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Pride of Detroit: for Detroit Lions fans

Interview with Kyle Meinke, Lions beat writer for MLive

Pride of Detroit: for Detroit Lions fans

SB Nation

Sports News, News, Sports, Football

4.4957 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This week Mike talks to MLive's Kyle Meinke about what life is like being a beat writer, how get got here and what it's like to break your leg in Wisconsin. They also delve into what happened to the Lions against the Chicago Bears in Week 1 and whether or not the Lions can rebound and get back on track. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Available feature, Bose is a registered trademark of the Boast Corporation. All right, welcome back to the man coverage podcast from Pride of Detroit.

1:06.8

My name is Mike Payton.

1:07.9

I am your host.

1:08.7

I realized last week we had the first show.

1:10.5

I got super excited. We had Dan Miller on. It took a whole bunch of notes. I got super prepared for the show and totally forgot to introduce myself last week. So here I am introducing myself this week. I'm Mike Payton. I'll be your host of this show all year long. Got another great guest today, and this is a guy that I have sort of been in the same

1:32.7

orbit with for a while.

1:33.9

And that's why I invited you on the show today, Kyle, Mikey, of M-Live.

1:38.6

Welcome to Man Coverage.

1:41.0

It is good to be here, my friends.

1:44.0

And yeah, we go way back and more ways than one.

1:48.0

Yeah, it's kind of strange. I don't know how we never met each other through college or anything

1:54.2

like that. Obviously, you went to Grand Valley. That's correct, I believe. And you lived with

2:00.6

Ashley Van Zanin. Is that, that's true, right?

2:03.4

Yeah, we got a mutual friend. It was a, if I remember right, and this is, you know, a million

2:07.7

years ago and, you know, but I think I met her through Craigslist. I think I was living

2:14.4

with a couple of buddies, one of whom I'm still a good friend with. And we needed an extra roommate, so we just put it on Craigslist.

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