Boomer & Gio (well, Gio, anyway) have had some fun at Jim Gray's expense of late, as it relates to Tom Brady…but Jim is a friend of the program™, and jumped on Thursday's show to promote his new book, "Talking to GOATS: The Moments You Remember…and the Stories You Never Heard."
Of course, Gio was so wrapped up in Bitcoin talk, he almost forgot to bring Jim on to the program – but have no fear, Jim's all about Bitcoin (sort of), thanks to a meeting with venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz years ago.
"Mark Davis and I went to see Mr. Horowitz and Mr. Andreessen when Mark was trying to get a new stadium in Oakland, and they told us to buy Bitcoin when it was $100," Gray said. "Mr. Horowitz is a big Raiders fan, and he called us a couple years ago and said, 'if you had done that Mark, you would've been able to build your own stadium!' But that day we left, neither of us had any idea what he was talking about."
The talk of the day was the GOATs, though, in this case Mr. Brady; Gray did not know the Bitcoin proclivities of, but did have an interesting story of how his friendship with Brady came to be, as well as Brady becoming a regular guest on Jim's Westwood One Monday Night Football pregame show.
"I met Tom a few days before his first Super Bowl; he did the radio interview on Westwood One before the game and then one on the field after," Gray said. "He'd come on the air from time to time, and flash forward to when Mike Ditka couldn't do the show anymore and Don Shula had retired, I saw Tom at Riviera golf course watching his son Jack play tennis. I just threw it out there for him to do the show, and he told me he'd think about it. A couple weeks later, he called me, and said I'm in."
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