Hi, it's Mike Greenberg, and welcome to my new podcast, I'm interested, is the name of it,

and that is because I think interesting is my favorite word.

If you think about what things are worth doing, I've always said in this business of broadcasting

that I've been in for all these years, I tell people when they ask me who I'm rooting for,

what I'm rooting for, what I'm hoping happens. I always say I'm in the interesting

business. I need interesting things to happen in the world of sports. And so I'd like to

tell you a little bit about how it is that we came to do this podcast.

And four years now at ESPN, where we were way

ahead of the curve on podcasting.

The people that I work for have asked me

if I would be interested in doing a podcast.

And for years, my answer has been, I'm really not and the very simple reason is

Because I had all the real estate I could ever possibly want to talk about sports I had a four hour radio show now. I've got a TV show in the mornings

There really isn't

anything I want to say about the world of sports that I don't have the chance to say

otherwise and so a podcast just seemed as that will be redundant and then I started watching at the beginning of this year,

David Letterman's series on Netflix.

And I hope if you haven't seen those interviews,

that you will take a moment to watch them,

particularly the ones

uh... which i saw were with president obama and which is a yet which i thought were

just fantastic interviews

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