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phenomenal media work, Mr. Johann Moskowitz down in
Stamford. How are you, Sir?
I know. Well, thank you for having me.
I appreciate it. Yeah, well, you know, I
appreciate you. You always support the content
we produce. And I, I had a chance to check

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out your work and it was very, very impressive, your
photography and you definitely have a passion for sports and I
think media and I think content creation.
But are you originally from Connecticut?

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I'm, no, I was born in Colombia,Bogota.
Really. Yeah.
And then did you move up here? Yeah, I moved into Connecticut
in like 2010. Oh wow.
OK, so you're new. Yeah.
All right, so where, where did you live in Connecticut?

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Where'd you go to high school? I can't.
I went to, I live in currently live in Fairfield.
I live in Fairfield my whole life and I went to Fairfield
Ward High School. How'd you like it there?
Pretty good. I great.
Great, cool, great education, great community.

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I felt like a home. Yeah.
Yeah, did, did, did you? Did you ever play sports?
I did. My whole life I've been playing
for it. Yeah, because you seem like you
love lacrosse, right? I don't play lacrosse.
I got into lacrosse. It's AI got.
I had a friend of mine, Michigancommit Adam Adam Odell, he got

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me into the whole sport industryfor lacrosse.
Been doing stuff for Staple highschool.
Oh my, my. One of my good friends is a
Staples alum. His name is Sean Mulcahy.
He played at Staples. Staples is awesome.
So that's why. OK, So what?
What sports did you play? And when you were growing up in

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Columbia, did you play sports isearly on when you were younger?
I didn't really play sport. I was actually an orphan, so I
spent four years in the orphan. And in Columbia, yeah.
Oh, God bless you. Wow.
So you were you were orphaned for four years and then you did

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you. Is that when you got adopted?
I got adopted from my mom and mydad adopted adopted parent.
Very grateful for them for doingthis.
They they opened the window for me.
Yeah. I'm doing what I'm doing right
now, so. So you've always loved sports.
What would you say is your favorite sport?

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I, I played a lot of soccer, butI'm, I'm currently a runner, so
I've been running my whole life.Oh, like track cross country?
Yeah, Cal. Oh, OK.
Did you do did you do track in high school or cross country in
high school? I did track in cock country the
medical up to my senior year of high school and then I'm

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currently training for a marathon right now.
Oh my God, I can't run like a lap without collapsing.
And I couldn't even imagine a marathon cross country.
I mean, that is so difficult andit takes so much work and so

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much stamina. What got you into really having
a passion for cross country and.Country.
I was my my I was actually my grandpa from my father's side.
He was a track athlete and my dad got into running.

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So I started running with my dadbefore he teared his manistick
and his ACL. Oh oh.
That's brutal. I was doing a 10K my 5th grade
year when we we're running and we realized that he teared him
in a stick. So I've been trained by a great

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coach, coach Coach Foster from Fairfield Wood High School.
That's amazing. You did a, you were, you did a
10K when when you were that young.
I did. I mean, yeah, I did everything
from 200m all the way up to 5K and then on during my off

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season. I would do competition and.
Train what? What, what, what?
What did you run in the 200? I wasn't very fast, I would say
like I ran a. You're you're a distance.
Guy yeah, I'm all a distance, but I ran A282. 100 So that's,

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that's not bad at all. I when I was in high school, I,
I obviously didn't run. I threw the shot put.
But yeah, our guys ran 20 eights, 20 eights and 20 sixes.
I mean, that's, that's a normal time.
But track competitions are, are I always had so much fun with

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track. It's like, it's almost like
football because it's such a bigteam and everyone gets to
participate and everyone has a role.
Different events. You got to score points, so you
how many events would they put you in?
We typically do about two to three event no more when we try

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to keep our minimum to as much as possible so we can get
prepped for the postseason and prevent any injuries moving
forward. And what did did you say you did
the 800? I did it.
I did it 800. I did a mile, I did a 2 mile and
I did a 5K. So you could run to New York,

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where I am right now, and you'd be fine.
Yeah, I would say so. Oh my God no.
Now there's got to be different training methods for track as
opposed to cross country, right?Because it's different terrain.
Yeah, depending on what your situation is.
So if you're training for the 800, you're going to mostly
focus on endurance, but also also speed workout where you do

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a reputation of multiple Sprint and then you take a break and
then do a little jogging in between these workout.
And then if you're doing like a mile to two mile, you're going
to do it mostly endurance where you do temple workout, which is
pretty much consecutive miles over the course of a certain

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period of time. So when you're when you're doing
the 800, your coach is the one. Is he like tell you or he
coaches you the certain times when you when you Sprint and is
the Sprint for like 100 meters or like how far do you do you
typically have your bursts whereyou Sprint?

