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Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinBOB SHEPPARD: The Voice Of Yankee StadiumSend us a textWe are going deep into the archives for this episode of "Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin."I’ve been blessed to have a long career in broadcast journalism and meet so many intriguing people along the way. During my years covering sports, when I spent more than a few days and nights at Yankee Stadium, there was nothing better than spending some time with the longtime public address announcer at the Stadium, Bob Sheppard. For more than fifty years, his voice was an integral part of the experience at Yank...
2026-01-2419 minBefore The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinJIM GALLUCCI: “The Crescendo Of Unity”Send us a textThis week’s episode of “Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin” is a bit different.It’s a conversation that is part of a new series that I am hosting, a series of conversations with public artists whose work is found all across America. These conversations will be found in the Otocast platform, an immersive, innovative, location-based mobile audio guide. More information at www.otocast.com.If we are fortunate, there is a moment in our lives when the door to the rest of our lives opens up and we kno...
2025-10-0544 minBefore The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinPETER ASHER: A World With Love Of MusicSend us a textPeter Asher has been part of the music that has elated and sustained me for some 60 years. The songs of Peter and Gordon as part of the 1960’s British Invasion still sound fresh and wonderful six decades later. And the musicians he produced and managed, especially James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, created the soundtrack of my life. And Peter still has the touch, co-producing Barbra Streisand’s beautiful album of duets, “The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two.”Getting an opportunity to interview him before a live audience at Magical...
2025-07-1245 minBefore The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinHARRY TEINOWITZ: Getting Another ShotSend us a textTalk to Harry Teinowitz for ten seconds and it’s easy to understand why he’s had a successful career in Chicago sports talk radio. There’s a fun gift of gab, a solid sense of humor and a passionate love of sports. He brought a lot of joy to Chicago sports fans. But then came a DUI, rehab and a coming to terms with his alcohol problem. The result? A play called “Another Shot” that is opening off Broadway in New York this fall. Where once he provided laughs to his audience...
2024-09-2734 minBefore The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinBEN MANKIEWICZ: For The Love Of Family And FilmSend us a textMany of us grow up in homes with high expectations, but perhaps not the burden of expectation that Ben Mankiewicz experienced. His grandfather and great uncle were prominent in Hollywood, his father in the world of politics. Ben long ago dreamed of being a baseball broadcaster. Along the way, he worked in sports media, hosted an eclectic news broadcast in Miami and eventually moved to California where he went on scores of auditions and batted .000. But much like in his beloved baseball, it only takes one. At the audition for Turner Classic Movies (TCM...
2024-09-1938 minBefore The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinFRANK RICH: From Ticket Taker To Critic To ProducerSend us a textYou never know what job you have that will teach you lessons that you’ll use decades later. Growing up as a theater loving kid, Frank Rich got a dream job as a ticket taker in a theater in his hometown of Washington, D.C. And he watched as shows were changed, rewritten, shortened and lengthened from night to night in preparation for Broadway. What he observed and the lessons he learned served him well later as the New York Times drama critic and much later as an executive producer on the HBO serie...
2024-09-1243 minBefore The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinLEN ELMORE: Balancing The Books And BallSend us a textFor much of his adult life as an athlete and attorney, Len Elmore has balanced academics and athletics. That work continues to this day as a Senior Lecturer at Columbia University in the Sports Management program. The balancing act began long ago growing up in New York City, then attending Power Memorial Academy, the University of Maryland, playing in the NBA, going to Harvard Law School, serving as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn and beyond. We are wowed by the big time nature of college sports and the gaud...
2024-09-0438 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinNick Lowe: Writing And Singing The Book, Part 1Send us a textThere’s something beautiful about a musician who has been writing and performing for decades and is still out there, finding inspiration to write and create special moments for the audience. And yes, there is something beautiful about Nick Lowe. There are the catchy songs that we first loved when we were younger and the poignant songs at every stage of his life and our lives ever since. His music captures the moments of joy and humour (British spelling for the British musician). No better example of that than “I Knew The Bride When She Used...
2023-11-0135 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinRob Simmelkjaer: The Long Run To A Dream JobSend us a textFrom the outside, it seems that it’s been a brilliant trajectory for Rob Simmelkjaer, from Ivy League college and law school to prestigious legal and media positions. But to steal a piece of wisdom from Rob himself, no one’s trajectory is a straight line. The path has now led him to his “dream job” as the CEO of New York Road Runners, a position that synthesizes many of his passions and represents the end of one marathon for Simmelkjaer and the beginning of the next.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn mo...
2023-10-2538 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinGabi Conti: Writing For The Soul And The SmilesSend us a textSpend 12 seconds talking to Gabi Conti and you get it, that California blast of energy born out of growing up in the Northeast. She’s written, directed and hosted new media and old. She jokes that she peaked at Emerson College, where the window to the rest of her life opened. In those early years in the business, when obstacles had the audacity to get in her way, she managed to see and utilize the opportunities. She’s written articles, books and podcasts about dating and has more than a few stories from those not so...
