Our Story
Welcome, friends, to Fundamentally Unsound.
Fundamentally Unsound started in 2021 as a podcast, a glorified group chat, with two college friends turned roommates in Chicago wanting to talk to their friends about sports while being hundreds if not thousands of miles away. We bought the shittiest equipment on the market and started recording the conversations we had every night and sending them on multi GB media files via email to our friends. It was really our way to feel like we were back in college/high school.
It was those same friends that convinced us to make the podcast available for them and others to listen to on Spotify/Apple/etc. So after enough comments, we did. And in 2023 we became a "legit" show.
We were in the midst of our second year on the media outlets, transitioning to the remote world since we no longer lived in the same city, when Jack passed away unexpectedly. I decided to sunset the show, since I knew it could never be the same without him. Whether or not there will ever be a show again I don't know, never say never I guess. I miss him every day, every time I log on to the site, see the Fundamentally Unsound name/logo, or think about/watch/talk about football.
While the physical show halted, the metaphorical show must go on. At the beginning of the 2024 season, I started the second branch of Fundamentally Unsound with the blog. I used to write blogs in my early 20s that only found themselves in the dark web of my computer hard drive. It was that same hard drive years later as I was cleaning out storage on my laptop in order to store the podcast episodes that I stumbled upon my old writings, read them back and was surprised how much I enjoyed reading the things I wrote. So I decided to get back on the horse and try writing again. Similarly to the podcast trajectory, my friends always had positive feedback on the writing, and frankly I had a lot more confidence in my abilities with a keyboard than I did a microphone. So fundamentallyunsound.com was built.
Which leads us to today. I love football. And I have a lot of thoughts as I watch and digest it. I'm emotional about the game for all the right and sometimes wrong reasons. But I always feel something. So if you made it this far in this story, click on the "Blog" tab and read along. And if you like what you read, put your email at the bottom of any page to subscribe to real time emails as I post.
And if you so wish, take a listen to the podcasts that are still and will always remain on this page. For nostalgia's sake if anything else.
Until next time.
Ethan
