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A highlight from 15 Authors of Titles on THR's List of the 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time
"Please welcome to the stage President and CEO of the American Film Institute, Bob Guzzale. Phone rings. It's Scott Feinberg from The Hollywood Reporter. He has an idea. And he's thinking about celebrating the 100 greatest film books of all time. I am immediately offended because top 100 movie lists are the AFI's real estate. But I did not say that to him. And the truth is I was just jealous because it was such and is such a good idea. And I thought anything AFI can do to help shine a proper light on this imperative work, well, we're in. But I did say to Scott, it's got to be A plus. It's no fake in this one. You have to have the most informed, the smartest jury. And he said, I got this. And he did. And today is a moment to celebrate that effort and the inspired writers who have brought history to life. Here to take his bow and to moderate the discussion, the executive editor of The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Feinberg. Now Scott is going to bring out the honorees today, but he has given me the gift of introducing you to the first. For he is the founder of the American Film Institute. He was there in the White House Rose Garden when President Lyndon Johnson first announced the creation of AFI. He was there to write the very words that define the Institute's national mandate. And he was there to lead the organization through its early years. And it was then that he planted the seeds for the AFI Center for Film Studies, now the AFI Conservatory. And it was then that he instituted the Harold Lloyd Master Seminar Series at AFI, so named because the seminar's first guest was Harold Lloyd. Across 50 years, these seminars have proved a rich historical record of the art form and have inspired several books on THR's 100 greatest list, including two of his. Conversations with the great movie makers of Hollywood's golden age and conversations at the American Film Institute with the great movie makers the next generation. Please welcome George Stevens Jr. Welcome George Stevens Jr. and we are excited to hear from you in just a second. Now joining you up here, please welcome the author of 2020's The Big Goodbye Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood and with Janine Basinger, 2022's Hollywood The Oral History, Sam Wasson. Next up is the author of 2016's Powerhouse, The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency, James Andrew Miller. Next up, we are going to have two authors coming to the stage because they are the co -authors of 1996's Hit and Run, How John Peters and Peter Goober Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood. Please welcome Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters. Next up, he is, as you will guess from the title, his name. He is from 1969 and for many years thereafter the author of Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide. Please welcome Leonard Maltin. Here we are. Welcome. Next, we have the author of 1998's The Last Mogul, Lou Osterman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood, Dennis McDougall. Next, we have the author of 1977's The Making of the Wizard of Oz, Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM and the Miracle of Production number 1060. Please welcome Algene Harmetz. Next, he is the Czar of Noire, the author of Dark City, The Lost World of Film Noire from 1998. Please welcome Eddie Muller. He is the author of the 1996 book Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes, a guided tour across a decade of independent American cinema, John Pearson. From 1988, the book The Player. Please welcome Michael Tolkien. From 1989, the author of Goldwyn, a Biography, A. Scott Berg. She is the author of the 2006 book A Killer Life, How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond, Christine Vachon. We're going to give an extra warm welcome to this gentleman because it is his birthday. Please join us in welcoming George Harrell's Hollywood Glamour Portraits 1925 to 1992 author from 2013, Mark A. Vieira. From 1999, the book Conversations with Wilder, the author Cameron Crowe. Ladies and gentlemen, take it in because this has never been seen before and I don't know if anyone will be lucky enough to gather this amazing group again in one place. I'm so grateful to all of you for making the time to be here. Many of you came from great distances and congratulations on your work being on this list chosen by 322 people from the industry. We're talking about filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, executives, David Zaslav and many others, authors including just about everybody up here plus many others, academics. You can see the whole list online but the point is it is a cross -section of the business. There have been versions of this list that were chosen by film critics. There have been versions by other constituencies but this reflects the taste of our global film community. So thank you again for being here and I want to also just quickly thank Bob Guzzale, Julie Goodwin and everyone at AFI not only for going through all the efforts to make today possible but also for their other lists that Bob referenced because were it not for the original AFI Top 100 list. I don't think I would be here in a career as a film journalist because that really made me fall in love with the movies in the way that I hope this list inspires many other people to check out these books and the others on the list. So thank you to them and to the folks at The Hollywood Reporter for supporting the list and Terry Press for helping us put everything together and all of you for being here. So the way this is going to work is we are going to go down this line a few minutes with each author about the origin and impact and revelations of their book and then we are going to have a looser group conversation afterwards but we're going to begin with Mr. Stevens Jr. These two books that you wrote drawing from the seminars that Bob referenced are you know just fascinating looks at generations of filmmakers who have spoken to students at the AFI, what you know they've shared about their lives, their careers, tips for filmmaking. I wonder if you can just talk about how early on, well again just a little bit more actually about how those seminars started because you were there at the beginning and when it occurred to you that they might make good books.
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Origins with James Andrew Miller
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"C 13 originals. Officially one hour until your favorite show premieres. Time to get some snacks delivered through Instacart. Okay, let's get some popcorn seltzer, chocolate covered almonds, and wait, did they release the whole season? Better cards of ice cream for the two part finale. When your day should be ending but a new season is starting, the world is your cart. Visit Instacart dot com or download the app and get free delivery on your first order. Offer valid for a limited time minimum order $10, additional term supply. The podcast about falling in love with music. I started a nonprofit music school about 20 years ago called the silver Lake conservatory of music. And the reason that I started doing this podcast was to benefit the school, but specifically also about music education because every single person, I meet so many musicians from someone who doesn't even know what a scale is or an 8th note to someone who plays with the philharmonic or someone who's a deeply sophisticated jazz musician and everybody has a different way. Everyone has a different educational path and every single one of them is so interesting, fascinating to me and so valid and this little light I'll be speaking with Rick Rubin ThunderCats, Stuart Copeland, Margo price, Corey Henry, Cynthia erivo, Sheila E., one of my favorite people on the entire planet, Patti Smith. Do you remember when you first started listening to music? And you knew what was making what sound, like, oh, that's the base. That's the guitar that's a saxophone. No, I truthfully, I've never been like that. I'm a performer. I don't have the mindset of musician. I'm not my mind is filled with words, not so much sound or notes, but I move by music. Please listen and follow this little light a presentation of cadence 13 on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. I think we got it. Remember when, at the beginning of the pandemic, president Donald Trump suggested disinfectant might cure COVID. It just seemed nuts. Like no one would do that, right? Turns out in the dark corners of the Internet, a radical group made a fortune doing just that. They called it miracle, mineral solution. Join me for smokescreen, deadly cure. I'm Kristen V Brown. Your host and a reporter for Bloomberg. From neon hum, Sony Music entertainment, and Bloomberg, smokescreen, deadly cure is available now. Subscribe on Apple podcasts to binge all episodes now or listen weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
Origins with James Andrew Miller
Richard Plepler Explains HBO's Financial Tightrope
"Richard, was it difficult to run HBO when so much change was being contemplated at the corporate level? Well, remember the opportunity to say yes to what we as a team wanted to say yes to. Was just up against the reality of being a division of apparent company that had its own demands and requirements about our earnings and what we needed to deliver. So that was just an honorable tension between, as I would always say, you know, what in Pennsylvania avenue? Are you sitting on? Jeff's end to Pennsylvania avenue he has, earnings that he has to deliver to the street. He has a multiple which he has to be able to justify. He's thinking about different permutations of the company. If you're on my independence avenue, you know, look, you'd like to be able to charge a little bit less to your distribution partners because you know that that's going to result in more subscribers and you'd like all the resources for marketing that you could possibly get both for the show as themselves and for the brand. We didn't have that much money. Relative to what Netflix was spending and what others were spending. We had very little money. So we had to figure out creative ways to break through the noise of popular culture through free media, through events, through social eventually, and I think our guys did a very brilliant job in that. So would have liked my marketing money. We would have liked more programming money. And we would have liked, of course, the ability to adjust the price because the number one complaint of our partners are distributors was not that HBO isn't great. But it's expensive, right? So if we could have taken the price down a little bit, had more money for marketing, more money, that would have been terrific. But perfect wasn't on the menu. We had to deliver what we had to deliver. And that's just running a business.
