Each week, Stephen Strom gets to talk to some of sports media’s most notable names on The Sports Talkers Podcast. Strom askes about their individual journeys, lessons learned, and in this week’s edition, what being in the right place at the right time can mean for radio infamy.
Strom welcomes in Jorge Sedano from ESPN to talk about his relationship with Hank Goldberg and another Miami-based story, his infamous interview with Dennis Rodman when Sedano was working mornings at 790 The Ticket in Miami.
Strom brought up the bizarre radio interview from 2010 (you can listen below) in which it sounded like “Dennis was having some fun with another woman during the interview”.
“He was being pleasured by a woman while we are on the air,” interjected Sedano.
What was going on in Sedano’s mind during those seven minutes?
“Well, I just asked him, listen to it. I could hear the woman in the background,” Sedano explained. “He kind of put her on the phone a little bit, but then I heard things that sounded like he was getting pleasured and I just asked him: Dennis, are you getting it on right now? And he was like, ‘Oh yeah, brother.’
Sedano said that in that moment, he had to go with it, but delicately.
“I didn’t know what else to do other than to not say what was actually happening but give people the idea of what was happening and then ask him the questions that need to be asked in that moment.”
But how? How does Dennis Rodman get onto the air while in such a compromising position. According to Sedano, it was Rodman’s idea.
“We get a call, my producer Andy King says to me, ‘Hey, so Dennis Rodman’s agent is on the phone and says Dennis Rodman wants to talk to you… He wants to talk about Lebron”.
Rodman wanted to call-in to talk about LeBron James and the Miami Heat. However, Sedano says that he later learned that the LeBron talk was a back-up plan.
“Apparently they tried to call Howard Stern first,” said Sedano, “but Howard was off that day… Dennis was living in Miami, his agent lived in Miami, the agent I guess listened to me and was like ‘let’s just call Sedano and talk about LeBron’ and that’s how that all transpired.”
You can listen to the rest of Sedano’s discussion on Thursday and all of The Sports Talkers Podcast with Stephen Strom here and anywhere you can download a podcast, including on YouTube on the Barrett Sports Media page.
