Mason's Multisport Mastery: From Radio Waves to Commentary

Host David Magolis interviews Mason, a Bloomsburg University media and journalism major from Berwick, PA, about his multidimensional sports media work and leadership. Mason hosts the weekly radio show “Talking About Balls,” reports for the Press Enterprise, writes for the campus newspaper The Voice, and does play-by-play/color commentary for BUSN across sports, including football, basketball, soccer, and lacrosse, pursuing broad experience inspired by broadcasters like Jim Nance and Al Michaels. He describes starting his show on his third day at Bloomsburg, balancing broadcasting and writing on game days, and using social media clips and a “word challenge” during broadcasts. He discusses NIL’s effect on March Madness, the upcoming NFL draft in Pittsburgh, his Vikings fandom, and rapid-fire favorites, emphasizing determination and a strong support network.

Transcript

Mason Part 1 Final

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome back, friends. You're listening to another episode of the Campus and Character Podcast, where we explore leadership stories to inspire growth and connect leaders. I'm your host, David Megolis, and I'm here with a special guest, Mason, who is a media and journalism major with a concentration in journalism.

SPEAKER_00 0:15

Yes, that is correct. It is a little chilly out here today. That's fine. I'm playing golf in about an hour for now, so hopefully the temperature can be a little bit more.

SPEAKER_01 0:22

Are you really playing golf today? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

I got the quarter zip on. I'm playing golf. The portfolio is full. I'm ready to be a senior citizen. It's an all sports day here for you.

SPEAKER_01 0:32

You've been trying out for retirement already. How old are you? 19. You still have some time to go before you get it. Unless you hit the lottery. No, you might have the lottery today. I might. That'd be kind of fun. Hey, can you tell us a little bit about yourself, Mason? You're here at Bloomsburg, you're doing all sorts of stuff. I have Mason on today because he's so multidimensional, multi-talented, super interested in sports, does a lot of play-by-play. He just told me he's actually doing some stuff with lacrosse, which surprised me because from the basketball stuff I've seen and some of the other football and stuff, now lacrosse, you're covering all the sports here. So tell us a little bit about yourself.

SPEAKER_00 1:03

Yeah, speaking about the lacrosse thing, I just watched a video of Al Michaels talking about his miracle on ice call, then probably the most famous call in the history of sports broadcasting. And the only reason he got that game is because he was the only one of the couple broadcasters that had done a hockey game. Really? No one and he had done one hockey game. One. So I'm like, okay, if there's gonna be a big event somewhere, you know, I better have this in my resume to say at least one. Yeah. I've done a lacrosse game, and you know, maybe nobody else has done it and whatnot. But yeah. How about hockey?

SPEAKER_01 1:34

Have you done hockey?

SPEAKER_00 1:36

We have a club hockey team that's in Wilkesburg, I believe, and that's it's good, it's a pretty tough logistics. You need to get one before you graduate.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

That's it. All right, so go ahead. Tell us a little bit about yourself.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

Yeah, so I am a sophomore here at Bloomsburg. I do a weekly radio show called Talking About Balls that is on every Tuesday at five o'clock. I got sometimes we get as much as five people coming, sometimes it's usually around three to four. I do reporting for the Press Enterprise local paper here in Bloomsburg. I do whatever high school game they send me to, and then I double up on terms of I do broadcasting for the Bloomsburg football, and then I get home and I write an article about the game as well. So I do the the writing side and the broadcasting side all in the same day. So that that's pretty cool. And and and like we've been mentioning, I do commentating, play-by-play, color commentary for BUSN. I started that in December of 2024. So what is that? 15 months, 16 months now. Just trying to do as much as I can doing doing football games, doing basketball games, soccer games. I did, I think, 90% of the Bloomsburg soccer games this past year, and now stepping into lacrosse. So just trying to get as many feathers in my cap as possible and try to build that up and whatnot. Reporting for high school games since I was like 15. 15. Yeah, I've been doing it for a couple years now, doing different games and whatnot. I was at this website called Pennsylvania Football News. I did a whole season where I was a reporter with Penn State. That was pretty cool, and going to different Penn State games and whatnot. But you know, reporting, writing, I love it. I but it's it's not commentating, right? It's not play-by-play for me. That is the end all be all in terms of my goals, in terms of uh in the career and where I'd like to be.

SPEAKER_01 3:15

Where are you from?

