Bob Costas Talks Broadcasting Career, Best Calls, NBA Finals
You Better You Bet
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is 1580 The Bet. |
| 0:02.7 | WJFK AM Morningside. |
| 0:04.9 | And WJFK HD3, Manassas. |
| 0:07.7 | Always live on the free Odyssey app. |
| 0:09.4 | D.C.'s home for wagertainment. |
| 0:15.7 | Now, back to You Better You Bet with Nick Costos and the crew, presented by BetMGM on Westwood One Sports. |
| 0:24.7 | All right, normally we have a ton of pomp and circumstance to start the final hour, the power hour every day here on You Better You Bet, but given the guests that we have joining us right now, we will dispense with that for the moment. |
| 0:35.7 | Because live on the line right now, and I don't know if he remembers this, |
| 0:40.3 | but legendary sports broadcaster Bob Costos is with us. |
| 0:43.2 | Now, Bob, Nick Costos here with you on the show. |
| 0:45.6 | I don't know if you remember this, Bob, and thank you for joining me here on the show. |
| 0:49.0 | But I graduated from Fordham in 2005, and you were nice enough to come to Fordham by invitation |
| 0:57.0 | of Bob Arons, the legendary Bob Arons, and did a workshop with us. You actually voiced the start |
| 1:05.1 | of my demo reel after I graduated college saying, this is Bob Costas, and this is the demo real for Nick Costos. |
| 1:15.0 | I am eternally grateful for that. |
| 1:16.9 | Do you remember this at all, even like what? |
| 1:19.1 | And it's okay if you don't, but I wanted to start with that. |
| 1:21.6 | Now that you remind me, I do. |
| 1:23.6 | And the similarity of the names was an obvious way in for me to do the demo tape for you or the intro to the demo tape. |
| 1:31.6 | And I see that despite my endorsement, you've done well. |
| 1:35.1 | So at least I didn't hurt you. |
| 1:37.8 | Does it make you feel bad at all that all my soccer trophies growing up? |
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