Dave from True Media Solutions

Dave from True Media Solutions in Canada discusses his passion for podcasting and shares insights into his various shows, including "Dad Space" and "Living the Next Chapter." He enjoys editing and helping others improve their podcast audio, emphasizing the creativity involved in the process. Dave reflects on his musical background, which contributes to his podcasting skills, and highlights the value of storytelling, particularly for his children to hear his voice in the future. He also addresses the current fascination with AI in content creation, noting that while it can assist in various ways, it cannot replace the unique voice and creativity of individual creators. The conversation touches on personal experiences in public speaking and the importance of adapting to new technology in the podcasting landscape. Overall, Dave's enthusiasm for his work and the connections formed through podcasting shine throughout the discussion.

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Well, yeah, I'm in Canadian. I'm in Celsius, but it's 14 Celsius, whatever that is in Fahrenheit. I think you just double it. Double it? There you go. Okay, that's good. I think you double it. For Fahrenheit, you double it net 12. See, not only are you fun to talk to on the screen, but you're super smart with math. I just made that up. Okay, that's good. I like it. I'll go with it. Okay. Hey, everybody, and welcome to this conversation with Dave from True Media Solutions in Canada. Dave's got a bunch of different shows. You want to tell everybody what your shows are, Dave? Oh, how long is the podcast, Bob? We've got about five minutes. We're good. Okay, five minutes. We're good. Yeah, a bunch of shows. I have a podcast for dads called Dad Space. I have a How to Podcast series. Teachers Podcasting. Bob has been a great guest on there. Unauthor Podcasts.So many great things. Wow. And I just love podcasting. I think I do six to ten episodes a week, Bob. Really? Yeah. And it's all here at truemediasolutions.ca. Not to be confused with any other C that's in the internet world. Yeah, CA is because I'm in Canada. Right, yeah. Well, hey, I mean, you can get the other ones, can't you, up there? I mean, they'd like to do that. Yeah, sometimes it's expensive, but yeah. Yeah, but I was going to say, but you like to have the Canadian branding these days is much more valuable. There you go. I would say, I don't know, maybe people have their opinion on it, but I'm not sure. But you do a bunch of the now, I mean, do you do other stuff as well? Because I'm assuming that you don't just do shows all day, right? You do other things too. I'm a musician. I've been doing music for 45 years. I am old.But, yeah, then I also have a job. I have a night job. I work overnights. So I listen to podcasts where I work. I get away with it, and I love listening to shows. You get away with it. Yeah. This is a secret. Yeah, don't tell anybody. This is not being recorded, right, Bob? Yeah. No, not at all. No, not at all, no. Yeah, that's not the purpose of this poll process. So, yeah, no, that's great. So, I mean, it's fantastic. So then how did you – when did you jump on the bandwagon, I guess, is what I'm curious about. Because you're really invested at this point. And so at some point, there was a time where you're like, you know what? This might be fun. I was doing editing for podcasters here and there prior to the global event, which we will leave at that. And I wasn't podcasting at that point, but I was editing for people. I have all the equipment because I'm a musician.to do editing and recording and i'd have rehearsals here in my house, send back recordings of the rehearsal to the band so they could hear what we were doing together. So I was already doing it. I had all the gear. I'm like, well, why don't i just do this? I love podcasts as a listener. So I'm going to start. So just before the global event, I started creating my shows and one show became nine. So now i have a lot. That's hilarious. So that's fun, though. I find, to be honest with you, I find over the years that a lot of musicians do this. I mean, this is like almost a stereotype. The fact that I'm not a musician, I am the outlier on all this kind of stuff. Because even in the early, early days, a lot of people who were involved with this were all, you know,involved in music in some way, shape or form. I think that had to do with, like you said, with having all the equipment and, and kind of having a certain level of knowledge that makes it a lot easier. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So, but I do find that incredibly interesting that, I mean, like probably, you know, seven or eight times out of 10, if I ask somebody, they'll, Oh yeah, I'm also a musician. Right. And I do this. And I'm just like, go for it. I mean, that's wild, don't you think? I mean, I actually came to it from being very interested in radio, which is gone now, I mean, pretty much. I mean, there's radio, but it's not the same as what it was, right? So that's where my angle that I came in on is like, oh, this is like radio that I can do.Okay, well then I'll do that. Yeah, if you have a creative bent or you're just a creative person writing art, music, this is just a natural progression, I think. As I watch you, Bob, the blue cat, I see creativity just oozing from you and how you do your shows. Those are freckles. Those are freckles? Okay. I love how creative you are and how you do your show. I just think that if you're a creative person, podcasting might be something you might be interested in. That's fun. So now let me ask you this. So when you were a kid, right? Cause especially with people involved in music, I think are more prone to this. Did you ever just record yourself on a cassette or something? And I mean, no one ever heard it, but you went through and did a show on your old cassette recorder. Yeah. When I was dating my wife, which is quite a while ago,Um, she went on a trip, a road trip and I wasn't able to go. So I made her like the mixtape, you know, the mixtape. Oh yeah. The mixtape. But I also added in like, added in like, like talk shows and commercials. And I'm like between the songs, I made my own radio show back with like cassettes back in the day. So yeah. Yeah. I've been doing this for quite a while. Yep. One of my, uh, when I was a kid, uh, I was a kid, but probably like, you know, uh, pre-teen kind of time period. The best gift i ever got was a dual cassette system so i had it lp you know played records and then it had dual cassette radio and all that kind of stuff. Um, it was, that was probably one of the best gifts that i ever got. Um, because, well, first of all, I stole music. Unfortunately, that's probably not the best thing to say buti did. All my friends and i would, you know, whoever had what album, we would, we would make cassette copies. But, um, but then the other thing was, is then you could do, you could do minor production, right? Because you had a way to play something and then it record you know, and you could plug a microphone in and you could do a voice over over the top of the music, you know, and play dj and what have you. That was just so much fun. I remember, you still remember vividly, um, you know, hours of, of kind of goofing around and putting together, well, I guess it would be hours, probably about 45 what's how much is the side of a regular cassette? 45 minutes, 60 minutes yeah yeah so something like that. And, uh, it was just a great fun. So your journey is probably not that far off. It sounds like. No. And I think,Those mixtapes were like our love letters to our girlfriends at the time. And podcasting can be a love letter today without having to flip it over after 30 years, right? Right. That's funny, kind of a quick story. So there's a new show on Max or HBO Max or whatever the heck they're calling themselves these days called Duster. And it's set in the 70s. And he has a Duster vibe. a Plymouth Duster. And he pops in an eight-track tape. It's all fast editing and so forth. And the song is playing. I go, that was great. I mean, it really kind of gives you the taste of the time. I go, except for the fact that you didn't hear the click in the middle of the song whenever it changed tracks. Right. Yeah. Always the best song on an eight-track seemed to have to split a track.I don't know why that was at the time, but, uh, I was always like, I was like, yeah, that was good. Other than the fact that the song kind of played all the way through and it wouldn't probably wouldn't have in reality, it would have been like, you know, Oh, Barracuda have all the clicking and everything. Um, so people don't, I mean, that's this in this day and age, people have no concept of, uh, you know, uh, even the slightest inconvenience of those kind of things back in the day that you put up with to have your music. Did you have any 8-track experience? I was really young. My brother was an 8-track aficionado. He's older than I am. Those things weren't easy to transport around either. They took up a lot of room in the front seat of the car, right? No, no. You had to steal a lot of milk crates to take all your 8-tracks with you.I think we're confessing to a lot of things here on the episode today. Oh, wait. Yeah, right. Wait a minute. Again, we're not recording this. We're fine. Sounds good. The statute of limitations is way past due on this. We're fine. We're fine. If Metagold wants their milk crates back, God help them. I don't know where they're at, to be honest. There's a link in the show notes. Reach out to Bob. He'll be happy to get your email. He'll be happy to make restitution at any point. Yes. But no, it… it's funny though, that, uh, all these kind of things. And I mean, it, in hindsight, as we're looking back at all these, it lines up perfectly. It's almost like, you know, a pool, a straight pool shot into the pocket where you hav

