Podcast appearances and mentions of Chuck Knoblauch

Its Q&A time on The Enneagram Journey! Suzanne and Joel sat down to record today's episode at The Micah Center and decided at the last moment to turn on the camera. Having the camera on contributed to the conversation about seeing a therapist and accountability, and the show just takes off from there. Some of the things you'll here in this episode: A question about a 7 and 5 relationship this leads to some subtype talk What needs to fall away when you go to therapy? Enneagram 6s and Trust Are 6s the most controlling personality? A 4 and 5 parenting adult children A great Chuck Knoblauch joke that Suzanne talked over aaaaand more! "Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you whether or not I can give it to you."   PLUG TIME 2025 is going to be the year that LTM gets around the country! Several stops already locked in: Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Minnesota, Texas. And many more that are in the works! Be sure and subscribe to the LTM newsletter to get the latest updates on these events and everything else podcast related, and LTM related. Visit lifeinthetrinityministry.com and you'll find the newsletter sign up on any page in the footer. You've got Enneagram questions? We've got Enneagram responses! This is seriously Suzanne's favorite way to teach, so send your questions in at theenneagramjourney.com/contact   TODAY'S INTRO Ben Folds, "Annie Waits" (2001, Rockin' The Suburbs) Pete Holmes (Pete is the WORST Therapist) Suzanne Stabile in today's show Step Brothers (2008, Columbia Pictures)

After a couple of bummer weeks, Mike and Bill decided to dust off a favorite old gimmick and pick a random game to write about from this week in baseball history. The random number generator hit on the Royals vs. the Blue Jays from July 12th, 1987. Learn about weirdos like Garth Iorg, Jeff Musselman, Lloyd Moseby, Bud Black and more.  Plus, happy birthday to Willie Wilson! It is also Chuck Knoblauch's birthday. And farewell to Bill Murphy and Cuno Barragan.

SERIES 2 EPISODE 199: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump and his henchmen opened not one but two emergency exits for him to bail out of Thursday's debate against The President and blame it on Biden. And in doing so, his dumbest press secretary yet went on CNN and called Adolf Hitler "HILTER." H-I-L-T-E-R, Hilter. I don't know if she should be fired for invoking HItler, or if she WILL be fired for getting the name of Trump's role model wrong. It's Karoline Leavitt, the former centerfielder of the St. Anselm College softball team and the idiot who previously insisted the word 'damning' is correctly pronounced 'dammaning,' tried to filibuster CNN's Katie Hunt about how biased debate hosts Jake Tapper and Dana Bash really are. As Hunt cut first the answer and then the interview off, Leavitt insisted anybody could spend five minutes googling how many times Tapper had compared Trump to "Adolf Hilter." Bypassing the whole Hitler/Hilter stuff, "Damaning Hilter" Leavitt adopted the traditional pose of the Martyred Trump Huckster and did the rounds of the fascist media outlets. When she went on Steve Bannon's outlet he said either CNN apologizes to her, or Trump should cancel the debate. Hours later, Trump opened a second emergency chute, again demanding drug tests before the debate, as his personal quack Congressman Physician Prescribe Thyself Ronny Jackson wrote a long letter to the White House requesting such tests (and saying nothing about any stashes he may have left there). Who knows if Trump really will bail. But he's got FOLAD (Fear Of Losing A Debate) all covered. MEANWHILE: it's a long shot but I'm beginning to wonder if somebody on Jack Smith's side is laying the groundwork for indicting Trump anew - in New Jersey. There has been a second news leak in just three business days, about Trump's Mar-a-Lago Espionage Scandal. Yesterday's leak via ABC News did not resonate among American news media which can generally only BARELY handle one thing at a time – like the debate. The story itself – about Trump making an almost-secret special trip to Florida in July 2022 to make sure nobody had touched the documents he stole from the White House and hid from his own attorney - may not be much more than another one of those threads that you pull on and maybe it just comes off in your hand – or maybe it unravels the entirety of Trump's size 62 suit. I don't even think prosecutors know what they have here. But he went down there two weeks after he had bankers' boxes shipped from Mar-a-Lago to the Bedminster Golf Course. They didn't contain Ivana. B-Block (20:35) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: I have somehow forgotten, for years, maybe 35 years, the first and arguably the best joke I ever made about Trump. I'll correct that here. Not only are the British Conservatives on track for a historic loss in the July 4 election but two candidates, a party official, and a security guard have been caught allegedly wagering on which day their prime minister would select for Election Day! And the rare two-wins-in-a-row for Puck media guy Dylan Byers, carrying still more management water as he turns gutsy Washington Post reporting on the paper's ongoing management scandal into “a plan to dig for unflattering information.” C-Block (27:20) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: How did I forget to tell you this one through the first 500 episodes of this podcast? How could I have missed the 24th anniversary last week? I'll just mention the principals: my mother, me, a former New York Yankees infielder named Chuck Knoblauch - and Babe Ruth. .  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It was 23 years ago that Twins fans hurled dollar dogs at Chuck Knoblauch in left field at the dome. Chad opens the hour discussing that moment and other strange occurrences in Minnesota sports history before some reaction to what Governor Walz said yesterday regarding the Ryan Londregan case.

It was 23 years ago that Twins fans hurled dollar dogs at Chuck Knoblauch in left field at the dome when he was visiting with the Yankees. Chad looks back at that moment and we discuss several other strange moments in Minnesota sports history.

MLB The Show Chuck Knoblauch Edition, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Avatar, Minecraft, Sleeping Dogs, and more!

SEASON 2 EPISODE 54: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: The day after he attacked Israel and mocked its Prime Minister and praised Hezbollah, Trump was astonishingly quiet, and even his self-praising press release was composed in the past tense and lacked the usual arrogance. Something is wrong in Trumpland. And here's a shock: Trump's minions are going to need ANOTHER new Speaker of the House and right now there's nobody within 100 votes of the minimum number of votes needed for election! Just 18 days after I asked why he hadn't been indicted as an agent of Egypt, Senator Menendez...is. Now I ask: why is he out on bail? Ron DeSantis comes out of unintentional retirement to pull a really transparent stunt on Israel, and Tommy Tuberville shoots himself in the foot on the same topic. And something does not add up on the Mary Lou Retton story. So sick she can't breathe? No insurance? Daughter starts a GoFundMe? And last year the tiny Republican had a house worth $2,000,000? B-Block (19:17) IN SPORTS: New ESPN host reveals he's paid Aaron Rodgers millions for "interviews" and why this means all TV Sports "News" programs are now mortally and irreversibly wounded. A large part of the field beclowns itself over the issue of whether a minor taunt a Braves' player made about a Phillies' player in a clubhouse full of reporters was somehow 'off the record' and an instance from my own career when it really WAS. And Sunday it'll be 35 years since I matter-of-factly predicted the Kirk Gibson World Series home run that everybody else still seems to think was impossible. And the witness to my prediction makes a cameo! C-Block (38:20) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: Only Thurber could merge the laziness of a sticky summer at his Connecticut place with the absolute conviction that his "hired man" trafficks with The Devil: "The Black Magic of Barney Haller."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

