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SI Media With Jimmy Traina

CBS's Greg Gumbel and WWE's Seth Rollins

SI Media With Jimmy Traina

Sports Illustrated

Sports

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Episode 382 of the "Sports Illustrated Media Podcast" hosted by Jimmy Traina features interviews with CBS's Greg Gumbel and WWE Superstar, Seth Rollins.

Greg Gumbel, who is in this 50th year as a sports broadcaster talks about the challenges of doing studio for the NCAA Tournament, how coverage of the Tournament has changed over the years and what it's like to work with Charles Barkley. Other topics discussed with Gumbel include his love of the Rolling Stones, his time doing sports radio at WFAN in New York, working with Bill Walton and Terry Bradshaw, what he thinks of the massive salaries current NFL broadcasters are making and much more.

Following Gumbel, Seth Rollins joins the podcast to talk about WrestleMania 38, his current storyline where he has no opponent for Mania, his thoughts on AEW mentioning WWE superstars on their show, working with Roman Reigns, why Vince McMahon axed something Rollins wanted to do, how he's handling fatherhood and more.

Following Rollins's interview, Sal Licata from WFAN and SNY in New York, joins Jimmy for the weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment. This week's topics include issues with MLB's streaming, JImmy's visiting to the diner featured on Seinfeld and reading reviews of the podcast.

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0:00.0

Walter Isakson set out to write about a world-changing genius in Elon Musk and found a man addicted to chaos and conspiracy.

0:07.0

I'm thinking it's idiotic to buy Twitter because he doesn't have a fingertip feel for social emotional networks.

0:13.4

The book launched a thousand hot takes,

0:15.3

so I sat down with Isakson to try to get past the noise.

0:18.0

I like the fact that people who say I'm not as tough on Musk

0:21.4

as I should be are always using anecdotes for my book to show why we should be tough on Musk.

0:27.0

Join me, Evan Ratliff, for On Musk with Walter Isickson.

0:30.0

Listen on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:36.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:41.0

That's why we launched The Big Take. It's a daily

0:44.8

podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit to

0:49.9

give you some space to think. I'm Wes Kossova. Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:59.3

Listen to the big take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.

1:05.0

The Celebrity Memoir holds up a mirror to society.

1:09.0

That's why we started our podcast.

1:11.0

Celebrity Book Club with Stephen and Lily, where we read Celebrity

1:14.9

Memoirs, Total Guilty Pleasures, and then synthesize probing cultural analyses from the

1:19.6

text, from Jessica Simpson to historical figures like Helen Keller.

1:23.6

Isn't that a delicious mix of high brow and low?

1:26.6

It certainly is.

1:27.6

Listen to Celebrity Book Club with Stephen and Lily on the I-Heart Radio Appell Podcasts,

1:31.1

or wherever you get your podcasts.

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