YFB And Billy Thorpe Mix It Up

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endeavors as well. Now all that
and said, I have been It has

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been a long time coming for me
to be able to talk to this gentleman.

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And let me tell you we have
mixed it up a couple of times

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in the world of clubhouse but also
things like pod match. But I'll tell

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you he has a fantastic story for
you guys to listen to. If you

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are a podcast listener or if you're
just looking into some type of monetization strategies,

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this is your guy. We have
an Amazon influencer, a brand deal

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strategy strategist. He's also got his
own website deal Billy HQ. Finally we

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get to talk to him here.
He is the one, the only mister

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Billy Thorpe. Billy, thank you
so much for your time today and welcome

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to the Blockhead Hour. Hey,
thank you so much for having me on

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the show. Man. I've been
a big fan for a long time since

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I learned about your show, since
we crossed paths on Clubhouse. I don't

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know how many years ago, three
four years probably, Yeah, it's been

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a while, couple times. Always
fun to chop it up about podcasting,

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content creation, all those fun things. So yeah, man, appreciate you

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having me absolutely, And you know
that kind of gives me a good segue

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into what I can bring in because
I've followed your story for a while.

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I've known a little bit what you've
done since twenty thirteen into the world just

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strip and now, but just from
my listeners who are not familiar with you.

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Now that we've introduced Billy, I
got to ask you. You spent

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some time in nonprofit, then you
pivoted towards more of the branding and working

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with things like Amazon and being an
influencer. So I have to ask,

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was there a specific moment that made
you want to pivot and go the direction

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you are now? Walk my blockhead
nation through that a little bit. Just

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introduce that particular journey with us.
Yeah, man, so I did.

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I. You know, I spent
most of my younger years desiring to be

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a nonprofit, particularly in ministry,
and went to a small school out in

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Saint Louis for a little while and
kind of learned some skills, but most

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of those were tech, camera gear, website graphics. All that came back

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worked at a ministry for about eight
years or so in them. Decide moment

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to leave that and become an entrepreneur
was probably the day I asked my now

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wife to marry me, and I
looked at the bank account and said,

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huh, that again will work.
But I'd always had that entrepreneurial kind of

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you know, journey spirit, and
anything that I did, I kind of

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took that creativity, that innovative,
you know, thinking outside the box,

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thinking a little bit differently. And
that's when I started a T shirt printing

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business, and I basically watched a
ton of YouTube videos, learned how to

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print T shirts and did that for
I don't know, probably another seventy eight

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years, and then the pandemic twenty
twenty happened, and we were serving nonprofits

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because I realized the pain point of
raising money. I was in the youth

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ministry side of what I was doing, and I knew like fundraising was a

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huge thing, and so we helped
a lot of nonprofits build product tables for

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many years, and then all that
came, you know, those big audiences

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went away overnight essentially, and so
did that business. And that's when I

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mean, that's when I pivoted in
the podcasting. I was kind of podcasting

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as a hobby here and there,
did a couple of shows, did a

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saltwater fishing show, built it,
you know, for twenty five episodes,

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sold it to my co host,
and then a friend of mine was like

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in the fishing space as well.
He's like, man, I gotta do

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something digital, and we partnered on
the Fisherman's Post podcast and I did that

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for like one hundred and forty episodes
with him before I learned about the Amazon

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influencer thing, and then I switched
over completely to work with brands and take

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that knowledge of like monetizing my podcast
through sponsorship deals to go work with brands

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and physical products and stuff like that. So that's kind of the real quick

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like synopsis of how I went from
nonprofit to entrepreneur content creator. Yeah,

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I ad met. That's pretty brief
and to the point. But that's also

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you and I have kind of walked
down this journey a couple of times and

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hit the big bright spots along the
way. But while I've got you,

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since that's the case, you know, it depends on who might be tuning

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in. I got a lot of
male twenty five to forty five year old

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males to tune in. Sometimes they
come for the MMA, sometimes they come

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for the peanuts. Sometimes they just
want the content itself. So I got

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to ask you, there's a strategy
that's out there. I've heard that businesses

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have used before. I know it's
an acronym, but it kind of helps.

