Jerry McKinnis

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... me and Jerry McKinnis, who, whose, whose...

This whole thing in America was his brain- was his brainchild as far as TV goes.

And with a microphone interviewing guys and, and, and calling it as best we can, and, uh, that was all it was.

And, uh, uh, left to go into the advertising business for a little while, and, and I got busy doing voiceovers and, and acting in, in, uh, industrial things and other kind of projects, and I didn't wanna work for the ad agency anymore.

I went on myself.

We opened a recording studio right around the, the corner from this place right here, and the man who owned it, Jerry McKinnis, had been doing a show called The Fishing Hole, which was a syndicated fishing show from the '70s into the '80s.

And in the '80s, he decided there's now s- this thing called ESPN.

So, um, so I'm not sure what, how much time that took, but I eventually did it.

But what was interesting is Minnesota Bound was only on the air two years when, through a mutual friend named Jerry McKinnis, who did stuff for ESPN, came to St. Paul to a sports show, and I knew him from, from some previous times.

And, uh, I'm sitting next to him and he, and I said to him, just off the cuff, I said, "Jerry, I'm, I'm at, I'm getting in your T- into your, uh, into your, uh, you know, what, what you do now.

I'm, I'm doing a TV show."

That was the craziest thing.

Like, I remember, you know, uh, Jerry McKinnis was still with us.

He was still at Bass at that time.

And I remember the year before, you know, he would always reach out to guys and survey them and, and pick their brain.