2023-10-1840 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinGarry Trudeau: The Doonesbury ChroniclerSend us a textWe all have books, music, movies, pieces of art that elate us in good times and sustain us in hard times. The 1975 book "The Doonesbury Chronicles" is at the top of the list for me. I frequently go back to it, rereading strips that I've read a hundred times. Garry Trudeau created Doonesbury, initially called Bull Tales, at Yale in the late 60's. Trudeau and Doonesbury have made us laugh and think and laugh again ever since.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-10-1139 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinStephen Dubner: A Man Of Endless CuriositySend us a textIt’s one thing to have a successful book, and Freaknomics, the 2005 book Stephen Dubner co-authored with economist Steven Levitt, is very successful, with million of copies sold and translated all over the world. But it’s rare that a successful book becomes a radio show, a podcast and a small cottage industry. And it’s even rarer that it becomes part of our vocabulary.Stephen Dubner has many qualities. He’s smart. He’s funny. And he’s a terrific writer. He’s made a living pursuing his passion, trying to find out how the world...
2023-10-0439 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinHari Kondabolu: Funny Man. Thoughtful Man.Send us a textIt’s not every standup comedian who has the London School of Economics on the resume. In fact, Hari Kondabolu may be the only standup who has the London School of Economics on his resume. It may not reflect how funny he is, but it shines a bit of a light on how thoughtful his work is. He is perhaps best known for creating the documentary “The Problem With Apu” about the character on The Simpsons. But Hari had been doing this type of work, raising consciousness by being clever, for years before the 2017 film. He...
2023-09-2742 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinDr. Irwin Redlener: Fighting The Good And Seemingly Endless FightSend us a textA poster changed Dr. Irwin Redlener’s life. Sure, he likely would have been a doctor that put good into the world. But in the early 1970’s, a poster he saw asking young doctors to go to a poor, rural county in Arkansas lit a fire inside him and set him on a path with no looking back, working as a team with his wife Karen, a health professional with an expertise in child health and development. When kids in Arkansas needed help, they were there. When kids in NewYork City needed help, they were the...
2023-09-1342 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinIan Eagle: Nothing But NetSend us a textSports fans know Ian Eagle. They know him from announcing NFL football, NBA and college basketball, the Brooklyn Nets and so many other gigs. He adds to every broadcast with his great preparation, excitement and sharp sense of humor. But his fans might not know that Ian comes to the performance aspect of his work honestly. He grew up watching his parents perform on stage at what was known as “The Borscht Belt,” the hotels in New York’s Catskill Mountains. Where once his parents entertained hundreds every weekend in the Catskills, the son now in...
2023-09-0642 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinClarence Jones: A Civil Rights Lion In WinterSend us a textI had the pleasure and privilege of interviewing Clarence Jones for a NY1 profile in 2008. In 2013, it was an honor to share the stage at the 92nd St. Y and moderate a conversation with Clarence, Harry Belafonte and Julian Bond to commemorate 50 years since the 1963 March on Washington. And it was fascinating to speak with him this week, 60 years since the March and Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, a speech Clarence helped write. He is one of the most important unsung heroes of the civil rights movement, a behind the scenes mover...
2023-09-0236 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinDan Barry: Writing Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary People - Part 2Send us a textDan Barry paid his dues on his journey to becoming an acclaimed author and writer and columnist for The New York Times. There was a first job at a small paper in Connecticut where he covered the murder of one of his newspaper colleagues. There was a disastrous first job interview at the Times, having nothing to do with Dan or actually anyone at the Times either. And there is the priceless story of Dan walking to a cancer procedure in the early 2000s, accompanied by his newspaper writing hero, Jimmy Breslin. Enjoy part tw...
2023-08-2326 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinDan Barry: Writing Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary People - Part 1Send us a textIf you’ve read Dan Barry’s books and his work in The New York Times, you know. If you haven’t, time to start. He’s eloquently told the story of people across the country with a nod to the“operatic”lives he witnessed growing up in a working class neighborhood on Long Island. And he is a gifted storyteller, about his Irish Catholic home where reading and newspapers were venerated, the period when he dug ditches to make money even after he’d earned a graduate degree and the day when one of his writing...
2023-08-1634 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinMorris Robinson: From The Offensive Line To OperaSend us a textYou don’t need to love opera to love Morris Robinson’s story, a former college football AllAmerica who has sung on the world’s great opera stages. Along the way, there was disappointment and the doubters and hard work. Lots and lots of hard work. He’s played before raucous college football crowds and sung in front of the world’s toughest opera audiences. What a journey.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-08-0936 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinMark Katz: Good One, Mr. PresidentSend us a textOnly a rare few know what it's like to write for the President of the United States. And a rarer few know what it's like to write comedy for the President of the United States. Mark Katz knows. He wrote all eight of President Clinton's White House Correspondents' Dinner speeches. I saw Mark's wit up close a long time ago...at summer camp in the early 1970's. He made me laugh then. He makes me laugh now.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-08-0238 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinChris Gethard: Making Us Laugh...And So Much MoreSend us a textChris Gethard has given his many admirers the gift of laughter, a wonderful gift. And he's given something more. By talking about his own mental health issues, he's started conversations in thousands of homes, like a key to a door that opens up to a discussion about topics that often don't get discussed. That gift is priceless. His work makes us laugh and feel and think. Same for his interviews. Thanks Chris.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-07-1247 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinJonathan Eig: Biographer Of IconsSend us a textIf you're writing about American icons like Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali, you better bring your A game. And Jonathan Eig has. His latest book is "King: A Life," the first biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in more than 30 years. It's beautifully written, a must read. Jonathan Eig fell in love with the written word and the feel of the newsroom while working for his local paper in high school. The love affair continues to this day.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...
