"Schefter With Skits" Adam Garfield (@thatguygarf) Talks Content Creation Journey

Recording in progress. >> Damn. >> Recording in progress. >> [ __ ] >> I was working for the Texas Longhorns in recruiting. I was recruiting safeties. Recruiting safeties. You were a scout. >> Yeah. For for like 7 months. There's sometimes I see a video and I'm like, how did this guy come out with this video so fast? Yeah. I've gotten it down to tea where I I can get the news, film it, edit it, post it within like a 6 to 8 minute range. If you could leave anybody with one piece of advice trying to get into the sports media world, >> be yourself. Don't care what others are going to think. We appreciate you guys joining in on this video. Hey, it's the offseason. Not much is going on. So, we thought we'd just go around and interview some content creators, some losers that would be open to doing something like this. And we finally we found a loser right here. That guy Garf over 600,000 followers on social media across Facebook for your old heads, YouTube, Instagram, and Tik Tok. Adam Garfield is joining us. Adam, how are you doing, my man? >> I'm doing fantastic. I'm honored. I'm honored to be the loser today. >> Thanks for uh giving me content to post during uh May, June, and July because it is a dry month right now. It's been busy with the free agency period and the draft, but right now I just wanted to get to know you because we actually connected at the Super Bowl. And uh I think I I'm trying to think of the video that I saw of you that made me realize, oh, it's that one guy. I think it was the New York Jets video, like a Jet reacting to a jet. It's also funny because you didn't show your face in that video. I mean, your eyes and your mouth wer in there, but I still recognized you cuz you look like a jet in real life, so >> I'm more of a 747. >> Hey, not Spirit, though. RIP. >> Rest in peace, Spirit. >> Yeah, we got connected at the Super Bowl. Um, and then I was told to approach you with Pokemon cards because they were one of the sponsors. I don't know anything about Pokemon cards. >> I didn't know anything either. If you remember that video, I had no idea what I was doing. >> Exactly. Exact. I'm sure you're familiar with sponsors. You know how it works being in the content creation world. Tell me a little bit about that. like how did you get into content creation? >> Uh I've been making content since 2020. Uh peak COVID I was doing it for fun mostly like comedy skits and then ended up joining a sports media company called Playmaker in 2022 and just started making sports content for them. Uh just started doubling down more into the sports aspect rather than just basic comedy and been doing it ever since. So, I'm curious about this because trying to get into the sports world or the business, it's tough. Uh, you know, there's like thousands, hundreds or thousands of applicants for these jobs. So, did you have like a connection to get connected with them? >> I sent a I sent a LinkedIn message to the CEO. I was a senior in college and I said, "Hey, like I really like what you guys are doing. I'll work for free. Like, I just want experience. um would love an opportunity just to like get my foot in the door. So, at the time we had a playmaker uh talent management. There was like an athlete management side doing NIL deals in the the early days of that and so got an opportunity there just to intern, not paid. Um and yeah, kind of just starting with that and then trying to make myself more valuable as time went. I ultimately was scrolling on LinkedIn later, you know, a few months after and I saw a part-time position, reached out about that because I already had my foot somewhat in the door. Got that position that turned into a full-time position and then it was trying to just make myself more valuable um as I kind of grew within the company. So, you use LinkedIn because I feel like LinkedIn is more of like a uh upper management trying to climb the corporate world and when it comes to like sports comedy, I mean I I'm sure like nowadays it can be used for different things, but you're very active on LinkedIn. I think I was I was more active before um because at that point I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I was working for the Texas Longhorns in recruiting. I was recruiting safeties for about like seven months going into my senior year. I I learned that that's not what I wanted to do. And so at that point, I knew I wanted to do something with sports. And so I'm looking on LinkedIn trying to connect with people. I I thought I wanted to do more of like the community engagement route with the team like the, you know, the people who are making community events or helping athletes set up fundraisers or nonprofits. And so I was talking to people. I think I talked to a guy at the Ravens. uh he gave me some good insight and just trying to make a ton of connections and then I'm like, "Okay, well, maybe I could try the sports media side of it." Found, you know, the companies I liked. Reached out to the ones that I would like to work for. Only one of them responded. Shout out to