Rich Eisen On Covering the NFL Draft, Twitter & More
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Episode 438 of "SI Media with Jimmy Traina" features an interview with the NFL Network's Rich Eisen.
Eisen talks about hosting the NFL Draft for the 19th year in a row, what covering the NFL Draft is like, what his goal is when hosting the Draft, whether the assignment is still a difficult onen, whether he feels competitive going head-to-head with ESPN and if he prefers covering Super Bowl Sunday or the NFL Draft.
Eisen also discusses his recent saga with losing his blue checkmark on Twitter and then getting it back, how Elon Musk has affected his business and the most cringeworthy fallout from Musk's "Twitter Blue
Other topics covered with Eisen include Aaron Rodgers getting traded to the Jets, the Yankees futility his annual "Run Rich Run" 40-yard dash for St. Jude's Children's Hospital and more
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| 0:00.0 | Walter Isakson set out to write about a world-changing genius in Elon Musk and found a man addicted to chaos and conspiracy. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm thinking it's idiotic to buy Twitter because he doesn't have a fingertip feel for social emotional networks. |
| 0:13.4 | The book launched a thousand hot takes, |
| 0:15.3 | so I sat down with Isakson to try to get past the noise. |
| 0:18.0 | I like the fact that people who say I'm not as tough on Musk |
| 0:21.4 | as I should be are always using anecdotes for my book to show why we should be tough on Musk. |
| 0:27.0 | Join me, Evan Ratliff, for On Musk with Walter Isickson. |
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| 1:05.0 | Hi this is Shannon Doherty host of the new podcast Let's Be Clear with |
| 1:10.3 | Shannon Doherty. So in this podcast, I'm going to be talking about marriage, divorce, my family, my career. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm also going to be talking a lot about cancer, the ups and the downs, everything that I have learned from it. |
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