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We have a great show this week We have two guests Greg McElroy, who was just promoted to ESPN's number two booth for college football We'll be working with Sean McDonough calling a national championship playoff game This season comes on to talk about the upcoming college football season get into his broadcasting career stuff with Alabama Sleeper team, sleeper quarterback, new rule changes So we do all that with Greg and then comedian Jared Freed who has a Netflix special out called 37 and single joins the pod to discuss life as a comedian Shaping his act. He's a big sports fan talk about if Bill Belichick is funny and The business of being a stand -up comedian working with Netflix and stuff like that. No Sal this week He's off for the Labor Day holiday weekend. He'll be back next week as we kick off the NFL season and Obviously last week Charles Barkley was on the podcast the feedback on that was tremendous. You guys couldn't have been nicer really appreciate it I will get in depth on the Charles Barkley podcast next week when Sal is back because there's a lot to discuss there But really appreciate all you guys listening in the nice feedback. Also Peter Schrager and Chris Russo won in recent weeks So if you missed any of those episodes go into the archives check them out Subscribe to SI media with Jimmy Traina and leave a review on Apple. We're gonna read them next week Alright Greg McElroy from ESPN on college football followed by comedian Jared Freed all right here right now on SI media with Jimmy Traina All right joining me now. He is the new number two analyst for ABC's PN's college football coverage this year I'll be working with Sean McDonough placing Todd Blackledge is off the NBC Former Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy Greg. How's it going? Congrats on the new gig? Thank you guys so much Glad to be with you guys I've listened for a while you guys between all the media podcast always enjoy how you guys cover Cover the world before I even got into it. I was into it. So it's like this it's addictive, right? It's addictive the sports media world, but you guys do an amazing job. So happy to be joined with y 'all Thank you very much. Appreciate it. And I mentioned you're gonna be working with Sean McDonough this year Sean I'm a big fan of Sean. I've had him on this podcast. We we had some fun with his famous voice cracks Tell me about working with you know, Sean who's done this for so long has done every sport He's done World Series. He's done the NFL obviously Icon on college football tell me about the season going into it with Sean McDonough on ESPN. Well, I'm really excited I think Sean is just phenomenal. I mean, it's just a complete legend and in some ways, you know, I When you're playing or when you're watching as a fan at least for me, I was almost oblivious to the To the names and the and the faces that were on television Of course, I grew up with you know, watching NFL football as a diehard cowboy fan So I was you know Pat summer all and and listen al Michaels and and all the others that have kind of graced the television screen but I I recognized voices before I recognized names and as soon as I became more aware of this side of The game broadcast as soon as I heard Sean McDonough's like, oh my gosh, I've been listening in my whole life To be able to I've only done one game with him and it was the national championship game and we did the radio call 2021 would have been the year and it was Alabama against Ohio State and I was nervous wreck I mean, I'm going and working with a guy that I've been listening to for 20 years 25 years knowingly And I'm like this guy's a legend I just want to get out of his way like I just don't want to mess this up because I've aspirations maybe one day down the road working with him and He couldn't have been more gracious. He couldn't have been more understanding. I was a little anxious I'd never been on a call for a game of that magnitude Either as far as the radio is concerned, but he was amazing and I'm just so grateful to to him and him Welcoming on to the team and they've been together for a long time and look Todd Blackledge. I've said this For a long time. I think he's the best the best guy doing what we do. I think he's just amazing and I've always looked up to him. I've always really admired how he calls the game and I've always appreciated very much all the things that that he kind of Interjects into the game and and just the perspective that he brings so replacing him is as an impossible feat But I'm gonna do the very best that I possibly can It's a big promotion because the number two team which is which is you and Sean gets to call one of the playoff games Around New Year's when that takes place On TV, so it's a big assignment you guys I should have mentioned at the top You have North Carolina South Carolina for week one and your first game together for the season We talked about Sean you're coming off a season where you work with Joe Tess who also in college football circles is one of those guys that viewers and fans Are big big fans of because of his exciting ways Tell me, you know now that you're moving on here. What was like working with Joe Tessitore in the past Well, I've been really lucky The Joe and and Dave Pash who I was with prior to that are two of my best friends Dave Pash is like my older brother. Like I didn't know anything about anything As it comes to calling a game if not for Dave Pash and Brian Ryder I would not at all ever be in a position to have found any level of success in this profession But they really showed me the ropes and took me under their wing and then three years ago I was fortunate to to be aligned with Joe and What I love so much about Joe is the passion and energy that he calls the game with he lives that Way all the time and the guys bouncing off the walls in the booth in the pregame Hitting me talking to three times a day on Monday Tuesday Wednesday and our week leading up as far as prep is concerned like he consumes college football 24 -7 365 I mean every podcast I do he's listening has comments has critiques has Has his own opinions that he wants to weigh in him. He is just an all -knowing consumer So it was a blast to work with him and we've developed such a close relationship I Joe love and I love Dave and and I love Scotty Matthews our producer last year who is just an amazing amazing person and Kim Belton who worked with us a few years back as Well, so I've been really really lucky to be around people that taught me to do it the way I think is the right way Everyone's got their own way of preparing for a game Everyone has their own way of calling a game and when to when to speak when to lay out But I've been very fortunate to been surrounded by very talented people that have helped me understand the dynamic of How to present a game and I've had Drake great truck support as well to kind of help me Figure out the best way to plan a review or a replay sequence or maybe do some art or some Telestrations things of that nature. So whether it's Joe or the or the truck the last few years with Scotty and Jeff for Dave and Ryder and Ryder's of course can be doing some Monday Night Football games now. It's a super pump for him I've just been very very lucky and and very very fortunate. I think Dave Pash is the most underrated play -by -play guy in He's phenomenal. He's And I love hearing that Joe Tess is Wacky, even when the mics are off before a game. I love hearing that that you know, it's the same energy Let me get I just want to be clear about something because I've messed up with math before on this podcast I I once called Roman Reigns 43 when he was 33, which I still saw what you're 35 I am yes, and you've been doing games for nine years This is year eight. Yes, you're gonna see I told you I would mess it up Okay, I was pretty close to be on I've said seven. So I've messed it up. You're not wrong It's my own once you get going. Yeah, my ultimate point is you started doing TV at 27, which is pretty young I think well, what do you remember back when I mean when you started out? How raw were you? How green were you? Did it take you a long time to get I mean because I think 27 is pretty Young to be doing TV. Well, it's it's really young when your NFL career is a dud But I feel like I didn't play as long in the league as I would have liked if I could have started at 33 after 10 years in the show, I would have been perfectly okay with that as well But I knew very quickly when I was wrapping things up in the league I probably could have grinded out a couple more perhaps But I was kind of looking at through the prism of I can start my next life now With the launch of the SEC Network and be aligned With a company at ESPN that I knew would cultivate and help us figure out how to do television It was the right time to go. I was still under contract with the Bengals when I agreed in principle with ESPN and Inevitably was in studio at first which I thought was a really good way to kind of get my feet wet and Understand just kind of the nuance of television lingo how to read a rundown how to Do the telestrator in the studio and more of a controlled setting? So if we busted something, it's like well, let's re rack it Let's go. Yeah, that was Comforting and and figuring out your cadence and your tone the following year Called a game that year but it was Lamar against Texas A &M a very forgettable game Jimmy if you didn't watch that one I'm not sure how you missed it. Well, I'm a better so I'm sure the line was about 50 So that'll that's all I need to know if it was that match I think you could have laid the points comfortably and come away a winner in that one. It got a little sideways Then the following year kind of had the perfect blend of studio and game by doing the SEC nation show With Joe Tess I might add so already developed a bit of a rapport with him and Kind of got to feel the energy of the crowd and the fact that yes, it's structured to an extent But you also kind of have to play to the audience some a little bit like doing a game It was almost the perfect blend and then in 2016 after a couple of games that I did in 2015 That's when I was given my first booth Alongside Dave Pash and I remember right out of the gate. Our first game was Houston and Oklahoma It was like number 11 against number four and I was a nervous wreck I mean just to complete I'm like, I'm gonna if I screw this up It's the last year my deal like I'll just be out and you know, go do whatever it is I need to do so I was a wreck and was very nervous. How long did it take you to get comfortable? Last year, maybe yeah, really For real I have I have butterflies before the game that are very comparable to when I played Still get them will always get them probably and I hope I do because that's part of what I love so much about doing this Job is that it is as close to being in the action as close to being a coach as close to being a player is any other professions In the industry, so I really enjoy it, but it probably took me. I was remarkably over prepared as Far as my week of prep is concerned all -consuming Totally dialed in I knew everything you need to know about the backup snapper you know to the point where it's like this is just I'm getting 2 % of my pregame prep into the show and it was almost it weighed me down some and I was trying to force things in so I Scaled back a lot over the course of a couple years to the point where I could be more efficient with my preparation Understand the things that I write down and notes that I take what's going to make air what might not what will benefit and allow? Me to have strong opinions on the air, even though it it might not necessarily come out exactly as I write it down I'll have a better fundamental understanding of what this team does and why they do it so I would say as far as my week of prep is concerned took me three years probably and then to get Really really comfortable and just having my voice and knowing when to go when to lay out when to allow the crowd to speak on Your behalf when to allow the players to speak on your behalf and to let my play -by -play guy really run with it I would say probably the last three years when I really started to hit a groove.
