The Aron Bender Podcast
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We found 10 episodes of The Aron Bender Podcast with the tag “sports”.
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Steve Wyche: NFL Network Analyst, Podcast Host
June 30th, 2021 | 51 mins 48 secs
2020, 2021, aron bender, atlanta falcons, audio, baseball, basketball, bias, california, colin kaepernick, concussions, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, cuban, depression, faith, fatherhood, football, forgiveness, frustration, girl dad, god, green bay packers, grief, hard work, hbcu, howard university, identity, instagram, journalism, joy, kids, los angeles, love, mental health, miami dolphins, miami heat, miami herald, michael jordan, minneapolis, minnesota, missouri, news, nfl, pandemic, podcast, positivity, radio, recovery, religion, self care, self love, south florida, sports, sports talk, st. louis, struggle, success, super bowl, therapy, tiktok, tv news, twitter, washington post, washington wizards, widower, wife, youtube
Aron Bender hangs out with Steve Wyche -- an NFL Network analyst and co-host of the Huddle and Flow Podcast. In his more than 30-year career with the Miami Herald, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and NFL Media, he’s broken major stories like Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the anthem, Michael Vick dogfighting and Michael Jordan joining the Wizards. Steve and I discuss his experiences growing up in Minneapolis and St. Louis, his decision to attend Howard University, his thoughts on the George Floyd murder, concussions, and NFL news involving Julio Jones and Aaron Rodgers.
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Janelle Marie Rodriguez: Journalist, Actress, Mental Health Advocate
June 28th, 2021 | 55 mins 50 secs
2020, 2021, aron bender, audio, bias, california, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, cuban, depression, espn, faith, fatherhood, forgiveness, frustration, girl dad, god, grief, hard work, identity, instagram, journalism, joy, kids, los angeles, love, mental health, miami, news, pandemic, podcast, positivity, radio, recovery, religion, self care, self love, south florida, sports, sports talk, struggle, success, super bowl, therapy, tiktok, tv news, twitter, widower, wife, youtube
Aron Bender is joined by Janelle Marie Rodriguez -- one of his former journalism students at Cal State Northridge. She now splits time between Los Angeles and her hometown of Miami. Janelle's been a TV news reporter, entertainment and sports journalist and host, an actress, spent a few years at ESPN and Disney Channel, and is now with FIBA and Latin Up — a new show on Twitch.
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Tessa Barrera: Tess Talks
June 21st, 2021 | 1 hr 4 mins
2020, 2021, aron bender, astros, audio, bias, california, coronavirus, corpus christi, covid, covid-19, depression, faith, fatherhood, forgiveness, frustration, girl dad, god, grief, hard work, houston, identity, instagram, journalism, joy, kids, los angeles, love, mental health, news, pandemic, podcast, positivity, radio, recovery, religion, rod ryan show, self care, self love, sports, sports talk, struggle, success, super bowl, tess1tess2, tessa barrera, texas, therapy, tiktok, twitter, widower, wife, youtube
Aron Bender catches up with Tessa Barrera -- one of his favorite people ever, even though she's an Astros fan. Born and raised in Texas, she's worked in radio and television news for many years but before that played in the Lingerie Football League, was a participant in Stone Cold Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge, and auditioned to become a WWE Diva. We worked together at KFI in Los Angeles, then Tessa moved on to join 94.5 The Buzz and The Rod Ryan Show, the #1 morning show in Houston.
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Natalie Brunell: Bitcoin Beach
June 18th, 2021 | 33 mins 45 secs
2020, 2021, abc news, aron bender, audio, bias, bitcoin, california, coinbase, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, cryptocurrency, depression, dogecoin, ethereum, faith, fatherhood, forgiveness, frustration, girl dad, god, grief, hard work, identity, instagram, journalism, joy, kids, los angeles, love, mental health, miami, news, palm springs, pandemic, podcast, positivity, radio, recovery, religion, sacramento, self care, self love, spectrum news, sports, sports talk, struggle, success, super bowl, therapy, tiktok, twitter, widower, wife, youtube
Aron Bender talks with Natalie Brunell -- who hosts two podcasts and is also a reporter at Spectrum News 1 SoCal. She’s worked in Palm Springs and Sacramento, as well as for ABC News. And teaches at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. A couple years ago she entered the podcast space with Career Stories and recently made a big splash (especially in the business podcast arena) with Coin Stories talking with the personalities in the cryptocurrency bitcoin Dogecoin Ethereum digital currency world.
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Jorge Sedano: Fatherhood, Mental Health, Anxiety and Sports
June 16th, 2021 | 42 mins 42 secs
2020, 2021, aron bender, audio, bias, california, chris paul, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, depression, espn, faith, fatherhood, forgiveness, fox sports radio, frustration, girl dad, god, grief, hard work, identity, instagram, james harden, journalism, joy, kevin durant, kids, kobe bryant, kyrie irving, lakers, lebron james, los angeles, love, mental health, miami, nba, nba playoffs, news, nfl, pandemic, paul george, podcast, positivity, radio, recovery, religion, self care, self love, sports, sports talk, struggle, success, super bowl, therapy, tiktok, twitter, widower, wife, youtube
Aron Bender chats with his friend, Jorge Sedano, who hosts a show on ESPN LA 710 with Scott Kaplan and previous podcast guest LZ Granderson. Sedano also does sideline reporting and some play-by-play for the NBA on ESPN and ABC. I’ve known Jorge nearly 20 years. We worked together at iHeartRadio at WIOD and WINZ in Miami. He's worked for Fox Sports Radio as well as at ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut. We talked about fatherhood, mental health and anxiety, his goals involving the LatinX community, as well as the Clippers, Suns and the rest of the NBA Playoffs.