SEASON 2 EPISODE 48: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Kevin McCarthy is out and the ensuing chaos mainlines directly back to an episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." House Republican Radicals caught that proverbial car they've been chasing and they had no idea what to do next and they look like idiots. The offing of Kevin McCarthy is actually notable only because a) it underscores the reality that the Republicans have bluster and the novelty of having opened the pandora's box of fascism and political violence, but they don't have any leaders, as evidenced by b) Kevin McCarthy saying on Face The Nation, two days before they garroted him, that he'd survive and they should bring it on and now THAT'S probably the worst political TV interview of our time leading to c) his epic news conference last night in which he compared Vladimir Putin to Hitler in the ‘30s and concluding with d) McCarthy's only actual accomplishment – he lasted 270 days in the job, 12 more than the record holder for shortest speakership. But the REAL lead story did not happen in Washington yesterday. WHICH idiot Republican becomes the NEW Future Former Speaker of the House doesn't much matter. Because the real lead story is summarized by the phrase AND NOW WE WAIT. Turns out that not only did Judge Arthur Engoron issue a gag order against Trump hours after Trump attacked the clerk of Engoron's court room yesterday, but he issued a gag order against Trump less than a day after he WARNED Trump's lawyers informally that their client needed to shut the eff up. Engoron – of whom they should be installing a statue outside his courtroom – provided a template for Judge Tonya Chutkan for a week from next Monday. Judge Engoron not only gagged Trump but HOW he gagged him ALSO gags Junior Trump and Eric Trump: “Personal attacks on members of my court staff are unacceptable, inappropriate, and I won't tolerate it. Consider this statement a gag order forbidding all parties from posting, emailing or speaking publicly about any of my staff.” But this trial is ultimately MOST valuable because what we just saw was the if-then scenario play out. Engoron didn't just issue a gag order because Trump attacked the clerk. He had WARNED HIM, via his lawyers, informally but clearly. And twelve hours later Trump did it anyway. Memo to Judge Chutkan: Get ready to issue a gag order, on penalty of revoking his bail, after that hearing October 16. And get ready to have to enforce it. B-Block (24:15) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Campbell Brown is out as news chief at Meta/Facebook so I have to tell you the story of how CNN's president was forced to hire her instead of me at 8 PM there (and they then all got fired), which in turn means I have to tell the story of how Brown's Meta colleague Anne Kornblut wound up being interviewed by the MSNBC anchor (Savannah Guthrie) her husband left her for. And then there's Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who apologized for referencing Nazis in the Republican Party. Why? There ARE Nazis in the Republican Party. We call them...Nazis. C-Block (33:25) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: It's baseball playoff time again, so it's time for me to tell you about the year I was in the middle of a riot in Fenway Park, and I overheard a Yankee swearing at his manager in the clubhouse, and I bought - and chose not to air - videotape of Roger Clemens nearly getting into a fistfight with a Yankee fan before Game 3 of the World Series.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Jack Llewellyn joins Sports ‘N Torts this week for a super informative and entertaining episode. Dr. Jack is a sports psychologist who was the first psychologist to bring his skills and approach to professional athletes – specifically baseball players. Dr. Jack got his start in Major League Baseball after a former student of his invited him to work with the Expos. This allowed Dr. Jack to work with professional athletes on the mental side of the game to complement their physical skills. Ultimately, Dr. Jack was asked by Bobby Cox and the Atlanta Braves to help (at that time) a young pitcher named John Smoltz who was struggling. Working with Dr. Jack jump started Smoltz's career and his continued work with the team helped them on an unprecedented run of success. Dr. Jack tells us all about that experience working with the Braves and other MLB players including Chuck Knoblauch and Paul O'Neil. Dr. Jack's true passion, and current passion, is helping young athletes. As a father of two young athletes, I was specifically interested in what he had to say about the right way to raise children to find success and happiness in sports. Dr. Jack was not short on answers on everything related to how our children can get the most out of their youth sports career and how we should be talking to them during, before and after games. If you are a parent with young children who enjoy sports this is a must listen for you. We talk about proper goal setting and why it is important to lets kids be kids. Dr. Jack is an author of multiple books and a frequent speaker to Fortune 500 Corporations. He talks about how his mental approach system applies to the corporate world as well. Finally, Dr. Jack gives me some tools to overcome those first tee jitters on the golf course and how to better approach 3 foot putts. If you are an athlete, parent of an athlete, like sports, have a job or just want to strengthen your mental approach in life …. This podcast is right for you. You can find out more on Dr. Jack at https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/celebritytalentbios/Jack+Llewellyn/4463 and a simple google search will bring up his books. My favorite is “Get The Mud Out of the Water”. As always, this podcast is powered by the J. Stein Law Firm – a personal injury law firm in Atlanta, GA – www.jsteinlawfirm.com.

EPISODE 169: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN I EXPECT TO BE UPDATING THIS EDITION IN LATE AFTERNOON  A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump leaks details of the 34-count indictment and tries to blame D.A. Bragg for the leak, but inadvertently confesses by screwing up the number. Anyhow, ALL the counts are felonies, not just one. The judge also rules against video cameras during the arraignment, though still photographers can come in to do a "spray" before the action start, and ONE video camera will be permitted in the hallway. No holding cell, no handcuffs, no mugshot - unless there is a mugshot. The Trumpers were demanding one while the Trump Lawyers were demanding the opposite. And again, the REAL threat to Trump comes out of Washington where the Jack Smith Grand Jury will now hear from a bunch of Secret Service agents about the classified documents Trump stole and stashed at Mar-a-Lago, maybe as early as Friday. And while Sean Hannity tries to shush him, Trump not only confesses he did what the latest reports accused him of (rifling through the boxes and keeping the secret documents he wanted to keep) he even simplifies the motive we've all been kept up at night worrying about. He notes with the gleam of avarice, "They ended up paying Nixon 18 million for what HE had!" B-Block (16:26) It is 14 years to the day since my mother Marie passed away. She was not only the baseball fan in the family; she was one of the most prominent baseball fans in the country, all because of one bad throw by Chuck Knoblauch in 2000. Plus: advice learned from bitter experience about why the loss of a parent can hit you twice: you are remembering the very first fear you had as a child. Marie Olbermann, In Memoriam. C-Block (34:35) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Cuda, in the South Los Angeles pound for TWO YEARS and finally cracking up. (35:30) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: CNN and MSNBC did not show Trump in a car, then Trump in a plane, then Trump in another car, for three hours yesterday just because it was a comparatively shiny object. They're both trying to cozy up to Trump viewers, just in case they have to go Hard Right to protect their owners. As crazy as it sounds, it's happened before: let me recount for you the saga of the time MSNBC tried to go further fascist than Fox and hired this psycho Michael Savage to host a TV show, at the direct orders of the president of NBC.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

SPECIAL BULLETIN EPISODE 170: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:42) My ex-landlord has been arraigned on 34 counts of felony falsification of business records, but they ARE felonies because D.A. Alvin Bragg is alleging that they were committed to further a bigger, massively more important crime, one being almost ignored by the news media. Bragg isn't prosecuting him for a payoff to a porn star, nor even the business records. He's prosecuting him for ILLEGALLY INFLUENCING THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. If the case comes to court it will be an attempt to put a former president in jail for trying to defraud not investors and not even the state of New York, but the VOTERS. The ambition is extraordinary. As is another detail that seemed to elude most reports. David Pecker, Michael Cohen and Trump were ready to pay a Trump Palace Doorman $30,000 to buy his apparently inaccurate story that there was a TRUMP LOVE CHILD SOMEWHERE. And just as the judge was admonishing both sides to tamp down the rhetoric, Fredo Trump and Junior Trump were doxxing the judge's daughter and manufacturing a conspiracy involving her and Biden and VP Harris. It is impossible to believe Trump will not wind up violating the Judge's warnings. The protests were also hilarious: Marjorie Greene fled out of fear of counter-protestors with whistles. And she revealed she's dating a right wing TV talking head. AND HE KISSED HER LIVE ON THE AIR AT THE END OF THEIR INTERVIEW. But the real essence of this story is contained in one post Trump made in route - as Special Counsel Jack Smith's Grand Jury made its THIRD headline of the week (an appeals court rules that key Trump aids like Mark Meadows and Stephen Miller MUST testify to Smith's Grand Jury). The door has been opened, the seal has been broken, the precedent can be set. You CAN indict and arraign a former President of the United States and the earth will not spin off its axis. And you CAN make Trump realize reality is bigger than just him. You could read the fear in his last pre-hearing post: “Heading to lower Manhattan, the courthouse, seems so surreal, WOW they are going to ARREST ME. Can't believe this is happening in America.” You bet your ass it's happening. B-Block (18:59) It is 14 years to the day since my mother Marie passed away. She was not only the baseball fan in the family; she was one of the most prominent baseball fans in the country, all because of one bad throw by Chuck Knoblauch in 2000. Plus: advice learned from bitter experience about why the loss of a parent can hit you twice: you are remembering the very first fear you had as a child. Marie Olbermann, In Memoriam. C-Block (36:29) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Cuda, in the South Los Angeles pound for TWO YEARS and finally cracking up. (35:30) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: CNN and MSNBC did not show Trump in a car, then Trump in a plane, then Trump in another car, for three hours yesterday just because it was a comparatively shiny object. They're both trying to cozy up to Trump viewers, just in case they have to go Hard Right to protect their owners. As crazy as it sounds, it's happened before: let me recount for you the saga of the time MSNBC tried to go further fascist than Fox and hired this psycho Michael Savage to host a TV show, at the direct orders of the president of NBC.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Julie Wiernik, host of “Gettin' Gritty with Dr. J”” is a sports clinical psychologist with 20 years of experience in the business and a background in sports as an athleteImpact of coaches & the role of sports psychologists in helping athletes with mental healthSpecialization in working with collegiate athletes, specifically pitchers and hittersImportance of having routines & the ability to handle distractions in order to pitch wellProblem of fans bullying athletes and the importance of having tools to handle distractionsThe details are everything in sports and there is always room for improvement, Recommendation for athletes to do some reading to learn more about their favorite pitches and develop a deeper understanding of the game“Gettin' Gritty with Dr. J” provides the opportunity to reach the whole world and offer advice, especially to those who cannot afford it.Many athletes are afraid to say they work with a sports psychologist, and coaches should start utilizing mental performance experts more.The mental game is critical for athletes, especially for pitchers & hittersEmulate the best athletes and model from their success.The key is to maintain confidence, stay the course, and make adjustments when necessaryJose Altuve, kept his confidence even when he was 1 for 15, knowing that's just the reality of baseball.Yandy Diaz, a Tampa Bay player who focuses on getting on base and adapting to each pitch.Bad coaching and how overly emotional, abusive coaches can negatively affect players and contribute to high dropout rates in Little League baseball.Dr. J emphasizes the importance of positive, relaxed, and trusting coaches who believe in their players and understand that mistakes are inevitable.Self-awareness is important to understand and express emotions properly to avoid burnout, depression, anxiety, and injuries.Communication between coach and player is crucial, especially when dealing with players from other countries.Bringing in a mentor for a player can help develop trust, empathy, and kindness, leading to better performance. Nelson Cruz & Wander FrancoThe Washington Nationals' success in winning the World Series was attributed to enjoying the game and focusing on winning one game, one pitch, and one at-bat at a time.Dr Julie Wiernik's podcast can be found at “Gettin' Gritty with Dr. J” For more information about: Dr. J and the Texas Center for Sports Psychology Dr. J can also be found on Twitter at@JulieWiernik  texascenterforsportpsychology.comYou can find BaseballBiz here and also on iheartradio, Stitcher, Spotify, Apple & Google podcasts and  https://www.baseballbizondeck.com/blog/ You can reach Mark @TheBaseballBiz on Twitter & Brandon @SportsBlitzPod Special thanks to XTaKeRuX for the music "Rocking Forward" Thanks to ChatGPT for providing recommendations on the show notes. 

