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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

South Beach Sessions - Al Michaels

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.631.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and Olympics may have its individual legends, but Al Michaels is the legendary voice of them all. One of the greatest sports broadcasters of all time shares with Dan his most cherished moments and iconic calls from six decades of covering the most major prime-time sports events of any announcer. Al reveals how it all began for him, how he created the career of his dreams and how equal parts luck and skill turned him into the man he is today. Al also tells Dan what he learned from the incredible broadcast partners like John Madden and Cris Collinsworth he's had along the way, and he explains the reason why he's not looking to retire anytime soon. The legacy of Al Michaels continues... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to South Deep Sessions. We had to come out and see this man.

1:00.3

This man, we fly to see the legends around here.

1:03.2

I have heard this man's voice in my life since I was 12 years old.

1:07.1

I've never met him, and I feel like I sort of know you, but I also feel like you do a very

1:12.4

good job in public for many years of broadcasting of people not knowing you. So I am hoping to

1:17.8

learn a little more. Al Michaels, thank you for making the time for us. Great to be here. You can't

1:21.6

get rid of me. I want to keep you around for a while because I think your career is fascinating,

1:26.3

and I'm also curious the hows and the roots of how you do it so what is your relationship

1:31.9

with the work I think the key thing is passion and people have said to me

1:37.8

obviously at this point of my life aren't you going to retire and I would if I didn't have the passion.

1:45.3

It's real simple.

1:47.3

I think I will know when it's definitely time when I can't do the job.

1:53.5

That's a different thing.

1:54.8

Health, of course, plays into that too, Dan.

1:58.0

But to me, the whole thing is wanting to be there, loving to be there. As a kid

2:04.0

growing up, my father took me to my first baseball game at Ebbets Field. We could walk. We lived in Brooklyn.

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