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It's been a busy day in the world of sports. Tua Tonga Valo has been benched. Time in Miami might have a might be coming to a close. New York Knicks won the NBA Cup last night. No banner for the New York Knicks.
They're like, Oh, the NBA Cup, who cares? They're right. Nobody cares. Lakers put up a banner, Bucs put up a banner, not the New York Knicks. And Bucs won a championship recently.
Lakers won a championship in a pandemic. They'll be okay. Anyway, we talked about A.J. Brown. It's been reported by ESPN he might be traded in the offseason.
It's a possibility. Puka Nakua is ripping the refs. He thinks the referees in the NFL will suck. Get over it. And then one thing that we're about to do right now.
It's about to be over. This is going to be the last. The final Top six list here. On the Infinity Sports Network. It is.
Yeah, you can always listen. for a couple more days. On the free Odyssey app, your local affiliate, SiriusXM375. and a smart speaker if you have one. I keep copious amounts of notes.
I have notes from every single show that I've done. Botcher Over these past going on six years. on what was CBS Sports Radio, then the Infinity Sports Network. I have done 1,000, approximately, yeah, about 1,714 shows. About.
Closer to probably uh Maybe yeah, probably yeah, about one thousand 730. Probably probably be more accurate. That's a lot. Is it yeah right? There's a lot.
You do paper notes or like digital? Because paper notes would be like, how many notebooks would that be? What do I look like? What do you think? You think I'm sitting down doing this on paper, or you think I'm doing it digitally?
I probably know you're doing it digitally. But at the same time, there are people that sometimes remember things better if you write it by hand.
So I wouldn't be surprised. But easy if you do digital. Shout outs to my main man, Steve Summers. Shout outs to Steve. Let me talk to Steve, ask him how he's doing.
See how he's doing. He wrote stuff on. Did you ever, have you ever, you never met Steve, did you? No. I've met him, talked to him a little bit.
Oh, good. You can always tell when he's here. Oh boy, okay. Yeah.
Okay. He's here probably every week now for the last couple of weeks.
Okay. All right. You you getting secondhand smoke or something? Uh no, it just reminds me of like Atlantic City, just a little bit.
Okay. All right. But it's he's he's great.
So we love I love him. I love Steve.
So there you have it.
Okay. Eight eight eight seven ten at four I S N. That's 8 at 8710-4ISN. Yeah, 1,714 shows, 1,730 shows, whatever the accurate number is. There's only two more after this one, so enjoy it.
And so today for tonight's top six list, I didn't want to Give you no holiday stuff. I didn't want to tell you what I want for 2026. I didn't want to get into the holidays. I didn't want to do any of that. Top six teams.
Look, I've been doing the damn top six. Before I even been on the radio, the top six list has existed for more than 15 years. It's something I started on YouTube. And if you're not familiar, if you just listen to me on the radio, Yeah, I am I am I got no shame in it. I am the original.
I am the OG. I am the most successful. sports blogger. From when this stuff got started. Period.
That's it.
Now, everybody is live streaming and this and that. I was the first. Was I the first? No. Okay, there's a couple of people who started sports video blogging, of course.
I was the first one to have the type of success that I've had. to do T V and do radio and pop up in Christmas movies that people will remind me about very soon. I've traveled the world. I've been able to do projects and go on tours. It's there's there's a lot that I started, and this is way before TikToks and Instagrams and Facebook.
And the great thing is And Bacha may disagree. I'm not that old. And so it's a lot of fun, everything that I've been able to. They're just doing a process of things. And so today for our final Top six list.
I just personally wanted to Walk down memory lane. I want us to think about some of my favorite interviews. And a lot of the interviews, some of them took place here. on the Infiniti Sports Network and CBS Sports Radio. But there's so many years of interviews.
I'm talking 10, 11, 12 plus years of interviews. that I just conducted strictly on the internet, just strictly Online. It was It was a lot of fun. And so today I wanted to share that with you. I think by the time we get to Monday, what do you think about this, Botcher?
I've had a lot of callers. Over the years. Fun callers. I love taking calls.
Some sports radio shows, they just want to hear themselves talk all day and. You know, some people, how about we do this on Monday? How about we play?
