Paul Feinbaum
speaker
442 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 14 Sep
Paul Feinbaum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We fired the guy who came up with the idea, went back to Hollywood the next year in 2019, ABC bought the sitcom. Jason Biggs, who did the American Pie trilogy, signed on to play me, and it was in the early stages of development. I had already signed a contract to be one of three executive producers. COVID happened.
I'll spare you the long explanation of how I got here. I was a sports writer, much like you, except at a much lower level, I might add. And it eventually led into talk radio at a time when talk radio was blossoming.
The first time the show really started resonating, we followed Rush Limbaugh on a news talk station in Birmingham. So Rush got the audience ready for us, and then we took them and fed them even more red meat. We weren't feeding them red meat about Bill Clinton and Congress or Barack Obama. We were feeding them red meat about Alabama and Auburn football primarily.
Have you ever thought that this is just not going to be your year? Everything you wanted to happen hasn't happened.
I know this is ancient history, but you have to go back 42 years when Bear Bryant died. He was the most famous coach in college football in the modern era, and I say the modern era, but the previous most famous was Newt Rockne at Notre Dame, and then Bryant took it over.
He won six national championships, and I got there, I covered his last two years, and that was a badge that I wore, that I covered the bear, because those next 25 years were a disaster. Alabama had coaches by the name of Mike Shua, not Don Shua, but Mike Shua, and Mike Price, and Mike Dubose. It was a wasteland until Nick Saban showed up.
So you go from 1982 to 2007, where nothing good happened, and then Saban shows up and only wins six national championships.
Let me take you back to September 28th.
Alabama beat Georgia. It was a major upset, even though the game was in Tuscaloosa. It was just one of the wildest games. Alabama got off to something like a 28-0 lead. Georgia came back. Alabama won by one touchdown.
I sat on the show with you and Joe Scarborough, who's an Alabama graduate, and I was joking, but I said it anyway. I said, would it be blasphemous for me to say here on Morning Joe that it looks like Kaitlin DeBoer is doing a better job coaching than Nick Saban did even a year ago?
Oh, come on.
What happened on that Saturday, Pablo?
It was the first time in 40 years Alabama lost to Vanderbilt, and I swear, I don't think I'll be reporting when the world comes to an end, but I was alive that night, and it felt like that had happened.
Alabama led 24 to nothing. Here comes Cam Newton. Leads them back.
And in the aftermath of it, a couple weeks later, we got a call from Al from Dadeville.
Al is in Dadeville, Alabama. Hey, Al.
Auburn rolls what's called Tumor's Corners after a win. Toilet paper on the trees. They're iconic oak trees, national landmark. Famous. He starts off on this Bear Bryant thing. The night that Bear Bryant died, Auburn fans rolled Tumor's Corner. I said, no, they didn't. I've looked into that urban legend.
Stop, stop, stop, stop. I just have the most difficult time ever believing that Auburn students rolled Toomer's Corner when the news broke that Coach Bryant died. Does anyone else remember that? I don't. Do you want me to send you a copy? I still have the newspaper clipping.
And he just kept arguing with me. He's a former state trooper in Texas. And he finally just blurted out, I'll tell you what I did.
He said, do you think I care?
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