2023-07-0537 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinZora Howard: On The Road To StardomSend us a textIt's refreshing to interview a rising star during the first chapters of the story. And Zora Howard is a rising star, in theater, film and the spoken word. Her love of the arts started young, very young, and the stories of her youth in Harlem play a tangible role in the art she is creating today. The "Before The Cheering Started" years were not that long ago for Zora, and the cheering has most definitely begun.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-06-2840 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinKelefa Sanneh: A Mixtape, Magic And MusicSend us a textThe word unique is vastly overused. But Kelefa Sanneh has a style of writing and speaking about music that is most definitely his own. It’s on the pages of his articles in The New Yorker and in his critically acclaimed 2021 book “Major Labels: A History Of Popular Music In Seven Genres.” He heard a lot of music growing up, especially the African music of his parents. But it was a mixtape at the age of 14 that opened the door to the rest of his life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about...
2023-06-1447 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinGabrielle Hamilton: The Power Of The Pen And The PanSend us a textGabrielle Hamilton isn’t a musician. But she makes sweet music on the page and in the pantry, hitting all of the right notes. Her admirers have an emotional attachment to her New York restaurant Prune. How good is her memoir “Blood Bones and Butter?” Anthony Bourdain called it “the best memoir by a chef ever. Ever. “ And her 2020 New York Times article about the closing of Prune in the first months of Covid perfectly captured the despair of the moment. This episode is a bit longer than most in this podcast. Such is the eloquence of G...
2023-06-0750 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinJordan Donica: Belting Out Songs On BroadwaySend us a textThe journey for any actor can be long and winding. For Jordan Donica, it started as it did for many actors, going to shows as a kid and then hitting the stage in high school.But once he got to New York at the end of college, his ascent in the theater world was rapid. Quite rapid.The talent was always there.Same for the love of performing. And athletics. Many of us had a tough time bridging those two passions in high school. ButJordan made it work, even cajoling his fellow football players i...
2023-05-3138 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinRuss Titelman: A Lifetime Love Affair With MusicSend us a textListening to Russ Titelman talk about music is a blessing. His passion for music has never waned. He grew up with it in his home in Los Angeles. It soared while listening to the LA radio of his youth, especially his beloved doo-wop. And it culminated in him producing a wide variety of our greatest musicians, from James Taylor and Paul Simon to John Pizzarelli and Rufus andChaka Khan. What’s it like to produce these great artists, like Randy Newman, Eric Clapton and so many more? Grab a coffee and settle in for a...
2023-05-2441 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinBobby Sanabria: Keeping The Beat In The BronxSend us a textBobby Sanabria lives and breathes music. It's not just what he does. It's who he is. His vast musical knowledge is built on a bedrock of experiences growing up in the Bronx, surrounded by all types of music in his home, on the block and in his city. Then there are the lessons he learned from teachers and students at the iconic Berklee College of Music in Boston (and numerous lessons that they learned from him). And finally there is a lifetime of performing, recording, conducting, teaching and experiencing music that has taken him around...
2023-05-1739 min
92NY TalksStories From Their Storied Careers: Calvin Trillin, Garry Trudeau and Darlene Love in Conversation with Budd MishkinIn this episode of 92NY Talks, join Grammy Award-winning singer Darlene Love, James Thurber Award-winning writer Calvin Trillin and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Garry Trudeau for a discussion on their early years, the hills and valleys of the journey and the beauty of longevity. The conversation, moderated by longtime 92NY host Budd Mishkin, was streamed live as part of the The 92nd Street Y, New York online talks series on May 7, 2023.
2023-05-121h 02
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinMy 15 Minutes (as a pitcher on your New York Mets); My Own "Before The Cheering Started" StorySend us a textWe are taking a week off from the interviews this week on "Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin" as we prepare new conversations with comedian Chris Gethard, Grammy Award winning record producer Russ Titelman, Grammy Award winning musician Bobby Sanabria, chef and writer extraordinaire Gabrielle Hamilton and more.So this week, another of my own "Before The Cheering Started" stories, a story of fame, albeit fleeting. Very fleeting. All I had to do was be somebody else. For 15 minutes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...
2023-05-1010 min
The WPSPJ Podcast1010 WINS anchor Budd MishkinSend us a textBudd Mishkin, a news anchor for 1010 WINS, discusses the importance of preparation in reporting and the key to getting a journalism job.
2023-05-0719 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinMarshall Crenshaw: Hitting All Of The Right NotesSend us a textWe all have musicians who really speak to us, whose music thrills us in good times and sustains us in hard times. Marshall Crenshaw is one such musician for me. From the first notes of the first album in 1982, I was in. And I've never left. He grew up near one of the great American music cities, Detroit. His music reflects that influence, the early experiences on the road out West and then finally coming to New York. Like so many wonderful artists, he had early success on the radio and then kept on writin...
2023-05-0337 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinFareed Zakaria: Voice Of Reason At An Unreasonable TimeSend us a textIt didn't take long for Fareed Zakaria to impress friends, colleagues and policy makers. As a graduate student, he was invited to the White House to offer his thoughts on foreign policy issues. His path led from writing op eds for The New York Times to editing magazines, writing books and finally broadcast news. He brings to his work a rich lifetime of experiences, including growing up in India with a love for Tennyson and I Love Lucy and arriving in New Haven for college as a young man in love with the United Sta...