SPEAKER_00 3:16

I'm from Berwick, Pennsylvania. You're from Berwick. That's far away. It's a tough commute here to Bloomsbury. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

Born in Berwick, live in Berwick. But he's you grew up around football and good sports.

SPEAKER_00 3:25

Yes. And and that's something that I really like. I I go back to a moment I had a couple of months ago, and I'm interviewing the Berwick football coach, CJ Curry, who, if you know anything about Berwick football, Curry is a huge name. Legendary name. And he's the grandson of George Curry. And I asked him a question. It was the first time they had gone 6-0 since he was playing quarterback, and his dad his grandfather was the coach. And it was the most animated answer he'd ever given me in his life. And there's just no reason no way I would have known any of that if I wasn't there at five years old watching him play in whatever year that I think 2013, or I was seven years old in 2013 watching him play. There's just no reason or no way I would have known any of that. But the reason I I've watched and grown up around the area, knowing football, knowing all these different teams, I think is a real positive for reporting and whatnot, able to ask questions that are not only important in the game, but overall the context of everything that wraps in the history of the team and whatnot.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

I'm impressed by your knowledge of just the history and your interest in sports. Five years old, going to these football games, learning at that age about all the different nuances of sports, and then looking at the coaches too. And you're saying, hey, this coach is connected to that coach. They have the same last name, which helps. But you know, this is a really interesting thing in Pennsylvania sports uh in particular because there's so much history and so many winning coaches, just even locally, southern, you think of Southern Columbia too, and stuff like that. So really rich area for sports. So, how did you get to Bloomsburg then? I took my car. Good answer. Okay, I asked a bad question. How did you get to the university as a student?

SPEAKER_00 5:03

Yeah, I was just I was looking around for opportunities to get into broadcasting right away. That was something I wanted to do. The summer before I got to Bloomsburg, I was all over the state doing different all-star games, and it was really cool. I was like, there was no one, I wasn't relying on anyone to do it, right? It was all up to me if I got there on time, if I got my notes, and if I called the game correctly. So I love that aspect of like I'm not, you know, asking a teacher or asking a professor, asking a supervisor, you know, can you get me this? Can you get me this? So I I saw Bloomsburg as an opportunity. I watched some of their BUSN games the year prior, and I saw it as an opportunity to just get in there right away and get as much experience as possible, and that's what I've been trying to do in the better part of two years now.

SPEAKER_01 5:45

So not only do you scout sports, but you scouted the university before you got here.

SPEAKER_00 5:49

I had a whole little I had a grade. I didn't get there 40 time, unfortunately. I didn't get their 40 or their vert, but I I assume it'd be pretty solid.

SPEAKER_01 5:56

It's pretty solid for sure. Uh so what do you love about Bloomsburg? Why why did you choose this program? Why'd you choose to come here? I mean, you could have gone anywhere, I think, with your sports background and knowledge. But you chose Bloomsburg for a reason. I know it's close, and that's probably part of the reason. But is there something else about it that you just kind of fell in love with?

SPEAKER_00 6:14

Yeah, I just the location, of course, was great. Um, but but like I said, just the opportunities to where I knew they had a radio station, I knew I could do a show, and I had I've had this show talking about balls since I was in high school. Really? And we've done it in some not so great locations. And I've known that they had a radio station, and then right away, you know, I think I was it was my third day at Bloomsburg. I started the radio show, I got it done and and and started doing it, and we've done it every week. We've had school since since then, since August of 2024. So just trying to get as much experience like in this field, anyone will tell you, whoever, you know, professional or whatnot, it's it's about how much you can get done. You know, you're not gonna go to a a sport uh network and say, you know what, I got a 94 in this one class. They don't care. Can you call a game? Right? Do you have the experience? Do you know what it takes to do it? And I thought that's something where I could just get as much as possible, doing as much as possible, to the fact where if there's a news break that that happens, I can come into the studio, just hit the record button and talk for as long as I want and upload it to Spotify, upload it to wherever I want to do. Some place that if if I go to a larger university, right? Syracuse is the gold standard for sports broadcasting. You got to wait a couple of years. You've got to do a lot to you might not get an opportunity into your senior year, and then the margin of error for there is a lot smaller that if you mess up a couple of calls, you know, it's like you don't have as much to work.

