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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Danny and Samantha and welcome to Step
one Never told you a production of iHeartRadio, and welcome
to another edition of Monday Mini. This is going to
be a bit of a shorter one, I think, but
we just wanted to do it a check in on
(00:27):
our team, and plus we got a lot going on
right now. So I feel like we say that all
the time, but it is true, and we are going
to talk about that in a second. Also, as this
comes out, it is a March no. As we record,
it's March tenth, which is Mario Day, So Happy Mario Day.
We didn't really do anything for International Women's Day except
that the episode we published was perfect for International Women's Day,
(00:50):
but happy belated that as well. And today March thirteenth
is my and many people's Quarantine University. If that's something
you celebrate here I am. I'm with you, he is, y'all. Yes,
So we just wanted to run down kind of a
(01:11):
behind the scenes, a quick behind the scenes of this
podcast when it takes to make it, because we have
gotten a couple of questions about it. We have gotten
some kind of new editions or shifting in the team.
We are planning to do a not in person, but
a skype or a video call of sorts where they
come on and record and they can say themselves what
(01:34):
they do. But I did send out this email and
I was like, hey, can you give us a brief
description of what you do? But I also thought we
would talk before we get into that what we do,
so kind I would say, the process is kind of
Samantha and I just throw ideas out there. Sometimes there's
(01:55):
there's one that's very clear, if there's like a quote
tint poll as they call it, like a Hall to
Day or something a month or something, So we throw
out ideas around that, and then we have this. I
call it one of the loves of my life, and
I'm I'm being sarcastic, but it is something I check
every day, which is what I call the meta sheet, yes,
(02:16):
which is our calendar, and so we try to figure
out relevant topics. When can we bring in interviews, you know, technically,
when can those interviews get edited. We have several recurring
segments like our book club or feminist Movie Friday or
all those things, our interviews with Eves on Female First
(02:39):
Bridget with all the technical Internet stuff, and we have
been trying to do more interviews in the new year.
That was one of our goals, and I feel like
we've been, you know, achieving true. But basically that's like
the ideation of the topic, which might sound like easy,
(03:00):
the easy thing, it's not necessary, not after like thirteen
years of content. So trying to be original as well
as keeping relevant, as well as keeping it new and interesting,
it's a lot, and then being updated for everything it
is it is. And I feel like you're really good
(03:21):
at that part, Samantha, You're really good at the ideation part.
I am too, but I'm very bad about as you know,
like here are my fifteen ideas, which one shall we do?
I think the differences because I actually am on social
media and so pay attention to a lot of pop
culture things while you're in your loves of things, so
(03:44):
you are up to date on the things that you love,
and they make sure you know because of course Google
and our phone is tracking us, so we get different information.
So it helps. That helps right a lot, as something
two very different feeds, literally, I think helps us keep
in trend. I think so, I mean, it's definitely we've
(04:05):
got a we've got a wide range of stuff we cover,
that is for sure, That is for sure. And I
sometimes you'll spend hours trying to come up with a
good idea, and so you get twenty and you're you're
so excited, like for a little while, and we still
(04:26):
kind of are ahead and like, oh no, we don't
have time to cram all these things in, and then
sometimes we are just dry and then nothing happens and
we kind of just sit there and like really really
really pushing the boundaries of like does this work? How
does this work? The challenges are being on point with
(04:50):
our brand, with the brand that was created for us
from the beginning, as well as keeping true to who
we are. That's a lot, and then making sure that
we are being honest and giving what you the listeners need. Yeah,
sometimes it can be anxiety written as well, trying to
try to figure that out. Yeah, And that's why we
(05:11):
really appreciate when you listeners send in suggestions, because then
we know at least somebody wants us to talk about
this thing. At least one person is going to listen
for this at least well hopefully, Yeah, but I think
that's kind of we've talked about that before. But sometimes
like we have a million ideas, but sometimes no idea
is just striking inspiration, and that could be I think
(05:32):
that's kind of the ups and downs of like mental health.