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It's called the swat analysis. In
other words, when you sit down

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and look at, Okay, what
I've created. Here are my strengths,

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here are my weaknesses. Are there
some opportunities that open up? And are

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there some threats. We'll save the
threats kind of for the second question I've

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got for you, just to see
how that plays but if we were just

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to look at your strengths and the
opportunities that you really do bring to podcasting

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and what my listeners should really heed
from you and absorb from you, what

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do you think that those would be
and take your time with that. It's

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quite have a loaded question. Yeah, I think you know, sometimes you

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find these things out as you go, especially in the business world or maybe

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even pre pre entrepreneurial space. You
really have to like listen to the people

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around you and figure out what you're
good at, because sometimes we're just doing

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stuff and we don't even know we're
good at it. We don't even know

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that it's a strength of ours until
other people go, Wow, you do

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that, that's cool, Like how
do you do that? And when there's

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enough people asking you those questions of
how you do that, you kind of

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figure out like, oh, I
might be a little bit good at you

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know, some of this. And
one thing I think that I've learned is

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communication. Like I love to communicate. I love to chat, if that's

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public speaking, if that's podcasting,
if that's just creating product demo videos for

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sellers online. I've always had fun
with the trying to figure out like what

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is the formula to communicate this particular
topic, product or whatever just a little

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bit better and have a little flare
of entertainment into it as well. Even

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though I wouldn't call myself like a
great content creator, I think I'm just

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a really good learner. And that's
probably one of my strengths as a business

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owner and as a content creator is
the ability to learn and always love to

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learn and want to learn. And
it's not really I was in the funniest

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part about this, and if somebody's
listening to this, who's you know,

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went to school with me and any
capacity, They're gonna be like, this

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guy is a horrible student, But
I'm a horrible student, But I'm a

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great learner for whatever that is.
Uh So, my ability, I guess

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to to you know, to do
the research, and then also to you

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know, to learn the content,
learn the strategies, and then just implement

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them. I would not say that
I'm the most innovative person. I would

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just say that I'm a person who
kind of looked at something and when somebody

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tells me this is the way it
is done, I go, hmm,

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let me see, let me test
that and see if you're right. And

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I think I just I've done that
a few times and you know, gotten

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lucky, blessed, whatever you want
to call it. I've moved the needle.

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I'll say that. Sure. And
really that did kind of hit all

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of the big main points on any
kind of a swine analysis, except for

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the last one, which we kind
of saved here. And the threat that

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I'm gonna talk about is really kind
of something that we all have to face.

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I don't care if you are in
content creation, podcasting, I don't

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care if you are in the business
world, education, or just everyday retail.

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We've got something that we all either
have to embrace or look at this

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as a potential problem, and that
is AI. So through the last couple

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of years, I just have to
ask, since it's on the tip of

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everybody's tongue, I'm gonna throw it
out there and say, so far or

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maybe in the future, do you
think AI is going to become either a

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threat to your business model or do
you think it's something you can actually do

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business with mister AI and utilize him
accordingly. I'm just throwing that out there

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and maybe something for my listeners also
to chew on. Yeah, I mean,

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you know, here's the So in
my business, just to give people

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kind of a rundown of what I
do is I work primarily with Amazon sellers,

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So they'll send me a product,
the compensate me to make a video.

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I upload it to my Amazon account, I get compensated from Amazon when

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somebody clicks on it, and then
I typically will sell that product. And

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so that's kind of my three you
know, tiers of monetization with the program.

