Jim Miller
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Episode 251 of the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast features an interview with author, journalist and podcast host, Jim Miller. During the episode, Miller and host Jimmy Traina discuss Ed Werder getting re-hired by ESPN, fallout from the Dan Le Batard controversy, Bob Ley’s retirement, news of Bill Simmons employees at The Ringer possibly unionizing, the return date for “Curb Your Enthusiasm” on HBO, the “Larry Sanders Show” being very underrated and Eddie Murphy’s return to the spotlight.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to the Sports Illustrated Media podcast. |
| 0:12.2 | I am your host, Jimmy Trainer. |
| 0:13.6 | Thanks for joining me. |
| 0:15.2 | This week's show will feature an interview with Jim Miller, who is the author, writer, reporter who has covered ESPN In-depth. |
| 0:25.3 | Also wrote a great book on Saturday Night Live and knows all about ESPN. |
| 0:31.3 | So we have, and knows all about TV. |
| 0:34.2 | So we did basically have sports, half TV for you guys out there. We talked about Edwarder going back to ESPN, fallout from Dan Lebitard, the ringer, and then the union story that came out this week. And then we get into some stuff about Kirby enthusiasm. Jim has a little bit of news on when we will see season 10 from Larry David and |
| 0:56.1 | got into a little discussion about Eddie Murphy. So we have all that coming up for you on this |
| 1:02.7 | episode. Last week, if you're a WWFand, Stone Cold Steve Austin was on the podcast. He was pretty |
| 1:06.9 | great. And check that out. Please, if you're not a subscriber, it would be great if you |
| 1:12.4 | subscribed. And also, if you can rate and review the pod, it helps tremendously. And now, hopefully |
| 1:20.0 | you'll like this interview with Jim Miller, and then you will review it and rate it. We go to |
| 1:24.8 | Jim Miller on ESPN, sports media, and TV slash pop culture. |
| 1:32.0 | All right, joining me now, regular occurring guest on the SI Media podcast, one of my favorite |
| 1:36.6 | people to speak to, author, writer, reporter, host of the origins podcast, and the man who |
| 1:41.7 | knows everything about ESPN, Jim Miller, Jim, how are you? |
| 1:46.5 | I'm good. How are you? I'm well. Always enjoy having you on because we talk about ESPN and then we |
| 1:51.3 | talk about a lot of TV stuff and that's my plan for today. So we'll go all over the place. |
| 1:58.5 | I want to start with ESPN. |
| 2:02.1 | I thought it was interesting. |
| 2:03.2 | They brought Ed Werder back, who was there for a long time. |
| 2:06.9 | And one of the more, I think, well-known people at ESPN for a long time was part of the |
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