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A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

#213: ESPN's David Jacoby

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8817 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome the cohost of ESPN's Jalen & Jacoby, David Jacoby to the Upper West Side! Jacoby discusses how he went from cutting pizza slices in Amherst, Massachusetts to cutting lines at the Empire State Building to cutting corners at MTV's Spring Break. Jacoby talks about what he learned in business school, how he got more from selling soaps in Soho than making calls for brokerage firms, how he ended up moving cigarettes through Europe, and ultimately found himself on the shores of Amsterdam. We get into his time at the ESPYs, producing a TV show based around rappers and athletes' shoe collections, shaping Sports Nation during its early years, how he helped Bill Simmons in creating the Grantland Network of podcasts, and the dynamic on-air pairing of Jalen Rose and David Jacoby. All that, plus stories about Don King, Jadakiss’ #T5DOA statue, Trick Daddy, Biz Markie, Jason and Jeremy Giambi, Sugar Ray, Nick Catchdubs, Teck from The Real World, Bobbito Garcia, what ESPN gifts employees after 20 years, and much, much more! 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. Hey, Eric. Wow. We had quite a week. Yeah, weird week. We started off good.

0:09.6

Well, it started out great, actually. And in the middle of the week, on Wednesday, we got a text

0:16.9

message from our Aunt Jane to call her. And then when we did, after we recorded a podcast,

0:24.2

we were met with the news that our mom, who lives here in New York City on the east side,

0:30.8

was crossing the street and was struck by a car. And our mom suffered a concussion.

0:40.4

She suffered some pelvic fractures.

0:44.2

And we are beyond grateful that there was nothing more than that.

0:50.9

But let me tell you something.

0:52.8

That entire day.

0:54.9

I mean, that happened in the morning. We went over there around noon and long into the night. It was a very scary day. A concussion

1:03.9

is not great. No. Actually, and to see that up close and personal and to see what it does to

1:09.6

to a person's psyche and their memories.

1:12.9

And, and that's, that's all to say, by the way, our mom got out supremely lucky. The only

1:18.2

thing she doesn't remember are the 12 hours around the accident. So she doesn't remember

1:22.9

getting struck. There is a police report. There are corroborating witnesses. The driver stopped,

1:27.9

which is really important. And she was lucid enough in that moment in like this adrenaline

1:34.1

rush to call our aunt Jane and let her know what had happened from the ambulance. But then,

1:42.8

you know, it's a scary thing where she couldn't remember getting hit by the car.

1:48.0

And so she's remembering every few minutes that she got hit by a car.

1:53.3

Yeah, because there was a sheet of paper that the EMTs had written down all the information on.

1:58.7

Which, like, you're at this hospital.

2:00.7

Yeah.

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