SPEAKER_01 7:42

No, right. You're gonna have to keep track of a lot. It's a big list. We appreciate it. We appreciate all you do.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

But but yeah, it was it was the fact that you could just you can get as much experience as possible to the fact where I, you know, I'm trying to perfect stuff, trying to, that I I didn't even know existed in sports broadcasting, right? And and and another thing I really like is it's you're you're in contact with the control room. We have a guy, Adam Hower, who does a great job at the BUSN control room, and I'm saying, hey, can you bring up this graphic? We're gonna go commercial here, we're gonna do this, this, this. So you're more like you're you're running the show as the broadcaster, but you're also talking directly to the people that are putting the graphics up, putting the camera shots, and making it all flow. And it's just something that they're not too they're not too stuck up to people here about changes. We have a meeting coming up about making changes in the broadcast and and suggestions that if it works, that'll be in the broadcast next year and whatnot. So I like that that ability to to come in and make a change at stuff you see. And that's something I've done for a long time. Anytime I watch a game now and it's it's it's a problem. Uh, if I see something that they're doing, uh, you know, I gotta write it down in my notes. Oh, that's a pretty good transition. That's pretty good. I should do this, that, and the other. And I really can't enjoy a game anymore. It's it's getting pretty bad. But I I think the pursuit of wanting to be better is always a solid enough thing to have to.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

Absolutely. I can see that all over you, especially when you start doing this at 15 years old. There aren't too many 15-year-old people out there doing this type of work and this level of work and this quality of work that you've been doing. So you have a long meeting coming up, then, with all of your improvements and changes that you're gonna make. Here's the long list. I want all these things done. They've all been great improvements, and you've been a huge asset to everything we're doing here. So, when do you find time to rest? Like, how do you how do you rest when you're doing all the stuff? You didn't even mention all the stuff you do on social media. You put these clips together, you broadcast all these things, and then you put them out on social media, yeah, which is always fun to see people's reactions to it. Because I've I've been on your LinkedIn page and I've seen some of the things that people have commented on, and I actually just crack up laughing about hey, I had this creative idea to call a basketball game. And can you tell us a little bit about that?

SPEAKER_00 9:49

Yeah, so I've seen it all over social media, I've seen people do it. The prompt was I'm I was calling a game and I asked people to give me a certain word to fit into the broadcast. And of course, instead of giving me an easy word, they go on their phone and look up what is the hardest word to say on a broadcast. So I had to say eradicator, I had to try to fit that in somewhere, collywobbles, these words I've never heard of. That's like collywobbles, you're like sticking you sick in your stomach and stuff like that. So that was pretty cool too. I had a list going down and it was trying to fit these in and actually have them make sense. You know, you just didn't want to come in the air. How you doing, guys? Collywobbles. You had to actually make sense. So that was a that was a fun thing that we did. Um, and then social media stuff. I just uploaded to my Instagram, LinkedIn, and stuff like that. My calls of the year. I put together a a clip, uh, two, three-minute clip of everything that I thought was a pretty decent call. Tried to include some humor in there because I I don't like when broadcasters are you know cut and dry. Because you gotta you gotta have some humor, you gotta have some some sayings and whatnot.

SPEAKER_01 10:50

It's entertainment.

SPEAKER_00 10:51

And so, yeah, just all the stuff around around social media in terms of of when I rest, it's not in the fall, I'll tell you that much. Because it's usually it's it's Tuesday show, and then it's gotten better because I've now I'm now at Press Enterprise instead of Pennsylvania Football News, but it used to be Friday night high school game, get home at like midnight, and then if Penn State has a noon game, I mean, my goodness, you're up at six o'clock the next morning going to the game and you're not getting home until nine o'clock. It was something like especially Penn State night games, yeah, because you know it's it's a 7:30 start, game doesn't end till 11, and the coach doesn't get into the the press room until midnight, and then after the coach talks for a half hour, the players come in, you gotta interview them, you gotta write your article. I'm coming home one of these times on on the highway, I see the little sun peeking up. I'm like, oh my goodness. This has been a long, long day. Long weekend.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Well, you have done a ton of stuff, Mason, and we're gonna take a quick break. We're gonna be right back. We're gonna talk about some of your leadership styles and what do you think about leadership? Because you are a leader on campus, even as a sophomore. So we want to hear a little bit more about your leadership styles. So stay tuned to the podcast.

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Mason Part 2

SPEAKER_01 12:41

You're listening to the Campus in Character Podcast. I'm here with Mason. We're talking a lot about sports today, and we want to dig into a little bit of his leadership style and why he's a leader on campus. So Mason, is there someone in your life that has helped you with your leadership or someone that inspires you to be a leader?

