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Welcome to another episode of Crazy Fitness Guys

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Healthy Living Podcast. I have my friend, Tom,

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who's going to be here discussing about his entrepreneurial

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life. Welcome aboard, Tom. Thanks for having

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me. So tell us a little bit about your podcast.

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So I have a podcast called Podjerky. We release

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episodes every Monday. around 2 p .m. We're on

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Apple. We're on Spotify. We are on iHeart. We

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are on Amazon Music and Audible. You can find

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us on Instagram and Twitter at Podjerky. And

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you can find us on YouTube as well by looking

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up Podjerky. We are just a podcast that talks

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about everything. We have had some fantastic

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guests on the show so far. We've had Ken Shamrock.

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We've had Matthew Moy from Two Broke Girls. We've

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had some musical artists on from Canada, which

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are Thrust and Navi the North, DJ Chemo, Big

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Stretch, Dank Reharve. We get into some of the

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topics like health, we get into fertility, and

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we get into some of the pandemics talk that we

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have. So that's basically what we do. I'm jealous.

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You're going to hook me up with some of these

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people. There's like one big spreadsheet, come

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on. Well, yeah, it's hard because you have to

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reach out to them on social media and see if

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they get back to you. And I've just been lucky.

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They've just answered me whenever I've reached

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out to them. So I've actually built a friendship

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with one of the hip hop stars that I've had on

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the show. He was on a live show during our convention

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that we had and he was really, really good. And

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he and I became friends now and we're working

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on some projects together right now. I'm jealous.

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You're going to have to send me some of these

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people's Twitter profiles because I'm going to

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hit them up. Yeah, definitely. For sure. I will.

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So how long have you been podcasting? We are

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now 10 months in to podcasting. I'm still younger.

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Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind me asking,

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how many people listen? to your podcast today

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we just surpassed 10 500 downloads uh which is

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pretty good considering we've only been around

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for 10 months uh so we just surpassed 10 500

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downloads and thank you to everybody that has

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tuned in and who has listened it's uh it's been

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a fun ride Okay. Now I'm definitely jealous.

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I'm only 1400. Hey, listeners, what the heck

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is going on here? You got to keep bumping me

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up some more. Come on. Here's your trick. And

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I tell this to a lot of people too, that the

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best trick to doing this really is to get guests

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on your show. And the more guests that you have

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on the show. the more chance they have of sharing

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your episodes as well. So more listeners are

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going to get to hear it. Instead of you just

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sharing it yourself, you have guests that are

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actually sharing it as well. So if I had somebody

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like a Ken Shamrock on or a Matthew Moy on or

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any of these hip hop guys that I've had on the

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show, they're sharing it to their social medias

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as well. So a broader audience is getting to

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hear your stuff. So a lot of that is. what you

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do with the guests and they're going to share

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your episodes and they're going to get a lot

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of listens. Oh my goodness. I'm definitely pumped

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now. Now I just want to go on Twitter and say,

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Hey, who wants to be on my show? Yeah. Well,

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you do that or you go ahead on Instagram. A lot

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of Instagram accounts will actually respond to

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you when you do a direct message. And I found

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that with quite a few people. So we've had luck

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in doing that. And we've had luck on, I want

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to say Twitter as well, but majority is Instagram.

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I have to say, you know, have you ever heard

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of the podcaster? His name is Lewis Howes. No.

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Well, he's been on the top 100 podcasts in the

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whole world. He used to be a ex -pro athlete.

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I think he was injured somehow. I forget how.

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He's one of my huge idols. He has a huge list

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of people that a lot of celebrities and a lot

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of entrepreneurs, etc. on his podcast. He has

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these strict requirements that you have to be

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an international best -selling author or a pro

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athlete or ex -pro athlete uh or um a well -known

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speaker and i was like i'm gonna be on this show

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one day and he actually said to me uh and And

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he said, I told him one day I'm going to be on

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your show. And he never said to me, no, or good

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luck with that one. He says, I look forward to

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it. Yeah, and that's great. And you have to think

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about it this way. You can't go into podcasting

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thinking that you are going to be number one

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right away. You have to work at it. You have

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to do your due diligence and do your research

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and be able to. get listeners to tune in, put

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out a good product so that they actually listen

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to your show. Don't get down if your numbers

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are low or whatever you're doing. If you're having

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fun doing it, enjoy it. The listens will come.

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You have to distribute it properly. You have

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to be able to put your show out there for people

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to hear and show them where they can find it,

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have them engaged in the show, have them engaged

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in your social media content, and you'll be able

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to grow your show that way. Now, me being at

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10 ,000 downloads and you being at a thousand,

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there's no difference there. There's no difference

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there. 10 ,000 is not a lot of downloads. Is

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it a nice milestone to have? Yes. But between

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you and I, we're not that far off from each other.

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We're doing this. same thing we're having fun

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we're doing what we want to do and we're doing

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it because we enjoy it i'm not doing it to get

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the numbers there but you know what they will

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come and i promise you they will come to your

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show definitely uh like i did before we got on

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this podcast i was telling you uh i tried live

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streaming uh i did i knew i enjoyed it for the

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time being But after two episodes, I'm just thinking,

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well, every guest I have on now, it's going to

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be a live stream. And it's like, I don't have

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the time or the resources for it. And it's like,

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if I had like two clones of me, perfect. They

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don't even have to talk. I just want sign language.

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Yeah. Well, here's a good tip. When I started

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off podcasting, what I thought was. The norm

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was you would go into these Facebook groups or

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you would go anywhere on social media and you

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would link drop. And what you do with that is

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all you're doing is dropping your links to your

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episodes and you think that people are going

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to listen. It's not going to happen like that.

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People are going to get turned away from that.

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I get turned off by it all the time because.

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We have groups on Facebook for podcasting. And

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in these groups, people try to do it. And nobody's

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going to listen to your show that way. There's

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listens for listens. Like, hey, you listen to

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mine. I'll listen to yours. I'm not going to

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do that either because I want to actually be

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interested into your show before I'm going to

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listen to it. So you have to engage on social

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media. You have to. We started this convention.

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You were a part of the last one that we just

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did. And it's a good way to get. to be a part

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of the podcast community. It's a way to get in

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touch with other podcasters, to do live streams

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into the Facebook group, to do all kinds of things.

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We have lots of threads that are going on in

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there. And that's the way that you're going to

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grow your audience because you are going to be

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able to become friends with people in those groups.

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You're going to be able to promote your show

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in those groups. And you're going to be able

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to do basically live streaming in that group.

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So a lot of people are going to see your product.

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And if they like your product, they're going

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to start to share that as well. So that's another

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trick that you might want to follow if you are

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a podcaster and you are looking to get your numbers

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a little bit higher. Well, and another trick

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I learned is that when you meet new people, always

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offer them to be on, I guess, on your show as

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well, because pretty much like 99 .9 % of the

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time, They say yes. And, and even if I'm geared

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towards health and wellness, thank goodness I

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talk about lifestyle because any lifestyle goes.

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Yep. Yep. And definitely, and I'm still going

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to have you on the show. I'm still waiting because

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we are still in quarantine and my work schedule

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is a little bit different right now. I'm trying

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to figure out what. My work schedule is going

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to be in the next couple of weeks. So we're waiting

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to hear an announcement from our government here

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to see how much longer we're going to be locked

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down. If I'm in lockdown, that means I'm at home.

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If we're not, then I'm at work. So that's what

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I'm waiting on to get you on the show. I did

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promise that you were going to come on the show

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and you will. I'm just waiting to find out when

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we're going to be able to open up again. So I'm

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just waiting. Actually, there was this one podcast.

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It wasn't really a podcast, but it was like a

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virtual TV show. It was streamed to Roku. Forget

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Chrome, Microsoft Edge. and all the other web

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browsers out there. It's based on productivity.

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that it has. It's very fast. It blocks ads by

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default. You don't see that with Google Chrome,

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do you? Nope. And there's also a built -in sidebar

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so you can have all your... tools and systems

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all in one place without having to go search

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Check out Sidekick and tell them I sent you.

