Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Broadcasting Happiness with Alex Curry

Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to The Radcast, a top 25 worldwide business podcast. If it's radical, we cover it. Here's your host, Ryan Alford. Guys, what's up? Welcome to the latest edition of The Radcast. I'm Ryan Alford, your host. We say if it's radical, we cover it. What's radical happy today? I watch a lot of sports talk. I'm Ryan Alford, your host. We say if it's radical, we cover it. What's radical happy today? I watch a lot of sports talk. I'm a dude. We watch sports. I talk sports. And our guest today

Starting point is 00:00:34 is a TV personality, a producer and writer. Her name's Alex Curry, and she's one of the happiest, smiliest people I know. And I love it. And I'm glad you're here, Alex. Thanks for having me, Ryan. Yeah, no, that's my kind of lifestyle is happy is my vibe. And what is what you get in real life? And when I'm on TV talking sports, because at the end of the day, I think people forget sports are a game. Sports are supposed to be fun. Sports are entertainment. So why not make it that when you're talking about it every day on TV? Yeah. And you do it well. I was like, you're always subbing in. And then sometimes you're always on the air. I'm finding you on more and more things. Like you've got your own programs.

Starting point is 00:01:11 She's everywhere. But cowherds were, were I introduced to you? And then I'm like, that catch on this show and that show, and you got your own, your other things now, but we'll get to that. Let's talk Alex's professional journey and what the hell made you want to get in TV? Oh man, it was the perfect combination of both things that my life was always about. I have been involved playing sports from the moment I could walk and I played every sport that I could. I was soccer, softball. I grew up on the beach. So you have the volleyball, you have the swimming, tennis, just anything and everything that I could year round, I was always outside playing. And that continued throughout my high school and college career ended up playing soccer in college. But during that time, I was also doing theater. I did a lot of musical theater, and I loved performing and I loved the production and I always loved just being involved

Starting point is 00:02:05 in all that I did a lot of growing up in LA I did a lot of extra work while I was in middle school and high school did a lot of the performances and it was this perfect little combination of I was always very specific with what I wanted to do I didn't say my current job until later on in life but I remember talking to my dad I think it on in life. But I remember talking to my dad, I think it was in elementary school. And I was like, yeah, dad, I'm not going to be in an office. I'm going to be like out, like working in the field. He's like, okay, let's see how that goes. And I was always just very intentional and spoke things into existence.

Starting point is 00:02:39 I want to do this. Okay, now how do I get there? And what do I do next? And that's how I got into the production world of things. I ended up going to San Diego State, playing soccer there, and knew that if I wanted to get within this inner world of entertainment, whatever it was that I was going to be doing, because I didn't know yet. But I just knew that I wanted to be involved in it and somehow, and I ended up starting behind the scenes working for a production company, the Joe Lewis Production Company, that basically set up every major award show red carpet in L.A.

Starting point is 00:03:14 And I would spend all of my summer breaks, winter breaks, spring breaks just hands on doing P.A. work, crafty, walking celebs down the red carpet. Anything and anything I could get my hands on, I basically said yes. And I did that for two, three years. And while I was doing that, ended up getting picked up while I was working as a stage manager to be the Mountain Dew hostess on the championship gaming series on DirecTV. And And next day just showed up to work, started doing on-camera stuff. And that was when I had this, oh, this is fun. I can do this.

Starting point is 00:03:50 I actually, I'm so curious by nature. Like I, it feels like I'm in a performance, which is like what I did with theater on stage all the time anyway. And that was my reintroduction back into the, okay, I think this is what I want to do. And then that next semester I was in a class where we had to do because I was a journalism media studies major with a business marketing minor. And one

Starting point is 00:04:11 of the classes, we had to write a paper about what we wanted to do and what were all the exact steps you had to do to get there. And it was first time I said out loud, I want to be a host. I think I want to be a TV host. And I wrote a paper, I figured out what you had to do, which I want to be a host. I think I want to be a TV host. And I wrote a paper, I figured out what you had to do, which I had to get an internship. So then I applied for a bunch of internships, ended up getting one at E news and fuel TV, which was like the action sports network, ended up deciding to take the fuel TV one because sports is more of who I am. And I figured smaller company, I could probably learn more hands-on and have more opportunities to grow and rise in a smaller setting. So that was my first kind of foot in the door figuring out what

Starting point is 00:04:56 I wanted to do. And I spent that summer interning at Fuel TV while I was still in college. So I did five years behind the scenes before I actually got my real first opportunity on camera. That's how it is. Everybody loves to think that no matter what is, Oh, you just landed into it. Just got thrown in your lap.