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And that was a huge concern of
mine when I started seeing you know

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AI just kind of start ripping out. I'm like, oh man, this

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is not good. Now. Luckily, some of these bigger platforms like Amazon,

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like TikTok, you know, Walmart, some of these other creator platforms,

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they have banned generative AI at the
moment in their programs, and it's

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really to protect the customer experience,
I believe, you know, it's like

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you're gonna trust a person or a
robot telling you, you know, what

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a product's like, and also can
that robot doesn't have hands, So how

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are you gonna hold this now?
When they have real robots, I might

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be in big trouble, but right
now, you know, with generative AI

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on most platforms, content platforms,
even YouTube. It's like you have to

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disclose these things, you have to
be up front of, like this is

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a human creating this, this is
AI creating this. And so I think

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that's like a little bit of a
safety net at least for that. Sure,

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who knows how, you know,
who knows, because it's probably they're

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just you know, kind of piping
it down until they can figure out that

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technology and sell it or something,
you know whatever. Sure, but I

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do think that I think any market
and this is what somebody told me this

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a long time ago, and it's
just stuck with me. They're like,

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the market is the market, and
you just have to figure out how do

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you exist in that market and how
do you play the game inside of that

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particular situation. You might not be
able to control every situation, you might

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not be able to create every situation, but how do you move withinside of

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that situation? And so, you
know, Luckily, at this point in

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my business, I haven't had to
really rely on AI. But I haven't

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really had to defend my you know, my expertise, my business against AI

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or you should use me instead of
this. I know it's probably coming,

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but hopefully at that point I will
be in the industry at a high level

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like I am right now, and
understand the needs and the desires of the

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customer. And I can use this
thing as a tool and not try to

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compete with it, because that's gonna
be very complicated if I try to compete

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with you know, technology in general. So I think it could be an

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asset for a lot of people.
It's definitely helping those creed you know,

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it's just being creative withinside of that
system. And so I think for people

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who are fearing it or like just
gonna take over, I mean, sure

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I wish that the world was a
little bit different, but I don't know.

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And you know, you could ask
our grandparents, our parents, our

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grandparents, and they're all gonna give
you know, they're scared of the TV,

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Like, don't put that thing in
my house. It's gonna kill us.

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It's gonna melt our brains. Which
is maybe they're not entirely wrong.

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Maybe it has killed people and melted
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them. I'm not, as you
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a first adopter as much as I
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think it could be very helpful to
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different industries, not just content creation
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the quickness of getting information is insane, and that's that's what power. That's

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really having leverages to have knowledge to
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to do, and how to do
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and I hope it doesn't take over
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because I agree with you on that. It's just as a podcaster, I

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kind of I guess my worry has
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feel like that's just the one thing
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consider that even a threat. I
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are just kind of coasting along,
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with you, just because you know, you and I have had healthy discussions

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in the past, you know,
and I kind of bring this up the

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last time I was on the Clubhouse
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a technique of people that get into
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starting from point A to point B, don't forget about build your brand,

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cultivate your audience, and then worry
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in. You actually gave me,
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disagree, but fair enough because you
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proven strategy. So that's kind of
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man with an opinion. But that's
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your world, because we can't ignore
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we can fear it. And I
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that does. It gives me an
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I know you want to get more
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a chance, you're always welcome me
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and you have more of a platform
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got to ask, what do you
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been doing this a while, maybe
somebody who's just getting started up, what

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do you really bring that you think
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the right Cross, that you can
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Because you've already graced me with your
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to other podcasters as you go on
this journey you're taking of several guests over

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the next couple of months to a
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detail if you want to. Yeah, man, I appreciate that. And

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you know, one thing that I've
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opener for this. So I was
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I had monetized, and I'd share
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as a business. I did not
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start it as a good idea.
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a business and I was like,
man, whatever I touch right now has

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to make money. And so I
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a business. And then I was
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and you know, just talking about
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you know, just not even not
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the craft from other people. And
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of monetization, and I quickly realized, like, man, I'm like a

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one percenter in the podcast world of
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membership? And I was doing these
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five and we had a three hundred
person membership group. You know, it's

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like if people were like freaking out
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do that? And I didn't even
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anything. And then people just kept
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I'll start doing workshops. I'll start

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that. And so that was,
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fame was like monetize with a small
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of like ten thousand loads an episode, and like I said in the beginning