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YouTube, Amazon, probably all the platforms I

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didn't. Android TV, I guess. I don't know exactly

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how many more services, but it was wild. The

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host said that 750 ,000 people tune in every

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episode. I'm like, well, that's a good way to

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get my name out there. Yeah, definitely. And

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I think, were you talking about one of the videos

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you saw in our group that somebody was going

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to be starting a video service like that? I forget

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where I met this person. It was one of my podcasting

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groups. Yeah. So it was in our group that John

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from the basement surge, he was going to actually

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be starting a VOD TV and VOD TV was going to

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be exactly that, what you were talking about.

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It was going to go to the Roku service and it

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was going to go to Amazon as well. And the audience

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was very, very high and it was going to be an

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on -demand service. Now there are some hiccups

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right now that we're waiting on for him to actually

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get that going, but he still plans on getting

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that going sometime in the future. But like I

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said, you have to get yourself out there in order

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to be seen. But again, 750 ,000 people. When

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you do the laws of averages, you have to think

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one out of every 10 is going to tune into your

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show at least once. Not subscribe doesn't mean

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they're going to subscribe, but they may listen

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to one of your episodes. If they listen to one

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of your episodes, they may tune into two. They

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may tune into three or four or five, whatever

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they're going to do. So you base that on the

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laws of averages. You're still going to get a

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good chunk of listeners. 750 ,000. That's a lot.

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I don't think I'm going to ever hit that number,

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but. it's something to work towards. Well, this

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guy, his name was, uh, uh, Lauren Harris. And,

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uh, I was on his, uh, show and that's where he

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had all of his, uh, uh, virtual TV show streamed

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to all the platforms. He is like something called,

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uh, well, I think it was like E360 TV. And it

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was like, I was kind of, it's funny, like me

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and him, he would, we basically pretty much winged

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it, winged it the entire episode. I don't know

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if he had questions to prepare it ahead of time,

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but he just kept going one at the other. And

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I just like, I have no idea what's coming, but

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it was just so much fun for a whole hour. We

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just like, I don't know. It was just really,

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really funny. But you know, you know what I feel

00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:59.080
if I'm listening to a podcast, I like it when

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it is more. just a genuine conversation than

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when it's scripted. So if I'm reading off of

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a script to do my show, it sounds scripted. Whereas

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if I'm doing a conversation like this with you

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right now, it's more of a genuine conversation

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and people are going to want to listen to it

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because it's just a normal conversation. Definitely.

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And I can tell you right now, I absolutely, I

00:15:23.500 --> 00:15:26.409
have no script in front of me because I just

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came upstairs from dinner, so there's no script

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in front of me. Yeah. And, you know, it's funny

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because when our first few episodes came out,

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when we were doing our show, we were scripting

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everything. We were making sure that we had all

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the facts right. We were having everything just

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correct when we were doing it. And going back

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and listening now, you can tell. how scripted

00:15:51.070 --> 00:15:55.029
the episodes were. Whereas now, the more episodes

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that we've got into, and I think we're at episode

00:15:56.470 --> 00:16:00.610
63 right now, the more that we've gotten into,

00:16:00.870 --> 00:16:05.049
the easier it's become. And the easier the conversations

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have become. And I remember starting off, I remember

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being a little bit nervous behind the microphone.

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I'm not a nervous person, but I remember being

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a little bit nervous behind the microphone. But

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then when I went on to the live streaming, I

00:16:16.340 --> 00:16:18.059
was really nervous because I've never done the

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on -screen thing before. So I started to do that

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and then you got more comfortable with it. So

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it just became easier and easier and easier as

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time went on. And that's just something you have

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to do. It's something you have to practice and

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something that's going to help you in the long

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run. So I have another question for you. Sure.

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How did you get into podcasting anyway? Well,

00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:45.419
it's funny because a lot of these podcasts started

00:16:45.419 --> 00:16:48.360
off when the pandemic hit. And that was basically

00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:51.559
in Canada here. It would be in March when we

00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:54.600
did our shutdown. And I had actually ordered

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a microphone off of Amazon in December the previous

00:17:00.379 --> 00:17:03.600
year. And my wife kind of looked at me and she's

00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:05.720
like, why do you have a microphone? And I was

00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:08.140
like, I don't know, maybe I'm going to try podcasting.

00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:10.839
And she just kind of like. you know, gave me

00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:13.819
a little bit of a chuckle and I emailed my buddy

00:17:13.819 --> 00:17:15.740
and sent him a picture of it. And I said, Hey,

00:17:15.779 --> 00:17:18.380
podcasting. And that was the whole email. That's

00:17:18.380 --> 00:17:20.660
all I wrote. I said, Hey, podcasting with a question

00:17:20.660 --> 00:17:22.720
mark. And he wrote me back and he's like, let's

00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:26.299
do it. So I sent the microphone back and I was

00:17:26.299 --> 00:17:28.160
like, you know, let's order some better equipment,

00:17:28.259 --> 00:17:30.099
actually, if we're going to, if we're going to

00:17:30.099 --> 00:17:32.420
do this properly. So I ended up ordering some

00:17:32.420 --> 00:17:35.069
better equipment and we started now. We didn't

00:17:35.069 --> 00:17:38.490
start our podcast until April, but we had pre

00:17:38.490 --> 00:17:40.190
-recorded episodes all the way from December.

00:17:40.250 --> 00:17:42.089
We were like recording episodes that we had stuff

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to put out once April hit. So we released our

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first episodes in April, I believe. So that's

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why we're at 10 months. We were just pre -recording

00:17:50.549 --> 00:17:52.369
beforehand, but never released anything until

00:17:52.369 --> 00:17:56.750
then. Well, I just started Cold Turkey and I

00:17:56.750 --> 00:18:00.329
just say, Hey, let's just start podcasting. Well,

00:18:00.450 --> 00:18:04.690
the only reason why I started was because, It

00:18:04.690 --> 00:18:07.730
was Crazy Fitness Guy's third birthday. I was

00:18:07.730 --> 00:18:11.009
like, well, how can I spice it up for this year?

00:18:11.349 --> 00:18:17.829
I was like, I'm going to start a podcast. I had

00:18:17.829 --> 00:18:21.390
a few people ask me, what do you like doing better,

00:18:21.589 --> 00:18:26.089
blogging or podcasting or motivational speaking?

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I was like, motivational speaking and podcasting.

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Blogging, not so much. Yeah, I don't want to

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sit in front of a computer and type all day,

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but I'd sit in front of a computer and talk on

00:18:37.170 --> 00:18:41.150
a mic all day. That doesn't bother me. I don't

00:18:41.150 --> 00:18:44.450
mind the whole writing part. I do enjoy it occasionally,

00:18:44.650 --> 00:18:48.710
but last year I just experienced a lot of writing

00:18:48.710 --> 00:18:54.049
because I was in another English class and it

00:18:54.049 --> 00:18:57.150
was just like, this was the greatest idea. Hey,

00:18:57.230 --> 00:18:59.690
let's write and write and write and write some

00:18:59.690 --> 00:19:06.150
more. This is fun. Yeah, I'm not into the writing

00:19:06.150 --> 00:19:08.670
anymore. I will do my notes every now and then,

00:19:08.750 --> 00:19:10.630
but I'll do a little bit of research here and

00:19:10.630 --> 00:19:14.529
there. But other than that, I don't need, I don't

00:19:14.529 --> 00:19:16.829
feel a need to have to write up anything anymore.

00:19:17.769 --> 00:19:20.029
Basically, because you can really research anything

00:19:20.029 --> 00:19:23.390
online if you really had to and find it there.