Starting point is 00:05:14 Right. Oh my God. No, I was actually like, like me, like I was getting me personally, like getting coffee or like doing whatever. I did. Yeah. i got coffees i was

Starting point is 00:05:26 going like running in to go get gaff tape like miles away to bring it back like i interned at fuel tv i was the field pa on last call with carson daily i was the talent manager for espn x games i literally took any opportunity that i could because in mind, it's you never know who you're going to meet. This is such a small industry. And it actually, because I did that, I ended up becoming extremely close with everybody that was working on the X Games. And that's how I met Salema Masakala.

Starting point is 00:05:58 And I ended up being his co-host once he went to Red Bull and we did the Red Bull Signature Series. And so that was like my in there. It's just I always tell people, say hi, be kind to everybody. You never know what can come from a situation. Follow up, network and just say yes. Just go for it.

Starting point is 00:06:15 Yes. We're going to that's going to be a highlight clip right there. That's that is the key to a lot of things in life. Everybody wants to make it. Everybody wants to make it complicated. But I think that's like self-sabotaging in a way, because you want it to be complex when just say yes and just show up. And I don't know if you've heard of Grant Cardone. He's like one of the most successful

Starting point is 00:06:35 real estate and business guys right now. And his thing is he has three key success and one of them just show up, baby. It's not that hard like i like it it confuses me sometimes because i'm like it's simple all you have to do show up work hard and just be the best of what you're trying to do and do one thing every single day to better your craft because even if you are at the top of your craft you can still get better every single day and the best people are always trying to find ways to get better every single day. And if you don't know how to do it, figure it out. Just figure it out.

Starting point is 00:07:09 Like the way I got my first, like my foot in the door with Fox Sports, this is a funny story. I was bartending. So after I graduated college, I was doing all the behind the scenes jobs. I was living at my parents for the first year. I was bartending down the street at Sharky's

Starting point is 00:07:22 and it was a Wednesday afternoon. And I was just talking to, there were two guys at the bar, talking to one guy how I wanted a Canon 7D for my birthday. This guy behind me goes, oh, I highly recommend the Canon 7D. Turn around and go, what do you do?

Starting point is 00:07:35 He's like, I'm a producer at Fox Sports. I was like, great. I want to work at Fox Sports. He's like, yeah, it's a little forward. He's like, usually people audition. I was like, even better. I got a show idea for you. And I just pitched him a show idea. He goes, do a script i go i can get you a script he gives me

Starting point is 00:07:48 his card he goes call me when you have a script he leaves i call my friend who's a manager i was like peter send me every script that you have i have no idea how to write a script but i'm gonna figure it out he sends me all these scripts i i am all fake it till you make it learn on the fly yes you can everyone's figuring it out as they go i ended up getting a script together sending it to my who became a longtime producer max he absolutely loved it said he was gonna shoot the pilot for free we ended up shooting the pilot two days later he invited me to go to china to cover the world university games for fox college sports and right when i got back was when i had an audition We ended up shooting the pilot. Two days later, he invited me to go to China to cover the World University Games for Fox College Sports. And right when I got back was when I had an audition for the Angels

Starting point is 00:08:30 and everything just started to go from there. But it's like you never know when. I say this all the time. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I was so ready. I was in a hosting academy. I had been going through daily classes because I didn't go to broadcast school. I was just figuring it out. So I had to do that after college. I played

Starting point is 00:08:49 soccer. I was an athlete. I love sports, but I didn't know how to talk on camera. There's always the, I talk a lot with my hands. So it was like, find a home for your hands, how to conduct an interview, all these things. So I'd been going through all of this training, all of these auditions, nothing was happening there. And then it just so happened to be a moment when I was bartending, but just so ready and hungry for the opportunity. I love that. And you said something earlier. I was like, Alex, isn't this old?

