When I started the Pride of Detroit PODcast, I was a year coming up from a low, a very low spot. I had lost nearly everything after years of searching for work in Georgia, and I had just moved back in with my mother. I was taking jobs as a carpenter, dealing with abjectly low pay and haphazard clients and bosses. There was no future for me, there was no direction, nothing.
The one thing I had found over those quiet, listless years was listening to sports talk radio. It was ESPN Radio at its zenith. Scott Van Pelt, Dan Le Batard, Bomani Jones, Colin Cowherd and Freddie Freeman, those were the voices who filled the silence and let me view sports in a complete different light.