00:19:23.490 --> 00:19:26.509
But yeah, as far as the writing goes, I'm not

00:19:26.509 --> 00:19:29.529
a big fan of it. I can write, like in terms of

00:19:29.529 --> 00:19:31.529
writing out a script or writing out whatever

00:19:31.529 --> 00:19:34.509
we have to do for the show. I just rather come

00:19:34.509 --> 00:19:37.609
on and just talk normally, just like a genuine

00:19:37.609 --> 00:19:42.410
conversation like this. Tom, I got them. I read

00:19:42.410 --> 00:19:45.829
this article, I forget how long ago, I think

00:19:45.829 --> 00:19:49.670
maybe sometime, had to be last year, because

00:19:49.670 --> 00:19:54.829
this year is too new. But this article, they

00:19:54.829 --> 00:19:59.200
said, You know how you can keep writing on your

00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:03.720
website if you choose to write? Well, transcribe

00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:08.200
your podcast interview. And I found a tool that

00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:12.960
gives you like an 85 % accuracy. Not the best,

00:20:12.980 --> 00:20:15.960
but I'll take it. And it's like, well, I had

00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:19.990
to change a few words myself. And I'd done worse.

00:20:20.809 --> 00:20:24.990
To be honest, I did a lot more for a lot less.

00:20:25.589 --> 00:20:28.970
Yeah. And for those that don't know, YouTube

00:20:28.970 --> 00:20:32.269
actually transcribes your videos as well. If

00:20:32.269 --> 00:20:35.710
you upload a video. to your YouTube channel.

00:20:36.329 --> 00:20:38.029
Once it's up, I think it has to be up for an

00:20:38.029 --> 00:20:39.769
hour. I'm not sure how long it has to be up for,

00:20:39.829 --> 00:20:42.569
but once it's up, you can go to like the three

00:20:42.569 --> 00:20:44.809
little dots that are on the video and you can

00:20:44.809 --> 00:20:46.690
hit transcribe and it'll transcribe it right

00:20:46.690 --> 00:20:49.589
for you, like right there on the YouTube page.

00:20:49.630 --> 00:20:50.970
And then you can just copy paste it to wherever

00:20:50.970 --> 00:20:53.690
you need to go. Jeez, I got to try that next

00:20:53.690 --> 00:20:56.700
time. Yeah. It's not, it's not the most accurate

00:20:56.700 --> 00:20:59.019
and it won't give you the names of the speakers.

00:20:59.059 --> 00:21:01.559
So if a new speaker speaking, then, you know,

00:21:01.579 --> 00:21:03.480
you're going to go and have to put in your spaces.

00:21:03.740 --> 00:21:05.440
Cause it doesn't, it has no idea who's speaking

00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:08.079
unless I were to say Tom from pod jerky talking

00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:10.839
now and then start talking. And then I would

00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:13.539
say, you know, Jimmy from crazy fitness guy talking

00:21:13.539 --> 00:21:16.220
now, then it would be able to recognize that,

00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:19.539
but it won't recognize different speakers that

00:21:19.539 --> 00:21:22.039
are speaking. So you have to go in and add that

00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:25.730
in. But, you know, for the most part, it's decent

00:21:25.730 --> 00:21:30.269
in its accuracy. Well, this is a tool that I

00:21:30.269 --> 00:21:34.250
found that I use sometimes, occasionally, depending

00:21:34.250 --> 00:21:38.230
on what I need it for. It's called Audio Burst.

00:21:40.170 --> 00:21:44.609
Yeah, just Google that and there's like 85%.

00:21:46.309 --> 00:21:48.950
transcribable or headliner transcribes that well,

00:21:49.089 --> 00:21:51.750
but for the free plan, they give you like 10

00:21:51.750 --> 00:21:57.009
minutes. And I was like, don't overwhelm me here

00:21:57.009 --> 00:22:00.210
with your generosity. Yeah, that's not long enough.

00:22:01.809 --> 00:22:04.589
Yeah, I probably get a letter from headliners

00:22:04.589 --> 00:22:08.690
like, are you bashing our product? And it's like,

00:22:08.789 --> 00:22:12.559
no, I just said that feature. 10 minutes is eh.

00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:16.079
Yes, let's have a 10 -minute podcast episode.

00:22:16.180 --> 00:22:19.680
What the hell? We need 45 minutes to an hour,

00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:24.559
basically. Yeah. Provide 45 minutes for me for

00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:28.579
free. That's enough for me. At least an hour.

00:22:28.619 --> 00:22:34.900
Come on, please. I bribe them. Yeah. So what's

00:22:34.900 --> 00:22:38.970
your most favorite part about podcasting? Interacting

00:22:38.970 --> 00:22:40.990
with people. I have to say that. I mean, I've

00:22:40.990 --> 00:22:43.089
met a lot of great people doing the podcast.

00:22:43.970 --> 00:22:46.549
It's been really, really fun being able to go

00:22:46.549 --> 00:22:49.190
on their shows or them coming on our shows, meeting

00:22:49.190 --> 00:22:51.609
some of these guests that we've had on the show

00:22:51.609 --> 00:22:55.009
and getting to talk with them. It's just been

00:22:55.009 --> 00:22:57.829
fun. I mean, I don't mind putting in the work

00:22:57.829 --> 00:22:59.910
behind the scenes, doing the editing, doing the,

00:22:59.910 --> 00:23:04.079
you know. photos for Instagram doing whatever

00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:07.740
you have to do but my most favorite part is actually

00:23:07.740 --> 00:23:10.880
sitting down and interacting with people I just

00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:14.079
get a kick out of it especially during the pandemic

00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:16.400
where we're not even allowed to really go and

00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:18.619
see anybody didn't get to see our family for

00:23:18.619 --> 00:23:21.000
Christmas this year haven't seen any of our friends

00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:23.599
in almost a year now like we're into February

00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:27.039
after the weekend coming up and it'll be almost

00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:30.839
a year since the pandemic started here And, you

00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:32.779
know, it sucks that we can't see our friends.

00:23:32.819 --> 00:23:36.660
So this has been a good, I guess, substitute

00:23:36.660 --> 00:23:39.660
for that. But it's also allowed me to make a

00:23:39.660 --> 00:23:41.799
lot of friends and a lot of friends that I normally

00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:43.940
wouldn't make if I wasn't doing podcasting, because

00:23:43.940 --> 00:23:46.319
I've met friends from, you know, the U .S. that

00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:48.460
I never would have made if I wasn't doing the

00:23:48.460 --> 00:23:52.740
podcast. Yeah. And speaking of which, I actually

00:23:52.740 --> 00:23:57.140
I met a lot of friends, too. There's somebody.

00:23:58.140 --> 00:24:01.380
She did a podcast interview with me sometime

00:24:01.380 --> 00:24:07.380
last year. I forget which number it was. I've

00:24:07.380 --> 00:24:10.319
been only on like 45 podcast guest appearance

00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:13.680
episodes so far. So I kind of lost track of which

00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:19.619
episode, which one, but she said, she messaged

00:24:19.619 --> 00:24:23.859
me on Facebook. I think it was like beginning

00:24:23.859 --> 00:24:27.450
of this year or ending of last year. And I was

00:24:27.450 --> 00:24:31.529
like, hey, Jimmy, I'm doing this, writing my,

00:24:31.609 --> 00:24:35.049
I think, 40th book or something like that. And

00:24:35.049 --> 00:24:37.009
she's like, I was like, how would you like to

00:24:37.009 --> 00:24:41.029
be a collaborator, a co -author on it? And I

00:24:41.029 --> 00:24:43.470
was like, I'm getting, I was like, someone actually

00:24:43.470 --> 00:24:45.789
wants me to be part of something? Holy crap.

00:24:46.369 --> 00:24:50.950
I was like, this is unheard of. I was like, heck,

00:24:51.190 --> 00:24:53.880
my name's going to be published on a book. Yeah.

