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Somebody throw some water on us. Cool us off. Coming up on this podcast. Brand Curtis and I are going to talk about the impact of John Madden who passed away. We found out today at a age 85.

I have just an incredible career which we're going to try to lay out for you in half. I will see how we do.

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All right, we're taping this part of the podcast. It's about five o'clock Pacific time. Got Brian Curtis and he's on vacation. Very few people.

I think would have prompted us to do an emergency podcast to talk about somebody's death. But John Madden, I think one of the most influential sports media members of my lifetime.

He might even be in the running for first passed away today age 85. The timing was kind of crazy because we just had this documentary about him on Christmas day.

And there was this whole resurgence of kind of mad and Zimpact on sports and beyond and all the stuff. And so kind of as shocked as I probably am going to be about somebody who is 85 years old.

But I got to say Brian, I was shocked because it felt like we were just talking about him all week.

Absolutely. And you know, you and I were texting during the documentary and the big part of that was John man had not been on camera in a really long time. He's done interviews from time to time.

I talked to him a couple of years ago, but he he hadn't done anything. And then you see him on that Rinaldi doc. And he sounded really good. He looked good. He, you know, he had that recognizable John Madden voice, which every time you hear it, you and I are children of the 80s and you get excited and you feel like, oh my gosh.

Here's John Madden. He's telling story and he got a little bit of voice kind of going on. And and I don't know. I I'm just I'm absolutely stunned right now.

He one of the many great things about his career was it took three turns, right, where you have this Raiders coach turn where he's one of the most successful NFL coaches just by winning record of all time.

He was the guy when I was growing up, we had to beat the Raiders. We could never beat the Raiders. The Raiders gave the Patriots the worst playoff loss of my childhood. And Madam was the guy. And it was like, you only knew a couple of the coaches in new Tom Landry, new Chuck Nol,

you knew John Madden. And then it was basically everybody else. And then he leaves.

Guess he got burned out, whatever it was. And immediately goes into announcing and immediately is unbelievable. He's so good at it. And I remember as a kid, I was like six or seventh grade.

He even hosted SNL. And at that point, like, Co-Cell was the only person in the media that you ever could have imagined in a million years would actually host SNL.

You know, out of any sports media person, nobody else was doing that. But it was like a comment watching happen. He was so much better at announcing football than anybody else we had.

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