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b'Chick Hernandez on one on one interview with Dan Snyder when Snyder wasn\'t giving interviews ~\\n\\n"He interviewed me for six minutes. We put it online because it was hysterical to watch this guy ask me questions. What do you like eat? All kinds of off the beaten stuff. By the time we turned it around, I did him, it was good."\\n\\nChick Hernandez in studio interview\\n\\nA Ockershausen:\\tThis is Our Town and having an opportunity in Our Town to talk to one of Washington\'s most renowned sports broadcasters.\\nChick Hernandez:\\tWell, I can\'t wait for this. Who is this?\\nA Ockershausen:\\tThey used to be sports talents. Now they\'re broadcasters.\\nChick Hernandez:\\tAre they? Talent.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tLike there are no more sales people. They\'re account executives now. That\'s happened to our world. Chick is a very dear friend and has been so important to Comcast Sportsnet and its growth, and we want to talk about that, but I\'d like to go back to Chick Hernandez to where he is born. He\'s a local guy. He\'s an Our Town guy.\\nBorn and Raised in Our Town\\nChick Hernandez:\\tI was born in Providence Hospital October 31st. Won\'t give you the year because I never give my age because of my young looking skin. You can\'t tell right now on this podcast. But, born in DC, raised in DC, lived on R Street for five years then went out to Silver Spring.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tThe migration.\\nChick Hernandez:\\tThe migrations. Single mother, the white Irish Catholic from Annapolis.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tWell, you share the same hospital. Only my problem is I was born there 88 years ago in March.\\nChick Hernandez:\\tWow you are ancient.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tProvidence Hospital.\\nChick Hernandez:\\tProvidence Hospital, yeah.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tI was asked to do a commercial for them.\\nChick Hernandez:\\tReally?\\nA Ockershausen:\\tYeah, for their 75th anniversary, and I did the spot as being born in Washington, being third generation. That was the old Providence Hospital, over in southeast.\\nChick Hernandez:\\tMy wife was born in the same hospital just 10 months later, exactly 10 months later in the same hospital.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tThe one out in Brookland.\\nChick Hernandez:\\tI don\'t know where. I was too young to remember.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tBut, Chick, so you migrated out of the city, and your family moved out-\\nChick Hernandez:\\tMoved out, Silver Spring, Silver Spring, 9112 Piney Branch Road, apartment 103. Single mom raised me. I always say that, you know somebody asked me a while ago, "Do you miss having a dad?" I said, "I don\'t know what that means because I felt like my mom was my dad too." I thought she did a heck of a job raising a rambunctious kid, and I was-\\nA Ockershausen:\\tHow many children?\\nChick Hernandez:\\tMy sister came 14 years later. Mom took her time.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tMom was busy.\\nChick Hernandez:\\tFor 14 years I was a solo. Literally each year the pool would open up.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tApple of his eye. Now someone in your family died. Was it your grandmother?\\nChick Hernandez:\\tI\'ve had a bunch of people die. What are you talking about? My aunt died last year, this April, this past April.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tNo, this was five or six years ago.\\nChick Hernandez:\\tMy mother did in 2010.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tThat\'s what, yeah your mom died. St. Joseph\'s? St. Joe\'s? Something like that.\\nChick Hernandez:\\tMy kids went to St. Joe\'s. My mom had a congenital heart defect. Had a great surgery, and then got an allergic reaction to the medication and died several days later. Same thing with my aunt. Same operation, died in the hospital. Not a great memory, Andy, but thank you.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tYou got to remember the bad. That\'s what the future is.\\nChick Hernandez:\\tMy mom was a hippie growing up, and she taught me about-\\nA Ockershausen:\\tAll this happened in the Silver Spring area not in the city.\\nHis Dad - Carlos Patato Valdes\\nChick Hernandez:\\tAbsolutely, yep, yep. All Silver Spring. The chief thing that my mom taught me really was about race. Here\'s a white lady who was raising a kid of col...'