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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to Amigo is the podcast that dives into the
world of advertising and media. I'm your host, Alexander Hilou
and with me right now.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Is in the Trap, absolutely in the trap, in the case,
and today I'm thrilled to introduce Jacob Benone, our rising
star in the world of sound engineering and broadcast production.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
So Jacob's journey from a small town dreamer to a
board operator and morning show producer for iHeartMedia.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Is nothing short, but it inspired.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
With over five years of experience in professional sound engineering
and a strong background in major marketing radio broadcasting, Jacob
brings a wealth of knowledge and passion to our conversations.
And not only that, he's been with us for an
ad too, for I don't know, since I've been involved.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
So, if anything this brought this program could not support
and it's help and we're so really thankful for that.
And if anything, I can't thank you enough for all
that you've done for us, and I'm really happy to
have this episode about you too. It's been a long
time coming. If anything, I feel like people should know
who was the person that really got this kept this
(01:10):
train moving. Absolutely, so get ready to explore the exciting
world of audio production, content creation, and the future broadcasting
with Jacob. So, it's fantastic to have you hear Jacob
Let's dive in Jacob. So, you've mentioned your role as
a board operation short and morning show producer at iHeartMedia.
I'm curious to kind of know what got you interested
(01:30):
in audio engineering, Like where, how did.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
This all start?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
It? Yeah, so this is actually something I kind of
realized about myself very recently. As you know, I'm getting
ready for a big change in my life, and I'm
going through my resume and I'm cleaning things up and
I'm creating reels, and it dawned on me that let
me go back to the beginning a little bit. I'm sorry,
I'm getting ahead of myself. I wanted to be a veterinarian.
(01:55):
Oh okay, I think from like second grade to the
senior year, I wanted to be aian. And about my
senior year I kind of started questioning whether I actually
wanted to do that, because it's not like I had
it drilled into me. It was more so like I
just loved animals and that's kind of what I wanted
to do, and that was like my thing for a while,
(02:16):
and then around senior year, I'm just like, ah, do
I really want to do this, because like, you know,
you're getting ready for your college as like applications and
fasts and all that stuff in places. Yeah, And I
jumbled back and forth a lot of stuff, and I
think after I graduated or I had decided to just
stick with Vendery, I was like, no, this is what
I thought, this is what I'm doing. And I get
(02:39):
into college. I started going to Blend Community College in Schillenburg, Texas,
and you know, I'm realizing like the first, first of all,
the first like three or four years of college is
kind of like annoying because it's just your basics over again.
Like you get too basically high Yeah, you get through
high school and it's like, oh, I'm doing the same stuff, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Right, yeah, they're like do you remember your how to
multiply fractions?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Of course not?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, And so you know, I'm still thinking about Vendy
and I'm just like, you know, it's it's a lot
of biology and a lot of math, and those are
like my worst subjects and so right, and so I
was kind of thinking about it for a while, and
this is what I kind of realized recently is I've
always been part of the entertainment injury industry for a
(03:32):
while because growing up, my father was in a like
a little country band. So yeah, so I kind of
grew up being his little roadie because he was a drummer.
So for for years, my family would bring me to
his gigs and I would actually help set up his
drum set and I would just kind of hang out
for the four hours and then we tear down and
go home. And then you know, I was I was
(03:52):
part of band. I was a marching band and and
all this stuff. And so I was like, well, I
I know the music side of things a little bit,
not professionally, but like, you know, I'm there.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
It's a basic understanding.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
All. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
So I was like, you know what, maybe I should
go into recording and sound engineering, and so I started
looking into that degree plan and I had originally plan
on going to a technical school because yeah, for the
most part, you can teach yourself recording. You know, you
can teach yourself the basics and then you can pick
up from there. There's people who don't even study it
and manage to make careers out of it. But I
(04:27):
am someone who I need someone to teach me because
I can't teach myself things. I'll I'll try to like research,
but then I get distracted. Yeah, and so I started
looking into different schools and stuff, and I stumbled upon
Media Tech Institute originally, and I had planned on going
too Austin, and so I got into contact with Austin
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Media Tech Institute and we were all set. I was
going to do like a fall semester, I think fall
twenty sixteen. I sent them my fast foot and I
never heard back from them. So I call them up
and I go, hey, I sent my fast food like
three four weeks ago, haven't heard back from you guys,
what's going on? And they're like, oh, actually the guy
you spoke to originally doesn't work here anymore and this
(05:09):
campus is getting shut down. So but if you want,
you can go to Dallas or Houston. And I was like,
go kick Rocks, because you mess me up once, I'm
not I'm not trusting you again.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Go to Houston's shut down. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, it kind of reminds me of like the Fine
Art Institute, like.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Going Jacob.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Sorry, but while all this was going on, you know,
I'm I'm still kind of I have to develop this
passion for recording a sound engineering because again, you know,
for years it was like a veterinary, that's what I
want to do. And I'm like, now I want to
do the thing. And I tell my family this and
they're less than excited because because you know, veterinary's caliber
job recording and sound engineering is is it's it's a
(05:53):
roller coaster, it's a track.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, you got to really find your place in that industry.
And it can be it can be monotonous, exact a
lot of I had. I had a friend of mine
who back when I when I studied in Dubai, like
we had the tray to continue going through like IB
and or just kind of do your own thing, go
to like a technical school, right like instead of going
through IB, he went straight into audio engineering.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh wow, so yeah, I can I can imagine.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Right. So, as I'm you know, kind of struggling with
this new career path in my life and stuff I discover.
