* Larry Olmsted, Author of “Fans: How Watching Sports Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Understanding” and “Real Food / Fake Food”

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Larry Olmstead's a travel writer for various in flight publications,
the author of Fans How Watching Sports makes Us happier, healthier,
and more understanding, and on el Michael's birthday, the great
sportscaster is eighty one and plays at bel Air Country
Club and lives. Oh It's Tuscana, the restaurant that he
goes to down there in Brentwood. If you ever want

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to run into him, the word is he's there almost
every day for a stake. And al Michaels has said
he's never in his lifetime tasted a vegetable. We salute
him for that. Larry Olmstead's a man who never in
his life has tasted Coca cola or any coke products,
so the two of you would have quite the dinner.
The word is that there is going to be a

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travel armageddon this weekend, and that it's already underway because
of the air traffic controllers not getting paid from the shutdown,
which may end today. Larry, I think flew so yesterday.
If I'm not mistaken or is in transit today, how
did your experience go going from the northeast to the southeast.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I did find yesterday Michael, and I'm happy to be
with you as always, brought to you by our friends
at Boyn Resorts, with eleven golf and ski resorts across
Michigan and North America. Boying is America's leader in outdoor recreation.
I'm doing some outdoor recreation now, playing some golf down
in Charleston. And yeah, the airport was a little bit

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dysfunctional yesterday. My flight was late about half an hour,
which isn't a big deal. But what I really recommend
to your listeners is try to get the first flight
of the day wherever you're going, because if you miss
your connection, you're screwed. But if your connection is delayed
and you get into where you're going a little bit
later in the day or even later at night, at

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least you've gotten there. Key is that first flight, And
if it's already at the airport, which the early morning
flights are, you have a much better chance of making
everything on time. If you leave in the middle of
the day, you can expect everything to already be backed up.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Tony Cuthbert. When you fly to Las Vegas next week
to the d for the coverage of the Formula one
Grand Prix, there Are you on the first flight of
the day from Delta I am to Las Vegas on
that day, Yes, and it's a NonStop correct Chances are
he's going to be okay then, And Larry, you'll be
happy to know it's already snowing in Michigan, so Boyn

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will make its transition from golf to skiing, hopefully maybe
even by Thanksgiving, which means it's a very good season
for Stephen Kircher and the crew up there, and Larry
will have coverage of all the events going on in
Boyn where we're heard on WMKT AM and FM every
week right here on this program, it's Michael Patrick Shields