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The next step in Caught on the Mike! · Caught on the Mike...

• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, friends.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: What kind of Savage decides to record a podcast on Easter Sunday?
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: This guy, this one does.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: If you are watching this on YouTube, welcome.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: This is the first ever video version of Caught on the Mic.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: If you're listening on your regular podcasting platform, the message remains the same and isn't any less relevant.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: I kind of wanted to share with all of you some of the happenings on the in the Caught on the Mic world, but more importantly, just kind of where things are going and how you're going to play a part in this story moving forward.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: Let me backtrack a little bit.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: About five or six months ago, I made the executive decision to delete most of the solo episodes that I have done of the podcast over the past three and a half years that I've been doing the show.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: A large part of the reason that I made that decision or came to that conclusion was because it felt a little bit too narcissistic.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to bring you all along on the journey and share my journey with all of you, but it got to a point where it felt like I was oversharing and pulling the curtain back too much.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: Now, the things that we're going to talk about over the next few minutes in this episode kind of are contradictory to that because I'm going to pull the curtain back even more.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: I have been very hesitant to do a video version of Caught on the Mic for a long time, but I'll explain to where I came to this conclusion and how I came to this conclusion and how I think it's going to improve the show moving forward.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: Let me talk about the past month.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: I had a busy few weeks, a busy month.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: Back in February, February, I recorded a slew of new episodes, and I just batched them all up with the intent on trickling them out over the course of the second half of February, first half of March, maybe even into a little bit of April.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't get as many recorded as I'd wanted to or as I was planning on.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: But um I did get a lot done, and they were some of the biggest and best episodes I had done to date.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: Took a family vacation in early March.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: I got sick while I was on vacation.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: I am still congested if you couldn't hear it.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I thought a lot about the future of the podcast while I was relaxing in sunny Hilton Head, South Carolina, and um Savannah, Georgia.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: It was a lot of fun.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: It was a great trip.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: My wife, my stepdaughters, and I went and uh came home on a Thursday, uh, got my kids, my bio kids, on the Friday for our normal time together, uh, went to my buddies, DT and Spicoli's Good Life Podcast show with Shim formerly of Sick Puppies, had a blast there, and went back to my day job on that following Monday, and it's been nonstop busy for me since.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: What's crazy is I got this wild hair up my ass to redo my podcast studio, like my home space.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to start doing more in-person guests again, but I wanted to make sure that I had the space that was appropriate and could facilitate that.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: I also wanted to create a backdrop that was reflective of my personality and kind of what my story is outside of the band life, um, a life that predates Caught on the mic by a long time.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: So I started working on this home studio reset and it's been a blast.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, obviously, I integrated some nicer cameras, some better lighting.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, my desk is completely set up different.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: So my hope is that it'll kind of start pushing the podcast forward.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: Now, you can do things like fix up a room and enhance your space and come up with a million different marketing plans all at once, but what that doesn't replace is the content of the show.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I've got a very personal opinion about this.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: I think the world is starting to get content creator fatigue.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_00: I think people are sick of the social media influencer, the TikTok influencer, the Instagram influencer.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: I also think that people are starting to get a little bit fatigued on the big rush of podcasters.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_00: Like we are multiplying like gremlins.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: We are that little mogwai that gets water spilled on us, and then some of us eat after midnight, and some of us don't, so some of us remain magwise, and some of us turn into spike and turn into these crazy rampant gremlins.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: I know that's a crazy pop culture analogy, but it's the best thing that I can offer right now.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_00: So, how does that pertain to me?
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I think a lot about it and think, how do I want to make Caught on the Mike different?
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: And it's through substance.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: I think my podcast has always been about telling people stories the best way I possibly can, but I've always left a little bit of room for improvement.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm always trying to reinvent the wheel, trying to do things better the next time around than I did the last, and that's where I'm at right now.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I would be lying if I said that I had this massive long list of impending guests to jump on the show.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: I have been doing a lot of music content the past six months.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the six months before that, I was doing a lot of MMA content, or sometimes I'll get into these phases where I'll do a lot of paranormal or weird topic content, and I'm trying to keep it varied.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think that is the spice of the caught on the mic life, is the variety of the show, and not to negate things any further.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: Most people, Gary Vee included, say if you don't niche down your podcast, your podcast is gonna fail.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: My goal is to disprove that.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, my goal is to prove the fact that my niche is actually in the strength of telling stories of people just being people.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, how did they get to where they are?
