John Brenkus John Brenkus on the Awful Announcing Podcast.

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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