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House of L podcast

89: Gordon Wittenmyer

House of L podcast

Laurence W. Holmes

Sports, History

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Gordon doesn't suffer fools and he never pulls punches. We talked about how to get it right when covering sports and he offers great advice for young journos. We also discuss our shared affection for the Negro Leagues.  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Amazon's got the best deals on Black Friday.

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Oh, the best deals are on Cyber Monday.

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Friday comes first when it comes to saving.

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Mondays are at the rate for what you've been creating.

0:11.0

Deals so good it'll feel like stealing real cool message could you make it less

0:15.2

appealing what's with the beef you can get that too what you call us what's triggering

0:20.4

you in Shenver Day your shopping on you'll save a bunch at Amazon

0:27.0

on Black Friday that's Tiger Monday too. Hey and welcome into episode 89, the Dicka episode,

0:49.0

episode, we're not gonna be talking with Mike Dicka today.

0:52.0

It's the House of El podcast and I'm

0:54.9

Laura Tomes. Thank you so much for listening to the podcast. I'm excited

1:00.5

every week for the guests that we have on.

1:02.5

I always feel like they have incredible insight.

1:06.0

I enjoy learning things about media that I don't know about it.

1:11.0

And our guests this week definitely fits the bill man he is he is someone who has a

1:20.5

very strong opinion on what is and what isn't good journalism and

1:26.1

specifically good sports journalism. He's someone that I really like. I love Gordon Widmeyer. And let me tell you why. He's, he's, he's, he's, he's another one of these guys like Joe Cali, and if you didn't listen to the Joe

1:43.2

Callie episode I would highly recommend that you go listen to it because I

1:47.9

think it's a good companion for this episode. They're similar in the way that they think about the craft and how important the craft is and

2:00.0

they actually do have an idea of what it is to do it the right way.

2:05.0

So Gordon was nice enough. We have been talking for months about trying to figure out a time when he could come and hang out like so that we could talk one-on-one.

2:17.8

I didn't want to do it over the phone.

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