Brandon Harris for taking a chance on me. Um but yeah, man, it it was it was great experience and it's kind of just like I don't know, you like you throw stuff at the wall and hope something sticks and you know, when someone gives you a chance, you just got to prove them right. >> Hold on. We Let's back up a little bit. Recruiting safeties, you were a scout. >> Yeah, for for like seven months. >> I do. You have to have like some sort of background as far as that goes. >> I didn't know anything about scout scouting at all. So, it start same kind of way with playmaker. My freshman year of college um 2018 kind of dating myself here, but I wanted to work at some capacity with the football team or the basketball team. And the same deal, I sent out a ton of emails, not LinkedIn at the time, but a ton of emails. There was just public website from the Texas Athletics um I guess, I don't know, website, and it had all the emails. And so I reached out to all the people that were were available and had their emails, and I said, "Hey, look, same thing. Like, I'll work for free. I just want to gain experience. This is what I really want to do." It took me three three and a half years to finally get a response from someone on the football team. I think they started to try to build that scouting recruiting intern department out and same deal gave they gave me chance took a chance on me. They kind of assigned us like okay you know you're going to do offense you're going to do defense so I got assigned defense specifically safeties. I really didn't know anything about it at the time but it was just like a learning process. you know, you go and talk with the safeties coach and, you know, you learn what he wants to do. And just from like watching high school film, watching the best guys that are five stars and getting offers like, okay, this is what a fivestar safety looks like, the way they're moving, their hips are moving, you know, how quick they react. Now, you can see what like a nostar guy looks like, you know? So, kind of just learning like a guy that that I I don't want to say found him, but I remember watching Sunny Styles tape and I'm like, this guy's insane. like I get why he's a fivestar and then you go watch like a random kid from you know a two-way school in Houston I'm like okay there we go >> man that's crazy yeah three and a half years to trying to get a response I I mean I can kind of sympathize with that because I mean in the sports industry I just a little bit about me like I graduated from college tried to apply for jobs for two years and nobody was giving me a shot and then I was like screw it like I'm doing my own thing >> and takes takes a long time to get connected, but you got connected and seems like that wasn't your route and now it is media, which I mean it worked out for you. So, tell us a little bit about what you do now. >> Yeah, I'd love to just touch on what you said too, man. It's tough like especially in the sports industry for the team side. you know, the pay is not going to be amazing and that's because everybody wants that position. And I, you know, the Chargers just had a social media job that went viral because I don't know what the listing maybe it was like 60 or 70K, I'm not sure, which is good money, but when you're taking in the fact LA and the hours you work, it's tough, but everybody wants these. So, I think being persistent is great, but sometimes you really just do need to build that connection. And that's where like, you know, if you can meet someone on LinkedIn and and shoot a message. Um, but yeah. Um, going back to what you just said, what I do now, I'm full-time content creator, mostly follow NFL. I'm trying to do more NBA. I like basketball, but it's tough when it's not playoff season. There's so many games. Um, I like to kind of consider it chef with skits. And I, you know, it's kind of like breaking news in the form of a comedy skit. It's a different medium rather than a tweet that you're getting breaking news. Occasionally I can beat the ESPN or Bleacher Report post to it on Instagram or Tik Tok. It's not always the case, but I for me like I I like entertaining people and ever since I've been younger, I like to make people laugh. So I try to make it funny. Sometimes it's more breaking news more than comedy. But I've been, you know, doing that all day, trying to just connect with athletes, build a community, and entertain people. I don't know if that really answered your question or not, but >> yeah. No, I mean just kind of touching off of what you said trying to beat Bleacher Report and whoever. >> Yeah. >> To making a video because there's sometimes I see a video that you make and I'm like, dude, this came out the news. I heard about it like 15 minutes ago. >> Yeah. >> And I got notifications on for Adam Shifter and Raport and I'm like, how did this guy take this like come out with this video so fast? You come out with these videos quick. So you have like a format already made in pretty much a preset and you film these videos. I think the way it works is I have the green screen. I have it like pressed onto my wall. Everything