Read Pt. 5: Al Michaels And The Price Of Comfort

Mind of Micah

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🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Al Michaels is an American institution. He's also never eaten a vegetable. This profile from Defector is a good one. Subscribe to Micah's Newsletter: micahwiener.substack.com/ Read the piece: defector.com/al-michaels-and-the-price-of-comfort/ We'll be back with Part 6(!) tomorrow.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Mind of Micah.
0:07.0	Today is part five of Micah's Read of the Week. It's about Defector.com. We've been talking about it for
0:16.4	previous episodes. I'm not going to talk much more. Just subscribe to the newsletter and call
0:22.4	the hotline 800
0:23.3	392 6344 especially if you know the difference between a New York
0:27.1	strip and a Kansas City strip. I would appreciate that. Beef workers of
0:31.9	America call.
0:33.0	All right, back to Al Michael's the legendary sportscaster who hates vegetables.
0:37.0	The author, Drew McGarry, writes in the piece.
0:42.0	One of my coworkers had had asked me to ask Al to
0:46.6	defend his pronunciation of New Orleans. If you've heard him say the name on the
0:51.0	air you know that he it, New Orleans or used to.
0:57.1	You know what else is? The actual pronunciation is New Orleans. I was told by people that. I got so much shit for it. I'm back to the two-syllable New Orleans.
1:08.0	I figured, what do I need this shit for? I used to be told by a lot of locals, hey, we appreciate the fact that you pronounce it the way it should be pronounced, and that's great.
1:17.6	No word on if those locals were very strong men who came to Alan Tears with tears in their eyes, but if they were, they would not appreciate
1:24.8	Al's greater opinion of the town.
1:27.9	New Orleans is overrated, beyond comprehension. Food-wise, the author asks?
1:34.0	Everything-wise.
1:36.0	I certainly liked it a lot better after they built the casino.
1:39.0	Let's go.
1:40.0	We're now shooting the shit as flawlessly grilled slabs of meat arrive at the table.
1:46.7	And owl, on reflex, surgically removes the parsley from the side of his cubed potatoes.
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