Today, the guys talk to award-winning executive producer Paul Martin as he discusses his upcoming docuseries, "Any Given Saturday," detailing the SEC conference. He explains the series' focus. How familiar he was as a fan before the series. The docuseries details how college football is a pillar of the communities. The shock of realizing that some teams' mascots are real-life wild animals. He gives his opinions on the next evolution of sports docuseries. You can hear it all here on "The Morning Kickoff Show!"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You talk about having a day at SEC Media days.
You go from Tony Barnhard mister college Football to now
we get a chance to talk to Paul Martin, the
award winning executive director behind Netflix Formula One Drive to
Survive Full Swing, which my guy Cam is all about
(00:21):
in Breakpoint. And now, since we're talking college football, what
better way than a brand new SEC DOCU series called
Any Given Saturday. I mean, if you're a football fan,
you gotta get behind this project, don't you.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I hope, So, I hope. So. I mean, listen, you
never know. I mean, you know, we make these shows
and you kind of throw them out there and listen.
You can tell from my accent this this kind of
world is not my natural kind of habitat.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's not football.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It's not football. Yeah, but it's been fantastic, you know,
and you know, I'm really proud of the show that
we've delivered. And some folks got to see some previews
of it last night. I think the trailer dropped yesterday
and this in Touch with The response has been has
been really good so far, and you know, we want
people to you know, this, this show is always about
trying to be additive to the SEC, to the schools,
(01:16):
to the programs, to the athletes, and take the audience
on the inside of you know, these amazing you know
institutions and teams and sports. So hopefully that that will
be the case.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well part, did y'all get into like one hundred and
fifty year history of it at the beginning?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I mean, touch on it a little bit. I think
it's you know, I think we you know, a big
part of it is that obviously the tradition and the
pageantry of these schools and so you know, we touch
on a little bit of the kind of the history
of the SEC, but it's really focused on, you know,
getting under the skin of last year and with the
(01:52):
teams that kind of participated, So not too much kind
of looking back and really just more sort of character driven.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
F one tennis, golf completely different than American football, especially
college football, and as a big sports fan, but from
across the Pine, did you have any preconceived notions of
what American football was like? And did working on this
project change your opinion of college football?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I mean, I've been I've been a foot your football
fan for a long time, but the NFL I grew
up and when NFL first came to the UK, it
was around about kind of nineteen eighty six, So you
tend to get a lot of people kind of my
age that are Chicago Bears fans because the eighty six Bears,
or Miami Dolphins fans because of Dan Marino. I was
(02:39):
a Miami Dolphins fan. I'm still a Miami Dolphins fan,
and I was huge, into, huge, into the NFL. But
college college sport, and particularly college football just always kind
of passed me by slightly. I'd never really sort of
got my head around it. I lived in the States
about ten years ago and just never really engaged in
(03:00):
in college and I love sport, I love all sports,
but it was just one of those that I just
never really connected with.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So if you didn't grow up in a region, college
football is very regional.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, you have Texas football.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You have Alabama football, you have California and Florida and
so on, and a lot of those, you know, regions
they specify on one area. So there's probably just in
Texas you have the Golden Triangle, you have Houston, you
have Dallas, you have the Valley, and then you have
(03:33):
West Texas. Like there's so many different ones so I mean,
how would you be able to integrate yourself into something
that's so complicated?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And I think that's what that's what I realized as
we got into it, exactly what you're saying, just these
these institutions are bigger than just schools, that they're so
representative of the communities. I think there's a line in
the first episode that I think I think it's Brian
Kelly that says that he's like, you know, you go
to these towns where there's supposed to be thirty thousand
people live in and ninety thousand people turn up to
(04:05):
watch the game. You know, it's wild. And I had
no sense of that, you know, because I hadn't grown
up with it. I didn't come from those communities. And
so you know, it's been an incredible education for me
and and you know, and and been great to really
dive into and really start to understand what what what
college football means to people and why.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, it's unique too because of the fact that what
you said. We're talking to Paul Martin Award winning executive
producer Paul Martin Parla Martin. But I wanted to ask
you this because of the fact that how things are
getting shape. You've learned a lot about football. What was
something that you saw that you were like, I wish
(04:48):
I would have known a little bit more about that
before we started this project.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's I mean, you know, I think we obviously when
we've we've come in to make this show, the whole
of college football's in a state of flux. And and
I think it was it was all at one stage
it felt like it was it was changing on a
daily basis, you know. And I think that you know,
in hindsight, probably more an understanding of what was really
(05:17):
going on there and the challenges we were going to
face making that show, because it's, you know, it's it's
like the wild West out there in some ways, you know,
with with kind of ni a and and again my
my understanding of it, of what it was what it
is now is you know, it's very very base level.
