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How to Start a Podcast: Real Lessons From My Journey (FAQ Part 1) · My Third Place Pod

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Love it, love it. Yes, I'm blowing into your ear.
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This one's a little different. No rundown, no pod decks, no
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chaos outline taped to the desk. Just me and the story behind the
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mic. Because this episode is for the
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people who keep saying I've been thinking about starting
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something. The ones with a note app full of
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ideas, a microphone bookmark, a name picked out and the 100
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reasons why they haven't hit record yet.
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It's for the people who don't know if they want a podcast.
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They just know they need somewhere to put their slots,
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some order, some structure, some space to talk about their life,
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their niche, their mental health, or just to feel like
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they're building something that's theirs.
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And weirdly enough, this all started the same way a lot of us
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things did for us. With a button.
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We were scared, depressed back when we were kids, fumbling with
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a Walkman, trying to time to record button just right,
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interviewing our friends on the playground about the newest
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song, the newest show or whatever everyone was obsessed
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with that week. No audience, no algorithm, just
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curiosity and the feeling of what if.
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This turns into something. Fast forward and here we are.
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Welcome to the M3P podcast if you're new here.
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My third place is usually where nostalgia, fandom, pop culture,
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and everyday life collide. We talk movies, TV, Pokémon,
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comics, wrestling, games, and the stories that stick with us
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long after the hype fades. But this series, This is
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something else. This is about the why behind the
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mic. I've been podcasting since 2022
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and before that Co hosting, guesting and building shows with
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friends. I've hit record when I felt
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ready, I've hit record when I absolutely didn't.
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I've stared at waveforms wondering if any of this
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mattered and I watched it slowly become something I couldn't
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imagine my life without. Over the next few episodes we're
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going to talk about the real stuff.
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How to start, where people get stuck, what to do, what not to
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do, where to post, how to stay consistent with motivation dips,
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The anxiety of hearing your own voice or this right here, The
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fear of nobody listening and the moment you realize you still do
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it even if no one else did. This is going to be story time.
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This is question driven. This is the stuff I wish someone
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had told me earlier in 2022, on Episode 1 perhaps, maybe be, or
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even before that. Not as an expert, not as a guru,
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but as someone who pressed record anyway and kept showing
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up, kept being consistent, kept hustling, kept building, kept
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trying to run it. A community that, yes, if you're
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building something new or thinking about it or just need a
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loud a loud, If you're building something new or thinking about
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it or just need a lighthouse to aim toward, you're in the right
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place. This is my third place, and
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tonight we're talking about how it all started and why hitting
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record might change more than you think.
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So let's get into it. All right?
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January is the season where a lot of people start thinking
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about podcasting. It's when people start
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reflecting on their lives, their niche, their voice, or at least
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wondering, what do I want to do differently this year?
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Cut my hair? Do I want to dye my hair?
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Do I want to shave my beard? Do I want to just trim it?
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Do I want to have a mullet? I did that.
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I did. Unfortunately, I did that in
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freaking years ago. It's so long ago.
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It was a mullet. I did the mullet thing.
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I'm sorry, I apologize, but I thought it was funny.
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I did it. I did it for the TikTok, people
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did things for the Vine, I did it for the TikTok, I wanted to
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do it for the TikTok. I wanted to have a mullet and I
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did it, sorry. And because of that, I got
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asked. You do you.
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And because of that, I get asked a lot on how this podcast
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actually started. So instead of pretending there
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was more perfectly mapped out plan, I want to walk through it.
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Honestly, this isn't a highlight reel.
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This is more of an FAQ questions I asked myself now knowing what
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I didn't know back then. This is going to be Part 1 of
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like, I don't know, it's like 4 parts probably.
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Maybe more parts, maybe more questions will happen.
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And just real quick before we start, it's almost the end of
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January. I know.
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I apologize I am late. I I should have done this at the
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beginning of the year. I was contemplating on it.
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I had it all written out. I had it all figured out.
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I had it like all the questions were ready.
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I was ready and then I didn't do it.
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It just I failed. I I didn't fail, but I just
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forgot to press record on it, which will translate if you're,
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if you're still listening to this late, if you're thinking I
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missed my window just the same way I did, you didn't.
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We didn't miss our window, OK, just like I am right now.
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You can start anytime. There's a reason for that
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mistake, and that's the reason January just reminds people they
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want to. It just reminded me that I
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wanted to do this for this, this episode, but I never got around
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to it. But now I did.
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Here it is. I'm giving it to you.
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So 10 frequently asked questions that I get asked.
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Oh, here they are. That's what she said.
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AQ number one, what was going on in my life when the idea for the
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podcast first showed up? I officially started a podcast
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in 2022, but the year before that was rough.
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Like real, real, real rough. Like, rough, rough dog bark
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rough. I had just been diagnosed with
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type 2 diabetes. I had been hospitalized because
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of it. I almost went into DKA.
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For those that don't know, it's a coma.
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Diabetic acidosis. It's rough.
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It's it's rough. I have like, yeah, I took three
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months just to get my A1C back into a safer range and then
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another three months to get it into better condition.
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And during that time, I was under constant stress, watching
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numbers, worrying about food, worrying about long term damage,
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worrying about everything, like drink water instead of this, eat
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this instead of that. It was, it was so consuming.