Starting point is 00:09:17 She was you said Carson Daly and last call. And I'm like, Alex is not old enough to have been on that show or been working on that I was a field PA oh yes I was oh yes I remember that show I think that was like 2011 yeah 2011 2012 yeah that's right when it was I love Carson though you do you keep up with him no it didn't end well for me there it was actually like a it was a good mutual split because that was the reason i decided to go all in on following my dreams to become a host and not doing the behind the scenes work anymore ah there you go yeah and you get into i guess the sports thing like you obviously played so obviously it was a natural transition is it just is it the passion

Starting point is 00:10:06 as simple as that i had a sports obsessed dad too we had season tickets to dodger stadium i spent every free not like when i was playing not in tournaments i played club soccer which was year round and softball which is like a lot so any free moment that we had our family time was either spent at the beach or at Dodger Stadium. So I grew up just in and around sports and loving sports. And I also I love playing and I love competing. I am such an athlete, like, in my core of who I am. And I just I love what sports does, like the big picture of sports, how it brings people together, how you can experience every single emotion in one game, how it just, it makes you realize what teamwork can do. There's so many things within sports that are just great outlooks on life. And it was just so much of who I was and who I am that it just,

Starting point is 00:11:06 it just felt right. Like I was always watching games anyway. Now I'm paid to talk about it and watch games, which is still, I pinch myself sometimes. I'm like, really? Cool. Are you officially talk to us now with what you do now? Like I catch you on call in or did and you still okay sub there but walk us through what's the day job versus the you'll sign up and say yes and i'm like subbing slash co-hosting walk us through like yeah the last two years have been pretty crazy so i was sideline for the angels for 10 years also did king Sideline During their Stanley Cup years Did the Signature Series for Red Bull Did the Big Ten Network, Tailgate 48

Starting point is 00:11:50 Did So many outside things And then I became full time With Fox Sports 1 In 2021 To host Fox Bet Live Which was their live sports betting show And while I was there I was also not only the host of that to host Fox Bet Live, which was their live sports betting show. Yep.

Starting point is 00:12:06 And while I was there, I was also not only like the host of that, but I am also their main fill-in for all of their studio shows. So I would do Undisputed on Thursdays and Fridays. Eventually, when they had Joy fill in for Colin for the first time, I was her co-host, which was a huge deal

Starting point is 00:12:24 because it was their first i think all female show that they had ever had on the network great it was great yeah with two sports obsessed women and she's also a dear friend of mine so that was just so fun and so rad sucks about two pretty ladies that know more about sports than nine out of ten guys it sounds like a show in waiting right yeah It's pretty hilarious when you have a guy come up to you and they're like, Oh, sports. And then they ask you a simple question. You're like, Oh no, you don't know sports. Come at me. Let's go. I'm excited for this one. I cut you off, but you did that. So now I don't know if you've seen but fox got rid of their sports book so once that went

Starting point is 00:13:09 then the fox bet live show went as well so now i host a i co-host a daily baseball show with ben verlander called flipping bats i have my own fox sports radio show on Saturdays, Saturday afternoons from 1 to 3pm Pacific, the only female led radio show on the entire network. And then yeah, I am still their number one fill in for whenever and whatever they need across all of the in studio shows. And I've also done everything from college football, I did sideline with I do college football sideline 2019 as a US embedded reporter for the Women's World Cup with Fox, anything and everything. I've always just been like, yeah, let's go. Let's do it. But my new transition of what I've really wanted to do, and which is why I made that move from out in the field out in the field is

Starting point is 00:14:00 like sideline live at the games to in studios. I want to have deeper conversations. I want to start giving my opinion. That was the next step in my career. And this is that next step of how I build that muscle and kind of take that part of my career to the next level. Yeah. And so I understand like the business side of it. So the betting goes away and we're not to get into the personal aspect of your contract, but like trying to understand, like you're on the roster, obviously you're under contract with Fox sports. You have a multitude of skill sets, but so you're very well-rounded so they can plug you where needed.

