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The Full 60 with Craig Custance

Predators Broadcaster Pete Weber on Chasing the Play-By-Play Dream & Collecting Sports Meltdown Bloopers

The Full 60 with Craig Custance

The Athletic

News, Hockey, Sports News, Sports

4.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Nashville Predators broadcaster Pete Weber joins podcast to share some stories about a fascinating journey chasing the dream of doing play-by-play. Pete shares a few favorites from his vast collection of sports audio bloopers, including Sparky Anderson and Earl Weaver, talks about landing the job in Nashville during expansion and nearly being relocated with the team, as well as the biggest influences over the course of his broadcasting career after listening to Harry Caray as a kid. Support The Full 60 by subscribing to The Athletic! Get 40% off an annual subscription at theathletic.com/full60. Or try a free 90-day trial at theathletic.com/free90days Follow Craig on Twitter: @CraigCustance

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

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0:12.8

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0:18.9

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0:23.7

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0:29.4

And the name of that podcast, again, is remarkably remote.

0:45.9

Welcome to the Full 60 featuring Craig Custins and presented by The Athletic.

0:54.5

Each week, we'll dive into the biggest stories in hockey while bringing in unique voices to entertain and explain all aspects of the game.

0:59.2

Hey, this is Craig, and welcome to this week's episode of the full 60.

1:04.4

This week's guest is Nashville Predators broadcaster Pete Weber, who does the play-by-play for the Predators.

1:05.9

And as you'll find out, Pete is not only is he a great storyteller, which we knew, and he's funny,

1:12.0

if you ever have listened to him, call a game.

1:15.1

You also know, but he has a fascinating background.

1:19.7

His path to become, to fill the position he currently fills meant a lot of stops in a lot of

1:26.5

cities doing radio for a lot of different sports,

1:29.5

from minor league baseball and Bakersfield to NBA basketball in Seattle. And of course,

1:35.7

if you probably know, he was in Buffalo a long time doing bills and sabres. And so it makes

1:41.9

for some incredible stories. And not only only that this is what I learned about

1:45.8

Pete and having this conversation with him he is a collector of audio so if there is a you know

1:52.4

let's say a meltdown that's caught during a press conference whatever Pete squirrels it away

1:56.7

he's got this great collection of audio clips so anytime anytime he references one of them, or oftentimes in this conversation, he's like,

2:05.4

he has that audio clip in his collection.

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