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"He was also able to bring up certain things that you'd never had thought about. And I mean, I knew a lot about baseball at that point, because I've been with the reds, as you know, you were listening to me when, you know, you were in your bastard, and I'm doing the Cincinnati reds. And you know, I've been with Sparky Anderson and Pete Rose and Johnny Bench. I had a PhD in baseball. And then I started working with Tim. And he would bring things up to myself. Wow. Nobody talks about these things. It's so true. And he made it so interesting. And he loved the game and he looked teaching the game to people. I would say when I think back through my career, I had John Madden, who of course taught millions of people to love football more than they did and to understand football. I would put my car in that category with baseball. I think Timmy taught as much baseball to millions of people as John Madden did football to the millions of people who love John. But then do you allow a little more room for Madden and the Carver, your role as play by play voice, does it change in accordance to who your analyst is? It does and with both of those guys and so I'm not saying that everybody's the same. But these guys were at the top of at least my kerman. The great thing about macabre. So in my the way I do play by play and you've heard me for years, I incorporate a lot of the fundamental or rudimentary analysis inside my play by play. Now I've worked with some people who don't want that because I'm saying what they wanted to say. And if you know what I mean, in other words, I'll tell you, I don't have to give you just the basics that I will, what I will do is give you a launching pad with Macarthur, especially. And I sent to Tim one day, I said, listen, am I taking up too much of your space? He says, no, no, no, no. You keep doing what you're doing, because you're forcing me to go to a different area where I feel like I'm energized that I can bring up certain things that normally I would not bring up because I would do the rudimentary fundamental analysis. So he loved it. And I loved working with him because boy, you let him go and you don't know where he was going to go, but you would learn. You would learn and appreciate what he was talking about. Yeah, I grew up with Tony kubek when he was doing it.
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"Guys on defense and Brandon scherff turned out to be a really good offensive lineman that I think really helped Trevor Lawrence and I would do the same like guys like Andrew Wiley and Orlando Brown are free agents. You've got to help the quarterback Dan and I take Bryce young, reset that clock, spend the cat money on the lines and go from there. Always great to talk to you. You have a great weekend, Mike. Thank you. Yeah, I really appreciate everything. I have a good week off. Mike tannenbaum, ESPN NFL front office insider former NFL executive. You can see him on get up and SportsCenter. He has a great contributor to those shows. By the way, Saturday, the Premier League on NBC and peacock. Newcastle host Liverpool that'll be coming up this weekend NBC and peacock. Let's see. Bob and Montana, hi bob, what's on your mind today? ADP. So my traeger grill is four foot 5 and a hard one 24. So speaking of traeger grills and since today is meat Friday, some people may not realize that your grill has a name tag in it. For example, my grill says hello, my name is mister chain, blue lightning, because I named it after Josie Wales. So I'm curious if the grill is on your set, each has their own name and if not, maybe DP nation could get involved in some swag to be awarded for the best name suggestions. Okay, well, thank you, bob. Give that what, take that under advisement as they like to say. We're going to name the trick. We use the traeger's against the far wall. Those are the two that are always in use. Now, we have four grills out there. And now we have to make way for the new grills that traeger put out. And that'll be coming up in a month or so. And right now, so I have cameras all over the place in the man cave. I don't even know how many cameras we have. But I do have a camera on meet Friday that's fixed on the outdoor outside grilling area. So I can keep an eye on the grills right now. If Tyler goes out, or somebody goes out, you know, Mario goes out occasionally and tastes what's on there and then I yell.
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"A steelers Lions game on NFL network on a Saturday night and it got more viewers than Yankees Red Sox on Fox, which was in, I think, 40 million more homes. So I think the legalized sports betting helps you out with the Jaguars jets week 16 if it's a stand-alone game, the betters will be there. Oh, there's no question. Oh, you and I both though. I mean, you can also look, and I've always been the rascal, and I've always loved a fool around with coin spread and over and under. And all of that. And I was able to do that through the years and people would say, oh, the league doesn't want him to do it, but look at this. He's the rascal we love this, okay? I get that. All my buddies look, love that. This game is not quite over. You know, I can't really, I can do that now, but it won't have the impact. But I think people sometimes can get so immersed in this. I just don't want half the country going to gamblers anonymous by the end of the year. I think it's fun to bet on a game and all of that. But if you're starting to bet the mortgage money or the kids tuition or something, you better get yourself some help. So I think, you know, it legalized betting good. By the way, the people who are going to bet legalized in legalized betting are still going to bet with bookies if there wasn't legalized betting for the most part. So not that big of a change. Yeah. Well, what I would say about the difference there is I had that attitude as well. I always thought the legalized sports betting wouldn't be a big deal because if you wanted to bet you were writing betting, whether it was legal or not. I've changed my tune on that a little now that I've dabbled in all these websites because what's becoming bigger and bigger and bigger each day and is just the live betting is a huge thing. The lie which you can't do with a bookie. You can't do like betting with a bookie. But the fact that you can put on a Thursday night game at any moment and get a new spread and new total embedded adds a whole other layer that it wasn't there that's not there with the bookie. So I had the same attitude as you and I change only because for that reason. Yeah, I know exactly what you're saying, but I wonder and I don't know the answer to this. Yeah. What percentage of the audience is actually doing this? I mean, you know, we keep forgetting, you know, we would do a Super Bowl and somebody would say, wow, you know, what's it like to go on the air in front of like a 110 million people? And I would say it's real simple in my mind. 330 million people live in this country. So 220 million people are not watching this. So if 15 million people are watching a game, I'd love to know at some point, what percentage. And I tend to think it's rather small are going to sit there and go, I'm going to bet run pass. I'm going to bet, you know, the fourth quarter over under all that.