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of the show, I'm always challenged
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this is the way and the only
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question mark and go hold my beer. Let me go see if that's really

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true, right yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. And it's like because I

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don't know. I mean, I
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I've never believed that in any part
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say, is that way in content
creation? Now? Sure? Is it

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easier if I said, hey,
you got a million followers, let's go

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get a sponsor one hundred percent it's
a different conversation. But there is a

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way to monetize with a small audience. And so that's kind of how I

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got into the podcasting space. And
I love being the host of the show

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or co host of a show.
I love producing a show like it's a

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lot a lot of fun. But
now I'm creating one hundred plus, you

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know, per demo videos per month, like one hundred and twenty five over

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the last twenty four months is what
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a small Mastermind group where I'm helping
other content creators on the Amazon platform.

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I just don't have another I don't have

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another second of my day to really
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you build a show, you want
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it's your personality or whatever you bring, and it's like, you really

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want to do a great job.
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do that again and start another show, or I could get on the other

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side of the microphone hopefully network with
a ton of podcasters that are already doing

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it. You know, business own
a lot of people who own businesses or

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podcasting for their business. I mean, there's a lot of different people in

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that podcasting space. And I always
think it's great to network, to know

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people to even if you never you
know, you and I have never technically

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done business together, neither one of
you. You know, I'm not paid

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you anything, You've not paid me
anything. But we'vet but we've swapped a

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lot of value. I mean,
we've got a lot of inspiration from each

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other. And so that's my goal, you know, I put a goal

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on the calendar to do one or
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to really just you know, put
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podcasting space. But on a whole
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this whole like see, I mean
I've been on guests on shows before,

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but in this series of I'm going
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a better guest. And it gives
me an opportunity to help other people promote

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their show. I mean, I
don't have the largest audience. I kind

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of claim to fame is monetizing with
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that there's people in my audience that
will like your show and several others that

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I can you know, help promote
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side of it and just be a
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that even means. So sure,
a new challenge on the other side of

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the mind. Yeah, absolutely,
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I'm the gracious host, and I'm
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the first it's kind of hard to
beat somebody to first that already got there,

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so I can have that one small
little highlight. But I can tell

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you you really do have a lot
of milestones that you've had from the time

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that I've known you, and that
this is again starting a chapter that I

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am excited for you on this.
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of shift. Let's do it.
Let's have a little bit of fun,

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because I know we've been getting right, Let's do this side of it.

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But because this show is very much
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I take a combination of the Peanuts
comic strip and mixed martial arts, two

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very different worlds, and bring them
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Maybe Peanuts is your thing, maybe
it's not. Is there a certain comic

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strip or comic book character or something
that you really encapt slayed you as a

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kid, and maybe you still follow
the day. It doesn't hurt to go

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down the nostalgic track a little bit. So what are some of your particular

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comics that you either resonate from or
still follow today. Let's hear them.

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to think if I were to pick one

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out. I mean, I get
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a lot of cartoons, I guess
when I was a kid, and so

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I'm thinking, I'm sure all those
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I'm trying to remember if I ever
read one or not. But I'm

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a huge fan of like on weird
spectrums, like I'm a huge fan of

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like Batman. Anything Batman I've been
a fan of, yes, But then

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anything like you know, cartoony like
Garfield, I'm a fan of I'm a

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fan of that too. So it's
kind of you like my competitor. In

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other words, Yeah, I love
Garfield, I do. I just love

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lasagna, so i'd share that with
you there. Yeah, people, right,

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you know, and sometimes you just
got to have that slapstick. You

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know. You can easily get your
fix if you do into some old Tom

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and Jerry, some old Looney tunes, and you like, you can even

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learn history just watching those old Looney
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or American history. It's it's got
a wide span all that if you look

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for it, you go back and
go wow, I never caught that until

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now, so that I get it, I'm with you on that one.