00:24:53.940 --> 00:24:56.799
And that's great. I mean, you, and that, and

00:24:56.799 --> 00:24:58.720
that's the whole thing with podcasts. It brings

00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:01.759
a lot of people together. It allows you to become

00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:04.400
a community. Like I said, we have the convention

00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:08.599
group and I believe we're at about 14 or 1500

00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:11.119
members in that group right now. I could be wrong,

00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:14.079
but we're around that number right now. And our

00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:18.700
next convention is coming up in March and you

00:25:18.700 --> 00:25:21.880
are signed up for that. And we have two full

00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:24.839
weekends that are, being booked right now and

00:25:24.839 --> 00:25:28.400
uh we're fully booked on two of the days out

00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:31.500
of the six so far and the other four days still

00:25:31.500 --> 00:25:34.500
have a few uh open slots right now but that's

00:25:34.500 --> 00:25:37.619
just tremendous that you can have you know six

00:25:37.619 --> 00:25:41.539
days of the month basically and full of just

00:25:41.539 --> 00:25:43.660
podcasts that want to go live and want to spread

00:25:43.660 --> 00:25:45.559
their show and want to share their material with

00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:49.390
everybody and it's fantastic Just out of curiosity,

00:25:49.670 --> 00:25:55.589
I want to, like, you know how, it was really,

00:25:55.690 --> 00:26:02.029
I remember when I was in the convention, I was

00:26:02.029 --> 00:26:04.829
kind of nervous the very first time I went live

00:26:04.829 --> 00:26:09.980
because like for i don't know maybe about five

00:26:09.980 --> 00:26:12.940
minutes facebook was giving me annoying troubles

00:26:12.940 --> 00:26:15.900
i don't know if it was because i kind of back

00:26:15.900 --> 00:26:20.460
talked to them a few weeks ago and as i think

00:26:20.460 --> 00:26:23.440
it was i think it was basically there just like

00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:25.579
gave me the virtual middle finger and it's like

00:26:25.579 --> 00:26:28.440
it was like yeah we're facebook we can do this

00:26:28.440 --> 00:26:33.680
we can screw with you big brother's watching

00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:37.009
possible yeah it's possible Yeah. I remember

00:26:37.009 --> 00:26:39.150
that. I remember that you had a few issues, but

00:26:39.150 --> 00:26:40.750
we got it all sorted out and we got you to go

00:26:40.750 --> 00:26:44.509
on live and it was great. And yeah, I actually

00:26:44.509 --> 00:26:46.950
kept that bit in there when we were just struggling

00:26:46.950 --> 00:26:49.750
and I just uploaded to my YouTube channel and

00:26:49.750 --> 00:26:52.410
say, I'm just keeping it in there. I was like,

00:26:52.490 --> 00:26:55.430
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technical difficulties it's no problem you know

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everybody who's who is doing this and that was

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your first time going live in our convention

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group right yeah Yeah. So, I mean, everybody

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who's gone the first time has always had some

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kind of technical difficulty, which is fine.

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We have no problems with it. That's why we're

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there. We're there to help everybody out. We're

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goes smoothly. So it's no problem. If you have

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a technical difficulty, we will be there to help

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you. So just out of curiosity, why did you start

00:32:37.990 --> 00:32:42.670
the podcasting group? uh we decided there was

00:32:42.670 --> 00:32:45.789
a couple of us it was sarah from blackbird advocacy

00:32:45.789 --> 00:32:49.170
podcast and Russ from Nick and Russ don't know

00:32:49.170 --> 00:32:52.130
anything. We just decided, Hey, you know what,

00:32:52.170 --> 00:32:54.789
let's start this group up. Let's see what we

00:32:54.789 --> 00:32:57.750
can do. Let's run a podcast convention. We had

00:32:57.750 --> 00:32:59.769
been running ads with each other on each other's

00:32:59.769 --> 00:33:03.069
shows. We've been doing a couple of each other's

00:33:03.069 --> 00:33:06.309
shows together. And we said, let's start this

00:33:06.309 --> 00:33:08.589
convention. Let's see if we can get this going.

00:33:08.849 --> 00:33:12.049
And I think it kind of, I'm not sure if it branched

00:33:12.049 --> 00:33:14.609
off the idea that I had, but I was doing a kind

00:33:14.609 --> 00:33:16.410
of a segment called the podcast round table where

00:33:16.410 --> 00:33:19.599
I had five or six different podcasters on the

00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:22.460
show at once. And we would just talk about podcasting

00:33:22.460 --> 00:33:24.960
and, you know, it was just a genuine conversation.

00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:26.920
I would host it and I would just ask people questions

00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:29.579
about podcasting and see why they started or

00:33:29.579 --> 00:33:31.859
where their name came from and, you know, all

00:33:31.859 --> 00:33:34.920
that good stuff. So we started this convention

00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:37.900
group and it turned out that people really enjoyed

00:33:37.900 --> 00:33:40.960
it. We had a lot of people sign up for it. We

00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:44.460
had different panels that we did during the convention.

00:33:45.339 --> 00:33:48.619
So the first one went so well that we said, you

00:33:48.619 --> 00:33:50.279
know what, let's do another one. We're going

00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:51.940
to start another one. And this is when we did

00:33:51.940 --> 00:33:53.940
our holiday one. And that's the one we did the

00:33:53.940 --> 00:33:56.359
last time was our holiday one. And the holiday

00:33:56.359 --> 00:33:59.000
one worked out really, really well because we

00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:01.619
actually got some special guests to come on.

00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:04.720
We had Adam Bush and he was phenomenal. He came

00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:09.320
on the opener of the podcast convention and he's

00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:11.400
from Men at Work. He was in Buffy the Vampire

00:34:11.400 --> 00:34:14.460
Slayer. And he was just great. He was great.

00:34:14.579 --> 00:34:17.139
And then I had a Canadian hip hop guy on by the

00:34:17.139 --> 00:34:19.880
name of Thrust. And he is actually the guy that

00:34:19.880 --> 00:34:22.460
I'm working on a project with right now. And,

00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:25.670
you know. a lot of other shows went on after

00:34:25.670 --> 00:34:27.690
that and we had panel discussions and we had

00:34:27.690 --> 00:34:30.670
games and it all went just, you know, fantastic.

00:34:30.769 --> 00:34:33.590
We loved every minute of it. It was very tiring.

00:34:33.650 --> 00:34:36.650
We had 58 shows, I believe over that weekend

00:34:36.650 --> 00:34:40.590
that had gone on. Jeez. Yeah. And I made an appearance

00:34:40.590 --> 00:34:45.309
in 15 of those shows. So I was tired to say the

00:34:45.309 --> 00:34:48.559
least. But, you know, I just loved it. It was

00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:50.519
just, you know, it was fun to go on the panels

00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:52.340
and talk with other people about different things

00:34:52.340 --> 00:34:54.639
about networking, about, you know, getting your

00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:58.119
numbers up. Or we did a game show where I hosted

00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:00.599
a game show while we were on there. I did my

00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:02.739
show. And then, you know, we did the open and

00:35:02.739 --> 00:35:05.530
the close. And then this time we're doing the

00:35:05.530 --> 00:35:08.190
spring break one, which is gonna be during the

00:35:08.190 --> 00:35:11.710
March spring break. And that's where we're gonna

00:35:11.710 --> 00:35:15.010
have the six days of podcasting going on. And

00:35:15.010 --> 00:35:16.949
it's gonna be really interesting because I think

00:35:16.949 --> 00:35:19.230
we might have another couple of special guests

00:35:19.230 --> 00:35:23.309
lined up once again. I do have some confirmed,

00:35:23.429 --> 00:35:27.170
but I'm just waiting to see if they are gonna

00:35:27.170 --> 00:35:28.989
confirm closer to the date just to make sure.

00:35:29.050 --> 00:35:30.650
So I don't wanna spoil anything right now by

00:35:30.650 --> 00:35:33.750
saying who's gonna be coming on. but it's going

00:35:33.750 --> 00:35:36.349
to be a lot of fun. It's going to be a lot of

00:35:36.349 --> 00:35:37.750
fun. It's going to be a lot of fun. That's all

00:35:37.750 --> 00:35:39.969
I got to say is everyone's going to go on nervous

00:35:39.969 --> 00:35:42.849
or not. It's going to be a great time. Everyone's

00:35:42.849 --> 00:35:44.329
going to have a chance to go live. Everyone's

00:35:44.329 --> 00:35:46.030
going to have a chance to come on to panels and

00:35:46.030 --> 00:35:49.360
talk. with all of us, whoever's hosting those

00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:51.699
panels at certain times. We're probably going

00:35:51.699 --> 00:35:53.159
to have a couple of game shows that are going

00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:55.059
to be going on so people will be able to do that.