Some of my favorite calls on Monday. How about we do that? That works. It's like a tribute to the fans. Yeah, I remember.
And then we'll take some calls. One of my favorite callers of all time. They had a repo a repo man, you heard about that before, right? Was this the guy that got pulled over? No, that's a separate one.
Oh, wow.
Some of these are classics. There was a. There's one guy who got pulled over and he called up and. He says, Hey, JR got pulled over by the cops. And the cop heard that I was listening to you.
The cop was also listening to you. And he let me off of a ticket. And I'm like, well, good for you. 'Cause a cop sure pulled my ass over. They ain't got no problem doing that for me.
They don't spare me nothing, okay? Give me a break.
So that's one guy. No, but Bachelor was a a repo man. Um He he repossessed cars and he would call me at night. While he was repossessing cars, people loved him. He was a repo man.
He said he almost got shot one time. I'm not surprised. It's that dangerous job. He said you got to pay your bill, you know, otherwise, he's going to get that car. That's it.
Yeah, oh, well, he wasn't in danger on air, right? If he got shot on the air, I. What am I supposed to do? I'm supposed to stop and call 911. What am I going to do?
Most likely, but how are you supposed to like? You don't know where he is. I can't do anything, right? We just listened somebody got shot live on the radio. Yeah.
Well, that'd be a first right. We'd probably make the news for all the wrong reasons. You're calling us up for evidence and asking the station for evidence. Yeah, we don't need that. Anyway, we'll pull some of the best calls.
Shoutouts to Susan from Massachusetts. You say I'm I'm giving her uh Well A big O, okay? Shoutouts to Susan. I love Susan. Anyway, let's get to these damn interviews.
It's the final top six list. ever here. on the Infinity Sports Network, CBS Sports Radio, something that I created a long, very very long very very long time ago. On the internet. Let's go.
Six, five. Four, three.
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Okay, I have been around the world. I've met many people. I've interviewed a who's who. Damn it. I.
I think at one time I interviewed Michelle Obama at the Olympics in 2012. There was a point in time, damn it, I interviewed, God bless, God rest his soul, I interviewed Pele. I've sat down with Snoop Dogg. LL Cooje told me he used to watch my boxing videos on YouTube. I've sat down with Kevin Hart.
People have told. Me and Kevin Hart, that we look alike. I'm looking at him. He's looking at me. I'm going, I don't know.
Do you know? I don't know. But I'm gonna share with you some other interviews. I'm going to share with you some of my top six favorite interviews. of all Time.
And let's start off right here. What number is it? Number six. This interview is special to me. Because man, I ain't sitting around watching no NASCAR.
I see NASCAR and I see stuff going and going and going and going and going and going and going. I'm like, what am I watching this for? And then shout outs to my main man, uh my main man Ryan. He introduced me to NASCAR. He took me to some of the tracks.
This man had me out in Martinsville. He had me here in Atlanta, Atlanta Motor Speed. He took me everywhere. He had me in Charlotte. Had me changing tires.
And in one day, He had me up in Brooklyn, Michigan. Shout outs to everybody in Brooklyn, Michigan. Shout outs to Michigan, Grand Rapids to Detroit. Love y'all. Kalamazoo, everything in between.
And I interviewed Dale Earnhardt Jr. How about this? Dale Earnhardt Jr. was on my 1000th YouTube video. But then I met him another time.
And I found out that we could almost be related. As we started to talk about Hair, yes, at number six on my list, Dale Earnhardt Jr., one of my favorite interviews. Who would have thought? Listen to this. Michigan International Speedway, and this man was on my 1000 episode.
You may remember the face. It's Dale Earnhardt Jr. Dale say, what's up, everybody? How y'all doing? How you doing?
I'm doing great, man. That's good. It's good to see you again. Cloudy day out here, but you know, people may have cloudy heads, but that's why we're here working with suave men, suave heritage line. I know you said earlier you wish you had like long rock star hair.
Yeah, I know. Hey, if you, I mean, you know, they asked me what kind of haircut I wish I could have, or I wish I could rock, and I think. I've never, you know, can't grow that long hair. I just ain't got it.
