Yo! Welcome into the House of L podcast. I am Lauren Tombs. Thanks so much for hanging out here with me. I do appreciate it.

I wasn't expecting to do an episode this quickly after the last episode of House of L, but I got some really good feedback from people inside the industry if you were listening to the last episode.

I try to leave you some breadcrumbs about some things that I'm concerned about happening and I think are already starting to happen inside the sports media industry.

And I'm not alone in it. I don't want this podcast to turn to like I'm on some lone wolf tin hat type stuff. You can follow up on everything that I said and you can find both written pieces and podcast.

I highly recommend the Lebitard Big Sui episode that has John Skipper explaining a lot of this stuff because that was really when alarm bells started to go off for me when him and David Samson.

We're discussing some of the issues with Sinclair and RSNs and spending in sports media overall.

So I wanted to kind of update you and give you some more stuff of what was kind of going on afterwards. I got I talked with a few friends in the industry.

Some of them share my concern. Some of them think that alarmists is not the right word. They are more optimistic than I am about some of these issues, which honestly gave me a little bit of hope because the people who are optimistic about it.

I think about it are a little bit more tapped in than I am and smarter than I am. So that made me feel a lot better about things, but I'm still worried because I kind of worry and I realize now that some of the advice that I gave was more reactive.

I mean, it was proactive, but it's something that people should be thinking about anyway, and that's the idea of saving money so that you have a cash on hand, six-month fund, all of that stuff.

I mean, it's a little bit more than just a little bit more than just a little bit more than just a little bit more than just a little bit more than just a little bit more than just a little bit more than just a little bit more than just a little bit more than just a little bit more than just a little bit more.

So I never think that it's a bad idea to tell people to save money.

It's a very conservative viewpoint, like super, and I mean, that's kind of how I was raised, but I explained it, if you stop right now and go back to the last episode, then you'll understand where we're coming from, but if you want to just hang out and listen to this episode, I'm totally okay with that too.

But I did want to offer something because I ran into a colleague and honestly, like a mentor and a friend this weekend, and he had listened to the episode, and he was like, hey, you all right?

And I'm like, yeah, I'm totally okay.

And I'm in a really good position to weather pretty much anything that happens unless it's cataclysmic and obviously then all of us are screwed, except for those of us that are at the top, top, top of the profession.

But I wanted to relay some of that conversation that I had, and I can name this person, like it's not like a secret.

I went to go work out at the gym.

Long story short, like I've been having back problems since Christmas.

And when I was in Arizona, like, you know, getting that the vitamin D and being in the sun, like, help me, I got a massage and

I was able to start, like, stretching and stuff again.

So I started working out again.

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