Bob Costas

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Emmy-winning broadcaster and Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Costas returns to the podcast for an animated conversation about his five-decade career in television, his passion for TV westerns, his weakness for cheesy sports biopics and his memorable interviews with Rod Steiger, Jerry Lewis, Mickey Mantle, Don Rickles and Rodney Dangerfield. Also, Uncle Miltie drops the mic, Ralph Kramden does the mambo, Lon Chaney Jr. meets "The Rifleman" and Bob gets his very own Topps baseball card. PLUS: "The Million Dollar Movie"! Appreciating Joe Franklin! Babe Ruth to the rescue! William Conrad learns karate! And Bob remembers the late, great Tom Seaver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Gilbert Gottfried with my co-hosts, Frank Sendo Padre, and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast.
0:29.0	Well, it's October and that's the perfect time to add this week's guest back for a return visit.
0:36.0	The last time we saw this man, he was on old fours rolling on the floor at the Freier's Club to get away from it.
0:46.0	He's an Emmy-winning talk show host, Radio host TV personality, best selling author occasional actor, and one of the most successful and admired broadcasters of all time.
1:04.0	He's been named National Sportscaster of the year, uh, a record eight times.
1:26.0	He's a member of the National Sportscaster and Sportswriters, Paul LaBain, and in 2018, he was inducted into the broadcasters' wing of baseball, all of BAME and Cooper's town.
1:46.0	He's hosted a popular radio show, Castus, Costa Coast, BHBO shows on the record with Bob Castus and Castus now.
1:59.0	And from 1988 to 1993, he hosted a late night interview show that would go on to influence this very podcast, the very much missed.
2:17.0	Later, Bob Castus.
2:20.0	Or later with Bob Castus.
2:22.0	Later with, that's not the first mistake I've made.
2:26.0	He's a genius intro, so just act like you didn't hear.
2:36.0	In a career, that started way back when he was just four years old.
2:44.0	He hosted seven Super Bowl, has been part of the coverage as either a play by fully announcer or host of seven World Series and 10 NBA Fighters.
2:58.0	He's also been a prominent part of presentations of the Kentucky Derby, as well as the US Open and 11 Olympics.
3:10.0	He's currently working with the MLB Network on an on-air contributor to CNN.
3:21.0	He will be launching a new HBO show on 2021.
3:29.0	And perhaps the most impressive of the man's achievement is the fact that he could see the theme from the series Top Cat.
3:44.0	He's remembered, also named everyone of the US President's in order.
3:52.0	Frank and I are thrilled to welcome back to the show one of the greatest world casters of his generation and the only guest to be immortalized with his own baseball card and a Bobo Head figure.
4:12.0	The legendary Bob Pascis.
4:16.0	You made it, Kill.
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