So when my hair grows, it grows up and out. But it'd be cool to have a rockstar hair haircut for a week or so.
So maybe if it goes grows up and down, maybe get a little afro, maybe a little bit. That's exactly what it looks like when it grows out. We're gonna okay, so maybe you may be my brother and I don't even know. Who would have thought me and Dale Hart Jr. could be related?
I mean, I got a afro right now. I got a curly fro. Who would have thought that me and Dale. Would be related. Shout out to Dare Earnhardt Jr.
You know, you meet some people. They are very few people that I've ever met. That I just said, I don't like this guy. This guy's a pain in the ass. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
is just a. Normal, cool ass guy. And shout outs to Dale Earnhardt Jr. My top six favorite interviews of all time at number six, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Where are we going next?
Number five. Oh, this one is cool. I've interviewed him twice. I interviewed him one time. I don't even know when.
Maybe, I don't know, 2010. I think it was at uh I think it's maybe NCA tournament or something like that. I don't know. But then I interviewed him again in the pandemic. His name.
is Kareem. Abdul. Jabbar, yeah, I spoke to Kareem a couple times. And then, you know, as guys get older, you just try to appreciate these moments speaking. To these legends.
And so we spoke to Karim. That interview aired right here on CBS Sports Radio, the Infinity Sports Network. And let's just say Kareem, I asked him about the Lakers. And he knew about the Lakers because this was in 2023. And so I'm asking him what he thinks a team can do and he's telling me about health.
I think he was talking about that Anthony Davis guy. And then he admitted openly, he's like, man. I don't be watching the rest of the NBA JR. Like, leave me alone. Listen to Kareem tell you about it.
Thoughts, what's your preview for this upcoming Lakers season?
Well, I I know Lakers are going to be contenders if they're healthy. No, but that's a big if. It's hard to get through the season without having. A key injury. But uh If they can stay healthy, I'm sure they'll be contenders, but they're not the only ones out there.
And because I haven't watched any of the other teams as closely as I've watched the Lakers, I I can't give you any of my. Great predictions, but it'll be an interesting season for sure because there's always new talent coming in. There's always new talent coming in. And I, you know, even in that interview, we talked about Victor Web and Yama coming up. I mean Kareem is almost 80 years old, so you think Kareem's sitting around?
Just randomly putting on the Houston Rockets late at night, or forget the Houston. You think he's randomly turning on? Oh, that's right. There's no team in Seattle, sorry. You think he's randomly watching the Kings?
Hell no. Why would he do that to himself? Shoutouts to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. My top six favorite interviews of all time. I got Kareem at number five.
Where are we going next? Number four. Man, these are the type of things where I just go, I didn't expect this to happen. Never in my life. And number one four on the list, I got I got Hussein Bolt.
Like, I didn't think. What am I gonna interview him for? He's in Jamaica all the damn time if he's not partying in Miami. And so it's pretty funny. I met Hussein Bolt for the first time in 2012 at the London Olympics, okay?
And then we come back to America, I don't know what year it is, 2013, 2014. And I sit down with Hussein Bolt in New York City. We sit down, and he teaches me how to run a race. And then I sat down and I started to ask him, Why why does Jamaica produce so many world Class track and field athletes. Why Jamaica?
What makes Jamaica better and different than I don't know? Is St. Lucia outside of side.
So, why are they not tracking field guys? And women coming out of, I don't know, Puerto Rico or Trinidad and Tobago. I don't know. Hussein Bolt had an answer for me. A couple of them.
And one of them included, I don't know, slavery. He wasn't that sure. And then he decided to tell me how slow I am. One reason, me a second one bro. I think maybe the food.
I think maybe the food. How we go? Because we eat a lot of ground food, like yam, potatoes and stuff like that.
So we get it originally from the ground. Um And people always say, I don't know what true this is, that are from slavery back in the day.
So we come from African stuff, so it's different.
So I should be fast too, right? You should be. Oh, no, I'm fast. And by the way, people, go ahead and click right there. We got a second part.
I've hydrated. And your main man, Hussein, is actually going to show me and give me some tips on how I can speed up my game. It's almost impossible, alright, I stink. It's pretty bad, but we'll see what I can do. Bacha, why he gotta insult me for it?
