ESPN's Joe Buck + Traina Thoughts
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Episode 587 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with the voice of "Monday Night Football," Joe Buck.
Buck talks about ESPN's end-of-season schedule, which will include two playoff games, how he handles "storylines" while calling a game and how everyone at Disney is preparing for ABC/ESPN airing next year's Super Bowl.
In addition, Buck also sheds light on the Troy Aikman-Caleb Williams dust up from earlier in the season, talks about being named the Ford C. Frick Award winner by the MLB Hall of Fame, whether he has any interest in hosting "Good Morning America" and much more.
Following Buck, Sal Licata from SNY TV joins Jimmy for their weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment. This week's topics include WFAN parting ways with Sal, last Sunday's awesome slate of NFL games, the state of sports media, Christmas, "Nurse Jackie," Rob Reiner's career and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to S-I Media with Jimmy Traynor. |
| 0:05.6 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:07.6 | On today's show, we have the voice of Monday Night Football, Joe Buck, who is outstanding. |
| 0:13.2 | Covered a lot of ground with Joe on working with Troy Aikman and their upcoming schedule. |
| 0:18.5 | They got some good games here to close out the season. |
| 0:22.2 | Joe also has recently named the Ford C. Frick Award winner. He'll be honored at the Hall of Fame for that. |
| 0:29.3 | We get into that and a couple of other things with Joe, who is always entertaining. And then we |
| 0:34.8 | have train of thoughts with Sal Lekata after the interview with |
| 0:38.5 | Joe Buck. Before we get to it, if you've missed any recent episodes here on SI Media with Jimmy |
| 0:43.4 | Trayna, make sure you check them out. Iron Eagle and JJ Watt were on the podcast together last week, |
| 0:48.8 | Reese Davis from ESPN the week before ESPN president Burke Magnus, Al Michaels, Richard Deich, Kyle Brand, all recent |
| 0:55.7 | guests. So if you missed any of those episodes, download them, give them a listen, and |
| 1:00.5 | subscribe to SI Media with Jimmy Traynor. All right, let's get to it. Joe Buck, followed by |
| 1:07.0 | trainer thoughts, all right here, right now on SI Media with Jimmy Traynor. All right here, right now. On SI Media with Jimmy Trana. |
| 1:13.5 | All right, joining me now. |
| 1:15.8 | Congratulations are in order. |
| 1:17.2 | Just won a big award. |
| 1:19.2 | Got the end of the season coming. |
| 1:20.7 | A lot of exciting things going on. |
| 1:22.5 | The voice of Monday night football. |
| 1:25.4 | Joe Buck. |
| 1:27.1 | Joe, how are you? |
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