Paul Olden is the current public address announcer for the New York Yankees at Yankees Stadium. He has been the announcer since the Yankees moved to their new ballpark in 2009. Born in Chicago, Olden moved with his family to Los Angeles as a child. He attended Dorsey High school and Los Angeles City College. Olden was formerly a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Yankees, Tamps Bay Devil Rays, California Angels, Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Eagles, UCLA Bruins, Los Angels Ram...
Aug 12, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Season 3Ep. 31
With two Emmy's under her belt Jaime Maggio has made a name for herself in the world of TV sports. Born in Long Island, New York, where she grew up to be an enthusiastic Mets and Giants fan with the help of her grandparents. When she was in 9th grade, she moved to California were find public speaking with the help of two insightful teachers who saw something in the young girl. She studied at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she graduated with a degree in communications. Maggi...
Aug 05, 2022•2 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 30
Craig Bisacre is the Director of Photography for Texas A&M University Athletics, where he has been capturing the Aggies 18 Division-1 teams, focusing his lens on the impressive talents of their student-athletes, since 2019. Proud "Army Brat" developed his resiliency with 11 different military moves, including living abroad in South Korea. Bisacre graduated from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and earned his Bachelor in Arts in Integrative Studies – Photojournalism. Before moving...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 56 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Kevin Reece is a New Yorker who found his way to LA in in 1986 and has never look back. Kevin has cover Super Bowls, World Series, NBA Finals and his favorite sport college football. For almost 40 years Kevin has travel the country covering sports, the early morning flights, games with pouring rain and long drives. We talk about growing up in New York in the 60's and 70's. Sneaking on to the floor to shoot basketball at Madison Square Garden, being a only children and motel pools in the south....
Jul 23, 2022•2 hr 48 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Nathaniel S. Butler have photographed more than 35 NBA Finals as the senior official NBA photographers. Based in the New York area, Butler has been covering the New York Knicks and New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets for the NBA since 1984. Butler went to St. John’s University and began photographing basketball games at Madison Square Garden, where the team played their larger games. At MSG, he met photographers from Sports Illustrated who were also there to cover the game. “I started working as an assista...
Jul 15, 2022•2 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Everard Williams Jr. is has the look of a TV doctor and the voice for radio. He has a business degree and went to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California because he taught the bug. The photo bug. A working photographer for over 30 years Everard still has the drive and passion for his craft. Deeply curious and welling to push bounds in photography has pushed him into becoming an educator at the school he once attended. For over 20 years Everard has been help shape the next great phot...
Jul 08, 2022•2 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 26
Luis Sinco is a photojournalist with more than 40 years of experience. His career started with small, ethnic community newspapers in Seattle and Los Angeles. In 1987, he got a job as a reporter-photographer with Copley Los Angeles Newspapers. He was a freelance photographer for four years before joining the staff of the Los Angeles Times in 1997. Sinco was part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for the Times—for coverage of the Northridge Earthquake and for the 2004 California wildfires. In 20...
Jul 01, 2022•2 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Joe Johnston’s approach to photography is grounded in an earnest desire to serve his community through the lens of his camera. His most cherished assignments have given him the opportunity to document the events that shape the human experience. In particular, he is drawn to the beauty and destructive power of nature and humankind’s relationship with the environment. Joe has received awards from the Associated Press, the National Press Photographer's Association, The Society for News Design, the ...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Ben Orloff finished his fifth year atop the Anteater baseball program as head coach and 10th season with the program for the 2022-23 school year. Orloffassumed the reins of UC Irvine Baseball in July of 2018 as the ninth head coach in program history. Orloff initially joined the coaching staff in 2014 as an assistant rising to associate head coach in the five years since. In his first year in 2019, he took the team to a second-place finish in the Big West going 37-17 overall with 21 home wins. T...
Jun 17, 2022•2 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Erik Helmstetter is a partner with Oder Investment Management, LLC. Erik’s responsibilities include portfolio management, investment plan construction and new client generation. He has been in the industry over 20 years and has previously worked at Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. His experience is enhanced by his professional designations as a Certified Financial Planner, Chartered Retirement Plan Specialist and Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor. We talk about saving for the future at al...
