McClain simply woke up one day and realized that he was dissatisfied with his role in life as a football scribe....he wanted "more." It all started around the time he was interviewing former Oiler Bo Eason, who had written a one-man play that actually made it from here up to NYC. He got so enamored with what Bo was doing that he started trying to pursue something similar, thinking with all the stories he had inventoried over the years that he might be able to write something genuinely funny.
Seems John has a couple of influential friends in Hollywood whom he's tapped for advice and contacts, if we're to believe what he says on the air, guys he knows from his college connections. Perhaps with their help, direction or simply advice he might break through some day. Until that time, however, it's become genuinely annoying to tune in to hear football and other sports discussion, only to have to endure movie reviews, as well as critiques about this director, that screenwriter or somebody's acting.
Above all that, dude's got a voice for newspaper, though on the opposite scale from the diminutive tenor voiced Pallilo. John sounds like he's running out of breath at times. Is he perhaps an emphyema sufferer?
{edit} Forgot the "s" in emphysema.
