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Episode #40 "Now You See Me" · The Kevin Stone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The content of this podcast is for entertainment purposes only.
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  Speaker 1: Mainly the entertainment of the podcast creator. If at any
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  Speaker 1: time you find any of this to be offensive, you
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  Speaker 1: should immediately rewind the program and start it from the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: The sarcasm provided in this program is so accurate it
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  Speaker 1: is illegal in 14 states. You are listening to the
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Stone Podcast, broadcasting to you from an undisclosed location.
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  Speaker 1: Customized listening. Let's begin by cleaning those ears. Who am I?
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  Speaker 1: I'm a nobody. I just happen to have a camera
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  Speaker 1: and a microphone and an internet connection, which makes me
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  Speaker 1: a superstar. I have beef enchiladas in the oven. What? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And you made them or are they frozen? Well, they
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  Speaker 1: won't be frozen in about 35 minutes. Hey, I made
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  Speaker 1: it at the house, so it's homemade. All right, folks,
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  Speaker 1: I still stand beside that, too. If you make something,
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  Speaker 1: bake something, put it in the oven, if you've mixed
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  Speaker 1: it up and fixed it at the house, it is homemade.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if it came out of a box,
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  Speaker 1: a can, or whatever. If you make it at the house,
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  Speaker 1: it's homemade. You go out to a restaurant and you
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  Speaker 1: sit down and eat, it's not homemade. Anyway, all right, folks,
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  Speaker 1: apparently you can see me now. Sorry about that. For months,
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  Speaker 1: I've been sitting behind this microphone saying whatever wandered through
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  Speaker 1: my head, perfectly comfortable with the fact that nobody could
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  Speaker 1: actually see me doing it. That was a pretty good arrangement.
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  Speaker 1: You heard the voice. You didn't have to look at
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  Speaker 1: the face making the voice. Everybody won. But apparently, I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't satisfied with that. Now I've got a camera sitting
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  Speaker 1: in front of me. I've got a mixer, microphone, lights,
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  Speaker 1: wires running everywhere. I've got a computer program that I
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  Speaker 1: barely understand. And after spending the last couple of days
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  Speaker 1: figuring out how to make all this stuff work together,
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  Speaker 1: I finally sat down this morning, turned everything on, looked
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  Speaker 1: directly into the camera, and realized I had absolutely nothing
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. Welcome to the big times, folks. This
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  Speaker 1: is the Kevin Stone Podcast. This whole thing started pretty simple.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do a podcast. Get a microphone, sit down,
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  Speaker 1: talk about things that interest me, maybe make somebody laugh.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe make somebody think. That was basically the entire business plan.
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  Speaker 1: And somehow, here we are. Now there's a camera involved.
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  Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, a camera changes things. With audio,
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  Speaker 1: I could scratch my nose. I could stare at the
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  Speaker 1: ceiling trying to remember what I was talking about. I
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  Speaker 1: could make some ridiculous facial expression. Nobody knew. Now, you
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  Speaker 1: people are going to see all of it. This may
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  Speaker 1: turn out to be the biggest mistake I've made since
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  Speaker 1: deciding I needed to do a podcast in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm excited about it. Because this little podcast has
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  Speaker 1: changed quite a bit since I started it. When I
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  Speaker 1: started this thing, I didn't have some giant five-year plan.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have a production company. I didn't have staff.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have somebody sitting in an office somewhere figuring
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  Speaker 1: out what Kevin Stone's media strategy was going to be.
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  Speaker 1: I had a microphone. I had opinions. And apparently, I
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  Speaker 1: had enough confidence to believe those two things belonged together.
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  Speaker 1: That was about it. And I think sometimes we convince
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  Speaker 1: ourselves that before we start something, we're supposed to have
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  Speaker 1: everything figured out. I definitely didn't. Actually, I still don't.
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  Speaker 1: There have been episodes where I sat down knowing exactly
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  Speaker 1: what I wanted to say. There have been episodes where
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  Speaker 1: I started researching something and discovered that what I thought
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  Speaker 1: I knew wasn't exactly right. There have been interviews, local issues, politics,
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  Speaker 1: some serious stuff, some completely ridiculous stuff. And somewhere along
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  Speaker 1: the way, this stopped just being fooling around with the microphone.
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  Speaker 1: People started listening. Not a lot of people. Let's not
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  Speaker 1: get carried away here. We've got standards for this show.
