15 Minutes of Fame (15 M.o.F)

Welcome to a 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy and tonight I have moved out of my mobile rig, into my not mobile home. It has turned into... It's turning into a music studio.

This is kind of part of what we're gonna talk about tonight. Tonight the point of us getting together for a 15 minutes of fame is that captain floyd and mr. Wormstead have joined us... There were gonna be more, but, hey... 2020. I've got no excuses for nothing. If you are here... You are and if you're not... You're not.

2020. The point of tonight's conversation is that we just wanted to discuss that we've been doing this pandemic thing for what now... Seven months? Something, six or seven months.

Obviously all of us have been jobless in the sense of our announcing gig and our emcee gigs, as we would do either live or broadcast - whichever version. We have lost a line of work that we were so used to just being like, "well, somebody will call me. This weekend will book up.

I can't make plans for your birthday party this weekend, i'll be gone. " that was easy. Now, past 6-7 months, it's like, "yeah, you wanna have that seventh grade birthday party again, that I missed, a long time ago? I totally have time. I mean, I got a 10'x10' tent. I could put a speaker out there. We're gonna rage. "

My name is goldy. Our goal today is to discuss three points of mental health tools for event professionals that can help them through this year for the next half year of 2020.  Welcome, doctor katie boyd, who are you? What do you do? Where you at... And what are we gonna discuss today? Thank you. I'm doctor katie boyd. I have a private practice in st louis, missouri.  I see individuals in therapy and help them through a lot of different concerns. Anxiety is my specialty. So certainly, right now people are stressed. There's no doubt about it.  I've been in my practice for 10 years, and i've never really seen this type of universal stressor that we're facing. People are definitely stressed. And as you mentioned, the event industry certainly is facing so much ambiguity and uncertainty.  Today we'd like to talk about tips for how to help manage that, navigate that this year. Our first point today to discuss is the wonderful world of facebook.  Facebook. It is a platform for discussion, as people would like to utilize. It started, I believe, around 2005 ish. I think the website kind of caught fire. I remember getting on it, and it was designed to be, like share pictures and show your mom that you went to the farm today and you had fun with goats and oh, look at my cat, it's funny.  Now it's turned into this complete toxic society. It is... I don't even want to have to explain it. If you don't get what I just said, then you must be some sort of magician.  But it is a poorly executed communication device that is allowing people to hide behind a fourth wall and be sort of like the little guy at a house party where he like, runs in the front door and, bitch slaps the big guy and then runs out of the party again.  That is not communication. That is acting like a jerk. Facebook is a situation, katie, what's your take about facebook and why are we making this a point in mental health today?  I think certainly. Social media, all social media, but facebook especially, because of the discussion platform, can create a lot of stress for people.  I think that a lot of us, you know, people are out of work right now. They've got time on their hands. We were isolated during quarantine so it could be a tool to use to connect with people, as you said. That's what it was designed for. During this time of stress. I think a lot of people are displacing their feelings, their stress. They're angry and they're kind of using facebook as an outlet for that.  It's easy to get sucked into having an argument with a stranger on facebook in the comments or even just reading the arguments of other people in the comments. That creates more anger and stress and it takes us away from the purpose of that tool, which was to connect with each other. I think it's important for people to pay attention to how they feel when they're reading. These comments or getting into arguments and trying to not take things personally.

Welcome back to another 15 minutes of fame. I'm excited for today's podcast due to the fact that it is real time. It's right now, and it's a hot, hot idea.  This morning i'm back with andy jensen of bonfire brewing. We discussed the block party about 2-3 months ago. About how it wasn't gonna happen in the year 2020 because of all the things.  There's a long story short wrapped up. All of a sudden, it's july 2020 and the same guy who's gonna be throwing bonfire block party in 2021, next year, has found a way to work with city and all the officials and the human beings of eagle county to throw a concert in july 2020. This is huge. How?  Let's talk about this. We're gonna form this interview today... Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?  It just answers all the questions and it will get us to the point of throwing a live concert in 2020. Dude, i'm excited. How are you doing this morning, brother? I mean, you called me tuesday morning. Maybe moments after you had figured out you were ready to throw a concert. You're like, "dude, you might be like the second person next to my wife who knows about this concert. " and i'm thinking -  "concert? What language are you speaking, sir? " andy, just real quick throw down again, who are you and what you trying to do? Like you said - andy of, bonfire brewing, up here in eagle.  For the past couple of months, once we realized that block party wasn't gonna be a reality this year, given the circumstances, we started trying to figure out a way to bring some sort of music to eagle because it's sorely missed. People really wanted us to try to pull something off and working with optimum events, our block party partner, town of eagle, eagle county, and probably most importantly, my wife, amanda.  We were able to put together a plan that fits within the current state and county regulations. That can be pulled off safely. Obviously, it's a much smaller scale with only 500 people versus 5000. It's something and we're looking forward to trying to set a good example, so future events might have a chance at doing the same thing.  I really like what you said there, "setting a good example" because a guy in your position is going to be under fire on every line until you satisfy each and every one of those lines. Once you do, you're gonna have that little red cape behind you - like that guy is a hero. Andy, let's talk about the who first.  Who is of this concert from bands to logistics to staging all the things. Who is helping this concert happen? Well, you're gonna help us make it happen, right?  I'll be on the stage with a microphone, coincidentally. Robert randolph kind of lead the charge to put together this all-star group that is willing to get out there and wants to get out there.  You've got marcus king coming along. Duane betts from the allman betts band. We originally had a couple members of lettuce, and not just one of those folks is coming. We also added j. J. Johnson, the drummer from tedeschi trucks.  Great local bands that are opening up on friday and saturday, respectively. The evolution and the runaway grooms have been really gaining a lot of steam up here.  Yeah, they do a great job. First time hearing it right there myself. It sounds like there are parts and pieces of bands coming together. I'm only just assuming that is happening because of the current world stasis.  You know what's happened, bands rarely all live in the same place in the country. A lot of these folks were relatively close by and connected through one pathway or another.  While they couldn't get their full lineups together, they all had a similar goal - to get back out there. Every band member is gonna have a different level of comfort, but these guys were okay with coming out.