Is that insulting to me? Um I found it pretty funny. The guy can run a 9-7. And he's looking at me going, if I ran, if I If I ran him in a race right now, who would win? He'd beat me, right?
Probably. He's still got something. He got a belly now. A little bit. Yeah, but he's still playing isn't he still playing soccer a little bit?
I don't know. Is he still doing that? I don't know. Like the world's fastest man telling me I'm slow.
Some of my best interviews when I can talk crap with the people who I'm interviewing, okay? My top six favorite interviews of all time. But speaking of talking crap, I've spoken to this guy a million times. We got mutual friends. This man, this dude here.
And number three, my favorite interviews, one of my favorite. Charles Barclay. Oh, but I gotta hit the fancy number. I got ahead of myself. What number is it?
Number three. There we go. It's the last one of all time, and I screwed up. How about that? Yeah, number three, it's Charles Barkley.
He's a nice guy. He's one of the. Yeah, forget the time that he threw that guy through the window. Forget about that. Forget about the time that he punched that other guy.
Forget about that. He is one of the nicest human beings you will ever meet. He's kind, he's warm. If you show him respect, he will show some back. He's a man of the people.
Charles Barkley goes and hangs out with everybody. You appreciate him. Shoutouts to Leeds, Alabama. Where my family is from, not Leeds, but Montgomery. And so I've interviewed Charles a bunch.
But in 2010, 2011, right here in Atlanta, Georgia. At the NCAA final four I sat down with Charles. And he took the opportunity to uh Insult me. Not once, not twice, not three times, not four times. Charles Barkley proceeded to insult me in the span of, I don't know.
Just a minute, listen to this. Hey, I'm Charles Barkley. You're watching JR Sports Grief.
So we have a special guest on the sport brief today. Uh he has what about Kevin Hart? I look like Kevin Hart. You know what? I spoke to Kenny Smith last week and you know what he told me?
He said, I look like Cliff Paul. You do look like Cliff Paul. I'm not sure that's a compliment. I'm just messing with you. But which one is it?
I'm not sure if they're both ugly. I'm just kidding, man. You know what, Charles? Between, I have no luck. Between you and Kenny.
Why? I don't know. You know, I'm just gonna dropkick one of y'all. I don't know. It'd probably be best for you to drop kick Kenny.
You know what? He's from Queens. I'm from the Bronx, so we. And I think all you New Yorkers are overrated. I I'm overrated at what?
Oh no, I see Kenny has this theory that y'all from New York, y'all the best at everything. I think y'all are all overrated from New York. Can I agree with you on one thing? What? Can I just or can we just say like Kenny is worse at everything?
No, I think see I think y'all New Yorkers think y'all tough and everything. I do. I think y'all are very overrated. What if I told you my family's roots are from Alabama? Then I would think your family was tough and not you.
Whoa. Like, why are you giving me crap? We did go on to have a very nice interview talking about basketball and whatnot and. This is what he does. He just gives everybody crap, and you appreciate him because he's authentic.
That's one of the reasons that he's had so much success and. And Charles Barkley is is one of the most successful. And he is one of the best television personalities. Ever. Period.
And I think at this point, a lot of people know him for that instead of basketball, and he was one of the greatest players ever. But I think his media career has kind of even inched past everything he did on the basketball court. It was certainly the setup. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm giving you a top six list.
This is the last top six. This is the final top six list. of all time here. On the Infinity Sports Network. We are gonna take a break.
When we come back on the other side, I'm gonna give you The top two.
Okay, I'm going to tell you just two of my top, and this is tough to do. It really is, very difficult. but I'm going to share with you two of my favorite interviews. that I've ever Done. And then we'll get to the phone lines.
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Well? It's the last top six list ever here. On the Infinity Sports Network. Now I'm only going to be here Wednesday. Tomorrow, Thursday?
And I'll be here on Monday and that's it. The Infinity Sports Network is is coming to a close and A little more than a week. I'll be done before then. And so this is the last and final top six list ever. Here on the Infinity Sports Network, C D S Sports Radio, whatever the heck it was called, and whatever it is now, it's done.