Also because sometimes nothing sounds good. Sometimes literally no idea
sound right one I want to do right now. It
sounds like we just want to go curl up on
the couch and do our whatever it is we do,
whether you're fan fiction sent view of something, twentieth thousandth
view of something for both of us, yeah, or just
(05:53):
napping that's me. Yeah. So I guess what I'm saying
is I don't want to dismiss the idea. Shouldn't part
because I think it gets dismissed. But there is actually,
especially if anyone who's in a related field of you know,
there's kind of all these topics that we are going
to talk about, we have talked about are important we
can't shy away from, but are kind of painful yea,
(06:16):
And so you can. You have to prepare yourself mentally
for those kinds of things and that day and that
research and all that stuff. And that's how we started
as a team. We had a really hard topic, came
in with a lot of check ins, and then trying
to make sure that we are putting ourselves in a
safe space is definitely a whole thing, and I think,
like people forget to different people do it differently. Yes,
(06:39):
So that's the one thing we found out, even in
our own company, even with our own network, everyone does
it differently, and it's shocking how different it is to
the level of Oh, our titles don't match. And I
think that's one of the big things in any big companies, like, wait,
what are your responsibilities? That's right, that's different from mine. Right.
(07:00):
We're gonna talk about that a little bit more in
a second, because that is a that is a whole thing.
So you get the idea, all right. Then, as we've
said before, normally Samantha and I split up the research
(07:23):
and you can generally tell who did which, just like
topic base. But also I think just in the way
the episode plays out, that part can very wildly of
how much time, based on the topic that you're going
to spend researching it. And sometimes even it's kind of
a paradoxical issue where where you would think something more
(07:48):
contained would be much quicker, but sometimes if there's no research,
then you spend so much time trying to find the
research that it takes just as long, right, So that's
something I've had to learn. Definitely. Yes, I think I'll
top of that. If you have too much, trying to
like dwindle down the list is just as hard because
it's like, if you keep spending time on it, you're
gonna find more things and it's gonna drive you pretty crazy,
(08:12):
pretty like it's gonna drive you a definitely panic mode level. Yeah, honestly. Yeah.
And that's one of the other things is that when
you're on an intersectional feminist show and you're trying to
do your best to be intersectional feminist, there's just so
many angles. So you're like, well, I gotta look at
it from this angle and this angle and this angle,
(08:32):
which is good. I don't think that's how it should be.
But that means that you can get really in your
head of like, well I didn't but if I didn't
talk about this correctly or this correctly or whatever it is.
So that's definitely a piece of it. I know, for example,
and the feminist around the world, there's also the struggle
of like finding the information at all and finding the
pronunciation at all. Pronunciation has been the hiccup, Like I know.
(08:56):
I think that's the constant apology that we give to
you the listener, as well as to our super producer Christina,
because we're like, yeah, we watched that one, real, real bad.
There's about twenty takes on that one. So our recording,
which is typically like nine to ten minutes, what Christina
receives as like twenty minutes long of our fumbling through
trying to stay like a long silence of us both
(09:17):
trying to find a video of the pronoutation somewhere because
we think we know it, and then we're like, nope,
we don't know it. That's true, you learned. That's one
of the biggest things I've learned through podcasting is you
don't know how to pronounce anything an everybody everything wrong,
everything wrong? Yes, So then yeah, we record. We usually
(09:38):
do big box of recording, We do it and over
video at our home studios, and then we send the
files to our amazing super producer Christina. So a lot
of times this is where there's kind of a mix
of Sometimes Samantha and I will find interviews. A lot
of times Christina will do it, or our sense of
(10:00):
are just handled the kind of logistics of it. Whoever
gets the whoever gets the sex in the city watch
with us. We'll get to experience Christina. Yeah, yeah, the process.
