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So you think you can Podcast ?? · WDYM What Do You Mean?

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Hey guys, this is Michael, the host of the WDYM, the What Do You Mean podcast.
• 0:04
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• 0:27
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• 0:41
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• 0:44
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• 0:48
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• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie, and hope everything is going well with you.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Hope everything is going good with you.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: This episode, we're going to just hash back on some episodes and some reactions that I've gotten from the past couple episodes from family and friends and listeners.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: With that being said, I do appreciate everything, everybody who takes the time to listen to me ramble on this podcast.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: I do appreciate that.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you guys are coming back to me and saying, that was funny, or hey, what's your middle name?
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: And all that other stuff, then you know, you're taking the time to listen to me ramble.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I do appreciate that.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: I just want to let you know, you guys, I do appreciate that so much.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: With that being said, let's get into it with what the hell's going on.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: What the hell's going on?
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: So, first off, again, we're talking about the middle name, the the the Carlos conspiracy, so to speak.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, a couple of y'all have reached out to me and said, Hey, I know your real middle name.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: I said, you know what?
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: It has always been Carlos, so I don't know what you're talking about.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: But later, but eventually, people do find out my middle name, and it's like, I can't believe, well, actually, I can, how easy it is for people to find out information on you, right?
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's just not, it's not really a big deal, but it was just, you know, back then that was what everybody on Nick Gillespie's side of the family always call me, you know, Michael Carlos.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: Michael Carlos.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, man, I ain't even the middle part's not even my name, let alone, you know, why everybody's calling me that.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, so some of you guys have already found out what my middle name is.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope you guys keep that in confidential information.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't be out there spreading the rumors of the real name because I will find you and I will get you.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: But uh, no, that's one thing.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Another thing is that we had an episode about the good and bad employees, and one of the employees uh reached out to me.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, now this one was funny because uh she's she obviously heard the episode and she's like, Oh, I wasn't a good employee, and I just shrugged my shoulders, like, Well, you mean was I lying?
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: Was I lying on you about the things I said?
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: She said, You were tripping, but you know, all jokes aside, you know, I said you did have your moments, you did have good parts, but I mean I wasn't lying about that, right?
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, when people come back to me and they say these things, it's like, I'm not telling, I'm not lying, I'm not lying about your behavior and your actions, it's just that, hey, you were not the greatest employer.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: And plus the thing is that I did see you at a good peak, and you when you did your peak, you were good, but then you also had your lows, you know what I'm saying?
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I I tell my truth and I stand by it, you know what I'm saying?
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: So that's another one.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what was another one?
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh shoot.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, the Gillespies.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: The uh the pod the episode titled The Gillespie.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, brief uh shout out to my brother who listened to it.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, so one part of that thing where I was asking where the um when my uncle passed away and we were uh asking, like, who's coming who's coming?
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: And then I reached out to my brother, and my brother said, I'm not coming, you know.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm on mission.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't I can't go.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I made his voice sound this.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, I'm not coming, brother.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just I can't.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm on mission.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, My voice ain't that high.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_00: I said, You're right, it's higher.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: All jokes aside, his voice is really high.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, but uh, like I said, I think I said he was a singer, a very good singer at that.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: So with his voice being that high, um, you know, you're you're made for singing.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: So that is what's been going on with that.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: So again, um, the episode is titled So You Think You Could Podcast.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: And um I've had a couple people interested in doing a podcast, uh named uh, you know, two people that I work, actually all three of them I work with currently, but two of them I work with that are in the kitchen, and they want to start a podcast.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: And and as of now, they hear me, they hear me doing the podcast.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, well, why can't we do it?
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, why can't you do it?
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um I even gave them an old microphone that I wasn't using when I first started the idea of podcasting.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't have the equipment that I have now.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_00: I bought a Rod, what is this thing called?
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_00: A Rodcaster Pro, I think.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, a Rodcaster Pro, which is about, uh, you know, you can look it up.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: You can look up how much a Rodcaster Pro is.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, they have a Rodcaster Pro 2 out now.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm wanna, I want to dig into it, but I'm like, nah, let me play, keep playing with this broadcaster one before I decide to think of upgrading to a Rodcaster 2.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I dropped off a mic off to uh one of the two, Riley and Jalen.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh big fans of the WDYN, the WDYM podcast.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_00: Where's the clapping at?
