country,
only four percent have ever been to a stadium. Really
ninety six ninety seven percent only consume and become a
fan of the NFL on television.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Is that right? I did, Man, it's that it's that low.
Only four percent of ever gone. Yeah, that's incredible. It
doesn't sound right, No, it doesn't sound but you know
what it is, it's repeat business. Yeah, you know the
and and then if you ask the four percent how
many games you've been to, it's like one hundred. Yeah,
you know, they keep going and and I look There's
something about going to a game, you know, where you're
sitting in the stands is great, but man, watching it on.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
TV is so easy. It's pretty good. You know, it's
pretty good. It's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
When when you have the Super Bowl in New Orleans,
first of all, you guys are probably already working on them.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Oh one, plans are basically done.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh they are, yeah, and you who's and also when
I have a million questions for you, but who are
the you have it? Like in Fox Sports you have
an eighteen b C and d uh. I don't like
to say that about them, but.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
Yeah, I would say that the cruise that do the
top two games each week will be Tom Brady and
then Greg Olsen, okay, and then the rest of the
cruise just kind of get a signed to a game.
I wouldn't say that there's necessarily a pecking order below
that there. We we think we have the deepest bench,
you know, in all of television, So anybody can do
any game.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
But it's not just the guys who do play by
play and color for the games. But you guys have
you know, all the guys come to Los Angeles you
know to uh, you know, for that whole day of football.
Oh yeah, Bradshaw and all these guys. Yeah, we have
who's that team going to be this year?
Speaker 7 (32:33):
So we have an annual seminar that we bring literally
everybody to to, you know, just kind of set up
some camaraderie before the season starts and talk about football.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
But then you get up there and talk to all
these guys as little as possible.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
The the uh, the pregame team really hasn't changed in
thirty years, right, It's Jimmy Johnson, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long,
Michael Strahan and now we have Gronk.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yeah, and we have.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
On on the on the pre pre show is uh,
you know, Charles Woodson and Michael Vick and Julian Edelman.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Gronk is great. Yeah, Grenk is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah, And I know a lot of a lot of
people say that you got Gronk so you could, you know,
go out and to get you know, de Brady, But
I never bought into that. I think Gronk brings in
that young audience.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Yeah, when you're out with Gronk, it is like being
out with one of the Beatles, right if you're if
you're in that in that target audience, and he'll literally
he's such a team player, he'll literally literally do anything.
We were at the Air Force Academy last year and
we had him jump out of a plane with a football.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
And he was strapped to a guy and the guy
was like a third of his side and he said, hey, uh,
if this thing can, if we get separated, you can
come get me like Tom Cruise.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Right, that's classic. But you know what he comes on,
Gronk comes off on TV. When he first started. I remember,
you know, with brad Shaw and Straighthand and Jimmy Johnson Long.
He is so respectful of those guys. You know he's
in he's in a different league when it comes to
playing football, but he knew he was not in his
(34:16):
league going into that studio, and man, he didn't jump
on anybody's lines. He didn't you know, try to you know,
overshadow any of these guys. He was the most respectful
guy in the on that set. Yes, definitely he was.
And I think a lot of that comes from being
on winning teams, right, winning teams that have had to
stay together and support each other and respect greatness. That's
(34:40):
definitely what Gronk, does you know on on on Sundays.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
What do you guys do with NASCAR this year? What
are the big races NASCAR?
Speaker 7 (34:47):
We do Daytona five hundred every year, yep, and then
next year what do we have?
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Next year?
Speaker 7 (34:54):
We go all the way through what they call the
All Star Race, which is so we do you know,
like Darlington and a lot of those classes.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Is there is there any talk of you know, the
NFL doesn't start with the Super Bowl. I know World
Series does, is not the beginning of the season, but
for some reason they still do the dayton at the
beginning of the season.
Speaker 7 (35:13):
Yeah, I mean they still do it. It's a good kickoff
to their year.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
But it's their super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (35:18):
It is their super Bowl, and they start with it.
And now they do have playoffs at the end, right,
but it doesn't end with a big race.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
It ends with the championship.
Speaker 7 (35:25):
But they've done some things to try to get you know,
more at the end of the year with kind of
a playoff style format.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Buddy, I really appreciate going by. Yeah, thanks for having me,
got dinner with all.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
The Yeah, exactly right, somebody else is paying Yeah, all right,
thank you, man. I really appreciate it. Thanks for the gift. Best. Yeah,
you're welcome, all right, all right, Eric Shanks.
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