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That's lovely. Lovely to hear you drinking. So lovely to hear you drinking. I'm going to chew some ice. Yeah, why don't you chew some ice? Why don't you suck on a teat? Anybody? anybody's anybody's tea yes anybody so the intro. Yeah, oh, it's not playing the sounds, though. I gotta figure that out. We're talking over there but you can't play the sounds, right? Oh. Oh, it's also backwards, too. Oh, it's backwards. Wow, how'd you do that? Yeah, well, it wasn't on purpose oh this is bob Hey, everyone. This is your big friend, Miles. Big friend, yes. That's for sure. I'm big. I'm bad. I'm big and bad. I'm your friend. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. It's Miles Title. No, no, no. He's going to play a song for you.want to have a good time hey hey hey hey man welcome thanks for tuning in. You know, hopefully you'll laugh a lot. Hopefully your sphincter will get a workout. And then you'll listen. uh it's been, it's been, uh you know, nonstop weather channel around these parts, you know, so. Right. You are okay. Uh, you had a tornado. I had random, uh, listeners checking on me and I knew it. I knew it. Oh, I knew it. See, I brought this up before we started recording. Maybe we should, uh, uh, check on him, send him a note and say, Bob, are you okay? And yeah, I'm fine. Wasn't near me. I, you know, I, I handle things like my parents do. I was like, well, if it's important, he'll call. You just ignore them? That seems to be what you did with birth control and child rearing. Ignore the problem until someone asks for help, and then it's a problem. Then you know. You don't know until you know. You don't know until you know. Oh, Miles. How am I supposed to know to change your diaper? You didn't say anything. Yeah.i guess it's not at your house quite a bit when i was visiting oh my god i don't know where this fantasy comes from i do not know these poor kids were looked like they were hauling around santa's sack of toys with a diaper oh my god i don't this has never happened i don't know what this guy's talking about this is never who's never happened i'll swear i don't know what where well So, yeah, no, we had tornado here in St. Louis. It was big news. Yeah. Everybody's talking about it. Yeah, I did. I did have people reach out asking if I was fine. Yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine. And I didn't. And you did not. Yes. Here I am texting my good friends who live closer to the affected area. They're…they're without power. I'm checking on them, you know, and then all your friends from New Zealand and, you know, right. Exactly. Yeah. All around the world is checking. Bob, are you okay, Bob? I saw, I saw the devastation. Yeah. This is your friend Sven. Exactly. Exactly. Well, Crickets. If it's important, he'll call. Yeah, that's right. I guess if he doesn't call, if I don't talk to him on Monday, he's just dead. Oh, well. I'll just reveal bits, I guess. Oh, yeah. Oh, well, there we go. The bingo card's full. Yeah, okay. By the way, I went to Diamond Dave's over the weekend while you were without power. I toasted to your good health. Yeah, I was like, oh, I hope they got power. I don't know. Oh, you're fine. You wouldn't be the baby. Yeah, but everything's fine. But yeah, it was quite the show, I guess. I didn't see it, but I actually went into the city today, and on my way back, I went by. There's this Amish furniture store off the highway, and this shows you the power.and the humor of nature. Yeah. So they have all of these Adirondack wooden chairs. They sell like hundreds of these, apparently, because there's about 500 of them out in front of the store. And all of those still in perfect alignment, yet the roof of the building looks like a crushed aluminum can. English. What happened to English? Yeah, it totally crumpled the top of their building. All their Adirondack chairs were still in rows. Oh, no. Oh, no. I know. Crazy. You should have bought one. Well, I wasn't at the exit. But yeah, they had big signs that said, yes, we're still open, even though we don't have a roof. It's all crumpled. Yeah. They don't need a roof. Don't spend your money, English. Although I've been to the Amish Sam's Club or Costco, whichever you prefer, and they have more technology in that place, I swear, than Sam's Club and Costco do. Hello. I'm the robot. They did the touch to pay. You don't have to put the card in or anything or swipe it. You just touch it. Oh, that's my favorite.That's my favorite. Yeah, they had all that there at the Amish store. I love that. They don't have lights, but they got touch to pay. They got lanterns. Yeah. No, they actually don't have heating. They actually have a… Geothermal. You know what they use in chicken houses? It's like a gas thing where you get like an old galvanized… trash can lid, and you have a flame on it, and it deflects it down towards the floor. Oh, that sounds okay. That's the heating system, but they have touch to pay, so go figure. Have we talked since you got the new Chicago Pope? Right. Yeah, what do you think about that? No, I'm not Catholic, but I've been I was really excited about it. Well, we, you know, we have, well, you more than me, but we have a person that I know that, you know, better who is got a sibling who's in the order. Yes. Right. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Now that you say that, I should ask him about that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he's like, he's like just two steps away at this point, you know?Yeah. I don't know how all that works, but yeah, I guess, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, you talk about six degrees of separation. He's like two degrees. And if you think about God being the third step, right there. You know, I really didn't think about it, but now you say that, yeah. Well, I'm glad I'm here to help. Yeah, I didn't put that much thought into it, I guess. I was like, man, he's got, you know. I just heard he was a Bears fan. I'm like, all right, man. Yeah, well, and that as well, obviously. I'm so happy. Again, you with being so involved in people's lives, your good friend from your other college days has got a direct line to the Pope, and you're like, hey, the Pope's a Bears fan. You know, if he has something important to say, he'll call. No, that's right. You won't hesitate to reach out. I swear to God. Yeah, yeah.So I have a couple of quick stories here for you from my last trip. I went to this restaurant that I always go to. It's a Mexican restaurant I love. And I got seated by an angry-looking Danny Elfman. He looked like if Danny Elfman were a serial killer. Yeah. I was by myself, and so he's like, table for one. I'm like, yeah. He gave me that kind of… And then the weird thing was, he separates these tables to give me my table for one. They had them lined up where they have usually a big group or something, and so he slings these tables around and gives me the table for one there. And Then this really old couple comes in. This guy is walking like Frankenstein, like he's got no choice. Yeah. And then they sit down at this newly separated table and proceed to order a giant pitcher of margaritas, although he barely made it into the restaurant. I mean, honestly. Yeah.Oh, that's all he needs. Yeah. Yeah. That's all he needs. I was thinking he's like, and I'm like, he sits down and he's like, Hey, I'd like a picture of margaritas. A picture of those margaritas. Cause that's what they're famous for. And, uh, but he says, give me a picture of Margs. I mean, he's, he's like, right. Give me a picture. Wow. And, uh, so then his wife, I don't know where I, I guess she dropped him off or something because she didn't come in like right away. She comes in, you know, like minutes later. And she basically sits to where I can't get out of my spot. Oh, no. I'm blocked in. So I can't get up. Do they offer you a Marg? No, no Margs for me. Hey, I'll have all…I'll offer one to this fat chick next to us here. Hey, do you want to… Hey, lady. Ever date a universal monster? You like my geographic tongue? So then they have like this trivia game going on all the TVs, right? And there's like a sports bar kind of thing going on. Yeah. And his wife is reading all the questions like… Oh, I can hear myself now. Can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. You had some static there. So she's reading all the questions like a kindergartner. Oh, what's the first tallest mountain in the whole world? Yeah, so then… Titicaca. Oh, it's a lake. Lake Titicaca. am i still static? You are super static, yeah. Oh my god. freaking thing. It sounds like uh star trek 2 where they're like jamming the frequencies. They're like, Jim, why are you trying to take Genesis? Why are you? Oh, the genesis device. Yeah. That sounds better now. That sounds better.And so then I finally finished eating and I want to get out of there. So I squeeze past this woman and I try to get out there. And then as I'm walking out, the psycho Danny Elfman leans into me and he goes, I would have never set those people that close to you. I was like, it's okay, man. It's fine. Yeah. He leans into me like whispers. It was creepy. My name's Dennis. The phone number is 618. So then I had another weird thing happen. Yeah. So the That was when I first arrived in town. And then I was leaving town, and I had to get some lunch. I was starving. It was time for lunch. And now it's doing that again. Yeah, it's been doing it. Oh, my gosh. Okay. We'll just switch over here in a second. Give me one moment, sir. One moment, and I will switch over.and then we'll be fine. Now you can hear me okay, right? I can, yes. So I stopped at the Steak and the Shake down there at Lake of the Ozarks. Oh, you love Steak and Shake. Oh my gosh. I did. It's not been as good as it used to be here lately....

