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RADCast Outdoors
A highlight from RadCast Rewind: Episode with Fishing Legend Al Linder, Now on Carbon TV
"Hey, Radcast is on. And welcome to the show, Mr. Jim Zumbo. Gentlemen, I am pleased to be here and I use that term loosely when I say gentlemen. Al Winder. Just want to welcome you to the show. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to hang out with us on a podcast for a little bit. I am looking forward to it. There's nothing makes me happier than a coke in Minnesota. If I can't be out fishing, I should be talking about fishing. Hayling from Wisconsin, Janna Waller. Thank you so much for having me. It's Radcast. Hunting, fishing, and everything in between. Powered by Bowspider. Brought to you by PK Lures and High Mountain Seasonings. And now, here's your hosts, Patrick Edwards and David Merrill. Again, Al, it's great to have you on the program. I do want to give a quick shout out to Danny Kertola, my cousin, for helping set this up with Al. That was a big deal. Thanks, Danny. Yeah, so I really appreciate Danny and Al. Just want to welcome you to the show. Al, thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to hang out with us on a podcast for a little bit. I am looking forward to it. Nothing makes me happier than a coke in Minnesota. If I can't be out fishing, I should be talking about fishing. It's going to be well below zero tonight. So Al, that's probably one of the big motivations for Patrick and I to start this podcast is we both have young families and we're both avidly into the outdoors, whether it's fishing, hunting, or a little bit of both. So that's our goal is to recruit new anglers and new hunters to the outdoors. The timing is really appropriate for it. We've got a whole new recruitment coming in because of COVID that our sport has never seen before, experience in the outdoors. And they need some guidance in a lot of cases to respect the resource. And that's an important part of what's happening now with these whole lot of these newbies coming in. Yeah, it's been fun to watch you over the years because you've really helped teach everybody about that. And I know as a kid, I always looked forward to outdoor life coming in the mail and also in Fisherman Magazine, because that was the thing was I wanted to learn more about fishing and growing up in Cheyenne, Wyoming, it was like a dead zone of fishing. There's really not much close unless you're going to drive two hours to Glendo, three and a half hours to Seminole, five hours to Boyson, you just forget about it. There's just nothing there. You talk about teaching people. I was reading that as much as I could, because I knew when I went, I had to really capitalize on those trips. And you've done an amazing job about that. And I just wanted to know if you could just share some tips with us, what's some key strategies of getting kids and just other anglers out on the water? What are some good strategies and tips? Number one, make sure you take them when you can get them back. I can't hold eyes how important that is, especially with the younger ones that have shorter tension spans. And it is critical that barber is going down or something pulling on the end of that line. And that's one. And even with new adults, and we have a lot of those coming into the sport now that have never fished before. And yes, they have patience where the young people don't, however, their patience will reign after one or two trips without getting a bite. It's the biggest hindrance that I've seen to our sport and your people back. The key is getting a bite to light that fire. They got to catch something. And you don't want to take them out in miserable weather conditions. You have to weather good and do everything in your power to make sure that they get back. And the reason people fish and continue to fish is they had a good experience and a good experience is something pulling on the end of their line. That's really the reason you're out there. That's what motivates people. It's the miracle of a fish. It is amazing to me, my entire life in this business to see what a fish can do to change somebody's life. Yeah, a kid sitting on the dock catching bluegills and all of a sudden nowhere, a two pound bass runs out from under the dock and grabs your bait. You never had your catching your six and having a ball and out of this bass is there. Your hook did break where you landed your life forever. Somebody has never met fish. Yeah, they heard something about it. They're going out with somebody that knows something about all of a sudden next to the boat. This monster opens his mouth and bites on it. It's an image that burns into your spirit that will change. It never goes away. That's what lights the fire in this sport. And it's why it's so important that the end of good weather to do it. And that's the key is to get them action. And then if they're really young, you know, after two, three hours, they like to think around and alive. You get a few fish around all kids like that. They're fascinated with fish bouncing around in the life. And that's the key. It really is the key to keep them motivated, keep them fishing action in a short period of time. But again, with the adult or even a young person after after. So you get them out for two trips the third time. Yeah, you're going to say you want to go fishing with me today. You got too bad experience that they're going to go back and play video games. So the interest won't be there. Well, I was fortunate enough to grow up near Saltwater and my dad in the Pacific Northwest. We did a lot of salmon and halibut and deep sea. And I got introduced very young to fishing. We actually just had a podcast with my dad on talking about starting that fire that you're talking about. I'm curious, who was the fishing mentor in your life? The person that got you hooked on fishing? Well, actually, my brother's 10 years my senior. And he took me everywhere from the time I was a little kid. He's seeing a burning passion. He shared that he said there was something about it from the time you were little. You were obsessed with fish and fishing. And he nurtured that. He actually nurtured that in him being 10 years older than I am. Yeah, he took me under his wing. And I had some really good experiences in those years. One of them that really fed my passion for fishing was my mother. And this is strange, but I got to share that story with you. My brother obviously loved the fish. So he took me everywhere we could go. We fished all over the ponds and lakes and creeks and rivers in between Chicago and Milwaukee. And there's many of them. And we were out every moment we could go. He'd be able to go the way he took me. But my mother really liked to fish. And she's seen people would ask me at a young age, wouldn't you go to a Christmas gathering of family or friends like this? And yeah, what are you going to do when you grow up? Boldly coming? I'm going to be living fishing. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to look at you. Oh, OK. You're going to blow it off. And my mother, she, under the guy, my brother, would she at Christmas time or birthdays or special event every time I found my Christmas presents and gifts were the latest, greatest fishing tackle in the industry, whether it was a rod, a reel, a lure, magazines, books, anything that she fed that fed it and fed it. Never said that's a dumb thing. How are you going to make a living in a fishing industry? Especially at that time, that many years ago. Yeah. And the only thing you get, you tackle manufacturers and outdoor writers that at that time, one of the inspiring outdoor writers to me as a kid was Jason Lucas. He wrote for Sports of Field at that time. And he wrote a book called Lucas on Bass. And I'll bet you I read it a dozen times. It marked every page, the experiences burned into my mind. But experiences like that, and then television, I remember pioneers of the TV fishing business, the first one, his name was Gattabot Gattis, the Flying Fisherman. He was the first one that syndicated television fishing shows. And he'd fly to different locations all over the country and share his fishing experience, Gattabot Gattis. And then that led to Virgil Ward, that was the true championship fishing. And he was the one that lit by fire to get into the fishing industry and do a television show in the business. He was here in my hometown in Brainerd, Minnesota, when we were starting Lindy Jackal Company. And his producer, his name was Jayden, he gave us a call at the office one day and he says, Hi, I'm Dave Jayden, I'm with Virgil Ward, championship fishing. We've been in the area for three days. We're having, we want to do well, I should have went to Bass Busters gig. And he says, can you help? And I understand with the way you're a really good fisherman, everybody says, go call Al if you want one. So should we do a show? That's absolutely. We went out, we got a phenomenal show shot in four hours, he got everything done. He's all happy. He took off, went back to Missouri, and we finished that. My brother looks at me that night, we're talking. He says, that's great. He does a television show and talks about the lures that he manufactures. I said, we could do that. We got, why don't we start a television fishing show and help with that's what led our fire. And that was it. That trip went there and we bought a camera. I mean, that's what camera and my brother learned how to use it and how to voice tape together. And you're shooting with film at that time. You had to rewind these stories on how you get into the game and into the fishing industry and into the sport and the different aspects that are available. You get these different stories from everybody that is enough to make a living business. But I'll go back to what I said just a little bit. Just what a fish could do to change somebody's life. It's astounding to me how it happens all the time. One experience with a fish and just bam, your life is changed by it. Yeah, I agree. It's an amazing experience. I remember catching fish when I was little and how it lit my fire. And again, I promised that I would do this on the podcast and I hope it's not lost because you hear this stuff a lot. But my friend Seth Ewing, who lives in northern Idaho and myself, we grew up just eating up your shows and the magazine. And it really did benefit both of us. He's an incredible fly fisherman and he learned a lot from your fly fishing video that you guys put out with Dahlberg. And I love the smallmouth and the walleye and those kind of species. And so it's just one of those things where I hope it's not lost on you when you hear us say thank you so much for doing all of that because it really did inspire a lot of people across the United States and the world to go out and fish and to take other people fishing, which I think is really cool. One of the things that I always enjoyed and my dad and I always enjoyed watching you fish was just the joy on your face. You were always chuckling and laughing and having a great time. We were just living vicariously through you as the wind blew about 70 miles an hour through Cheyenne, but it's just, it really did make a big difference. And I do want to, I want to ask about this because this is really important to David and I, we both have little kids and we take them out fishing, hunting different activities and you have kids of your own. And I know like he's very influential and big into the fishing business as well. But can you talk a little bit about what that was like raising your kids to be fishermen, but also raising them during that time that you're just so busy and you got all these things going on with the fishing world and the fame that you had going on. How did you manage all those things and still make it a great experience for your kids? They grew up in the business they did. There's not all seven, Ron had seven children. I've got two boys, all of the kids, even the girls, three of his kids are girls. They all served in the business doing something. Yeah. From the time we started Lindy Tackle Company, they were pouring sinkers and learning how to tie snails, raffle them on cars. They were exposed to the business as a family run business all their life when they grew up in different fields and did other things. But a number of them stayed in the business and are in the business today, like Jimmy and Banny and Billy and my son Troy.
WTOP 24 Hour News
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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Does Christianity Uniquely Lead to God?
"Music Broadcasting the west side of Big Brothers City in the heart of Gridlock County, where preaching with impact is like plowing pavement, people continue to place their hope in unsatisfying things. This is the Frederick Faith Debate. It's brought to us by Cruz Holidays, BMC Insurance, and Putman www .ufmd .com keyword faith. There you find links to podcasts of this show. Well, if you go right now, you won't find a podcast of this show, but if you wait about two days, you'll find a podcast of this show. If you go there right now, you'll find podcasts of shows very much like it. You'll also find the Faith Debate blog. My blog is your blog. Email me, troyskinner at clearchannel .com. Whatever you send me, it could be your favorite pie recipe, whatever. I will post it up there. You can rail against the Democrats, rail against Republicans. I will post it up there. I don't really care as long as it's, you know, if a four -year -old accidentally stumbles upon it that they wouldn't be mortified by a word they'd never seen before. That I, that I will take out. Whenever I hear the phrase podcast, it makes me think of Star Wars and, you know, the, uh, the droids trying to escape in a pod. I just, I can't get it out of my head. So whenever you say it, I think podcasts, and I have this picture in my mind of people plugging in to this pod that is sending these droids away. And the funny thing is, every time I think of the name Jonathan Switzer, I think of a droid. I don't know what. Anyway, he's the senior pastor of Crossroads Valley Chapel. I was going to try to whistle like RTD. You can follow, follow him online, uh, at Switzer, not on Twitter, at Switzer, Jonathan. And let's see, it's the latter part of October. It's not trending yet. I just got to tell you. I think he, based on his current schedule, he will send out one more tweet between now and the end of the year. That's right. So hold your breath. It's coming. And joining us this week again, back for round four of her abuse at the hands of Jonathan Switzer. He's been really nice. It's more like abuse at the hands of me. Our Happy Lutheran, blogging at HappyLutheran .blogspot .com. Dr. Kristen Largan, who is an associate professor of systematic theology, also teaches comparative theology classes at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. And it's been a pleasure having her on the show. And now we're really going to get to the nitty -gritty. Jonathan ended with such a great question, right, about, um, what do we do with the scriptural witness that seems to clearly state that some people are going to be damned? And, um, you, and then, then you asked, I think, what was a broader question about do we not have sort of guidelines in scripture? Guidelines for communicating to people and encouraging them to examine their hearts to see whether or not they're in the truth and in the kingdom. Well, you know, it's so, it's, it's interesting. I mean, again, we, we've talked now multiple times over the course of these weeks about our, um, how our backgrounds come to play a role. And again, because I'm Lutheran, um, and the thing that Lutherans are known, known for most is this really, really high doctrine of sinfulness. And so I, I'm, I'm so, um, I, I always get so uneasy when people start talking about telling others to examine themselves, because I always think, oh, I could, I could spend all my time examining before myself I even try to examine anyone else, because I, I, I know the depth of my own sinfulness and, and my own inability to do right before God or, or come to God and, and, and my sort of desperate need for, for, um, the Spirit to be at work in me. But how would you know to do that if no one had ever told you that you needed to examine yourself or your sinfulness? Nobody ever told me to examine myself. The, the idea didn't tell you to do that? Well, that's later. I, to me, I think, I think that, um, the, what, I mean, I think, right, Paul says, if you, if you don't know the law, how can you, how can you know the gospel? But I think in some ways, if you don't know a gracious God, how can you even understand what you've, what you've done wrong? I mean, so there's a, there's a sense for me that, yeah, right, yeah, right. Clearly his grace came first because he created us. He gave us life. And then we fell and then he gave the law, but, you know. Right. And I think, I think God's grace still comes first. And so, you know, when we talk about this kind of, to me, what always feels like the kind of threatening language of, oh, you better examine yourself. I, I want to say the, the first thing that I want to talk about is the great work of this loving God who, who is, um, because because simply I like to think that the fact that God has shown mercy on me, a sinner undeserving of God's grace. So also will God show mercy on others, sinners unworthy of God's grace. So this is the distinction that I feel like Troy has been making between how he views what you're saying and what I've been trying to do viewing it is that, um, as long as what you're describing has to do with an attitudinal approach to, to presenting the truth in the gospel, I'm with you. But Troy's going the other way and saying, okay, attitude aside, bottom line, do you feel like it's important for us to, you know, in the parable of the talents to recognize that he who has is going to be given more, but he who doesn't have even what he does have is going to be taken away from him, that we hit the negative and in hitting the negative that, that, that we're willing to not just attitudinally encourage people in a positive way towards what's right, but, but to substantially recognize that a big part of the message of the gospel is repent. Yeah. And no, I, I don't, I, that's, I, would you agree that that was Peter's message on Pentecost Sunday? I mean, it's hard to get away from, I feel like, I feel like I'm leading you, you know, it's a loaded question. Clearly that's what he said. One word you would say, you would sum up the Pentecostal, the, the, the message of Pentecost, the birth of the church, you would sum up that in one word with repent.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from POA11 Keep the Enemy Out of the Camp Put On The Armor A Manual for Spiritual Warfare w/Dr. Paul Thigpen Ph.D. Discerning Hears Catholic Podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com, in cooperation with TAN Books, presents Put on the Armor, A Manual for Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Paul Thickepen. Dr. Thickepen is an internationally known speaker, bestselling author, and award -winning journalist who has published 43 books in a wide variety of genres and subjects, including The Rapture Trap, A Catholic Response to End Times Fever, and The Manual for Spiritual Warfare, the book on which this series is based. In 2008, Dr. Thickepen was appointed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to their National Advisory Council. He has served the Church as a theologian, historian, apologist, evangelist, and catechist in a number of settings, speaking frequently in Catholic and secular media broadcasts and at conferences, seminars, parish missions, and scholarly gatherings. Put on the Armor, A Manual for Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Paul Thickepen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Paul, thanks for joining me. Chris, great to be here. God bless. Keep the enemy out of the camp. Boy, now that's solid spiritual advice, isn't it? Well, you know, if you're going to win, you just don't want to be opening the doors of your fortress to the enemy. You know, the Scripture talk about the Trojan Horse, that well -known story of how you had the Greeks besieging the city of Troy for years and years, and they couldn't get in, they couldn't get in. And the way they finally got in was by creating a very beautiful horse figure that was large enough for them to put troops inside and leaving it on the gates of the city and making it look like they had abandoned the fight. And the Trojans, the people of Troy, were so taken in by the beauty of it, and they thought, oh, this lovely gift, let's bring it in. And then overnight the Greeks came out and they were inside the city and they destroyed it. It's a great image. You know, it's from classical files, not from Scripture, but I think it's the perfect image of a spiritual reality that we can do all the defending we want to of this castle that is our soul, this fortress. But there's some things we can do that are kind of, you know, not too wise, not too smart, that will actually invite the enemy inside, where we're opening the door to him and saying, come on in. And those things we have to be aware of. It is a very powerful section, though it's a small one, in the Manual for Spiritual Warfare, because the focus on it is the actual direct battle. But those Trojan horses, as you say, as others may describe them as entry points, even demonic entry points, it's important that we identify those and guard against them, isn't it? It is because the temptation will be that the devil will tempt us to embrace what looks like a gift, you know, looks like a desirable thing. But despite the attractive appearance, it's a catastrophe waiting for an invitation to invade. So it's just so important because, I mean, some of the things we can talk about will actually just open the door to demonic activity in your life. It really is. I mean, it can begin with just even simple things, the images and the things we view with our eyes in areas, whether it's horrifically violent or even areas of pornography or pornographic material, that it doesn't have to be as explicit in the beginning. But it's like a slippery slope, isn't it? It is, in part because our memories are such powerful things that we allow the thing in and it doesn't go back out. It stays. It's like the Trojan horse that stays behind the doors. But also, when we get into certain, you know, addictive, destructive habits, the way we're hardwired given the fall now is that a little bit will satisfy for a while, but then it demands more. And so we give it a little more, a little more. And it's that slippery slope you're talking about that ends up, can start out with something so small, end up with something so powerful. It's that notion of the vice again, that it makes a rut in your soul so deep that it's almost impossible to get out of it. It can start very early in our lives, can it? I mean, the exposure to these Trojan horses can happen in the lives of children, maybe through the activities of parents, maybe just being left alone and exposed to things that seem harmless in the beginning. They do, I think, especially Ouija boards. I was very sad to hear that there was, for Christmas shopping this year, there was this great spike in the sale of Ouija boards that probably can be attributed, at least in part, to some recent movie about a Ouija board. And even though the movie portrayed the Ouija board as this portal into something demonic, it sparked still interest on the part of a lot of people. I had one when I was a kid. I regret that day, but we didn't realize it. But it was this fun little parlor game we thought that we brought right inside the fortress of our home, and it wasn't a good thing. So that kind of thing, or you've probably heard of the children's game Bloody Mary or those kinds of things. They may seem harmless. And some people may have done it and not exposed themselves, but it's happened too often. It's such a dangerous thing that we have to make sure that our children especially are not exposed to those. And what our kids watch in other homes, I remember when my daughter was about four, I was in grad school and we didn't even have television and we were so careful to make sure we knew that whatever went into her mind by way of a screen was something healthy. And she went to visit with a little friend one day and they were playing in the back of a room where the father was watching, not something pornographic, but something very graphically violent. And she happened to turn right at that moment and look at the screen and see a man stab another man. And it just terrified her. She'd never seen anything like it. And it took us the longest time to help her get healed of that. So it's a small thing, but we just have to be very vigilant with our children and with ourselves. Today, Paul, I mean, our children are exposed to graphic violence on a scale that we've never really have ever experienced maybe in human tradition. I know people will bring up in conversation what ancient Rome did, but considering how between video games, movies, television, is it any wonder that a violent surge can take over and plant itself in the hearts of our young as well as the old? And yeah, I mean, iPhones, you know, and pads and pods, we can bring it with us wherever we go. It's the kind of thing, you know, when I was a child, I only dreamed of that you would have a, you know, Dick Tracy wristwatch that would actually have a little TV on it or something. But we've basically got that now, you know, with the images that can be wherever we are. And so it's all that harder for parents to track what our kids are doing, kids sending texts back and forth to each other. You know, it just goes on and on. It's ubiquitous. What an assault on the family, an assault on our individual characters.
