September 2, 2021 • 28 mins
This week I sit down with Joenrhuz "JR" Tabanda, host and audio producer of the Time Capsule Show, a podcast sharing the everyday stories of everyday people.
Each episode asks six thoughtful questions that guests can use to define their life in the 21st century at this moment.
We wanted to give people hope, especially young people that may feel alone.
JR talks about what their goals were with the show, and how that's taken shape, and how the pandemic gave them the opportunity to put these goals to fruition.
We Are All Connected
JR and his podcast team and co-hosts share the belief that everyone has a story, and that's why they appear on the Time Capsule Show.
We just try and put up stories that are timely, powerful, and help us understand the culture of the time we're going through.
One thing they're particularly determined to do with the show is to give the guests a platform, and share their point of view, whether it fits with the hosts or not .
On Taking a Different Path
With a Filipino background, it was expected that both JR and his brother would take a career in the medical profession, or a similarly professional one. But that was a very different path from the one he envisioned.
While he may yet take that career path, for now he's more than satisfied and challenged by the route he's currently on.
Everybody has an opinion, but it's up to you what value you place in that opinion.
Heroes Don't Always Wear Capes
While he'd never describe himself as a tennis player, or even someone that has just a passing interest in the sport from a playing point of view, his all-time hero hails from it.
Rafael Nadal epitomizes everything we should aspire to be, in our personal and professional lives.
People's expectations of you don't mean anything, and if you set your mind to anything you can achieve it.
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And, you know, in termsof cancelling I think that
rather firm seeing it fromthe point of cancel culture,
I think people should beopen to discussion. You should
be okay to disagree withsomeone and not everyone in
your life is always goingto grieve with what you
have to say. And that'san amazing part of this
time capsule. You know, Igot to be honest with
you as a host, Idon't necessarily agree with everything
that my, the, our guestsstay, but, you know, were
there for a discussion whereyou were to be open
(00:21):
to each other. And Ithink there's power in that
when you can just listento some time,
Hi, and welcome to PodcasterStories. The show that gets
to meet the people behindthe voices of the show
is we have listened tothis week. I've got
gr Tabanda, who is aco-host or the time capsule
show, a show that sharedinspiring in stories through six.
What for questions gr orJon ruse, whichever you prefer
(00:42):
welcome to the shore. Thankyou for a period. And
so a quick question ornot you're in a New
York, so let's end thisargument once and for all
New York pizza, Chicago pizza.
Oh no. Well, first ofall, thank you so much
for having me on yourshow, Danny. I really appreciate
it. And in terms ofpizza, you know, I'm not
a big fan of thecrust. I'm just going to
stick with New York. I'ma new Yorker at heart,
so can't go wrong withthat.
(01:03):
Oh, the thing, because whenI came to New York
because of maybe four yearsago or so, and my
friends all told me, youhave to try a New
York pizza back because thenew I'm not like a
fake cross guy. I'll likethat big a, I don't
know, what have you had?One where its like a
big Maui cheese crust andit just, it just piles
up whenever you bite intoit. But I have to
say, or the New Yorkpizza or it was amazing.
(01:24):
So that's but New Yorkfreedom. Happy to hear that
this was a Mason jar,your, the cohost of the
time capsule show. So howabout you tell us, tell
us about yourself and yourpodcast.
Of course, for so alittle bit about me. I'm
a media professional here inNew York city and I'm
also an actor and asinger. Creativity is, has always
been a huge part ofme. And I'm so happy
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that I was able topractice that creativity in this
podcast that I started withmy brother and two friends
that have known for quitea while now. So at
a time capsule show podcastsis a podcast where we
try to define life ina 21st century through everyday
people with everyday stories. Andw one of our goals
with the podcasts is toshow to everyone in that,
no matter where you arein life, no matter what
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position you have, no matterwhat emotions that you're going
through, we all share similarsuccesses and similar struggles. And
it's really amazing. We've interviewedcollege students.
We've interviewed someone who wasa PhD and his, a
professor we've interviewed someone whowas a former secret service
agent for the white house.So we're just trying to
show the people that itdoesn't matter where you are
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in life. We are allconnected in some way shape
or what.