2023-04-2643 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinMike Breen: Nothing But NetSend us a textTo excel in any field, there must be passion. And preparation. Millions of basketball fans have seen these qualities in Mike Breen's work for some 30 years, broadcasting New York Knicks and NBA games. He honed his skills at an iconic New York radio station that has produced scores of sportscasters and sports reporters, WFUV of Fordham University. There were some early years when the path forward wasn't clear and Mike came close to quitting. But some parental support and a seminal phone call opened the door to the rest of his career and Mike was on...
2023-04-1934 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinBaratunde Thurston: Insightful. Smart. FunnySend us a textIt's actually a gift to interview Baratunde Thurston. He is so thoughtful and perceptive that the conversation introduces me to issues I never considered and concepts I think I understand but was never able to put into words. And that is a gift. His insight is on display in his writing for Puck News, his 2012 book "How To Be Black," his podcast "How To Citizen With Baratunde" and his PBS show "America Outdoors With Baratunde Thurston." If you already know his work, I think this conversation will fill you in on his early years and...
2023-04-1235 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinSuzyn Waldman: A PioneerSend us a textA generation of young New York Yankee fans have grown up listening to Suzyn Waldman as the color commentator on the Yankee radio broadcasts. To the young women listeners, she is nothing less than a pioneer, a powerful symbol that anything is possible, including calling baseball games on the radio. She's been a fixture on the New York baseball scene since the mid 1980's. But many of those who view her as a mentor may not know that she previously had a long career in theater. Broadway stages and baseball stadiums may seem worlds apar...
2023-04-0544 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinRichard Kind: An Actor's LifeSend us a textI've had the pleasure of interviewing a lot of wonderful storytellers. Richard Kind is second to none. His stories are humorous and poignant, with lessons learned along the way. He works constantly, but there were years of struggle and sacrifice that are part of almost every actor's resume. And there were the seminal years that opened the window to the rest of his career, his time at the iconic Second City in Chicago. He can be seen now on the terrific CBS police show East New York. Richard is an integral part of a lunch...
2023-03-2939 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinMichelle Miller: A Storyteller Tells Her Own StorySend us a textWe journalists like to say that we are not the story. We tell the story. But the story of some journalists is just as compelling as any they will tell. And the story of Michelle Miller of CBS News is absolutely compelling. Her new memoir is called “Belonging: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love. It is the story of Michelle’s search for a connection to her biological mother, who abandoned Michelle after she was born for various personal and societal reasons. She internalized the story early on growing up in Los Angeles...
2023-03-2233 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinJean Chatzky: Demystifying Personal FinanceSend us a textJean Chatzky is a business journalist and personal finance advocate. What is not written on her resume is that for much of her career she has served as a translator. She's taken the intricacies of the world of finance and made them approachable for millions, primarily but not exclusively, for women. She did this via magazine articles and 25 years of appearances on The Today Show. The work continues on her podcast Her Money with Jean Chatzky, along with two coaching programs: FinanceFixx and InvestingFixx. The journey to becoming a financial influencer for millions was indire...
2023-03-1536 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinMichael Dorf: If You Build It...Send us a textWhen Michael Dorf was growing up in suburban Milwaukee, he liked to build. Friends and neighbors actually let him build not only their treehouses but their rec rooms. The love of building has never stopped. That sense of what could be has led him to create two of New York's most iconic concert venues and an annual series of concerts at Carnegie Hall that give underserved kids the magic of music. There were early years in New York when this success was by no means guaranteed. But there was plenty of passion and purpose. Still...
2023-03-0843 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinJane Green: Telling Women's Stories to Women....and MenSend us a textIn her 20's, Jane Green took a leap. She was already an established newspaper and magazine writer in London. Jane quit her job and gave herself three months to write her first novel and get a book deal. It worked out pretty well, with millions of books sold and several ending up on The New York Times Bestseller List. Now she has created Emerald Audacy, a podcast network which promotes itself as "Connection and Community through female-driven storytelling." Some 25 years later, Jane Green is taking another leap.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn...
2023-03-0139 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinMarcus Samuelsson: Cooking The Delicious MosaicSend us a textGo be unique in New York. You say you have a background that is out of the norm? Who doesn't? In New York, out of the norm IS THE NORM. And yet, a special place is reserved for the story of Marcus Samuelsson, one of the city's and the country's best known chefs and restaurateurs by way of his native Ethiopia and the country where he was raised, Sweden. It's all part of one big picture for Marcus Samuelsson, combining a love of cooking and community with a sense of who he is and why he...
2023-02-2231 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinJoshua Henry: Big Talent in the Big TownSend us a textIf we are fortunate, we meet a teacher and mentor when we're young who opens the door to possibilities, a window to the rest of your life. Joshua Henry had that experience in high school. He then surrounded himself with music and shows and performing at the University of Miami. From there it was on to New York, soon getting hired as part of the original cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda's In The Heights. His ascent as an actor and musician continues, with a passion and drive and work ethic he learned growing up as the...