Starting point is 00:14:42 But how does all that work as far as like the contract goes of what you can and can't do maybe in and outside of Fox? Every contract's different. But when you're under contract full time with a network, they are your primary. So if you get asked to do anything else, you just have to go to them and use your better judgment of hey can i go do this a lot of the time most of the time actually play that card or ask for permission yeah most of the time it's yes and it's fine but they get first choice first priority when you're under contract with a network in the way that i am yeah so it is. But you're under contract. So when one show goes away and then they just leverage you in different places, your contract doesn't go away, but is it just that flexible

Starting point is 00:15:32 because it's not tied to a show? That's when you get more flexibility to go do other things and you're going to get more yeses. But it's also fun because that's a time where you can go and explore and figure out what I want to do next. And that's where I really realized what my next move wanted to be. And that was to be in the opinion space because I never had that before. I was either on the sidelines giving a 30 to 90 second report of what I saw doing an interview, asking questions or hosting a show where you're reading a teleprompter the whole time. So it wasn't really. And again, like I have been so grateful for every step of the way and I've loved every step of it. I can do now every

Starting point is 00:16:16 step of it. But my goal in life is to always evolve and to always grow and define what can I do better, as I mentioned before. And for me, it was what's that next step for me? And it's finding my voice and finding my opinion within this industry that I love and that I've been in for a decade. I want to talk more about that. But before I leave, that feels like the present and future. I want to just look and continue to talk a little bit back because you've done so many things. What's the most badass? This is a radcast.

Starting point is 00:16:52 We talk about radical shit. What's the most badass, okay, I pinch myself moment for Alex Curry? Do you have one or a few? I've had a lot of those. I've been a part of some pretty incredible moments within sports. And I'm going to say it all started with my very first sideline. I was a part of the Angels broadcast starting in 2012, but I was just doing like their magazine show, which is the feature show. I do some pregame hits. And then in 2013, they go, hey, we're going to have you fill in for one game. So I fill in for one game in May. Just so happens that one game is when Mike Trout hits for the cycle.

Starting point is 00:17:31 First career cycle. Wow. And it was my very first experience at Sideline. Nail it. And then I get the full time Sideline gig the next year, which was so cool. Fast forward, next year, which was so cool. Fast forward. I got to be there 2014, obviously when angels won the AOS, just being part of that whole experience. And then that was also 2014 when the Kings won the Stanley cup and I was their team reporter and down on the ice drinking whiskey out of the Stanley cup at 4am the night that they hoisted the Stanley cup was absolutely insane. And then once we got Albert pools on the angels and just being the first person to talk to him after he hit career home run 600, being there down on the field with that moment, then we get Shohei Otani and him hitting his first career home run at Angel Stadium, the first person he talks to. And we get these crazy Gatorade showers happening as I'm running away from that.

Starting point is 00:18:23 Then 2019, when the women went back to back Women's World Cups in France, and I've been with them the entire year, the team reporter, I'm the first person talking to them and talking them through everything. There have just been, I've been lucky to be a part of some pretty incredible sports moments that not many people get in a lifetime. Man, that's a lot. And you had me at tout cycle, first cycle. And then, but on Tony, people don't realize how, like, that guy.

Starting point is 00:18:53 Pitching and hitting home runs, that guy is as radical as they come. I don't know if we're- Otani? Yeah, Otani. Oh, yeah. I don't think anybody has a complete appreciation on how ridiculous he is. No, and I don't think people are appreciating the greatness when it's right in front of our face. And we did this like you've seen this, like with LeBron, like people when he was in his stretch of incredibleness, like how did he not win more MVPs?

Starting point is 00:19:18 I don't know. I think people get tired of the fact that you're just seeing someone do something so great over and over again that you stop appreciating exactly what this athlete and this human is doing. And we're seeing that with Shohei Otani. We've never seen anyone in the game do what he's doing right now. He's an ace on a pitching staff, and he was leading the league in home runs up until he got injured a couple weeks ago. And at one point during the season he was number one on every offensive and pitching stat for the angels it is insane he becomes a free agent this offseason and i think he's probably going to get a half a bill yeah contract wherever

Starting point is 00:19:58 he ends up but it's yeah it's going to be crazy i hope he goes to the braves i don't know they're even market for i don't know that's not their style though the braves it's going to be crazy. Hope it goes to the Braves. I don't know if they're even in the market for it. I don't know. That's not their style, though. The Braves, get them young, lock them into a contract young, and then it either pans out and they have a great... They're pretty badass this year. It's who's going to be able to afford it.