But you know what's clear is that the fundamentals of
(05:39):
college football are changing on a, like I say, on
a daily, weekly, monthly basis. And I think everyone's wrestling
with how to you know, how to adapt. It's not as.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Prevalent now because they're going away from it, but a
lot of teams had mask guys, like the Houston Cougars
had a real cougar and and the Panthers had a
real pan through and Happy Valley and dogs and Bevo
at University of Texas, Like, did y'all touch on that?
(06:09):
Like the that was the thing about college football that
I always loved as a little kid.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I mean it's I think the first school that that
we went to the campus of was LSU, and you know,
they're taking us on the tour and showing us, you know,
just I mean again, mind blowing stadium facilities. You know,
the all facilities there are incredible. And then at some
point someone's like, you know, oh, do you want to
you know, do you want to go see the tiger?
(06:36):
And I'm thinking, Okay, it must just be a statue
of a tiger. It's a real tiger.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
It's a real tiger in the middle of campus.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, You're like, le.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
We've seen sports documentaries kind of evolve. I think back
to thirty for thirty or eight two thousands that kind
of really have people in the sports docks and then
f one drivers to five really kind of right, there's
new era of sports stars, reality sports stocks. Right, everyone's
kind of bald to all these new production companies. What
do you see being the next step and the evolution
of how sports is covered in terms of documentaries reality TV,
(07:13):
especially now with the influx of social media.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, I think, you know, I think the landscape from
from when we first make Drive to Survive has changed
in our in our world. You know, I think that
those type of you know, the fall behind the scenes
access stocks, I think, you know, I think it maybe
peaked a little bit, and I think people are looking
at different iterations and I think, you know, everyone's kind
of wrapping their wrapping their arms around live at the
(07:37):
moment because you know, you can't you can't argue with
live sport. You know, people it's appointment viewing. If there's
a big game, you're gonna go and you're gonna watch it.
So I think there's I think probably there's there's As
technology kind of evolves as well, I think there'll be
you know, documentary and live will just merge and and
(07:58):
documentary will bleed into love and live will lead kind
of documentary. So I think you I think you'll see
some iteration of that.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Is you're of a project in mind, you would do that.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Paul, we want to thank you for taking the time today.
I know you're making your rounds uh this. I can't
wait to see this because there's somebody that loves docuseries
and loves being a part of college football. I can't
wait till for you to take us behind the scenes
and let us see exactly how this all plays out.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Thank you so much, and I'm glad you got to
see Mike the Tiger. They're all live and the living color.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
We gotta get you to Austin so you can see Bevo.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Doubt, no doubt.
You talk about having a day at SEC Media days.
You go from Tony Barnhard mister college Football to now
we get a chance to talk to Paul Martin, the
award winning executive director behind Netflix Formula One Drive to
Survive Full Swing, which my guy Cam is all about
(00:21):
in Breakpoint. And now, since we're talking college football, what
better way than a brand new SEC DOCU series called
Any Given Saturday. I mean, if you're a football fan,
you gotta get behind this project, don't you.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I hope, So, I hope. So. I mean, listen, you
never know. I mean, you know, we make these shows
and you kind of throw them out there and listen.
You can tell from my accent this this kind of
world is not my natural kind of habitat.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's not football.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It's not football. Yeah, but it's been fantastic, you know,
and you know, I'm really proud of the show that
we've delivered. And some folks got to see some previews
of it last night. I think the trailer dropped yesterday
and this in Touch with The response has been has
been really good so far, and you know, we want
people to you know, this, this show is always about
trying to be additive to the SEC, to the schools,
(01:16):
to the programs, to the athletes, and take the audience
on the inside of you know, these amazing you know
institutions and teams and sports. So hopefully that that will
be the case.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well part, did y'all get into like one hundred and
fifty year history of it at the beginning?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I mean, touch on it a little bit. I think
it's you know, I think we you know, a big
part of it is that obviously the tradition and the
pageantry of these schools and so you know, we touch
on a little bit of the kind of the history
of the SEC, but it's really focused on, you know,
getting under the skin of last year and with the
(01:52):
teams that kind of participated, So not too much kind
of looking back and really just more sort of character driven.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
F one tennis, golf completely different than American football, especially
college football, and as a big sports fan, but from
across the Pine, did you have any preconceived notions of
what American football was like? And did working on this
project change your opinion of college football?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I mean, I've been I've been a foot your football
fan for a long time, but the NFL I grew
up and when NFL first came to the UK, it
was around about kind of nineteen eighty six, So you
tend to get a lot of people kind of my
age that are Chicago Bears fans because the eighty six Bears,
or Miami Dolphins fans because of Dan Marino. I was
(02:39):
a Miami Dolphins fan. I'm still a Miami Dolphins fan,
and I was huge, into, huge, into the NFL. But
college college sport, and particularly college football just always kind
