No Bunts | Interview With No Dunks/The Starters Camera Operator Larry French

No Dunks

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Comedy, Basketball, Sports

4.9 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Tas interviews Larry French, a veteran camera operator, about his 25-year career including how he got his break in the sports industry, filming the infamous Al Horford's brother-cheerleader-sideline video, the Uber/ridesharing problem at Truist Park, the time he lied to Bill Murray, filming on a Black Hawk helicopter, how he ‘got Guy Fieri on The Starters’, getting the crew into Drai's nightclub in Las Vegas when they couldn't get in, how kind Wayne Gretzky was to him, getting former president Jimmy Carter on the 'Kiss Cam', and whether he's ever been more confident in a baseball team like he is about the 2023 Atlanta Braves. All that, plus French counts down his 'Top 5 Moments in TV' featuring Freddie Freeman, Alex Rodriguez, Chipper Jones and others. 👕 Buy No Dunks merch at BreakingT: https://www.nodunks.com 📈 Subscribe to No Dunks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NoDunksInc 🗞️ Subscribe to The Athletic: http://www.theathletic.com/nodunks 🤔 New Is [This] Good? podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@isthisgood ⚾️ No Bunts with Tas and Joel talkin' baseball: https://bit.ly/3rzZI9t

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0:00.0	Batter up!
0:13.3	Welcome to No Bunce, the podcast for the casual baseball fan here on the athletic baseball show.
0:19.5	I'm Tass Melis in studio with me. As always, making the magic happen. It's super producer, J.D. Hello. What's up, J.D. And my co-host all season long from Taiwan, Joel McMill and Joel. How you doing? I'm splendid, Tass. Thanks for asking. Always, Joel. And great to hear the word splendid. You don't hear that enough.
0:37.9	You really don't. A little break from our normal podcast today. If you're looking for MLB trade
0:43.2	deadline news, check the athletic baseball show podcast feed. Check the athletic website,
0:48.5	reporters, podcasters doing incredible work on that front. As for this show, a little bit different today.
0:55.5	We've got somebody who's been on the other side of the camera,
1:00.0	been part of the game for a long, long time in a different capacity.
1:03.9	In studio here, we've got Larry French,
1:05.6	who is a handheld camera op for the Atlanta Braves for a long, long time.
1:10.0	Finally paid off a couple of years ago with the World Series Championship.
1:14.0	He was also part of our basketball show, No Dunk Slater, Slater, at Turner Broadcasting for several years.
1:20.1	So we'll get into that.
1:21.7	And a whole lot more.
1:22.6	Larry, thanks a lot for coming in.
1:23.8	We appreciate it.
1:24.7	Hello, Sweet World.
1:27.8	Thank you, guys. It's still sweet. It's still sweet.
1:30.0	This is awesome. I've always been fans of you guys.
1:35.1	And when we first started working together, you know, I don't know if you realize this,
1:41.6	but whenever the crew sheets would come out and they would have you
1:46.1	scheduled to work certain shows, we'd all talk amongst ourselves and it's like, no, they don't
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