SPECIAL SERIES: PTI Gets a Life of Its Own

ESPN Daily

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4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon made first impressions at The Washington Post that went on to influence two decades of television, and counting. In the early years of PTI they created a world within the show. That included “Stat Boy” Tony Reali to correct them, a cast of singular journalists who joined them on set, and legendary pranks that were so convincing they rocked the sports world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to ESPN Daily, special series on Pardon the Interruption.
0:09.2	It's the sports show that blew up the television universe, and it is 20 years old this month.
0:15.4	And if you haven't listened to Episode 1, we highly recommend that you go and do that.
0:19.3	You can find it a little earlier in our feed.
0:21.1	But we left off with the very first day that PTI went on the air. It was October 22nd, 2001.
0:29.9	It was the day Mike Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser made their first impression on America as TV co-hosts, which was about 20 years after, they made their first impressions
0:39.6	on each other.
0:46.0	Tony didn't talk to people. He didn't know. He didn't know me. So no. He had to talk to me
0:51.6	later because we wound up at the same events having to carve up.
0:55.4	I was the sidebar guy.
0:56.9	I was the young guy.
0:58.0	Tony was writing the column.
0:59.3	Don't touch that angle.
1:00.8	You don't talk to Reggie Jackson.
1:03.4	I write the Reggie Jackson column.
1:05.4	You get the, you know, the setup man in the seventh inning who got bombed after two hitters.
1:11.0	Loved him. Loved him.
1:11.8	Loved him right away.
1:13.0	It's big.
1:14.1	You know, he came in.
1:15.5	I'm 10 years older than him.
1:16.9	I'd already been doing this for a while.
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