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House of L podcast

10: Dan Zampillo (Me & Z Show)

House of L podcast

Laurence W. Holmes

History, Sports

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Dan Zampillo is my old on-air partner. Back in the late 90s early 00s, we had a ridiculous weekend, late-night show on The Score. I thought we had a chance to be big as a duo, but it wasn't meant to be. Z went into management. He's now the Operations Manager for ESPN Radio-LA. He offers some great advice for broadcasters, we talk about how the industry has changed since we started and why he broke up a good thing.  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Welcome into episode. Welcome in to episode 9 of the House of L podcast. I am your host, Lawrence Holmes.

0:20.0

I'm so looking forward to this week's episode. I want you to hear it because it was a lot of fun for me to break down and interview the guest for this week is a good time it actually made me feel pretty good overall.

0:38.8

People always ask me and we don't spend that much time on this in the podcast, my guess this week is Dan Zampillo.

0:47.0

Dan is now the operations manager of E-SPN Radio Los Angeles and that comes after he had Stents in

0:56.6

Columbus and Detroit and New York and a couple other places where he was a program director or assistant program

1:04.8

director he was back in Chicago for a while working for WGM but before all of

1:10.2

that Z was my partner.

1:13.0

Like people ask me a lot about, hey, do you ever have a partner?

1:19.0

Why do you choose to work by yourself?

1:22.0

Well, I actually thought that Z and I had a chance to be a really good radio team.

1:30.0

And we had a show back in the late 90s, early 2000s called the Me and Z show.

1:35.0

And that stemmed from the fact that people would be like, well, what's the show?

1:41.0

And I was like, it's me and and Z and we would just kick it and in here he'll talk about how we were hired on the same day at the score which is true and how he would always get promoted and then I would get promoted behind him,

1:54.0

but never getting promoted ahead of him, which is something that we will discuss too.

2:00.0

But I really thought that Z and I had a chance to do something cool in sports radio.

2:06.0

I'm not sure that some of the stuff that we used to do would have kept us employed,

2:12.0

honestly, because some of it was really juvenile and childish,

2:17.0

and I'm glad that we've both kind of evolved.

2:21.0

But I will tell you that I learned a... of

2:25.0

I will tell you that I learned a really valuable lesson about expectations and expectations of other people

2:31.0

that my idea of what the future holds is different than what his was.

2:38.7

And while I thought well man we're gonna to be the super team and we're going to set the world on fire and

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