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The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

The person who first taught Chuck and Jason how to be sportscasters

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4612 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Garfien and Jason Benetti speak with Bob Comstock, their former broadcasting teacher at Homewood-Flossmoor High School who made a tremendous impact on their careers. Why he meant so much to Chuck and Jason (4:30), what it's like making a 55-minute radio documentary in high school (7:20), the time Comstock took a student to Disco Demolition (16:00), why he had such a special connection with students (19:40), what kind of broadcasters were Chuck and Jason in high school? (29:30) The twist of fate that brought Jason to the White Sox (36:30) and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, this is Chuck Arfine, and this is the White Sox Talk podcast, brought to you as always by WinTrust.

0:14.4

Jason Benetti and I both got our broadcasting careers started very early in our lives, and frankly, by sheer luck,

0:23.3

thanks to where we grew up. We both went to Home and Flausmore High School in the south

0:28.4

suburbs of Chicago, where they had a student-run radio station and TV station and a four-year

0:35.9

broadcasting curriculum, and still do.

0:38.5

It was here where Jason and I began to learn how to be sportscasters, calling football

0:44.0

games, basketball games, doing sports casts, documentaries, etc.

0:48.7

Honestly, if we did not go to HF High School, we both could have ended up with two entirely different careers.

0:56.3

So we are beyond grateful for the teacher at HF who ran the broadcasting program.

1:03.4

His name is Bob Comstock. And today on the podcast, Jason and I speak with our former teacher

1:08.8

and eternal dear friend. To give you an inside look at the program,

1:14.3

this special teacher, and why we love him so much.

1:18.6

Why do we love him so much?

1:19.9

Well, just he'll give you an idea.

1:22.0

When he was a younger teacher, he once took a student to disco demolition. And he'll tell that story.

1:28.8

And we are the only ones who you might know who went through the HF program, who are in the business.

1:33.9

Scott Merkin, who covers the White Sox for Anambi.com.

1:36.9

Lawrence Holmes, my colleague at NBC Sports Chicago and also at the score.

1:40.9

There's Ben Bradley, anchor reporter at WGN, and so many others. So here is our talk

1:47.0

with Bob Comstock, whereas I call him Mr. C, and how Jason and I came to be sportscasters.

1:55.8

White Sox, White Sox, go, go, White Sox.

2:00.0

A ball hit deep way back.

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