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Just doesn't hurt to bring in the
nostalgia. If you think of any others,

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feel free to interrupt me anytime,
but I'll switch you over. Since

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my world is the octagon, I'm
the UFC guy. I'm the guy that

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watches what's going on in the cage. We do have a boxing match going

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on. Don't get me started on
Jake Paul and Mike Perry because I probably

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won't get back on track to where
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sport that you follow, either religiously
I don't want to say religiously, but

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you know, consistently follow and anything
you want to share that are just some

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good memories or highlights your particular sport. Let's have it man. You know

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what, I am not a sports
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I do go to my neighbor's house. He's a huge M M A

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fan. He's a fighter himself,
and so I do go over there and

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watch fights with him. Well if
I can get you know, I think

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most of them happened on a Saturday
to night, and I don't get over

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there by talk with this. By
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well he's now six, he turned
six yesterday at the time of this.

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Uh, but he is, you
know, by the time I get

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him down, I'm like catching the
last couple of fights and fall asleep in

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the guy's chair. He's like,
dude, you supposed to be watching a

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fight and sleeping. He's always Fight
week every Saturday, and they go along

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typically unless there are in different time
zones. But dude, I tell you

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if when I was watching sports was
when I was younger, and I really

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did love wrestling, man, like
any of those wrestlers did. I was

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a huge, uh Stone Cold Steve
Austin fan, and I was like,

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uh, you know any of those
guys like Andre the Giant, but he's

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a little bit, a little bit
before my time. But Sting was absolutely

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one of my favorite people. I
mean, you know, a blonde,

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spiky hair in the blue in the
blue pants, like old school Sting.

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trouble screaming in front of the TV on

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like what was it, Monday nights
or Saturday mornings. I can't remember when

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it was. I just remember yelling
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words like trust me when I say
I say that, dude, you have

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won over some of my listeners already, anybody that might tune us out until

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now all of a sudden, like
oh, he's into wrestling, because oh,

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trust me, I love the nineties
sting. I loved them all.

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that wrestling personified so many characters. And

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yes, you mentioned Andre the Giant. I want to I almost get emotional

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if we talk about some of those
about his time. But yeah, trust

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me, you can can have some
wrestling banter down the road. But trust

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me, there are guys toning it
right now, like oh, I got

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to talk to him because trust me, Stone Cold was very much that in

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many ways, he was the trailblazer
that really started the Attitude era. And

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yeah, what that what that kind
of does for me with you hear is

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You're right, Podcasting does open up
a lot of trailblazing that you can really

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pave your own path. And you've
been able to be that one percent that

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said, actually you can do this
this way, and here's my formula.

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And you said before does everybody follow
your formula? So I don't know if

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that's such up into the next question. But since I have to ask it,

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since you know again you heard it
here people, he's got comics in

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his background. He's definitely got rested
in his background. But I'll bring this

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here when it comes to podcasting.
If there's nothing else that my listens and

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listener has heard from you today,
I gotta ask it. If there's one

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thing, if they missed all of
this and they tuned it all out,

409
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what's the one thing you don't want
listeners of the Blockhead Nation for your favorite

410
00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:53.079
blockhead podcast to walk away and forget. What would be that one gem that

411
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you want to leave us with on
today? Yeah, I think the one

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thing that I would say is just
don't think about it too much. Just

413
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start taking action on it. And
I know, I know this is like

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you've heard it a million times and
people are like, oh boy, here

415
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we go to take action. But
literally, I mean, we all say

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this. I wish I would just
started a little bit earlier. I wish

417
00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:18.319
I'd have started sooner. I wish
I'd have taken that risk a little bit,

418
00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:22.839
you know, a little bit faster. I wish I'd have believed in

419
00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:26.799
myself. Now I do believe there
is a process to get the skill sets

420
00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:30.039
and the things that you need in
the confidence that you need to like launch

421
00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:33.880
out into whatever that thing is that
you want to do. And it doesn't

422
00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:36.799
have to be business. I mean
most of my stuff is all around business,