And you mentioned that there'sthree cohosts with yourself. You
can have to find fecala horse, one of which
was your brother. So, buthow did you can actually
come up with the ideaof the show?
Yeah, surprisingly, I wasn't partof the original idea of
Time Capsule. It was betweenmy brother and our other
co-host Monica. And you know,we're all in our twenties.
(02:50):
We are living in these,this time of pandemic where
opportunities are a very scarceand sometimes you have to
make your own opportunities. AndI think that's what they
did there. That's what weall did eventually. You know,
being in your twenties, it'seasy to feel lost. It's
easy to feel alone. Andsometimes people don't want to
talk about their struggles, eventhough we're all feeling the
same things. So we, theythought that it would be
best to make this podcast,especially during the hard times
(03:13):
and to make an old,to make our own opportunity.
And why not add somevalue to this planet, add
some value to this earthand try to impact, and
hopefully inspire other people outthere, especially young people who
may feel lost and whomay feel that they're not
connected with society.
And, and you mentioned obviouslythe shore cram came around
(03:33):
that the mid, mid pandemic,a guest at the beginning
of this year, a soare you doing a remote
recording? Are you managing toget any in-person a cordon
or how is that
Working? Yeah, we're actually doingeverything through zoom. We're doing
a lot of a zoomrecordings and posting audio and
video, primarily videos to YouTube.I would love to try
in-person interviews, but unfortunately we,we're not at the point
(03:55):
of where we have astudio where we can invite
people. We've thought about interviewingpeople on the streets, but
you know, there's some ofthe pandemic we're trying to
be very cautious with thatand respect people's space.
Yeah, no, hopefully with avaccine is in not coming
through a note. We werewhen we can get to
that position late or, youknow what we'll get back
to be in an inperson again, know, as I
mentioned a premiere at thebeginning of the year. So
what were your goals forit when you first, you
(04:17):
know, brought the short forlife, so to speak and
how will things evolved maybesince that first episode?
Yeah. So just from avery basic point of view
or goals for that, atleast to be consistent, right.
But at least one videoa week, what inspiring interview
rather? And we just startedoff with that. We started
off with personal contacts, ourown network, and surprisingly with
like by a third week,someone reached out to us
(04:38):
and said, Hey, I likeyour podcast. I want to
be on your show init for us. That was
such a surprise. And wewere so grateful that someone
reached out to us. Andshortly after that, we started
putting to interviews up aweek because we just had
so much on our backlogand we didn't want people
waiting for months. So ourinitial goal was to just
share stories and as whatwe're doing to this day
and were, I see usgo in the future, I
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just want to make surethat we're always staying true
to our core and justsharing people's stories and inspiring
other people.
And as you mentioned, therewas the, the fall of
you, which I can findreal interest in the podcast
because generally you might havelike, see a coup a
host of, of cohorts, possiblythree as the one time,
a bit having for aas, as, as quite an
(05:20):
idea of, so is therea, a method that you
have to decide who doesco-host and Judy's for an
episode, or is it basedon a topic or is
it like Rotarian? How wouldyou work for that?
Yeah, and it does getchallenging at times, you know,
there was four of uswhere for a very strong
personalities for, for people withdifferent thoughts, but the way
we do it is thatwe try to delegate the
work accordingly. Monica is incharge of our social media.
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I do some of thebooking, my brother also to
some of the book, andwe all share with some
of the work Vanessa andmy brother. They do primarily
with a lot of thevideo editing that we're so
thankful for and also editingthe thumbnails. So we all
found a way to delegatethe process accordingly when it
comes to hosting, we actuallybook people. We find interesting
for people to put iton the podcast and we
kind of just put itin a group chat and
(06:03):
say, Hey, who wants todo this podcast? And we
were very open. We tryto communicate with each other.
Of course, it's not alwaysgoing to be a smooth
sailing road.
Right. But we try tomake the best of what
we have in always beunderstanding of why, what everyone's
going through
And in a group chat,their obviously. So what you
do, what would be yourstory in a normal process
for an episode when itcomes to ideation getting a
(06:26):
gas research, et cetera, howwould you, how would that
work?