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Well, he typically do like Intervolt.
He'd make us do some ladder where like you do like one lap
at a certain time, then you takelike a 32nd break and then you
do A2 lap at a certain time and then you keep increasing up to
like 4-4 or five different chat and then you come back down.

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Yeah. OK, wow.
Because I, I, I watched the documentary on well, when it was
Bruce Jenner and they were showing when he, when he won the
decathlon and they showed the brutal last part of it was the
Mott and I, I couldn't believe how number one, you're that's

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the last one. That's the last event of the
decathlon. And it's the hardest after
you've done everything else, then you got to run the mile.
I have no idea how you're able to finish that.
You just have to be in such tremendous shape.
So is this something where you do it?
Because I know that you're putting a lot of stress on your

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body and your joints, but do youhave to run every day to keep in
shape and to keep your stamina? Yeah.
So I'll work out pretty much where we have one day easy, one
day hard, where we have a certain workout during the hard
day. And then on the easy day, we
have a very nice easy pace wherewe have a nice recovery day, so.

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Got you. OK.
So track and you also you like lacrosse?
I do do. You like football?
I do. I do watch football.
I got into UConn football. All right.
Have you been up to, have you been up to the rent yet?

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The rent for you? Not yet.
We got to get you up for your game.
I'm currently reaching out to people seeing if I can get work
with the media team to work withthat like a department so.
Oh well, you, you, you're talking to the right man.
We'll definitely help you out with that.

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We are probably going to do a tailgate either for the Ball
State game, which is next weekend or two weekends after
that and I will see if I can getyou a media pass so you could be

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in. You want to be in the press box.
And yeah. Yeah, OK.
Do you? Because I, I, I know your media
work. Do you write at all?
Right. No, I don't typically write.
I film a lot and I take photos and I take photos and I make
graphics for people, so. So you would be great like on

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the sideline, like taking pictures.
Central, yeah. OK, so how did you get into
Because I, I was blown away by it For someone you're no
offense, someone your age to have the photography skills that
you do. How did you get into
photography? That was my senior year of high

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school. I was dealing with a couple
injured in my running career, soyeah.
It's wear and tear, right? Yeah, the wear and tear almost
tore my I almost tore with my Achilles in one of my car.
Country mate. You tore your Achilles.
I almost did yeah, I was lucky. I was fortunate enough, but I

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took a class I loved taking photos and videos and started
out my taking photos 1st. And then I want to give a shout
out to Charlie for two Charlies who got me into biography.
So he he got me into it. He been mentoring me on the

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biography portion and been a very fun experience for me.
Right. Right now.
When did you establish your media company technically?
I would say the moment that thatby the when lacrosse season

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started my senior year. So that's.
When that's, when you say, because that's what I found so
fascinating, because when I, when I first, when I first saw
you, I, you know, I, I thought because because of your work and
because, you know, I, I've seen you multiple places.

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I thought you, I thought you were like a 30 or 40 year old
dude. And I didn't know that you were
so young. But that is what really is
impressive, is having that ambition to just go off and
start a company and do your own work.
And it's really, it's really you, right?

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You do it, but you do it all on your own.
You do photography and videography, correct?
Yes, I do. I pretty much run my whole
business on my own. I reach out to people for like
advice and all that kind of stuff.
People who know to feel very well.
I do get mentored by a bunch of people from UConn from.

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Yes. Ward or from my assistant
general meeting other biographers, photographers and
action for advice and then my goal and my company is pretty
much essentially get to know theperson and get tell them the
true story of their side of you so.
Right, that and that's that comes out in your in your

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photography for sure. Do you have any interest in like
filmmaking as well or is it is it more just sports videography
and photography? I was just currently looking
around because I do a lot of shouting on like Internet and
social media, seeing what kind of other photo shoot I can do or

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biography too. And I was just looking at
wedding film. So I was thinking.
That's huge, yeah. I currently have have experience
in doing a a red carpet event and a baby shower event.
That's awesome you got to go to a red carpet event.

