Welcome to a 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy and tonight I have moved out of my mobile rig, into my not mobile home. It has turned into... It's turning into a music studio.

This is kind of part of what we're gonna talk about tonight. Tonight the point of us getting together for a 15 minutes of fame is that captain floyd and mr. Wormstead have joined us... There were gonna be more, but, hey... 2020. I've got no excuses for nothing. If you are here... You are and if you're not... You're not.

2020. The point of tonight's conversation is that we just wanted to discuss that we've been doing this pandemic thing for what now... Seven months? Something, six or seven months.

Obviously all of us have been jobless in the sense of our announcing gig and our emcee gigs, as we would do either live or broadcast - whichever version. We have lost a line of work that we were so used to just being like, "well, somebody will call me. This weekend will book up.

I can't make plans for your birthday party this weekend, i'll be gone. " that was easy. Now, past 6-7 months, it's like, "yeah, you wanna have that seventh grade birthday party again, that I missed, a long time ago? I totally have time. I mean, I got a 10'x10' tent. I could put a speaker out there. We're gonna rage. "

My name is goldy. Our goal today is to discuss three points of mental health tools for event professionals that can help them through this year for the next half year of 2020.  Welcome, doctor katie boyd, who are you? What do you do? Where you at... And what are we gonna discuss today? Thank you. I'm doctor katie boyd. I have a private practice in st louis, missouri.  I see individuals in therapy and help them through a lot of different concerns. Anxiety is my specialty. So certainly, right now people are stressed. There's no doubt about it.  I've been in my practice for 10 years, and i've never really seen this type of universal stressor that we're facing. People are definitely stressed. And as you mentioned, the event industry certainly is facing so much ambiguity and uncertainty.  Today we'd like to talk about tips for how to help manage that, navigate that this year. Our first point today to discuss is the wonderful world of facebook.  Facebook. It is a platform for discussion, as people would like to utilize. It started, I believe, around 2005 ish. I think the website kind of caught fire. I remember getting on it, and it was designed to be, like share pictures and show your mom that you went to the farm today and you had fun with goats and oh, look at my cat, it's funny.  Now it's turned into this complete toxic society. It is... I don't even want to have to explain it. If you don't get what I just said, then you must be some sort of magician.  But it is a poorly executed communication device that is allowing people to hide behind a fourth wall and be sort of like the little guy at a house party where he like, runs in the front door and, bitch slaps the big guy and then runs out of the party again.  That is not communication. That is acting like a jerk. Facebook is a situation, katie, what's your take about facebook and why are we making this a point in mental health today?  I think certainly. Social media, all social media, but facebook especially, because of the discussion platform, can create a lot of stress for people.  I think that a lot of us, you know, people are out of work right now. They've got time on their hands. We were isolated during quarantine so it could be a tool to use to connect with people, as you said. That's what it was designed for. During this time of stress. I think a lot of people are displacing their feelings, their stress. They're angry and they're kind of using facebook as an outlet for that.  It's easy to get sucked into having an argument with a stranger on facebook in the comments or even just reading the arguments of other people in the comments. That creates more anger and stress and it takes us away from the purpose of that tool, which was to connect with each other. I think it's important for people to pay attention to how they feel when they're reading. These comments or getting into arguments and trying to not take things personally.

