Chuck Swirsky

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4,437 appearances 27 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 1 Sep

Chuck Swirsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Rahimi & Grote Show · Bulls announcer Chuck Swirsky reflects on his 50 years in broadcasting! · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

So that's my goal. voice-verified

Good question. voice-verified

I would say number one, I'm very grateful. voice-verified

Uh this is what I wanted to do when I was a little boy, and I mean that sincerely. voice-verified

I was five years young. voice-verified

I remember breaking my mom's broomstick uh and tried to hang it up from a light bulb and use it as a microphone. voice-verified

Yeah, my dad really appreciated that. voice-verified

Um, but uh yeah, one thing led to the next and here I am. voice-verified

Well, actually we did not have a television when I grew up. voice-verified

My I w I wouldn't say my parents were rigid, but they believed that um we need to go home, do our homework, and then on the weekends we would create with my two sisters uh some type of form of entertainment and we'd do a play. voice-verified

We'd concoct real life characters for a play. voice-verified

And we would do that on Sundays and voice-verified

And on Saturdays it was a time where we would spend as a family, whether that meant uh because my father really wasn't into sports, he was a decorated naval officer, and so I would go I was basically raised on a naval base, and so I would go aboard his ship. voice-verified

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He was the uh commanding officer of the USS Sierra, the eighty eighteen. voice-verified

Wow, and uh that was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia in voice-verified

In uh the Virginia Beach uh Tidewater area. voice-verified

And then we were transferred to Seattle. voice-verified

And so when I was in Seattle, um, we were there for a year, and unfortunately, he died suddenly uh when I was in the sixth grade, so that kind of really reframed things in our family. voice-verified

Uh my mom was an elementary school teacher, she taught third grade, and voice-verified

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