The Real Story Inside Your Spotify Wrapped

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Good morning, podcasting morning
chat.

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Today is Friday, December 5th,
2025, and today Spotify Wrapped

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brings its mix of insights and
emotions, and we're breaking it

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down together with you sharing
your highlights and us revealing

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a few of ours.
Plus, we'll share our wins from

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the past week.
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Thanks for being here.

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Good morning again podcasting.
Morning Chad.

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Thanks so much for being here.
I am your host Mark Ronick and

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currently on stage with me.
My Co hosts we have Ralph Estep,

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Dr. Faye, Jonathan Howard, Matt
Bliss and I know Nick Nolbach

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will be joining us in just a
moment.

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I say that just because we were
literally just texting about

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today's show and also invite BC
up because I know BC wants to be

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a part of the conversation too.
It's Friday, gang.

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So like I said, yes, we let's
talk a little bit about Spotify

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Wrapped.
And of course, let's also share

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wins from the week toward the
end of the show because it's

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Friday and that's what we do.
And Spotify Wrapped is

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definitely something that is
huge every year, at least when I

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say that, I just mean it is
commonly shared across all

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social media platforms.
People are very proud to share

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both their Spotify Wrapped for
creator results and also as a

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Spotify user, those Spotify
Wrapped results.

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So I today I want to explore a
couple of sides of it, right?

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There's the excitement side and
I want to, I, I'm excited to

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share a few things about our
Spotify wrapped.

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If anybody else is excited to
share anything or, and I'll,

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I'll ask you some questions
about it.

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But if you have something you're
excited about, you want to share

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as far as your results go, let's
talk about that.

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But there's also this other side
that when speaking with the team

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yesterday about today's topic, a
few people expressed, I mean,

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concern might be strong, but for
lack of better word, they

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expressed some concerns about
the fact that this really is

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revealing as far as Spotify is
concerned that they have all of

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this different data on us as
users, as creators, etcetera,

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how we use their app, what
things were listening and

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watching on their app.
So we're going to get into that

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too.
I have some questions about

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that, but first I'm, I'm
curious.

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I'll you know what I'm going to,
I'm going to start, but I'm

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going to ask you all to share.
To start off, what's 1 wrapped

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statistic once one wrapped badge
that they gave you that maybe

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surprised you And the way you do
this, I'm not going to take you

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through every step to get to
your wrapped information, but

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you do have to go log into
creators.spotify.com to get it.

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And you'll find it on the left
hand side there.

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And once you click it on the
left hand side, you'll, it'll

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give you a splash page.
You, you hit the I don't know

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what it is, Let's go button to
get your results, but I put the

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top right before you even hit
that let's go button.

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There's a little share button
and that will give you the

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overall summary.
You'll see a a list of different

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badges that you've earned.
So I'll tell you one result that

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surprised me.
This is about growth.

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And the reason why it surprised
me, it surprised me is for two

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reasons.
One, the total audience growth

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percentage for the podcasting
morning chat was a number that

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just seems unfathomable.
What's that?

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DRI said.
It's unbelievable if you can't.

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Yes, thank you.
Yeah, the old Porky Pig

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strategy.
Yes, got it.

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Why the result surprised me is
'cause it's so ridiculously

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high, and I'll share it in a
second.

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And I've seen several creators
share the exact same result,

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which is 999% total audience
growth.

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And the fact that I've seen not
just one other person, I've seen

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multiple people share, hey, look
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My total audience growth is 999%
increased.

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So to me, it almost feels like a
glitch or it just feels like

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something's weird.
One thing that did not surprise

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me is our most popular episode
of 2025.

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It didn't and it probably
doesn't surprise you either if

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you are a listener at all from
this past year.

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The Steve from Blue's Clues is
back with a podcast.

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That's the title episode 329.
That one was huge for us and I,

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I know it gave us, I think we
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episode alone.
So some other things about our

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growth, our total new audience
grew to about 2000 new audience

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members.
Listening time increased 268%.

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Now the, the interesting thing
to talk about here and we can,

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we can start talking about some,
some of this, the fact that

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everybody, well, let's talk
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Does anybody have any concerns
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You know, the Spotify for me is
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So I, I guess I have to take
some of this with a grain of

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salt, right?
Like, sure, it's cool to see

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that I'm having a lot of growth
on Spotify, but putting it into

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perspective, it's probably my
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I have to go back and look, but
I think it's somewhere around my

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third or fourth most commonly
used platform if I think it's

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third.
So, you know, it's like, what

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what do we do with this
information?

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To me, sometimes it does.
It's a little bit of, of a, of a

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brag.
And I, I did it too, right?

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It's fun to share with the
public like, hey, look at some

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of these numbers.
But you know what, is it really

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that important?
Does anyone want to share any

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results that they had?
OK, let's go to Nick.

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Nick, go ahead.
Hey.

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Good morning, everybody.
Yeah, I went through it.

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I obviously the AI briefing was
the show that I got the Spotify

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Wrapped deal on.
So I was curious be that it was

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a totally AI show that kind of
yeah, results that came out of

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it.
And just real quick, why don't

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you get give just a quick
synopsis of the show first for

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new listeners?
It's basically an all AI show.