Yeah. So when it comesto finding a guests, versus
if we're a very opento inviting anyone, because we
believe that everyone has astory and that's why we
wanna put them in atime capsule. Everyone has a
valid story. And when it,this, when we decide who
we want to put up,we don't necessarily try to
pick who has a betterstory, or who do we
think will get his viewis like, that's definitely not
(06:47):
in early. We just tryto do We just try
and put up stories thatwe think that are timely.
Like for example, for aMarch was women's history month.
And we put every week,very strong, powerful stories coming
from female leaders and femalecolleagues. And I think that
we just try to understandthe culture that we're going
through so that people canrelate to the content.
(07:10):
And at the same time,we're also continually interviewing people
and just hearing more stories.And unfortunately we do have
a backlog of people mighthave to wait a month
or a few weeks fortheir episode to come out,
but it's all about theright timing
And you buy it. Doyou know, obviously the, the,
the, the, the woman's atopic from earlier a and
you also have the, theblack, a black lives matter
(07:32):
in the black history monthtopics on your show as
well. So is it importantfor you too, to prove
from it being in yourtwenties to prove from the,
the, the cultural and societalissues that are happening at
the moment and they've beenhappening for awhile?
Definitely. That's one thing thatwe want to do with
this podcast is to impactpeople and to, or be
a reflection of culture insociety. I mean, this is
(07:52):
why we're in a timecapsule, right? Literally everything that
people say, everything that peopleput into our time capsule
is what it reflects thecentury. And I think it
would be absolutely horrific ifwe just ignored all the
social and cultural changes thatwe're seeing in society. So
I think it's really importantthat our podcast or flex
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that, and we reflect relevantand genuine stories that many
people can understand and relateto
It. And, and based ona, obviously we're seen a
lot of pushback on cancelculture where I, I, I
feel like, Mmm, I don'tknow, what are your problems
the same? What I feellike people were finding a
reason to push back ondoing the right thing and
blame it on, or cancelculture have how's your show,
(08:34):
or have you had anypushback like that, or negative
feedback are, or any kindof a, you know, negativity
because of some of thetopics that you knew guests
are talk to you. And
So when it comes tothe topics that we give
our guests, even on ourbooking form, it, we actually
state to our guests thatwhat we give you a
platform, right? We gave ourguests the MC to speak.
We don't necessarily agree ordisagree, but were there to
discuss we're there to astory time and to just
(08:57):
talk and to hopefully influencesomeone's life. And we haven't
come across any negative impactor a negative comments yet.
I'm sure that's something thatevery podcast, his bounce through
and into, but, you know,in terms of cancelling, I
think that rather for himseeing it from a point
of cancel culture, I thinkpeople should be open to
discussion. You should be okayto disagree with someone and
(09:19):
not everyone in your lifeis always going to grieve
with what you have tosay.
And that's an amazing partof this time capsule. You
know, I got to behonest with you as a
host, I don't necessarily agreewith everything that my, the,
our guests stay, but, youknow, were there for a
discussion where you were tobe open to each other.
And I think there's powerin that when you can
just listen to someone else.
And it, it's definitely somethingthat I've seen, especially on
social media may have beenin the last two years,
(09:41):
maybe the last for it,to be honest I'm. And
I think there is areason for that, that as
well, but there's very mucha divisive attitude. It's either
your webinar sort of guests,that's a myth, seem to
you as a lost inthis middle ground where we
can have, or try andhave a respectful discourse in
and see, and land fromsomeone else in a point
of view. I think it'skey, like, to your point,
that it's, it's awesome thatyou have people on that
(10:01):
you may not necessarily agreewith it, but you give
them the space in thevoice to share that and,
and let people make theirown minds up, I guess,
100%. And that's just life.I think that if you
expect everyone to think likeyou there's no, but I
mean, there's no diversity inthat. Honestly, if you expect
everyone to think, like, youhave to look like for
you, and if no oneagrees with you, then you
kind of shunned them out.I don't think that's any,
(10:22):
right. I think that peoplehave to learn how to
agree to disagree, and don'tlet the conversations completely impact
your relationships with other people.And one
Of the things I likeabout your shop, it's a
very clear for March, youhave six questions that you
have them on your website,and these are the six
topics that we're all the,the sixth of questions we're
going in. We speak aboutAndy, the same six questions
(10:42):
or asked to each guests.So it's, it's always interesting
to see different viewpoints anddifferent answers from people in
different places in their life.So of these questions, or
maybe your guests, or what'sbeen your favorite so far,
and why that question stillcancer.
