Garrett Graf, author of "The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11", and Kavitha Davidson and Anders Kelto, the co-hosts of “The Lead.”

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Episode 69 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests. First up is Garret Graff, the author of the best-selling book, “The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11.” He is followed by Kavitha Davidson and Anders Kelto, the co-hosts of “The Lead” which is a new daily podcast from The Athletic and Wondery LLC. It is the first daily podcast for the Athletic. In this podcast, Graf discusses how his Politico Magazine piece for the 15th anniversary of 9/11 about being aboard Air Force One with the president on 9/11 led to his current book; the challenge of writing something that captured what the national experience was like on 9/11; how he and his colleague Jenny Pachucki culled through the many sources of audio data at the 9/11 Memorial StoryCorps, the Flight 93 National Memorial, the Pentagon Historian's Office and other sources; what process he used to compartmentalize his work for the book; how his sources reacted upon reflection of 9/11; the incredible story of the first fighters scrambled into the air to intercept what we now know was United 93; the decision to run the transcript of the hijackers from inside the cockpit; how much happenstance, fate, luck, and random life decisions impacted 9/11; the role of Roger Clemens, the Yankees, Monday Night Football on that day, and much more. In the second conversation, Davidson and Anders Kelto discuss what the concept of The Lead is and why it exists; how they put the podcast together; how they will judge success; how to differentiate the podcast within a crowded market; the ability of the staff to morph to audio; whether the market exists for such a show; why The Athletic is doing it, and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen. Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer, as always, is Patrick Antonetti. This week, going a little different this week, but I think you're going to find it really, really interesting. Our first guest is Garrett Graff. He is the author of the best-selling book, The Only Plain in the Sky,
0:22.4	in oral history of 9-11. I can't recommend it enough. Head to Amazon and check it out.
0:28.3	And Garrett wrote a book, basically, that expands his amazing piece from the 15th anniversary of 9-11,
0:36.5	where he wrote about all those who were on board Air Force One with President George W. Bush on 9-11 and sort of everything that was going on with a focus on Air Force One that day. And now he's written a book, a full-length book, that tries to capture, you know, as best anybody can, what the national experience
0:54.8	was like on 9-11. And it's an oral history of that. Really, really fascinating. We get into
0:59.6	how he put the book together, how he did the research, why he chose what he chose. A couple of the
1:05.1	stories, at least that really hit home with me. And at the end, just how sports played into that
1:10.4	day as well.
1:11.6	So that's Garrett Graf first.
1:14.1	They or he, I should say, is followed by two of my colleagues at the Athletic,
1:17.9	Cavita Davidson and Andres Kelto.
1:19.8	They are the co-hosts of the lead.
1:21.6	That is a new daily podcast from the Athletic.
1:24.1	It's the first daily podcast for the Athletics.
1:26.5	Basically, they're going to try to sort of, well, I don't know if you can duplicate the success of the New York Times Daily.
1:31.8	They're certainly going to try to approach it with the same philosophy and the sort of same high end when it comes to storytelling and journalism.
1:39.6	And we get into what the lead is and why it exists and what's going to be on that show.
1:46.2	And the first episode came out as we're taping this today on Monday, September 16th.
1:51.9	It's really good.
1:52.6	No company manning here.
1:53.9	They did an awesome job.
1:55.6	And that first episode's about the Saints getting robbed basically in last year's NFC championship game.
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