Jemele Hill and Rick Reilly

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Episode 49 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features two guests: First up is Jemele Hill, a staff writer for The Atlantic and a former ESPN SportsCenter anchor and personality. Hill is the host of a new podcast — “Jemele Hill is Unbothered” for Spotify. Hill is followed by Rick Reilly, the author of "Commander In Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump” and a former writer and on-air personality for Sports Illustrated and ESPN. In this podcast, Hill discusses her transition from ESPN to roles that intersect sports, politics and social issues; her reaction to the Adnan Virk firing; her new podcast and how it was conceived; what she hopes listeners will take away from her new podcast; how to format a new podcast; the future of her friend and former ESPN colleague, Michael Smith; getting death threats online and how that has impacted her life; her thoughts on Tiger Woods winning the Masters and his role in the African-American community, and more. Reilly discusses why he wrote a book on Donald Trump’s relation to the truth when it comes to golf; how he reported the book out; the most dramatic cheating story in the book; how he navigated audiences that will dislike what he wrote versus those that will like it; why how Trump approaches golf ultimately matters; how he views his years at ESPN after leaving Sports Illustrated; being criticized by the sports blogosphere; sucking on television; what Woods’s win at The Masters meant in his mind; Trump saying he'll award golfer Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Radio.com 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.
0:05.0	Hey everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to this sports media podcast.
0:09.3	My producer is always is Terrence Malagon.
0:11.8	Two guests this week, two well-known people in the sports media world.
0:14.9	First up is Jamal Hill.
0:16.5	She's a staff writer for The Atlantic.
0:19.3	Obviously you know her as a former ESPN anchor and personality.
0:22.9	She is the host of a new podcast. Jamel Hill is Unbothered that broke this week. Check that out.
0:29.4	It's on Spotify. I will note that Caden's 13, podcast company that does mine, they are the
0:34.3	producers of this podcast. So they're actually doing the tech part of the
0:38.1	podcast, but Jamel Hill is unbothered is for Spotify. So she's first up. And then that's followed
0:44.4	by Rick Riley, the author of Commander in Cheat, How Golf Explained Trump. That is a New York Times
0:50.5	bestseller. He, of course, is a former writer and online. He's a former writer and
0:55.9	on-air personality for both Sports Illustrated and ESPN. Obviously, I worked with Rick for many,
1:01.3	many years of Sports Illustrated. He's one of the most iconic famous writers there. And these are two
1:07.7	really good conversations about a lot of stuff. Jamel into podcasting, leaving ESPN, getting death threats. Riley, why he wrote this book, his relationship with Trump and Golf, his thoughts on Tiger Woods, and also being an internet whipping boy. So coming up, Rick Riley, and up first, this is a guest who has been on this podcast before,
1:29.9	a podcast I did Sports Illustrated before, somebody I've written about, somebody I have known for a long time.
1:35.5	It is Jamel Hill. She is a staff writer for the Atlantic, a former ESPN anchor slash personality.
1:46.7	And she is now the host of a new podcast.
1:49.0	Jamel Hill is unbothered.
1:51.0	That podcast is for Spotify.
1:53.6	Cadence 13, who does this podcast.
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