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 697:SECs DAO Clampdown & Warrens Crypto Tax Blitz
"Good evening, and welcome to The Crypto Overnighter. I'm Nick Ademus, and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax, and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10pm Pacific on Thursday, October 12th, 2023. Welcome back to The Crypto Overnighter, where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas, and no BS. But we do have the news, so let's talk about that. Tonight we delve into a smorgasbord of developments that test the very fabric of trust in the crypto space. Trust is a big theme for the night. From Barnbridge's dance with the SEC, to Elizabeth Warren's call for swift crypto taxation. We'll also uncover the dramatic deep -heg of USDR, and the dwindling trade volumes at Coinbase. Lastly, we'll explore the groundbreaking moves in traditional finance with BlackRock, and a cautionary tale from Lido Finance. Buckle up, it's gonna be a rollercoaster. Barnbridge is a decentralized autonomous organization. They are under the microscope of the US Securities Exchange Commission. So here's what's up. Barnbridge DAO recently opened a voting process to decide how to respond to an SEC probe. The co -founders Tyler Ward and Troy Murray were given the authority to undertake all actions necessary to comply with the SEC's demands. This move comes after their attorney, Douglas Park, informed DAO members that the SEC was investigating them. Park advised halting all work on Barnbridge -related products, and ceasing compensation for DAO work until further notice. The DAO members voted unanimously to comply with the SEC's potential demands, and even pay fines if necessary. Ward and Murray were nominated as special delegates to deal with the SEC, and Park will remain the DAO's legal counsel. The DAO's treasury was also given the greenlight to sell all the tokens it's permitted to sell. Now what's the SEC's beef with Barnbridge? Couldn't tell you, because no specific order has been disclosed due to its non -public nature. But the SEC's investigation began in June 2023, and Barnbridge immediately paused all its work and closed its liquidity pools. The price of Barnbridge's native token, BON, has been in a downward spiral. It had a local peak of $21 .69 in July, and now stands at a paltry $1 .67. That's a far cry from its all -time high of $185 .70 in October 2020. And this is not the SEC's first rodeo with the DAOs, either. Last year, they went after the American crypto -fed DAO for lacking vital information in their Form S1 registration statement. So the SEC is clearly tightening its grip on DAOs, and Barnbridge is their latest target. Barnbridge decided to play it safe by complying with the SEC's demands. But this raises questions about the future of DAOs and their ability to operate freely. Are we witnessing the beginning of the end for DAOs? Or is this just a bump in the road? Only time will tell, but one thing's for sure. The SEC is watching, and they're not messing around. Alright, you've just heard how Barnbridge is navigating the SEC's tightening grip on DAOs. Now let's pivot to another regulatory storm. This one's about your wallet. Senators are pushing for faster crypto tax rules. How fast? We'll find out.
SI Media Podcast
A highlight from Joe Buck and Troy Aikman
"I'm Mo Rocca and I'm excited to announce season four of my podcast Mobituaries. I've got a whole new bunch of stories to share with you about the most fascinating people and things who are no longer with us. From famous figures who died on the very same day to the things I wish would die, like buffets. Listen to Mobituaries with Mo Rocca on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome everyone to SI Media with Jimmy Trainor. Thank you so much for listening. We have an awesome episode this week. We have Joe Bock and Troy Aikman together followed by our weekly train of thought segment with his alakada, Joe and Troy entering year number, well not entering, they're in year number 22 together and they will top John Madden and Pat Sumrall for the longest broadcast crew in the NFL with 22 years together. So we discussed that and a variety of other topics. Talked to Joe about if he'll ever call baseball again. Got Troy's opinions on the tush push, what's going on with Bill Belichick, some broadcasting stuff, Tom Brady. So excellent, excellent stuff from Joe and Troy from ESPN. Monday Night Football. And then in train of thoughts, we read some mailbag questions. We're going to start doing that every week on the podcast. So check that out. Before we get to it, just a quick reminder, if you missed any recent episodes, go into the archives and check them out. We had Brian Curtis from The Ringer on last week, Andrew Marchand and the New York Post two weeks ago, Kevin Clark from ESPN three weeks ago. So if you missed any of those, check them out. Give them a listen, subscribe to SI Media with Jimmy Trainor and rate and review on Apple. All right, let's get to it. Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, followed by train of thoughts all right here, right now on SI Media with Jimmy Trainor. All right. Very excited. I've had them both separately many times on the podcast, but I have them together. The broadcast crew, the best broadcast crew in the NFL from ESPN, Monday Night Football. Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Joe, Troy, how are you guys doing? Good. We're good. I have a question already. You said the best broadcast crew in the NFL from ESPN's Monday Night Football. Was that the best broadcast crew in the NFL? And they're also from ESPN's Monday Night Football? Or is it just of all the people that ESPN has doing the NFL, we're the best group? Well, since you brought that up, then I'll just tell everyone that two weeks ago, I believe it was during the giant Seahawk game, I that tweeted Troy is so far and away the best analyst in the sport right now that the gap between him and number two is really wide. And Dan Arlovski actually replied to me on Twitter and was like, hey, you know, like what about me? So I did mean across the entire NFL. Anybody want to respond to that? Troy's just laughing away over there. Yeah. No, thank you for the compliment. It means a lot. It does. It does mean a lot. You know, it's kind of a funny thing. You know, you don't get most of the feedback you get is negative and it's people on Twitter and it's people that are ripping you and saying you're a moron. And, you know, to have somebody who watches this stuff and pays attention saying that is nothing that I take lightly. I think it's great. Thank you very much. Well, I appreciate that. We're going to get into all this stuff and it's your 22nd year together. And I want to talk about that. But I do listen and watch very carefully. So I heard something this past Monday night that I'd like to sort of maybe facilitate here on the pod where Joe you because I am a degenerate gambler. So anytime there's a bet involved my ears perk up. Joe, you offered Troy a hundred bucks if Troy could name four players on the Texas Rangers. I thought this would be the perfect time to see if Troy can do that and then you can pay him when you see him on Monday. Let's see. Pudge Rodriguez, Nolan Ryan, Alex Rodriguez. So no hundred bucks for Troy. No hundred bucks. I was the easiest bet I've ever made in my life. There you go. I love that moment, though. And I think that moment because Steve Ackles, our producer, who's phenomenal, clip that somebody had that on Twitter and sent that to us the next day kind of like, okay, love this for you two guys. And it is I think it does kind of speak to our relationship and it speaks to our friendship and it speaks to the fact that he came back with, you know, there was a time in October I didn't have to work with you. I was so happy that like I was I love that, that he came back at me. So it's that stuff is really fun and I think hopefully separates us. It was definitely a fun moment. You want to offer Troy 50 bucks if he can name one Texas Ranger? Yeah. No, I'm not doing that to him. I like him too much. I'm not going to do that to him. I mean, they advance. You got to now you got to learn one player on the team. Nate Evaldi. There you go. Like I said, you guys now, 22 years together, Madden and Summerall did 21. I know, I know, Troy, you are a huge, huge Madden guy. Yeah. Talk to me about it. Yeah. I know Madden sort of took you under his wing a little bit, right? A little bit, but it didn't, the friendship didn't initially start that way. You know, first of all, I was really fortunate in my career that when we got good, which happened relatively quickly, all things considered, Madden and Summerall, they were, they narrated my, the highlight reels of my career. So, you know, I'm, I'm really happy about that, but, but because of that, because they covered so many of our games, I became very close friends with them on a personal level. Pat lived just outside of Dallas. I spent time, you know, at holiday parties with him. I did a TV show with him while I was playing for two seasons, a weekly show. And then Madden got to know him, spent 4th of July's with him up in Northern California. And played golf with him. And so then when I retired and decided to go into broadcasting, I, yeah, I picked his brain a lot. And that first year we were together at Fox. And then one year later I was actually in Santa Barbara and he called me. That's how I got the news that he was leaving Fox and going to Monday night football that he called me and gave me the news and had little idea what that might mean to me. But that's when Joe and I and Chris Collinsworth got paired and moved up. But yeah, John was, he was a special friend as Pat was as well. And the fact that we're even mentioned in the same sentence with them because of our longevity, it means a lot. It's something that I'm really proud of. The worst thing you or any analyst could do is go into a broadcasting career and try to copy or imitate John Madden or be John Madden. So given that, what did you try to take from him though, when you started to do games? Well, the questions I had was just that there's a lot going on in the booth. And when you get into the booth as a player, straight from the field, it takes some time to figure out exactly what you're supposed to be looking at. Where, you know, I asked him those kinds of questions, like what do you focus on pre -snap? What are you looking at at the snap? And what I found is that, you know, he views it differently. One, because he was a coach, but also because he was a linebacker. So, you know, he views it more along the line of scrimmage. That's what he got into a lot of. Matt Millen, the same way. And then when I came into it, I was a unique analyst compared to what Fox had had at that time. And so I talked more bigger picture. I talked more from a quarterback perspective. And there was a resistance initially to where they said, hey, we need more offensive line play. And I said, well, if you need more offensive line play, then you got the wrong guy, because that's not what I do. And so everybody comes at it a little bit differently. But what John's advice was to me was, you know, hey, where your strength is right now is you're fresh off the field. You know what's happening. You know the players. Whereas his strength was that he knew television, and he had been broadcasting for a long time. So that then is what he leaned on more. And I agree. I don't try to be anybody. I mean, I do listen to all analysts. I know what I think is good and why it might be good. And with that, then you try to say, OK, yeah, maybe I should attack this in this way. But at the end of the day, I'm who I am. My personality is what it is. And I don't try to be John. And quite honestly, I think early on, there were a lot of analysts trying to be John Madden. And I understand it to a point, if he's the best, then everybody's kind of wanting to be that. But think I analysts now have been given a little bit more runway to be who they are. And I think that those analysts who have been able to do that, I think they've been better served. Joe, obviously, Troy was the player, now the broadcaster. You've been a broadcaster your whole life. So I would assume the 22 years together with Troy passing Madden in some role, longest tenured NFL broadcast crew, has special meaning to you, being in this business, with your dad being in this business, et cetera. Yeah. And I have personal ties to both guys. My dad was a broadcast partner to both. My dad did radio football with Pat. They were both at CBS for a long time. My dad was one of Madden's first TV partners. And I know John really liked my dad and obviously vice versa. So I always had that connection to John and to Pat when I would show up at the Fox Seminar. And I was down the list of play -by -play guys. So I do appreciate that fact. I am proud of the body of work that he and I have put together. You have to throw the first three years in there with Chris, too. And I think we're better now than we've ever been, which I think is the best part of it all. I honestly believe that. I think Troy's better than he's ever been. I think I'm more dialed in than I've ever been. Maybe that's without baseball and not kind of running on fumes during this particular month on the calendar. But to think, at least in my opinion, we're still growing and still getting better. And that, to me, is more exciting than milestones. When I was the youngest this and the youngest that, I just had to go do it. I didn't really get caught up in all that stuff. And at the end of the day, nobody really cares other than my family. So, you know, I'm proud of everything I've done with the other guy on this podcast. And I'm really proud of everything I've done with you, Jimmy, over the years. I feel like we've done some good work, too. We have. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to grill you later on some things. No, that's fine. I hope so. We've got some things to discuss. Just on your 22 years before we switched gears, did either of you have, it could be different, a moment, a game, a season where you felt like, we're really good, we're in a groove, this is working, this is kind of special? Like, when did you first feel that? I think right out of the gate, I knew it was pretty interesting. I think it was very different, obviously, with another person in there, being Chris, and Chris and Troy being very different people. And very different broadcasters. By the way, I think that's really the only time it kind of works, when the two analysts in a three -man booth are different. And that was certainly the case with Chris and Troy. But I never felt like we weren't in a good rhythm. I never felt like we were a bad listen. I do feel like once you get through your first Super Bowl and you come back around and you're lined up for the next year, and now Chris had moved on, and it was Troy and me, it didn't take long, that fourth year total, for us to get into an even better rhythm, because it was almost like the weight was off. The weights, the handicap was off. And that has nothing to do with Chris. It could have been anybody. But I think three -man booths are very hard. And when it was just the two of us, it became very easy to get into a rhythm together. And he knew when I stopped talking, it was his turn. I knew when he stopped talking, at some point it was my turn, as opposed to having another person in there. So I think I would say year four is when it felt like, okay, this is really good, I enjoy this, and hopefully it lasts for a while. Troy, you got anything on that? Yeah, no, I would basically agree. I don't think there was this moment when, hey, this is really good, or hey, this works. I know that I had been in a three -man booth my first year with Moose, and then three years following that with Chris. I mean, I knew four games into my career with Moose that three -man booth was tough, and it wasn't something that I really wanted to continue to do. So I was excited when it became a two -man booth. And you just control the broadcast a little bit more, and you're not scatter -shooting after every play and chasing a lot of different things. So that part of it was good. And I would just add this, Jimmy, and Joe and I have talked about it, and we've talked about it on other podcasts and with other writers, that when you get to 22 years, there's a lot of things that have gone well for you. I mean, there's other pairings that could have lasted that long as well, but it was not because of anything they could control. And there was changes made, or this network lost football, or whatever it might be, you know, or this guy wanted to retire. Joe and I came in, you know, we're roughly the same age. I'm a little bit older. But when I left for ESPN, there was no certainty that Joe was going to be able to get out of his contract, so there was a lot going on there. And I think that had Joe not wanted to come to ESPN or if I had not wanted Joe to work with Joe any longer, we both had equal opportunities to kind of take a stand and say, hey, this has been great for, you know, 20 years, but, you know, it's time to kind of move on. We could have very easily have done that. And I think the fact that we're still working together, it's one thing to say, hey, you really respect the guy and you're really close friends, but I think that both of us going to ESPN and continuing to work, you know, you really put an exclamation mark at the end of that. And it meant a lot to me. I mean, I can't even begin to tell you how much it's meant to me that Joe wanted to come and continue to work with me. And I think it's fair to say that it meant as much to him that I wanted to continue to work with him. And so if anything else, going to ESPN has only made our relationship that much stronger. The parallel is interesting because here you are passing Madden and Summerall, and Madden and Summerall, and you guys are the rare teams that stayed together at different networks. They were obviously at CBS for a million years. CBS loses the NFL. They went together to Fox. I'm sure, you know, NBC at the time who had the rights trying to get them or Monday Night Football, but they stayed together. And then here you guys are, Troy goes to ESPN. Joe wasn't there yet. It was Troy leaving first. And then you guys end up together. It's an interesting parallel to Madden and Summerall that you remain together. I mean, John ended up having other partners afterwards, but, you know, we work with Al Michaels, but it's an interesting - I'm pretty sure John ended up at every network. Yeah, he did, I think. You know, when it was all said and done. And yeah, I'm just as proud of that. And I do like that parallel that Pat and John stayed together and he and I stayed together. And it's just, this business is too weird and it's too tough at times who not knowing is standing next to you and what they're all about and what their motives are and if they've got your back. And, you know, to have that and to have the - forget the mechanics of the broadcast and the rhythm and all that stuff. We've got that down. That's baked in. But knowing, like, even that moment that we've already talked about where I know I can throw something at him. If I was working this year with Greg Olsen and I said that, I don't know if that's gonna piss him off. I don't know if he's gonna be like, hey, why are you trying to - But Troy one -upped me by ripping me saying there was a time when I didn't have to work with you in October. That's what I'm talking about. Like, I can give him trouble. He can give it back and be better at it than me. And that is like a great moment for us. It has nothing to do with me. Like, I genuinely root for Troy to be great. And I know he does for me. And that is what it's all about. And I would imagine with Madden and Summerall not having asked him this specifically, but they fit together so well because Jon was so big and such a big presence and a personality and a wham and, you know, kind of snot hanging off the face mask and all the other stuff. And Pat was the straight man. And we're not that, but we fit together on the air in a way that I think is genuinely pleasing to ears people's and sensibilities when they're listening to the game if they bother to listen to it that closely.