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You're a quiet guy tonight there, Miles. It's electric. It's electric. Ah, just getting situated. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the show. This is Bob. Hey, everyone. This is Miles. You're convincing there. You may want to check your underwear label. Yeah, why? Let me see. I got to see if my underwear is… It says Calvin Klein. Nope. Nope, never wore it. You probably are a Hanes man, I would guess. Hanes. I like Hanes. Wait, did you get those Hanes on you? What is the name of that? How did that go? Remember when we used to sleep together? You're like, oh, Hanes, huh? Like, yeah. Like, oh, yeah. No, I don't remember that. I don't remember that at all. Remember that? Yeah, we'd have pillow fights and stuff. You're like, oh, hey. I don't remember that. Like, let's wrestle. I'm like, all right. Whatever. Whatever. I'm up for it. Whatever. What the hey? I'm down. I'm DTW, man. Down to wrestle, man. What the hey? Oh, wait. I think I recall. Here's a memory.A little sword fighting going on. Yeah, yeah. No, that wasn't me. That wasn't me. Oh, my goodness. No, we never wrestled. We've never shared a bed together. We almost shared a bed together. We almost did, yeah. I dodged that bullet, thank goodness. Yeah, well, never know what you did. You and your friend just share the downstairs. I'll sleep on the couch. My brother's into some things. Yeah. The door that doesn't shut, you know, just stuff like that. Yeah, stuff like that. Don't worry about it. No lock on the door. Just big gaping holes and things. It was just a different time, you know. Yeah. It's a community. No, we never shared a bed or wrestled. Speaking of that… Speaking of that, I only bring this up to rub it in your face, honestly. I was traveling last week and I don't know that I've ever actually mentioned this to you directly, but over the last 10 years, pretty much every time that I, not every time I travel, buta good portion of the time I travel, I'm considered a VIP. I believe it. And I get nice little trinkets and things because, you know, when I show up, people are interested that I'm there. And this last time was no exception. And I got into, I got in early so I can get in early, right? I don't have to wait until check-in. Oh. And so I'm like, I got to the hotel and I'm like, you know, can I get in my room? I don't push this or anything, but there are times whenever you get somewhere and you're like, I just want to go and, you know, get in my room and get situated and unpack my stuff. Right. A little five on one. Get ready. And now, come on, I'm not you. Come on. Well, you said you're acting like me. I mean, what's…Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They call me the bishop Bopper. Yeah. Sorry to offend you. Sorry. Uh, so i got in early and i was in my room and, uh, there was a knock on the door. Like I was, I was there like an hour. It seemed like. Sure. Yeah. Unpack everything, hang up all my nice clothes and everything. And, Knock on the door, and I'm like, oh, I'm like, I wonder who this is, right? I'm not expecting anybody. So I go to the door, and Eb from Green Acres is there with a… If anybody remembers who that was. Eb from Green Acres is there at my door with a gift basket. Oh, Jesus. Yeah. Okay. And I opened the door and he's like, Hey, Mr. Douglas. And, uh, I go, he goes, Hey, you got a gift basket. I mean, and I'm like, Oh, thank you. And he goes, here you go. And, uh, you know, enjoy your stay. If you need anything, just tell me. And you know, I'll send up Mr. Haney next. Yeah, exactly. So now it sounds good.And these gift baskets are a nice touch. But I'm going to give you a little inside scoop on the hotel gift basket. Okay. Have you ever gotten a hotel gift basket, by the way? Is this from the hotel or the people you work for? No, it's from the hotel. Is it because you're like a frequent flyer or is it just everyone gets this? Oh, Michael's in the Chat. He says, yes, he's got the hotel gift basket lots of times. So here, well, Michael, then you will know the secret to this. Uh, and, uh, but so i get my hotel gift basket and i'm looking at, um, you know, I set it down and i'm like, Oh, this is uh interesting and i'm like unwrapping itAnd what I typically do with my hotel gift baskets is I take what I want and then I distribute the rest of it to people I'm with because they don't get gift baskets. So I'm rifling through this gift basket at this point. And I'm like, oh, wow, I got a whole thing of Nantucket Pepperidge Farm cookies. That's a good one, right? Put that in the plus side. And then I got some peanuts, honey roasted and regular, right? I got a couple of things of fudge. And then I got, this is the weird one. I got a big slab of Colby Jack cheese and some crackers. Are you still with me, Miles? I don't hear any comments from you yet. Miles is gone, so I'll just keep talking until he comes back because I can't hear him. And so I got this Colby Jack cheese and these crackers. What's that? Testing. Oh, now I hear you, Miles. Yeah. Normally you make comments whenever I'm unwrapping my gift bag. No, I have been. No, I was. I didn't realize that was that. I didn't hear you at all. Yeah.and call me jack cheese and the and the crackers were a weird one. And then, um, so i'm like okay i'm i'm doing a little uh parsing of, you know, one for me, you know, one for them kind of a situation. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And, uh, but i also had a refrigerator, which is fantastic. So I stick my fudge in my uh cheese in the refrigerator but it's like almost this kind of random items. Oh, and i got a couple waters a couple of, uh, nice Dasani, which is the, you know, ship water. Basically it's the worst no boss no nova i had voss at the last place. I had boss and coconut water and some others. Oh wow. Right. Yeah. Oh yeah. It was, that was a little more high end so i i get everything put away and whatnot, but the reality is, is that they, they have a shop.at the hotel. It's a nice hotel. It has its own, you know, little mini mart, as it were and and ebb goes dancing around the mini mart probably an hour before i arrive. And he looks for things that are just about to expire. And he puts them in the gift basket. This is the reality of these gift baskets right yeah and and so if you if you get one of these, always look yeah Always look and see the expiration date. Chances are you're getting stuff that's about ready to expire. But they wrap it up and make it look real nice. They put a card in there. Did you get tampons or anything? No. No tampons. Although that would be useful. You know what I mean? Yeah. Because I'm typically…I mentioned before we started recording, I never get to eat or anything. The cheese and crackers was duly appreciated because it was actually pretty good. Of course, it was one week within expiring, but it was pretty good. I enjoyed it. The weird thing is that this happens a lot. When I was in Las Vegas, I got a backpack. I got bluetooth speakers. oh shit. Yeah. I got, uh, chargers, like a fancy, uh, charger for your phone, for your watch and for your iPad. oh crap. Um, what else did i get? Oh, and then this is the, you're gonna crack up about this. So, uh, in las Vegas, the, the, the hotel person comes up to me and like mr lament uh would you would you like uhto enjoy a massage. Uh, yeah. Yeah. And I'm like, there we go. Yeah. There we go. There's no, I mean, I'm always nice. Yeah. But for me, there's no way in hell I'm getting a massage at a random, uh, you know, random hotel. I don't care. Right. Yeah. So it's, I'm like, no, but I'm always thinking about others because I go, but a couple of my colleagues might enjoy the massage. Oh, yeah. And then I tell them who they are, and I said, you might go ask them. And then they want to please me that they'll go, and they got massages while they were there. Yeah. And then they come back to me and they're like, Bob, why didn't you get a massage? I'm like, there is no effing way in this world. I'm going to have some stranger put their fingers all over me. You would have to be roofied for this to happen or something. No way. I know you well too much that you'd be like, no way. There's no way.There's no way. And then they laugh at me and make fun of me and whatnot. And they're like, Oh, I can't believe you wouldn't want a massage. And then they come back the next day and they're like, Oh, this massage was the best thing ever. And I'm like, I'm like, no, I don't. I took the backpack. I took the Bluetooth speaker, you know, I get all kinds of like tote bags and, and, uh, umbrellas and all this kind of stuff. Right. Yeah. You're like a robot. I can only have robot things. I do not want to see my touch. That's right. I'm going to go to the robot pizzeria again. I love that. If you want to send me to that. Robot. The funny thing is I'm in this… I would call it a predicament. Other people would be, gosh, I know you would say, you'd take full advantage of all of this if you were in my place. I'd be like, I'm hungry. I could use room service.You're going to whip it? Yeah, you're going to whip it. But I rarely take advantage other than if they give me the basket, I graciously accept the basket. But rarely do I. Because they're always like, can we get you dinner reservations? Can we get you this? Can we get you that? Yeah, and I rarely take advantage. They want to take me to dinner. I've been to dinner, which is the most awkward thing. If you can only imagine how awkward the massage would be. Can you imagine going to dinner with me? Oh my Lord. Oh, like, wait, some random dude gets go to eat with you or what? Yeah. Yeah. Most of the time are women, you know, it's with you, but yeah. Okay. All right. Well, hold on now. Let's not judge. Okay. Okay....