Starting point is 00:20:18 My gut is saying the Dodgers. Yeah, probably. It's going to be a big market team, for sure. Big market team. It'll be interesting. What's your favorite sport? Is it baseball? You're doing flipping bats now. I'm hearing a lot of baseball, but what's your favorite sport? Yeah, it's different. So it's like, what's my favorite sport to watch on TV?

Starting point is 00:20:37 What's my favorite sport to watch in real life? What's my favorite sport to cover? It's crazy. We talk about this a a lot i say the best live sport to watch is hockey um because i think you really have to be there for hockey and basketball uh i love watching football but i love being able to see what's happening and hearing what's happening so i love watching that on tv and then there's just something i guess i because i grew up in a ballpark at dodger stadium so baseball is just it feels like picnic in the park there's just something I guess, because I grew up in a ballpark at Dodger Stadium. So baseball is just it feels like picnic in the park. That's just like family time, hang out. And I spent a decade of my career watching games every day during the summer and covering games. I love

Starting point is 00:21:18 it all. And soccer was hard. Once I stopped playing, it took me a moment to get that anxiety of missing not playing. It was hard to watch because i wasn't playing covering it was one of the more special things i've been able to cover and then obviously having it be at the world cup and watching the u.s women win the world cup was pretty incredible yeah and it was is and then i i imagine i couldn't help but i was thinking today because it's like alex curry's coming on and obviously it was, our show's pretty evergreen, but it's such a, how many times did you talk about Aaron Rogers today? Did that come up in anything?

Starting point is 00:21:53 Constantly. It's, that was the most roller coaster of an evening watching him run out there with the American flag on nine-11 in New York, between what it looked like, two twin towers onto the field, to the middle, putting the flag right on the Jets logo. Like, it felt like hearing, again, all of his off-season conversations of just how happy he was. He felt like he was in a dream. He felt reborn.

Starting point is 00:22:21 He was rejuvenated. It just, it felt like he had the best like offseason preseason running onto the field in that moment and then four plays into the game tears his achilles and it was just like wait what like that emoji where the mind is like exploding yeah is this not so on brand for the Jets right now? My heart just hurts so bad for all of the Jets fans and for Aaron Rodgers. He's 39 years old.

Starting point is 00:22:51 So now the question is, does he retire? Or is he going to rehab and come back and play at 40-41? This is not an easy injury to come back from, let alone the mental side of it, of getting yourself back to that place of being the best of who you can be and back to that MVP form. I know.

Starting point is 00:23:10 The Jets just cursed. Good God. I don't know. It could be. It could be. But then at the end of the game, you have an undrafted rookie. He did. Walking off with a crazy punt return who like made the team a week ago.

Starting point is 00:23:24 Yeah. Like it was just, it was the most rollercoaster of a game. But again, that's what makes sports so beautiful. Because it can be so heart-wrenching. And then it come back and just be so beautiful. All in one game. That's what you got right there. I know.

Starting point is 00:23:41 It's going to be interesting. I hope... Who tells me Aaron's so competitive that he won't go out that way i don't know i just it'd probably just be what his body i think if his body will allow him he'll probably come back and then but like you said at 40 crazy i was just talking with mark sanchez earlier today obviously he was the last quarterback to get the jets to the post season but he was talking about the time when he like ruined his shoulder and he was out for the rest of the season he goes the way he explained it was so it like really put you in that mindset of where he's at right now he goes think of it like bruce

Starting point is 00:24:16 wayne when he goes into his like dark lair right you're batman you got to go down there you are by yourself you are in a dark deep dark mental place that only you can be there with. And you have to get yourself through. Because the game's still going on. Like Jets have more games. They have another quarterback. They're going on. You are all by yourself.

Starting point is 00:24:38 And you have to get yourself there. Your Sunday's a different story now. You're going to have your surgery. Then you're going to be on a scooter. Then you're going to be in a boot. Then you're going to have to start rehab again. It's like your life is completely different to get back to where you were yesterday morning. Yeah. So it's just, it's a journey that only Aaron can go through and understand and whatever he wants to do. Hey, maybe maybe six months into it he's not healing the way he wants to if he says you know what i gave it a shot i don't think anyone's gonna blame him

Starting point is 00:25:09 he's gotten he's accomplished so many things he's gotten a super bowl he's four-time mvp like he was the greatest in the game for a point in time and it's just this is tough this is a really hard injury to come back from who's Who do you like this year in football? Like any surprises? Anybody coming out of the woodworks that we might not have expected in the NFL? Miami looked really good. God, they look great. Tyreek Hill and Tua looked really good. I loved Coach McDaniel.

