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The Flow: Episode 14 - What are PodSwaps & Why I Need Them?

The Flow: Episode 14 - What are PodSwaps & Why I Need Them?

The Flow: Episode 14 - What are PodSwaps & Why I Need Them? : The Flow: Episode 14 - What are PodSwaps & Why I Need Them?

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In this episode, Doc and Jared Spink of "The Hive Podcast" are talking all about Pod Swaps and why as podcasters, we should be doing them.

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Transcript
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Aloha and welcome to the Flow.

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I am your community manager, Doc Rock.

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And today I have a special guest.

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Mr.

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Jared Spink of the Hive podcast.

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What's up Jay?

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What up Doc, man, thanks for having me.

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I'm super excited to be your guest cohost.

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I am not Katie Fawkes for all you guys listening or watching.

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So, sorry to disappoint, but I am very excited to fill in for her.

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I, I got big shoes to fill.

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But you do play, you do play one on TV.

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So the reason why we brought Mr.

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J in today is cuz we wanted to talk a little bit about pod swaps.

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And I had mentioned this before in a couple of shows when I come back from

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Podcast Movement, it was one of the more popular topics during Podcast Movement.

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As I was watching things going down there and hearing people talk and going

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to different sessions, Rich Graham and I had a conversation about it because I

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believe Rich went to a session where they specifically talked about it and then

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when Rich came back and was talking to me about it, I was like, this is brilliant.

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Now, we'll cover a couple different sides of it, but it was kind of

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apropo when Katie was going off to the conference with Caleb and they're

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enjoying themselves in England.

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Knowing good and well, I would've wanted to go so I could slide

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into a Manchester United game.

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I'm not angry at all.

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Just joking.

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I was like, you know, I think I have the perfect person to fill in because

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randomly Katie and I were both back to back guests on the Hive podcast.

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Well, it wasn't really random.

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I might have planned that.

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I might have put some effort into making sure you guys were back to back.

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Well, it was random to us.

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The time that she leaves would be perfect.

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Right after she had her appearance on your show.

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Yeah.

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So it was kind of perfect, right?

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First of all, before we dive all the way in, Jared, I just wanna tell everybody

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a little bit about you, but I'll let you explain the podcast side of it.

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Jared is one of the coolest creators in the planet.

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I had the pleasure of meeting Jared through Tom and Heather, and then

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randomly I was listening to his podcast after hearing, you know,

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Tom and Heather talk about it.

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Tom was on.

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And then Gary, The Everyday Dad, was on, and then Gerald Dunn was on.

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I was like, Wait a minute, this guy just pulling all the heaters.

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Then he had some superstar lady named Diana Gladney and I was like,

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Oh man, this is really, really good.

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And I got a little email.

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I was like, Hey, would you mind coming onto my show?

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And I'm like, Me?

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What?

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All right, cool.

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Episode 51 or 53.

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Oh, oh, I finally forgot what it was.

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. Well, actually I've been on a couple times.

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But it's a really good podcast for the people who are listening

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who have fortunately never heard of Jared Spink, please tell

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them about the Hive Podcast, Mr.

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J.

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Yeah, man.

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So, thanks for the kind intro.

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This is always funny cuz I'm used to being on the side where I'm asking people to

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explain what they do and who they are.

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So yeah, I host, as Doc said, the The Hive podcast, which is a podcast

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all about creators and creativity and really the entrepreneurship that goes

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into creativity, the ups, the downs, the struggles, everything that just

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goes into being a creative these days.

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Because I feel like hearing those stories, especially the struggles and

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how people get through them, motivates anybody that's listening to keep creating,

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to keep doing what they're doing.

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And that's ultimately the whole goal of the podcast is to motivate anyone that

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listens to go out there and create.

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If they're in the, like, if they're deep in it and they've been creating for

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a while, we all have those struggles.

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We all have those ups and downs, and we need that motivation.

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And we all go through it.

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And so I hope hearing those stories helps you push through and to keep going.

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And that's, I mean, that's the gist of it, man.

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That's the whole goal, is to keep people motivated, to keep 'em creating and

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to make sure they know that they're not alone in the struggles they face.

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That is clutch.

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I think it's very important to let other people see the

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way we do it from the inside.