EPISODE 136: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:41) The death of baseball's legendary television analyst Tim McCarver, easily one of the most beloved people in the sport, and in broadcasting. I knew him for 42 years and for whatever criticisms he took late in his career from listeners who didn't realize all the other ones were merely doing impressions of him, in 1983 he literally, personally, saved my love of the game. He was a pleasure to work with, and as I have been saying for 20 years, his insight in literally the last 60 seconds of the bottom of the 9th inning of the 7th Game of the most emotional season in baseball history was the television equivalent of Bill Mazeroski's home run to win the 1960 World Series. B-Block (19:55) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: The Fox News texts are out. Tucker Carlson was afraid Trump would destroy them, but telling the truth about him would tank the stock price. He, Ingraham and Hannity all thought Rudy Giuliani was crazy. The News Chief tried to stop news. Perjury in the Trump Atlanta case? How many people did Senator Fetterman help yesterday? Now that he's proven he can live on his own, why is the Central Park Zoo setting a honey trap to re-capture Flaco the Owl? And can anyone stop the Killer Windows of Russia? (25:48) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Nikki Haley would struggle with the math part of her own Presidential Candidate Mental Competency Test, Ann Coulter makes you feel sympathy for Nikki Haley, and a German choreographer says: I am an artist and you have criticized me, so, I will now smear my dog's feces on your face. C-Block (31:50) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Falcon, Rio, Titan, Torino, and Tundra - five pups with Parvo in Texas (32:50) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: fittingly on the occasion of the loss of a great baseball broadcaster, Thurber's story that begins with the words of another great baseball broadcaster: "The Catbird Seat."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Danbury Man had, had enough. On the heels of being taunted by some teenagers, the Hat City man brought the fight to them, barking in their faces. A Norwalk "massage parlor" is hit with prostitution charges, and this has Lou and Large asking a lot of provocative questions. The Yankees lose ALCS Game 2 to the Astros which prompts a Chuck Knoblauch comparison. Lou & Dave call Dentists out for their shame tactics.

EPISODE 53: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:47) SPECIAL COMMENT: The FBI has an informant! He's told them that after the subpoena, Trump ordered the boxes of documents moved, and it was all captured on Mar-a-Lago security video! He's the equivalent of Watergate's "Deep Throat" - let's call him "Deep STORAGE"! (2:25) But why does this Washington Post scoop sound so familiar? BECAUSE THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME THIS STORY HAS BROKEN (3:08) On August 10th, we learned there was an informant inside Mar-a-Lago, and a subpoena for security tapes. (3:41) Let me replay the relevant part of the August 11th Countdown commentary, to show that we first encountered "Deep Storage" that moment, and that the only true element to this story is WHAT the informant told the FBI about - moving the boxes. (11:45) So now we ask: did the informant tell the FBI anything that hasn't been reported? Is there more than one informant? But if there's only "Deep Storage" - WHO IS IT!?!?!? B-Block (15:52) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Thor, in North Central L.A. (16:53) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: That $1 Billion figure in the Alex Jones case? That's a minimum. There are still punitive damages to be assessed against the scum; Kanye does another "hate speech" and the show gets shelved; and another family member catches Herschel Walker in another lie. (19:54) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Joe Rogan, LibsOfTikTok and Tulsi Gabbard team up to battle Blake Masters and Chris 'I Used To Pretend To Have Hearing And Vision Problems To Explain My On-Camera Gaffes' Matthews - MSNBC's new undead guest - who trashed John Fetterman for using the equivalent of the text dictation device you have on your phone, during an interview. C-Block (27:42) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: We're in the baseball post-season now so I'll take you back to 1999. In one Yankees-Red Sox series as the host and dugout reporter for Fox, I was a) caught in the middle of a bottle-throwing melee at Fenway Park b) witness to a Yankee swearing endlessly at a manager c) visited by a pitcher (El Duque Hernandez) who supposedly didn't speak English but had a bunch of questions about SportsCenter, and d) was also visited by Bernie Williams, who was so deeply worried that I might be a Red Sox fan that he kept asking me about it even while he was due in the on-deck circle during the 1st Inning.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Coleman returns to the bench to team with Dan, competing against Benchwarmers Markkus & David, in this Walling-hosted game. Walling does his best to break the teams with a difficult Odd One Out. Clearly frustrated, Markkus threatens to find a step stool so that he can slap the taste out of Ashton Kutcher. Markkus calms down as he discovers a new favorite pitcher of all time. The show discovers the true root of Chuck Knoblauch's yips, and in the end, neither team wants the other team to lose. https://www.patreon.com/benchwarmerstp https://www.facebook.com/benchwarmerstp https://www.twitter.com/benchwarmerstp https://www.instagram.com/benchwarmerstp/ https://www.teepublic.com/stores/benchwarmers-trivia-podcast

Pat Boyle, filling in for Sal Licata on Monday morning, becomes incensed and loses it on a caller after he suggests Chuck Knoblauch and other former Yankees are better baseball players than Aaron Judge, and that the Yankees star player does not deserve to get paid this offseason.

Ked and Hal are back with episode 194 of The Morning Skate. On this weeks episode: - Biz Devs Beer League Update(s) - Buffalo fires head coach Ralph Krueger - Taylor Hall takes a slap shot to the face - You're the most overpaid guy in the world - Zegras and Drysdale have Ducks looking good for the future - Jimmy Vesey Road Trip - Blues athletic trainer Ray Barile reaches 2000 games. - Jagr is still ripping it up Hal gives appreciation to David Krejci and talks about COVID with the Bruins. Ked gives you an update on the Rangers, discussing the 9-0 beating of the Flyers, whether they should extend Buchnevich and is a big Chuck Knoblauch fan. Lastly, the boys talk about JT Miller, Matthew Tkachuk, UMASS hockey and Tom Wilson in this weeks Heroes and zeroes. Do you work out and find yourself sore afterwards? Is it hard to fall asleep at night? Do you need help reenergizing and focusing throughout the day? CHECK OUT CANIBRANDS. @canibrands is the trusted and recognized CBD brand of hockey. Their organic products are in 75% of NHL locker rooms. Use our code TMS25 for a 25% discount on all CBD products: topical creams, sleep aids, broad-spectrum sublingual oils and oral sprays. Try out their CaniSleep with a money back guarantee. It's a can't miss. Do you listen to The Morning Skate? Please be sure to leave us a review on iTunes. Every review lets us know how we're doing, how we can continue to make the podcast better and help us land future guests. Be sure to check us out at www.morning-skate.com Follow us on social media! Facebook: www.facebook.com/morningskate/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/morning_skate Twitter: twitter.com/Morning_Skate

Judd and Declan wrap with Reusse and the curmudgeon makes it very clear who the best Twins second baseman of all time is!