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'Insecure' Showrunner Prentice Penny on How the Show Changed Him
"How did insecure change you? I think it changed me as a creator profoundly I started on girlfriends with primarily in African American show but certainly feeling like we were a marginalized and UPM CW not taken seriously by our peers and I think after having gone to network shows where I was the only person of color in the room. You sort of get used to like accepting things as they are, right? And going to do a secure with Easter Molina, but that energy of a young energy wanting to come in and take over as I did too, but you're also feeling like you're on the island all the time. Off of that experience was just like, no, we're not asking for permission anymore. We're just going to do the thing and speak up for what we want to do, how we want to build our crews, right? Saying that we're not going to 50% has to be people of color on women. And saying we're doing this or we're not doing this, right? And I just think it made me be much more vocal about the types of things that I would want going forward as a producer, like any other person, right? Like any other white creator gets to say, I want to do this. I want to do that. But sometimes when you're the only one you don't feel empowered to do that because you have to justify or explain why it just gets kind of tiring. So it definitely made me much more assertive in terms of what I would expect and what I want to do going forward. And I think as a writer, I would say insecure reminded me why I wanted to write in the first place was when I read that script, it just felt super fun. And it reminded me when you're in the network world or just the business a long time, you can kind of get hammered or drill. This is the way we do things, right? Or don't do it like this, or do do it like this. We're kind of getting this copycat formula and it really just reminded me when you're a kid and you're like coloring a picture and you might call it a cactus pink. You might cover the sun purple, and nobody tells a 5 year old, don't make the sound purple. You just let them create. And I was like, that's what this experience reminded me of. Like just create. Remember to have fun. That's why we're doing it. As opposed to being afraid to fail or not thinking about the business part. Then I went to go make insecure. It didn't make sense to be financially to go to a secure. It wasn't my material. I was losing money, but it was something in the tuning fork of it felt like the right thing to do creatively. So from that place, it has made me a better writer. It just freed me from the anxiety or the insecurity of a fear of what the business can kind of put into
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Sheila Nevens Opens up About the Pain of Life After HBO
"It was a tough time leaving HBO. When I was alone and no one answered my phone calls, no more flowers, no more. Oh, you have a headache. Let me get you an aspirin. No more anything. No more lunch dates. I didn't have HBO anymore. I was just an old person without a job. The main thing I remember is looking at my cell phone and not seeing any polls. I remember that. I used to come home and there were 50 calls, you know? You don't have the job. You don't have the power, you don't have the muscle, you're zero. But you were able to gather yourself nevertheless. Yeah, but I didn't get a job. I called everybody I knew everybody had given jobs to. All the Netflix people that I knew. Everybody, everybody. Everybody know nobody wanted me. Nobody called me back. Nobody answered my emails. I was old. I was out, and I was refuge the next step was a terminal illness, possibly. And death, that was what I was guess headed for, but I don't have either. I'm still alive. And I don't have an illness. Well, I have a lot of illnesses, but they're not terminal. I could have been dead. And I was rescued by MTV. I'm the same bitch I always was now. Just a smaller arena to be a bitch in.
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Sheila Nevens Opens up About the Pain of Losing HBO
"It was a tough time leaving HBO. When I was alone and no one answered my phone calls, no more flowers, no more. Oh, you have a headache. Let me get you an aspirin. No more anything. No more lunch dates. I didn't have HBO anymore. I was just an old person without a job. The main thing I remember is looking at my cell phone and not seeing any polls. I remember that. I used to come home and there were 50 calls, you know? You don't have the job. You don't have the power, you don't have the muscle, you're zero.
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Jeff Bewkes on Legacy Media's Weakness
"The problem for legacy media is basically it's fragmented. And if you asked Reed Hastings, what his main advantage besides the brilliance of what they did at Netflix was is that he understood that the media business was going to have trouble coming together for some kind of effect of solution to the replacement disruption that broadband direct delivery or video was going to bring. There's no sympathy for the CEOs, but it's pretty frustrating because you can't lie to anybody and you can't fail to tell material truths, but if you go around and say that we have a strategic, you know, we're coming into a box canyon here because of what Netflix Amazon digital world is going to do to legacy media. If you go out and start pounding the table about that, you're going to cause severe dislocation for your stock, your shareholders. And God knows ours have been through a lot of
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The Unvarnished Truth Behind Sheila Nevens's Departure From HBO
"In 2018, Sheila Evans left HBO two as she put it at the time, pursue the rest of my life. Now you're going to hear the unvarnished and totally transparent version of her departure. I remember reading that Maureen dowd column about your departure from HBO. It was a beautiful tribute, and you had lovely things to say about HBO. But as I got to know you further, I think we're in your office. I said to you one day, it just wasn't buying that whole narrative that you decided you had had enough. And then you came clean. Oh, I was fired. Let's just let me tell you what your book did, okay? And this is not fire you up, a pat on the back. I didn't know till I read this book that I was truly fired. So what marine got for me was what I believed at that time. I never figured out why I was leaving HBO. I am fucking 82 years old. I am an old lady. Okay? I am still working. I'm really good at what I do as good as the next guy, but there was something in your book, somebody says, I couldn't believe it. Somebody says, how old is she now? Well, you know, I've done everything you possibly can not look 82 years old. Okay, good, fine. But I knew something was wrong. And I didn't know what it was. It never occurred to me I didn't fucking good. Because I was pretty from the time I was three years old as far as I knew. And age was something that crawled up on me. I never knew anybody who was as old as I was, who had as much Botox or face lifts, or whatever the fucking word is. But I knew something was wrong at HBO, because I didn't understand why I couldn't die there and put my ashes in a box and put it on a shelf. There, why did they just have my awards everywhere? Why couldn't they keep me? Why? When I read your book, I realized I was too old, I was too old.
