Hot Mic, Hot Water - Thom Brennaman Sits Down With WLWT

Former Cincinnati Reds & NFL Broadcaster Thom Brennaman sits down with WLWT's Mike Dardis to talk about the hot mic moment where he said a homophobic slur on air and the fallout that came from that moment.

Show Notes

He thought they were still in a commercial break, but they had just come back on air. In a moment caught on air, former Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman used a homophobic slur that went viral across the internet. WLWT News 5 Anchor Mike Dardis sits down with Brennamen to hear more about that moment, how he's trying to use it to learn and grow himself and how he hopes that one word which ended his Reds career will be a lesson to others to not make the same mistake. 

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