Luke Jones and Nestor discuss Ravens woes at center position and future of offensive line

This is the one hundred and eleventh episode of the Average to Savage podcast featuring Chuck Knoblauch former MLB player. Paul Guarino talked with Chuck Knoblauch about winning the rookie of the year and world series with the Twins, playing the New York Yankees dynasty team, and what he's up to today. Follow Chuck Knoblauch https://twitter.com/chuckknoblauch This podcast interview with Chuck Knoblauch was originally recorded on November 4, 2020

This is the one hundred and eleventh episode of the Average to Savage podcast featuring Chuck Knoblauch former MLB player. Paul Guarino talked with Chuck Knoblauch about winning the rookie of the year and world series with the Twins, playing the New York Yankees dynasty team, and what he’s up to today. Follow Chuck Knoblauch https://twitter.com/chuckknoblauch This podcast interview with Chuck Knoblauch was originally recorded on November 4, 2020

Chato regresa junto con Mau, Llaca y Adrián para analizar los encuentros de semana 14 donde los equipos de la AFC son locales. Consejos de #FantasyFootball que te pueden ayudar a ganar tus encuentros cruciales de final de temporada. Les recordamos que pueden enviar sus preguntas a nuestra cuenta de Twitter en www.twitter.com/lacuevadelfan, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lacuevadelfan/ o si prefieren, pueden llamar y dejar un mensaje de voz al +52 55 5351 0816.   Música de: https://taketones.com/track/we-move-forward License N: TT000270157 Audionautix, YouTube Audio Library

Several themes emerged through our exhaustion - many uses of "fly" (aka phly), Chuck Knoblauch, shows with a side of existential dread, microphone mana & BYOM, blake’s unsettling habit of spitting on the first few rows, @Eagles football, Heaven Can Wait, Bethlehem Steel, and dusty non-wizard libraries & a new #surprisequiz Get Blake's Stuff:Albums: Stuffed Boy, The Blake Album, Twelve Years of Voicemails from Todd GlassPodcast: Blake’s Takes for God's Sakes Podcast

Don't look now but the Titans are a good football team... and we may have jumped the gun with the Bills. The Jets released Le'Veon Bell, so what's next for the RB? What is Matt Ryan's future with Atlanta? Greeny explains why Jose Altuve is now in the same category as Mackey Sasser & Chuck Knoblauch. Plus, another edition of Who Ya Got? with Bubba.

Born in Houston, Texas, Knoblauch came from a baseball family, as his uncle Eddie Knoblauch and father Ray Knoblauch played and managed in the minor leagues between the late 1930s and mid-1950s. Knoblauch played for the Bellaire High School baseball team, which also produced many other former major leaguers, including Chris Young (outfielder) and Jose Cruz, Jr.. Knoblauch missed his senior season (1986) due to a broken leg, but he cheered from the bench as the team won the state championship.Chuck stole 25 or more bases for 10 of his 12 major league seasons. He has the most stolen bases in Minnesota Twins history since moving in 1961. He returned in 2018 to the new Yankee Stadium to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the ‘98 World Series Champions.Chuck was AL Rookie of the Year in 1991. A four-time All-Star and four-time World Series champion, he miraculously walked more times in his career than struck out. He walked 804 times and only struck out 730 times. The turning point of Chuck’s story occurred in 1998 when he developed the Yips.

In his 1st Non-Gag order interview since the Mitchell Report. Former NY city police officer, Elite Strength and Conditioning coach and director of player performance at oil city athletics! He is also a controversial public figure in MLB steroid scandal. Brian McNamee joins "The Happy Hour".Brian and Hap talk his days as a Cop, MLB trainer, Strength Coach and his days as Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, and Chuck Knoblauch's Strength and conditioning coach. The guys talk the famous "MLB STEROID SCANDAL", fitness, recovery and what Brian is up to now.Easy to tell Brian is a good person and makes for a fun episode!!!Follow Brian on Instagramwww.instagram.com/brianmackmlbThis Episode was brought to you in part by ***American Nutrition Center***718 Broadway, Everett, MA 02149 https://americannutritioncenter.com/Also CardilloUSA.com – #1 Custom Weight Belts in the World!The Greatest Weightlifting belts on planet Earth!!!!!!Also follow **Alpha Elite systems**(Lets get Hap a invite to this exclusive establishment)https://instagram.com/alphaelitesys******The Happy Hour is Brought to you by*********** La Cosa Roasta Coffee***https://lcrcoffee.com/Promo Code KINGHAP saves you 10%THE OFFICIAL TOP SHELF LIQUOR OF THE HAPPY HOUR SOCIAL CLUB                            Clear Water Distilleryhttps://shop.clearwaterdistilling.com/lorenz-craft-spirit-4-pk.htmlPromo Code KINGHAP saves you 10% off all orders over $100The Best and Most Delicious craft Liquor!!!!!!*****UPDATED Benefits and DISCOUNTS are listed in The Happy Hour Social Club... https://www.facebook.com/TheHappyHourSC/*****Guys Get a look at this one*****Liquid I.V. (360-degree wellness brand)https://glnk.io/koyv/kinghap*PROMO CODE KING.HAP Saves you 25%(DISCOUNTS INCREASED for you guys!!!Now a top sponsor!!)LOW CARB PROTEIN DONUTS!!!!!https://elitedonut.com/collections/elite-donutsPromo Code KINGHAP saves you 15%(OMG Try the Birthday Cake donut!!!)The best deal on healthy food deliveryReal Good Foods Promo Code KINGHAP save 15%http://kinghap?aff=128

The Big Opening; (0:35) We celebrate the 20th Episode of the 4 Team Parlay and Rick's in play PGA Gambling play as an ode to Tim's son (4:00) The Belmont, the ole win to lose money mastered by Ricky and Tim talks about Sackatoga Stable and Tiz the Law (5:29) Tim goes hardcore on horse racing's mismanagement (6:24) The most idiotic thing Tim has seen in a long time, the COVID rules at various midwest casino/racetracks that make literally no sense no matter how committed you are to Fauci (10:15) The 4 Team Parlay encourages you to donate to Good Sports at www.goodsports.com (11:55) "I can tell you what is NOT happening in Western Tennessee, drinking virgin frozen daiquiris". (13:45) We get an update on Rick's Recreational Hockey League, weirdly keeps saying "ice hockey" so you don't mix it up with other forms of hockey (18:00) Listen for a "Butt Ending" reference, the absolute 100% best penalty in all of sports (18:38) "Can you call your own delayed penalty?" (21:15) A breakdown of the new COVID golf rules for recreation golf in both Arizona and Illinois (24:40) A rant about Chlorine, still now unsure how we worked this into the conversation (28:00) The NHL gets a 75% chance of coming back (32:50) The College Football Season gets a 40% chance of coming back "uphill battle, downward trend" (40:57) MLB's management/labor dispute drives a 47.32% chance of return before we go into "Breaking News" with our Breaking News Correspondent Whit Story, Tim increases the number to 73.94% (46:43) We give the NBA a 90% chance of coming back, "easy" mostly due to the smaller number of people you need and the bubble strategy, we mention the Latvian Laser (51:05) MLS' huge advantage of the model of the German and English leagues now proven, also a bubble strategy at Disney's Swan and Dolphin, Bubble, Bubble, Bubble; 83.79% chance to come up, bubble (55:20) The Best Ever for Me... and Me Alone -- our new segment around those sports memories that are special to you, mostly just you (57:00) Patrick Kane Goal, we do a lot of hockey in this podcast? (58:45) Whit's baseball memories from 1991 include the Braves/Twins WS and we talk about Danny Gladden, Chuck Knoblauch and Gene Larkin (59:59) "Get the Bichette out of here" (1:04:40) We attempt to cash the 4 team parlay, but realize we only placed 3 bets -- oops

This week, the guys ex-pound (see what we did there?) upon a veritable cornucopia of wild ideas. A text message to the entire world. A secret hideout fit for the evilest of cartoon villains. Legal speeding, a lower drinking age, first time love, Chuck Knoblauch, and one unlucky Abuela. Strap in! When this thing hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious...

