Introducing David Greene is Obsessed!

0:04Okay, so there have been a few times when I wondered if my obsession with sports had gone a little too far. Take, for example, January 15th, 2006. My Pittsburgh Steelers were in the playoffs. They were in Indianapolis playing the Colts. I was at my favorite Pittsburgh Steelers bar, this joint in Washington, D.C., where I would go a lot. I actually ended up meeting my wife there. I was doing what I do during Steelers games. I was shaking violently, nervously. I was clinging to my beer, and I was not talking to any other humans. The game was looking good. The Steelers were about to win. But then my favorite player of all time, Jerome Bettis, fumbled near the goal line.

0:48A Colts player picked up the damn ball and started racing 90 yards for a touchdown that would have won the game. Everything was hanging in the balance. Jerome Bettis, he was about to retire. And this, this fumble is how he would be remembered. My life was also hanging in the balance because I honestly felt chest pain when he fumbled the ball. And I thought I was having a heart attack. It actually turns out another Steelers fan, this guy named Terry O 'Neill, he did have a heart attack during this same play. He collapsed at a sports bar in Pittsburgh. Thank God there were some regulars there who were paramedics because they got him to a hospital just in time to save his life.

1:30So when Terry woke up in the emergency room, thankful to be alive, he was staring lovingly into his wife's eyes. He just had one question for her. Did the Steelers win? Yeah, she told him the Steelers did win, Terry, despite the fumble. They did pull out the game. I have a question. why the hell do we do this to ourselves well that's one of the many questions i want to answer in this show we are calling it david green is obsessed because i'm david green and well i am obsessed with a whole lot of stuff including sports and i've always wondered what our obsessions mean what do they say about us why do we need them this show is about connecting with people It's about sharing stories of our obsessions and working through them together, helping each other understand what the hell this is all about and what we might learn from these obsessions that seem to catch hold of us.

2:34From politics to pizza, from karaoke to knitting, sex, alcohol, travel, sleep. I'm going to ask my guests to get vulnerable around all of this, and I'm going to do the same, and we'll all learn a lot about ourselves. David Green is Obsessed, a new weekly show about the things that consume us, the things we can't let go of, and why it matters. Coming soon, wherever you obsessively seek out your next favorite podcast.