Steve Goldstein: I’m Looking Forward to Training Camp

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Speaker 1: You're now diving down with.

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Speaker 2: Seth O Jay.

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Speaker 3: Well, and this is strictly.

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Speaker 2: True number one one, of course, y'all, this ain't the other nervus borts talk.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Fish Tank, presented by iHeartRadio right here on the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, Seth Levitt and the toughest podcaster Dan Marino has ever played with. O J McDuffie, juice. How you feeling today, man, man.

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Speaker 2: I'm feeling great, big Seth. You know, anytime I get a teammate on, you know, I'm stoked.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 2: So we got a teammate on today, bro, and I'm super stoked as usual, buddy.

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Speaker 4: First team and we'll get into all of that, right for sure. Absolutely well. Uh, this voice that people will hear is certainly familiar to South Florida fans who love all sports, and we're gonna discuss all that.

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Speaker 6: But Steve Goldie gold Old Steen, Welcome to the Fish Tank.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 6: It's about damn time.

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Speaker 5: It is about damn time. It's good to be with you guys. That means football's in the air. Once I see Ojy with the Dolphin hat, I'm ready to go.

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Speaker 3: Well, today's always got a dolphins hat you just got.

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Speaker 4: You know, you've been a little busy though, so we'll give you a hall pass on that one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Well, you know, fifty percent of my wardrobe is dolphin, the other fiftieth penn state, so I just you know, and one.

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Speaker 3: Hundred percent of it's free, I think.

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Speaker 2: So that's even better, Juice, right.

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Speaker 6: I love it.

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Speaker 5: I love it.

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Speaker 6: The other time percent is just discounted heavily, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I take those discounts too. Man, come on, man, you got to have that as well.

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Speaker 6: Be dog, you earned it, Juice.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, big Seth. I appreciate that, man, you know, absolutely my mind and body say I've earned it. So we'll see, we'll see if it's true. You know, that's exactly right, you know, like you talked, like Seth said, Goldie, Man, you are in the fish tank today, and of course we're going to talk a lot of dolphin talk. But you know, you know, you and I we have to talk about our panthers. Told them a little bit of love, man, So congratulations to you and the organization. You know, in an amazing season. Man, we talked all season along, you know about the Panthers I'm texting you while you're working, and you're texting me back. I don't know how the hell he does it. This dude's absolutely incredible. Man. But I can't say I went to the parade, Goldie, but I know you were there man as the MC man. So first title for this team in thirty years and you were there. Man, how's it feel to be a chant? My man?

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Speaker 5: It was pretty wild and it's kind of surreal. I mean, that whole celebration, that whole week. You know, I don't really know what to expect, you know. First of all, First of all, when OJ texts you during the game saying, Hey, what's going on with that power play? Seth?

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Speaker 3: You got to answer, Juice, I got no choice.

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Speaker 6: You have to answer, Well, you guys on your Twitter.

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Speaker 4: In game romance is fabulous to watch anyway, Like, I don't even have to play attention.

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Speaker 6: To the game. I just watch you guys communicates, so we.

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Speaker 3: Know what's going on.

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Speaker 5: But number one, you know, they had never won before, and I spent thirty years, so you're always wondering, Okay, it looks good, it feels good. But yeah, we don't want to get too far ahead and think about what's going to happen if they win?

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Speaker 3: How is it going to be? Because then if you don't win, it's.

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Speaker 5: Such a letdown.

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Speaker 3: So you kind of put that out of your mind, even though I'm not even playing the game. But it was just wild.

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Speaker 5: You know, that crowd was absolutely nuts. And for it to go to a game seven and we don't get very many games sevens here in South Florida for championships. We are three and oh though the heat one there is the Marlins won there is in ninety seven. Now the Panthers won, So we don't lose game sevens here in South Florida. That's kind of nice. But it all culminated. I didn't know what to expect that parade. You know, it was a nasty, rainy morning and it was just wild. And the players that was the most impressive part. These guys are jumping off their their buses to mix in with the fans.

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 3: It was unbelievable.

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Speaker 5: It was nothing like i'd ever really, you know, thought it would be, and it was just great to be a part of it.

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Speaker 3: Was it was wild.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you're right, man, I'd love that part of the Goldie. As I was watching on my TV. You know, I live out of East and it was like pouring and lightning out here. But I had to go to Tampa, so that's why I didn't go to the parade. So I watched the second half of the parade in my car. Don't tell anybody that I have TV in my car. We might have to delete that big set, who knows. But you know, but it was impressive, man, seeing the guys, you know, getting out of the bus and with their shirts off, throwing off their muscles, you know, and just enjoying the rain. Man. I mean, the whole crowd embraced that rain. But you know, think about this too. Rahie Moster was in that parade as well, and I saw them on stage with you man, talk about how this love for the Panthers from the fans happened and how great it was all season. But how the love from the Miami Dolphins as well. I mean that crossover was incredible.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, and during all season of Sea raheem in a lot of games and Javanna Hollindman coming to the games, watched a few with him, you know, Seiler and ending goold like these guys are all over the place, coming to Tampa game, so it is amazing.

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Speaker 3: Of course, Mike McDaniel came.

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Speaker 5: You know, Chris Reer was there for you know, you know, the big guy couldn't miss a game seven in hockey. Chris Reer was a goalie growing up, so he's got he's got hockey in his blood.

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Speaker 3: And you know, his brother Mike is the general manager of the Shark, So you.

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Speaker 5: Know, I think Chris ber could do well managing an NHL salary cap. To be honest with you, I think he knows the whole thing inside out, and maybe easier since it's a hard cap. I'm like football, you got those you know, guaranteed money and stuff. But it was amazing, you know, And I happen to be standing there in the stage when.