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She said. That's all she said. She's large. She's large. She's large. Hey everyone, Miles here. Did you hear that tonight? Yeah, a little bit, yeah. A little bit? Okay, kind of low. Yeah. Working on it. Mm-hmm. Unbreakable. We alive, damn it. Where's this girl at? What's up? Where's that girl at? Isn't there a girl that says something? A girl that says something? Yeah, like, you're live. Oh, that already happened. You missed it. Oh, fuck. Live streaming is on. You weren't paying attention. Yeah, that's what… Yeah, that's what you're doing. Not paying attention. Just spending an hour trying to start a stream of urine for Cry 6. Cry 6. I'm old now. How is it? What? Explain this to me. Let's go out of the show. Let's just go out of the show. Okay, let's go. I don't. Yeah, the whole stream of urine thing. I'm not quite getting. Yeah, you don't want it. Yeah. What do you do?Stick something up your peen when you're young or something? What's going on? That's another story. Like a kazoo up there or something? Yeah. And you can play too. It's a flute. It's a flute. I was thinking it was a literal skin flute. Just saying. Yeah, they call me Bubbles. Well, I have something strange to talk about tonight. Very strange. You didn't introduce yourself. I did. You're not fucking paying attention. I said, this is Bob. Welcome to the show. Oh, I didn't hear that either, man. God, let me rewind everything. Jesus. No, I'll forget. Okay, just go. This guy is like blinking. You miss it. Mr. Pay attention. I'm sitting here. watching the wheels go round and round. All right. Yeah, so this is Bob. And this is Miles. There you go. Okay. I got one story for you. Go ahead. Now I took a time on that. So this is a few weeks ago. And I was driving on the highway. I was going up to Decatur. Yes. Anduh i can't remember where it was that exactly because maybe this will be uh mean something to somebody and they can kind of explain this to me or something but so i think it was close to glenarm or uh you know somewhere just outside of springfield illinois okay i go i'm driving and you know there's lots of overpasses on the highway and i'm driving down the highway, you know, at 75 miles an hour, whatever this highway speed is. And I swear, I saw something like hang its head down from the overpass, underneath the overpass, in the girders yeah yeah and then and then like kind of looked around, and then went back up into the girders. Now… Okay. Yeah, I know. Are there children up in the girders? Well… I mean, it was so much so… I mean, I was approaching it. I wasn't under it yet.This thing like drops like just, you know, kind of like head and shoulders. Yeah. Looks around right back up. And I'm like, and so then as I'm going underneath there, I'm like leaned way forward so I can try to look up while I'm driving. I mean, it was so freaky and it wasn't like, uh, it was like a child size thing. Yeah. It wasn't like a construction type person, you know what I'm saying? It wasn't like the village people, was it? No, it wasn't the village people, I don't think. Unless it was the diminutive village people, perhaps. Was it a manatee? It wasn't a manatee. That would be big. You could be mistaken for a manatee. Yeah, that's true. And so, yeah, I was so weirded out. I was like, it was like child size, and there was no features. It was totally black. Like, just darkness. Maybe it was smooth. The shape of a child's head and shoulders. Yeah. Any ideas? Uh…Are there any escaped monkeys maybe? Everybody goes for the monkey, right? Anytime you see something hanging up from underneath the overpass, it's always a monk. I don't think there was any escaped monkeys in the area. I mean, you always hear about that on the news. When it was kind of cold, you know what I mean? Yeah. It's been probably like two months ago, maybe. Yeah, two months ago. It was a bear cup. No, round head. Hmm. Roundish, not like a bear, which got the ears and all that, you know. That was weird. That was, it was really weird. I mean. It waved to you and handed you a beer and you're like, wow. No, no, it didn't wave at me just like just like i said looked out, looked around and then popped back up. Gone. A large rock didn't hit your car, did it? After you passed no all right okay it's not a kid. Okay.No, well, I have been in a car that's been hit by a large rock. In the past. Yes. I don't know. This is, uh. Yeah, I almost came through the windshield. That big, it was a huge rock. It was like silent bowling ball. Like someone threw it at you? Yeah. Actually, I was talking i went to front to my friend indicator Yeah, yeah, that happened. The big rock happened in decatur yeah yeah okay yeah you said there was something like before where i almost got myself killed because of two times. Once when the rock hit and then once because we started chasing people. And that was probably not the right thing to do in that part of town so yeah i was younger so yeah i did not stop. I did not uhinvestigate any further other than I was like really like what the hell just happened you didn't pull over and like get out your flashlight I was just like oh my gosh there's a guy hanging wait a minute it was like a kid hanging from the overpass underneath just his head not like his whole body but then I'm like no there's not there's a man on the wing yeah exactly I looked in my rearview mirror I was really kind of like, what the hell? Yeah. It looked like somebody was just curious and just looked around and then went back. That's weird. It was weird. That is weird. I've been saving that one for you. There you go. Well, you talk to all these cryptid people all the time. Why don't you just email them?I will. I mean, I'll eventually get to that, but, you know, I like I thought I'd throw it at you first and see what little information I would get you well this is a new cryptoid, you know, I mean, the bridge street overpass or whatever and you know it's called the turd burglar yeah and orgenta arienta or the fuck yeah yeah Yeah. I don't know. That's weird. No, I've never had something like that. Now you've got me interested. Well, I mean, you always have these, like, I saw an orb. Hey, I saw an orb. Well, I usually doubt you whenever you're like, hey, there was an earthquake this morning. I'm like, no, there wasn't. You know, there was. Yeah, there was. Remember? Like, I'm always doubting you. Yeah, well, that's because you were whacking off in the shower. You're like, no, there wasn't an earthquake. Yeah.Eric was moving for me. I know that. And then you find out it's true. You're like, oh, hey. I'm really good at distracting myself. That is weird. So you saw some kind of cryptid or something. I saw something. I don't know what it was. It poked its head out, looked around, and just… It was a blink and you miss it kind of a situation. I can tell you that. Was it a bird, maybe? No, because it was too big. It was literally child-sized. It looked like a child-sized shadow. Yeah. That's weird. It wasn't man-sized. Yeah. It definitely was smaller than that. Was it the little guy from Game of Thrones? Was it that guy? Peter Dinklage. Well, he's got, I think, average size head, but he's just very diminutive. This was like, you know, swimming from the overpass. I think you can put out a book on this, like all the cryptoids you've seen. I'm adding it to my list. Your UFO sightings, now you've got cryptids. Mm-hmm.Ghosts? You were in a haunted church to the shadow thing that i saw, so. Yeah. But it was under an overpass, so i wasn't sure what to call it. And it was daytime, right? Oh, yeah. It was uh like probably like eight seven or eight in the morning yeah i was i was trucking on up north, and then i think you need to check this out. Well, I wasn't going to stop. I was on a schedule. Oh, I see. I'm always in, you know, I don't just drive around like you aimlessly. Hey, today I think I'll just burn a tank of gas. Let's go. That is me. That is funny. You're always doing that. You're like, let's see how far we can go this way before we have to turn around and come back.and then i about it like, I just spent 30 bucks for nothing, man. Yeah, I just burned a whole tank of gas for no reason. I'm an idiot. All I got was this fantastic, greasy burger yeah yeah so i mean i'm always i've got to meet somebody, or i've got to be somewhere, or Man on the road very purposeful right you just wouldn't drive around and be like No, that's not me. That's weird. I don't know. That's strange and funny. Strange and humorous. I like strange stories with no conclusion. I do like them. I've been up that way since then. Didn't see anything. But I will keep an eye out. And you were by yourself, right? Yeah, I was by myself. You did not get video or anything? No.I don't have it installed at the moment, but I have a dash cam. I believe it. I should have run that with me. I might have to do that. I had a dash cam for five years and I ran it continuously for probably about four and a half years or whatever. I had to get my windshield replaced, so I had to take it all apart. I haven't put it back together again. The whole idea, the reason I got the dash cam was to catch wildlife running across the road because I had that wolf running in front of me. All right. Yeah. And no one believed me. And so then I'm like, I'm going to get an effing dash cam. I'll tell you. When I got the dash cam, nothing ever happened. Yeah. Yeah.That's what happens. The dash cam just doesn't happen. Today, just today, you're going to laugh at this. This is another weird one. For a half an hour, I watched a fox and a cat play in my yard. Isn't this like some old cartoon or children's book or somet

10X Pop Culturist - Jeff Dwoskin

Jeff Dwoskin, a pop culture expert and podcaster, discusses various aspects of his career, including his experiences with stand-up comedy and digital strategy. He emphasizes his passion for pop culture and how it led him to create his podcast, where he interviews figures from classic television shows. Dwoskin shares anecdotes about his interviews, highlighting the nostalgia factor and the unique stories of lesser-known guests, which often provide rich insights into the entertainment industry. He also touches on the challenges of streaming services, including the shift from cable to various subscription models and the impact of commercials on viewer experience.

