Episodes
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House of Glass: The WNBA’s Lunch Break Finals and Jay-Z picks Jay-Z
We’ve got a fantastic House of Glass for you with Front Office Sports ace Ryan Glasspiegel. We begin with the WNBA Finals scheduling fiasco, get heavy into NFL media and emerge with a questioning of Jay-Z as Super Bowl act. Thank you to live stream joiners George, Teutonia World, Kyle Eliason…
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Narrated: Why the Shane Gillis SNL Conversation is Dominated by People Who Hate Comedy
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House of Glass 2: The Athletic Wants Sophie Cunningham Out of Indiana?!
We did another video House of Glass, this time LIVE with Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports. What a great element you live viewers brought. We were heartened by the audience that arrived and encourage all of you to share word of this experiment if you can. I thought it was a great show, in…
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House of Glass Episode 1! NFL Greed and Drama Edition
Hey good people! Our friends at Substack see potential in these cult classic House of Glass episodes and wanted to gauge the response from a more regular airing of them (in which we include video of our lovely faces). We’re going to be doing these shows biweekly at Tuesday 10 AM PST/1pm EST. Next...
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Andrew Sharp Against Domed NFL Stadiums
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Andrew Sharp came out heavy against the influx of indoor NFL stadiums. He writes: Modern capitalism has been an object of considerable public debate over the past 10 years, and while I’m not particularly inclined...
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Ryan Glasspiegel on NFL Announcer Intrigue and Whether “the Sports Libs” are Back as a Force
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com The Glass Man is here with a lot of thoughts on the state of NFL television! We also discuss whether a group I’m calling “the sports libs” are gaining in the broader sports culture war. Topics include but aren’t...
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Freddie deBoer Talks NFL and NFL Media
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com We’re happy to have Freddie deBoer on to discuss a mutual obsession: The modern NFL. He’s got some issues, as do I, with how the league is covered by presumptive high priests of football analysis. Topics!…
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Wosny Lambre on Clipper Crime, Nike’s Fall, Selling Sex in 2026
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com What a discussion we have for all of you. Topics! Include! * Why the Clippers’ salary-cap cheating felt like a “victimless crime” only because they failed * Wos argues the 2019–20 Clippers really were the NBA’s...
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Jordan Rogers on the Golf Culture Wars
There’s perhaps no better person in media to discuss This Week in Golf Brand Turmoil than Jordan Rogers, former Nike executive and all-around golf guy. This was a great conversation and we explored so much within a recently disrupted industry. Topics! Include! * The Good Good Callaway ad...
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Colin Cowherd
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com It’s Cowherd Week at House of Strauss! Roughly once a year, we explore the state of sports media with one of the biggest voices in this industry. I’m pleased to say that Colin did not hold back. Topics! With time...
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Ryan Glasspiegel on ESPN Layoffs, Ryan Clark, Sophie Cunningham, Tom Dundon
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com A lot of fascinating ESPN dynamics to discuss this week. Ryan and I get into the nitty, the gritty and so much more. Topics! Include! * The dynamics of Ryan Clark’s ESPN firing * Inside the bizarre race between...
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Saam Esfandiari, Our Sports Renaissance Man
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com I know many sports sickos but Saam Esfandiari might be the sickest. The Light Years co-host has in depth opinions on basketball (of course), soccer, football, and even baseball. Today we decided to explore some...
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Nate Jones Explains the NBA CBA
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com An entertaining and informative NBA CBA-based conversation with NBA agent and Move Insoles co-founder Nate Jones. Absolutely loved this one, and hope you will too. Topics! Include! * Why Ethan doesn’t want LeBron...
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Justin Termine on Hot NBA Topics!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com We’ve got a fantastic NBA-centric pod with SiriusXMNBA host and ever-candid broadcaster Justin Termine. So many subjects topics to cover as the NBA world comes to a boil. Topics! Include! * Why are NBA teams...
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Ryan Glasspiegel on Tim Bontemps, Alexi Lalas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com We’ve got a great House of Glass for you today. Just look at the docket. You have to subscribe, just so you can hear how Ryan pronounces “Thierry Henry.” Topics! Include! * (2:00) Tim Bontemps to the…Hawks?! Why...
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Katie Herzog
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com A glorious conversation with our PRIDE CORRESPONDENT Katie Herzog of Blocked and Reported on this whole San Francisco Giants Rainbow Hat Controversy and so much more. Topics! Include! * Is catcher secretly the...