Oh, that's such a goodquestion. You know, I'm not
used to actually getting thequestions because on our podcast,
where are the ones askingpeople the questions. But if
(11:03):
you're going to make mepick just one question from
those six, you know, it,it's a hard one. And
I'll tell you to twotop questions that come to
mind. One of them iswhat are you grateful for?
And another question is, ifyou were to leave something
at a time capsule forpeople to dig up 100
years later, what would youput in their, and why
people always struggle with thattime capsule question, because it's
so hard to pick somethingthat would define the century,
(11:26):
but now that I'm verbalizingit to you and saying
it out loud, I thinkof my favorite question is
where are you grateful for?And it's because it's so
amazing to see how positiveof that question is, and
its crazy to see howit always, the little things
in life that give moremeaning to people and what
people are grateful for.
The best answer that reallytouched me was from my
professor in college, Dr. AnthonyPalomba. And he said during
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the interview, he's grateful forpeople who gave him a
chance. And that was suchpowerful statement. I would never
have thought of that inmy life. But when you
think about it, at somepoint someone took a risk
on us, in someone gaveus the chance and some
times we grow from thoseopportunities. So just to hear
the answer was really heartwarmingand it really put life
into perspective. For me,
That's a very strong answer.Or actually, as you mentioned,
(12:11):
it's, it's all about gettinga chance to his, right?
And it's up to you,what you do with them.
Obviously the beginning of achance on a first place
is definitely, are you gonna,it's a nice to have
for one or the battleward. And you'd mentioned also,
like I said, there aresix questions on your, a,
your short for each gasand one of the questions,
it was about what peoplesee themselves and X amount
of years, you know, wewere speaking of earlier. Ah,
(12:31):
and I know you're onbackground and how did your
parents, or maybe see youon a very different feature
for you than the onethey're or the past that
you're currently at the moment.I'm wondering how much have
that may be lead tothe, the, the questions on
the shore, a subconsciously andor what was that like,
trying to take your ownpath when maybe, you know,
(12:53):
your parents wanted a verydifferent path for
You? Yeah. I'm so happyyou brought that up. Well,
if it gets a littlebackground about me, our parents
always pushed me and mybrother to become doctors and
to enter the medical route.And for the longest time
I was kind of conditionedto tell people I want
to be a plastic surgeon.I don't want to be
a dermatologist. I didn't reallyknow what that meant to
be honest. But when you'reyoung, you're a kid, you
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kind of just say whatyour parents want you to
say. And I kind ofwoke up to it in
called and say, Hey, Idon't know if I want
to spend the rest ofmy life doing this. It
sounds nice to say itas a kid. So people
think it's impressive, but whenyou actually grow up, it's
like, what the heck? Idon't really know if I
want to do that. Andto ask that on the
podcast, I think it's reallygreat for people to reflect
on who they were fiveyears ago, who they are
(13:34):
now and what they'll seefor yourselves in the future.
I think that we don'tsee enough of that reflection
time. We don't see enoughof that. Hey, I'm hot.
Like how much I've grown,look, how much I've changed.
And that really helps usgrow more as a person
when you can acknowledge thatgrowth and change. And to
ask our guests that areguests. Actually, I have some
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difficulty answering the question sometimesbecause they really have to
think, and they really haveto reflect on their life,
their choices during mistakes, possibly.And after the data side,
what their life has lookedlike, sometimes our guests coming
on our show and say,Hey, I've never said that
out loud before. I've neverreally thought about that. And
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that's what we want toget from our guests.
