Behind the Scenes of ESPN, How to Get a Job in Sports, Future of Sports Broadcasting, and ETR Comedy with Emmy Award Winner Dave Holmes (Episode 720)
Establish The Run Fantasy Football
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dave Holmes won ESPN's "Dream Job" competition at 22 years old. He currently works as a sports anchor in Ohio and also does the ETR comedy spoofs many of you have seen on Twitter. In this episode, he sits down with Adam Levitan for a 1-on-1 interview.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
Working at ESPN
The future of sports broadcasting
How to break into the industry
Process for ETR vids
Tons more
Timestamps:
2:09 - Dave’s Path To A Career In Sports
7:08 - ESPN Dream Job
11:26 - How An ESPN Sports Anchor Worked
14:16 - How Sports Betting Impacts Anchors
16:49 - The Future of ESPN
19:32 - Dave’s Favourite Anchor
21:54 - ETR and Dave
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to go and Hello and welcome to episode 720 of the official |
| 0:19.8 | Establish the run. |
| 0:20.9 | podcast my name is Adam Levitan I am one of of the co-founder here at ETR and today we have a very, very special guest. This is a young man who came to fame by winning ESPN's dream job competition. We'll get into that. A young man who |
| 0:36.7 | has been an actual sportscaster slash reporter, not an internet bro, for nearly 20 years now he is also the man behind a lot of the |
| 0:46.8 | sick twisted perverted hilarious videos you see us put out on Twitter. |
| 0:53.0 | He even has his own Wikipedia page, my God, honestly, |
| 0:57.0 | this guy might end behind bars one day |
| 1:00.0 | when they find out he's been doing the videos, |
| 1:01.0 | but it is indeed our own Dave Holmes |
| 1:03.4 | Dave has it going today. What an intro I love how you go from Adam Schefter to Dave Holmes so |
| 1:09.4 | next week you get what like the boom goes the dynamite kid like who where do we go |
| 1:12.4 | you're like |
| 1:13.0 | Benjamin buttons you're doing this thing backwards okay I want to have Dave on |
| 1:17.8 | here today because I am constantly I mean constantly asked about working in sports. I'm also constantly asked about the |
| 1:25.4 | future of sports on TV, the future of sports broadcasting, and I do my best to try to |
| 1:31.2 | help people when they ask about working in sports, but the truth is I don't really know anything about real jobs in sports. |
| 1:37.4 | You know, I know about this stuff from my basement here, but I want to talk to Dave about his journey in the hopes that some of you find value or connect with his journey in some way. |
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