Awful Announcing Podcast: John Brenkus on “SportScience,” Marcellus Wiley, Brinx. TV, and more

Host Brandon Contes interviews executive producer and host of SportScience, John Brenkus. Brandon and John discuss a wide range of topics including creating and hosting SportScience, how the science community reacted to the show, creating and running Brinx. TV, and more.

Here’s the full breakdown:

• :43: Legacy of SportScience
• 2:36: TV aspirations?
• 4:00: Start of SportScience
• 4:58: Building set and producing SportScience
• 6:50: Desire to find this info out
• 8:38: Did SportScience influence how teams measure players?
• 10:21: Reaction from Science community
• 11:45: Episode that stands out?
• 13:03: Experiments that went wrong?
• 14:13: Why pro athletes weren’t paid to participate?
• 15:40: Coming up with ideas
• 16:25: Format of the show
• 18:07: Not hosting SportScience segments
• 18:50: Brinx. TV
• 21:46: Content with Brinx Bux
• 24:08: Measuring viewership
• 26:00: Marcellus Wiley
• 26:38: GOAT Code
• 27:35: The Perfection Point
• 28:28: Most room for performance growth among the “big four” American sports
• 29:42: How much of a great athlete comes down to genetics and hard work/effort/training?
• 30:57: Any unfulfilled passion projects?

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