Joe Shuta’s passion for radio began when his mother, who worked for Sylvania, bought him his first transistor radio (thanks to a 40% employees’ discount) at the age of eight. When an uncle, visiting from Pittsburgh, brought a reel-to-reel recorder to the house, Joe became the in-house DJ and newsman with an imaginary audience of millions.
The ensuing years, with thousands of hours of radio listening constantly in the background, eventually led to forty years of part-time stints in radio as a board operator, DJ, newsman, copy writer, host of a weekly sports talk show for sixteen years and currently content writer and interviewer of the Two-Minute Timeout with Joe Shuta website.
Wrapped around radio was a career that included earning an M.A. in Spanish, teaching secondary Spanish and history for thirty-eight years, bilingual instructor for the Pittsburgh Pirates, coaching basketball, owning a baseball card store for a decade and a half, announcing high school football and track and running nineteen marathons and six ultramarathons (fifty-mile races).
Joe has always been fascinated by the fact that everyone has a story. With that in mind, this website’s goal is to give you the chance to listen to conversations with current and former athletes, coaches and announcers.
The views, information, or opinions expressed during features are solely those of the interviewee and do not necessarily represent those of the host, The Two-Minute Timeout or the individuals rebroadcasting the interview features.
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