But some of you have written in before, why do
we call Christina's superproducer. One of the reasons is she
(10:21):
is amazing, right obviously. Another reason is, as you said, Sanantha,
at our company and a lot of companies, the job
titles are kind of murky, which is something we're trying
to work on and fix. But some produce the job
of the producer just varies. Oh my goodness, And that's
(10:42):
true for pretty much any entertainment. That producer title can
mean a lot of different things. But Christina I asked
everybody on the team to write in. Christina wrote about
what she does. I edit and publish a show, edit
your ads, do some booking, make weekly Instagram pro and
then some light administrative duties and that's you know, that's
(11:04):
another thing. Every job is kind of like that. But
there's a bunch of just like random things that come
in where it's like today, you have to go find
this picture and send it in to this person and
it has to happen now. And she's been leading our
monthly staff meetings. I guess our monthly production meetings and
then she yeah, because she brought that. And then today
(11:25):
she's been helping us become a better podcasters with upgrading
some equipment things, trying to figure that out, leading the
way on that. She also is yes in between for
our sponsorships a lot of the times and has to
answer a lot of questions yes, yes, yes, a lot
of fielding of the whole sponsorship you all. That would
(11:47):
be a whole episode. I could go in depth the
badest bananas it is. It is really time consuming actually,
but yes, Christina does handle. We'll get emails from Christina
that's like, hey, like five people away from me are
asking if you will do this ad and it ask
me done. Now. It's a stressful. It is a stressful thing,
(12:09):
but it does pay the bill, So thank you sponsor.
But yeah, so we send after we record, we'll send
this to Christina. Chrissina will edit it, amazing job, send
it back to us. We listen back to make sure
there's no things we want to take out or change.
Generally it's all good. And then she posts them and
does the social media on Instagram, especially, which brings us
(12:33):
to Joey, who is our newest edition of the Team Joey.
You may have heard on past episodes, just a recent
episode on the Newest Harry Potter Game and fandom Ethics.
It's been on a few Joey wrote. I research selected
episodes and occasionally pitch episodes. I also edit clips from
(12:55):
the show to post on TikTok, which is a new thing. Yes,
and as we said in that recent episode we did
with Joey, that has been we basically just send like
forty minute clips and they're like, hey, enjoy, try this
something in there. Maybe might work. Yes, And they do
(13:17):
an amazing job and keeping us relevant. I think they
are our gen Zer connection. Would you say that? Because
everybody is technically gen Z but Joey. Joey's the newest, newest,
like the graduate from their college, like not a couple
of years ago, a year ago. So I feel like
they are the most relevant to that, no fence to
(13:39):
Christina and Maya. They are definitely, but in this level
of I just got out of school, so I really
feel like they are the pulse for us. So hopefully
they'll keep us in track if we're not just being cool.
Can we blame Joey? No, I know it's just it's
just we were just tea beforehand. Is yeah, but it's
(14:04):
been really it's been really fun working with Joey because
Joey will send these great ideas and does keep us
up to date at me, especially because you are on
TikTok but I am not on, like maybe you should
talk about this or maybe you should talk about this.
And they've been great every time they've come on the show,
so that has been really fun. And then Maya Maya
(14:25):
is our executive producer. Maya wrote, I managed the team
that handles day to day production. I also work directly
with our marketing, sales, operations, and publishing teammates to maintain
the broader function of the show. So Maya he's the
person we go to about like merchandising questions or kind
of these bigger like budgetary questions, perhaps marketing things, what's
(14:47):
going on in that whole realm. Maya is everybody on
this team is super busy, but Maya's definitely got a
lot of things going on, Like everybody here, I just
want to say, this is what they do for our team,
is the right thing that they do. And then they
do that for several other shows, and then some so
it's not like this is just the one thing. No,
they have many responsibilities spread across our network. And if
(15:09):
you know about our network, you know we have a
lot of shows, um and a very finite amount of
producers and what I mean like very very so they
are busy to say the least. And yeah, I think
Maya would also take the title of being the lead
and then and a lot of things, especially when it
comes to production things behind the scenes, as in like
(15:32):
if we need permission for things, she would be the
person we have to go to. She probably was the
first one to be like, hey, hey, yeah, this is
a problem, don't do this. Yeah, just like there, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(16:02):
I mean, I guess one of the reasons I wanted
to talk about this one. They're all amazing and they
should get all of the highlights and flowers. But just recently,
I know we talked about it when one of our
guests came on the show of like, you know, the
people behind the scenes that are making all of this happen,
because sometimes it can look easy because they make it
(16:26):
look easy, but there's a lot going on behind this.