I do is mostly green screen. I have the ring light set up. A lot of it's improv. So, I'll like when I learn about the news, I go and run into uh I run into my office or like if I'm at the gym, I'm like, "Shit, drive it home like 10 minutes." Um, but yeah, I go and film it and like I said, a lot of it's improv. I kind of have like the idea of what I want to say in my head. So, example, like let's say Dave Njoku signs with the Chargers, for example. Not happening. It might, I don't know. But I'm like, okay, I'm gonna go if they they have like certain hairstyle, I'll go like throw on the wig and I'll be like, oh, you know, here I am. Something about like a strong hook of, wow, we finally did it or like, can't believe we did it. It's time. I'm here. Then it kind of goes and I leave time in for the voice over and that helps drive the video. So, you know, I can rely on adding in the voice over once I film it and post to be like, "So, David, what did you think about, you know, why'd you sign with Los Angeles?" And then when I'm filming, you know, I can be like, "Yeah, I just love the weather first off, like Justin Herbert, you know, I like the weapons around me." So, it's kind of like I I guess it's like a it's impro, but I'm both parts. Does that make sense? I'm not sure. >> Yeah. No, that makes perfect sense. And you actually just made half your video right now. >> Yeah. There we go. That's 30 seconds. Do you ever like make a video in advance just in case like he does actually sign with the Chargers and then you just post it as soon as he does? Cuz I've done that before. Like Fernando Mendoza was obviously expected to go to the Raiders. So I made like a couple videos in advance like once he gets drafted I'm dropping these and it actually helped out with the algorithm getting a ton of views. Do you do that? >> I think it depends. Like if I know that it's going to happen like like that's a great example, Fernando Mendoza to the Raiders. I knew that was gonna happen, so I already filmed that video. But it's so hard to know, especially like I think people think that I have like 32 videos filmed for every single outcome, which is it's just not the case. But it's it's for example, like this draft, it was so unpredictable outside of pick number one. You had no idea what was going to happen. So for the draft, I'm locked in as possible. I'm like, I'm ready to go. I'm going to do, you know, as quick as I can. And you know, I've gotten it down to tea where like I can get the news, film it, edit it, post it within like a six to eight minute range. So this it's a welloiled machine that like I don't know, man. I get so much adrenaline like when the news comes out and trying to just like, okay, film edit as quick as I can. It's kind of like a pit stop in racing. It's like you want to go as fast as possible. You can't have any mistakes. You get it out, you're like, let's [ __ ] go. Did it. >> Love it. What was like one video that you made that like made you realize, oh, I can do this full-time on my own? >> Yeah, you know, it's tough. There wasn't like one specific video that I was like, I can do this full-time, but I think a video where I realized like, okay, this is actually getting some attention. I can keep doing this. I didn't realize I could really go full-time in it. I I went full-time in it in this past August of 2025. So, it took me some time to really like realize I could do it. But I had made one that was Joel Embiid at Chick-fil-A. Like that was a skit and that one did super well just doing like a Joel Embiid impression. And then a football one was once I kind of realized like, you know, doing a Patrick Mahomes impression, I can do it decently enough. And that started to get a ton of views and I kept repeating. I probably spammed it way more than I should have, but um it it started to work. And I made one I think I'm trying to remember. It was during the Austin F1 US Grand Prix. I had posted a video like the day or the night before and the day after I was at like the Sports Illustrated party. I'm like, "Holy [ __ ] he's got two million views." I think it was it might have been Patrick Mahomes at like Subway or something. I think that's what it was. But, um, just kind of finding that niche that I can keep doing and repeating and kind of own my own lane of it like this breaking news or the comei skit that's putting athletes in, you know, a non-typical scenario like someone at Subway or I just made one Fernando Mendoza at Chipotle a couple weeks ago that did well. Um, so just like finding this niche, doubling down in it once I figured out I have like motion, just see what I can do, get the sponsors, kind of believe in myself. >> I want to go back to your college days being like an influencer, you don't necessarily need school or college or anything, but I guess for those people that are thinking about entering the sports media world, how I guess on a scale of 1 to 10, how important is college? like is it really necessary nowadays? >> It's tough, man. Like I I think it's a great question. I think now looking back for what I'm doing now, I don't think I had to go to