He's a writer, director, He's been on a lot of podcasts,
he has his own podcast network. But Kevin Smith, oh yeah, okay,
and if if you haven't heard of Kevin Smith, he
go watch Clerks go watch Clerks. He's a big nineties icon.
(06:40):
Clerks was his first movie and I watched that movie
and it was a game changer because if you've ever
worked customer service, it's it's like you're speaking to me.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I prefer Clerks to clerk.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Clerk is really good.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Yeah, pretty great.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
It was really good, but Clerk Clerks is a classic.
And so anyway, I discover him, and I discover like
his podcast channels and he used to do it back
in the day. He would do a bunch of Q
and as like colleges, So he would go to colleges
and answer like two or three questions because he gives
like two hour answers. Oh yeah, he's a storyteller. I
just became enthralled and like all his stories and all
this stuff he said, and even like podcasting. He was like, Hey,
(07:15):
if you want to do a podcast, just do it,
Like get your friends together, just just record something. Just
just do it. And over the years, like listening to
him talk about creating movies, podcast I mean writing books
or comic books. He was in the comic book industry
for a while where he still is. That that really
kind of kept me going as to what I was doing,
(07:36):
and whenever I felt low, I wouldn't like listen to
his podcast, and he was like kind of an unofficial mentor.
He was like my first mentor without even knowing it,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
It's a good one. Yeah, good one.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I think so too. And then I got to meet
him one time, and I very hard.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, I can imagine how you it's hard to see
Jacob super excited that he's Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
But well it's funny because it was he was doing
Jane Silent Bob reboot. He came and he showed it
out the river Oaks. Yeah, he showed it at the
river Oaks, and I bought VIP tickets. I went by myself.
I got the photo wop, so I got a picture
of me and Jay and it's my my audio Instagram
pro it's up there.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
And you know the photo op thing, when you pay
for those, it's it's not like you get to talk
to them to get out of here. Yeah yeah, And
so I got to like tell him something for like
five seconds and then got out of there. But I
one day I would like to actually sit down and
have a conversation with them. But that's kind of where
the passion comes from is listening to him and getting inspired.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I can imagine.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
I mean we'll run that age when you're eighteen nineteen.
That's when your life changes because you go from being
a child to being an adult. Yeah, like night really yeah,
and you don't know what you want. Like your whole life,
someone has been like guiding you and now you're kind
of on your own, right.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It kind of reminds me of that thing when you're like,
you're you're so young and you're thinking, oh, when I
become a teen, it'll be like when I'm like thirteen,
and then you start adulting when you in when you're
in your twenties, and you basically have like ten years
of adulting or young adulting before you go into your thirties,
and that's when you should have your right sort of
stuff together. But you know, if anything, it's always like
(09:19):
a it's a path, it's a journey, and the story
that you build from there is kind of what builds
your character, right and at the same time, like your
interests in how you pursued this in a passion towards
like sound design sound engineering from like being in a
band or helping set up with your dad with his
band to just kind of coming into that decision and
(09:40):
remind me again, So you didn't ended up going to
media and to you ended up going to I.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Did not go to Media Tech Institute. I went to
Houston Community College. And part of the yeah, part of
the reason I wanted to go to media Tech first
and technical school, it was because I did. I did
the community college thing with Blynn, Yeah, and I think
I had I got like an associate and arts from right.
I finished the curriculum and I was just like, I
don't want to go to another community college like technical school,
(10:07):
and the media tech thing fell through. So I was
working at a motel back in Columbus, Ohio, Texas, Texas, Texas. Yeah,
small town population of like under four thousand. Not the
(10:27):
home of everybody says Ohio. It's funny, if.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Anything, I always forget, Like whenever we have to describe
where radio lounges, I always say Missouri City. I'm like,
not the city Missouri or the city Missouri, but the
city of Texas, Missouri. It's like even It's like even
in New York they have like a street called Houston,
but they say they pronounced Houston differently or sorry, I
think it's humble humble or oh yeah, anyway, sorry back
(10:57):
on track.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Yeah. Yeah, So a coworker had told me about Houston
Community College. He was like, hey, they actually have a
really good recording program there. A friend of mine went
through it and they've got all these like facilities and whatnot.
And I was like, all right, fine, I'll look it up.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Right.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
It was my backup plan to Media Tech and then
Media Tech goll through. So I was like, okay, well
cause I'm going to Houston Community College. I mean, that
program benefited me a lot because you know, at the
end of it, they had their internship hours. You have
to get like one hundred and fifty intern hours in
the field, and there's two places I went. So a
bunch of the people at Houston Houston Community College, like
(11:32):
a bunch of the students, they're they're mostly music producers. Yeah,
most of the students are like, oh, I make beats
and I do this, And.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I can imagine that's like you have like those you
have that crowd where you can divide like people who
are actually there for either doing this or.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
This, yeah, this or that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
So most of them were beat makers, and I kind
of realized, like that field is very oversaturated. The Yeah,
there's a lot of people, especially right on the music
side of things. And one of my first classes at
Houston Community College, the instructor actually broke down all the
different facets that audio was involved in. He's like, yeah,
He's like, you have music, you have radio obviously, you
(12:09):
have sound effects, you have sound design, you have forensic audio.
There's people who go through cell phone recorded like messages
for crimes and clean it up.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
That's neat.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Yeah, And so it was such an eye and also
to the class, like every project was like all right,
today we're mixing a song. Next week we're making video
game music or sound effects. Yeah, and so that's where
I really decided like, oh, sound design, yeah, and sound
effects is kind of what I want to go into
or even like at this point, like I'm experimenting with podcasting.