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Sheila Nevens Believes She Was a Tyrant
"One of the things I particularly interested in was the way that you worked with filmmakers at HBO. The tyrannical way I work with them. Do you autocratic? You know, I was not raised by a king and queen. But I learned a lot about royalty. Come on, Sheila. If you were so tyrannical, why do people like Spike Lee, Liz garbus, Alex gibney, worried Kennedy, keep coming back? But I was the only game in town. So did they come back because they liked me or like working with me or because, you know, that was the bank that cashed the checks. All due respect to the fact that I was a good mentor and all that. I gold it out.
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Nina Noble Discusses How HBO Were Leaders in Diversity
"Well, just from my perspective, oddly, our other shows are becoming more like us. In the old days, we were the outliers for always integrating what are popular concepts now diversity and inclusion and equity into our productions. It was just sort of part of our workflow. And so now just recently is the first time that people are actually starting to look at all this stuff we've done in that area and wanting to become more like that just in terms of staffing in terms of how people are treated. And so I'm tremendously proud of our history in that area.
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HBO Legend Sheila Nevins on How She Learned to Make Documentaries
"Sheila, do you remember an early project that reflects your own personal thinking at the time? Something that maybe you translate it into HBO content? Sure. The success of the movie bob and Ted and Carol Alice or whatever that was called with Natalie Wood is like four people sort of swinging and I thought, why can't I do sex shows? You know, why can't I break from this? Mold of doctors being about Congress, particularly or about history. Why can't it be like jaws? Why can't I do killer whales? Why can't I do sexy things? Why can't I do murder? Why does it always have to be the assassination of a president? Why can't I do a mass killing of some kind? Why can't I be like fiction? Why can't I be like theater? Why do I have to stick to the mold of doctors high brow? I'm just not highbrow. So I really learned from narrative how to make Doc use. I didn't really know how else to do it. I would see what did well on HBO or in the theater. And I had the great gift of no ads. So that meant if you could catch them in the beginning, then they would stay because we weren't going to sell super subs in the middle. So it was a gift, really.
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HBO Chairman Jeff Bewkes Saved Richard Plepler's Career
"In 1995, after then, HBO chairman Michael fuchs was unceremoniously fired. His replacement, Jeff mucus, was strongly urged by Time Warner heavyweights, Jerry Levin, bob Daley, and dick Parsons to fire fuchs right hand PR operative, Richard plepler. Actually, strongly urge may be an understatement. And that's because plepler was seen as being too tied to fuchs. Fostering serious doubts about whether he could be loyal to the company. In the wake of fuchs firing departure. But mucus showing some rather big balls to his bosses, refused to take plepler out, deciding instead to make plepler promise to dedicate his loyalty to the company, not to one of its past honchos. Plue kept his word, left pukes behind, and emerged as what might be called the chief storyteller of the HBO brand, both inside and outside the company. Plepler became CEO and chairman of HBO in 2013, presiding over historic growth and launching HBO now. The company's stand-alone streaming service, which eventually morphed into HBO Max.
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How Sheila Nevens Ended up at HBO for Life
"How did you actually get to HBO? Someone called me when I was at CBS, and I like CBS, but on you, it wanted me to be on camera. And again, it was this actress actress actress. And I didn't want to be on camera. And I said, Don, I want to produce things. And he said, no, no, you waste yourself. You're wasting stuff. Good talk. I usually realize that. And somebody called me, Irish studio, I think, was her name. She called me and said, we're looking for someone to do documentaries at HBO. I didn't know what that was. It's a new table. I didn't even know what cable was. I had nothing. I knew network. Do you have any ideas? And so I said, let me look through my rolodex. We had rolodex in there. And I looked through and I wrote down some names of people and I thought, wait, wait a second, wait a second. Cable. What the fuck is cable? So I went across the street to the I remember the 42nd street library, and I looked up cable television. I thought, holy mackerel, this is the future, no ads, movies without commercials. Dirty things. No interruptions. Wow, wow. I want this job. So I called back and I said, can I audition for it? What do I do? How do I get this job? So I went over and it was in the time life building, and I thought, oh, Time Magazine. Why is magazine? This is good. And I interviewed for a job and that's how I got a job at HBO, and I was there for my life. I just spent my life at HBO.
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David Simon and Nina Noble Are an HBO Production Powerhouse
"In 1998, HBO aired its first big scale miniseries from the earth to the moon. It was originally budgeted and roughly $40 million, but the network followed Tom Hanks passion and wound up spending more than 60 million. Band of brothers, the Pacific, The Sopranos, and many other HBO projects would be beyond costly as well. But David Simon's HBO shows have proceeded down a different financial path. In large part, due to the acumen of his right hand, executive producer, Nina noble. Saunter down the halls of HBO, talk with their production experts, and you're bound to hear the word trust a lot. Trust is a vital ingredient for any network, but particularly so in HBO, where creators and producers are made to feel largely empowered to bring their visions to the screen without being micromanaged. While there is obvious financial supervision, the network wants to be in business with partners who are financially responsible and not spending their days desperately trying to exact more funds. Nina noble doesn't play such games. She has been working at HBO alongside David Simon for more than 20 years, and is part of an MVP triumphant of female powerhouse executive producers at the network, which includes Eileen landress of Sopranos fame and bernadette caulfield, who operated his field marshal on Game of Thrones. Think of all three women as CEOs of these shows, not in the writer's room, but often everywhere else. Noble is known for being a woman of her word and a complex problem solver. You can say she's in the solutions business, and that makes television life infinitely more agreeable for David Simon.