Welcome back to another episode of 15 minutes of fame. I am joined by marianne and larry of the business known as first place collectibles, a company that does trophies and memorable and commemoratives that athletes and participants would take from those events. Why is this an important subject in events?  Well, if you've ever been a runner, hey, am i? I'm getting a trophy. I just won first place. I just worked my butt off this year to get to this point, and I got a first place trophy that was recycled from a softball tournament.  Marianne, tell me a little bit about yourself and the company you're working with. Our company is first place collectibles, and I have been working there for a couple years with larry puzniak, one of the owners and zach hickert the other owner, and we sell modern trophies. We're all athletes, the guys kind of head of the baseball division, and they're also runners.  I'm a runner and I have all these medals behind me. Not that i've earned them all. Some are ones we've created. Our company is built of athletes who also designed race medals. We're all graphic designers. We love the sport. We love the community of running. We volunteer at races.  We're part of the community and then we just decided, "hey, we're all designers, we could definitely design these. " that's great and it's nice to have anyone in a company who is of the fabric of the actual content being discussed. It's hard to hire somebody in a skiing company who doesn't ski.  You don't even know what we're talking about. Thank you, marianne. Larry, what's your position with first place collectibles and how'd you get here?  Three years ago, zack and I started this company. We both come from brand marketing and advertising background. As our kids got older and got into sports, we saw a huge opportunity.  We just wanted to make a change in how we bring branding into what you get for accomplishing the feat of crossing that finish line. Let's get into the meat of the conversation.  We have three points to discuss. We're going talk about the fashion of a trophy. We're gonna talk about the function of a trophy, and we're going to talk about the positive productivity of a trophy in the world of 2020.

Last year, we got to do it one way. This year, we gotta do it another way. What is the first thing, julian, that a trail runner needs to know to start running in the summer of 2020?  You know, that's what separated us right now is that we are moving forward. That's just it, I think, and I get it to see so many trail run events this summer that have had to outright cancel their races.  That's certainly really tough on the industry. It's tough on the event organizers, and it's also really hard on whether you're a recreational athlete that wants to best your times from the past couple years, your favorite races, and you kind of build your fitness goals around these levels that you know you're going to do each year of these certain events. They're gone.  You know, it's hard on the elite runners that make an income from it, and need to be in the elite level. Maybe they're on the, us mountain running team, or other various ways of competing.  Julian, you know that your discipline here happens to be like one of the only disciplines in sports. You get to run your full series at this moment. Yeah, it's great. It's because of the event size, and we're taking the necessary precautions too feel good that we're doing it responsibly, which we could get into.  We did push back our season two months, so our first race is no longer in two months, on june 27th. Our first race now is august 22nd. Yeah, so we're gonna throw five races in seven weeks starting august 22nd.  They used to be separated by two weeks. This summer, it's just week after week after week. The second way to get back into the trail, running in 2020. This summer.  Is what? What do you physically have to do, julian, to make this happen? We have 500 people that do our races. If we could get 500 people together, in three months, that's what we feel good about? But then what can we do to mitigate - when those 500 people are together -  What are they all getting their hands on - that maybe we can mitigate, so that 500 people can still be together? Like physical? You're speaking physical? Yeah. What exactly - touch. Yeah. So that were being respectful of our current stasis. Where we understand that covid is throwing down, and it's not like you're just like - "hey, we're gonna go throw a race. To hell with everything. " no, you're playing by the rules. You're being conscious.  You're being compassionate about what's happening around you and with a group of 500 people. What are those physical things? Each year, you know, we usually have a pretty killer bib pick up, kind of sponsor sack.

What does 5g really mean? When we're talking about telecommunications, 5g literally means fifth generation technology standard.

This is a next generation of how we're gonna get our next cat videos or whatever it is we wanna watch because there's this high demand for data.

We're consuming so much data and of course, the market wants to give it to us, so we got to get faster at it. So this 5th gen technology is supposed to get us closer to that and allow us to download more videos, whatever it is we're watching.

The interesting part is that this happens over our existing cell network. They're not really necessarily building out any new cell networks. I mean, we did recently go through an auction where t-mobile mainly was the main winner that bought some of our 600 megahertz chunk of spectrum. We're talking about an rf spectrum and so around in the 600 megahertz area, but normally cell operators are operating their systems in 1. 2 and higher ranges.

As a side note - I saw something come across where 6 gig might start becoming of interest here. Criss - not to, interrupt, but only because we have 15 minutes and I do want to get as much information into our viewers as possible.

A lot of things you said right there might start popping up questions, red flags, ideas, concerns for our viewers. We know that 5g is merely just a word. Like calling your daughter julie.

5th generation. What does it stand for? You were just speaking to it. It's a moment on a rf hertz schedule. Okay, on a scale you could say.

Let's talk about this scale because 5g is just merely a name, within this scale. This scale is the rf waveform scale. The hertz - what is that? The kilohertz to gigahertz scale, right?

Maybe I should show you real quick what that looks like. Why don't we go ahead - show us what this means? Because I think ultimately we need to understand this scale so that people understand that radio frequencies - rf - when we say rf - radio frequencies - are here on... By the way, criss, where the radio from?

That's kind of like saying - where does air come from? I guess it's an innate thing here. The cool thing is a radio wave. Maybe this will better describe it.

A radio wave itself, it's electro-magnetic radiation. There's no doubt about it. It travels at roughly the speed of light.

It certainly travels in outer space much better than it does here on the planet earth because it gets attenuated over distance. There's two components of this - an electrical wave and a magnetic wave.

Good morning. Welcome back to 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy. Today it's gonna be another rendition of learning about how to be effective in the world of events and industry, but then it's covid life.  What is today - april 26? Something like that, I believe. 24? Yeah.  24. Sure. Sounds great. You can see already a little bit of confusion and a little bit of whirlwind going on in my head. I'm trying to collect my thoughts. I'm trying to be very poignant because we have three points to talk about in this particular interview today.  Today i'm with bryan allen. Bryan allen is a producer of a company known as popfizz productions. They do in-studio and out-of-studio media creation -  Video, print, picture, all the things which means they're working with every line of production when it comes to a shoot.  Could be catering. Could be cameras. Could be lights. Could be - the list is long. It's always creative.  I'm gonna let bryan take it away from here - let you know who he is, how long he's been in the industry and all the things that he does.  Then we have three ways a media company can jump back into business, a month and some change, after covid-19 has been throwing curveballs at us, all year long. Bryan - tell us who you are. Take it away brother.  Thanks, goldy. Thanks for having me, man. It's an honor to be here. You mentioned my company's name is popfizz. We create still photography, video assets, animation for brands, agencies, networks, live events, all over the world. We're based in the southeast. Knoxville, tennessee. But we we work all over the place.  I met you, in switzerland. We get out there and get around. We do a host of production. We do commercial stuff for brands. We do linear television, but we also do live events.  We've don't quite a bit of that. I think that's what you're more interested in today. It's really, pretty similar for us. Probably 90% of production we do, no matter what the distribution model, is location based.  We're out of the office. Out in the real world. Post covid, that's gonna impact everything we do. Your media on a very large scale, but the type of business you do is very parallel to a two-person team.  If you're just getting started with your dslr and you've got your new light and you got your studio backdrop and you're, like "sick, let's make content. "  How long have you been doing it bryan? I've been a photographer all my life. Popfizz is in it's eighth year. I've been doing video production for probably 4-5 years before that. I've been doing this for 10 - 15 years professionally.  I've been a creative, all my life. That's the idea that we want people to take away from this interview. To understand that, even if on a major scale, if you're in a hollywood studio or if you are in a small room that you rented in your hometown. There are gonna be some ideas to acclimate to, moving forward into post covid era, when it comes to how we do our job.  There's three ways. I want to talk about these three ways. They're not the only three ways, but they're the three ways that you are going to move your company and you yourself into this movement.  The first way, i'd like to talk to you about - you let me know that there's an emotional part number one - the emotional part of moving back into, post covid.