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It's AI generated AI, voice, AI,
everything, and it is all about

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AI news.
So it was just highlighting some

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of the most recent updates and
advancements in AI.

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It was a quick three to five
minute Daily Show ran it for

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probably 120 a 130 episodes
before just kind of stopping.

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But I I did it more as an
experiment and it actually got

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decent results.
Like I was very surprised by the

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number of listeners, the viewers
on YouTube.

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It was kind of a cool little
experiment.

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Thank you, Nick.
Now go ahead.

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I was going to say for for the
Spotify Wrapped, one of the

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interesting things that popped
up for me was that it said your

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average rating was higher than
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Oh, that's.
Cool.

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Which sounds neat, but I I'm
really curious.

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Like it doesn't tell you
anything about where it gets

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that data.
Like how is it coming to that

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conclusion?
Because I didn't have like a

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huge audience on Spotify.
YouTube was definitely the, the

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platform for me with that show.
So is it because I'd get a, a

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thumbs up or a, a like on an
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And that was the only one it
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So it was 100% approval rating
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And all the people that have
more audience get like less

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react.
I, I don't know.

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It's, it's kind of an
interesting stat to me.

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I'm curious how I'd get to it.
Yeah.

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Yeah, I that that's the kind of
those are the kind of thoughts

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that go through my head too when
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especially like I said to to the
point earlier, the fact that,

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you know, it's not the most
commonly used platform among our

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audience.
So, yeah.

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All right, let me go to.
All right, Jonathan.

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So yeah, that was one that I I
got for coffee.

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Social fan favorite.
So your average rating was

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higher than 67% of other shows.
And I was like, OK, that's

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great, but what does that even
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And the other one was a most
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You receive more comments than
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And I was like, OK, that's an
interesting, but I don't know

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where that comes from.
And Spotify is fifth in line for

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us for coffee Social.
Tell me that stat again.

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The right before the the one
about being 5th.

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Yep.
It's called a 2025 talked about

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show and you receive more
comments than 87% of other

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shows.
Got it.

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OK.
Yeah.

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And right.
So putting into perspective

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again though, like Jonathan, do
you think really like off the

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top of your head, how many
comments do you can you recall

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that you've had over the past
year on Spotify specifically?

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Yeah, I.
Yeah, I maybe, maybe I had no

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idea because I got maybe a
handful, Yeah.

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I got the same kind of thing
too.

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I'm trying to find it now, but
yeah, I had this a similar

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result.
Yeah.

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It was like, I'll just say it
was said that we were one of the

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most talked about shows.
I think that's the statistic.

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And really, I mean, yeah, I know
that's probably because of,

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again, that Steve from Blue's
Clues episode that we did,

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because I know I got a ton of
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So it, again, it just feels a
little skewed sometimes.

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Ralph, did you want to share any
results that you had?

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Sure.
And, and honestly, I've never

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really paid that much attention
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So I dropped into my Captivate
because that's what I put on my

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shoes on because I wanted to
figure out what was my

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percentage of Spotify in the 1st
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And it's like 1 or 2% of my
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But then I said, OK, well, let
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I looked at it, my big take away
it's going to you're going to

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laugh is because I started doing
the show back in 2017.

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It was called Ask Ralph, my
originally Daily Show.

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So that's what I'm talking
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My most watched show this year
was a show I did like 6 years

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ago on FASFA for people getting
their kids into college to FASFA

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form.
Which kind of just floored me

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because if anybody went through
that, the audio was horrible.

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My ability to talk was terrible,
but I'm like, wow, they actually

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picked it up.
I guess the one thing I took

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away from it was the last stat
they showed me as a come some

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sort of rising star or something
said that my show grew by 97%

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more than everybody else.
And I was like, OK, but if you

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start with two listeners and
you're now at three, I guess,

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you know, you did great.
So I don't really know what to

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take of that mark, to be honest
with you.

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But hey, it's data.
You know, we love data,

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especially the accountants.
We love data, but I'm not sure

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what to do with it.
Yeah.

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For me, what I'm taking away is
when I'm seeing those growth

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benchmarks like you're talking
about, to me, that's probably

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the most valuable number to me
because that's all.

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A lot of the other stuff, as
we've said, kind of almost feels

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like fluff or just feels a
little that the perspective

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feels a little off.
But yeah, when I'm looking at

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those metrics and they're
showing me improvement in growth

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year over year that that I'm not
going to just kind of walk away

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from that.
That's something that's got a

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little weight to it.
It's good to see.

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Yeah, Nick, go ahead.
One of my biggest takeaways out

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of all of this is not even
specific to my show.

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Let's do it.
Clearly they are collecting a

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lot of data and a lot of
information and they have this

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at their disposal.
So why are the Spotify for

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podcasts or analytics still?
That is a great point.

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Yes.
They clearly have a lot of data,

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a lot more data than they
actually show us as creators, I

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think.
Yeah, Matt, what did you want to

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say?
You have to pay Nick, you got to

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pay money, you got to pay $99.00
a month or whatever it is for

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Megaphone to get access to all
of the good stuff.

