#34: Sports Machine (Paul Morrissey)

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🗓️ 30 November 2011

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Paul Morrissey and I continue with our conversation, this time centering on his short lived career doing sports for local news stations.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to R.E. Shefear's Skeptic Tank.
0:04.0	Number 34.
0:06.0	On today's episode I finish off my conversation with my friend Paul Morrissey.
0:10.0	Paul and I were talking about his college basketball career before we got into his
0:15.0	discussion of his short-lived and doomed sports journalism career.
0:21.0	He was a news guy. He did the sports on news day on local news.
0:25.0	And by local, I mean local, I mean in bread local.
0:29.0	By the way, our team in the comedians basketball league lost.
0:33.0	Sean Kemp's kid lost in the first round of the playoffs through the brick glassmins.
0:37.0	We got blown out. I managed to miss all rim on a layup attempt.
0:41.0	My only shot for the game. Very embarrassing. I'm horribly out of shape.
0:46.0	But anyway, when we got into this discussion, we were midway through talking about his
0:51.0	offer to play for the Washington Generals, which is the team that always plays the
0:54.0	Harlem Globetrotters. Yeah, we're in the middle of talking to that.
0:59.0	So we pick up mid conversation. My storyteller show is December 7th.
1:04.0	Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 at the Los Angeles Hollywood Improv.
1:09.0	It's $5. It's a great show. Mark Marin is doing it. Steve Renner's easy from the league.
1:15.0	John Reap, Kevin Christie, the guy who makes those rad posters.
1:18.0	And we got a very special celebrity who is going to be there that I can't say who
1:23.0	because they're a celebrity. And we have to protect their draw.
1:27.0	But it's great. It's great comic. You guys will love it.
1:32.0	So be there December 7th. And that's it, everybody.
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