A Conversation with Jemele Hill
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Episode 306 of the "Sports Illustrated Media Podcast" features an interview with Jemele Hill. Hill was just named as one of the producers on an upcoming docuseries about Colin Kaepernick. She discusses how Kaepernick got her involved in the project, whether she had reservations about working with ESPN and addresses a few narratives surrounding the former Niners quarterback. Hill also talked about ESPN not giving her and Michael Smith a fair shot with the 6 p.m. "SportsCenter," what she thinks will happen when NFL players take a knee this season, why she thinks NFL owners don't understand the problem with supporting Donald Trump and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast. I am your host Jimmy |
| 0:05.8 | trainer. Thanks so much for listening. This week show features an interview |
| 0:09.3 | with Jamel Hill who is writing for the Atlantic and currently hosts a couple of |
| 0:14.1 | podcasts. |
| 0:15.1 | Jamel was named as one of the producers this week for a new docuaries that'll be |
| 0:19.0 | coming up from the SPN on Colin Kapernik and what he has gone through the last five years. |
| 0:24.0 | So I wanted to get her on to talk about what we can expect from that, how the deal came about. |
| 0:27.8 | Interestingly enough, we talked a lot about Jamel's run at ESPN, how things ended there. |
| 0:34.1 | She still, you know, said that she doesn't like the way things went down when she was hosting |
| 0:39.2 | the 6 o'clock Sports Center with Michael Smith, so now she gets back into business with the |
| 0:43.2 | SPN and we got into all of that. So it was a good conversation there with |
| 0:47.0 | Jamell. If you've missed any past episodes, go into the archives and check |
| 0:49.8 | them out. If you can subscribe to the podcast that helps a lot rate and review as well |
| 0:54.0 | I won't push it and beg for a rating and a review but I will beg for a subscription |
| 0:58.8 | that's what helps all right let's get to this week's episode right now with |
| 1:01.6 | Jamel hip all right joining me now, someone I've wanted to have on for a while, glad we can finally do it, some |
| 1:08.1 | big news this week. |
| 1:10.0 | From the Atlantic and the Jamel Hill is Unbothered Podcast on Spotify. |
| 1:15.0 | Jamel Hill, how's it going? |
| 1:17.0 | It's going well. |
| 1:18.0 | Pleasure to finally be with you. |
| 1:20.0 | Pleasure to have you and you know it's funny I I mentioned you're writing for the |
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