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One Leg Up In Podcasting THANKS TO YOU! 3-1-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Well, you've done it. You've helped me accomplish forty thousand downloads on Spreaker
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  in ten years, which means, folks, we are averaging ten four thousand
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  listeners a year the last ten years. My next quest is to get ten
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  thousand more for fifty thousand. That would be a feature, a goal,
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  and I know you can help me achieve it just by clicking the listen click,
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  by hitting the subscribe click, by sharing this and continuing to help me
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  grow this podcast. I've already believed this podcast has more legs than I do,
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  but now we're starting to see it every day even more. When you
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  see folks like Signal the polling company, tweeting out your show and getting some
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  reposts and likes. When you see podcast guests dot com and podmatch liking your
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  stuff and putting you on their newsletter and mailing lists, and there's a lot.
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  And you know, the irony is, I work at a radio station,
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  but I never really promote my podcast on radio because when I fill in
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  for an Algatulo and we send our prayers to Alan his family for the loss
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  of his mother in law. But when I fill in on these different things,
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  or I guest hot, I guess on one of these different shows,
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  or am I or am commenting. I don't usually make it about the podcast
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  because that's just gonna happen naturally. And maybe I should mention forty thousand plays
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  for one leg up with Alex scar but I like to keep that part of
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  it separate from the actual radio dial. But here we are, forty thousand
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  plays later, many a name changed later, and I'm just fired up to
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  get to fifty thousand about you, but I definitely am. I'm fired up
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  to also get to see another leap year. You know. I did the
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  whole leap Day thing yesterday for February twenty ninth. But yeah, that fires
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  me up to go another four years and see how life goes, and see
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  how health can go in the next four years, and stay healthy as best
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  as I can. So all these little benchmarks become benchmarks when you realize they
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  are inspiring you to keep going in your craft, in your passion. Forty
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  thousand may seem like nothing to a Joe Rogan or even a Pat McAfee who
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  continues to get millions of listeners, but for a smaller content creator means a
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  lot. And for someone who tries to stay on the ground and be in
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  a small town kind of mind with this, knowing that you know, family
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  and friends listen, fiance Gabby listens. But I don't really know how outside
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  of that box we get on this podcast. I know, demographically and geographically
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  we are listening to Outside of America, which is just really special. But
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  at the end of the day, forty k or not, I'm still gonna
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  be that backpacked tote and rollerblader through the city of New York. I'm proud
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  of that. I'm proud of that. But we have hit forty thousand downloads,
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  and that is my update today. I'm so proud of it, so
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  excited for it's so excited to get more guests along the way and maybe,
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  just maybe we have fifty thousand, not by the end of the year,
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  but maybe by next leap year or earlier sooner. Let's see how much this
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  podcast can grow. Can glow up if you will, I hate the word
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  blow up. Can glow up if you will, because as Bruce Springsteen one
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  saying, I was born blue and weathered, but burst just like a supernova.
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  And that's thanks to you, the listener, the friend, the colleague,
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  the guest, my fiance, others in the romantic field the last ten
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  years have been encouraged me along the way as well. Gotta say that,
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  but Gabby is definitely my number one fan and supporter, as she has to
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  listen to me even when I'm home doing this. Although Mom will always be
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  number one, I guess Gabby is they're they're they're equally a number one fan.
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  That is possible, That is possible. And in these ten years and
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  fourty thousand downloads, can't forget that my stepdad Vic set up a studio in
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  my queen's home with microphone and Mike's stand, and boy, during that pandemic,
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  we cranked out a lot of these, didn't we four years ago?
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  Radio Hope Ed and others, Camel Conservative and others. And then of course
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  there was Pops and I'll forget what my pops told me. You know you're
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  one of seven thousand podcasts. How will you stick out, Pops? I'm
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  trying to figure that out every day. But as long as we keep putting
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  something down, laying the tracks down for a podcast, getting that interview done,
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  it's all growing to something bigger. We may not see it yet collectively,
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  but there's something out there bigger. I believe that. I have to
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  believe that for the show, that that exists. Also, so for those
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  who helped make forty thousand downloads possible, I thank you and I look forward
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  to keeping this journey going. And if you wanted to say, financially support
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  along the next ten thousand downloads, dropping my Venmo in the description as well,
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  for you to maybe help support along the way. But listening, even
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  one listener, I'm so grateful for here on the Alex Scarrett Podcast Network