Gold Glover, 2x Silver Slugger, AL Rookie of the Year, 4x All-STAR, 4x World Series Champ...Chuck Knoblauch joins the THE SPORTS ANTIDOTE to tell his side of the story, and he pulls no punches. Chapter 1 includes his upbringing, relationship with his legendary father, High School, Texas A&M & getting drafted to Minnesota. Share! Pass along! @nkoreansanta --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/north-korean-santa/support

Hey everybody, I'm Brian Clapp VP of Content and Engaged Learning for WorkInSports.com and this is the Work In Sports podcast…Watching the Super Bowl one year I looked down at my hands and noticed I was shaking a bit. Here I was on my couch, watching someone else perform...and I was nervous? Anxious? Stress hormones we're flooding my body, speeding up my heart rate and breathing, while increasing my blood pressure. Again, from my couch. I stopped and laughed for a second thinking, how in the hell do these athletes do it?How does Tom Brady, or Lebron James, or  Daniel Hudson perform to their best with everyone watching and everything on the line? History. Fame. Teammates. Fans. All in one moment. Again, I remind you, my hands were shaking on my couch with none of this at stake. You may think elite athletes are a special breed, but that isn't it. They may have special skills, but that doesn't necessarily correlate to a special mentality. Take Ernie Els for example. 4-time major winner on the PGA tour was three feet away from making par on the first hole of the masters in 2016. 3-feet. He missed. And then proceeded to miss 5 more times. A quintuple bogey on the first hole from three feet away. Anna Kournikova - remember her? Photogenic Russian tennis star. Lost the ability to serve. 17 double faults in one set during a match. Look up Steve Sax, Rick Ankiel, Mackey Sasser, Chuck Knoblauch and you'll find more elite athletes with incredible physical skills, who were unable to master the mental side of performance.Physical skills are just one part of the equation - what separates the good from the great and the greatest ...is the mental component.But these athletes don't go it alone.  They don't will themselves to be mentally tougher or stronger or more resilient. They have help. Mental Skills coaches are changing the way organizations consider their athletes. For a long time, it was a focus on physical strength, nutrition and repeated game-conditions practice to reach maximum output. But over the last decade, a greater emphasis has been placed on the mental side, conditioning the athletes with how to think, prepare, execute and frame their mind. Mental skills training now works in conjunction with strength and conditioning to make the athletes unlock their full potential. This to me is absolutely fascinating, unlocking the power of the mind to help the elite skills come through more consistently.  This is why I couldn't be more excited to have Hannah Huesman, Philadelphia Phillies Mental Skills Coach and incredible social media follow, on the show… here's Hannah:Questions for Hannah Huesman, Philadelphia Phillies Mental Skills Coach1: I'm so excited about this conversation because it is a totally new direction for our podcast – I've wanted to delve into the mindset as it applies to athletes, but also for job seekers, for a long time so I'm thankful to you for coming on.But before we get into you work with the Phillies organization, let's go back a bit so we can understand how you got here. You were a division 1 athlete – playing both basketball and softball at UT-Chattanooga – so clearly you had a love of sports. Why did you decide you wanted sports to be more than just a hobby and you wanted it to be your career?2: I've always felt being a student-athlete is a huge advantage because of the life skills you get exposed to – time management, leadership, responsibility, teamwork – how did being a student-athlete help you in your life at large, but in your career especially?3: You studied kinesiology and exercise science as an undergrad, then kinesiology with an emphasis in sports psychology and motor behavior as a grad student at the University of Tennessee – it sounds like you had career focus pretty early on, what pushed you in this direction?4: Let's talk about your field of mental training on a high level then we'll dig in there a bit. It seems interesting to me that this isn't new science by any stretch… but now it is outside...

First Draft Episode #194: Linda Holmes Linda Holmes, pop-culture critic at NPR and co-host of the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, is out with her debut author of Evvie Drake Starts Over. I loved what Linda had to say about how practicing appellate law helped hone her critical writing; getting used to listening to her own voice; how she manages anxiety and depression, and the difficulty in even acknowledging that she wanted to write a novel. Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode I got the good NPR shirt, and the soup-sized mug, when I visited Linda to interview her at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. Linda’s interview on The Hilarious World of Depression podcast Television Without Pity, which became Previously.tv, which recently became PrimerTimer.com! The Amazing Race was on the top of my mind when thinking about Television Without Pity Again With This, a podcast hosted by Sarah D. Bunting and Tara Ariano, two of the founders of Television Without Pity, who do episode-by-episode recaps of Beverly Hills 90210 Stephen Thompson, one of Linda’s dear friends and co-workers, worked at The Onion before joining NPR Linda’s writing was formerly hosted on the Monkey See blog at NPR, but that blog was sunsetted in favor of expanding the Pop Culture Happy Hour brand Dancing with the Stars is now discussed on NPR, and that is largely due to Linda’s influence All Songs Considered, the music-oriented NPR show and podcast that served as the inspiration for Pop Culture Happy Hour Talk of the Nation, a live call-in show which had Linda on as a guest. She loved the spontaneity of participating in a live radio show Linda had every intention of writing a book for National Novel Writing Month, alas her apartment flooded Chuck Knoblauch throwing a baseball into the stands, hitting Keith Olbermann’s mother If the yips interests you as much as it interests Linda, check out Field of Fear, a 30 for 30 mini-documentary Before Sunrise is a movie that’s mostly talking, and is amazing, but Linda wanted Evvie Drake to have more action than that Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a TV show that brings Linda joy and is fun, but also is warm-spirited and compassionate Audie Cornish gets a break from being a very serious NPR news reporter when she guests on Pop Culture Happy Hour Linda uses Matt Damon growing potatoes in the film The Martian as a parable for the importance of art and culture in our lives Sarah Burnes at The Gernert Company reps Linda (hear Sarah Burnes’ episode of First Draft with Sarah Enni here) Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; Michael Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their careers and creative works. Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s free! Rate, Review, and Recommend How do you like the show? Please take a moment to rate and review First Draft with Sarah Enni in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your honest and positive review helps others discover the show -- so thank you! Is there someone you think would love this podcast as much as you do? Please share this episode on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or via carrier pigeon (maybe try a text or e-mail, come to think of it). Just click the Share button at the bottom of this post! Thanks again!

The Zen Master Timmy Nebraska returns for another podcast of playoff conversations and more. H. Upman AJ Fernandez Nicaraguans were the choice for this episode. Topics included dieting, our collective need to visit Cuba, the ingenuity behind how the old cars in Cuba have been kept on the roads, the Blazers chances against the Warriors, Markelle Fultz forgetting how to play basketball, Chuck Knoblauch's hometown and inability to throw the ball to first base, Kawhi's lack of fear, Siakam's consistency issues, physics, the prettiest jump shots of all time, heels in the NBA, whether or not the Lakers will be LeBron's last team, the killer instinct, Iguadala's impact on the Warriors, what the Unibrow will do now that Zion is likely headed to NOLA, and our podcast's newfound international audience. Tell your homie's about us!

The Zen Master Timmy Nebraska returns for another podcast of playoff conversations and more. H. Upman AJ Fernandez Nicaraguans were the choice for this episode. Topics included dieting, our collective need to visit Cuba, the ingenuity behind how the old cars in Cuba have been kept on the roads, the Blazers chances against the Warriors, Markelle Fultz forgetting how to play basketball, Chuck Knoblauch's hometown and inability to throw the ball to first base, Kawhi's lack of fear, Siakam's consistency issues, physics, the prettiest jump shots of all time, heels in the NBA, whether or not the Lakers will be LeBron's last team, the killer instinct, Iguadala's impact on the Warriors, what the Unibrow will do now that Zion is likely headed to NOLA, and our podcast's newfound international audience. Tell your homie's about us!

Corwin and Josh look up some of the greatest players in the history of the NPB, KBO, CPBL, and Dominican League. Then, they dive into a discussion on the recent Ozzie Albies extension, with a bonus story involving Chuck Knoblauch. 

This week, before we get to the Scummie Awards, we dodge an errant throw from a man who was bred for baseball. It was his dream, from the time he could remember, and he achieved that dream, despite his smaller stature. Although he was very successful, someone his brain just wouldn't let the good times roll, and it ruined his career, and sent a sportscaster's mother to the hospital. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be the last person he sent to the hospital, as his personal life started to crumble, and multiple marriages dissolved, resulting in court, violence, arrest, and humidifiers used as weapons. Work so hard that coaches tell you to stop practicing, win 4 World Series rings, and injure an old lady with a badly thrown baseball with Chuck Knoblauch!! Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!  Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman  Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com  Get all the CIS & STM merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com  Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS & STM!!  Contact us on... twitter.com/crimeinsports  crimeinsports@gmail.com  facebook.com/Crimeinsports  instagram.com/smalltownmurder

The guys talk about Chase Utley being compared to Chuck Knoblauch after the Dodgers' loss to the Rockies.

The guys talk about Chase Utley being compared to Chuck Knoblauch after the Dodgers' loss to the Rockies.

Steve is joined by Meg Rowley (Fangraphs, The Hardball Times) to discuss some unlikely Mariners success, including James Paxton’s no-hitter, defense-first first base prospects, and the batting-out-of-order rule. Plus SteveStories of the Singing Umpire and a continuation of last week’s discussion about Ty Cobb.WARNING: Late in the show, there is a cussword uttered in regards to Chuck Knoblauch. It is a quote. More seriously, a racial epithet from a newspaper article printed in 1892 is spoken at approximately 30:07. TRIGGER WARNING: During this discussion of historic racism, there is some mention of sexual assault.THE INFINITE INNING FACEBOOK GROUP can be found here.TABLE OF CONTENTSLord Byron’s Umpire Follies*Cucumbers*Ty Cobb II*The James Paxton no-hitter/no-hitter ennui*Excitement is a positive*People who boo and people who don’t*The batting-out-of-order rule*Can the Mariners continue to contend?*Evan White, Keith Hernandez, and Ichiro’s decline*Rachael McDaniel’s “In the Sun”*Failing to extend the baseball bridge*Osuna-Schneiderman*Favorite spy movies*Goodbyes.