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I'm glad I'm better. Thank you, menace.
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Depression hit again hard. At the same time I was reading a
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book about podcasting, how to do it, why people do it, and I was
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listening to a lot of podcast. I, I have show and tell,
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obviously I have show and tell. So I was reading this book,
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Podcasting for Dummies. I know the name.
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It's like, I didn't see the title at first, but I was like,
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all right, podcasting, let's see, like a normal person could
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do it. So I want to say it's 370 pages
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of just learning, reading, grinding through this and like
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it's a great book to have to learn about this.
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And it worked. There's another book that I got
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in because I wanted to read it too, and it was this one 101
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podcast episode templates. This is like after just after a
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bunch of stuff. The podcast has already been a
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year old. So I bought this book and just I
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realized, you know what, I need to do more stuff on there.
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So This is why more prompts, more templates.
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And yeah, those are the two books that I had.
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Yes, it is a good book for me. So I was reading those books on
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how to do, why people do it, listening to a lot of podcasts,
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and I realized something. I didn't need motivation as much
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as I needed organization. I needed direction.
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I needed something that felt like mine.
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The first idea that came to mind was Wrestling previously,
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because it was familiar, it felt safe.
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I thought I could just talk about my favorite memories.
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This shows I love the wrestlers I'd met along the way.
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Y'all heard stories already? They're they're all the way in
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back in the first year, second year also they're they're all
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the way back. There a lot of stories about
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wrestling that you guys would definitely love.
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My experience as a Comic Con, me meeting Mick Foley, Virgil,
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what's his name, Grandmaster Sexy.
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All these stories, just they're, they're, they're right there.
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You, you would love them. Then I saw eventually I could
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talk about diabetes. I can intersect it with
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wrestling wrestlers who have diabetes, how they manage it,
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how to keep going. That's where wrestling with
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diabetes came from. But then you know what?
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I made wrestling with diabetes my own thing, a hashtag for
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myself. Yeah, other people are using it.
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You're like wrestling with high diabetes as, you know, high
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school wrestling and diabetes. And I love that.
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I love that for them. They're doing, they're doing
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amazing, a mob that are recording their their sons and
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their how they're dealing with diabetes as young kids.
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And you know, they're in the on the wrestling team as well.
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I support that. I really do.
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But mine is more like, get up and dance, do stuff, do stuff
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and, you know, work yourself out of this A1C stuff.
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So like, mine is really like, just move around and have fun
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with it. That's my wrestling with
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diabetes. By December of 2021, I was
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tinkering with software, testing things out, but I still hadn't
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pressed record. And then I just had the thought
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maybe in January, instead of jumping between social apps, I
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take a break and actually do this and press record.
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And I did. I disappeared from an app, from
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all these apps, every app that was like taking my time.
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That was like, I want, I don't want to say wasting my time, but
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that was like, you know, I was doing time on.
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I paused it for a minute and just, you know what?
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It's too many people for me to say bye to, to say anything to.
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So I just dipped out. I left.
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I didn't tell anybody anything. I pieced out of these apps and
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just walked away. And I ventured into a new thing,
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a thing for my own. And I wanted to do this thing on
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my own. And I did #2 Did I always want
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to start a podcast? Yes, I did, I totally did.
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When I was a kid, my cousin showed me a cassette tape he
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recorded himself pretending to be a morning radio DJ.
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He would play songs, come back from them, announce the artist,
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and he would interview himself using different voices.
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Obviously at the time we didn't have cause like C DS, I think,
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but we have liner notes in the cassette and we would like try
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to find out about these people and like he did knowing now like
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we can find it on anything anywhere, even ChatGPT.
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And So what he did was like try to pretend to be that artist and
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just he would interview himself. He would interview and pretend
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to be that person. He would do other voices and
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stuff. He would do other voice and
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stuff. And somehow, like, it felt like
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a radio DJ stuff, you know, and like today that would be
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considered a podcast. So, you know, that stuck with
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me. Like if he can do it, maybe I
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could do it too. But my version of it, you know,
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like, see someone else do something, but, you know, try to
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capitalize in it, on it and do something with it as well, but
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do something better with it. So my version of it was grabbing
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a tape recorder and using my friends, just hang out with them
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and like, you know, talk about comic books, wrestling, music,
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whatever we went into at the time, mostly wrestling.
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It was mostly wrestling. Hey, what do you think of this
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guy? Yeah.
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Hey, you know, like, you know, walk around and do some crazy
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stuff. Music.
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We would listen to music and then it was like, you know what,
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pause it and just keep singing it.
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OPP. Like there was, we would be
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singing OPP that you know me. What does it mean?
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I don't know. It's like, hey, what does it
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mean? What do you think it means?
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What do you think OPP means? And like, I feel like shove it
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in everybody's faces. And it's like, you know, like, I
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don't know, you know, we would have hard conversations about
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freaking music and stuff. Well, like, not pretending to be
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someone else, but at the same time, like, yeah, that's my
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favorite artist. Who's your favorite artist?
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All right, cool. All right, so I told you that
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story to tell you this story. Fast forward to around 2010.
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I became friends with a group of podcasters through Facebook.
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Back when Facebook was really popping.
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I asked a simple question. How do you start a podcast?
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What do I need? I posted all over the socials.