And so right now I'm sharing with you. Out of all the interviews and all the individuals I've ever spoken to, I'm sharing with you some of my favorite interviews of all time. And I'm down to two more.
So, at number six, I gave you Dale Earnhardt, Junior. I I didn't grow up being a huge fan of NASCAR. But I was exposed to the sport. I got some friends who were involved in the sport. I've been able to interview Dale Earnhardt Jr.
in one of my times, or one of the times we talked about hair. He's like, Hey, I can grow an afro and I said, Well, Dammit, we must be related. At number five, I gave you Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Karin Abdul Jabbar, He's uh spokesam a couple of years ago. Kareem is like, Yeah, the Lakers will be fine if they're healthy.
Hello, Anthony Davis, at the time. And then Kareem openly admitted, he's like, Man, but I'm not sitting around watching other NBA games. He's old. What am I going to sit around and watch these other bums for? And um before I gave you Sane Bolt, never thought that I'd be Sitting in a stadium by myself with Hussein Bolt in New York City, talking about why Jamaica has the fastest sprinters, but that's what we did.
Hussein Bolt then continued to tell me how slow I am? And number three, Charles Barclay spent a lot of time insulting me. You look like Chris Paul, you look like Kevin Hart, I know the two of them look the same. uh Charles Barclay, just a very nice man, very nice individual. And so that leaves me with two more interviews, and there's so many that I wanted to go through.
But what number are we up to? What number is this botcher? Number two. This one is one of the more. This is one of my favorites for something that he said.
You know, I can remember bits and pieces of, I think, just about every interview. I can pull up an interview from 15 years ago and I can. You know, know and identify. You know where the best spot was or what stood out to me. This one really stands out to me.
At number two on the list. I have George Foreman.
Now, we all know about the career of George Foreman. We know about his greatness. We know about him coming back and. And you're winning the heavyweight title and selling grills. There's a lot to remember.
about George Foreman. But He's been gone. He passed away. And I remember right before he passed away, we had an opportunity to chat with George Foreman. right here on the JR Sport Brief Show.
and there's one thing that he said to me that I was really surprised about. You know, he was he's putting out this This new uh feature and venture and And I asked him about everything that he's ever done in his life. Why is he Why is he still going? Why doesn't he just rest on his laurels and Just take a listen to what I asked George Foreman and what he said. I think this is.
It's something we can all maybe learn from. At this stage of life, what else is there that you want to go out and accomplish?
Well, I put both feet on the floor every morning and think, man, you got to do something with your life. I always think there's another heel to climb. I have not made it yet. I'm interested, trying to do things. I got business ideas going.
I still want to make it. I don't feel like a success yet. No way. George Foreman is here. That's surprising to hear that you don't feel like you're a success.
Why is that the case? because it's all about tomorrow. You turn a book. One page after the other. You never go back and reread those pages that you've already turned time on and life on.
You move on. I got to turn another page, I got to do better. Oh, wow.
And you know, I've heard successful people say that. I think it's important to recognize what you've done, but he's right. You've moved one page after the other. You can certainly remember what took place. You can learn from it.
But you want to move on to that next page. It's kind of crazy to think about it. George Foreman, he passed nine months ago, he passed. back in March, okay, we spoke to George Foreman last year. And it's crazy.
That would have been the last time that I would have ever had to interview George Foreman.
So. I appreciate those words. They're always going to stand out to me. And any time I hear or see George Foreman on a poster, or he's going to be on a book or a movie or what have you, I'm going to remember. Of those comments that he shared with us here on the air.
And so, if George Foreman is number two on the list. What the heck? Who? is my favorite interview of all time. Number one Unfortunately he's someone else who is not here with us.
It's It's Kobe Bryant. Yeah, it's Kobe. It's Kobe, it's Kobe, it's Kobe, it's Kobe, it's Kobe. Damn. There's some interesting quite a few interesting things I could say about Kobe.
I've been around Kobe and interviewed him or was in his space for the first time in 2012 in London, of all places, at the Olympics. and had a chance to talk ask him some questions out of Scrum and It's like, oh damn, this Kobe. This is 2012 Kobe. He's still rolling and He's a pro, he's a vet, he's a champ. Just won more championships.