Welcome back to another 15 minutes of fame. I'm excited for today's podcast due to the fact that it is real time. It's right now, and it's a hot, hot idea.  This morning i'm back with andy jensen of bonfire brewing. We discussed the block party about 2-3 months ago. About how it wasn't gonna happen in the year 2020 because of all the things.  There's a long story short wrapped up. All of a sudden, it's july 2020 and the same guy who's gonna be throwing bonfire block party in 2021, next year, has found a way to work with city and all the officials and the human beings of eagle county to throw a concert in july 2020. This is huge. How?  Let's talk about this. We're gonna form this interview today... Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?  It just answers all the questions and it will get us to the point of throwing a live concert in 2020. Dude, i'm excited. How are you doing this morning, brother? I mean, you called me tuesday morning. Maybe moments after you had figured out you were ready to throw a concert. You're like, "dude, you might be like the second person next to my wife who knows about this concert. " and i'm thinking -  "concert? What language are you speaking, sir? " andy, just real quick throw down again, who are you and what you trying to do? Like you said - andy of, bonfire brewing, up here in eagle.  For the past couple of months, once we realized that block party wasn't gonna be a reality this year, given the circumstances, we started trying to figure out a way to bring some sort of music to eagle because it's sorely missed. People really wanted us to try to pull something off and working with optimum events, our block party partner, town of eagle, eagle county, and probably most importantly, my wife, amanda.  We were able to put together a plan that fits within the current state and county regulations. That can be pulled off safely. Obviously, it's a much smaller scale with only 500 people versus 5000. It's something and we're looking forward to trying to set a good example, so future events might have a chance at doing the same thing.  I really like what you said there, "setting a good example" because a guy in your position is going to be under fire on every line until you satisfy each and every one of those lines. Once you do, you're gonna have that little red cape behind you - like that guy is a hero. Andy, let's talk about the who first.  Who is of this concert from bands to logistics to staging all the things. Who is helping this concert happen? Well, you're gonna help us make it happen, right?  I'll be on the stage with a microphone, coincidentally. Robert randolph kind of lead the charge to put together this all-star group that is willing to get out there and wants to get out there.  You've got marcus king coming along. Duane betts from the allman betts band. We originally had a couple members of lettuce, and not just one of those folks is coming. We also added j. J. Johnson, the drummer from tedeschi trucks.  Great local bands that are opening up on friday and saturday, respectively. The evolution and the runaway grooms have been really gaining a lot of steam up here.  Yeah, they do a great job. First time hearing it right there myself. It sounds like there are parts and pieces of bands coming together. I'm only just assuming that is happening because of the current world stasis.  You know what's happened, bands rarely all live in the same place in the country. A lot of these folks were relatively close by and connected through one pathway or another.  While they couldn't get their full lineups together, they all had a similar goal - to get back out there. Every band member is gonna have a different level of comfort, but these guys were okay with coming out.

Welcome back to another episode of 15 minutes of fame. I am joined by marianne and larry of the business known as first place collectibles, a company that does trophies and memorable and commemoratives that athletes and participants would take from those events. Why is this an important subject in events?  Well, if you've ever been a runner, hey, am i? I'm getting a trophy. I just won first place. I just worked my butt off this year to get to this point, and I got a first place trophy that was recycled from a softball tournament.  Marianne, tell me a little bit about yourself and the company you're working with. Our company is first place collectibles, and I have been working there for a couple years with larry puzniak, one of the owners and zach hickert the other owner, and we sell modern trophies. We're all athletes, the guys kind of head of the baseball division, and they're also runners.  I'm a runner and I have all these medals behind me. Not that i've earned them all. Some are ones we've created. Our company is built of athletes who also designed race medals. We're all graphic designers. We love the sport. We love the community of running. We volunteer at races.  We're part of the community and then we just decided, "hey, we're all designers, we could definitely design these. " that's great and it's nice to have anyone in a company who is of the fabric of the actual content being discussed. It's hard to hire somebody in a skiing company who doesn't ski.  You don't even know what we're talking about. Thank you, marianne. Larry, what's your position with first place collectibles and how'd you get here?  Three years ago, zack and I started this company. We both come from brand marketing and advertising background. As our kids got older and got into sports, we saw a huge opportunity.  We just wanted to make a change in how we bring branding into what you get for accomplishing the feat of crossing that finish line. Let's get into the meat of the conversation.  We have three points to discuss. We're going talk about the fashion of a trophy. We're gonna talk about the function of a trophy, and we're going to talk about the positive productivity of a trophy in the world of 2020.

