![]() Scott Van Pelt, the everyday cool guy, who is one of the best orators at ESPN, often had the most rationale approach. They balanced each other out unlike any other pair on radio. They were better than that because they cared about being articulate even when they were wrong. They didn’t just spew nonsense to draw a reaction. These guys knew that exaggeration is the disease that’s killing their business, and they avoided it to no end. We have enough hyperbole in our never-ending, bullshit-consuming world. They made a show for that 20-something who just wanted to hear 93 til infinity drop on the lead-ins from commercial breaks and to hear people talk smartly about topics that were either fun or interesting. ![]() What I think they ended up doing was making a show for their past selves. Their goal was to make something different, and something that was better. These guys made a show unlike any I had listened to in my 10 plus years of paying attention to sports media. I quickly realized that this wasn’t any sports talk radio show with two out-of-touch dudes screaming at each other about nonsensical sports topics. So perhaps I missed the rough around the edges portion of their time together, but what I found while i was tucked away in a cramped lecture hall at Washington State University one sleepy morning was radio perfection. I picked up the show long after its conception as the show had debuted back in 2009. ![]() I started listening to the show my senior year in college, in lieu of listening to a lecture or two perhaps. Scott Van Pelt and Ryen Russillo talked about sports, and they were good at that, but that’s not what brought me to them. Monday through Friday from 10am – 1 pm, SVP & Russillo kept me company. Trivial as it may sound, for the past five years one of the things that’s played an important role in my day-to-day has been a daily sports talk radio show. Just because I was alive for the Cold War doesn’t mean I know what that life was like back then. I was an adult when the Seahawks won their first Super Bowl, and it matters more to me than if I was five. ![]() Certain things are more profound in your life because of the time in which they occured and certain things mean less. Sure, it was nothing more than a slapstick teen comedy, but to someone my age it might as well been the Bible of comedy and it told our story as we were living it out ourselves. I was 18-years old, and about to enter college when I saw the coming-of-age-tale Superbad. ![]() I was the same age as Harry Potter growing up, and naturally the characters in that series became more than just words on a page. They end up meaning more to us because of that. There are certain things in life that resonate with us at precisely the right moment in our lives. ![]()
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