The Amazing, Incredible Story of Barry Bremen, The Sports Imposter. As told by guests ESPN’s Russell Dinallo and Jeremy Schaap

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Episode 221 of the Sports Media Podcast features two guests — ESPN director and producer Russell Dinallo and host and reporter Jeremy Schaap. In this podcast, Dinallo and Schaap discuss the story of Barry Bremen, a Detroit-area novelty goods salesman who in the late 1970’s was known as “The Great Imposter.” Bremen pulled off sports pranks that included crashing the 1979 NBA All-Star Game to shoot layups on the court with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, and Dr. J , crashing baseball’s 1979 All-Star Game and shagging flies in the outfield for 30 minutes, and posing as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader at a Cowboys-Washington game. The stunts landed him on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, the David Letterman Show and the Today Show. Bremen died of cancer in 2011 but that’s where the story begins in many ways. More than three dozen people have now learned that Bremen is their biological father, through sperm donation. They found out about each other – and Bremen – through genetic testing and the painstaking efforts of one of the children to track their lineage. “The Great Imposter and Me” debuts on July 12, at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN and will be available for on-demand streaming on ESPN+. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	This is a bigger story than sports.
0:32.1	It's a story that transcends sports.
0:34.2	It's got this great hook and a central figure who was, you know, a celebrity in
0:40.6	the demi-monde of sports. But it's such a bigger story. How could you not want to tell it?
0:49.8	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:59.1	All right, we are going to try to make this work. As I am taping this podcast, there is a major internet outage in Canada with the telecom provider Rogers which is a significant one across
1:15.3	the country so I am doing my best through it through my uh my US cell phone here to try to make this
1:25.0	one make this one work so apologies if the sound quality isn't as great,
1:30.4	but we're going to try to make it happen. And thank you to Patrick for all his hard work all the
1:37.1	time. This story that we're about to get into is just totally fascinating. The guests are
1:43.7	ESPN's Russell Donello.
1:46.0	He's a longtime producer and director at ESPN and Jeremy Schapp, who I think many of you know,
1:53.0	longtime host and reporter at ESPN. And these two have combined for an episode of E60,
1:59.2	which will debut on Tuesday, July 12th at 7 p.m. Eastern Time on ESPN.
2:05.0	It is just a fascinating story. The center of this story is a guy named Barry Bremann. He was a
2:13.0	cult figure from the late 1970s known as the Great Imposter. And what he did is he pulled off pranks,
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