Last year, we got to do it one way. This year, we gotta do it another way. What is the first thing, julian, that a trail runner needs to know to start running in the summer of 2020?  You know, that's what separated us right now is that we are moving forward. That's just it, I think, and I get it to see so many trail run events this summer that have had to outright cancel their races.  That's certainly really tough on the industry. It's tough on the event organizers, and it's also really hard on whether you're a recreational athlete that wants to best your times from the past couple years, your favorite races, and you kind of build your fitness goals around these levels that you know you're going to do each year of these certain events. They're gone.  You know, it's hard on the elite runners that make an income from it, and need to be in the elite level. Maybe they're on the, us mountain running team, or other various ways of competing.  Julian, you know that your discipline here happens to be like one of the only disciplines in sports. You get to run your full series at this moment. Yeah, it's great. It's because of the event size, and we're taking the necessary precautions too feel good that we're doing it responsibly, which we could get into.  We did push back our season two months, so our first race is no longer in two months, on june 27th. Our first race now is august 22nd. Yeah, so we're gonna throw five races in seven weeks starting august 22nd.  They used to be separated by two weeks. This summer, it's just week after week after week. The second way to get back into the trail, running in 2020. This summer.  Is what? What do you physically have to do, julian, to make this happen? We have 500 people that do our races. If we could get 500 people together, in three months, that's what we feel good about? But then what can we do to mitigate - when those 500 people are together -  What are they all getting their hands on - that maybe we can mitigate, so that 500 people can still be together? Like physical? You're speaking physical? Yeah. What exactly - touch. Yeah. So that were being respectful of our current stasis. Where we understand that covid is throwing down, and it's not like you're just like - "hey, we're gonna go throw a race. To hell with everything. " no, you're playing by the rules. You're being conscious.  You're being compassionate about what's happening around you and with a group of 500 people. What are those physical things? Each year, you know, we usually have a pretty killer bib pick up, kind of sponsor sack.

What does 5g really mean? When we're talking about telecommunications, 5g literally means fifth generation technology standard.

This is a next generation of how we're gonna get our next cat videos or whatever it is we wanna watch because there's this high demand for data.

We're consuming so much data and of course, the market wants to give it to us, so we got to get faster at it. So this 5th gen technology is supposed to get us closer to that and allow us to download more videos, whatever it is we're watching.

The interesting part is that this happens over our existing cell network. They're not really necessarily building out any new cell networks. I mean, we did recently go through an auction where t-mobile mainly was the main winner that bought some of our 600 megahertz chunk of spectrum. We're talking about an rf spectrum and so around in the 600 megahertz area, but normally cell operators are operating their systems in 1. 2 and higher ranges.

As a side note - I saw something come across where 6 gig might start becoming of interest here. Criss - not to, interrupt, but only because we have 15 minutes and I do want to get as much information into our viewers as possible.

A lot of things you said right there might start popping up questions, red flags, ideas, concerns for our viewers. We know that 5g is merely just a word. Like calling your daughter julie.

5th generation. What does it stand for? You were just speaking to it. It's a moment on a rf hertz schedule. Okay, on a scale you could say.

Let's talk about this scale because 5g is just merely a name, within this scale. This scale is the rf waveform scale. The hertz - what is that? The kilohertz to gigahertz scale, right?

Maybe I should show you real quick what that looks like. Why don't we go ahead - show us what this means? Because I think ultimately we need to understand this scale so that people understand that radio frequencies - rf - when we say rf - radio frequencies - are here on... By the way, criss, where the radio from?

That's kind of like saying - where does air come from? I guess it's an innate thing here. The cool thing is a radio wave. Maybe this will better describe it.

A radio wave itself, it's electro-magnetic radiation. There's no doubt about it. It travels at roughly the speed of light.

It certainly travels in outer space much better than it does here on the planet earth because it gets attenuated over distance. There's two components of this - an electrical wave and a magnetic wave.