Welcome back. My name is goldy. Today, I am joined with the legendary mr. Peter graves. If you take a little page out of my book, I have displayed my skis in the background because I love skiing. I got a ski map right here. Ski areas. This is all the things in the united states. I used that map from myself as a manifest of where I want to go in the world.  I literally am sitting, side-to-side, right now, with somebody who's done that before. Mr. Peter graves, one of the most historied skiers on the planet. Tell us a little bit about yourself from your words and good morning.  Welcome to the show. Good morning. You know, goldy, I even took a shower for this today. That's incredible.  That's how important it is. Hi to you and hi to folks that are listening. It is a very interesting time for us announcers.  Freelancers of all stripes. I on my best days, I really do try to think of what good can come of this. There's certainly, no doubt, there's been an awful lot of human tragedy in this and far too many people have died.  The prognosis by all reporting accounts is looking more positive, that things are plateauing a little bit. Here in vermont, where I live, i'm in my office now, as you said, adorned with the memorabilia of a long career.  How long has it been? I first started announcing when I was a cross country ski racer in college, at fort lewis, in durango. The first event I recall ever doing was about 1974.  That's what I was born. I was cutting my first chops, doing ski jumping then, up at what was the purgatory ski area, north of durango. Still is.  I had no idea, when I was asked to do it by my college coach, adolph kuss. He said, "you know, you like to talk. "  I always had fun doing dj voices, especially because it was the epicenter, that era, of top 40 radio. Everybody - the real don steele and charlie tuna and all the folks at khj and larry lujack at wls.  All of them were actually profound people in my life, to emulate the voices and know what you want to do with your voice. I think I was able to weld my interest in talking and announcing and phrasing initially with my interest in ski racing.  You put them together. I put them together and I had the encouragement to do that both from my parents, but also from my coaches. I was pretty committed to ski racing as a high school and college skier. I got out of college, got a job at kiup radio in durango, as a news director. I became a stringer for koat-tv action 7 news in albuquerque.

Here we are. Another day of the 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy. Today I am joined with, now becoming, a longtime friend - we are merging into the "longtime friend years" -  Mr. Doug lewis. Doug lewis is a longtime friend of skiing and announcing. He's an olympian.  He has probably been on the ski team. You're gonna have to tell me that one for sure. Eight years. I had the chance to speak with mr. Peter graves. I'm sure you're aware of this gentleman.  Mr. Graves. We discussed history of skiers. You belong in that history. Doug lewis, take it away. Tell me who you are. Where you're coming from.  Short history about you. We'll get caught up and start having your 15 minutes of fame. Born and raised in middlebury, vt. One of four kids. Started skiing when I was 2. If you asked me at age eight what I wanted to be, I was that kid with the snowmobile suit on, one piece that said, "i'm gonna go to the olympics and be on the us ski team. "  I caught the bug early of skiing and committed to it. Made the us ski team when I was 16, which is pretty young. Raced my first world cup at age 17 in aspen, colorado. A little place we like to call aspen. I hit a chairlift tower and broke my back, in my first ever world cup race.  Not inspiring. Went on from there. Three years later, I raced in my first olympics, in sarajevo, in 1984. Won the first ever medal for a us skier, in the downhill, in 1985 at the world championships.  Retired in 1988. As soon as I retired from skiing, I started coaching kids. I have dedicated my life after skiing to inspiring and educating kids.  While doing that, I always like to trying to push my limits. I skydived for a while. I'm in to ultra running. I did the death race. I like to see if I can put myself in dark places and get out of them.  That's what I do. That's what training is all about. To know adversity and then to battle it, when it's time, to show and be like an olympian. By the way, what was that medal?  It was a bronze medal at the world championships. It's upstairs. I should've brought it down. The reason I know you, I forgot to put in, is that, starting right after I retired, I got into television. I love the sport of ski racing, and I just love entertaining and educating people who love the sport as well.

Welcome to 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy. I am hosted today by. I'll say i'm being hosted, i'm lucky enough to have mr. Brad j on the show with me today.  Very exciting to have you, of course, because not only are we a bit one of the same, in the sense of what we do for a living.  We utilize our personalities. We utilize our voices to express what is happening in the world of sports. Specifically action sports. You, by far, have had a longer career in this than most of us, collectively.  Thank you. When, brad, did announcing start for you? Here we are in a current world situation where you took announcing from an "ah ha" moment in your life to 2020 and all of a sudden you have about as much announcing career as I do right now.  That means nothing right now. Well, I don't know. I mean, geez. Do I go by where I started or where do you want me to go? Your name is brad j. You live in california. Where you at? I'm brady j. I live right on santa barbara and ventura county line in california. Right down on the ocean.  - action sports announcer - radio deejay since 1994 / 95 - something like that was when I first got into it. Doing surf reports. Doing radio. I worked at a skate company back in the late '80s / early '90s called peralta skateboards - bones wheels that kind of got me into action sports.  I wasn't announcing yet, but then that kind of made me think about that career. And then I kind of moved into doing a skateboarding role and skateboarding, led to snowboarding and led to djing events. Then I got the job - radio kept leading to other radio events. Meanwhile, i'm traveling the world doing all these huge events, but i'm also holding down a radio show too, as well. It all just came up and just went crazy from 1994 to basically 'til... 2000 was a big turning point with getting x games.