00:35:55.179 --> 00:35:58.239
And I am working on a DJ to have a DJ come on

00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:00.559
and play a live set. So I'm hoping that we'll

00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:03.159
be able to do that as well. But I am not sure

00:36:03.159 --> 00:36:05.340
if they're going to be available at that time

00:36:05.340 --> 00:36:10.960
or not. For people who will listen to this episode,

00:36:11.179 --> 00:36:15.239
you guys got to check out my... You guys got

00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:18.059
to check out my podcast. You got to check out

00:36:18.059 --> 00:36:21.460
when I go live because I'm going to be there

00:36:21.460 --> 00:36:24.420
again. This is going to be part two of my finished

00:36:24.420 --> 00:36:31.639
last year. And I can't spoil anything, but hint,

00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:35.980
hint, it's part two. And that's my only hint.

00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:39.219
yeah and and that's what you got to do once once

00:36:39.219 --> 00:36:42.039
you know like your time slot is locked in stone

00:36:42.039 --> 00:36:47.579
and everything is um up in and uh posted then

00:36:47.579 --> 00:36:49.239
you just got to go and share that and just make

00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:51.119
sure that everybody goes and tunes into your

00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:53.780
show we'd love for everybody to tune into every

00:36:53.780 --> 00:36:55.840
show we know that's not going to happen because

00:36:55.840 --> 00:37:00.099
you know three days 72 hours you have 144 hours

00:37:00.099 --> 00:37:03.099
basically of podcasting over two weekends. Nobody's

00:37:03.099 --> 00:37:05.739
going to tune into 144 hours of podcasting, but

00:37:05.739 --> 00:37:07.400
at least your friends will be able to tune into

00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:10.980
your show at your time slot that you're on. And

00:37:10.980 --> 00:37:13.900
hopefully you'll be able to pick up some new

00:37:13.900 --> 00:37:15.559
listeners because there will be people tuning

00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:18.960
in that haven't heard your show before. And so

00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:27.860
just out of curiosity, uh people um looking to

00:37:27.860 --> 00:37:31.599
start a podcast what are some of the best tools

00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:38.739
like microphones hosting uh i don't know uh live

00:37:38.739 --> 00:37:40.780
streaming if they're interested in live streaming

00:37:40.780 --> 00:37:46.159
so we we do um a lot of live streaming through

00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:50.610
um StreamYard. StreamYard is one of the ones

00:37:50.610 --> 00:37:53.130
that we do that allows you to stream live right

00:37:53.130 --> 00:37:56.329
to Facebook. It's a really, really good program,

00:37:56.389 --> 00:37:58.309
but you can get the free version, which will

00:37:58.309 --> 00:38:00.949
allow you to stream to Facebook and stream to

00:38:00.949 --> 00:38:03.739
YouTube as well. However, you will be using their

00:38:03.739 --> 00:38:05.699
overlays, which will say StreamYard in the corner.

00:38:05.900 --> 00:38:07.840
You still get to have a ticker at the bottom,

00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:10.760
which will allow you to show your handles for

00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:12.940
Instagram and Twitter and whatever you want to

00:38:12.940 --> 00:38:16.260
use it for. But it is branded by StreamYard.

00:38:16.380 --> 00:38:18.860
There is a paid upgrade version of that, which

00:38:18.860 --> 00:38:21.159
you can pay. I think it's $10 or $12 a month,

00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:24.400
where you can brand it all to yourself. So you

00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:26.280
can put your logo on there. You can put your

00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:28.659
name on there. You can do whatever you want with

00:38:28.659 --> 00:38:32.679
it. And it just shows a little bit. more professionalism

00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:35.219
to the show i'm okay with doing just a free version

00:38:35.219 --> 00:38:37.659
of it i don't stream enough to be paying for

00:38:37.659 --> 00:38:40.099
the uh paid upgrade version because i don't think

00:38:40.099 --> 00:38:42.420
i would use it enough during a month i don't

00:38:42.420 --> 00:38:45.500
think i've used it since christmas and uh i think

00:38:45.500 --> 00:38:47.179
that's the last time was a month and a half ago

00:38:47.179 --> 00:38:50.019
when we did the convention as far as equipment

00:38:50.019 --> 00:38:53.159
goes basically if you're going to be doing a

00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:56.320
podcast you really you know You really don't

00:38:56.320 --> 00:38:58.199
have to go overboard with equipment. You need

00:38:58.199 --> 00:39:00.639
a decent mic. And right now I'm using the Samsung

00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:05.139
Q2U mic, which has excellent quality sound. And

00:39:05.139 --> 00:39:08.539
I'm just using a plain old earbud, you know,

00:39:08.539 --> 00:39:11.239
for my earphones to listen to. So you don't have

00:39:11.239 --> 00:39:13.900
to go overboard. You need a computer or you need

00:39:13.900 --> 00:39:17.079
a phone. I know with my phone, I have a Samsung

00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:24.000
Note 20 Ultra. right here. I can plug the USB

00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:26.519
stick into the bottom of the phone here, and

00:39:26.519 --> 00:39:29.159
I can actually plug the microphone into my phone

00:39:29.159 --> 00:39:31.420
and record right onto my phone. So you don't

00:39:31.420 --> 00:39:34.280
need a lot of equipment. Recording software.

00:39:34.699 --> 00:39:37.880
You're going to be using Skype if you want. You

00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:40.860
can record video through there and then record

00:39:40.860 --> 00:39:43.980
the audio afterwards. You can use Zoom. Zoom

00:39:43.980 --> 00:39:46.280
does a lot of that. These are two of the programs

00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:49.619
that I personally use. And again, if you use

00:39:49.619 --> 00:39:52.260
StreamYard, your video on Facebook will be saved

00:39:52.260 --> 00:39:53.739
there. You can download the video and then just

00:39:53.739 --> 00:39:56.880
record it. The editing software that I use is

00:39:56.880 --> 00:39:58.800
Audacity. I think it's one of the better programs

00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:02.559
out there to edit audio, and it's free. And that's

00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:06.460
the whole thing. OBS is another program that

00:40:06.460 --> 00:40:09.460
I play around with a little bit, and you can

00:40:09.460 --> 00:40:12.159
do a few tricks on. We have a whole video that

00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:15.820
John from Basement Surge actually did, and he

00:40:15.820 --> 00:40:18.739
did an OBS tutorial for everybody to watch in

00:40:18.739 --> 00:40:21.429
the Podvcom group. And you can take a look at

00:40:21.429 --> 00:40:24.110
that as well because it's a really, really cool

00:40:24.110 --> 00:40:28.409
program to use to edit videos or to stream videos

00:40:28.409 --> 00:40:31.789
as well. And then there is also DaVinci Resolve.

00:40:31.889 --> 00:40:34.050
That's another program that you can edit videos

00:40:34.050 --> 00:40:37.449
down and shows excellent quality to your product.