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Because that's that's the scope
creep that we've been seeing

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with Spotify over the last
probably three to four years is

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they've sunsetted functions,
they've moved aspects of Spotify

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for creators previously, Spotify
for podcasters previously Anchor

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from it into other areas that
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They've moved into video and
provided ways for you to pay

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them more money to advertise and
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their platform.
It's full wall garden scenario

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here, like where if you're not
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you're on the outside trying to
look through really fogged up

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windows to see what's going on
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And this is the one time of the
year where they step back and

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they go, hey, we've been seeing
you walking around the walls

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like trying to rub the fog away
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This is what we can tell you
about what you were wearing on

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which particular day.
It's Spotify is going to be

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really interesting to keep an
eye on for all of this stuff.

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It was my immediate thought when
I saw the rap stuff start coming

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out and a bunch of other apps do
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YouTube I I pay for YouTube
Premium and that's where my rapt

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information comes from.
But at the end of the day, it's

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about companies controlling and
having data.

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But like this is this is the how
to describe it best.

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This is the the piece meal
offering in order for them to

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keep doing what they're doing
and appease you by telling you

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things that you want to hear,
like Spotify for creators.

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It's telling you information
about your show that makes you

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feel good about continuing to
have it on Spotify.

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Yeah.
Whereas if you knew how much

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information they actually had,
and this is just going to be the

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the tippy top of the surface of
that kind of thing, then you

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wouldn't want them to do it
anymore.

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And they've been obscuring it
for a long time, mostly because

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Google has been procuring
information and data for maybe

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15 years.
And it's only recently the idea

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of being a control of our own
information that it's kind of

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surfaced.
And they've stopped talking

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about how much they can offer if
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you're giving them data.
And I think they're trying to

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hide as much as they can.
That is.

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That is Matt Bliss's rant for
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We can revisit that if you want,
but I think I covered all my

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points there.
Yeah.

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Thank you for sharing that.
Yeah, go ahead, Jonathan.

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Can I say that even the way that
Matt described that was creepy?

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Like, what do you mean hearing
inside the windows?

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Hearing inside the slightly
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Like looking at what you're
wearing.

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It's.
Creepy.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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No, I I agree.
Well, I'm thinking maybe when I

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edit this show later on today
that I would like some kind of a

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musical bed underneath Matthew.
Kind of that creepy sound.

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The Hexicord?
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Yes, there you go.
And maybe when I describe

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rubbing the windows you get like
a.

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Oh, accepted.
There.

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Wow, did you just do that with
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That's crazy.
I don't want to sound

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conspiratorial at all because I
am not the kind of person who

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puts a sticky note on top of the
webcam on my laptop just in case

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when I've stepped away from the
computer.

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But if I like, you know, listen
to music in the shower or

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something, I always make sure to
tip the phone upside down so

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that there's no camera facing
into the bathroom while it's

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happening.
But we just have to realize that

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there's a lot more information
that we're putting out there

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than we think we are or the
companies would have us think

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that we are.
And it's creepy.

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Let me ask, I know that BC has
something too, but let me ask

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why?
Why is that a problem?

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Or what makes that a problem is
the better way to ask.

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And that's, that's the framing
device, right?

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Like it I think in the in the
broad context, understanding

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that they have all this
information about us is

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important.
But I don't think it's important

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enough for us to get our picket
signs out, stand in front of

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whatever Spotify headquarters we
can get access to and say,

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release my data, stop tracking
my lessons because it at the.

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End.
So, Matt, when does it get to be

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that point though?
Well, it doesn't because we're

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all bored into late stage
capitalism and we don't get the

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things that we want without
having to give a little bit

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back.
And so being in capitalism,

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being in the late stage that we
are, where technology is

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integrated into every aspect of
your life, I mean, we just have

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to accept that this is a fact of
life, that our data is going

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places.
As long as we're cognizant of

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where the data is going, it's
fine.

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But we get benefits for that.
So why does it matter?

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I don't think it does really,
but it doesn't mean that we

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ignore understanding where our
data is at any one time and

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where it's going and the
potential.

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So we don't ignore it.
We understand it, but also we

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enjoy it.
Just wanted to say real quick

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and and Jonathan, hold on to
your seat.

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The number one music artist
listened to by the podcasting

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morning chat audience on
Spotify.

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Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift.

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Let me guess, Taylor Swift?
Yes, Yep, Taylor.

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Swift, but she was second.
She.

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Was second.
She wasn't the first one for the

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world this year.
Oh, really?

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She was behind Bad.
Yeah, she was behind Bad Bunny.

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Well, she's number one in the
podcasting morning chat

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audience's heart and Jonathan's
I.

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And I think Nick is right.
I think Jonathan is the one that

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really skewed that number for
us.

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And BC I know you've been
waiting patiently, is there

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anything you'd like to add to
this conversation?

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Well, before I was simply going
to say that, you know, it kind

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of goes back to those instances
when if you have an Alexa at

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home and you're minding your own
business, you have any

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conversations with your friends
and your family, and then it

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kind of agrees with you, makes a
little chime in the background.

