Ghostreaders Podcast

Welcome back to the podcast after a long hiatus!
In this episode, hosts Michae and Quintell discuss a range of topics, from their business structure to their love for Nicolas Cage.

They also share some tips on how to keep children quiet, as well as their excitement about being empty nesters from 9am - 2pm (on school days). The hosts also delve into the pros and cons of having multiple kids versus having just one.

Listeners get a glimpse into the real reason why Michae and Quintell started the podcast and why they believe everyone should have one. They also reveal their plans for introducing video content.

Quintell is currently reading ‘Medical Apartheid’ by Harriett A. Washington, while Michae is reading ‘How Not to Be Wrong’ by Jordan Ellenberg. However, the hosts do take a break to discuss gum for an unusually long time, but also promise to keep their listeners engaged with a show every week.
Listeners will be entertained by their last gum story and will learn an interesting fact about how many pieces of small gum make up a normal-sized piece of gum. Lastly, the hosts share their fondness for vintage gum.

Stay tuned for more exciting episodes in the future!







We’ve been absent from these podcast streets for a while! Today Michae & Quintell talk about:
- Why we haven’t done a show in a while
- Their business structure
- Ways to keep our children quiet
- Excitement about being empty nesters from 9am - 2pm
- Having multiple kids vs. 1 kid
- The real reason why we even have a podcast
- You should have a podcast too!!
- We have a thing for Nicolas Cage
- Video is on the way!!!
- Quintell is reading ‘Medical Apartheid’
- Michae is reading ‘How Not to Be Wrong’
- Warning! Michae & Quintell talk about gum for about 7 -8 minutes (an unreasonably long period of time to be discussing gum and the talk about something else and then circle back to gum!!!!) Its really only 5 minutes but that’s still too long
- …and they sing the Big Red theme song
- We promise to have a show for y’all weekly
- Plans for the show going forward
- One last gum story before we go
- How many pieces of small gum make up a normal sized piece of gum?
- Vintage gum

After watching This is Us, Michae and Quintell talk about parenting and life as a parent, hiring movers and dessert.

Michae and Quintell give their perspective on Harriett

In this episode
- Quintell talks about Michae’s type B-ness
- You get to see what it looks like when Michae & Quintell argue
- Couch Conversations was born!!!
- The podcast is just another way for us to hang out
- Never show up to Maury or Jerry Springer if you’re invited
- Check out The Slight Edge, great book!
- Greatness is built on consistency
- Is it racist to talk about race?
- Michae & Quintell have favorite apples
- The aggravation of talking about race with people who don’t know anything about the topic
- ‘What about Chicago?’ Actually has nothing at all to do with Chicago or crime
- Supporting or empowering Black people is not racist
- Michae is also a photographer and specializes in plus size boudoir; www.asharpphoto.biz

In this episode, Quintell & Michae touch on:

- Do you think fiction books are a waste of time?
- Is consumption of fiction more acceptable on screen than on paper?
- Education can be entertainment too!
- Great writing has its own merit whether its ‘real’ or not
- Michae & Quintell love the whole Stephen Universe musical catalog
- If you have kids, buy them books!
- Check out ‘On Writing' by Stephen King
- Find your genre
- Quintell hates zombies and time travel
- Check out the Brilliance saga by Marcus Sakey
- Great fiction is grounded in truth (Lovecraft Country, Transformers, X-Men)
- When is the ‘Rainbow Six’ movie gonna happen!!
- Michae appears in Laurence Fishburne’s narration of ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X’ but only in his friend Matt’s head
- Ask us a question and if we like your question, we will answer on air and talk about your book
- Pick up one of our voiceover templates from www.audacitytemplate.com and narrate your own book!
- We can handle your sound like Neo handled the Merovingian in The Matrix
- Comedians are neither fiction nor nonfiction, they’re just funny
- Be sure to check out the Editor Knows Best podcast

On this episode, Michae & Quintell talk about:

- Sounding White
- Society needs a neuralizer
- Everybody in New York sounds Black?
- Do Black Brits ‘sound Black’?
- Are Black voices ‘heavier’?
- CCM vs. Gospel
- Black male sopranos have a ‘thinner sound’
- White artists who sing R&B have a ‘thicker sound’
- The process of learning and evolving as an artist
- Your 'why' informs the work that you do
- Never minimize the importance of following instructions
- Networking isn’t always about pushing your product
- People who get angry about services tailored to Black people
- Check out Equity Matters Podcast
- Acknowledgment > Inclusion
- People’s hatred of being on the phone
- Audiobooks paint the picture just as well as paper books
- You can miss out on major things by not following instructions!!!

In this episode, Michae & Quintell talk about
- High King Margo
- Audio time travel
- Definition of ‘talmbout’
- Check out coupleupgame.com
- Spouses working together
- How do you create space for people you love?
- How do you manage when you love someone but you don’t necessarily love what they love?
- Staying in your creative lane
- A great partner who is a horrible co-worker
- Staying on mission
- Authors contact us to talk about your book on our show: [email protected] (Michae has a hard time saying this sentence…)
- Be sure to check out author Dr. Evona Lee Smith

On today’s show, Michae & Quintell talk about
- Bookers (one who books)
- Appleheads
- How perfect zoom meetings can be
- Interview with amazing author Dr. Evona Lee Smith and her books, Sabrina’s Pandemic World and Breathe
- How books can serve people
- Quintell does not people…
- Extroverts vs. introverts
- Are vampires undead?
- Michae’s Denzel Washington/Kevin Hart impression mashup which he calls, Kevin Washington
- Pick up Dr Smith’s books at: www.strengthbuilderspublishing.com
- Be sure to check out CaTyra Polland and Editor Knows Best; great podcast!
- Help us name out new feature and get a gift!! Give us a name for it on FB, Twitter or IG @ghostreadersinc

In this episode, Michae & Quintell talk about
- Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt
- Racism from a neuropsych perspective
- Grey’s Anatomy
- The importance of respecting the culture of the characters in books and film/tv,
- Luke Cage, 2nd season
- Actual drummers hate Drumline
- How TV shows and movies get Black church wrong
- The pronunciation of Rick Riordan’s name
- Compare and contracts Riordan and J. K. Rowling
- Making characters distinct
- How Black people responded to the terrorist attack on the US Capitol
- We will have author Dr. Evona Lee Smith on our next show
- We are open for author interviews: email us at [email protected]

In this episode of the Ghostreaders Podcast, Michae and Quintell chop it up about:
- Is getting an audiobook a luxury or should every author have one?
- The metaphysically of selling audiobooks
- Quintell gives a Marvel/Michae disclaimer
- What you can afford to spend vs. what you can’t afford not to spend
- Shout out to the Dade County Youth Fair (f you know, you know)
- What they’ve read recently and what they are reading right now
- Crazy Busy by Kevin Deyoung
- Kids don’t have cars...