I had a podcast with an ex girlfriend, yeah that
(12:42):
I kind of made her to do it with me
because we started it like back in Columbus and I
was like, I'm getting into this. I need to.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Practice then, so it's important.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah, and so that's locked away in the vaults, never
seen again.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
But yeah, not everything.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah, exactly. So I was already experiment experimenting with that,
but then you know, the sound effect stuff kind of
came around, and when it came time to do my
intern hours, yeah, and when it came down time to
do my intern hours, you know, again, everyone's getting internships
at like Wired Road and these bigger recording studios in Houston,
and that's really great, but they they have a thing
(13:19):
where it's like you're only in for the semester and
then you're out. There's not like a like a if
we like you, you'll continue working here different employment. Yeah, yeah,
or at least not a Wired Road. I heard from
a bunch of students. Wired Road was like, yeah, you're
in for the semester and then you're done. And so
I was like googling up some places and I found
Mojor Media, which is yes, which is a small agency
(13:42):
here in Houston, and they they have a weekend radio
show with sports Radio six ten. They do like a
garden show and a home improvement show. So I called
them up and I was like, hey, I'm looking for
an internship. And Chad, the the programmer over there, he
calls me back and he goes, well, we don't really
have internship hours, but I can offer you a job, okay,
(14:04):
And I was like, great, I'll take it. You know,
we can get cool. At the same time, I had
googled up some studios in Houston and I found Radio Lounge,
and so I think I called Radio Lounge. I think
it just called called Radio Lounge. And Bruce Ray's partner
picked up and I told him about me, and I
told him about who I was and everything and what
(14:26):
I'm studying. He goes, you know, we might be interested
in having you in here here. Let me give you
raise email. You can email Ray. So I emailed Ray.
Ray emailed me back, and then I came in to
do you know what he calls the discovery flight right
is like he just has a conversation with you and
you just get to know each other. And then that's
how I ended up at Radio Lounge. Through my intern hours,
was I was able to work with him awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, I can imagine, Like, I think it's really cool
to finally know the story of how you met Ray
because I always assumed that. Y yeah, So if anything,
like it's not to know that just overall Ray is
just an awesome guy.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Yeah, yeah, it's always been Ray and Jacob.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
You're like, oh, yeah, exactly, yeah, I bet you, I can.
I can only imagine how did that conversation go when
Ray wanted you to be involved with that too, Like,
how did that kind of well, he introduced me to Guido.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
That's right, we made a.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Way before I worked there. There was an a f meeting
and he introduced me to Guido. And then the thing is,
at the time when I was interning.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Gift crush from them, they didn't watch me.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Good good take them. But the thing is when when
I met Guido and when when I was interning with Ray,
I was also working full time at the Regal Cinemas
and I was doing my intern stuff. I was still
doing school work, I still I think it was like
(15:55):
a full time student still. And then at that point
in my in my internship, I had started dating Cadedra.
So your current wife, yes, my wife now and so,
and she lived like in Kingwood at the time, So
every day it was it was just god, yeah, every.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Day but every day Yeah, no, I feel it.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I know you're paying because I did it for a
couple of years too. So yeah, every day it was
just like Kingwood sugar Land Regal Cinemas a c C
Oh my god. Yeah. And then I had some roommates
at the time, and we were trying to do like
this content house kind of thing because we because before
I started getting into my internship hours, when I was
(16:40):
still taking classes at the theater, my first friend in
Houston was Kevin, and I'm he's he's kind of like
if you've seen clerks, which girdle you have, He's like
he was the Randall to my Dante, you know what
I mean. Yeah, And so we just became really good friends.
And then he introduced me to my other two former roomates,
Chris and Isaac, and after a while we I think
(17:04):
this was like at the end of twenty eighteen. At
some point, like my relationship with my ex kind of
fell apart due to creative differences, and my best friend
was like moving away to Virginia, so I had kind
of started feeling alone and Kevin and I were kind
of talking one day because we always talk content and stuff.
We always talked about movies and games and whatnot and
(17:25):
creative endeavors that we wanted to do, and Kevin was like, hey,
why don't we start a podcast for dungeons and dragons,
and we got together with my other friends Chris and
Isaac and we created a four dudes one dungeon.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
So cool. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Yeah, So for like a solid year, while I was
still doing school and stuff, we were doing this horrible
D and D podcast.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Well so what are you doing like a campaign and
making name.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
To Yeah, it was it was a homebrew, so Kevin
would just make stuff up on the fly and then Chris,
Isaac and I would just kind of roll out of
the right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Yeah, that's nice. It's very creative.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, and you know, it helped me out a lot
because again, recording and sound effects and whatnot. I'm getting
to record them, and I'm getting to edit these podcasts, which.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Getting a lot of experience here.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Yeah, and they they sound horrible, but but I really
want to go back and remix them and re edit
them and kind of like overproduce them now knowing what
I know now, because they were like some of the
more fun things I've gotten to do. Like I still
have great memories of making that that podcast.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
And I'm actually kind of sorry, we just.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Want to touch a little bit on the podcasting. We've
been doing this podcast now for four years now.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Three years, three years. We started in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
We're not that way.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Well, we started talking about it in twenty twenty, but
there was this thing going on at the time.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Might have heard about it.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
And obviously, you know, you have your Dungeon Dragons podcast
and end up podcast.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
We excopt friend that.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Yeah, hopefully we'll never see the lot of they again,
but you know, I've even weekly leaks about it.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
It won't get back to me.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
What have you you know in this process, like what
have you learned that? What has been some of the
surprising things that you found while producing podcasts, creating them
and really like so listening to them, right, because that's
also a big part of it.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yeah. So my opinion is I think every every podcast
or every new show is like a different beast. There's
always a difference to each format. Even though with had Migos,
every podcast I did, I've I've produced or whatever I've
I've learned different lessons. You know, I've learned better mic
input or the difference between a USB MIC and XLR MIC,
(19:38):
and you know, just gain staging, set setting your levels
up at the beginning. Don't always fix everything in post.