Mark Levin
Part 2: How Freedom Caucus Members Voted on Kevin McCarthy
"For McCarthy Matt Rosendale Montana 2nd has voted against McCarthy and everything else every step of the way Greg Murphy North Carolina 3rd voted for McCarthy Dan Bishop he had a little Twitter back and forth voted for McCarthy Jim Jordan spoke on his behalf and voted for McCarthy Ohio 4 Max Miller used to work for Trump Ohio 7 voted for McCarthy Warren Davidson Ohio 8 and second folks all right all right Josh Brechin Oklahoma 2nd voted for McCarthy Scott Perry good man out of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 10th voted for Jeff Duncan South Carolina 3rd voted for McCarthy Ralph Norman South Carolina 5th voted for McCarthy Deanna Harshbarger Tennessee 1st voted for McCarthy Scott Desjarlais Tennessee 4th voted for McCarthy Andy Ogles Tennessee 5th voted for McCarthy Keith Self Texas 3rd voted for McCarthy Ronnie Jackson of Texas Trump's former doctor Texas 13 voted for McCarthy Randy Weber Texas 14 voted for McCarthy Chip Roy Texas 21 voted for McCarthy Troy Nells
The MMQB NFL Podcast
A highlight from New England's Historic Loss & CJ Stroud Breaks Out
"Hello and welcome to the MMQB NFL podcast. I'm Conroe. That's my dog Ernie upstairs barking at the FedEx guy. Albert Breer's here and I'm going to start in New York because Albert I can't believe that we're still doing this Taylor Swift thing. And now the NFL is doing the Taylor Swift thing. Do you see that they are their subhead on their Twitter pages. The Chiefs are now 2 -0 as Swifties. I did not see that but I am more and more. It's fake. I think so too. I think on Friday like the radio show I did in Boston. They leave me at the like and these guys are really creative and they kind of like took me through their full like tinfoil hat like conspiracy theory. You know like you know what this actually really makes sense. Like because the NFL has forever chased the female demographic and they've struggled to get it. And they know that there's nothing more buzz worthy on that side of the aisle than Taylor Swift. And they were shameless enough to cut like I mean we've seen some of their shameless acts over the years to try and get the female audience. And this wouldn't even rank in like the top 10. You know what I mean like this would just be sort of par for the course that they would do something like this. So I really like I am officially on this Monday morning Connor especially after the 10 million shots that box last night. I'm all the way there. This is all fake. This is all like this is all contrived. This is it. Everyone wins situation. Taylor gets to promote her movie. What else is it? There's one other thing right is a new album coming out. I can't keep track of all of this. I have no idea. OK. So Taylor gets to promote that stuff with a different demographic. Right. Like football different demographics different than hers. The NFL gets to try to take a swing at the female audience. And then Travis Kelsey gets an enormous benefit from this. Travis Kelsey's following has exploded. Nine hundred thousand new followers. This is like an everyone wins situation. And it's all fake. A 14 point 14 whatever place jump in Jersey sales. Like we were taught in school to follow the money and it's right out in front of us. Like it's like you know we're not even it's not even like they're hiding it. And I think I'm only read some of this stuff sometimes, though, and like like over the last week, like actually clicking on some like people dot com links, you know, I've seen some stories she reads. And I always think that the page six type stuff, you know, and I always think it's funny when there's like an insider into somebody's relationship, like who would be the insider into your relationship? Connor, I, you know, when they when they when they when they put sources into your relation and then people's relationships. Yeah, the sources be I mean, it would be like my neighbor or like my mom or my wife's mom. It would be like, yeah, I think I think they're fighting, you know. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have a publicist. I always think that's great. Like is the sources into the like the insiders into the relationship? Like is that person like just coming over and hanging out on a Tuesday or something and that makes them an insider? So Brian Costello, who's awesome, Jets beat writer for the New York Post, and he tweeted the the bio for the NFL's Twitter page, which is the Chiefs two and O's Swifties. And he's totally right. This is the kind of stuff that fuels nutjob conspiracy theorists, not just the ones with the podcast. But the fans who watched that game last night and saw their saw the outcome derailed by an extraordinarily questionable call on Sauce Gardner. And listen, I'm not saying it's good, bad, right, wrong or indifferent. But if you're a Jets fan and you've already seen your entire season railroaded by the NFL's greed and desire to milk whatever they can out of this franchise and you had to do hard knocks. Every single game is on prime time. Your schedule is ridiculous, ridiculously front loaded and impossible at the beginning. You know, I don't know what else you could think right now other than your team is just being actively manipulated by by the league. And listen, I don't believe it. You know, Andy Benoit and I used to fight about the I used to get him going on the NFL's fake thing a while back. We had a lively discussion about that after Peyton Manning's second Super Bowl. But I don't believe it. I'm not one of those people. Well, you're not making them go away. I just noticed I just went to the NFL's Twitter page. It is now the header is three shots of tail left. And like if you look at the bio, I think this is a tailor. I think this is a tailor reference. We had the best day with you today. Maybe is that a reference? I think it has to be right to be clear. I'm not anti Taylor Swift. I think she's a fine musician. Yeah, I think she's a genius. Like, yeah, I think she's a legitimate genius and everything she touches turns to gold. And there's a reason for it. She's obviously incredible. Yeah, I just don't like I want you know what? I think I'm hot, too, because I'm coming off the I wrote about the way those are the lyrics to it. Those are those are lyrics from a Taylor Swift song titled The Best Day. Okay, I think I'm just a little hot coming off the Toy Story broadcast, too. Did you did you catch any of that? I was actually coaching third grade football during the Toy Story. Okay, good. Yeah, I threw that on and I was just like, what are they doing? And I get it. You're trying to get kids to watch football. But how about just allowing kids to watch football or to have kids play football and not to watch like a I mean, the technology was incredible. But it like it looked like a like a like Minecraft, you know, and like I just felt like I watch it with my son for a minute. And I was like, they're trying to just it's like cocoa melon. They're just trying to hypnotize them. So we we bang that thing fast. I mean, I just feel like that's like there are some people at the league office who don't have enough to do. And that's how things like that wind up coming to life. Like like fix, fix the problems. Like we're focused on Taylor Swift and the Toy Story broadcast, like like digital chains so that like chains don't break during the game. Grass fields like like like fix the actual problems with the games. My God. Anyway, twenty three twenty, the Chiefs beat the Jets. The Jets fall to one in three. The Chiefs are three and one. I think my takeaway from this game is the takeaway that everybody had, which was this was a feisty, very feisty Zach Wilson game. I think that Robert Sala, to me, win or lose, just earns so much credit because during the week he knew he was going to get demolished. And he said, you don't throw people away. You just don't throw people away. And I give him so much credit because honestly, this is job on the line stuff. And he stuck with Zach Wilson. He dug in. There was no sample size. And Zach played really well. I was very happy for them. And look, like I think that the biggest problem that Robert Sala had was like, can he continue to sell Zach Wilson to the locker room? Because the premise of that entire team, the construction of that team this year was we're going for it. Right. So there are guys in that locker room like Allen Lazard and Adrian Amos and Randall Cobb, guys that were like that are older vets that are there to chase the ring. And like guys like that aren't going to have patience. They don't care what this means for your franchise in 2025. They care about right now. And the younger guys in the roster are going to be worried about what's going to get them in a position to get paid. So it can be hard to sell a developing quarterback to a locker room. And I'll give Robert Sala credit for standing by Zach Wilson, because if he didn't do that, like it would have been impossible. It would have been impossible for Zach in that locker room. you And, know, it sort of made me think of something I said earlier in the day about how Josh Dobbs should get us to question everything about how we develop quarterbacks, how the NFL develops quarterbacks, how the NFL nurtures quarterbacks. Because, you know, you have this guy in Josh Dobbs who got what, six years to kind of learn away from the bright lights. And then because he was on different teams, because he had different experiences, because he was developed away from game action, because people invested in him, because he had a chance and people had patience with him. And, you know, every single movement of his wasn't, you know, litigated on a public level on a week to week basis. You know, he had a chance to kind of get better in the background. And now you have a guy who's so adaptable that he could be traded a week before the season and start and take maybe the worst roster in the league and have a competitive over the first month of the season. It really like to me, like looking at Josh Dobbs makes you question everything. And so if six years can do that for Josh Dobbs, why are we throwing guys out after two or three years? That's what I don't get about it. It's fair to make an assessment on a guy and say, like, he sucks now. But to say guys never going to be good, just ignore so much history. You know, like Alex Smith is a phenomenal example of it. Right. Like how many times was he given up on in San Francisco? Yeah. Like, oh, he can't play. But no one was looking at the fact that like he had five coordinators his first five years in the league. He had two head coaches. Everything was completely unstable around him. And then Jim Harbaugh gets there in 2011 says, no, I'm sticking with him. And he takes off and then he's in the league for another decade as a starter. You know, like it's just we have so many examples of the of why we shouldn't make definitive and declarative statements about young quarterbacks. And yet we do it over and over and over again. And like I do, I think like the intention of the Jets in the first place was we have to press the pause button with Zach Wilson. We may have wronged him by playing him too fast. Right. And by putting too much on him too early. And so the whole intention on bringing him back this year was to allow him the chance to do the Josh jobs and develop in the background for a year or two. And that got blown up. But just because that plan got blown up like that's not Zach Wilson's fault. That plan got blown up. It's not anybody's fault. So now you're going to just completely throw the kid out. Why? Because Aaron Rodgers got hurt. There's a lot of like really faulty logic that goes into the way that he's been talked about over the last couple of weeks, I think. I agree. I'm not just saying this because I wrote about it, but to not even, you know, I think we're in such a easy Twitter dunk society that when Zach Wilson and Nathaniel Hackett get paired up, everyone's just like, oh, this is going to be terrible. And without looking at any of the history of any of these guys. The AFC championship came with Blake, Blake Bortles. He got Ryan Nassib drafted out of Syracuse. I went to Syracuse. Do you know who was the quarter? The last quarterback drafted before Ryan Nassib, Donovan McNabb, Donovan McNabb. I was going to say I was going to say Troy Nunes. Like I think drafted as a quarterback. I think there was a couple of quarterbacks that turned into tight ends, but in literally broke all the school records with this guy. And then he got Kyle Wharton, I believe, to the doorstep of the playoffs. Yeah. Two MVPs with Aaron Rodgers after he was lost in the woods for a little while. The guy's good at what he does, you know, and we're seeing in Denver now, who knows? Make your own judgments about what happened there. But I think that this thing could work like, OK, yeah. The Jets are one in three, but their schedule softens up a little bit. They played a lot of their best defenses up front. You know, Zach Wilson is going to look bad against the Cowboys, but how many other people are going to look really bad against the Cowboys? Right. And now in the next few games, like they have the Broncos coming up. I mean, Zach Wilson could could legitimately put up 50 points against that team. The Eagles, who are really good defense giants, Jets, Giants before Halloween, which if he can handle the pressure. I think that's coming off a buy, too. So it's coming off a buy. You know what Wink Martindale is going to do. He does it well, but you know what he's going to do. And then the Chargers November six, the Raiders November 12th. You don't play a really good team. You play the Eagles in the bills in the next month and a half. Otherwise, you're good. Well, we're kind of like that's like and that was the whole logic behind this. And I think we talked about this last week. To me, the problem with going away from Zach Wilson, like in the whole in the first place, was a there's no better option out there right now. Right. And B, once you go away from him, you can't go back again. You know, so I think so. I think so. I knew that like it was if we bench him in consecutive years, we can't sell him to the locker room again.
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Troy Nehls: Garland, Wray Will Do Everything to Cover Biden
"Willing to stop arresting political opponents and going full commie. So, until that point, we need more people willing to, cause it's radio, bust us bells if you know what I mean. We need bell busters. And you seem like one of them and I like that. So, this hearing is happening with Derek Farland the other day, otherwise known as Merrick Garland, and you were having none of this. You just sliced into this guy. This guy I think makes Eric Holder know what I mean? I'm a legitimate attorney general. This guy is the most corrupt person I in that office in my life. And I was glad you didn't get interrupted when you were calling him out. Your thoughts on the status of the Justice Department under Garland? Well, thank you. It's a great question and we I all know think the American people are figuring this out that there is that. We talk about the two -tier justice system, the justice system under Garland and even the FBI Director Wray that will do everything to provide that cover for the crime family named Biden and then what you're asking and what they've done to Donald Trump over the past several years. So no, there is a two -tier justice system. I guess I am one of those bell busters and I know that you served in NYPD for years. I'm a 30 -year lawman myself. I was a chair of a large county in Texas. So I just call it the way it is. I'm authentic and I think I think people appreciate it, but AG Garland, you know, you get five minutes and you want to seize that that moment sees that opportunity. I didn't give him a lot of time to answer the questions that I had for him because I knew I would just get nothing but delay tactics and lies. So I answered the questions to him, but he did the video, the video of Joe Biden up there talking about firing Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor, or Ukraine and get the one billion dollars to me. That is bribery. The quid
SI Media Podcast
A highlight from Andrew Marchand on MNF, McAfee, Swift/Kelce Coverage & More
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It's your journey. Welcome, everyone, to SI Media with Jimmy Traina. Thank you so much for listening. The usual periodic check in with Andrew Marchand from the New York Post this week. He joined the pod to talk about a variety of topics in sports media. We get into the ABC ESPN Monday Night Football staggered star double headers. We get into how ESPN and the ESPN and Pat McAfee marriage is going. Deion Sanders stuff. How the media has handled Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. What's going on with WWE and Monday Night Raw most likely looks like it's going to be on the move. Andrew had some stuff on that. A couple of things about local New York radio. So a bunch of sports media topics with Andrew Marchand on this episode. And then Salicata joins me as he does every week for our train of thought segment. Where we get into some NFL things about the Eagles. Should the NFL ban the Eagles one yard play. Joe Namath and Lou Holtz making headlines. Get into these ridiculous prop bets on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. And Sal has a rough Sunday coming up. So if you're a fan of the train of thought segment, you'll want to hear that. Before we get to the full episode. I want you to make sure you listen to past episodes. If you've missed any and make sure you subscribe to us. I media Jimmy trainer. We've had a great run of guests. Kevin Clark from ESPN was on the show last week. Scott Hansen hosted the NFL Red Zone channel two weeks ago. Julian Edelman three weeks ago. Charles Barkley, Peter Schrager, Chris Russo, all recent guests. So if you missed any of those, give them a listen, download, subscribe to the pod and leave a review on Apple. We'll read it on an upcoming episode. All right. Andrew Marchand from the New York Post, followed by Salicata and train of thought. It's all coming up right now, right here. On S .I. media with Jimmy trainer. All right, training me now. S .I. media podcast regular. This periodic visit from the New York Post. And the March and Iran podcast is Andrew Marchand. Andrew, how are you? I'm good. How you doing, Jimmy? I'm good. I just realized I didn't put my phone on do not disturb. So I'm going to do that as we speak. And I'm going to let you know that I had a reader last week for my mailbag column on S .I. com, send it an email and said, when is Marchand's next appearance? So here we go. You made someone happy. Thank you that person. You made someone happy by coming on today. Let's start with this. A lot of media news to get to. Have you heard anything from ESPN or do you have any intel about how they feel about the last two weeks? How the staggered Monday Night Football doubleheader has gone? Because I've gotten a lot of emails and tweets about it. I'm sure you have as well. Yeah, I haven't talked to anybody specifically about how they feel about it. I mean, it is an NFL decision. ESPN is not in control of how those games are scheduled. Maybe they have some say, but it's the NFL decision. Yeah, I don't like it. Actually, in our podcast with John, it was my who's down this week. And the reason I just feel like I kind of said this on our part, it's too it's like having two quarterbacks and you have none. Right. And now if you have Joe Montana and Steve Young, there are two awesome games. Maybe that'd be better. But I just find my attention split and I don't know. And even at like halftime, I wouldn't recommend you go to the other game. Like I get what they're trying to do there, but it's not the NCAA tournament. And usually it's in like the second quarter, third quarter. So I personally don't think it really works that well. Now, I think they want to avoid I'm not positive, but I think they want to avoid that 10 30 late window. We used to get the Monday night and you get the, you know, crazy crew, either Chris Berman or Golick and Greenberg, you know, some of those crews back in the day. They probably don't want that late night game where, you know, you're losing that East Coast audience if it gets too late. But I don't know. I don't think this necessarily works. See, I like it. And what are the tweet? What are the tweeters say? Most people seem to not like it. Yeah. And why do you like it? The more the merrier. Give me as much football as possible. If I can watch eight games at one o 'clock on Sunday and four or five games at four o 'clock on Sunday, I can handle two games on Monday night. So, you know, I have two TVs. I put one game on each TV and two is better than one for me. That's just how I feel. Yeah, I've been a little running around these last couple of Mondays when this happened. So I may be a little bit, you know, my opinion skewed a little bit by that. It hasn't just been like I'm just chilling and watching, been running around a little bit. So perhaps that's, you know, maybe I could be swayed. I will say, you know, I don't know. This is a whole separate discussion. I would love to know your take on this, but I always feel like it's a little tough sometimes to criticize people in this podcast when I also have to book this podcast. So I try to be careful. Yeah, I notice you're very soft. That's what you're trying to say. Sometimes. So I'm sure this guy will never come on again, but they gotta do better than Chris Fowler on the secondary game. Just not, it's just not working. Chris is not a great play -by -player. Right. He was a great host, studio host. Can I say one thing? Yeah. He's on tremendous tennis. Like I watch the U .S. Open every single day. I think he's great on tennis. It's football where it's just something feels off. Well, tennis is also slower. And like you look at people who do really well at the slower sports. Like, you know, Jim Nantz is better than Chris Fowler, but Nantz is really his best thing is golf. And I think he's an OK NFL play -by -player. And at the end of his college basketball run, he was definitely, I don't know, OK is probably, you know, he was OK there as well. And I think if you look at Fowler and his history, now he's been doing play -by -play for a while now. And he has gotten better. Like when he first started on the number one crew, I mean, if I were covering it then, that would not, I probably would not have been that kind. Because he has gotten better, but it's not really good enough. And he's the rare case, I think with Herb Street, that Herb Street makes him better. Usually it's the play -by -player who makes the analyst better. And yeah, I think you're right. And I also think, you know, in fairness to Fowler, you