SPEAKER_00 13:00

You know, I those questions, like who's your idol, who's your this, that, the other, I never really have an answer. It's more of a collection of people. It's not like someone I could could look at right away and say, my goodness, you know, I want to be like him. Like in terms of sports broadcasting, like Jim Nance is my favorite announcer. You just talk about the versatility of, you know, in in the course of three months, he can go from calling a high-intensity Super Bowl to a high intensity March Madness, and then he can sit there on a Sunday at the Masters, and it's like, you know, he just completely changes and he doesn't say much, but what he says just becomes as iconic as possible. So I just I've always it's something that I've never really like thought about why do I want to like why do I like broadcasting? It's you know it's just kind of like it you do it naturally, you walk naturally, you blink natural naturally. It's something that my entire life I just wanted to do this, and I'm continuing to try to get better and whatnot. But I think in terms of inspiration, it's just trying to mimic the greats that do it and the people that have done iconic moments in games and Joe Buck and Jim Nance and Al Michaels and some of the great guys, Chris Fowler's another great one, he does college football, just looking at what they do and understanding that they didn't just walk on to the set of ABC and call a game. I mean, they were an intern at some probably small college, and then they did clothes at a college to get in the door, and then you know, 30 years later they're here, you know. So understanding that it's not just gonna be, hey, ESPN, you know, my mom thinks I'm good. Let me in. It's gonna be a lot of time doing gigs that you might not be too desired with, but the end goal is is trying to get to that moment and and putting in that work that is gonna take a long time, but hopefully we can get there.

SPEAKER_01 14:44

Yeah, we know Jim Nance and all those guys put in tons and tons of decades worth of work. Is there someone that has had a big influence on your life in this area? Is there someone that you said, oh, that person helped me along the way? Is there anyone that really kind of poured into you?

SPEAKER_00 15:00

I mean, it'd be tough to name one person. Of course, my parents were big, my grandparents, my friends, and whatnot. It's kind of like a scenario where I name one person and then I feel the other one's getting left out. So I just think the people around me, my friends and my family, and then the people here at Bloomsburg that have already set a precedent of what a solid broadcast needs to be, and just try not to mess that up and trying to enhance it as much as I can.

SPEAKER_01 15:24

So when you think about some of the things that you've done in the support network, is there one project or one thing that you worked on? Maybe it's at Penn State and maybe it's with your football connections somewhere. Is there one project that you you did or play by play that was like, that's it? Like I'm here now. Like people recognize me, they know my voice, they know who I am, or an article in the newspapers. Is there one thing that you can point to and say, that was the piece?

SPEAKER_00 15:48

So I do pizza delivery on Fridays from 11 to 8, and I go to this lady's house and she says, Thanks, Mason. And I had never seen this woman in my life. And she's like, Yeah, I watched your game yesterday. You recall it. It's like, oh my goodness, really? Wow, wow. So, yeah, stuff like that. Um that's cool. There's this industrial place down in Berwick that we deliver to like every weekend, and it's a lot of high school kids that come right out and just go into the workforce. So a lot of those kids I've announced their games, I've covered their games, I've interviewed them, and stuff like that. That you don't really know how many people you've come across until, you know, like I'm watching the NFL and and Tyler Warren on the Indianapolis Colts makes a catch and like interview, you know, talk to him. Drew Allers going to the NFL draft, you know, talk to him. There's been many guys that I just I always say I can't wait to look back in 20, 25 years and look at people that have, you know, made I didn't expect to be NFL stars, go on and make a play, because Pennsylvania football, you know, it is an underrated state in terms of the talent they possess. I mean, you have you have Dan Marino, you have Joe Montana, you have Ty Law at Allaquippa. There's so many players, Hall of Famers in Pennsylvania. Aliquippa High School in the western part of PA has the most Hall of Famers of any high school in the state. Doesn't really have four Hall of Famers in the NFL Hall of Fame, which is like one percent of the Hall of Fame. To come out of one high school is pretty special. So so yeah, just just it's not expecting to to know how many people are watching and pay attention and always get reminded just a couple of times is always pretty pretty cool. Who do you deliver pizza for? Do you remember this place in in Bloomsburg, Tri-Pie? Yeah. Used to be in here. He now is in Berwick and he runs out of a a little R V area, delivery only. Okay. And so I work there. It's it's 10 houses down for me.