And then Like a year later You know, I've interviewed Richard Sherman and got close with him and his family. And they were having a celebrity softball game in Seattle. And I was talking to Richard Sherman's brother. And shout outs to Brenton. And they just said, hey, why don't you come up to Seattle?
We're about to have a celebrity softball game. And Russell Wilson was out there, and Nate Robinson was playing. Sean Kemp was out there. Gary Payton. It was.
every Seattle anybody worth a damn. Had no idea Kobe was going to be there, and then poof, Kobe Bryant pops up on the field. And Kobe played in the game. Kobe actually hit a home run in safe co field, and I had to go, wait a minute. What the hell am I doing out here?
I'm over here, and I've spoken to quite a few of these guys, but I said, I'm out here on the field hanging out with all these dudes. And then I had a chance and an opportunity to to interview Kobe. In the dugout. Shoutouts to my main man Charlie with me. And I was like, damn, I'm in the duck.
This is not where I expected to have a one-on-one with Kobe. And we just talked about Richard Sherman's a van and It was just a fun time, and it means even more because he's so iconic of an athlete. Uh he's not here. I remember I worked at NBA TV when he passed, and I had to basically eulogize him on a radio here in Atlanta. I had to do the news at NBA TV, and I'm always gonna remember.
this interview and how kind and nice he was. And just taking the time to Just chat with me. Take a listen to this. What brings you up here? We know you're a busy dude.
Why you here?
Well, I respect Richie tremendously. We just struck up a relationship over the last year. And, you know, what he's doing, blanket coverage is something that we should all get behind and support. And I told him a year ago, I said, if I'm free this day, I'm here. And here we are.
What are you looking forward to the most? We know what you do with your hands. We know what you do with your feet. We've seen you play a little football. But what about swinging the back?
Not very well. Not very well. This is why I play basketball, right? But I'll go out there and have some fun. I mean, it's all for a great cause, and you go out and have a good time.
There's a ton of people here. He got home runs flying. Is this what you expected in Safe Coalfield? He did it last year. This year, he had to do it bigger.
Well, it's impressive. I mean, this is only his second year, and to have this kind of traction. It's phenomenal. I mean, it says a lot about the city. I feel like I gotta watch my head because balls are just flying.
Do me one last favor, Kobe, for everybody out there in Sport Briefland. Just tell them peace and tell them what a great time we're having. Hey, thank you for tuning in. We're having a fantastic time here. Blanket coverage.
My man Richard Sherman in the second annual. And it's going down. It's going to keep going down for years to come. Man, you you heard from George Foreman. You know, you turn a book, you turn the pages over and over, but you never forget.
you know the stories and what you read before you got there. And having that chat with Kobe is something that I'm always going to remember.
So I just gave you a top six list.
Some of my favorite interviews of all time. Number six, I gave you Dale Earnhardt Jr. Number five, I gave you Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Number four, I gave you Hussein Bolt. Number three, Charles Barkley.
Number two, George Foreman. Number one, Kobe Bryant. I've interviewed so many people, not even on this list. Shoutouts to my main man, Diamond Dallas Page. Just saw him a couple of weeks ago.
Shoutouts to my main man, Tim Brown and Champ Bailey. Tiki Barber. I mean, there's a lot of folks. But you know what? Right now, The phone lines are open, okay?
Here it is. I just gave you the final top six list. That you will hear here on the Infinity Sports Network. The phone lines are open to you. You got something to say, you want to share it.
You got something that you heard that stands out to you. It doesn't have to be an interview. We only got.
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I just gave you a new top six list. It's also The last Top six list here. On the Infinity Sports Network, formerly known as, long time known as the CBS Sports Radio. Uh yeah. probably heard the network is Gonna be ending in about a week and a half.
I only have about two more shows left today, tomorrow, and Monday, and that's it. And so I will not be here Wednesday, I will not be here Christmas Eve. And so today was the final top six show ever. And what we're going to do, we're going to have a normal show tomorrow as best as we can. By the time we get to Monday, I want to highlight a lot of your calls, some of my favorite calls that we've done.
and get a lot of your calls on the radio. But in tonight's top six list, it was tough. to share with you some of my favorite interviews. 'Cause I've spoken to so many damn people. And number six, I gave you Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Number five, I gave you Kareem. Number four, Hussein Bolt. Number three, Charles Barkley. Number two, George Foreman. Number one, Kobe Brian Man, there's so many people like Tara Lomans was a great interview.
