Welcome to another episode of Raise The Stakes!, a podcast that discusses the entertainment world. It’s a widely accepted truth that movies based on books are never as good as the source material. But we don’t accept that truth. Sometimes the movie is just better. So listen to us discuss which films we think...
Episode 14: The Oscars Five Years Later
Welcome to another episode of Raise The Stakes!, a podcast that discusses the world of entertainment. This episode we imagine what it would be like if Oscars were awarded to films five years later, as some have suggested should happen. So we’ll be...
Nick Saban Helps Alabama Kicker Cade Foster Prepare For The Game
INT. LOCKER ROOM Cade enters. Slams the door. Kicks at a locker. Misses. CADE: Damn it! I suck! Nick Saban enters. The room grows colder. Cade can see his breath. NICK SABAN: Cade, calm down. It’s just practice. And that woman’s going to be...
The Spirit of the Law
The BCS will never be “right.” The only years where people have praised it for “getting it right” were years where only two undefeated teams remained at the end of the year. It doesn’t take a computer to match those two teams against each...
College Football 2011 Preview
College football returns this week, an oasis finally found in the midst of months of wandering through the desert. And even though no games have been played yet, the Associated Press has already ranked the Top 25 teams. Well, that seems silly. But since they...
Keep On Truckin’
My father recently purchased an Auburn-themed pick-up truck. There is much that could be said about this, but I will let the pictures do most of the talking. Perhaps my favorite thing about this truck is that my father bought it used.
Episode 12: Harry Potter (AKA, The Podcast That Lived)
A couple of weeks ago the last Harry Potter film was released, thus officially ending the franchise (for now at least). Making eight films of good to great quality with the same cast is quite the accomplishment, but this podcast isn’t just about...
Rivalry
In my Writing for Radio class I recorded a short (two and a half minutes) piece about rivalry, and more specifically about the college football rivalry between Auburn University and the University of Alabama. Give it a listen, and let me know your thoughts.