Ethan Podolsky

weird it was different from anything that I'd ever seen or heard the sports media space or just the media space in general to that point and was just really smitten with the idea of going and being a part of it and trying to add to the creativity and be part of that team so then in taking conversations with Dan and Mike and getting the lay of the land really felt like okay I'm about to pack up my life in New York City and move to Miami and just see how this thing goes and that was sort of that.

And I was wondering, is this all worth it? The thing I always tell people about that time was that it was insanely hectic because I felt like personally I was wearing seven or eight different hats. There was like producing the actual television layer. There was developing new graphics. There was literal set design every single day. There was participating in production of audio bits.

And I was wondering, is this all worth it? The thing I always tell people about that time was that it was insanely hectic because I felt like personally I was wearing seven or eight different hats. There was like producing the actual television layer. There was developing new graphics. There was literal set design every single day. There was participating in production of audio bits.

There was coordinating shoots that we were doing outside the show that turned into sort of digital exclusives on Fusion. I mean, all those things were definitely hard and time consuming. And there were a lot of fake it till you make it moments where you just didn't really know how to do this job for the first time, but you were the only person that was there to figure it out and do it.

There was coordinating shoots that we were doing outside the show that turned into sort of digital exclusives on Fusion. I mean, all those things were definitely hard and time consuming. And there were a lot of fake it till you make it moments where you just didn't really know how to do this job for the first time, but you were the only person that was there to figure it out and do it.

And so I kind of appreciated that. I think it led to a lot of really valuable learning moments that I've applied later in my career, even though there were definitely...

And so I kind of appreciated that. I think it led to a lot of really valuable learning moments that I've applied later in my career, even though there were definitely...

moments of frustration of why don't we have the budget to do this and we have this really cool idea but we have to pare it down you know to the 10 or 15 percent version because we just don't have the resources but i do think that the end product we put out there was pretty wild and different and unique at the time and as the show kind of continued to grow that sort of stamp we put on things people took notice of what we were doing in a way that really wasn't being done anywhere else in sports radio or sports tvs that part of it while being hard was really really cool

moments of frustration of why don't we have the budget to do this and we have this really cool idea but we have to pare it down you know to the 10 or 15 percent version because we just don't have the resources but i do think that the end product we put out there was pretty wild and different and unique at the time and as the show kind of continued to grow that sort of stamp we put on things people took notice of what we were doing in a way that really wasn't being done anywhere else in sports radio or sports tvs that part of it while being hard was really really cool

If we want to be really cliche here and make a comparison to a sports team, that's kind of how those environments go. Like the highest performing environments, often there are moments of conflict, people going head to head, and that's sort of producing the best work. I think there are a lot of examples of that in art. There are examples of that in sports, examples of that in life.

If we want to be really cliche here and make a comparison to a sports team, that's kind of how those environments go. Like the highest performing environments, often there are moments of conflict, people going head to head, and that's sort of producing the best work. I think there are a lot of examples of that in art. There are examples of that in sports, examples of that in life.

I think that there were definitely times where we, of course, you know, maybe wish things would have gone a little bit more smoothly, but I do think that that was a product of The constraints we were under as a show, whether it was time or resources or budget or whatever else, all of us were trying to kind of pull in the same direction, which was let's do something creative.

I think that there were definitely times where we, of course, you know, maybe wish things would have gone a little bit more smoothly, but I do think that that was a product of The constraints we were under as a show, whether it was time or resources or budget or whatever else, all of us were trying to kind of pull in the same direction, which was let's do something creative.

Let's do something unique. Let's do something different. And I think that even if there was stress related to how are we going to get that done, I think at the end of the day, we did ultimately get that done in our own way.

Let's do something unique. Let's do something different. And I think that even if there was stress related to how are we going to get that done, I think at the end of the day, we did ultimately get that done in our own way.

Even if there was a better, grander vision for it, what ultimately made it to air, you know, it had to be unique and it had to be different because the response we got from the audience was a sort of a co-sign of that, of, hey, this is, we love this, we appreciate this. And I think, you know, that sort of ethos, while, you know, stressful at times for sure, was part of what made the show great.

Even if there was a better, grander vision for it, what ultimately made it to air, you know, it had to be unique and it had to be different because the response we got from the audience was a sort of a co-sign of that, of, hey, this is, we love this, we appreciate this. And I think, you know, that sort of ethos, while, you know, stressful at times for sure, was part of what made the show great.

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