Welcome To The New ItsFelder

It took me a while to figure this out, but let's ride!

Hello hello!!!

Thank you to everyone who subscribed on Bulletin, which will remain read only through the New Year so you can tap into some old content. I also have the archive downloaded and if there is something you wanted to revisit I can get it to you. We’re moving over to substack, now that I understand how to work it!

Going to do a lot of the same and more but the plan here is to rock with one free post a week, two subscription posts a week starting after I wrap up signing day. Oh, sidenote, will also update where you can see my work and what I have going on each week because between Stadium, Bleacher Report, Learfield and Radio/Podcasts, I bounce around and being able to find it in one place will probably be helpful.

First up, some cooking, your boy is excited for Christmas, doing a rib roast, but our big “Family Christmas Gift” was a firepit. Yes, we opened it before Christmas. We are that weird family that doesn’t care as much about Christmas morning as, “hey the thing you wanted got here, so just go ahead and use it, who cares if it is December 17th.”

That’s the firepit.

It has space around it so my kid doesn’t set herself on fire. But as you may notice, it also has a cooktop. The pan in the pit can be removed to just burn wood and the cooktop can swing to the side so you can just have a fire and do your marshmallows while you put your feet up on the rim to stay toasty.

But you can put the pan in, add your charcoal and swing the cooktop back over and do some open fire cooking.

Those are chicken thighs on the cooktop. Lump charcoal on the pan with wood for a good fire and smokey flavor.

Absolute. Game. Changer.

And I didn’t have to wait until December 25th to get it and then put it together to experiment with using it on Christmas. I’ve already had 4 reps on it and feel confident about cooking the rib roast for Christmas dinner outside, over the open fire.

LET’S GO!!

Oh, and I will at some point update the HITD Product doc, but this is the Big Horn Rancher Firepit.

So we will bring you some open fire cooking, I am also excited about another element of substack that bulletin never figured out.

Yes, that’s me in some native audio. So, I will be able to do mini-podcast and once I figure out an RSS feed that ties into this you will be able to slap that in your podcast app and run with it.

I’m very excited. This is a welcome post, and let’s go post. We are about to starting running at full strength again. I know some of the premium Bulletin subscribers and HITD listeners know this but to clear up everything from the last 3 months:

-Horrible move from Chicago to Charlotte from both a logistics and financial standpoint

-Renters destroyed our house, including a roach issue and a law enforcement issue

-Grandfather passed away so while settling we were running to Fayetteville and hosting family

-The actual football season of work

-Wife and daughter adjusting to not being in Chicago with all the setup activities that we less than a mile away

Basically a lot going on. But we’ve settled in and settled down. I’ve got a kid who likes to play outside now that she has a yard. A mom and dad, or as they’re better known at this point, grandma and grandpa who have seen their granddaughter, also their son, more in 3 months than in 4 years. Plus a kid who gets to play with her cousins whenever she wants.

Oh and neighborhood kids too. And a creek that she can go get messy in when it warms up.

Anyone got pogo stick recs? Please let me know I am thinking of adding that to the last minute Christmas for the kiddo because she loves Rosie’s Rules and the theme song says, “Can you pogo stick to the moon?!”

But, seriously, if you have a good pogo rec, especially one that a big man like myself can also use without damaging it or himself.

If you’re getting this, you’re already subscribed. So tell a friend by sharing it with them. Shout out to Mr. Brand who already hit the premium, next week is the first dose for that feed and the plan is cooking/parenting, football deep dives and a new series called “100 words” where myself or friends and colleagues to give 100 words on our job, parenting philosophies, what we love to cook etc.

As always…

Cheers!!