college. However, I think I became the person I am at college. Like I don't think I would have gotten into let's say, you know, I don't know, I didn't go to college. I just started like in a trade school or something like that. I don't think I would ultimately become this. I think I went into college having no idea what I wanted to do and then from that networking and from getting like an opportunity in all these other opportunities like working for the football team I learned what I didn't want to do right and so I think I don't want to any ever tell people like not go to college but I think it's a little ne a little less necessary than it used to be I think especially like you know you can learn so many skills on your own now with YouTube you can learn how to code you can learn how to master AI in a content you don't need to go to college. Like I really didn't learn anything that I'm doing now from college outside of the networking. Seven. I would say seven. I think college if you if college is in, you know, it's in the picture for you, like I wouldn't take out a crazy loan to go go to college, I I don't think that's the best idea. But if it's in the pictures for you, if you can make it work, if you can work your way through college, I think you should do it. I think it's the best experience you're gonna have, you know? >> Yeah. Yeah, I'm like a three. What do you think? >> I'm a three, bro. I'm a three. Like, it did not help me at all. And I I think I think we were at the tail end of as far as the sports media world goes where college is necessary. Like, it was starting to fade out. >> Yeah. >> At that point, because I graduated college, it it took me six years to get a four-year degree. >> That's all right. >> That's cool. I mean, I wish I didn't go at all. would be $30,000 richer. But >> yeah, >> it's okay. Uh, man, [ __ ] Georgia State. I hate Georgia State. >> You went to Georgia State? >> I did go to Georgia State. >> RJ Hunter, man. Come on. I met R.J. Hunter at the Boston airport. You remember when he hit that shot in March Madness? >> Oh, yeah. Let's go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Georgia State was like >> Yeah. >> known as like the Cinderella story, which was awesome. >> Sick. >> So, you know, yeah, there was some good to it, but uh no, I mean, nobody there was helpful. Uh the staff wasn't helpful. like nobody. >> You know what else is tough is I think there's just no like there's no direct or correct path into sports media I feel like and that's why college is tough for this for this but I think it helps to have you know if you have a college degree it makes you a little bit more attractive when you are applying to jobs >> but everything comes back to like you got to know somebody you got to network your way in you got to like show them that you're capable of doing the job and it's tough man I think part of the reason why I'm saying go to college is I had I had a great time in college. I loved it and like some of my best friends obviously from there and I don't know maybe if I hated it I would say differently but I had a good time. Yeah. I think college also puts you like in a little bit of a box like it gives you structure. I think for young kids 18 19 20 years old they're like if I take this class if I do this internship if I go here for four years I will apply for a job and I will get a job. And that's not, like you said, there's so many different paths and nine times out of ten when you're working in sports, that's not the path that happens. Like it could take six months to a year to two years to try to find a job. It could, you know, you go into a different career field at that point at because it's not working out for you. Um, so you have to get outside of the box, do something that makes you stand out. And connections, we both agree like connections is the best way to go. Like I sent out emails to probably 30 different sports agents and I had one guy respond said, "Yeah, let's do it." And now still to this day like we're really close. Um and so like he's given me many opportunities to interview his players and that's led to more opportunities and you know just grows your own thing. But >> so tough man. It's so tough. Especially like the job market now. Horrible. Um, I I hate to be like, "Oh, AI is taking jobs." But like it is. You know, it takes jobs and that's just the way the the world's changing, but I think trying to just make yourself as valuable as you can and like, you know, just sometimes you got to do the [ __ ] work, but then show them that like, okay, I can thrive doing the [ __ ] work. I can do more than [ __ ] work, you know? >> Yeah. Oh, yeah. Uh, moral of the story, [ __ ] Georgia State. >> Yeah, that's the moral. [ __ ] Georgia State. That's That's the moral. >> I wish I went to UT like you. Seems like a better school. >> Come on. It's not too late. I said, you know, I still got some eligibility left, >> dude. Let's go. Let's go. You're gonna be uh college for nine years, >> dude. I tried walking out as punter. I love telling this. I tried walking out as punter twice. Ow. And oh for two, baby. >> Speaking