Welcome back to another 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy. Today I am joined by anna belyaeva. I hope I got that right. Did I get that?  Anna and I have worked together in the world of events. We're both announcers and event emcees and personalities for video media to all things considered audio media.  We both share the same thing about, a month into this. What is today? April 12th. We definitely haven't been working for at least a strong month now.  Big time out. The questions will be to anna today. We know you're not working. What are you doing to stay with your clients?  What are you doing to stay busy? Are you practicing your craft? Things like this. We'll move into that. But first, anna tell us who you are.  What do you do for a living? She's all yours. Hello, goldy. Hello, everybody. So happy to see you again.  The world is blocked right now. My name is anna belyaeva, as said, you pronounced really well. I'm an emcee, sports presenter, beat reporter, field talent. Depending on what kind of events you're working for.  I work for my proper agency, my own agency, which is busy with weddings, private events. It's another type of clients and another kind of events.  You have a wedding planner, you're just like announcing, for sports events. When you don't have a wedding planner, you are also an organizer. You do a lot of stuff.  Small events, you have 100-200 people. It's not the same as, for example, for big international sport events where we do a lot of stuff and entertainment for thousands and thousands of people. Since my childhood, i've been mad about acting but I never thought it will be my profession.  Then I started writing the olympics, in sochi. Real quickly, where were you born? I'm born in russian.  I live in portugal right now. Are you doing business out of portugal? Is this like when you go and set up an event locally? That's where you're at.  I work all over the world. Mostly in france, portugal and russia. In france, I was living with friends before I got married.  I continue working there because I speak french. I like france, they have a lot of big international events. I would say, even more than in portugal.

Welcome back to another 15 minutes of fame. I'm goldy. I'm joined today by my friend... And i'm learning the new way... I've got to point this direction.  This is chris arnold. Speaking of direction, this guy is nowhere near me right now. He is marinating in the great country of switzerland.  This is fun. That makes this whole thing international. Makes it real. It makes it exactly what I am really trying to do here with 15 minutes of fame and that is reach out to human beings during this pretty rad time on the earth.  With that being said, my friend, my french speaking announcer who I got to work side-by-side with at the winter youth olympics in switzerland this year. How are you today?  Why don't we give a little information about who you are and what you're doing and let the world know who you are. Well, hi out there. My name's chris, as goldy already mentioned.  I'm, as well doing, event announcements, as you just said. At the moment, kind of grounded at home.  At least during the weekends, because during the week I was able to start producing disinfecting lotion at the distillery I am working at, as well, at the moment. Luckily, i'm still able to go out and to earn some money because as all the events got canceled, no money coming in from that side.  It sounds like you're working two jobs, so you have something to work within. You lose announcing, you can still do something else.  Exactly. I'm doing that. Those lotions at the distillery at the moment, about five tons in so far, which most of those five tons were running through my hand.  I can tell you, I feel my back and my hands and my shoulders. I bet. The announcing is way easier. Yeah, right. A little less manual labor. When you make all this lotion, the hand disinfectant, people are curious -  What's the simple process? In five seconds - how do you make it? Basically, at the moment, we were still able to find some already pre-mixed by a chemical company. Pre-mixed with, alcohol ethanol, which is 96 percent of pure alcohol.  Then there is, stuff in it that you can't drink it. I think you will puke. It smells. It's "disinfecting". There is as well, something for the skin in it as well, so that you don't get your hands too dry. Sure.  So, you take your gin, and you just whip together some alcohol and voila - it cleans your hands? What are you doing? No, we actually, at the moment still get it from outside, as we are a pretty tiny distillery.

Another 15 minutes of fame today I am joined by a long time and in some corners of the world, very famous dj naka g actually let me get my arrows right because i've learned how to work this thing it was backwards.  Dj naka g he's been around the world with his craft of djing. He has been with the olympics. He has been with places in the western us. He lives in aspen, colorado.  He's open format and he can also do speciality parties. Dj naka g who are you and what haven't you done? Goldy, thanks for having me.  My name is michael nakagawa. Also known as dj naka g. I have been djing professionally for well over 20 years. Before that, I was a bedroom dj for about five years.  I've done the x games. Every single x games that's been to aspen since 2002. I've got about 19 of those under my belt and then i've done a bunch of summer x games. I have been the resident dj, if you will, for x games for summer and winter since probably around 2005-2006. That opened up many doors for me, including the olympics. I've done three winter olympics the last three from vancouver to sochi to pyeongchang 2018 and 1 summer olympics in brazil in 2016.  You and I met through red bull. As we both have had the chance to dj out of the mxt and the sugga. I don't know if you were back in the day of the pinzgauer. I know you've been around forever.  Mxt - for sure. Not sure, did you say the pinzgauer? The pinzgauer was the first, and then the sugga came along. Then there was some peppering of others, like the bus in chicago and all these other like fire trucks peppered around the world. The mxt, she was basically what everybody knows. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.  I did do the bus once. I opened up for z-trip at the base of buttermilk, once on the bus. That thing's massive. It's incredible. They brought it on the snow.  It was awesome. It was really cool. Well, naka, I wanna step right into the quicksand of the world that we're living in today.  As it kind of rolls off the tongue. Just as easily as is speaking about our careers. You and i, before I pressed record on this this morning had communicated that.  You know, this morning we wake up and we're on this roller coaster right now. We're two weeks deep into being literally physically quarantined to our homes.

Welcome back to another 15 minutes of fame. Andy jensen on the other side of me, right here. Andy is the owner of bonfire brewing. He is also the founder and creator of bonfire block party in eagle, co. About a 5,000 person event, concert. Three days.  It's such a good concert. Sometimes i'm not sure how many days I was there. Andy has dealt with the curveball of coronavirus living in a mountain community.  Also being, like I just said, a concert producer, along with his team and then also owning a brewery and being a local business in eagle and just feeling it from like, every friggin' side.  Wow, talk about getting in a fistfight with mike tyson and just not really being bigger than you are already right now. Andy, tell us who you are.  What you own. What you do. Where you've been. How things are. Andy jessen of bonfire brewing and bonfire block party. Along with my wife amanda and our team of 17 full-time employees here in eagle, co.  We've been around since, the winter of 2010. We're coming up on our 10-year anniversary and 8th anniversary of the block party. You can say your local.  You could start putting stickers on your subaru and your black lab. You can name him woof. You're a local. You're embedded in the businesses. Right now you've got the brewery, which is its own beast.  You've got the event that essentially grows into being its own beast. Last year we had 5,000 people there. 5,000 on friday and 6,000 on saturday. It was packed.  Town was packed and it was awesome. This is definitely one of those concerts right now that is just so locally charged. People supporting it. You originally wanna have the bonfire block party in june?  Voila, here comes corona. When are you having it now? We just recently announced a postponement to august 28-30, 2020. The last weekend in august.  Andy started thinking about that honestly towards the end of february, once the first cases started showing up in the united states. Amanda's a former public health professional. She got worried about this a lot sooner than the rest of the team did.  Then when it really started to hit and we started to hear the words "social distancing", that's when we put everything on pause.

