CGP Grey Grades Each US State Flag

One of my favorite YouTubers/podcasters has a great video out where he grades each U.S. State flag on a scale from S-F, and FS-FF. It’s so fantastic. Here’s what he says about my native state of New York: Let’s just visit London real  quick and here you’ll see Union Jacks for sale everywhere; Union Jacks used everywhere. Because U.K. did…

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Manfredball and the MLB’s Crisis of Confidence – The Dispatch

This piece by David Kagan at The Dispatch perfectly captures all of my issues with the MLB’s rule changes…and the clear evidence that Manfred doesn’t care about baseball. Finally, we have the ghost-runner rule, Manfred’s most notorious bastardization of the game. The rule places a base runner at second base to begin every extra-inning frame. Initially adopted during the COVID-shortened…

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Be The Experimenter.

Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash I had a t-shirt in college that was my prized possession. It read: There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t. The joke being that 10 or “one zero” in binary is actually “2” in decimal. I’m sure if I looked hard enough, I could find my college ID…

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Be Present

Hey hey! A quick preamble: thanks to a prompt from Benjamin Watkins, I’m resurrecting the Medium blog for a bit. I’ll likely still focus on family, but we’ll see where it goes! I’m a huge Yankee fan. So in October, when I left for Mexico for a few days and Aaron Judge hadn’t hit #62 yet, I made sure I was…

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Podcast Listeners Want Video (The Podcast Host)

My latest piece for The Podcast Host is up, where I talk about how 46% of podcast listeners want video, and what that means for podcasters: Back in August, I reported on YouTube rolling out its Podcast feature. Since then, we’ve gotten a 70+ page slide deck from YouTube called “Podcasting on YouTube.” It’s clear that in 2023, YouTube is going to…

I was on the Health Coach Conversations Podcast

I had the pleasure of going on the Health Coach Conversations. We discussed a number of topics, including:

  • Demonstrating expertise in a convenient yet personal way
  • Why coaches should consider a “mini podcast” style for their show
  • The top 5 ways to make money with your podcast
  • The question you need to answer when starting your podcast
  • Joe’s quick tips on how to start a podcast
  • How to offer a call to action during your episodes