Tara Lowens is probably the only person that I've ever interviewed here on the radio. That we chatted for 40 minutes. It was a full two-segment interview. Because Terrell Owens, if you know anything, he loves to talk and he's great at it. He was a a great interview.
Shoutouts to Manny Pacquiao, my main man Cha-Cha. God rest his soul. Man, Manny Pacquiao was my first big-time interview. I flew from New York to L.A. with my man Cha Cha, just to stop by Manny Pacquiao.
in his gym. Eddie Pacquiao was, I think, getting ready to fight Sugar Shane Mosley. I was watching Pacquiao spar. It was a private sparring session. He was getting a hellbeat out of him.
And I was watching and he was bruised up. And I said, there's no way in hell that Manny Pacquiao is going to finish this interview and come sit down with me. And that's exactly what he did. That's exactly what he did. And so, so many great interviews, and sitting down with Pele and.
It it's it's hard to narrow things down. But the phone lines are open to you right now. 888-710-4ISN. That's 888-710-4ISN. Is there anything that stands out to you?
Is there a moment of the show? Is there an interview that you enjoyed? Let's go ahead and hit the phone lines. Brandon is here from Seattle. You on the chair of our sport brief show.
Go ahead, Brandon. Hey, what's up, Ann JR? What's going on with you? Hey, man. Long time listener, dude.
I remember you when you were on the other time slot. It was a little later. Yeah, I mean You guys have been awesome. I mean, I drive around listening to you guys all the time. And uh, you know, met Chef.
Through your show and Yeah. Yeah, it just really sucks. But I'm hoping the best for you, and I I hope that You know, it sounds like you're gonna land on your feet. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think so.
Well, thank you, Brandon. I appreciate you. Shout outs to Shep as well.
Some of my favorite moments here on the air have been with Shep. I mean, it's uh. A lot of comedy there.
So, Brandon, I appreciate you, and you just stay tuned. Follow me on social media, you'll see some things, okay? We'll do, man. And I just had another question regarding your interviews and top sticks and everything. I mean, that was an awesome list.
It got me thinking About some people that I wish I could have talked to, like Willie Mays comes to mind. Yeah.
speak to him, especially on connecting those Oh my god. He would have known more than than anything. You know, man, see, Brandon, and this is the part that just is, it's impossible. to now it you say Willie Mays Like in in twenty nineteen, before he passed away, I had a chance, and I've never met him in my life, but I I moved to Atlanta. at the end of twenty eighteen.
And just a few months after that. Like I'm in a banquet hall having a chat with with Hank Aaron. Like Hank Ar he is he is in a wheelchair. You know, I meet him. His hands are the sides of mitts, of course they are.
And I asked him about the legacy that he was leaving. And this was in a room full of young African-American ball players. And you could see Hank Aaron. You know, he kind of got choked up. I'm like, damn it, and back of my head.
I'm like, I didn't mean to ask him something that's gonna make him cry. And then, you know, not too long after that, he passed away.
So that is also one of my favorite memories. Just it, you know, I say this, Brandon, and thank you so much for calling from Seattle. You keep in touch, you know where to find me, all right? Oh, yeah, I'll be in touch, JR. Good luck, and love you, man.
Thank you. Appreciate you, Brandon. Love you back. Man, that's the that's the thing. Like, I didn't wake up one day and go, oh, I want to wake.
I don't got no bucket list. You know, there's certain goals that you have and that you want to achieve, but there was never, I need to talk to this guy and check this off. You just always wanted to keep growing and keep going. And that's all I've done.
So every person I've ever met and spoken to, it's just It's been cool, it's been an amazing experience. I never woke up and said, Oh my god, I need to talk to Pele. And somebody said, Hey, you want to talk to Pele? I said, Hell yeah, of course. Yeah.
You can't make some of these things up. 888-710-4ISN. That's 8 at 8-710-4ISN.