know, ESPN put that crew together. They replaced Levy there and they had a year or two under their belt together as a team. And, you know, not the full team, but him and Riddick, Levy and Riddick, and then Jadolowski. And I think they kind of don't, they underestimate chemistry. It takes time to build it up. And so I think that hurts. And he just, he's a college guy too. It's hard just to come into the NFL. I know he, you know, he's talked how hard his schedule is with the U .S. Open. And then, you know, doing a game a couple days later. And then doing a college. And so, you know, that's hard. And so, yeah, he's not a tremendous play -by -player. To me, this is just me, it felt like when ESPN gave him that gig, it was more about ESPN trying to impress the NFL. Like, look, we have our number one college game. Like you had said earlier, the secondary Monday night game for years was, you know, Golic and Greenberg and Chris Berman with a cast of character. Rich Ryan did it one year. I think this is ESPN trying to say to the NFL, because now they have a Super Bowl and they have this big contract. And, you know, they brought in Buck and Aikman. Like, we're serious, we're going to take our, regardless of what you think about Fowler, he's their lead college guy. So, I feel like they're like, oh, look at us, we're putting the lead when, you know, that. Yeah, I think they screwed up and I think they know they screwed up. I think that they ended up shifting who was in charge of the NFL. It was Stephanie Drewley. And they moved her off the NFL after, you know, I think that didn't help her cause in terms of staying on the NFL. I think they were satisfied with Levy. He was a good guy, which they value. After they brought in Joe Buck, he was very gracious. You know, Levy's a very good hockey guy, especially studio host. I thought he could have, you know, could have been the pregame show on Monday Night Football. He's in, again, not their, in my opinion, they had other people who are better play -by -players for football, but it was good. Like, so, yeah, I don't think it was to impress the NFL. They got Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. They got the Mannings. I mean, they spend, they're spending 50, 60 million dollars a year on their booths. Like, I don't think the second team booth is gonna, you know. If anything, I think it was, there was a thought before Buck and Aikman that Fallon and Herb Street might get the NFL. Might get Monday Night Football. Might get the potential Super Bowl. And then this is kind of a carrot since they didn't get it. But I'd argue, and I even talked to Chris Fowler about this. So, I don't know if this is the case. I just don't know if, I mean, Chris Fowler does the national championship. He does the biggest college game every week for Disney. I can't, like, I get it. Maybe he wanted to do NFL. But is this really gonna satisfy him because you're doing a second game, which generally aren't that great? I don't, I don't see that long -term, personally. And I think also, strategically, if I'm ESPN, I'm putting a young play -by -player. Now, Joe Buck, we both think it's great. Like, he and Ian Eagle are the best two play -by -players going right now. And, um, but, Joe Buck's contract's up in a couple of years. If I'm ESPN, and I, you know, I think they'll probably re -sign Joe Buck, and they should. That said, he makes a lot of money. And, you know, I would be saying, who can I develop? What young guy can I develop? So when I go into that negotiation, I really have somebody who's on the rise. And I can say, hey, look, you don't want this, you know, the 15 million a year? Then we'll go here, you know? But if you start demanding, I'm not saying this is going to happen, but, demanding even more and more money, I'd want an option. I don't think they've created an option. They've actually put somebody in that spot who they've already said they'd rather spend 15 million dollars on Joe Buck than have Chris Fowler as the lead play -by -player. So, I just think negotiation -wise, and strategically, in terms of saving money, it wasn't a great decision. Yeah. I don't understand the insistence on the three -person booth, either. They had Fowler, Greasy, and Riddick. Excuse me, excuse me. Levy, Riddick, Greasy. Now it's Fowler or Lofsky, Riddick. To me, that, and, Fowler's used to a two -person booth with Herb Street. They have Buck and Aikman, which is a two -person booth. I don't understand the insistence on the three -person booth. It's just, for football, it just, I don't get it, but, that's just my - It complicates, it over -complicates it. Yeah. And like you said, chemistry. I think it's much harder to develop a chemistry with three. I mean, you know, the local Mets situation is different with Gary Cohn, Ron Darl - Is it in baseball, is it football? What three men, can you name - I mean, I guess back in the old Monday Night Football days, there were three men booths that had - Yeah, Collinsworth and Aikman with Buck that one year. Yeah, one year it lasted, you know. So, I don't know. But, there's no more staggered double -headers. The next one is week 14, and both games will start at 8 -15. I think that's the one that's going to piss a lot of people off. But, that's a long way down the road. You got the two TVs. Yeah. I asked you if ESPN, how they feel about Monday Night Football. Anything you've heard about how they feel about their new partnership with Pat McAfee. I mean, it's early, but they're bullish on it. I mean, they've kind of handed the keys to the network to McAfee. I mean, you can't - it's kind of like Stephen A. now. You can't really turn on ESPN almost every day except basically Sunday without seeing Pat. And so, you know, I think initially the ratings weren't that good. I think they got a little better in terms of the TV ratings. I think that kind of makes some sense because if you think about it, he was a YouTube show. Yeah, he's got to play for TV. Yeah, and he's still a YouTube show. Well, it is a play for TV because they think that they had Max in there before. They think that the ratings will be high enough that they'll be able to charge more for the ad rates. I guarantee you the money they'll make off of McAfee on social media and YouTube will be 8 billion times more than the money they made off Max Kellerman on social media. Oh, 100%. No, you're right. No, you're right. There's no doubt about that. And look, they want to get, I will say this, like, does it work? I think a lot of times when companies make big moves, you know, big time moves, a lot of times they make those moves when the person's kind of towards the end, you know, they got McAfee on the rise. Like, you know, we, you know, you and I have been aware of McAfee for years now, but he's really like, you know, here, I don't think he's at the plateau, you know, where most people go up and then they plateau and then they go down. He's at, he's still, I think, going up and then maybe the plateau is on the horizon and you can plateau for 20, 25 years if you have the right attitude and personality and just have the right act. So that's where I think that makes a lot of sense as a bet because it's not, I'll hit one close to home, Rick Riley leaving ESPN. I mean, leaving SI for ESPN where, you know, Rick Riley is one of the great columnist ever, but at that point, you know, whatever, maybe it was the internet, I don't know exactly. It just didn't really work as well at ESPN as it did at SI. And so I just think they've done that and that's kind of, you know, teams do that in sports and I think sometimes networks do that. And so I feel like signing McAfee in his mid -30s is kind of like signing a baseball free agent who's in his mid -20s and I think that's what you want to do as opposed to getting a, signing a 35 -year -old and, you know, thinking they can still play, you know, like, I don't know, like a Josh Donaldson, maybe trading for someone like that, Jimmy. You see what I did there? I don't need reminders of the horrific Yankee season. I just did that on purpose. I don't need that. My head was going, who am I going to say? All right, yeah, Josh Donaldson, but it was a treat. Just a, yeah, you want me to say Brian Cashman should be fired. It's amazing too, they replay that. I didn't know this was going to be the situation going into it, but they replay the show as soon as it's over, I think, on ESPN 2 and then they replay it at night on maybe ESPN News or one of their, what you said about if you're going to put on one of the ESPNs at any point in the day, you're going to see Pat McAfee. Yeah. So that's good for him. Like I, you know, people feel like - But I also think, ESPN has to be, they have Aaron Rodgers on their air every week. It's a news making thing that's on their air every week. They've got Nick, he's got Nick Saban on his show every week. Yeah. That's a news making thing every week. I would think ESPN has to be, forget the numbers because the numbers, I think, will be there. It's still a new thing. You have, the ESPN audience is older, the McAfee audience is younger, it might take some, but I would think ESPN just on the brand and the cachet of that show has to be thrilled. I think so. I mean, but if you talk, like I have, again, I'll probably make some calls here in the near future, but so I haven't talked specifically with anybody about that. But generally speaking, when these things first start, everyone loves it. So then we'll see. Again, I'm not saying, I could see it either way. Like, you know, McAfee has not really stayed at any of these, throughout any of these contracts he's had. So that's something to watch. Maybe this one he does, but that hasn't been the case previously. So that is something. I think the fact that he's on game day has to help the relationship there a little bit with ESPN. Here's the thing about McAfee. If you're managing him, in my opinion, and it's like Casey Jones, the former coach of the Celtics, was known for just throwing out the ball and telling McHale, Parrish, and Bird to go play, Dennis Johnson. At least that's how I remember as a kid. That was his reputation. And I think McAfee is sort of like that. Just give him the ball, let him do his thing. He's not looking to, you know, for some strategy. Let's, you know, triangle offense. He's not looking for that. He's looking for, let me do my thing. I know what I'm doing. And the thing about McAfee is he's very smart. Like, I know he plays this, like, he's not smart thing. It works very hard. He works hard and he's very smart. He's very savvy. He acts as if, like, you know, maybe he's, you know, just a dumb jock. But he understands the media business very well. We need, we need to discuss the Kelsey Taylor Swift thing because I actually think it's a legitimate media story. If Fox is going to get these increase in their demographics of the female audience, the young people, the NFL has gone all in on this thing. I mean, they changed their Twitter header to, like, a Taylor Swift thing. They're putting out Travis Kelsey Swiftiest plays on their social media. He's gained, I guess, a ton of followers, the jersey sale. Let me start with this. How did you think Fox handled it on Sunday when she was in the stadium? Do you think they overdid it? Do you think the fact that they had an unwatchable game takes them off the hook? What was your take on the Chiefs -Bears on Sunday when she was there? I think the second part, and I wouldn't take them off the hook, but I think the second part, you have an unwatchable game that you had to switch most of the country out of because it was so non -competitive, that you have Taylor Swift there, it's a big deal. And, you know, there's a lot of Taylor Swift fans who are football fans, a lot of non -Taylor Swift fans who weren't watching that game, but it was a talking point, right? Like, I saw Taylor Swift in the concert this summer, but that was kind of - Look at you! Yeah, how do you like that? Look at you! You couldn't even get tickets. Big shot. Where'd you get tickets? My daughter's friend just won the lottery. No shenanigans. Oh, really? Tickets were $235 each, which is still a lot of money, but not, like, $1 ,000. And it was just kind of happenstance, how I ended up going. I was going to say, if your daughter's friend got tickets, how did you end up at the era's tour? I mean - Were you, like - It's just a long drive to get to the metal lands, didn't want them driving back. They're older, they can drive, but at, you know, one o 'clock in the morning from Taylor Swift, so - But you were in MetLife and watched the show. Yes. Friendship bracelets? Well, you want to know something funny? This is a good one. So, my daughter's friend said to me, do you want a - do you want a jewel? And I'm like, no, no, no, I'm okay. Thinking she's saying a jewel, like a jewel, smoke. But she was saying, like, to, like, get bedazzled, a little jewel, which I would have taken. So later, I was like, I told my daughter, I said, but your friend, she said she asked me if I wanted a jewel. She's like, no, no, she didn't say you wanted a jewel. She said, do you want a - a jewel to put some ju - you know. Right. I didn't have any bracelets, but I was into - I liked Taylor Swift. I wouldn't go again. I kind of felt bad being there, because there's people who give their left arm to be there. But it was - look, she is an unbelievable performer. I mean, it was - you could - first of all, I liked some of her songs. Secondly, the level of performance. It was just, you know, it was an A+. I mean, that - that - and that is something, even if you didn't like her music, you can appreciate it. And also, I appreciate it if I had to go to the bathroom. Easy pass right in there. No one. Right. No one's leaving their seat except for people like you who aren't in it. Yeah, and especially, yeah, and more skewed women.
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Did a rewatchables on Monday night. We did Black Hat. Also was on the Big Picture. We did a big Denzel Washington movie draft. I got way too competitive. And then on Wednesday night, Amanda Dobbins and I on the Prestige TV Podcast, we broke down the first two episodes of season three of The Morning Show. The most ridiculous show on television, not just this year, but every year it's on. It just wins the title automatically. If they had a ridiculous show category at the Emmys, they wouldn't even have any of their nominees. I mean, maybe winning time would get nominated. I don't know. But Morning Show just clears it out. What a batshit, crazy, ridiculous show. Wow. It's really like they created a podcast thing so we could just break down the morning show. That's really, I think, the real reason behind podcasting in general. Coming up on this podcast, Million Dollar Picks and a little Vikes Eagles at the top. And then editor at large at the Ringer, Brian Curtis, who was also a giant Cowboys fan, comes on and talk about the Cowboys. Could this be the year? Keep saying that, but could this be the year? And we talked some NFL stuff. We talked some sports media stuff. We talked about documentaries and just all the stuff that happens when Brian Curtis comes on. Oh, we talked about Joe Buck and Troy Aikman as well, who have hit a really interesting milestone as a combo. So that happened. And then Kevin Hench, my buddy, the Red Sox fired their GM today, and we couldn't resist spending 20 minutes recapping. One of the four -year oddest, strangest four -year runs the Red Sox have ever had. And we're still in the middle of it. And I still don't understand why Mookie Betts isn't on the team but also like, man, since the 2018 World Series, the Red Sox have just been a hot dumpster fire. And I say that knowing that they almost made the World Series two years ago, but when you look at everything that happened, wow. So Hench comes on and talk about that. It is all next. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. ["Pearl Jam Theme Song"] All right, I'm taping this part of the podcast. It is 11 .31 East Coast time. East Coast Bill is here. East Coast Bill is in Boston. I was visiting my daughter and doing some other stuff. And Thursday Night Football came on and I thought it would be a great idea to do the top segment after Eagles Vikings. East Coast Bill fell asleep at halftime. It was a new record for me. I guess I'm old. I have another birthday coming up this week. This is why I live on the West Coast because I talk about sports for a living. And East Coast Bill gets a little sleepy when the game is kind of boring and plodding along. So East Coast Bill missed some time, had to catch up, had to do a little rewind. Fortunately, there's so many commercials. I was able to still watch anything, but the Eagles beat the Vikings. They're now 2 -0 on the season. And I would say it's an uninspiring 2 -0. They probably shouldn't have covered against the Pats. They could have lost. This game they win, they don't cover. I guess on the good side, the DeAndre Swift, they traded like a 15th round pick in 2038 for them. And this little way they put together their offense where they load up on wide receivers, they hit the jackpot with hurts, and then they just say, you know what we're going to do? Just grab running backs because there's 98 of them every year. We're just going to grab two and pay nothing for them. So offensively, they look great. Defensively, you saw it last week with the Pats. The Pats were able to throw it on them. Mack almost had 300 yards in the last three quarters of that game. This game, Kirk Cousins, over and over again, heroically going for the cover, finally gets it. The Vikings cover, they don't win. Home team's now 5 -12 against the spread this season. Underdogs are 10 -7 against the spread. But for the most part, not allowed to report, the Eagles just state. They messed around in the first quarter and then said, screw it, and ran the ball down Minnesota's throat. I was thinking, Eagles, Cowboys, if you were going to make a combined over or under for wins for them, and I gave you 26, would you go over or under 26 wins combined for the two teams? They're 3 -0 right now. I would probably go over, especially when you look at the NFC and you think Philly, Dallas, San Francisco, lock those three down. I like Green Bay, Detroit, maybe New Orleans, Atlanta, and maybe that's the seven for the playoffs. And then you have Tampa Bay and the Rams. Who knows what was real and what wasn't real. Tampa Bay beat Minnesota by three in week one. We're like, oh, Tampa Bay, that's interesting. But now Minnesota's 0 -2, maybe that doesn't even matter. Rams, who knows? I mean, they just have so few good players that the moment two of them get hurt, it feels like their free fall will happen. So the NFC is already kind of uninteresting, I guess is my bigger point. Unless the Giants can rally, and who knows after the 40 -0 debacle last week, they're playing Arizona this week, so they looked out of that. But for the most part, it seems like three good teams, maybe the Packers, maybe the Lions, maybe the Saints, and then we're going to have a really bad seven seed. So if you're Minnesota, and you're looking at 31 of 270 teams started 0 -2 and made the playoffs since 1990. 31 out of 270. I can't do math, but that's not good. If you're Minnesota, at what point do you consider trading Cousins? Cousins was all over the place on the internet this week as a possible Rogers replacement. He makes 35 million this year, that's it. The Jets, I think, could do some chicanery if they wanted to. They have this thing where the Packers, it's a conditional, I think second, that turns into a first, but the Packers would have to waive the right for the condition. Clearly, Rogers is going to play 70 % of the plays, but still, they'd have to figure out some way. But if you're the Jets, could you somehow trade for Cousins and save your season? We're going to find out a lot about the Jets this week against Dallas. They get annihilated and they're one -on -one for the season, but annihilates Dallas them and they have to look at their offense and go, all right, we have a really good team. What are we going to do? Is it Jacoby Brissett or do we swing big and try to get Cousins for a year? Cousins has over 700 yards and six TDs in the first two weeks. He's been a fantasy god. I don't know how that plays out. I wish it was like basketball where I could just put stuff in the trade machine and see if it's going to work. For some reason, we made football trades more complicated than basically anything on the earth. I have no idea how the Jets would trade for Cousins, how it'd work, what the mechanics of it would be. What's he worth? Is he worth a first rounder for one year? Is he worth a third rounder? You just never know. Again, DeAndre Swift went for a 15th rounder in 2038. Cousins, I have my eye on because if you're Minnesota, you're not good. You were completely lucky last year to go 13 and four, whatever it was. Now that's evened out and maybe you start looking around and going, all right, let's pack in this year. I don't know what would have to happen, what number they would have to get to. Would they have to be one and four, one and five, one and six? But Cousins to the Jets, it's a fun talk radio topic, at least. We're not doing talk radio here. We're doing sleepy sports podcasting, but Cousins to the Jets has always felt right. It's always felt kind of perfect. He always just felt like a Jet waited to happen at some point in his career. The Jets fans listening to this right now are like, how can he keep doing this to us? We just had the Rogers thing. We had Zach Wilson. Now you're gonna throw Cousins at us. But again, Cousins, a little bit of a turnaround. He was in that Netflix show. He's kind of the big winner of quarterbacks with Mariota being the big loser. But I feel like the tide's turning on Cousins. Even Primetime Kirk today, always a disaster, gets the cover. Who knows? Put him in New York. We'll see. Philly's got, they're just basically have to figure out what their team is. They've already had a bunch of injuries and they even had a little AJ Brown, Jalen Hurts. Who knows what happened on the sidelines there, but didn't look awesome. But they have two months here to figure out their team. They're a big stretch. Week nine, Sunday, Dallas, that's home in Philly. Bi -week, week 11 at Kansas City on a Monday night. Week 12, Buffalo home. Week 13, San Francisco home. And week 14 at Dallas. So again, Dallas at KC, Buffalo, San Francisco at Dallas. And that's gonna be the five game stretch that determines are we a one seed? Are we a two seed? What is our season gonna look like? And they just have to get there. They have to stay healthy and they have to get to that point. So not a lot of lessons from Philly, Minnesota. Do I regret staying up? Although I guess I didn't stay up because I got this little nap in at halftime.
