 Hi, everybody. Bob Lorenz along with Ian Joy. Time to bring a little more joy to the world. I think that's where we're going with this, Ian. Are you on board with that? Joy to the world is certainly what is needed right now, Bob. It is a moment where people are sitting at home, they're looking for content, and what's more than Bob and Ian. That's it. And we're able to spread that joy, by the way. Practicing social distancing, which we keep needing to do during this coronavirus. You're in Southern California. I'm over in the Connecticut area, and the things are going great. This is a great way to spread a little joy and bring joy to the world, even if we have to do it this way, right? It's very important, I think, having that social distancing, and this is the ultimate social distancing being across the country from you, Bob. I like to be next to you in your office, eating your candy. However, in moments like these, it's about taking care, making sure you look after your family, making sure you're looking after your loved ones, washing your hands properly. Taking all precautions so that this virus does not spread easily. Do your role. Be a soldier. For once in your life, if you've never been a soldier, listen and learn. Take care, take all precautions, and make sure that you're doing the right thing to protect your environment. You know what, Ian? I've said this to people. I'm like, you know what it is? It's if you remember, maybe you haven't been part of it, maybe you're my age, and you haven't been part of a team, so to speak, in a while, a sports team. It's like being a good teammate, basically, one through 25 if you're on the Yankees, or one through on their 40-man roster, right? You're being a teammate by practicing all these things, so you can get back on the field. Yeah, you know what, that's a great way to put it, because it's not always easy for people to take information where there is a lot demanded from them, because some people are bosses, some people have never been in that team environment, so when all of a sudden, all the way down from the president, is telling you to do something, and you have to follow orders, it's not always easy for people, but this is the most important order you will ever have to fulfill in your life right now. And our generation, Bob, never in a million years would have thought we would have had to have lived through an experience like this. But taking everything on board and making the right decisions is so vitally important, not only for your children, but all the way up to your grandparents. Very, very important. All right, so I do want you to know, take a look at this, sometimes you've got to wear a ball cap with what we're doing. A little represent for Ian right there with the California Travis Matthew hat. That's why I wore it, because of you. You are looking good, my man. So let's get this thing rocked. Just give me a taste of what your day's like. Well, I think when this first hit, Bob, it was a harsh reality. Getting flight back to California to be with my family was the first and foremost most important thing. It was in New York at the time. I was preparing for a couple of events. And all of a sudden it gets shut down. So you immediately go into sort of a panic mode and you try to get on the next flight home or you try to get the cab home or wherever it is to be with your loved one so that you can take care of them. So that was my immediate reaction. And since I've been home, it's all about getting things set up. I got my wife out to the stores very early. Before the lockdown was in place, make sure you get and double up on absolutely everything we need that's necessary in our house. Obviously toilet paper was one of them. That seems to have been the fight right now recently in the stores. But yeah, those were the most important things. But for me personally, trying to keep myself active. And I mentioned this yesterday when we were talking, Bob, the mental health side of things. And for me, it's so important because I am wired. I have a lot of energy. So I have to keep myself active. So I'm keeping myself in a routine. I'm getting up first thing in the morning. I'm going for a workout even if it's in my garage or in my living room, no matter what, there's some great classes out there, great content where you can follow suit. And then having a good breakfast, healthy foods and spending quality time with the loved ones. Reading a book, listening to some music, watching movies, doing some awesome content with you, Bob. It's a great feeling. And sometimes I'm getting the opportunity to catch up on things that I never had a chance to previously. Hey, so you mentioned entertainment and things you're doing. I like to keep doing this. I think we'll do this as long as you and I are doing this, is make suggestions. And my wife and I, I think it's five or six episodes last night on Netflix. There's a show executive produced by actually Octavia Spencer. She's in it. Yeah. LeBron James, Maverick Carter, that whole group. It's called Self Made. And it's the story of Madame C.J. Walker back in the early 1900s and how she became this beauty products mogul. And then it's got, it's set in the early 1900s, it's got a little mock, kind of a modern vibe to it. Yeah. Really good. I mean, we're not bingers per se, because we don't just sit