of that, it's funny because I'm so into football. So whenever like anybody asks me what I do for work, they're like, "Oh, so you played." And I've gotten to the point where I'm just like, yeah, I was at actually in high school, I was the number four ranked kicker, the number seventh ranked punter. Uh, and then I actually went to uh, you know, UNC Charlotte. Um, but I had to drop out because it's actually part of my testimony and all this stuff. And like I they're like, "Oh man, I believe that." Because you can't say quarterback. You have to say like something like, you know, believable. And >> you go long snapper. Oh yeah, I'm the I'm the backup long snapper. You don't see me. You know, it's funny on my uh I think on my like Tinder or Hinge or something in like college, I probably I think I put Texas football and then people were probably like, "Oh, he does he play for the football team?" It's like, "No, it just says Texas football." It's just like you think, "Oh, you're that uh you're that blind long snapper, that one that they had." Yeah. >> From USC. Yeah. >> How do you deal with negativity? because there's always going to be people in the comments that are spewing hatred or, you know, trying to tear you down and maybe just say, "Oh, this is a [ __ ] video. This is not funny." How do you deal with that? >> I think it's hilarious, bro. I honestly like do not care at all. I'm I I I'll say this. I'm grateful that I'm I don't care because it can really tear people down. It could really like mess with you. But I genuinely think it's so funny because I like what I'm doing is not deep. If I'm like impersonating a player, like it's not like, "Oh, I hate this guy." But I'll get people that like will DM like, "Fucking kill yourself, bro. Never make fun of Patrick Mahomes." I'm like, >> "Dude, like I'm filming in front of the green screen." Like, what I am doing is not deep. So, I find it funny. And it's also like if you comment like something hateful, you're only helping the you're only helping the video, too. Like, you're you're adding more. Like, I don't >> care. >> That's what I say all the time. I actually have a copy and paste message um that I can actually read off to you right now. >> It's hilarious. >> I'm going to pull up one guy like the other day. >> The copy and paste message that I have is don't even bother commenting on this idiot's page. Each comment helps his engagement. Make some money and more of his videos will be recommended to you. Pisses me off. >> I got this one on Facebook Business Center on April 29th. This was in response to a Fernando Mendoza video or something maybe. I don't know. Diego Pavia, you're cracking on the 2025 SEC player of the year and Heisman runner up. Fourth overall quarterback for 2025 and put up stats bigger than your hero Mendoza. What the [ __ ] have you done, kid? Nothing. Baha. Uh, I make content. Dur. Dude, I love that. I love that last line, >> dude. It's hilarious. I'm like, you're taking time out of your day to message me that? I'm like, I I love it, >> dude. Yeah, it's it's helping me bring in money. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thanks for the engagement. When it came to doing some research on you on YouTube, I did not know that you had a podcast, Field Day podcast. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Tell me about that. >> So, I'm trying to make it a little bit a better product. Um I So, I did one before called In Shambles. Same concept. It was more virtual and interviewing athletes or influencers. Field Day is kind of the same thing. uh more the long form content interviewing athletes. I want to make it into something a little I guess a little bit bigger and a little bit better. But pretty much like I I want athletes to come on and just be themselves. Like I don't want it to be like you know what was your welcome to the league moment that type of questions. Like I want you to come and like enjoy just like a laid-back conversation. So that's kind of the concept of it. And need to need to get more steam and more motion on it going forward. I've been slacking a little bit. That's on me. Hold me accountable Han. But, uh, it's fun. I like, uh, I feel like I have a good ability of just talking to athletes and kind of breaking down that, you know, quote unquote defense wall that they sometimes have with traditional media where, you know, they're like, "Oh, you're trying to get a clip out of me." It's like, I'm not trying to do that. Like, I just want to get to know you. I want to have a good time. >> And I think the more that we try to show players like, "Hey, we're not all like this. There's still like those people that are in the, you know, dinosaur times like that just think like, oh, I have to get that hot clip, that hot mic moment and uh it's going to get me a lot of engagement. It's like, no, like a lot of people want to just know about the athlete, which which I think is good. I think a lot of people may want to wonder that want to get into this business. How do you get connections with athletes to sit down for an hour plus? Yeah, that again that's that's even tougher than