The Palmer Files Podcast

Episode 77 features Ty Hildenbrandt, co-host of The Solid Verbal, a college football podcast. We discuss college football, the changing sports media landscape, go behind the scenes of the podcast, dive into our formative years and the impact that SportsCenter had on us, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Why College Football
• Sports Illustrated / Journalism
• Broadcast Journalism
• Sports Media
• Ty's Career Trajectory
• It started with a blog...
• SportsCenter as something formative
• The Sports Reporters
• Growing up a Sports Fan
• Regional and Tribal College Football
• Notre Dame
• Penn State
• Choosing fandom
• The Saturday Campus Experience
• College Football's proliferation
• FBS/FCS
• The year-round spectacle
• Everyone can find their home
• Losing team's beat writer's recap
• The Solid Verbal podcast history
• Rivalries
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

The Solid Verbal

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@TyHildenbrandt

@SolidVerbal

@AgentPalmer

@ThePalmerFiles

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Get lost in the deep purpose of Eleanor Rigby

Observations from the 2022 Tour de France

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 76 features Toby Bloomberg, a digital marketer, co-founder of Diva Foodies, host of #FoodTVChat, and she's been digitally marketing for almost as long as I have been aware of digital marketing. We discuss how much of that started, being intentional, food and creativity, engagement, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Finding a niche
• "Be intentional"
• Money and decision making
• Marketing and Art/Creativity
• Foorpreneuer
• Putting yourself out there
• Living for the approval of your creations
• Food is universal
• What is a "Foodie?"
• Where do you eat?
• Cooking at home
• Food marketing
• Twitter
• Live-tweeting
• Twitter Chats
• Sandboxing
• Engagement
• Food Tourism
• Culture
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

Diva Foodies

divafoodies on Instagram

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@TobyDiva

@DivaFoodies

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

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Field of Red Tape: 'Our Team' is a fantastic study of stadium ownership through the lens of the SWB Red Barons

Master of Redemption: Eddie Munson, Metal Lords, and metalhead vindication

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 75 features Keelin the Magpie, who's background in the creative arts has prepared her for the thankless job of critically reviewing podcasts. We discuss how that came to be, the process of reviewing media, podcasting as a medium, reading, writing, scripts, criticism, community and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Critical Podcast Reviews
• A Review Blog Origin
• Always a reader
• Theatre background
• Books are a happy place
• Dramaturgy
• Musical Theatre
• What is podcasting?
• Audio drama
• Script reading
• Professional Critiques
• GreatPods
• Twitter
• Finding Community
• Talking about Podcasts
• Criticism and Indie Podcasts
• Audio Quality
• Bad press myth
• Reviewing something in production
• Podcasting is a different medium.
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

Mentally? A Magpie

iamkeelinit on Instagram

iamkeelinit on tiktok

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@iamkeelinit

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

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MAMista rains Deighton's spy sensibilities into the jungle

Hustle scores points as modern love letter to basketball

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 74 features Janice Webber, a long-time physiotherapist who is taking her business sense and her artistic abilities and looking to create an art academy. We discuss how she arrived where she is, what she's learned along the way, what it means to create more and stress less, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Physiotherapy
• Entrepreneurship
• Art
• Being an artist
• Careers that didn't happen
• Being a dabbler
• Hobbies
• Sanity through creation
• The Starving Artist
• Breaking the mold
• Treading Water
• The Status Quo
• Change
• Global vs. Linear thinking
• Art as observation
• Becoming a teacher
• Starting the arts academy
• Finding your creative outlet
• Coming full circle
• Stress and recovery
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

JaniceWebber.com

HoneyBears & SydneyBeans

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@AgentPalmer

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"Like a Rolling Stone" wonderfully orchestrates the work of journalist Ben Fong-Torres

The Brilliance of Letterman's Netflix Show Needs No Introduction

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 73 features Zach Martin, host of the Foodball podcast. We discuss our cooking origins and inspirations, our cooking journeys, food is a part of that conversation, as well as the origin of foodball, cook vs chef, passion vs hobby, plenty of suggested viewing for those interested in more food things and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Cooking and food
• Cook vs. Chef
• The myth that food is fuel only
• Depression Era Cooking
• Chili
• Meal prep
• Cooking Origins
• PBS Cooking Shows
• Cooking Television
• What works for you
• Enjoying the process of cooking
• The Origin of Foodball
• A cautionary culinary tale
• Cooking: Time vs. Money
• The Cooking Spectrum
• The No Breakfast Club
• Eggs are great for cooking
• Pancakes
• No gadgets in the kitchen
• A division of labor
• Chef, the movie and The Chef Show
• Cooking and criticism
• Hobby vs. Passion
• Solo podcasting
• Sandwich construction
• Burger vs. Patty
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