2023-02-1530 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinJohn Linnell: One of the GiantsSend us a textJohn Linnell is one half of the beloved musical duo They Might Be Giants. For 40 plus years, John Linnell and John Flansburgh have been making fun, quirky, memorable music. Really good music. For adults. For kids. For everyone. Their friendship dates back even longer to growing up just outside of Boston. My conversation with John Linnell is about that friendship and the early years of a musical partnership: a first gig that actually involved the then new Sandinista government, getting their video on MTV at a time when no one in their Brooklyn neighborhood had MTV...
2023-02-0837 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinJeremy Schaap: Telling Society's Stories Through The Prism Of SportsSend us a textSports fans around the country know Jeremy Schaap for his decades long award winning work on ESPN. I was fortunate to get to know him just as his career was just starting before he was a network anchor and correspondent. He was really smart with a great work ethic and you knew that big things lay ahead. He also was properly respectful of the work and legacy of his father Dick Schaap while blazing his own trail and creating his own career. And he occasionally laughed at my jokes. How could you not love that...
2023-02-0142 min
Stories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinThat Time I Cost The Giants A Playoff GameIt ain't over 'til it's over. So true. So true.
The New York Giants are back in the playoffs and their fans are pretty excited about a second round playoff game this Saturday night against the Philadelphia Eagles. It's been a while since the Giants have been in the playoffs. But whenever they are in the playoffs, I recall a game during which I made one of the cardinal mistakes of sports journalism. Trust me...it's easy to remember "That Time I Cost The Giants A Playoff Game."
2023-01-2008 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinMajora Carter: Thought LeaderSend us a textI've interviewed hundreds of prominent people through the years. Occasionally I am asked, "who is the most interesting, thoughtful person you ever interviewed?" It is an unanswerable question. But suffice it to say that Majora Carter is part of that conversation. I've interviewed her twice . Each time I have come away from the interview a smarter person thanks to Majora. Her thoughts on issues like environmental racism and community talent retention opened my eyes to realities that didn't affect me personally. So it got me to think about these topics and ask myself some diffic...
2023-01-1839 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinRobert Klein: The InspirationSend us a textYou don't have to be a standup comedian to love Robert Klein. My friends and I listened to his comedy albums religiously and knew the routines cold. During one interview with Robert years later, I recalled an old, great bit of his that he had actually forgotten, not uncommon in the admirer/artist relationship. But the fact of the matter is that the generation of top stand-ups who came after Robert Klein...Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Paul Reiser...all revered him and have often cited him as one of the main inspirations for getting int...
2023-01-1149 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinPaul Reiser: Perfect TimingSend us a textPaul Reiser always loved comedians. He and a friend created a club in high school for comedy fans and actually called New York comedy clubs to ask if any comedians were available to come and speak to them. But be a comedian? Not surprisingly, like so many who chose an unorthodox, non 9-5 path, his parents had to be convinced. Early on, Paul even suggested getting a letter from a successful comedian, confirming that Paul had talent. And he did have talent, as we've all seen through the years on his TV shows, movies, standu...
2023-01-0443 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinMy Own "Before the Cheering Started" Story: Ski Reports From the BathroomSend us a textWe are taking a week off from the interviews this week and gearing up for the new year and a lot of wonderful episodes. So this week....my own "Before The Cheering Started" story. Broadcast journalists don't usually get cheers, nor should they. We tell stories. We are not the story. But before I reached some level of professional fulfillment and success, I had more than a few chapters of "what am I doing" and "will this ever work out." I've decided to focus on one story. Doing ski reports in my small New York Ci...
2022-12-2812 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinMarta Kauffman and David Crane: The friends who made FriendsSend us a textI first met Marta Kauffman and David Crane in the late 1970's through a mutual friend. It was immediately apparent that they were really smart and really clever. Beyond funny. Clever. And it was pretty clear that they were going to be successful. Eventually, they became incredibly successful, creating Friends, a TV show seen around the world. But on the path to Friends, there were more than a few obstacles and periods of struggle. The early years, the "Before The Cheering Started" years, were the focus of our conversation in 2021: writing award winning shows in coll...
2022-12-2140 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinJohn Pizzarelli: Hitting All The Right NotesSend us a textJohn Pizzarelli is a remarkable performer, combining guitar virtuosity, musical knowledge and a clever sense of humor to create a memorable night of music. I've known John for a long time, watching him grow from playing clubs in New Jersey and New York to venues all around the world. His love affair with music started early, listening and watching his father Bucky Pizzarelli play with friends and family around the house. The torch was eventually passed and John has run with it, creating a career of sweet sounds.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...
2022-12-1451 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinSteven Van Zandt: A Musical Journey - Part 2Send us a textI've interviewed Steven Van Zandt several times and I always hear a story that I've never heard before. In part 2 of our conversation, he discusses leaving the E Street Band in the 1980's to pursue his music and politics, including the anti apartheid anthem Sun City. We also discuss the notion of "Before The Cheering Resumed," the years in between the first blush of fame and the popularity of The Sopranos and the reunion of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, when Steven spent much of the 1990's walking his dog near his apartm...
2022-12-0732 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinSteven Van Zandt: A Musical Journey - Part 1Send us a textSteven Van Zandt is an interviewer's dream. He's thoughtful, reflective and funny. Very funny. I've had the pleasure of interviewing Steven several times. This interview is from 2021, as Steven was putting the finishing touches on his compelling memoir "Unrequited Infatuations." So it was a perfect time to talk to him about the early years: growing up as a rock 'n roll obsessed kid unpopular both at home and in town, early gigs down the Jersey Shore and the decision to give up the music business as his friend Bruce Springsteen was entering into it. It's b...
