Week 1 Love/Hate with Nate Ravitz

Matthew Berry (0:08)

Well, it is noon on YouTube, but it means it's 5 o'clock somewhere. So brothers and sisters, friends of the Revolution, have we got a great show for you today, a Fantasy Football Happy Hour. The bar is officially open. I'm your friendly neighborhood bartender, Matthew Berry. And joining me today is the original regular, the original OG. You know, so many people, so many of the regulars have been with me for so long, and I'm so incredibly grateful. And honestly, it all started with the SayNay kid himself, Nate Ravitz, off his high horse, stopped pushing papers for at least an hour to join me here.

Lots to get to today, Nate. We actually had actual football last night. We've got Love-Hate, we've got Week 1 Love-Hate, Big Injury, Brock Bowers, that happened after the show yesterday, so we'll talk about that briefly. And then of course, it has been 12 years since you and I have been able to be on the air together. So we're going to walk down memory lane. So here's what we're going to do.

You and I can talk a little bit. We'll get into the news, the game last night, Love-Hate. And then, you know, this show airs on the Matthew Berry FantasyLife Amazon Fast Channel. It's on Amazon Fire TV. It'll be on Amazon Prime here in a few weeks as well. But for those that watch on the Amazon Fast Channel, we have to do 52 minutes for commercials and because it's part of a larger network, right? But if you're watching this on YouTube, if you're watching, if you're listening to this on the pod, we will go longer than 52 minutes. So just, you know, just give you a heads up here because it has been 12 years since Nate and I have gotten a chance to do this. So we don't want to shortchange ourselves, candidly. And this way, Nate can get back to, hey, wrap it up, we got to go. And I can be like, no, one more thing, one more thing.

But Nate, so you're no longer pushing papers at ESPN, you're now pushing papers at the score bet. Talk to me about what you're doing these days.

Nate Ravitz (2:08)

Well, first of all, Matthew, thank you for having me on the show. I don't know about this 52 minute thing. I was told there would be no math.

So yeah, about nine months ago, I joined the score actually. So as my title is officially head of the score. So what that means is oversee the score business on the media side. So I'm responsible for our mobile app, our audience on social, and just growing that overall audience and network. Our broader company, Penn Entertainment and Penn Interactive, also operates the score bet and Hollywood Casino and a number of casinos all around the United States. I do a little bit of work on the score bed side, but mostly focused on the score. And for those that don't know, the score is a mobile first company, was one of the OG mobile scoring apps in North America. It's actually the number one sports app in Canada. From a daily active user standpoint, we are number two in North America.

But it's a tremendous way to follow your teams, follow your leagues, keep track of scores. We try to keep it simple, Matthew, get you into the scores and the news that you care about. So give it a shot, I think you'll like it.

Matthew Berry (3:26)

Yeah, and honestly, that sounds like a big job. And I feel like people really don't have business cards anymore, but I really wish, it'd be fun if it, at least, cause I know you and I've talked about this, people still recognize you, people still come up to you and mention the show, even though it's been really 12 years since you and I did Focus together. But you should have a business card, and maybe you just give it to those people that recognize you, that just says, that says, you know, I'm a paper pusher, bitch. Like that would be very cool. That would be like a very cool business card if you just handed that out.

Nate Ravitz (4:02)

It's not really my brand, I wouldn't say. It feels a little bit more like your brand.

I'm in a professional background with like sports stuff and you know, I got score hats and the score bet soccer towel here. You are in, I don't know if that's an actual bar. I mean, it looks tremendous though.

Matthew Berry (4:20)

Thank you.

Nate Ravitz (4:21)

And so I feel like that business card is a little bit more you than me.