like getting a foot in the door with the sports industry sometimes. But for me it's been leveraging personal connections and you know I was I went to the University of Texas and got to meet a lot of athletes there and kept those connections. So I've been able to interview some of them. Uh also just making content. You know people in in the sports world will start to follow me and I'll follow them back and just try to build that connection with them. So that way like oh I need a podcast guest. I'm like, "Hey, would you be down to hop on for 20 to 30 minutes and just being super grateful, you know, like they have, I'm sure, thousands of people asking them." So, for them the time and sit down, it's great. But I guess maybe try starting smaller, you know, if you got to start with a college athlete who doesn't maybe go to power five school, maybe they go to Georgia State, who like >> Yeah. >> But yeah, like start sometimes you got to start small. Like you're not going to get Patrick Mahomes on the first episode. you might not ever get him, but like can you get smaller guys? Can you get like the fourth quarterback on the roster, you know, like they all everybody has stories to tell, you know? So, it's getting those people and then, you know, it takes off. You keep doing it, then you can get a bigger name. You just keep taking steps on the ladder up, but it's tough. It's tough. You really just got to put yourself out there. >> Yeah. No, I mean, I saw that you got Malik Muhammad before he got drafted, which was awesome. >> Yeah. Yeah. University of Texas, man. Come on. So yeah, it's it's just like you said, start small. And I wish there was like a hey, I'm reaching out to each individual NFL team and I have connections and we're buddy buddy and hey, can we interview your player? No, it's not like that. Like you legit just have to I know this guy that knows this guy and that's like I've met people at like barbecues and uh just random places where I'm like, "Hey, can I interview?" And they were like, "Sure." Um, and retired players help out a lot because they got nothing really going on. Um, so that helps out a lot. >> It's tough to go the agency route, too. If you reach out to the agency or management, they're probably going to want payment for it. And and with NIL, too, I know that, um, there was a high school player that plays at Kentucky now, Grant Godfrey, uh, that I think might go to the league. I don't know. I think he's about to be a sophomore or junior. Uh but when he was in high school because he's in local high school uh nearby um I I interviewed him and made like a little feature on him before he graduated. He was like, "Hey, we got to finish this before I graduate because I'm going to sign with NIL and then they're going to be like all >> Yeah. >> pissy about like doing videos and stuff." I'm like, "All right." And then um there's actually someone else too that I've knew pretty well uh whose brother went to the league and before he got drafted, I uh asked them, "Hey, is it okay if I do an interview?" And they were like, "Oh, yeah, but you're going to have to pay." And I'm like, "Well, I thought I thought that was a good connection right there." But no, I mean, so it's it's it's pretty tough. Uh and then agents, too. Yeah. If you're like talking to the Drew houses and like all those Yeah. you're not going to get a response probably. But like the smaller agents that represent like five to 10 people, there's people out there um that I think would like some publicity on their players >> publicity route too. Like you got a good player, but there's nothing really out there of them being themselves outside of like sponsored posts. It's nice to like hear from a player, hear what they sound like, talk to them, you know? It's good. Get them out of like a traditional postgame locker room interview. >> So I'm I'm loving that content. You should make more. I'll keep you accountable. >> I Please do, man. I I love doing it, but it's also like I'm in Austin and there's not necessarily professional sports teams. We have UT, but like, you know, we don't have NFL, NBA, so it's a little tougher to get those, but I'm within driving distance, so hold me accountable. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, so is that a studio that you like rent out? >> Yeah. Yeah. There's some some of them was filmed in LA and there's a bunch of studios out there and then Austin I had like two studios I went to and just rented it out for an hour. >> What are your goals for your career, for life? Like what you got coming up, >> man? For the goals, I just want to keep making people laugh and entertaining them. I think it'd be really cool to eventually, you know, work with one of these big TV stations. Like I'm not saying the Katie Feny type of deal with ESPN specifically, but I think it's really cool working with one of these legacy partners, legacy brands, getting to be like that creator face of it or going to these events and making content with them. I I think that's really cool. Um I think another goal is just building um a show that becomes very successful. Whether that is a