Brian Kenny

When AI increasingly mediates what consumers know, consider, and buy, does the very nature of brand management have to change? Today on Cold Call, we'll discuss AthenaHQ, building brands for AI search with case author Julian De Freitas and the company's co-founder and CEO, Andrew Yan.

I'm your host, Brian Kenny, and you're listening to Cold Call on the HBR Podcast Network.

Julian De Freitas' research addresses questions about how consumers perceive, adopt, and interact with AI systems.

Welcome back, Julian.

Yep.

Brian Kenny, by the way, not Kelly.

Whoops.

But he's recently been very active on his Twitter account, and he is trolling everyone.

But that home run right there, what it, what it, what it signified in baseball in our country.

And I heard somebody, our buddy Brian Kinney said it earlier today, the way Mike Piazza, such a big man, stoically ran around the bases.

And you think about President Bush throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium.

Yeah.

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So my apologies that I didn't unmute it right away.

[laughs] Oh, somebody's mad.

I like it.

Rob, you good? Good to have you back.

All good, BK.

Ready to roll, my man.

Let's do it.

And when he was in, people forget this, when he was in Anaheim with the Angels, he was hurt, right, when he was doing both.

Yeah.

It seems like every time he's doing both BK, he winds up hurt or something goes wrong.

A couple of years ago when he did not pitch, he had a 50-50 year.

Well, did you see ...

There was another thing, um, you know, Joey Votto comes on MLB Now with Brian Kenny.

And I don't know if you saw it, but he was, you know, he had some interest- an interesting take.

And I was like, "Man, that makes a lot of sense." He was saying Judge actually might be one of the, might be the best hitter of all time.

I'm not pulling that out of my ear.

That's Brian Kinney and the rest of them are all saying this.

So that's why I was saying it, and I'm sorry I didn't explain it better that night.

But We're going to do well, I believe.

I mean, watching your podcast and then when you do games or whenever you show up, I let, you know, us baseball junkies watch MLB Now every single day.

Love Brian Kinney.

We have him on the show.

Just you're really good at it.