Abe Lincoln's Top Hat Episode 185- A Conversation with Bill Pidto

Abe Lincoln's Top Hat

The Last Podcast Network

Ben Kissel, Comedy, Last Podcast Network, Fernando Perez Leon, Society & Culture, Politics, News, Travis Irvine

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today on Top Hat: former ESPN and current MSG network sportscaster Bill Pidto joins Marcus and Ben to talk about the world of sportscasting, how the 24 hour news cycle has affected it all, and what it's like when hard news and sports collide.

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0:00.0	Let the word go forth.
0:02.0	We'll only watch.
0:03.0	Are you fired up?
0:04.0	I'm not a crook.
0:05.0	Are you ready to go?
0:06.0	Shame on, shame on you.
0:08.0	Rha!
0:09.0	It's Abe Lincoln's top hat,
0:12.0	hosted by Ben Kessel.
0:14.0	Boom, we can't get fool again.
0:18.0	Welcome to the Trevor one, that's Marcus Parks, I'm Ben Kessel.
0:21.0	We're joined by legend Bill Pido. Thanks for being here, Bill.
0:26.8	I made legend, huh? You're legend now. Yeah, you got a Wikipedia page.
0:30.5	That's, that, that qualifies for legendary status. Oh absolutely.
0:35.0	Bill and I met so we were doing a great shoot together on Kevin Barnett-Germain
0:39.7	Fowler's news show Friends of the People that's going to be coming out on true TV. I was cast as a human basketball hoop.
0:48.0	That's what I was cast as. Kevin Barnett wrote a script and he wrote into that script a human basketball hoop and then he had the gull.
0:56.0	Ben Kissel must play basket. Wasn't that part of it? Yes, Ben Kissel has to play basket. I'm totally typecast. That's because you're 611 and whatever you are.
1:05.2	Six foot seven. Right. That helps. I've never felt more. Like I couldn't be cast at the basket. I'm 5-8.
1:11.3	And that's on a good day. That's true. That's true. I guess I do have the the market
1:16.7	cornered on basketball hoop actors. No one's ever going to take that for me.
1:21.7	But Bill and I had a wonderful time on set, Bill was playing an announcer.
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