Fantasy Football, Feed Your Happy, Quest for Character

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 4, Episode 229

Oct 14, 2015 1:00 pm
2:19:52 mins

Fantasy Sports (17:47) Darren Heitner, founder of Heitner Legal PLLC, specializes in Sports and Entertainment Law. On October 5, The New York Times reported that a DraftKings employee won $350,000, on the competing fantasy league site, FanDuel. The report claimed he used information obtained prior to the public release. This incident has opened the doors into the unregulated world of fantasy sports and its players. Darren Heitner joins the show to discuss the one-day fantasy football industry and what the future will be for the $18.6 billion industry. Feed Your Happy App (1:02:06) Scott Wilhite is a Utah Filmmaker turned app developer. He is an award winning writer, producer, and director. He has been a film director for 13 years and has had a diverse creative career as a filmmaker, designer, photographer, writer and app maker. Scott joins the show to talk about his new app called “Feed Your Happy” and how it can help you in your “pursuit of happiness.” The Quest for Character (1:44:39) Anne Ure has been the Director of the BYU Preschool and Kindergarten since 1998. Since then, she has been teaching university courses related to child development, early childhood education and Parenting. Dorie Haws has been an educator for 26 years. She taught for a year at Grandview Elementary in Provo, Utah, before she moved to Gotemba, Japan to teach for a couple of years. She joined the BYU Preschool staff as a head teacher in the lab school in 1999 where she teaches 4-5 year-old children and university students. Anne and Dorie join Dr. Townsend to discuss how to help young kids develop moral character.

Episode Segments

Episode Segments

Fantasy Sports (17:47)

44m

Darren Heitner, founder of Heitner Legal PLLC, specializes in Sports and Entertainment Law. On October 5, The New York Times reported that a DraftKings employee won $350,000, on the competing fantasy league site, FanDuel. The report claimed he used information obtained prior to the public release. This incident has opened the doors into the unregulated world of fantasy sports and its players. Darren Heitner joins the show to discuss the one-day fantasy football industry and what the future will be for the $18.6 billion industry.

Feed Your Happy App

43m

Scott Wilhite is a Utah Filmmaker turned app developer. He is an award winning writer, producer, and director. He has been a film director for 13 years and has had a diverse creative career as a filmmaker, designer, photographer, writer and app maker. Scott joins the show to talk about his new app called “Feed Your Happy” and how it can help you in your “pursuit of happiness.”

The Quest for Character

35m

Anne Ure has been the Director of the BYU Preschool and Kindergarten since 1998. Since then, she has been teaching university courses related to child development, early childhood education and Parenting. Dorie Haws has been an educator for 26 years. She taught for a year at Grandview Elementary in Provo, Utah, before she moved to Gotemba, Japan to teach for a couple of years. She joined the BYU Preschool staff as a head teacher in the lab school in 1999 where she teaches 4-5 year-old children and university students. Anne and Dorie join Dr. Townsend to discuss how to help young kids develop moral character.