My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Richard Skinner who is Digital Sports Editor for Local-12 WKRC and the host of the Skinny Podcast. Skinny was born in Cincinnati and his parents worked for American Airlines. He spent his early years being relocated to New York and Oklahoma before returning to Northern Kentucky permanently when he was in middle school. He credits playing sports and his dad’s love for the Reds, Bengals and UK Wildcats for developing his passion. He has the opportunity to do play-by-play of UK home games and as a senior writes for the student newspaper The Kernel. Skinny was able to develop relationships with many of the veteran local media members. One person in particular that helped him was Keith Elkins who he teamed up with on those broadcasts of Kentucky games. After graduation Skinny returned to Northern Kentucky writing for a weekly newspaper and working as a producer at WCPO Channel 9. His first full-time job was working for a daily newspaper in Maysville, Kentucky called the Ledger Independent. After a few years, Skinny catches on with the Cincinnati Post doing a variety of jobs before landing his first full-time beat to cover. A fellow by the name of Tom Gamble is who got Skinny on board at The Post. Skinny was with the weekly paper called The Recorder when he started to doing some play-by-play work working for a man named Ted Bushelman. He credits Ted with taking a chance on him and giving him the opportunity to grow as a broadcaster doing many different such as bowling and steeplechases along with the more traditional sports. Skinny starts to also do radio shows on the local sports talk scene. One on his first pairings is with Art Schilchter. Skinny recalls Art and how talented he was a football player and broadcaster but how he was also self destructive due to his gambling addiction. Skinny also did a sports talk show on a local cable television show hosted by Don Weber called The Press Box. We talk about Don and the mark he left on the high school sports scene. This is also where Skinny was first paired with Tom Gamble and shortly thereafter the duo become the Two Angry Guys. If you would like to listen to listen to my full conversation with Don Weber on Episode 12 of Nobody's Safe with Brady Laber click here. Skinny and Gamble where first teamed with the originator of sports talk radio Bob Trumpy for a morning show. He talks about working with Trumpy and how that was sometimes difficult. He also talks about working with Gamble for many years and how successful the show was before it became emotionally draining. He talks about some of the beats he covered for The Post and Cincinnati Enquirer focusing specially on the Kentucky Wildcats and Cincinnati Bengals. Skinny has many different versions of The Skinny Podcast but the two that are the most popular is a college basketball one with Rick Broering and Chad Brendel along with a weekly potpourri edition with Broering. We talk about a specific segment of that show that is very entertaining called Ask Skinny Anything. If you would like to listen to listen to my full conversation with Rick Broering on Episode 39 of Nobody's Safe with Brady Laber click here. To close out we talk about his versatility and how it seems that he rarely says no to an opportunity. He talks about how he has had a lot of people help him throughout his career and prides himself on doing the same with people who are up-and-coming in the business. You can follow Skinny on Twitter @Local12Skinny, view his content on Local12.com and listen to The Skinny Podcast anywhere podcast are available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