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh they're big fans of that.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I decided to drop a mic on them.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: So here, here's a mic, and you know, gave him some tips and things that I wish I had or I'd known, but the only way you're gonna learn if you just get into it and just do it.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so they want to do a podcast, and from the talk, you know, keeping them talking and motivated about it, their podcast is it's funny.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: As of right now, it's called the TBD Podcast.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: To be determined.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: And um, I don't put nothing behind these two.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: I really think that they can do it, and it'll be fun.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: I think it'll be funny.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: So they already have one listener whenever they're ready.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh just keep pushing, keep nudging.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, what's up with the podcast?
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: Where's it at?
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, they even did a trial podcast, and you know, as first episodes go, they're a little rough.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: They're gonna a little rough.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta find your format, but I have confidence in them that they're gonna find their rhythm and get the TBD going.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm waiting for it.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: I can't wait to hear about it.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: I I am you already have one fan.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_00: So whenever you get that started, yo, let me know.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: And then I'll give you a I'll give you a free plug on the WDYM.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: How about that?
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: And also, I have someone else that is in the nursing side of things.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: Her name's Hannah, and uh, she wants to talk about do a podcast too.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm I'm like looking at myself thinking, like, yeah, I'm getting all these people motivated to do a podcast, but I don't know if they have the means of doing a podcast.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: But I think if she decided to do it, I think it would be funny because let me tell you something.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not an aide or a nurse or anything like that.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: All I do is deliver food to these, to these elder people, these uh rehab people in rehab, and you you would never believe some of the things that you see, hear, smell at these, at these, um, at these uh retirement homes in these communities and stuff.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_00: Some of it can be helped, some of it can't, some of it's just just straight ridiculous.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: And that will be an episode.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: But to hear somebody who constantly does this, who constantly got to do that is potentially funny.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm waiting to see how far she gets off the the starter block, see how far she goes into her podcast.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: So let this be known.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once you get started, let me know.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: You already have a fan.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm waiting to hear the stories of a nursing home.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to hear a title too.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: So looking forward to that one.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: So, with that being said, the second part of this podcast is tips on starting a podcast.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, these are the things that I've done that I do before, you know, as a podcast.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_00: And again, I'm not a pro.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think I'm a pro.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just have 25 episodes of experience, plus this, plus the gaps of of you know, doing a podcast.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I started this podcast uh April 17th, 2021.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: And we are what November 20th, 2022.
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  SPEAKER_00: So 25 episodes in but in between all that.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: Eh, I you know, it is what it is.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: But here's some of the things that I that you should do when you're starting a podcast, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, number one, do a warm-up.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I say you do a warm-up, your first five, ten minutes of your podcast, just get used to you hearing yourself talk, yammer, uh, do your intro about two or three times.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: Just I do your intro like two or three times when I say that.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: Because even today, my I I just my intro is so weird to me because I don't know how to introduce myself without coming through with the and welcome, you know, welcome to the WD W.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: I have plans for season two when it comes to the intro, but I want to get to 40 this season, so I can start season two.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: I have plans for season two, but you know, I want to finish season one.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: And season one's gonna be the blueprint of season two.
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  SPEAKER_00: So therefore, get used to doing it, get used to hearing your voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just get used to doing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So start five minutes just clowning around on the microphone, just getting all doing all that.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: You want to mess up.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's part of it, it's part of the podcast.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_00: But you give yourself the first five, ten minutes, just warming up yourself, getting yourself hyped, getting your energy up, because your energy does it your energy goes with your voice.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_00: You get what I'm saying?
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if you are up hyped energy and you come in with a good energy, it's felt through when you talk about it, right?
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, water.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you can hear that.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: Have water with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you talk and you talk and you talk, you need to drink, right?