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: Who are they?
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: What has inspired them?
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: And my world-famous question What's your advice for making the world a better place tomorrow than it was today?
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: I've made quite a bit of content myself over the past few years talking about how I don't want to talk about religion, I don't want to talk about politics, I don't want to veer into that low-hanging fruit that gets easy engagement.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's not who I am.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a propagandist, I don't believe in doing things for cheap clicks and cheap likes.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a bully.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to galvanize people through um negative comments or negative feedback loop about other people.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: So I have to grind probably a little bit harder than your average Joe.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a pre-existing celebrity.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a guy that had some really cool experiences uh through my journey in music, uh, through my journeys in self-discovery and physical fitness, mental fitness, just experiencing life, uh, being a divorced and remarried dad, uh, being somebody that's a fan of things, a fan of pop culture.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_00: I could tell you dates, times, years about some of your favorite movies, about some of your favorite music.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: I lean into all of that to do my part to make the world a better place tomorrow than what it was today.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: And my guests are the vessel for that.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_00: So I guess that's kind of where things are at right now, as far as the caught on the mic ecosystem goes, because I am trying to lean into that, trying to improve it, and trying to develop it so this can be a better show tomorrow than what it is today.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: So, what I'm looking to do is obviously keep the momentum that we've already built up.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_00: This is kind of a soft reboot in a sense, but still gonna do the same thing.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: I am just challenging myself to do it much better than I had done it before.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: So, my ask of all of you is if you are following me or have been following me and supporting me over the past couple of years, share some of your favorite episodes, tell your friends, tell your family, uh, tell people you don't know about this.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: Because I am not going anywhere anytime soon.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm hoping to integrate more video into YouTube.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm hoping to get some of the same great quality guests that I've had on the show in the past just accelerated a little bit further for the future.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: So I say all of this to get you excited.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_00: Please share my social media.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, let me know what you like, let me know what you dislike, uh, let me know if there's a guest that I've had on before that maybe you would like to learn a little bit more about.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: That's another element of my show and the caught on the mic ecosystem that I really try and separate myself from the pack with, and that's developing relationships with people that have given me time.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: As I've said many times on the show, time is the greatest gift one person can give to another.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: Because once you give it up, you don't get that time back.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: You can always go out and make more money, you can always go out and buy things once you lose them, but you can never regain time once it's lost.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: So if you get a few moments, make sure you veer on over to www.caughtonthemic.com.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: There's a tab up at the top that's earmarked as past episodes.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: Click that, go look through all 130 prior episodes of Caught on the Mic that are out there in the ether.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: Find one that interests you, check it out, listen to it, give me some feedback, go on your favorite podcast app, rate me as high as you can, leave some comments in the Apple Podcast app because that pushes me up the ecosystem.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: But, ladies and gentlemen, we're just getting started, and uh, I'm really excited to where this thing is going to lead.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've got a list of some people that are kind of like dream guests.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_00: Whether they happen or not, I don't know.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: But uh all we can do is hope for now.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: So as you can tell, I'm still wearing my hot pink polo from church today.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's like six o'clock in the evening, and I still haven't changed out of my church clothes.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: So had a really good Easter weekend with my family.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we celebrated my son's 15th birthday this weekend.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: We went to the record store, we bought a bunch of records, that's what he wanted.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_00: That excites me because both of my kids are getting into collecting vinyl like I am.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, both my kids have a love and affinity for music.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_00: My stepdaughters are awesome.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, one of them is just the best cheerleader ever.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_00: The other one is the sweetest little crumble cookie maker that you could ever want to meet.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, life is good.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_00: Life is good.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: So keep supporting the podcast because you're not only supporting me and keeping me happy, you're supporting every single guest that's been on the show, and through the extension of your support, it's making life for everybody around me a little bit better.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for watching this, thanks for listening to this.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: However, you have consumed this episode, I just want you all to know that the world is a much better place with you in it, and we'll talk soon.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: This has been Caught on the Mic with Michael Clark.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Michael Clark.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time.