You know. Also, multi track recording is great everything on
when you record everything on one track, it gets a
little messy. I've been able to do like mono track
(19:58):
recording and editing pretty well all now.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
But yeah, yeah, but just because like I've I've had
the experience with it. But yeah, every every new podcast
is always like a different like a different lesson or
a different learning experience. Just where you record it. What
what do you have set up a soundproofing or if
you don't have soundproofing, what processes can you do to
kind of take out the echo and all this stuff?
And I've I counted it the other day and I
(20:24):
think I've I've produced like nine show nine podcasts so far.
I call them shows. But because it's all content, yeah, right,
because because I've had my original one, I've had four
Dudes One Dungeon. We tried to spin that off into
like four Dudes Interview, where we interview people with different jobs,
which is kind of like, you know, going into the
(20:45):
future a little bit. We have ad negos pop up
and I'm like, I know a little bit about this.
So we tried doing that and that kind of fell
apart and then I tried to do one about hypotheticals.
I set up like that, Yeah, like what if this, Well,
I have this card game and it's all just like
super crazy hypotheticals, and so I would try to like
(21:05):
give my friends to come on as guests and we
will like kind of talk it out.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Actually yeah, but then the pandemic came around when I
started that, and I just like.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
It's to hear.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Oh, I mean if anything, Like you were talking a
little bit about like different settings and recordings and like
how you kind of go around in these specific challenges.
Have there been any integrations in your workflow with like
AI or like how do you feel like that's shaping
your landscape in the sense of like audio engineering and production.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I have a love hate thing with AI. It's it's
kind of scary in a way. And I mean, obviously
Wedle your copywriter, Alex, you do graphic design.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah, And so I know, like we all.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
We're all kind of at the precipice of our job
is gonna go away soon?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
What's happening?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yeah, And so I really try not to use AI
too much, although I will say Adobe has this AI
feature and I think it's like a separate like website
you can use for free.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Yeah, where you can upload audio yes isolate, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
And it helps really great. I use it a lot
for like cell phone audio, because my friends will report
stuff and they'll send it to me and I'll like
produce it into something. So I use it a lot
for like the cell phone audio. I've tried doing like
I've tried like, oh, we record this podcast, let me
put it up here and see what it comes out.
But if you're in the same room with somebody and
you have mic bleed, it's gonna pick up the mic bleed,
(22:29):
so it doesn't quite fix everything. It's just like a
bunch of in and out kind of It's it's definitely
not a cure all. It's mostly good for like single
source audio, but that's the extent I use it. I try.
I really try not to touch AI too much. We
actually have access at iHeart to some music generator websites
like udio is one, and I played with it, but
(22:52):
it just feels icky.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
I completely agree. Speaking of a, I like that's a
I run a lot of content for my job, and
I do use it a lot. It ties to kind
of especially when I have a like a blocker or
something right or like, I mean, I'm trying to come
out social media stuff that I'm much about, right, but
I just have to like chase a couple of things
(23:16):
and see it out.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Who cares? So I understand.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
But I do understand the hesitation because in my case,
I'm just just writing stuff. I'm not producing something that
needs to be that sound liitterally fetality has to be perfect.
Then you know how to isolate certain things that kind
of stuff. So I can see why maybe you're a
little more hesitant.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Yeah, I definitely see it as like a tool or
like maybe a source of inspiration. So yeah, you know,
if if maybe you're to if you have an idea
in your head, maybe you just put it in a
prompt and it kind of spits something out and you
tweak that a lot.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, you know, I think just to be the I
guess the antithesis of it too, Like there's some parts
of it that I feel like with AI makes the
creative process either it hinders it in a degree where
like if if you're starting from like from a really
low point because the prompt that you used isn't giving
you the results you want, You're kind of like beating
(24:10):
a dead horse.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
At that point, you're like make.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It sound better, do this, and then at the same time,
because like our technical expertise does not relate to what
the software offers, like for example, like maybe there's just
an issue with the code and there or there needs
to be like an off patch that needs to be
updated in Sometimes we don't have control, like in my case,
like with my job, Like like you said, Jacob, I'm
a graphic designer, so copy is not my strong suit.