Baseball Prospectus writer Rachael McDaniel joins Steve to talk about surviving the offseason when baseball is your defense against time spent alone with yourself, plus Steve’s encounter with Chuck Knoblauch and twin tales of a great songwriter and a not-so-great pitcher from 1936.TABLE OF CONTENTSChuck Knoblauch and the Chicken Française theory*Van Lingle Mungo and Larry Hart*Rachael McDaniel: Baseball Prospectus writer at 20*Baseball as a lens on experience and vice-versa*The Box*Finding baseball again after losing touch*The price of being candid* “Time is limited”/”Hurry up, please, it’s time”*The bird’s nest at the University of British Columbia*We can’t all be STEM kids*Knitting away anxiety*Does a poor postseason negate the enjoyment of the regular season?*Coping when your baseball coping device has been taken away*The aging Blue Jays and the departure of Josh Donaldson*Troy Tulowitzki/Don Mattingly*Goodbyes.The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game’s present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they’ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can’t get anybody out?

The Bronx Pinstripes Show #141: Topics include the Judge’s Chambers in right field, Masahiro Tanaka throwing to Gary Sanchez vs Austin Romine, Chris Carter pulling a Chuck Knoblauch, Joe Girardi not trusting Jordan Montgomery, Didi Gregorius’ hot streak, the Yankees leading the league in runners left in scoring position, Luis Severino’s bounce back start, roster moves, and Gleyber Torres. Rich Kaufman joined us to discuss Derek Jeter vs Alex Rodriguez: No Love Lost (31:00). We break down the Jeter and ARod bromance in the 1990s, comments ARod made that caused their rift, days as teammates in the 2000s, and post-retirement years. Thank you to our Sponsor, The Bronx Brewery. Their Bronx Banner Ale is now at Yankee Stadium! You can also find them at their South-Bronx based Tasting Room, and we will be drinking the Bronx Banner Ale at the June 10 event. Get in touch: @YankeesPodcast @Andrew_Rotondi @ScottReinen Submit mailbag questions: bronxpinstripes.com/podcast Leave a voicemail: 646-480-0342 If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a rating and review. #yankees #nyy #newyork #baseball #mlb