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Ex-HBO Chair Nick Nicholas Describes HBO in the 70s
"How did HBO function as a business back then? For HBO was a wholesaler, we wholesaled. Our product, which was the HBO electronic fee, to cable companies, they then retailed it to their customers in their homes. So our negotiation with a cable company was one. Please carry HBO, make it available to your customers. And two, please pass a reasonable price. Our goal at all costs was to get carriage. But for price we'd often say, whatever, whatever you pay us. So there was very little discipline around the fundamental walking in tackling, which any business has to
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How Showrunner David Simon First Found out 'The Wire' Was Cancelled
"One of my favorite David Simon and HBO stories revolves around HBO's decision to cancel the wire after only three seasons. Chris albrecht was running programming at the time, and it was his then deputy Carolyn Strauss, who had the job of informing Simon that HBO is going to end the show. Strauss arranged for a meeting between Simon and albrecht, and it would last for more than an hour and a half. I don't think I understood on the day how canceled we were. Karen wanted to give me my chance to argue. She knew at some level I needed to vent even if it wasn't going to go well. But I thought I went in with like doubts and probable cancellation, but that it wasn't open ended meaning. So I think I may have been a little more optimistic than the moment deserved. Yeah, he listened. From his point of view, we were emerging from season three with the best reviews we'd had. The barksdale season had seemingly concluded. There was an optimal ending there. If you wanted it, or a plausible ending anyway. And he said, look, you know, we'll stay in business with you. We'll give you the money for something else. What's the next thing you want to do? Because I had to do it two years in a row. I had to beg for renewal. But I would say he just listened to the content and to his credit at burns had given us Ed burns wanted to write a novel about his time teaching. And the stuff of season four of the school kids, he basically volunteered that and said, well, let him try this one for size and see if they bite. Because we were going to do the education thing anyway, but he now started feeding me a bunch of stuff to go in the room with. So I started talking about the four kids. And the meeting went along. You know, at some point, I looked over and Carolyn was like smiling at me like, I can't believe we're still in. It's been 25 minutes, you know? But that's what happened. And then of course, after season four, he wanted to cancel it again because he needed the money for production. He was always pressed for money for the production
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Nick Nicholas Jr's Path to HBO
"I wish you could all somehow meet Nick Nicholas junior, and I wish there were more like them in the world. Nicholas was educated at Phillips Andover, Princeton, and Harvard Business school. But with all due respect to that trio of pedigrees, it's doubtful those places taught him as much as his father did. Nick's dad commanded two submarines during World War II. The salmon and the spike fish and was part of the gang known as the Nimitz boys after the great admiral. Nick's dad instilled in his son, a strong moral compass, and a keen work ethic. One of numerous reasons why Nick junior enjoyed such a spectacular rise at time Inc, all the way to the top. But before the powers gave him his own set of keys to the kingdom, IE the company. They sent him to HBO to further test the young stars operational capabilities. It was a challenge. Time Inc was on the verge of closing down HBO. It was in 1976, and my boss dick Monroe, Jake and I used to walk to the station at night. That is to Grand Central from time and life building. At high speed, a little cardio, and he broached the idea. He said, Nick, I'd like you to move to HBO and take over the management. He said things are going well, you know that. He had to lose in a lot of money. The company, meaning time make is going to continue to finance it. So I want you to replace Levin whenever you can do it.
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Introducing David Simon—An HBO Writing Legend
"David Simon is one of the most important and prolific writers in HBO history. After graduating from the university of Maryland, Simon worked in journalism, displaying a unique voice and an unrelenting work ethic as a reporter for the Baltimore sun. In 1991, he published his first book, homicide, a year on the killing streets, to hugely enthusiastic reviews. And went on to work with Baltimore legend Barry Levinson. On the hit NBC adaptation of that show. Simon began his HBO relationship in 2000 with the corner. Before creating and serving his head writer and showrunner of the wire. A dazzling drama that is commonly listed as one of the top ten dramas ever. The show ran on HBO from 2002 through 2008. Simon was named a Macarthur fellow in 2010 and has stayed at HBO for numerous other projects, including treme, show me a hero, generation kill, the adaptation of Philip Ross plot against America and deduce.
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"james andrew miller" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"He's not i your nydia now. I can't i just can't it is also this for years old. You've always had the same. I it i can't do it right. I would just say you're stupid and move also think it's interesting to me that you said you don't have to like someone to do a good debate but you have to respect them. I usually don't people. I don't like you you're right. You don't have to respect but if you going into a debate if you gotta be able to feel you can be yourself. And the person you're debating what is going to be at least on par with woodmen. Knowledge is on whatever the subject is. That's what i mean. There's certain people were like. Oh this person has no idea what the i don't respect them as much as maybe would another person so if it's a tricky thing but i don't make a person. I wonder. i wonder what it was about kellerman. That's the i. I don't know what it was. I don't think he listen. I don't watch the. But i don't think anyone would say like max kellerman doesn't know what he's talking like. He follows sports like yes. He may have outrageous opinions. Like if you want to say. I don't know you know derek cards. The best quarterback in the nfl like he's not coming out with like outrageous opinions. I so i. I do wonder if it's personal professional little both i. It's interesting that one person would say. I don't want to have this person debate anymore on the show. But we know that that's really the whole dynamic. I mean. I look if you're stephen a smith and you have the power to choose your partner and you feel like whatever reason it's not working you've had enough of this guy. Look i mean hate to even bring this up. But i know you're a huge fan of it. Mike in the dog one of the reasons why they broke up was because they had enough of it now. They weren't debating each other necessarily but doing a show together. All those years. You know sometimes the personalities gel you get sick and tired of one another maybe got to the point where they warned fiving his friends more connecting in stevenage wanted. It's just not working and let's find somebody else. Now that point i understand. Do think after awhile. You sort of get sick of people and you need to move on they. I think they did it for five years. Which isn't wow long long laws. If i haven't paid attention to what i mean i just don't watch i don't watch it. I understand speaking of watching. Have you watched any of the three episodes of hard knocks on. Hbo for top number. Two on train of thoughts. I am ashamed to say that. I have not all year long. Been saying football season starts when how hard not as you and i talked about it. We couldn't watch it on cuba teams orange one of my favorite shows. I have not a had the time or be made the time to watch it. I do plan on watching a little bit later on this evening but no i have not watched one second of it. I've been completely bored by it. And last night. Tuesday night. You know everyone on twitter was trying to get likes and re tweet. So they kept tweeting. The video of the first three minutes of the drone which was very cool. No it three minutes of the drone which was in fifty seven minutes of complete boringness. So it just there's just just been nothing there and it's like the i was going to use a word but i don't let me let me figure out the the fawning over jerry jones gets..
