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The Tony Kornheiser Show

“Dear Ron”

The Tony Kornheiser Show

This Show Stinks Productions, LLC

Sports, News

4.810.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Tony opens the show by talking to Rich Podolski about his new book “Madden and Summerall : How They Revolutionized NFL Broadcasting”, Jason La Canfora calls in to talk about the Bills win over Miami, and he also talks about the other big stories from around the NFL. James Carville is off on assignment, but Jeff Ma calls in with his weekly picks, and Tony closes out the show by opening up the Mailbag. Song : Mo Bluntz “Tiny Forks” 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

Hi, it's Ron. On today's show, we'll talk to Rich Podolsky about his new book, Madden and Summerall.

0:05.2

We'll also go around the NFL with Jason Lock and Four, and then we'll get weekly picks from James Carville, maybe, and Jeff Ma.

0:10.6

But first, let's do some commerce.

0:15.9

Previously on the Tony Cornizer Show.

0:19.8

Road favorites are been doing really well.

0:23.9

Favorites in general.

0:25.0

Underdogs are getting, I mean, this is why I'm going with a few more underdogs

0:30.2

because the favorites have been killing it in the first two weeks,

0:34.5

which means you would assume there'd be a little bit of a correction here.

0:38.3

We wish you luck. I don't know if Chris does. The rest of us do. I absolutely do not.

0:45.9

The Tony Cornizer show is on now. Chuck Todd won in O after last night. It took 12 and a half,

0:53.8

and the bill's only one by 10. 10, that's right. So he won that. Reginald the monkey lost it. We're a guest loaded today. We're going to go right to a guest, my friend, Rich Podolsky. You may remember that we had Rich on when he talked about the book he had written You Are Looking Live, about the greatest pregame show ever, the CBS pregame show with Brent Musburger.

1:11.6

And now he has written another book, Madden and Summerall,

1:15.3

how they revolutionized NFL broadcasting.

1:17.9

So let me get right to it.

1:19.0

I mean, I talked about this yesterday with some people from PTI.

1:23.2

I was saying, is there anybody else you can think of that is a better pairing ever than Madden and Summerall?

1:31.8

And, you know, everybody sort of had, well, I like this guy and that guy, but no, I don't think so.

1:37.5

Do you think, Rich, I mean, you've been in television for an awfully long time.

1:41.5

You know these guys very well, or knew them anyway.

1:44.9

Do you think they are unquestionably the best of all time?

1:50.8

To me, without doubt.

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