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
138 episodes
STORIES FROM THE FIRST 60 YEARS: THE RILEY RETURN
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 ea...
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HARVEY ARATON: "Nothing But Net"
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...
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JONATHAN MAHLER: New York, New York
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 B...
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SUZZY ROCHE: “Runs In The Family”
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 an...
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WARREN ZANES: “Roots In That Musical Soil”
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 comput...
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DAVID BROZA: “There Will Be Good”
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 5...
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STEVE ALBERT: Sports, Stories and Schtick
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 bo...
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JIM GALLUCCI: “The Crescendo Of Unity”
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 Am...
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JACK HOWARD-POTTER: Sculpting A Career
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 ho...
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AMY ARBUS: Seeing Life Through The Lens
AMY ARBUSSeeing 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 t...
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SUZANNE VEGA: “Flying With Angels”
It’s been forty years since we first heard Suzanne Vega on record. That haunting, lyrical sound is still there on her latest album “Flying With Angels.” The songs are poignant and personal. Suzanne’s songs have taken her aroun...
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BACK TO THE GARDEN: A WOODSTOCK SPECIAL
A little bit of a different Before The Cheering Started episode this weekend. A mid August weekend always brings memories of Woodstock. It was a pleasure and privilege to create and host this radio documentary for CBS News Radio in ...
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JUDY BATALION: Inheriting Holocaust Trauma
Author Judy Batalion knows from Holocaust trauma, growing up with survivor grandparents in Montreal. So when she chanced upon a book written in 1946 about a female resistance fighter in Poland, she was ready to start a journey that lasted...
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STEVE FORBERT: From Meridian to MacDougal
I always smile when I think of the apt title of Steve Forbert’s terrific debut album “Alive on Arrival.” Because he was. “Alive on Arrival” speaks to the excitement of coming to the big town and making it work. For Steve Forbe...
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PETER ASHER: A World With Love Of Music
Peter Asher has been part of the music that has elated and sustained me for some 60 years. The songs of Peter and Gordon as part of the 1960’s British Invasion still sound fresh and wonderful six decades later. And the mu...
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LUIS MIRANDA JR.: Relentless
Luis Miranda Jr.’s story is a great American story. It’s a great New York story. It’s a great Puerto Rican story. Long before Hamilton became part of our vocabulary, Luis Miranda Jr. created a new life for himself in New York ...
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LARRY CHARLES: Comedy Samurai
Larry Charles’ comedy journey has taken him to some of the familiar places for a comedy writer, such as on set for Seinfeld, Mad About You and Curb Your Enthusiasm. At other times, it’s found him running for a waiting van to es...
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WILLIE NILE: Every Spirit Raised
Willie Nile is a musical lifer, still going strong in his late 70’s with a new album “The Great Yellow Light.” He’s been a New York singer songwriter who has traveled the country and the world with his guitar for decades. But when i...
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ART SHAMSKY: Still Amazin’
The story of the 1969 New York Mets, the Amazin’ Mets, has been told for more than five decades. It will no doubt be told for decades to come. Art Shamsky has experienced it as a player and an author, playing a key role a...
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DAVID GABRIEL: Starting To Soar
David Gabriel is a young dancer on the rise as a soloist with New York City Ballet. The love affair with dance began early. Really early. He started watching ballet videos of Mikhail Baryshnikov while growing up in Glenwood Sp...
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JAMAL GREENE: Sportswriter Turned Constitutional Law Professor
How many people have written for Sports Illustrated and the Harvard Law Review?Jamal Greene is one of the rare few. His own story is compelling, growing up in a Brooklyn home that produced a constitutional law professor, Jamal, and ...
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S.L. PRICE: “In The Country Of Lacrosse”
Did I think that I would read a 500 page book about lacrosse? Uh, no. But if S.L.(Scott) Price is writing it, I’m reading it.Scott has long been one of our preeminent writers about people through the prism of sports, pri...
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JUDY COLLINS: “How Can I Keep From Singing”
It’s hard to imagine Judy Collins pursuing anything but a life in music. Music and performing were in the air as she was growing up in Colorado. There were classical piano lessons with her beloved teacher Antonia Brico. And Ju...
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