Skip Bayless

Really Famous with Kara Mayer Robinson

Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 30 min

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Episode description

Skip Bayless and I get to topics big and small!

Skip, of course, is an award-winning journalist, author and TV personality. He hosts the sports opinion and debate show Skip and Shannon: Undisputed with Shannon Sharpe, and was previously on ESPN's Cold Pizza and First Take.

Fun fact! Skip’s brother is the talented and well-known chef Rick Bayless.

Skip and I met through his wife, Ernestine Sclafani Bayless, who just published a book called Balls: How to Keep Your Relationship Alive When You Live with a Sports-Obsessed Guy, which has a chapter written by Skip and contributions from some of their celebrity friends, like Michael Rapaport and Billy Bob Thornton.

In my wide-ranging talk with this total interviewing pro (who this time was the guest rather than the interviewer), we get into:

His fascinating journey to becoming a huge TV sports guy
Behind-the-scenes dish on his TV shows, Undisputed (weekdays on Fox Sports 1), First Take and Cold Pizza.
Oklahoma, Texas, California, New York, Connecticut and Tennessee
Shannon Sharpe, Michael Jordan, Joe Namath, Mark Shapiro, Dick Schaap and other interesting people in the business
Lucky breaks
A teacher who he'll never forget
Growing up with two alcoholic parents
His difficult childhood
What his parents and his childhood did to help him become who he is today

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This is a classic episode (Feb. 2020)

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