Tony Kornheiser - he of PTI, Monday Night Football, Washington Post and radio fame - joins the show to yodel with us for a thirty or so good minutes.

(For those of you who know me, you know that I have what some might call an unhealthy obsession with the Orange one.  I listen to his radio show every day, religiously.  I have made no bones about the fact that this show is ostensibly a rip-off of his show.

So that made this interview both incredibly easy, and incredibly difficult.  This show could have been a three hour tour of Mr. Tony’s life and career.  How do you condense everything you’ve ever wanted to ask a guy you spend 2.5 hours a day listening to into a neatly packaged just-over-half-hour presentation?  I did my best.)

We talk about his many professional hats, and why he still works so much as he nears 60.  I ask if he’s getting softer in his old age (answer: no) and get his response to Norman Chad thinking he’s dead.

The Chad stuff leads into a interesting conversation about Tony’s notoriously thin skin, and how he’s made a career writing about himself for so long, yet hating what OTHERS write about him.

We also talk about the Cheeseboy, and where he sees blogs being...and going...as a part of the media landscape.  And he responds to my assertion that PTI is a blog, just on TV.  We also talk about if he thinks PTI may have ‘jumped the shark.’ 

We talk a little about Monday Night Football and how long he’ll do it.  I ask him about the difference between working with Jaws and Joe T and, after giving his requisite praise for Theismann, he has some interesting thoughts on what he would do in the booth.

My last question is about family.  I just read his first book, The Baby Chase, which is about his - and his wife’s - struggles to have children, getting caught up in a Black Market adoption ring.  While it was written in 1983, it was fresh in my mind, so I get a little sappy, a little personal, and ask him about fatherhood.

Then, because it’s Mr. Tony, we somehow end up talking about Ari Emanuel’s golf swing, James Lipton’s beard color, and if I’ll ever be able to get the dinner with me, Tony and Larry David together.  Norman Chad was the fourth, but, well, I’m not sure that’s going to work out.

I’m sure I left stuff out in this recap, so make sure to listen to the whole show.  I’m also sure I missed something one of the Littles would have wanted me to ask.  So make sure you email me to tell me how this interview stinks (stinks).

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