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A highlight from GEN C: Growing A Web3 Brand With Austin Hurwitz, Head of Business Development and Strategy at Doodles
"Gen C is the generation of the new Internet. In Gen C, the C stands for crypto, but it also stands for creators, the connected consumer and collectibles, both digital and physical with on -chain provenance. It stands for culture and characters, the ones we play in games and the companion ones that AI is building alongside us. It stands for community and digital citizenship and the new set of transparent and trustless tools being built to govern them. These are the people who were raised on a different philosophy on how they look at money, how they look at identity, how they look at privacy and how they look at the hybrid digital and physical spaces being built all around us. And finally, how they reimagine their relationships with the communities and companies they interact with. We focus on how brands large and small are building for these audiences. Welcome to Gen C. Avery, we are back again, as always, Gen C, not riding the wave, creating the wave. We have a great guest today in Austin Hurwitz. He's head of business development and strategy at Doodles. He was at Amazon before. He's been in the music business and really understands that ecosystem. So really excited to talk to him. But first, how are you? I am doing great. Excited to talk Doodles today. Excited about everything that's happening in this summer of on chain. Just actually walked past an outdoor billboard that is featuring on chain summer, which is, of course, Coinbase's big initiative, which you talk about. But summer's in full swing, Sam. How about you? How's life in New York? It's humid. It's hot. It's a little annoying, but people seem really happy. And yeah, I think things are great. I'm very happy that I'm not really traveling this month. I know you're all over the place. I have Europe coming next month because crypto never sleeps and crypto always travels. And crypto loves conferences. Crypto does love a conference. So there's a couple stories that sort of popped onto my feed that I thought we should talk about today. The first one, and I know we want to also address this with Austin because I think you guys were helping them, Doodles, with a Crocs collaboration, but everyone loves a sneaker drop. And it was just announced yesterday, Adidas and Bape, the Japanese brand, they're doing an NFT auction of 100 physical sneakers. You get the NFT. It's then redeemable for one of 100 only pairs, which is already going to make it a pretty rare sneaker for anyone who does collect. I know MoonPay is powering it from a commerce perspective. Is there no depth? Is there no bottom to the sneaker NFT ecosystem? Apparently not. Apparently everyone wants sneakers. Always, always, always. What I thought was interesting about that drop is in a world where I'm seeing so many brands look to put the tech under the hood, put the tech underneath, invisible, abstracted, words like that are floating around everywhere. Adidas is really leaning into putting the tech front and center and selling NFTs in a world where I was just looking at the Google trend line for NFTs over the past five years and you could probably imagine what it looks like. Interest has just dropped off so much in the world of NFTs, but I think it's interesting and it's actually quite differentiated that Adidas is leaning into this, really continuing to embrace the NFT ecosystem through their communication, through alts and through drops like this one, which are very focused on exclusivity and almost unabashedly focused on commercialization. Because it's an auction. This isn't something that's $5. I think that's actually why it's like, okay, they're doing it, they're leaning into it, they're doubling down in a world where like 90 % of people are pulling back. Right. So the thing that keeps jumping out for me is in a world of luxury collectibles, where you're seeing more and more younger people getting into that sector, and whether it's sneakers or it's wine or it's watches, I think people are starting to recognize, oh, I can actually invest in things and those assets can appreciate over time. So in that world, and I've actually been doing a lot of deep dives into this through the lens of wine, because wine actually, and I know we talked to LVMH about this weeks and weeks ago, but it's hard to ship wine and store it correctly and do all of that in investment grade wine, anything $100 or over. If you're never actually planning on drinking it, the worst thing you can do is take that wine and take possession of it. The best thing you could do is actually just keep it as an NFT, have it be in a storage facility that's at the right temperature where it doesn't move ever, and then wait until I sell it to you and then you decide I want to drink it for an anniversary and I'm going to redeem that NFT for the bottle. And so I think of that through the same lens, I look at these sneakers that I think there's something down the road in the world where half of my collection is really just a digital collection in a wallet and I don't need to physically house it. And then only when the person wants the physical asset do they get to request it. But a lot of the trading should happen in an on -chain manner that's secure and trust first and all of that. So I do think there's something really interesting. I'm very fascinated to see how much these go for. I'm not someone who will spend thousands of dollars on sneakers, but I have a feeling at only a hundred of this collaboration there's a chance these get pretty pricey. I agree with you. I'm excited to see and I also love that it's an auction so the market sets the price which I think is smart, it's strategic and it also kind of protects Adidas versus what we've seen some, you know, luxury hype drops do where they set the price and they set a specific quantity that don't move. I think this allows Adidas to treat this as a win sort of regardless of market pricing and demand. So I actually think it's a smart strategy especially how far in they already are. And the interesting layer is if you were part of the Adidas alts program of which there's a couple thousand all NFTs out there, any bid you make your bid is increased by 10 % if you hold the alt. So it actually just rewards that there might even be an interesting gamification of if you think these are gonna go for $2 ,500 that buying an NFT for $200 now may be a benefit in your bid thinking which is also like an interesting dynamic. The next areas I So there's two things that jump to mind. The first is Zynga, which is one of the most successful mobile gaming companies is about to come out with its first Web3 game. So they have a studio called Web3 Zynga, I think they're called. They have a trailer out for a project called Sugartown. And it's one where you can use NFTs, you can earn a point sort of currency that the currency itself is not a blockchain asset, the NFTs are blockchain assets. But I did think it was just interesting that the large game studios are starting to pay attention and something where, you know, just think of the people who still 10 years in are playing Candy Crush. You know, there is an unlock that will come of the folks who just love mobile games to play on the subway and planes that might enjoy the fact that maybe there's an earning mechanism to it. So I don't know if you have any thoughts on the Zynga game experience. So funny, I was actually just looking at a proposal for something for one of our partners with Activision, and they of course have Candy Crush. And yes, a lot of people like Candy Crush a lot, you know, millions, probably millions are playing it right now at this exact moment. I think it's interesting. I just don't think we've yet seen that much demand in any of these Web3 games. But if anyone can crack it, it's Zynga. You know a little bit about how the game market works. I'm sure many of our listeners do too. It's not like your first one's always a hit. Oftentimes, gaming companies will need to try a bunch to find that Candy Crush. So let's see, maybe Sugartown is it. It's gonna be exciting. And related to that, the first time I ever heard of Zepeto was through you. Zepeto is an Asian market metaverse. Yes, very large one. Very large one. I think there's 300 plus million people who are on Zepeto. And they just announced a deal with Jump Crypto to take $13 million in seed money to start incorporating NFTs and potentially on -chain currencies into their metaverse. So they're a competitor to Fortnite, to Roblox, to Minecraft, to some of the biggest ones out there just by their sheer numbers. So it feels like this has the beginnings of a big deal. We don't know if it's a big deal yet. But as I think you and I've spoken so many times that gaming may be the way that Web3 gets to the masses, and maybe in ways that they don't even know they're playing in Web3. But I thought this was like kind of a good signal in some respects. Did you have any thoughts about it? Yeah, I bet Rudy Lee is behind this. We should have Rudy come on at a certain point on Gen -C. He has actually been thinking about this for years. And we've been talking to these guys about a bunch of different things over the last two and a half years. But I think that they are looking very closely at what is happening in this Web3 world and thinking about how this can integrate with both their immersive experiences that they've built already and ones that they might build in the future. So I'm excited to see where this heads. I, you know, appreciate that they're coming in now, a little like post hype cycle, because they've been doing their homework and being really thoughtful. And the only build I'd have to what you just said, Sam, is I think it's a compliment. It's not like an or, like you have a TikTok, and you have an X, and you have an Instagram, they're all slightly different. I think the same is true for those like gaming experiences. Like just because you play Fortnite doesn't mean you won't play Zapeto. In fact, there's a lot of overlap between those audiences. Some distinction, of course, and some demographic trends. But I think increasingly, we'll see consumers playing in multiple immersive experiences sort of depending on their mood, depending how they're feeling, depending on if there's, you know, a piece of content that's interesting and exciting. Yeah, I think what you're saying is something that we always forget as consumers, but we know really intuitively as marketers, right? In the sense that, you know, if you were listening to Christina Aguilera during the day, you're also listening to Nelly Furtado during the day. Exactly. And maybe the Nelly Furtado audience was a little cheaper to get, but you knew that that's how you got to the Christina's audience in a more cost effective way, right? So I think that the AND strategy of maybe there are certain assets that are completely tied to in game, and maybe there are certain assets which get access because there's a loyal and rabid community, that I think is an additive strategy that why would you not think about it if you were in the metaverse game, which doesn't mean you have to give the keys to everything away immediately. It just says we're willing to dip our toes in and see where this goes. And then maybe it creates a network effect that becomes giant in our business. Per usual. Brilliant, Sam. I agree. Anytime I drop a Nelly Furtado reference, I... It's spot on. I was gonna say people know how old I am. So it is what it is. All right, Avery, we are going to jump into a break. When we get back, we do have Austin Hurwitz, Head of Business Development and Strategy at Doodles. Really excited to hear from him. And we'll see you after the break. All right, we are here with Austin Hurwitz. Austin is the Head of Business Development and Strategy at Doodles. Super excited to talk to Austin. There's a lot happening with Doodles right now in the world. But first, Austin, just to answer the question, what is a doodle? That's a great question, Sam, Avery, great to be here. A doodle is anything that ignites your creative expression. It's playing a sport. Anything that gets you really igniting your imagination is what we want to empower through doodling. Yeah, it's a joy to work in such a company with a mission like that. But some of them seem to be like, made of vapor, seem kind of invisible. Like I'm just, you know, and I know you've not been there that long, but I'm wondering is like from a Genesis perspective, right? Like doodle is just in my head is creativity in a nutshell, right? So was that kind of part of the genesis of the artwork? Yeah, I mean, for those that know Burnt Toast, I think his entire basis of art is around creativity. And he recently had the opportunity to also serve as a host in the doodle campaign for Red Bull. So he's always been about really expressing creativity through his art. And I think, you know, the doodles, the 10 ,000 generative PFPs are a reflection of that. So it's not just the humanoids, if you will, but it's also ice creams and popsicles and mine, which is a coffee head, which I think really identifies well with my personality. It's highly caffeinated at all times. So yeah, it is very much like joy in a variety of ways. That's amazing. And we will definitely get to all things doodle art. But Austin, we want to hear also about you. How did you get into this world of doodling? How did you get into this role? What's been your journey and what's kind of landed you as the head of strategy and business development at a company like doodles? Yeah, I had a very interesting journey. I worked in entertainment for the last decade. Coming out of school, I went to work at Amazon out in Seattle, serving as the head of independent label licensing for Amazon Music. So I helped negotiate contracts with record labels and get Amazon Music Unlimited off the ground, which is like their Spotify competitor. It was actually in this process that I started to dive into crypto. Before we went live, I had the amazing responsibility of ensuring that we had rights to everything that was going to be distributed, which for anyone who knows anything about music licensing is a pretty tall task because the data is all over the place. You have labels that have some of the data, you have distributors that have some of the data, publishers, a lot of splits aren't even put out into the world before a song is released. And so I spent weeks on end looking at the Copyright Office records to determine if we had someone to pay or not. And that kind of clicked in my head of, okay, I can see a need for decentralization for a ledger, and really sparked my interest in crypto. I wrote a white paper around the licensing implications of crypto back in 2017, and then kind of put it to bed for a little bit. The first wave didn't really work out. As people know from back then, they tried to take a top -down approach, and none of the labels were really biting on that. And yeah, so I ended up working at Amazon Music for five years. I then went down to LA to kick off Troy Carter and Susie Roode's company, Q &A, which is now Venice Music, and operated as the head of product there. So I built the distribution software to get music on the Spotify's and Apple's and Amazon's of the world, took us out of stealth mode, and then actually led our Web3 efforts as that big wave was coming around music. I did that for about two years, actually got into doodles my first week as part of really diving headfirst into Web3. And so I got to meet the founders in Twitter spaces every single day, was going to all the events, and was really trying to actively participate. And then when I left Venice, an opportunity came up where Julian had actually reached out. I was looking to expand the team and felt based on our interactions working together on the music side when he was at Billboard and I was at Venice, we had a great working relationship. So I joined at the top of the year and it's been an incredible ride so far. Love that. We certainly talk a lot about music here. I personally come out of the music industry a long, long time ago. And one of the things I ask anyone who has been involved in the Web3 side of the music is kind of like, what state are we in the evolution of on -chain music? We hear a lot of people wanting to be the Web3 Spotify, right? I think most of people don't really understand the actual logistics of streaming audio and how the economics work and how the server space question and how much amount of logistics you have to be in the music industry. So my question for you, just as a tangent, but knowing that you spent some time in this space is, do you think on the music side, we are going to get to a point where Web3 is challenging more of the Apple Music's of the world, or should we be looking at Web3 and musicians more along the lines of early collectibles and being able to say you were at the first show or you have the first band t -shirt? Where do you land on that spectrum? Yeah, I find myself oscillating between the two and I think it's still really too early to tell none of the products that are out there have really reached product market fit. But I have been really encouraged by the amount of iteration that is happening in the space. I look at a player like Sound XYZ, where they started being this effectively the sound cloud of Web3 and enabling collectors to own almost like trading cards of music as they come out. And they have like rapidly changed and iterated over time where these things used to go for an ETH. Now you can get in for like $5 where it used to be on ETH Baynet. Now you can get them on any L2 imaginable. And I think that iteration is going to continue to happen. I think it's very challenging Web3 for Music to directly compete with streaming. I think they serve very different use cases. I've always naturally gravitated towards the superfan use case. So less of the mainstream, I just want to listen to my Spotify while I go on a run, and much more of how am I developing a deeper relationship with this artist. And so I look at a company like Medallion, what they're doing and really bridging the web two and a half, if you will, the ability to create these fan communities, which are built on top of blockchain, but you can sign in with an email address, they'll create you a custodial wallet, like they really focus on not the financialization of the NFT, but much more of this is how you're going to track your provenance with the artist. So being able to collect things over time, being able to reward you as a fan, a lot of the early discussions around Web3 Music are, this was so great for the artist. And I absolutely agree, but people really had a hard time with how is this great for fans. And I think they're actually nailing a use case when it comes to fan communities that I expect to see a lot more traction on. So that's kind of how I'm evaluating the space right now. I think we're going to see more and more artists jump on board, particularly as they want to have a direct relationship with their fans and fans are looking to declutter everything that they're seeing on socials and build a more intimate relationship with these artists.
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A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Crypto Market Remains Tepid as Broader Economy Holds Its Breath
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Tuesday, August 8th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. George Kaloudis here again with your daily news roundup. On today's show, we're talking Bitcoin, the macro economy, the latest headlines and more. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide financial advice. Bitcoin and Ether remained little changed over the past 24 hours, another sign of just how tepid the market is. Even the entry of payment giant PayPal into the stablecoin market failed to move the needle in any meaningful way. Both Bitcoin and Ether haven't moved much in price on the day and have had low trading volumes over the past few weeks. Yet another day of Bitcoin and Ether, the stablecoins. Bitcoin is currently trading at $29 ,482, while Ether is trading at $1 ,840 per token, according to the Coindesk market index. And shifting to the traditional markets and the broader economy, there are lots of things happening in the world economy. For one, the world's largest export economy in China has seen its export volume drop big time. Compared with those of a year earlier, China's exports to the U .S. and European Union plunged by more than 20 percent each last month. 20 percent. Geopolitical tensions between the U .S. and China have led to manufacturers from the West reducing their dependence on China. Not to mention, Covid induced supply chain scares have led to companies rationalizing their supply chain strategy. What's more, as the rest of the world faces inflation head on, the latest data shows that China actually could be in for some deflation for an economy that is predicated on explosive growth. If deflation takes hold in China, we could expect some serious stimulus packages. In that vein, China will release monthly inflation data tomorrow. Sticking with China, a headline from the Wall Street Journal reads, Country Garden, China's largest surviving developer, sinks into debt crisis. Country Garden Holdings, a property developer that has been lauded by China's authorities as a model for others, missed interest payments on two U .S. dollar bonds this week, marking a new stage of distress for the country's real estate market. So China is looking at falling exports, a potential deflation crisis and a deteriorating real estate market. Doesn't look so great for one of the world's largest economies. Moving stateside, last week, the U .S.'s credit rating was downgraded by rating agency Fitch. The downgrade was not matched by other rating agencies, else we'd be in a pretty scary place. But another ratings agency, Moody's, did cut the credit ratings of 10 U .S. regional banks. The moves suggest that Moody's believes, as do many, that the U .S. banking sector remains vulnerable. Higher interest rates and a potential recession in 2024 are the biggest threats to the banking industry at large. And lastly, moving underground, oil. Oil prices have ticked up over the last month and are at the highest level in three months. This comes as oil producers in Saudi Arabia and Russia have extended voluntary supply cuts recently as we approach a period of expected oil deficits. There is speculation that crude oil prices will move up as demand increases this summer and supply doesn't follow suit. Cartel economies with artificially controlled supply are fascinating. In any event, there is a lot going on in our macro economy, despite it being the sleepy part of summer. And there's plenty to keep our eyes on going forward. Moving on to the price of things with the indexes in the U .S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average is flat. The S &P 500 is down 0 .2 percent and the Nasdaq Composite lost 0 .6 percent. In Europe, the regional stock 600 and London's FTSE 100 decreased 0 .5 percent. Germany's Stacks, meanwhile, fell 1 .2 percent. In Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is down 1 .8 percent. Shanghai Composite lost 0 .3 percent. And Japan's Nikkei 225 added 0 .4 percent. In commodities markets, Brent Crude, that's the international benchmark for oil, is down 1 .9 percent, trading at 84 dollars and 21 cents. Gold is down three quarters of a percentage point, trading at 1960 dollars per troy ounce. And First Republic Bank is trading slightly down at 32 cents per share. Today's traditional market coverage draws from The Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch.
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A highlight from Crypto Update | Crypto Market Remains Tepid as Broader Economy Holds Its Breath
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Tuesday, August 8th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. George Kaloudis here again with your daily news roundup. On today's show, we're talking Bitcoin, the macro economy, the latest headlines and more. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide financial advice. Bitcoin and Ether remained little changed over the past 24 hours, another sign of just how tepid the market is. Even the entry of payment giant PayPal into the stablecoin market failed to move the needle in any meaningful way. Both Bitcoin and Ether haven't moved much in price on the day and have had low trading volumes over the past few weeks. Yet another day of Bitcoin and Ether, the stablecoins. Bitcoin is currently trading at $29 ,482, while Ether is trading at $1 ,840 per token, according to the Coindesk market index. And shifting to the traditional markets and the broader economy, there are lots of things happening in the world economy. For one, the world's largest export economy in China has seen its export volume drop big time. Compared with those of a year earlier, China's exports to the U .S. and European Union plunged by more than 20 percent each last month. 20 percent. Geopolitical tensions between the U .S. and China have led to manufacturers from the West reducing their dependence on China. Not to mention, Covid induced supply chain scares have led to companies rationalizing their supply chain strategy. What's more, as the rest of the world faces inflation head on, the latest data shows that China actually could be in for some deflation for an economy that is predicated on explosive growth. If deflation takes hold in China, we could expect some serious stimulus packages. In that vein, China will release monthly inflation data tomorrow. Sticking with China, a headline from the Wall Street Journal reads, Country Garden, China's largest surviving developer, sinks into debt crisis. Country Garden Holdings, a property developer that has been lauded by China's authorities as a model for others, missed interest payments on two U .S. dollar bonds this week, marking a new stage of distress for the country's real estate market. So China is looking at falling exports, a potential deflation crisis and a deteriorating real estate market. Doesn't look so great for one of the world's largest economies. Moving stateside, last week, the U .S.'s credit rating was downgraded by rating agency Fitch. The downgrade was not matched by other rating agencies, else we'd be in a pretty scary place. But another ratings agency, Moody's, did cut the credit ratings of 10 U .S. regional banks. The moves suggest that Moody's believes, as do many, that the U .S. banking sector remains vulnerable. Higher interest rates and a potential recession in 2024 are the biggest threats to the banking industry at large. And lastly, moving underground, oil. Oil prices have ticked up over the last month and are at the highest level in three months. This comes as oil producers in Saudi Arabia and Russia have extended voluntary supply cuts recently as we approach a period of expected oil deficits. There is speculation that crude oil prices will move up as demand increases this summer and supply doesn't follow suit. Cartel economies with artificially controlled supply are fascinating. In any event, there is a lot going on in our macro economy, despite it being the sleepy part of summer. And there's plenty to keep our eyes on going forward. Moving on to the price of things with the indexes in the U .S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average is flat. The S &P 500 is down 0 .2 percent and the Nasdaq Composite lost 0 .6 percent. In Europe, the regional stock 600 and London's FTSE 100 decreased 0 .5 percent. Germany's Stacks, meanwhile, fell 1 .2 percent. In Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is down 1 .8 percent. Shanghai Composite lost 0 .3 percent. And Japan's Nikkei 225 added 0 .4 percent. In commodities markets, Brent Crude, that's the international benchmark for oil, is down 1 .9 percent, trading at 84 dollars and 21 cents. Gold is down three quarters of a percentage point, trading at 1960 dollars per troy ounce. And First Republic Bank is trading slightly down at 32 cents per share. Today's traditional market coverage draws from The Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch.