In terms of the social media, in terms of the finances,
in terms of the equipment, in terms of editing, like
all of those things, I don't know. I just want
to make sure people realize we got a whole team
that's supporting us, because sometimes I feel like people will
write in there like I don't understand what my podcast
isn't taking off, right. And that's not to say that
(16:47):
your podcast can't take off without this amazing team, but
I just want to be clear like we do have that.
I mean they are part of the privilege that we have.
I've recently got a dam asking me to do something,
to do an interview to help other podcasters, and I
feel like very underqualified because all I can say is
it is because I had new people, and that is
(17:09):
my privilege. It is that I had the networking and
connections to do this. I had a lot to say.
They allowed me to come on, You allowed me to
come on and do it. But this platform has already
been here, literally specifically the stuff Mom never told you.
Platform has been here and has been a big part
of podcasting in general, especially for women. And then this
(17:32):
team is what makes it sound as good as it does.
Like I do not know how to do this on
my own. If I were to be like, Hey, I'm
gonna go do my own podcast. I would fail miserably
because I don't know what that takes. Honestly, when it
comes down to someone had to teach me all of
these things. I cannot tell you how to edit. I
would not tell you how you do because you actually
(17:55):
did the behind the scenes. I did not. So this
is definitely one of those things. I'm like, I really
wish I could plain to you that there was this
magic solution with the work, hard ideas and you'll get there.
That's not necessarily true. Unfortunately, the American dream is a lie.
I'm sorry. It has a lot to do with connection
and privilege, and that's unfortunately the basis of that. But again,
(18:17):
on my own, this would be nothing. On our own,
this would be nothing. We would be voices echoing into
the recording stuffs. But it is because of teams like
this that really get it done, and that makes this
job a career, right right right right? Yeah, Like, once
you can learn kind of the process and function of
(18:38):
the you know who does what and how to make
that work, it's been really really great. Or we have
an amazing team. BT does you're questioning we have amazing
teams and I would include Eves and Bridget as part
of that. They come out monthly with us to share
their knowledge. Like we have an amazing group people who
(18:58):
come in to speak about intersexual feminism in such an
amazing way that we have different perspectives that it also
makes this team even better the show. This is what
creates the show and it has as as great as
it was way back at the beginning. But I think
it's grown exponentially in whose voices are being represented. Yes,
I agree, I agree. So if any anyone has any
(19:23):
questions because we didn't even talk about writing the meta data,
am I goodness or answering the list of emails, yeah,
please feel free to let us know. But also we
just want to introduce our amazing team, yes, the people
behind this. Hopefully you'll hear their voices talking about it soon.