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Speaker 3: Cardiver Hagy handed that cup to Raheem.

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Speaker 5: I stayed a little close because I'm not sure Raheem knew was like thirty seven pounds. That cup is kind of heavy, so I'm just making sure just in case ra he needs a little.

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Speaker 3: Help, which by the way, he did not.

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Speaker 5: He didn't need anything.

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Speaker 4: He's supposed to be pounds, the strongest guy on the team, so I feel like he was going to be good.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but you know, when you're in the moment set right, and it's wet and it's a little slippery and maybe you're nine, then you lift it, whoa, you might take a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Of over there, you know.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, if he needs my help, he's in trouble.

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Speaker 2: You know that.

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Speaker 4: But but it was just.

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Speaker 3: Awesome to see all that.

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Speaker 5: And you know, even on social media, you know all the love for all our different teams in town. You know, the teams really support each other. And I kind of love that part of it, you know that that everybody's kind of in it together and everybody wants everybody to win.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, could chuck that I couldn't handle the cup, so he saw he had a hand on it. When I had that cup in my hands, I want to say, bro, I got this, but I wasn't going to say that to him. He's one of those tough dudes, man, you know. And I might have gotten beat up in the elbow room or something.

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Speaker 4: But that was day one, Like, you know, the worst thing that could have happened right on day one. If somebody taking the cup home is like if you dry, he hands it over to you and it goes.

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Speaker 6: All over the side of the elbow room or something.

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Speaker 5: So like you guys were second levels, So I got we got a problem.

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Speaker 4: You gotta appreciate a guy in day one that's being a little care It's kind of like how we spoil our first children, right, you know, and then our then our younger ones are tough as nails.

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Speaker 6: So it's a I think that it was one of those deals.

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Speaker 4: So so Goldie, look, you stretched this Panther season out as long as you possibly could for the best the reasons. But as you indicated, it's not going to be long before the three of us are sitting at the top of the bleachers there right in Miami Gardens because training camps right around the corner for the Dolphins. And you know, for well, hell, anybody who listens to this knows you're the play by play man for the Dolphins preseason television broadcast on CBS four. You've done that since twenty twenty one, I believe. Is that was that your first seed?

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Speaker 3: Yes, this is I think this is year four.

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Speaker 4: Okay, since twenty twenty one. So aside from the fact that you're not getting much of a breather because like you're handing the Stanley, You're making sure Raheem's got the Stanley Cup. You're you know, you're mceing a parade, and then you're now starting to learn a roster of ninety something players and getting ready to call some football. Aside from that, how excited are you for training camp to begin?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I had a whisper to Raheem when he was holding up the cup doing a little dolphin work. Hey, Jalen Wright, we're just from little so far, get a little get a little info there. Yeah, it's crazy on the NHL season went so long. The other amazing thing about the parade is there's guys celebrating in the parade and literally hours later they're signing with other teams, like lat has gone a month, So it's pretty wild to have that happen. So, yeah, we got these couple of weeks, kind of take it a little bit easy. Have already delved into the Dolphins offense. Got more information about both Washington's Malik and Todz than we're probably ever going to use on the air, But we have it all I ever do that, and it's amazing. Yeah, a couple of weeks and away we go and I'm always really looking forward to training camp. I think it's fun. And from the broadcast standpoint, you know, every one of these players, whether you're drafted, whether you're undrafted, whether you're Julian Hill playing for the Campbell Campbell's and you make the team, everybody's got a story, and that kind is a fun part for me of you know, getting them these guys they're just due because they're all great athletes. Everybody that even makes a training camp roster and spends any time in the NFL training camp is an amazing athlete, a great football player, a dedicated person to the hard work. So it's kind of fun digging deep and telling all these guys' stories, and that's going to be a big part of it. Besides, of course, you know, contracts with the quarterback and the things that everybody talks about.

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Speaker 4: Right, right, So now you just said that you've already spent some time digging into the offense, and OJ is thrilled to hear that, right, I mean, offensive biases. There's no such thing but that you have had two different partners in the booth with you in these games, and both of them were pretty good defensive players. One of whom signs my bay checks. So you know, what about the defense? Why did you start with offense? And is there anyone in particular, like a newcomer maybe that you just can't wait to see in camp, whether it's a draft pick, whether it's somebody that was signing free agency, just like who gets your juices flowing well?

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Speaker 5: First off set? That's why I got to level it off. So OJ and I do the radio pregame show together. I got to get a little offense, you know when I got wine and all that, so you know, I got Bo Camper up there. We had Jason Taylor before. Now I got Oj for offense every week all season, not just in the preseason.

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Speaker 3: So that is you're playing a long game.

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Speaker 2: I get it. That's it.

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Speaker 5: You know, the defense for training camp and for the preseason games and broadcasts needs more attention. In my mind, there's a ton of new guys at every position. There's a whole new system, so defensively all over the place, there's new players. So why'd I start with the offense? I wish I could give you a better reason other than it was just easier.

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Speaker 3: You know, the guys are back, you know, Wadlen'.

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Speaker 5: Hill and Barrios, the top three receivers at OBJ really don't need much homework to do. We know all about them and how much are they really going to play? So Jalen Wright is the guy that excites me. First off, when I met when they showed up after the draft for that rookie mini camp.

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Speaker 3: The dude is huge. I didn't realize.