SPEAKER_01 17:39

Is it tri is it still called?

SPEAKER_00 17:41

It's called Pie on the Fly now. So yeah. He's gonna I'm gonna ask him to give me some money for shouting him out.

SPEAKER_01 17:46

Yeah, man, we get him on the show here.

SPEAKER_00 17:48

Yeah, but it's it's literally like ten houses down for me. So if he's ever slow, I can just go home for a couple hours. So that's always nice and whatnot.

SPEAKER_01 17:55

Do some more uh research. So tell us a little bit about the journalism side. You do some writing. What exactly are you doing? You're working for the Press Enterprise, you write some stories for them. You do some stories for the on-campus newspaper as well.

SPEAKER_00 18:06

Yes, I do. So Press Enterprise, I started in October of last year. I've done a couple of games for them. I did I think I did four high school games that I kind of joined towards the end of the year, and then I did a couple of Bloomsburg games, Bloomsburg basketball as well. And then I'm I just recently started doing stuff for the campus newspaper The Voice. I started that a couple of weeks ago. That's been really fun. I have a weekly or bi-weekly segment called Mason's Monocle, where I it's it's Mason's Monocle, what I'm looking at in the next two weeks of sports. So this week we have an article recapping March Madness and then previewing the masters. We have a couple of Bloomsburg golfers giving their picks and whatnot. So that's been pretty cool. Again, just trying to get as much as possible to just say, I've done this, I've done X, Y, and Z, and I love doing writing. And anytime I could write, I don't really you know care what it's about. I like the creativity of it as well, that you could do whatever you want with just a blank sheet of paper, and that's really cool. So yeah, I've been doing Press Enterprise now for a couple of months, and then the the voice here in Bloomsburg. So, what did you think about March Madness? You know, the tournament it's interesting because you know, I hate to sound like an old man, but NIL has really is it's been interesting about March Madness because you know, all everybody's transferring uh elsewhere. Like Michigan just won the national title. Not one player in their starting five started at the University of Michigan. So it was it was just all these transfers. I thought the tournament was pretty good, but what I love about March Madness is the Cinderella is is the small teams making a run. And and Cinderella has not been at the dance in the last couple of years. And so it's it's it's tough because everybody that goes on a run, for example, and it's it's related to this area, Jerry McNamara, he's a guy from around here, he's now at Syracuse, he was just at Siena as a 16 seed, and they were up on Duke like 15 points. They end up losing. He goes to Syracuse, and now all his players go with him. Yeah. So you take you you take all the mid-major programs, those smaller teams out, and now you just have the the big guys winning every single time that you might never never see a Loyola Chicago make a run or a George Mason or a VCU, something that really makes the tournament special. But just in terms of close games, I thought it was a pretty pretty good tournament.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

Yeah. And so we got the NFL draft coming up here in my favorite city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A Steelers fan my whole life, just so you know that, Mason. I don't know if you're an Eagles fan or who I like the Vikings. You like the Vikings? I would have never guessed that.

SPEAKER_00 20:29

How do you get to the Vikings? I have actually no clue. Another thing that kind of just happened when I was three years old. I've always liked the Vikings. Yeah. What's up with the NFL draft?

SPEAKER_01 20:39

Yeah, what's going on this year? What do you think?

SPEAKER_00 20:41

Anything exciting? Any sleepers? Anything we should know? You know, this draft's interesting because it is a draft that there are 32 first-round picks like there is every year. There's not 32 first-round players. There's probably about 10 or 15 first-round guys. There's a couple of guys like Fernando Mendoza, he'll go number one to the Raiders. Jeremiah Love's a great running back. There's a couple of good defensive prospects. They say it every year, but it's like you got to wait until next year because next year's draft class is really solid. I was considering, and I still might go out to the NFL draft out there in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's a very underrated city. It is. I went there to in December, might have been early January, for the Steelers Ravens week 18 game. Yeah. That the uh Tyler Loop missed a kick to end it. That was pretty cool. You take the ferry over to the stadium, it's a cool city. I love the I love the Pittsburgh accent too. Hey, hey, you're going down, watch the Steelers come up today. You wanna go watch the Steelers? That's right.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

I went to the Bengals game earlier in the season. Steelers did pull that one out. But yeah, there are seasons up and down all over the place. I don't know what they're gonna do in the draft. We still have Aaron Rodgers, apparently, maybe allegedly.