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"I hope at least that's the case. So we mentioned the sopranos and curb your enthusiasm both of course smash hits for. Hbo and jim who has written must read bucks on saturday night. Live and espn among other things has a book called tinderbox coming out in november on everything and then some on hbo. We have an exact date for the book. Sixteenth nervous november sixteenth. And i know the last time you're on we talk about briefly but you really cover everything about hbo and this book. I mean you're going back to when it launched. T. shows that people barely heard of probably from the early eighties up until now so we'll have beyond when the book comes out to go in-depth on it but it. I'm looking forward to it and i'm glad knowing you you covered. You really did cover everything in this. I saw the back. You tweeted the cover. And the back with the quotes. Good quote from larry there. If you want to mention it but Know the the array the array of people who have worked on. Hbo shows you see julia. Louis dreyfuss you'd think seinfeld but veep was as good as any show in the last. You know ten years to come down the pike and yeah she only wanted the emmy six years in a row from right right exactly exactly by the way i really. I say this in the book but comedy wise with all due respect as they say everyone else our generation. I mean there's joy lou I mean she just kills it. She just crushed obviously as he lane. You know i. I interviewed her. You know about. Snl she got there when she was twenty one or twenty two. She did not have a good experience. You can't really look at early days on. Snl and say. Wow i mean obviously she was talented and attractive and all that stuff but She is put together. I think the greatest portfolio for a comedic actress urgent of our generation without without a doubt i. It's it's unbelievable and And she's terrific talking about feet. And i liked you. Didn't i like that. You're not just covering the dramas. And the sitcoms i know you know. I think there's something in there about comic relief with billy crystal. Whoopi goldberg robin williams. Do you get into inside the nfl at all. Yep sports. I mean i'm a sports guy you know. Yeah yeah documentaries I you know lots of lots. Cover that so. I can't how many how many pages we got on this one.
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"Just such a great job and so it's like we're spending all this money and we get. Oh the finals and we put him on. Abc and everything else and yet at the same time. You can't get your act together in really put together. Great programming and a great cast of characters to carry that programming You know that's what a lot of people get paid for and it's always been. The nba is Espn's waterloo sounds like rachel is supposed to host the nba finals. But you don't have to say that just reading between the lines right enough about espn october first. The sopranos prequel. The many saints of newark comes out and then in october. Hbo ounce curb will return for season. Eleven i think you were on twitter and everyone should follow him on twitter You said you think it's going to be october twenty fourth for the curb debut. I now a good host would have you come on here and say. Tell me what you know about the season to curb. I don't wanna know. I wanna go in fresh spoilers but have you. Could you give me sort of like a roundabout. What have you heard about this season. I i will say one thing right off the bat. I know richard lewis not in this season because he had a medical which is which bums me out because it. Oh he i thought he. They said no. Richard lewis because of some health issues. I know but he's made it into a season eleven. I don't want to give great. Okay good i mean we all love richard and had three surgeries and just so glad that he is going to be part of season. eleven Obviously the loss of bob binds thing continues to you know. Be sad but there is an i promise. I won't give it away but they're one delicious addition to the cast This season which is great. I'll tell you based on season ten. Who i wouldn't have minded if they made them a permanent kasim over for season eleven. That was jon hamm. He was so freaking good in that episode last year where he was basically larry so good. Do you know if we see him at all in season eleven. You can give that if you if you know that. Because i would love to see him again. I'm not sure okay. That's sure but you know. The other thing is when john hamm hosts senator man he brings it like you know of their hosts on a monday night. They like sit there with their arms folded. And i don't want to do this and i don't want to do this. And that's gonna make me sound like a jerk and you know jon hamm you. Starting kirk to guy is korea and he really does crush it if you want. See a really funny john. ham thing. billy on the street. Billy eichner who i love and his hilarious on twitter. He does a billy on the street with john ham with the two of them..
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"Care about but there's a lot of you know there's a lot of young eyeballs front ecole pizza watching this stuff. And they're they care or they're entertained by it but in order to do that though going back to the point you need to have to credible people now. Somebody's not going to be as boisterous and they may not be as incredibly highly opinion. Aided as stephen but you gotta have somebody who's going to at least get a run for his money. Does anyone on air talent only have more power to espn than stephen. A brand now and is it solely based on the money that that showed john. I mean you have a scott van pelt. Who does not is not promoted in the way that stephen is. It seems like but he turns along the midnight. Sportscenter does well. He's well liked when it comes to sort of espn pushing personalities. He doesn't get nearly the push. That like a stephen a gets is it because i take more makes more money than the midnight sportscenter. What is it about that. Mean tonneins of big deal right particularly for espn right. Eight thousand seven hundred sixty hours a year. I mean you said when you get a show that goes across the week like that and and also delivered. Younger eyeballs and time spent viewing pretty high. You know i mean that's that's how you get. The salary that he had daddy gets I think that. I mean arguably when chris berman was still in his prime and even in his waning years You know he probably had a lot of he had hit. A big seat at the table is put that way but the other thing is that remember something. He has spent through the years as always tried to make sure that no one in this goes back to when keith in dan were the first sportscenter anchors on the cover of tv guide. I mean they were getting trampled on by executives in the sense that they were trying to keep the toothpaste in the tube and not let them be out of control and egotistical. So i still think for for most of espn talent they. There's nobody that's kind of has the kind of influence and the audacity. Let's say shit is. That is that larry. David is that larry. Larry you take it. If it's anyone else you have to still do the. Unfortunately it's not larry. All right larry dammit. I wish it was larry. What was the last time you had contact with..
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"Work out well and it's a really difficult thing so i would think that for me. I mean i like any main but kenny and peyton that you have two people trying to the same spot and that just won't work what they really need somebody who's going to be super smart and he's going to understand the chemistry between peyton any lie and get the hell out of the way right right. Well we are two and a half weeks away from the first monday night so I would imagine decision has come down pretty soon now. Well it's not only that but you have to be really really quiet about maybe some auditions in some trials that you're doing because these things can go myriad ways right and you just can't pick somebody that you've gotta cut feeling about. You gotta get in the booth. You gotta do some recording so at least that's how i feel the less you want to do to peyton. Anti lie is make mistakes. Even if it's somebody that payton wants you gotta get that person on their feet and see how it works. So i hope right now. They're doing some quiet testing be. You know it's like reagan said to gorbachev trust but verify Even if it is choice. Yeah how should. How should steve. Levy brian greasy. And and louis riddick feel about this. Forget about it just you know they. They have big big job that they have to do every week and the last thing they need to be doing is looking at this summit thing who cares i mean all i know it sounds like an easy thing to do and i think steve levi's capable of making it that easy. Just keep keep the focus on what you're doing in your booth and making that show the best. It can possibly be particularly after such a fractured potholed laden. You know recent history right moving on from the monday night. Football alternate broadcast Came out this week max. Kellerman will be off. I take andrew martian in the post said. This was a stephen a call. I would imagine if stephen as making twelve million a year. espn's going to do what he wants. you know. It's a tough thing there. Because stephen is taking care of kellerman. They're going give them morning radio show and a tv show. But you think this maybe make a look bad a little bit if this is true..