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I think that a lot of people, and this is something I can say to everyone

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who's listening in the audience and everybody in our live studio

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audience, and we are recording live.

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We have a live studio audience every Tuesday at 12:00 PM Eastern.

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You can find us on our Ecamm YouTube channel.

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I think a lot of people that I've worked with that have helped set up studios

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or coach or whatever, they get that.

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It is absolutely cool to have that kimono wide open now, and, and this is

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in the proverbial sense, please do not walk around in your Teenage Mutant Ninja

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Turtle skibees with your kimono wide open.

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Not in public at least.

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Not yet.

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Not in public at least, right?

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Not the, And you going do Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle skibees.

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I'm gonna go maybe Donatello, I'm just saying.

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Anyway, so I think that people should let more of their audience see that

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inside, that sort of behind the scenes.

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And your show is almost a behind the scenes, you're

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inside the mind of a Creator.

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And to me that is just absolutely fantastic.

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It is still one of my favorite shows and I love to hear that even the

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people that I think are above me.

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Kind of like run into the same roadblocks I run into, you know?

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So I think that part was great when you had Sean Cannell and Sean was

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just talking about, you know, his, his upcoming and sort of what he goes

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through, even as a quite seasoned pro.

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Like it was very interesting to hear that side of the conversation.

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So appreciate you for the work you do.

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Yeah, that's fun because as an interviewer, you ask these questions

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and you hope to get some insight into some of the behind the scenes.

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And you, you don't know what the response is gonna be.

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You don't know what, what people are gonna say.

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So you gotta be prepared for anything.

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And that was one I wasn't expecting, but I was super happy he shared it on the show.

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Yes.

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I love that you say that as a interviewer.

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I have a surprise coming there for my people later today, but not on this show.

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That's on my show, You're gonna have to come over there and see what it's about.

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Okay.

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I'll be there.

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So let's talk about pod swaps.

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Have you heard this term before?

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I heard about it when you started talking about it and when you mentioned it.

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I think I told you when you came on the show after you went to these conferences.

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It's an amazing idea.

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It's an amazing idea and it's a great way to support each other.

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And, you know, I talked about this at Leap Into Podcasting.

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As a podcaster, your number one question is like, how do I grow my podcast?

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You wanna be able to grow your podcast and it's difficult to do.

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And obviously the number one way to do that is through video.

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We talked about that, but Pod Swap is another great way.

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It's a fantastic, I would say it's like, you know, you got one A and

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then one B because pod swaps is huge.

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It's huge because you're lending, well, not lending, you're stealing somebody

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else's credibility from their audience.

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Essentially, you're borrowing it to help your show.

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And you're also, you know, giving your credibility with your

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audience to help them grow theirs.

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So it's, it's a great idea.

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Yeah.

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It reminds me of sort of the peanut butter and the chocolate and

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the old Reese's Cup commercials.

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Right?

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The two good things come together and then you end up with something

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really, really fantastic.

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So basically, for the people that are playing along at home,

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there's two types of pod swaps.

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One is what would be known as an episode swap.

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Actually, technically there's three.

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An episode swap would be like, I would go do a episode of the Hive podcast for

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Jared and Jared would go do an episode of Creator Fifty or the Flow for me.

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He's a little bit young for Creator Fifty, but we'll let him slide.

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I'm getting there, man.

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I'm getting there.

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Don't worry.

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The minute you say Doc, my knees hurt.

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I'm like, bet you can cover for me while I come on vacation.

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But I tend to go on vacation in San Diego, so I'll be with you anyway.

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So that is where you're basically like swapping studios, right?

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You can do this as live productions.

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You can do these as special episodes.

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You can do these as a trading spaces, like that old TV show that used to come on TLC.

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Another type of pod swap, which I believe is super advantageous, is to

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do an ad read for your friend's show.

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Now, I do this naturally because Jared's show is just super dope, and whenever

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I see Jared in the chat and if I'm on my live stream, I always tell people

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they should definitely go and check out the Hive Podcast because as creators,

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there's some insights that you're gonna get from listening to his show.

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It's very valuable to my audience.

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It's helpful to introduce my audience to Jared's show, but it's also helpful that

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my audience, I know they're in good hands.