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Nate Duncan on the NBA Finals
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Dunc’d On Founder and co-host of my new favorite YouTube channel Nate Duncan, everybody. * How huge is this Finals? * Wembanyama temp check: Nate loves Wemby, but how does the public feel? * Does Wembanyama’s...
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Steve Kuhn on NBA Finals and Probability Cup
We’re podcasting per the launch of the World Cup-tracking Probability Cup, but of course, just had to talk about Wednesday night’s NBA Finals classic. The BIG question on my mind: Should predictors/gamblers price in the NBA’s massive incentive to make this great series continue? Topics! *...
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HoS: Ryan Glasspiegel NBA Finals Special
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Wow, do Ryan and I have much to discuss with all this Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals buzz. Topics! Include! * Why the NBA Finals suddenly feel like a major cultural event again * Glass man gives a tepid defense of New...
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Scott Agness, the Man the Indiana Fever Banned for Reporting on Caitlin Clark
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Delighted to be joined by Scott Agness, publisher of Fieldhouse Files and man of the hour. I asked him Scott the Indiana Fever are acting so strangely towards him and media writ large. Scott was fair and measured...
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Neil Paine on Thunder HATE and "Draftism"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com We love Neil Paine, our analytics-forward friend. He covers seemingly every sport with a data-driven zeal. Today we took at look at whether the foul-bait backlash to the Thunder is rooted in reality. Does this...
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Teutonia World: A Super Subscriber Speaks
Teutonia World, otherwise known as “Ben,” has been a prominent subscriber since the earliest House of Strauss days. He’s vocal in the House of Strauss BCC chat and often sends me good ideas over email. He’s an analytical mind and a critic at heart. I wanted him on to reflect on this site and what...
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Talking Music DATA with Chris Dalla Riva
I was introduced to Chris Dalla Riva, who I’d describe as an analytics-driven music historian. He wrote Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves. I know very little about music but I’m fascinated by objective measures of subjective taste. I enjoyed our...
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Jesse Singal Plays Basketball
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com We’ve got Jesse Singal in large part so we can discuss his quality as a basketball player. Of course, other less important topics were discussed. Such as! * 49ers Draft Controversy * The Michael Tracy/Jim Acosta...
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Monitoring the Situation
Sharing the pod I did with the TECH BROS over at Monitoring the Situation. Tried to give some sense of what we discuss over here at HoS, plus engage in the discourse of the day. Topics covered include: * How sports shape the future of X/Twitter * Caitlin Clark, the WNBA, and the business of...
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Ryan Glasspiegel on Vrabel-Russini, NBA Ratings, Steve Kerr as Broadcaster
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com House of Glass is here to discuss an especially fertile week in sports media. Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports DARED DISAGREE with a few of my takes on Vrabel-Russini. We found considerably more agreement…
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Narrated: 5 Articles
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Trying something new and curious what you all think. Instead of separating this week’s articles into their own narrations, I combined them all into one narration. It’s an audio compilation of the following…
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Wosny Lambre on Sexual Taboos in the Sports Workplace
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Honestly, this was one of the most enjoyable podcasts for me. I credit the WNBA, everyone’s favorite league, and also give thanks to the incomparable Wos. We had a great time cathartically venting on what’s…
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Spike Eskin: NBA, Nike, UBS, Diana Russini
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Spike Eskin got into it with Sopan Deb of the New York Times and became a character in my article on UBS blaming the NBA for Nike woes. We podcasted about this subject, Diana Russini resigning from the Athletic,...
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Tom Haberstroh on the NBA Star Injury EPIDEMIC
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Our guy Tom Haberstroh is here to discuss an article of his that sent shockwaves throughout the NBA. What’s going on with this “alarming data” that suggests stars are increasingly prone to miss national TV games?...
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Ryan Glasspiegel on NBA TOPICS
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com The greatest sports media podcast in all the land returns as Ryan and I get into some NBA heavy chatter, with a side of Roger Goodell’s Rooney rule defense. Enjoy! Topics include but aren’t limited to… * LeBron...
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Kyle Porter: Is This Golf's Moment?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Kyle Porter from Normal Sport is a thoughtful commentator who thinks about a lot more than just the sport he covers. So I wanted to press him on this topic, plus a few others: Is golf, with the PGA Tour now led…
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Matt Klinman Tests My Political Compass
Some of you have asked where I am on politics these days, so my best friend and occasional main antagonist decided to objectively gauge it. In this episode, Matt and I go through every question of the famous Political Compass Test, reasoning out where we fall on the spectrum. Will WOKE MATT pull…
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Ryan Glasspiegel: MLB vs. NBA
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Our man Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports is here to discuss how Ross Barkan and others are joining his MLB > NBA bandwagon. Is it true? What are the numbers to support the idea that MLB has surpassed the...