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"Which is finally here with one of the Mount Rushmore NFL voices, Al Michaels, now over at Amazon doing Thursday Night Football with Kirk, herb street, excellent chat with Al about going to Amazon and not working at NBC anymore, having chemistry with herb street, what we could expect from the Amazon broadcast, some stories from his one year at CBS, Howard Stern stories, stories about working with Chick Hearn, who you saw on winning time and Al having an experience with chicharron like Pat Riley and she was like, great stuff with Al and then sell a cotta for train of thoughts, give you a little best bet, NFL pick, get into the legalized gambling sites that I have some issues with. Discuss Sal bringing a one and a half year old to a mech game, which was problematic to say the least and Sal gives us some vintage Sal. And we have a giveaway in the train of thought segment via Brady brand Tom Brady's company giving away some nice stuff here for the listeners. So there's a nice Brady brand giveaway in train of thought, so make sure you stick around with that. Before we get to the pod, well, we're in the pod before we get to the interviews. Let me just tell you, if you missed any recent SI media podcast, check them out in the archives, Matthew berry last week on his big move from ESPN to NBC. Two weeks ago, Roman Reigns from the WWE and Andy Staples on college football, three weeks ago, Tim Burke, aka bubba Prague on Twitter on the manti teo documentary on Netflix. Check those out. Subscribe to the podcast rate and review. All right, Al Michaels followed by train of thoughts with a giveaway in that segment right here. On the SI media podcast. All right, joining me now always love having a bond. SI media podcast regular, mount Rushmore, broadcaster, man, part of the greatest live TV prank call of all time. And a man who was never eaten a vegetable. He is now the Amazon play by play man, Al Michaels Al, thanks for doing this, how are they? Jimmy, let's go make some headlines. Let's make something. Who offered you how much money over the past year and why did you end up with Amazon? How about that? Let's start there. How often can I plead the 5th? Well, it feels like this off season with the broadcaster stuff has been going on forever, so I'm glad it's all finally here and we get some games. Yet the first Amazon game next Thursday you have a good one. Chargers and chiefs in KC, great place, great atmosphere. Let me start with this. You did a one preseason game for Amazon with Kirk herb street. I think it was 9 years Texans. I said this on Twitter and I wrote this in my column. I was stunned at the chemistry right off the bat and the smoothness of the broadcast with someone you've never worked with before. Had you done practice games before that? What we had done is 6 days before out here in Los Angeles. The rams played detections at Shopify and pre season game. And we did a telecast that went to a veritable tape machine, didn't go out over the air anywhere. But we wanted to
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"al michaels" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Will. Speaking of cop, Tom, you'll be in LA Sunday for niners rams. Big game for the niners because they're currently in that 6 seed. But they go with Trey Lance this week, but it's got to be exciting for the week 17 first year. You get a game like that where there's a lot on the line there. Fox on four 25 Sunday. I think what Al said. This is finishing my first full season here with America's game of the week in the late window and when Fox has the double header. But I think Al said it perfectly at the very beginning, which is when you get to that last week and you have for either team when you have a clear playoff ramification when and you're in, that's just a really exciting juice to be a part of. And the niners have a lot Jimmy swirling around them. Who is going to ultimately play the quarterback position in this game. Obviously, when it's division rivals, when they have a history and how the seeding could ultimately line up that some people have already looked and seen, could we see Brady and Jimmy G, could that be a potential but there's just a lot out there where we're really excited for this one Sunday. Now you have a play in game. I mean, you basically have a playoff game with chargers raiders. Have you seen this crazy thing about if the colts lose at 1 o'clock, they both get in with a tie? Yeah. Well, I keep thinking about it. Staley said the Chargers coach. Oh no, no, no. He wouldn't even think about anything like that. I'm sure Rishi besides who feels the same way. I think back to the Herm Edwards line, several years ago. You play to win the game. You don't play to tie the game. I can't see that happening. Tell me, the game's in Vegas Sunday Night. What has his Vegas? Are they all in on the Raiders? Are they rabid about the NFL and the Raiders are in Vegas? Because I just, you know, there's so much to do in Vegas. I could see a sports team sort of, you know, maybe not. And it's such a big tourist place, but go ahead, give me a little. First of all, the hockey team is crazy. I mean, they love because Vegas has a lot of transplants. A lot of people grew up in other places, right? And of course, Vegas has a ton of stuff to do. But you can't go to the show. You can't go to the casino every night. So you have sports. And with the Raiders in particular, tons of people fly in from the Bay Area from Los Angeles, listen to the 12 or 13 seasons here. So you have a whole bunch of folks in the Allegiant Stadium who not necessarily are from the vagus area. But they've had no trouble as far as I know selling tickets. Stadium is great. It's a beautiful stadium. And I mean, to me, I think if you had to say, who's the next franchise that the NBA would put in? I would say Vegas. And baseball, if you build a stadium with a retractable roof, it's too hot to play there in the summertime. As well, because when you look at the golden knights, it's impossible to get a ticket to those games. It's fantastic..
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"To hear you say that because we so enjoyed it from the very first moment of her saying, you know, people would always tell me what you can't win them all. Well, why can't you? What did you say? That was great. And then she said, he had one floor. Well, he couldn't drive. Was that the time? Actually failed his driver's test. Yeah, that was it. Yeah. Virginia, I mean, he just have to love the fact that she was trying to get a pilot's license. And John refused to get on an airplane after 1979. But I already were talking about the anniversary. So I think it was their 48th or 49th anniversary. It's 2008. And we are going to do as is the case this week too. We get the last game of the season on Sunday Night. And this week, of course, we get chargers raiders, which is perfect. That's when and lose out. So in 2008, we're looking for that game or as close to it as you can get. And the game looks like it's going to wind up in New York. I can't remember whether it was the jets or the Giants. So it's the week before and we're going to get the New York game. But what happens, buffalo somehow comes from behind and in Denver and beach them with a big fourth quarter rally. And then San Diego wins, and then the only game that's going to be win in lose out is Denver at San Diego. Now, what was going to happen is that John had born a great piece of jewelry because Virginia was going to make a very rare trip to join John in New York and they've got these plans and maybe a little Broadway. And then the Buffalo Bills come in and beat Denver. We're going to San Diego. End of that trip. So we got to get in the bus and go across the country and I guess you carry the ring with the McGee with the Virginia at some point in the off season. I'm glad you brought up the bus because I am fascinated by the whole thing of him being afraid to fly having the panic attack and when he said he was never going to play again as the documentary so well, he never flew again. That was it. And the story. Now, when you worked with him, I assume you would fly to the stadium. You didn't take the bus with him, right? No, no, no, no. Now and another great thing in the Doc that drivers of the bus Yarborough with the last name, I think that was great to see. And Joe. Yeah, that was great. With the bus, now when he was coaching, no problem flying or is it just he didn't have a choice and he did it? How did he end up in no choice? Oh no. And then when he started in broadcasting, he did fly. And by the way, so a little bit of trivia here, the last flight he took. He was doing a game in Tampa. And he's flying home. And it's a Tampa to San Francisco flight that's going to stop in Houston. And he's going to change planes. And he's on the Tampa to Houston leg. And that's when he had the all time attack and said, if this thing lands, I'm off forever. So that's when they landed in Houston. He went to the train station, took the train the Russian away home. Now you guys are probably too young to remember in the old days airline tickets. You need to peel one off so you'd have an O in the middle street you've had Tampa to Houston and then you'd have Houston to San Francisco..
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"al michaels" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"You know, from trying to book guests, 38 requests, 38 yeses. Every person who we asked to speak to said yes. And the most important thing for Joel Santos, the fantastic co director and myself Joe nagy our editor, the entire wonderful team skip Clark, the DP. All knowing that John and I know Al feels this way too, that John was able to hear Al to hear that course of voices gathered with his son Mike with his family and really get the chance to absorb how people felt what they thought. Three days before his passing. As you say, Jimmy, it's just an incredible piece of timing. We're obviously so sad about John's passing, but we're so grateful knowing that he was able to see it and that he liked it. What month did you do the interviews with John in person where he watched the screen and stuff like that? When did that take place? That was over the summer. We did that, that was the principal interview with John. We went up and visited him a couple of the subsequent times audio only. But that was over the summer and again Alan knows this well and Pleasanton as part of goal line productions, the production company that he owns. He has a sound stage there, the incredibly, that's the space where he watches NFL games on Sunday. And that we construct in our own video screen. And that was where we played the clips for him. Oh, that's fascinating. So that way we saw him in the dock. That's what he watches the games on Sunday. Al have you ever been there? Have you ever seen that set up? I have. Yeah. When I was with John, those 7 seasons, we take some ancillary stuff up there, but it's a great setup. He's got all kinds of it's like a sports for basically, right? The chairs and the big screens and John would be the kind of guy who on a Sunday after his retirement, which sit there and watch 7 games at once. He was like, I guess I Pereira is in the Fox studios trying to watch every game and weigh in on every rule that comes into play. So he loved it. I mean, John would get up early on Sunday on the West Coast, watched the 10 o'clock games, watch the games at 1 o'clock, one 30, and then the Sunday Night game, then, of course, be there on Monday night as well. He didn't miss anything. He loved it. Interesting. Now, I don't want to get more of it, but I have to just for a second. Tom, when news came that he passed them 24. Was that a complete shock? Did you hear? Did you hear anything about bad health leading up to it or complete stunner? No, I was stunned and not to say that and again, I know Al because of his friendship with John was aware of some of the health challenges that John had had in his life. He was 85 years old, Jimmy. But regardless of those being aware of those concerns, I was still stunned. The very first call I made was to Mike Madden his son. I was fortunate that Mike picked up. And Mike shared, again, this feeling, this gratitude that the family had, that John.