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Twitter. Yeah, I think I said that's all
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I had at the time. I didn't have Insta.
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I didn't know what Insta was. I had Tumblr.
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Yeah, I had Tumblr. I did that too on Tumblr, but
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nobody knew a shit about that on Tumblr either.
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So I was like, whatever. Ah, so nobody answered.
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Nobody helped obviously. Like I even checked in on those
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guys and be like, that's a lot of work.
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You you don't want to know. It's a lot of work.
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It's a lot of equipment and blah, blah, blah.
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And there was a lot of equipment for them.
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I seen them like haul ass. Just equipment of a bunch of
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stuff, a freaking big ass computer and all this stuff.
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But at the same time, like at least tell me something, you
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know, something cheaper that would work, you know.
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But that was back then. But I was been like podcasts
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weren't a thing at a time. There were just like underground
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radio stations or something like that.
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And nobody knew how to do 1. Like and if you did, you had
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like a bunch of money and you bought like big ass equipment
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and shit. The nobody answered.
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Nobody helped basically in 2017 when I was unemployed.
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Other times I was unemployed. This is before the casino.
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One of my best friends asked me to Co host his podcast, Drink it
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Up. He would drink, I would not, and
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I'd basically translate. Whatever chaos was happening
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went off the rails. Every episode was off the rails.
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It's like every episode had just like the most insane stuff that
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he would talk about, that he would talk about.
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I would just be like, uh huh, yeah, all right, sure.
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We did about 13 episodes and I remember being 13 because we was
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think of this as our kid. This podcast is our kid.
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And once it turned 13, we're like, oh, the podcast 1313.
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The podcast is a teenager now and still not old enough to
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drink, but old enough to drive. So the podcast is now our
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designated driver. Yeah, we did 13 episodes, but
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that was it. And that 13th episode being
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ended up being on Halloween 13 Halloween.
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It wasn't good. It was it wasn't good.
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We both found was like this is way before we both found jobs.
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He found a job and then I ended up working at the casino and
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like a weeks later we did the 14th episode and we were like,
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OK, let I think we owe it to the fans of drinking up whoever the
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fans wear to like, you know, do one more episode and put it in
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there and tell them what we're going to do now.
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It's like, all right, we did that.
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And we told them it's like, hey, we we're venturing off on our
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own. We're doing other stuff as well.
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And at the same time we were posting the stuff on Twitter.
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We were helping each other out, helping each other grow.
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Other podcasters were helping us.
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We were helping them and like after that I just decided not to
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listen to those podcasts because I didn't have time anymore.
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I was working at the casino, I was working a big job and it was
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crazy. And so the dream faded.
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20/20/2020 happened, which would have been the perfect time to
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start. Nope, that that didn't end up
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happening. Y'all know why?
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Y'all know the reason why that didn't end up happening?
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Some little small app I don't know just came around decided
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hey, you should look at this video and I'm like looking at
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this video and like before I know it I was on this app for
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like the entire day. I forgot what what I was
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supposed to be doing. I just came in to look at one
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video a friend showed me and then I'm stuck here forever.
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TikTok guys, you all know this TikTok.
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It wasn't until late 2021 that I realized I didn't just have that
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a diabetes story. I had stories about my
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childhood, my trauma, my nerddom, my fandom, my interest,
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everything, wrestling, everything, everything.
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Comic books, all the stories, and I could tell them in a
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pretty much decent way. I had more to say than I sought,
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anyway. Question #3 what problem was I
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trying to solve for myself? I was looking for answers.
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Like all the answers, everything.
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Like looking for answers, especially about diabetes.
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Wrestling was something I love talking about comic books,
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everything. I was just looking for answers.
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I wanted answers. I had so many questions.
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I wanted to put some questions up.
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How do you deal with diabetes at like because I got them like
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weeks before my 40th birthday. Like what the fuck What what you
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know, how do you deal with diabetes?
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So what first thing you do is check out Google.
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You Google it. I was looking for support.
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I was, I was Googling stuff. I joined a diabetes group on
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Facebook and saw how powerful shared stories were, people
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talking about how what worked for them, what didn't, how they
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coped. So I did some of the stuff that
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they did. I did my own stuff.
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And then once I got that first A1C of 6.5 of straight out of a
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15.3, I told them about it. They were excited, they were
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proud. And then all I got was a bunch
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of messages. How did you do it?
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Are you serious? Oh my God, that is so amazing.
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That is so awesome. Tell us.
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Please tell us. You know, like, yeah, this is
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what I did. Listen to your doctor.
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What? Listen to your doctor.
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Everything your doctor has said, listen to what has your doctor
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has said? Do it.
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I did this. I did this, I did this.
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I did this. I walked, I ran.
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I freaking worked out. I joined lives that were doing
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DJ stuff, that were playing music and I would tell them,
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hey, I have diabetes, can you please play this song so I can
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work out while I'm listening to you?
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They said, yeah, sure, let's go, let's do that.
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I did wrestling with diabetes hashtag obviously.
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I would dance along, do all that kind of stuff and they knew it
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was fun. It was fun.
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I would walk out, I would walk around the freaking
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neighborhood. It was great.
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So much fun around there. That's why there's only like 3
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diabetes focused episodes. There's a fourth one, but that's
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like wrestling with mental health.