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Speaker 5: And I seen him on TV once in a while, you know, at Tennessee, and of course you see all the highlights and you see how quick he is at hitting those holes and how good he's going to be in this Dolphins zone run offense. You know, when you read you make that hit and everybody's pushing one way and he can cut it back the other way. He's gonna he's made for this offense. When I stood next to him, I was like, holy cow, he is huge. Hey, they say he's what two O five two ten. I'm telling you, every bit of it is muscling. So I'm real curious to see how Mike McDaniel incorporates him into the offense. It's kind of like eight Chan last year. You know, we were all so intrigued and what does the guy do in just eleven games? I mean he gets he sets an NFL record for average yards per carry.

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Speaker 3: It almost eight yards of carry.

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Speaker 5: So now you got eight chan, you got raheem, how does he put right in there?

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Speaker 3: Johnny Smith?

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Speaker 5: I think is going to be real interesting. This is the first time we're really seeing a guy of his talents at that position with Mike mccanniel running this offense. So I'd say, those two guys are, you know.

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Speaker 3: Kind of intriguing.

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Speaker 5: And I'm curious to see at.

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Speaker 3: The back end who makes the team. A wide receiver.

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Speaker 5: I think Elite Washington's a pretty uh, pretty interesting guy.

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Speaker 2: Say to hear all that, man, I mean, this is what I'm talking about. Man, I don't know how this guy does it. Bro, I mean, you know what, really I think about this man. You know, you talk about the play by play stuff, but before we even do that, you know, he talked about Goldy and not doing the pregame and we have now we have a blast doing But sometimes, man, I don't know how he pulls it off. Man, we could be doing interviews all week long. He sometimes I think I might have to do it by myself, which there's the hell out of me. Obviously, I can't I know way I could pull it off all by myself. Man. And so it's like Goldie. He's taking interviews all week long. He goes from hockey to football so flawlessly at times. Man. And what's what's so curious to me about hockey? It's like, you know, play by playing that stuff is fun. This dude's got everybody's name down. Man. These names are crazy in hockey seth and the puck is going so fast, and I got to sound text even this dude's alter alter prepared for every single thing. How do you do that? How do you read sleep this stuff? Don't you? OJ?

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Speaker 5: I can't even say. I appreciate that so much, very humbling. It's awesome doing the shows with you.

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Speaker 3: You're a guy.

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Speaker 5: When you know I was back in the nineties. It's getting started in my twenties in college. And even when OJ was at Penn State. People might not know this. I was at Syracuse, did their games as a student. I did one of the games Syracuse at Penn State that OJ played in. Oh wow, that again he was great, man.

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Speaker 3: I mean hell number twenty number twenty four back in the day.

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.

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Speaker 5: So see, that's how I do it. I remember back in the late eighties O. J. McDuffie was number twenty.

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Speaker 3: Four in college.

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Speaker 5: I don't know why i'd ask you the same question, how the heck do you go over the middle on third and four? You know you're going to get blasted and you hold on to the football. So I'll throw your question of how that's who you would to how.

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Speaker 2: The heck did you do itkrazy? I had a little krazy in the Goldie. That's how man, I'm gonna tell you. In big stuff, Goldie's he's kind of old school with his preparation too, man, But no folder. He writes everything down. You know, he's off the Cuffman. He's unbelievable with you know, his mind, his memory and you know what I mean. It's it's it's really fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: I take so many notes I have to because I can't remember anything like that. But this guy is just incredible what he does.

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Speaker 4: Man, So is he.

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Speaker 3: Bringing the folder?

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry to interrup there, Goldie. Are you bringing the folder to the pregame show too?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 4: I'm sure you do it during the broadcast. You've got the folders for the pregame show.

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Speaker 5: Pregame every segment, so you have all the little notes written down. You know.

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Speaker 3: It's uh.

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Speaker 5: When I write stuff down, number one, I tend to memorize it a little bit better because I'm actually writing it and it's just easier for me. And then when you want to go back for a reference and I'm starting the Dolphin stuff. By the way, it is incredible to me. I don't even real how much NFL rosters change. Like I got the big Manila folders of the charts for like preseason games even two years ago, and some of the names, like yesterday, I was starting to look a little bit at the defense. Remember Randy Charlton number ninety for the Dolphins. That was like two or three in training camp.

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Speaker 3: The hawaiis exactly we had. Who else to jump to?

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Speaker 5: Darius Hodge, remember him, the linebacker number forty one?

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Speaker 3: I think that was two years ago. Like some of the me is like, oh man, I forgot this guy.

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Speaker 5: And in the preseason, as you guys know, those are the guys that play a lot, Like those guys play a ton of the game. I found one on the offense, you guys will love Patrick Lange.

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Speaker 3: I think that was three years ago.

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Speaker 5: The running back number thirty two, and I had a little note on there, ohj to your point about the Manila folders and writing stuff down. He was really big. Patrick Laird was a real nice guy. He was into kids literacy. He used to give like money and to kids literacy. And I had the note written down. If he scores a touchdown, he pretends to read a book.

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Speaker 3: So when Patrick Laird scored, he'd get rid.

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Speaker 5: Of the ball and you'd go like this, like silent wow, like still for like three or five seconds. So it's that little stuff that's just like a ton of fun that you forget about.

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Speaker 3: And I just love all this stuff.

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Speaker 5: I grew up I was a sports geek, you know, back of the eighties, a little kid. There was no cable TV. There were none of these as we all know. So what'd you do back in Brooklyn. You got on your bike and you shot hoops in the school yard. You played basketball. My dad was a was a phys ed teacher and a coach, so we always had you know, giant season tickets and we'd go to Nick games and Mets games and Ranger games. So I just grew up as a sports junkie. Knew I couldn't play enough at a high level. So I said, you know, I love all this sports media stuff, radio and TV.

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Speaker 3: Back then there was nothing else. I said, I'm gonna try to do that.

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Speaker 5: And my parents never told me, like, you know, only one out of a thousand people making it.