there and, you know, wait, all of a sudden we're like, it's four in the morning. What have we been doing? But this was like five or six episodes and it is worth the watch. So maybe give that a try. What about you? Yeah. I mean, obviously Netflix and all the, the interesting things you can find online. Now you watch a lot of YouTube recently. I think when you're watching too much news, you can sort of get carried away with the situation. You put yourself into a panic mode because there's so much information coming out right now. It's so vitally important to make sure that I believe that people are watching Netflix and they're switching on Disney plus or they're switching on sports that they can find old games, old material, old commentary, things like that where you're watching even old baseball game. That's a historic game that was one of your favourites in past time. Try to find that. I've been doing the same with soccer and watching some old classic basketball games. So sports of course is our lives. So it's natural we always have a tendency to lean towards watching sports. But I actually, for the first time in a long time, I picked up a couple of books and I've been doing a good job sitting, reading a book. So I've been reading a book or I've actually just finished it now. It's called the billion dollar whale. And it's about this dude who was a billionaire, but a fraudster. He basically created a company that was doing absolutely nothing and managed to convince massive investors all the way through from New York to Dubai to invest their huge money with them. Pension funds from Malaysia. Bob, this book was absolutely awesome. And believe it or not, you know the Wolf of Wall Street movie? Yes. He financed the Wolf of Wall Street movie. Oh, wow. Yeah, I've heard about this guy. You've got to read this book. If you're a reader and you want to read something interesting because it's about parties and crazy champagne parties with Paris Hilton and things like that. It's pretty awesome. The book is great. So if there's a good book you want to read, definitely go out and check out the billion dollar whale. Let me throw a couple into the hopper. I'm reading one now and I just finished one. I've finished the Bob Iger autobiography. Yeah. Really good. I mean, tremendous book about really what you find is probably the reason he's lasted that long in that job is the way he treats people and the way he handles them and doesn't micromanage them. Really interesting. But there's some great stories in there about how the relationship under Michael Eiser had gotten fractured with Steve Jobs and Pixar and how Iger, once he became CEO, just kind of, he wasn't thinking that way originally, but how he kind of brought it back and got back together with Jobs. And then one day he called him up and said, hey, what do you think about us by Pixar? He's like, you know, let me think about it. It was like, whoa. And that all happened. So a lot of great stories like that. And then the one I'm reading about transitioning to music a little bit is I grew up in Southern California, as you know, and that was the era we had it from our town in Covina. We had a motley crew. Tommy Lee or Tommy Bass at the time went to my high school. Vince Neil was there as well. And then they became motley crew. They used to play backyard bands or backyard concerts as US 101. And then they all got together and became motley crew and they became what they became. But Van Halen, that's the book that I'm reading. By the way, Motley Crew, The Dirt is a very interesting book as well. But the Van Halen book right now is tremendous. It's an autobiography of them. They grew up kind of in the Pasadena area. Yeah. And just the way they started and how originally they did not want David Lee Roth in the band because he didn't fit at the time. But once they got Michael Anthony, their bassist, it kind of all came together. And I'm right at the point of the book where they're about to take off. So really, really interesting stuff. I love reading biographies, autobiographies. And of course, I love to read a lot of sports biographies. But musicians in particular, you know, I've been in Los Angeles for five years now. And this is my last year in Los Angeles before I make the move to the East Coast. But being in Los Angeles has been pretty cool because there's a great music scene here. And the generation right now is just taking it to the next level. So I've become familiar and friends with a lot of musicians here and it's been awesome to mix with them. Mixing with athletes is pretty cool. But there's certainly an arrogance to half of the athletes you come across there. And there certainly is an arrogance about 75% of the actors or actresses that you meet out there. But musicians are so freaking cool, man. They are so awesome to hang out with. They just want to have fun. They party all night, of course. I'm not recommending that, but it's a great thing whenever you get the chance to. They're just a buzz to be around. And that positivity, I love feeding off it from musicians. So whenever I get a chance to read a good book about old school musicians, I've obviously read Paul McCartney's book and it's phenomenal. Reading about the Beatles and what happened back in the day. It's next level stuff. But yeah, it's been great to spend some time just