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It's like, sorry, I didn't
invite you to the conversation.

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But then going back to what
Matthew was talking about too,

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you know, if we do, we do we
even establish what if there's a

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line that you know?
Differentiates between the data

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that we feel that certain
platforms should have and then

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at what point does it get
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Do we even define that anymore?
And then if we find those

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moments where we feel it has
done invasive, what do we do to

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change it?
You know, kind of like what

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Matthew was saying, we're kind
of we've bought into it.

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So does it matter or how much do
we think it should matter

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compared to how much we enact on
that feeling of being invaded?

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Any thoughts, Matt, do you want
to respond to that or Jonathan

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or Jonathan first?
So I'm going to, I'll go to him.

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Go ahead, Jonathan.
Yeah, so, and I was actually

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going to respond to Dave as well
when because he says Facebook

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has just as much data.
So is it false outrage?

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You know, it's I wouldn't say
that I'm outraged over it

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because I buy in like like Matt
said, I buy into this.

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I know how much my Google has.
I know.

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But there's also things that I
do like I don't turn on location

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services for a lot of the apps
out there because I it doesn't

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need it.
And I try not to have it on for,

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you know, my phone 100% of the
time either, even though it is

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on quite a bit.
So there's a certain line that I

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draw because I think it's an
invasion of privacy.

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Like it doesn't need to know
where I am all the time.

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But yeah, I mean, we do buy in
and we say, Yep, we're going to,

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we want this, we want this
service, we want this.

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So it's hard for, you know, I
don't think it's outrage.

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I'm not false outrage, but I
think it's important for people

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to know what is being tracked.
Thank you, Jonathan.

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I'm going to Matt.
I'll come to you in a second.

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I'm going to go to Nick.
Go ahead, Nick.

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Yeah, so I, I think the the
comment of like, where is the

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line crossed or at what point
does the line get crossed?

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And I think Jonathan kind of
touched on it.

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That was going to be a, a
comment that I was going to

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make.
Like whenever you sign up for a

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new app or you get on a new app
and it pops up and it's like,

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oh, can we use your location?
And at least on Android, you

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always have the option that says
like while using the app, yes

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and no or something like that.
And I think once they, I, I

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don't necessarily think that
they're doing exactly what you

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select.
Like if you say only when you're

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using the app, I still kind of
think that they are still

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collecting your location and
whatever permissions you give

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them, even when the app is not
in use.

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And I think to me, that's where
the line gets crossed because

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exactly what Jonathan said, I'm
not using the app.

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What, what information do you
need from me?

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Because it doesn't pertain to
what I'm doing on the app.

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It that's where to me, it starts
getting kind of like an invasion

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of your privacy.
Thank you, Nick, Alex, I saw you

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wanted to chime in.
Do do you still have something

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for us?
I mean, Matt hit the nail on the

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head.
You can't put the genie back in

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the bottle.
And the problem with all this

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is, you know, we're all looking
at this for good 'cause that's

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what we're not evil, right, Matt
Matthew?

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But at the same time, there's
just a lot of people that can

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take this and they're pushing it
and they're pushing it to weird

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places.
You know, I I know there's the

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people out there that want their
privacy.

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Unless you live in a bubble and
you're off the grid and

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everything else, you're not
private.

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And, and even if you think you
are, you're not.

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So it's, it's an interesting,
it's an interesting

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conversation.
I know it's a bigger

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conversation, but yeah, for
people to go back, we can't.

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And we just have to learn how to
manage what these these sites

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are gonna do.
And it's not just Google and

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it's it's not just Facebook.
It's in every aspect of our

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lives, whether you go to the
supermarket or whatever else.

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And, you know, I don't know, I
don't know what the answer is.

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But at the end of the day, yeah,
we have to, we have to have

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people like Nick and Matt that
that are on top of this stuff

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because it's just so
overwhelming.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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Go ahead, Matt.
But the thing to keep in mind is

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these modern conveniences are
what accrues the data from us in

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order to enable them.
So what I'd ask people to think

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about, perhaps after this
conversation is taking a little

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step in the direction and ask
yourself, what modern

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convenience am I enjoying right
now that I can start to pull

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myself away from in the case
that there's, you know, a power

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outage across the world,
Electricity suddenly disappears

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for whatever reason.
But imagine you're sitting in

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your room right now and without
any access to technology.

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What do you do?
And start to think about how you

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entertain yourself and how you
get your information and start

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to pull back a little bit from
these companies that offer you a

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convenience as a way to, you
know, become invested, you know,

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direct your attention into their
platform.

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And then by consequence of that,
you start to retain a little bit

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more of your data, but you also
start to gain things like what

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people are talking about today,
like critical thinking is going

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away.
People don't remember as much

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attention span is going down.
You can start to recover those

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things as a consequence of also
pulling your yourself away from

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the modern conveniences.
And the only immediate example

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that I have at the top of my
mind is scrolling your Instagram

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Reels and your YouTube Reels and
all that kind of stuff.