In the meantime, if you would like to reach out
(19:45):
to us that you can. Our email is Stephanie Momsteff
at iHeartMedia dot com. You can follow us on Twitter
at momsa Podcast, or on Instagram and TikTok at stuff
bomb Never told You. We're also on YouTube if you'd
like to listen to us that way. I know some
people who prefer it like that. Thanks as always too,
our super producer Christina, our executive producer Maya, and our
(20:08):
contributor Joey Hey. Yes, thank you the whole team you
make this happen. We love you, yes, and we also
love you listeners. We couldn't do this without you either,
so not thank you. Stefan Never told you is protection
of iHeartRadio. For more podcast from my heart Radio, you
can check out that heart radio app, Apple podcast wherever
you listen to your favorite shows
Hey, this is Danny and Samantha and welcome to Step
one Never told you a production of iHeartRadio, and welcome
to another edition of Monday Mini. This is going to
be a bit of a shorter one, I think, but
we just wanted to do it a check in on
(00:27):
our team, and plus we got a lot going on
right now. So I feel like we say that all
the time, but it is true, and we are going
to talk about that in a second. Also, as this
comes out, it is a March no. As we record,
it's March tenth, which is Mario Day, So Happy Mario Day.
We didn't really do anything for International Women's Day except
that the episode we published was perfect for International Women's Day,
(00:50):
but happy belated that as well. And today March thirteenth
is my and many people's Quarantine University. If that's something
you celebrate here I am. I'm with you, he is, y'all. Yes,
So we just wanted to run down kind of a
(01:11):
behind the scenes, a quick behind the scenes of this
podcast when it takes to make it, because we have
gotten a couple of questions about it. We have gotten
some kind of new editions or shifting in the team.
We are planning to do a not in person, but
a skype or a video call of sorts where they
come on and record and they can say themselves what
(01:34):
they do. But I did send out this email and
I was like, hey, can you give us a brief
description of what you do? But I also thought we
would talk before we get into that what we do,
so kind I would say, the process is kind of
Samantha and I just throw ideas out there. Sometimes there's
(01:55):
there's one that's very clear, if there's like a quote
tint poll as they call it, like a Hall to
Day or something a month or something, So we throw
out ideas around that, and then we have this. I
call it one of the loves of my life, and
I'm I'm being sarcastic, but it is something I check
every day, which is what I call the meta sheet, yes,
(02:16):
which is our calendar, and so we try to figure
out relevant topics. When can we bring in interviews, you know, technically,
when can those interviews get edited. We have several recurring
segments like our book club or feminist Movie Friday or
all those things, our interviews with Eves on Female First
(02:39):
Bridget with all the technical Internet stuff, and we have
been trying to do more interviews in the new year.
That was one of our goals, and I feel like
we've been, you know, achieving true. But basically that's like
the ideation of the topic, which might sound like easy,
(03:00):
the easy thing, it's not necessary, not after like thirteen
years of content. So trying to be original as well
as keeping relevant, as well as keeping it new and interesting,
it's a lot, and then being updated for everything it
is it is. And I feel like you're really good
(03:21):
at that part, Samantha, You're really good at the ideation part.
I am too, but I'm very bad about as you know,
like here are my fifteen ideas, which one shall we do?
I think the differences because I actually am on social
media and so pay attention to a lot of pop
culture things while you're in your loves of things, so
(03:44):
you are up to date on the things that you love,
and they make sure you know because of course Google
and our phone is tracking us, so we get different information.
So it helps. That helps right a lot, as something
two very different feeds, literally, I think helps us keep
in trend. I think so, I mean, it's definitely we've
(04:05):
got a we've got a wide range of stuff we cover,
that is for sure, That is for sure. And I
sometimes you'll spend hours trying to come up with a
good idea, and so you get twenty and you're you're
so excited, like for a little while, and we still
(04:26):
kind of are ahead and like, oh no, we don't
have time to cram all these things in, and then
sometimes we are just dry and then nothing happens and
we kind of just sit there and like really really
really pushing the boundaries of like does this work? How
does this work? The challenges are being on point with
(04:50):
our brand, with the brand that was created for us
from the beginning, as well as keeping true to who
we are. That's a lot, and then making sure that
we are being honest and giving what you the listeners need. Yeah,
sometimes it can be anxiety written as well, trying to
try to figure that out. Yeah, And that's why we
(05:11):
really appreciate when you listeners send in suggestions, because then
we know at least somebody wants us to talk about
this thing. At least one person is going to listen
for this at least well hopefully, Yeah, but I think
that's kind of we've talked about that before. But sometimes
like we have a million ideas, but sometimes no idea
is just striking inspiration, and that could be I think
(05:32):
that's kind of the ups and downs of like mental health.