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Speaker 3: They never told me that.

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Speaker 5: So they somehow let me into Syracuse with my grades and I said, I'm gonna go for it.

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Speaker 3: And that's kind of the way it all turned out.

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Speaker 5: And I still absolutely love it, you know, to this day. And that's why all the preparation stuff, that stuff's fun for me.

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Speaker 2: Ex sense, you've got a gett to come out and talk to your kids. Man career in sports right there.

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Speaker 4: It's definitely he's yeah, absolutely off to chat with you about the Careers of Sports program.

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Speaker 6: Thank you for bringing that up to so I'm glad we had that event the other night.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean those are the stories right that people. I think that young people see it on TV first and foremost they don't even know that you can do this for a living. And I think the opportunities, well, they know more now than they did when when we were that age. Goldie, right, like, you know, how did somebody get to that position where they're calling these games, and so those opportunities exist more. But a lot of kids don't realize that that's something you can study, that you can go to school for. We're going to talk about syracusean a little bit, because obviously they've got a story program there in your field for sure, and I want to talk about those New York days in a second as well, or you know, one of us will.

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Speaker 6: But I also want.

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Speaker 4: To discuss this revival of your relationship with the Miami Dolphins, because I think it's been very cool, and you talked about what you know, Juice in your your twenties, when you first got down to South Florida. That's kind of when I remember you and I connecting, you know, because when I first started working for the team was ninety six. You had been down here for a few years, but you were and I guess you were doing our I think you were doing our pregame and or post game at the time, and I, you know, I teased it a little bit at the top of the show, but you were doing the first team and you know, morning radio, so you were.

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Speaker 6: Always out at camp. We were all much.

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Speaker 4: Younger during those days and so the conversations might have been a little bit different, but you are still relatively new to the market. You're hosting this radio show, and you were getting on the job training for none other than our good friend Joe Rose. There had to be some interesting moments in the early days of your South Florida media career when that was your mentorship.

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Speaker 5: Well, Joe was awesome to me today. You know, I tell the story. I make the decision to.

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Speaker 3: Move to Florida.

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Speaker 5: You know, I was working more off the air, but a little bit in New York on the air, just doing reports, and I knew there'd be some opportunity in Florida because the Marlins had just started, the Panthers had just started, the heat were only five years old, and you know all the freelance stuff back then, they were all those radio networks and they didn't have a steady guy in South Florida. So I figured, this is great. I could do all that freelance stuff, maybe work my way into the radio station. So the last game I cover in New York, this is just ironic, was the Merino Spike game November twenty eighth, nineteen ninety four.

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Speaker 3: My flight to Florida was one way to Fort Lauderdale.

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Speaker 5: On December first, three days later, so I get down Wqim has me go out to Dolphins camp, you know, NUW get some sound bunks and stuff, and there's Don Shulock. Right, I'm twenty three years old. I think it was a game against the Lions. Barry Sanders was coming in to town late that year in ninety four. It might have been a Monday night game if I remember, maybe, And.

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Speaker 3: I'm just scared to death.

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Speaker 5: It's like Don Shulo, you know, and I'm not asking a question. I'm just like, please say something for fifteen seconds so I could run the cassette tape back to the radio station so they can get it in the updates. I love it, Like what am I doing here? But yeah, it was great. I was doing the first team show. Joe was awesome to me when I was starting out. I do the updates and then Joe would say no, no, I sit in the studio do a couple of segments, and I was like, this is amazing. So and then of course Jimmy Johnson takes over in ninety six, and Jimmy, you know, driving from.

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Speaker 3: The Keys up to Baby every day as he did.

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Speaker 5: He used to call into the show, so it would be like six fifteen in the morning and there's no no one's texted hey, by the way, I'll.

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Speaker 3: Give you a call. It's like up to the producer.

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Speaker 5: But think about the pressure on this poor guy, Jimmy making his eight bucks an hour fifteen am. Yeah, this is Jimmy Johnson. I want to go on the air like and they always just put them on. I think back like that could have been the fake Jimmy Johnson any day. So it was amazing, as you say said on the job training Joe rose with and I didn't notice coming in. You know, a big part of it is, you know, getting sponsors on the show and doing commercials.

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Speaker 3: That was a huge part of it.

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Speaker 5: The shows don't work unless you got people spending us some money on commercials.

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Speaker 3: So I learned a lot from Joe.

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Speaker 5: And the other thing I learned from Joe is why I still have five.

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Speaker 3: Jobs at the same times.

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Speaker 5: Not only that I love it, but this is the one real message for kids starting you never say no.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what job it is.

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Speaker 5: Like. In addition to doing the Dolphins pregame and postgame and doing the morning show, and I was doing the Panthers pre and post on the radio as well. I used to do the Dolphins halftime and the little pregame thing if you remember, trying to fire up the crowd on the microphone on the field, right, So yeah, just.

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Speaker 3: Doing all that stuff. And that's one of the things.

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Speaker 5: That you know, I really took from Joe of you know, if you love it, you're working, but you're never really working the day in your life because you love it and just keep on doing it. So those are great times back in the nineties, and all our teams were good, remember the late ninety and the Marlins won the World Series in ninety seven, the Dolphins making the playoffs every year, the Heat were making them, and the Panthers were making the playoffs at least those years in ninety six and ninety seven.

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Speaker 3: And I was in my twenties and I was.

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Speaker 5: Single, so sad it was.

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Speaker 3: I used to run into juice.

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Speaker 5: Where were we just over on Oakland in one oh the Baja Beach Clone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, I knew it was knocked it down, sins Man, but boy was it.

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Speaker 5: Good so too. Marshals are something now.

