Welcome to what I am calling Born to Bowl, the podcast. My name is Jared Polin, aka Fro Knows Photo.

Now, I am an executive producer and the originator of the idea behind the show.

Now, my goal with this podcast is to give you some inside baseball on how it all came together,

from what sparked the initial interest in the PBA to how it

went from an idea to reality and ended up on HBO. Now, there will be episode breakdowns,

interviews, and much more. So I invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy Born to Bowl the podcast. Now, personally, I love learning

inside baseball. I love the behind the scenes of how something gets made. I want to know how the

bread is baked. Or is that how the donuts are made? I think it was Dunkin' Donuts and how the

donuts were made. And everybody likes that. Everybody loves how it's made. So think it was Dunkin' Donuts and how the donuts were made. And everybody

likes that. Everybody loves how it's made. So I want to take you behind the scenes of how this all

came together and we ended up on HBO with a season one. The goal? More than one season. But we're

here. We have a season. So I want to take you back to where the spark initially came from,

which gave me my interest in the PBA, which led to me going, you know what? There's a here,

here. So why the PBA? What sparked my interest? Well, if we go all the way back to the late 80s and the

90s, as a kid, I used to watch the PBA on ABC and later on on ESPN.

But all I knew was that there was a show.

I didn't know what led up to the show.

I only knew what I saw on TV.

I saw the TV matches.

I didn't know there was much more beyond that.

I thought this was it. These five or

six bowlers go head to head and, and that's it. But it wasn't until I watched a vlog on YouTube

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