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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