traditional podcast or more of a shorter, you know, 8 to 10 minute long concept, something that, you know, I can get known for and, you know, just just brings people together, makes people, you know, laugh and, you know, you can talk about it with your friends. I think that's the main goal is is that. And then monetary, man, I want to buy a lakehouse. That's my goal. >> And man, I wish we lived nearby where we could collab more. Um, where you >> Atlanta? >> Oh, that's right, >> man. I love Atlanta. But yeah, I mean, wish we could collab more. We almost did at Radio Row. >> Still waiting on that to happen. >> Fade you, bro. I didn't mean to fade you at Radio Row. It was an act. Well, I got a call and I was on another call and I didn't have your number saved at the time. So, I'm like, who is this? And I was getting a bunch of spam calls at the time. So, I I apologize. I owe you. >> Maybe next year. LA. >> Yeah, dude. LA is going to suck as a host city. I think >> I can assume that it's going to suck. >> There's going to be event. I'm sure the the media center will probably be downtown. And downtown LA is horrible. Downtown LA sucks. But, you know, there's going to be events. I'm guessing in Beverly Hills there's going to be some in Santa Monica. And when you incorporate traffic, it's going to be an hour, hour and a half to go everywhere, which is going to blow. Well, that's what I was I was surprised about San Francisco because it was Santa Clara and then like actual San Francisco. Like there was I don't know what that drive like 45 minutes or something. >> Yeah, it was weird. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah, we had an Airbnb in Santa Clara and I can't Where was Radio Row? San Francisco. >> Yeah, it was downtown San Francisco. >> Yeah. And their hotels like they had some media sessions throughout the week. That was in Santa Clara. So, we thought, okay, it's probably best just to stay around there. >> Weird setup. I I mean, I guess like I understand because San Francisco is a massive market. Like, you want media covering the event. You want everything to be in San Francisco, but the stadium is 45 minutes away in Santa Clara. It just it was just an interesting setup. Hey, let's wrap up here. Um, I already asked you about your career goals. Um, I guess if you could leave anybody with one piece of advice trying to get into the sports media world, trying to do something similar to what you want to do, what would it be? I would say don't be afraid of what other people are going to think, especially in content, because it's, you know, if you're posting and your friends are like, "What are you doing, bro? Like, this is stupid." Like it might seem stupid, but when you can make a full-time career out of it and you make money and you know your friends are doing nineto-five office jobs, they're going to come and say like you're doing cool stuff. Like it's like, well, the same people [ __ ] on me are the ones saying, "Wow, you're doing really cool stuff." You know? So just be yourself. Don't care what others are going to think. And I would say, I mean, this is cliche, but like don't give up if it's really what you want to do. Like don't let yourself fail at it. Like or don't let don't let yourself give up. You're going to fail at it, but keep going. Something that helps me out with that too with the uh judgment because when I was younger I used to care a lot about what people thought of me. But the older I get the less I care and I think with the world now how much information we just process on our phones. I think if you come to the realization that oh I don't know if I should post this or not because I don't want people to judge me and what like just post it. People are going to look at it for like two seconds and then they're going to forget about it. >> Yeah. So, it's not like they're going to be thinking about it six months later. Oh my gosh, remember how embarrassing that was that you did that one video. Nobody's going to care. Don't half it out. Don't halfass it either. If you're going to do it, you got like if you want to actually do it, you have to actually do it. Like, you know, it says scared money don't make money. But like scared content don't make content, you know? Like if you want to do it, go do it. You can't half ass it. >> Well, Adam, I appreciate the time. Thank you so much for uh hopping on the Zoom call. Uh why don't you give us a uh little rundown where where can we find you? >> At that guy Garf G- ARF on all platforms and also give give my boy Hassan a follow if you're not following already. >> Thank you so much. Um well I appreciate the time. Uh and also Adam Garfield on LinkedIn. Apparently he is a heavy LinkedIn guy just like Mendoza. So uh make sure you give him a follow. I thought about deleting my LinkedIn, but then uh I had this conversation, >> so I probably will still delete it, but uh you know, it's encouraging to see that you're invested in it, which is awesome. >> You got to do it, man. >> Um but hey, thanks so much for the time and I will uh catch you later, dude. >> Appreciate it, man. Thank you so much for having me.