House of Strauss

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Coming off Sunday’s thrashing of the Eagles, the San Francisco 49ers are riding high. Naturally, we had to have 49ers +/- host Tim Kawakami on to discuss a variety of Niners and Niners adjacent topics. Of course, given Tim’s status as the best sports writer in the state over the last two decades, we also had to ge...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com We booked Bogut. Then Australian NBA news items popped up and the Warriors lost a 24 point lead on national TV. Just as we got Henry Kissinger killed earlier in the week, it seems HoS has had a negative impact on all issues adjacent to our wonderful guest. No matter. It was a great talk, especially when we went do...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Michael Moynihan is one of my favorite podcasters. I always enjoy him at his Fifth Column home and, of course, when he visits HoS. The genesis of this pod is Michael’s 2018 Vice interview with Open AI CEO Sam Altman, which was on the topic of UBI (Universal Basic Income). To give a sense of how the interview went,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com If you wanted to follow the Open AI debacle in depth, Ashlee Vance’s articles in Bloomberg have been mandatory . Lucky for us, he took a moment out of his busy reporting schedule to hop on HoS and discuss the bigger picture questions connected to the corporate crackup. Also, there’s quite a reason for his proximit...

We’re rejoined by Ross Barkan, the best New York politics reporter, plus an overall astute commentator on many matters . This time, we’re talking about how the Israel/Gaza situation has shaken up U.S. domestic politics and revealed a massive generation gap between TikToker and TV watcher. I’m aware that not everyone necessarily comes to HoS for this conversation, but I aim to channel what’s intere...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com We talk to Pablo, host of Pablo Finds Out , proprietor of the Pablo Torre Substack , and all around media man. I’m very intrigued by his recent interviews, including but not limited to Larsa Pippen + Marcus Jordan . We discuss this inquiry into forbidden love, Dan Le Batard’s Trump tapes , Stephen A. Smith’s sex a...

Mr. Goodwill is, to borrow a phrase from Colin Cowherd, a young man who’s covered the NBA forever. He currently writes and podcasts about the league at Yahoo!, but he once was a beat writer, cutting his teeth while following terrible teams. In this episode, we take a trip down memory lane, reminiscing about what the NBA media industry was like, and what our lives were like. Did we live in a golden...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com This podcast is unlike the other podcasts. Why? Because Super Producer Anthony Mayes spliced in our reaction to Adam Silver talking on another podcast. Beyond and because all that, a great conversation among pod friends. Topics include but aren’t limited to… * We all watch Adam Silver talking about the ways NBA Tw...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Big Wos wears many hats, but chief among them is all encompassing NBA analyst. So I brought back the gimmick I used for Nate Duncan and asked the man some dumb normie questions . Then, because it’s Wos, we couldn’t help but break away from that conversation and touch on a range of sports culture topics (including...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Andrew Sharp is the co-host of three great and wholly different podcasts . He’s an NBA diehard, but also an Adam Silver Era skeptic, which makes him unusual among current podcasters. Obviously, I share something in common with such a perspective. In this episode, we end up cathartically venting about the Silver er...

Because I can’t get enough of The Nineties , we had to have Chuck back to discuss its sports cultural aspects, specifically with an eye towards the evolution of college football. Chuck has worried publicly about CFB losing its soul, which it appears to be in some capacity, but the sport is also surging in popularity . What do we make of this paradox? We discuss that, plus get into the NBA’s “care...

Friend of Pod Freddie is here because his recent posts have been very much in the HoS wheelhouse. We talked Hollywood’s collapse, the endurance of David Foster Wallace as boogeyman in media, Freddie’s differences with The Free Press over the Israel issue, and, finally, how the NFL is consumed by the public. Quite a conversation and I was glad to have it. Hope you enjoy. Timestamps come via the Ast...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Ryan Glasspiegel of the New York Post is here, following an avalanche of NBA and ESPNbusiness news. In this episode, we attempt to separate real from rumor, possibility from wishcasting. I believe we succeeded in yet another informative and entertaining podcast. Topics include but aren’t limited to… Amazon with a...

Nikolai Yakovenko is a man of many hats (pro poker, jiu-jitsu, computer engineering, archery, baseball analytics), but the main reason we’re talking to him is because he founded an AI-generated competing newspaper. Are machines set to take over for journalists? We get into this and so much more, including whether Michael Lewis deserves critcism. Topics include but aren’t limited to… Explaining the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com First Things First is my favorite favorite sports show on TV and with the NFL season in full swing, FTF is as well. So, I figured this would be a good occasion to get more insights from co-host Nick Wright on why this is the rare sports TV show that works. We also debate that Brock Purdy guy he’s down on. Great po...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com I’ve been sick this week, but thankfully the great Marcus Thompson is here to help me discuss both local and national sports topics of interest. I really enjoyed this ep, even if it nearly killed me. Timestamps provided by the astute Sam Schuette: Pat McAfee and Aaron Rodgers (2:55) * McAfee paying Rodgers million...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Katie Herzog, the funny and insightful co-host of Blocked and Reported is back 1) Because she has an open invite to appear on HoS and 2) Because BAR covered the Trevor Bauer saga, as I did too . Our conversation starts on the media coverage of Bauer and then gets into other journalism topics. Pod subjects timestam...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Now that the NBA’s offseason has wrapped up, we’ve enlisted Kevin O'Connor to make sense of the chaos. Really, it’s just a platform for KOC to take a victory lap over the hardball tactics he advocated for Portland in his last HoS appearance . Given that KOC was correct in that assessment, I’m open to more convinci...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Puck News co-founder and The Town host Matthew Belloni is my go to on show business goings on. Nobody is better versed on this fast moving industry during a particularly turbulent epoch, and he conveys it all with panache. So, in this episode, I picked Belloni’s brain Timestamps provided by the astute Sam Schuette...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Nancy Rommelmann is one of my favorite journalists, so I looked to her on the question of whether there are any actual rules in journalism. She did not disappoint. In this pod, we discussed Portland expert Nancy’s live reaction to the Damian Lillard trade, her take on WaPo vs. Portnoy , and that “Has the Sexual Re...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Adam Mares is the brilliant impresario behind the DNVR sports media empire, a local institution, rooted in a literal Denver bar, that he’s building out to new cities and ventures. While the Denver Nuggets have been central to Adam’s personal coverage and the rise of DNVR, the arrival of Deion Sanders as coach of C...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Buyer beware, this might be the sports-iest HoS yet. Tim Kawakami, greatest Bay Area sports writer of the last two decades and my former boss, stops by to talk San Francisco 49ers. That’s right, I’m a football guy now, and I need TK to refine my takes. We also get into some Niners-Warriors parallels, Andre Iguodal...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com I needed a talking to by the HoS Podbudsman, otherwise known as Spike Eskin of Rights to Ricky Sanchez and WFAN fame. Boy, did I get one in an appearance where Spike explains how I’m being a whiner and what I must do to fix it. Despite whatever emotional injury I withstood, I always value Spike’s advice because he...

Great friend of pod and great friend in life Matt Klinman is back so we can compare notes on our respective industries getting throttled . Does this (currently striking) comedy writer and Internet prophet feel some “I told ya so” now that I’m going through something similar to his past experiences at Funny or Die? We get into that plus a lot more as the future of all entertainment and culture hang...

And now for something completely different! We have top level investigative reporter Lee Fang , talking about how getting stranded at Burning Man. Okay, that’s not the entirety of the discussion, but it’s a jumping off point into many cultural and political subjects. I’ll warn that this one isn’t as sports centric, it’s still a great conversation in my humble opinion. Outline by the astute Sam Sch...