Here we are. Another day of the 15 minutes of fame. Speaking of days, it's april 13th. Right now. Just check my calendar.  I have got sean hanagan with me here today. Sean hanagan has been a longtime friend, a longtime colleague in the world of skiing, discussing gear.  Sean is a gear nerd. Any time you get around him, just know, that you don't know as much as he does. It's just something you got to accept.  And it's all good. Sean has been living in the vail and beaver creek area most of his career and life, as far as i've known him.  Started as a schoolteacher in the area. Went on to do some city government now into general managing a ski and bike shop, locally, in edwards.  Which has brought us to the question - what is it like to be sean hanagan? A community member, in a ski community that happens to be a very hot, hot zone during this coronavirus?  How does the business cope and survive and look to the future? In 15 minutes. Sean - take it away, brother. Thanks, goldy.  Great to see you. We've known each other about, 18 years now? We met up here in edwards. As you said, when I first got here, I was a schoolteacher. A science teacher locally.  At one point decided, 13 years in, that I needed a break. Took a break. For "a year. " I went to go work as the land use planner for eagle county.  That year turned into 12 years. At that 12-year mark, I was getting kind of itchy. I tend to get itchy career-wise after about a decade or so.  A good friend of mine owns a local ski and bike shop here, in edwards, called the kind bikes and skis. He bought it three years ago. He started joking about having me come work for him.  One of my goals, as I was getting older, was to simplify my life. Take away some of the stress. Bring back some joy and start working in a place where, you know, it was something that brought joy to me every day.  We talked and talked and talked. It became more serious than an offer hit the table. I talked to my wife.  We talked it through and kelly was pumped up. I'm seven months in now, being the general manager of the kind bikes and skis.  As you said, it's been a really interesting time. Early winter was fairly normal, me getting used to what it's like, to manage a store and people.  I've managed projects before, but this was my first foray into really managing an organization. Then, of course, we had an outbreak of the coronavirus eagle county, even though you would think, vail and beaver creek - we're small, we're quiet -

Welcome to the 15 minutes of fame. Stoked to be joined by mr. Chris bivona. He is the founder, creator, host of all good things down at the ski town all-stars posted up, I believe in east vail, co.  Lives right across from one of those sick waterfalls that throws down around the month of april to may. Mr. Chris bivona, I only know that much about you.  Tell the world about who the hell you are. My name's chris bivona. I am originally from the garden state - new jersey. Grew up skiing, ski racing there. Went to school in upstate new york and then finally made my way to colorado about seven years ago.  Started ski town all-stars, kind of as a joke, about 2. 5 years ago. I was repping in the industry for a bunch of brands.  Out of the blue, my buddy was like - "hey, you wanna help me ski rep? " i'm like, "what's that? "  Before I knew what I had my own lines. I was repping some faction outerwear, mons royale merino wool. I kind of got thrown into the ski industry.  Which as a kid, you think of the reps as god's. It was super cool because i've never worked in a shop. Basically started ski town all-stars as a joke.  Used all my connections with all the retailers. The original conversation I would have with retailers would be, "hey, i've got this new line" and they'd be like, "what are you selling now? "  We were always pioneering new lines. I'd be like, "have you heard of this ski town all-stars company? They're like, "i've seen it around. " i'm like, "well, I started myself. " instantaneously the conversation went in a totally different direction with a lot of buyers. That's why we're in, gorsuch, christies, craniologie, mountain outfitters. Stores on the east coast - kittery trading post.  That's the organic way. You did it organically. It just happened. That's the best way. It was kind of cool and obviously social media has been huge for us.  I'm an ambassador, not an athlete. I support ski for a bunch of brands. I don't get paid. I'm not an athlete. That whole thing drives me crazy.

Okay, here we are. Welcome to another segment of 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy and joined with me today, on my left side is julian carr.  Who is julian carr? Julian carr is known for his skiing. Julian carr is known for his event production in trail running. Julian carr is known for...  The list goes on. Why don't I pass it off to you, julian carr. Tell us who you are and thanks for joining us here on 15 minutes of fame.  Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. It's good to be productive in this interesting time in the world.  I'm julian carr, professional skier and founder of the cirque series mountain races and founder of discrete clothing. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Was it professional skiing that led you into a clothing company? Was it clothing that led you into skiing? What happened?  You know, I grew up doing lots of team sports, but a lot of skateboarding too. I really liked how it was a very personality, athlete-led industry and when I got into, focusing on skiing in college, long story short, I realized in the ski industry, back then, it was very much a kind of racing scene.  There wasn't a lot of personality-led marketing or branding or companies. I also saw that as an athlete. Even if my wildest dreams came true and I had a great career as a professional skier, you have a shelf life as an athlete, obviously.  I saw a few of my favorite skiers getting to the point where they were looking at the next steps in their life. I saw a few of them, really struggling with what that next step was gonna be.  It was some of the biggest names of skiers back when I was starting my career and I right away was like, I want to create a cool little brand that I could grow alongside my skiing so that, if and when the shelf life of the idea of being a professional skier comes up, i'll have something else going on that will be a creative outlet, will be part of the industry and obviously income.  They both kind of happened at the same time, but I think a lot of my passion was put into the ski career, and I put in just enough effort in the brand that I knew I could convert it into being a pretty airtight program later.