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"al michaels" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
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SI Media Podcast
"al michaels" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"You know what the crowd is wrong out. They've been screaming for forty five minutes. They've got nothing left store that would be apart from about lake placid. Maybe that would be. That's a good one for sure. I came across something else. Just didn't doing a little research. I'm obsessed with imagine if twitter was around for this and obviously the first thing that everyone thinks though jay imagine if that. Oj thing happened during the twitter era. You're not on twitter so you might not maybe a little difficult but i you know i came across something. I thought if twitter was around for this this would have been a monstrous store. Maybe it was back then but you had a. What's the word not a pleasant. I guess separation with boomer esiason. How bad that feud actually it was. But i didn't realize until i do the research that boomer took some shots at you after he got fired and then we talked previously about how important is to have the analyst thing there but was that really a huge deal at boomer got fired. He took shots at you. What is the genesis of that whole thing. I think he was very disappointed. It was it was made too much of in the press which of course they got onto something and then boomer was was upset and as he should be would be in a situation where you get fired you know. Look i did. They made much too big of a deal of it. I think part of this was that boomer had the opportunity. He'd still been playing and even playing fairly well and he had an opportunity to do monday night and maybe wasn't ready to come off the field so as a key either get once the booth any one foot and jason witten was the same way he with came back and played and boomer would've come back and played had he had the opportunity so that was part of it..
SI Media Podcast
"al michaels" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"I want something we want here. Because i i gotta tell you i went on pedia just basic research and we've talked about when you've been on before i mean. Your resume is absolutely ridiculous. The amount of things you've called over the years it's just it's crazy but something on something here cracked me up. I wanna get your reaction. They list every big event. You've called now. It starts in nineteen seventy two with the winter olympics and they actually have here super bowl. Lv which is in two thousand twenty two. But i wanna read you the list of the two thousand just to get to something here and get your reaction. These are the big events called by al michaels in the year. Two thousand okay year. Two thousand super bowl thirty four two thousand kentucky derby two thousand preakness stakes two thousand indianapolis five hundred stanley cup finals. Belmont stakes indianapolis two thousand one indianapolis five hundred sound like vinyl stanley cup finals super bowl thirty seven super two thousand six super bowl. What does that forty for super bowl. Forty three two thousand ten winter olympics the butt fumble the bubble the butt fumble is now getting lumped in with the olympics. The stanley cup. What was that. Like for you or boys wikipedia right. I mean it's like where was the bus fumble rank. I'm like zoe keep winding up these crazy places. A jimmy to me. The most ironic thing in my career is that it a lotta people know me from the winter olympics in nineteen eighty An earthquake at the world series. And doing the play by play bronco chase of course in nineteen ninety-four me thirty six years of doing the nfl primetime best over here somewhere right hockey game at earthquake in a bronco chase. So it's kinda crazy and then the bubble is in there too. There's all kinds of wild subs and once in a while i'll take a look at a list and i'll go wild. I forgot about that. But i've been so lucky because i've been in so many places where some reads wild and crazy things that happen and and that's you know that's just one of the list of a thousand. What is not the biggest not the you know not the olympics. What's the craziest game. We have a called. We just couldn't believe in ending a finnish or an outcome. Were you stunned beyond belief. I mean i guess the hockey one is up there. But i'm talking about like a weird random one. Well i mean. I think about the my favorite events. There are two super bowls one is arizona for which was tremendous Where the cardinals during the game in the first place leading to go and then rothlisberger lease drive at the end in san antonio homes makes it amazing at and then the malcolm butler interception game so those are the two super bowls right but i would say if the something beyond lake classes by itself i mean nothing ever top that angels red sox in one thousand nine hundred eighty six. That gets pretty. Gotten because of the mets red sox. Msn insurance was great to correct. That was that was a postseason for the ages..
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"al michaels" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"You know six years old. Mother's give me a steak with with the catcher. You patrick mahomes bego but he. He went with that that haunts spraying. I'm sorry that you know my my my my apologies to the huntsville. There's only one. Catcher is maybe it's bust i when we post this. This is going to become a thing. People are not gonna like this revelation. But a lotta people they they understand as somebody who grew up in brooklyn i mean it them. We eat a lot of catcher and it's kind of like semi dna. What can i tell you. This is disappointing. I gotta bounce back now now now now now i do now i will ask you about. Let's get into something serious before we do some other fun stuff. Is al michaels going to amazon right now. I pointed at this year. My contract is up at the end of the season. And she's great to me if there is a combination for production between amazon and nbc. That creates a different temp with your Affect we would wind up overseeing two packages. It's not a deal yet. I know it's being discussed Amazon will probably need a partner obviously for production and will see what's going to happen at the end of the year but right now i mean i'm just trying to relish this point in my life Loving what. I do loving the people i work with. We have the super bowl in my hometown. Can't this contract can't and then he'd more beautifully for me and then we'll take a look and we'll see what's going to happen down the line. I do know this. I loved doing as much as ever on. Relishing it as you as you get older like actually talked through the use people like tom brady and drew brees and they get toward the end of their career. And in a way you know that the end is much closer than the the beginning or even the middle. And i'm really just sucking out all the joy i can't from the season got a great Low and then was you know. I want to get to the end of the year and then figure out what's going to happen. This is what i don't. I don't know how deep you wanna get into. This is what. I don't understand about this. I've written this. I get what you're saying about the end and hanging on and all that that's fine if you've diminished you've not diminished in any way she perform at all. So that's why. I don't understand why you would not be calling sunday. Nights on nbc. That's just my opinion. I don't know if you want to address that no. I don't know you know what's going to happen down the line here. I do know this i'm going to hang on. I mean if. I couldn't feel if i was doing the game the way i have to do the game the way i have done the game. You know you're not gonna appeal to everybody. I know but. I think most thirty six years prime time of the nfl. So i guess a good enough job that you know. I haven't talked to many people and there's no way i'm going to go out. And and and not be one hundred percent. What i am. I love.
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"al michaels" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"You prefer stadium like that or do you prefer old school history. Like lambeau arrowhead you know it. It's it's kind of like saying which rather have a porterhouse or filet mignon or new york state. I mean i love them. All arrowhead is amazing in the sense that the plans were drawn in the late sixties right. It doesn't look like the rest of the stadiums but it's a great great field they built. The stains are so close. Lambeau where has the great history and they through the years. They've added on like six seven different times. So lambeau looked like lambeau. That was constructed in the fifties. I i think of the modern stadiums so fi dallas where we were the minnesota or the best because they have certain features. That are a little bit different. They're not cookie cutter stadiums member. We went through. That korean in the seventies where they were building stadiums. cincinnati philadelphia. pittsburgh atlanta. That were they were terrible. Like shoot to reach these. They build them for baseball and football. So i liked the way the new stadiums constructed as i say by my you know only trinity in la minnesota and dallas where the dallas stadium is is now twelve or thirteen years old and every time i walk into just feels big time. It just does. Yeah i let me ask you the most important question of the podcast. Since you brought it up if al michaels goes to dinner tonight are you ordering a porterhouse a fillet or new york strip. Probably new york of your calories. The i love like a revised great. But you know. I don't like everybody i should say i don't like it. I don't i prefer the other cell. Say that yeah actually yet tonight heading to a place raw probably had will pasta but this weekend obviously a big old juicy steak and if you get the strip. What's the top side. You like to have with it because the scientist really what makes it breaks the steakhouses like vegetables noted for that you and i in eagle with the foods have you an. I never talked about your food quirkiness. We had a we had a re conversation was on a thursday night game and he was doing radio for and i was doing television back. Like sixty two thousand sixteen. But i think once. I think i may eat salads so when somebody tells me they have a salad and i say wait a second. That's vegetable i've never had. I've never had a vegetable zero. But i would say you know the best side and you don't get into too. Many places are potato skins. i like potatoes. Yeah not a vegetable rash potatoes. a great. A baked potato is great. But i'm a potato skins below sour cream minute jimmy. That's yeah i can see that. I think the greatest steakhouse side is. Ruth's chris russo. Chris out in la. I assume the sweet potato casserole. Now you will need to go to the dentist after. Check your diabetes. But that is the best side at a steakhouse and toothpick as well. But i think that No i'm met asleep potato guy. I like the regular potatoes. But it's on the board roof of veteran but it also can be do. No you know you'd have to catch it. You do know that yonder steak on the side. Just you didn't know how arquette. I grew up in getting me..