And obviously,
As you mentioned, being ona different path in and
not knowing what are youquite want to do because
they know you mentioned thata bit before we came
on with the show, butwe'll come back and forth
on email. And I knowyou mentioned even now, you're
still not really sure youhave, or you're not quite
a phone to the thingyou're you wanting to do.
Although obviously you enjoy it.A lot of things that
(14:36):
you do it at themoment. So I'm, I'm curious
or what's your parents thinkof you, what you are
doing now then, because obviouslyyou're not on a plastic
surgery and you may notbe a doctor or what,
what's a feedback from themon all of the cool
stuff that you'd been doing
So far, or I'm goingto be so honest with
you doesn't really matter muchto them. I mean, sure.
I'm thankful to have anopportunity, a job during this
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pandemic. And at the endof the day, it matters
a lot to me, butfor them, its kind of
like, oh your still they'restill getting used to it.
I think getting used tothe fact that we're exploring
different fields and avenues becauseI come from a Filipino
background and in that culture,it's huge to go to
medical school. It's huge togo to law, school of
engineering. Those are the topthree. I'm sure other people
have Asian descent. You canshare that sentiment. And he,
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and I think I'm proudof myself to be honest
for trying a new fieldI'm entering media and mentoring
entertainment, sports news, and it'sa whole different play field.
I'm not even thinking aboutthe money. I'm not even
thinking about regrets at thispoint. I think I'm just
happy to be exploring watersthat I've never swam in
before. And to hopefully hopefullylearn from this experience, Hey,
(15:44):
maybe I might become adoctor at some point, but
it'll be my decision andit won't be anyone else
with decision. If I dowant to become a doctor
again in one day
And you, you mentioned obviouslyin some cultures, it can
be difficult for T todeviate, I guess, from the
path that that S traditionallyseen for you or, you
know, whether that's medical ora professional, you know, a
(16:05):
degree or some degree aprofessor, or that's a terrible
sort of professional GRI ofsome degree, but it, it,
it can be difficult forDV. So I was wondering,
was there any difficulty sortof, was it any like
major argument's you have toovercome when you let your
parents know that this wasn'twhat was going to happen
for me? Unfortunately, not inthe model, like you said,
maybe a doctor leader, butright now, what do you
(16:25):
have or had you haveto overcome or anything like
that?
Yeah. And I had toovercome problems and struggles with
myself because yeah, they havetheir own opinions. Everyone has
their own opinions. Everyone hastheir own expectations for other
people, but at the endof the day, it's up
to you, whether you wantto decide to let that
get to you and tofind value and appreciation within
yourself. And I think that'sa struggle that I'm still
(16:48):
trying to understand up tothis day as this trying
to be content with myselfand trying to appreciate myself.
I think that I puttoo much of my value
into other people's opinions andother people's thoughts. And it's
been a real growth forme to start appreciating and
to start being okay withmyself. And Hey, I don't
need someone else's approval forme to validate myself.
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And you mentioned L itobviously you've had a, a
few different experiences so farsince making that the jump
away a on your ownpath, or if your brother,
you, you mentioned that you'vebeen doing like you or
you've done a real estateTV production in, and currently
your work in at Foxa. So how's the experience
of being a, with allof these different things you've
been doing?
Yeah, it's been one hellof a roller coaster. I
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came in to school witha mathematics degree with a
pre-med intention. And when Iwas in college, you know,
I always wanted to beon TV. I knew that
was something that I alwayswanted to, to be on
front of the cameras. Irather, because I as love
the energy of being infront of a camera. So
I'm like, Hey, let metry real estate because there's
a show called million listingin the company. Nest seekers
is actually on that show.So I got an internship
at nest seekers and whatI was so terrified going
(17:56):
in for this interview. AndI was so terrified seeing
all these professional people ina really nice office in
the city of Madison Ave,but I just went blindly
into it. Most things Idid, I just went blind.
Linda said, what the heckwant to just do it?
And I got that internship.Thank God. And it grew
to a really great experience.
You got my license topractice real estate, and I
was actually able to learnmore about the city. I
didn't really know where anythingwas in the city. And
(18:17):
because of that, I learnedmost of New York is.