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Speaker 4: How come everybody who comes on the show talks about their first couple of years in South Florida and how they ran into OJ and it's always at a different location, right you know, Jared Object was just talking about Passions Nightclub, is it You're talking about Baja Beach Club? Somebody else talking about we Willie's Like, it doesn't matter who it is that comes on this show. They talk about the good old days and somehow they have a juice story at I mean, mister South Florida right.

00:23:23
Speaker 2: Here, big, a big set, you know it is, man, you know, like like Goldie from you know, from New York to South Florida. You know me from Pennsylvania, Ohio to South Florida. We gotta embrace it, man, you know what I mean. I had to breathe it, you know, the area, make sure that my presence was felt and seen, you know, you know, so you know, I don't mind admitting that I was at all these different water holes, you know, throughout my career down here and post career down here, and I still hit a couple of them. I was at Elbow Room yesterday, you know what I mean. Doesn't change, man.

00:23:53
Speaker 4: Goldie, I call him the morning after the you know, the game seven victory, and uh, you know, I just there's no big Panthers fan than I know than my partner here. And I called pretty early in the morning due it was like nine thirty, ten o'clock. I let him kind of quote unquote sleep in. I said, did you even go to bed? Are you still partying? He goes, seth, I'm partying right now with the Panthers. I'm like, the parade's not for.

00:24:15
Speaker 6: No, no, no, I'm with And he sends me a picture and he's at the elbow room doing this thing. So we just can't. This guy that was great was great.

00:24:24
Speaker 2: Yep, it was that so stoked man, I was so stoked man, you know, speaking of the Panthers. Oh, Goldie. We talked about this a little bit, man. We talked about this New York thing. A lot of people come from New York to Florida, you know, I know you you talked a little bit about you know, going to Mets games and Giants games and Rangers games and Knicks games, and a lot of people, you know, you know, they don't make that transition very well. But for you, man, you you're a South Meridian bro. Now you are you a Soufflardian. Are you Are you just a part time guy when it comes to South Flid I got, I got my thoughts. I know you're a soft Alridian, but what about you.

00:24:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm all.

00:24:59
Speaker 5: And it's be thirty years, first of all, and you know, just the embracement, you know, back in the nineties of the entire market and all the fan bases and working for all the teams. Gysol's also did some Hurricanes rate, you know, back in the day pre and post game. So just being a part of the fabric of it and all the things all the teams in the market has gone through. I mean, every team's got their own story over the last four decades of what's gone on and how it's gone on. So yeah, man, I absolutely love it here. I've always loved Florida. And the other thing is doing what we do. You know, you get to know the people who's kind of lives day to day depend on it.

00:25:43
Speaker 3: Like like I want to see the Dolphins succeed. I want them to win, but you know I want them.

00:25:48
Speaker 5: To win for you know, you and Tom Garfinkel and and Nolan who runs PR and Brett, you know, all the people in the pe because you get to know these people personally, and you know, it's miserable if you're two and fifteen, it's a heck of a lot of fun. If you're in a playoff race and you make the playoffs every year, the mood is just better.

00:26:08
Speaker 3: Everybody's seating everybody better.

00:26:10
Speaker 5: So you kind of start, you know, really getting invested in the teams, not only as a fan, not only as somebody either working for.

00:26:17
Speaker 3: The team or one of their media partners.

00:26:19
Speaker 1: You know.

00:26:19
Speaker 3: However, the deal you know shakes down, but you get to know the people. You get you get to know you know.

00:26:25
Speaker 5: Some of the players, like like how awesome would it be for the Dolphins to win a Super Bowl? For guys like Zach Sealer, you know what I mean. Like you get to know those players and Raheem Moster, you know, guys who you know have been there for a little while, always have time for you. You know, you see all the work that these guys put in every single day. You start to root for them. Being objective still in your job, you know, on the air, but but you're rooting for them personally, like like I couldn't be happier for Paul Maurice that you just want to stand up. I mean, first of all, I can tell you like he treats me first class. Now. He gives me time every single day during the season, you know, just for a little conversation on the side, if there's anything I want to know, anything I need.

00:27:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got guys like Bennie Viola who owns the team.

00:27:15
Speaker 5: Rich money Bennie Viola over the last eleven years is poured into this thing. I mean a lot of cash. So you start rooting for the people as well that you get to know and the people that for the most part, you know, everybody treats you well too.

00:27:28
Speaker 4: But Goldie, from what I read, your connection to the Dolphins did start at a much younger age. I read somewhere and I don't you know, I don't know if this was just the right thing to say in the South Florida interview, But you say, you know, you were a Giants guy, but the Dolphins were kind of your second team. And there was this great little nugget juice that I mean, of all the years, the one year that Larry Zanka played for the Giants, you know, you couldn't have been I don't know, nine ten years old.

00:27:56
Speaker 6: I don't know how old I was.

00:27:58
Speaker 4: So you're eight years old and you're dad like thought that that was the biggest deal, and so you you really became aware of the dolphins through this experience, or at least that's the way I understood it.

00:28:11
Speaker 5: You did your homework set one hundred percent. So my grandparents moved to South Florida, like fifty years ago. My dad's parents, and we used to always come down and visit. Sometimes we'd take the drive from New York. So I remember as a little kid always coming to Florida. My dad always said, when he retired from teaching in New York, he's gonna move to Florida. My parents would move, and they did a few years after I did in the nineties. And my dad always loved the Dolphins. He always wished So Bill Arnsbarger came and became head coach of the Giants right for a year after he left, so my dad was like, oh, arms Farger is down, and I didn't even know.

00:28:44
Speaker 3: I'm like six seven years I'm like, what's an arms Farder?

