On this episode of Off the Clock, I’m joined by my friend Nate, who’s become a good friend, is a longtime media personality, a huge music fan, and a great guy to work with. Here’s some of what we talk about:

• First question: Who is “Big Shot Nate?”
• the necessity of ego to work in media while keeping it in check when you’re not on the air
• developing your forward facing personas and giving audiences something they cannot create themselves
• the work ethic of Denver Nuggets’ bench player Zeke Nnaji
• the comedy of the Marx Brothers, the TV show M*A*S*H and the comedy of Lewis Black
• the person in our lives who is allowed to be the meanest to us
• which athlete’s brain you’d pick to parachute into and experience one sporting contest through their eyes
• what do swimmers think about while they’re swimming?
• what makes Nate the angriest and how does he handle his anger?
• how we’re in the FO part of the acronym FAFO
• music video recommendations from Dire Straits, Billy Idol, Michael Jackson and Peter Gabriel

Find Nate at Mile High Sports.

Recorded at Number Thirty Eight (where they were nice enough to turn down the music for us)

Theme song by Sorry Sweetheart.

Logo by Nebulus Visions.

Produced by Deft Communications.

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