Also because sometimes nothing sounds good. Sometimes literally no idea
sound right one I want to do right now. It
sounds like we just want to go curl up on
the couch and do our whatever it is we do,
whether you're fan fiction sent view of something, twentieth thousandth
view of something for both of us, yeah, or just
(05:53):
napping that's me. Yeah. So I guess what I'm saying
is I don't want to dismiss the idea. Shouldn't part
because I think it gets dismissed. But there is actually,
especially if anyone who's in a related field of you know,
there's kind of all these topics that we are going
to talk about, we have talked about are important we
can't shy away from, but are kind of painful yea,
(06:16):
And so you can. You have to prepare yourself mentally
for those kinds of things and that day and that
research and all that stuff. And that's how we started
as a team. We had a really hard topic, came
in with a lot of check ins, and then trying
to make sure that we are putting ourselves in a
safe space is definitely a whole thing, and I think,
like people forget to different people do it differently. Yes,
(06:39):
So that's the one thing we found out, even in
our own company, even with our own network, everyone does
it differently, and it's shocking how different it is to
the level of Oh, our titles don't match. And I
think that's one of the big things in any big companies, like, wait,
what are your responsibilities? That's right, that's different from mine. Right.
(07:00):
We're gonna talk about that a little bit more in
a second, because that is a that is a whole thing.
So you get the idea, all right. Then, as we've
said before, normally Samantha and I split up the research
(07:23):
and you can generally tell who did which, just like
topic base. But also I think just in the way
the episode plays out, that part can very wildly of
how much time, based on the topic that you're going
to spend researching it. And sometimes even it's kind of
a paradoxical issue where where you would think something more
(07:48):
contained would be much quicker, but sometimes if there's no research,
then you spend so much time trying to find the
research that it takes just as long, right, So that's
something I've had to learn. Definitely. Yes, I think I'll
top of that. If you have too much, trying to
like dwindle down the list is just as hard because
it's like, if you keep spending time on it, you're
gonna find more things and it's gonna drive you pretty crazy,
(08:12):
pretty like it's gonna drive you a definitely panic mode level. Yeah, honestly. Yeah.
And that's one of the other things is that when
you're on an intersectional feminist show and you're trying to
do your best to be intersectional feminist, there's just so
many angles. So you're like, well, I gotta look at
it from this angle and this angle and this angle,
(08:32):
which is good. I don't think that's how it should be.
But that means that you can get really in your
head of like, well I didn't but if I didn't
talk about this correctly or this correctly or whatever it is.
So that's definitely a piece of it. I know, for example,
and the feminist around the world, there's also the struggle
of like finding the information at all and finding the
pronunciation at all. Pronunciation has been the hiccup, Like I know.
(08:56):
I think that's the constant apology that we give to
you the listener, as well as to our super producer Christina,
because we're like, yeah, we watched that one, real, real bad.
There's about twenty takes on that one. So our recording,
which is typically like nine to ten minutes, what Christina
receives as like twenty minutes long of our fumbling through
trying to stay like a long silence of us both
(09:17):
trying to find a video of the pronoutation somewhere because
we think we know it, and then we're like, nope,
we don't know it. That's true, you learned. That's one
of the biggest things I've learned through podcasting is you
don't know how to pronounce anything an everybody everything wrong,
everything wrong? Yes, So then yeah, we record. We usually
(09:38):
do big box of recording, We do it and over
video at our home studios, and then we send the
files to our amazing super producer Christina. So a lot
of times this is where there's kind of a mix
of Sometimes Samantha and I will find interviews. A lot
of times Christina will do it, or our sense of
(10:00):
are just handled the kind of logistics of it. Whoever
gets the whoever gets the sex in the city watch
with us. We'll get to experience Christina. Yeah, yeah, the process.