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Like Jared's the freaking all statement, right?

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If I pass my people, I say, Rob, man, I know you're growing your Disney thing.

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I need you to go over and check out what Jared's talking about on this show.

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Rob goes there and he checks it out and goes, Oh man, this is great.

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And then one day Jared's like, you know what?

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I haven't had a Disney Creator on yet.

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They're some of the most psycho creators in the planet.

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Hey Rob, what are you doing?

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You know what I'm saying?

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So you got the episode swap and you got the advertiser swap, and then

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you got to host each other's show.

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So one day I would just go and I would be a guest host on Jared's show, just

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like Jared is a guest host today.

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That's the pod swap that we most recently did because like I stated in the

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pre-show, Katie and I both were guests on the Hive podcast releasing very soon.

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Yeah.

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And now Jared is a guest for us.

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Now.

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It's great that there's three different methods to it because I think the style

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of your show would kind of dictate what method you want to do, right?

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Because not each method will work for each style of style.

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Correct.

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Like, yeah, it'd be real funny to have you on as a guest for, let's say somebody

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who has a Go Get Em Girl podcast.

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Like this is not gonna match.

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Say, Hey, this is, uh, Jerissa Spink.

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But they might, but they might do like a quote unquote ad read for

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the Hive podcast, if they enjoy it, they send their audience over there.

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So that's where it would make sense to figure out which method

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works for your style of show.

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I think you bring up a key point.

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So what would be some of the considerations that you would

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have in order to say, do an ad read for someone's show?

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The considerations?

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I think it, what it comes down to is if you, if there is a show that you enjoy

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listening to, I think it's worth maybe reaching out and talking about doing

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like, I hate using the word ad read, but like an ad read for that person's

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show to send your audience over there because your audience probably has a

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lot of the same interests that you have.

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That's why they're listening to you most likely.

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And so if you're interested in a podcast, your audience might too, and they might

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actually, you might even build a stronger audience because you're giving them

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more valuable resources and tools for whatever it is because you're giving

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them a podcast they may not know of.

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And pod people that listen to podcasts are always looking for

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new and more podcasts to listen to, so they're gonna be grateful.

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I think I agree with you.

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I kind of, I don't like the terminology ad read so much either, so I was sorry.

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That's my old radio brain kicking in.

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Promo read.

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We can say promo.

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We're gonna call them promo swaps cuz then that's a good, or it's

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a promo read or a promo swap.

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That's where like, and I often do it as natural as possible, like, I'm often like

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gang, if you're, if you're a creator and you want to have some good insight on

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what goes on in the nugget of US creators, you really gotta be listening to the

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Hive Podcast by my buddy Jared Spink.

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First of all, Jared's a class act.

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He's a really good guy, but he brings on some of the top creators in the industry,

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people like Sean Cannell or the Everyday Dad or myself, and of course Miss Diana

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Gladney, you know, things like that.

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So you can talk it through like that, you know, tight T-shirt,

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Terry . So you can, uh, you can talk about it in that particular sense.

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And in that way it's like when I was in Dallas, Rich was like, Yo, I got this

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restaurant I want you to check out.

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And so Rich took us to go to Terry Black's barbecue and could nobody from the Ecamm

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family say nothing for like a half an hour solid cuz we were just feasting.

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It was literally one of the best experiences I ever had.

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So one hanging out with my homie, but taking them to a good restaurant.

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Introducing your friends to dope pods like that is not dissimilar

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from introducing your friends to your favorite restaurant or your

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favorite watering hole, if you will.

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So I think that last, last method is pretty dope.

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Now, I just know, and this is sidetrack for a second people,

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everybody playing along at home.

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This is why you should probably come to the live tapings.

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Speaking of my buddy Rich, I'm looking at the comments and Rich

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said, Let's introduce a fourth method.

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The fourth method, we're gonna call this the Graham Swap.

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After my Buddy Rich, record your own ad and send it out for others to play.

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I like that.

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Yeah.

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You know, that was my first thought when you mentioned,

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when you mentioned them, like when we first talked about this and

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you asked me to like send you over one, I thought you were asking for

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me to actually like record one.

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So I, I thought those, that's what they were, what Rich is saying.

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But that is a great method because you lend your voice and you're getting

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your voice out there to more people.