watching movies, catching up with series, being able to read a good book. Obviously I got three kids, so my time has fulfilled quite a lot of the time with those guys. And teaching my daughter how to ride a bike. Well, that's great. Hey, by the way, just quickly circling back to Paul McCartney, when you were reading his book, did you read it in his voice like, Well, me and this bird were going out one day and we decided maybe we'll write a song. John and I wrote a song about it. Have you ever seen Paul McCartney perform live? I have not seen him perform live. Must be a gas, right? I went to watch him perform live in Liverpool and it was incredible. Just the old school classics and obviously his new stuff that he's been performing with his band, which has been great to watch. But I mean, this guy is such an iconic guy. My name is Ian Paul Joy because my father was such a massive Beatles fan. Oh, wow. Paul McCartney. So I had no other option, but to learn about the Beatles and learn about Paul McCartney. So for me, it means a lot to me. That's great. You know, it's kind of fun. Bring it full circle because you have younger kids. I have older kids. When we moved up here, kind of introducing them to, we went to a couple of local concerts and up at Mohegan's son, Peter Franton. Yeah. AC DC. What was the other one? What's the one I'm missing here? Your mama's all right. Your dad is all right. You're before my generation, Paul. I don't know. I knew you're going to say that. I wanted to impress you. So all right. You know the song, my sharonah? Yeah. My sharonah. All right. That's the knack, right? You know the knack. I saw them in concert back in Los Angeles back in the day. Yeah. And Ian, it was so funny because that was their only hit, right? So they came, they had a couple of bands before that. They came out. They played for like 30 minutes. They played my sharonah. They played their album, which was a small album. And then they played my sharonah. And that was it. Done. Like 35 minutes later, you're like, it was like a drive-by. What just happened, you know? Hey, if you could have, if you could have one song in your life that's meant a lot to you, that when you're getting ready for a show, and I know what it's like, you're just preparing, you're putting your time on, you're looking in the mirror, and there's a song going through your mind. What is that song that gets you inspired? What's that song that just takes you to the next level? You know what? It's funny you say that. There would be a variety of them. My wife laughs at me because the work, the workout music I have is very edgy. Very hard rock. I mean, if I like something in that vein, I wouldn't say there's one go-to, but Soundgarden Blow Up the Outside World would probably be the go-to song. It's got that little bit of a slow build, and then it just spacks you over the head. I love that. See, those are the types of inspirational songs that get you going, no matter what. Whenever you hear it, wherever you are, there's always the little head move, you know, you just start to get into the feeling of it. For me, it would be, and this was a song that I used to listen to, and it probably shouldn't have done, because I would have picked up less suspensions because of this. I used to listen to The Firestarter by a band called Prodigy. I'd be like, I'm a firestarter. I'm a firestarter. It's a wired up song, and for me, it just got me going. It didn't mean anything to me other than this song just got me pumped up to the next level. So, if I'm thinking about getting ready to go on stage, or if I'm thinking about walking out onto a field, that's definitely the song that's pumped me up. So, how many, is there something in that song that says something about a red card? I think it was wired within me. As soon as I went and took myself to the next level, somebody was getting it. I mean, when you're going out to a song called Firestarter and you're ready to do battle on the field, it's only a matter of time before you're getting yourself into trouble. So, hey, I'm just curious. Some of those artists you're talking about hanging out with the musicians, are these like famous artists, or are they kind of up and coming, but, you know, they're about to launch, or they're just really good music that you like? No, good music for sure, of course. I guess, yeah, you wouldn't be going to a concert with that kind of music, right? No, of course. But I'm mixing in restaurants and bars and hanging out with people. Of course, I grew up in the UK, you know, from three years old. My mom is Scottish, so I grew up in Scotland, and I have obviously a great love for British music as well. So, there's a band right now called the 1975, I don't know if you've ever heard of them, Worldwide. They're very popular now. Great music, guitar music. I recommend it for you as well, if you've ever seen a book put on 1975. They're awesome. My really good friend, Martin, he created a band called Churches. It's a bit more like poppy music, poppy disco music, like electric. And, yeah, they're doing some big things. I mean, they're selling out big arenas. 