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"al michaels" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"We're leaving thirty eight. Nothing next thing you know. Thirty to twenty two right. I got burned by that one. All you need to bring that up that one hurt me some people but don't forget for everybody gets burn. Somebody's elated. I know so i just look. It's fun I hope people do it with some discretion What worries me is you get to the point where you're going to bet on rohner passed on a given play holy macro and you know. I just hope that you know people are smart about it. Because i don't want to see a a new world record setting morgage foreclosures because somebody's bet mike on our replace it every game and every sport you just hit on something that i think is not covered as much by the by the by the mainstream meat. I hate using that term. But you know we always listen people you betting. Sports betting is getting legalized state-by-state. Everyone knows you could bet aside a total but when you see down to you know how many catches this guy gets. How many yards this guy gets. Will there be overtime. will there be. I mean the amount that you can bet on a game especially i. I know some sites will add a ton of more props. Primetime games like yours with with krizan. So they nights and nbc. I mean you have their games. It's like you have two hundred options. Basically too many of those people they just need action on anything everything you know. They'd bet on a cockroach racing. Somebody's I mean yeah i mean it's like it's too much insert poi- at the i mean that that's almost like you to the point where you really do need some help if you need action like every fifteen seconds so goes locks. I had over twenty two and a half completions for daniel jones on monday night and he finished with twenty two. So yes. there's so much out there. There's too much a you have titans rams this sunday on nbc. How far s-o-f-i from where you live. That's a nice commute for you when you do the rain. It's probably about eight and a half miles but in los angeles traffic. That could be anywhere from eleven minutes to a day and a half and and overnight visited hotel on the way down. I've heard i've heard. That stadium is by far the worst stadium in. That's ever been built ever get in and out of in terms of getting the times that we've been there number one last year. We did the opening game when nobody was allowed. It there that was easy Didn't have to leave early to beat the traffic's We did the opener there this year. And we get there three and a half hours before the game shows. Wait on she that Yeah i mean there's no freeway that's next of it or a major road so they're still trying to figure that out And i think they're getting better from what i heard. But the stadium itself is off the charts and it is if you find a better stadium in that roy. I want you to call me select. But what do you do..
SI Media Podcast
"al michaels" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Obviously for the titans but for us too because you we were going to promote this game. Pretty much you've got derrick henry on one side and you've got not only are donald got von miller on the other side of the rams are seven and one of the titans look like the among the best. Obviously the afc. So this is this is kind of a different deal This has some mystery to it but not as much as when you know. A quarterback is out. And you can build them up cooper rush. Who is this guy is tremendous day the today. Now you know these storage gonna be. What are the titans going to do. But that doesn't have as much appeal as derek can was playing in the game right. And what is it like for you doing that. Game sunday night cowboys at vikings. When you know you're going against game five of the world series is that in your mind at all. Is i mean. Obviously you gotta do your job. So it's not gonna affect that. But are you bummed about that is it is what it is. How do you feel about going against world series game. I mean years ago we didn't have a game against the world service we decided to in my mind Yeah i mean you. You know you're going against stiff competition but the crazy thing is jimmy. Is you know an nfl regular season game week will outrage a world series game which i never thought would happen In my first year going back the monday night. Football in nineteen eighty six. The it's the mets red sox world series and the game was rained out on sunday night which meant they went against us on monday night. Which normally they would never because the rain up and then of course you had a. That's the you know Mookie wilson through bill buckner legs world series and. I was working with frank. Gifford that urine franken was all football. No baseball and we're driving redskins at giants in the medalist. Byu bet gained six of the world series taking place at at shea stadium and said tonight because i rate them and i said frank there's no chance and i think the rating that night. I think the baseball game got a forty in the football game. Got an eight so this was like you're talking about thirty four years ago round. Which of the point is you know where the yankees avoid the red sox against the dodgers. Let's say in the world series probably or maybe would have slightly out rated dow's minnesota but we knew with land against houston that we would we win the night naturally it kinda savages or ratings are rating. Whatever it was to be maybe two or three points higher. But you know. Listen i was. I don't to get the world series. Race i wanna watch it myself right. Yeah that's right i mean. Are you watching it from the booth..
SI Media Podcast
"al michaels" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Media podcast. I'm your host jimmy china. Thank you for listening. Died al michaels in the pod. Today followed by the train of thought segment with sal licata bring stuff with al on a bunch of topics including whether he's headed to amazon for thursday night football next year and a bunch of other stuff with alyssa. We'll get right into it before we do though quickly if you missed last week's episode we had chris long on the pod two weeks ago steve levy and jeff garland curb your enthusiasm. If you miss those interviews go into the archives give them a lesson and subscribe to the podcast and if you could leave a review that helps as well all right. Let's get to al michaels right now. Followed by trying to thoughts on this week's media podcast joining me now. The voice of sunday night football and a man who is part of the greatest prank call history of prank calls. Al michaels al. Thanks for doing this. How are you what a legacy one of the great frankel in history and that baby has has lived on thanks to howard stern. of course but What can i tell you. what twenty over. Twenty five years ago but Not to be forgot less. Anybody tries to forget it would be forced to go on. You know that better than anybody. I do and i have to try to be professional now and not spend the entire time. I have with you talking about that person called. Because i could easily do that. I'm a very personality but we we need to talk about football and some other things going on. Let's let's start with this since we're taping this wednesday afternoon and it just happened a couple of hours ago. Aaron rodgers testing positive for covert. Obviously he's in a ten day protocol will miss the game sunday against the chiefs so that means he's unvaccinated after. He said he was unionized. Everyone's all wrapped up in rogers. Let me ask you this. Because i think this is an angle. People aren't really covering yet because it's so fresh. I'm curious if the packers we don't know what the packers knew or didn't know but the packers unvaccinated and didn't follow the protocols. I would imagine the packers could be in for big hit here from the nfl.
The Rich Eisen Show
"al michaels" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"Now doing the world series together. And i'll never forget one of the things he said he was. You know toward the end of his career. And i'm starting my basically and he said to me. Never get jaded so really. I'm having too much but as you got older and you would proceed on the business. If things necessarily didn't work out for you if you didn't get whatever opportunity that you thought somebody else got that you should have gotten Or you get tired of you just grow weary of whatever travel or maybe the sameness of you're doing baseball hundred sixty two games a year so it was a very odd thing to hear when i was twenty seven but as they moved along through the years i thought to myself. You know what that's right. This is one of the greatest jobs ever created. Ever and i keep going back to being the six seven year old walking field in here. I am on the other end of the spectrum. And i still get excited about it. So get excited about walking into a stadium. The drama of the games themselves. It's never gone away. But i keep thinking about what curse don't get jaded and i never will you the man al michaels love you. I love you best to linda. 'cause she's been part of everything that we just talked about for all those years as well. She has an Let's i this just scratched the surface which is amazing. I literally could talk to you forever. But i appreciate the time. You're the.