The co-creator and co-writer of the #1 international hit podcast Welcome to Night Vale and New York Times bestselling co-author of the novel of same name, Jeffrey Cranor, dropped by the show to talk about the importance of collaboration, deadlines, and bad writing. In addition to producing and touring with the theater ensemble The New York Neo-Futurists, the playwright and author tours with live shows for the Night Vale Presents production banner, co-created with Joseph Fink. Night Vale Presents now produces four podcasts that regularly sit at the top of the charts — including Within the Wires, also created by the author — and recently published two volumes of episode transcripts that include extras for fans of their original show. Welcome to Night Vale has been described as “NPR meets The Twilight Zone,” a sci-fi broadcast about a small desert community where strange mythologies abound, and all conspiracy theory is potentially real. If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, please click subscribe to automatically see new interviews. In Part One of this file Jeffrey Cranor and I discuss: Why writing collaboratively can help you become less ‘precious’ about your work How a hit podcast producer and novelist divides his time An author’s comforts in coffee and sports talk radio Why the law of averages says you won’t always find the words The import of building a platform and setting a deadline for publish Listen to The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience below ... Download MP3 Subscribe by RSS Subscribe in iTunes The Show Notes Audible is Offering a Free Audiobook Download with a 30-day Trial: Grab Your Free Audiobook Here – audibletrial.com/rainmaker How #1 Hit Podcast ‘Welcome to Night Vale’ Co-Creator Jeffrey Cranor Writes: Part Two Welcome to Night Vale Welcome to Night Vale on Facebook Night Vale Presents Jeffrey Cranor on Amazon Jeffrey Cranor’s website NY Neo-Futurists Theater Company Jeffrey Cranor on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter The Transcript How #1 Hit Podcast Welcome to Night Vale Co-Creator Jeffrey Cranor Writes: Part One Voiceover: Rainmaker FM. Kelton Reid: Welcome back to The Writer Files. I’m your host, Kelton Reid, here to take you on yet another tour of the habits, habitats, and brains of renowned writers. The co-creator and co-writer of the number one international hit podcast, Welcome to Night Vale, a New York Times best selling co-author of the novel of the same name, Jeffrey Cranor dropped by this week to talk to me about the importance of collaboration, deadlines, and bad writing. In addition to producing and touring with the theater ensemble, The New York Neo-Futurists, the playwright and author tours with live shows for the Night Vale Presents production banner co-created with Joseph Fink. Night Vale Presents now produces four podcasts that often sit atop the charts, including Within the Wires, also created by the author. They recently published two volumes of episode transcripts that include extras for fans of their original show. Welcome to Night Vale has been described as NPR meets The Twilight Zone. A sci-fi broadcast about a small desert community where strange mythologies abound, and all conspiracy theory is potentially real. In part one of this file, Jeffrey and I discuss why writing collaboratively can help you become less precious about your work, how a hit podcast producer and novelist divides his time, an author s comforts and coffee and sports talk radio, why the law of averages says you won’t always find the words, and the importance of building a platform and setting a deadline for publish. If you’re a fan of the Writer Files, please click subscribe to automatically see new interviews as soon as they’re published. This episode of The Writer Files is brought to you by Audible. I ll have more on their special offer later in the show but if you love audiobooks or you’ve always wanted to give them a try, you can check out over 180,000 titles right now at Audibletrial.com/Rainmaker. We are rolling, today, with a very special guest, Jeffrey Cranor, co-author and co-creator of the international phenomenon that is Welcome to Night Vale. Thanks for coming on the show, Jeffrey. Jeffrey Cranor: Thanks for having me, Kelton. Kelton Reid: I’m just fascinated by kind of what you guys are doing and all the writing projects you must have in the hopper just is inspiring to see. It looks like you ve just recently released some new books. They look like transcripts, so those are collections of kind of the transcripts of the shows. There are two collections now, is that right? Jeffrey Cranor: Yeah. We put out the first two volumes which would be the first two years of Welcome to Night Vale episodes. That gets us through June of 2014. Kelton Reid: Wow. Jeffrey Cranor: We’ll hopefully have the next two years published pretty soon, and then we’ll, hopefully our goal is just to have an annual volume of Night Vale episodes each year. We added a bunch of, just so it wasn’t just transcripts, we added a bunch of kind of director s-notes-style background info on some of the episodes, and things like that. Kelton Reid: Right. There’s some bonus stuff in there for the die hards and they can kind of see, like glimpse into your brilliance as a writer. You’ve done so many things as a writer. I understand you have a theater background, you’ve been a playwright and a theater producer. Now you are a best selling author, a New York Times bestselling author of this novel, Welcome to Night Vale, of the same name. So you’re a busy guy, and you have all these other projects in the hopper with the Night Vale Presents, it seems like you have four shows now under that banner. Jeffrey Cranor: Mm-hmm (affirmative). The Challenges of Being an Aspiring Playwright Kelton Reid: Just a lot going on. Maybe to start out, for listeners who aren’t familiar with the Night Vale international phenomenon that is the podcast and the best selling books. Give us a little bit about your origin just as a writer, and how you got here. Jeffrey Cranor: Sure. Origin as a writer is really just, I don’t know, I think kind of just like origin of any other sort of career, you just sort of like it a lot. I can t remember when I started writing, I remember as early as elementary school, just writing satires of some of the books that were read to us in classes by teachers. You would write these little goofs on that and it would be a thing that you would, that I would just pass it to a friend and they would laugh and giggle and stuff. It would be a one page deal. It wasn’t like I was writing books as a ten year old. So yeah. For me, I read a lot of just whatever seemed fun to read. I remember reading Hardy Boys. I remember reading a lot of Choose Your Own Adventure books. I read Alice in Wonderland over and over as a kid. I visited my grandparents a lot as a kiddo, and they had a lot of humor books, people like Erma Bombeck and Dave Barry and Lewis Grizzard, and I read a lot of them. I really liked comedy. I just always thought, I just realized at a young age I wanted to be a comedy writer. And I wasn’t really sure what course that would take, because I’m not really a get up in front of people and make people laugh type of person, but writing seemed a lot of fun. So yeah, I got really into Dave Barry all throughout high school, and I tried to be a humor columnist for my high school newspaper, and got into journalism, and that is what my degree was in when I went to university. I think that was sort of my goal, but I got really invested in theater in college, I just enjoyed it so much. I enjoyed watching stage plays. I enjoyed reading them, so I started my hand at playwriting and trying that, that’s been kind of a long process for me, because the world of making theater is really expensive. There’s a lot of gatekeepers along the way. It’s a very tough field to break into. It just takes a long time to get your work accepted there’s a lot of different stops along the way. It’s not like submitting a manuscript to a publisher and saying, “Hey. I’d like to print my book.” You just get a lot of no, no, no, no. Then, eventually someone will say, “Sure. We’ll print this book.” In playwriting it’s just a lot of people going, “Sure. We’ll get some actors together and do a staged reading,” and that’s fun but also a little disheartening, just because it takes so long to produce stuff. Why Writing Collaboratively Can Help You Become Less Precious About Your Work Jeffrey Cranor: Anyways, I got involved, like in my early 30’s, so almost ten years ago I got involved in a theater company called The New York Neo-Futurists here in Manhattan. It’s a collective of writers and performers, and we do this weekly show called Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, and it is basically 30 plays on a timer of 60 minutes. We do a show where we have 30 short plays. Kelton Reid: Wow. Jeffrey Cranor: We do them in a random order every night based on every play, the audience just calls out the next play that they want to see, and we do that play. We have a timer on the wall that is 60 minutes long, if it runs out before we’re done, well too bad, we just stop in mid-show and say, “Goodnight, everyone,” and send you home. It becomes this kind of theater-as-sport sort of thing as competing against a timer, and we write new plays every week for it, too. Kelton Reid: Amazing. Jeffrey Cranor: It was just really a wonderful thing for me as a writer to do that because it forces you to not be precious about your work, it forces you to make new things constantly, to always think about reinventing yourself. That was really good for me. That really helped take a lot of the load off because as a playwright, it’s all about this one work, and you spend months and months, and maybe years just trying to make a thing, and the Neo-Futurists sort of taught me that, that’s not really necessary. Just find a stage and get something up, just make something happen. Be in the now. Be in this moment. Podcasting was really that way, too. Then, I met my co-writer Joseph, who created the concept of Welcome to Night Vale through the Neo-Futurists and we just loved podcasts a lot, so we started making the Welcome to Night Vale show. Kelton Reid: Amazing. Yeah. It s exploded from there into this number one international podcast and best selling book, and more to come. Do you have another novel in the works? The first one is really cool. Jeffrey Cranor: Thank you. Kelton Reid: It’s a standalone story, right? Jeffrey Cranor: Yeah. Kelton Reid: It’s kind of an offshoot of the podcast. Jeffrey Cranor: Yeah. Our goal in writing that novel was to make a novel that anyone could read. We’re not trying to supplement the expanded universe of Welcome to Night Vale. Although, expanded universe is such a weird loaded term. That, and canon, and things like that are always sort of stuff we avoid saying. But yeah, we didn’t want to write a novel that only fans of the podcast would like, because that just seemed sort of dull. I think the podcast develops it’s own fans, and I think we wanted to write something that, if you liked the podcast you would like the novel. I don’t know. It’s been really interesting. We’ve met a few people that never heard about the podcast, saw the book, liked the cover, or something like that, or had vaguely heard about it and read it, and just thought it was wonderful. That was sort of our goal, was to make something that you didn’t really need any other context for. Kelton Reid: Yeah. Jeffrey Cranor: We are working on another one. We are working on a second novel. I don’t have a release date for it yet, but we’re almost finished writing it. Kelton Reid: Cool. Jeffrey Cranor: That’s going to be exciting. It will be set in the same universe, I guess, is the right word to say, for Night Vale. But yeah, we’re just going to try to follow different stories, and kind of create a separate kind of standalone piece that kind of connects to the podcast, connects to the other novel, things like that, but ultimately is it’s own thing. Kelton Reid: Yeah. Amazing stuff. Congrats on all the successes that you all have had. Joseph Fink is the co-author and co-creator of Welcome to Night Vale, and now you’ve been on a book tour, you re doing live shows. You have, now, these four other podcasts, and you re producing Within the Wires, is that correct? Jeffrey Cranor: Yeah. That’s right. Yeah. We’re down to our last two episodes of that show. Kelton Reid: It is quite a ride. Jeffrey Cranor: Thanks. Kelton Reid: I was really enjoying it, today, this morning over breakfast. Jeffrey Cranor: Awesome. I hope you got your breathing exercises in Kelton Reid: I wasn’t sure if I was feeling relaxed afterwards, but it was a lot of fun. It’s amazing, amazing stuff. The newest addition is the Mostly Void, Partially Stars. I’m totally mispronouncing that. Then, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe and those are those collections that can be found at welcometonightvale.com. And where else can we find your writing? I understand you have a couple of other websites where you put stuff. Jeffrey Cranor: Yeah. Mostly I would say if anything, like my writing is mostly through Welcome to Night Vale, and also through the Within the Wires podcast, and then we have these books out. I occasionally post to my website, but I say occasionally. I may have not updated in the last four or five years. I bet if you went to my personal website right now it would say, “Working on a new podcast idea with Joseph Fink.” We’ll see how that goes. Then, I have my Tumblr blog, Happier Man on Tumblr, so I post to that occasionally. Then, also my writing through the Neo-Futurists I don’t get to perform as often as I used to. Kelton Reid: Yeah. Jeffrey Cranor: We’re going to be, I’m pretty excited, because the first three weekends in London, the first three weekends in November I’m going to be in London, and we’re going to be doing Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind performances at the Rosemary Branch Theater in London for the first three weeks in November. I’m really excited about that, because I one, get to do Too Much Light, again, and two, will get to perform in a totally different country. Kelton Reid: Yes. Jeffrey Cranor: Which will be great, so anyway I’ll be in London at