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Is One Leg Up With Alex Garrett Culturally Relevant? · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Here's the question I want to pose right
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  off the bat here on the Alex Garrett Podcast Network. It's a simple question,
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  but then it feels very complex. Ken the Alex Garrett Podcast Network be
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  culturally irrelevant? That's my question today? Is this podcast culturally relevant? Now?
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  Are you hearing about us? Are you listening to us? Are you
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  there? I stay talking about us, good or bad? I guess because
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  I've been used to quote unquote cultural relevance for a long time. I mean,
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  being in the papers, I gotta say with George Steinbrenner and then being
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  on Regis Philbin twenty years ago made me feel like I was part of the
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  culture. But as an adult sitting at Yankee Stadium, yes, I loved
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  it on old Timer's Day, but not being on the field. It hit
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  home to me that the passing of George Steinbrenner was the first book, the
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  first door that closed on access that I was blessed with the opportunity to have
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  when I was a kid. And the second door that closed was my dad's
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  guidance. Now it's not totally closed, because he's guiding me, even in
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  spirit. He's guiding me by the last thirty one years that he was on
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  this He's been my father. He'll always be my dad. But you know
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  what I mean, his guidance left an imprint on me, and he helped
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  get me access to the most unbelievable things. I meet people the average person
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  would not normally meet. Can we be honest about that? But now as
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  an adult, the vehicle I believe I can utilize and you can help me
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  out Alex at alex nyc dot com. The vehicle that I believe can be
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  utilized to study culturally relevant and to keep this podcast culturally relevant is one leg
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  up with Alex Garrett. That's why I'm proud to carry my business card around.
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  And I'm sorry if it's kind of a me, me me show,
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  but there was just this feeling city at Yankee Stadium on the seventy fifth Old
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  Timer's Day, having met all the guys basically on that field, including Derek
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  Jeter over the years, that I felt man that access has been cut off.
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  But I don't think that's a forever cut off. I think it's a
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  for now thing. I think it's because just like my first radio home being
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  demolished, the hotel pen, this chapter is one of reinvention. So how
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  do I reinvent one leg up with Alex Garrett to become culturally relevant too?
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  I don't know, become like Kyle Gordon who's been touring with the Jonas Brothers
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  that hung out with Ed Sheeran on a TikTok? I mean, is it
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  because this show and I'm excited about it too, that I'm too hardlined on
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  real news, that I'm too focused on having real life conversation about things like
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  the Hunter Biden indictment that just went down today. Am I too focused on
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  talking about Congress and the defense spending? Is that too nerdy for you?
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  Because I think it's sure? It's hell is an important conversation to know how
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  our tax dollars are spent. But that's not culturally relevant in my eyes.
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  It should be, but it doesn't feel like it. So for a society
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  and culture podcast like I like to categorize this, how do I reinvent this
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  podcast to be culturally relevant? What do I gotta do? And you can
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  hit me up at my email Alex at alexg NYC dot com to answer these
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  questions. Can this show ever be culturally relevant if I focus too hard on
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  adaptability, accountability and accessibility. And then if I have to reinvent myself,
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  tell me how. So if it's too hardlined a show that may not break
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  the cultural barriers, if you will, how do we reinvent this podcast?
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  Because I truly believe One Leg Up with Alex Garrett does serve a purpose.
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  It might be a voice to those who don't have a voice in the world
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  today. It certainly, I certainly hope it brings home the idea of accountability,
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  accessibility, and adaptability because an adaptation is a niche that I kind of
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  groove into. But it's not getting me back on that field the Yankee Stadium.
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  It's not getting me you know, those press tickets like maybe I thought
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  it might. So what do we have to do to become more in the
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  scene or is it okay that this show is just focused on the real stories
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  and not the cultural fluff out there that some might consider. Let me know,
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  Alex and Alex GRENYC dot com. I just want to know is this
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  show culturally relevant to you? And if it is, thank you, And
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  if it's not, how do we make it new and improved so that yeah,
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  maybe we can utilize the show as a vehicle to bring you voices and
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  people that are are trending in addition to those that aren't trending but should be.
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  One of my other taglines I have. I have like twenty taglines on
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  this show, but you know, it's got to be a healthy mix.
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  And it's also partly because now having lost my dad, who was the guy
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  who kind of guided me and drove me to different places in the city to
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  be right there up on the front, I want to do that and I
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  guess proof to myself I can do that in my adult year as well.
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  So will you help me? What can we do it? Can we do
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  it together? Can we make the show culturally relevant? Alex at alex nyc
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  dot com. Alex at alex nyc dot com. I'll keep your posts on
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  how that journey goes as we hit the fall twenty twenty three, Talk TC