The Foodball Podcast

@foodballpod on Instagram

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@foodballpod

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

Black and Blue is a bruising baseball history of the '66 World Series

The Kids finally get their due respect in The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 72 features Coach Chris Clement, an industrial engineer by profession and football coach by passion. We discuss his football coaching journey, mainly Canadian football, his path to industrial engineering, how the two things overlap, plus instant replay, clock management, keeping things in line, practice, yes "we talkin' practice," and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Being an industrial engineer
• Coaching Canadian Football
• Passions that don't keep the lights on
• Keeping things in line
• Video games impact on the field
• Clock Management
• Instant Replay
• Coaching rugby
• 15s vs. 7s
• High School football Canada vs. U.S.
• Engineering and Football
• Coaching was not the goal at one point
• What he wanted to be
• Being a goalie/keeper
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

passesandpatterns.blogspot.com

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@CoachCClement

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

Straken is excellent fantasy history repeating itself

Geek Space: The Top Shelf Behind Me

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 71 features Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman, who along with being a rabbi is also a sports blogger, an author, a father, and of course all of the other hats that come along with being a rabbi. We discuss his path from politics to the pulpit, how he came to be a rabbi, learn how he became a blogger and author, and compare our own paths through Jewish spirituality and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• On becoming a Rabbi
• Access to the mysteries
• Policy
• Helping people
• Jewish journeys
• Tradition
• Judaism in the home
• Urban vs. Rural religious experience
• The lifecycle of Judaism
• Community aspect of religion
• Becoming a sports blogger
• Writing a book
• Teaching
• Media from another Era
• Road trips
• Content creation
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

RabbiMarkAsherGoodman.com

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@rabbimarkasherg

soccer_rabbi

@AgentPalmer

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The Founders demystifies the dot-com era success of PayPal

Metal Lords is Not Your Average High School Coming-of-Age Movie

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 70 features Dr. Yanas Kisten, a marine biologist by day and the force behind Geekoscopy by night. We discuss how academia and his other passions led to Geekoscopy, what it's like working within academia, being a marine biologist what he thought it would be versus the reality, content creation, writing academic papers, science communication, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Evolution of Geekoscopy
• Science Communication
• Academia
• Earning a PhD
• Creating Content
• Marine Biology
• Academic Papers
• Burnout
• Making science accessible
• New formats
• Adaptations
• Transferable skillsets
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

Geekoscopy.com

Geekoscopy on YouTube

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@Geekoscopy

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

In a three network world, always be the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Burn Notice's Michael Westen deserves a seat at the best spy table.

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 69 features Jennifer Montgomery, who is not only a connoisseur of coffee but founded a company named 40 Cups of Coffee. We discuss how 40 Cups came to be, networking with a purpose, career transitions, being present, embracing the things we don't know, defining success, being exceptional, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Coffee
• 40 Cups
• Networking vs. Networking with Purpose
• Career Transitions
• Work Live Balance
• Self Evaluation
• Every coffee has a lesson
• Self-accountability
• Coffee as a metaphor
• Buzzword soup
• Relationship building
• Defining success
• Change
• Generational career trajectories
• Failure
• "I don't know"
• Being present
• Measuring ability
• Being exceptional
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

BlueDoorGroup.ca

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@40cupsofcoffeee

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

A Country So Nice, Coupland Captures Canada Twice

Apollo 10 ½ is pure rotoscoped moon movie magic

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 68 features Khan who you may know from his streams or the many emotes of his which populate Twitch, his merchandise, or his coffee. We discuss all of that plus; his journey back to art, being a teacher, building a brand, streaming for selfish reasons, philosophy, consistency, and much much more.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• "I make stuff."
• Coaching and Teaching
• Martial Arts
• "I like dense things..."
• Are you your brand?
• Streaming art
• Khanguer Blend Coffee
• Starting the grind
• Jack of all trades
• Apparel Lines
• Developing a video game
• Expectations
• Price and Design
• Time Management
• Daily Comic
• Recharging
• Write it down
• Drunken Boxing
• The impetus of change
• Mortality
• Goals
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

KhanArtist.org

HFTees.com

Khanquer Blend Coffee

KhanArt on YouTube

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@ThePalmerFiles

@YungKhan

@AgentPalmer

Other Links

Tanequil is a Great Middle Sector for High Druid Trilogy

Fact Over Fiction: Why I'm Watching More Documentaries Than Ever Before

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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