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"I media podcast regular always good to check in with the manager knows everything about espn and hbo saturday night. Live you other things. James andrew miller. Jim how are you great. How are you. I'm doing well doing well. Despite the circumstances of the world turns time back in october. Come on it's been a good week. We got the news on curb and we've got the nfl starting in two weeks So let's start with that because you are the man who knows everything about espn and wrote that phenomenal book. It's funny. I talked to a lot of people in the sports media. World sports media business. There's a lot of buzz for who's going to get the host of the peyton. Eli manning show on the monday night football alternative or alternate. I guess a broadcast walk in you. Tell us about that. What he got on that I don't know the answer. But i will say this that. They're making a pretty big deal of it. You know as you know pain with somebody that they offer the booth originally Wanted wanted it badly. I think they've made a smart decision dot competing with romo and dot having a jump into that morass. But i think this actually is going to be fun and it's going to be pretty cool and so this is a really. This is a great assignment and murray has gone and they have a bunch of new talent to look at and people have been there for a while. So it's it's one of the most highly coveted assignments that's come up. Espn in a while. And there's certainly been a lot of jockeying for it. Are there any names you can drop or you're not comfortable doing that. Running under the penalty of death and so not to be a jerk. But i just want to kind of keep that promise but let me ask you this question do you. Is there any chance they go outside of. Espn for host. Well i think. Look as much as i don't let let me just say this anyone listening before you get to. Because i don't know if everyone this isn't as much in. Espn deal as this is peyton manning deal. It's his production company. He's going to call the shots here. That's why i asked her about going outside of espn. I'm sorry to cut you off. Good no i think. That's that's the instructive point. Which is that unlike a lot of assignments. This is not going to be seth mark and lee vetting and the rest know the rest of the gang there. This is about peyton and so if there's somebody that is outside the espn ecosystem and peyton wants that person. believe me. they're going to do everything they can to get that person. They're not say no to him right. Why won't it be. I'm gonna throw name out there. I'm sure this person's not in the mix because they're busy enough. But i'm just gonna use the name is if painting. Says he wants pat mcafee for example who does not work for. Espn pat mcafee is going to get that job. Just based on the fact that..
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"I want wanna take too much time. he's a year you know doing your day nfl. And all that. And i'm like okay. Man look i I just want to tell you that. I move new york three or four years ago and the way this works is i'm c. ram You know not not. Because i'm filling myself. It's just because i'm making moves in your city and Eventually i'm gonna be doing enough to where you notice my name. And he was like you know. Respect respect that me up and that was it. And i left my And that was. That was when i talked today so it was good that i need at any other point before that guy talking football. What kind of rush was it. When he said he knew you were it was it was it was like what pacino sitting new. I was alba teams like the football show man. They football fan. And i was like what time i looked at the house. Working with extra looked at cameron sits cup gal for second among the i said i said i said. Do you like miss patino. Yeah love football. He's gonna wanna show and sundays. I was like what's going on so Whenever i hear my estee like you are in it. And it's not football related. Like gino didn't say man. I loved it when you play with randy moss. He was talking about my working. tv. I bet right. There is a mark of a guy who has successfully transitioned out of one chapter into the other. So i had a similar experience where i interviewed. Tom brady once in person. This was many years ago. And when i introduced myself up trailer for sports illustrated right this called hawk lakes at the time. And he's like. Oh yeah i know it. I totally thought he was bullshitting. I didn't believe him for one second. But you know if it is true. That's pretty cool. But i but it may but for second whether was nice to be nice or you actually knew either way. It's kind of trippy. And it makes you feel good. Because tom brady even if he didn't know you didn't have to be nice. So that makes you think right there that he actually do. And i will bet you tom brady. Does tom brady. Doesn't say thing is just the same. So i bet you. He was a big fan of a big fan of yours. So good luck and have fun on friday brother. Thank you you too all right. We'll take a quick break and we'll be right back. This episode is brought to you by disney plus disney plus to hulu. Espn plus stream all your favorites with the disney bundle. Disney plus has loki luca on hulu watch originals.
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"Going to college in las vegas because i think the last thing a college student needs all that like i was always fascinated with guys who went to big schools so like we had like twelve thousand full time students when i was there and then i got drafted in skies that are from oklahoma and oregon and michigan state and in literally like like a kid from some podunk country town which i'm not from seattle. I would ask them. You'll also like to play. Florida and their answers would always like yo we were we were. Nfl players. Everybody loves us but we were the biggest thing on campus. I would meet a girl my senior year. I grow up to be like something. How you doing man you just transfer you look good. You wanna go out and the girl would be like. I've been here for four years. And that's how big our school is. You know you run into somebody for years later that you can go to school with the whole time. I was always always taught more so than vegas being a superstar was like that. Like you're gonna have to figure it out. You know on examples. Like johnny manziel right. I think him being sexy superstar stifled his career path. Because once he got in the league. In cleveland cleveland. Or at least the nfl. Lifestyle gonna show on that. He didn't already experience in texas tech. Say no exactly yeah no. it's true. Good point i appreciate you coming on. Best of luck at cbs michigan. Good morning football. And even though you know you're going to be doing. Cbs the pod so of course in touch and you are you are one of the business j. I appreciate your diligent with your efforts You know you you. You put in The necessary The necessary like hard work that people don't get to see I appreciate that the end result is an article our podcast something that you right or tweet for guy who knows the work you put in and i just want to say for the world to know that those. Those long nights in early mourners. Don't go on notice my brother. I appreciate that i very nice of you. Say thank you and good luck now that let's do this again. Let's do it in a few weeks or maybe a month season kicks off talk about talk about early seasons surprises and early season. Disappointments that to find out after. Find out if you met oprah yet we'll get to hang out with somebody famous that no somebody else. That super famous. You kinda gotta play it off. You've got to let it happen organically of course before we go. I'll end with this. Being in new york always wanted me. Jay z a huge days. Fan like i feel like he's shifted culture. You talked to the young African american male. Who wanted to wear baggy shirts forever. In rams on their car in he changed his game. And everybody else follows suit no more jerseys where button us and stop putting rooms on your cars elitist stock he and now he's talking about stocks and bonds and business venture capitalism and crypto current. All of this right. So i feel like over the course of his career coming from where he came from. He's used his music to help. Elevate the month. that's why i love. Jay z are Set.