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And who's, who's better to explain your show than you?

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You know who does that really well is the New York Times Network

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and the uh, not Radiolab Network.

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What is that thing called?

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NPR.

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NPR.

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I was gonna say the Radiolab Network.

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Sorry.

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Ja Arod.

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Yeah, they do that really well.

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They will run ad reads from the host of a different show on a show.

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Be like, Hi, I'm Sean Criter, and this week on The Hidden Brain we're gonna talk

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about eating barbecue with Rich Graham.

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So I hope I did sh good cuz that was a really bad version of him.

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But that's a dope show by the way.

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Yeah, I mean, that's a great way to do it.

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But ultimately, like you just gotta find the method that works for you because all

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you want to do is try to get your show in front of more people and someone else's

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audience and you want them to basically lend you their credibility, their

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audience for 15, 30 seconds so you can try to get more people over to your show.

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Yes.

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And I, you know, I think the other thing that's good about the way that Rich

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mentions it, this, this gonna sound super corny, but I can do ad reads like a champ.

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Why?

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Because I was in radio for years.

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Like, it's just part of the game.

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I was listening to Uncle Ray, Ray Edwards podcast yesterday, and Chris, his son,

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reads incredible ads, but Chris also comes from radio, so sometimes you want to have,

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you know, someone read it for you because they're just really good at it, right?

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Yeah.

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If you don't feel comfortable with reading it, but you have somebody

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dope in your community, I think like Rich has a fantastic voice.

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I could get Rich to read one.

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Rob has a really good voice.

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Luis is loud.

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You might not know.

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He talked quiet to us in backstage, but in reality, that dude's loud.

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So you can have, like, you can have Luis, do you a read or I'm like, Hey Luis, can

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you read this in Spanish for my group?

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This week on the Hive Podcast...

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I'm gonna, I'm gonna say there's a fifth one now, right?

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Is we can do a, we do a, we do a, a hybrid, right?

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Because I'd much rather say, Hey, you know what guys?

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If you wanna learn more about what it takes to develop a podcast,

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you really should listen to the Flow podcast put on by Ecamm.

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Katie and Doc, they're fantastic hosts and you learn a lot.

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Let's have them tell you a little bit more about the show.

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Doc, take it away and then like, bam, have you do it.

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So not only are you lending your voice and credibility to their show,

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and then you also, you know, get to introduce them to your audience.

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I like that.

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That's a good, that's a good sandwich read.

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We used to call those sandwich reads in the radio where you

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know, you would start it.

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I would put in the part that comes from the ad agency and then you'd close the

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end and it makes a nice sandwich read.

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I think that shows like Smartless, which is one of my favorites right now,

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and they do that really, really well.

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So, man, you guys are getting all the heaters today from Mr.

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J.

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Rad because that is another fantastic way to do it.

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You could also use these for IG Reels, you know, when you're doing your promotion or

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you can use them for, you know, some other shorts where that is sort of effective.

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I wouldn't necessarily do it say on YouTube unless there's a point.

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People come to YouTube looking for answers and commercials not

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really an answer, but you might be able to get away with it in IG or

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LinkedIn or something of that nature.

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But I gotta stress moderation, right?

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Moderation and anything, just like editing.

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Just anything moderation, right?

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Because you don't wanna bombard your audience, right?

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And you don't wanna seem like you're selling out your credibility to every

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single show that you listen to or that wants to get in front of your audience.

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So moderation, definitely.

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Very much so.

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You know, I get requests from time to dime to be on shows, and I

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actually kind of like to do a dive on their show first to see how it is.

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I have been a guest on shows and in the middle of it, I'm like, Why did I do

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this ? And it's not, I know people gotta try and everybody's getting in where

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they start and so I don't know why they would think this, but maybe somebody

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thought, Oh, if I get doctor come on the show, like it might gimme a little boost.

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That is possible.

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But what you don't wanna happen is like, I don't want to have.

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Let's say Darrell Eves or Mr.

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Beast on my podcast, so I can have one episode that rips.

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I'd rather have the slow climb up the mountain growth and eventually

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get to the destination like how you tried to get me lost in San Diego.

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I didn't get you lost in, I took you everywhere, man.