(24:35):
Any of my previous employers I can tell you. They
can tell you that Alex is not great with words,
but I can say that I do know good copy
when I see good copy.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
So at least I can work it out.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Sometimes whenever I'm like put into like a corner, but
I can say that at least with the trajectory and
how AI is affecting the audio space, it really kind
of brings a new perspective on like where it can
be useful. I think, like you said, like general social
media contact with phones, that is like probably the best
use case.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I right imagine, right, I wouldn't right, I wouldn't take
this audio and throw it in that machine.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
And yeah, it sounds extra crisp.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Then it would sound like no, it would actually sound
like muddy, oh like heavy on the low end. And
then when say you're talking but like maybe Alex like
I don't know, says yeah or whatever, it's gonna it's
gonna pick up that. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
And I've actually used it for the Chili Cookoff episode
when we do those interviews outside yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Yeah, outside. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
So I used that website and I threw it in
there and I just kind of like mixed the raw
audio with the new audio to try to make it
sound more clear.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Okay, Yeah, I love that segment.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I still I still think that was probably one of
the best produced segments we did, aside from like the
Olympic Ad segment that was that happened right after Widows.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
But I will say, just what the record, I did
not use AI for graphic design.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
If anything that takes you off a lot of radars
green you know what.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
My my fiance is a graphic designer, so.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah, she'll tell you by by any means if something
looks off.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Why this is supposed to have seven fingers.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
For sure, But if anything, back to Jacob though, I
think really it's It's a really interesting case of like
how you tied your interest towards your passion and at
the same time you're trying to build that experience in
your case, Like I know that you're really into manga
and anime and all that fun, all that fun cultural,
that guy stuff that's just really popular nowadays. I mean,
(26:48):
how do you feel like that obsession or I guess
that interest interacts with like your role in broadcasting, because
I know that you've done a lot of sound effects
works and compositing for us in turn of like our
ads and stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I mean, where do you feel like that interests alliance?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
So it doesn't manga. Manga has just been a way
for me to like kind of relax. I've actually developed
the I guess, like a higher love for manga. I've
always kind of read manga off and on over the years,
but recently I've gotten like really heavy into it. You know,
we were talking about one piece in between episodes. Yeah,
and I am fully caught up. A friend of mine
(27:26):
got me into it religiously, like like they always do.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Like seven years took that, chaplin.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
It took me like two. When I'll tell you why
it took me too. Because there's this great app called
the Shown and Jump app. You get access to every
chapter almost every major mainstreama out there, and so that's
that allowed me to catch up super pass. But it's
really just like a way for me to relax and
kind of chill out. And also I've discovered manga versus
(27:55):
American comics. There's a big difference because manga is so
street line, like it's it's one writer the entire time
for its one universe. You're right, and it's insane. How
like even with the writers themselves, like they are put
into this high standard by their fans because obviously they're
providing a story, and the story just extends. Like with
American comics sometimes the artist changes. Artists changes, yeah, change
(28:19):
writers always, but like, yeah, that's why they're so angry
about comic books. Like you can't talk to somebody about
comic books without like anger happening. But manga is pretty
well respected.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
It keeps us voice, Yeah, it does.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
And even like the fan bases, like the One Piece
fan base for example, I follow it on Reddit and
I just kind of like, look at the the theories,
but everyone's having a good time, Like no one's yelling
at each other. No one's mad about whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh that kind of reminds me of like this guy.
I don't know if you guys heard of the comic Storian.
Oh yeah, yeah, like he was doing the segment where
instead of comic story and he went by historian and
then he was doing one piece read of readings. Oh yeah,
sadly he passed away and he caught up to I
think he was starting wan oh and I was like, no,
he never caught up, but yeah, Alix story was cool.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
I used to watch him a lot. That's how that's
how I consumed my comics and and oh really yeah,
pop culture media was.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
That by any was he by any chance? And inspiration
as well? To like your interest in audio, because like
his content was really audio driven, like he always did
like voices.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Yeah, well I guess, I guess you could say in
a way, because yeah, I would. I was intrigued by
his voiceover and I got onto him when he was
like early. Yeah, so definitely like coming back like a
couple of years later, I realized like, oh, you've gotten
better at voice acting. I think he had some other
voices in there at some time.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
He hired people and stuff, and yeah, his business. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Yeah, so it was really impressive.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
That actually makes me think of what real quick question.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
You are an audio unier, You're always behind the behind
the mike.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
Have you thought about doing some voiceover war or doing
some you know, odd work or anything like that, you know,
as a as an actor?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yeah, I have, and actually right, but as of recently,
I just got a demo done with Ray. Yeah, we
did some we did some voice coaching sessions and we
did a demo. And so now I have because that's
kind of like the final piece of the puzzle for
for my time in Houston, and that was that was
(30:24):
kind of like the last thing I needed to learn,
I felt. So I had a conversation with Ray about it,
and we we did some voice over sessions. I have
a long way to go. Yeah, we just did a
commercial demo.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Voice acting would be cool someday, but I need a
lot of training and a lot of operation.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You know, you know Raquel, Like you can go back
and listen to her episodes. We were here in the
booth with her for a really good time, and I
could even say, you know, at least with what we
talked about so far, you know, being a first generation graduate.
How has that experience influenced your approach so far and
your personal growth? I mean, do you feel like, like
(31:05):
you mentioned, when you were initially starting off as a
veterinarian and you had to like present the situation to
your parents on like what had to happen, like it
has to change?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Since then, do you feel like everything's going well?
Speaker 4 (31:18):
No, I feel like things are going well.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I put an incredible amount of pressure on myself every
day because it's just this was such a gamble for
me to get into in a way, because I'm always
a shy kid. I'm still shy. It's very hard to
break out of my shell. So like an industry like
this where you have to like talk to clients or
you have to kind of get out a little bit.
(31:43):
You know, there was a lot of I don't want
to say like naysayers, but there was a lot of like, well,
if it doesn't work out, you can always still do
something else, you know what I mean. It's kind of
helped me grow because there's just been this constant like, oh,
I can't fail, Like I can't, I can't not do this,
Like this has to happen. I have to do I
(32:03):
have to succeed in this. I you know, I I
didn't come to Houston for fun. I came to Houston
for a career. Yeah, and I achieved that. I put
my head down and I studied and I worked hard,
and I managed to make like a good amount of
friends along the way, for friends who have who have
friends who have helped me in more ways than they
(32:27):
can probably think of, because I mean I've, like I said,
we've made a lot of projects together. I think I've
had I think I've got most of everybody in my
life on recording. So if they were double cross me,
AI is, yeah, exactly. But yeah, as a as a
first generation graduate, it is very stressful because it's just like,
oh man, I gotta I gotta make this go. And
(32:48):
also I'm carrying my family name like it's it's me.