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"Just planted also all the cameras can look at them by the time. We realize. he's not like joking. Heimlich east crying. He's crying her pain. I'm crying tears so well. That's on film august on fail just watching this week. We'll show that was going to be my follow up. Question was what can you give us a little tea. What's coming on friday for your last shell because this podcast will come out very very early thursday morning. So the muscular. We'll have positive they'll have a another guest you know. We had dominant role leading randy moss. Call it and You know. I don't know if anybody caught on camera but like i. My eyes start to water when when these guys came on like today i literally had the white my because randy sitting there with this big smile and he's talking glowingly about me you know. He's a friend of mine but when somebody's you know one of your idols of the game and big brothers a mentor. They never lose those titles. Either you may. He may be like a friend or a brother now but You know for him to just be so happy for me That meant a lot because this was the same do that challenged me as a player in and instill confidence in me that nobody would understand like nobody knows what it's like. Imagine being a basketball player michael jordan. Not doing what you saw on the last dance but like building up the young player whispering tune how great he is and how you need to go off on these guys. They can't stop you. Like randy was the best player in all of football and he was whispering my ear in the games where he was out and even sometimes games that he was in. He's like yo you the best on the field. I don't care who's out they can't stop you and as cool as i might have acted you know in like having that football finished on inside. I'm a kid doing backflips. Andy moss is building me up so special to me but yeah i have a. I think we should have a couple of more guests. Showing up on friday Mike emotional. I see a tear to tearing up wednesday. We'll see you ballin by friday. So man i. I don't know here's the thing about me Everything that you might hear me say this week and everything. They might hear me say on friday. I've said to my cast mates face. I've even call them at times late. Been out drinking and just call them. Hey appreciate you told them how much i love him. A very emotional person. I've taken everything that. Football has given me and i give that in every space that i'm in so when i'm part of a team i don't care if it's coach in high school football don bosco in new jersey. Just coaching the wide receivers. I'm talking to them like these. These little dudes are all my son's not just my son on the team and the same thing with goerner football. Talk to them the same way so when you hear it just now that it's been said before so that might be the reason. I don't cry. Because i'm out of cry before telling them how much i love. The chemistry was spent. You know it's hard enough in this business to get you know..
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"I mean everyone got so. Are we doing it again this year. Do you know is it official or there's just talks so far what do we know about. Yea so You know the nfl nickelodeon. They've created a relationship I'm going to be working with nickelodeon and Small capacity every week. I can't give you too many details on that. But let's just say it's going to be exciting show but then As far as games go. Yeah i i believe that the nfl Has started something that a lot of leagues will follow suit. Semaj playing basketball steph. Curry's to three pointer goes in splashes in slime and imagine you know watching the baseball you hit a home run as soon as the you know. The slimes limestone is the crowd so endless endless possibilities. Now it's about good morning football for a little bit before we wrap. This is such a lame in cliche question. But i'll do it anyway. Do you have a. What is your favorite memory of the show. Don't give me like all the relationships they give single. Memory i got there was a moment in time. Kyle talked about it a little bit on the show where we'd turned into versions of ourselves. I got so comfortable where we're just a lot of inside jokes Locker room humor During the commercial break and then whenever we had a stand up segment may kyle with just like wrestling each other in the first couple of times it was just like a greco roman grappled. Watch watch balance. We'll stay up then. He took me downtime. I took him down the time. And then from there we were tackling each other like every week. And i remember lawyer the producers from nfl network. Like y'all got a chiro like one like you're going to damage something in here. Two more importantly you guys gonna hurt and it's on us so you have to sell so that was bad memory that i remember when i knew i we finally became A team versus a group of people working together And then we have these outdoor shoots. We were doing. We went to a park in new york like shooting in Basket don't football in the basket kyle. Climbs climates bids but craig hanging out plumbers crag. And then we did this. Uh you know pizza pizza like like a like a bill trip but it's all again and in the pizza and then we come. This genius idea need to the passes uncompetitive. I'm going crazy. I'm gonna win a love pizza. Of course people knock crash carts on seguin and then kyle is ultracompetitive. Like he wants to win everything right. He was so complex. Give me a moon est. It's funny because he survived but he almost died like no exaggeration. And i i've been talking to producers that. What do you want to see him. Show this week as like finally the clip where kyle almost dies and legit shoves all pizzas mouth barely chooses. So get stuck right. Yeah the cheese. The cheese is a problem and he didn't hit in hindustani because he couldn't speak and at first of all. Here's kyle house beleaguered. He's he's a former no real world guy in a former soap opera actor so he knows how to grab the attention. When we're on the set a four shot connel's they'll do a shoulder shrug. it'd be like zoom lander. He he knows how to grab the scene. So i'm thinking..
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"I mentioned earlier. And then we'll i wanna talk about like your last couple of days here. Gm efi but were you surprised at all about how overwhelmingly positive. The reaction was to the nickelodeon game. I was social. Media is one of the most dishes You know lanes of communication. We have in society people hop on there just a crash cart People hop on don't know how to drive You know and even when you have a nice driver that wants to wave and say hello nice car there's somebody zooming by leaping your at bats bats. What the information highway of social media is it's one of process descriptions i've ever heard and it's real and what happens at a out of the no out of the hundred cars. They drive by. We pay attention to the car. That honks horn the jerk. That looks at us. The one rose window since you suck the one that blitz this off. It's just human. Nature happens all the time when we're actually walking around every day. Because he had a ten people wave to us and one person that like looks at us nasty bothers us. So i was waiting and i thought on the flip side it will be more bad football. Nickelodeon odeon may likewise even calling games on august. Preseason stuff rams last back in the day but like who is this dude. I was just waiting and i just kept scrolling scrolling and scrolling and i couldn't find a few detractors but for the most part i think people saw the effort to put in And it was simply to bridge the gap between a younger generation. That casually watched the sport and an older generation that are traditionalist and might not wanna watch it in the format that nickelodeon will push surprisingly a lot of adults. Old in young adults look dead said on. This is more entertaining than i thought. And i i had to find that balance. I don't wanna come in and speak goofy. Let's talk about governor there for four quarter ma. Let me let me actually find the blend. Create a hybrid between my memories of nickelodeon the memories of nickelodeon now and then marry that with not football for dummies but like basic level information of football while talking a about a football game in the playoffs like it's not the preseason you know i can't i can't just come up darren and in say a whole bunch of nothing and people will be entertained. Ask make sure there was the respect for the game that they're watching but master plan for the super bowl at least a added so I was. I was overwhelmed. Man and i think that response said enough about the demographic of young men and women that would love to watch the game in a different form. And even i think it was even old men and women to myself..
