please welcome ernie johnson jr.! ing here. >> stephen: well, thanks for being here. you must be a little bit tired because you were in phoenix last night for the championship. >> i was, the n.c.a.a. championships, tarheels of north carolina. >> stephen: absolutely. give it up. there are a lot of games to watch in march madness. 68 teams. how many games, is it 34 games or something like that? >> there are a bunch that first weekend. >> stephen: do you have to watch all of them? >> yes, we do. >> stephen: wow. >> and here's the deal-- and i tell charles and kenny who i work with all the time, when they say, "these hours are so much." i say, "if you had a boss who told you the first two days of the tournament all i want you to do is watch march madness, you would probably sign up for that." so we got to do and and it's awesome. it's a lot of homework. there are 68 teams and you're expected to know who all the players are. >> stephen: but you can't possibly know who all the players are. >> no, you can't. >> stephen: how d

. >> ernie johnson will take it when we come back to phoenix.s will be taking down the nets here. and they will have one shining moment in honor of their performance as they take the national championship. 2017. okay, sal. so who was really the best? from around here? johnny matarazzo. 5 foot 3, centre, averaged 57 a night. ronnie derosa, the big d. he put a dollar on the top of the backboard, brought back change. vinnie dibiasio. scored 125 points in one half. on crutches. i was there. vinnie d was awesome, he was unbelievable. he was a ptper, he was the 3-s man, he was... is that even good? high riser, he did... no clue. heroes make every game better. the subway italian hero. perfect for game day. various: (shouting) heigh! ho! ( ♪ ) it's off to work we go! woman: on the gulf coast, new exxonmobil projects are expected to create over 45,000 jobs. and each job created by the energy industry supports two others in the community. altogether, the industry supports over 9 million jobs nationwide. these are jobs that natural gas is helping make happ

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. >> serving 26 years for robbery, ernie johnson landed in nat-sag for assaulting an officer. >> telle you taken a look at that book yet? i don't want it back unless you've finished it. >> i read it about halfway. the memory palace. >> is it okay? >> yeah, it tells about the life and times of michael ricci. >> i been in a couple fights. i'm generally an insolent person. i don't get along well with others. they don't like my religion. they discriminate against me because of that. >> johnson practices an obscure religion called asatru. >> it's european. before we were christians, we were asatru, believe in thor. basically a medieval religion. classical. >> prison officials maintain these religions like asatru are really covers for white supremacist gangs. >> it's a problem. because you can't violate their religious freedom. >> take it easy, huh? >> all right. >> for father mcnally, the choice or legitimacy of an inmate's religion is a secondary concern. >> forget the priest bit. deal with them as a human being first, then the ministry comes along with that. you deal with them as they ar

i'm ernie johnson. this is clark kellogg. that's charles barkley.immediately to my left with the concerned look on his face, finally able to breathe is kenny "the jet" smith. gonzaga and north carolina will play for the national championship. they'll tip it off at 9:20 eastern time monday night here outside phoenix. wow. let's take a look and see how north carolina advanced in the win over oregon on. there is joel berry. folks wondering how is he going to do with the two bad ankles. hit his first shot. >> clark: that was about it. he struggled to get by people. doesn't have the explosiveness. this guy was on top of his game. >> ernie: justin jackson. >> charles: he's got two good ankles, clark. >> clark: a sweet stroke too. >> charles: yes, he does. >> clark: carolina had a couple of segments where you thought he was going to control it and pull away but theo pinson was terrific for a guy who didn't score a lot, he did everything else. >> kenny: he was dudley bradley. he was the new-age dudley bradley for you carolina fans. >> clark: who was kennedy

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my dear friend ernie johnson, he is a three-time sports emmy award winner. he is revealing in his new book "unscripted" the unpredictable moments that make life extraordinary. will you please welcome my good friend. >> thank you. >> love you, love you. >> i brought you yet another copy. >> i read it on vacation and thought i would do the courtesy, read it cover to cover. you are such -- well phenomenal broadcaster. but an even better human being, father, husband. >> i'm going to give you 0 minutes to quit talking like that. >> so tell people what motivated you to write this. >> i think it was -- actually what happened, robin, a couple of years ago, "e:60" did a piece on our family and have a lot of lacey from adoption to special needs kids to the special relationship my dad and i had and a battle with cancer i went through at one point and took it to the next step and said it's time to write a book. the one everybody has been saying when are you going to write that book and instead of waiting i did it now and my wife and i just hope that it -- that it would