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Like a very small red carpet event in Bridgeport.
I met a producer when I was whenI was taking photo for for a
podcast. Oh OK, so you you worked for a
podcast previously doing photography?
Yeah, so I, I got into sports for basketball and the guy hit

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me, hit me up and he wanted me to take photo for him for the
podcast and help him shut up forthe podcast, he invited a
producer and me and the producer, we collect very well
to to the point where he invitedme to go to a red carpet event,
so. Now the photography business and

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you know, videography, that's a challenging business to break
into, correct because. Depending on what what, what
you're shooting for, yes, it can't be hard because you're
competing with other people. But like, it's been fun.
It's been a fun ride. Why I I I?
I think because your work definitely stands out.

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So that makes the difference. When people, you know, anyone
thinks they can just take a picture on their phone and I'm a
photographer, they don't understand the art that really
goes into it. Can you talk a little bit about
that, the type of camera you useand you're doing a shoot because
you you look like you have a tonof creativity with what you do.

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How does that take me through that process if you're doing a
photo shoot and the the creativity and how how it all
goes and what you use your equipment.
Yeah, so I use a 7D Canon from 2008, Pretty old Eric, my
father's camera, He was a photographer, so he didn't, he

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did mentor me in certain aspectsof the photography, but in the
sport industry he didn't really know too much about, but.
Well, right, Coming from Columbia here, I mean, we take
sports way too seriously. Yeah, well, actually my my
father from from LeBlanc. Oh, OK, OK, OK, so your, your

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your dad got you into it. And OK, so you, you use Canon.
It's a it's a long lens, right? I I have multiple lens.
I have a 50. I have a 50mm land.
I have a 2470mm land, 85mm land 20 70 to 200mm line and a 500 to

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5055 hundred line. So talk to me about that first
podcast shoot that you did. How did how did you go about
that? And like, did you use a tripod?
Did you know what exactly you were going to take pictures of
going in? Or did you get there and kind of
like visualize it and use your creativity on the spot?

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I just kind of go in there, see where the lighting is, fix up
the lighting on the camera, makesure I know which camera lens to
use. And most of the time I was using
more of the 2470 so I can get a wide shot and a close up shot.
So and then I make sure I focus on the people who talk in and

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and then if they have a break, I'll do the interaction that
they have behind the skin and toget the emotions that go between
the, the person who presenting the, the producer.
That's that's wow. So you so you do both.

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What would you say is the challenge between if you're
doing photography and then videography?
Because they're they're different, obviously.
So is it a different process? Yeah, because photography is
more of like making sure the photo comes out very nice and
sharp. On top of that, making sure that

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you're on focus on everything. You got to go into the editing
aspects and making sure it's nottoo bright, not too dark or
you're not over editing something.
So and then for biography, it's more of just kind of come with a
story inside the film and makingsure that you know where to cut,

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when to cut, how to color grade everything and what to what,
where to do a transition and when not to do a transition.
A lot of sound production. How high?
All right. And all kinds of stuff.
Now the other part, the videography I because I, I mean,

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I do it myself with the podcast editing is do do you do all your
editing? Is it able to be done on the
computer? Is there a program you use for
it? I use a a Mac and I I edit all
my videos and photos on well photos I use it on Lightroom and

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then for video I use Premiere Pro and After effects.
OK. OK.
So how often would you say that you do photography or
videography? Because I, you know, it's you're
trying, you're breaking into thebusiness, you're still very
young and weddings are huge. That's something that you

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probably could get a lot of business off of, but talk to me
about that a little bit. Break it into it.
Yeah. I It's all come down to
connection really. Yeah, it's who you know, right?
Like it's who you know, like I would do.

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I got my first job offer my senior year of high school.
A woman knew a guy who worked for you like and they reached
out to me and they say, Hey, I wanted you to take photo 1st and
you like camp. So I was taking photo for them
to relax. And then I got an opportunity to

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showcase my work in I take a heart and at the library, my
work with there for like a monthat both place.
Yes, I love. It.
That's right. That's right in Fairfield too,
right? Yeah.
Do you prefer photography over videography or you like both

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the. Same.
I like, I like both. I'm starting to lean into
biography. Yeah.
I've been enjoying every moment of it.
I've been able to. I just love showing the the
aspect of the energy that the team could build in the just
being in sport my whole life. I just like the atmosphere a

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lot. Yeah.
No, I, I, I agree. I mean, sports are sports are
life around, around UConn especially.
So you would love to basically if you could go to the football
games and be on the sideline andtake pictures or videos or the

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basketball games, pictures, videos that that that would be
your goal to try to do that and get coverage of the team.
No, that'll be the goal, but I'mvery open.
I would pretty much do any issue, any film that give that
anyone give me an option to or if I can just find an option to