Welcome back. It is goldy right here talking on this side. And it is the 15 minutes of fame.  And as a matter of fact, joining me today on this particular cast is mr. Travis parr. He is a painting and other type of medium artist.  And the way I got to meet this fine gentleman was because I enjoy skiing what you might see behind me right now, these fine, fine icelantic skis, born and raised right out of golden, colorado and well, evergreen as well.  That's where they're made now in denver, golden, evergreen. You guys are so colorado-ry that travis is the guy who paints all the top sheets for icelantic. He's done it since the beginning, and he's still doing it now.  The questions i've got for travis today is, "what the hell is going on, man? " holy cow. Talk about a curveball in the world that we're living in.  Corona virus and how does this treat what you've done in the past and what you're doing now? Well, we're only currently on day 15. Who knows how long this thing's gonna go? But you know what? I was just saying was, you know, as a community and as a global entity, we've always looked towards the arts, and right now, you know, it's netflix, it's tv, it's social media.  It's... It's these awesome zoom meetings that are happening and things are changing. People are getting super creative on how they're gonna connect with each other, what they're actually gonna offer to the society. And, you know, I don't see my profession actually being stunted by this.  There's a lot of creativity out there and things to talk about, about what's going on. Keep going. And what we're going through. And so, by doing that, it's... It's just a crazy process.  For the first week, I currently didn't create anything. I just kind of wanted to sit here and and manifest, like, really what is going on. And instead of, you know, working out of fear, I really wanna work out of love.  I mean, I think that's the true thing that we all need to kind of figure out is how do we... How do we make these decisions? And are these decisions based out of fear or are they gonna be based out of love. And right now it's just, I mean, the pot is just boiling over with all of these emotions. So as an artist, these are our tools for our craft to express our self, and so there's definitely a lot of content to be created from this. That's a really interesting point. I kind of now kind of bring it to a tangible moment that... Could we see a line of icelantic skis that have a covid-19  Interjection because of what happened in your life? Will there be a top plate that is kind of like homage to a time of life? Well, you know, what's funny is i've been doing that with icelantic since day one.

Well, we're off. My name is goldy. Welcome back to another 15 minutes of fame. Different setup this time. Got it all going on.  I've got lee putnam from rockfan entertainment. A staging, lighting, sound, full compass. You want to throw a party? They've got all the buttons and knobs.  Lee to my knowledge, owns the business. Got it started years ago. He'll speak more about that in a minute. Down here- new setup-  We're tech guys? That's jeremy down there. Jeremy is also part of rockfan entertainment. He will describe what his role is in the company. We will discuss further, obviously, now, four weeks into this -today's easter- it's april 12th.  That's about 29, nearly 30 days of physical actual lock down because of the whole party that we're living in right now. I can guarantee you between the three of us, we've thrown better parties than what we're in right now. As far as the party goes. Let's take it away.  Lee, if you don't mind starting. Talk to us about who you are. What you own. What you do. Where you've been.  My name is lee. I'm part owner. I'm co-owners with jeremy in rockfan. Started the company in 2012. We do everything from speaker rentals to concert production, we also the sound system installations and staging with live events. Basically anything audio video related.  That's kind of where we live. We do events that range from 50 people up to 10,000 and beyond. We travel all over the country. That's kind of our background.  I'm gonna kick it over to jeremy, who's my partner in all this. I look down. I'm jeremy. I co-own the company with lee. Lee pretty much summed up everything we do. We do events for small amounts of people and really large amounts.  Also system integration for businesses. With that right there, I can attest that both these guys are pretty much rock stars in their world. Hence the name of the business rockfan. I've got a chance to work with both you guys on site.  Around stages. Jeremy, you and I got to battle a ski resort through every single weather adversary. Battle sums it up. Battle in the world of events.  Taking a break like this actually is now well worth it or well earned. Let's just fast forward through the already known. We know you're not throwing events right now. We know your clients have called you. They said, "hey, we're shutting down. " we don't know what's going on. You don't know what's going on.  We're a month into this thing right now. We think we're about 2 to 3 weeks out of maybe opening doors on stuff. We just kind of rolling with it right now. I know that a lot of the humans i've spoke with on the 15 minutes of fame have discussed, how they stay connected with their clients. Some do it with writing notes.  Some do it with phone calls, zoom meetings. What are you guys doing to stay with your clients right now so they know that rockfan isn't just good at setting up a soundboard and tuning in the lead singer, but that they are also human beings that are part of this worldly situation that need to keep the business going.  What do you guys do right now? A lot of our customers are also in the same boat we are. They're event producers.  They're breweries. They're restaurants. They're going through the same thing. A lot of it is just genuinely checking in and caring.

Here we are. Another version. Another theme. Another day. Another episode of 15 minutes of fame. Today with me is the one, the only, the very famous in a lot of people's worlds -  Christy nicolay. Christy - you're here on the 15 minutes of fame today because you are an event specialist on high. You have been around. You have seen this world.  I'm very excited to have your input and thoughts about what you do for a living and how the world is today. After about two weeks of hard core lockdown of coronavirus and the versions of what christy nicolay and her company will be doing here after the waves have settled.  World - christy nicolay. Go ahead. Hey, how are you? First of all, I love your specialty lighting behind you.  Oh, thank you. It's very fine led stuff. Yeah, very fancy. I'm good. Just hanging out here at the homestead, which is, super rare.  Really awesome, but super strange, not to be going anywhere for a while. I think the last time I was really with work people was on friday, march 13th.  That's when we officially were finished. I was just kicking off the bnp paribas open in indian wells, which is one of the tennis tournaments that we do every year.  And when you say "you," what company do you work for? I'm working for van wagner. We were van wagner sports and entertainment, but we've gone back to just van wagner productions.  They're a company that used to be a division used to be big screen network, which is the company that i've worked with and hired since salt lake 2002 olympic winter games.  That was like digital marketing things. They did all of the content for the big screens. So all video production, and then they sold right after the rio 2016 olympic games, where we could just done, I think, 7 out of 9 olympic games together, they sold to van wagner group which is based in new york.  Then as soon as I finished rio, I also started working for them. So now I get to work with all the people that I used to work with separately, but now I work for them.  It's been since november 2016 already. It's been great. We do all sports, all the time, everything from super bowl to... I mean I don't get to do the super bowl 'cause there's other people better at football than me. We do super bowl. Olympic games. Kentucky derby, u. S. Open of tennis. March madness. Nhl.  All sports. For anybody who's watching who kind of maybe it's still like, "well, I wonder, what does she mean by what we do? "  Think of the mainframe, the hub, the big 52' rigs that pull in, that have all the tv stations stuff with the cameras, the lights, the action.  Christy is managing all of that aspect right there. That's huge. I mean, for what people are seeing on tv.