We're the last of the Mohicans, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I'm actually really I'm actually pretty surprised about that. In
my case, Like I always saw Dan Towne like the
word tone kind of tied in with your profession.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Think that I've been told that before.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Yeah, yeah, no, that's his stage name.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Yeah, now it just kind of coinsides. But but yeah,
I'm I'm kind of the last one. And legacy, Yeah,
I gotta leave a legacy. So my name is important,
and at some point I would love to like have
a brand have my name that's on it, and I've
got some ideas. I've got some some workings on that.
(33:32):
There's actually there's it's kind of a side side thing.
But back in Columbus there's this old theater that's been
abandoned since I was a kid, like thirty years and
it irks me every time I see it because I'm
just like, I just I want to do something with that.
I want to do because Columbus is a is a
town that like nothing new comes in except another eating place.
(33:53):
Like they got to Popeyes a few months ago, and
they were very excited about it too.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
If they were if they were excited for a fast
food restaurant, I can only imagine what they would be
excited for.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
What do you have in store?
Speaker 5 (34:02):
I mean yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Mean maybe, But I like, I just want to do
something with that building before someone comes and makes it
a KFC or something.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
They just make it into like some type of residential
area or something.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Yeah, because it's along like one of the main streets.
But it's just like I could I could turn that
into like a venue. I could turn that into like
a studio. I could turn that into an agency. Yeah,
I mean it might not ever happen, but I'm just
like if I if I can get the money somehow.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
That's why you always have like loans and stuff too.
I mean, especially with pitching it. I even think as well,
like when it comes to just those type of creative endeavors,
it's always a it's an interesting challenge. It's a gamble.
You gamble to be where you are. Now you're gambling
to where you want to be, and I think it's
just a matter of like you've gained that experience so far.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Sorry, No, I'm just did I even answer the question.
I just know.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
I definitely think you did, and you know, I it's
very nic to hear that from you. I am a
first generation immigrant, so failing is really not an option.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
Yeah. Actually, so when we when we had you on,
I was like, oh, I actually relate to Guido quite
a bit on some of these things, because I think
you said you were twenty four when you started college. Yeah,
I was twenty four when I started a CC.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
Yeah, so when you went back, yeah, which is yeah,
you know, fred is not always it's not an option.
You just got to push yourself and you can get
to where you are.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
You have done.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
You know, you're just a small tom boy born and
raised in South Columbus.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
You took that midnight try to Houston. You have but
you did.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Yeah, earlier I said that was hombofla I mean, guy fiery.
But anyways, one of the things that I want to
talk about is, uh, we're talking about all this stuff
that you yourself tell yourself, right, and and that's impressive.
And now we live in this era like everyone wants
to have a podcast.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Pods are booming.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
Uh you know what, I'm sure there's people out there
who are very very very good things to say.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Do you have any sort of like maybe some starting.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Tools that you could recommend and you know, to kind
of go to that, Like why would you recommend for
someone who's like, man, I'm you know, I want to
start this, I want to talk about this or that
or whatever, but yeah, you don't know how to like produce,
you don't know how to record.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Kind of the good thing is like we we live
in an age where everybody wants to do a podcast, and they.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Want to be famous, they want to be an influencer,
they want to do anything.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Here's the thing you don't. Don't don't chase fame, chase success. Yeah,
you know, do you want success or do you want fame?
Fame is great, but you want to succeed, right, Yeah,
So if anybody started wanting to get into like I
get like recording our podcasting, it's just like just like
you can download apps on your phone. Now, just get
your phone record a bunch of stuff. You know. Luckily
(36:51):
we have we have these tools. We have that Adobe
website I was just telling about you free. Yeah, it's free,
so you can use you can utilize that to like
kind of get a start, just start experimenting with things
and like find a good group of friends that will
support you and are very into what you're doing. Because
you know, I mentioned I worked at the movie theater,
the Real Cinemas. That was my first job in Houston,
(37:15):
and that was I think that was my only job
in Houston outside of like anything with audio or anything
with iHeart or Mosure or radio lounge. That was my
first and only job. And if I didn't step foot
into that theater, my life would have a whole different
trajectory because I don't I don't meet Kevin, I don't
meet Isaac. I don't mean meet Chris.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
It was a couple of other friends, Richard and James.
They they helped me out a lot. Actually, one of
the managers, Lillian, her brother was the voice on pause
for here.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
Yes, that's right. I remember. He did a great job too.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
And he was a vet so it worked out very well.
And so if I don't work at that theater, none
of this happens. You know, I have a lot of
love and respect for them. And it's funny because my
wife and I joke that both of us moved to
Houston about six months with in each other. Oh yeah,
and her and her best friend would go hang out
at the ikea next to the theater and then they
(38:05):
would come see movies. So we were like, oh, we
probably met each other. Didn't even realize it.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
That's interesting, Yeah, actually, just out of curiosity. What what
do you feel like is your wife's.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Opinion over your involvement and you know, your commitment to
either being involved with that too or your pursuit to
your profession.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
I mean, yeah, exactly, Oh.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
She she fully supports me, and that was that was
a big deal because when we started dating, I was like, oh, man,
you know, she was a manager at like Marriott, and
I was like a team lead at the theater and
I'm I'm stuck, you know, yeah, and I'm studying this
audio stuff and all that and and whatnot. She she
told me because we met on Okay Cupid, I think
it was some dating millennials and and she was like,
(38:50):
you know, one of the things that stood out to
me was that you were doing stuff. She's like, there's
a lot of guys on there who are like, I'm
an entrepreneur. And she was like, well, yeah, but you
got stuff going on like you were you were doing this,
and you were doing that. And and also too, like
I was dating her while I was finishing my internships
and working at the theater and we're studying at ACC.