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: So make sure you have water.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's important because you talk, your mouth gets dry.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's very important.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_00: So make sure you have water.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh another one, have fun.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: Have fun on your podcast because if this is what I always say.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh when I do my podcast, I'm in my basement, I'm in a room by myself, talking to a wall with uh red and black sound-absorbing sponges on it, and some posters around.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: That's not fun per se, but you gotta make it your own, right?
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I have fun doing this.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: Even if I mess up, and even, you know, the topics I talk about, usually most of them are funny or something knowledgeable.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, just someone have fun.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: So, bottom line, I do this for fun.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: I don't do it for money, that's for sure.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: But I have fun doing it, right?
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: So that is one of the key things you gotta have fun.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta have fun.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: If you're not doing this for fun, then what are you doing it for?
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: Another one, show notes.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: Anytime I make a show, I always put I make show notes, I make dashes of topics I want to hit, and if I want to elaborate more into it, I will.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: But show notes are is a way to keep you um on track, you know?
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: Keep yourself on the curve of the episode, you know what I'm saying?
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like make sure that you are on the same page, you're going down each topic one by one, and that will help your show progress, you know.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: Making sure you're hitting all these hitting it hitting your show notes and keeping your flow of the podcast going.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: Another one that I highly suggest is get a partner.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: If you got a partner, um that makes your energy that you can bounce energy off each other.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: The uh one episode I did with uh my nephew Tyrrell about the Black Panther, the first preview for the Black Panther, and then the episode with my sister about the shy pooper, I'm able to bounce energy off the the guest, the partner, right?
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're gonna do it, it's best to have a partner so you can at least bounce the energy and either match each other's energy, again, so that the um the people can understand it, feel it, and then enjoy the podcast more.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: And the last thing, the last thing I'm gonna say is be okay with messing up.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you're you're not a pro.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a pro.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: I stutter all the time.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you don't understand how many times I I go to the editing and then I got this edit editing um app called um Audacity.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_00: And uh you can see the lines when you're talking and the spikes and go down and it's quiet and and then the same noise is is a is a stutter.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_00: You'll see you can see it.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I edit those out because you know, I'm trying to cut as much as possible.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: But most of the times I'm okay with the editing or the stuttering and then the mess-ups and all that stuff.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: I do I do edit some of the big mess-ups I do.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you ever catch them or not, but those are the things that I do, right?
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm okay with messing up, I'm okay with stuttering, I'm okay with taking long pauses too, because again, I'm not a pro.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm still learning how to do this thing.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm still trying to perfect, see?
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'm still trying to perfect the craft.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: In order to do that, you have to be comfortable with messing up.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: I don't take it too seriously.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: And that that's that is basically it.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: That is basically it.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I mean, I'm not trying to go on too long because I don't want to.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, this is the show notes on the how to tips on podcasting.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if it's 15 minutes long, it's 15 minutes long.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: Not everybody wants to listen to a 45-minute hour podcast.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um I do another couple things.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if I mentioned this or not.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: See, could be and could be another editing, but I'm not.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um make sure you sit down and do two to three podcasts on on a certain day.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: Right now, my day is Sunday to do two to three podcasts.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: And I do have some like podcasts in the bank.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like I recorded them, I just haven't released them yet.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: I think I just want to actually I want to edit those and try to, or just do those over again.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: But uh yeah, I got two or three in the bank ready to do that.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, also, a season for me is 40 episodes.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe a season for you is 20 episodes.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: Always set your goal so you can so you can reach that goal.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, like I said, this season, 40 episodes.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'm at 25.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I got 15 more to go.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: But that's it.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's the my general thing of how to start a podcast, right?
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_00: Again, not a professional, not a pro.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm pretty sure you can find a lot on YouTube.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: I think Podbean.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: I think Podbean is a good website, but there's tons, there's tons on um podcasting.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, that's it.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: That is all today on this episode of podcast.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: And we're gonna have this outro, the normal outro.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_00: See, I completely butchered that, but I'm not I'm not editing it.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: I'm okay with that.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: With that being said, we're ending this episode right now.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: This is the WD YM.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Michael Glesby, and I'm out, Girl Scout.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: Peace.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: See, I even got to nail the outro.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: I don't like the outro either, but I'm gonna stick with it.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: It is what it is.