1975 sold out the garden last year. I went to watch them. Wow. They sold out the whole thing. So, for me, it was, I was there for that moment, which was quite special, because obviously you get used to knowing one or two of the guys and then you meet the band and you meet the people around the band. And it's pretty awesome. So, 1975 and Churches, two of the band members I'm very close with. I hope you get a chance to talk to Jack Curry about this. He will probably listen to this, because once we get to the band part, I'll just tell him, go about 15 minutes in, because mentioning these bands, he probably knows them. He knows everything, but he would probably love this genre of music or these genres of music. Hey, so, now complete transition, unless you got something else to say about that. No, go, go. Because we're going from head bashing, skull crashing music to, you know, all these great bands. Now we're going to go to the other side of things. You're teaching your daughter how to ride a bicycle. Yeah. That's a weird transition. But what is that like? Because, like, I'm so far removed from it. Is it, how's she doing? Is it frustrating? Is it, could you always worry about that first spill? Then they don't want to get back on, right? How old are your kids now? 30, almost 30 and 25. Yeah. And it's amazing how quickly the time flies by, right? So I have a 13-year-old daughter. She's in high school now, and she's doing her thing. She doesn't even sometimes want to have a conversation during the day. Then I go down to the two little ones, who's five years old, Alessandra, my daughter, and I have a three-year-old boy, Harvey James, who's a big boy. I'm telling you, Bob, I'm telling you this guy, if there's a sport where I think he's perfect for, it's baseball. Because I didn't grow up with baseball in Europe. I grew up with soccer and rugby and kind of cricket and all those other, like, weird British sports. And I would love to kind of get into that, like, little league baseball with this guy, because he's a big boy and he's a lefty as well. So I'm not sure, dude, I'm not sure if he can throw it or if he can, you know, if he's going to be a designated hitter. I'm not sure. But this guy, this guy's a big boy. So I'm hoping at some stage that I can get him into baseball because I'd love to follow what it's like through the youth ranks. Anyway, going back to my daughter, it's an experience, Bob. You know you've been there. It's not fun because, first of all, you're frightened they're going to fall over. And if they do fall over, they're probably not going to get back up on that bike for at least a couple of weeks' time. But she doesn't want any help. She's an independent girl. So she's like, leave me. Let me try it. And I'm like, no, no, because you're going to fall and then all of a sudden it's going to be blood and tears. And I don't want that. That's hard. But it's awesome. It's such a great feeling. I love being a father. I love probably spending as much time as I can with my kids. You know, you've been there and done it. It's very difficult not to have that passion for them. So every single step, I'm just honored to be there to be able to play a role. And of course this situation, even though it's being crap, circumstances that we're in, I actually have some time to sit and teach my daughter how to ride a bike and taking my mind away from everything. It's been pretty awesome. Yeah, you could be flying around and you would have no time right now. So I think that's awesome. But you know, the funny thing is, parenting, people are like, oh yeah, once they're 18, they're out of the house. It's like you never stop. I mean, it's always, we're in constant contact. He's into sort of the entertainment field and movies and he's given us tips on shows and movies and all kinds of stuff back and forth. He's a foodie like us, our son. How was it for you, Bob, as you were obviously going through your career and you have your chosen, because I'm experiencing it now, where the kids all of a sudden look at the television and they take a double take on the television and they're like, what is going on? Like, dad? Yeah. Dad was here yesterday. Why is he on the television? Well, how was that for you with your kids growing up, obviously going to school and people knew who their father was? You know, was it difficult for your kids or do they love the fact that you were who you were? No, it wasn't that big a deal because I never made it that big of a deal. It was just a job for me. And when they were young, I had kind of, I was at CNN, I had the overnight shift. So when they were sleeping, I was working basically. I had a 2.30 a.m. East Coast show that was the 11.30 West Coast. 2.30 a.m.? Yeah. So it was the prime time 11.30 sports highlight show. Yeah. Sports Tonight, CNN Sports Tonight. And so I did that show. So I basically worked when they slept. So I didn't miss out on a lot of stuff. I got to see a lot of their stuff growing up, help raise them and everything. And they just, by the time they got a little older, it wasn't that big a deal. You know, I think a couple of times when they came into, and they knew people I worked with too because we were all friends. So I think when they'd come into the studio, they would just see what they thought were family friends there. Yeah. So it wasn't that big a deal to them. And we never made it that big a deal. Obviously it's a job. It's more important about who we are than what we do. It's kind of cool. You keep it as normal as possible for the kids. I think