of passed me by slightly. I'd never really sort of
got my head around it. I lived in the States
about ten years ago and just never really engaged in
(03:00):
in college and I love sport, I love all sports,
but it was just one of those that I just
never really connected with.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So if you didn't grow up in a region, college
football is very regional.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, you have Texas football.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You have Alabama football, you have California and Florida and
so on, and a lot of those, you know, regions
they specify on one area. So there's probably just in
Texas you have the Golden Triangle, you have Houston, you
have Dallas, you have the Valley, and then you have
(03:33):
West Texas. Like there's so many different ones so I mean,
how would you be able to integrate yourself into something
that's so complicated?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And I think that's what that's what I realized as
we got into it, exactly what you're saying, just these
these institutions are bigger than just schools, that they're so
representative of the communities. I think there's a line in
the first episode that I think I think it's Brian
Kelly that says that he's like, you know, you go
to these towns where there's supposed to be thirty thousand
people live in and ninety thousand people turn up to
(04:05):
watch the game. You know, it's wild. And I had
no sense of that, you know, because I hadn't grown
up with it. I didn't come from those communities. And
so you know, it's been an incredible education for me
and and you know, and and been great to really
dive into and really start to understand what what what
college football means to people and why.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, it's unique too because of the fact that what
you said. We're talking to Paul Martin Award winning executive
producer Paul Martin Parla Martin. But I wanted to ask
you this because of the fact that how things are
getting shape. You've learned a lot about football. What was
something that you saw that you were like, I wish
(04:48):
I would have known a little bit more about that
before we started this project.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
That's I mean, you know, I think we obviously when
we've we've come in to make this show, the whole
of college football's in a state of flux. And and
I think it was it was all at one stage
it felt like it was it was changing on a
daily basis, you know. And I think that you know,
in hindsight, probably more an understanding of what was really
(05:17):
going on there and the challenges we were going to
face making that show, because it's, you know, it's it's
like the wild West out there in some ways, you know,
with with kind of ni a and and again my
my understanding of it, of what it was what it
is now is you know, it's very very base level.
But you know what's clear is that the fundamentals of
(05:39):
college football are changing on a, like I say, on
a daily, weekly, monthly basis. And I think everyone's wrestling
with how to you know, how to adapt. It's not as.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Prevalent now because they're going away from it, but a
lot of teams had mask guys, like the Houston Cougars
had a real cougar and and the Panthers had a
real pan through and Happy Valley and dogs and Bevo
at University of Texas, Like, did y'all touch on that?
(06:09):
Like the that was the thing about college football that
I always loved as a little kid.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I mean it's I think the first school that that
we went to the campus of was LSU, and you know,
they're taking us on the tour and showing us, you know,
just I mean again, mind blowing stadium facilities. You know,
the all facilities there are incredible. And then at some
point someone's like, you know, oh, do you want to
you know, do you want to go see the tiger?
(06:36):
And I'm thinking, Okay, it must just be a statue
of a tiger. It's a real tiger.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
It's a real tiger in the middle of campus.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, You're like, le.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
We've seen sports documentaries kind of evolve. I think back
to thirty for thirty or eight two thousands that kind
of really have people in the sports docks and then
f one drivers to five really kind of right, there's
new era of sports stars, reality sports stocks. Right, everyone's
kind of bald to all these new production companies. What
do you see being the next step and the evolution
of how sports is covered in terms of documentaries reality TV,
(07:13):
especially now with the influx of social media.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, I think, you know, I think the landscape from
from when we first make Drive to Survive has changed
in our in our world. You know, I think that
those type of you know, the fall behind the scenes
access stocks, I think, you know, I think it maybe
peaked a little bit, and I think people are looking
at different iterations and I think, you know, everyone's kind
of wrapping their wrapping their arms around live at the
(07:37):
moment because you know, you can't you can't argue with
live sport. You know, people it's appointment viewing. If there's
a big game, you're gonna go and you're gonna watch it.
So I think there's I think probably there's there's As
technology kind of evolves as well, I think there'll be
you know, documentary and live will just merge and and
(07:58):
documentary will bleed into love and live will lead kind
of documentary. So I think you I think you'll see
some iteration of that.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Is you're of a project in mind, you would do that.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Paul, we want to thank you for taking the time today.
I know you're making your rounds uh this. I can't
wait to see this because there's somebody that loves docuseries
and loves being a part of college football. I can't
wait till for you to take us behind the scenes
and let us see exactly how this all plays out.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Thank you so much, and I'm glad you got to
see Mike the Tiger. They're all live and the living color.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
We gotta get you to Austin so you can see Bevo.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Doubt, no doubt.
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