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My Personal History with John Madden as His Recording Engineer from 1982-1986

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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826: With the passing of John Madden at the end of 2021, host Fred Greene digs into his personal archives to share stories, recordings, and his history with Coach Madden. From 1982-1986, Fred was Madden’s recording engineer for a nationally syndicated program that Madden provided to the RKO Radio Network. Even though they only recorded for about 15-25 minutes multiple times each week, they would spend hours talking, laughing, and brainstorming business ideas. Our guest for the conversation is TV personality, radio host, and New England sports junkie, Matty Blake. WIN a box Golf Smarter golf balls and be part of the podcast! When you record our episode intro from your phone, you’ll be eligible to win a box of golf balls with the Golf Smarter logo! Write to GolfSmarterPodcast@gmail.com and tell us that you want to play. We’ll assign you an episode number and a script to record for the intro of the show. Every ten listeners who participate will be entered into a drawing for a box of balls with the Golf Smarter logo!Golf Smarter is your podcast forecaddie! We are an entertainment service that is focused on enhancing every round for you. Just like caddies, we accept tips for services rendered. Please click on the DONATE button at GolfSmarter.com to show your support so that we can continue to provide weekly, helpful, and entertaining content. Your donation can be as much, or as little as you’d like. It can be a one time offering or your can even do it recurring. Thank you very much.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Rich Troyer from Middlebury, Indiana, and I play golf at Sargonautch Country Club in Three Rivers, Michigan.

0:07.5

This is Golf Smarter episode number 826.

0:11.7

My personal history with John Madden, as is recording engineer from 1982 to 1986.

0:18.4

This is Golf Smarter.

0:21.2

Sharing stories, tips, and insights from great golf minds to help you lower your score and raise your golf IQ.

0:29.2

Here's your host, Fred Green.

0:32.5

I'm so happy I get to say this. It's been too long.

0:35.4

Welcome back to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Mattie B.

0:39.0

B. B. Tate tried to keep us apart, Fred, but it never can. Not for too long anyway.

0:43.5

Well, man, it has been way too long since we've had you on the show. You know, initially the plan was to

0:49.2

have you on episode 800, but it worked out really well that we had Jim Waldron on because we really focused

0:57.3

on golf.

0:58.3

But I told a lot of stories about myself and stuff that I've never shared before.

1:03.4

And that was actually quite liberating to do that because there were a lot of things I've

1:08.8

never talked about myself.

1:09.8

But then I just went ahead and did it now. I'm like, i can just talk about those again so i'm good about that that's

1:14.4

great um how have you been bud i've been great i'm missing uh talking all things golf with you and your

1:21.7

audience um it was it was quite a summer i was gone all summer which which is why I couldn't really get on with you.

1:28.8

I was traveling on the road, filming a new show.

1:32.3

Still doing Oak Island.

1:35.0

Yeah, the curse of Oak Island.

1:36.4

So I host, I still host Drilling Down, which is the companion show that goes along with Oak

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