Welcome back to another 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy. Today I am joined by ms kari white. Kari will tell us all about who she is, what she does for a living. Why she joined us here on the show today and what her life is doing in the world stasis of now about a two week hold out.  Into our homes. As a matter of fact, I have the pleasure of working with kari on march 13th of 2020. I remember this day now so clearly. It'll be kind of a "jfk" day for me, as it was for our parents, because it was the last day of what we knew as running around the outside having a good old time.  So ms kari white - who are you? What do you do for a living? How is this world affecting you and your business right now?  Hi, goldy. Thanks for having me. I am a producer. As you mentioned, I worked with you on march 13th. That was for keystone, where we were producing some of their advertising content for the year. We actually wrapped up that shoot on march 14th which was also the day that vail resorts gave notice that they were going to be shutting down the resorts for the time being, which we thought at the time was only gonna be maybe a week or two and then turned into the rest of season. You got our second to last ski day.  One of the best days ever. It was an awesome day was a great day. Then we actually skied that next day for a cat skiing shoot. That was also an epic day and the last day of the season so that I got really lucky with that.  I produced video and, commercials and videos and still shoots, everything like that. I work a lot with vail resorts, I work a lot with outdoor companies and I do all the pre-production, to get us ready to actually film the commercial and make sure everything runs smoothly while we're doing it.  If anyone has ever been in film or photo or any of this type of medium, when coming to recording and then doing post. People of your job title are so necessary because it's like, without you, it's like a laundry basket falling down the stairs... Just things were flying out all over.  The chaos is too much and you are the human being who brings it together. Who sends out the text messages, gets the emails to make sure we have snacks - who runs this town.  I love people like you. I think it's awesome what you do. It's not an easy job because it's like wrangling band members like "come on, guys. We're all gonna go play music now. Yeah, you the ones with the instruments. Come on. "  I always call it hurding cats. Make sure that everyone's bed... I'm the keeper of snacks and then the set mom. It's like i'm hurding cats a lot of times, but it's an awesome job. I love it.  It's an incredible job to be great at as well. I really enjoyed the day we worked. So now here we are, in a time where we had the opportunity to work together march 13th. We were doing a shoot for keystone. We're having a great old time.

Welcome back. My name is goldy. You're on, what I would call, 15 minutes of fame. My podcast. I'm having fun with this. I get to meet great people.  One of them is to the left of me. Or right of you are. However, this thing works. Joining me today is kim wysocki. A human being I met along the way in the world of events and was like, wow, this person's awesome.  I thought, maybe let's have a conversation with this ms. Wysocki and find out what is happening in her world and what this is all about on planet earth right now.  Kim wysocki - welcome to 15 minutes of fame. Your name is kim wysocki. What do you do for a living? I would call myself an event specialist, event management professional.  That's what linkedin profile says. Most recently, I was an operations manager. Sure. Which is all part of it. Anyone in events knows that they've either been the executive producer or the janitor.  Both jobs are equally as important. Some are now known as essential. You and I both live in the world of events. You and I are both living in the world of not events, due to the current world status. Obviously, jobs have "poof".  How has the current world status affected you with having a job title, having something to wake up to do in the morning? And if it's not the same as it was before? What are you doing to do something about it?  It is not the same as it was before. Most recently, my full time gig was corporate incentive travel. That is over. Corporate incentive travel, meaning you would book trips for business groups. They come to colorado and they want to go snowmobiling or ride horses. Things like this? Exactly. We partner with local hotels.  When they decided to bring groups in, most of our business, here in this market of vail, was incentives. It was fun. It was build parties and these experiences and thank our clients and our guests and our employees for doing such a great job.  Take them places, show them things. It was really fun. We were destination experts here. With the closure of hotels, as well as the travel restrictions, we have become "non-essential".  Obsolete in a sense. Especially on the operation side of things. I worked closely with sales managers. They would sell the program. They would hand it to me.  I would then put it together and deliver it. That is definitely back seat. Our sales teams are still, keeping up relationships and continuing to set us up for a successful rebound.  My side hustle was anything in events. I would always consider myself a bit of a chameleon. I have a closet full of event hats. Anything from ticket management to volunteer management to athlete management to actual operations and building -  Construction management. All that kind of jazz. I did everything. Anytime somebody had an event and they said, "we have a hole to fill", they'd call me. I'd say, "sure no problem. I can do that".  That was my side hustle. Still doing everything from - I was supposed to be doing artists relations this week, for a concert. That's not happening. Instead, I am refocusing on researching.  Do other things or help bring events back to different communities in the future? You and I both know none of the ending of this, currently.

Welcome back. It's another version of my 15 minutes of fame. I am goldy. I am hosted and joined here with tiffany helton, which may have changed, or is it still helton? We'll find out. It's been so long. I know you from 100 million years ago. This is a great conversation to have because tiffany - whatever your last name is now - i'm sure you're married and you have children and all the things.  You've been a restauranteur in fort collins from literally a girl working at a beer tub to now being literally, and I know this, being one of the most successful restauranteurs in northern colorado. You're not just a restaurant owner.  Your community. You're the fabric of the restaurant community. I already know a list of people who would be like, "dude, I don't know what i'm doing with my restaurant right now.  I'll call tiffany, she'll tell me. " thank you. Want an introduction? Well, it's true.  People need to understand that you're not just some jerry off the street. You know what you're doing? So, tiffany, who are you and what do you own?  Well, my maiden name is pellin. Oh pellin. Where did I get helton from? Well, that's my new one? Well, it's not "new".  I've been married for, seven years. It must be like the recognition from facebook or whatever. Something like that.  Okay, I got it. I co-own and have cofounded the stuft burger bars. We have a location in fort collins and we have a location in windsor.  We just recently, last year, opened up lonesome buck brewery and that is in greeley. I got my hands full. I have two little boys and i'm married. That's another full time job.

Welcome back to another 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy. Joined with me right now, is lauren storeby? She is the owner of snack attack restaurant, here in fort collins.  The reason why I have lauren with me today - we want to learn a little bit about her restaurant. How long she's been here. Things like this.  We're about three weeks into the 'rona. How do you own a restaurant in this very strange time? We're gonna discover that. And then learn what's progressive about being a restaurant in fort collins. The reason why we connect is because they do events.  They'll go out and they will cater events and things like that. Of course. Right now. I'll tell you.  We don't even need to ask. She's not catering events right now. There's no events. Take it away, lauren storeby. Who are you? What are you doing?  What's going on? Thanks for having us on. We started snack attack just about three years ago. We'll be hitting our 3-year mark in june.  Hopefully we'll be back to some sort of normal to celebrate that. We did move from california. I'm a colorado native. I was born in vail.  My husband, the other owner, was born in minnesota. We wanted to get out of california. We had this dream of opening a sandwich and beer shop / bar.  Moved to fort collins, basically just through google. We just googled it. Loved the community. Packed up our stuff and moved here.  Six months later, we opened snack attack specialty sandwiches & brews. We're right here in midtown ft. Collins we specialize in fresh quality sandwiches, salads, wraps, local craft beer, cider, wine, seltzer's - all that good stuff. We have a big focus on community.  Which we will go into and why we're able to still be here, serving. I can attest, as a person who has been to your restaurant. I've had your sandwiches. I've had your ciders. The place is awesome.  You guys run a restaurant. I'm gonna go ahead and make you maybe blush, but I think you guys are the top restaurant facilitators and and you know what you're doing.  There's no question that when a guest walks into your restaurant that you guys have this thing down. At the same time, what the hell's going on right now?

