| Good afternoon everybody, and Happy Mother's Day. As part of Screentime, we are hosting regular interviews with executives and performers from across the entertainment business. We're going to do our best to pick people prominent enough that you care what they have to say, but honest enough they don't just repeat talking points. Ideally, they look a little bit like this one I did with producer Jason Blum in February. Next up: Joe Buck, Fox's lead announcer for Major League Baseball and the National Football League. Normally, Buck would be emerging from his offseason to start calling baseball games this month. Instead, he's at home in St. Louis providing commentary for fan-submitted videos, and hosting a new podcast with his friend Oliver Hudson. I spoke with him recently about starting a podcast during a global health crisis, the decline of baseball and why he was wrong about Tony Romo's potential as a broadcaster. I've included a couple of my favorite moments from our conversation below and you can read the full interview here. When did you start talking about creating a podcast? We'd kicked it around for a while and said, "Let's give it a shot." I like just turning on a mic and going. I'm always so action dependent in my real life. There's not much to say until someone kicks the ball off or hikes it. It's been a good diversion that allows me to show my personality, and who I am more than I can even on the biggest stage there may be in the world — the Super Bowl or World Series. That's not the time for it. I'm coming up on 27 years at Fox. I've done thousands of hours of broadcasts. I feel like it's liberating. How are you selecting guests? Why was Bill Simmons first? The honest answer is we were looking for people we want to interview, but who also have a social media following. It's the best way in 2020 to get something up and running. If you have a compelling guest and you're on social media, you'll have a lot of people who follow you. I'm friends with people like Jon Hamm and Paul Rudd, but they are not social media people. Do you keep a list of players that would be good broadcasters? We always knew if Brett Favre wanted to do it, he was a great storyteller. He would probably do well on a studio show. I don't know about a game. The booth is the tricky one. It's a different animal. When I was younger, the best quarterback I saw not named Tom Brady was Joe Montana. A thoughtful, good-looking guy with multiple Super Bowl wins. He's smart, he can talk. I thought he would be an unbelievable analyst. It really just wasn't for him. You have to be a little bit louder than you typically are. Otherwise, you get lost. And you have to be able to form an opinion on what you just saw and spit it out. Did you think Tony Romo would make a good broadcaster? I didn't. I was wrong about that. I didn't know if he'd be loud enough, or assertive enough. He didn't try to sound like anyone else. For a while, everyone tried to sound like John Madden, and for good reason. He's arguably the best to ever do it. Now that mantle has been passed to Romo. He's more looking ahead and freewheeling. He broadcasts like he played. Read the rest of the interview here. -- Lucas Shaw The week's top stories | 
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