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like to do showcase my work and then make sure that like people
know that they have a meaning intheir story and that everyone
really matters. OK, when I started, I didn't I,
I, I did sports and I never got really too much photos.
I I realized that certain sportsdon't get that many covers, I

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felt. You're nothing.
You know that's true. So I've been able to like try to
go to games that not a lot of people go to.
For example, I went to a soccer game for the gold team.
They didn't get enough coverage.So I came go, went there, made

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made a video for them. I did lacrosse for the gold team
and they've they've been helpingme a lot.
I've been able to connect with the Ludlow Gold team, the dairy
and gold team on the journey, you know.
Do you know Kyle Muncie at all at UConn?

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He works in the athletic department.
I was just curious. I think I do.
I probably, I probably reached out to him recently, think he
got me connected with the peoplewith the collective department,
but I have to double check on that.
Good, good guy. I know Kyle.
Kyle's a great guy. He was, he was a sports

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information director when I was there.
So if I was able to get you a media pass for the September
20th game, what would you do? I would do mostly take some
photos of certain artists, try to look at different point of

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view like close up shots, wide shot, do a lot of fan base,
accent, cuddle. Where, where would you, where
would you prefer to shoot from? Because I would assume you, you
have to kind of move all over toget the shots that you want,
right? Yeah.

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And do you have to be at a certain height or can you be on
the field? For a game, it's mostly it had
to be on the field. OK, my my lenting always capture
everything, but sometime it sometime for for an even better
capture because it tells you different stories.
So every wherever you take your shot is shot at, it tells you

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different stories in a differentperspective.
So that's so. True.
Like if you're a fan and you, ifyou're a photographer, stand in
the fan perspective, you can, they can look at a fan
perspective view and if you're on the field, you can look you.
It's more of like a tideline. Do you feel like you're part of
the team you know? Have you have you filmed or

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taken photos for football before?
Yes I have, I've done one for Staple high school.
Right. It's got to be tough, right?
Because the game moves so fast. It's a hard part.
You're trying to figure out where you want to be placed and
trying to figure out try to avoid the lighting too much if
you don't want too much lightingor too dark of a lighting.

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So yeah. So what year are you currently
at UConn at the Stanford campus?I'm currently a sophomore at
college. You're a sophomore, have have
you declared a major yet? Is there a photography or
videography major? We have, we have, right, Yeah.

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So we have digital media design program and I'm going to go into
the film industry, so. So you so you do want to?
Do you want to? I know you want to film it.
Do you have any desire to maybe write a film or do a
documentary, something like that?

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Because you sound like you're a storyteller.
Yeah, I grew up by trying to tell people their side of point
of view. I grew up like, yeah.
So I try to showcase people emotion and their dedication,
show them the off site, like theside, what off camera, where

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they, you know, I mean like where where how much work an act
they put in to taking care of themselves or in certain
different sports where it takes to be dedicated to a sport that
you really love and the community of love that you get
from your teammate. Every game I've been to from

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soccer, football, basketball, I've been felt welcome in that
home. I felt like I was part of the
team. And I can tell the energy
shifting and like just being around people that will support
you and uplift you based on whatyou do It's amazing.
Yeah, being part of a team is incredible and you always have

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that support and camaraderie in that family atmosphere from your
team mates. That's the, you know, everyone
talks about when you stop playing, you're going to miss
the game. And that's not really true.
You miss your you miss you guys,you miss your boys.
But the, you know, we, we had a good group and we all still keep

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in touch and that's why, you know, we try to go to games.
So you do it all yourself. Would you be able if you had an
assistant? What would you have your
assistant do? I would have them like try to
look at different thought, different way of looking,

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finding a different perspective that I haven't seen.
And then like I would try try tosee if I can help them out, like
tell them I want them to be freefor you know, like let them do
what they want and like. So you wouldn't be like a
dictator and like order them around.
No, I, I, I don't want to like take and I'll, I'll give them

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full credit for what they do 'cause they do, they do the work
and they, they're helping me outa lot and a nice boost to have
someone else help out for filming.
If more like they get different perspective, I get different
perspective and I'll talk to them one-on-one and see how they

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want to cut it down, put their pieces, put my pieces and we'll
come up with an idea of like kind of get a good story to tell
in the different multiple angle.So.
OK. So if you had $100,000 budget,
would you be able to go out and make your own film?