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It was, it was the Uber driver's fault.

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It wasn't your fault.

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I would just go ahead and say, I let you off the hook.

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But yeah, I, I think you have to be real careful of getting like, or

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wanting that one big, you know, fish if you will, because you're, you're

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not gonna be able to sustain the audience if you're not ready for it.

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So definitely put some thought into it before you do this.

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How say you?

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I agree.

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You gotta put some thought into it.

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Um, just like you put effort and thought into your show, you wanna do the same

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thing with what you, you know, put on the show and what you promote on the show.

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Definitely.

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All right.

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So I got one more question for you, and this one's a good one, I think.

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Who is somebody that you would love to interview that

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you haven't interviewed yet?

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Ooh, that's a good question, man.

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I always have a running list.

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I.

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Let's see.

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I'm gonna answer that a different way, right?

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Because I don't want to spoil any future possible guests, right?

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Because I like them to be surprises, right?

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Always thinking like a true podcaster.

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I will say there is somebody that I am working to get back on the show.

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That was, I got so much positive feedback on this episode, and this

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episode probably changed the way I approached my interviews a little bit.

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It made me way more comfortable with the show.

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It was a real turning point for me as the host of the show.

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I have a guess.

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Who?

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Pat Flynn?

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No, no, no, no.

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Cause that was one of my favorite episodes.

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No, no.

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It was, it was.

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And you know, some of the people here might not know if you're not like

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following like the filmmaking niche on YouTube, but, uh, Danny Goertz, So Danny

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came on the show almost two years ago.

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It was a fantastic episode.

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That show still is probably the, is the top performing episode of the entire show,

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right out of 98 episodes that are now up, that one's still the best performing

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one and continues to get listens, even though it was from two years ago.

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And I'm working to get him back on the show.

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That's a trend I've been doing is having repeat guests come back on

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because our journey as creatives over the last two years has changed so much.

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People have gone away and come back.

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We've gone through so much over the last two years, so having people back

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on hearing about what's changed, I mean, Danny's now making a full on movie.

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His channel was, was small when he was on, and now he's over a

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hundred thousand subscribers.

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He's gone on trips with Maddie Hapoia.

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He's done all these amazing collaborations, so getting

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him back on is gonna be great.

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Talking about how that growth has affected him and how it's changed his creativity.

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So that's, that's one I'm having back on.

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Soon, hopefully.

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You know what's really funny?

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He just got married, so I'm kind of working with that, too.

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During the rise and shine of certain podcast.

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Sorry, certain creators, everybody was all about Peter.

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And then when Peter and Matt started working together, I resonate with Mattie

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more cuz he's more of a goofball like me.

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And I mean, talented is all good, but I as like his style better.

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And Mattie laughs at himself constantly and so do I.

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So I actually think if I were to hang out with them, I'd probably be more apt

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to hang out with Mattie, then Peter.

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Even though most of us shooters, they just love themselves, or Peter

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McKenna, I just think Mattie's a much funnier person and even better

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than that, , his brother is the best.

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Depa is freaking super funny and doesn't know it.

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But he's just super hilarious there.

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I think maybe it's just something super genuine about Icelandic

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people, because it's cold.

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So you gotta be nice to people so that when you stand next to

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them, you can absorb some warmth.

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But they're just super, super great guys.

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I really would love to kick it with them.

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So I, I think that's a good call on the episode because I think it would be very

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interesting for your audience to see Yeah, how things have changed and what is it,

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what is the growth, like, what's the same.

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I think everyone wants to know what's changed.

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I think another thing is what's the same, because you, there's assumptions, right?

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People are gonna have assumptions that a lot of things have changed.

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But like for us, one thing that never changes.

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White balance.

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You must white balance some stuff.

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I don't care how good the tech, yet, the tech still ain't caught

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up with a good, you know, x right color checker still has it.

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I keep hoping for it, but nope.

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Still gotta have it.

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All right, so before we go to q and a, I would like to ask a good question.

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What is something about podcasting in general that you feel

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enough people aren't asking?

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Ooh, enough people aren't asking.

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I think.

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I think too many people are asking about what gear they need.

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Right.

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And that's not the most important thing, just get the basics to

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get started because, the gear will come, you're gonna upgrade,

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you're gonna find different stuff.