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That's an attention grabber
that's hard to pull away from.

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And I'd ask anyone who's
scrolling today, if you see that

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record and you're like, oh, how
long have I been doing this?

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Put the phone down.
Take that opportunity to just,

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you know, pull yourself away.
From it.

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Thank you, Matt and I.
Don't wanna.

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Huge box there, I am really
sorry.

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00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,680
That's OK.
I was appreciating what you were

451
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,160
sharing and Ralph in the chat
says it's an addiction.

452
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,320
And I fully agree.
And kind of I will, I admit that

453
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,080
I think I'm a little addicted to
it and I, I have those moments

454
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,160
as well.
Thank you, Matt.

455
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,320
I'm going to go to Janae and as
before you speak Janae, I want

456
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,280
to make a call out to everybody
else in the audience.

457
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:30,960
Come on up if you want to share
any wins from your week.

458
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,960
We will get to that segment
momentarily.

459
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:38,160
And the only way it works is if
some of us are participating and

460
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,760
sharing.
So come on up, join us, share

461
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:46,240
any wins that you want to
celebrate with the gang this

462
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,520
morning.
With that, Janae, good morning

463
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,760
to you.
What did you want to add and

464
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,640
maybe help us wrap up this part
of the conversation?

465
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:59,440
Good morning everyone, super
excited to be here and looks

466
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,840
like they've already wrapped up
the year for us.

467
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:08,720
They Spotify, yes right.
And I was even even looking on

468
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:14,520
my Apple Music and Apple Music
told me how many different bands

469
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,960
I listened to.
So and I can go all the way back

470
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:22,240
to 2016 on all the different
music that I'm listening to.

471
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,400
And it's like, this is really
interesting because of course,

472
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,000
they are tracking all the stuff
that we are doing on their

473
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,680
platforms.
And this is a way for them to

474
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,520
tell you back like, hey, this is
what you've been listening to.

475
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:39,160
And funny enough, I think two
years ago, the stuff that I was

476
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,840
listening to was all ocean
sounds because that's the stuff

477
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:47,360
we play, you know, when we're
going to bed.

478
00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:50,440
So it's really interesting.
And yes, they're going to have

479
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:55,040
access to our data, which is
what we promised or we agreed

480
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,800
to.
But we also have to remember

481
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:02,560
that we are only here for a
little bit.

482
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,080
That's about it, right?
So this data helps them whatever

483
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,040
it helps them do.
We got to realize that we are

484
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:15,240
here only for a little bit, and
what we do with what we have is

485
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,760
completely up to us.
So be evil, be not.

486
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,720
At the end of the day, who are
you?

487
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,120
Who do you want to be?
Hopefully that helps.

488
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,400
Thank you, Janae.
Love that.

489
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,680
And by the way, Dave in the chat
says, so I might be your sole

490
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,840
Spotify listener.
I think he's talking to us.

491
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,920
It is all I use for podcasts and
music.

492
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,200
I love comments within the
episodes.

493
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,280
Yes, I know Dave definitely is
thankfully one of the

494
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,040
contributors of the comments on
our Spotify page.

495
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,000
He said PMC was my top show that
I listened to in 2025.

496
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,680
Thank you, Dave.
And you are not the sole Spotify

497
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,040
listener.
There are actually about 100.

498
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,800
I can't remember the exact
number, but I'll say around 139

499
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:05,600
other people who were told that
we podcasting morning chat are

500
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,600
their number one show.
And I've heard from, I think now

501
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,800
it's up to about 5 different
people sharing that information

502
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,720
with me that hey, I'm your you
know, you're my #1 show and

503
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:18,800
thank you.
Keep them coming.

504
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,880
Anybody who's listening to my
voice right now, if we appeared

505
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,640
as your number one podcast, let
me know.

506
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,240
I want to hear it makes me feel
good.

507
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,640
Thank you.
All right, so with that, let's

508
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,080
get into our wins from this
week.

509
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:39,760
Come on up and share.
Would love to hear what you are

510
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,960
up to.
So first, let's see, let's go to

511
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,320
Janae's already shared.
Actually, let's go to BC since

512
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,920
BC has been on stage all morning
with us.

513
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:54,160
BC, good morning to you.
Would you be open to sharing a

514
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:58,040
win or two from your past week?
I would say right now my best

515
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:03,320
win is I just came off a brand
new kind of mini podcast last

516
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,320
week, though of course that was
on a holiday week, so don't kind

517
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,360
of count that consistency.
But this week has been full

518
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,320
through Monday, through Friday,
waking up at 6:00, getting that

519
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,720
done and getting it out there.
So I count that as a win.

520
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,040
Definitely a win and a win for
all of us that you've been

521
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,360
joining us this week for the
past several days.

522
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,000
And I know you've told me you
want to keep coming back.

523
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,520
So we, we love having you here
BC I'd love, I appreciate your

524
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,280
contributions.
Thank you for being here.

525
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,080
Thank you.
Yeah, you're welcome.

526
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,040
Let's check in with back in with
Janae.

527
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,600
Janae, would you like to share a
win or two with us?