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No, I think I would need a couple of people to help me out
and like I I. Will you be able to hire a
couple people, Right? Yeah. 100 grand, Yeah.
But. What would be your dream film to
do? Drink Film.

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Because do you like, would you like to do like more of a
documentary style? Would you like to do a movie
something like that? I would like.
Sports like film, a game. Yeah, I would like to film a
game by making into more of a documentary or a movie to like
show, showcase other people like, hey, this is this is what

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the sport is and this is the industry of like what it's like
to be an athlete in this perspective and showcase
everyone the different type of point of view, you know?
So like you like NFL Films does something like that.
What about ESPN? Because you know, we're right by
Bristol. Have you ever reached out to

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them to see about an internship or any job opportunities?
Not yeah, I actually went to theCareer Center and I was talking
to the Career Center at UConn Stanford and they were telling
me they were showing me different way to get a job
opportunity and I'm very grateful for that.
I'm going to try to see if I canget interested my during the

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summer, but I'm just going to keep my my mind wide open right
now. Like right now I'm focused on
cool and trying to make sure I'mI'm I'm a student first before
an actor or a photographer. Are you smart thing that yeah,
if your parents are watching you, you got to say what, how
how are you? How do you, how would you say

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you like school? How do you how are you doing
academically? Academically, pretty well.
You seem like a smart guy so. There have been some up and
down, but overall just kind of like lean into my second year
trying to figure out everything,trying to figure out who they

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connect to, who can I help? You didn't have to take
statistics yet, did you? No, I took it.
I took I took in my senior year of high school, so.
Oh, you I, I bomb statistics. That was I, I couldn't do stats
from the life of me. Math and stats were awful for me
there. How many?

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How many credits are you currently taking this semester?
Do you try to take 12 to 15 or do you take more?
I'm currently taking five classes right now.
Geez. OK.
So are they all three credits? I believe so, yeah.
OK, so you're up to 15 ticket insomething?
Yeah. Yeah.

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Do you and then do you do any summer class or the summers
where you're going to try to really get an internship and see
if you can use your skills? Yeah, I'm going to try to get
interested, but most of the timeif they, well, depending on my
family because I actually run meand my family, we run a separate
business. Oh.

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Yeah. So we go down to Mexico and
Puerto Vallarta and we own a house down there and we run that
down there so. Oh my God, that's awesome.
So is that, is that where you you go in the summer?
We tend to go down there in the summer.
We try to make sure we check in on the House and make sure
everything in good condition. We talk to the people down there

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and say hey, there's something wrong and we we just like take
care of the house and make sure that our neck is in good
condition. So.
Are you are you're obviously, are you fluent in Spanish?
No, no I'm not. I'm currently taking panic life
but. Oh, OK, OK.
I took five years of Spanish andI forgot it all.

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So that's why, that's why I asked.
Now I just, it's amazing. How did you go about starting
Moskowitz Media? Well, I first, I didn't really
like, I just went into photography, just like trying to

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explore a different area, kind of work on my work, on my
skills. Yeah, you're just trying to get
better. You know, every day I kind of
learned something new, try to get mentored by other people.
But the business itself, I kind of just realized that when I'm

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CC from Syracuse and also alumniof the table.
Yeah. Who got me into photography
that's when I changed my business name to master's media.
So I keep my family's last name,but I love that the media, our
family is very known for a very,we're very big community.

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We love each other. So we, we, we hold that close to
your side. So we're very close to your
side. So if somebody wants to hire you
or or or get you, you know, bring you in for a job, do you,
do you have a website? What's the best way for people

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to contact? So I'm currently finalizing my
website. You are OK.
Yeah, I'm going to be launching that in like in about two week.
That's awesome. So.
So people will be able to see your work, everything on the
website, and then they'll be able to contact you for jobs on

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the website. Are you building your own
website? I am I I start from scratch, I
don't do the coding portion, butI go to Adobe, Adobe Profile and
I just from scratch and just build it.
That's amazing. That's amazing.

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I said it because I work in digital marketing sales.
So the company I work for built websites, did SEO search engine,
you know, SELSEM search engine optimization.
And it's just fascinating the digital world and you know, it's

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clicks and likes and views and it's crazy and everyone is
trying to get their name up there.
You know, when you when on Google, when you search and
Google ads, all that stuff, do you see yourself having to or,
or do you think you'll market yourself to try to get more

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business? Yeah, I do plan to do that by
now. I do have a mentor right now in
Nevada. Oh, Nevada.
Yeah, she's mentoring me on the business aspects.
I've been learning a lot from her.
So I help her with her clothing brand and I, I try to I'm

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currently working on a project for her.
This is a hat right now for the her business.
So I'm, I'm making a video for her so she can work it, so I can
work her her stuff out too, so people can go in to buy some
some of her clothes. So.
So 2 years from now when you graduate, where do you see

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Moskowitz Media going? If, if, if everything goes as
planned, What would you like to be doing with Moskowitz Media
when when you graduate? Work with a bunch of people, try
to get their stories out. Probably go different places.

