Off the Clock w/Jon Eks
My name is Jon Eks and I spent more than a decade talking to people about work on the award-winning Jon of All Trades Podcast. I’m sick of talking about work. I want to talk about everything else in our lives. Men are traditionally not good at this. So, I’m talking to people I love, respect, and admire. I’m trying to embody the axiom “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Expect candor, vulnerability, profanity, and a wide range of topics.
Off the Clock w/Jon Eks
Nate the Secretly Introverted Goof
On this episode of Off the Clock, I’m joined by my friend Nate, who’s become a good friend, is a longtime media personality, a huge music fan, and a great guy to work with. Here’s some of what we talk about:
- First question: Who is “Big Shot Nate?”
- the necessity of ego to work in media while keeping it in check when you’re not on the air
- developing your forward facing personas and giving audiences something they cannot create themselves
- the work ethic of Denver Nuggets’ bench player Zeke Nnaji
- the comedy of the Marx Brothers, the TV show M*A*S*H and the comedy of Lewis Black
- the person in our lives who is allowed to be the meanest to us
- which athlete’s brain you’d pick to parachute into and experience one sporting contest through their eyes
- what do swimmers think about while they’re swimming?
- what makes Nate the angriest and how does he handle his anger?
- how we’re in the FO part of the acronym FAFO
- music video recommendations from Dire Straits, Billy Idol, Michael Jackson and Peter Gabriel
Find Nate at Mile High Sports.
Recorded at Number Thirty Eight (where they were nice enough to turn down the music for us)
Theme song by Sorry Sweetheart.
Logo by Nebulus Visions.
Produced by Deft Communications.