 Hi everybody, it's another edition of yes, we're here. It's Ian Eagle. It's I enjoy wait I'm I'm sorry. I'm confused. I'm it's I an eagle and Ian joy Ian or I and what's your name? This is the elephant in the room truly 51 years of my life. I've been building up to this moment to deal with an Ian one-on-one and really hammer out what the issue is here I'm gonna blame you every time I get a call from the bosses or colleagues It's always hey, hey, I enjoy can you join us for a meeting and I'm like no, no, sorry My name is Ian, you know, I have to correct everybody So finally getting to talk to you about this issue is a great thing for me Ian you don't even know how much joy excuse the pun that gives me to hear that you've had to go through this experience in any way shape or form Let me give you a little bit of background just so you understand. Yes My parents wanted to name me after my father's mother who had passed away. Her name was Ida So they had very limited options. They were looking at Ivan, which was very archaic Ira which did not have a great ring to it So they basically came up with iron but pronounced e-y-e A-n. Yeah, I was never Ian. I was always I am and I've had to fight this for my entire life. This is not a problem. I'm up to the task. I Was offended early in my life. I would battle people in school at some point You know after I met everybody at the yes network and of course I met yourself I called my parents and I said, why did you call me Ian? Is it iron or is it Ian? I said at one point you were gonna call me James Why didn't you just call me James and then I wouldn't have had this problem 100% what one story I did a net game this was 2000 and It was in Salt Lake City, and I took a red eye after the game I went directly to the airport things were a little bit tight Yeah, and this is before you could print your boarding pass ahead of time. So I run to the counter I hand my ID to the woman at the counter at the airline and she stares at my license and she looks at me and she looks at the license and she says Ian I said really so you want to try that again? She said Ian I have no idea where she came in so I had to explain no no it's iron eagle and she was not buying it Well, I tell you something you have definitely made the name iron a lot more famous than at once was that is for sure And that's a credit to you and your talent Ian, let me give you a little background on my soccer knowledge go for it's all based on The 70s grew up in New York. Yeah cosmos fan Would head out to Jersey watch Pele Canalia Beckinbauer Messing and I was into it. They had a cool song Yeah, they got a lot of people to show up for the NASL and It was a movement at the time in New York then briefly Steve Zungle Mm-hmm and the New York arrows became a legitimate thing Yeah, and I know about your background your dad was a professional Yes on the West Coast and obviously overseas you a professional soccer player It was something late 70s in New York The Cosmos took over it was real. Oh, yeah I mean when you ever hear stories about Pele he always talks about his time in New York Probably more than anywhere else of course for the national team for Brazil and the records that he broke But his history and his biggest stories are when he was with the New York Cosmos and I'm not surprised Obviously we've met in person and I can tell that you just love sports in general You like all sports you follow all sports and of course There's a passion now for anything that's on television like myself now I'll tell you quickly when I grew up my father, of course was was a professional soccer player He trained me and then when I started to realize oh wow my father's pretty good at this Gave me a gift right for my birthday And I think he's gonna really enjoy this because he watches every one of these shows this photograph right here This photograph right here behind me This is a picture of my father one-on-one against Pele Wow, and then right here This was his teammate Eusebio who's with the famous Portuguese player at that time And he managed to get these photographs signed before Eusebio died, but also Pele. He's got signed as well So that was on my wall and the title always said make it happen And that for me was an inspiration in life So I'm glad you actually lived through those times because those were magical times in soccer completely and The dynamic between you and your dad obviously you had this bond over soccer So you had the normal father son relationship But then it went to this completely other level because you could relate to What he went through how to prepare how to be a professional That's a really Interesting part to your relationship that I'm sure you look back on now and and realize how special that was that you got to Share it. Yeah. I mean I'm grateful of course I had that relationship with him and I got to learn from him But at the same time that comes that pressure as well when you're trying to make it as a professional And I'm sure you're experiencing the same thing right now with not right Yeah, he's he's going through his career and and you're giving him every single piece of advice and experience It's priceless for him, but at the same time you still got to make your way You still got to create your own talent create your own buzz and create your own opportunities as well So and it brought a great deal of opportunity for me to learn pretty quickly But I was grateful for that and I don't think you could ever have learned from a better person then your own father And you nailed it. My son Noah is a broadcaster with the Clippers out on the west coast and the way our relationship is It's not dominated by broadcasts conversation and I'm not Critiquing every broadcast that he does I pick and choose my spots. I try to share some Larger scope views on the business and I think more than anything else and probably speaking for you as well Growing up. He was around it. So none of this was intimidating to him None of this seemed like it was unattainable Right, it was part of his everyday life and if anything that probably Was the biggest lesson that he learned being a fly on the wall watching me prepare Understanding how much work goes into it and when he got a chance to do it having the confidence To go out and be his own person be his own broadcaster and develop his own style Yeah, you know what I actually met him when I met you for the first time I met Noah at that same night and I was so impressed with him with his character And you know, I'm very quick to judge a person as well good handshake great character good conversation And and you can just tell whether someone has it or they don't have it and clearly I could tell he's got something pretty special He's got a good aura about him as well That goes a long way in this industry being a good person and being able to recognize that he's gonna have to work very hard But he's got tremendous talent already there that he's he's got something to build on that means a lot Can you just say his name again? It just sounds cool coming out of your your mouth? No ego. He's a legend and he will be a big legend Hey, listen, I gotta I gotta pick on you real quickly because yeah There was one broadcast that stuck out in the top of my mind when we got this opportunity to talk with one another I had to bring it up because I didn't get the chance to bring it up with Jim because we ran out of time you and Jim did a game Jim's been Oracle in London and You guys use slang words for the whole game and for me I mean, of course, I didn't watch it live at that time But I managed to catch it back on YouTube if anybody gets a chance go check it out It's just British slang word after British slang word. That must have been an awesome experience for you Let me let me make this point about that broadcast Jim was completely jet lagged So I think we were getting a version of Jim that was now completely there And he just went with it if you want to go and check it on YouTube It was the Nets and the Atlanta Hawks going head-to-head in London And I don't know if Spanarkle cackled more on the air over the course of that two hours And he has in his entire career. So Ian that that means a lot Great memory you hey We have a couple of messages for all the the great fans that have been tuning into these if you have any questions whatsoever you can tweet at yes network and Use the hashtag yes mail bag and we're gonna get those questions answered So this is a great way for everybody to be engaged and be involved with what we're doing here at yes Yeah, it's quite impressive what we're actually doing. I in as well. Everybody's coming together Yes, we're here is the local for us right now And of course there has been some tremendous content has been put out there all these great figures in sport Mixing with one another getting an opportunity share some stories learn from one another That will all be put on the yes network as well And if you want more details on that, please check out yes network.com for more information I and honestly for me personally it this has been a tremendous experience It's it's an awful time But to be able to have a conversation with you one-on-one and all the other legends that we've got at the network That means so much to me as well. So Awesome, man great to chat with you you too. I'm gonna leave you with this Ian if you put a BR in front of your name, what what would that sound like? Brian You win