But some of you have written in before, why do
we call Christina's superproducer. One of the reasons is she
(10:21):
is amazing, right obviously. Another reason is, as you said, Sanantha,
at our company and a lot of companies, the job
titles are kind of murky, which is something we're trying
to work on and fix. But some produce the job
of the producer just varies. Oh my goodness, And that's
(10:42):
true for pretty much any entertainment. That producer title can
mean a lot of different things. But Christina I asked
everybody on the team to write in. Christina wrote about
what she does. I edit and publish a show, edit
your ads, do some booking, make weekly Instagram pro and
then some light administrative duties and that's you know, that's
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another thing. Every job is kind of like that. But
there's a bunch of just like random things that come
in where it's like today, you have to go find
this picture and send it in to this person and
it has to happen now. And she's been leading our
monthly staff meetings. I guess our monthly production meetings and
then she yeah, because she brought that. And then today
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she's been helping us become a better podcasters with upgrading
some equipment things, trying to figure that out, leading the
way on that. She also is yes in between for
our sponsorships a lot of the times and has to
answer a lot of questions yes, yes, yes, a lot
of fielding of the whole sponsorship you all. That would
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be a whole episode. I could go in depth the
badest bananas it is. It is really time consuming actually,
but yes, Christina does handle. We'll get emails from Christina
that's like, hey, like five people away from me are
asking if you will do this ad and it ask
me done. Now. It's a stressful. It is a stressful thing,
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but it does pay the bill, So thank you sponsor.
But yeah, so we send after we record, we'll send
this to Christina. Chrissina will edit it, amazing job, send
it back to us. We listen back to make sure
there's no things we want to take out or change.
Generally it's all good. And then she posts them and
does the social media on Instagram, especially, which brings us
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to Joey, who is our newest edition of the Team Joey.
You may have heard on past episodes, just a recent
episode on the Newest Harry Potter Game and fandom Ethics.
It's been on a few Joey wrote. I research selected
episodes and occasionally pitch episodes. I also edit clips from
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the show to post on TikTok, which is a new thing. Yes,
and as we said in that recent episode we did
with Joey, that has been we basically just send like
forty minute clips and they're like, hey, enjoy, try this
something in there. Maybe might work. Yes, And they do
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an amazing job and keeping us relevant. I think they
are our gen Zer connection. Would you say that? Because
everybody is technically gen Z but Joey. Joey's the newest, newest,
like the graduate from their college, like not a couple
of years ago, a year ago. So I feel like
they are the most relevant to that, no fence to
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Christina and Maya. They are definitely, but in this level
of I just got out of school, so I really
feel like they are the pulse for us. So hopefully
they'll keep us in track if we're not just being cool.
Can we blame Joey? No, I know it's just it's
just we were just tea beforehand. Is yeah, but it's
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been really it's been really fun working with Joey because
Joey will send these great ideas and does keep us
up to date at me, especially because you are on
TikTok but I am not on, like maybe you should
talk about this or maybe you should talk about this.
