Conrad Thompson and Chris Herring

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Episode 60 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests: First up is Conrad Thompson, the host of four immensely popular wresting podcasts: Something to Wrestle (with Bruce Pritchard); 83 Weeks (with Eric Bischoff), What Happened When (with Tony Schiavone) and Grilling JR with Jim Ross. He is followed by Chris Herring, a senior NBA writer for FiveThirtyEight and the former Knicks beat writer at The Wall Street Journal. In this podcast, Thompson discusses Bischoff and Pritchard taking job with the WWE and what that means for his podcasts; what he expects from Bischoff and Pritchard episodes heading forward; how much, if at all, the content of those podcasts will change; whether Pritchard has pulled any punches about the WWE since joining them earlier this year; how Thompson’s production schedule and live show schedule has changed with Bischoff and Pritchard taking WWE jobs; whether he has interacted with any WWE officials about the content of the pod; why you don’t hear current WWE talk on his pods; how he and Ross came together to do a podcast; why Grilling JR has been so successful from the jump; why Ross is so good in the podcast nostalgia space; why Pat Patterson, Kevin Dunn, Triple H and Jeff Jarrett would be excellent for this format; how much of the current product Thompson consumes and much more. Herring discusses how the many free agent moves might impact the popularity and viewership of the NBA product; whether so-called parity or super-teams are better for NBA popularity; the impact of Lakers and Clippers moves on television viewership; how the Kawhi Leonard news cycle played out and what it meant for journalism and hot talkers, and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Radio.com and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen.
0:05.8	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer, as always, is Chris Flannery.
0:10.9	Two guests this week, two very good and cool dudes, and I enjoy talking to them. Both, Conrad Thompson is first up, the wrestling podfather.
0:20.3	He's the host of four immensely popular wrestling
0:22.4	podcasts, something to wrestle with Bruce Pritchard, 83 weeks with Eric Bischoff, What Happened When,
0:28.3	with Tony Chivani, and Grilling J.R. with Jim Ross. And Conran and I talk about Eric Bischoff
0:34.8	and Bruce Pritchard now being part of WWEE Creative and what that means for he and his
0:40.5	podcasts, as well as the new grilling JR podcast, which is not only terrific, but as you will hear
0:47.3	in this podcast, blowing up in terms of downloads. So Conrad Thompson, who has been on the show
0:51.8	before, is first up. And then we followed by Chris Herring, senior NBA writer for 538 and the former Knicks beat writer at the Wall Street Journal.
0:58.9	And Chris and I talk about viewership for sort of how we think viewership may play in the upcoming NBA season.
1:05.1	What all the free agency moves mean, Kauai and Paul George to the Clippers, Kyrie Irving, to the Nets, Kemba Walker,
1:13.1	to the Celtics. What's that going to mean in terms of popularity, interest, and viewership
1:16.2	to the league? And then we get into a little bit of basketball just in terms of the, you know,
1:20.8	super teams versus parity and what we expect from East Coast viewers in terms of tuning into
1:26.2	the Lakers and Clippers this year.
1:28.2	So Conrad Thompson first, followed by Chris Herring, both guys coming up on the Sports Media
1:32.9	podcast.
1:34.0	All right, as I said at the top, Conrad Thompson is the, he's now the official wrestling
1:42.4	podfather, given all the podcast that he does, which I mentioned again earlier.
1:49.2	This is a dynasty in the making.
1:51.1	It's basically the Nick Sabin of podcasters now.
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