00:28:47
Speaker 5: I didn't even noticed someone's name.

00:28:48
Speaker 6: What's an arm murder?

00:28:50
Speaker 1: Right?

00:28:50
Speaker 5: And then Zank left and went to the World Football League and then he comes to the Giants like, oh my god, like Larry Zankers here, I remember coming down going to games at the Orange Bowl, preseason games, I guess because that probably matched up with the New York City school system, right because the games were in July and August, so my dad wasn't, you know, working yet teaching. I remember going to games in the Orange Bowl, like when I was like six or seven. They were preseason games.

00:29:16
Speaker 6: You're destined to work the preseason.

00:29:20
Speaker 3: Preseason was always in my glove, incredibly your right side.

00:29:24
Speaker 5: So yes, my dad always loved you know, Don Shula and Greasy and then when Marino came, you know, and we used to often go when the Dolphins played the Jets if the Giants weren't at home because we had Giants season tickets. We go to the Dolphin Jet game every year at Say Stadium, always rooting for the Dolphins. My dad used to say, no, you can't wear any any shirt. I'm like, well, why he goes, Just trust me, We're not going to a Jet game in Shae and wearing the Dolphins shirt.

00:29:53
Speaker 6: I remember the good advice?

00:29:55
Speaker 5: Was it Jerome Barkham that made the catch and the closed end zone. That might have been like eighty the Jets beat the Dolphins fifteen. Like I got some of these, you know, memories from back in the day. I was at the greatest game, the fifty one to forty five game Marino against Ken O'Brien, you know, the overtime, I mean, unbelievable.

00:30:15
Speaker 3: That was a giant stadium. They had already moved out of shade.

00:30:18
Speaker 5: So yeah, I always had always had the Dolphins in my blood, and you know, always a big I had had the duper jersey, which I think some girls stole from me in summer camp. If I kind of remember, I had to aqua duper like when I got there in June, and by the end of August I didn't go home with it, so I ended up.

00:30:38
Speaker 4: It's a whole other podcast episode with that story, though I don't know, I don't know.

00:30:42
Speaker 3: I love that.

00:30:42
Speaker 4: And then the only other nugget that I recall, and this is just I didn't even research this. I'm just remembering now and I could be off. Did you have when you were back in the first team days, did you name your cat Riley?

00:30:56
Speaker 3: Did you have a cat y?

00:30:57
Speaker 6: Okay, I thought so that should and then he came to the Heat. Was that kind of the thing.

00:31:03
Speaker 3: So there's another one, right.

00:31:05
Speaker 5: So growing up in the eighties, anybody in you know, our age, my age group, our age group, like the NBA.

00:31:12
Speaker 3: You know, you didn't have to like the Lakers or the Celtics, but that was some of the great sports.

00:31:19
Speaker 5: Teams that truly hate each other rivalries, you know, like Magic and Bird were not friends. They are, yeah, but they were not friends. So pat Riley, you know, was coaching the Lakers back then, and you just took a liking to him.

00:31:32
Speaker 3: Then he ended up going to the Knicks.

00:31:35
Speaker 5: And that was right when I was graduating college and moving to Florida. So I get to South Florida and then Riley comes and pat Riley's another guy dude. When he got there, I'm like, oh my god, it's pat Riley. Always came on our radio show and treated me great, always was a class guy. Anytime I'd see him shake my hand, I'm like, what am I doing. I'm in my twenties. This is pat Riley man.

00:32:02
Speaker 3: So when I got the.

00:32:03
Speaker 5: Cat, there's a cat, like long story short, one of the radio engineers. I guess he used to find. You know, he's a nice guy rescue. He found a cat in the street and needed a home. I got my little place in Plantation. My sure, I'll tay. You know, it's easier to take care. And I named the cat Ryles. Yeah, so I used to call the cat.

00:32:20
Speaker 2: I will tell you what, Goldie, you and Seth have something very much in common. You guys are both huge cat lovers.

00:32:26
Speaker 6: Oh I thought just say we're a couple of ball Jewish guys. But yes, we both like that.

00:32:30
Speaker 2: I wouldn't go there. I wouldn't go there too.

00:32:36
Speaker 3: All of it, just all of it. We can find a few more. We live walking.

00:32:41
Speaker 6: Distance from each other as well. They just don't let me in.

00:32:43
Speaker 2: The one of them would not be Bab's club though, Goldie excepte.

00:32:46
Speaker 6: Now, no, I've only heard about it.

00:32:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to go back to this hockey, this transition hockey to football, man, that you pulled off, Goldie. I mean, it's calling two different sports, right, I mean, And had you ever called played by playing for football before before you did the preseason for the Dolphins or you had you done that?

00:33:06
Speaker 3: I did it well, I did it in college. Okay, okay, but maybe a game or two at some.

00:33:11
Speaker 5: Level, but for the most part I had not over the last whatever twenty five years.

00:33:18
Speaker 2: And do you ever, like some point in football game, think the game's over at the three quarters?

00:33:25
Speaker 5: I do not. I never had that issue. I always worry that at some point I'm gonna, you know, mix up numbers. But lucky that has never happened. And to your point, Ojay, you know, so once the hockey starts right in October and we're doing the pregame, so I remember there was one I think I was going to the morning Skate. We were in Saint Louis and I'm looking over and I got to set up with the ipaders. You and I were doing the interview with Chris Collinsworth that Wednesday for the Sunday pregame. So I'm overlooking like the arch, the arch in Saint Louis. I got like the three persons set up on the left. It's me, you and Collinsworth, and I know the bus. I think collins Worth was like two minutes late getting in and I know the bus. I'm looking at my phone from the Morning Skate is.

00:34:09
Speaker 2: Going to leave like soon.

