Welcome to the Sports Media Podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dyche. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. One guest then this episode. He really, Al Michaels does not need an introduction from me, although I will give him one anyway.

He is the lead game caller for Amazon Prime Video. The streamer will stream its first ever NFL

playoff game on January 11th. That is the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens in an

AFC wildcard game. Primetime 8 p.m.

The game starts from M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

I'll certainly get to that with Al.

But again, you know Al Michael's resume from all his years at NBC and ABC and ABC.

It's essentially called, you know, everything short of acrobats, although I think he will tell

me that he has in fact called Chinese acrobats. And with that, I bring in Al Michaels.

Al, welcome back. Thank you, Richard. Always good to be with you. I was thinking about the fact that

you and I sat in the lobby of the Rad uh, radisson blue in Sochi, Russia.

That's right.

About 11 years ago during the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

And you asked me at that point how much longer.

And here we are.

And I told you, I think at that point, as long as I feel good, my health, uh, is good. and I want to do this, and I still have the passion for it. So here we are 11 years later, Rich. Yeah, I know, Al. Just for the record, I wasn't trying to retire you. I was, I think I preceded all those questions by saying, Al, I'm not trying to retire you, but I would like to get a sense

of just how you're thinking. So I'm, as I said then, I'm very happy that you are still calling

games. And my God, does that feel like a lifetime ago, especially given where the relationship

of Russia is with the rest of the Western world to what it was when we were literally in that country.

Unbelievable.

And, you know, flying out of there, we flew over Ukraine.

And obviously, we know what's happened subsequent to when we were there.

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