Richard Deitch

Hey, this is Richard Deitch, the host of the Sports Media Podcast.

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Fellas, it's always great to be here.

You know, whenever I'm on your station, and I love Chicago because it is very, very similar to my city, Toronto, I always like to, you know, CM Punk it up, where you say something like, you know, where else would you rather be on a Monday afternoon than in the great city of Chicago, Illinois?

Yeah, especially now.

So it was great to profile Kevin Harlan, which I did for Sports Business Journal.

He gave me a lot of time.

So I was able to, I feel like, get a sense of his life.

So Harlan is very old school, and he doesn't have an assistant.

He doesn't have a travel advisor.

So what he does on any given week is...

is he will figure out the best route for him depending on his employer.

So right now he's working for CBS, for the NFL, and obviously March Madness a little bit.

Works for Prime Video when it comes to the NBA, and then works for Westwood One.

So during the football season, he's always in two different markets.

on a Sunday and a Monday.

And what he'll do very early in his week is he'll price out all the different flights that can take him from A to B. He prices out the backups and sometimes the backups to the backups.

So he always has a plan in the event that there's some kind of travel issues or flights delayed or something like that.

And he keeps all of this on these handwritten calendar journals.