nowadays with social media involved in things, it makes it a little bit more difficult for our kids. My daughter in particular, all of her friends, the young girls and the young boys, they all follow me on social media. So whenever I'm putting a post out there, I'm automatically thinking like, is it okay that my daughter's friends see this? Or what am I saying here that's gonna offend. You have to be careful what you put out there. And I'm sure you've been in this position where you've written out a tweet or you've written out a tweet and you're like, should I post this? Should I not post this? And eventually you delete the tweet because you just don't want to put it out there. Right. I will tell you one funny story when my son was working for Fox Sports in LA. This was maybe three to four years ago. So he was in working on some UFC stuff. And one of the producers there knows me and on Fox Sports, the regionals, we air Forbes Sports money, right? Yeah. So they're having a meeting and all of a sudden this producer who knows me just goes, oh yeah, there's Tyler's down on screen right now. And Tyler's just like, because he doesn't want people, he wants to make his own bones, you know? Yeah. And so he's just like, Jesus. Oh man. What a gigantic head right in the conference room. Did you ever think that you adopt the career that you've had? I mean, I know obviously I said a lot of nice things yesterday, but again, going back to it, it's just, it's quite amazing what you've achieved in your career, Bob. I mean, I'm sitting looking at, I think, is it 17 Emmys, 18 Emmys you've won? Something like that. 17 Emmys. I see you've lost count of the amount of Emmys you've won. Great example, right? I don't have a tow board in my office. I do have behind me some of them, but I don't have a tow board in my office. Did you ever think at one stage you could have this type of career and achieve the levels you've achieved or success and also, you know, the variety of how could you've been? I'm going to go back to what we talked about yesterday. The answer to that is yes, because I put the work in. Yeah. I'm sure that when I came out of USC, I always wanted to know more than the guy sitting next to me or the woman sitting next to me. So when I left USC, I knew how to write, edit, shoot camera, do everything I needed to do to be self-sufficient. So if I need, I'll give you an example. My first TV job, I was the sports director. I was a one-man band. Yeah. And for the 11 o'clock show, the news anchor, and it was just her and me. She's like, hey, can you be my cameraman and come out and shoot this story for me? So yeah, I grabbed the camera. I go out and shoot. I'm running audio and doing the whole thing. It's like knowing that stuff that people, here's what it is. People know, Ian, that if you, they have a job for you, you'll get it done. Yeah. And I think there's so much value in that. They don't worry about you. And so every job I've had, they can look at and say, you know what, Bob's responsible. Bob's pretty good at what he does. We don't have to worry about that show when he's on. Let's go worry about something else. And I think that's the important thing. And you just, it's the preparation that goes back to that. I guess. I love that. That means a lot to me because sometimes I overthink. Maybe I think I'm doing too much or I prepare too much because a lot of the time, I'm sure you've been in this position as well, where I've done my preparation for a game or a show and I've overprepared. And I've certainly left three quarters of my material unused. And now I keep everything on my iPad because I can copy and paste and move it to the next show or the next time I'm working on that team. But I always remember one of my first ever broadcasts, one of my top producers, Johnty Whitehead of Fox. He said to me, never be underprepared. Always be overprepared because you never quite know what can happen in live television. And it's stuck with me. So I'm always overprepared. And so I love that mentality from you, Bob. And I think that's what a lot of people can learn from. Always making sure you go the extra mile, work harder than the person next to you, be the best you that you can possibly be. And people will love you for that. And certainly you've achieved that. Thank you. It kind of goes back to that competitive nature, but it's not competition in a negative way. Yeah. You know, hopefully, and I know this is the way, by the way, that it is with you, Jack, Flash, everybody on our, every colleague we have, if you're going to be better, you're pushing me to be better. It's not a competition. We're all part of that same team. I keep coming back to the same theme, but that's what it is. We don't want to be good. We want to be great. Everybody should want that, right? