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Literally! With Rob Lowe

Bob Costas: A Stat that Tells a Story

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.712.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In which Rob and sportscaster Bob Costas discuss all time best calls, what makes for engaging sportscasting, the evolution of baseball, and who was the rowdiest in the booth! Plus: Rob answers a question about how to help your kids with good skincare routine in the LoweDown Line. Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at (323) 570-4551. Yours could get featured on the show!

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0:00.0

Hey Rob. Yes. There used to be a really cool sports game show called Sports

0:06.4

Challenge. The Dick Enberg hosted and it would be like a group of all-time

0:11.6

Yankees against all-time Celtics. The mystery guest would be in silhouette and

0:17.0

Enberg begins reading the clues. This triple crown winner and Billy Martin goes

0:23.6

ding ding ding ding. Secretariat. It's a silhouette of a human being. He's going to walk out from

0:30.4

Backspace.

0:42.9

Hey everybody. It's your trusty host, Robbie. Robby Low. Rollo. There's some people call me

0:48.5

literally Bob Costas today. I love the guy for a lot of reasons. One is I love sports

1:00.1

and he's one of the most, you know, he's been there, done that, seen it, forgotten more about sports

1:05.0

than I'll ever know. And just a great storyteller. Look, I, you know, my first book I wrote,

1:11.8

story is only to all my friends. I love stories. I'm an aficionado of stories and he puts me to shame.

1:17.9

That just on sports on everything. This is one of the masters at work. Let's get some stories from

1:24.4

Bobby C. Thanks for coming on my my humble little program. I always get a little nervous when I have

1:32.1

Professional broadcasters on. Well, I know you had Oprah on and you got through that pretty well.

1:36.9

You know what? And it's funny halfway through the interview. I was like, wow, she's really good.

1:43.2

It's like when you go and watch, when I would watch Michael Jordan or somebody play you

1:46.4

like, okay, I get it. It's Michael. I get the hype. And then you see them in the flesh and see

1:50.3

what they do. And you go, oh, yeah, but there's also a thing you can't define, but you know what,

1:55.6

when you see it and you feel it, skill is one thing. Presence is another. There are people of equal

2:02.4

skill and not necessarily equal presence. Oprah has both. She was awesome. So I'm glad you like the

2:07.6

conversation. Yeah, I hold up my end. I had what about me? Did I hold up my end? Yes, did I?

2:12.4

Yes, you did. One of the things you didn't fall victim to was, oh my gosh, I'm with Oprah.

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