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A highlight from Crypto Update | Crypto Traders Short Volatility; PayPal Announces U.S. Dollar Pegged Stablecoin
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Monday, August 7th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. George Kaloudis here again with your daily news roundup. On today's show, we're talking Bitcoin, the latest headlines and more. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide financial advice. Bitcoin and Ether are still rock solid. Both have proved remarkably non -volatile in otherwise volatile times. They're basically stablecoins. Bitcoin hasn't risen more than 4 % in a single day since June 21st. The lack of volatility has, of course, sparked market chatter about an impending volatility explosion in Bitcoin. But to that, traders, analysts and market participants remain unconvinced that volatility to the upside will come from anything except the approval of the Spot Bitcoin ETF. And so, yet again, we turn our eyes and ears to the institutions and the Spot Bitcoin ETF for some potential price movement. On the topic of institutions, MicroStrategy, the public company that holds 152 ,000 Bitcoin on its balance sheet, is nearly back in the black with its Bitcoin bet after racking up a paper loss of roughly $1 billion. That is genuinely impressive, given MicroStrategy was buying Bitcoin through the height of the bull market when Bitcoin was around $69 ,000. There were, of course, back then, silly articles and suggestions that MicroStrategy would have to sell its Bitcoin into the open market as the price of Bitcoin fell from its all -time highs, leading to a death spiral in price. But that fear seems to be overblown, at least for now. It's a sleepy, sleepy summer in the markets at the moment. Today's crypto market coverage comes courtesy of Coindesk Markets analyst Lilo Ledesma, and I'm cargoed with Bolle. Bitcoin is currently trading at $29 ,019, while Ether is trading at $1 ,827 per token, according to the Coindesk Market Index. And shifting to the traditional markets in the U .S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 0 .1%, the S &P 500 Law 0 .6%, and the Nasdaq Composite decreased 0 .9%. In Europe, the Regional Stocks 600 added 0 .6%, and London's FTSE 100 in Germany's DAX increased 0 .5%. In Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is flat, the Shanghai Composite is down 0 .6%, and Japan's Nikkei 225 increased 0 .2%. In commodities markets, Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil, is up 0 .4%, trading at $85 .80. Gold, meanwhile, is flat at $1 ,975 per troy ounce. First Republic Bank versus trouble is also flat, trading at $0 .33. Today's traditional market coverage draws for MarketWatch. Stay tuned for after the break when we'll take a look at some stablecoin news. Back in a minute. Meet the all -new Kraken Pro, the powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto. It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever, packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools, all in a redesigned, modular trading interface. So head to pro .kraken .com and trade like a pro. Not investment advice. Some crypto products and markets are unregulated. The unpredictable nature of the crypto assets market can lead to loss of funds and profits, may be subject to capital gains tax. And welcome back. Here are some headlines for you. PayPal to issue dollar pegged crypto stablecoin based on Ethereum. Global payments giant PayPal is launching its own U .S. dollar pegged stablecoin, PayPal USD or PYUSD. The Ethereum based token will soon be available to PayPal users in the U .S. and marks the first time a major financial company is issuing its own stablecoin. Users can transfer PYUSD between PayPal and supported external wallets, fund goods and services purchases, or convert any of PayPal supported cryptocurrencies to and from PYUSD. PYUSD will first be made available on PayPal's popular payments app Venmo. Meanwhile, PayPal said it would provide a tested reports of the funds backing the stablecoin in an effort to thwart concerns about unbacked tokens. Elsewhere, WorldCoins Nairobi warehouse raided by Kenyan police, according to local reports. Kenyan police raided the Nairobi warehouse of identity and cryptocurrency protocol WorldCoin on Saturday, confiscating documents and machines. This comes after Kenya's Ministry of the Interior suspended the project's operations in the country last week. The raid was reportedly conducted under the supervision of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, who said Tools for Humanity, the parent company of WorldCoin, failed to disclose its true intentions during registration of its operations. Moving on to our last update on CRV. Curve recouped 73 % of hacked funds, bolstering CRV sentiment. Curve Finance, which recently suffered an exploit, has recouped some 73 % of funds stolen during that hack. The hack saw the platform lose over $73 million worth of various tokens, causing contagion effects in the broader ecosystem. Over the past week, all $22 million in Ether and Ether derivatives stolen from lending protocol Alchemax -Fi, which is part of curve, were returned. Still though, over $18 million in stolen funds are still remaining. And on Sunday night, Curve opened up a bounty to the public. The protocol itself added, quote, if the exploiter chooses to return the funds in full, we will not pursue this any further, end quote. So unless something drastic happens, this will likely be the end of this particular CRV saga. Today's stories come courtesy of Coindesk's Shari Amalwa, Amitash Singh, and Aliza Gritski. And that's our show for today. Thank you for listening. For those of you still with us, we'd love to hear what you think. You can email podcasts at coindesk .com with the subject line markets daily. I'm George Kaloudis and this episode was produced and edited by Eleanor Paul with executive production by Jared Schwartz. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. I'll see y 'all tomorrow.
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A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Crypto Traders Short Volatility; PayPal Announces U.S. Dollar Pegged Stablecoin
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Monday, August 7th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. George Kaloudis here again with your daily news roundup. On today's show, we're talking Bitcoin, the latest headlines and more. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide financial advice. Bitcoin and Ether are still rock solid. Both have proved remarkably non -volatile in otherwise volatile times. They're basically stablecoins. Bitcoin hasn't risen more than 4 % in a single day since June 21st. The lack of volatility has, of course, sparked market chatter about an impending volatility explosion in Bitcoin. But to that, traders, analysts and market participants remain unconvinced that volatility to the upside will come from anything except the approval of the Spot Bitcoin ETF. And so, yet again, we turn our eyes and ears to the institutions and the Spot Bitcoin ETF for some potential price movement. On the topic of institutions, MicroStrategy, the public company that holds 152 ,000 Bitcoin on its balance sheet, is nearly back in the black with its Bitcoin bet after racking up a paper loss of roughly $1 billion. That is genuinely impressive, given MicroStrategy was buying Bitcoin through the height of the bull market when Bitcoin was around $69 ,000. There were, of course, back then, silly articles and suggestions that MicroStrategy would have to sell its Bitcoin into the open market as the price of Bitcoin fell from its all -time highs, leading to a death spiral in price. But that fear seems to be overblown, at least for now. It's a sleepy, sleepy summer in the markets at the moment. Today's crypto market coverage comes courtesy of Coindesk Markets analyst Lilo Ledesma, and I'm cargoed with Bolle. Bitcoin is currently trading at $29 ,019, while Ether is trading at $1 ,827 per token, according to the Coindesk Market Index. And shifting to the traditional markets in the U .S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 0 .1%, the S &P 500 Law 0 .6%, and the Nasdaq Composite decreased 0 .9%. In Europe, the Regional Stocks 600 added 0 .6%, and London's FTSE 100 in Germany's DAX increased 0 .5%. In Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is flat, the Shanghai Composite is down 0 .6%, and Japan's Nikkei 225 increased 0 .2%. In commodities markets, Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil, is up 0 .4%, trading at $85 .80. Gold, meanwhile, is flat at $1 ,975 per troy ounce. First Republic Bank versus trouble is also flat, trading at $0 .33. Today's traditional market coverage draws for MarketWatch. Stay tuned for after the break when we'll take a look at some stablecoin news. Back in a minute. Meet the all -new Kraken Pro, the powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto. It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever, packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools, all in a redesigned, modular trading interface. So head to pro .kraken .com and trade like a pro. Not investment advice. Some crypto products and markets are unregulated. The unpredictable nature of the crypto assets market can lead to loss of funds and profits, may be subject to capital gains tax. And welcome back. Here are some headlines for you. PayPal to issue dollar pegged crypto stablecoin based on Ethereum. Global payments giant PayPal is launching its own U .S. dollar pegged stablecoin, PayPal USD or PYUSD. The Ethereum based token will soon be available to PayPal users in the U .S. and marks the first time a major financial company is issuing its own stablecoin. Users can transfer PYUSD between PayPal and supported external wallets, fund goods and services purchases, or convert any of PayPal supported cryptocurrencies to and from PYUSD. PYUSD will first be made available on PayPal's popular payments app Venmo. Meanwhile, PayPal said it would provide a tested reports of the funds backing the stablecoin in an effort to thwart concerns about unbacked tokens. Elsewhere, WorldCoins Nairobi warehouse raided by Kenyan police, according to local reports. Kenyan police raided the Nairobi warehouse of identity and cryptocurrency protocol WorldCoin on Saturday, confiscating documents and machines. This comes after Kenya's Ministry of the Interior suspended the project's operations in the country last week. The raid was reportedly conducted under the supervision of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, who said Tools for Humanity, the parent company of WorldCoin, failed to disclose its true intentions during registration of its operations. Moving on to our last update on CRV. Curve recouped 73 % of hacked funds, bolstering CRV sentiment. Curve Finance, which recently suffered an exploit, has recouped some 73 % of funds stolen during that hack. The hack saw the platform lose over $73 million worth of various tokens, causing contagion effects in the broader ecosystem. Over the past week, all $22 million in Ether and Ether derivatives stolen from lending protocol Alchemax -Fi, which is part of curve, were returned. Still though, over $18 million in stolen funds are still remaining. And on Sunday night, Curve opened up a bounty to the public. The protocol itself added, quote, if the exploiter chooses to return the funds in full, we will not pursue this any further, end quote. So unless something drastic happens, this will likely be the end of this particular CRV saga. Today's stories come courtesy of Coindesk's Shari Amalwa, Amitash Singh, and Aliza Gritski. And that's our show for today. Thank you for listening. For those of you still with us, we'd love to hear what you think. You can email podcasts at coindesk .com with the subject line markets daily. I'm George Kaloudis and this episode was produced and edited by Eleanor Paul with executive production by Jared Schwartz. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. I'll see y 'all tomorrow.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Markets Steady and Binance Could Face U.S. Department of Justice Fraud Charges
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Thursday, August 3rd, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. George Knud is here again for your daily news roundup. On today's show, we're talking Bitcoin, the latest headlines and more. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide financial advice. Bitcoin and Ether have slipped in the last 24 hours, but they still remain range -bound. If you're just looking at price charts and nothing else, the last month has been a snooze fest for the big cryptocurrencies. With all that is happening in the macro economy, with a not -recession looming, and in the world of DeFi, which in the words of Coindesk's Dan Coon died and we didn't even notice with the behavior around the Curve financial hack, it is quite honestly surprising that the market has done basically nothing for the last month. Still, though, there is some news in the world of the Spot Bitcoin ETF. ETF analysts at Bloomberg Intelligence raised their estimates for the launch of a U .S. Spot Bitcoin exchange -traded fund, or ETF, to 65 percent from 50 percent. The analysts said the SEC's seeming approval of Coinbase's Bitcoin trading platform is one positive indication, and another is SEC Chairman Gary Gensler downplaying his role in a recent interview. The potential approval of the many Spot Bitcoin ETFs is a bullish event waiting on the sidelines. For now, though, the market crickets continue. Bitcoin is currently trading at $29 ,110, while Ether is trading at $1 ,833 per token, according to the Coindesk Market Index. And shifting to the traditional markets, in the U .S., the Dow Industrial Average lost 0 .8 percent, the S &P 500 fell 1 percent, and the NASDAQ Composite decreased 1 .5 percent. In Europe, the regional Stoxx 600 and Mundensfutze 100 lost 0 .9 percent, and Germany's DAX fell 1 .1 percent. In Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index decreased 0 .5 percent, the Shanghai Composite increased 0 .6 percent, and Japan's Nikkei 225 lost 1 .7 percent. In commodities markets, Brent crude, that's the international benchmark for oil, fell to .65. $83 Gold, meanwhile, fell to $1 ,969 per troy ounce, and First Republic Bank, our regional banking crisis indicator, is basically flat at 32 cents. Today's traditional market coverage draws from MarketWatch. Stay tuned for after the break when we'll take a look at some quick headlines. Back in a minute. Meet the all new Kraken Pro, the powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto. It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever, packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools, all in a redesigned modular trading interface. So head to pro .kraken .com and trade like a pro. Not investment advice, some crypto products and markets are unregulated. The unpredictable nature of the crypto assets market can lead to loss of funds and profits, maybe subject to capital gains tax.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Markets Steady and Binance Could Face U.S. Department of Justice Fraud Charges
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. It's Thursday, August 3rd, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. George Knud is here again for your daily news roundup. On today's show, we're talking Bitcoin, the latest headlines and more. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide financial advice. Bitcoin and Ether have slipped in the last 24 hours, but they still remain range -bound. If you're just looking at price charts and nothing else, the last month has been a snooze fest for the big cryptocurrencies. With all that is happening in the macro economy, with a not -recession looming, and in the world of DeFi, which in the words of Coindesk's Dan Coon died and we didn't even notice with the behavior around the Curve financial hack, it is quite honestly surprising that the market has done basically nothing for the last month. Still, though, there is some news in the world of the Spot Bitcoin ETF. ETF analysts at Bloomberg Intelligence raised their estimates for the launch of a U .S. Spot Bitcoin exchange -traded fund, or ETF, to 65 percent from 50 percent. The analysts said the SEC's seeming approval of Coinbase's Bitcoin trading platform is one positive indication, and another is SEC Chairman Gary Gensler downplaying his role in a recent interview. The potential approval of the many Spot Bitcoin ETFs is a bullish event waiting on the sidelines. For now, though, the market crickets continue. Bitcoin is currently trading at $29 ,110, while Ether is trading at $1 ,833 per token, according to the Coindesk Market Index. And shifting to the traditional markets, in the U .S., the Dow Industrial Average lost 0 .8 percent, the S &P 500 fell 1 percent, and the NASDAQ Composite decreased 1 .5 percent. In Europe, the regional Stoxx 600 and Mundensfutze 100 lost 0 .9 percent, and Germany's DAX fell 1 .1 percent. In Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index decreased 0 .5 percent, the Shanghai Composite increased 0 .6 percent, and Japan's Nikkei 225 lost 1 .7 percent. In commodities markets, Brent crude, that's the international benchmark for oil, fell to .65. $83 Gold, meanwhile, fell to $1 ,969 per troy ounce, and First Republic Bank, our regional banking crisis indicator, is basically flat at 32 cents. Today's traditional market coverage draws from MarketWatch. Stay tuned for after the break when we'll take a look at some quick headlines. Back in a minute. Meet the all new Kraken Pro, the powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto. It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever, packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools, all in a redesigned modular trading interface. So head to pro .kraken .com and trade like a pro. Not investment advice, some crypto products and markets are unregulated. The unpredictable nature of the crypto assets market can lead to loss of funds and profits, maybe subject to capital gains tax.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from PublicSq Goes Public with Michael Seifert and Rep. Troy Nehls
"The U .S. dollar has lost 85 % of its value since the 70s, when the dollar decoupled from gold, and the government seems bent on continuing the tradition. Charlie Kirk here. From now until after the elections, the government can print as much money as they want. The last time they did that, inflation went up 9%. Gold is the only asset that has proven to withstand inflation. Invest in gold with Noble Gold Investments. You will get a 24 -carat, one -fourth of an ounce gold standard coin for free. Just use promo code kirk. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com. That's noblegoldinvestments .com, the only gold company I trust. Hey, everybody. Today on The Charlie Kirk Show, Michael Seifert from Public Square joins us, publicsq .com. That is publicsq .com. We talk about some recent news from his company, really important stuff. Then Troy Nels, congressman, joins us about the Christopher Ray hearings and more. Subscribe to our podcast, as always, Charlie Kirk Show Podcast. Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk .com. And get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. And that is tpusa .com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Joining us now is Michael Seifert, who has some big announcements. Yesterday, we talked about every life. Public Square, I am their biggest fan, number one promoter, enthusiastic believer, and user of Public Square, publicsq .com. All of you go to everylife .com and his promo code charlie10 for a diaper alternative that actually cares about babies. Michael Seifert is with us. Michael, tell us in your own perspective, the launch of the diaper company, how things are going. It's a real beautiful product. Well, Charlie, I'm really grateful. Our prediction turned out to be true. We had hoped that the moms and the dads of this great nation would be as excited as we were for a diaper company that was actually pro -life, pro -family, and unashamed about admitting those two realities. Because unfortunately, if you look at the nine major diaper brands in the United States today, they're all vocally proficient. I mean, it's shocking. Coterie is a luxury diaper. It's about the nicest diaper money can buy until we released ours yesterday. Coterie, last year, after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, came out and said publicly that their employees, quote, unquote, feel without lost abortion rights. So we have witnessed that even the baby brands in this United States have gone so off the deep end with this wokeism and ESG nonsense that they're promoting abortion when their clients are babies. We're going to do the opposite thing. We just yesterday launched everylife .com. We are a premium high quality diaper and wipes company that celebrates the miracle of every single innocent life, no matter where you come from, no matter what you look like, socioeconomic status, race, background, every life is a miracle. And we celebrate that with our high quality diapers. This is a part of this broader movement, Charlie, to create patriotic parallel options to some of the major incumbent brands. And we're going to do this a whole lot more. So we encourage consumers to join us and buckle up because it's going to be a wild ride. You're doing a really great job, Michael. But there's some, let's just say, dark forces that aren't aren't really thrilled that Public Square is ascendant, that you guys are growing. Can you speak to that a little bit, that there's some just people that aren't a big fan, that all of a sudden there's a navigational tool of the patriot economy? I'm seeing some things. I'm hearing some whispers. What's going on here, Michael? You know, Charlie, it's interesting. We yesterday announced very boldly that a core piece of our business is protect every innocent life. And I don't think it's a coincidence that in the last twenty four hours since we've announced that we've underwent quite a bit of spiritual warfare and quite a bit of opposition and antagonistic attacks from people that really want to thwart our course and our direction. We are taking the company public right now at Public Square. CLBR is the ticker of the SPAC that we're partnering with. And we are closing next week, ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, July 20th, which is very exciting. And we are excited, but we are experiencing quite a bit of pressure from a few institutional players that would like to see a decrease in our success. And we're seeing a lot of pushback from certain media outlets that may not like the future that we're trying to create in this parallel economy. And so our encouragement to consumers, to investors, to friends of the company, to people simply that are fans of the Patriot parallel economy. Join us. Join us at public askew dot com. We would love it if consumers would rally around this patriotic economy that we're trying to build here. And at the end of the day, Charlie, we know we're going to be victorious. We know at the end of the day that we have a special call with this company to provide a solution that millions of Americans have hungered for. And we know because we see it working every single day. We had a million consumer members on our platform faster than Twitter, Airbnb or Spotify. And we did it purely because of your listeners, because of shows like this, because of voices like yours that are rallying around this solution we're trying to bring to the market. So our encouragement is y 'all build this with us. We need your help. And you can do that at public askew dot com.
Awards Chatter
"troy" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"And I think that there was something kind of, it sounds like there were things that were done for all of you to Bond nicely. I think where you were living and how you were shooting the scenes on the boat and all of that, but it does sound like you and Amelia really bonded. We did bond and we had this amazing chemistry and everything we went through. You know, looking back, when I saw Amelia, she reminded me so much of my daughter, they're around the same age, just maybe a year apart. The way she behaved. The way she signed and the way she was fishing, she had so many commonalities with my daughter, and the way she signed it wasn't like completely fluent, but you know, similar to how my daughter signed and she loved music, just like my daughter in real life does. And so I felt a real connection there. And I applaud her because she was so young, so had so much courage. She was so motivated. And I've worked with many hearing actors who were just worried about signing and learning their specific lines. Are we ready to shoot? All right, let me sign my lines. Thank you. And then you go home. And I wasn't really able to develop a relationship or engage with them. But with Amelia, when she was done with her lines, she wanted to chat with us about what our lives were like about fishing about dirty jokes or whatever. And we were just all laughing, and then we went back to work. So we developed this real connection. You know, I was just sitting there one day, she came behind me and just gave me a big hug. And so, you know, during these breaks on set, we were really able to build our relationship. And she told me herself, she goes, hey, Troy, you remind me of my father, too. And so it was like we really it was beautiful..