Good morning. Welcome back to 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy. Today it's gonna be another rendition of learning about how to be effective in the world of events and industry, but then it's covid life.  What is today - april 26? Something like that, I believe. 24? Yeah.  24. Sure. Sounds great. You can see already a little bit of confusion and a little bit of whirlwind going on in my head. I'm trying to collect my thoughts. I'm trying to be very poignant because we have three points to talk about in this particular interview today.  Today i'm with bryan allen. Bryan allen is a producer of a company known as popfizz productions. They do in-studio and out-of-studio media creation -  Video, print, picture, all the things which means they're working with every line of production when it comes to a shoot.  Could be catering. Could be cameras. Could be lights. Could be - the list is long. It's always creative.  I'm gonna let bryan take it away from here - let you know who he is, how long he's been in the industry and all the things that he does.  Then we have three ways a media company can jump back into business, a month and some change, after covid-19 has been throwing curveballs at us, all year long. Bryan - tell us who you are. Take it away brother.  Thanks, goldy. Thanks for having me, man. It's an honor to be here. You mentioned my company's name is popfizz. We create still photography, video assets, animation for brands, agencies, networks, live events, all over the world. We're based in the southeast. Knoxville, tennessee. But we we work all over the place.  I met you, in switzerland. We get out there and get around. We do a host of production. We do commercial stuff for brands. We do linear television, but we also do live events.  We've don't quite a bit of that. I think that's what you're more interested in today. It's really, pretty similar for us. Probably 90% of production we do, no matter what the distribution model, is location based.  We're out of the office. Out in the real world. Post covid, that's gonna impact everything we do. Your media on a very large scale, but the type of business you do is very parallel to a two-person team.  If you're just getting started with your dslr and you've got your new light and you got your studio backdrop and you're, like "sick, let's make content. "  How long have you been doing it bryan? I've been a photographer all my life. Popfizz is in it's eighth year. I've been doing video production for probably 4-5 years before that. I've been doing this for 10 - 15 years professionally.  I've been a creative, all my life. That's the idea that we want people to take away from this interview. To understand that, even if on a major scale, if you're in a hollywood studio or if you are in a small room that you rented in your hometown. There are gonna be some ideas to acclimate to, moving forward into post covid era, when it comes to how we do our job.  There's three ways. I want to talk about these three ways. They're not the only three ways, but they're the three ways that you are going to move your company and you yourself into this movement.  The first way, i'd like to talk to you about - you let me know that there's an emotional part number one - the emotional part of moving back into, post covid.

Welcome back. My name is goldy. Today, I am joined with the legendary mr. Peter graves. If you take a little page out of my book, I have displayed my skis in the background because I love skiing. I got a ski map right here. Ski areas. This is all the things in the united states. I used that map from myself as a manifest of where I want to go in the world.  I literally am sitting, side-to-side, right now, with somebody who's done that before. Mr. Peter graves, one of the most historied skiers on the planet. Tell us a little bit about yourself from your words and good morning.  Welcome to the show. Good morning. You know, goldy, I even took a shower for this today. That's incredible.  That's how important it is. Hi to you and hi to folks that are listening. It is a very interesting time for us announcers.  Freelancers of all stripes. I on my best days, I really do try to think of what good can come of this. There's certainly, no doubt, there's been an awful lot of human tragedy in this and far too many people have died.  The prognosis by all reporting accounts is looking more positive, that things are plateauing a little bit. Here in vermont, where I live, i'm in my office now, as you said, adorned with the memorabilia of a long career.  How long has it been? I first started announcing when I was a cross country ski racer in college, at fort lewis, in durango. The first event I recall ever doing was about 1974.  That's what I was born. I was cutting my first chops, doing ski jumping then, up at what was the purgatory ski area, north of durango. Still is.  I had no idea, when I was asked to do it by my college coach, adolph kuss. He said, "you know, you like to talk. "  I always had fun doing dj voices, especially because it was the epicenter, that era, of top 40 radio. Everybody - the real don steele and charlie tuna and all the folks at khj and larry lujack at wls.  All of them were actually profound people in my life, to emulate the voices and know what you want to do with your voice. I think I was able to weld my interest in talking and announcing and phrasing initially with my interest in ski racing.  You put them together. I put them together and I had the encouragement to do that both from my parents, but also from my coaches. I was pretty committed to ski racing as a high school and college skier. I got out of college, got a job at kiup radio in durango, as a news director. I became a stringer for koat-tv action 7 news in albuquerque.