The Rich Eisen Show
"al michaels" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"Anyway and that's now that's how i got underway and here it is Twenty years on monday night going on the sixteen now on sunday is it the same. Was it the same thing as it. Currently is now that you you get tons before the games with the coaches and interview them and if so does that mean you you had your first one. Your first broadcast coaches meetings with with landry and parcels does. That's the way it went. The that was the case that was the case. How landry and then the. He paul hackett in that meeting as well packet. I think it was the offensive coordinator of the of the cowboys and in parcells came into the meeting. Flavius joe morris who is their number one back jailing up and he was holding out at that point. Know some new to the game. At least i didn't know build that point. So i said a big of a deal. Is it of jones. Employee goes about the little like that. It's like okay. Don't always not denigrate you any malicious way. But it was always like no matter. What question to ask. Bill had to be the contrarian in terms of an answer. Anyway i love. I wound up the low and parsoes governor for years. He almost became the analyst on monday. Night football in two thousand and opportunities that right. I didn't know that yes he did. Yes and pass on it. yeah. I know i'm jumping around your. Please go in night. Yeah no end up so frank leaves. After ninety seven dwarfs gone after ninety eight at work with boomer esiason ninety eight with debt with theodore for ninety nine just the two of us in two thousand don almir comes in to produce the show and he wants to. He wants to do something really different and the really different thing that he did. Of course as we are dennis miller. But that's a different story before. We hired dennis so that role was going to go to parcels. These bill was now leaving football. He coached the jets. They at the whole thing going on. Where bill's gonna move into the front office. Maybe this is the whole bellichik year. This is the not going to be the hce of the y. J. year rights. He got ballot. Check getting the job. And then walking away from it to go to new england for our cells gone. Does he really want to do front office. Where or does he want to go to. Abc and bill nye at two very very long discussions on the phone and the thing about parsoes was he always had all of the answers right. We're your questions but we sped too long to very long our share of bone. He must have asked fifty questions. Have everything would work. It was great and they re. He's such an intelligent man is knowledge of football of courses is superb and at the end of the day the end of our conversation. He said. I don't want to take the job or not. I try. I try his own. Take the job on golf. Tonal thing. I wanted to take the job. And then he should. I don't know how to take the job he should if i do. I'll be the best analyst ever ever. And i should bill. I said that's all. I want to hear because i don't want this to be a halfway house for you. Guys get outta coaching and come back into coach right. We should hold much so if you haven't gotten your coaching jollies it. They're not out of your out of your body. This means too much to the rest of us. And that's when he said what he said about he'd be the best ever and of course. It was a part of me that knew that he had to go back to coaching at some point. Of course that happened in. Oh three when he began to coach the cowboys for he would he would have been terrific agree because that's the one you know. Obviously madden is one of the all time greats attic because he talked in a language that people completely understood in a from folksy to plane to just just described that describing. The obviously collins has that gene in him as well. The way that you could just describe something and it doesn't sound like you're it filled with jargon it's just normal plain english that makes sense you know and i think bill would have been great that with mad. Doing they make it fun to make not only interesting. But there's a. There's a a a lightness to to as well as none of the you know the three technique in you know the wide not when you get into that too but you need you gotta come away from that sub and see the bigger broader picture and. I've been fortunate with john and chris over the last almost twenty years. Now don't Doesn't get any better than that and they. You know what it is a rich. It's communication those guys. Know how to communicate. They know how to connect with the audience. And that's why you know. John just he understood. What was he understood. What what it means to listen to somebody. I mean to me. I've always when i enjoy myself from obama. Lister a i wanna. I wanna make sure that i'm well what i'm saying is interesting. Informative point with with me as as as viewer. So you try to put yourself in the viewers position. What does he need to what does he. What does he have to know. What's fun to know what's different And you're trying to of flip the very little bit to think of yourself as a listener as well as a communicator. Right and then talk about things that you know in again normally Or plainly i guess would be the way to put it in you know madden. You had a seat next to him. Hearing the way that he would communicate. You know the the thing that i will always live with me isn't from his game but from his pro football hall of fame speech about the busts talking to each other. It's just was. It was such a fan thing to say like you know and you know they talk. What do they talk about when the lights go out. And then one of the last lines he said. It's gonna be having one of those busts in there talking forever and ever talking about whatever and that was like almost tree and you know what i mean like. That's yeah i miss him. I miss that guy but obviously you. And he's he's one of the scores people ever. I mean look at john larger than life and he's scuttled the sound affection of boom and the whole thing but people don't understand this is a man who knows a lot about a lot and am i seven years with john. I mean we had some great great times and most of them dealt with like dinners or discussions. We had about things other than football. We spent enough time on football. We got it. We knew it. And we're doing a game every week but john could discuss. Anything is very curious man very of course going around the country. That's what he always wanted to do. He he loved. You know stopping in the coffee shop in goodland kansas and get another people and that's That's i think. Part of the reason john was able to connect as a communicator. With like every demographic every part of the country. Well i'm gonna finish up with you the way i'm planning to finish up with all the other interviews for for this ten part series of just getting started on nfl voices and broadcasters and it's the best piece of advice she received in your career what what was it in. From whom would you say. Well i would say it's kind of it's it's a little odd away but i'll never forget. I loved kurt gowdy as a broadcaster luck and i got to do the nineteen seventy two world series with him when i was doing the cincinnati reds and we won the pennant and actually had met kurt when i was in college and he was doing the red sox and i i played a tape for him as training so he knew about me..
Scuba Shack Radio
Wet Notes 8-30-21
"This is wet notes here on scuba shack radio for monday august thirtieth two thousand and twenty one. Well we have certainly had our fill of extreme weather lately just last week here. In connecticut we face the challenges of tropical storm on re just barely below hurricane strength and at the last minute it shifted east and we avoided the brunt of the wind rhode island wasn't as fortunate and now we have item a cat for hurricane hit louisiana. Extreme weather is now the norm. The news keeps getting worse. Recently there was a study published by nicholas bars from the potsdam institute for climate impact research and that was that the gulfstream could be varying towards irreversible collapse. Now the gulf stream is part of the atlantic meridional overturning circulation or a. m. Oc this circulation takes warm salty. Water from the tropics moves in north and then takes the cold water south. The study finds that the circulation is at its weakest in one thousand years. So what happens if the gulfstream collapses that will dictate extreme cold for parts of north america and europe. Is the collapse imminent well. That's not an easy question. Answer it could be decades away but as we have seen things are happening a lot faster when it comes to climate change not only will the disruption of the gulfstream resort in colder north american temperatures. It is predicted that there will be a rise in sea level disruption of the monsoon patterns and impacts on the amazon rainforest. An aunt arctic ice sheets. The study concluded that is that this is all a result of human endorse induced climate. Change in may of this year. I talked about a project out on lake. Tahoe called cleanup lake. That project had an ambitious goal of cleaning over seventy two miles of the mountain lake. So i thought i would give it a quick update on how the work is progressing. Now these numbers come from the cleanup delake website. Cleanup delete dot org as earlier this month. Team of divers has removed an amazing eight thousand. One hundred and twenty two pounds of trash were three hundred and three thousand six hundred eighty four kilograms and covered about twenty two miles or thirty four kilometers of coastline. There update indicated that they have completed seventy four dives over twenty seven days of diving. The diver's consumed two hundred and eighty six cylinders of air. Today there have been eighty one volunteers who have delivered two thousand six hundred and eleven volunteer hours. Now i'm not sure if they're on pace to meet their objectives but that's not always the measure success. The amount of continuing effort is what really counts. Keep up the good work guys. The annual boston sea rovers clinic for this year is just one month away. The two thousand twenty clinic happened just a couple of weeks. Before the corona corona virus lockdowns took effect. We really didn't know how serious things were then. Now as we continue to emerge from the pandemic the show may just have the distinction of being the last face to face. Scuba show in the world before the pandemic and the first face-to-face scuba show in the world post pandemic monty. And i were at the last meeting. And everything's proceeding for the october. First and second show the show will follow state and local mandates and as the days pass by. We are all hoping that the show will go off his