The Brothers Brandt Podcast – Episode 76: American Pharaoh & The Brandts Win The Haskell!!
In 2015, legendary thoroughbred racehorse, American Pharaoh trained by Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert marched his way to a dominating performance in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes propelling him to become only the 12th horse to capture The Triple Crown! It ended a 37-year drought. American Pharaoh was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated and Vogue magazine that summer. Some have said he was the greatest athlete of all-time (if you count horses). After winning the Triple Crown, his next race in 2015 was The William Hill Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in New Jersey where we grew up. Naturally, we attended this event in only a way The Brothers Brandt could. Bill Murray, Derek Jeter, the Governor of New Jersey and over 60,000 other patrons were on hand for the most memorable day in horse race history in the State of New Jersey. Needless to say, American Pharaoh on national television galloped his way to an impressive win that day and The Brothers Brandt made the most of our day at the historic Monmouth Park race track. Enjoy this epic story!

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Enjoy this episode of the pod as we relive our trek out to see Lebron James and the Cavs host Steph Currry and The Golden State Warriors.
It was a wild time in Cleveland. And you will notice Rick and I predicted the current NBA Finals with Bucks vs. Suns! 

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The boys are back a it again manifesting an incredible NFL double header on a beautiful opening Sunday of the season. This is wrapping up the most wild and epic sports road trip you have ever heard of! It's the final day and Rick and I are pouring sweat into this and all the energy we have to end it the way we started! This episode highlights our experience at a 1pm Houston Texans vs Jags game and then a Sunday Night 8pm Cowboys vs Giants in Jerry's World experience. In between these games we drove 3 hours and saw the Golden Ticket Bus which led us to meet The Godfather of Tickets himself... Ram Silverman. A friendship that is worth more than gold... just salt of the earth human. 

This puts the cherry on top of our Epic Southwest 12 games in 9 days Road Trip where we started in Clemson, South Carolina seeing a 1pm Clemson Tigers Game, 4pm Georgia Bulldogs game, 8pm Alabama vs FSU game in one day. Monday we were back in the saddle seeing a Tennessee vs Georgia Tech game. Tuesday was a Braves Baseball game at the beautiful new stadium. We drove through the night to Tampa and watched a 1pm Rays game then skirted down to Miami to witness a 8pm Marlins game. We narrowly missed Super Storm Irma and hopped a flight out to Houston. Friday was a Texas Rangers game in Arlington. Saturday was a Texas College double header with a 12pm Longhorns game followed by a 6pm Texas A&M Aggies home game. And that leaves us to Sunday were we went to a 1pm Texans game and a 8pm Cowboys game... Whoa! We needed a vacation from the Vacation haha... it was a quest, a quest for fun and mission was accomplished! Unforgettable memories with my best bud!

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Enjoy this epsiode as Rick and myself travel from Austin Texas to College Station in ONE DAY! The state of Texas is HUGE and filled with top tier college football programs. The stars aligned for this part of our trip. We were able to see the Texas Longhorns battle San Jose State at 12pm in beautiful downtown Austin. As the game was ending we bounced down to College Station which is about a 2-3 hour drive to watch Texas A&M against Northwest State. On paper it was a "warm up" game but the visitors that day did not think so. It was a much closer game than anticipate and gave the Aggies a scare. Overall, college football in Texas is borderline a religion and when you can manage two games in one day, you have to do it. Enjoy as Rick and I talk about our experiences and encourage you the listeners to do your own sports road trips. 

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On episode seventy-one of The Brothers Brandt Podcast, iconic sportscaster Verne Lundquist shares how a sports-loving kid from Duluth, Minnesota became the ‘Golden Voice’ of college football, college basketball, NFL, NBA, Olympic games, PGA Championships and our favorite, The Masters. Verne’s contagious enthusiasm has led him to become one of the most prominent and recognizable on-air talents in sports history. Verne has worked alongside our podcast friends Jim Nantz and Bill Raftery and also other legends such as John Madden and Pat Summerall to name just a few. One of Verne’s most well-known moments was when he starred as himself in the 1996 movie Happy Gilmore with Adam Sandler, one of the greatest sports movies ever in our opinion. In this podcast interview we ask Verne what it was like to be on the call for Duke’s Christian Laettner’s 1992 buzzer-beater, Jack Nicklaus’s 6th Masters victory in 1986. Tonya Harding's 1994 Winter Olympics figure skating debacle, and Tiger Woods’ 2005 improbable chip-in birdie on the 16th hole, when Verne famously said, “Here it comes...Oh, my goodness!...OH, WOW!! IN YOUR LIFE, have you seen anything like that?” This interview with The Brothers Brandt is a Hall of Fame one, just like Verne Lundquist himself. Enjoy!