00:40:37.570 --> 00:40:40.750
So it all depends on what your end game is. What

00:40:40.750 --> 00:40:42.610
do you want to do with your podcast? Do you want

00:40:42.610 --> 00:40:45.250
to do just audio? Do you want to do video? Are

00:40:45.250 --> 00:40:48.110
you looking to gain a lot of Instagram followers

00:40:48.110 --> 00:40:50.960
or Twitter followers? you have to be, you know,

00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:53.400
relevant on social media. You have to be there

00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:55.800
all the time in a post a couple of times a day

00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:58.719
for people to see your posts and keep engaged

00:40:58.719 --> 00:41:01.559
in your show so that they keep coming back and

00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:03.119
seeing what you're doing and seeing what you're

00:41:03.119 --> 00:41:05.219
up to. So that's basically the equipment. You

00:41:05.219 --> 00:41:07.860
don't need a ton of equipment. I have a light

00:41:07.860 --> 00:41:11.559
over here. That's just basically a ring light

00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:15.179
that will make it better lighting for my space

00:41:15.179 --> 00:41:17.579
here. And I have a webcam and that's it. That's

00:41:17.579 --> 00:41:19.719
pretty much all you need. Yeah, eventually I'm

00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:24.400
going to get a ring light. Haven't forked over

00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:27.320
the money for that yet. Had to pay a big hefty

00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:32.199
bill at the beginning this year. It has nothing

00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:35.559
to do with podcasting. There's some marketing

00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:39.360
tools that I went a little overboard. I'm not

00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:41.239
even going to tell the price range because I

00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:44.650
wouldn't even tell my own parents. And when you

00:41:44.650 --> 00:41:47.349
can't even tell your own parents, it's just good

00:41:47.349 --> 00:41:50.010
to keep it to yourself. That's right. That's

00:41:50.010 --> 00:41:53.610
right. I was ashamed to even see that bill. And

00:41:53.610 --> 00:41:57.949
it's like, yikes. I knew it was up there, but

00:41:57.949 --> 00:42:02.769
I was like, I'm good at math, but I wasn't pinpointing

00:42:02.769 --> 00:42:06.619
that number. Yeah. No, but like I said, you know,

00:42:06.659 --> 00:42:09.079
you don't have to spend a fortune to start podcasting.

00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:10.980
You know, when we first started out, we ended

00:42:10.980 --> 00:42:13.380
up buying a mixer. We ended up buying, you know,

00:42:13.420 --> 00:42:17.320
XLR cables and, you know, USB extender cables

00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:19.159
and all this stuff so that we could actually

00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:22.800
do interviews live, like with the person one

00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:24.900
-on -one. But, you know, during the pandemic,

00:42:25.079 --> 00:42:27.219
you weren't allowed to do that. So we found an

00:42:27.219 --> 00:42:29.380
actual easier way to do this. And that's through

00:42:29.380 --> 00:42:31.980
Skype or Zoom or, you know, whatever program

00:42:31.980 --> 00:42:35.369
you decide to use. have is a usb mic plugged

00:42:35.369 --> 00:42:37.369
into the microphone or into the computer right

00:42:37.369 --> 00:42:39.630
now and that's all i'm using and i went and i

00:42:39.630 --> 00:42:41.829
bought like the podcast uh like the microphone

00:42:41.829 --> 00:42:44.650
arm which you can see right here uh ended up

00:42:44.650 --> 00:42:47.389
buying that for like 20 bucks on amazon and it's

00:42:47.389 --> 00:42:50.889
been fantastic so far i'm jealous you know it's

00:42:50.889 --> 00:42:53.880
it's You don't have to spend a fortune. I want

00:42:53.880 --> 00:42:57.300
to tell you again, I probably used maybe about

00:42:57.300 --> 00:43:00.480
$200 worth of equipment, $250 worth of equipment,

00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:02.539
and 50 of that didn't even have to be spent.

00:43:03.239 --> 00:43:05.400
50 if it was just when I was starting out and

00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:07.380
didn't know and thought, you know what, this

00:43:07.380 --> 00:43:10.320
is what I need. And you don't really need it.

00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:13.239
So it's not too expensive if you do want to start

00:43:13.239 --> 00:43:17.519
a podcast. And again, your hosting site. Right

00:43:17.519 --> 00:43:20.420
now we're with Podbean and Podjerky is with Podbean.

00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:23.880
And, you know, we pay a monthly fee for that.

00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:27.400
And I believe it's $11 a month or $7 a month.

00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:30.099
I can't remember what the price is. But that

00:43:30.099 --> 00:43:33.539
allows you to get unlimited hours of podcasting.

00:43:33.880 --> 00:43:36.099
The free version only gives you five hours that

00:43:36.099 --> 00:43:38.360
you can upload at a time. So once your five hours

00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:41.820
is up, it'll knock down your first episode and

00:43:41.820 --> 00:43:44.239
continue on with your next episode. So you only

00:43:44.239 --> 00:43:46.360
have five hours that'll show up on your podcast.

00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:48.019
you don't want that you want people to be able

00:43:48.019 --> 00:43:50.519
to go back and find your uh episodes from before

00:43:50.519 --> 00:43:54.179
now anchor offers a free service as well that's

00:43:54.179 --> 00:43:56.500
what it is you're on anchor right now and i have

00:43:56.500 --> 00:43:58.119
another new show that's going to be coming out

00:43:58.119 --> 00:44:00.039
soon and i did sign up for anchor and i'm going

00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:02.909
to be using anchor for that And they also have

00:44:02.909 --> 00:44:06.250
an editing tool in there for free built in. So,

00:44:06.250 --> 00:44:09.650
yeah. So, I mean, there are a lot of options

00:44:09.650 --> 00:44:12.190
out there that you can get stuff for relatively

00:44:12.190 --> 00:44:14.949
cheap and you don't have to break the bank in

00:44:14.949 --> 00:44:17.130
order to start a podcast and anybody can start

00:44:17.130 --> 00:44:20.429
a podcast. It's very, very simple. And plus you

00:44:20.429 --> 00:44:25.849
also don't plus. If you're going to decide to

00:44:25.849 --> 00:44:28.389
do live streaming, make sure you have somebody

00:44:28.389 --> 00:44:31.710
at least helping you with it because you have

00:44:31.710 --> 00:44:35.690
to get your show out there to tell people about

00:44:35.690 --> 00:44:39.210
the live stream. I knew kind of about that, but

00:44:39.210 --> 00:44:42.449
I just thought, oh, well, maybe I can be prepared

00:44:42.449 --> 00:44:46.349
enough to do this. But with everything, schooling,

00:44:47.070 --> 00:44:51.949
blogging. and being guests on other people's

00:44:51.949 --> 00:44:55.449
show and motivational speaking just not in the

00:44:55.449 --> 00:44:58.050
cards for me at the moment and it's not like

00:44:58.050 --> 00:45:00.809
I didn't give it the old college try gee I sound

00:45:00.809 --> 00:45:08.769
like an old fart but yeah I'm I do I basically

00:45:08.769 --> 00:45:11.750
decided to go back to the audio just audio for

00:45:11.750 --> 00:45:14.800
myself because I'd rather show up consistently

00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:18.039
and I know how I can show up consistently than

00:45:18.039 --> 00:45:20.320
just show up and say, hey, I'm just going to

00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:26.840
show up because of, I don't know. Yeah. Don't

00:45:26.840 --> 00:45:29.500
overextend yourself. No, but I know another piece

00:45:29.500 --> 00:45:32.519
of advice that I want to say is don't be afraid

00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:34.980
to reach out for help. If you are having trouble

00:45:34.980 --> 00:45:37.780
with audio or you're having trouble with video

00:45:37.780 --> 00:45:40.820
or you're having trouble with, you know. Anything

00:45:40.820 --> 00:45:43.179
to do with podcasting, don't be afraid to reach

00:45:43.179 --> 00:45:45.420
out for help because there are people out in

00:45:45.420 --> 00:45:48.460
all of these groups that will help out and be

00:45:48.460 --> 00:45:53.159
able to give you a helping hand when it's needed.

00:45:53.340 --> 00:45:56.480
And I found that very helpful when I first started

00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:59.300
podcasting. And of course, if somebody reaches

00:45:59.300 --> 00:46:02.059
out to us. to ask for help, we're always there

00:46:02.059 --> 00:46:04.019
to help because we want to give back the same

00:46:04.019 --> 00:46:05.900
thing that people gave us when we first started.

