The Booth Boys are back to offer some mea culpas, recap their 4th of July, what we’re watching and reading, life and goals updates, and the debut of a new segment: The Egghead of the Week
@Cody any chance you’ve got a link to the Tim Kennedy expose podcast you mentioned? Trying to do some googling and Spotify searching and not having much luck.
Edit: never mind, sent this while at lunch and had made it to the marine shower story so thought TK discussion was done. Got back in the car and almost immediately heard it called out on the Anti Hero podcast.
Going to the money discussion, I agree that it is very personal and people are under no obligation to let random strangers on the internet know how much you make.
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There can be a strength in numbers issue when it comes to sharing information with people in your industry. For example, the tremendous comedian Maria Bamford will go into great detail around how much she makes for a show, what were her expenses, what she pays her opener, etc. Far too often people (especially content creators) are taken advantage of by shady operators and corporations, so having information out there for people to base their rates off is good for everyone.
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Found the part of the pod where @MerchCzar was talking about how people have felt like the podcast has gone downhill and fallen off very interesting. I get how some people want the pod to just be the same as it was almost a decade ago, but I find those podcast that have never evolved and keep doing the same thing are ones that I have actually dropped off of. There are little moments across the NLU stuff that always make me chuckle when I think about how long I’ve been listening/watching. Like @djpie in the Northern Ireland pod about how he’s evolved from I’ll just sleep on a couch to yeah there is a reason people stay in nice hotels or how everyone wishes The Kid was still younger in the most recent strapped. Started listening as a single guy in my 20s in Hoboken, now I’m a wellllll into my 30s dad in the burbs. Kinda rambling here but the main point is how much I appreciate how things have grown as I’ve grown.
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As a public educator I would love for what people make be more secretive
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As a private school teacher I would love for it to be public info
I really appreciated the discussion about whether or not the podcast has “dropped off” or whatever. Some honesty here. I personally have moved away from listening to most of the tournament recaps in favor of Shotgun Start. I love the narrative podcasts with KVV, etc. Trap Draw usually hits at the right time of the week where I have time to listen on my commute so I’d say I have been listening to more of those. It’s not that I don’t enjoy all the content (mostly). There’s just so much competition in the golf space for attention between YouTube and podcasts. I do appreciate the boys are changing things up.
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Shotgun Start is the only golf podcast that is can’t miss for me. Other Fried Egg content is pretty high up on the priority list as well. KVV’s narrative pods were the only can’t miss-pods NLU put out. The weekly recaps are fine and the Trap Draw is good on occasion, but nothing that’s appointment listening. I’m glad Fried Egg started an LPGA pod (Mixed Bag) as I’ve been looking for a replacement for a while. I gave the Booth a try and I can’t do NLU’s LPGA podcasts anymore. Some people are more talented behind a microphone than in front of it.
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As you can imagine, I’m out on all of it now. The only content worth listening to was the KVV stuff.
Not one other pod is of interest. What the main guys don’t realize is that 95% of their stuff isn’t timeless. Recap pods become yesterday’s newspaper in 12 hours. Trap draws are so bad I can’t listen to them. Who is going to go back and listen to any of their non KVV content ever? What do they do that’s timeless? What do they do that’s not a schtick or personality based? When people tire of “the big right miss”, “chloroform ball” and want some actual thought, other than “Tommy’s going to win every week”, what do you have? It’s all schtick and now there are many more orgs in golf media doing better work. What is NLU building that generates long term value? What engages their followers? Another Titleist infomercial where someone asks Jordan or JT how they hit a chip?
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