423
00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:40.720
but it could just be whatever,
like reaching out to your kid you

424
00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:44.400
haven't talked to in twenty years and
building that connection back. It could be,

425
00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:47.720
you know, helping the homeless guy
you see every day driving down the

426
00:27:47.759 --> 00:27:51.880
road, Like whatever that looks like
that you want to take action on you're

427
00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:56.720
just afraid. Just start, man, Just hit the record button, hit

428
00:27:56.759 --> 00:27:59.880
the go live button, hit the
brakes, whatever you got to do,

429
00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:03.079
because you know, we get one
shot at this thing, honestly. And

430
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it's not one of those like,
oh, be scared of death type of

431
00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:10.839
conversations. But I just thought,
I just been thinking, you know,

432
00:28:10.920 --> 00:28:14.319
especially recently, I'm like, man, I just want to know like I

433
00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:17.359
did everything I wanted to try.
Even if I try and I suck at

434
00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:21.599
it and I fail, and the
whole world feels like it's collapsing, like

435
00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:25.440
it's not going to And you know, my wife and I spent a year

436
00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:30.400
on an island in Puerto Rico and
there's at one point where we had no

437
00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:36.119
money, Like Airbnb, we switched
our payment process, not our not our

438
00:28:36.279 --> 00:28:40.319
not our plan, not our payment
plan because we're on a monthly because we

439
00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:42.359
were standing there for an extending amount
of time. But our pro are just

440
00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:45.759
our payment, you know method,
and they took out all that money at

441
00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:49.599
one time for the rest of the
trip. And then we had you know,

442
00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:52.160
we bought a car back in the
States, and we'd given the car

443
00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:55.759
away to somebody who needed the car
that time to get out of a certain

444
00:28:55.799 --> 00:28:59.559
situation. And so here we are, like had a deficit in the middle

445
00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:03.920
of the ocean, you with nothing, and I just remember feel feeling so

446
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:07.720
free. It was the weirdest thing
ever. I was like, okay,

447
00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:11.240
this is this is okay, Like
life is okay. Even when everything hit

448
00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:15.720
the fan, nothing makes sense.
I have no clue how I'm even going

449
00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:22.119
to buy dinner tonight, Like this
is okay. And so you know,

450
00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:26.200
not that that has to happen to
everybody, But after that moment, after

451
00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:29.400
that two to three week period of
like on you know, it was a

452
00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:32.920
mess, and but we came out
of it. We came out of it

453
00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:37.119
stronger, We came out of it
more focused, and I just wish and

454
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:40.039
we did that too, you know. And I'll tell this real quick and

455
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:42.200
I won't take up too much time, Brian, But the reason we moved

456
00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:45.400
to Puerto Rico one we we kind
of wanted to but wasn't really sure of

457
00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:48.240
how to do it. But in
the process, we were like, we're

458
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:52.680
just gonna move the puzzle pieces and
we're just gonna figure out, you know,

459
00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:55.559
if these things go together, we'll
we'll take the trip and we'll we'll

460
00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:59.279
move there for a year. And
I met this lady during that process.

461
00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:02.599
I selling a row and I was
selling it to her and she asked me.

462
00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:04.759
We're in the middle of like a
burrito shack parking lot or something whatever

463
00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:08.680
the restaurant was. And she's like, why are you selling this because you're

464
00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:12.559
moving or what. And I'm like, no, maybe i'm selling it.

465
00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:15.519
You know, we're thinking about moving
to Puerto Rico. We just don't really

466
00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:19.640
know, and she like starts tearing
up right here in the parking lot.

