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In the 41-minute podcast, Boomer Esiason, who has had one of the great playing/media careers ever, is the guest on “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.” Here’s what you need to know:

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* When you combine a playing career with a media career, Boomer Esiason has to be at least be in the Top 10 all-time

* What it is like to work with Craig Carton and Gregg Giannotti

* How Esiason went from the field directly into the Monday Night Football booth

* What went wrong with Al Michaels and why a job Boomer thought would go 25 years instead went two

* How Al Michaels told Boomer not to mention Al Davis, which was the beginning of the end of Esiason’s stint on MNF

* Michaels, Dennis Miller and a PR near actual fight

* How Esiason questioned his decision to retire and join MNF

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* How he ended doing more Super Bowls than anyone ever because he was the top analyst on Westwood One Radio

* How Sean McManus and Joel Hollander were the best bosses he ever had

* The incredible story of how his World Ward II veteran father raised him following the death of Boomer’s mother when Boomer was just 7 years old

* How his son Gunnar has overcome cystic fibrosis

* How Boomer got in position to replace Imus

* His fun spots with Mike & the Mad Dog as the Jets’ quarterback and how he was regular on Imus

* How he told FAN he couldn’t work with Chris Russo

* Tryouts with Monica Crowley and Cris Collinsworth before Carton

* What was it like to work with Carton, whom Boomer called a “radio maven”

* The only real other candidate, besides Gio, to replace Carton was Adam Schein, who didn’t want to leave his other gigs

* How now CBS Sports president David Berson reminded Esiason in 2017 of the power of his WFAN show

* How Boomer turned down the afternoons because he, Jerry Recco, Al Dukes and Ed Scozzare wanted to stay in mornings

* If Boomer had gone to afternoons, it wouldn’t have been with Evan Roberts

* Carton telling Boomer he “humanized” him

* Boomer admits Phil Mushnick was right that there was “Weekend Boomer” and “Weekday Boomer” with his FAN and CBS jobs

* The friction between Mike & the Mad Dog and Carton blew up over a trivia question mishap

* This led to Carton’s Francesa impersonations that Boomer said were “definitely mean”

* Carton telling program director Mark Chernoff that since Boomer and Carton were No. 1, Carton could say what he wanted

* How long does Boomer want to be on WFAN for …

* Who are some of the names on the all-time combo of playing and media careers

* Related pods: Christopher (Mad Dog) Russo … Chris Oliviero … Jason McCourty …Booger McFarland … Eli Manning

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* On-deck on Tuesday: “Everybody Loves Sports Media” with Marchand/Meterparel

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