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Hey, everybody, and welcome to this conversation with, I'm going to butcher your name, Jeff, Jeff Dwoskin. Close. We only talked for 10 minutes, you could have asked. Dwoskin, Dwoskin. Oh, that was going to go with Dwoskin, and I thought, for sure, it's not Dwoskin, it's Dwoskin. Oh, wow. I ruined that one. He is at jeffisfunny.com. He is a pop culture expert at this point, right? Would you say that? How many of the 10,000 hours do you have in for a pop culture expert? I think I'm 100,000 in. Well, 10 times. So he's a 10x pop culture expert. And… You know, I was trying to remember where I ran into you at, Jeff, but I couldn't today. I need to take better notes when I'm doing these things. But I happened upon you, and I thought, hey, this guy looks really interesting. So your background has varied quite a bit. First of all, you're from Michigan, and I think you still live in Michigan. Am I right? Correct. Correct. So you're a Michigander?I'm a Michigander, yes. Okay. So, I mean, that alone. So, I'm in St. Louis. We are, you know, what would you call that? We're vertical from each other, right? So, straight up Michigan. St. Louis is great. You got Enterprise Rent-A-Car down there. That's right. What have you got there? Well, we got Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Theater Car. They're all here. we have Motown. Yeah, I think you got us beat on some of these things. We got the Arch. Who cares? We got the mackinac Ridge. There you go. Mackinac. Got Mackinac Island. You got Sand Dunes. Yeah, you got a place where they don't let people drive a car, which is amazing um considering that you can drive a car just about anywhere um yeah i mean you know, it's good. We got the highest murder rate per capita.Awesome. That's a good, we've, we've been bumped off by Camden, New Jersey, I think a couple of times, but we're somewhere in the top 10. Right. I mean, you don't want to be second. Right. Yeah. But we've been number one, a couple of times I know within the last few years, cause I keep seeing it on my feed because it's like, Oh, you're in St. Louis. Guess what? People die there randomly. Um, so yeah, I don't think it's, it's not random. I don't think. Well, Random is just people going… Well, you've never driven on the highway. No, it may not be that random. I don't know. But there was a person who was just firing guns off while they were driving down the highway. So that's kind of random. Not to bring everything down, Jeff. Bring us back up. So you're a Michigander. You are the pop culture…10X pop culture expert, but you're also a programmer. Is that right? Or some type of social media whiz kid? Not a programmer, but I am a product strategist, digital strategist. Oh, I'm sorry. No, it's all right. I just come up with the idea. Is that like a sanitation engineer? That sounds a little constructed to me. No, no. It just means I don't know how to literally program it. I just know how to say it. These pieces should do this. Nowadays, AI, I mean, it's on the way. You're going to be able to do it. Jeff, I have faith that this is going to be, by the end of this year, you will be a programmer in some way, shape, or form. Don't be totally fooled by some of those sites. I mean, they have to advance a lot. If you want to talk AI for half a second, but when you build one of those things, you just can't change it.You can't just easily change it. A lot of times it has to be connected to a database and it's got to do this. There's a little bit. It's not totally code free. You know all that stuff. Go tell your programmer you're going to hand him one of those code free things and see how long he doesn't quit. Apparently you're an HR expert as well. You're a comedian as well. Is that correct? I have done standup comedy for quite some time. So out of all these things, I mean, obviously you're kind of a Renaissance kind of guy, as they would say out of all these things, which one is your favorite, which is my favorite. Uh, which is your favorite. I think I, I love them all. And so I kind of juggle, but if I were to children, come on, let's just go. I mean, on a day to day basis, I like being the, uh,technical guru guy. But when i'm on stage doing comedy, then there's nothing better than that. Oh, okay. So you kind of, it's like a duality of sorts. Right. I'm like Batman, but without. So wait a minute. Okay. So is your comedy very grim? yeah I just like the chick across the road to get to the other side. i mean, that, that's the, be the batman side of it. I don't know. Maybe you're that way in the, uh, for the social media stuff. I just mean dual personalities yeah you're like you're like instagram's going downhill. Um, no, that's interesting though. But so, so you kind of juggle all these different things. Which one would you say you have to do the most of out of that? all out of that combination of comedy. I don't do as much anymore. Just after covet i kind of,chilled on it a bit and just, uh, covet uh, a lot of people got creative during covet and there was like 500 more comedians at the end of it so i just i kind of backed off of that a little bit. And then, um, so my, I mean, the majority of my day is, is my company called stampede.social, but like, uh, and then i do the podcast where i interview pop culture folks, you know? So, you know, maybe i'll do, there's some weeks i'll do one interview, a couple, sometimes i'll do two, you know, it depends. It's a weird, um, it's a weird group that i interview because it's like, it's whenever they say yes, I'll do it. You know what i mean i don't know my schedule when they say yes. I can try and spread it out. You know, some of them are really old or much older, you know? So it's like, I don't put those off. Right. Let's get that. Let's take care what are you trying to say? You have a wholepile of things that are released on certain days that the news breaks or something like that uh no but i do have like um i have lots and lots of episodes unreleased. If anything would happen right now, there'd be lost episodes for months from oh wow now that's a good question. So here's, I have never understood that, right? So I've been doing this for quite some time and i don't understand the the caching of all of the content. What's, what's, what's your thoughts on why you have such a, a cache of stuff in the, in the backdrop there? Um, it's, it's not that I, it's not that I'm proud of it or anything. I mean, it's per se that it's, it's partially because of the answer to the thing I just randomly said, which was, you know, if I reach out, I put out one episode a week. Okay. So, um,But if I record two a week, right? So then that creates a backlog, right? And so if I do that month after month, then I continuously have a backlog. Ah, I see. And then the benefit to having a backlog is I can then choose the order I want to release them. So meaning like, if i talk to a bunch of comedians and i talk to a bunch of, um, you know, maybe actress from this or, you know, people from that, I can then kind of, I have the luxury of not doing five comedians in a row just because i happen to interview five comedians in a row because they said yes. So there's that. I, when i interview people, I try and keep it evergreen. So even if we interview, did something today and i were to release it tomorrow,I would try to remove any specific references that you make to a specific point in time, unless it's a very generic, like, you know, like if you say like tomorrow's Ringo Starr's birthday, you know, maybe I'd leave that because you know what, if you want to look that up, I guess, you know what I mean? But like, you know, but, oh yeah, but this Memorial day and, but I released it in January. I were like, you know what I'm saying? Like those things that can remove you from the moment. I'll kind of say, out or the things that you might have a tornado today or several people might have a tornado today tonight into tomorrow i yeah that's true that's true i you know well you know like i released an episode that, I mean, I'm embarrassed to say it, it was a couple weeks ago, but like i recorded in 2020 and and so a lot of covid references on that one so i took most of them out. Like a lot ofloud i took out a lot and jeff i can't smell anything. What's wrong? Jeff. Well, not like that but like uh but you know this banana tastes like plastic. I didn't want someone to be able to hear it now. I want you to be able to listen to an episode i did two years ago anyway and just enjoy it in the moment and not be like, oh, this was dated. So I think we should add curator to your list of uh Like, I don't specifically interview people that have a new show coming out. It's not that I don't or wouldn't. It's not my primary. I don't get into those PR cycles that some people do where they're like, you know, where they talk to someone, you know, it's like, well, my show is coming out tomorrow on Amazon. Right. You know, and then you're listening to two weeks, two years from now. And that show didn't go anywhere. Right.Things are bomb. Yeah. I mean, it's one thing if you're like just mentioning it and it's like a lot of times it's based around people writing

