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I went viral this past week. I walked into Walmart and saw that they were adding coin receptacles to their shopping carts. Pulling out my phone, I made a quick Tiktok video. After uploading the video to the service, I thought nothing more about it. Somehow, it attracted a lot of attention from the Tiktok community. Three days after I posted the video, it had 5 million views. A week after posting the video, it had amassed 10.5 million views and more than thirty thousand comments. I went viral, and you can too!

Going viral is an online phenomenon that any active Internet user is most likely already familiar with, at least to some extent. When the word viral is used to describe a video, it doesn’t refer to the type of content. Rather it’s to the way in which it gains popularity. A video goes viral by quickly amassing millions of views due to social media users sharing it with their friends and/or followers. And the more people share, the higher the number of views.

In short, a viral video is a video spread by users who share and like it. This increases its number of views, making it reach viewers outside the original target audience group. Due to the fact that sharing is a key element of creating viral content, it’s mainly encountered within the world of social media. When you manage to make your video go viral, there are really no limits as to how many people can actually watch it. A sensible assumption would be that the potential audience could even consist of as many people as there are users of a particular platform. This is, of course, only a theoretical scenario. But still, it’s not exactly accurate because viral posts and videos tend to travel between different social media platforms.

My viral video: https://www.tiktok.com/@soulforgepodcast/video/7192661184481430790

The Daily Dot article: https://www.dailydot.com/irl/walmart-dollar-shopping-cart/?fbclid=IwAR1oWtz6eZq9WblRCq8hDIP6VOHiVMAYoOZQeP3nFUCqoHySbeWfc7ssTJQ

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This week’s podcast promo: The 42 Cast

Rob Volpe is an astute observer of life and a master storyteller who brings empathy and compassion to the human experience. As CEO of Ignite 360, he leads a team of insights, strategy, and creative professionals serving the world’s leading brands across a range of industries. He is the author of Tell Me More About That: Solving the Empathy Crisis One Conversation at a Time. As a thought leader in the role of empathy in marketing and the workplace, he is a contributor to Entrepreneur’s Leadership Network and frequently speaks on the topic at conferences, corporations, colleges, podcasts and with the media. He is a graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and lives in San Francisco with his husband and 3 cats.

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Skunk Brothers Spirits was started by a family of disabled veterans focused on locally-sourced, quality distilled spirits. The Washington-based team is building on their grandfather’s prohibition-era moonshine recipe to bring small batch spirits to the Gorge and beyond!

Everything gets a bit dark this week as The 42cast looks into the latest film to come from the DC Universe, Black Adam. We discuss this as Dwayne Johnson’s passion peace that he’s been trying to get made since 2014. We talk about the plot and themes and discuss whether they make any sense in the context of what we’ve seen from DC before. We also get into the casting choices and what we think about the portrayal of various characters that have never been seen in live action before. We also opine on the inclusion of elements like Amanda Waller and Superman and how those both effect the narrative. We also discuss the Shazam connection and we talk about what a Black Adam franchise could have looked like.

Due to time constraints there is no five-minute controversy this week.

This week Ryan, James, and Nate join the cast.

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This week the Monkeeing Around gang discusses the fourth aired Monkees episode, Your Friendly Neighborhood Kidnappers.

Monkeeing Around is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Faber.

Flopcast episode 560! We’ve had “Weird Al” Yankovic on our minds lately, probably because Kevin just participated in an American Sci-Fi Classics panel all about Al. (Check it out! We have a YouTube link just for you.) So we just invented The Weird Al Game, in which Kevin and Kornflake try to guess each other’s favorite Weird Al songs. This week we’re covering Al’s first seven albums. Does Kornflake want a new duck? Will Kevin visit the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota? Join us as we dare to be stupid. (Admittedly, that’s business as usual around here…) Also: Kornflake is celebrating Ice Cream For Breakfast Day, because apparently she loves rocky road.

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This week’s promo: But First, Let’s Talk Nerdy!

The award-winning author and former Earth Station One cohost had one of his most productive years ever in 2022. Mike and Mike chat with Bobby about his plans for the new year and especially his tales of the devilish town of Dante, Arizona. Plus, Angela’s A Geek Girl’s Take and Shout Outs.

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This Week on Earth Station DCU! Drew Leiter and Cletus Jacobs get a case of space…Lazarus Island explodes…and Dark Crisis Ends! It’s the final showdown between father and son as the Dynamic Duo fight in a final confrontation in Batman vs. Robin #4. Superman, Batman, and the Teen Titans go in search of the captured Boy Thunder and find him a captive of the Joker and the Key in Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #10. Courtney and Emiko check out the Arrow Cave before taking a sea voyage in search of the lost sidekicks in Stargirl: The Lost Children #2. Things go sideways when the battle between Catwoman and Punchline begins in Catwoman #50. Tony Zucco, the murderer of Dick Grayson’s parents, is released on bail and wants to rule Bludhaven with is daughter in Nightwing #99. Wally learns the truth about Mayor Wolfe in a final showdown with the Rogues in The Flash #789. Nightwing leads a fight against Deathstroke, while the Flashes and Dr. Light attempt to stabilize the Multiverse in Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #7. All this plus, DC News, DC TV, Shout Outs, and much, much more!

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Table of Contents

0:00:00 Show Open

0:01:06 DC News

0:10:43 Batman vs. Robin #4

0:20:30 Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #10

0:25:34 Stargirl: The Lost Children #2

0:34:00 Batman: Urban Legends #22

0:40:53 Catwoman #50

0:49:42 Nightwing #99

0:55:12 The Flash #789

1:00:05 Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #7

1:11:36 Doom Patrol S4 Ep4 – Casey Patrol

1:16:16 Show Close

Links

Batman vs. Robin #4

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #10

Stargirl: The Lost Children #2

Batman: Urban Legends #22

Catwoman #50

Nightwing #99

The Flash #789

Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #7

Kingdom Come (Cletus’s Read More Comics Pick)

Earth Station One Tales of the Station

Earth Station One Tales of the Station Vol. 2

The Chameleon Chronicles: Colors of Fate

The Chameleon Chronicles: Sisters of the Thorn

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We love Dragon Con, but could we love it even more? Mike, Darren, Jen, and Channing discuss some constructive criticism to improve the experience and help make the weekend better than ever.

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Cary the Metal Geek and George venture into the world of Oscars and discuss and predict our favorites! Let’s see who is right in March! We also discuss Hi-Fi Rush on Xbox, Marvel Midnight Sons, Poker Face, the cancelation of Doom Patrol, High on Life, and Justin Roiland, Pantera, and we get into the new Riverside and HOST during George Hates Metal! Come hang out with your geek out!

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This week the EARTH STATION TREK crew are joined by Matt and Elaine Sweatman for a trip into the Delphic Expanse for a neuro-pressure session with Star Trek: Enterprise season three!

Earth Station Trek is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Faber.