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And we are back on the road again going over our 13 games in 9 days EPIC sports road trip in the Southeast of the United States. This is a special episode because we blend Stadium Tours with a Rangers Friday Night Game. It was the calm before the final storm heading into the last weekend of the trip where we would complete seeing 5 games in 3 days: back to back double headers on Saturday and Sunday. This is not an episodes to pass over thought because we highlight going to the Stadium Tours of Texas A&M Aggies Kyle Field, Houston Texans Stadium, The Start in Frisco Home to the Cowboys training facility and the Texas Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. It was an incredible journey bouncing around the great state of Texas and these stadiums did not disappoint... it is true EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS!

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Enjoy this episode as we talk all about the 2021 Masters experience. It is truly a tradition unlike any other. We will talk about the days leading up to the tournament which a lot of listeners are not aware of The Women's Amateur Tournament and The Drive Chip and Putt Competition the Saturday and Sunday prior to the Masters. Rick and I talk about the Champions dinner Tuesday night prior to the Masters kicking off. Oh and the beauty of the course and time dedicated to making this a special moment for everyone. And of course we recap the tournament and our new green jacket recipient: Hideki Matsuyama!

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Loran Smith was a University of Georgia Bulldog MVP track star in 1959 and he hasn’t stopped ‘running the race’ for his alma mater's Athletic Department since. For the past SIXTY YEARS Loran Smith has earned the title as “most versatile Bulldog” and “vital building block” for one of the nation’s top athletic programs. Loran is most famous in the Peach State for being a longtime sideline reporter for Georgia football broadcasts. He’s been the University’s Assistant Sports Information Director, Business Manager, Bulldog Club Executive Director, Gameday Program Editor, and the prolific author of “Between the Hedges” (the story of Georgia’s first 100 years of football), “Fifty Years on the Fifty” (the history of the Orange Bowl) and “The Athens Sketchbook” (the history of Athens and UGA). If that wasn’t impressive enough, Loran has also written FIVE books about The Masters which have been published by the Augusta National Golf Club. Loran began attending The Masters in 1960 and has received The Masters Major Achievement Award, given to those who have covered the tournament for 40 years or more. Loran is a Georgia native, past chairman of the State’s Sports Hall of Fame and was elected to that Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1997. Loran is the ultimate jack of all trades and currently serves as UGA’s Athletic Historian.

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Many consider “Seinfeld” to be the all-time greatest American sitcom in television history. It is our #1 favorite show and in our opinions nothing else comes close. It’s the “show about nothing” which was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. Nine-seasons of 180 episodes filled with hysterical humor originally aired on NBC from 1989 to 1998 and has since become one of the highest grossing television series in TV history with record-setting streaming deals on Hulu and Netflix, and re-run royalties on basic cable stations that are proving to last forever now several decades later. On the sixth episode of the seventh season titled the “The Soup Nazi” the character Yev Kassem, played by actor Larry Thomas had the acting performance of a lifetime and the perfectly-uttered, world-renown, strict-command “NO SOUP FOR YOU!” when yelling at his soup-stand-patrons. This four-word-phrase “No Soup For You” is one of the most popular known comedic sayings in show-business and around the world. People all over, who have never seen a single episode of the show Seinfeld can be heard jokingly saying Larry Thomas’ famous four words to friends. That’s how legendary Larry Thomas’ character “The Soup Nazi” was in one single episode in 1995. In fact, his performance as “The Soup Nazi” was so incredible he was nominated in 1996 for a Primetime Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. Larry has been in Super Bowl commercials, guest appeared in Arrested Development and Scrubs, He’s been acting for over thirty-five years and has utilized his famous soup role to promote soup kitchens for the homeless. This legendary actor, Larry Thomas graces us with his presence on this fun-filled podcast interview where we talk about soup (of course haha), Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Larry Tomas’ early years growing up in Brooklyn, New York, his acting career, what led him to this iconic role, and how these famous four words have changed his life forever. Enjoy this classic, comedic-conversation with one of our all-time Hollywood acting favorites, The Soup Nazi, himself!

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Here we are folks, jumping right back into our epic sports road trip across the Southeast. At this point, we have traveled to a TRIFECTA (Clemson, Georgia and Bama vs. FSU) followed up by a Tennessee vs. Georgia Tech Game Monday and an unfortunate rain out for our Braves Game. We drove straight through the night to Tampa Bay and slept in our car prior to our stadium tour of the Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, FL. In this episode, we will go through our experiences of a stadium tour in Tampa, the Rays game, Hurricane Irma and our stop in Miami for a Marlins night game... all in one day!! Enjoy the track folks!

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