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. " --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-goldrich6/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-goldrich6/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-goldrich6/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-goldrich6/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-goldrich6/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-goldrich6/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-goldrich6/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-goldrich6/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-goldrich6/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-goldrich6/support