How to Play the Money Game with Michael Santoli

**Michael Santoli** (0:00)
Yankees won a few in a row.

**Michael Santoli** (0:02)
They did, they're squeaking them out.

**Josh Brown** (0:04)
You go to the stadium a lot?

**Michael Santoli** (0:05)
I don't go a lot. I used to go, I used to have a little mini plan. I'm so old, I can't warm up to the new stadium. I know it's been there 17 years or whatever, but it's not the place I walked into when I was five years old.

**Josh Brown** (0:19)
Oh, you should have come with me to Jay-Z. You would have loved it that night.

**Michael Santoli** (0:22)
Oh yeah?

**Josh Brown** (0:22)
Oh my God. So they didn't have Yankee security there. They had an outsourced security, and I think there's like 50,000 tickets sold, and then maybe another 50,000 people who thought either somehow they'd get in or...

**Michael Santoli** (0:38)
I'm on the list, yeah.

**Josh Brown** (0:39)
Or if you're right outside the stadium, you can listen.

**Michael Santoli** (0:41)
Oh, right.

**Josh Brown** (0:42)
And just hang out. And it's in one of the most population-dense neighborhoods maybe in the world.

**Michael Santoli** (0:47)
Yeah.

**Josh Brown** (0:48)
And it was just like, it was impossible. And I went Saturday night, so it wasn't quite as bad as the next night, Sunday night, where he didn't go on stage until 1230

**Michael Santoli** (0:58)
Oh my God.

**Josh Brown** (0:59)
But it took us two hours to get in. We planned for that. And then it took us two hours to leave. No kidding. Which is the worst.

**Michael Santoli** (1:06)
Yes.

**Josh Brown** (1:07)
And everybody's like standing shoulder to shoulder. They just, they had two, it's six gates, Yankee Stadium. They had two gates open, which I don't understand.

**Michael Santoli** (1:16)
It's a nightmare. I know.

**Josh Brown** (1:17)
I think what they thought is that they'd be able to better control the flow out of the street.

**Michael Santoli** (1:23)
The checkpoints, yeah.

**Josh Brown** (1:24)
But it didn't.

**Michael Santoli** (1:25)
So this is the thing where they like cut it into a dock or something, the four nights or whatever it was?

**Josh Brown** (1:30)
They're going to have to make a movie.

**Michael Santoli** (1:31)
I think they did, yeah.

**Josh Brown** (1:32)
They're going to have to because it was a true like milestone event.

**Michael Batnick** (1:38)
Alas, this is coming out of IMAX, their tour.

**Michael Santoli** (1:41)
There you go. Probably the Sphere.
Who knows?

**Michael Batnick** (1:44)
That'd be sick. I saw them at the Rose Bowl last year before Future Proof. Oh yeah. Amazing.

**Josh Brown** (1:49)
You know who's at Yankee Stadium a lot? Terranova's there.

**Michael Santoli** (1:52)
I know it.

**Josh Brown** (1:52)
Like almost every game.

**Michael Batnick** (1:53)
I know.

**Josh Brown** (1:53)
He just loves it so much.

**Michael Batnick** (1:55)
He has a plan.

**Michael Santoli** (1:55)
I'm going with him.

**Josh Brown** (1:56)
You're going to go to the 9-11?

**Michael Santoli** (1:58)
Oh, with you, yeah.

**Josh Brown** (1:59)
I was going to go. Yeah.

**Michael Batnick** (2:00)
Oh, you're not going?

**Josh Brown** (2:00)
It's Jewish holiday.

**Michael Santoli** (2:02)
Oh, what does it fall on?

**Michael Batnick** (2:03)
I don't know.

**Josh Brown** (2:04)
What's 9-11? September 11th.

**Michael Batnick** (2:05)
Probably Rosh Hashanah. Rosh. Rosh. Do you consider yourself the greatest financial journalist of all time?

**Michael Santoli** (2:12)
Oh my God. No, I don't.

**Michael Batnick** (2:14)
I try not to consider myself at all. You start the interview just asking.

**Josh Brown** (2:18)
Why are you so awesome?

**Michael Santoli** (2:19)
I mean, come on.

**Michael Batnick** (2:20)
We are gonna make you blush.

**Michael Santoli** (2:22)
I've aged into it.

**Michael Batnick** (2:23)
No, but you know what?
I feel this way and I think I speak for the fans. You feel as much like a practitioner as anybody in modern times that has reported on the financial markets.

**Michael Santoli** (2:35)
I guess I'll take that as a compliment.

**Josh Brown** (2:38)
You're saying you feel that way about him or he feels that way?

**Michael Batnick** (2:41)
That's how I feel.

**Josh Brown** (2:43)
Oh, because you said you.

**Michael Batnick** (2:45)
Whatever I said, I said how I feel. I know what you meant. I was there. That's how I feel.

**Josh Brown** (2:50)
You'll take it or you take that as a compliment.

**Michael Santoli** (2:52)
I will take that, although.

**Michael Batnick** (2:53)
You feel like you're more than just an observer. I'm saying I feel that. I just said it again.

**Josh Brown** (2:57)
Right.

**Michael Batnick** (2:58)
Go ahead.

**Michael Santoli** (2:58)
I feel like I always view it as like kind of color commentator, but maybe sounding a little more like the color commentator who has a good feel for how the game is played as opposed to just like covering it in a neutral way. But the funny thing about it is, I have zero interest and never have had an interest in actually doing this stuff.