528
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,840
Absolutely.
I'd love to share a win.

529
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,040
The first one is Empowered
Podcasting.

530
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:48,160
Conference recordings are done
and ready for whenever people

531
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,760
are ready to take a watch at the
event.

532
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,760
So that's done.
Super happy that I was able to

533
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,600
complete it.
Took took a while, but it's

534
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,360
done.
It was a lot of work.

535
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:09,720
Congratulations and thank you.
28 conversations or 28 talks?

536
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:17,440
The second one is I, I'm working
on the presentation for my Pod

537
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,000
Fest talk and I love how it's
coming together.

538
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,040
So those are my.
Yeah, congratulations, Janae.

539
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,680
That's awesome.
And again, I'll, I'll share that

540
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,680
win with you just because I'm so
grateful that you've taken the

541
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,320
time, volunteered the time to
separate all of those

542
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,600
presentations and into what, 28
different videos.

543
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,720
And yeah, we're going to have
more information about how you

544
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:47,160
can get those videos next week.
So thank you, Janae.

545
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:51,280
You're welcome.
And let's check in with Yvonne.

546
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,840
Yvonne, good morning.
Welcome to the stage.

547
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,440
Please share a couple of wins
with us from your week.

548
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,160
Well, I think you know one of my
wins, Mark.

549
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,760
I think so, but go ahead and.
Share my time yeah.

550
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:09,520
So Mark and I talked yesterday.
He is, I interviewed him for

551
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,640
late when we're living.
Great conversation.

552
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:12,960
I can't wait to get it out
there.

553
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:21,040
And I, I also booked my tickets
to Santa Fe for April where I'm

554
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,560
going to be a panel speaker and
photographer at a women's

555
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,920
conference.
So very excited to have that

556
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,520
starting to get in motion and
good stuff.

557
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:33,720
Great stuff.
Congratulations.

558
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:38,880
And I loved, I love seeing the
momentum from attending the

559
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,400
Empowered Podcasting Conference,
feeling a little bit out of your

560
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:47,040
comfort zone, doing it anyway,
speaking on a stage, doing all

561
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,560
your things and how that
momentum is carried over into

562
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,800
new, new opportunities.
Well, the the opportunity came

563
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:58,040
directly from a contact that I
made at the Empowered Podcasting

564
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,440
conference.
One of the attendees there, we

565
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,120
had a great conversation.
Next thing I know, a woman who's

566
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,440
speaking at one of her events is
getting in touch with me to say,

567
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,800
hey, I heard you did the, you
know, come do this thing with

568
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:12,800
me.
So, yeah, good stuff.

569
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,560
Thank you.
Yeah, congratulations.

570
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,760
And I share another win with
another community member.

571
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,400
Yes, I'll take, I'll take that,
some of that with me as well.

572
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:26,880
I had, I loved the conversation
yesterday we had it was really

573
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:28,960
interesting.
I can't wait to share it with

574
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,520
everybody here.
So looking forward to sharing

575
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,840
more about that soon.
Let's see.

576
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,800
OK, you know what, I will share
a couple of my wins and then we

577
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,120
will keep it moving with the
rest of the team here.

578
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,480
And again, you, we have some
time gang.

579
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,840
So if you are in the audience
and want to come up and share

580
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,320
anything that's gone well for
you this week, let's hear about

581
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,080
it.
Would love to do that.

582
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,800
So for me, I think probably one
of the wins I'm most proud of

583
00:33:55,800 --> 00:34:02,280
this week I closed 2 new
clients, which admittedly been

584
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:07,600
on in a bit of a drought as far
as bringing in new clients over

585
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,440
the past, I don't know, couple
months.

586
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:12,400
So this was a, a pleasant
surprise.

587
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:17,199
I have a new client that is, has
purchased a podcast launch

588
00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:18,800
package.
So I will be working with them

589
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,960
over the next six weeks or so to
help them get their podcast up

590
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,360
and running.
And then I have another client,

591
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,880
this new client, they wanted to
do the same thing as what I just

592
00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:36,080
described with the last one and
after meeting in person.

593
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,320
So there's a part of a win right
there is it's a a local client,

594
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,000
which is very cool.
I want to try to do more of that

595
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,880
in 2026.
But when we sat down and talked,

596
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:50,679
he really wanted to extend what
I had put out there as far as

597
00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:52,760
how our working relationship
would go.

598
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,040
He wants to hire me on a
retainer basis, more like an

599
00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:00,360
executive producer, director
role for his entire media arm of

600
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:05,040
his real estate business.
He wants me to really build that

601
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:08,600
out from scratch with him and
his business partner.

602
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,600
So a really cool and exciting
opportunity, one that, as far as

603
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:17,200
Ironic Media goes, I've not ever
done a retainer type of package

604
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,800
before.
So I'm excited about the

605
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:25,880
opportunity and great way to
wrap up 2025 and head into 2026.

606
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,240
I'll, I'll say that and then
I'm, I've had a lot.

607
00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:34,440
I overall, I just want to say I
had a fantastic week.

