Father’s Day, Sports, and Family Connection: A Conversation with Luke Russert

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

For much of his life, Luke Russert felt he was growing up in the shadow of his late father, political journalist and moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press” Tim Russert - who was a huge Buffalo Bills fan. After pursuing journalism himself, Luke decided to confront the pain of his loss and go on a journey of self discovery, which he wrote about in his new book, Look For Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself. Through his travels around the world, he saw signs of his father, at places like a baseball stadium in Hiroshima, and at the Western Wall, where Luke happened to purchase a Buffalo Bills yarmulke. So today, Luke Russert joins senior writer Xuan Thai to talk about life, loss, and the powerful connection sports creates between children and parents…and what it would mean for the Bills to finally win a Super Bowl. Then, hear a parting shot on Father’s Day and baseball from Jeremy Schaap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	ESPN Daily is presented by YouTube TV.
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0:14.5	Hi, it's Jeremy Shaq.
0:18.5	Today's show is going to be a little something different.
0:21.8	In honor of Father's Day this Sunday, we're bringing you a conversation between ESPN senior
0:27.0	writer Swan Tai and Luke Russert.
0:34.9	Russert lost his father, legendary journalist Tim Russert 15 years ago.
0:40.4	Luke's new book, among other things, explores the bond he shared with his father through
0:44.6	their love of sports.
0:49.6	Here's today's show, and happy Father's Day.
0:55.6	So I'm just going to start with a very simple question, Luke.
0:58.4	Can you just tell everybody who you are and what you've been up to?
1:04.2	My name is Luke Russert.
1:06.5	37 years old and just wrote a book called Look for Me There, Grieving My Father and Finding
1:12.8	Myself.
1:13.8	And it's a book that mainly talks about the journey I went on to process the grief of losing
1:20.9	dad, which is something that I had never really done.
1:23.7	My father was Tim Russert, the longtime moderator of Meet the Press who died of a heart attack
1:28.4	at age 58 on June 13th of 2008.
1:32.6	And I never fully grieved my father because while I very much was aware that my father,
1:41.0	the forward facing moderator of Meet the Press had passed away, I don't think I fully
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