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Arguing WOJ and Luke Kornet on Basketball Illuminati
I visited the friendly confines of Basketball Illuminati, only to be at a severe rhetorical disadvantage versus Amin Elhassan. He was strongly anti Luke Kornet’s criticism of now cancelled Magic City Night, and argued that case with energy. I was more understanding of Kornet’s position, but…
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Andrew Sharp on Anthropic, America, NBA
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com It’s a convoluted world out there and I trust Stratechery’s Andrew Sharp to help us navigate it. In this podcast we humble former NBA media types dared entered the fraught topics of Anthropic vs. Trump, world...
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Narrated: You May Not Be Political, But Politics Finds You
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Sherman Alexie
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Author, filmmaker and ardent basketball fan Sherman Alexie joins me to discuss one of my favorite topics: The 1990s. Though, to be honest, we stray from that subject and get into others subjects of interest. Such...
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Mike Pesca on Eileen Gu and Patriotism Decline
Mike Pesca wrote a fine piece for the Free Press on how oddly not controversial the supposedly very controversial Eileen Gu is. She’s from the United States, but competes for China, and yet receives…mostly glowing mainstream American coverage? What’s with that? And beyond Gu, what’s the elite...
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Ryan Glasspiegel on Bad Bunny Super Bowl Data, NBA All-Star Discontent, Casey Wasserman Epstein Cancellation
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com This pod was so hot, so provocative, that our man Ryan Glasspiegel was worried about career consequences. Personally, I believe we were just being reasonable about potentially fraught topics, such as… * Not...
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John Middlekauff
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com First of all, congratulations to our SportsPredict Super Bowl winners SFZevi, Nathan Shea and Peter V. I had fun competing against all of you this NFL season, even though I reliably fell short of prize territory....
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Rob Henderson
As I told Chuck Klosterman, I planned to do a pod on his Football book with non sports fan Rob Henderson. So what did our favorite sports agnostic intellectual think of such a deep dive into America’s favorite game? Topics! Include! * When one’s job is a bigger marker of identity than one’s race…
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Chuck Klosterman
I highly recommend Football, Chuck Klosterman’s latest book. In this podcast, we discuss his trenchant and personal exploration of the sport, along with the following topics… * Are we primarily writers or podcasters? * Many believe that young people are correct about the future, but few think…
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Mike Pesca
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Great conversation with Mike Pesca in which I, unfortunately, regressed to my old ways of pronouncing Chuck Klosterman’s name incorrectly. This is possibly our most controversial and free associative podcast yet.…
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Kat Rosenfield
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Kat Rosenfield has, as she often does, written brilliantly of late. I especially enjoyed her nuanced takes on the Minnesota shootings. We discussed intrusive thoughts on recent political events, millennials…
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Tyler Dunne
The House of Strauss SportsPredict playoff contest continues, so make some picks for this weekend. For the championship round, the prize is a $500 DICK’S gift certificate, plus, of course, bragging rights. So join in. In this episode our friend Tyler Dunne from Go Long is here to discuss NFL. We...
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HoS: Tom Haberstroh
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com First, congratulations to Kevin Turner for winning NFL Playoffs Week 1 of our Sports Predict contest. He receives a $250 Ticketmaster prize, and I have it on good authority that there’s more money to be won (by...
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HoS: Spike Eskin
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com I spent much of Monday listening to Spike on the WIP livestream as Philly digested the Eagles playoff loss to the 49ers. What I encountered did not necessarily fit Philadelphia’s reputation for brutality but it…
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HoS: Dieter Kurtenbach Goes DEEP on Doomed San Francisco 49ers
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com WARNING: This is an NFL heavy House of Strauss podcast. DOUBLE WARNING: You should really join the free of charge HoS Sports Predict NFL Playoffs Contest. You can win $1000 in prizes based on making NFL…
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Special Teams, Special Contest!
The NFL Playoffs, With a Scoreboard That Actually Matters In this pod, I discuss an exciting reveal: The official NFL Playoffs House of Strauss contest! Beyond the contest, Sports Predict co-founder Steve Kuhn and I also get into our nerdy NFL strategy obsessions and whether the league is…
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