Jun 10, 2022•49 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Scott Wilson is a Master Gardener in Colorado. As the Master Gardener at the Galileo Garden Project he managed and coordinated the garden activities for a school garden with 105 raised beds, a 42' dome greenhouse, and over 20,000 sq ft of growing space. This program educates students in gardening activities and produces thousands of pounds of healthy produce to the school district's lunch program. He's in a new house, with a new garden, and building it from scratch. Every step is documented on h...
Jun 03, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Wyman Meinzer is the only official State Photographer of Texas, named so in 1997 by the Texas State Legislature and then Gov. George W. Bush, an honor he still holds today. He was raised on the League Ranch, a 27,000-acre ranch in the rolling plains of Texas. Since then, he has traveled to every corner of this great state and all points in between in search of the first and last rays of sunlight in its magnificent sweep across the Texas landscape. Meinzer graduated from Texas Tech in 1974 with a...
May 27, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 3Ep. 20
James Quantz is a commercial, advertising photographer. Things have been rolling along quite nicely for James, managing to work with some amazing clients over the past twenty years. James started a YouTube channel during Covid to fill his time. He shows some great behind the scenes stuff as well how and the why he made his images. www.youtube.com/c/QuantzPhoto/featured He has a great instagram page www.instagram.com/quantzphoto/ James also starting making a really cool photo product P ro Light M...
May 20, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Season 3Ep. 19
John Biever was born in 1951 in Port Washington, Wi. He started photography working with his father, Vernon, who was the long time Green Bay Packer sideline photographer. John started shooting football in 1965 with him and recalls being at the NFL Championship game in Green Bay that year; Cleveland Browns, NFL legend Jim Brown’s last game. He vividly remembers shooting the 1967 NFL Championship game in Green Bay, the infamous ‘Ice Bowl’, played in -15 degree temperatures. A picture he took at th...
May 13, 2022•2 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Lynn Rogers came to Cal State Fullerton as a student with aspirations of playing baseball. He picked up gymnastics in a classroom and the rest is history. The 1972 CSF graduate began coaching gymnastics at the Anaheim YMCA and with the Long Beach KIPS Club. Soon he launched the Titans’ program and ran it with his heart and soul for its first 24 years (1976 thru 1999), compiling an overall record of 246-115 (.681). He won the 1979 national championship (AIAW) and had three second-place (2 AIAW, 1...
May 06, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Chet White completed his 12th season as the director of photography for University of Kentucky athletics department. White is responsible for leading Kentucky’s award-winning photography department. In addition to serving as the primary photographer for the department, White oversees UK’s growing photography staff. Under White’s direction, the staff has expanded to cover all home events for UK’s 22 sports. White oversees the scheduling of all photoshoots and serves as the primary photographer fo...
Apr 29, 2022•1 hr 37 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Christina Burkenroad is an American soccer player who plays as a forward for Liga MX Femenil club CF Monterrey . Born in San Diego, CA, she was only four years old when her mother past away. Her father suffered from depression and she became homeless for a time as well as a self described junkie. Christina hired a scholarship to Cal State Fullerton and played under Demian Brown. She signed with the Orlando Pride out of college, later finding here way to Norway to play for IK Grand Bodø . In July...
Apr 22, 2022•2 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Jordan Larson is a three time (2012, 2016, 2021) USA Olympic Women's Volleyball player. Her 2021 Olympics win allowed her to complete the trifecta of winning an Olympic bronze, silver, and gold medal. Not bad for a kid from Hooper Nebraska. Jordan started her college volleyball career at the University of Nebraska. In 2006, she led the Huskers to the N CAA title and was named to the AVCA All-America First Team. In 2008, as a senior, she was named to the AVCA All-America First Team. She was also ...
Apr 15, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Art director, producer, stand-up comedian, TV show host. If those job descriptions don’t conform to your image of a successful production executive, maybe that’s because you’ve never met one quite like Marcus Vadas. He has 15 years of experience creating and producing award-winning commercials, videos and documentaries. Just over 6 years ago Marcus co-founded Campsite Media House. We talk about his career path and what it took to get to where he is today. He understood very early on that staying...
