The Rip City Podcast Team Photo: (left) Jordan-Co-Host/Blogger, (middle) Kane-Host/Blogger and (right) Matt-Audio Engineer and Web Technician
Rip City Podcast Host/Blogger: Kane
Bio:My name is Kane Arlin Miller and I'm twenty five years old and I am a 3rd generation Blazer Maniac! I've gotten into fights with family members over who is the greatest Blazer of all time (Bill Walton). I can name you entire rosters from great Blazer teams from the 70s, 80s. 90s and the 00's. I wept after the 2000 western conference final game 7 as I'm sure every true Blazer fan did. And I've even broken up with a girlfriend when I found out she was a (gasp) Laker fan...ok that wasn't THE reason I broke up with her but it was a major contributing factor. So basically I bleed Red and Black and I am damn proud of it! When I'm not driving truck for a living I spend most my time playing music in bands, currently "The Monster Addict" and "Armed Pitbull" which is how I came to meet Matt from Alloy Productions. I met Matt at a show in Salem and found a fellow Blazer Maniac. A year later I approached him about starting a Blazer fan podcast because well Matt is the guy you go to when it comes to anything podcast and he was super excited about it and Bingo Bango Bongo RipCityPod was born!
Rip City Podcast Co-Host/Blogger: Jordan
Bio:I am currently 26 and live in Albany, OR. I am your co-host for the Rip City Podcast. I am honored to be part of a show that i take great pride in. I have been a Trailblazer fan for as long as i can remember. I grew up with a family that loved basketball and sports in general. My parents were huge blazer fans and every game night we would all be in front of the tv screaming and cheering every call and every play. I can't catch a whole lot of games unfortunately because i have dish instead of comcast. That doesn't stop me from checkin it out on my phone or finding a live stream online. I hope you enjoy our show and please feel free to let us know how we can improve! We want you to love it..
Rip City Podcast Audio Engineer and Web Technician: Matt
Bio: I was raised as a Blazer fan. I was watching games with my grandparents as far back as I can remember. At 10 I was privileged enough to get to meet Robert Pack, Terry Porter, Kevin Duckworth and Cliff Robinson at some meet and greets in Salem at the Lancaster Mall and they all signed cards for me. At 12 I joined the Clyde Drexler Fan Club. At 13 I went away for a week in the summer to go to a Trailblazers sponsored basketball camp. Jerome Kersey showed up to teach us some fundamentals and sign some stuff. When I was 14, I won a lunch with Clyde Drexler through his fan club and was one of 20 people that got to eat lunch with Clyde Drexler, get an autographed, life size cardboard cut-out of Clyde and an autographed basketball. I still have all of those over 16 years later.
Turning 16 was tough for me, because that's when Clyde went to Houston and I found girls. Needless to say I was a bit distracted fro a couple years, but remained a fan. Then the "Jailblazers" fiasco struck and I gave up. In 2008, I went to visit my grandfather and he was watching a Blazer game. I saw that things had changed and after a few games and some Googling, my fandom was re-kindled. I originally started podcasting in Nov. 2009. I met Kane around that time because the podcast I was running, was a heavy metal podcast, and Kane is in a couple heavy metal bands. We started talking Blazers and finally we decided to do this podcast!