Starting point is 00:25:40 Wait a second. I think they just threw another touchdown. It's like 500 yards, 478 yards. You don't see those stat lines in the NFL that often, right? No, no. They were absolutely insane. I think another like huge surprise, not really because A, you had Mahomes,

Starting point is 00:26:00 you're missing Chris Jones. Yeah. Burrow, you're coming off of injury, not being at training camp. I picked this up, so I'm so glad you're going. Josh Allen. I love you so much for going, but I think you're going. You have three top quarterbacks that went 0-1 week one. So I think that shocked a lot of people.

Starting point is 00:26:17 I don't think it's telling for how the season's going to be, but it makes it a fun conversation. We talk about it on my radio show. It's great. I picked Detroit to beat Kansas City. I told everybody that wanted to listen. Did you really? Yes.

Starting point is 00:26:29 I was like, that's, yeah. Good for you. I just think they're up and coming, and I do what they're, I don't, I'm not saying they're going to be a Super Bowl contender. I think fringe playoffs, but I just thought they had it. Yeah. I think their coach has a plan. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:26:44 It just felt like the NFL. I'd listen to him. Yeah. Have you heard his like post-game pressers? Have you listened to any of the speeches? That's a guy that you want to listen to. And you're like, yeah, this is how it's similar to Coach Prime, Deion Sanders, what you're seeing him do right now in Colorado. If you have a certain leader that can get every single player on the team to buy in a

Starting point is 00:27:05 certain way, that's how you create championship teams. Like I've been around a lot of championship teams across every sport. And the one common thing is everyone buys in and everyone's on the same page and it all starts with their leader. And it's, you're seeing that with both those teams. Yeah. My, my alma mater struggled out of the gates, but it's been that way. And that's with Clemson, with Dabo Sweeney. He's that guy. I mean, you had your moment.

Starting point is 00:27:31 You had your moment. You had some great moments. You might still come back. We got a lot of talent. You had some moments. You can't lose to Duke the first game of the year. You know, that hurt. That was a gut punch of reality.

Starting point is 00:27:44 But we'll see how it goes. Talk to me. Is it like, you don't wear this on your sleeve, but I know it's part of it. But being a woman in sports, it's not easy, right? It's gotten better. I say this from assumption and not to put words in your mouth, but surely it's gotten better, but it's not great all the time. You have to have thick skin. And I tell any like young woman wanting to get into this, make sure it's what you love and everything you want to do, because you're going to you're going to go through a lot of tough times to get to where we are now, there are so many more opportunities for women that weren't necessarily available when I had just gotten out of college, which is why I find it so important to evolve as a woman within sports and which is why I wanted to continue to evolve my career and have a voice and have an opinion and have a space where I can talk about sports just as much as every other person out there who loves all of the games and everything that goes with it. But as a woman, you have to work twice as hard with half the opportunity and you better be overprepared. You better just be so on point. That's just the name of the game. It's what you have to, it's not the same for men and women in this industry. You say one thing, maybe mispronounce something wrong. She knows nothing. Get her out of here.

Starting point is 00:29:09 It's are you kidding me? I know what I'm talking about. It's just it's a lot. But I personally choose I don't I don't look into it. I know a lot of people do. And with social media, it's tough because it's right there all the time in your face. This is why I choose just to have such a positive outlook on life. I choose to be happy every single day. I choose to love what I do. I choose to be the best at what I know I can be. And that's the best that I can give. And so I'm going to live in a happy space because that's what life is all about. Yeah. Where does where does that come from? Is that was it is it nature nurture? Is it like you always had a very, very positive mom?