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I think it was wrestling mental health and wrestling with my
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back issues and that one was the first time I ever went to a
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chiropractor and it was the result of all that stuff.
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And the diabetes episode. Each one came from someone
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else's experiences, my own experiences as well.
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I like there was 1 episode where like as you all know, your
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diabetes episode of my favorites.
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I love listening to your stories.
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Thank you. Thank you, miss.
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I appreciate that. As you all know, I came from
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Tumblr. So like there was this I posted
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that I had diabetes. How do you do this?
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How do you cope? All that stuff.
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And I got a lot of obviously, if the, if it's about health and
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mental health, whatever kind of health, people will answer right
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away and we'll give you like, you know, all this stuff.
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That's the stuff. There's one person that like had
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diabetes and she showed me her video that she had done years
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ago and on YouTube. So I watched the video, I
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listened to everything and all that stuff.
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And then I messaged her. I was like, hey, is it OK this
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way before? I started episode a year before.
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So this is a year before it's like I'm going to start doing a
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podcast. Is it OK if I use your video as
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a tool to help others as well and post it on my podcast and
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these messages as well that you're sending me?
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It's like, yes. She said yes.
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It took her a while to answer, but at the end she said yes.
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So I said OK, great. And I use that as well.
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I said like, you know, I read verbatim what she had said and
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then I decided to put the audio of what she was saying into the
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episode. That was when you could put
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audio and like the the system that I was using was great
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anchor. That's when you could like edit
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and do all kinds of stuff. And now it's just like, I got to
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use this new system, use new platform stuff.
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But I didn't want to just preach.
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I wanted to listen, learn and share.
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And I shared everything about what she had told.
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And those, those episodes are great.
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You know, they're, they're out there, like I could put in like
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a three, there's three episodes and they're like 30 minutes I
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think each. So I could probably combine them
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into one episode and repost them.
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And so you could hear it. And I'll probably do that around
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the summer. Ah, question #4 what almost
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stopped me from starting oversinking.
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A lot of oversinking. Everything was running in my
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head. What if it fails?
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What if nobody listens? What if I get trolled?
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What if Spotify does at least because I said something wrong
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or use copyright music? What if my family listens and
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zincs are stupid Every what if you can imagine all stacked on
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top of each other and it was insane.
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Was like you know what? I'm not going to do this, I'm
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going to do this. I'm not going to do this.
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I don't want to do this. Maybe it's not for me.
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This is too hard for me. No, it's not.
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And it just reminds me of one of my favorite TikTok creators now.
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And he been my one of my favorites since like I joined
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2020, but now he's just recently followed me.
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That's fucking awesome. I love it.
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Jimmy Musial. Musial, if you don't know,
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excuse me, Musio and he had a post a video up this past year,
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2024 I believe, where he says if you're going to do something, do
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it scare. And had he had told me this,
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like had he had posted this like freaking a long time ago, in
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2022, in 2021, I would have listened.
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I would have just like, you know what, just do it.
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Let's do it, let's do it. But he's saying it now.
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And like when I heard it, I said, yes, there are so many
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things that I've tried doing and I was scared of doing it.
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And he said, what? What's going to happen?
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What's the worst thing that's going to happen?
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No, he's going to listen to it, but you're going to do it.
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You're going to freaking post it.
28:26
You're going to do it all. So, and he just reminded me
28:29
like, yes, that's how what I was thinking at the time.
28:35
I was overthinking it. I was, I wasn't thinking like,
28:39
you know, do it for yourself. I was thinking it, you know,
28:41
what if nobody wants to listen and blah, blah, blah.
28:43
I was like, you know what, no, And then I decided, all right,
28:48
I'm going to do it, but I'm just going to do it for myself.
28:50
I'm just going to like post it and see what happens, you know,
28:53
whatever, whatever. So shout out to Jimmy Moosville,
28:58
by the way, one of my favorite TikTok Raiders following me
29:03
back. I love it.
29:04
He's also on twitch. He's a really good gamer, great
29:06
gamer. I love watching his live because
29:08
he's playing little nightmares. It's freaking awesome.
29:11
He's like he he's it's ASMR. OK, he's doing play by play of
29:20
him just like, all right, but now I got to do this.
29:25
I got to jump on the scene. No, no, Oh no, and everything
29:30
from even from crash outs, even from crash house.
29:34
It's like, oh, come on, can't believe that happened.
29:37
Oh man, come on. He doesn't overreact.
29:40
It's just he whispers because the whole thing is dark and he
29:45
feels like he has to whisper. So he whispers that and we hear
29:48
him, but it's like at the same time it's like this is so
29:50
freaking hilarious. It's so funny and I love that.
29:53
So shout out to Jimmy Mujo. Awesome.
29:57
Question number 5, was there a moment when I finally said, OK,
30:01
I'm doing this? It was, it was, there was and it
30:07
wasn't dramatic. It was just realizing that it
30:10
didn't start. If it didn't start, I still be
30:14
saying one day years later. That's why I chose January.
30:18
New year, new me. That's what everybody sings,
30:21
right? New year, new me, fresh start,
30:24
something different. And that's what I did at the
30:27
time. It's like, you know, I kept
30:29
thinking like, new year, new me. Yeah, this is what I have going
30:33
on now. You know, all this shit.