2022-11-3030 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinScott Turow: Architect of the Legal ThrillerSend us a textScott Turow's love of writing started early, growing up reading newspapers in Chicago. Initially, there were years of unpublished novels and unrealized dreams. But there was also a love of the law. On the commuter train into his law job, those two loves came together. He wrote while others dozed or read the paper. The result was Presumed Innocent. Scott Turow was on his way.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-11-2337 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinAasif Mandvi: A Long Journey and a Dream RealizedSend us a textAasif Mandvi was 40 when he got the call that changed the arc of his career, a call to audition for The Daily Show. He had what he called "little wins" to propel his career prior to that, including an acclaimed off Broadway show called "Sakina's Restaurant" in which he created and performed numerous characters. But far too frequently, he was offered roles that were stereotypical of Hollywood's treatment of actors of South Asian descent. He is a joy to interview, forever thoughtful and reflective about what it's like to be a brown man in Wes...
2022-11-1639 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinColum McCann: Irish Soul, American WriterSend us a textColum McCann grew up in Ireland, a land that has produced more than a few notable writers. And yet it was an early love of the American Beat writers that partly drew him to writing. As a young man, he fell in love with America as he toured the country....by bike. His unique style of writing is beloved by readers all over the world, for books like Transatlantic, Apeirogon and a novel that is not specifically about 9/11 but is seen as a 9/11 allegory, Let The Great World Spin. McCann is an amazing storyteller, and...
2022-11-0936 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinLouis Cato: Leader of the BandSend us a textLouis Cato is feeling the full effects of the spotlight these days, as the new bandleader for "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." He's been a member of the band since the start of the show in 2015, an opportunity that actually came about thanks in part to a dental appointment. He's been playing instruments for as long as he can remember. His talent has taken him around the world, a musical journey that started in a small town in North Carolina.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
2022-11-0239 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinDropping 11/2/2022 - "The Late Show" Bandleader, Louis CatoBudd's next guest will be "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert's" Bandleader, Louis Cato. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Follow us so you never miss an episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-10-2801 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinBill Bradley: Lessons Beyond The CourtSend us a textBill Bradley has spent much of his life in the public eye: as one of the best college basketball players in the country at Princeton, as a professional player and influential part of a team that won two NBA titles and as a US Senator from New Jersey. He heard plenty of cheers as a member of the New York Knicks of the late 60’s and early 70’s, one of the most beloved teams in the city’s history. But it is those chapters in between the most prominent periods of his life that intrigue...
2022-10-2637 minBefore The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinDropping 10/26/2022 - Basketball Hall of Famer and Former US Senator, Bill BradleyJoining Budd on "Before the Cheering Started" is Basketball Hall of Famer and former US Senator, Bill Bradley. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Thanks for joining us, on the journey.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-10-2101 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinPatrick Radden Keefe: On Writing and RoguesSend us a textPatrick Radden Keefe is a gifted writer, on subjects ranging from the Troubles in Northern Ireland ("Say Nothing"), one family's role in the opioid crisis ("Empire of Pain") to his latest book "Rogues," a collection of his pieces in The New Yorker. And there is an utterly compelling podcast called "Wind of Change," all about the rumor that the CIA may have written a song about the changes in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, an experience that prepared him for a li...
2022-10-1940 minBefore The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinDropping 10/19/2022: Author and Podcast Host, Patrick Radden KeefeAward winning writer and podcaster, Patrick Radden Keefe joins Budd next week. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Follow and leave a rating and review.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-10-1401 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinTony Gilroy: From a Small Town to the Star Wars GalaxySend us a textTony Gilroy has known the top of the entertainment industry, as the screenwriter for the Bourne movies, the writer and director of the Oscar nominated film "Michael Clayton" and now the creator of the Disney + Star War series "Andor." He grew up learning about the life of a writer by watching his father, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and screenwriter Frank Gilroy. And he grew up in an upstate New York small town right next to my own.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-10-1241 minBefore The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinDropping 10/12/2022 - Executive Producer of "Andor", Tony GilroyNext week on Before the Cheering Started, Tony Gilroy, the Executive Producer of "Andor", the writer of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Michael Clayton and the Bourne Series joins Budd for an in depth discussion about his early years and his path to Hollywood.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-10-0701 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinJacqueline Woodson: A Beacon From BrooklynSend us a textJacqueline Woodson always loved to read and write. But growing up in Brooklyn, she didn't see herself represented in her beloved books. She has helped to change that, serving as a beacon for young, aspiring black and brown writers and more. Books such as Brown Girl Dreaming and Another Brooklyn have earned her numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship in 2020. Her books are read around the world, but the Brooklyn neighborhood of her youth is never far away.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...
2022-10-0539 minBefore The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinDropping 10/5/2022 - Award-Winning Author, Jacqueline WoodsonBudd is joined by award-winning author, Jacqueline Woodson. Full episode drops Wednesday October 5th, 2022.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-09-3001 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinDarren Walker: The Business of HopeSend us a textFord Foundation President Darren Walker says he knows what it's like to live life on the margins. He grew up poor economically but rich in love and hope, riding what he calls the "mobility escalator" to the University of Texas, then law school, Wall Street, a non profit in Harlem and now heading an institution that gives an estimated half a billion dollars in grant money annually. He has a respect for the journey he's been on and the passion to help young Darren Walkers on their journeys all around the world.See omnystudio.co...