00:34:10
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, you got to wrap this up. We got to get our eight minutes in and then done. So yeah, but that's what makes it interesting.

00:34:16
Speaker 3: You know, you just pivot back.

00:34:18
Speaker 5: And forth and hey the Dolphins, Hey look, both teams being good helps the tone because like when you when I'm doing a Panther game, I mean, there's just so much good information it's easy, and we're doing the pregame show and you know, the Dolphins are going like they were last year.

00:34:37
Speaker 3: Every game is a big game. You got Tyreek going for records, you got.

00:34:41
Speaker 5: Two leading the league, you know, in completion percentage and in yards, and there's just so much to talk about, so that when the teams are winning, it does make it easier than trying to dig up stuff. If you know, the Dolphins are two and six and they're playing the Cardinals, you know, not quite as easy to you know, have a guy like you know, the TV broadcaster on and ask you questions about the team.

00:35:05
Speaker 2: So yeah, no doubt about it, man, I mean, I guess there are a lot of similarities and a lot of things where you have to really make that pivot man into the football move man. I mean, now, God, since you know so much about both, who's tough for hockey players? Or football players.

00:35:20
Speaker 3: Great question, putting you on the spot right now.

00:35:23
Speaker 5: Look, you can't not have respect for the guys upfront in football because there's collisions every play, so and those guys have been doing that their whole life with collisions. But those hockey players are skating thirty five miles an hour in some cases with weapons in their hands, so to speak. And if you ever get close to a hockey rink, even if it's a practice, there is no room out there, and it is going so fast and it is constant, and it's the only sport where there's no out of bounds, like there's nowhere to like if if someone's running at you, you can't take an extra step and get out of bounds like you know you can sometimes in football. So those guys where they go through you know, playing three four games a week. I mean the Panthers the last two years have played two hundred and nine games. Could you a matt like you stop porsling. I mean this guy just gets pounded. I mean you make a play like So if you're a wide receiver in football, right maybe I don't know how many times a year old jab you.

00:36:29
Speaker 3: Have to pay the price like to make that catch. It only takes one right here, that's it only takes one for Ron lot.

00:36:39
Speaker 2: Those guys are.

00:36:40
Speaker 5: Doing it like four or five times a game, especially in the playoffs. Like you're getting like if you have that puck along the boards and you're looking to clear your own zone, if you're in the D zone and you know you got to get it out, you know that guy coming at you and finishing that check and he's going to plaster you. And nine out of ten times, these guys make the play and pay the price. So recept for all of them. I think hockey players are the toughest. What they go through.

00:37:08
Speaker 3: If you win the Cup, you're talking nine or ten months straight with no break. Unbelievable.

00:37:13
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you this going out full disclosure. I mean, we called the toughest football players hockey players, so we feel it too. Were three you know interesting, we know it. We know it as well.

00:37:24
Speaker 1: Man.

00:37:24
Speaker 2: We always had to say something. But we call the toughest football players hockey players. So you're you're absolutely right about that.

00:37:29
Speaker 6: Well, I will just say this to on your behalf.

00:37:32
Speaker 4: There is a reason, or there's a lot of reasons, but one of them comes down to the physicality of the game, that there's only seventeen games in the football season. Yeah, you could not play professional football three games a week, so I don't think the human body would allow it.

00:37:47
Speaker 5: So even now, Seth, they went to Sigana seventeen, right, and correct, talk about going to eighteen and if you make the playoffs and you go far, you're talking about twenty games. Right. Look at these teams late in the season, and we've been through it unfortunately the last few years. You know, two years ago with the DBS, and you know last year down the stretch.

00:38:08
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Raheem didn't play the last two.

00:38:10
Speaker 5: Games and they're picking up pass rushers literally right, Melvin Ingram's on his couch and he comes in and plays in the game in Kansas City. I mean, so you look at it now in the NFL, how hard.

00:38:22
Speaker 3: It is for teams, you know, to stay healthy. Nobody's healthy once you get to December anymore. In the NFL.

00:38:30
Speaker 6: Bottom line is they are both tough as nails.

00:38:33
Speaker 4: I mean, you can't play either of those sports and be soft and last very long, that's for sure, which is why goldie guys like you and I are doing different things.

00:38:41
Speaker 6: With our lives than having the resume that Jew's had.

00:38:45
Speaker 4: All right, Well, look what you do very well is you call games as well as anybody, and certainly everything I read, every article that I read Jews, particularly like the national articles, every article I read about Goldie and prepping for this was one of the NHL's five NHL's finals, so very very well respected, not just locally but across the country well internationally in that sport. And anybody who calls professional sporting events on live television knows how to think fast on your feet. And that's a really good thing. Because the final segment of every Fish Tank episode ends with our two minute drill, so there is we don't have it here but in your head.

00:39:24
Speaker 6: Put two minutes on the clock.

00:39:25
Speaker 4: We're gonna throw any fast paced questions, hopefully they're fun, and then.

00:39:29
Speaker 6: You can take us home.

00:39:31
Speaker 2: All right, you ready, Goldie, I'm ready, Let's go.

00:39:33
Speaker 5: I'm already trying to train my mind.

00:39:35
Speaker 3: Is Get your mind right, Goldie, get your pressure all right.

00:39:40
Speaker 2: As you mentioned earlier, you are a graduate of Syracuse University's prestigious new House School of Public Communications, and in the history of the Miami Dolphins, there have been seventeen former Syracuse Orange on their rosster. They're active ross there. How many of them can you name? Goldie?

00:39:57
Speaker 5: Oh my god, seventeen, Oh my god, Greenwood, Trill, Williams, Scott Swadies was on the Dolphins.