Starting point is 00:29:55 Yeah, a very positive mom. But I also have been through some pretty tough things in life and I've been in some dark places. And I did a lot of therapy to get me back to being the human that I wanted to be today. And that's why I choose every single day because I know what it's like to be in those not so great places. So I make it a choice every day to choose happy and to wake up positive and to do the things every day in my life that keep me in this happy, positive space. Yeah, it shows because I really does. That's why I wanted you on the show is I didn't. It doesn't. It feels like you like that's the real end. It is. But I will say I'm

Starting point is 00:30:38 glad to hear that you're getting more into the opinion side of it. I think I think part of the it's like we want more of what we're used to a lot of times.. I think part of the, it's like we want more of what we're used to a lot of times. And I think the reason for women breaking through, we need more women having opinion on sports so that we hear it and we get conditioned to it and we can respect it. And I think that bodes well for you and bodes well for continuing to drive

Starting point is 00:31:04 more and more opportunity. It is. And I don't take this opportunity lightly. And I have to give so much credit to my dear friend, Joy Taylor, who is also on Fox Sports, the co-host of Speak. And the first time I filled in with her on the herd, I always want to get better. So I always tell who I'm working with. I'm like, I love constructive criticism. How can I be better? What can I do better? And I did that with joy. She's I want you to have a stronger opinion. I was like, no one's ever told me that before. You were the first person in my decade of being in this industry to tell me that. And I took it to heart. And I was like, Oh, yeah. Duh. Why don't I just do this? And it's it's so

Starting point is 00:31:43 crazy that it just takes one person to flip your mindset to be like, Oh, yeah, no, I just do this? And it's, it's so crazy that it just takes one person to flip your mindset to be like, Oh yeah, no, I can do this. I, why wouldn't I be able to do this? And it's just, it's awesome to have women in your corner too. There's so many of us within the industry, the women within the industry we have, we're all really close to, we all talk, we all hang out. Some of my best friends are women in the industry, Joy Taylor, Cynthia Freeland at NFL Network, Colleen Wolf, MJ Acosta, like everyone. It's just like, we are,

Starting point is 00:32:11 Jane Slater works with the Cowboys. Like we are all just so close and champion each other and lift each other up, which I also think is really important just to have people in your corner, no matter what industry you're in. It's just, whether it's a mentor or have someone that you can bounce ideas off of.

Starting point is 00:32:26 It's so important to to have that soundboard. What are you doing when you aren't working? What makes you happy outside of sports and work? My husband's a musician. OK. And so music and live music is a huge part of like my happy. So he's gone a lot because he's on tour uh so i go and i can see him when he's there um but then i'm also super active i love working out i love circuit

Starting point is 00:32:53 training bike riding i have two dogs i take my dogs on crazy adventures i have a big family all my sisters i have four little or three little. They all still live around here. So it's a lot of family time just being outside and doing cool things. I love adventures and doing cool new things. And food. Really good restaurants. My mom and sister are private chefs. We're big foodies in the family. Oh, geez.

Starting point is 00:33:17 Man, I'd have to really work out a lot. I do. Every day. Every damn day. So I can eat that delicious food. What's your favorite meal? Worth it though. What's your favorite,

Starting point is 00:33:29 like what type of food are we talking? I love it all. What did I make last night? I made taco salad. So I make my own ground taco meat, spicy seasoning, tacos, salad, everything. Fish, meatballs, love sushi. I'm the kind of person that like you could I am also gluten-free I have been for like 16 years so that's

Starting point is 00:33:55 like an issue but if it's if I'm able to eat it I will give anything a try like I just I love food I'm adventurous ah yes adventurous, and a badass on TV. Alex, I really appreciate you coming on the show. Tell me everybody that's listening, how they can keep up with everything you're doing. All they can do is flip on the damn TV and watch Fox Sports. You're probably on one way or another, but besides that, how they keep up with you?

Starting point is 00:34:21 I post everything I'm doing on my social media accounts on Instagram, Twitter, X, at Alex underscore Curry. Everything will always be there. with you i post everything i'm doing on my social media accounts on instagram twitter x at alex underscore curry everything will always be there links tags listen to me saturdays every saturday on fox sports radio from 1 to 3 p.m pacific you can hear me there perfect hey guys we really appreciate you coming on alex i i've uh been a fan from afar for a while and really respect the happiness, the joy and soon to be lots more opinion. I'm happy to hear it. There we go. Really appreciate it, Alex. Of course. Thanks, Ryan. Hey, guys, you know where to find us, theradcast.com. Search for Alex Curry, that's C-U-R-Y.

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