#198: Jemele Hill

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 105 minutes

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This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome ESPN personality, writer for The Undefeated, proud Michigander and UNO champion Jemele Hill to the Upper West Side! Jemele discusses her upbringing in Detroit, falling in love with baseball and sports writing at a young age, the perks of interning at the Detroit Free Press as a high schooler, the pull of both Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, her experiences as a college intern at landmark papers in Philadelphia, Cleveland and Detroit, and ultimately driving with her mom down to her first staff job, down in Raleigh, North Carolina. We talk about returning to the Detroit Free Press as a columnist, what brought her down to Orlando, her infamous story with Willis McGahee , how that simultaneously almost got her suspended and got her the attention of ESPN, how even though ESPN wasn't her dream job, she saw and took opportunities, and changed her own trajectory. We dive into podcasting vs. TV production, working with an earpiece live on air, how ESPN approached her and Michael Smith to host SportsCenter, and how she considers her time behind that infamous desk. All that plus interviewing Aaliyah, covering the 1995 Cleveland Indians, Boyz II Men, ride-alongs, 2 Live Crew, what Stuart Scott meant to her, her thoughts on The New York Daily News' recent staff firings, how her feelings on Lil Jon's music have changed through the years, the biggest misconceptions of her online and so much more!! Also, please make sure to pre-order our new lined notebook with original ItsTheReal material - RHYME BOOK - on Amazon.com! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Jeff.
0:00.5	Hey, Eric.
0:01.1	How are you?
0:01.5	I'm pretty good.
0:02.0	How are you?
0:02.5	Doing well, thank you.
0:03.4	What the hell happened to us last week?
0:04.9	We got contacted by Beyonce's Shadow League.
0:09.2	Mm-hmm.
0:09.7	Parkwood Entertainment.
0:10.7	Who reached out from far beyond our understanding of this world and emailed us.
0:18.5	Yeah.
0:19.6	And said that they were big fans of ours ours and they wanted to get on the phone.
0:24.6	Very nice.
0:25.4	So I did.
0:26.6	And this woman, a vet, she says, hi.
0:30.8	You know, such huge fans of you guys.
0:32.8	I don't know if I'm speaking to the manager, if I'm speaking to one of the brothers.
0:37.0	But, and I say, no, no, this is one of the brothers.
0:39.9	My name is Jeff.
0:40.8	And she says, okay, and your brother's name is.
0:43.0	And I say, Eric.
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