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Can you hear it no, but I can see a picture Yeah Uh-huh. Hey, everybody. Welcome to Snake Show. This is Bob. It's backwards. Here you go. How about that? How about that? How about that? It's backwards. You couldn't hear it, though, huh? No. Well, I've got to work on that, I guess. Yeah. Oh, well. We'll be fine. Yes. It'll all be. It's all right. You're going to take the next part here, Traveling Wilbury guy? Even when push comes to shove. Oh, wow. That's very Orbiston-like. Wow. I'm impressed. I'm impressed. It's all right. No, I used to listen to that album a lot. We ran the monkey man. We're hot up for cash. This man stayed up all night smoking cocaine and hash. I don't know. Fuck. I don't know. Fuck it. Fuck it. One Dylan, one electric. I lost interest. I feel more like.I opened the closet and what did I see? Me, I eat dust. I've been listening to a lot of Gary Newman lately. I've been listening to me a lot. That's interesting. I don't know the words. Something I don't want to fade away. But I don't want to fade, I love. Yeah, okay. That's all made me. So, this weekend, I was Mr. Handyman. Mr. Handyman. Mr. Handyman. You were so handy. I'm handy. Yeah. Not handsy. Handy. I bet you a handsy. Yeah, I went and got a stump grinder. I was the name of this girl in college. I knew stump grinder. Worked at the local bar. Do you have any idea what I'm talking about here? Yeah, it's a thing. It takes care of your stumps. Yeah, it rips up your stumps.Yeah, well, yeah, I know that. What the fuck? Big apparatus that you, it's got like tank treads and like a big buzzsaw looking thing at the end of it. And you, it's got hydraulics and you basically grind away a stump. If you want to talk about bush hogging next, I'm all for it. That'll be another story for another day. Okay. So you're grinding your stump. Yeah. So I'm like, I'm not a handy person. I'll be honest. You are. No, I'm not. It always scares me. And my wife is like, you know, these stumps have got to go. My wife talks like Christopher Walken. These stumps have got to go. I don't remember your wife talking like Christopher Walken. Bob, go get the stump grinded.First of all, I hear no cursing in it, so I know it's not your wife. That's true. Because your wife really curses a lot. She curses more than Christopher Walken. She does. That's something to be of note there. Yes. Yeah. She is the uber mob boss Christopher Walken cursor. Yeah. So I've tried to do this now for a year and a half. I'm afraid of this thing. I'm… worried that i'm going to, you know, like take off my foot or something. Yeah. because this is a monster. I mean, this thing rips through trees yeah the trees um and so i finally, the other thing is you have to, you can rent it for the day at the rental place that's close by me. Yeah. But if you can get in the sweet spot, you can rent it for the weekend special.which means you pick it up on saturday afternoon. You don't have to bring it back till monday morning. Oh, that's what you want. That's what i want right because yeah you know, they want to make money and they're not open on Sunday. Right. And, you know, and so like, I've been trying to get this weekend special for a while and i keep missing. And then a couple of times i got the weekend special and then it's like, it's gonna rain cats and dogs all weekend. I'm not going to stand out in the fucking rain with this leg mauler machine and slip underneath it and then get chewed up. I canceled, but then I had it set up for this weekend. Now I have to get it here. This thing is a monster. It literally is like…some kind of, you know, Shriner monstrosity, tears of stumps. And so then my wife's got to take the car, which we have a tow hitch on the minivan and she has to take the car. And I'm like, I can't, I've got the weekend special. Right. But honey, I'm like, I got, but she had to take the car. So I'm like, she's like, just cancel the, I'm like, I know, but you've been, you know, hounding me for a year and a half to do this. And I got the weekend special and, you know, she's like, whatever, you know, you never get anything done. I might as well call you miles title. That fucking miles. I would have dug it out. Less done than him. Yeah. So I call up my buddy.And I'm like, dude, can you help me out? I can get the stump grinder back if you can get it to my house on Saturday. Yeah. And so he's like, that's not, that sounds more like me. That's more like me. Yeah. He's really, you know, thinking about this, you know, the time commitment. Yeah. And he's the funny thing. A lot of my friends are just like you. in a lot of ways. Yeah. They're always horribly inconvenienced when I'm talking to them about something. Right. And even though it's not inconvenient, they're just being selfish. Yeah. That's me. Yeah, exactly. And so he, and I finally go, I'm like, I can, if you can get it here, I'll buy you, you know, buy a couple of lunches or something. I'll take it back. You just have to drop it off. He's like, okay, well I'm going to be, you know, North of you on Saturday. Yeah.you know, pissing around or whatever the hell he's doing. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'll come down and I'll pick it up and I'll drop it off your house. Cause that's, he lives South of me. And so then I'm like, okay, sounds good. Meet me at this place at three o'clock. Right. I'll be there early. I'll get all the paperwork done. All you gotta do is, you know, swing in. We'll throw this fucker on the back of your truck and get going. So I get there, I get all the paperwork done. He's not there. Uh-oh. I paid. He texted me finally. I'm on my way. I'm late. Okay. Oh, this is me. That is you, yeah. I like this guy. He's just like me. He is me. Yeah, well, there's a lot of other attributes that you would associate with that he has as well. Browser history.Yes. Browser history. So then I'm, I am stuck there talking to the yard guy, you know, the guy that manages the yard of all the rentals. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of this, you know, kind of this guy, you know, he's not, you know, yeah, he's not doing any calculus or anything, but that way. Yeah. I got it. So then I, I'm like, I'm compelled to entertain this guy for about 20 minutes. Got your nose. Got your nose. No, I'm like, I'm standing there out in the yard and I'm like, give me the once over on this here machine. I'm trying to think of things for him to do to kill time as I'm waiting for my friend to show up late. And then he justRips through them. Well, you just pull the choke here, turn this key here. This makes you go forward. This makes you go backwards. This makes you, this makes that thing spin. Move it side to side. You're all good. Boom. Howard. Yeah, exactly. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Now I'm like, I'm like, okay. And then now I'm like, well, how much gas does this take? Oh, Christ. I feel like, I feel like I got to engage this guy. Well, we're waiting because I feel bad because the timing is so off. You know what I mean? How did you propose to your wife? Are you married? You have nothing to talk about. And he's like, oh, it's like six gallons. How much does he use? Oh, the last guy used about three gallons in it. I don't know what he did. And then he's looking at it. He's like, it looks like he just dug in the mud. It's all muddy.It's not even cleaned up. It's all filthy dirty. It wasn't filthy, but it had some mud caked on it. And then I'm just like… So then I just walked around the yard with him talking about all the implements. What does this do? Well, I'm going to tell you all about it. I have this weird feeling this guy thought I was coming on to him at one point. So… Hey, where'd you buy those jeans? He's like, why is this guy hanging out back here with me, asking me, that bobcat, what's on the front of that bobcat? And I did ask him if he had a brush hog, and he went and showed me, oh, it's back here in this uh container you want to see my hog? And then, of course, I said, how do you work that? And then, how much gas is that? Oh, my God, yeah, for sure. I would think, like, this guy's into me. Holy cow.I was like, I felt so terrible. Poor guy. I'm like, I, I, I was trying to think, what can I talk to him about? Yeah. You know, cause it's like, he's just sitting there with me. What was the name of your first dog? Yeah. He's on his way. He's on his way. Oh my God. What's your favorite color? Then. So I get, my friend finally arrives and we're, trying to hook him up. And now I got another guy who comes out to help who is the smarter, slightly smarter guy. And then my friend's ball hitch or whatever, it does not want to go on there even though it's smart. So then we're beating on this thing with a hammer. I know I'm going to hear about this because we're beating it with a hammer to get everything to go on and everything. Oh my gosh. I'm like…i can't, I mean, I don't, these predicaments, I'm not built for going out in the public and engaging with, you know people right yeah i'm gonna say you really on a regular basis here, you know you had to be out of your element on this one, you're like oh yeah and then, you know, I feel like i have to, you know, I was gonna you know, read his palm yeah i don't know what i was gonna do i you know I'll tell you how to drive a stick shift. I can teach you. Rock, paper, scissors. Come on. Yeah. I'm just like trying to think of all these. And then my, you know, it all, it all worked out. My friend hooked up and, and he brought it home and I actually didn't hurt myself, which was amazing because then I bring it home and immediately I start using it because I've got weekend special, but you know, I got to get to,work. Yeah, get it going. I'm digging shit up. This thing,...