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"james andrew miller" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"I wanna do that and be part of this team and i'm not saying i'm the missing piece like the the robert ory or anything to the squat. I'm just saying i'm gonna do my best to bust. My behind and proven earned the trust of everybody involved in the morning news over at cd. Yes i'm sure you'll be great. 'cause i i mean it's all about versatility on on a show like that too. I mean like you said. I mean one morning you could be covering a covert outbreak in one morning. You're doing a cooking segment. One morning you could be talking about the milk crate challenge. I mean that that's basically how goes on those shows. You got the show already. Yeah and it's funny. Because i said this kyle recently i you know i've always been from day one. I was a fan of your show. Always loved it and i said to him. I give you guys more credit for what you do on good morning football in the off season than during the i mean i'm not going to sit here and try to say it's easy during the season but you have the game so like a monday shows probably like the easiest thing to do. I watch you guys in the offseason. Just like i don't know how they do this. I mean that that's at sometimes. It's tough during the season. The story stories right so so we're basically coming in and adding a little bit of color. I mean the vibrancy of games within the sales the story lines that drama to injuries We just come in and it's like playing second fiddle or whether Supporting actor to The main actor of the movie which is football off season. It's tough it's tough the best. There's there's the gift and the curse the gift is. We have time and was a little more space. I be creative. We produce a lot of our segments In on top of that we can work on certain things that we usually get the time at work on during the season now the curse is that it's it's a bit more i'll just call it. What it is. I remember going to an nba game years ago. I was in los angeles. I'm in la like man that's so les- courtside. You know saying you guy. Kobe over there like this is this is heaven and i was thinking and i hope i came to a laker game with one of those great halftime shows. That would make this game perfect. I got all my favorite players. Watch it by looking at the celebs like Hope help. I don't get a lackluster halftime. So this lady comes And she's on a unicycle on unicycle. Lady evans she starts juggling. Juggling lady and issue calls out some plates now mike a couple of plays and then she starts stacking spinning plates in it. Looks like something out of why Cat hat you know. And i just can't thinking to myself that must be the most difficult thing ever to keep your models on a unicycle. Spinning these plates multiple hand switching hands jumping bold bold played the plane. And that's how i describe. And that's how i look at my mind jima off season like you may not know they tell me. They're like a good time but really we get done and we're just happy we didn't drop a play. You know what. I'm saying. We're just having we didn't drop a bowl because trying to balance information entertainment in the off season where there isn't football. Is i think some of our best work. This episode is brought to you by.
SI Media Podcast
"james andrew miller" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Because i worked the job so you have to pair and bios most download stuff that you don't even know that you Have knowledgeable and i'm really excited about that in this new space for the gaps that i may have and news coverage of whether it's very obscure geographical locations Political pockets that. I might not be caught up on to learn on the job Which is exciting. And at this age at age of forty that is a thrill to. Because when i come home and i'm talking about all these things when i'm talking to my son's about crypto currency and i'm trying to figure out a way to to open up a robinhood our anchor app or talk to my friend. Merrill lynch and asking that the age requirement for them to open up and investment account. These are things that are part of Nate burlington's everyday life. Which is which is going to be exciting. Because i talk about these on a daily basis. It's all about being well rounded. Let me let me ask you this. I'm just curious. Nfl wide receiver. Television broadcaster started your own clothing. Line opened in italian restaurant which was the hardest I would say opening a restaurant. I i was. I thought because. I've always said i may have said this on this. I think the restaurant business is the hardest business to be in with so much. You're dealing with like codes and liquor licenses and then you dealing with customers who are certifiably insane. Everyone wants everyone's a pain in the ass. Everyone wants their food. Well done on the side this. Can i substitute like and you have to be nice. It's a customer service was a hard business it really is. I did hop in the chain and just a in it. Put money at something. That was already working. It was a second restaurant of a one of one so we had to go through everything. the real estate the permits the codes within a building You know making sure that we have a harmonious relationship with the next door businesses and like you said the liquor licenses and then you know trying to figure out how i want my specific menu to be different from the original But it was it was worth it in the hand to hand transactions know learning about the failure rate of restaurants is one. You know you kind of go into it. Steadying up on how successful you. You may or may not be. But i remember learning how much money is lost at the bar and having a great relationship with my bartender. In every day i'd walk in. It was like cheers because that was really one of the main reasons why opened the restaurant. Because i did want to walk into a place where everybody knew. My name. sounds silly. But you know you don't realize you know what has impacted you When you watch it as a kid and how. It manifests itself as an adult. But i would walk in bartender leone. Same drink obscenity. Your table going back. I'm relax. I'm looking at this. This idea that that turned into a material tangible thing Work in real time. But then i'd have these real conversations about how money is being lost and even sometimes being stolen godly man running. The restaurant is hard now. Do i wanna do it again. Yeah for sure. And i have. I have a little bit of knowledge in that space. So yeah that's your question along the way it's restaurants geor- i was..
SI Media Podcast
"james andrew miller" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Great show this week to guests. I up nate burleson from good morning football departing. That show you follow me on twitter and retrieve a big fan of good morning. Football had been since day. One nate leaving to go to. Cbs to co host their morning. Show cbs this morning and he talks about the decision to leave. Good morning football join cbs. What is ultimately goals are got into The nickelodeon broadcasts that he did that was a smash hit. Nfl pledge year and nato's a tremendous jay z. Impersonation during the podcast as well following nate james andrew miller author writer. reporter discusses Espn what's going on with the peyton. Manning eli manning show who's going to be the host Talks about max kellerman leaving. I take and then we get into some curb your enthusiasm stuff and a little chat about the sopranos prequel curb and the sopranos movie both coming out in october before we get nate james andrew miller just a reminder if you miss any previous episodes please go to the archives. Check them out. Joe buck was on the show last week. Roman reigns crisanto russo. Two weeks ago. I in eagle three weeks ago. Bryan curtis from the ringer four weeks ago. All those podcast in the archives if you can subscribe that helps tremendously and rate and review. I'm going to start reading reviews on the pod every week during the train of thought segment which we also have following nate and james andrew miller. We do train of thought. Sal licata talk about hard knocks summer slam and This guy suing nirvana who on the cover of their nevermind album. So big show. Let's get right to it right now. With nate burleson. Right joining me now. I'm a sad about this but happy for him because he's leaving my favorite morning show. Good morning football going on to the cbs morning. Show cbs this morning. Nate burleson has been on the pod. Many times nate congrats. How you doing. I'm good i'm good. I appreciate your having the on the part again jay. Thank you so much. Yeah it's it's it's joyous but also somewhat sad week for me you know. I'm moving on to another job. But i'm leaving my crew. I said it on the show. It's it's the longest team that i've ever been a part of the most i've ever spent on one team from football. Perspective is for years so five years with k. colin peter and everybody else behind the scenes. it's it's a little sad is coming to an end for me..