The Matt Kreiser Show: Recent Episodes
Matt Kreiser
Geoff Brown is the President and CEO of USA Properties, one of the largest developers and owners of low-income housing in the United States.
In this episode we talk:
- Why home prices have skyrocketed and what happens next
- Whether increasingly high housing prices are sustainable given flat or negative income growth
- How incoming inflation and potentially rising interest rates will impact housing
- The political factors that help explain California's unaffordable housing market
- Whether making all housing affordable conflicts with the interests of the government subsidized affordable housing industry
- Why being middle class in the state of California has become a bad deal
I really enjoyed this episode with Geoff and I hope you do too!
Yael Tamar is the co-CEO and co-founder of SolidBlock, which is bringing real estate to the blockchain, making ownership more democratic, open, and transparent.
In this conversation Yael and I talk:
- How tokenizing real estate onto the blockchain helps ordinary people
- Why tokenizing real estate increases liquidity and unlocks value
- A new rent-to-own model that will help working class people own equity in their own apartment complex
- How Yael's childhood and early adulthood in the Soviet Union influenced her entrepreneurship path
- Why Yael lives in Israel
- Where Yael falls on the crypto - centralized institution spectrum
- Where regulation of real assets is now and where it is headed
- How real asset tokenization is similar and different to decentralized finance (DeFi)
I really enjoyed this conversation with Yael and I hope you do too!
Kevin Vu is the founder of Boundless, a mobile outdoor gym where classes start with meditation and end with high intensity training.
It was interesting hearing from Kevin how the Yin and Yang of meditation and high intensity training complement each other to provide more holistic wellness.
Kevin has had quite the journey from full-time engineer to CrossFit coach to founder of Boundless. Hearing his story of how he aligned his inner and outer life to find purpose and peace made me reflect on how I might do the same.
In this episode Kevin and I talk:
- How Kevin’s many meditation trips to India have influenced his training and life philosophy
- What led Kevin to quit his career in engineering and become a full-time coach
- How Boundless is the natural reflection of Kevin’s journey in health, wellness and fitness
- Why a mobile, outdoor gym
Viktor Viktorov is the founder and CEO of REINNO, which tokenizes real estate so that you can invest as little as $100 to own part of a property. By tokenizing real estate, Viktor is bringing real estate to crypto.
In this episode we talk:
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How tokenizing real estate allows investors to instantly borrow a desired amount against their real estate
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Why tokenizing real estate increases liquidity for all parties involved
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How Viktor started REINNO and his journey as a serial entrepreneur from Bulgaria to the United States
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What drives Viktor
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Some of the current problems with Ethereum
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What regulations are preventing tokenized real estate from growing as rapidly as digitally native assets (like Bitcoin)
I really enjoyed this conversation with Viktor and I hope you do too!
100,000 pull-ups in a year. It's something crazy. So crazy it even impresses the freaks, hard chargers and overachievers. And Evan Boydstun did it. In this episode we talk:
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What motivated Evan to do 100,000 pull-ups in 2020
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How Evan was able to overcome chronic hand pain, fatigue and plateaus with the right mindset
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What the next challenge is for Evan
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How Evan approaches physical training including running, bodyweight and weightlifting exercises
I really enjoyed this conversation with Evan and hope you do too!
Matt and Connor overview the Brady vs. Mahomes Super Bowl matchup, bring you their picks for the game and lightning round all the best prop best. Plus Connor brings his take on the Rams trading for Matt Stafford and the boys debate Lebron saying he has "zero energy, zero excitement" for the upcoming NBA All Star Game.
You've heard the experts and pundits talk about GameStop, but have you actually heard from one of the millennials trading it? Trent Snyder is a 25 year old who started stock trading less than six months ago and has made tens of thousands of dollars trading GameStock in recent days.
In this episode we talk:
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Why the GameStock price is blowing through the roof (short squeeze)
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What's going on with Wall Street Bets
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Why this is about far more than the money for some people
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The societal implications of the retail trading movement
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What the exit might be for this group of traders who have pulled off such an incredible short squeeze.
I really enjoyed this conversation with Trent and I hope you do too!
Owen Schwaegerle is a real estate agent on California’s central coast. After graduating from Cal Poly and briefly working as a financial underwriter, Owen began his real estate sales career in 2017. Since then he's closed dozens of deals and worked his way to owning multiple property's in his 20's.
