Roman Reigns and Chris "Mad Dog" Russo
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Episode 351 of the "Sports Illustrated Media Podcast" hosted by Jimmy Traina features two interviews. First up is WWE Universal champion, Roman Reigns, who will main event SummerSlam this year in a match against John Cena. Reigns shares his thoughts on working with Cena after he was away from the company for long, gives us the backstory on his famous "missionary" promo on Cena and the fallout, tells us where we stand on a potential Reigns match agains The Rock and reveals what happened after he speared Stephanie McMahon during a WrestleMania match in 2017.
Following the interview with Reigns, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo from SiriusXM joins the podcast. Russo talks about the challenge of figuring out how much he should talk about the pandemic during a sports show, terrible fan behavior at games, whether he intends to slow down any time soon, the success of Pat McAfee on his "Mad Dog Radio" channel and much more.
The podcast wraps up with the weekly Traina Thoughts segment. This week, Jimmy and Sal Licata from WFAN and SNY discuss the new Netflix documentary on the "Malice at the Palace," MLB's Field of Dreams game between the Yankees and White Sox and whether it was OK for Aaron Rodgers to shame a reporter who wore crocs with socks.
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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. |
| 0:30.0 | Listen on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.0 | M TV's official Challenge Podcast is back for another season. |
| 0:40.0 | Season 39, Battle for a new champion. |
| 0:43.0 | Yes, 24 contenders will compete to win their first championship. |
| 0:48.0 | They know the battle, but not the victory. |
| 0:50.0 | So every week after the episode airs, come hey with us |
| 0:53.0 | as we break down all the challenges and eliminations |
| 0:56.1 | and of course get the inside scoop on all of the drama. |
| 0:59.6 | Listen to MTV's official challenge podcast |
| 1:02.0 | on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 1:05.2 | podcast. |
| 1:07.0 | The Celebrity Memoir holds up a mirror to society. |
| 1:10.4 | That's why we started our podcast. Celebrity Book Club with Stephen and Lily, |
| 1:14.6 | where we read Celebrity Memoirs, Total Guilty Pleasures, |
| 1:17.8 | and then synthesize probing cultural analyses from the text, |
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