And shortly after that, Istarted to do background acting
in the city and thework in some production sites
I've worked for now onNetflix sets HBO, F X,
the most thrilling experience thatI've had was dancing in
time square dress as Peterpan for a Korean national
television. They had me danceto a K-pop dance. I
(18:40):
don't know much about K-pop.I had to learn to
dance of it in onehour. Dancing is not my
forte. I'm mostly when anactor and singer I'm like,
well, what the heck amI doing? Probably what are
the most scary and terrifyingexperiences of my life? But
I was so proud ofmyself.
I got through it. Andthen, you know, now I'm
working in media, in NewYork. Unfortunately we aren't able
to go back to theoffice, but I'm loving it
(19:01):
so far. Everyone's been sofriendly, been so patient with
teaching you the ins andouts immediate, especially since I
don't have that, that typicalbackground going in to this
kind of a job. Sowhen I think about I'm
going to collect it, butI have my experience all
over the place, but it'swhat you make of it.
And it's what you takefrom each experience that slowly
builds up and to hopefullysomething where you meant to
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belong in the future. So
I'm, I'm guessing at themoment as they a media
part be in your favoror the opiates of equal
Or, Hmm, good question. Iwould say it's different. It
wouldn't necessarily be greater orless than the other. I
think that working media issuch a fast pace. It's
always changing. There's so manynumbers that goes behind everything.
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I mean, when do youwatch a commercial spaces on
TV? There is so muchin negotiation and so much
of numbers that goes behindthat. I'm like, whoa, I
never knew any of this.And there's a different seasons.
There's reasons why certain showsgo on during certain times
of the year. And whenyou understand that to kind
of puts everything into perspective,it's like, oh, so that's
why for example, talent showsare put over to some
(20:05):
or like America's got talent,or that's why news shows
new episodes and new seasonsare towards the end of
the year.
Like in October, there's somany numbers, a, it goes
into these things.
You mentioned at the startof how your show is
a relatively new, it's apremier in January this year,
but what are your goalsfor the future? Are you
going to continue to dojewel format? So you can
(20:25):
to obviously when mentioned, youwant to get, you just
love to do the in-personwith a studio or what
else or you go toa plan.
What do we have inplay on our plan is
to be consistent, first ofall, and to just keep
hosting, inspiring interviews in andmeeting great and wonderful people
and building a fantastic networkof inspiring interviews, our goal
is to just keep doingwhat we're doing and whether
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we go big or nothinghappens. You know, I don't
think that's the point ofanything. And it's really a
passion project. It's really somethingthat I don't mind doing.
And it's been so greatto talk to people and
it's really pushed me outof my comfort zone. I
was always a shy kid.I didn't really know how
to talk or to speakmy mind and being in
this podcast and starting tohost and challenging myself has
(21:10):
really forced me to comeout of my shell.
And hopefully our show caninspire other people to come
out of their shells too,and just live life and
do what you love.
And that leads me nicelyto my next question, actually,
because obviously the show's aboutinspiring stories and people find
an inspiration from either whatthey're doing and, or the
people of Maine are, ortheir own background, ah, and
(21:30):
who their heroes are. Somecurious w with him on
the inspirational stories you've heardand your own experiences, doing
your own thing, et cetera,who's your all-time hero
And why. Right. So, youknow, I don't, I don't
think many people notice aboutme, but I am a
huge tennis fan. I watchedtennis everyday. I can not
play tennis. I've took ina few tennis lessons and
(21:51):
I swung out like abaseball bat and the teacher
is quite annoyed with me,but I was, I'm always
inspired by Rafael Nadal. Heis a tennis player, but
he's left to end. Itplays a tremendous spin on
his tennis balls. I don'tknow if people, most people
know what that means, butit means the ball. It
spins a lot when hehits it. And you know
what, this man doesn't giveup. It doesn't give up.
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When the game, when he'slosing the game, he doesn't
give up. He doesn't giveup when he's down, even
if he has zero, ifyou want zero games and
he needs to, when sixin a row, it a
win, like he doesn't giveup.