And they've been great every time they've come on the show,
so that has been really fun. And then Maya Maya
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is our executive producer. Maya wrote, I managed the team
that handles day to day production. I also work directly
with our marketing, sales, operations, and publishing teammates to maintain
the broader function of the show. So Maya he's the
person we go to about like merchandising questions or kind
of these bigger like budgetary questions, perhaps marketing things, what's
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going on in that whole realm. Maya is everybody on
this team is super busy, but Maya's definitely got a
lot of things going on, Like everybody here, I just
want to say, this is what they do for our team,
is the right thing that they do. And then they
do that for several other shows, and then some so
it's not like this is just the one thing. No,
they have many responsibilities spread across our network. And if
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you know about our network, you know we have a
lot of shows, um and a very finite amount of
producers and what I mean like very very so they
are busy to say the least. And yeah, I think
Maya would also take the title of being the lead
and then and a lot of things, especially when it
comes to production things behind the scenes, as in like
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if we need permission for things, she would be the
person we have to go to. She probably was the
first one to be like, hey, hey, yeah, this is
a problem, don't do this. Yeah, just like there, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I mean, I guess one of the reasons I wanted
to talk about this one. They're all amazing and they
should get all of the highlights and flowers. But just recently,
I know we talked about it when one of our
guests came on the show of like, you know, the
people behind the scenes that are making all of this happen,
because sometimes it can look easy because they make it
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look easy, but there's a lot going on behind this.
In terms of the social media, in terms of the finances,
in terms of the equipment, in terms of editing, like
all of those things, I don't know. I just want
to make sure people realize we got a whole team
that's supporting us, because sometimes I feel like people will
write in there like I don't understand what my podcast
isn't taking off, right. And that's not to say that
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your podcast can't take off without this amazing team, but
I just want to be clear like we do have that.
I mean they are part of the privilege that we have.
I've recently got a dam asking me to do something,
to do an interview to help other podcasters, and I
feel like very underqualified because all I can say is
it is because I had new people, and that is
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my privilege. It is that I had the networking and
connections to do this. I had a lot to say.
They allowed me to come on, You allowed me to
come on and do it. But this platform has already
been here, literally specifically the stuff Mom never told you.
Platform has been here and has been a big part
of podcasting in general, especially for women. And then this
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team is what makes it sound as good as it does.
Like I do not know how to do this on
my own. If I were to be like, Hey, I'm
gonna go do my own podcast. I would fail miserably
because I don't know what that takes. Honestly, when it
comes down to someone had to teach me all of
these things. I cannot tell you how to edit. I
would not tell you how you do because you actually
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did the behind the scenes. I did not. So this
is definitely one of those things. I'm like, I really
wish I could plain to you that there was this
magic solution with the work, hard ideas and you'll get there.
That's not necessarily true. Unfortunately, the American dream is a lie.
I'm sorry. It has a lot to do with connection
and privilege, and that's unfortunately the basis of that. But again,
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on my own, this would be nothing. On our own,
this would be nothing. We would be voices echoing into
the recording stuffs. But it is because of teams like
this that really get it done, and that makes this
job a career, right right right right? Yeah, Like, once
you can learn kind of the process and function of
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the you know who does what and how to make
that work, it's been really really great. Or we have
an amazing team. BT does you're questioning we have amazing
teams and I would include Eves and Bridget as part
of that. They come out monthly with us to share
their knowledge. Like we have an amazing group people who
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come in to speak about intersexual feminism in such an
amazing way that we have different perspectives that it also
makes this team even better the show. This is what
creates the show and it has as as great as
it was way back at the beginning. But I think
it's grown exponentially in whose voices are being represented. Yes,
I agree, I agree. So if any anyone has any
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questions because we didn't even talk about writing the meta data,
am I goodness or answering the list of emails, yeah,
please feel free to let us know. But also we
just want to introduce our amazing team, yes, the people
behind this. Hopefully you'll hear their voices talking about it soon.
In the meantime, if you would like to reach out
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to us that you can. Our email is Stephanie Momsteff
at iHeartMedia dot com. You can follow us on Twitter
at momsa Podcast, or on Instagram and TikTok at stuff
bomb Never told You. We're also on YouTube if you'd
like to listen to us that way. I know some
people who prefer it like that. Thanks as always too,
our super producer Christina, our executive producer Maya, and our
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contributor Joey Hey. Yes, thank you the whole team you
make this happen. We love you, yes, and we also
love you listeners. We couldn't do this without you either,
so not thank you. Stefan Never told you is protection
of iHeartRadio. For more podcast from my heart Radio, you
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