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In a candid conversation, two hosts and Mike Oppenheim (not that one) navigate topics from nostalgic childhood drills to the anxieties of modern active shooter preparedness. They delve into the evolving landscape of art and entertainment in the digital age, lamenting the decline of focused attention. Mike shares his personal journey as a diverse artist grappling with the challenges of capitalism and the rise of AI, prompting a broader discussion on societal shifts, unrealized potential, and the growing sense of disconnect. Despite these concerns, they find a measure of optimism in the cyclical nature of change, suggesting that current anxieties surrounding technology may eventually lead to unforeseen improvements.

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Hey, everybody, and welcome to a conversation with Mike Oppenheim. Did I say that right? You did. Okay. Usually you go by Mike Oppie, and so you make it easier on everybody to not have to have the last part, which is the more confusing part. I think everybody can do Opp, but it's the Oppenheim part that is difficult. Now, were you inundated with information during the whole Barbie Oppenheimer thing? Well, so when I was a little kid, I grew up in California in the Bay Area, which is like famously in Berkeley, there's signs that say like nuclear free zone and stuff. And I, like the idiot I was as a little kid, saw that this guy who was associated with the atomic bomb had my name. I mean, I willfully ignored the ER at the end, which is not my name. And so I told everyone at school as like a little kid that I was related to him.And the teacher was horrified at me, and I didn't understand it. And then they didn't call my parents in. It wasn't this dramatic.as a kid, it felt dramatic. And they basically sorted things out, and I was told, you're not related to the guy. And then I was told, you also might not want to be related to the guy. He was associated with communism and disgrace. And then the rest of my life, up until the movie release, was a lot of people saying, oh, Oppenheimer, are you related? And I'd say, no, no, no, there's no E-R at the end. So I would be correcting them. But then I did some research on him, and he's a really great guy. He actually did some great things. And the movie tries to capture that, but he was kind of pinned for something he wasn't really doing. It's funny, because I was just being silly, but I thought maybe you probably did. But it's amazing that people forget the last part of the name. Yeah. You know, like, I guess…What would you say? Oppenheim would be the name and then Oppenheimer would be of Oppenheim, perhaps. Yes, I think so. Oppenheim is a town in Germany. I know that. So that's interesting. But I figured just because of the first part that people would probably ask you a bunch of questions, even though that's not really your name. But it's funny that you had a story about how you thought, oh, yeah, I'll be… I'll be Oppenheimer, sure. What the heck, right? It's cool. He made the bomb, right? Yeah, yeah, big bomb. And, you know, it's now 2025. We teach history very differently. This is like in the 1980s. We were still in a Cold War with Russia, so we were pretty braggadocious about it. Right, well, yeah. So, yeah, in the 80s, exactly. Did you have to go through the nuclear drills? Do you remember these at all? Yeah, me too. Oh, my gosh. It sounds so ridiculous when you…When you're a kid, you just kind of go along with everything. Yeah, I'll get under my desk when the nuclear bomb goes off. Now you're like, what's the point? It's idiotic, right? I mean, I think the whole idea behind that was just to make everybody feel better maybe, even though what everybody was being asked to do was really quite ridiculous. Yeah, and I liken it in a completely opposite way too. I have been told I have young children, so they have not yet been – taught this but they do active shooter drills in schools now yes oh gosh yes and to me i'm liking it because i'm saying it's actually the polar opposite to me you're introducing a concept to children hey other kids have done this and will do this and b it's just like i don't know i don't like it i would rather not have a drill i would rather not talk about it and i would rather just if and when it happens but you know yeah that's the weird thing. So the funny, if you.I'm not studying on these kind of things, but I would say lightly taking in the information is there have been school shootings forever. It's just now it seems to be… Well, now because we have more people, there's more of them. And I think it's a bit of a… statistical thing, right? So because there's more people, then you have more of this other behavior and so forth. But as far as active shooter drills is something that my kids had to go through. And yeah, I wasn't all happy about it either. But you're right. It's probably better to be somewhat prepared. And I guess that's probably the logic from the nuclear drills either is to try to be to at least you're addressing an issue, even if you'resolution isn't always the best solution um you know, because the reality with the active shooter, not to be a downer, but his bullets go through walls uh so i mean our schools aren't built of of uh you know kevlar and um you know, just because you you barricade the door doesn't mean that uh something's not going to get into that room um it's just less likely to be as deliberate possibly um So, yeah. But, yeah, we don't want to tell the kids about that uh stuff hopefully there's no no kids are listening to this about my yeah talk about that what's funny uh my introduction to school shootings was actually in uh 91 the phenomenally popular song jeremy by pearl jam in the video yeah yeah and it tells the story of a kid who goes to school and he speaks in class today and it's a reference to him shooting, I think, one or two classmates. And it's a very gory, bloody video and i don't even thinkthere's a chance in heck that it could be released nowadays. It probably would never pass, you know? Right. Nowadays that we would probably wouldn't, although there's not many music videos anymore, which is kind of sad. I was just thinking about that. I just was, I had seen something. Oh, actually I was, I was on my fire TV. I was watching something. And then one of the ads was spot, check out the latest music videos. So I clicked on it and it, it did play music videos, but I was, it, it just kind of, made me a little bit sad because, you know, you talk about the 80s. Back in the 80s with mtv and everything, we had music videos and it was it was the content. It wasn't the background right and and then like that, like you mentioned the jeremy song, that was, you know, something that was uh very powerful at the time because it had everybody's attention because you were, it wasn't you just put it on and cleaned your house and you had these things going on.you actually, you know, we're sitting there paying attention and, and the, the videos got more and more complex, uh, after they got going, you know, the, what was it? 83 was MTV. I'm thinking. Yeah. And so the first videos were very quite simple. And then by the time you get to the nineties, I mean, they're incredibly, they're storytelling, right? There's a lot of stuff going on and it got really complicated and, and more interesting and so forth and now i think we're back uh because the one that i watched was a k-pop thing uh apt i think it's the name of the song anyway it's very simple it's just people dancing around on a sound stage singing the song and and it had some graphics and things but it was more like the original it was more like you know flock of seagulls uh standing aroundI'm still thinking about them. Yeah. The Bengals walk like an Egyptian just because I was a little boy and I was like, oh, these are like the most beautiful women in the history of the world. Like I remember, like, and this is pretty pubescent. So it's like very innocent, you know, it's just like. Right. And then also like as a kid in the 80s thinking adults wear like headbands and like long dangles, you know, just like all the style choices were like fascinating. Yeah. A little bit out there, right? I do. When you look back. Yeah. I like that you brought it up just because I do feel like this sadness about the attention span in our culture. And it's not like that I care about an individual's attention span, but I really am sad that like television shows are made for people holding a phone in their hand and barely watching it. Like movies are come out at home and people are like walking and leaving, you know, it's just like, cause like, yeah, like art is like consumed with your full attention. It has a profound effect on you. And I've been testing it. I've been watching it.old daniel day lewis movies and i've been putting my phone away and it's like actually hard i'm 43 and it's hard for me and i didn't throw it away and every once in a while in the first 10 20 minutes i'll look at my phone with like this sense of like well this movie is not so exciting that i could like not turn and look at something but i know if i do that i'm gonna lose something and so yeah i don't know um yeah well the hill but yeah it's it is weird like that though, because you're looking, you're looking for, you get these blips of, of entertainment rather than getting like a full thing. And it, and you know, we're, we're turning a corner here, Mike, I don't know if you realize, but I'm sure you do. The AI is going to change the way that we look at things because it's, it's not the same collaborative thing. So I look at it. So if, if,if we want to elevate ourselves a little bit here, Mike, and say what we're doing here is a bit of art, right? 