plan. This year shows moved from the traditional march date to october as a result of the pandemic that you'd be a great time to enjoy some early fall weather in new england. It'd be great to get together and diving is certainly a social sport. Do you miss dive training magazine. I sure do. I think i've re reread all the back issues. We have a good shop at least three times. So what's happening with the publication. Well i reached out to catherine castle garcia the editor to find out the latest catherine informed me that they hope to be publishing again in the fourth quarter of two thousand and twenty one. Now that's some good news. The fourth quarter is not that far away. And i'm certainly looking forward to dive training magazine hitting the streets and finally here on wet notes. I wanted to give you an update on the situation with dutch springs. If you remember last time. I reported that the property owned by stu jill school had been sold to trammell crow texas developer. Who's planning to build a large warehouse facility on the property. The initial word was that dutch would shut down after the season while a lot has happened in the last couple of weeks i there was a petition that garnered over three thousand supporters to keep the place open and as we know petitions can only go so far then there was support from patty professional association of diving instructors patty due to white paper outlining the economic benefits dutch brings provides as a diving venue. Patty estimates that because dutch exists. It helps to generate three point. Four billion annual retail sales in the northeast they tag the economic benefit to bethlehem at thirty four point five million as for tax revenue. The paper indicates that about ninety. Eight point nine million is generated for state and local taxes and northeast and about two point one million for bethlehem in addition to patty support. The lehigh valley planning commission has called the proposal of disaster for the quality of life in the lehigh valley while it seems that there a great deal of opposition to maybe very little that can be done to stop the effort. One positive. I that i did see. Was that trammell. Crow was indiscretions with local officials to offload the fifty off lou to fifty acre quarry for community use. Just how would you get to acquire if they build the warehouses. I don't know while the saga is far from over. I would expect that we won't see. Dutch brings open for the twenty twenty two dive season but his al michaels once said. Do you believe in miracles. Well that's it for this edition of wet notes. Here on scuba shot radio for august thirtieth two thousand and twenty one
The Horse Racing Radio Network Podcast
Marshall Cassidy, longtime horse racing caller, dies at 75 in New York home
"That's a great day of racing around the country and one person who has certainly left his mark on thoroughbred racing is now the left. This world passing away on sunday at the age of seventy five is longtime naira announcer marshall cassidy who served as the new york racing association race caller from nineteen seventy nine. The nineteen ninety. Kurt naira announcer john. Embryo will be the first to tell you that. Marshall had a huge influence on his career and he now joins me to remember. Marshall cassidy johnny. Thanks for taking a little time. Appreciate it now. Good morning my concern. It's now my pleasure to be with you and Which was under different circumstances which we were talking about Marshall while you know while he was still with us but certainly some some great memories going back and what an influence was on me and what a mentor. he was I can just tell you that if it wasn't for him Wherever i've gotten It wouldn't have happened. He spent time with me. He was generous. He was Always there and I couldn't have asked for somebody better to have in the booth when i first arrived at him to To get me through those early years. I talked earlier. Johnny that the the only time i had the chance to speak with marshall was back in two thousand sixteen I called him to ask him to join me on this program and he answered the phone with that distinctive voice and that delivery that only marshall cassidy had and and i was blown away. I will never forget that. Phone call. And i'll never forget the interview. We did on travers morning with him. It was it was one of the more special things. I've been part of in my radio. Career yeah that hasn't had voice will be with us forever with the with the race goals that we have a of his and You know and that's just the way he was. I mean when he set holo he said low you know like that. I'm not even gonna try to imitate them. Leave a fight or anthony or somebody like that but You know he. He was extremely polite. Man and I guess you could almost kind of form. I mean But certainly no-one no-one more accurate than marshall And i thought about a few things this week you know after. He passed that boy. He wasn't shy about colin photo. Finishes i'll tell you that he was extremely even if accurate in that as well as as as well as the race calls in. I'm not sure if If your audience if all of them are completely aware of one thing that he did in nineteen eighty with the with the olympics. You know about that one mike. He told that story when he joined me in two thousand sixteen. But but go ahead johnny. Yeah it was the actually the the famous game. The do you believe in miracles. Yes the al. Michaels game was actually friday night. The the game for the gold medal was on sunday afternoon. I'm gonna sit around. Three o'clock don't really remember and in the middle of the call whatever race it might have been marshall says and the us wins the gold and then he went back to the coles how and on the tv was behind him so he had to turn around. Look and see that that was officially game. United states beat finland and and And he and he put that in the coal. And i think everyone knows of the of New york's easy goer winning the belmont stakes. I mean that's probably is most notable call and the other thing about mike was that you know he was there at a time and he had a frank dwyer was his backup. I call some racist for him. You know what every woman when he didn't take a lot of days off. I'll tell you that it wasn't like you know. Some guys in the winter went to florida grocery more took time off or whatever. I don't remember him taking a lot of time off so he had a voice to burn. I'll tell you he really. He really had a voice that just they were like. I said those are the days we were running six days a week. A lot and boy he was he was always there. He was always there with his trademark calls.
The Horse Racing Radio Network Podcast
Marshall Cassidy, longtime horse racing caller, dies at 75
"One person who has certainly left his mark on thoroughbred racing is now the left. This world passing away on sunday at the age of seventy five is longtime naira announcer marshall cassidy who served as the new york racing association race caller from nineteen seventy nine. The nineteen ninety. Kurt naira announcer john. Embryo will be the first to tell you that. Marshall had a huge influence on his career and he now joins me to remember. Marshall cassidy johnny. Thanks for taking a little time. Appreciate it good morning my concern. It's now my pleasure to be with you and Which was under different circumstances which we were talking about Marshall while you know while he was still with us but certainly some some great memories going back and what an influence was on me and what a mentor. he was I can just tell you that if it wasn't for him Wherever i've gotten It wouldn't have happened. He spent time with me. He was generous. He was He was always there and I couldn't have asked for somebody better to have in the booth when i first arrived at him to To get me through those early years. I talked earlier. Johnny that the the only time i had the chance to speak with marshall was back in two thousand sixteen I called him to ask him to join me on this program and he answered the phone with that distinctive voice and that delivery that only marshall cassidy had and and i was blown away. I will never forget that. Phone call. And i'll never forget the interview. He did on travers morning with him. It was it was one of the more special things. I've been part of in my radio. Career yeah that has had voice will be with us forever with the with the race goals that we have a of his and You know and that's just the way he was. I mean when he set holo he said hello you know like that. I'm not even gonna try to imitate them. Leave a frank anthony or somebody like that but You know he. He was extremely polite. Man and I guess you could almost kind of form. I mean But certainly no-one no-one more accurate than marshall And i thought about a few things this week you know after. He passed that boy. He wasn't shy about colin photo. Finishes i'll tell you that. He was extremely extremely accurate in that as well as as as well as the race calls in. I'm not sure if If your audience if all of them are completely aware of one thing that he did in nineteen eighty with the with the olympics. You know about that one mike. He told that story when he joined me in two thousand sixteen. But but go ahead johnny. Yeah it was the actually the the famous game. The do you believe in miracles. Yes the al. Michaels game was actually friday night. The the game for the gold medal was on sunday afternoon. I'm gonna sit around. Three o'clock don't really remember. And in the middle of the call whatever race it might have been marshall says and the us wins the gold and then he went back to the coals and time. The tv was behind him so he had to turn around. Look and see that that officially game united states beat finland and and And he and he put that in the coal. And i think everyone knows of the of New york easy goer winning the belmont stakes. I mean that's probably is most notable call and the other thing i've thought about mike was that you know he was there at a time and he had a frank dwyer was his backup. I call some racist for them. You know what every woman when he didn't take a lot of days off. I'll tell you that it wasn't like you know. Some guys in the winter went to florida grocery more took time off or whatever. I don't remember him taking a lot of time off so he had a voice to burn. I'll tell you he really. He really had a voice that just they were like. I said those are the days we were running six days a week. A lot and boy he was he was always there. He was always there with his trademark calls.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Al Michaels voted Frick winner for baseball’s Hall of Fame
