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
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 musicians he produced and managed, especially James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, created the soundtrack of my life. And Peter still has the touch, co-producing Barbra Streisand’s beautiful album o...
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 as a respected and influential advocate, organizer, politico and much more. And then, thanks in part to the creativity of his son Lin-Manuel, he was able to take these skills and apply them o...
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 escape when a scene in the Borat and Bruno movies goes great but upsets the locals. And then there have been moments in Iraq and Somalia, finding out that there is indeed standup comedy in ...
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 it comes to the lessons learned that shaped his life and musical career, it always comes back to the Buffalo home where his parents raised him, providing Willie with a moral compass that s...
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 as a left handed hitter and outfielder in 1969 and then hitting the keys to write several books about the Mets. His latest is “Mets Stories I Only Tell My Friends.”
Art Shamsky had a long care...
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 Springs, Colorado. David was 2. Not long after, the goal became “get to New York, “a dream he has realized.
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 a world-renowned rapper, his brother Talib Kweli. Jamal’s experiences at Harvard, Sports Illustrated and Yale Law School eventually led him to teaching constitutional law at a time in our ...
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, primarily during his more than two decades at Sports Illustrated. There were more than a few chapters before he became a must read for so many of us. There was an early love of reading and newspap...
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 Judy’s father was a performer with a radio show.
But it was actually a broken leg in her teens that led Judy down the path to pursuing music full time. Sorry about the broken leg, Judy, but m...
For some 20 years, Simon Shuster has reported from Russia and Ukraine. He speaks the language and he understands the history of the region, making him the ideal foreign correspondent to report on the lead up to the Russian invasion in 2022 and the subsequent war in Ukraine. This is not exactly what his folks had in mind when they emigrated from the former Soviet Union in the early 90’s when Simon was a boy, lan...
A life in show business is not for the faint of heart. It’s a rollercoaster of joy and disappointment, uplifting highs and debilitating lows. But if you’re fortunate, a window of opportunity opens up. And if you’re ready, the rest of your career and life can await on the other side.
The window opened for Sydnie Christmas in 2024. Rather, she opened the window with abandon, applying for the British TV show “Britain...
There’s a great line in the wonderful old film The Front; “it’s nice when nice happens to somebody nice.” That’s been the story around the National Hockey League this season, as Sam Rosen bids farewell after some 40 seasons as the television play by play voice of the New York Rangers. He’s been saluted with standing ovations in arenas around the league. Sam is understandably most beloved in New York, not only for t...
Long ago as a film major at City College of New York in the 1970’s, Stanley Nelson found his passion. We are fortunate that he did. For almost 40 years, his films have told the story of the African American experience. Be it Attica or Emmett Till, the Freedom Riders or the Black Panthers, his films speak with an eloquent voice and a captivating camera.
His production company Firelight Media has four new films on...
Tom Chapin is still going strong at the age of 80. There are performances and projects. And there’s an appreciation for a life that has brought him experiences that extend far beyond the usual path of the folk musician: searching for sharks on the Indian Ocean, playing basketball at the famed Rucker Court in New York and being assigned a cool nickname to boot, his song being used to wake up astronauts on the Sp...
Those of us who follow the Middle East intensely, reading about it constantly, understand that our reactions are never dispassionate.
Peter Beinart knows this all too well. For decades, his writing and television appearances have garnered plenty of praise and plenty of criticism, even vitriol. And that reality won’t likely change with his new book “Being Jewish After The Destruction Of Gaza: A Reckoning.” Beinar...
How do you return to a normal life after experiencing pain, loss and then unbridled joy?
Alsu Kurmasheva is a Russian American journalist who works for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague. She was detained in her native Russia while visiting her mother in 2023 and later arrested on charges of “spreading false information” about the Russian military, charges that Alsu and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty deny. Wh...
Caroline Aaron knows from motherhood. She’s a mom. As an actor, she’s played plenty of moms, long before she got the mom role for which she is best known, Shirley Maisel in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” She’s currently playing a mom in the off-Broadway show “Conversations With Mother.”
But her own mother’s story might be the most compelling of all: a Jew from Selma, Alabama who got married and raised three kids in...
Art seems to be imitating life for actor Gretchen Mol in her new film, the latest Ed Burns project, “Millers in Marriage.” It’s not the plot of the movie, which covers three complicated and troubled marriages and relationships. That does not mirror her life. But Gretchen plays a character who is a middle-aged woman trying to figure out the next chapter, when Gretchen herself is a middle aged actor who has worked co...
By his mid 50s Craig Taubman had already enjoyed great musical success in the secular and Jewish worlds, with his songs sung at synagogues and Jewish summer camps across the country. But he felt the need to do more. So he bought a building in downtown Los Angeles. His initial proposal was shot down by his daughter. Craig says she called it “the dumbest idea he ever had.” Here’s to constructive criticism, bec...
Imagine being at work, you make a decision and almost a million people react to that decision. Immediately. And in public.
Welcome to the world of Jon Heyman, a veteran baseball writer and reporter who is followed passionately on social media, especially X. His pronouncements about potential free agent signings are followed like foreign policy announcements or Congressional hearings, only with much more passion. ...
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