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We'll fix it in post. Hey, everybody. This is Bob, and I'm joined with… Me, Leanne Linsky. Leanne Linsky from plausible.com. Of course. I thought you were going to say we're joined at the hip or something. No, no. Like Siamese cats. We're joined at the noggin here today to talk about all this kind of stuff. But we're going to talk about being… The Best Guest, which is really hard to say. After I wrote it, I thought this is a really good title. And now that I'm saying it, I'm rethinking all of this. Best Guest is really, it's almost a tongue twister just in the two words. It is. Best Guest. Best Guest. It's almost like Best Guest. Yeah. I want to break out into song and be our guest. But it's not about that. It's about being the best guest.So I just happened to notice recently, I'm like, gosh, Leanne's on a lot of other shows talking about stuff. And I go, you know what? I bet she knows what it takes to be the best guest. Yes, because not only have I been on a lot of shows, you've been on a lot of shows and we seem to follow each other. If you're on a podcast, I'm like, I got to get on that podcast. We're just copying each other's moves. Therefore, I think we're both the best guests. Oh, well, hey, that's awful sweet. Yeah. Did I mention how sweet Leanne Linsky is? You know, she's from the suburbs of Chicago in what, Waukegan? Yes, in Waukegan. Yeah, from Waukegan. So one day you can stop by her childhood home and take a tour. Yeah. Good luck. But not today. Don't do it today. That's a whole nother episode. So…I guess, well, the idea of being a guest on these shows is to obviously to see what they're doing, but to tell them what you're doing. Yes. Yes. And actually have a conversation. Yeah. Exactly. A conversational thing. So did you, how long, well, first of all, how long have you been being the best guest or even a guest for that matter? Well, I feel like I've been guesting- most of my life on everything. But being the best guest, ever since people were like, be the best you, be the most authentic you. I don't know how else I would be, but yeah, I think especially since signing up for Podmatch. Okay, so Podmatch was the impetus for your journey would be Podmatch. I think that was my…my, my moment of when I'm like, yeah, I'm going to be a guest. And then that happened. And I just, you just saw it and you're like, you know what? I could be one of them. I could be a guest. That's, that seems doable to me. That seems a realistic goal is to be a guest. And then because they have where the leaderboard is, of how you rank as a guest, you know, I'm like, I have to be in the top 10. That's tough. I did it though. My first few months on there. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't really. Yeah. I gave up real early. I'm like, there's no way. I'm like, I don't need to be the best. Yeah. I don't need to be on the leaderboard. I always, every time, maybe it's just the pessimist in me, but I always think those leaderboards are rigged.Every time I'm like, why, what is this? Who are these people? I'd never even heard of them. And they're on top of the leaderboard. I actually think that one's pretty accurate. You think so? I do. And the reason is, is because I, I looked, I was like, who are these top performers and what are they doing? And they're so like, when I looked at who the top hosts are and everything, those, those hosts are actually, they're, they're booking people to, daily and they're releasing episodes like they're doing a lot so i believe that is a pretty legit leaderboard also i was on it so all it validates my it validates everything i think about myself it's obviously this this sounds like a trump answer it's obviously real because i was on it they the the infamous they put me on the leaderboard they put me on the leaderboard yeah yeahOh, interesting. Now, I hadn't even thought about that. To be honest with you, I did look at the leaderboard for a little while, but yeah, I was not in hopes of being on it just because I don't… I'm not a guest as much as you are, apparently, even though we seem to be following each other. Well, it's also… So we look at how they rank it, and this ties kind of into our conversation of being the best. And I think it's like… the time it takes to response to someone's messages when they're trying to book you. So that plays into it. If you've taken. Yeah. So the so the sooner you respond to people like your your their wait time is shortened. So I think that's a benefit. And I think that's important as being a guest is responding to emails in a reasonable amount of time. I mean, it doesn't have to be that second, you know, because if you're in the midst of doing something else like someone else's podcast, you should not be multitasking.But I think within a day is a reasonable amount of time, maybe two business days. And then the other, because then you're, you're not leaving someone hanging, you know, if they're asking a conversation. But what I really like is everything is pretty automated. So, you know, being a good guest is providing the host with the information they've requested completely like read, read what they need in order to make it a good guesting experience, if you will, so that they can be fully prepared. And I think that also being a good guest requires, like I spend a little bit of time, I research who my host is. I click on the links and like, what are they doing on social media? What are they typically talking about? Listen to a couple episodes of their podcast. So I know the tone and what kind of guests they're looking for. And I usually do that.before I even apply to be a guest on a podcast or submit myself, like, is this a good fit for me? Because if it's about fixing cars, they probably don't want me as a guest and their listeners probably don't really want to hear from me. Cause I have been on so many real estate podcasts and I didn't know what to say. Cause I don't know anything about real estate. Have you really? No, no. I was like, that's amazing. I feel like I do the exact opposite of what you do. I always get on there and I go, what's your name again? Who are you? What are we doing? Why did you call me? Why did you ring me up on this thing? I had this on my calendar. I don't remember anything about it. See, I feel bad now. You are the best guest. Goodness gracious. I'm like, you know, I say, oh, look, it says…They want somebody who's humorous. Okay, I'll go there and I'll try to do something. Well, it's funny. I listen to, sometimes I listen to other people on someone's podcast, like they'll share. And I'm like, clearly the person's not even listening to the host. Like the host, it's like has a list, like has been very prepared. Like you can tell when a host is like, anyway, back to the regularly scheduled programming. And the person's like, welcome, welcome, welcome. I'm going off on a tangent, you know? So I try to pay attention. Like, does this, like, what's the host format? Like, so I'm not like overrunning their show. Oh my God. I really need to pay attention here. I, this is what I do. I do it every time. I'm like, let's talk about Katy Perry going to space. Like, this is not about that, Bob, your knucklehead. Yeah.We're the anti-Amazon podcast. What the hell are we talking about that for? No, but that's interesting, though. But you obviously put a lot of thought into this. I do. Maybe I'm weird. My husband says I'm weird. No, no. I think you're probably better off for it. Yeah. Well, it's like, you know, why are we doing this? Like, I have other things I could be doing. Binge watching Netflix. Yeah. eating Doritos, I don't know, but- Oh my gosh, you mentioned that was my whole lunch today. Was it really? Yeah, I watched Netflix and ate Doritos. What did you watch on Netflix? I Think You Should Leave. That was the name of the show. Okay, I'm out, bye. I don't know what that's about. It's a sketch comedy show. I think it's older. I think it's a few years old, but I just heard about it and I thought, oh, I'll check out an episode.I should watch that. Yeah, it's kind of funny. But I did eat Doritos, which I just thought, wow, how could she even know this? I thought I was going to have to go look for people in the woods out behind my house now. Well, first of all, yes, you do have to go look for people in the woods behind your house because what are they doing there? Also, I don't know. I don't even eat Doritos. Doritos aren't even on my radar anymore. at this age. Yeah. Good for you. I had a half a bag, I think. Did you wash your hands or did you just like wipe them off on your… I found a convenient animal in my house and just wiped my hands on them. Oh, very good. That's good. And then they can just lick it for later. Then they'll have it later, right? It's a whole pyramid we got going here. That's a food chain. It's a food chain, yeah. Just whoop.I'm like, come here, you know, whistle. And they come over and I just wipe my hands on them. And then later they'll lay down and lick it all off. So with no waste, it's almost like we're living, you know, back on the land here. It's very sustainable. Very sustainable. Yeah. That orange dust can't waste it. So, so how many shows do you think you've guessed it on? Would you, if you had to take a, you know, estimate of what that would be? Yeah. well i know because it counts them on that particular okay so you don't you pretty much just do pod match you don't do any of the other well i do some of the outside so i want