608
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,320
This was a week where, if you've
been following my journey at

609
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,880
all, you know, I've had quite a
journey this year with my ADHD

610
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,880
and having to get off of my
medication due to high blood

611
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,160
pressure.
But this week really has felt

612
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:53,200
more like I had felt when I used
to be on the medication.

613
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,640
It's felt more focused, more
productive, and also just more

614
00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:01,280
of a overall easy flow.
So it's not just been that

615
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,720
hustle mentality, that hustle
culture mentality, it's it's

616
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:10,680
been productive and flowing.
So I am, I am thrilled with

617
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:11,800
that.
Those are my wins.

618
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,480
I'm going to move it on, hand it
over to Ralph.

619
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,240
Ralph share some wins with us.
OK, I've got a couple.

620
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,600
One of them is not podcast
related, but I found out on

621
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,760
Thanksgiving that I'm going to
be a grandfather.

622
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,600
So that was amazing.
My oldest son.

623
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,440
Thank you.
My oldest son is in the Coast

624
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,880
Guard stationed in Texas and he
is welcoming a baby in June.

625
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,440
So that was an amazing thing.
Almost wrecked the car when I

626
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,400
was driving and they told my
wife and I while we were

627
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,920
driving.
So, but the second big win is

628
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:44,040
something I talked about a
little bit.

629
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:48,640
I actually hit 100,000
subscribers on my YouTube

630
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,600
channel and now we're at
130,000.

631
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,920
So Google sent me the thing I'm
going to get a silver play

632
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,160
button do that is just so cool
for me.

633
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,320
Never thought as an accountant
I'd have an audience of people

634
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,000
that actually want to hear what
I have to say.

635
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,400
And so that was a huge win for
me.

636
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,320
Thank you for sharing that,
Ralph.

637
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,600
Congratulations on both.
Very cool to hear you're going

638
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:13,080
to be a grandfather.
So, so exciting.

639
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,680
Thank you for sharing and I'll
keep it moving and go to

640
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,720
Jonathan.
Jonathan, good morning again.

641
00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:20,000
Please share a couple of wins
from your week.

642
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:24,680
OK, I will share that.
Well, Monday we had a great show

643
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:29,440
here and I enjoyed doing that,
talking about, talking about

644
00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:34,840
what did we talk about new
heights and yeah, so I enjoyed

645
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,240
that.
And we'll be doing another one

646
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:43,520
this Monday here for Podcasting
1 yes, we're going to be talking

647
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:48,280
about everything is alive on
yeah on Monday.

648
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:52,320
So that'll be that's a fun one
because the interviews inanimate

649
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,200
objects.
So that'll be an interesting one

650
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:58,120
to learn from.
And then I, I will say much like

651
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,000
you, Mark, I had a really strong
week.

652
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:04,320
Like I wish all the weeks of
2025 could have been this

653
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,280
productive, this kind of
focused.

654
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,400
And I'm going to give part of
the credit to the fact that I

655
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,720
have to get my life in order
because I have a eight week old

656
00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:19,080
puppy joining me next week.
So so yeah, I got that fun

657
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:20,400
because I'll have three dogs
now.

658
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:22,160
Yeah, crazy.
You're going.

659
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:23,280
To be a little.
Distracted.

660
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,640
Yes, you're going to be a little
distracted for the next few

661
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,800
weeks.
Congratulations, Jonathan.

662
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,480
And yes, I, I really enjoyed
Monday and so much so I asked

663
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,360
you if we could do it again this
Monday.

664
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:38,920
And yeah, everything alive is a
really creative podcast and I'm

665
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,400
I'm looking forward to breaking
that down and seeing what we all

666
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,400
can learn from that.
Thank you, Jonathan.

667
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,920
Congratulations again, Dr.,
You're up.

668
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:52,640
Well, I guess my win is that I
am trying something called dry

669
00:38:52,720 --> 00:38:59,000
needling for my hip Bursitis,
which is kind of developed into

670
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:04,280
a major case of sciatica.
But the first appointment went

671
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,240
well.
I could tell that something was

672
00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:09,720
happening and it was going in
the right direction this time.

673
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:14,520
And I get my next appointment
today at 11 AM central.

674
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,680
So that's my win.
Congratulations, I know you've

675
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,920
been struggling, so I really
hope that this helps.

676
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,120
I know it it seemed to help a
little bit the first time.

677
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,440
So keep going and and let us
know how you're doing.

678
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:30,120
Good luck with that, Dr. All
right, so that is everybody.

679
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,320
The other members that had
joined us had to bounce.

680
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,520
And I'll I'll throw it out once
more.

681
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:39,000
If anybody in the audience wants
to join and share any wins, now

682
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,800
is your chance before I wrap up.
But I will say what another,

683
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,840
what another great week of
shows, and I'm not just saying

684
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,240
that because I'm the host and
that's what I want to do.

685
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:54,240
I, I look, I, I feel like I'm
saying it every Friday now, but

686
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:58,040
for whatever reason, I believe
our game has really stepped up.

687
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,440
I feel like the conversations
that we're having are super

688
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:07,760
valuable, informative, and we're
also I, I'm, I'm appreciating

689
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,240
how well we're getting to know
each other even more.