the Rosemary Branch the first three weekends of November, performing my own original writing and the original writing of everyone else in the company. Kelton Reid: Love it. Wish I could be there. I’d love to dig into your process a little bit as a writer. I’m fascinated by kind of the depth and breadth of the stuff you do. I know that I have this memory of someone asking, or Neil Gaiman writes about kind of like people asking him, “Where do you get your ideas?” I’m sure a lot of people ask you that, but I’m not going to ask you that, here. Jeffrey Cranor: Great. Because I don’t know. Kelton Reid: Right. He said, “I make them up out of my head. What else is there.” Jeffrey Cranor: Mm-hmm (affirmative). How a Hit Podcast Producer and Novelist Divides His Time Kelton Reid: I understand that the hard part is the execution, and kind of getting your butt in the chair, and actually getting those ideas down. How much time per day would you say that you are reading or doing research for stuff? Jeffrey Cranor: I guess it’s pretty loose depending on how much, I guess, it’s depending on how strictly you define research. Right? Kelton Reid: Yeah. Jeffrey Cranor: There’s some days where I don’t write a single thing, and I don’t read a single thing, but it may be a day where I’m listening to podcasts all day, or I’ve got an audiobook on in my head, which is sort of like reading. I listen to a lot of podcasts. I spend a lot of time without a book, or even a computer in my hand, and it might just be because I’m going for a run or mowing the lawn or something, and I’m just plowing through some podcasts. Kelton Reid: Yeah. Jeffrey Cranor: Which is, in a lot of ways, given my job in writing podcasts, is the equivalent to a writer reading a book. Right? Kelton Reid: Yeah. Jeffrey Cranor: It’s just getting in the flow of that. Listening to a lot of podcasts, and reading a lot of books. I spend a good chunk of each day trying to do a little bit of that. Some days, like the past couple of weeks, I’ve tried to be in front of a computer every day, writing several thousand words a day, so we can finish the novel. Kelton Reid: Yeah. Jeffrey Cranor: So I can finish the last few episodes of Within the Wires, and all that kind of stuff. It kind of varies, but yeah, I try to get down a few words every day, just because it just feels good to just kind of spit out a few things, and a lot of those are just in a file I call rough material on my computer. It’s just a text file full of miscellaneous junk. Sometimes I’ll try and write a little traffic report for a Welcome to Night Vale episode, or something. Kelton Reid: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Jeffrey Cranor: Maybe it’s just a diary thing. I don’t know. Talking about the leaves changing here in New York. It’s really beautiful out, right now. Just to kind of get a little bit of that out. 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An Author s Comforts in Coffee and Sports Talk Radio Kelton Reid: Are you brewing a pot of coffee before you sit down to write? Jeffrey Cranor: I brew a lot of coffee. I try to stop drinking coffee once it s past 12pm, just for general health, but yeah, I mean I just love coffee. Yeah. I’ll brew coffee every morning. My morning is kind of my time that if I’m going to just not do anything, I will sit and have a coffee. Sometimes I’ll go out and sit on the porch, if the weather is nice, and just drink coffee, and maybe put on a podcast, just listen to that for a little bit. Maybe do a crossword, just kind of unwind from the stress of sleep, and then kind of once I’ve kind of gotten through my morning coffee, I’ll run downstairs and start actually typing on things. Kelton Reid: Nice, nice. Once you get going and kind of get into the writing mode, then do you still have the headphones on? Do you listen to music, or do you prefer silence? Jeffrey Cranor: For a long time I used to just have headphones on all the time. I’ve gotten to the point now, especially in writing, in writing the novel, I’ve kind of gotten out of the habit of listening to anything while I write. Now, I kind of try and work in silence if I can, but for many years I would write while listening to sports talk radio. I would tune in to, and I don’t know why that is, I think it’s because I’ve listened to, I’m a sports fan, so I would listen to sports talk for a long time. I don’t know that sports talk radio is good or good for you, however it’s kind of relaxing to me. I don’t know. It just sounds like people in the background chatting. It is kind about the same thing, over and over again. Every now and then there’s a moment when I can stop and hear a really interesting story, like this person really did some research and has this interesting story to tell, so I’ll stop and listen to that. A lot of it is just, I don’t know, callers calling in complaining about the Cowboys defense or something. It’s like, okay, this is just comforting. This is just a thing happening. It feels good to just kind of type with some energy happening in the background. Music is hard for me, because I will start getting into the music, and then will forget to write. Kelton Reid: Yeah. That’s an interesting one. I haven’t heard it before. I imagine it’s kind of like those guys you meet in a bar who are just total strangers, but all of a sudden they want to share their opinion with you. Jeffrey Cranor: Right. Kelton Reid: It’s okay, it’s like, Yeah, totally. Yeah. All right, man. Go on about the defense. Jeffrey Cranor: You hear the same thing over and over again. I mean there’s only so much you can hear about, worry about any usage of the Red Sox middle relief rotation. It’s like I’ve heard all these arguments before. This is great. It’s very comforting because it’s something from childhood. Why The Law of Averages Says You Won t Always Find the Words Kelton Reid: Cool. Here’s the million dollar question for all writers. Do you believe in writer s block? Jeffrey Cranor: No. I don’t. I mean, let me hedge that a little bit by saying, I believe if you feel that you have writer s block, then I guess you do. I’m not saying that you can overcome any moment where you can t think of a good idea. There are some days, I don’t know, just writing is harder than other days. Some days running is harder than other days. Some days I don’t want to have to mow the lawn. You just do, and some days you just do a better job at mowing the lawn than others. I think the thing with writers block is that, I don’t know, let’s go back to the sports analogy, it’s like a batting slump. Right? The law of averages in baseball is just that you are not going to constantly hit 300. You are not going to hit three out of every seven, or three out of every ten at bat. You are going to have stretches where you’re only get three hits out of 20, or 25 at bats, some days you’ll have ten straight at bats with a hit, or getting on base. It doesn’t necessarily mean that it s not going to come back around. You always, like in baseball, as in writing you just sort of trust your process, trust your body, trust you mind, that you’ve been doing this for years. It’s going to come back around and I don’t think there is any shame in taking a step away from your computer for a little bit and saying, It’s just not there. I think you have to give yourself a fighting chance, and not give up after 30 minutes. Some days it’s not there for you, and go out, clear your mind, do something else, come back later. Read a book. Listen to a podcast. Do something to kind of help start it up. I don’t. Writers block sounds so, has always sounded so, like, permanent and that this is a condition that you can t get over. Neurologically, maybe there is something to that. Chuck Knoblauch of the New York Yankees once just stopped being able to throw the ball to first base. He literally could not throw the ball to first base. I think the same thing happened to the Red Sox catcher, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, who just stopped being able to throw the ball correctly. I’m sure there’s some neurological thing that says, oh suddenly you cannot remember how to do a really basic function. Kelton Reid: Right. Jeffrey Cranor: I don t know, I think there are a lot of ways around it. I think if you are writing all the time, that’s great. I think where writer s block seems really profound is when you are on a deadline. You re like, I have until 8am tomorrow morning to finish this ten page paper due for my econ class. I have writer s block. Well, of course you have writer s block now, because there s a lot of pressure on you to finish it immediately. Kelton Reid: Can we see a note from your doctor? I’d love to take in your workflow because, I mean, it seems with the different types of writing you are doing that you have some processes in place. Are you a Mac or a PC guy? Jeffrey Cranor: I’ve been on a Mac for the last, probably the last seven years, now. Kelton Reid: Yeah. And are you working in Microsoft Word or Scrivener primarily, or do you kind of bounce around? Jeffrey Cranor: I have a program called TextWrangler, which is a software developing platform, it’s basically a text only platform. It’s made for programmers. I usually just set it to text only, and not HTML, or Java, or C++, or whatever it’s wanting to do it’s programming. I used to make websites as a freelance job. I used to code websites, back when web coding was really simple, like back in the late 90s and early aughts when it was HTML CSS sort of stuff. I’ve always had a program like this on my computer and I started writing in it because there is no formatting. Kelton Reid: Right. Jeffrey Cranor: There is just, you just have your letters, and spaces, and paragraphs, and that’s it, It kind of keeps me from messing with all the bells and whistles of Microsoft Word. Kelton Reid: Yeah. Whereas my friend Sonia says, “The dancing bologna.” Jeffrey Cranor: Right. The Import of Building a Platform and Setting a Deadline for Publish Kelton Reid: Cool. Do you have some organizational hacks that kind of keep you in line with your multiple projects, multiple deadlines that you can share with us? Jeffrey Cranor: I think the number one, and this seems sort of obvious, but I think the number one thing to keep me organized is deadlines. And that seems really obvious, because it’s built right into your question, which is deadlines. But, I think on the outside of any project, when I want to do something and I cannot tell you how many times in my life I’ve said, I want to do a thing, and then I just never do it. And you tell people, I’m thinking about this kind of project, I’m going to write, a thing where it’s like this, and people are like, “Cool, cool.” But, then you don’t every really actually do it. And I found in theater once I sort of, you know, talking about the Neo-Futurists earlier this idea of just getting your work out there, finding a platform upon which to put your work, and not wait around for like submitting it to places or going through this longer process of just saying, “You know what? I’m going to self produce this,” or “I’m just going to find a place that I can do this, and I’m going to take it on myself.” Once you do that, you have a deadline. You’ve rented a theater. You’ve set a place to do a thing, and now you have to do it. Once you have a deadline that solves 90% percent of your problems, because after that you know just have to make it. I feel like, for me anyway, having the responsibility to actually make something, because then it’s no longer about whether or not I have a good idea, now it’s whether or not I’m going to fulfill the promise I made to the theater that I rented, and the people I invited to see the show. Now it has nothing to do with the quality of my idea. I just have to trust that I’m good at writing enough to execute it. Kelton Reid: Right. Jeffrey Cranor: That helps a lot, and I’ve done a lot of bad writing and a lot of bad theater. I’ve done a lot of bad of those things, but that’s fine. You just do it and you move on. I think the other thing that I’ve found really helpful, in podcasting and theater you just sort of naturally have to do this, which is working with collaborators, and having collaborative efforts as a writer is really, really great because it just … One, it broadens your own horizons as a writer. It makes you think about the way other people write, and other people have good ideas. There is someone else in the process to be like, “I don’t know that that’s a good idea,” or “I’d kind of like to avoid this particular trope.” Kelton Reid: For sure. Jeffrey Cranor: That’s really good to hear in a collaborative process. Plus, they help you stick to you deadlines. It s one thing to let yourself down, it’s totally another thing to let other people down, and I don’t like doing the latter. Kelton Reid: Yeah. Jeffrey Cranor: So that’s it. Other organizational hacks, when I sit down to write I’ve taken to turning off my phone, and my WiFi on my computer. I don’t write by hand anymore, because it s just too slow. Sometimes I jot notes in a notebook, but mostly everything is done on the computer, now. I will shut down my WiFi and I will close everything but my text editor. Then, I’ll just write. If I have a question that I need to look up, I will just highlight it with a series of pound signs, so I can go back and search for those later. So yeah, I do that just to keep me from going down the rabbit hole of, You know what I’m going to check, I just got a text message, let’s see what this is, or, Oh, somebody needs this from me on email. I’m going to go ahead and do that. I’m just trying to go back to the 80s and 90s when you just couldn’t reach everyone all the time, whenever you wanted. Kelton Reid: Right. Yeah. That’s fantastic. Because, you know, I hear writers say that they’ve got these apps that will shut off the internet, or whatever, but the easiest way to do it is actually shut off the internet. Jeffrey Cranor: Yeah. Just go completely off the grid. Kelton Reid: That’s the way it should and there’s no going back. Thanks so much for joining me for this half of a tour through the writer’s process. If you enjoy The Writer Files podcast please subscribe to the show and leave us a rating or a review on iTunes to help other writers find us. 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