30:36
I didn't have a laptop. Everything was written in a
30:39
notebook with messy bullet points.
30:41
I need to find that because I know I have it somewhere where
30:44
I'm just like, writing stuff down.
30:46
Matches, winners, what time the freaking match ended, all kinds
30:54
of stuff. And then me writing down all
30:56
kinds of stuff and it hurt my risk because I'm not a type, I'm
30:59
not a writer. I'm on the phone doing this and
31:03
doing scrolling and doing all that shit and going like that.
31:06
I don't write anymore. I would love to see what that
31:08
looks like too. I don't know where it's at.
31:10
It's it was what, five years ago?
31:14
Four years ago, it was four years ago, I grabbed my
31:22
notebook. So I grabbed a notebook.
31:24
I grabbed the phone and recorded the first episode, not knowing
31:26
what to make of it and word bomb it.
31:30
As they say, word bomb it. It was the most horrible episode
31:34
ever. Which goes into question number
31:40
six. Do I remember recording my first
31:42
episode? I do.
31:50
I was nervous. I was anxious.
31:52
I was, yeah, worried. Vomiting.
31:56
I second guessed everything. I kept reminding myself it was
32:00
just for fun. My thoughts about how I fell in
32:04
love with wrestling. How about what I thought about
32:08
this match? What I thought about this match,
32:10
What I thought about these wrestlers freaking why I fell in
32:17
love with wrestling, why I stopped watching it, why I came
32:21
back to watching it. Why is I love WE who my favorite
32:28
wrestler was, who ended up who started my love for wrestling
32:32
where my entry point was a www.tna All the wrestling
32:38
companies that I've ever been in, all the everything wrestling
32:40
that I've ever seen, It's just like, yeah, I just needed to
32:45
talk. I did in a place where I'm seen
32:50
all the time dancing and singing and acting crazy and doing
32:55
stupid things. When you put me in front of a
32:59
microphone, I ended up blabbering and talking and all
33:03
this stuff. And the only ever time that I
33:05
ever did say stuff on the here was like, I don't know, a few
33:14
videos. And even then it's just like, I
33:17
don't like the sound of my voice.
33:18
I hate it. I hate the way I just sounded.
33:20
Oh my God, no Umm, but coming back and doing the podcast and
33:30
recording it now I understand now that I, the way I talk, you
33:36
know, I have a, a new cadence basically.
33:43
But you know, when I first recorded proud of you think
33:46
you're proud of you too. When I first recorded the first
33:50
episode, it sounded like it was recorded in a basement.
33:55
It basically was. You can hear the heater kicking
33:58
in like it's kicking in now, but you can't hear it because of
34:01
this new microphone that I have right here.
34:03
Oh yeah, Echo, this is basically what it sounded like on in the
34:13
basement. This all the stuff that was out
34:16
here echoing. Yeah, my voice was low.
34:22
The the heater overpowered my voice and it wasn't as it is
34:27
like now. Like I understand ASMR where I
34:30
can just talk like this and talk low and lower and that.
34:36
It wasn't like that. It was more lower than you
34:38
remember. You know that one girl from
34:41
Pitch Perfect, the one you can barely hear.
34:43
Understand. That's how I sounded like it.
34:54
Yeah, her. That's like, that's how I
34:56
sounded like at the time, my voice was low.
35:00
Heater repowered it. And not only that, we all start
35:04
somewhere. Exactly.
35:05
We all start somewhere. We all start somewhere.
35:10
I wanted to include music. I didn't know what I was doing,
35:14
but at the same time, everything about this first episode was
35:19
real. It was raw, It was rough, but it
35:23
was real. I enjoyed doing it, I had fun
35:27
doing it. I didn't know that something was
35:30
wrong. It was my first time ever and I
35:34
didn't listen to it back until it was on there.
35:41
Which goes into question #7 how long did I sit on that first
35:45
episode before posting it? Not long.
35:49
And so I made a mistake because I added music.
35:55
It was copyrighted. I used Welcome Home by Coheed
36:03
and Cambra because it reminded me of the original black and
36:07
gold NXT. That episode got flagged and
36:12
never went up. It became it was it was called
36:15
episode 0. So a week later I record again,
36:21
no music and posted it. And you know, like I didn't do
36:25
episode 0 again. I did episode 1.
36:31
It wouldn't let me save it either.
36:33
For some reason it wouldn't let me save it or else I would have
36:35
saved it, taking the music out, try to do all that stuff and
36:39
just repost it. But it wouldn't let me up until
36:42
I think two years ago when I posted it, I screen recorded
36:51
everything because I was on anchor and I screen recorded
36:55
everything. And then I like, alright, I'm
36:57
going to take off the music and I'm gonna let it just play out,
37:00
see what happens. And I did.
37:03
And that was episode 0 and it was the most horrible episode
37:06
ever. Like listening back to it, it's
37:09
just you got to start somewhere. And that's how I started.
37:13
And from then on, from that point on, from the not through
37:16
episode 0, from first episode, like, wow, like I, I, I changed
37:25
a lot. It was a lot of change.
37:26
All right, we're almost done here.
37:30
We're at question #8. I love it.
37:35
What was I'm most afraid people would think that it didn't
37:40
matter, that it was pointless, that I was talking into the
37:47
voice, talking into the boy, can you hear me now?