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So now next question, this leads me directly into it. And of course, I think already know the answer because I've been a part of the network for five years, but from the person who's on the outside looking in right now to yourself who's been at the network from the very beginning for such a long period of time in your career where you've had multiple options to do other things. What is it about the yes network that has managed to keep you happy, keep you satisfied, but also that you love so much? Yeah. Well, let me just start with the sport. Obviously the main focus is baseball. I grew up playing baseball. It's my first love. So you just want to say at its roots that, but our boss, John, Phillip Kelly hires great people and the team around him hires great people. I think that is a template for any great organization because great people will always have pride, great in their work. Great people always strive to be great. And then the byproduct is if you're a really nice person, you're a great person. It's a pleasure coming in to the office every day and you're surrounded by great, nice people. It makes the working environment great, but I think that's the main thing. It's like we literally are like a family. Yeah. It makes it easy every single day, even if you're to work in 20 days in a row with three rain delays sandwiched in between, makes it really easy walking through those doors. What about you? Yeah, I mean, that's exactly what you said that was headed right on the head. For me, it starts from the very top that passion, that desire for perfection, but also the way you are treated as a human being. I've worked for some big networks in my short and young career and I've learned some things the hard way because it's not always easy the way you're treated. And there is a lot of jealousy in the industry and there certainly is a lot of aggression in the industry where people are looking after their own careers and they're willing to go the extra mile to maybe stop the next person in the back. I've never experienced anything like that at this network. Great people, great desire, and what you mentioned when you were talking about your career, a willingness to work hard to be the best you that you can be. Everybody has that mentality. Everybody's a great person and when you put that together, you get a great family and I think it's been incredible for me personally to be a part of the Yes Network for such a long time already and hopefully for a long time in the future to come as well. I'll tell you another thing. I'm looking forward to learning more about the other sports. It's not just obviously soccer for me. I've obviously started to really fall in love with baseball and I'm watching basketball more than ever before and the sports that the network covers, you know, being doing my preparation and obviously studying a lot of the teams that we cover because there's a great passion there and I want to be able to have those conversations with yourself and with our audience as well and share that with them. So let's wrap this up with just a little tease. A little birdie told me you might be joining us for a little bit of our Yankees coverage. A source told me that this season. Is that a possibility and would you be willing to do that? Well, it's news to me, but thanks for breaking it. Well, I can tell you that I am absolutely moving to the east coast for a start and this will obviously come out more and more as time goes on with this situation that we're in right now. It's put a little bit of a dampener on my plans. You know, I will be leaving Fox and I will be moving to the east coast and yeah, there's no doubt in my mind, you know, that's news to me, Bob, but there's no doubt in my mind that being a broadcaster, a sports broadcaster, you want to work on the best properties in the world with the best teams surrounded by the best people. And there's no doubt if there was never an opportunity for me to be closer to you guys and working on the Yankees, learning absolutely everything there is to know about the New York Yankees because I'm in love with the city and that's where my passion comes. Ever from when I was a kid, New York has been my dream. It's been my passion. I've always wanted to go to live and work in New York City and around the sports teams. I don't think there's a better fan base. I don't think there's a better enthusiasm for the sports teams, negative and positive. I love the negativity side of it as well. It's just a desire for mine and I've been fortunate for the last five years to cover the soccer team in New York and certainly if there's an opportunity there, I would absolutely jump at it to make sure that I could cover the Yankees and the Nets as well. I'm going to check with my source and when he watches this, he's probably going to text me and be like, Bob, we haven't talked to Ian yet. I have a good feeling we need some joy on baseball as well. Hey, so maybe I'm thinking because you mentioned how much you love New York. Obviously you do love L.A., the area, Southern California. Maybe the next time we get together, we talk about what you like about New York, about the places you've been around the world. We're great, we're not great. I'll do the same. What do you think? Let's do it. I mean, I've been told that we're together on Thursday if I'm not mistaken, which is something I think should be happening from here on out for the rest of our lives, Bob. If me and you could be together every day for a short period of time, it would make me very happy. So yeah, I look forward to that. Talking about New York and everything East Coast for me is always a pleasure. I love, absolutely love New York. So I want to know certain places I've never been to that you can recommend for me as well. It's great being with you, bud. See you again on Thursday.