Here we are. Another day of the 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy. Today I am joined with, now becoming, a longtime friend - we are merging into the "longtime friend years" -  Mr. Doug lewis. Doug lewis is a longtime friend of skiing and announcing. He's an olympian.  He has probably been on the ski team. You're gonna have to tell me that one for sure. Eight years. I had the chance to speak with mr. Peter graves. I'm sure you're aware of this gentleman.  Mr. Graves. We discussed history of skiers. You belong in that history. Doug lewis, take it away. Tell me who you are. Where you're coming from.  Short history about you. We'll get caught up and start having your 15 minutes of fame. Born and raised in middlebury, vt. One of four kids. Started skiing when I was 2. If you asked me at age eight what I wanted to be, I was that kid with the snowmobile suit on, one piece that said, "i'm gonna go to the olympics and be on the us ski team. "  I caught the bug early of skiing and committed to it. Made the us ski team when I was 16, which is pretty young. Raced my first world cup at age 17 in aspen, colorado. A little place we like to call aspen. I hit a chairlift tower and broke my back, in my first ever world cup race.  Not inspiring. Went on from there. Three years later, I raced in my first olympics, in sarajevo, in 1984. Won the first ever medal for a us skier, in the downhill, in 1985 at the world championships.  Retired in 1988. As soon as I retired from skiing, I started coaching kids. I have dedicated my life after skiing to inspiring and educating kids.  While doing that, I always like to trying to push my limits. I skydived for a while. I'm in to ultra running. I did the death race. I like to see if I can put myself in dark places and get out of them.  That's what I do. That's what training is all about. To know adversity and then to battle it, when it's time, to show and be like an olympian. By the way, what was that medal?  It was a bronze medal at the world championships. It's upstairs. I should've brought it down. The reason I know you, I forgot to put in, is that, starting right after I retired, I got into television. I love the sport of ski racing, and I just love entertaining and educating people who love the sport as well.

Welcome to 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy. I am hosted today by. I'll say i'm being hosted, i'm lucky enough to have mr. Brad j on the show with me today.  Very exciting to have you, of course, because not only are we a bit one of the same, in the sense of what we do for a living.  We utilize our personalities. We utilize our voices to express what is happening in the world of sports. Specifically action sports. You, by far, have had a longer career in this than most of us, collectively.  Thank you. When, brad, did announcing start for you? Here we are in a current world situation where you took announcing from an "ah ha" moment in your life to 2020 and all of a sudden you have about as much announcing career as I do right now.  That means nothing right now. Well, I don't know. I mean, geez. Do I go by where I started or where do you want me to go? Your name is brad j. You live in california. Where you at? I'm brady j. I live right on santa barbara and ventura county line in california. Right down on the ocean.  - action sports announcer - radio deejay since 1994 / 95 - something like that was when I first got into it. Doing surf reports. Doing radio. I worked at a skate company back in the late '80s / early '90s called peralta skateboards - bones wheels that kind of got me into action sports.  I wasn't announcing yet, but then that kind of made me think about that career. And then I kind of moved into doing a skateboarding role and skateboarding, led to snowboarding and led to djing events. Then I got the job - radio kept leading to other radio events. Meanwhile, i'm traveling the world doing all these huge events, but i'm also holding down a radio show too, as well. It all just came up and just went crazy from 1994 to basically 'til... 2000 was a big turning point with getting x games.