37:56
And I was talking to the boy, that people would listen just to
37:59
make fun of my opinions. The fear sticks with you longer
38:03
than people admit is true. You're scared at the same time.
38:08
I understand now. Do it Scared.
38:11
And like, what was I saying at the house at the time?
38:16
Umm, you take 100% of the shots, you miss 100% of the shots you
38:22
don't take. Yeah.
38:27
And I was like, you know what, let's just do it.
38:30
I don't care what people think. I don't care.
38:34
I'm just going to do my own thing.
38:36
I had a podcast rate me, rate my podcast.
38:43
I shouldn't have done that. I don't know why I did that, but
38:47
they did and I'm not going to tell you who they are.
38:50
I still listen to them sometimes.
38:52
I still support them. They still support me.
38:55
Umm, since then they told me I've come a long way.
38:59
So I come along. I have come a long way but and
39:04
when I sent them, I was like, hey, can you listen to this?
39:06
Like I didn't ask for a rate, but at the same time I was like,
39:09
hey, I'm going to rate it. I was like no.
39:11
So here it is. This is 6.
39:13
I was like what? It's niche.
39:17
It's wrestling, all wrestling. You need to do this.
39:21
You need to do this. You need to do this.
39:24
It's fine. I understand.
39:26
You get it now. And I did all that and it worked
39:29
and I understand now. I should have done that.
39:32
I know what? Leave it alone.
39:36
It's OK. It's OK.
39:38
Because of that, I changed it. I'm much better now.
39:43
I'm so much better now and I, and I, and I feel like I am like
39:47
I, I, the cadence changed, uh, the way I speak changed the way
39:57
I handle it change growth happened, growth.
39:59
I grew, I grew. This is like before you.
40:06
This is around 3 months into it like.
40:10
Three months, like, hey, I just started this podcast.
40:13
Can you rate like, no, why would I ask that?
40:15
Why would I do that? A because rah, I don't know why
40:20
I did that. I just felt like I was doing so
40:23
much better, blah blah, blah, blah, blah.
40:25
No, it wasn't like that. I shouldn't have done that.
40:29
My ego got all her and stuff and I was just like, I don't even
40:33
want to listen to your podcast anymore, blah, blah, blah.
40:35
No, I did. I ended up listening to her,
40:36
them to them and becoming good friends with them and they're
40:41
fucking awesome. I I love their show.
40:44
I still listen to it. So yeah, they're, they're about
40:53
to come out with their pitchforks.
40:56
Please don't. It's fine.
40:57
It's fine, it's fine. But that how come you never say
41:06
anything before because it was a long time ago.
41:09
It just totally forgot until this moment right here where I'm
41:12
just telling you guys, hey, I did this also.
41:17
There's so many things I did, like how many what, how many Co
41:22
hosts have there been where like one of them was my best, one of
41:28
my best friends from high school and the other one just like a
41:31
person that I've just met and like she was part of a website.
41:40
Memory unlocked. Yes, memory unlocked.
41:42
She was part of a website. And I said, hey, you want to be
41:44
on a podcast without ever consulting with my best friend?
41:51
Yeah, no, there's so many mistakes.
41:54
I did. There's so many non mistakes.
41:56
I did. It's fine.
41:59
I I felt like I was doing better when I wasn't.
42:04
All right, we're almost done. Question #9 Did anyone listen
42:10
who wasn't friends or family at first?
42:12
Not really. And that messes with you.
42:17
I hustled, I grinded, I did everything that guy told me to
42:24
do. Hustle, loyalty and respect.
42:28
Don't quit, don't give up. Don't tap out.
42:37
Everything he told me to not to do, he ends up doing it.
42:40
No, I'm kidding. No, no, no, no, no.
42:41
That's fine. That's fine.
42:41
We're not going to talk about that.
42:43
Everything he told me not to do. And I didn't do it.
42:46
I did it. Like I OK, so like I hustled, I
42:58
grinded. I freaking consistency.
43:01
I kept being consistent. I went on Twitter, connected
43:04
with new creators, offer support.
43:07
You, like you support me. I support back.
43:10
I follow your podcast, you follow mine.
43:13
We listen to each other's episodes.
43:17
And we did that. We did they build a community.
43:21
One group changed everything they did.
43:24
They was a freaking amazing group.
43:27
A creator ran a podcast called BYOP Bring Your Own Podcast and
43:33
she brought new podcasters on, built a discord and helped
43:36
everyone support each other. I remember the podcasters that
43:42
were in the group, like I don't talk to them anymore because
43:47
she's retired the the BYOP Bring your Own podcast.
43:52
You learn as you live. Yes, you do.
43:54
You bring your own podcast. She's retired now.
43:59
So she has to retire everything. She's young too.
44:02
Like her podcast was like from five years ago, five years old
44:07
already. And this she retired like last
44:11
early last year. So it's just like, damn, you
44:16
know, thank you for doing this and for us as well.
44:20
But the experience of it stuck with like, you know, we went to,
44:26
I think it was good pods. It was like, it's like good
44:30
book, but good pods where it's all podcasts and you listen and
44:35
like you share stories and you share your podcast with other
44:39
people and stuff. And it was just a group of us,
44:43
we, every time they post it on, on the discord, we would go in
44:48
and listen to it, like it, all that stuff.
