Welcome back to the unofficial Born to Bull podcast. I'm your host Jared Poland, aka the fro from fro knowsphoto.com.

I am also a co-executive producer on the Born to Bowl show that airs on HBO and HBO Max on Monday.

There are five episodes in this season and it's available in the United States and Canada,

and we'll have some updates to share with you soon on international markets. So the first episode

has aired, and that is fantastic. And I'm going to do a slight recap, but also sit down with one of

the main stars of our Born to Bull Show, Kyle Troop,

for an interview that goes inside baseball, aka inside bowling. We get to hear what his thoughts are

about the series, some of the fears he might have had, what he expects or hopes to come out of

this show, and just go into more detail about bowling.

I think it is one of the best conversations I've had during an interview,

and that's going to come up a little later.

But I do want to do a quick recap because after the interview,

I'm going to go into a little bit more detail about the show.

But the very first episode, the premier episode

that happened on HBO, really is an introductory to professional bowling and professional

bowlers. We get to meet our main characters. We've got Kyle Troop, E.J. Tackett,

Cameron Crow, we've got Anthony Simonson and we have Jason Belmonte.

So we have a lot of the best bowlers in bowling in the four that are Kyle, E.J., Belmo, and Simo.

And Cameron Crow is the newcomer, the rookie sensation, as he's called in the show, and we see how he progresses

throughout the episodes in season one. Now, there's a lot that I have to say about this episode.

I've never actually made a recap of a show, but being that I am so close to the show, I have a lot

of information to share with you that I think

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