And I think that's suchan amazing quality that makes
a champion. And I takethat same quality and most
tennis players, like a championtennis player as they don't
give up. And that's soamazing. That's why I love
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tennis because the game's notover until you give up
because there's no time limit.And if you just keep
fighting and you keep tryingand you keep finding new
ways to strategize, I thinkthat anyone always has a
chance to make the greatestcomeback. And that's one thing
I've learned with my tennisidle, Rafael,
I'd say, it's interesting. Youmentioned tennis. One of my
heroes, a from us froma sports or an ankle,
(22:54):
his Andre Agassi. A wayto, yeah. It's like, oh
yeah, I just loved hisstory because he was this
magic, a gas with along cake. It didn't look
like on a tennis player,which has awesome to start
with. But then he hadthis big injury and it
was out for a long,long time. And it came
back. I think it wastwo Wimbledon or maybe in
the U S masters I'mand everyone had written him
off their, because of theinjury I'm and he was
(23:15):
up against I D Ican recall who was at
the time that someone ofhis own and the, the
male tennis circuit at thetime, it might've been a
land all back on theday of, I'm not sure,
but he came back and,and he one, and it
was just amazing. And hegot injured, I think, during
a game, like he's arest or something, he got
injured, but it's what yousee as to, to this
point, you kept pushing onit.
(23:36):
It wouldn't give up. SoI it's cool to hear
like a nutshell, his namementioned
Their, oh, for sure. Andthat's this most tennis players
that are you looking at?Kim Clijsters is in the
U S open. She cameback after being pregnant and
she won all of agrand slam. I mean, it
shows you that peoples' expectationsof you. You don't mean
anything. And if you setyour mind to something that
you can definitely achieve it,
(23:57):
Let's speaking of tennis, didyou hold a little, got
to follow a tangent here,but M w what's your
take on? I know there'salways been the question of,
well, you know, a manof far stronger than women
or men and women can'tcompete with men, but when
you look at it toyour point, you can close
those in. You look atthe, the Williams sisters. And
do you think there willbe a town? What it's
it, it's not like mixeddoubles, his best classes doubles,
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and anybody can compete againstanybody have the wish.
You know, I've always thoughtabout that, but I think
we need to sometimes seethe realistic aspects of tennis.
Like, I think that themens vs the women's games
are vastly different. Like menplay with so much more
spin, stronger, serves hitting over120 to one 30 miles
an hour. And women's service,for example, the average around
(24:40):
what 90, maybe the lowerhundreds and they're six and
there's the exceptions like theWilliams sisters. Right. But I
think it's such a complicatedissue too. Look at at
the moment. But I thinkthat the sport will always
be it it's T Htennis. We'll always be tennis.
And a matter of who'splaying who I think there's
always going to be agreat way to enjoy it.
(25:01):
A sport. Cool.
I'd love to say, Iknow M I know a
Williams of trying to thinkof, of Williams, a venous
woman was to call onone sec. I can recall
how that, but yeah, Ihear you on that. The
sales, the, the killer, ourguests, when it comes to
their speed of the south.And fortunately, so your podcast
to come back on, ontop of that. And I
like,
(25:21):
What 10 isn't it lateron. No worries. I
Love talking about the timethat's what's what is all
about, so your podcast, orobviously you started in January
and you've got four, haveyou on the team. And
you mentioned that you haveyour, your role that, you
know, you know, whose expertiseor who was more suited
to that roll. So no,and all that. Ah, and
whether it be in anewish podcast, what would your
(25:42):
advice be for someone lookingto start a podcast themselves,
as part as the team,like for you? What, what
top of advice would yougive them?
Right. I bought on thisquestion before and I got
to be honest. Sometimes Ithink to myself, who the
heck am I to giveadvice? I just started a
podcast. I'm a very young,I don't really know much
of the things that I'mdoing, but if there is
a statement of guidance Ican give to people is
just to, don't be perfect.Stop wearing what being perfect,
(26:06):
shut down in that perfectionistmindset and just do it.
Stop thinking, Hey, am Igoing to look stupid? If
I do this or apeople think I sound dumb.
