Telich Talks

Jessica Eye is a retired UFC fighter, now dipping her talents into the world of bareknuckle fighting. This episode comes from the Telich Talks vault of December 2023. She recounts the traumatic upbringing she had, which helped pave the way towards her career as one of the early / dominant female competitors in MMA.

Carl Monday has been an investigative Journalist on Cleveland TV since 1979, having won an incredible 50 Emmy Awards. Born, Carl Stylinski, he changed his name to Carl Monday in college and made the switch legal in 1972. He remains active in the business, presenting 3 investigations yearly for WJW Fox 8. He and his wife Sandy celebrated 50 years of marriage in 2024.

Dean Paglio is a Northeast Ohio businessman and former high school and college football player (West Virginia University). Paglio and his son Jackson, ran with the Bulls in Pamplona Spain in 2023 to celebrate his 50th birthday. We unpacked that unforgettable day and also talk a bit about the Ernest Hemingway inspiration that has helped make The Running with the Bulls into something of a worldwide...

Tracy McCool is a veteran news anchor for Fox 8 television in Cleveland Ohio. The Copley, Ohio native and her husband John Cook, learned seven years ago that he had stage four cancer, and was given less than two years to live. John inspired thousands and lived five years before passing away. Tracy talked about the entire ordeal, and how John fought his way through the incredible situation. She als...

Bob DiBiasio is president of the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. Since 1979, he’s been a p.r. executive with the Cleveland Guardians ( Indians). We talk about the building of the Hall, set for ribbon cutting this fall . Bob talked about one of the hall’s greatest… Bob Feller. For info on the hall see www. Cleveland sports hall.com

Bo Marchionte is a native of Niles Ohio, who in late May, reached the epic milestone of running at least 3 miles per day for 10,000 straight days. That’s roughly 27 years. Bo was a guest on my podcast just under three years ago when he reached 9000.What inspires him?. What kind of runs appeal the most to him?

Denes Chapo is an investment banker and has competed in endurance competitions over the years, including completing an Iron Man distance race in Idaho. Much of this episode centers around the detection of incredible blockage in the arteries of his heart, including the infamous Widowmaker of which he had 94% blockage. Suffice to say he needed emergency quintuple bypass surgery, which took place rou...

Michael Symon is an award winning chef,a creative restaurateur, Emmy Award winning tv host, author and one of those responsible for Cleveland Ohios excellent culinary reputation. He was the 2007 winner of Iron Chef, which help ed springboard him to fame. He could have executed that leap himself having been a high school wrestler at renowned St. Edward high school. Symon has written several books,...

Jimmy Malone has been a long time comedian and radio personality in the Cleveland area for many many years. His Knuckleheads in the news segment on local radio was a big hit for generations of listeners. For more than 30 years, Malone has helped changed the lives of hundreds of Northeast Ohio students through his Malone Scholarship program.

Frank McKinney has finished the world‘s toughest race, the Badwater 135 seven times. He returns to Death Valley this summer after a six year absence in search of his eighth finish. McKinney is a successful entrepreneur/real estate artist, a best-selling author, and a philanthropic capitalist whose Caring House Project has built 32 self sustaining villages in Haiti over 27 years. This year, Frank r...

Denny Semick is a photographer/salesman by trade, but he is often been in the last so many years a man who enjoys the challenge of climbing a tough mountain. He came to rock climbing somewhat late in life . Why does he take on such difficult challenges? What pushes him?

Ken Carman hosts a morning radio sports talk show on 9.23 The Fan in Cleveland Ohio alongside Anthony Lima. He also is a nighttime sports anchor and commentator and Emmy Award winner at WJW television, in Cleveland, Ohio. That’s the spot where I have done sports for close to 45 years now. ( I continue to co host Friday Night Touchdown with Ken, PJ Ziegler and John Sabol. ) Kenny talked about the d...

Tony Rizzo is a longtime Cleveland television and radio personality. He is the cohost of the Really big show on ESPN Cleveland radio. He is an Emmy award-winning TV sportscaster, host and reporter. On a personal note, I worked many years with the Riz, cohosting shows with him and reporting on many big Cleveland sporting events. He is the son of acclaimed broadcaster Jack Reynolds . The father of t...

