Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin
"Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin" explores the journey to success and professional fulfillment. These are the stories of obstacles overcome, periods of doubt, plan B's and the passion to push through to follow one’s passion and realize a dream. Guests on the first 80 episodes of the podcast have included musicians Shawn Colvin, Sarah Jarosz, Nick Lowe, Steven Van Zandt and John Pizzarelli, writers Nick Hornby, Jacqueline Woodson, Patrick Radden Keefe, Scott Turow and Colum McCann, Basketball Hall of Famer and former Senator Bill Bradley, plus thought leaders and changemakers like Ford Foundation President Darren Walker, Global Citizen creator Hugh Evans, real estate and environmental racism activist Majora Carter, actors Paul Reiser, Aasif Mandvi and Richard Kind, "Friends" creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane, screenwriter Tony Gilroy, fashion design icon Norma Kamali and more. Join us on the journey.
Episodes
Paula Eiselt caught the movie bug early, taking the rare day off from the Yeshiva she attended on Long Island to watch Darren Aronofsky’s “Requiem For A Dream.” She was hooked and eventually interned for Aronofsky a few years later. At film school at NYU, many student films were shot on Saturdays. That was a problem. Saturday was Shabbat for Paula, the Jewish sabbath, a day ...
Growing up in the small town of Morden, Manitoba, Loreena McKennitt wanted to be a veterinarian. But she was also surrounded by music. After a brief stint in university, her love of music took over. The animal world’s loss was our gain. Much of her music for more than four decades has largely been informed by her love of travel and Celtic history. It’s a musical journey that...
Ashley Kahn writes books about music. Not just any music. Albums. Iconic albums. “Kind of Blue” by Miles Davis. “A Love Supreme” by John Coltrane. And now, “Graceland” by Paul Simon. He also knows the music business from the inside, having served as a tour manager. The love affair with music started as it did for so many of us, liste...
JANNY SCOTT
“9/11: Portraits of Grief”
After a long hiatus, welcome back to “Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin.”
In the days and weeks and months after September 11th, I became an avid reader of a daily New York Times series called “Portraits of Grief,” 220-word snapshots of the people whose lives had been taken on 9/11.
Former New York Times reporter Janny Sc...
There are a lot of different people on a movie set. It usually helps when all of them are rowing in the same direction. Erika Burke Rossa got an early lesson in interacting with all sorts of different people, growing up in Hong Kong and Taiwan, then coming to New York to be a dancer, an actor, a social worker and now a first-time feature film director.
FRANK FILIPETTI
Creating Behind The Console
If you’re a music buff like me, you could listen to seven time Grammy Award winning engineer and producer Frank Filipetti talk all day long. There are stories of joy and inspiration and an improbable journey, working with James Taylor and Carly Simon, Broadway musical casts and recording the traditional sounds of the Bush men and women in southern Africa.
He...
KEN BELSON
“Every Day Is Sunday”
The Super Bowl has long been America’s unofficial national holiday. Ken Belson covers the business of the NFL and other sports, bringing a business journalism background to his work rather than a sports journalism background. He learned the lessons of how to deal with influential corporate executives as a business reporter in a land not associated with foo...
We are going deep into the archives for this episode of "Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin."
I’ve been blessed to have a long career in broadcast journalism and meet so many intriguing people along the way. During my years covering sports, when I spent more than a few days and nights at Yankee Stadium, there was nothing better than spending some time with the longtime public address announcer ...
Arturo O’Farrill says his piano looks at him every day and asks “want to dance?”
Let the playing begin.
Arturo O’Farrill’s love affair with music spans generations. It started with his father Chico and continues with Arturo’s sons Adam and Zack. He’s shared the love with thousands of students through the years in classrooms and on performance stages. After al...
Perhaps we should have known all along that David Silverman would pursue a life in animation and would make us laugh. When his father, a professor of chemical engineering, read to him at night, it wasn’t “Goodnight Moon” or “Oh, The Places You’ll Go.” It was Walt Kelly and the classic comic strip “Pogo.” At the movies, it was Charlie Chaplin and &ldqu...
Every once in a while, I turn my attention to stories from my broadcast journalism career, memories that remain vivid years later. That is certainly the case for December 19, 1995, a night at Madison Square Garden 30 years ago that was easily one of the most dramatic in the building’s history. I still think of this night three decades later. And I smile.
For decades, Harvey Araton has used the prism of sports to write about people. He did so for many years as a columnist for The New York Times. And then as an author of books like “When The Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks,” “Our Last Season: A Writer, A Fan, A Friendship” and his most recent book, a middle grade novel about...
New York has long played an important role in sweeping works of fiction and non-fiction, as if the city were a character itself. That’s certainly the case in the work of Jonathan Mahler, first in his 2005 book “Ladies and Gentleman, The Bronx is Burning,” subtitled “1977, Baseball, Politics And The Battle For The Soul Of A City.” Now comes a sequel of sorts: “The Gods ...
Suzzy Roche has known both sides of the coin in a long musical and acting career. She’s known the struggle of wondering when the next job is going to come. But she has also known the joy of writing and performing music and seeing the effects of that music on her many fans through the decades. When The Roches, sisters Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche, first hit in the late 70s, their debut album ...
Warren Zanes knows the joy of speeding down the ski slopes and cycling miles of bike lane. He knows the rush of getting on stage and performing. And he certainly knows the fulfillment of sitting in front of a blank computer screen and then finding the words to touch music lovers everywhere. Author. Musician. Academic. And yes, serious skier and cyclist.
Dusty Springfield. Joh...
We witnessed some historic days in the Middle East this week. What lies ahead is uncertain at best. What is certain is that David Broza will be singing, bringing joy, optimism and a hope for peace, as he has all over the world for 50 years. He co-wrote one of his most famous songs, “Yihiye Tov (There Will Be Good), as a peace anthem when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat visited Israel in 1977....
This episode is truly a labor of love.
Steve Albert and I have been friends for almost forty years. For all of those years, he has made me laugh. I thought I knew all of the stories. I wasn’t even close. His new book “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Broadcast Booth” has tons of funny stories, such as honing his broadcasting skills by doing play by play of family dinn...
This week’s episode of “Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin” is a bit different.
It’s a conversation that is part of a new series that I am hosting, a series of conversations with public artists whose work is found all across America. These conversations will be found in the Otocast platform, an immersive, innovative, location-based mobile audio guide. More information at...
Public art is everywhere, in towns big and small across the country. The reaction to public art can be subtle. It can be emotional. The impact can be economic. And the reaction is almost always positive.
I’m hosting a new series of conversations with public artists found in the Otocast platform, an immersive, innovative, location-based mobile audio guide. More information at ww...
AMY ARBUS
Seeing Life Through The Lens
You might think that a life in photography was always a given for Amy Arbus since her mother Diane Arbus was a photography icon and her father Alan Arbus was also in the field.
It was not a given.
But after her mother died in 1971 and her father focused on acting, Amy felt a pull towards photography. She eventually landed a position at The Village Voice and put a ...
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