2022-09-2836 minBefore The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinDropping 9/28/2022 - Ford Foundation President Darren WalkerNext week Budd sits down with the President of The Ford Foundation, Darren Walker.
New episodes drop every Wednesday. Be sure to follow and leave a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-09-2301 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinNorma Kamali: Fifty years of clothing and empowering womenSend us a textNorma Kamali has been at the forefront of the fashion world for more than five decades. "Before The Cheering Started," she combined an early love of painting and design with an intrigue for the mod fashions of London in the 60's and a "why not me" attitude. The result? A brand that started in a small store in New York and is now known around the world. Norma Kamali, respectful of the past but not living in it and still going strong after all these years.To see Norma's styles and clothes, visit her web...
2022-09-2139 minBefore The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinDropping 9/21/22 - Fashion Icon, Norma KamaliBe sure to listen to the next episode of Before the Cheering Started. Budd's guest is the great fashion designer, Norma Kamali.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-09-1602 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinHugh Evans: From Inspired Teenager to Global CitizenSend us a textHugh Evans is the creator force behind the annual Global Citizen Festival in New York, celebrating its tenth year on September 24th. He's the co-Founder and CEO of Global Citizen, an international non profit that has raised millions and inspired millions in the effort to end extreme poverty. From his childhood in Australia, Evans was eager to learn about the world's poor and how he could help, including life changing trips to the Philippines, India and South Africa. People are drawn to him: world leaders, celebrities, change agents and everyone who comes into his orb...
2022-09-1440 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinDropping 9/14/2022: Hugh Evans: Global Citizen Co-Founder & CEOA NEW episode of "Before the Cheering Started" with Budd Mishkin drops Wednesday, September 14th. This week's guest is Global Citizen Co-Founder and CEO, Hugh Evans...here's a preview.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2022-09-0901 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinPart 2: Bob Costas: The Sandberg game, the Olympics and The MickSend us a textBob Costas has been a fixture in our homes on television for four decades, announcing and hosting thousands of sporting events, including the World Series, the Super Bowl, the NBA playoffs and the Olympics. His talent spread beyond the world of sports as the host of NBC's "Later with Bob Costas." And it led him on the unlikely journey from idolizing his childhood sports hero Mickey Mantle to giving the eulogy at Mantle's funeral.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-09-0729 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinPart 1: Bob Costas: From the transistor radio to the networkSend us a textBob Costas had a meteoric rise in broadcasting, from Syracuse University to KMOX Radio in St. Louis to the networks. But before Costas was a fixture on our televisions, he announced minor league hockey, ABA basketball and even was a substitute host on "Bowling for Dollars" in Syracuse. In part one of our conversation with Bob Costas, growing up on Long Island as a sports crazed kid, listening to out of town games on the car radio, the advice he got from the high school baseball coach who cut him, opportunities while he was a...
2022-09-0731 min
Before The Cheering Started with Budd MishkinWelcome to Before the Cheering StartedSend us a text"Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin," a new podcast all about the journey to success: the doubt, terrible first jobs, plan B's and the passion to push forward and realize a dream. Compelling conversations with musician/actor/activist Steven Van Zandt, the co creators of Friends, Marta Kauffman and David Crane, broadcaster Bob Costas and musician John Pizzarelli. "Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin,"New episodes drop in September. Join us for the journey.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-08-1903 min
Stories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinA Coat A Curse And The CupWhat do you remember from the most memorable sports night of your life?Welcome to the latest episode of "Stories from the First 60 Years."This episode..."A Coat A Curse And The Cup."
2022-06-1413 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinRuth Gehrig Dimaggio Mantle Horace Clarke: The Ties That Bind Through SportsThe recent unveiling of the statue of Tom Seaver at Citi Field in New York elicited an understandable outpouring of emotion for the pitcher known as "The Franchise." Seaver died on August 31, 2020. A few weeks before that, another former New York baseball player died. There will be no statues of Horace Clarke outside Yankee Stadium. He became a symbol for an era in Yankees baseball that the franchise would prefer to forget. It's easy to root for a team when it is winning championships. But the true fan roots for a team just as passionately during bad times and rememb...
2022-04-1910 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinThe FranchiseWhen the New York Mets unveiled the statue of Tom Seaver at Citi Field Friday before their home opener, it reminded me of this piece I wrote after Seaver died on August 31, 2020. It's about Seaver, but mostly about the ties that bind through sports and my father.I hope you enjoy "The Franchise," the latest episode of the personal narrative podcast "Stories from the First 60 Years."
2022-04-1607 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinPostgamePostgame. It's one of the stranger aspects of journalism, specifically sports journalism. You enter someone else's home, a locker room, and ask them about their job performance. I covered a thousand post game locker rooms. Post practice too. These are some of the lessons learned and memorable stories...moments that were funny, angry, monotonous, poignant and occasionally human.
2021-12-0224 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinThe Giants Won The PennantSometimes, the power of a phrase transcends the years, eliciting a smile 70 years later.Welcome to the latest episode of "Stories from the First 60 Years."