44:53
And we would say like, hey, we have a, a page on pub good pods.
44:59
Can you support us there too? Like, you know what, we're going
45:01
to have a week where we listen to this person's podcast only so
45:07
we can support them there. It's like all right, good.
45:09
And it helps out for Spotify as well because you're all there as
45:14
well. So it's like it was my week and
45:19
just been like what a year in. So it was just like 50 episodes
45:24
so far, 566070 episodes around there so far.
45:28
And like that these other people had like 102 hundred episodes.
45:35
I'm the new guy, I'm the new person here and I'm just like,
45:39
shit, what do I do? Like I keep doing it, keep doing
45:42
it. Obviously the whole thing, I
45:46
didn't learn my lesson with the whole rate my podcast because
45:49
these people was like, all right, this is what you do.
45:53
You're doing this, you're doing this, you're doing this.
45:55
It's great. Also do this bring in new
45:59
people, bring in you com for interviews.
46:02
If you like I we can like we can bring you to our podcast and I
46:05
can go into your podcast and we talked about it.
46:08
There's one podcast AEW. It was a wrestling podcast and
46:13
we can't we went into our each other's podcast and I got to
46:18
interview him. He got to interview me on his
46:21
and we did that and other one don't know the other one was
46:30
something else. I forgot what it was.
46:33
Umm, no, the other one was the first one that it was a network.
46:39
That was a fun one. It was it was a network.
46:42
It was a TNN, the Nirvana network.
46:46
We had just this is around the Johnny Depp trial.
46:53
I want to say this is way beyond like 2022 I think around there,
47:00
but this is around there and around the summer.
47:04
Chris Rock had just been slapped by Will Smith, all that stuff.
47:08
So we were using that stuff. But Nirvana Network was supposed
47:12
to be like these group of people where these group of podcasts
47:19
and the same thing that I was trying to do where I was like
47:22
trying to get a bunch of podcasts on the network and
47:26
share each other's podcast. But the thing here is that they
47:29
had a whole link tree and everything and they listed the
47:32
podcasts that were part of the Nirvana Network.
47:36
And then there's one big podcast, you know, like all
47:44
these podcasters show up on this one big podcast.
47:48
And I think I joined it in the summer when I was on hiatus just
47:55
to be around there just to do a calm and for commentary and
48:00
stuff. So that was fun to do.
48:08
But the thing that pissed me off the most for this podcast,
48:12
though, is when I joined, it was called my the podcast was called
48:18
all scenes wrestling and I want to talk about this in the next
48:22
episode, but at the same this is for the next episode, all scenes
48:27
wrestling. And then by the second-half of
48:32
the year in July when I was coming back to do the from the
48:35
hiatus, I had renamed the podcast.
48:38
And I told the main guy of TNN like, hey, I'm trying to like
48:43
rebrand the podcast and make give them a name.
48:47
And you guys like change the name of the podcast that's up
48:50
there on the link tree and change it into what I have going
48:54
on now. Like, yeah, sure.
48:55
What's it called now from under the apron?
48:57
It's like, alright, cool. Yeah, we'll let them know.
49:01
No, didn't let them know. Didn't do any of that.
49:08
Didn't like I was the one that kept saying like, check out the
49:13
TN, the network for other podcasts on my podcast.
49:16
Check out, you know, all these trailers that I got from my
49:18
podcast from from these podcasts, I put them on my
49:21
podcast. They didn't do any of that.
49:23
They didn't know what to do. They didn't like, oh, that's too
49:26
much work. I was like, all right, OK,
49:29
whatever, bud. Why'd you ask me to be on your
49:31
network if you're not going to do shit for me?
49:35
So weird. Like I said this for another
49:38
episode, fucking story time, story time.
49:44
So even like they've since retired also like I just keep
49:52
retiring people. I don't know why they've since
49:55
retired. TNN Singh has been gone for a
49:58
while. So I just been like oh shit, OK.
50:02
And I'm like, I've tried looking for the link trace to see if
50:04
it's still around to see if it's still active.
50:06
No, it's not. Like did you guys get to change
50:08
the podcast the third time? Changed it the third time.
50:12
That'd be funny if it's still around and I can just be like,
50:14
Hey, can you change it again? I I know I changed it.
50:17
I asked you to change it like once already, but you know, I
50:20
ever since rebranded, it's like I wanted to do that, but no,
50:23
there's not longer around. But that was the bad story of
50:31
the bad incident of that the good incident.
50:34
The good thing that came out of this was to be bring your own
50:37
podcast. The group of people in the
50:39
discord where we like, you know, shared each other stuff like I
50:43
still, I still follow one of the podcast, one of them because
50:51
they're fucking awesome. Freaking hell, I forgot their
50:55
name. They're drunk girls.
50:58
There are three of them, 3 drunk girls, Luscious ladies.
51:01
Luscious, luscious, luscious. Not luscious.
51:05
It's something with yeah, fucking, I'm not going to look
51:12
for it, but it's it's that where they get drunk and they just, it
51:21
felt like drinking up again. And but there's three of them
51:24
and this. Did you say drunk girls?
51:25
I said drunk girls. I did.
51:31
Oh, oh, you did. I did.