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Ben Maller: Clippers, Lakers, Dodgers and Life
June 7th, 2021 | 1 hr 4 mins
2020, 2021, aron bender, audio, bias, california, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, depression, faith, fatherhood, forgiveness, fox sports radio, frustration, girl dad, god, grief, hard work, identity, instagram, journalism, joy, kids, kobe bryant, lakers, lebron james, los angeles, love, mental health, nba, nba playoffs, news, nfl, pandemic, podcast, positivity, radio, recovery, religion, self care, self love, sports, sports talk, struggle, success, super bowl, therapy, tiktok, twitter, widower, wife, youtube
Aron Bender chops it up with Ben Maller, who does overnights on Fox Sports Radio. And while he is a success overnights -- he’s not an overnight success. Ben’s been at this for more than 20 years -- including being a pioneer in the blogging arena. We start off talking about his Clippers and our Dodgers, what the Angels need to do to get Mike Trout and Shohei Otani deep into the playoffs, we talk LeBron James and the Lakers, but also discuss the losses we’ve suffered in the last 7 months: my wife, and his dad.
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Ted Sobel: Touching Greatness
June 4th, 2021 | 1 hr 2 mins
2020, 2021, aron bender, audio, bias, california, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, depression, elgin baylor, eli manning, faith, fatherhood, forgiveness, frustration, girl dad, god, grief, hard work, identity, instagram, journalism, joy, kids, kobe bryant, lakers, los angeles, love, mental health, miami, nba, news, nfl, pandemic, peyton manning, podcast, positivity, radio, recovery, religion, self care, self love, sports, struggle, success, super bowl, therapy, tiktok, tv news, twitter, widower, wife, youtube
Aron Bender talks with Southern California sports journalism icon Ted Sobel. He's worked for KNX, KFWB and KMPC, among others. Ted's covered every major sporting event you can think of, and met all kinds of superstars. He tells great stories in his new book, “Touching Greatness: Tales from the Front Row with Heroes and Legends.” And he tells great stories in this episode! We talk a lot about Kobe Bryant, Ted’s boyhood idol Elgin Baylor, and why Eli Manning and David Tyree tracked him down after their improbable Super Bowl win.
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PJ Butta: The Nightcap
June 2nd, 2021 | 32 mins 15 secs
2020, 2021, aron bender, audio, bias, california, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, depression, faith, fatherhood, forgiveness, frustration, girl dad, god, grief, hard work, hip hop, identity, instagram, journalism, joy, kids, los angeles, love, mental health, news, pandemic, pirates, podcast, positivity, r&b, radio, recovery, religion, self care, self love, slow jams, sports, struggle, success, therapy, tiktok, tv news, twitter, west coast, widower, wife, youtube
Aron Bender hangs out with PJ Butta -- an LA hip hop radio icon from the 92.3 The Beat days in the 90’s to now doing afternoons on the legendary KDAY. In addition to his on-air work he teaches broadcasting, runs his own podcast network, and pours The Nightcap weeknights at 8pm Pacific / 11pm Eastern on Twitch playing slow jams in front of the fireplace — using that platform to help people in need. All this fresh off of his 11-day battle with COVID. We discuss his inspiration for The Nightcap, the future of radio/audio, and he ranks his top 3 bourbons.
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Kevin Cuenca: Grindin All My Life
June 2nd, 2021 | 1 hr 11 mins
2020, 2021, alcoholism, aron bender, bias, burnout, california, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, depression, faith, fatherhood, forgiveness, frustration, god, grief, hard work, identity, instagram, journalism, joy, kids, los angeles, love, mental health, mexico, news, pandemic, podcast, positivity, radio, recovery, religion, san antonio, self care, self love, sports, struggle, success, syracuse, texas, therapy, tiktok, tv news, twitter, widower, wife, youtube
Aron Bender is joined by Kevin Cuenca -- a former sports reporter turned content creator who’s driving in his own lane. Especially with a show like Cruisin with Kevin. He worked at CBS2/KCAL9 here in LA but as we talk about in this episode some of the content he was creating didn’t sit well with someone in management. We talk about the late Nipsey Hussle, his most painful tattoo, figuring out social media algorithms, and life as a Navy kid with an alcoholic father.
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Tyrah Majors: Golden Ticket
March 25th, 2021 | 42 mins 15 secs
african-american, aron bender, author, bakersfield, bias, black, children's book, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, csuf, dad life, daughter, depression, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, failure, fatherhood, filters, forgiveness, fullerton, girl dad, grief, hard work, instagram, journalism, joy, loss, love, major moves, mental health, music, networking, news, pandemic, poc, podcast, positivity, privilege, race, racism, recovery, san diego, santa barbara, seattle, self care, siblings, small business, sports, struggle, success, therapy, traffic, twitter, tyrah majors, white privilege
Aron Bender is joined by Tyrah Majors -- who is barely out of college but already making major moves. She grew up in San Diego, went to school in Santa Barbara, Orange County and quickly ran through grad school at USC. She just started a new job KOMO 4 TV in Seattle as a reporter and morning traffic anchor, but she also was just awarded a Golden Mike from the Radio Television News Association of Southern California for her work at KBAK in Bakersfield. We talked about her love of storytelling (she's the author of a children's book "Grammy and Me") and how she uses her childhood experience as a model and actress to work through difficult times. Tyrah and I also discuss what life was like growing up as the middle child between two brothers and a baby sister, growing up in mostly-white San Diego, her role as a torchbearer for the next generation of young black women, her self care methods, tips and tricks, and the importance of mental health during and after the pandemic.