NFL Network's Kyle Brandt
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Episode 581 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with "Good Morning Football's" Kyle Brandt.
Brandt opens up the podcast venting about people sharing about their sports-viewing "set ups" and talks about what he goes through to watch games and explains why he likes his simple set up.
Then the interview transitions to sports media talk with Brandt explaining what it's like to interview the top quarterbacks from around the NFL each week, revealing how he feels about seeing his former "Good Morning Football" colleague, Peter Schrager, on ESPN and sharing his thoughts on ESPN purchasing the NFL Network.
Brandt also talks about having an MVP vote this season, whether he'd ever want to call games, working with Scott Van Pelt and why he loves the chaos of a wide-open NFL season.
Other topics discussed with Brandt include Amazon Prime's documentary on John Candy, the best Leonardo DiCaprio movie and "The Ali G Show."
Following Brandt, Sal Licata from WFAN and SNY in New York joins Jimmy for their weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment.
This week's topics include the continuing YouTubeTV-Disney dispute, USC pulling off a truly bush league movie, Aaron Glenn starting fights with the New York media, show recommendations and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to SI Media with Jimmy Trana. |
| 0:05.8 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:08.3 | Got a regular who is always an A-plus guest. |
| 0:13.8 | This week was no different. |
| 0:15.5 | Kyle Brandt from Good Morning Football is the main guest on this week's show. |
| 0:22.1 | We covered a million topics. |
| 0:23.7 | I don't even want to begin to start naming them all, but we did a bunch on media, |
| 0:28.2 | NFL media, what's going on with Kyle, a bunch on the NFL, bunch on pop culture. |
| 0:33.5 | So if you just need a nice, easy, breezy listen, I strongly recommend you stick around for Kyle. |
| 0:39.3 | And then following Kyle, train of thoughts with Sal Akata, get a YouTube TV update from Sal and how he's handling that with the blackout and much more. |
| 0:50.4 | Before we get to it, first let me just say this. |
| 0:52.5 | We had an old mailbag last week i told you guys |
| 0:55.6 | my dad was in the hospital he's good everything's good and i thank you all who reached out a ton of |
| 1:01.4 | you have reached out via twitter instagram emails so thank you so much for that i do appreciate it |
| 1:08.1 | and all good is there like i said last week was an all mailbag edition i I answered your questions the week before that. We had Brian Curtis from the ringer on the pod. Greg Olson from Fox was on the pod this in recent weeks, as well as Chris Mad Dog Russo. So if you missed any of those episodes, Brian Curtis, Greg Olson, Chris Mad Dog Russo, check those out. And also make sure you subscribe to the pod as well. |
| 1:29.7 | I would love it if you left a review on Apple. |
| 1:33.1 | All right, let's get to it. |
| 1:34.3 | Kyle Brandt from Good Morning Football, followed by Sal Licata and Trana Thoughts. |
| 1:38.9 | All right here, right now. |
| 1:43.8 | On SI Media with Jimmy Trana trana all right joining me now is annual visit to the sports |
| 1:50.8 | illustrated media podcast always a good time i don't have to do too much prep which i like |
| 1:57.5 | when kyle brand from good morning football joins the show. It's up, Kyle. |
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