00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:10.300
And it was just a huge, huge, huge help when

00:46:10.300 --> 00:46:13.460
I first started of the advice that I got. And

00:46:13.460 --> 00:46:17.219
now that I've been in this for 10 months, I've

00:46:17.219 --> 00:46:20.079
picked up a few tricks. And if anybody needs

00:46:20.079 --> 00:46:22.000
the help, please reach out to us and we'll help

00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.940
you out. No problem. So before we wrap up, where

00:46:25.940 --> 00:46:29.820
can people follow you and find you? On social

00:46:29.820 --> 00:46:34.480
media, website, podcast, et cetera. So you can

00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:38.019
find the podcast on Apple, on Spotify, Google

00:46:38.019 --> 00:46:42.579
Podcasts, iHeart, Amazon, Audible, anywhere podcasts

00:46:42.579 --> 00:46:46.340
can be found. Twitter is at Podjerky. Instagram

00:46:46.340 --> 00:46:50.219
is at Podjerky. Our website is podjerky .wixsite

00:46:50.219 --> 00:46:54.960
.com. slash podjerky uh we are basically everywhere

00:46:54.960 --> 00:46:57.079
podjerky just look up podjerky you'll find us

00:46:57.079 --> 00:46:59.280
everywhere you can google it uh you'll find us

00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:03.190
on youtube um You know, I'll be starting up a

00:47:03.190 --> 00:47:06.670
new show. I'm hoping within the next month, just

00:47:06.670 --> 00:47:08.389
getting things up and running right now, getting

00:47:08.389 --> 00:47:10.710
stuff prepared and getting the logo and the music

00:47:10.710 --> 00:47:14.090
done. And everything is supposed to be falling

00:47:14.090 --> 00:47:16.269
into place within the next month. Can't give

00:47:16.269 --> 00:47:18.849
it away right now because my co -host is actually

00:47:18.849 --> 00:47:21.289
somebody that doesn't want me to say anything

00:47:21.289 --> 00:47:23.989
as of yet, but we will be releasing some information

00:47:23.989 --> 00:47:26.889
in the near future. So keep an eye out for that

00:47:26.889 --> 00:47:29.489
as well. I will be announcing that stuff on Podjerky

00:47:29.489 --> 00:47:30.929
as well. And I will be announcing. that stuff

00:47:30.929 --> 00:47:33.030
on social media. We're also on Facebook. You

00:47:33.030 --> 00:47:36.090
can find us at Podjerky on Facebook and that's

00:47:36.090 --> 00:47:41.449
pretty much it. Jeez. Well, you know, like I

00:47:41.449 --> 00:47:46.179
always tell my listeners for each episode. If

00:47:46.179 --> 00:47:49.860
you don't find me on a, uh, on a platform that

00:47:49.860 --> 00:47:53.119
suits your needs, let me know. I'll be on there.

00:47:53.139 --> 00:47:55.940
The platform I'm always looking for new platforms

00:47:55.940 --> 00:47:58.739
to be on. Well, there's an easy, there's an easy

00:47:58.739 --> 00:48:01.619
way instead of having to go back and read off

00:48:01.619 --> 00:48:03.199
everything that you're saying, like Instagram

00:48:03.199 --> 00:48:05.460
and Twitter and saying like, Oh, I'm at, I'm

00:48:05.460 --> 00:48:07.480
at pod jerky on Instagram. I'm at pod jerky on

00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:10.150
Twitter. You have a link tree, and I don't know

00:48:10.150 --> 00:48:11.789
if you have one or not, but I have a link tree

00:48:11.789 --> 00:48:17.070
as well, which is called, the website is linktr

00:48:17.070 --> 00:48:21.980
.ee forward slash. Podjerky, and that will bring

00:48:21.980 --> 00:48:24.300
you to every single link that we have. So it

00:48:24.300 --> 00:48:26.280
will show you where our Spotify link is. It will

00:48:26.280 --> 00:48:28.980
show you where everything is. So, you know, it's

00:48:28.980 --> 00:48:32.860
just one place that will house all of your links,

00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:36.019
all of your social medias, handles, everything

00:48:36.019 --> 00:48:38.380
that you have for your show, it will house it

00:48:38.380 --> 00:48:41.079
all in one space. So if you give out that link,

00:48:41.179 --> 00:48:43.099
somebody can go there and they can actually click

00:48:43.099 --> 00:48:45.500
on whatever one that they want to go to. I actually

00:48:45.500 --> 00:48:50.059
have a link like that. And And funny you say

00:48:50.059 --> 00:48:55.119
that because mine is called, I think it's an

00:48:55.119 --> 00:48:58.980
I or an L. I can't tell because they look so

00:48:58.980 --> 00:49:02.219
godly similar. Whoever wants a dictionary needs

00:49:02.219 --> 00:49:06.480
to change that gosh darn difference. Put the

00:49:06.480 --> 00:49:11.159
two lines on the top of the I, please. Anyway,

00:49:11.320 --> 00:49:13.820
I had to say that. I always wanted to say that.

00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:19.539
But anyway, there is... I use this one, it's

00:49:19.539 --> 00:49:24.079
like link .bio something. And it was a one -time

00:49:24.079 --> 00:49:29.460
purchase of the pro accounts. And they had a

00:49:29.460 --> 00:49:34.239
free version, but I went through the middle of

00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:36.139
the road price because I knew I could afford

00:49:36.139 --> 00:49:40.440
it at the time. And I was like, I really wanted

00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:43.179
this tool. It integrates with Google Analytics,

00:49:43.460 --> 00:49:47.480
so it still counts as traffic for me. And where

00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:50.599
I didn't like Linktree, where the free version

00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:52.760
is like, oh, well, we get your traffic. And it's

00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:55.659
like, I don't think that works. It's like, that

00:49:55.659 --> 00:49:59.420
shouldn't work that way. It's like, you can take

00:49:59.420 --> 00:50:05.719
credit for your service, but don't steal my traffic.

00:50:07.420 --> 00:50:10.000
Or get enough people to steal my traffic. Yeah.

00:50:10.730 --> 00:50:12.829
Yeah, definitely. Yep. There, there are so many

00:50:12.829 --> 00:50:15.550
tools out there that you can use to promote your

00:50:15.550 --> 00:50:18.150
podcast or to, to do like to make your podcast

00:50:18.150 --> 00:50:20.710
look professional. And that's just one of them.

00:50:20.730 --> 00:50:23.050
Like Linktree is one of them. And all of these

00:50:23.050 --> 00:50:26.230
hosts that you're using are another one and all

00:50:26.230 --> 00:50:29.090
your social media accounts. And, you know, again,

00:50:29.190 --> 00:50:32.090
all I'm going to say is that in order to get

00:50:32.090 --> 00:50:34.190
your show out there, just stay engaged with everybody,

00:50:34.409 --> 00:50:36.889
make friends with everybody, stay a part of the

00:50:36.889 --> 00:50:40.530
community and make sure that you, it just, you

00:50:40.530 --> 00:50:43.949
know, make friends and talk to people and people

00:50:43.949 --> 00:50:45.670
are going to tune in and people are going to

00:50:45.670 --> 00:50:47.849
find your show. People are going to share your

00:50:47.849 --> 00:50:50.829
show. And, and it's just going to get out there

00:50:50.829 --> 00:50:53.190
just because you're part of a community that

00:50:53.190 --> 00:50:57.110
wants to help. One more question and I'm breaking

00:50:57.110 --> 00:50:59.570
my own rules, but I don't care. Anything goes.