"Good news for him. Michael's head into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He is the recipient of the annual Ford Frick Award for Baseball Broadcasting did serve as the voice of the Reds and Giants. In the past before going onto the national scene. The Wizard's continuing their training camp. One thing Scott Brooks is looking for continuing that offensive improves your care of the ball. We have a great passing team high assist like the continue that now we have, you know, one of the best passing point guards in his speed. His ability to break down the defense at the speed that he does and to find the shooters and we can give him on the floor. He could have, potentially in any given time. You could have four knocked down three point shooters on the floor and believe it or not, they're gonna play
AP News Radio
Report: Brees to move to NBC after playing career is over
"Drew Brees matter secured his plans once his playing career has ended the New York Post is reporting the priest will join NBC after he retires the forty one year old Orleans saints quarterback will be going in his twentieth NFL season this year breeze is expected to begin as an analyst on Notre Dame games in the studio for football night in America before eventually moving into the Sunday night football booth an embassy spokesman said in an email to the Associated Press like all NFL fans we look forward to watching drew continue his hall of fame career this fall and we are confident his post playing career will be just as successful al Michaels and cris Collinsworth have been paired in the Sunday night booth since two thousand nine I'm Josh Rowntree
AP News Radio
Report: Brees to move to NBC after playing career is over
"Drew Brees matter secured his plans once his playing career has ended the New York Post is reporting the priest will join NBC after he retires the forty one year old Orleans saints quarterback will be going in his twentieth NFL season this year breeze is expected to begin as an analyst on Notre Dame games in the studio for football night in America before eventually moving into the Sunday night football booth an embassy spokesman said in an email to the Associated Press like all NFL fans we look forward to watching drew continue his hall of fame career this fall and we are confident his post playing career will be just as successful al Michaels and cris Collinsworth have been paired in the Sunday night booth since two thousand nine I'm Josh Rowntree
AP News Radio
Report: Brees to move to NBC after playing career is over
"Drew Brees matter secured his plans once his playing career has ended the New York Post is reporting the priest will join NBC after he retires the forty one year old Orleans saints quarterback will be going in his twentieth NFL season this year breeze is expected to begin as an analyst on Notre Dame games in the studio for football night in America before eventually moving into the Sunday night football booth an embassy spokesman said in an email to the Associated Press like all NFL fans we look forward to watching drew continue his hall of fame career this fall and we are confident his post playing career will be just as successful al Michaels and cris Collinsworth have been paired in the Sunday night booth since two thousand nine I'm Josh Rowntree
Joe Gallagher
Earthquake App Provides Early Warnings
"Game between the San Francisco Giants and Oakland is was just about to begin when suddenly as al Michaels and Tim McCarver were previewing the upcoming game buildings and bridges collapsed widespread damage and fires sixty three people were killed across the bay area nearly four thousand injured now new technology aimed at saving lives unveils seconds save lives local mayor Libby Schaaf says she remembers well the Loma Prieta quake early warning can allow people to avoid more catastrophic loss like was experience thirty years ago and so the new California earthquake early warning system a network of sensors spread throughout the state that detect an earthquake the moment it begins and then sends an alert in two ways one the already in place wireless emergency alert system or we are the system used to send amber alerts and also on the new app called my shake it is through that up to that the state can glean data from users who
WBZ Morning News
Tom Brady, Josh Binswanger and WBZ Nightside discussed on WBZ Morning News
"Us. I'm Josh binswanger. WBZ news, a registrar of motor vehicles is questioning a state auditors report that found nearly two thousand licenses issued by the are MVP were actually issued today people. Ben parker. Don't just now with more good morning. Good morning. Josh registrar. Aaron Debbie tells
Memphis Morning News
Actor Alan Alda reveals Parkinson's diagnosis
"Flynn, six hundred and ninety two point one FM It's morning, news it is six forty six eight temperature Of sixty nine degrees I noticed. Some high schools are having some. Football scrimmages force Goodman, that, means it's It's back in the air college football teams opening up. Their practices today So one month away from the real? Deal, and but but you said high school high schools like approaching quickly yeah When their seasons get here they start the middle of August and hope hope the weather that we've seen for the last few days will continue. To stick, around as those young men get out there and start, conditioning and. Working out, and that sort of stuff because again that can. Just be brutal on anyone who's outside athletes construction workers I mean? That's I did look down the road the other day. In the the guys who put the roof on the house I'm like man if they'd just waited a few days because they were doing it right when I mean during that brutal. Heat wave, few days they'd have been better off so yeah well, it is. It is, man It is nice to have these temperatures like we've got right now for those working outside I, know it's a it's going. To help, them, be more. Productive and actually Heaven forbid actually. Be a little comfortable, while doing by the way numbers ran from shark week Which I. Didn't watch any I didn't watch any of it this year it was down it's my. Fault then they averaged one point million in total. Viewers on the Discovery Channel is down still. They, nearly doubled CNN's average, of eight hundred ninety, one thousand Melissa different. Times n., n. viewers well actually with those numbers it's more like minnows but that's. Another story Fox News twenty fifth consecutive month is the most watched network in cable in July Beating, out the the others, FOX was first in primetime. With an average of about two point four. Million viewers and. Finished first in. The total day around one point four million Hannity and Tucker Carlson or the top two. Programs for the month and and then MSNBC's Rachel. Meadow came in third with the appropriate named. Rachel, meadow show MSNBC overall, was second behind Fox, News channel in primetime. But then, in total day they dropped to third behind Nickelodeon believe it or not Out of the victory cable networks CNN placed tenth in prime. And seventh in the total day CNN. Lawsuit HGTV USA history channel Discovery Channel hallmark channel and I think shape with Martha, on public access perhaps or maybe after in that last one I missed that one but FOX. Business network beats CNBC who had a twenty three year low in, business day viewers for the month I haven't I in all fairness to, both of those business networks I, have a tough time watching those all those. Tickers and things scrolling or just distracting they're just really hard to to watch but so if if if you're into if you're a TV junkie. Our news junkie then those are the numbers that have been, have been coming in It would have probably helped shark shark NATO Oh I don't know about that, if it had, come out during the month a different channel but maybe they would have fed off. Of each other fed off of? Each. Other did you say that on purpose no now this and this. Was the thirtieth? Anniversary to of shark? Week wasn't that inter twenty fifth or thirtieth I mean I I know they. Were like celebrating some monumental anniversary thirty thirty okay in doing it and look and I I know people right now I, got, a, friend of mine and he's like oh man I got this recorded on the DVR, because he works. A lot and he's like I got this I can't wait to watch, this and I just didn't really think about it much this year, not, that, I was ever a big shark week fan and you know you wanna you wanna, give me a. Story about sharks giving jaws all right That's all you need right there. We're gonna need a bigger boat, did you. Hear about Alan, Alda I. Don't know if you heard okay. What's that he was Hawkeye yeah. Yeah yeah he is Oh wow just lost voice like. Al. Michaels or? Al Michaels has. A. Voice, like. Alan Alda Alan Alda. Has, come out. And said that he is he has. Been diagnosed with. Parkinson's disease oh man yeah he's eighty. He's I didn't realize he's eighty two he still doesn't he doesn't look eighty two to me I know he's been around forever. With, with. Mashan and he's been lots of all kinds of Malaysia ever since he left mash But. He said he was diagnosed three and a half years ago says he. Has, a full life and? He still loves to do his podcast to. Act and give talks and Ellen all, does a podcast really yeah, I can. Only imagine yeah he is a wild eyed left-winger yeah. I can only imagine what he talks. About I. Bet, he added. He'd suffers from TD s worse than. A lot of. Folks out there yeah but you know. What he does give some great advice in his he he put out a tweet says if you get a diagnosis keep moving Yeah. I love that good for him you know unlike our friends on. The, left when when someone on the left get sick I don't I'm happy and I don't celebrate and I don't you know wish the worst upon them I'd I'd give me he's a human being he's someone, who's. Been, in certain roles I. Never, watched mash but he's been in. Certain, roles in movies that light and you know. I don't wish this. Upon anybody so I would I do offer him prayers and I do. Hope, that it's something that? Does not hold him back eighty two years. Old, there's a lot of things that, can sneak up and get, you yeah And, you know so if if this, is the worst. Thing going on right now, it's something he can live with and and hopefully continue to do what he loves Yep absolutely. We wish we wish him well and a long healthy fight Parkin's. Yes And again unlike. Some or other, friends on the? Other side who would be happy you. Know if they. Found out rush. Had this or something and it would celebrate and dance in the, streets and late night comedians would make fine but that's the way they react the. Tolerance, side. Where's Gary burger is he he's still alive right radar I think. So I don't know the mash question I just, assumed you knew everything about mash. Now I said, I never watched? Star Mary used to be like on. The.