Greg Cote Show podcast: Le Batard Show musical mastermind JT Daly, and Joey -- Babe Ruth of jai-alai
The Greg Cote Show podcast takes aim with a double-barreled exclusive on guests in the new episode, out now. We guarantee you will really enjoy hearing from:
▪ JT Daly, the producer and creative force behind the Le Batard Show’s new “The Big Game” musical album, an unexpected sensation that reached No. 1 nationally on the Apple iTunes chart. And...
▪ Jai-alai legend Joey Cornblit -- Joey will suffice -- who came out of Miami Carol City High to become the first U.S. -born player to ever be world champion in jai-alai.
Our leadoff hitter, Daly, shares details on where this Le Batard musical project ranks in a career that has included two Grammy nominations, and details the best and not-so-good voices among the show’s cast. Find out whose voice he likens to “a Disney character, who needed the most auto-tuning help and more.
JT also shares thoughts on Greg’s performance in the ‘Back in My Day’ song, and Chris Cote’s in the ‘G.O.A.T.’ song. And he gets a bit emotional explaining what the Le Batard Show has meant in his life. A rich listen.
Our cleanup hitter, Joey, the Babe Ruth of U.S. jai-alai, details the anti-Semitism he faced as young phenom in the sport (“A very ugly day”), recalls the heyday of the sport in the 1980s and laments how it is dying today.
Miami’s Magic City Casino is the only place in America where professional jai-alai still is played, with a new four-team that that finds one team, the Cesta Cyclones owned by our podcast’s own executive producer Chris Cote, also of the Le Batard Show.
Joey gives Chris some tips on becoming an expert in the sport, and we invite Joey to join us at the fronton March 20 when Chris attends his first game as owner. Chic-chac!
This is our 12th episode of 2022 and our 103rd overall and we welcome you back as always.
Also in the the new episode:
▪ Greg’s voice is having an especially bad day. Please listen anyway.
▪ Chris offers a live report (sort of) from Austin, Texas, where Le Batard Show is doing two live shows at South X Southwest.
▪ Baseball is back, Deshaun Watson won’t be criminally charged, and gigantic spiders from East Asia are parachuting from the sky and colonizing the entire American East coast.
Hear all of this and more in our latest podcast! A new episode drops every Monday morning at 7 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Megaphone, Stitcher — all free, wherever and whenever you do your podding, including of course at miamiherald.com. Find the entire GCS catalog HERE. (The show also simulcasts on Sirius XM radio Mondays firom 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.).
Our podcast debuted in March 2020, just before the pandemic hit. (Sorry, don’t blame us). We thank you all, our pod family, for your great and growing support. Please continue to listen, rate, review, follow, then unfollow and follow again and so on. It isn’t cheating, and it helps us a bunch. Tell your friends, too!
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This story was originally published March 14, 2022 at 7:00 AM.
