After working in some of the highest profile positions in the bowling industry and having one of the most successful college careers as a bowler…ever, Roger Dalkin has taken his rightful places in the sport.

First, in the USBC hall of fame, and last month in the USBC Collegiate Hall of Fame.

You’ll hear me discuss a giveaway in this episode, which was only available to live viewers and won by fellow USBC Hall of Famer, Steve Kloempken.

But I like to think the content makes winners of us all, hey?

In Dalkin’s acceptance speech, he ended by giving advice on public speaking, saying "You stand up to be seen. You speak clearly to be understood, but most importantly, you sit down to be appreciated."

And that’s where the title of this episode, with its excellent conversation, comes from.

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Just before starting this interview at Wagner's Lanes in Eau Claire, WI, Payton Schwetz announced on his Instagram page that he has committed to UW-Whitewater.

The Eau Claire native and North High School senior goes on to thank his family, friends and others who have helped to get him this far in bowling.

Several of them were at Wagner's during the interview and put in their two cents about this big step in Payton's journey!

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The latest of more than 2,200 videos to be uploaded to the Irishpogi YouTube channel was originally recorded in January 1982.

Despite not including the end of the championship match, it has a lot of traction, like many others on the channel.

At the time of this recording, it had north of 900 views.

That’s the kind of thing that keeps John McLaughlin of Staten Island, New York posting classic PBA Tour telecasts to his channel consistently.

He’s been called the King of Old PBA Tour shows, and he starts by discussing what led to his five-figure subscriber count in The Video Vault.

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As he said before starting up the show and proved in the middle of it, John Knight of New Hartford, New York does not have much to say about his own bowling.

His USBC member stats show a high average of 192. They don’t show a record of him bowling in a sanctioned league in several years .

But you don’t have to throw 'em really well to drill 'em really well.

Ten years ago, Knight founded John Knight’s Bowlers' Shoppe inside King Pin Lanes in Rome, NY. He has added a second location at Perry lanes in Johnstown since then.

Last year, he found out that he would be honored with the Friends of IBPSIA award at International Bowl Expo 2024 in Colorado.

IBPSIA is an organization that I partner with to produce hot topics, a series of short interviews with industry leaders for the organizations YouTube channel.

The award is where we start Knight's bowling story!

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Seriously, what would the Wisconsin Vintage Alleys Tour be without Yvonne Bennett?

Fortunately, nobody has to find out just yet. The retired Executive Director of the Bowling Centers Association of Wisconsin who created the tour will be leading it. BCAW has taken her on in a consultant role for the event, as well as another vintage alleys tour in Wisconsin later in 2025.

WI Vintage Alleys Tour: https://www.bowlwi.com/bcaw-events/wi...

Bennett, who lives in Milwaukee, held the Executive Director post at BCAW for eight years. Before that, she built a lasting reputation of great bowling in the Nation's Captial Area Bowling Association, which encompasses the Washington DC metro area. The association inducted her into its Hall of Fame six years ago.

She also worked for the Young American Bowling Alliance and held several other jobs outside of the bowling industry. She received a BCAW Award of Excellence in 2022 for her work increasing membership and starting up the Wisconsin Vintage Alleys Tour, of course!

In this episode, we discuss the centers featured in the April tour and looking back at Bennett's career in bowling.

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After the PWBA made some changes that impacted the players earlier this year, BowlForward made some changes too.

BowlForward is an organization led by Chris Pulliam of Las Vegas. It will award cash to certain PWBA athletes that apply, meet certain criteria and are selected by a volunteer committee.

Chris recently joined the livestream to explain how BowlForward will look moving forward.

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It won't be a long road trip to Intercollegiate Sectionals for this coach and her relatively new women's program next month.

Melanie McDaniel of Joliet, IL and her Governors State University Jaguars learned they are headed to Addison, IL on Feb. 19, as their watch party was featured on the USBC's 2025 Sectionals Assignment Show. The school's bowling program is finishing up its first full season of competition.

When she's not coaching, McDaniel is an incredible competitor. She has persevered despite multiple injuries that kept her off the lanes for months and even years during separate stretches in her career. McDaniel reached the finals of the 2023 PWBA BowlTV Classic and finished 3rd, as well finishing 4th in the 2024 PWBA Pepsi Open.

Growing up in a family full of bowlers, it stands to reason that the sport is such a big part of McDaniel's life. We'll learn more about McDaniel's bowling story and how she's prepping her ladies for the college postseason!

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The last time we caught up with Patrick Martinez, we were literally talking about South Point hot dogs.

Back then, and I say that in air quotes because it wasn’t even a year ago, Patrick may have been best known for his Patty Cam on BowlTV.

At the beginning of 2025 he announced that he was starting a video production company. The Cloud Media Productions Inc. took a lot of time and a lot of thought to get off the ground, pardon the pun.

Now that he is off the ground with it we decided to have a conversation and call it Cloud Level.

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