Al Michaels and Richard Deitsch
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
Episode 582 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with Prime Video's Al Michaels, a conversation with The Athletic's Richard Deitsch and the weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment.
Michaels, who is currently working on a year-to-year basis with Amazon, reveals that he would like to return next season to continue his broadcasting career. Michaels also discusses Prime's strong schedule this season, the work ethic of his partner, Kirk Herbstreit, having the NFL instruct him to offer an on-air correction during a recent game, working in gambling references, working on Christmas Day, his television career and what his Thanksgiving plate will look like.
Following Michaels, Deitsch joins the podcast to talk about the latest sports media news. Topics discussed include how Amazon and NBC have done with their NBA coverage, the YouTubeTV-ESPN carriage dispute ending, Gus Johnson's decline, Fox's approach to sports broadcasts, the NFL schedule, the future of podcasts and much more.
The podcast wraps up with the weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment featuring Sal Licata from WFAN and SNY in New York.
This week's topics include Jimmy having a "Curb Your Enthusiasm" restaurant moment, Netflix's new Eddie Murphy documentary, why it's good that the Chiefs are .500, a viral Jason Alexander video and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to SI Media with Jimmy Traynor. |
| 0:05.4 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:07.2 | We have a huge episode this week. |
| 0:09.7 | We have the legendary Al Michaels from Thursday Night Football, Amazon Prime. |
| 0:15.0 | We have Richard Dyche from The Athletic to go through all the latest sports media news. |
| 0:19.1 | And then we have Trina Thought thoughts with Sal Likata. |
| 0:21.6 | So big show for you here. |
| 0:23.1 | Al, as usual, amusing, telling some stories. |
| 0:25.8 | Gives us a little update on his future, which I think is pretty newsworthy. |
| 0:30.3 | And then, of course, Deich comes on. |
| 0:31.8 | We get into all the latest sports media news, YouTube TV and ESPN, NBC and Amazon, how they've done so far in the NBA, Fox's |
| 0:40.9 | broadcasts for football and baseball and a bunch of other things with Richard and then train |
| 0:45.1 | to train the thoughts, of course, as we do every week with Sal Akata. So make sure you |
| 0:49.8 | subscribe to this pod if you're not already a subscriber. Make sure you hit subscribe or follow |
| 0:55.0 | and make sure you rate and review on Apple. And if you missed any recent episodes, we've had some |
| 1:00.4 | great guests. Kyle Brandt was awesome last week. So much positive feedback on that pod last week with |
| 1:05.1 | Kyle. Brian Curtis from The Ringers has been on recently as well Fox's, Greg Olson and Chris Mad Dog Rousseau |
| 1:11.4 | from Sirius X-M. All right. Let's get to it. Al Michaels, followed by Richard Dych, followed |
| 1:15.6 | by Trina Thoughts. All right here, right now. On SI Media with Jimmy Tran. |
| 1:25.1 | All right, joining me now. Always love when he joins the SI Media podcast, |
| 1:30.8 | the legendary Al Michaels from Amazon. |
| 1:35.0 | Al, how are you? |
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