Telich Talks

Tonia Kwiatkowski competed in 3 world figure skating championships for the United States. She was a member of the United States National and International teams for 13 straight years. A United States Olympic alternate in 1998. The Cleveland area native won the World University games figure skating title twice and was a six time United States national figure skating medalist. Kwiatkowski was inducted into the Greater Cleveland Sport...

Lance Reisland is a former high school football coach who breaks down Cleveland Browns practices and games for cleveland.com. In this episode we talk about a young receiver Luke Floriea, who Reisland has stated reminds him of Julian Edelman. Also in the episode we hear from Tim Robertson who trained both Edelman and Floriea. Not to be out done because it’s the Cleveland Browns, we talk about the quarterback situation, the defensive...

Greg Heister has broadcast, produced and hosted coverage of the famous Iditarod Trail dog sled race for more than 30 years and has numerous Emmy Awards to show for it ( he won’t say..we estimate upper teens). He has hosted a television show, Seasons on the Fly on the Discovery Channel for more than 20 years and he has been the play-by-play voice of Gonzaga basketball for numerous seasons. We talk about the extreme conditions of the...

Tracy McCool is a veteran news anchor for Fox 8 television in Cleveland Ohio. The Copley, Ohio native and her husband John Cook, learned seven years ago that he had stage four cancer, and was given less than two years to live. John inspired thousands and lived five years before passing away. Tracy talked about the entire ordeal, and how John fought his way through the incredible situation. She also talked about her TV career, and h...

Denes Chapo is an investment banker and has competed in endurance competitions over the years, including completing an Iron Man distance race in Idaho. Much of this episode centers around the detection of incredible blockage in the arteries of his heart, including the infamous Widowmaker of which he had 94% blockage. Suffice to say he needed emergency quintuple bypass surgery, which took place roughly 2 years ago. In some ways, our...

Michael Symon is an award winning chef,a creative restaurateur, Emmy Award winning tv host, author and one of those responsible for Cleveland Ohios excellent culinary reputation. He was

the 2007 winner of Iron Chef, which helped

springboard him to fame. He could have executed that leap

himself having been a high school wrestler at renowned St. Edward high school. Symon has written several books, the most recent called Cooking Out. He...

Frank McKinney has finished the world‘s toughest race, the Badwater 135 seven times. He returns to Death Valley this summer after a six year absence in search of his eighth finish. McKinney is a successful entrepreneur/real estate artist, a best-selling author, and a philanthropic capitalist whose Caring House Project has built 32 self sustaining villages in Haiti over 27 years. This year, Frank returns to Death Valley for the firs...

Ken Carman hosts a morning radio sports talk show on 9.23 The Fan in Cleveland Ohio alongside Anthony Lima. He also is a nighttime sports anchor and commentator and Emmy Award winner at WJW television, in Cleveland, Ohio. That’s the spot where I have done sports for close to 45 years now. ( I continue to co host Friday Night Touchdown with Ken, PJ Ziegler and John Sabol.) Kenny talked about the dynamics of putting a compelling show...

Tony Rizzo is a longtime Cleveland television and radio personality. He is the cohost of the Really big show on ESPN Cleveland radio. He is an Emmy award-winning TV sportscaster, host and reporter. On a personal note, I worked many years with the Riz, cohosting shows with him and reporting on many big Cleveland sporting events. He is the son of acclaimed broadcaster Jack Reynolds . The father of three, one of his children , Michael...

Dean Hall was the first person to swim the length of the 187 mile long Willamette River in Oregon. He accomplished the feat after dealing with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. His doctor advised against it. The swim was a “ Hail Mary”. The swim miraculously cured him of the cancer. He detailed the episode in a book. The Wild Cure. He later became the first to swim the length of the River Shannon in Ireland. He is a big proponent o...

Severance, created by Dan Erickson, and produced & directed by Ben Stiller has created a ton of momentum in season two, despite dealing at first with Covid, then a writers strike. Now, the Apple TV+ show has many people buzzing. Its whole premise, the acting, and the Wild plot has made it the darling of the Reddits of the world. Sleuths world wide are trying to out guess Erickson and determine in advance the fate of the “ sever...