Dean Hall was the first person to swim the length of the 187 mile long Willamette River in Oregon. He accomplished the feat after dealing with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. His doctor advised against it. The swim was a “ Hail Mary”. The swim miraculously cured him of the cancer. He detailed the episode in a book. The Wild Cure. He later became the first to swim the length of the River Shannon in I...

Severance, created by Dan Erickson, and produced & directed by Ben Stiller has created a ton of momentum in season two, despite dealing at first with Covid, then a writers strike. Now, the Apple TV+ show has many people buzzing. Its whole premise, the acting, and the Wild plot has made it the darling of the Reddits of the world. Sleuths world wide are trying to out guess Erickson and determine...

Chuck Kyle was a highly successful, state championship caliber football coach at St. Ignatius high school in Cleveland, Ohio. His teams won 11 state championships and now, in his retirement he co-hosts a podcast with his daughter Maureen Kyle called The Object of the Game. That same title was attached to a book he wrote about principles of playing football and how they apply to a successful life....

Ken Vinikoff is a financial planner, wizard at networking and a curious adventurer. He recently summited Mt. Kilimanjaro along with his business partner Steve Thompson. He talked about overcoming his fear of heights and how growing up inthe Adirondacks, he had a love of climbing and hiking and exploring. He is also the man behind the networking group Networking Is Dead .

Jason Behnke is known as Always Positive J on social media and part of a Big Play network podcast, called Voice of the Land, based in Cleveland, Ohio. In this episode, he talks of an incredibly traumatic childhood. A mother with drug and alcohol issues. Of dealing with Dyslexia, & bullying; being shuffled to different homes. He helped care for his grandmother who dealt with Alzheimer’s and los...

Cameron Dean Balser ran around the entire United States of America in 2023 and 24, covering close to 12,000 miles, involving passage through each border state. A high school and college track and field athlete, Balser talks in this episode about dealing with depression which ultimately led him to that point in time when he decided to undertake this epic challenge. How a singular pursuit was embrac...

Tom Hamilton is the radio play-by-play voice of the Cleveland Guardians. Hamilton, a 2022 Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame inductee was recently named as the Ford C Frick award winner by MLB. He will join the 2025 class in Cooperstown. Hamilton , out of Waterloo, Wisconsin has broadcast college basketball and football and minor league baseball. In this episode we talk about his career, about...

Former Notre Dame Star Tony Fisher jumped on the pod shortly after his Fighting Irish claimed a spot in the College Football Playoff National Championship. Fisher was Mr. Football in Ohio at Euclid high, the same school that produced 2-time Mr. Football Robert Smith, who went on to star with Ohio State and the Minnesota Vikings . Fisher , played mostly for the Green Bay Packers in the NFL. He is t...

Mark Dowdle is an ultra runner , and first person to complete the Calendar Club Challenge for a full year. He’s won a “ Last man standing race” and is the man behind the “ Run n’ Plunge” club in the Twin Cities. He was an all state athlete in two sports, football and lacrosse, growing up in Illinois. He is out to change people’s attitudes about running and to foster a sense of community within the...

Part two of the best of 2024 includes an Olympic gold & silver medalist, a former NFL football player who found out family and friends were more interested in money than a relationship, we hear from a state championship basketball coach who had a front row seat to the rise of the greatness of LeBron James. We talked to a man who abandoned his track and field sport in college only to return to it 3...

This is part one of the best of Telich Talks 2024. Four individuals who pushed the outer limits of their endurance and determination in order to be the best that they can be. One, a Pro Football player, Steeler Ryan Shazier. Another a former high school football player, Scott Fedor. Both men suffering spinal cord injuries. How they chose to respond showed their faith and fortitude. Katie Spotz, wo...

This is an encore podcast from January 1, 2024 with longtime Cleveland media figure Andre Knott. Almost 365 days ago we believed the Browns were on the verge of something great. Boy has a lot changed. This was in the middle of Flacco mania. Also on the podcast, Andre and I talked about Ohio State football and the Guardians new direction after Terry Francona. This episode precedes next week’s best...