51:33
I did man. Luscious, opinionated luscious.
51:45
We follow each other still. They're still around.
51:48
Are they? Yeah, they're still around.
51:50
They're fucking awesome. They're they're just fucking
51:54
awesome. I love them.
51:55
They're amazing. Bet you love that.
52:00
They're fucked. But it's, it's just like, it's
52:05
too much. So like I had to like settle
52:10
down for a bit. Two years ago they did a 24 hour
52:15
live on Twitch and it was a 24 hour live plus the podcast.
52:22
And yeah, it was awesome. It was awesome.
52:25
It was a great time. All right, last question for the
52:30
night question #10 what would change about the first episode
52:34
and what I wouldn't touch the first episode.
52:39
Episode zero. I tighten it.
52:41
I'd over think less. I wouldn't use copyright music,
52:46
but I wouldn't change the honesty or the rawness or the
52:50
heater noise because I love the heater noise.
52:53
Even though you could barely hear me because of the heater
52:55
noise right there, it's still the best thing that I could have
53:00
done because it changed. It was mirror.
53:03
That's what carried everything forward.
53:06
Umm, I needed that episode to learn, to evolve, to mess up, to
53:11
fix things, to to learn. Yeah, basically.
53:17
Some changes, some changes since then, we're good, some weren't.
53:25
Everything in 2024. It doesn't matter though.
53:29
You learn, you adjust, you keep going.
53:33
You keep mowing, you keep moving forward.
53:35
Yes, you know those changes that weren't good popcorn?
53:42
Get your popcorn ready. Get your popcorn ready.
53:44
No, it's fine. It's fine.
53:46
Like I like I said, you learn, you adjust, you keep going.
53:51
You, you keep doing what you're doing.
53:56
Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming.
53:58
Just keep swimming. Just keep recording.
54:01
Just keep recording. Just keep recording.
54:07
How do you like them apples? Where are we at 54 minutes?
54:18
Love it, Jane. Just keep swimming.
54:25
Just keep swimming, all right. Just feels like a good This
54:30
feels like a good place to pause falling asleep with the sound of
54:35
my own voice. Love that.
54:39
Just wait until the next episode of this stuff.
54:43
In the next episode, I want to keep it going.
54:45
Talk about the quiet middle, the moments I almost quit.
54:52
Almost like almost almost almost.
54:57
How the show found its voice, and what success actually means.
55:01
Now this right here, talking about it.
55:05
If you're someone who's been thinking about starting or
55:07
restarting something of your own, Part 2 is for you.
55:12
We'll pick it up next time. This is where we're going to
55:15
bring it. Start bringing this one for a
55:17
landing. Tonight was about the beginning,
55:19
the messy part, the questions nobody answers until you're
55:22
already in it. We cover ten of the most common
55:26
podcasting FAQ, the stuff people DM over, sync, bookmark, and
55:32
quietly worry about how to start, what actually matters,
55:36
what doesn't, and why hitting record feels heavier than it
55:40
should. But that's only the first
55:43
chapter, because next time we're getting into the middle of the
55:48
story. The almost quit moments, the
55:51
burnout, the doubt, the episodes that didn't land there.
55:58
The nights where it felt like you were talking into the void,
56:06
you were talking into the void. The nights where it felt like
56:11
you were talking into just a empty space.
56:14
And it was, it was anxious. You're anxious, you just
56:18
couldn't deal with it. And some, like I said, some
56:21
episodes didn't land, but some did.
56:23
And I want to talk about the ones that both episodes, I want
56:27
to talk about those that landed and those that didn't land.
56:31
We'll talk about how I found Co host, how collaboration changed
56:38
everything, the rebranding, the renaming, the moment M3P stop
56:44
being just a podcast and started feeling like a real universe.
56:49
It would have meant to become part of a network.
56:52
I should save that for next. We'll we'll we'll talk about
56:56
that too. We'll talk about that little
56:58
network that was there. We're we'll talk about
57:04
everything not as a finish line, but as a new starting point.
57:08
So if you're someone who's been thinking about starting or
57:10
restarting something of your own, Part 2 is for you.
57:15
And before we go, I want to take a moment to shout out the people
57:18
who are hanging out live tonight.
57:21
Menace. Y'all know her, Jane, y'all know
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her, Leanna, You all know them. You know these people.
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They're always here. They're my universe, they're my
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M3P family. They're here for a reason.
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They're amazing, they're awesome.
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They keep the chat going, the they keep the chat alive.
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They have more questions. They do they, they, they're the
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energy of the show. Thank you for the questions.
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Thank you for the support, the energy.
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This space only works because you all show up.
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As always, a little housekeeping before we disappear into the
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night. Hello, M3P on Instagram,
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Twitter, Blue Sky, TikTok and YouTube for clips, live streams
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and behind the scenes chaos. Rate the show so the algorithm
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knows we're building something real here.
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And if you're listening on Spotify, drop a comment,
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especially if you're a creator trying to find your pudding.
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And just so you know what's coming up next, our rumble
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predictions with Menace. So yeah.
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So whether you're here for fandom, for creativity, or
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because you need a place that isn't work or home, this is my
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third place. A space where we show up, keep
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the light on, and figure it out together, OK?
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Take care of yourselves, take care of each other, and I'll see
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you next time.