Ernie Johnson
speaker
491 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 11 Jun
Ernie Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're going to want to jump in and say, a lot of guys can do what I do. And they do on a nightly basis. There are a bunch of guys out there who are great studio hosts.
I knew you were going to cut me off.
The job is what I do, it's not who I am. And the job has been very good to me and my family and has paid the bills for a long, long time. Much more than I deserve. But it's my job. And there was a time in my life where the job was right here. And now it's moved into its proper place. Because I think sometimes we get so driven and get so ambitious that it overtakes everything.
And so it took me a while to learn that and to realize that you can be good at your job without being consumed by it.
I remember a specific incident that kind of told me, what are you doing? This was back in local TV, WSB in Atlanta. And I'm the weekend sports anchor. And they give me about six and a half minutes out of that half hour. And on a weekend you got a lot of stuff going on. You got Georgia football, Georgia Tech football. There's more than enough to fill up six and a half minutes.
And I sat down to do my segment. And the producer notified me that she had mistimed the show. So you got three instead of six and a half. Okay, so I didn't really go off at that point, but I kind of crammed this stuff in and got off the air and in front of the production crew as she is apologizing to me I was, I just, I got in her face. She's against the wall of the control room.
And I am just letting her have it. And it was, it was absolutely, it was, it was off the charts vile. And I walked away proud of it. Und es hat mich jahrelang überrascht. Und es hat mich überrascht, weil ich es nie verabschiedet hätte. Und einige Jahre später, lo und behold, hat dieser Produzent von WSB weitergezogen. Er ist jetzt bei CNN. Und ich habe zu ihr gesprochen.
Mit einem E-Mail zuerst und dann später Face-to-Face. Und ich sagte, ich weiß nicht, ob du mich erinnerst. Und sie sagte, ja, ich erinnere dich. Und ich sagte, schau, ich bin, das ist Jahre zu spät, aber ich bin sorry. Und ich sagte, du weißt nicht, wie sorry ich bin. Ich kann es nicht mal ausdrücken. Und ich frage dich einfach, mich zu vergeben.
Und sie sagte, ich habe dich verabschiedet, sobald du es gemacht hast, weil das ist, was meine Glauben mir sagt, zu tun. Und ich war wie gerockt. Und es war wirklich, das war der definierende Moment, der sagte, geh über dich selbst, geh über deinen Job, geh über dein Ego. Und Realize where this fits into the big picture. And it's not at the mountaintop.
There's a place for it, but that's not where it is.
But I see I was already infected with it. Because that was my reaction. I was already infected in it because you saw my reaction to her. Like, how dare you? And that's just so... And part of the reason it hurt so bad? Because it was everything my dad wasn't. Because I learned everything from him.
Everything about how to be a professional, how to prepare, all the preparation, that's from watching my dad. That's from going to the ballpark and watching him six hours before first pitch, doing his interviews, sitting down with his scorebook, doing his notes. I learned all that there. And so when I considered what I had done to this producer, I was like, my dad never would have done that.
And I, you know, thankfully was able to rectify that. And Ich wollte ihr Entschuldigung suchen. Wie wusste ich, dass sie mich verabschiedet hat?
Weil. Weil das nicht ich bin. Vielleicht... Es schmerzt... Vielleicht, weil Leute denken, dass Ernie nie jemandem etwas schlechtes gesagt hat. Ja, das habe ich. Und manchmal bin ich ein totaler Scheiß. Es braucht viel ... Es braucht viel Intention, um das Richtige zu tun. Und ... Ja, das Richtige zu tun, die richtige Person zu sein. Und nicht mit Abwechslung ausgedrückt zu werden.
Denn sobald du auf diesem Zug fährst, Where every good thing said about you, you're kind of like, oh, here I'm coming. I'm getting that puffed up chest again. Oh, don't mess with my show because I might go off again. No, I can't do that. That's why you just have to take all of that with, hey, it's very nice. I appreciate the fact that you like the show. I appreciate the fact you like me.
And I'm not going to get carried away with that. And I'm not going to get carried away with the folks who say, man, you're an idiot. I hate you on baseball. You're this, you know. And so I think I've had to learn over the years just to all of that in and not put too much emphasis on it.
And, you know, you got into the, you mentioned the spiritual part of this equation, and that was huge for me, because, you know, I'm not going to turn this into sunrise sermonette, but I was, you know, I'm a good Catholic boy growing up, you know, you're going to Mother Good Counsel School, you know, you're going to St.
Jude's in Atlanta, you're, you know, you're an altar boy and all this, and then when I went to Georgia, it was like... am Sonntagabend, wenn ich am Sonntagabend schlafen muss. Ich habe also nicht Gott einen Haufen Aufmerksamkeit bezahlt, für einen langen Zeitraum dort. Und es war wirklich, weißt du, im Laufe der Zeit, wie dein Leben aussieht, du wirst verheiratet, du hast Kinder,
und du adoptierst, und du fühlst, dass da etwas da ist, das du nicht wirklich erkannt hast. Du weißt, da ist etwas Spirituelles daran. Das war für mich wie ein Erweckung im Jahr 1997. Ich ging zum ersten Mal zur Kirche, seit Jahrhunderten. Ich habe einen Pastor kennengelernt, der genau wie ich war. Er hatte Kinder und eine Frau, die um meine Wife alt war. Er hatte eine Art Frieden über ihn.
Was war der Wunsch, zurück in die Kirche zu gehen? Es war, um den Kindern etwas Grund zu geben. Es war so, dass Eric und Maggie, unsere beiden Ältesten, zurückkommen und spielen mit ihren Freunden und sagen, warum gehen wir nicht an der Kirche am Sonntag? Und es war so, Cheryl und ich sagten, wir müssen ihnen hier etwas Grund geben. So we found this non-denominational church.
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