Interview Host Danny Hauger With Broadcast legend Gary Gerould
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Hi, everyone. Danny Kogure here with another fantastic interview today. The reason I got into broadcasting as a kid, it's Gary Gerald. I listen to him for so many thousands of hours during Sacramento Kings broadcast growing up. And I absolutely love this guy's character work ethic, attention to detail, his fun way of communicating a game but also connecting with an audience and making every game important. He's the reason I majored in communications and why I've done so many broadcast in my past. So I'm grateful to be able to talk to them face to face, our voice to voice, which is even better in radio. Here is the 35 year veteran of Sacramento Kings broadcast the Olympics, NFL, Motor Sports and War. Here's the G Man Gary Terril and welcome into Danny Hogar podcasts on a mid April day. And we are enjoying this weekend trying to make the best of the situation that we have. And I'm more than excited because Gary Gerald is the reason I became a broadcaster and love the field of radio enough to made it my college major. And you know, Gary wouldn't have known that I would've graduated during the recession and need to turn to teaching about all that against him, with more than 2700 hours of personal sports broadcast since among active broadcasters and longevity, with work ranging from motor sports to the Olympics but number one in Our Hearts, it's the G Man by way of Midland, Michigan, 35 years with the Sacramento Kings. Scary Gerald, How are you today? Well, I'm more than tolerable, thank you very much these crazy times that we were trying to adapt to an uncharted waters. So I think everybody's pretty much in the same boat day. Yeah, you know, it's an interesting thing when we're all united by this conversation. This moment in history. What is the shortened season meant to? You have seen a few shortened seasons in your days? What does this mean for you? Well, I think it's it's always every situation is different, and you try to adapt as best you can. And I think the way this one unfolded kind of caught everybody by surprise and the fact that the last time we were all together a golden one center for a game against the New Orleans Pelicans, it had some playoff implications for the Kings. It was a very significant opportunity and then for it to kind of unravel in mysterious fashion and then the season literally coming to an end in front of us at that arena, something that none of us had ever really encountered. So it was bizarre, to say the least. Yeah, it's definitely a kind of an unprecedented moment for the reason and the separation we have from live sports right now. What are you doing in the midst with this time? Are you reading? Are you Ah, Are you exercising at home? What has been your day today? Well, I try to have a little bit of structure virtually every day, a couple of things to try to, you know, get into early in the day. I'm not an early riser, but when I do get up, I get in the office and I have some projects and different things that I try to work on for a period of time. I have been doing a lot of reading, have never experienced Netflix to the extent that I have in the last month, and I'm kind of wearing that out in terms of I enjoyed documentaries. Ah, I enjoy movies, but I'm kind of persnickety in terms of what movies I enjoy. I don't like the action movies, and I don't like the slime bang. I like things that have a semblance of reality and belief. I've enjoyed crime drama and we'll own thing or another over the years. So I spent the evenings, you know, watching some of the playbacks and various playoff games. Be it in the n b a. B it in the National Hockey League. Occasionally, some baseball, whatever. I'm just like everybody else trying to find a way to fill the hours. Yeah, absolutely Well, since you mentioned some of the classic games, let's travel back for a few minutes and talk about your origins in broadcasting. And I've watch some interviews and heard you talk about some of the people and alkaline being the first person you interview that was really special. But is there someone that, as you grew up as a teenager and still the love for the medium of radio or sparked the idea that this might be an interesting path to traverse for? You know, I can't say that there was anybody in particular I was an only child. My father died when I was 12 years of age. The mother was ill much of the time. The bottom line was it. At a very young age, I I learned due to be on my own a lot, and ah, the neighborhood radio station in my home and Michigan. A small town was about a mile from the house, and for whatever reason, it became head about the age 13. My second home and I would go there literally every evening after I get school or one thing or another done, and I would just hang out at the small town radio station and the fellows who worked there were very, very kind and very welcoming. And I was able to get some practical experience as it teenager with a a weekly show, and they would give me a little guest stints and one thing or another where I began to learn more and more about radio. I was from a young as I can remember. I always wanted to be sports broadcaster and in small town radio, you know, you do a little bit of everything, and I think it was an invaluable experience a teenager that I was able to do that on. By the time to college in Indiana Anderson University. I had a pretty decent working knowledge of small town radio, so I was a little bit ahead of the curve. I think in that respect and keeping my