In this episode we talk:
- How ordinary families are managing to own real estate in California’s extremely expensive environment
- How Owen hustled his way to owning multiple properties in his 20’s and how you can too
- Why Covid-19/work from home has been great for the residential real estate market
- Owen's thoughts on the housing market conditions today
Owen and his wife Camille work full-time on The Schwaegerle Team at Keller Williams Realty Central Coast, pursuing their passion for real estate and helping people buy and sell homes and investments.
Owen's children book series Frutopia Valley is available here.
Follow Owen and Camille on Facebook and Instagram @theschwaegerleteam or visit their business website.
Connor looks to right the ship after going 0-4 against the spread last week while Matt looks to keep the streak going after going 4-0 as the boys bring you their NFL playoff conference championship picks and recap the divisional round.
Matt and Connor bring you their NFL Division round playoff picks and recap last week's games. Plus Connor breaks down the Harden trade, who's relevant out east and why the Lakers are so far ahead of their competition.
Matt and Connor bring you their NFL wildcard playoff picks, talk Tesla's extreme valuation, why Bitcoin is just getting starting, or isn't, and break down the Capitol riot from different perspectives including Matt's experience living through the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey.
Matt and Connor bring you their Week 17 NFL picks along with the latest NFL storylines. Will the Browns have receivers in Week 17? Will the Rams, Cardinals or Bears nab a wildcard spot? Plus Connor talks emerging NBA storylines and Matt explains the COVID stimulus, extreme housing prices and why that means the everyday individual is operating their life at a loss.
Matt and Connor bring you their Week 16 NFL picks, talk what the role of PEDs should be in sports and bring you the latest on your new favorite sport: tennis. Plus why the College Football Playoff is boring, why the NBA on Christmas is so special and what's going on with James Harden.
Matt and Connor bring you their Week 15 NFL Picks abd rehash the 2017 draft class now that Mitch Trubisky is starting again. Matt relishes in Bitcoin's new all-time high and brings listeners the best fantasy football drama yet: The Fantasy Football Divorce.
Myra Wu is a Chinese student journalist attending the University of Southern California. Myra recently returned to China and visited Wuhan, the source of Covid-19, so I thought it’d be interesting to hear her perspective on how things are in China compared to United States.
It was fascinating hearing from Myra how she thinks about, and navigates, the clashing narratives of these two rival countries.
Matt and Connor bring you their Week 14 NFL Picks, talk which of Kyrie Irving's opinions have merit and jump into the fringes of the internet to discuss Aliens.
Matt and Connor bring you their post-Thanksgiving, post Steelers vs. Ravens mess Week 13 NFL Picks. Matt tells you why he's taking all the worst teams to cover the spread this week except the Broncos, Connor argues that the Steelers are the worst 11-0 team of all-time and the boys take a week off from their R&R Brewing Sponsorship to enjoy some White Claws, even if its the worst flavor: Raspberry.
Matt and Conor recap the NBA draft and talk what's next for the Warriors after news broke today that Klay Thompson is out for the season. The boys give their top two teams in the AFC and NFC and one team to look out for.
Week 10 NFL Picks are here! Matt and Connor discuss how to navigate being a franchise player on a bad team, where the Texans go from here, breakdown what's happened to the Ravens offense and debate why Brett Favre said the Eagles should have kept Nick Foles. Connor talks what's going on in Tampa Bay with Antonio Brown and Tom Brady and Matt explains why the Colts wish they were the Dolphins and the Cardinals aren't there yet.
It's two days after the election and we still don't know the winner. Matt and Connor break down the current state of the race and bring you their Week 9 NFL picks.
Matt and Connor recap NFL Week 8 and share their electoral maps for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.
Matt and Connor kick off the inaugural Spitting Fire podcast by giving their Week 8 NFL picks, explain how Antonio Brown was mistreated by the league and rapid fire through the California Propositions on the ballot.
Robin Scholefield is the head of USC's sports psychology program.
In this episode we talk:
- Mental health issues specific to collegiate student-athletes
- Why there's been an increase in mental health problems in the United States
- What attributes make a great team
Tim Ojeda is an assistant strength and conditioning coach at USC. He was a linebacker at Eastern New Mexico State (2005-06) and then assistant coach (2007-09) before moving to USC in 2011.
In this episode we talk:
- How sports performance, training and recovery has evolved (and hasn't).
- His philosophy of strength and conditioning
- Why sports specific training isn't his focus
- Innovations over the past decade
- The increase in resources at the collegiate level
- The debate over talent vs. work ethic
- Recovery tools like Normatec, Theragun, lacrosse balls, and yes sleep.