Soraya is here from Tampa. You're on the J.R. Sportbreak Show. What's up, Soraya?
Okay. Oh my god. Um first time caller, I just wanted to thank you because at this time sometimes You don't have a male persona or guys talking sports around. And you just want to hear that. You want to hear that.
um on a daily basis sometimes. and young men and um just family. just want to hear it.
So I thank you for your knowledge. And I have no sports knowledge, zero, but enough to listen to you. And sometimes I think it mixes up with WDAE or something. But I like your show now. I'm Just had dinner and we were listening to you, everybody.
So it's marvelous. And thank you so very much. And you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you, JR. You as well, Sarai.
Thank you so much for calling from Tampa. The jig is up. I don't know nothing about sports either. It's all a it's all a gig. Everybody's been screwed for the past forever.
888-710-4ISN. That's 8 at 87104ISN just gave you the final top six list. Period here on the Infinity Sports Network. There will not be another one. And if it is, somebody rob me.
Bob is here from Wisconsin. You're on the JR Sport Break Show. Go ahead, Bob. Mm. A GR.
Sam, sorry to hear about you. Not being on the air anymore, but you're going to be back on the air, and I know that. because you got one of the best shows you know, going out there. I called you a couple of times. Remember I told you one story about, you know, I think one of your producers never had cold pizza in the morning.
Oh, was that Shep? Probably Shep. Or he told you about, you know, maybe Hickey or Shep. I think it was Hickey. It's probably Hickey.
It could have been him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you know You know, you start off innocent on Saturday, have a couple of beers and Next thing you know, you're having cold pizza on Sunday morning. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
Yeah, I may have some pizza tonight. I may have a beer in the morning. I just might. Oh, not a beer in the morning. You have a beer at night, you have a cold pizza in the morning.
Oh, yeah, but I'm talking about tonight. I may have pizza tonight in the morning, and I may have a beer in the morning as well.
So let's stay tuned, Bob, okay?
Okay, man. I appreciate you. I love you so. I'll look you up when they can buy you again. Yeah, no doubt about it.
Thank you, Bob. Appreciate you for calling from Wisconsin. Thank you so much.
Okay. Yeah, shout outs to Bob from where I remember that. That was Hickey. Hickey's like, I'm not eating cold pizza. Oh, was that you?
I wasn't you, Bob. Definitely not me. I eat cold pizza all the time.
Okay, not you. That might I think that might have been Hickey. Hickey's like, I'm not eating uh What's crazy is you have to decide if it's between Shep or Hickey. I think it was 'cause they were both kinda uh picky eaters, I think. I think it's Hickey definitely a picky eater.
Is hecky? I was texting with Hickey the other day. He's a funny guy. Him and funny guys. And Bach, you're a funny guy, too.
But I need to be. Yeah, when you need to be. There you go. Eight eight eight seven ten four I S N. That's 888-710-4ISN.
We're talking about some of your favorite moments here on the show. We only got two more after this tomorrow and Monday than the J.R. Sport Breeze Show is done. On the Infiniti Sports Network. No more, not done for the year, just done.
The whole damn station's about to be done. 888-710-4ISN. You know what? I'm going to get some more of your calls on the other side of the break. And then we have a very special caller.
We'll get him on the line as well. It's the JR Sport Reshow, the Infinity Sports Network. Listen up, football fans. You won't want to miss this. Right now, new Bet365 customers bet $5 and get $150 in bonus bets, win or lose.
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21 plus only. Must be physically located in North Carolina. TNC's applied in app only. What's good, y'all? It's Von Miller, Super Bowl MVP, SAG Master, and now your host of Free Range.
This is where NFL meets real talk. Every week, I'm bringing you inside the game, from locker room stories to league-wide headlines. You want football IQ, locker room insight, and real conversations with the people shaping the league? Welcome to Free Range with Von Miller, where nothing is off limits and every down counts. New episodes every Wednesday.
Listen and follow Free Range with me, Von Miller, wherever you get your podcast. Did you know Tide has been upgraded to provide an even better clean and cold water? Tide is specifically designed to fight any stain you throw at it. even in cold. Butter?
Yep. Chocolate ice cream? Sure thing. Barbecue sauce? tides got you covered.
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