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I mean, I've used four different microphones in the last almost

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three years that I've been doing the show, cuz you find the one that you

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like and until you find another one that you like Right, you move on.

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But I, I think enough people aren't asking.

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Um, man, that's such a good question.

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What aren't people asking?

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Cuz there are so many questions related to podcast.

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And I keep thinking of what people are focusing on and they're

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focusing on how to grow, which is important, how to make money.

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I guess that's important, you know, depending on, on your goals and what

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you need, uh, the gear, like, okay, that's all mediocre stuff, but how

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do you, how do you, I think enough people aren't, I think people aren't

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asking, How do you stay consistent?

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How do you keep going?

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I mean, that's been my biggest struggle since I started the podcast.

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I thought I'd be at a hundred episodes way before now.

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Right?

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But life gets in the way.

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Work gets in the way.

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Stuff gets in the way.

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So how do you bounce back and keep going when you have those

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low moments and those down moments that make it tough to get back to

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scheduling an episode to hit record?

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I mean, hit and record is probably the hardest thing to do.

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It really is.

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And there's so many things that can get in the way.

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And so how do you stay motivated?

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Even when you know you have plenty of reasons not to be motivated.

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I think that's an important question.

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There you go.

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Okay.

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So normally I like to save the q and a for the q and a in order to

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give a little bit of bonus to the people that come for the live taping.

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So just a reminder, we do the live taping every Tuesday at 12:00 PM Eastern.

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But Julie just asked a really fantastic question, so I'm gonna actually pull

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one from the live studio audience.

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See, that's why you gotta watch live, guys.

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Come on.

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You gotta come to the live show, right?

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I, I think live taping is one of the dopest things

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anybody can do as a podcaster.

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And here's a, here's a question from Julie.

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I'm going to attempt to read this out good.

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It says, What are your thoughts on taking a break from your show?

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I'm gonna break now after three years of weekly shows.

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I need the break, but nervous about listeners not sticking around.

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Okay.

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I'm gonna let you answer that first J and then I'll give my answer.

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Okay.

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So she's not on a three year break, she's just taking a break, but she's

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been going for three years, I think.

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Is, is if I'm understanding that right.

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Um, breaks are important.

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You absolutely have to do them.

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And if anything, I think that makes your audience a little bit more, um,

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I don't wanna say faithful, but like committed to the show because I'm

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gonna assume that you watch tv, right?

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Cause all of us watch tv.

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Do you have a show that you like watching And what happens when, like,

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the season's over and they take a break?

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You look forward.

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You, you anticipate, you're excited to see what's coming for the next season.

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For the new episode.

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You're excited about it.

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And I think that taking a break builds more excitement around the show.

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So people aren't taking it for granted.

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I think after you do it for weeks and weeks and weeks, people start

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to take it for granted and it's not, so when there's not a new episode,

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they're like, Wait, wait, where is it?

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I don't think they, they forget how important it is to them.

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So it builds commitment to the show.

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I think taking a break's important, um, and most important, and I've

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learned this from making the mistake, just keep your audience informed.

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Like, Hey, we're gonna take a little bit of a break.

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I need to recoup.

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We're going to, you know, plan some future episodes.

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We've got some exciting things in store for you, so we're

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gonna take a quick break.

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But if you enjoy the show, don't worry.

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It's not going anywhere.

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Go back and listen to some of your favorite episodes.

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These are mine.

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Go check 'em out.

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You know, so you, you can still keep that audience listening.

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Um, but you know, it's just, it's the nature of things with podcasts.

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It's, it's an up and down slope.

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So I think taking a break's important.

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Absolutely.

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I don't think it's going to affect your audience.

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I've actually seen more growth on my show when I come back from a break.

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I see more downloads and more listens when I've come back.

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So take that for what it's worth.

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I bet.

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Yeah.

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That's.

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That's a fact.

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I think two good strategies on breaks are mail bag episodes, right?

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Cause you can record them in chunks on the way, or you can just sit down one

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Sunday and just go through a bunch of questions that you get from the chat.

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Like this here or from your email or from Twitter or wherever

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you collect questions, right?

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For us, it'd be like Discord or the Volley do a back episode.

