ESPN's Mina Kimes and WWE's Seth Rollins
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Episode 573 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features two interviews.
First up is ESPN's Mina Kimes, who talks about how she got her start at ESPN, transitioning into an NFL analyst, the stigma of being an NFL analyst who didn't play the game, what her typical Sunday is like, whether she'd like to be in the booth calling games one day.
Kimes also discusses auditioning for the "ManningCast," the worst thing about social media becoming a cesspool, working with Dan Orlovsky and much more.
Following Kimes, WWE Superstar Seth Rollins joins the show. Rollins talks about the WWE's upcoming show on ESPN, Wrestlepalooza, fooling the entire wrestling world with his fake knee injury, the one person he felt bad about lying to, becoming a cast member on "Good Morning Football," why he despises the "Tush Push" and more.
The podcast closes with the weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment featuring Sal Licata from WFAN radio and SNY TV. This week, Jimmy and Sal talk about Jimmy and friends getting booted from a restaurant, Sal's second week in a row suffering a horrific NFL betting loss, a crazy college football bad beat, Sal losing the Emmy Award on his birthday and more
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to SI Media with Jimmy Trayna. Thank you so much for listening. We have got a |
| 0:08.0 | loaded show this week. So I'm going to get to everything quickly. We have Mina Times from ESPN, |
| 0:13.3 | first time on the pod with me for Mina. We also have Seth Rawlins, who is promoting a big WWE ESPN event, as well as talking about his new job at Good Morning Football. |
| 0:26.6 | And then we have Sal Akata and the train of thoughts segment. |
| 0:30.6 | So a lot to get to. |
| 0:32.2 | I'll quickly tell you if you've missed any recent episodes, going to the archives, check him out. |
| 0:36.6 | Jim Nance was on last week. He was excellent. Andrew Marshan from the Athletic a couple of weeks ago. Brent Musburger a few weeks ago as well. Brent was awesome. Feedback was tremendous on that. And a reminder this week, week three in the NFL, the NFL today on CBS is a throwback edition. Brent will be there in studio. He talked a lot about that on the pod. |
| 0:55.4 | So, Nancy, Marchand, Brent Musburger in recent weeks. |
| 0:58.7 | Give those a listen. |
| 1:00.0 | Subscribe to SI Media with Jimmy Trana. |
| 1:01.9 | Hit that subscribe button. |
| 1:04.4 | All right. |
| 1:05.2 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:06.0 | We've got Mina Kimes on her career at ESPN and some NFL topics. |
| 1:10.0 | We've got Seth Rollins, |
| 1:11.5 | WWB champion on Russell Palooza and Good Morning Football. |
| 1:15.3 | And then Train of Thoughts, |
| 1:16.4 | a big potpourri segment there with my buddy, Sal Licata. |
| 1:19.8 | All of that right here, right now, |
| 1:24.0 | on SI Media with Jimmy Trana. |
| 1:27.8 | All right, joining me now, very excited to have her first time with me here on |
| 1:31.6 | SI Media with Jimmy Trana long overdue whenever I ask people who I should have on. |
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