467
00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:23.000
I'm like, gosh, I just
this is like the worst Facebook marketplace transaction

468
00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:26.359
ever. I don't want your tears. I just want your money and go

469
00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:30.599
eat my burrito and she's like,
can I tell you a story. My

470
00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:34.359
husband and I were in our thirties
and we're thinking about moving to Ireland for

471
00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:40.599
just a year, an extended trip, and we never did. And she's

472
00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:44.519
like, we're sick in our sixties
now and we sit on the couch every

473
00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:48.400
single night and ask ourselves what would
life be like if we had to move

474
00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:51.720
to Ireland for a year. And
I got in the car and was like,

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00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:53.960
honey, I don't care if we
had to whatever we had to sell,

476
00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:56.799
whatever we had to burn, whatever
we had to do. We're moving

477
00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:00.640
to Puerto Rico for a year because
I don't to be sixty going what if

478
00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:06.559
I want to be sixty telling the
story about you know, snorkeling over a

479
00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:10.759
top of a shark and a giant
eagle ray. That's what the story happened

480
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:15.319
to tell now, So yeah,
just take that powerful. That's a powerful,

481
00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:18.640
powerful testimony. Just to have that
right there and you know that that

482
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:21.680
that feels good for me to throw
up that flag for you and just to

483
00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:23.480
say, hey, if we got
to push them past the fear factor,

484
00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:27.000
then so be it, you know, And I can use my own podcast.

485
00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:30.880
It's one of those I enjoy doing
this. But believe me, I

486
00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:33.559
could look at all of the weaknesses
and the threats and do a whole analysis

487
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:37.519
and go, well, why am
I even keeping this? I'll tell you

488
00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:41.200
why. It's because I get a
chance to have an opportunity to be in

489
00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:45.039
front of the microphone, in front
of camera with my friend here and wherever

490
00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:47.640
we go from this point on,
I am okay with the journey. But

491
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:49.680
and that's that's just me throwing that
out there because I love doing this,

492
00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:53.000
and believe me, it's always great
to have guests on it. And I

493
00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:56.039
want to personally take a quick man
to thank you for your time today.

494
00:31:56.039 --> 00:32:00.200
Billy. You've been an awesome guest
and I I just want personally you to

495
00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:04.640
know how much it means that you
would be on here today. Yeah.

496
00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:08.920
Man, well, hey, I
appreciate you. You're a longtime podcast host

497
00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:14.400
expert, and so anytime you're in
the room, anytime you're around, anytime

498
00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:16.480
you can come off Mike and chat
it up. I always know, like

499
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:21.039
we got to listen because Brian's gonna
bring the heat and he's gonna he knows

500
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:23.200
what he's doing, and I appreciate
that. Man, you take excellent care

501
00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:27.400
of your guests as well, So
I really appreciate you, man. Yeah,

502
00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:29.319
that means a lot. That's the
best part for me, is just

503
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:31.240
as at as a host. You
know, nobody leaving with a bad taste

504
00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:35.680
in their mouth. Sometimes you don't
have a lot of compatibility, but you

505
00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:37.960
don't know until you try. There
have been a few of those on here,

506
00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:40.119
but very few, and I'm just
always grateful for chances like this.

507
00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:43.759
Trust me, you've made my day, Billy. But I'm gonna say this

508
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:47.480
to my blockhead nation. You've got
no excuse. If you are wondering where

509
00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:52.359
to find everything for Billy Thorpe and
all of his different links, you have.

510
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:54.400
All you gotta do is go to
the description today, go to the

511
00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:59.359
link your favorite blockhead, dot com, slash blog. That link is there,

512
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:01.880
whether you're on Apple, Spotify,
YouTube, all of the links that

513
00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:07.359
are for Billy are here today.
And I promise you also don't forget on

514
00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:10.160
the back end to go get some
delicious treats from Depp by Hannah. Make

515
00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:14.480
sure you look at her page and
her social media. As school starts up

516
00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:16.799
again, she's going to start really
turning those out. And don't forget to

517
00:33:16.799 --> 00:33:21.880
go listen to Press and Scott's Music's
great new release of Save Us. All

518
00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:24.400
those links are there. I've done
the work for you. You got no

519
00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:28.720
excuse. But before we wrap this
up, Billy, is there any other

520
00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:31.920
particular project currently that you really kind
of want to lead us to, because

521
00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:37.519
we could show all of your work
from Instagram to the YouTube to your whole