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I also think another fantastic hitter, and this is something that Roy just

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mentioned in the chat as well is to do a best of episode or compilation.

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Sometimes you have a hitter, right?

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So something comes up next week and Jared needs a break.

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Jared can say, you know, I wanna play back for you what has been

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probably my favorite episode.

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Now, wifey and I are gonna go to Hawaii and I'm not gonna be able to

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put out an episode this week, but I wanted to bring it back in case you're

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new to the show and you miss this, or even if you listen to it in the past.

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To me, this is my favorite episode, so I'm gonna put this up for a rebroadcast.

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When I return from the islands, I will be back again and here's the next guest

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up on deck, and then play the Danny episode or play the Doc Rock episodes.

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See, those are all great ideas.

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Um, but I still go back to like, there's nothing wrong with not

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having a new episode up every week.

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Oh, a hundred percent.

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That's, that's totally self-imposed on us because, Our thoughts on YouTube, right?

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Because if you don't put a new episode up every week on YouTube,

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yes, that does hurt your channel.

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It really can.

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But podcasts are totally different cuz there is no algorithm ranking.

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These really, I mean there is, but for most of our shows

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it's not gonna affect us.

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Well you remember at Leap, right?

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The conversation was seasons seasons seasons, like everybody

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was all about the seasons.

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I personally don't do seasons because I will lose track of it, but yeah, do

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seasons like Tom, Tom is really good.

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Tom Buck, The Enthusiasm podcast is really good with these 10 episode

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seasons and then Tom goes to play with the dog for two months.

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They come back

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and, and do you know what it does?

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It makes the audience more loyal to the show because they look forward to it.

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They're like, they're bummed when it's over and they look

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forward to when it's back.

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I know this because I'm one of them.

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Me too.

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It's, uh, you know, and I will also say this too, Julie, my Red

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Sox are taking a break until April because we gotta find pitchers.

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So, you know, I was about to become a Padres fan, but they just as bad.

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Hey man.

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Hey, hey, hey, hey.

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We pulled it, we pulled it together.

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We beat the Dodgers and so that's all I care about.

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Right?

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Whether you like it or not, it happens and everything.

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If it was up to me, cherries would be 24 7, but they are much better

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when fresh season, not these, you know, aqua things or been frozen

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things or something like that.

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And so we're used to it with TV shows.

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We're used to it with fruits.

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Uh, man, Game of Thrones will put us on pause for two and a half years and then

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it'll come up with a hitter like Hot D.

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Hot D is actually amazing.

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House of the Dragon.

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I think the fear of not wanting to take a break.

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It's a bigger content creation issue in the grand scheme of things because

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we've gotten this mind frame that if we're not creating, we're not growing.

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But that's just not true.

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It's just not true, especially when it comes to podcasts.

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So absolutely, it's okay to take a break, but the most important thing I think is.

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You gotta just as your show evolves, keep your audience informed and

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keep 'em a part of the process.

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Yes.

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And they're gonna appreciate that.

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A hundred percent.

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If you tell your audience, you know, here's a funny thing

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that I think people forget.

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Uh, do you know when you grow as a human, when you're resting, it's the

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reason why kids between the age of 12 and 15 are so hard to wake up,

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and why didn't they sleep so long?

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Because they're growing like, like a weed, as grandpa used to say, Grandpa didn't

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know about my growing, Nevermind anyway.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So you know, Doc, like it's true.

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I really have seen more growth in the show when I've come back

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from a break and, and you got that energy, that fire, like right?

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And you're gonna have peaks and valleys.

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I mean, when you look, if you go look at your podcast analytics, Of

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course you're gonna have a spike when a new episode releases, of course,

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because there's auto downloads.

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People listen the day it comes out, and then it trails off because then

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you get the people that listen during different times and everything.

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But that's just the nature of podcasting.

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It's never going to be a steady like upline graph where

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it's just goes up nonstop.

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It's all peaks and valleys.

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But the important thing is those peaks and valleys slowly go up over time,

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those downs aren't as bad as they are when you first start, and those ups go a

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lot higher than when you first started.

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I mean, I look at my graph and it's, it's like that nonstop.

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But it continues to go higher overall.

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So don't be afraid taking a break

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and to run it back to this team.