SPEAKER_00 21:41

I'll tell you what they'll do this year. They'll go nine and eight and they'll lose in the first round of the play.

SPEAKER_01 21:44

Hey, thanks for thanks for that. Appreciate that. We've done that for a couple years now. We're good at that. We know our role, we stay in our lane.

SPEAKER_00 21:51

Um, so what else? I picked up a sport every year, and I'm still waiting for this year's sport to be picked up. Maybe it's lacrosse, but three years ago. I started liking soccer. Now I love soccer. Two years ago I started liking the UFC. Now I I watch the UFC every week. And then last year I started liking golf. And now I I I love watching golf, love playing golf. So the Masters are always special. There's so many moments, and it's just like it's so peaceful to watch the Masters, right? You hear the the sounds of Augusta National, one of the most beautiful places in the world, really. And it is I always call it like it's it's the start of spring for me. Because usually I am able to open up the window, put the fan in the window. It's a nice day, usually it's solid, and it's just a good tournament. Anytime you have Jim Nance kind of pulling the reins on the whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

I take a nap every time I watch. I was like, start falling asleep right away. It's like a little lullaby for Jim Nance. That's right. So I have your next sport for you. Let's hear it. You can write this one down, right? Pickleball.

SPEAKER_00 22:47

No.

SPEAKER_01 22:48

Pickleball.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

It's taken off everywhere. I understand, but I I have to watch the sport to like it. I'm not going to watch it.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

Well, it can be those guys are pretty intense. I got to sign up on the pickleball channel or something. I don't know where you're finding that, honestly. I saw it one time when I was in Florida and they had it on TV, and I was like, wow, this is kind of fun. Like I get it. And so I'm thinking pickleball.

SPEAKER_00 23:09

That's trying to be that trying not to be that old. I'm playing golf.

SPEAKER_01 23:13

I'm not trying to play pickleball. It's coming. It's going to be big. It's going to be bigger than the NBA. Oh boy. I'm saying it. I'm going out there. Hey, this is the Campus in Character Podcast. I'm here with Nason. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back with a rapid fire question.

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Mason Part 3

SPEAKER_01 24:07

Welcome back to the Campus and Character Podcast. I'm here with Mason. We're going to go through some rapid fire questions. What do you think? Can you handle that? About to find out. Alright, here we go. What is one word to describe you? One word to describe me determined. Determined. You are determined. I would say. I feel like you've been determined since like three years old.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 24:27

What is your favorite thing about Bloomsburg? I like the scenery of the place. Scenery.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

Where's your favorite place to like look out and see the scenery? I love going up to the Arts Administration building. Yeah. Up on like the third floor. I never knew that building was that big until I had to actually go up on top, and I just like looking down. It's not really scenery of nature, but just kind of looking down at all the stuff they got down there is pretty pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

Upper campus, if you go up to the top of the football stadium too and look out, I always find that awesome up there. Beautiful view. Favorite sports team?

SPEAKER_00 24:59

Minnesota Vikings.

SPEAKER_01 25:00

Favorite player?

SPEAKER_00 25:01

Justin Jefferson.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

Really?

SPEAKER_00 25:03

Yeah. All time is Adrian Peterson.

SPEAKER_01 25:06

Alright, so you are a true Vikings fan. How about baseball? Do you have a favorite baseball team?

SPEAKER_00 25:10

Not really. No.

SPEAKER_01 25:11

Alright, it'll be the Pirates for today. So uh what's your favorite place to eat? It can be either Berwick or Bloomsburg since you're a Berwick guy.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

My favorite place to eat is gonna be a place in Hazleton called Alta Pizza. It's a little mom and pop Italian shop. The owner speaks full fluent Italian. I like a place that's like if it's a little rusty inside and it's old and a guy doesn't speak English and he's from Italy and he's you know, you're gonna get a good place. That's right, you know.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

Good pizza for sure. Do you have a favorite place to study on campus or a favorite place to work since you do so much work and writing?

SPEAKER_00 25:42

It's right here in the studio. I love I love going here in the studio and and going on all these computers and playing songs that I like and just getting getting it all done.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

Awesome. Well, if you're looking for Mason, he's probably gonna be here in the studio. He is right now, anyhow. Thanks so much, Mason. We appreciate your time. This is the Campus in Character Podcast where we just focus on leadership, telling stories of people on campus. And if you like this show, rate and review us, recommend it to a friend, and we'll see you here next time. Thanks so much.

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