The Troy Farkas Show
"troy" Discussed on The Troy Farkas Show
"Something as well and i imagine how much more amplified it is being a parent not to stay on a on a sad subject gear but the inspiration for. I wanna talk to you. This week is of course. Twenty years ago you were tested a very early on in your career For a moment that it's one of those moments of a handful or does moments in your life that will have where you just remember so much more about it. You remember where you were you remember. you remember all these certain details bad days of course september eleventh two thousand. I'm in kindergarten at that time in your class I would like to kind of deconstruct the day as best as we can. I know it's twenty years ago. So the memories a little. But you probably remember more more than i do. So i'd like to tell you my version of that day and how it went down and then we can exchange notes. And i wanna hear your story as well so Any other day right Any other day. We're maybe a week into school at at this point had not been had not been long. So it's on my first day school It was only half day kindergarten. So get on the bus at eight. Am or whatever. Leave school around noon. i took the bus took the bus to school. Took the bus back. Go to school that day. We're doing whatever it is that we normally doing in the morning and then our principal misfits gerald. I remember hearing her on the loudspeaker. I don't remember what she said but her voice was a little scared or uncertainty to know what was going on. But spacey said something. Something has happened. Something big has happened. Were sending all the students home. A little early the buses are coming. Gotta wait a little bit until we can get the buses Here get on the buses in everyone kind of escorted us stared may make sure that we were good and then took the bus home..
The Troy Farkas Show
"troy" Discussed on The Troy Farkas Show
"You know whether they're turned off by that. I don't know but it's just there's not a lot of parent involvement from i say An i don't get to form those relationships with parents certainly do might be one or two every year But not the way that. I used to have those relationships and i missed. Yeah 'cause there's i can see an argument either way about the role of technology and kids lives these days. You could say that. It is a great thing because the world is becoming more digital and technological so by giving them access to all these devices this knowledge early on they'll be better suited for the work world when they enter that you could also say they're spending so much time on it that it's unhealthy it's unhealthy for a bunch of reasons because it keeps you inside. You're not getting all your proper vitamins. You're not learning how to play and interact. Where do you fall on that is detrimental technology or helpful. It say i definitely needed for your future. Your job But i definitely feel like it's. It's impacting kids socially You know kids don't know how to talk to each other kids. yeah One of the things that i did or a deal in third grade. Is they talk a lot to each other. They work with partners in. They really need to learn how to have a conversation If they're solving in math problem okay. Tell each other what you got for an answer. How did you get that. Don't just give an answer. Explain your answer. you don't have the same answer. well i disagree with you. 'cause or those types things but they really have be given at language having use complete sentences when they talk in a lot of kids. Don't do that. They don't look at each other when they're talking So for the whole school year. I really work on nat conversation Kids don't always right complete sentences when they come into third grade and i think some of that comes through texting some of them right in text language. Roy none no. We're not texting here. Were actually ready hang. You can't use texting abbreviations so he it impacts in that line but then you i look at some of the things that my daughter's on digital marketing covers and stuff like that for high school or college and it's amazing in unique in the workforce. So you know. I guess i kind of stand right in the middle a definitely. Need that for the workforce eventually but in moderation. Yeah that is something. I fear i come from. If you don't remember i. My mom and dad are newspaper. Writers and editors from way back so writing has kind of my blood and so i grew up having conversations at the dinner table about sentence structure and punctuation. And they're still go to guides for grammar. Whenever i have questioned when i'm writing something and so it's something that's very important to me but a common complaint from them and from other things that i've read is that writing is kind of a lost art and not even good writing just simple writing complete sentences in subject predicate all that stuff and not using texting language so You know it is very sad to me that basic writing got to becoming awa- scale especially as you're starting all these kids early on with technology isn't another thing i do at the very beginning. The air Just something simple. Say what is your name in. Say jets now go the next Which you name in that eventually one child will say. My name is jeff Yes looking for them to speak in a complete sentence and then others will catch on known just trying to get them speak in complete sentences and then if they start speaking in complete sentences i.
The Troy Farkas Show
"troy" Discussed on The Troy Farkas Show
"See where i've been what i've done. It would've make sense. It's this young lady. Seems to have a problem but for people that know me there. There are connections. So i studied architecture. Because i'm bringing together my passion for art and of precision attention to detail and those are things that i was able to apply. Espn liked being able to be creative with video production whilst also who flying with their methodology and all the way back to georgetown in studying economics. That was in my liking for problem solving. And so it's all connected some way i think i'm i'm just getting closer to what i ultimately see. This is my space which will be bringing together a precision in art. But in a way that i haven't fully own decided yet or discovered. Do you have an idea as to what your ideal be once. You are program and a couple of years. Where would you like to be in a couple of years. I hope to work for a firm. Because i think it would be important to learn from other people how to apply architectural But ultimately i'd like to have my own design firm so starting with architecture but then venturing out so that i can apply my creative my creative passions to other things beyond just only build this building perhaps landscape architecture and that sort of broader sense I don't know. Have you ever heard of jonathan adler. I've not jonathan adler. He's a designer. And i i came across his name on at georgetown because he had a furniture store. But then one day i was on a delta flight. Then i saw he had designed the menu for delta and such just one of those things that he's artists in. He applies his art to furniture. Too many years to who knows what else since the ultimately like. I wanna start in architecture that venture out from there okay. Well i'm rooting for you. Other listeners are rooting. For you. As i said woman of many interests passions. Your background is crazy. So i kinda want to backtrack a little bit. So you're born in georgia. You got family in georgia then zigzagged to use your word is all across the country all throughout the world born georgia. You're in mexico for elementary school back to atlanta. Then you're in switzerland for a couple of years in high school in geneva then in rome. For the back. Cath then college in america. Your parents your mom's in one country. Your dad is in another country all over the place. So i just want to know what was it like growing up and.
The Troy Farkas Show
"troy" Discussed on The Troy Farkas Show
"Whatever whatever i can find and so through some conversations. I had. I found out that that shale son know former light heavyweight championship contender in the ufc. Like a big voice in a media now. that there was an opening for who is producing his pockets. He separated with the place. That was doing it. I get hooked up with jail. And his team a couple conversations back and forth and then shale hires to do his podcast twice a week and It's a lot of fun. And so i i had that. I was working on that in february as i was also leaving. Espn so i knew. I had to go to of six citing where it's gone. Plus you have launched your own show so the troy farkash show for those who have had an opportunity to listen to some your episodes. What is the hope of listeners. Troy farkash show. And have you enjoy doing it. Because you know you've had this mix of in front of the behind the mike are you enjoying. The show is a host not basically run the realtor in the one mike. Yeah of course so. I i started in september i think in the pandemic and a lot of other people my age probably everyone else. Just kind of felt stuck right. We've been at this for so long. No end in sight. I dispell creatively stuck. I wanted to do something about it. And i've always been fascinated by essentially just because i've been living at the past few years of just young people people just out of college or or a couple years removed from college and about just all the things that we think about. There's a lot of things that we think about that. Where should we live. Who should we surround ourselves with. What should our values be like. How do we find fulfillment in life social media comparison mental health. Things icty all these things that i could bitch about to my mom. She's gonna be like right. Suck it up deal with it. This is kind of the place where all of us collectively can. Just kind of like have a therapeutic session for one another and get through it together. And so i was doing podcasts. From september on but not dedicating as much time to it because of all this. Espn stuff that's going on. Because i was working two jobs at. Espn i was kind of doing it. When i could every week And just kind of an escape. Creative al for me but then when i left. Espn i also knew that..
The Troy Farkas Show
"troy" Discussed on The Troy Farkas Show
"I travel internationally wherever backpack just a backpack now for colorado. It's three months day got backpack and a suitcase of clothes and suitcases tech equipment for work. But that's that's my life. I will never ever pay extra for baggage. Never southwest to check bags and one carry on item as a minimalist. It is a disgrace. If i ever pay for extra luggage the next part of this you can answer as much as you want as little as you want. Because you've lost. The troy farkas shown a lot of the top scoring touch on next. You have carbon on your show. So i fully respect if you want. The clicks the download subscription. Please do it anyways. The troy far could show a lot of the stuff. You covering linked on your podcast but again much as you want respect all these answers coming up kind of take us through. Why after all these great stories in these relationships in this career progression. You're having what lengthier decision to leave. Espn yes so. It was a couple things. Thank you so. I've seen that we were in the pandemic for a gear so obviously that had changed a bunch of things in kind of realized. Okay you know. Do we have to be in the same place. Do we have to be aware where our job is. All these things that just made us all we think about how he work in how we live and obviously the pandemic made us all kinds of realize things. So i'd kind of had it in my head that i should leave soon. I actually connecticut soon. i love connecticut. Great place great three and a half years there but small state. I kinda done everything that there is doing connecticut very adventurous person exploring export connecticut's kind ready to leave. Connecticut wasn't ready to leave. Espn but i kinda had in my mind already. That i was going to make a change at some point now. The pandemic accelerated a lot of changes for everyone that probably needed to come to. Fruition might not have happened so quickly and that that happened with me here. So at the end of november there are a lot of layoffs at espn and a lot of those layoffs weren't radio and so i'm in podcasting at the time in november. I am on top of the world. I'm working with area in daniel. Cormier this show that a boss during the pandemic of is a former light heavyweight heavyweight. ufc champ. He's the man. I'm working with him. Doing a podcast with brian. Windhorst who is also the man. I love working with him. And then i was also just doing. I was finally to get back to that. Jeremy shot thing just realizing the dream. The one dream that i had set out on which was being part of documentary team and so the opportunity had come across in the summer. That wo- jr was doing this. Three part podcast series about yoenis on sense of kubo about everything before him getting drafted in in two thousand thirteen by the milwaukee bucks and so it was a three par podcasts. Small team me in three other people including whoa just grinding on this thing for months and that was my dream come true. It was the only thing i ever want to do. And in november. That came out the very same week as i am putting out the finishing touches on my dream project. I'm on top the world. i'm loving life. I get a call and the call is base way from someone that says. Hey cuts made things are changing. Radio laid off a bunch of people the the bosses the highest up of bosses says that radio needs to take you. Because you're the young guy and there's only and you have radio experiences. There's only maybe two other people in podcasting who have radio experience and you're the youngest one so you're going to go over radio now..
The Troy Farkas Show
"troy" Discussed on The Troy Farkas Show
"So i had known that there was a guy at the hall of fame. The what was great about this. Internship program at the hall of fame was that it was super structured. It had been going on for a decade plus and there were people from all around the country that were a part of this prestigious program who worked in all different departments. So the the the steel internship program and so it was kind of the alumni kind of help each other out. And so i ask for this master list of every single intern that that there once was at the hall of fame and it said. Hey here's contact info. Here's where they are. Now here's working. Here's whether living. So i kinda went down the list of people who were app places that i thought maybe would be cool to work at and i stumbled upon this guy jeffrey. Iran sent never met him. But i just kinda cold emailed him said. Hey i'm a. I'm troy steel intern. You work at espn in la. That's pretty cool I'd love to work there one day. But let's hop on the phone. One day just chat looking for nothing. There was nothing to be had at that time. But just to get my name in people's minds and then as i'm applying just as i'm about to graduate you all my junior year. Applying applying to places around the country small outlets big outlets and espn is one that actually gets back to me and this is made. Probably you know the one that's casting the the whitest net and getting the most applicants and it was. Because i think my theory is that i had said to jeff. Hey jeff i just applied for this job of espn. Is there any way that you can get my name. My resume in front of an actual pair of is no not a robot nine algorithm and he said shirt. We have this program where i can give you an employee referral. And we all do that. And let me know how it works out for you. And then not soon after i heard from. Espn go back and forth a couple interviews and boom. I wanna see that's incredibly rare but the more on this podcast the cold calling the going out and just being a little bit of aggressive towards has worked out for a lot of people but that is unique in itself. You never met the guy in person. You've never talked to him on the phone. It's not like you have a friend of a friend. Justed internship list cold call cold email. Gets you in front of somebody and sure enough. Boom you're hired in bristol. Yes it's the way to go. I mean people. People are a lot nicer than we think we have people in strangers and you know the way the world is now. We give people a bad rap. Truly people are truly good at heart and we don't give them enough credit for that and people want to help you out and especially people like jeff in that situation. Remember when they were like you right. They remember when they were the kid who didn't know what they were doing was just freaking out to figure out what to do with their lives especially in the early stages and they remember that kid and there's a party that thinks that they all just kind of go back to that time in their lives and in some sort of empathy for me in that situation and so people are a lot nicer than he thinks. That'd be my advice jenny. Any young person out there is just like just take a shot. Get out of your comfort zone cold email. Find any connection that you can whether it's an alumni.
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"So we wanna make this clear. It is not a bad thing to send thoughts and prayers. It is not a bad thing to post something to have a bumper sticker or to have a sticker on your laptop whatever it is however you choose to express yourself all of those good things however i feel if you really support the cause. If you're really down for the cause you will do something behind it. I have not over the past year. i'm listening. I'm very down for the cause. I'm very down for the black lives matter. 'cause as you heard me say last week as i ranted after talking to alexis we are all equal. We all deserve equal treatment. We should all just love each other and live in this idyllic world and sing kumbaya time together. I truly believe that. But i know obviously that is of course not not the world that we live in. I would like it to be but that is not and so. That's kind of how how i feel in. I always felt it would be disingenuous for me to to post something to say something to share something publicly without actually doing anything behind it. You know so. I've done things over the past year. That i haven't told anyone about i've just done them. Because it's the right thing whether it's giving money or doing a random act of kindness all in the name of trying to to show that we should all love everyone in that everyone is equal but there are a lot of people and i certainly know people out there who are sharing things that they don't necessarily believe but just because everyone else is doing it and if everyone else is doing it must be right and so i would just challenge all of you out there that before you post something before you do whatever it is before you have that sticker where that shirt drinks mug with that saying on it actually be educated on it. Don't do it just because everyone else is doing it. No one's forcing you to no one. No one cares about you and what you have to say as much as you think. That's kind of what. I've gathered over the past year as well as that people are so much into their own business in their own thing that they're not super concerned about. Oh my gosh. What did what did elissa have to say to this. What did joe have to say about this. People don't care as much so you know if you don't wanna post something you don't have to just because everyone else's it doesn't mean that people aren't going to raise an eyebrow arch man. He didn't he didn't post this. He must be trump guy or whatever you know and again. I'm not trying to get political. But all i'm saying is that if you're down for the cause do something about and speak louder than words. Actions make change words. Don't there's been a lot of amazing things that have happened over. The last year spurred by our generation who's tired of all the bs and it's tired of the lies and is tired of people not believing science in tired of people not believing love and believing in all these things that we believe. And we've been on the forefront of pushing. I some amazing change. And i'm so freaking proud to be part of this generation because it is the young generation that always sees things for the way that they should it happened in the nineteen sixties during the antiwar protests during the civil rights movements. And it's happened now. We are tired of all. This be asked. We envision a better world for ourselves and for our kids to live in. And this is exactly the type of world that i wanna live. And i'm so proud of us for pushing these changes in not taking no for an answer and for gathering and protesting and for challenging the status quo. And i love that. And i want to keep seeing that. But don't be one of those people who is just saying things and doing anything because action is what takes action is what makes governments make decisions. Action is what forces people to change their ways. You know what i'm saying so just think about that. The next time that you hang a sign where shirt whatever it is. Just just remember that. I'm not trying to get controversial. I'm saying that. Just just be more mindful of it. So that's that stays episode. I'd love to hear what i'd love to hear rethink. I'm open to push back. I'm open to anything. Hit me upside. The i love hearing from you guys. Whatever it is that you have to say. Let me know if there's something that you wanna hear more of it. There's something that i said. That is wrong and you wanna challenge me and call me out. I'm here for it. I'm so here for having a dialogue with all of you with the little podcast community that we are building here. So thank you you can hit me up at troy farkas on on instagram slide. Instead of dm's you can text me if you have my number. Are those good things you can check us out over at the heart of the show and instagram and take talk. Show dot com. I've got a blog coming up on wednesday my favorite denver activities to do. I'm going to share those with you. Hope you all have a great week. A week filled with hard work with reading with learning with being productive and working out and having fun and getting outside taking a lot of walks. Maybe do a little meditating. maybe some yoga some exercise and running biking lifting weights. Whatever it is that you do to be active and just get out of your comfort zone. I say to everybody truly mean it. That's where the growth happens. I know. I know it's difficult. And whatever 'cause it is that you want to support spread some awareness for that's awesome but take the step because describing. The worst really doesn't matter if you don't take that extra step so that's enough for me cara. Good luck to you this week as syracuse enters. The tournament for women's lacks shout out to you and for everything they're doing and shout out to all of you for listening. Thank you and i talk to you thursday..
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"Do is not who we are. What do you do silently. We've collectively agreed how to answer this question. But today i'm asking all of you to join me and changing that. Imagine if. I answered that question with what i really do. I explore cool places crazy. Things happen to me along the way. I exercised daily. I call my friends regularly. I eat the same thing for breakfast every day and have a four hour morning routine..
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"Thank i'm katy gallagher. And twenty eight and my quote. Is i still believe that everyone is beautiful. In some way and by the beauty and others we make ourselves more beautiful. And that's like carrollton do you. That is a quote that actually mom was a third grade teacher for about thirty two years. I believe she just retired last year and she had that framed outside of her doorway. And i always really liked that. Because i feel like it's a way of just kind of saying instead of comparing yourself to other instead of feeling like you have to find a way to kind of one up somebody to make yourself feel good notice all the positive qualities in other people on the beauty and others. Because that's just gonna make you feel good about yourself as well and i think that you know in the state of the world today in music in just many ways that we can see what's wrong or different about somebody wrong in quotes and instead i think it would be a lot more helpful if we recognize beautiful about other people. Santana grab in the chen. Look can't seem to put good morning everyone. Welcome to another edition of the troy farka. Show a podcast. That is not about me. it's about all of us. Twenty are a crucial time in our lives. And on this show we navigate the highs and lows of early adulthood together today. Show because i am talking to someone that i haven't spoken to in a couple of years. We had a couple of years age difference so we've been in different paths in our life but she is an amazing person. One of the truly most genuine people that i ever met. She lights up a room. Everyone loves her. I'd never met a person that does not like katy gallagher. She is one of the most talented people that i know. She's in incredible musicians. She has some awesome music out there. That is out there for you to check out. You just heard some of her song right. There pressed flowers new single. The video is out now. We're gonna talk about that. We're going to talk about creative writing process. We're gonna talk about delineating between sharing too much into little talk about the last year as musician and what's coming forward as musician. I also learned shortly before we start recording that she's also in mental health counseling. That is her day job. He's not a full time musician as much as i'm sure she would like to be and that. I'm really glad that we got to talk about because mental health is something that is very important to me. It is very important to many of the listeners of the show and just our generation in general we are the mental health generation. And it's something that we care about that. We are trying to steer the conversation towards that. We are trying to take control of because it is just so important and people who came before us. Do not think it's that important or they think that we're weak. They think that were soft. They think that if we're dealing with depression that it's a sign of weakness..
