Tag: Christopher Mad Dog Russo

"I think there’s jealousy because he was anointed the next Jordan right away, and that bothered people"

"I have come to the conclusion after seeing all of these departures over the last 43 years in radio that the best way to do it is when you decide to make a change, just make the change. Don't give the folks who you are changing from the opportunity to say goodbye because it never works."

"I feel bad for Molly because Russo then fires back."

"I was like, ‘This is the mode for something down the road.'"

"They stepped up for the NBA, they stepped up for football, stepped up for this one, and to come back to us and say, ‘We want to cut you.’"

"The people that are producing Mike Francesa’s podcast are not young whip guys that are going to end up being the heads of NBC or something or the heads of Paramount Pictures."

"I’m ready for everybody, and even my colleagues have always said when the lights come on, it’s something different that happens to me."

"Again, I don’t like what you’ve become late in your career here where you are simply trafficking in all of the powers that you have to do things that satiate your ego."

"‘And good afternoon everybody!,’ going crazy, and then he’s complaining all the time, ‘What’s the matter with the chair?,’ everything else, and you come on sounding all normal."

"Well 'First Take' has given him a whole 'nother platform, and his goofiness is evident there, and you see it, and Stephen A. buys into it, Molly buys into it, which is great."