(39:11):
So she's like, you found time to fit me in.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
And I was impressive with her, and I mean, I
mean she was worth it obviously because we're married now. Yeah,
and I technically have the pandemic to think for that,
I think because we had been dating for like four
months when COVID hit Oh really, Yeah, and so I
just kind of like halfway moved in with her in
Kingwood and then I would drive back and I would
(39:34):
hang out with my roommates on like the weekends or whatever.
But that experience, like it allowed us to grow closer.
You know, obviously we were both surviving in apocalypse together and.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Yeah, there's that's the way to put it.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Yeah, And you know, I think she got furlowed from
her job. I was furlowed from mine. I only had
mosure to count on on the weekends, so we got
to hang out a lot. But we also went through
a lot of things together, just like a lot of
like ups and downs. And you know, I think most
people their relationship either crumbled or grew. I don't think
it's like a no uncommon story for that.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah, yeah, I can imagine.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
And so we were able to grow together a lot,
and you know, out it's great. Yeah, we were able
to get through that. And then, you know, I think
I proposed like twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, oh yeah,
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
I remember.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I remember that one time when I accidentally called you,
I think when you were Wunner. I was like, hey,
are you freeze?
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Like, uh, no, oh yeah, I'm like, I'm getting married tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
I was like, oh, sorry, pretty, I'm more I'm more
used to talking to people like in this platform right
now we're chatting.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
But if anything, Yeah, but it is it's a beautiful story.
Speaker 6 (40:40):
First of all, congratulations and it's uh and it's I
think that's uh. I mean we're all in this in
this creative world, and we all madri it to our
craft and you know we have we find partners who
support that and who I understand that right right, Yeah,
some maybe are a little like some jobs are a
(41:01):
little more stable with anothers but and I could take
over with my job tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Yeah, the sweets, but you never know, you know, do
what you gotta do. I mean, if anything, you're you
were hired to do what you do best. And if anything,
anybody can adapt and they can change and they can
do more, they can add more. And if something comes down,
if anything that makes your job a little bit easier,
you can do it faster. If anything, well I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Too, is I have the opportunity to kind of return
that favor because like she's supported me through the years
and then she I think around twenty twenty one, she
got a new job, so she was like traveling for
work and stuff, and I was staying home and working
and whatnot. But you know, she she had gotten to
the point where at her job, she's like, I want
(41:49):
to apply for a different position. You know, it's it's
in another city. She was real nervous about doing it.
She yeah, I mean we didn't have a fight, but
we had a semi like not even disagreement, like mimn alignment.
Speaker 5 (42:02):
Yeah, yeah, this might get cut.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Because she was like, she was like, are you sure
you want to do this? And I was like, yeah,
I'll figure things out. And so to me that meant like, yeah,
I'll make it work. But to her that meant like, oh,
I'm just doing it because she wanted to do it.
Oh I was gonna say that yeah. And so eventually
we came to the same thing, same agreement. But I
was like, look like you you want to elevate your career,
(42:26):
let's just do it like my career. I can do
it from anywhere. There's several podcast studios and San anton
almostaid radio launch in San Antonio, and there's all kinds
of opportunities, and you know, like you know, when when
when you're living and working, you don't realize the amount
of like portfolio you're putting together. Over the last couple
(42:46):
of weeks, I was putting, you know, putting together like
my reels, and I was looking at all this stuff
I've done over the years, and I was like, wow,
I've actually really outside of Amigos, I've done a lot.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
It was you know, it adds a lot.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Like even with getting my portfolio together because recently I
had gotten laid off too. I had to like composite
like create a database of all my projects. I had
like over four hundred projects, and I had to filter
out like which ones were five stars and which ones
were like.
Speaker 5 (43:11):
No, do I want to show?
Speaker 4 (43:14):
My wife had to told me, like, you got to
make her resume shorter because I wanted to put like
every single thing on. It was like, I'm eight years
of just knowledge and crazy.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Yeah, you can technically do two pages now like I have.
You'd be surprised us.
Speaker 5 (43:30):
That's a different episode.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Next time when we talk about resumes.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
About resumes.
Speaker 6 (43:36):
Yeah, but you just to get back to it, uh
to the question that I had that I had earlier
about the podcast, and yet those are basing that people
have all these I was very lucky that I said
I want to do a podcast, and then Jacob was
like okay, and I was like, I don't have to
do anything.
Speaker 4 (43:51):
Look, look, don't ask you to do a podcast because
I will just be like all right, cool, let's yeah,
what do you want to do? Like what's your form? Yeah? Yeah,
my friends have fallen victim of that. They'll have an
idea like, oh, we can do this, and that's what
makes Jacob awesome.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (44:06):
I think we were at a part belly we went
on for dinner. Yeah, we talked about this and we
it was you, myself.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
And Rose and I think Brittany too think it was.
Speaker 6 (44:17):
A little bit too was also yeah, and it was
it's been fantastic and I'm happy that you joined us, right,
I'm so happy that I got to meet you. To Ray,
I mean Ray, I just meet so many great people
through him. It's just like he's he's got a raider
for good people.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
And that's how its.
Speaker 6 (44:33):
Yeah, And you know, like I said, I got lucky.
Speaker 5 (44:36):
I got to do my podcast I wanted to do. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
I remember, like that was something you were really looking
forward to. This was your group baby and and anything.