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"Good morning everyone. Welcome to another edition of the troy parker. Show a podcast. It's not about me. it's about all of us. The twenties are a crucial time in our lives. In on this show we navigate the highs and lows of early adulthood together. And on this show. We're going to do that with the show's most recurring guests. This is jay kicks his third appearance on the show. You is one of the very first. Guess he's actually the second guess than he came on a few weeks later. He's a character if you don't know him if you've never met him He is all over the place so just some context for this conversation when we first spoke to him when i spoke to i keep saying we. I don't know why at the beginning of october he was doing a whole bunch of things. He was considering getting into the selling of solar panels or medicinal marijuana. Buddy was selling vending machines and he was doing some outdoors work. He was still in and out of coaching kids and basketball in high school basketball. He wanted to stay. Attached to coach basketball in some way did know what he wants to do like so many of us just all over the place. What is my future hold. Where should i be all these questions that we blog ourselves down with couple weeks later. He breaks the news on the podcast that he gets hired to move to florida selling solar panels in the saint petersburg area so he gets that job. He quickly in november scurries down to florida. Start selling solar panels. You're going to hear about his crazy journey since then sense he's been there so i'm going to get out of the way here. I'm gonna let jake do the talking. He's gonna tell us some crazy stories things that you're not going to believe and i'm just going to get out of the way and he just left speechless for so much of this conversation so i can't wait for you does into a year ago one on one jake right.
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"You can't step on their concrete without charging a dollar. You can't put a quarter in a vending machine without getting charged. Three dollars all right so a little bit ahead in the clouds there. Fiji water is elite. Though you got that rare wins in this case even fifty stories hilarious or final floors said. It's the swaying story. It's the going up against the ice storm and then it's the worst story going up against bear mountain. Okay all right first matchup jake. What are your thoughts. Swing story versus ice storm pickup. Just those are nights. That i will never forget. I can't forget it for as much. Alcohol consumed on both of those nights. I those are ingrained in my brain. Their fried on their their stamped so considering the classic of the night how much fun we had and the stories that live to be told. I gotta go with the one that that had more of a lasting effect on me and i think that that was the swing story man just so much. I really think that that sealed a- bond between us and the people that we were hanging out with. I took a lot out of that night for real so i think i think i'm with jacob. I think these are the two heavy hitters. Thank you know this is the final four. Whoever comes out of this one is going to win the national championship type. Feel i think both of these nights were just so hilarious and black. Jake said i'll never forget either of them. I'm actually going to go with the ice storm story. I think just the night that we had really wasn't a part of all of it. Which makes it even funnier. That he's at the beginning of it and then he's at the tail end of it. Any kind of closes gets the book ends on each side of it. Just the thought in my mind. The picture in my mind of us with the windows rolled down kicking ice out. No shower not rushing headed taking your ass to work and then saying roy is absolutely me. I'm going ice storm near troy. Be the tiebreaker. I'm going ice storm as well. When you're telling the story that as much as i love my fireball and as much damage as it can impart upon me. I think it says more about me these that. I'm just going to just walk on the side of the road in connecticut whether it's not a sidewalk in ten degree weather in six inches of snow to two thousand miles. I think that. I think that represents me better. I guess in the in the bracket that it is the troy story. I think that that story might define you better than sleeping under the swing is pretty teacher. Isn't troy move right there. It's absolutely hilarious. Also sidewalks do not exist in connecticut. That's a confirmed fact from farkas. Just now okay. On the other side of the bracket it's the work story versus bear mountain. These these it to these are youtube crazy hitters. but if we're talking about troy farkas hair. there's there's not much more troy farkas than bear mountain agony out. Oh it's gonna be fine. It's going to be totally good optimistic blah blah blah blah blah. Oh god now. We're lost now. I don't know where we're are mom. Call the police. We might be sleeping on a mountain. Tonight troy farkas in a nutshell. Yes this is as of story as there can possibly be. And i was there to experience every bit of it. I'm glad to say that we lived to tell the story there. Mountain by a mile. Good i agree. I'm so glad that the work story didn't win. I think Bear mountain that behind you. I'm done with that story. I've left that behind. Okay so now..
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"And i were just drinking most is in the back seat of the car and eating hamburgers because we haven't we haven't tasted the great red meat in like three months before that so hitting hitting as many fast food restaurants as we get hit after getting a foot and leg massage. Oh we're going to. We're going to burger king or popeye's chicken sandwiches should just drop. Let's go to popeye's going every which plays bagel shops Yeah that's an all time mon from that that story jake's mom j. calling her up you know of any yovany coffee shops around here. I'm just looking for coffee bank bank. Yeah it's the it's definitely the new jersey new york mother and her she automatically assumes that coffee shop means now. We just want some good coffee but of course you knew everything in the area but yes literally stopping at every single pit stop. We're all my god sounds great. Oh my god popeye's looks great. Then we just eat fried chicken. Who cares the oh. My god burger king. Keep really use a good walk where we took a picture right outside of the burger gig where we're just like slobs like drug. I gotta i have closed and everything it was underlined. Yeah yes i'm gonna say. You're walking with a cane because your leg was just. Your knee was so destroyed from the marathon. It's a miracle that you even finished eternal props for doing it. But i just had to get everything for you because you could not walk watching you walk up and down the stairs at twenty six years old. Whatever you were. When he ran. It was hilarious. There wasn't walking up the stairs. It was holding each wall and just slowly moving my way up. Yes as good of a days that was as also as fun of a memory is that is. I have to go with the ice on the ice storm. Hilarious yeah i think i'm outnumbered here i'm going to. I'm a selfish person. Everybody knows that. I think in terms of my own self actually now if you include the night before with the story on top of the actual like frantic nece you and kicking down the ice and everything and then running into of all people troy. Who is the most obvious person who would be the hitchhiker in ice storm. Yeah let's go with ice storm here. A big a path that led us to is more areas than than the new york city marathon. I agree what's next match-up we're going up to another top seed. I think roy might have to tell this one himself. It's a high profile. Espn celebrity that troy may of crossing boundaries with troy..
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"Yeah exactly in that moment. All right. See on the girl now. Okay troy what would you have said in that situation. Confront me right now. I wanna hear what your game plan was gonna most but so that the number you gave me the other day. It didn't work that's weird. Okay all right all right all right. That's actually not recreating but that would have been such an awkward situation with. That's where choice time all right. So what's the winner here. It's a story that's the number one seed. It's a heavy favourite going to give the updated the viewers up there. Yeah they're gathering updated home swing advances on that same side of the bracket. Let's get into another very high seed personally. One of my favorite ones. It is the ice storm story. So me jake. Roy ray nasty were all staying at the hotel because terrible winter storm. That came through work put up. We're consuming alcoholic beverages. You guys get the picture here so we were applying chill that night. Nhl the video game every time someone scored. It was the trophy at down bottles of wine. Troy this was all dry. You guys. I don't know how many of y'all new troy he can try and defend himself on this but this old for he had one blessed red wine because it was healthy at the time he wasn't downing wine like us so troy leaves early. He's got to work the next morning. Me jake and railway nasty. Stay up to all hours of the night. I have no idea what time we went to bed. I had a two bedroom at a two bed. Hotel jake passes out in the bed right next to me. And he wakes up in a flurry of god. What time oh shit. I gotta be at work. I gotta get to work in the sixty minutes. I don't have to be at work until way later. Jake is freaking out. He's like i'm to get to work. Do you drive to and you drive into where. Because i drove us all back to the hotel. Jacobs freaking out so we run down dozen shower. Jake doesn't do anything. It doesn't brush teeth. He's got the nasty stank breath in the morning. We get down to my car. My car's an ice cube. It is literally a block of ice..
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"My honor when i have to all right. Classic narcissist troy fashioning wants us to a about of the people folks. He's not self absorbed that all guy only cares about himself all right so those watching on video. Here's the bracket for everyone got it set up. It's a beautiful bracket it's just like it's march madness in fact you did not have a bracket in march. Let's start it with of the top seats. The swing story. I was only here for part of this one. I wasn't here for this entire shenanigans charades so i'm going to let jake take the reins on this one all right well. The knights started where we started off at congress. Current girlfriends apartments. How apartment and well no. That's not where it started. Excuse me we started at my apartment where troy and i. This is an underrated. Part of the story had a little v bottle of fireball and just sat outside at the heirloom flats and just down the entire thing like it was nothing. It troy's not the hugest drinker in the world. He's not he's not very quick to diminish his body very quickly but he could down good fireball every once in a while. That's just a fact. Defend your honor if you might but that's just a fact so that started tonight. Somehow we were good to go. We go to connors current girlfriend's house in hartford. And then we just go out get crazy. And then we go back to the apartment. Go back to the heirloom flats. Just for somebody to tell me that they lost my keys. And then as i went back to connors girlfriend's house to get the keys we found out that we had the keys on us. The whole time we make it back to the heirloom flats. My apartment where we find troy sleeping under the swing set on the patio. And that's kind of where the store let's a watered-down store. We could get a little bit more into it but that's essentially the barebones basics of that store. You guys left me under the swing the entire time i excuse you we did not leave you anywhere we offered for you to come like. I think i'm good. I'm going to chill here under the underneath the swing set or i obviously wasn't there when you arrived at the swing. I was dead in a in in an said apartment. That you guys were trying to get into. Give me a percent chance. That roy would have slept there until the sun came up. Guys not coming up. I mean what's the one hundred percent one hundred cups cups frequently drive-thru that parking lot all the time..
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"My name is jake lenox. I'm twenty eight and my quotas. Sleep is the cousin of death. And what does that mean to you. I think the most important thing in life is to be present to bring positive energy and it's impossible to be present while you're sleeping so if you are awake you should be with the people that you love trying to make a difference in a positive way in their life and that's why that quote is important to me. Good morning and welcome to another edition of detroit. Parker showy podcast. That is not about me today. It might be about me. But it's about all of us. The twenties or a crucial time in our lives and on this show we navigate the highs and lows of early adulthood together. Thank you for joining me for another thursday edition of the show. I'm very excited for today's show because we're going to do something a little bit difference on the thursday show. I laid out the plan last week. The exciting future of the podcast. But i figured before we get really into it before we really hit the ground running here. I think it's best to get to know me now. I've received a lot of really great messages from all the listeners of the show. Giving me a lot of praise and telling me that they love the podcasts. They love the voice. They loved the questions. They love all these things. But i'm here to tell you i am the first to tell you in. My guest will tell you this today. I am not perfect. I'm a flawed individual. We are all flawed individuals. I make mistakes. I miss speak. I act irrationally. Sometimes i can't make up my mind sometimes all these problems i mean every single day something else happens but of course just in today's world you don't necessarily always present those problems. But today i'm presenting those prompts to you in two of my very best friends in the world. Connor burks jake. Lennick are going to point out my flaws on the show today. now. I am not an egotist. I am not a narcissist like. They're going to claim that i am. I do not like making things about me. Which i know is so funny. Because this is literally called the trey parker's show and there's a logo with my name on it and their stuff with my name on it. And i know this is a podcast but on the video version of this. They had my name in their backgrounds on their green screens. Which is hilarious. But i promise. I am. I care about other people. And that's the point of this show is to give back to the communities to make everyone else a better person to me included. I'm still trying to get there. I'm trying to figure it out. That's the whole point. We are all trying to figure it out together but on today's show. Here's what's coming up. We're going to do a bracket it is march madness. Fridays the first day of the ncaa tournament best weekend in the sports world. But i figured okay. How can we capitalize on this on the frame parker show and so i said all right. There's a lot of troy stories. This is what we used to call them. In my area of work shadows discount messina who coined the term troy stories stories about me stories. That highlights all the weird things that i do. I do a lot of weird things that other people think are super freakishly weird. That i don't even think twice about it just like oh that's troy. That's what he does..
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"No one else's so that's it. That is why i've left. Espn wive made the very tough decision to do. So because i am the author of my own story. I don't like when other people who really may not know me that well or know about my goals and my intentions kind of make decisions without consulting me or without having any care for my life and my goals and my health as i've said my health is my number one priority in the world to me and it was just no longer going to be feasible for me to do what was being asked of me and so i had to put myself. I and i'm going to continue putting myself. I am never going to let other people get in the way of that. At least that is the goal. I have to do. What's best for me and right now. This is best for me. Go to colorado get away from this. I'm forever grateful for what i did. There icon pushed a lot there. I did so many great things just a couple of weeks into me being there. I started working my idol. A guy that. I have been watching. Tv for years and emulated and someone who inspired me and my way essentially into working with him and it was the honor of a lifetime. It was a pretty low profile thing but it is something that catapulted me at the company and allow me to do some amazing things and got my name out there and got my creativity out there and see true passion project for me and i was able to parlay that into a fulltime job in podcasting where i worked on a baseball podcast. I talked about with lena. Benin a few weeks ago. Where i fell in love with working on our ufc coverage i was working on ufc. Podcast at allow me to go to las vegas to go to fight new york seat and it is quite honestly now my favorite sport to watch and i love basketball as well so it was working on our basketball podcast. Really big shows are most important shows with huge followings and it was fun and i loved it and the days podcast and were so much better than the days in radio because they were more structured. They were more in the nine to five. Realm radio's not that way. I wasn't a huge fan of my time in radio. Just because of the way that it forces you to live i remember. This is the reason why i love. Halsey okay this is the reason why i love policies because when without me came out in november of two thousand eighteen just just around that time i remember running the board for radio show which is essentially pressing all the buttons to make sure that the show stays on air. I was running the board at four. Am in november of two thousand eighteen. Trying like hell just to stay awake. And so what i would do since i was all alone at this point. When're intake programming in the overnight. I would be alone in the studio trying to stay awake and to do that. I would just blast music and without me which is such a cool song that i was hearing on the radio and so i would just blast that to try to keep me awake. Keep me awake. And then i would just do these deep dives again just to keep me awake just to keep a screen in front of my eyes and my ears active so that i would not fall asleep on the job. I just had to press a couple buttons so the job was really easy but i just had to stay awake. That was the hardest part of the job. And that's why i look back so finally holes. She helped get me through some really tough times. I've talked about how how bad that point in my life was because i did. How many friends. It's impossible to have friends when your off days. Are mondays and tuesdays in farm town connecticut. And you go to bed at six. Am and wake up at three pm or whatever it is. It was miserable miserable way of existence. And even though. I wasn't being asked to do those things because there were some layoffs at the company in november basically there was a structural reorganization where i had to fill in some gaps where i was doing. Mix of radio and podcasting in white. Frankly not a huge fan of radio not huge fan of the medium. I love podcasting. And i wanted to continue being in podcasting and continue working on that stuff and i quite frankly didn't want to do radio anymore and i was being asked to. I just want to just not for me. I don't think there's anything wrong in life with knowing what you wanna do and putting everything into it. So that is the main reason driving my decisions leave along with. I didn't see a future for me there anymore. Because you know. I could see what would happen to me if i was going to stay there. I just wasn't going to progress. I wasn't going to be doing what i love. I wasn't going to be living a life of adventure in all that good stuff and it sucks elite because i made such great friends there and i had such great memories and i did some really cool things and again i loved what i was doing in podcasting. I still was doing it. But i can no longer give all of myself to it because of the radio thing and that didn't sit well with me. I didn't want to do anything half ass. I didn't want to do anything that i wasn't fully president for because every day was just a race over the last few months just a race to stay awake and that's no way to live and i refuse to live that way and so i'm excited to move on to other things. Yes i know. Okay obviously oh troy. You're you're quitting your job leaving a stable job and a stable paycheck. What are you going to do. Trust me i've got things lined up things. That are honestly. I think going to be a lot better for me for my health and in so many ways from my creativity more autonomy. I've got a couple of projects lined up already. There's some other companies might be working with and then for this show. Detroit barker show has has big plans ahead. I'm going to announce those next monday on next. Monday's episode so stay tuned for that. Because i'm really excited to some other things. I posted it on my instagram story on sunday. I'm hiring social media manager. Now why am i doing that. You may ask because quite frankly. I don't like social media as i've talked about on the show before some people it's really easy to get caught in the trappings of social media. And i've been spending too much time on it recently. And i don't wanna be spending much time on it because there's just a lot of ways to be inefficient to lose time but also there's just a lot of toxicity out there and a lot of comparison out there that happens on it and i just kind of want straight from it so i want someone else to run my social media for me. I'm hiring a social media. Manager who basically will just create some graphics for me for the show and to help promote the show and ultimately expand the reach of the show and the following of the show in me. Because i i said i'm working on a lot of projects right now in. I just wanna leave my time open to pursue those so. I'm looking for someone whoever you are whether you're in college or your entry level or someone looking for something on decided to do i will hire you and we'll work together and we'll chat all the time and we'll go back and forth ideas and looking for someone who's creative. Who knows maybe good with photoshop. Or good with graphic design and just hasn't good ear and knows what people like to see and knows how people want to present it. I'm not on tiktok It's just another thing that i know. If i were to get on it i would just never get off of it and again it would just be inefficient and lose a lot of time the day and there's just not enough time in the day so i'm looking for someone else to do those things for me someone who's really passionate about and understands it and again we'll be in constant communication with me so it can be anyone man woman young old black white gay straight. Whatever i don't care. Except i did say in the application that i don't take mean people if you're mean i don't watch you don't want to work with you. I'm sorry but for everyone else. Apply if you know someone else who might be good at this who is skilled in social media who skilled and marketing etcetera etcetera or loves those things looking for something to do. Maybe i side hustle. Yep i'm thinking that i could pay pretty well depending on on how many hours you want you wanna put in. So i'm excited if you want to do it head over to the troika show dot com. I my new website for the podcast. I'm still working on the design of it but it is up. And i'm going to have a lot of things on there but again with all the talk more about that next week but email me. Dm me send me a pigeon. Hit me up. Do you want to leave a review. The show apple. Podcasts is the place to be for that you can listen on spotify on google wherever it is that you get your podcast and like i said. I'm so thankful for four my time. Dsp in for the people. I met there the friends. Connor jake. Tessa kelsey jackson all of you. All that i worked with all of you that touch my life. You guys are amazing. Your rockstars and i'm rooting for you guys from afar. But just not for me anymore. But i'm really excited for what's next for me and for everyone there and that company will continue doing great. I'm not concerned about them whatsoever. But i've got to do what's best for me and right now going to colorado and working on the projects that i'm about to be and then working more on this show dedicating more of this found time and newfound freedom this show. I'm so excited for an hope. You guys are excited for it and we'll be along the ride with me so that's enough for me today. New episodes coming out on thursday with a good friend. I'm really excited to talk to talk a lot about colorado. Because she has some experience there. There's a little tease for you. That'll be up in a few days but until then peace and love. Y'all the peace..