Like Cam Newton in Carolina, I'M BACK!!!!! Been really busy but looking to get back in the swing of things with introducing my new segment, Fifteen Minute Break. This breaks topic is Black Friday and I go into my history with Black Friday, a mini breakdown of the history of the phrase Black Friday and a PSA to customers AND employers on how to make the Black Friday experience better for all.

Support the pod and help a great cause in the Hear the Cheers campaign by heading over to Patreon and donating today!

I conducted this interview a few weeks back and I learned a lot in the process. This weeks guest, Joe Aboid, is the Commissioner of the Professional Putters Association and yes there is a professional league for putt-putt golf.

We talk about how the league was formed, how long it has been running, the difference between putt-putt and mini-golf, how much you could potentially earn while playing and like most of my guests I have on here, our fandom of the LeBatard show.

Check out the league here:
PPA

Also, don't forget to show your support for the pod at patreon.com and 10% of your support will go support the Hear the Cheers campaign, ran by Sarah Spain. 

First AJA! Got a chance to take some questions from you guys and I answered them to the best I could. Thanks for all the questions and I hope to answer some more next time I do this!
Thanks to Hefty @bshfty9922  and Ty @lebatard_fan for the questions!

As always, if you like what you're hearing and want to help support the show and a great cause in the Hear the Cheers campaign, head on over to patreon.com/shimpod and become a patron!

Thanks to my brothers band Future Thrills for supplying the music for the pod!

Fun conversation this week. This week I had on the host of the Fan LeBatard Show, Ty Hodges, and as you can imagine, Dan LeBatard was a big topic for conversation. Along with our love of Dan LeBatard, we took a lazy river, slightly directed by me, into talking about Subway sandwiches, fast food goto's, Busch Gardens Williamsburg and other various tangents until finally ending on a tangent about Pokemon cards and collectibles.

If you're liking or loving the material I'm putting out, show some support and head over to patreon.com/shimpod and 10% of all donations will go to Sarah Spain's Hear the Cheers campaign!
 Hear the Cheers

Where to find Ty:
Twitter- @lebatard_fan
Pod- https://linktr.ee/fanlebatard
Twitch- https://www.twitch.tv/hokietoffee

Special thanks to Future Thrills for supplying the music

This week, I had the huge pleasure of talking to the one and only Commish, Sarah Spain! Sarah is one of ESPN's top personalities with appearances on Around The Horn, OTL, Sports Center, Highly Questionable. In addition to her work at ESPN she is also the host of the That's What she Said podcast and just recently became a part owner of the NWSL Chicago Red Stars!

There was clearly a lot to talk about with her career, Hear the Cheers campaign and of course her run in with Ron Jeremy. I also got to surprise her with the Stamer Inquisition (a rapid fire, that wasn't so rapid fire, question round)! Hope you guys love it.

I also want to announce my Patreon. I'm really loving delivering this content to everyone but could use a little extra support. So feel free to to click the link and along with my donation I made to the Hear the Cheers campaign, I will be donating 10% of my Patreon donations to the campaign.

Check out Sarah's pod: TWSS
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/shimpod

In this episode, I got the pleasure of chatting with Tammi Gaw. Tammi is a very interesting person with a lot of experience in the sports world. With her background in gymnastics and in athletic training, mixed with her career in law, Tammi has excelled in advocating for amateur athletes as well as in her business, Advantage Rule.
Tammi is someone who I randomly followed on Twitter due to her amazingly quippy and funny tweets and I thought what fun it would be to sit down and talk to her and I was not disappointed. We go through her early career as an athletic director, her journey through law school, her need to not remain in one place for too long, speaking to Parliament, starting her company Advantage Rule and how she ended up in Playboy...as a writer

Follow Tammi on social:
Twitter @tammigaw
IG @tammigaw
And check out her work:
https://tammi-gaw.squarespace.com/

As always big thank you to my brothers band Future Thrills for supplying the music:
https://futurethrills.bandcamp.com/

This week I had the great privilege to speak with David Samson. David is the current host of the Nothing Personal with David Samson, regular on the Dan LeBatard Show with Stugotz, and former team president of the Miami Marlins. We go over his childhood, his days in law school, him selling papers in Europe, his days in MLB as team president and go into his daily habits of watching a movie a day to review it on his podcast NPDS. 
There was a lot to get to and frankly not enough time but it was such a fun interview and you get to hear me ask a question he's never been asked before.

Follow David on Twitter @DavidPSamson and give his podcast a listen:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nothing-personal-with-david-samson/id1483011704

This week, I got to finally sit down with my version of Ron Magill, Jeff Popp. Jeff is an animal biologist and always fascinates me with his knowledge of the animal kingdom so I just had to get him on to find out where his love for animals and nature came from. Plus, as I mentioned, this months theme is fatherhood and Jeff and his husband Steve recently just became fathers and I wanted to also bring you guys their story about that journey.

We get into that story, him rescuing a baby turtle back to life when he was 16, his efforts with the Terrapin Institute, some fun facts about animals, his long journey to finally adopting a son with his husband and I might get cancelled for his answer as to which animal he would eliminate from the animal kingdom! Give it a listen to see his shocking answer.

Follow Jeff here:
https://www.facebook.com/jeff.popp.98
@jeffbynature on IG
https://www.facebook.com/terrapininstitute

And as always, thank you to Future Thrills for supplying the music:
https://futurethrills.bandcamp.com/

Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back...In my triumphant return back to recording, I wanted to do a little theme month this week and thought what best than to highlight successful fathers.

In this episode I had the pleasure of chatting with my long time friend, Duane Herr. Duane is the Athletic Director at our Alma Mater, Anne Arundel Community College, husband to his High School sweetheart and of course an amazing dad to three beautiful children. I welcome him to the three kid club, take a trip down memory lane through grade school all the way to high school baseball and then we talk about how his college baseball career impacted his career and ultimately his life. We finish the interview off with the struggles of being a parent/husband while having such a demanding job and advice he would give to people trying to take their careers to the next level. Hope you enjoy!

As always, thank you for the support and shoutout to my brothers band Future Thrills for supplying the music! Check them out:
https://futurethrills.bandcamp.com/

Just a quick update from my recent hiatus along with a Mothers Day shoutout to my wonderful mom and amazing wife. Plus, a little story about my birth mother and the troubles I encountered growing up. Also, am I working on a new project as well????