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You can always do pod swaps while you take a break.

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you can have, you can have people come in and fill in for you while you're gone.

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This is one of the benefits of having little pod swap

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network type situation set up.

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It might even not be that they come and run your show.

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You can play an episode of their show on your feed.

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I've actually seen that done before too.

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So I guess that kind of makes it a fifth way to do a pod swap.

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I already, I already came out with a fifth way.

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That's a six way.

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Oh yeah.

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Okay.

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See man, by the time we're done, Jared and I are gonna need

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a whole course on pod swaps.

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So gang.

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Mr.

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J, tell the folks how to get ahold of some Hive action.

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Cause to me, it's one of my favorite listens.

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And I think what it is I've had the experience of listening to you grow as a

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podcaster over the last year and a half.

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Ah, thanks man.

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Yeah.

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So you can, you can go follow me at Jared Spink on Instagram or Twitter.

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You can go check out the show at the Hive Underscore Podcast on Instagram.

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Or just go to the Hive Podcast on your favorite podcast listener of choice.

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But there's also a video version of course, because

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we're all about video here.

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So you can go check out the video version of the podcast on my YouTube channel.

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My channel's name is Jared Spink.

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It's just me.

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Go check it out.

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We're almost at 3000 followers or subscribers on YouTube.

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We're like seven away as of this morning.

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So if you guys haven't subscribed, go subscribe.

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Hit me a hit a thousand, uh, 3000 today.

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That would be great.

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That would be dope.

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And if you do that, if you do that, you're gonna be able to see the live recording

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of the Hive podcast, which will be our hundredth episode tentatively scheduled.

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Tentatively for the 16th of this month.

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So exciting.

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Oh dude, that is dope.

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Okay.

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Yeah, right.

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Let's go.

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Let's go get Jay over the hump for that hundee.

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And then let's all show up for the hundred and let's just Ecamm fam swarm his Hive.

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We'll bring our bees over to his, We'll just go over there and just take over.

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We're gonna do the Hive podcast take over with the flow riders, right?

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We'll show up on our bikes with the tassels on the side.

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Well, somebody is coming, someone is coming to take over the show

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that episode, it'll be me as the guest and a special guest host.

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Be fun.

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Diana Gladney always teases that when her and India opened up the

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floodgates on my Let's Get Live community, they were like, We got our

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bikes and we rode over to Doc's house.

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We seen all these bikes in the parking lot at Doc's house, and we just

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went over there and so they brought all these people to the yard, . So

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yeah, we were gonna all get our.

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What is it?

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PF flyer was a wagon, the huffy.

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You wanna have a little huffy with castles on it and ride

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over to Jay's house like Sandlot

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Okay guys, thank you so much.

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Flow Riders.

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Thank you for coming to the live taping.

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Thank you, uh, Julie, Roy and Rich for allowing me to like, use you guys

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as, as examples during this show.

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If you yourself want to become a part of the live studio audience, not really

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a studio, it's virtual, make sure you are on YouTube every Tuesday, 12:00

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PM Eastern, over on the Ecamm channel.

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You can find the podcast at flow dot Ecamm dot com.

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Of course, you can reach out to us.

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Questions, comments, feedback.

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Wanna be a guest?

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Wanna find a particular guest?

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You can hit that all up over on flow at Ecamm dot com or jump onto the Volley.

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You can do it with your phone, you can do it with your computer.

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You can leave a question via a video.

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You could leave a question by text or just audio.

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It's a really fantastic way for you to engage with your audience.

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So big ups over to the squad at Volley that, that's a rap man.

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We did another fantastic show, but you know, we could not do

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this show without two things.

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One Flow Riders cuz you guys just absolutely rock.

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You make it easy to sit down and have a conversation with my

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buddy Jay and talk about the Hive podcast and pod swaps and all.

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Cuz I feel like, you know, we were chilling at a taco stand

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off of B Street in San Diego.

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It's called the Taco Stand.

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It's amazing.

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I don't know why they named it that.

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It's just amazing.

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I thought this can't be good.

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Who would name someplace something this danged stupid?

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Oh my goodness.

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Yeah, it's amazing.

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We got the best tacos, man.

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Right across the WeWork, by the way.

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