Apr 08, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Maxx Wolfson has been working at Getty Images since 2003. He is the current Director of Photography for the Americas. At Getty Images, Maxx started working directly with the NBA working on images from photographers all over the league. He quickly transitioned to a field editor working in sports, news and entertainment. Maxx would be in charge of editing events ranging from the Super Bowl to the Academy Awards. In his time at Getty Images, it has taken him to major events all over the world. Thro...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Drone talk with Jay Seidel; we talk about what's new, what's coming and all the new rules are happening to the drone world. Jay is professor and director of the Fullerton Drone Lab at Fullerton College. He has always had a passion for aviation as he was a member of the Civil Air Patrol as a teenager, where he flew gliders and immersed himself in all things aviation. This, coupled with his other passion of visual storytelling is what lead him to drones and to create the Fullerton Drone Lab at Ful...
Mar 25, 2022•53 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Ethan Gallogly is a professor of Chemistry, life long hiker and now an author of the new book The Trail. His boots have covered countless miles, including the John Muir Trail, the High Sierra Trail, the Oregon Section of the PCT, the Tahoe–Yosemite Trail, and the Theodore Solomons Trail. He was a reviewer for the Wilderness Press guides: Sierra North, Sierra South, and Yosemite National Park and has read nearly every book on the history of the Sierra Nevada.He has also hiked and explored mainlan...
Mar 10, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Jim Colton is currently Editor at Large at ZUMA Press and Editor-in-Chief of zPhotoJournal.com. He began his career in 1972 as a color picture editor for the Associated Press. Five years later, he joined Newsweek as Senior Photo Editor for International News. In 1988, he became Executive Vice-President and General Manager of Sipa Press in New York, before returning to Newsweek in 1992 as the Director of Photography. for 15 years Jim was the Photography Editor at Sports Illustrated. Colton was on...
Mar 04, 2022•1 hr 56 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Dr. Laura Zettel-Watson is an Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Psychology and a Coordinator, Aging Studies Program at California State University, Fullerton. Her research focuses on close relationships in later life. She is especially interested in how social support and social participation impact physical and psychological well-being for at-risk populations. She currently is involved in studies investigating caregiver health and well-being, social support resources available...
Feb 26, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Ricky Romero was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He attended Cal State Fullerton from 2001 to 2005. The lefty starter helped the Titans capture the 2004 College World Series. Romero was drafted by the Blue Jays as the sixth overall pick (and first pitcher selected) in the 2005 MLB draft. On April 9, 2009 Romero made his Major League debut against Detroit Tigers. Ricky earned the win while surrendering two runs on seven hits over six innings in the Blue Jays' 6–2 victory. Injuries shorten hi...
Feb 18, 2022•2 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Candice Ward has a massive drive to make an impact in photo community by creating beautiful visuals and she’s done just that with frozen lake hockey series of images. We talked about growing up in Canada as indigenous woman, finding a camera and her great hair.
Feb 12, 2022•2 hr 42 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Katie Meyers is the Director of Content at Tulane University. We talked about growing up in a house full of creatives, becoming a Bruin and then working at the school. We talk about going to her first Catholic mass, understanding what winter is like outside of California and learning at Youtube University. She still drives her Mazada 3 she got in high school and lives to make great work.
Feb 04, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Denise Curry led UCLA to AIAW National Championship in 1978, has been named All-America three times (1979, 1980, 1981), set fourteen school records and was all-time leading scorer (3,198 points) and rebounder (1,310). She scored in double figures in every one of the 130 games she played for UCLA. She averaged 24.6 points per game. She won gold medals in the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, Pan American Games in 1983, World Championships in 1979, [5] and silver medals at World Championships in 1983,...
Jan 28, 2022•2 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 4
After 6 years as the Colorado Rockies team photographer, Matt Dirksen said it was time to move on. As an award winning photographer with a strong passion for stories Matt is driving into the freelance world of photography. We talk about finding photography, 135mm and running around Africa and making beautiful photos for clients. Check out his website www.dirksenphoto.com and follow him on Instagram @ dirksenphoto to see some of the wonderful work Matt is making.
Jan 21, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 3
18 years old and ready to take the world by storm, that's Drake Harris. The owner of Aggravated Culture a clothing line for young kids. Drake has his mind set on the bigger things. We talk about how an idea become a business, shipping problems, ideas that work great and those that fell flat and what it takes to make it to the next level. Check out his website AggravatedCulture.com and follow him on Instagram www.instagram.com/drizzy_drake1230/
Jan 14, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 3Ep. 2