522
00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:40.799
rowdex online of the work you've done. Is there something in particular that you

523
00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:45.359
want my listeners to the blockhead Nation
to pay close attention to in the last

524
00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:49.200
next couple of months or weeks or
so. Man, I would just say,

525
00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:52.519
you know, when it comes to
when it comes to Amazon, I'm

526
00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:54.960
a hyper focused on Amazon right now. I'm hyper focused on working with brands

527
00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:59.559
and sponsorship deal or you know,
like product deals and all this stuff,

528
00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:05.000
and I am I decided to run
some workshops because people often just like,

529
00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:07.280
how do I even get started?
So I'm running some free workshops so you

530
00:34:07.320 --> 00:34:10.360
know, just keep an eye on
my socials and if people want to sign

531
00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:14.760
up for those, because not that
everyone will get, you know, be

532
00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:16.800
qualified to do those things. But
I just think it's cool to, like,

533
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:22.039
you know, someoney introduce me to
it for free, on Clubhouse and

534
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:23.000
so I'm like, man, I
just want to be that person. I

535
00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:27.119
mean it changed my life, like
it changed mind in my family's you know,

536
00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:30.800
life and business, and it was
so timely to come in and really

537
00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:35.960
project us to the next level.
So it might not even be in their

538
00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:40.119
wheelhouse or their industry, but you
don't always have to be inspired in your

539
00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:44.760
own. So it's all that cross
reference stuff really helps out. So I'm

540
00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:47.719
going to hold some free workshops just
explaining what the Amazon Influencer program is,

541
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:51.519
how to get into it, and
what to do after they do. So

542
00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:53.440
if they want to join, just
check my socials for more info. I

543
00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:57.599
appreciate you, man, Yeah,
you bet it. And those workshops are

544
00:34:57.599 --> 00:35:00.000
coming in fast and furious. That's
why I really wanted to say, hey,

545
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:01.519
hey, all the information is there, but if there's a key one

546
00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:06.079
we can go to. And if
I feel like I haven't mentioned Clubhouse enough,

547
00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:07.440
if you don't know what in the
world we're talking about, it is

548
00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:10.559
an app if you type it in. If your a person likes to get

549
00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:15.360
into these rooms and actually speak,
have the opportunity. It's very similar to

550
00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:17.639
how if you had Zoom for a
long time, then you'd have your chance

551
00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:21.519
to open your mic. It's similar
to that. But if you're like,

552
00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:24.119
I'm totally lost on Clubhouse, it's
okay. I had to dip into that

553
00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:27.679
in reality, and that's how me
and Billy got to meet each other.

554
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.239
But in case you don't know,
that's a lot of his work comes out

555
00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:35.599
of that particular app as well.
Very useful, but also that's what I

556
00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:37.679
wanted to make sure we cover.
So I've had a blast. I hope

557
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:40.039
you enjoyed this as much as I
have. Billy, and I guess we're

558
00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:43.360
gonna go ahead and wrap it up
and we will catch you next time.

559
00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:46.239
But thank you so much again,
so very much for joining us today here

560
00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:50.400
on the Blockhead Hour. Yeah,
thank you, Brian, thanks so much.

561
00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:53.360
Man. We've got another episode coming
up next week. We're probably gonna

562
00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:57.599
have to do an MMA takedown since
we have UFC three or four in Manchester.

563
00:35:57.960 --> 00:36:00.000
So those that are sticking around,
you're probably gonna be tuning into a

564
00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:02.400
lot of m m A talk.
Some of y'all are like, I don't

565
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:06.320
know if I'll stick around or maybe
I will. Some of you are diehard

566
00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:08.920
in many fans and can't wait.
It's too much to cover, so that's

567
00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:13.679
what you can anticipate coming from this
end. So once again, thank you

568
00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:16.159
for your time. Blockhead Nation.
You know how this works. We will

569
00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:22.480
catch you again on Saturday, same
blockhead time, same blockhead champ