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As much as you, so you want to experience everything you want
to, you'll film anything becauseit's a learning experience and
it helps you get better. I'm young and I got a lot of lot
of stuff to learn. Yes, I might know a lot right
now, but there's so much to explore that I don't even I
can't imagine what the future hold.

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You're very humble about it. Yeah.
You're very humble about it, so Moskowitz Media and your
websites going to launch in two weeks.
Two to three weeks, Yeah. 2:00 to.
Three weeks for people who want to reach out and, you know, hire

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you now, what is the best way toget in contact?
Is it through Instagram? Is it through Facebook?
Like what do you prefer? I, I, I've been managing my
platform on Instagram, so I've been OK having people reach out.
Like yesterday I had a guy who plays for award soccer and he

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reached out to me and wanted me to film for him for tomorrow's
game. Sometime I have to say no to the
client because like, for example, tomorrow I have to go
to my aunt's birthday up in New Jersey.
So I had to say no to him on that.
Good. That's the that's the best thing

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you can do. You got to learn how to say no.
But because me and my family we probably work tight family over
everything else. So like if we have to go visit
someone we we always make sure it's family 1st and we discussed
about who do we hang out with and what we have planned for the
week and who's busy on what day if we have plans going on moving

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forward. OK, so we'll tell everyone out
there to contact you on Instagram.
It's Moskowitz Media and they can DM you for any work until
the website is up. What do you do?

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You have the domain name picked out for your website yet?
Is it going to be like moscowandmedia.com or
oxfordmedia.com something? Like that I couldn't probably be
like Monster under score media, just simple.com.
I want to just keep in line withthe original name, so I don't.
Want to you're, you're smart because branding is very

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important. OK, so we will definitely put
that in our show notes so peoplecan contact you.
And I just again, I, I, I think you have such a great attitude
for a young guy and you, you know that you don't know it all

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and you want to continue to learn and grow and you want to
experience as much as you can. And you'll go and do anything
because it's a learning experience and you're, you're
telling different stories every opportunity you get.
I, I just think that's awesome. And for someone your age to have

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the running their own business and going to school, that's
really it, It, it's admirable. It really is.
So congratulations on that and your continued success.
And we'll talk, I'll try, I'll try to see if I can get you a
media pass for the for the 20th,the are you available, the 20,

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the three, the 330 game of 20. On Saturday, right?
Yeah. I'll double check with my
parents and reach out to you about it, but I should be
available. OK?
Yeah. Well, yeah, so we'll I'll I'll
talk to Kyle. I'll see if we can get you an
immediate pass and you know, hopefully, hopefully you're our

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good luck charm one of your games.
But thank you. Thank you so much for coming on
Husky talk and sharing your story.
Then a great story. I mean, from crack, cross
country photography, videographyand I, I think you're, I'm going

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to be talking to a celebrity in about 10 years, you're going to
be filming that. You're going to be on the red
carpet at the Oscars, so. I I one last thing.
I don't do money and fame. I actually have a quote in my
room where it's like passion over money and fame.

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So I don't probably I don't probably tell money or fame.
I probably already tell you sound like what I do and why did
I do this in the 1st place? Because I do what I do because I
like it and I love doing what I do and it's love helping other
people. Not because I want the money or
the fame that'll come down down the line.

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But like right now just trying to pilot just focus on my
business and just make sure thatthe people get what they need
and hopefully they like what what they see.
So. And that's probably the best
quote you can have in life because if you're you have that

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passion, you're going to be happy.
And if you're happy and passionate, not at work, you
love what you do. You get up every day.
You love going to quote UN quotework and you get to experience
something new every time you do so.
Thank you so much for coming on Husky Talk, Mr. Johann Moskowitz

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down in Stamford at UConn. We wish you all the best for
Moskowitz Media. We'll put it in the show notes
to contact you, DM you on Instagram.
I am. I'm Steve Kelly and I'm the best
podcast host in the universe. Remember, when life gives you

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lemons, make lemonade. Take two oranges from right back
at life.