And Tonya…”)īrandt couldn’t have planned this career path, obviously. He also said maybe he’ll take his son when he’s 18 and finally tell him some stories. (I asked if Brandt will visit his old Real World house, which is now a gym, and he mused it should be sacrilegious to build a business on an old Real World house. They now live in suburban Westchester, N.Y. It’s like resumé Russian roulette.”Īlong the way from the Real World to the real world, he got married after meeting his future wife on. “I don’t think you could have more different fan bases from Days of Our Lives fans, they’re spread across the country, to Real World fans from 2001 to football fans to Jim Rome ‘clones,’” he said. When people recognize Brandt, he tries to guess how they know him before they say a word. He spent months living in gentrifying Bucktown/Wicker Park - it was one of the last seasons where relatively normal people were on the show - and when that was over, he moved to Los Angeles to start an acting career. After playing football at Princeton, the Stevenson grad got a spot on Chicago’s first “Real World” cast in the summer of 2001. It’ll be three hours of Bears talk.”īrandt, who turns 40 this coming January, has had a fascinating career path through his 20s and 30s. It’ll be me and two co-hosts and we’re just going to talk about the present, past and future of the Bears. ![]() The Bears basically want a three-hour podcast about the Bears. “I’m very proud of my radio background,” he said. He’s planning on tapping into that part of his multi-faceted career Thursday. One of Brandt’s many jobs since appearing on “The Real World” in 2001 was as a producer and fill-in host for Jim Rome’s radio and TV shows. Ex-Bear Corey Wootton will join them in what’s expected to be a casual, fun, unconventional call of a meaningless game that fans will watch because they’re hopelessly addicted to Bears football. Poor Calvin, his father lamented, thought he could listen to his dad call his first Bears game, but instead he’ll just have to cheer on Tyler Bray, Tanner Gentry and the rest of the Not-Ready for Primetime Players while his dad directs traffic in his NFL broadcasting debut.īrandt, a co-host on NFL Network’s critically-acclaimed “Good Morning Football” show, is taking over fellow suburban Chicago expat Adam Amin’s spot in the booth alongside Jim Miller for the team’s fifth and (thankfully) final preseason game. “They” is his wife Brooke, his four-year-old son Calvin and his three-year-old daughter Evelyn, whom Brandt was on his way to meet at LaGuardia Airport when we talked Wednesday morning. ![]() ![]() “I think they thought I was doing the public address announcing or something.” “They’re all going to the game, but they didn’t realize until last night they wouldn’t be able to hear me,” he said with a laugh.
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