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  Speaker 1: There are probably three of you. But those three people
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  Speaker 1: are very important to this media empire. This podcast started
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  Speaker 1: getting me out into the community. I started going to meetings,
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  Speaker 1: talking to people, asking questions. I got to sit down
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  Speaker 1: and interview the mayor of Ozark. I've talked with local
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  Speaker 1: people about things happening in our community. We've looked at
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  Speaker 1: issues where I didn't necessarily understand everything when I started
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  Speaker 1: researching them. And that has probably become my favorite part
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  Speaker 1: of doing this. Because I don't want this show to become,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin has an opinion, therefore Kevin must be right. That's
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  Speaker 1: boring and dangerous. Sometimes I started looking into something and discovered, well,
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  Speaker 1: I was wrong about that. And I think being able
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  Speaker 1: to say that is important. Because the purpose of this
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  Speaker 1: show isn't supposed to be proving that I'm right. It's
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  Speaker 1: looking at the world through my eyes, and sometimes my
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  Speaker 1: eyes need glasses. Now we arrive at my latest brilliant idea, video,
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  Speaker 1: because apparently producing an audio podcast wasn't enough work. I
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  Speaker 1: looked around one day and realized I already owned most
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  Speaker 1: of what I needed. I had a camera, the microphone,
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  Speaker 1: the mixer, the computer. I started putting everything together, and amazingly,
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  Speaker 1: it worked, eventually. There were moments when I was pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure I'd created the world's most expensive collection of wires.
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  Speaker 1: But now I can sit right here, talking to this
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  Speaker 1: microphone and record video at the same time, which opens
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  Speaker 1: up some possibilities. We can still do the regular podcast,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe now we can do video episodes, maybe some
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  Speaker 1: live shows, maybe some interviews, maybe conversations with people who
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  Speaker 1: aren't sitting right here in the room with me. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know yet. And strangely enough, I'm okay with that.
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  Speaker 1: Because I've already made an episode called, You Should Start
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  Speaker 1: a Podcast. And sitting here today, I realized there was
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  Speaker 1: something bigger in that idea. Maybe sometimes you should just start.
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  Speaker 1: Not recklessly. Not without thinking. But you don't necessarily need
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  Speaker 1: to know what step 47 is before you're willing to
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  Speaker 1: take step 1. Because when I took step 1, I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't thinking about sitting in front of a camera. I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't thinking about interviewing a mayor. I wasn't thinking about
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  Speaker 1: covering local government meetings. I wasn't thinking about sponsors. I
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  Speaker 1: certainly wasn't thinking about having people actually recognize the name
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  Speaker 1: of the podcast. I just wanted to try something. And
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  Speaker 1: one thing led to another, then another, and another, and
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  Speaker 1: eventually I ended up sitting here talking to a camera.
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  Speaker 1: With absolutely nothing to talk about. And somehow, I got
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  Speaker 1: an episode out of it. That seems about right. So
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  Speaker 1: what changes now? Hopefully not much. I don't want this
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  Speaker 1: to suddenly become a polished television production where everything is perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Because that wouldn't be this show. There'll probably be mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: I'll probably look at the wrong camera. I've only got
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  Speaker 1: one camera. I'll probably forget I'm on camera. Something will
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  Speaker 1: eventually quit working in the middle of an episode, and
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  Speaker 1: that's almost guaranteed. I'm probably going to discover several things
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing completely wrong, but we're going to figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: The same way we figured out the podcast. One episode
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  Speaker 1: at a time. The microphone is still here. The coffee
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  Speaker 1: is still here. My questionable opinions are still here. The
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  Speaker 1: sarcasm isn't going anywhere. Now you just get to see
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  Speaker 1: the facial expressions that go with it. Again, sorry about
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  Speaker 1: So welcome to the next little chapter of the Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Stone podcast. I genuinely don't know exactly where this thing
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  Speaker 1: is going, but that's becoming part of what I like
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  Speaker 1: about it. We're going to keep talking about our community.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to keep asking questions. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about serious things when they're serious, and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: laugh at ridiculous things when they're ridiculous. And when I
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  Speaker 1: give you my opinion, I'm going to tell you it's
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  Speaker 1: my opinion. When something's factual, we'll try to verify it.
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  Speaker 1: And when we're talking about some wild conspiracy theory... Well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll definitely tell you it's a conspiracy theory. Probably. So
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  Speaker 1: whether you're watching now, or you're one of the three
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  Speaker 1: people still listening to the audio version, thank you. Seriously.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming along for this little experiment. You
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  Speaker 1: can find the Kevin Stone Podcast on Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Spotify,
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  Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, and Spreaker. And apparently now, you can actually
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  Speaker 1: see me too. I still haven't decided whether that's an improvement.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Kevin Stone. Thanks for listening. And now, thanks for watching.