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The Tim McKernan Show

Ep. 34 - Mike Bush

The Tim McKernan Show

TMA STL | Hubbard Radio

Society & Culture, Sports

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps the last stalwart of local TV in St. Louis, Mike has been with KSDK since 1985 covering both sports and news.  He joined Tim in studio in December 2017:   Stories about his former colleague Jay Randolph Sr Development of Sports Plus on Sundays for KSDK Identifying talents like Trey Wingo and Matt Winer The tragic passing of KSDK colleague Bob Richards Recounting the 4 times he interviewed Barack Obama How Mike ended up on the phone with O.J. Simpson Calling the 1999 Rams Super Bowl winning season Surreal experience calling baseball with Jack Buck   Please support our sponsors: The Home Loan Expert, Ryan Kelley James Carlton Agency (State Farm) Gateway Buick GMC   Follow us on Twitter: @McKernanShow @tmckernan   Like us on Facebook: Facebook.com/TheTimMcKernanShow   Special thanks to Story of the Year for providing our theme music.  Please rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast.

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0:00.0

Yes, yes, welcome in to another edition of the Tim McKernan show here on the Inside

0:18.0

STL Podcast Network.

0:21.2

I'm your host Tim McKern alongside executive producer John Seymour and videographer Nick

0:27.0

Yell here on today's program. This is an interview from the Home Loan Expert.com studios.

0:33.3

I, when I knew I wanted to do a podcast, this was one of the people at the top of the list.

0:38.0

I wanted interview and I know that might seem perhaps random, I don't know maybe it won't.

0:45.0

But growing up in St. Louis, Mike Bush is someone who was not only a part of my childhood,

0:55.0

but a part of my television career

0:59.0

when I was at KMOV, and he was sports director at KSDK.

1:02.0

But then also, you know, since we've had Larry

1:05.3

Connor's on the show, people have been discussing, yeah, who is, you know, if you're

1:09.5

thinking about St. Louis news anchors, Mount Rushmore, people love hashtag Mount Rushmore's or love to mock them.

1:16.2

But either way, and I think for many people, especially people right around my age and younger,

1:21.7

they can only picture Mike Bush as a news anchor but he was the

1:24.2

sports director at KSDK for god I don't know 15 16 years before he became the lead

1:31.0

news anchor and so when I thought about an interview I felt like here's

1:35.3

somebody who hasn't really been interviewed like this who is one of the most

1:39.9

recognizable people in St. Louis outside of like members of the Cardinals or Blues

1:45.2

and has seen both St. Louis sports news, some of the biggest stories, St. Louis news stories and has been doing it in the market

1:57.0

since 1985. On top of that he was the voice of the Rams when they won the Super Bowl in 1999,

2:05.0

but only was doing it for one year.

2:08.0

And I had always heard that he didn't...

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