2021-10-0510 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd Mishkin9/11 in Southeast AsiaWhat is it like to grieve for your city from halfway around the world?Welcome to the latest episode of "Stories from the First 60 Years."In this episode, a conversation with my wife Peri Smilow as we remember 9/11 and the days and weeks after that terrible day, leading Jewish High Holiday services and holding on tight far away from home.
2021-09-1129 min92NY TalksThe Road to 9/11: Jim O'Grady with Budd MishkinAward-winning WNYC reporter Jim O'Grady sits down with longtime 92Y host Budd Mishkin to discuss Blindspot: The Road to 9/11, the eight-episode podcast from HISTORY and WNYC Studios that's hosted by O'Grady who was part of the team that covered 9/11 for The New York Times. It tells the story of FBI agents and terrorists, public events and private meetings, signs missed and opportunities lost. The conversation was recorded on September 9, 2021 in front of a live audience at New York's 92nd Street Y.
2021-09-1057 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinGreatest Rosh Hashanah EverYou don't have to be Jewish to enjoy this story about being somewhere on a day when you shouldn't have been there. And that's why it was the "Greatest Rosh Hashanah Ever."
2021-09-0410 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinRod Gilbert. Number 7. My Guy.What does it feel like when the sports hero of your youth dies? Now I know.
2021-08-2410 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinThe Night John Starks Lost...And WonWe've all known difficult times, though most of us don't have to endure them publicly. But what if the worst night of your professional life unfolds for all to see? How we respond to the struggle says a lot more about us than the struggle itself. Welcome to the latest episode of Stories from the First 60 Years.
2021-06-2308 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinLetters From My Father Vol. 2When a loved one dies, you have memories, pictures and stories. And if you're lucky, letters...letters that reveal how the loved one was thinking long before he became your father.Welcome to the latest episode of "Stories from the First 60 Years:" Letters From My Father Vol. 2.
2021-05-3107 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinLetters From My Father Vol. 1You thought you'd heard all of the stories about a parent who died years ago. Then comes another story from out of the blue, an amazing story and an unforgettable letter. Welcome to the latest episode of "Stories from the First 60 Years."
2021-04-2111 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinHalberstamMeeting your heroes can be tricky. What if it doesn't go well? This is the story of a time when it indeed went well, an example of the great Wayne Gretzky's mantra, "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take." And an example of why it's so important to take those shots...now.
2021-04-0913 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinPassover and the PopeLong before Covid, it was not unusual for our work lives and personal lives to clash. Same for our professional desires and family obligations. Throw in religion, spirituality and tradition and you have the makings of "Passover and the Pope," the latest episode of the personal narrative series "Stories from the First 60 Years."
2021-03-2710 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinThe Third Best Steve Martin Impersonator in PhiladelphiaAll of us have done an impersonation at some point in our lives. But have you ever let an impersonation take over your life? I hope you enjoy the latest episode of "Stories from the First 60 Years."
2021-03-2012 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinIT COULD HAPPEN TO YOUWho doesn't love the movies? Watching them? Great. But being in one? I hope you enjoy "It Could Happen To You," the latest episode of the podcast "Stories from the First 60 Years."
2021-03-1313 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinThe Bottom LineIs there a special place for you that no longer exists, a building whose absence punches you in the gut every time you walk by where it used to be and stare at its absence? I hope you enjoy the latest episode of "Stories from the First 60 Years."
2021-03-0511 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinStories from the First 60 Years with Budd Mishkin (Trailer)
2021-03-0500 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinBeate I Hardly Knew YeIf we are fortunate, a person streaks across our horizon when we are young, never to be forgotten. I hope you enjoy the latest episode of "Stories from the First 60 Years:" "Beate I Hardly Knew Ye."
2021-02-2613 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinMy 15 MinutesWhat do the 0.00000001% experience? Have you ever considered what it would be like to lose your anonymity? I never pondered until one Saturday night in Philadelphia.
2021-02-1510 minStories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinRegrets, I've Had TwoWe've all experienced it. You see one of your musical/literary/acting/sports heroes and it's a perfect setting for a succinct, poignant thank you. And you approach and say....
2021-02-0814 min
Stories from the First 60 Years with Budd MishkinTHE NIGHT KOBE CAME TO THE RUCKERWhen Kobe Bryant died in January, 2020, most of the memories centered around his Hall of Fame NBA career. But my mind went first to a memorable night in New York City in 2002 that only a select few were on hand to witness. That's why Episode 1 of "Stories from the First 60 Years" is called "The Night Kobe Came To The Rucker."
2021-02-0107 min
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkGraham Nash with Budd Mishkin: 92Y Talks Episode 85In this episode of 92Y Talks, legendary singer-songwriter Graham Nash talks about his varied music career spanning the past five decades and his new solo record, This Path Tonight, with NY1's Budd Mishkin. The conversation was recorded on Feb 25, 2016 in front of a live audience at New York's 92nd Street Y.
2016-04-0853 min
Embrace The Eye-Opening Full Audiobook Experience!Bob Costas in Conversation with Budd Mishkin by Bob CostasPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/63059to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Bob Costas in Conversation with Budd Mishkin
Author: Bob Costas
Narrator: Budd Mishkin
Format: mp3
Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
Release date: 08-24-09
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 8 ratings
Genres: Sociology of Sports
Publisher's Summary:
2009-08-241h 43