00:40:05
Speaker 3: I believe back in the day, right with you? Oh Man, Lindo Maray Isaiah Johnson doesn't count. He's in camp this year. Does he count?

00:40:15
Speaker 1: Now?

00:40:15
Speaker 2: Yes?

00:40:16
Speaker 6: I got to active roster.

00:40:18
Speaker 3: Oh man.

00:40:19
Speaker 4: We talked about one earlier, Yes we did. I mean he played for the Giants. He rooted for him when you were eight years old. All right, so you got four, we'll give you a five.

00:40:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well tough one.

00:40:35
Speaker 4: You're forgetting names like Kirby Dardar, Rob Conrad is probably gonna have a word or two.

00:40:42
Speaker 2: Was there when I was there?

00:40:44
Speaker 3: Man, kd once ran a double reverse back against the Gators. You have to go there.

00:40:50
Speaker 6: He just got me back for the.

00:40:53
Speaker 2: Question. Big said, I've got a I've got a giant and dolphin that he missed. Will Allen, Will Allen.

00:41:00
Speaker 3: That's really embarrassed. He doesn't.

00:41:04
Speaker 6: Clearly he does not have the Manila folder. All Right, we're gonna work, We're gonna keep it moving.

00:41:08
Speaker 4: You kind so this one will be a little bit of a softball because you kind of addressed it already.

00:41:12
Speaker 6: We discussed your work on the first Team with Joe Rose. What is one piece of advice?

00:41:17
Speaker 4: And you talk about different things, but if you could nail down one piece of advice at the former Dolphins tight end gave you that still sticks with you to this day, what would it be?

00:41:26
Speaker 5: Work? You know, there's no job beneath you. Show up, always be there, do whatever you gotta do. That's the best piece of advice I could give. I've been doing it for thirty thirty five years and for me anyway, knock on wood, it's it's worked out.

00:41:40
Speaker 2: That's awesome, man. All right. Hey, your nonprofit, Goldie's Gang, gives kids special experience that you know, they wouldn't know this otherwise, have the opportunity to participate in. What is one experience in the world of sports that is still on Goldie's bucket list?

00:41:55
Speaker 3: Oh, that's a great question. What is one thing I want to do in still thinking?

00:42:05
Speaker 5: I'm still thinking. I'm still thinking.

00:42:06
Speaker 6: It's a guy who's accomplished a lot too.

00:42:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know, but put it this way, I love to be live for a Dolphins super Bowl.

00:42:14
Speaker 2: There we go.

00:42:14
Speaker 5: I mean, I've been to the Marlins World Series now, been in the Panthers Stanley Cup Final twice. We've been to the Heat Championship rounds. It would be awesome to see the Dolphins in a super Bowl, particularly if it happened to be in South Florida. But off the radar, I've never been to a game at Cameron Indoor Stadium. A Duke North Carolina a game of Cameron Indoor that'd be kind of fun.

00:42:34
Speaker 4: Yeah right, those are two good answers. We like the first one better, but we'll accept both. The final question, it is a tough one.

00:42:41
Speaker 2: Here for you.

00:42:42
Speaker 4: Your pre and postgame co hosts over the years have included the likes of Danny Kanell, kim Bo, Camper, Lamar Thomas, John Kinjemmy, and now our very own Oj McDuffie. Which one of those guys could best make the transition to your hockey world and join you in the booth to call a Florida Panthers game with Steve Goldie Goldstein.

00:43:03
Speaker 5: Well, first off, we gotta get John Ky Jemmy a shout out because his son John Junior is the Panthers video coach and does an amazing job like they would know. So yeah, so John, So John is very invested, very knowledgeable about hockey.

00:43:18
Speaker 3: Go Camper, to his admission, doesn't know a whole lot about hockey. He knows how to get tickets, though he knows how to get tickets. So what I'm gonna do is OJ is so invested.

00:43:31
Speaker 5: I'm gonna put OJ in the booth next to me and John Kin Jimmy Ringside as our reporter.

00:43:37
Speaker 3: How's that we have a three man works That.

00:43:41
Speaker 6: Is a great answer, non answer.

00:43:43
Speaker 3: Way to go.

00:43:43
Speaker 4: He is Steve Goldie Goldstein, congratulations on the season of a lifetime and we can't wait for this season of mindmy Dolphins football and to hang out with you a little bit. And my favorite thing, jus is when the Dolphins are on the road, and so we're all at the iHeart Studios, right, guys do the pre game. I drop in and you know, drop off some Chipotle or something for Truth because he's been there since six in the morning or whatever it might be. And there's that transition and Goldie'll watch, like, you know, probably.

00:44:11
Speaker 6: The first quarter with us.

00:44:12
Speaker 2: He's like.

00:44:14
Speaker 4: The door.

00:44:15
Speaker 6: But it's always good to see it. Man, I can't wait to do more of that.

00:44:18
Speaker 5: It is awesome we get Travis in there as well, so it's a highlight for me.

00:44:22
Speaker 1: Guys.

00:44:23
Speaker 5: You know, you guys are South Florida through and through. You do a great job. I appreciate all of the kind words for me right back at you. You guys know how much I respect you and like working with you. So that is a fun time. And hey, and a thanks to the fans, right because none of us are doing what we're doing without the fans, the viewers, the listeners, and obviously the team as well and all the media partners having confidence in us. So like you guys, I'm very appreciative everything that we have.

00:44:52
Speaker 2: I know. Man, Man, thanks for diving in Goldie love it.

00:44:54
Speaker 5: Thanks guys, you're now diving.

00:44:59
Speaker 6: Just like Jew said.

00:45:01
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00:45:19
Speaker 5: This tank,