00:51:00.429 --> 00:51:04.670
Why the name pie jerky? Actually, that's funny

00:51:04.670 --> 00:51:07.170
because that wasn't our original name. We had

00:51:07.170 --> 00:51:08.869
a whole bunch of names that we had picked out

00:51:08.869 --> 00:51:10.510
and I don't even remember what our original names

00:51:10.510 --> 00:51:12.510
were. It's been a, it's been over a year now

00:51:12.510 --> 00:51:15.369
since we started this whole process, but we had

00:51:15.369 --> 00:51:17.090
a whole bunch of names and everything that we

00:51:17.090 --> 00:51:20.969
went and we tried was taken. It was just, you

00:51:20.969 --> 00:51:24.070
know, you don't want to get mixed up with somebody

00:51:24.070 --> 00:51:26.030
else that has another show with the same name

00:51:26.030 --> 00:51:28.150
as you, because then it'll be hard to find you

00:51:28.150 --> 00:51:31.030
and you want to brand yourself properly. If you

00:51:31.030 --> 00:51:32.980
can see in the background here, My wife had a

00:51:32.980 --> 00:51:37.119
poster made for me for Podjerky. And, you know,

00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:40.340
you just want to have the proper brand. So my

00:51:40.340 --> 00:51:43.239
co -host actually came up one night and said,

00:51:43.380 --> 00:51:46.500
you know, what about Podjerky? And we went and

00:51:46.500 --> 00:51:48.800
did a search on it and nobody had it. And, you

00:51:48.800 --> 00:51:51.179
know, it was kind of a play on beef jerky and

00:51:51.179 --> 00:51:53.639
a podcast together. And it was just Podjerky.

00:51:53.719 --> 00:51:56.659
And, you know, it sounded smooth. So we ran with

00:51:56.659 --> 00:51:58.679
it. And then we got a lot of good feedback on

00:51:58.679 --> 00:52:02.860
it. And that's why we stuck with it. Well, it's

00:52:02.860 --> 00:52:06.820
kind of funny how you said that because Crazy

00:52:06.820 --> 00:52:09.900
Fitness Guy used to have a different podcast

00:52:09.900 --> 00:52:12.800
name as well. And it was like Healthy Living

00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:16.280
with Crazy Fitness Guy. And it was a lot longer.

00:52:16.420 --> 00:52:18.619
People say like Crazy Fitness Guy's Healthy Living

00:52:18.619 --> 00:52:23.800
podcast is a lot to say. yeah but that my other

00:52:23.800 --> 00:52:27.599
one was like 60 characters long and i had to

00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:30.840
stay with healthy living because well that's

00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:33.480
the only way i can cover all the topics that

00:52:33.480 --> 00:52:36.980
i cover as i don't couldn't think of another

00:52:36.980 --> 00:52:39.880
name for it because it's not just health and

00:52:39.880 --> 00:52:43.579
wellness it's pretty much everything along with

00:52:43.579 --> 00:52:48.519
it uh but uh but i went in within that similar

00:52:48.519 --> 00:52:53.309
trouble when i uh My website used to be a different

00:52:53.309 --> 00:52:58.969
name. And I actually had one of those cease and

00:52:58.969 --> 00:53:05.530
desist letters emailed to me. And I was so frantic

00:53:05.530 --> 00:53:08.530
because it's like... Holy crap, I'd never had

00:53:08.530 --> 00:53:13.190
one of these before. And I didn't know exactly

00:53:13.190 --> 00:53:15.769
what I was going to change my name to. But then

00:53:15.769 --> 00:53:18.869
when I looked around, no one had Crazy Fitness

00:53:18.869 --> 00:53:21.949
Guy. They call Richard Simmons the Crazy Fitness

00:53:21.949 --> 00:53:25.389
Guy, but he never trademarked that. And so I

00:53:25.389 --> 00:53:31.940
was like, I'm taking it. And so I took it. I

00:53:31.940 --> 00:53:34.639
really feel bad for Richard Simmons because now

00:53:34.639 --> 00:53:38.840
if you google crazy fitness guy either two words

00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:45.019
or three words uh which is like as one word create

00:53:45.019 --> 00:53:48.119
Richard Simmons doesn't even show up for it but

00:53:48.119 --> 00:53:52.340
as three words uh breaking them up the name of

00:53:52.340 --> 00:53:56.039
three words uh his name is almost towards the

00:53:56.039 --> 00:53:59.300
bottom of the first page and say, sorry, Richard

00:53:59.300 --> 00:54:01.619
Simmons, I didn't mean to take your name, but

00:54:01.619 --> 00:54:06.239
I'm taking it. Hey, that's the name of the game,

00:54:06.300 --> 00:54:08.820
right? I mean, right now, like with Podjerky

00:54:08.820 --> 00:54:11.780
is the same thing. You know, nobody had it. And

00:54:11.780 --> 00:54:14.880
if somebody went to take it, you know, it's ours.

00:54:14.980 --> 00:54:18.019
It's our name. We have the rights to this name.

00:54:18.360 --> 00:54:21.219
And, you know, nobody's going to be able to take

00:54:21.219 --> 00:54:24.760
it now. That's what it is. It's hard to find

00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:26.980
a name. You know how many times I have gone through

00:54:26.980 --> 00:54:29.139
even starting the new show that we're going to

00:54:29.139 --> 00:54:32.179
be starting. We went through a couple of names.

00:54:32.260 --> 00:54:34.619
I made a few logos for different show names that

00:54:34.619 --> 00:54:37.360
we had in mind and all of them were taken again.

00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:42.099
And the one that I came up with now, again, can't

00:54:42.099 --> 00:54:43.840
say anything as of yet, but the one I came up

00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:48.539
with now, I took a play off of a song. that i

00:54:48.539 --> 00:54:51.579
know and one of the hosts that is going to be

00:54:51.579 --> 00:54:54.139
on the show as well uh he was actually in the

00:54:54.139 --> 00:54:57.900
song he's a musical artist but you know it was

00:54:57.900 --> 00:54:59.920
very very difficult again just to come up with

00:54:59.920 --> 00:55:01.539
a name because every name you go out there to

00:55:01.539 --> 00:55:03.780
get is taken and then if you go to sign up a

00:55:03.780 --> 00:55:06.219
gmail account or a twitter account or an instagram

00:55:06.219 --> 00:55:09.460
account all those names are taken as well so

00:55:09.460 --> 00:55:12.360
you know it gives you different uh suggestions

00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:16.480
for these social media accounts and You don't

00:55:16.480 --> 00:55:18.119
want those because it's giving you like, you

00:55:18.119 --> 00:55:20.980
know, pod jerky three, five, six at, you know,

00:55:20.980 --> 00:55:23.099
whatever it is on Instagram. But that's, that's

00:55:23.099 --> 00:55:25.699
not what I want. I want at pod jerky. Luckily

00:55:25.699 --> 00:55:28.380
we were able to get that. But some of the other

00:55:28.380 --> 00:55:30.559
stuff that I was doing today was just, it was

00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:32.980
hard because we, we couldn't get some of the

00:55:32.980 --> 00:55:34.500
stuff that we wanted, even with the website.

00:55:35.599 --> 00:55:38.019
Well, that's why I basically I trademarked crazy

00:55:38.019 --> 00:55:41.130
fitness guy, because it's like. There's no way

00:55:41.130 --> 00:55:43.869
I'm going to... I'm still waiting on that trademark

00:55:43.869 --> 00:55:46.829
after a whole flipping... Almost 11 months now?

00:55:47.170 --> 00:55:58.429
God, the USBTO is slow. According to... I'm not

00:55:58.429 --> 00:56:00.570
going to name any names, but according to my

00:56:00.570 --> 00:56:04.769
source, he said that most of these USBTO people

00:56:04.769 --> 00:56:08.269
are just working at home. And it's like... They're

00:56:08.269 --> 00:56:11.929
getting paid to do nothing. I'm waiting for 10

00:56:11.929 --> 00:56:19.150
months. Somebody play some Jeopardy music. Holy

00:56:19.150 --> 00:56:22.690
crap. Anyway, that's another topic for another

00:56:22.690 --> 00:56:27.449
time. Thanks for coming on Crazy Fitness Guys

00:56:27.449 --> 00:56:33.250
Healthy Living Podcast. I'll leave all the links

00:56:33.250 --> 00:56:36.659
to your episode in the show notes. the episode

00:56:36.659 --> 00:56:40.159
comes out and I'll definitely share it all over

00:56:40.159 --> 00:56:43.139
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