Speaker 6 (44:45):
Yeah, and I unfortunately had to go because life.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
Change, priorities of anything, like you aged, you aged out
of the group.
Speaker 5 (44:53):
And yeah, and that really was a big part of it.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:56):
I think in anything like we're able to sustain ourselves
and do what we can.
Speaker 5 (45:00):
I'm happy for that.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
And I'll tell you too. I think this podcast has
been like one of the more important podcasts that I've done,
because unlike some silly thing I'm making with my friends,
it's like, oh, this is for an organization. This is
for you know, Advertising Federation, the American Advertising Federation. This
is a big deal. This needs to this needs to
be good. We need to like, it needs to be consistent.
So I think every episode I produced, I'm like, I
(45:24):
can do better, I can do better.
Speaker 6 (45:26):
It's like I have seen the growth of the podcast
from when we started with Tina and as we moved
in and I's nothing back impressed, nothing but good things
to say. It's right, you got you know, I got
better an interview in You Got Better also, you were
my my, my, the producer of the whole time.
Speaker 5 (45:45):
It's a great growth opportunity for all of us.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Absolutely, and hopefully if anything like Jacob will still like
he said, you know, if anything like he's still remote,
he can help us out in a heartbeat, just like that.
And and the same could be said when we find
that next audio chair that fills in his shoes for
like these type of life sessions check HCC.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
Yeah there, Yeah, just go find some hungry kid from
a small town and you'd be like, if they have
a lot of pressure on you to.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Well, if anything, if there is something.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
Not Ohio, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Sorry, but back to the topic at hand, though, if
there was something that something you would like to say,
at least to the person that's going to be coming
into your shoes Jacob, Like, what would it be like
getting started?
Speaker 3 (46:29):
How would you kind of guide them through this process
of anything?
Speaker 4 (46:34):
Love what you do. Take it seriously. It's a free gig.
It's a volunteer thing that we do. But there there's
kind of more writing on this in a way. You know,
you were you were putting your work out there into
the world where people in major advertising agencies in theory
should be listening, and some of them are, Yeah, you
know you have ears on you. This isn't just like
(46:55):
a small project that you can kind of hide away yeah,
this is a big deal. So what are the radios
sometimes and we are on the radio sometimes we do
get airplay. Our voices have been on the radio exactly.
So you know, just be serious and be focused and
just try to put out the best work you can.
And I mean if it's not the best work. Look,
I was listening to a podcast on the way over
(47:16):
here and I and iHeart Indoors podcast and they sounded
like they were in a like very empty room. So
even if it doesn't sound great, you can still do good.
Speaker 5 (47:28):
Yeah. Yeah, And one thing, have fun.
Speaker 6 (47:30):
Yeah, this would be one of the most fun I've
had a long time, Like I used to love looking
forward to.
Speaker 1 (47:36):
If anything, we keep trying to make it more consistent,
more structured. We have a d we have a database
now where we can feel we can work around people's schedules,
we can actually track them people we have on our queue.
Speaker 6 (47:47):
And it's all yeah, and it's it's all scripted. Yeah,
you can do your own I do my part and
we'll mix it later exactly.
Speaker 4 (47:55):
Yeah, this has been scripted the entire time.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
It's not an artificial and just said speaking from the
other room.
Speaker 4 (48:02):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
So now that's like the theme of the Advertising Awards
like the Real AI and I that.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
I do have one thing to plug and I have
to plug it otherwise he'll kill me. So I have
my own podcast with a good friend of mine from
the theater. Again, it's all ties back to the theaters
called On the Go with Jacob and James.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
I think I've heard of it, like you sharing it
on social media.
Speaker 4 (48:33):
We've we've been doing it for about a year and
as of recently we just passed like our one hundredth episode.
So and yeah, it's just if you want to hear
us talk about a variety of topics ranging from pop
culture to current events and whatnot. You know, you can
go check out On the Go with Jacob with James. Yeah,
it's just me and him. We talk in a room.
I produce like parody bits for it. I produce like bumpers,
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and I do a lot of production. It's it's given
me an opportunity. You need to like produce a bunch
of like radio type elements, yeah, that you don't get
in podcasts because most standard podcasts are just what this
is where it's going to be a continuous uh stream,
a stream of audio. Yeah, but I always like to
put breaks and stuff.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
Yeah I imagine that.
Speaker 5 (49:15):
Yeah, sorry, I just wanted to show what what can
we find?
Speaker 4 (49:18):
This is on niha on Yeah, it's on Spotify. iHeart
and YouTube are the big ones because we have a
YouTube channel, so everything gets like auto post it and
we're probably on some older, smaller things, but the most
recognizable Spotify are Heart YouTube.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Aside from the shout out and thank you for doing that,
We're more than happy to support your endeavors, your creative endeavors,
and we're so thankful for all the time that you've
put into this segment as well for at Egos. I
think the platform in and of itself has been growing
and I feel like it kind of gives a platform
for aspiring young professionals to speak their minds, to share
their input Do you even have professionals who are actively
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just doing their thing here Houston. It's the only I
think it's the only platform where we can actually say
that we are actually going around the city asking people
who to share their inputs on this specific space, and
I think this is really what makes us different and
even bringing in national guests, it really sets the bar.
Speaker 3 (50:17):
So, if anything, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
This is just my passing regards as a former ACTU president.
So with that being subject of thank you so much
for your time, and you know, we're hoping, we're looking
forward to the next episodes coming up.
Speaker 4 (50:31):
Sir, I'm always so much exactly well, thank you guys
for having me on.
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