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I don’t think there’s anyone out there quite like Jordan Rogers , so I had to pod with him. The man went from recovering heroin addict to successful sports marketing executive at Nike, and now he’s in the media space, spilling industry secrets. We could have podcasted on these topics for many hours, and perhaps will do so in the future. Topics include but aren’t limited to… * Jordan’s insider pers...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Kyle Porter, ever thoughtful proprietor of the wonderful golf newsletter Normal Sport , stops by to answer my DUMB golf questions. Topics include but aren’t limited to… * Is golf the most alien of major sports? * Why do Euros CRUSH Americans in the Ryder Cup? * It’s not about wanting it more. It’s that those who w...

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Congrats to Mr. ZigZag for winning our NFL Week 4 contest on sportspredict.com . What’s his prize? Well, should he choose to accept it, it’s a 30 minute phone conversation with yours truly. That’s right. You win a week, we talk on the phone, about whatever you’d like. So ZigZag and future Week winners: Email me at houseofstrauss@substack.com if this prize is appealing, though I completely understa...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Amin has been hysterical in his commentary role for these Pablo Finds Out episodes on BallmerGate. With a brand new one out on Clippers Media Day , we had to discuss. Topics include but not limited to… * Amin haunts my grieving dog death process * Jim Rome went into Old Jim mode ripping Ballmer * Why can’t the Cli...

Thought this was a good YouTube live with the Glasspiegel (uploaded for you to the HoS audio feed). But then again I am biased. Topics include… * Kimmel Kontinues (with Sinclair allowing him back on the air) * Disney’s rock and a hard place * Brendan Carr really botched it * Is Trump’s battle for network media…irrelevant? * Can the boomers be propagandized in either direction by traditional TV? *...

Shana Tova to those taking the day and to those working. Congrats to Tom P for winning this week. Email me at houseofstrauss@substack.com to collect a free subscription for one year. In this version of NFL Market Inefficiencies, Steve and I address my unsustainably high NFL picks SMART score. The nation wants to know: What’s my secret? We also get into whether it’s easier to gamble on prop bets ve...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Subscriber CJ sent me the following email: Good Evening Ethan, I’ve got a potential podcast suggestion given current events: Rob Henderson Cancel culture reversal Censorship and self censorship changes Vibe shift Speech and debate on campuses Young men Also Rob met and recorded a never (or likely never) to release...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com FOOTBALL AMERICA! host Dave Dameshek has long had his own idiosyncratic voice and style. He’s got a unique Pittsburgh flair, not that Blue Collar Steel Town would embrace having flair. He’s also, above all, a fantastically authoritative arbiter. And so I invited Dave on to “arbit” on a range of topics including bu...

Loving the NFL tournament we’re doing at SportsPredict.com , headed up by Steve Kuhn (even if Brandon Aubrey’s leg kicked away my dreams). Given that Steve’s got an incredible mind for market inefficiencies, I want him here, regularly, to tell us what everyone else is missing about America’s favorite sport. Join up still to test out how you fare against myself and Steve, a guy who ran a $14 billio...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Ya, I think you have an idea of what we’re going to discuss. And it’s one of my favorite conversations yet.

I’m declaring this JOURNALISM WEEK on the HoS podcast feed. Today we’ve got the great Tyler Dunne talking about his bombshell series on Bears quarterback Caleb Williams . On Thursday, we should also have Pablo Torre on another big story you might have heard of. Today’s pod with Tyler gets to what happened behind the scenes with Caleb and the Bears + why many in the sports media became too defensiv...

So, like many of you, I love thinking about games, probabilities and market inefficiencies. And, like many of you, I have profound reservations with regard to the sports betting conquest of America. With that in mind, I’m proud to announce a new sponsor at House of Strauss: Sportspredict.com . The goal of my new advertiser is to host a place for sports predictions that isn’t gambling . There are n...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com I really enjoyed Freddie deBoer ’s NFL preview and wanted to discuss America’s favorite sport with him. Neither of us are all that associated with football analysis and yet we can’t stop thinking about it. So we went for an NFL download as the season approaches… Freddie’s Micah Parsons trade take How NFL stars are...

Sports bet discourse continues to burble on the BCC Chat , and I’m adding more fuel… We’ve had the Man Who Would Ban Sports Betting and now we have the Sports Betting Man. Raheem Palmer is the co-host of the Ringer Gambling Show . He says he’s gone broke before and made millions. He leads a life most of us can’t imagine. He just moved to Las Vegas. I had questions. Topics include but aren’t limite...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com We talk around it a lot on HoS but writer Charles Fain Lehman has just come out and said it : He thinks the legalization of sports betting is bad and wants it reversed. Plenty have expressed misgivings, but this man has actually staked out a position. I’m not sure anyone is as prominent in America’s burbling anti-...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com I’ve been struggling to figure what what time we’re in, post Vibe Shift. Pirate Wires founder Mike Solana finally articulated what I’d been thinking without knowing I was thinking it: We’re in a Culture Cold War . I felt a burning need to discuss this, and so we did, plus many other media/culture topics. Subjects...

Audio for Random Offense with Amin is up on the HoS feed, though the mic is a little distant. Great episode in my humble opinion!. House of Strauss is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.houseofs...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Wos is back from Europe, armed with a fresh perspective on all goings on stateside. BCC chatters took bets on what he’d talk about and now we learn the truth. Perhaps this was the most candid Wos/HoS yet. Topics include! * We are jealous of NBA podcaster Nate Duncan * Wos was in Barcelona when everyone there decid...

Guy Haberman, who’s filling in right now for the legendary Greg Papa , is busy, but he made time for us. Since Guy considers me a “football outsider,” we decided to have fun with that status. In this podcast, I operate as Football Skeptic, wondering why the sport is how it is, and questioning if indeed it should be. Because you can tell me I’m an idiot here or in the Group Chat . Topics include… *...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Andrew Sharp from Sharp Tech (and many other pods) is here to break down why the hell Paramount Plus paid the UFC over a billion dollars per year. We cover that and..Trump DC crime takeover? This episode goes places. Topics include… * Why Andrew Sharp thinks Air Pods = Massive Apple scam * The shocking UFC/Paramou...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com It’s time for some sports biz with Move Insoles entrepreneur and NBA agent Nate Jones. We don’t have traditional sponsorships here, but House of Strauss certainly endorses Move and Chat BCC . Huge happenings in the world of ESPN this week, and I needed Nate’s insider perspective. We discuss… * The NFL formally joi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Sarah Hepola is here for one of my favorite conversations of the year. It ranges from Brent Musburger’s public horniness to American beer advertising to honest analysis of the nation’s attractiveness insecurities. Topics include but aren’t limited to… * Who else? Sydney Sweeney: A complete analysis * What did “sex...

House (of Strauss) keeping here. My Random Offense with Mike Pesca is up, file included in this email. Subscriber Craig T. Schwerin thoughtfully built off my “ LLMs will be Ozempic for Golf ” post. Sarah Hepola pod was just recorded, that’s incoming. In the meantime, I’ll be chatting about green WNBA dildos on BCC , so sign up for that. House of Strauss is a reader-supported publication. To receiv...

Audio version of this article is up! Chat about it and other topics on BCC . House of Strauss is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.houseofstrauss.com/subscribe