Bryan Curtis
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952 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 2 Jun
Bryan Curtis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It felt to me like going from place A to place B was part of the subtext of that. You know, we created this. We won. Right. For 20 years, we won the studio show war over ESPN. Now they're paying us to come over there. Some of us got new contracts, which we heard a ton about the last year and change to go over there. But it also felt like that was a little bit of what Barkley was saying.
Those bozos over there, whatever word he used. And now we're going over there. That was interesting to me.
Yeah, and it's not apples to apples. Because if Charles Barkley was hosting a show every weekday morning, the A block would not be Thunder and Cats. Exactly. The show would not lead with it.
I think every decision, or just about every decision they've made over the last couple of years, goes to two things. Get ready for the first ever ESPN Super Bowl in two years. That's Joe and Troy, that's SVP to Monday Night Countdown, that's changing the producer of Monday Night Football, etc., Number two, get ready for the launch of Flagship this fall, their streaming service.
And when you think about it like that, you're like, why was Around the Horn canceled? Oh, not bucket number one, not bucket number two. Why is Zach Lowe no longer there when he's the best basketball writer on the planet? Oh, not number one, not number two. And to me, it's so focused on those two things, especially the second thing, especially Flagship, that if you just read it like that,
the decisions, whether we agree with them or not, start to all make sense to me.
Do you think the flagship thing is going to work? That's a question. But that to me is that's their existential question. Like we have to get this thing to work. We're moving out of cable world. We're moving into streaming world. This thing has to work. Every decision, right? Why do we pay so much for the college football playoff again? Why do we buy the SEC? Why do we do?
That's all flagship stuff. And when you get left out of that conversation, if you're ESPN Radio, let's say, right, mentioned around the horn, if you're not in that directly, is there a place anymore? Are they that worried about you? And I think the answer is obviously no.
I think it's mostly that though. I think they do like stars. And since that's Manning stuff, maybe that gets grandfathered in to the plan. Right. Cause if you're, if you're a star, then you get to do different things. Right.
Well, I'm with Ryan. Like the key is to also, will it just be able to roll into the night? Cause that's the magic of the show. If it, if it doesn't roll into the night, it's not inside the NBA. Yeah.
And you think reinvent it, like making it longer, making it different, making it quicker reacts to something?
Well, that's the thing is I think when we talk about ESPN as a streaming service rather than a cable channel, just the entire calculus is different because you're no longer thinking about, hey, we got to get from 5 to 5.30, then we got to have another ride home show from 5.30 to 6. Like that thinking isn't the same, right? If you were watching television at 5 or 5.30 in the afternoon,
And you're choosing through a bunch of streaming options. You can watch 10,000 movies. You can watch White Lotus. You can watch whatever the hell you want. So my prediction would be, look, if they get Tony Mike to do an hour, I'm sure they'd love that because that shows Grandfather Dan. That shows a hit on its own rights.
But what I think they're going to do with a whole daytime lineup is just other than the things we talked about. Let's just go inexpensive. Let's get through the day because our big wins in streaming will be games and stuff attached to games. And that's it. That's that's the business. I just think that's what it is. And I think the whole daytime part of ESPN gets devalued.
It wouldn't be the first time it's happened in the history of cable. That's when I was a kid. That was all cables like, oh, press your luck reruns on for the next four hours. Right. I mean, and I think, Ryan, I think you're exactly right. And I think it's but it's all of television. Right. We're just so used to this thing of like, oh, it's midmorning. That means there's game shows.
And then there's these, you know, soap operas are going to start all these things. And I just think when the future is streaming, you know, it's not happy if it's our friends that are affected by it or people we like. But it's like they just don't. It's just not that important to them anymore. It's so clear. I mean, we know this, right? They're not like, hey, we're losing a daytime hit show.
Let's come up with another one. Let's get Ride Home Industries to come up with another one to replace. They're just not thinking that way anymore.
I think that's still the magic of TV is when you can just go live with stuff like that. I mean, I'm the same way.
house and i just would have like moved rooms because i just wanted to hear the show so bad and i do wonder like that that sensation has to be gone these days right curtis there's no i think there's no show like that anymore no i mean i do i do think the luke is such an extreme example but that night i mean first of all when i saw that you guys were taping i was like here we go i'm ready i'm excited about that but then when i saw that that wind horse had gotten on espn and they like kind of bro caught him onto the network onto the air and got him in a suit
like someone had just died, you know, like it was like, this is big, you know, Brian's awake. Brian's in a suit. Brian's ready to go. Like that was like, as a viewer, I'm like, this is exciting. You know, this makes me feel like, Holy shit. Something amazing has just happened.
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