Welcome to 15 minutes of fame. I just got asked the question. "am I in my van? " yes. Who is joining me today on the 15 minutes of fame? Mr. Kyle villers.  I met this gentleman in high school 20 centuries ago. In those years, we've had, we've done many different jobs. We've held many different hats.  Kyle, as i've known you, I remember there was a time you used to build big bass speakers in the back of people's cars. Then moved on to owning a restaurant.  And currently, right now, you own a handyman business in northern colorado. Building good, solid chunks of homes for people.  Tell me all about this. Thanks for having me on. This is actually a lot of fun. I really appreciate you taking the time today and yeah, we've known each other for, geez, since 1990 or something like that.  I think I even remember the car you used to drive. As we've moved through life, I spent some time, as everybody does, bouncing around from job to job out of high school. There for a while, I worked at an auto detailing business. I strapped on a tool belt for awhile and worked at -  (my cat's about to join us) - at an apartment complex and did a bunch of maintenance there. Then, I went into 16 years of the restaurant business.  I started managing bars and restaurants and actually owned one there for awhile, as well. After we got out of that in 2012, I think I clocked out on my last day in the restaurant business.  That was a wonderful day. Let me tell you that. I totally understand. I still remember that day. In 2012, we really changed our entire lives. We not only changed our careers, we also changed some of the ways we thought about how we were running our lives. I can look back to that year in 2012 and understand that's when everything changed for us. Now we do own a home maintenance company. I do all the handyman and remodel work and my wife has the cleaning business.  It's really remarkable. I think that you and I have a parallel where we worked in the restaurant industry, and it was the one industry that taught us - get the f* out. Go do something else.  It teaches you because it's such a hard industry and it's so demanding and now you're doing handyman stuff where you're functionally building things for people. What's the latest project you've done?

Welcome to 15 minutes of fame. Of course. My name is goldy and joined with me today is my friend shane mcwatters. Shane mcwatters owns an event company here in colorado.  It is march 26, 2020. We are doing an off the cuff 15 minutes of fame podcast about the current stasis of his event company. How he's choosing to live in these times in the world and what we can get wrapped up in 15 minutes. Welcome, shane, to the show.  How you doing today, brother? Good man. Sun is shining. You know, we're taking it a day by day. Like everybody is, you know, just, trying to enjoy the blue sky as much as we can, but six feet apart from each other. So, this is acceptable distance, I guess, between you and me right now.  You're a whole city away from me. I don't think there's a lot of mumbo jumbo that we have to hash over because I think people are pretty quick to understanding what's happening in the world right now.  March 26. Today. As it is, colorado itself has been put on lock down from corner to corner, durango to fort collins.  Same rules apply to everybody. We're all in our homes. We're locked down. A question to somebody like yourself, even myself, is -  We've basically just lost our way of putting money in the bank. What good human beings are we now? What can we do? You said something before this interview.  You said, "i want to put food on the table for my family. " how do you do that in these times? Yeah, well, you know, we're pretty fortunate.  The sweetheart city racing community is - they're amazing. It is a community that existed when we got here. We've had this business now for a little over two years, and it's been all about community.  And what can we do? It started. How can we bring the running community together? There was kind of different pockets of people doing different things throughout town, in loveland.  What can we do to kind of bring all those groups together? Through that sweetheart city racing came to exist. Now it's how do we keep that community going? Keep in front of our community.  Give them things to do. In this time, like you say, we're kind of on this lock down. We can't actually be in the same room together or go for runs together and go for walks together unless you're the old social distancing thing. It's funny how we create words and phrases in our current state. That's a new thing. That's real.  It's been crazy. Sara and I had this idea. We're part of a global facebook group, race directors hub.  We've been on there a lot more in the past couple weeks than we probably have ever. Everybody in our space is trying to pivot and figure out - how do we keep - if we have races coming up this spring - how do we keep some version of that alive?  If we don't, then do we cancel? Do we postpone? Things of that nature. Through all of that, without getting too far off in to the weeds, we created a totally brand new event.  It's a virtual run. We've got a strava club. Where people can log there miles on strava. We've got, like, 50. I think the count, this morning, 56 people that are participating.  The golden tee tournament of running that's it. That's pretty great. I think that's fantastic. You're staying connected. You're working your way around the physical nature.  You're doing it on, like, on a stair stepper? In a house? Stair stepper? On a treadmill? You're just doing it in the hallway? What are you doing?  They can do it however they want. The only rule to the game, - it has to be on foot. They can't go 11. 8 miles on a bike. They could be doing their stairway.  That's it. Up and down. Something like that. Whatever. They can walk up and down a hallway 800 times. If that's what you gotta do right now, that's what you gotta do..

Welcome back to the 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy and joining me today over here in this corner again, I have to remember. It's very funny. It's all backwards. It's like being in a theater.  Stage right is stage left. You're actually over here right now. This is josh eades. Josh eades is a gentleman I met along the way. Coincidentally of the discrete cirque series. Josh was out there taking photography for julian carr's cirque series turning in photos that you're kind of like, "whoa, those are good. " "that's really awesome. "  That's how I met josh. I'm catching up with josh right now because I want to know what life is like for someone who has photography as a side profession currently and may wanna have that be their main profession down the line. With that consideration, how 'rona is treating your life and making it more fun and more difficult to navigate through the job market and how does one get back into photography? The question to start with is, who are you? Where you coming from?  I'm josh eades in salt lake city, ut. Just a little background on me. I started photography back in the mid-1990's. I did photography in high school, and when I fell in love with it I was driving up big cottonwood canyon.  I had, -just close this thing down here quick. So don't get extra beeps and dings and everything on there. But I was driving up the canyon and there was an avalanche that had come down in a part of the canyon and I got out, took a picture of it. Didn't think anything else of it.