690
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,760
So thank you all.
For helping to make this thing

691
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:18,080
what it is Billy is.
Yeah, Billy is on stage.

692
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,120
So let's hear from Billy.
Billy, you want to share a

693
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:21,520
couple wins with us?
Good morning.

694
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,360
Hey, good morning.
Hope you guys are doing well.

695
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,240
I miss you on my schedule.
Yeah.

696
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:28,840
It's been a while.
I know someone dead and

697
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,280
homeschooled duty in the
morning, so I had a couple

698
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:32,960
minutes.
I'm like, I'll jump up and say

699
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,080
hi, but, you know, a couple of
cool.

700
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:41,120
In this week on Cyber Monday, I
did a live stream with Ecamm for

701
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,560
seven hours.
I saw some of that.

702
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:45,760
Yeah.
So it was pretty cool.

703
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,440
That was a different experience.
And I love live streaming, but

704
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:53,240
seven hours was pretty crazy.
So I might need some dry

705
00:40:53,240 --> 00:40:56,080
needling in my rear end after
sitting in that chair for so

706
00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:00,080
long.
But I was it was a different

707
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:01,160
experience.
It was fun.

708
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,400
So we had to highlight some
creators and products and

709
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,520
services and all the fun stuff
that they offer.

710
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,640
So yeah, that was a that was a
pretty cool win this early this

711
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:11,600
week.
Billy, congratulations.

712
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,600
And yeah, I, I, it's been a long
time.

713
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:18,280
I've done that once that
marathon type live streaming

714
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:22,760
thing when I was at a, at the
actual what?

715
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,800
What is it?
It's like the MLB conference and

716
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,880
we did a full day non-stop of
fantasy sports talk.

717
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,760
We had a booth there and it was
crazy and exhausting.

718
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,480
Did you?
I'm going to just ask you, I

719
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,480
know this might be you don't
have to answer the question, was

720
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,080
this a paid thing with ECAM or
was it a volunteer thing?

721
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,920
I asked because you're always
the guy who is talking about

722
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,040
ways to monetize.
So I had to ask.

723
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,920
No, that's a great question.
And no, with the ECAM, you know,

724
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,880
I love their services and I am
an affiliate with their

725
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,720
software.
And so I just anytime I get a

726
00:41:56,720 --> 00:42:00,640
chance to hang out with the
community over there, I do.

727
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,280
And then also I was promoting my
community.

728
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:07,840
So I saw a lot of, I saw a lot
of growth probably, I mean,

729
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,680
yeah, I mean, probably 30
something people jumped over

730
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:12,600
from that live show into my
community.

731
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,360
So it was a good time.
Yeah, that's a big win.

732
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,360
Congratulations, Billy, and
thank you for sharing.

733
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,520
Appreciate that.
And Jonathan, we have somebody

734
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,920
over on Chatter who wants to
share a win.

735
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,320
Take it away.
Yes, we we have lots over here

736
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,200
who had wants to share a win.
So lots over to you.

737
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:30,320
First of all, good morning,
folks.

738
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:31,400
How's everybody?
Good morning.

739
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:32,640
Good morning, Watts.
Good to meet you.

740
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:38,600
Likewise, listen, it's the slow
season for me running a podcast

741
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,240
business because it's not a
priority to a lot of these

742
00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:44,880
people.
And yet somehow I've secured 4

743
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:49,560
new clients this week that all
locked in, put down payments and

744
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,080
are ready to start recording.
So I am not one to argue with

745
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:57,200
the victory.
Congratulations, I can share

746
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,240
that those feelings with you.
Like I said, it's a little bit

747
00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:04,600
of a slow, normally a slower
time and yeah, I I feel that.

748
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,880
Congratulations, Watts, that's
awesome.

749
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,040
Thank you for sharing.
OK, Yeah, I.

750
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:11,200
Move that.
Thanks.

751
00:43:11,240 --> 00:43:13,000
Yeah, congratulations.
Very cool.

752
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,760
All right gang, we are back
Monday, 7:00 AM Eastern.

753
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:20,320
And we will, as we said, we will
be breaking down the show.

754
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:24,400
Everything is alive and trying
to figure out what can we learn

755
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:28,000
from these shows, the successful
shows.

756
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,400
So come join us for that.
Tuesday we're going to be

757
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,840
talking all things private
podcasting.

758
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,880
BCS going to join the
conversation as well as Cliff

759
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,400
Ravenscraft, the OG podcast
coach.

760
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:45,160
The the both those two have
their own or have had their own

761
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:47,040
private podcast.
So we're going to break it down

762
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:51,000
and discuss the advantages if
there are disadvantages and

763
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,640
maybe something it'll inspire
somebody to start their private

764
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,840
podcast.
Wednesday we're going to do news

765
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,120
and comment.
Thursday's another evaluation

766
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:05,680
and Fridays to TBD aside from
sharing our wins from the week.

767
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:09,920
So until Monday gang, make it a
great weekend.

768
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:11,160
Everybody take care.