Lindsay Casinelli Talks Impactful Career and Notable Interviews

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00:00all right we're back on coast to coast and lindsey castanelli what a great name i gotta

00:04start with this uh she's from univision she's been there over 16 years she's a rock star

00:08on tv and she's done tv everywhere los angeles new york espn she's done uh boxing and she has

00:20literally uh stolen my heart already because of two reasons one she went to miami so i am a

00:26caniac i'm a cane fan i've been friends with the canes for over 50 years i had a place down there

00:34in miami and i have literally uh watched them win five national championships i wear all their

00:39clothes everywhere i go people want to punch me in the face and then i lived in huntington beach

00:44there's the you i love you already i love you and then i lived in huntington beach and you went to

00:50cal state long beach and i used to be able to look out my window because i lived on uh the pch right

00:55on uh in the huntington harbor and i i used to look up this like right up the coast to long beach and

01:01i could see long beach from my front of my house and you finished your education there so like you're

01:08really smart you go to miami you go to cal state long beach beautiful weather i mean look at you

01:14you see i picked the right places already and you see i've been in many many places but i haven't been

01:21in your show so i'm so happy to join you today uh yes i got my communication degree in long beach and

01:28i got my master's and my business master's in un recently i just graduated i don't know how i did

01:35it because it was very difficult uh coming from the communication part and doing a master's in business

01:41this was a completely different ball game but finally i got the degree so we got a lot to share

01:46and i'm so happy to be in your show hey so let's talk about a lot of your uh because you've interviewed

01:54uh through your career some of the great people and i'm friends with a lot of them and i've interviewed

02:00pretty much everyone that you've interviewed and i became friends with a lot of them i'm going to start

02:06with miggy so miggy and i uh in 2003 miggy was uh a young player with the marlins and they they went

02:15and won the world series and beat the yankees in game six in the bronx and i was there for every single

02:20game and i covered the marlins back then because i was working at qam in miami and i loved miggy from

02:28the beginning of his career how did you like interviewing uh miguel cabrera

02:33well i have to say that miguel cabrera was a big part of my career at the beginning

02:39because i got to meet him when i was covering the yankees he was playing for the

02:45cybers at the moment and i came up to him and said hey would you give me an interview

02:50and he's like no and i'm like really why now you know i need to interview him he's like no i don't

02:57want to talk like well but you know i'm from venezuela like you are and he's like well i don't

03:03want to talk today but i'll talk to you tomorrow and i'm like okay i'll come back tomorrow and we're

03:09gonna talk actually you know what no we're not gonna do it here i'm gonna take you to eat arepas

03:14you know arepas is the venezuelan food and that's exactly what i did i came back the next day

03:18and i say well miguel i'm here let's go eat arepas after the game and he went with me

03:24and we did a great interview and that was all before the triple crown that year he won the

03:30triple crown and of course i said i was your lucky charm so you have to give me the first interview

03:37and i came back to detroit at the moment i went back to detroit after he won the triple crown and

03:43he gave me one of the best interviews of my career so far because i was able to get him in

03:49his house with his family with his mom his kids his uh wife and it was a very personal interview

03:57uh in a in one of the best moments of sports and that happened the first year that i was working

04:05with the network so can you imagine where that interview took me so it was really really important

04:12for me and still one of my friends miguel cabrera of course i mean that you skyrocketed from there

04:18uh the other two that stood out to me are my friends because i've covered boxing for 35 years

04:24i have done every major uh championship prize fight over the last 35 years that you can name

04:31and i'm good friends with uh canelo and with floyd uh i don't go around bragging about floyd but i am

04:40buddies with floyd floyd's done the show a million times over the years uh he's quite a character but

04:45i really got a kick out of canelo alvarez for as enormous as he is in mexico and all over the world

04:51and in the states and how gigantic he is as a fighter and his illustrious career he's really a

04:58cool guy and down to earth and fun to be around it really blew my mind because most of them can be

05:04kind of standoffish and think they're you know shack doesn't stink

05:09totally totally agree and um one more thing about canelo he's a very loyal person and you can see

05:18that uh with his team the people that surround him all his career but i tell you also uh what

05:26happened with canelo and how i got closer to him through the years right uh during the pandemic

05:33i just reached out to him through instagram and i was like you know i need to interview

05:38somebody for contacto deportivo why not canelo and i just you know sent him a message through

05:44instagram he replied to me saying yes of course lindsey i'm like i thought that you were going

05:49you were not going to reply at all because you know i didn't went through the normal or the formal

05:56ways of going through pr and all that and he's like no no you know the worst thing that you can do

06:00lindsey is don't ask you need to ask and and he did and he teach me a lesson he taught me a lesson

06:07at the moment because sometimes we're so afraid to ask because we think the answer is no and maybe

06:13the answer could be no now on yes tomorrow like in it was with miguel cabrera but with with saul it

06:19was great and from that day on we kept like a really good relationship a working relationship

06:26i respect him a lot he also respects me he knows me since i started so we kind of know each other and

06:33we always had that um kind of relationship where i could go further than just talking about boxing no

06:40i asked him about his family and how he thinks and i have learned a lot about him and he has such a

06:47strong my mindset it's unbelievable it's one of the athletes him kobe because i i also had the

06:53opportunity to interview kobe several times cover kobe bryan for a whole year and then jitter i could

06:59tell you are the three athletes i think they have a set of mind that are completely different off the

07:05charts so let's talk about uh the world cup uh coming uh to north america and and then you're i want

07:13to get your thoughts on that how exciting that is and who do you like in the champions league final

07:19uh with psg and inner on the 31st in germany for the inter of course cassinelli dove dove crez que lo

07:31agarré donde crez que lo agarré donde donde el italiano tiene que salir um we are also our friends with uh

07:39pupis and eti and we're so happy for the inter i think they did a great job stopping barcelona

07:45barcelona was a great favorite to get to the final uh they're playing um beautiful wonderful

07:51soccer football i should say i thought it was incredible barcelona kept coming in waves but i

07:58was rooting for inner my buddy went to madrid and saw him play this year with his wife he said it was

08:04an experience of a lifetime so i'm pulling for inner who do you think wins inner or psg and who do you

08:11like uh in the world cup and how do you think it's going to go over in north america

08:15it's 50 50 inter psg but i'm rooting for inter as you as as you know but um club world cup it will

08:27be a great event it will be the best of the best of every continent the different clubs are going to

08:33be here the stars are going to be here i can't wait to see mbappé one of the biggest stars in soccer

08:38right now and i will say real madrid has to take this xavi alonso will be the manager hopefully

08:46at the moment when they play the the club world cup and i think it will be great just to warm up

08:52for what's coming next year which is the real world cup the national teams world cup and it will be

08:59here in the united states mexico and canada so soccer is taking over my friend football is taking over

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