If I say this, orwhat is the audio? Doesn't
it sound like this orother podcasts, honestly, who cares?
Nothing starts perfect. Everything startsa little bit scratching, edgy,
and you learn from everysingle mistake that happens. And
that's the best way thatyou can improve yourself.
(26:28):
No, that's a good advice.I like that. So I'm
in a future podcast ingroups, in Facebook, and that's
one of my pet peevesis when some people say,
well, you've got to getX makes, and you can
to make sure that you'vegot the studio set up,
but you got to getthis audio on your face.
You really have to getthis, their mixed or et
cetera in your, your thinking.But we'll just start to
know. I don't have oneto $5,000 to blow down
(26:49):
and all of this upand, and not even know
what I'm going to enjoyit or not. You know?
So that's, that's a goodadvice. I like that.
Definitely. And people just haveto realize that if you
really want to do apodcast or anything in general,
you will do it. Ifyou want to film with
your cellphone and film thespeaker out of it and
the mic like do it,it's not, but a sound
perfect, but it's a greatplace to start. And you
(27:10):
will learn as you goand you gotta be patient
with yourself and you justgot to be S you
got to tell you herself,Hey, I made it a
little booboo, their, but noworries. I'll make it up
next time.
And as loud as itgoes back to your point
of, you know, a guyon a chance and analog,
a
Trauma. Exactly.
So a jar I've reallyenjoyed chatting today, and I've
loved a tangent there. Ihad gone in to the
tennis world when she startedon the tennis podcast. And
(27:31):
we'll have you back onit now, for sure, to
talk longer for that, forpeople that want to catch
up on past episodes orget to know you and
the team, et cetera, where'sthe best place for them
to find
You. Awesome. So you canfind more about us@atimecapsuleshow.com. We
have new episodes every Mondayand Wednesday at 8:00 PM.
Eastern, you can find uson YouTube at a time
(27:52):
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Cool. And I'll be sureto drop all of these
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again, Joe, I really appreciateit. You went on the
shore today.
Of course. Thank you somuch for having you, Danny.
I truly had a greatexperience talking with you, and
I hope you can talkmore in the future.
You've been listening to podcastthe stories. If you enjoyed
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exclusive content direct you're inthe box until the next
time take care, stay safe.
And, you know, in termsof cancelling I think that
rather firm seeing it fromthe point of cancel culture,
I think people should beopen to discussion. You should
be okay to disagree withsomeone and not everyone in
your life is always goingto grieve with what you
have to say. And that'san amazing part of this
time capsule. You know, Igot to be honest with
you as a host, Idon't necessarily agree with everything
that my, the, our guestsstay, but, you know, were
there for a discussion whereyou were to be open
(00:21):
to each other. And Ithink there's power in that
when you can just listento some time,
Hi, and welcome to PodcasterStories. The show that gets
to meet the people behindthe voices of the show
is we have listened tothis week. I've got
gr Tabanda, who is aco-host or the time capsule
show, a show that sharedinspiring in stories through six.
What for questions gr orJon ruse, whichever you prefer
(00:42):
welcome to the shore. Thankyou for a period. And
so a quick question ornot you're in a New
York, so let's end thisargument once and for all
New York pizza, Chicago pizza.
Oh no. Well, first ofall, thank you so much
for having me on yourshow, Danny. I really appreciate
it. And in terms ofpizza, you know, I'm not
a big fan of thecrust. I'm just going to
stick with New York. I'ma new Yorker at heart,
so can't go wrong withthat.
(01:03):
Oh, the thing, because whenI came to New York
because of maybe four yearsago or so, and my
friends all told me, youhave to try a New
York pizza back because thenew I'm not like a
fake cross guy. I'll likethat big a, I don't
know, what have you had?One where its like a
big Maui cheese crust andit just, it just piles
up whenever you bite intoit. But I have to
say, or the New Yorkpizza or it was amazing.
(01:24):
So that's but New Yorkfreedom. Happy to hear that
this was a Mason jar,your, the cohost of the
time capsule show. So howabout you tell us, tell
us about yourself and yourpodcast.
Of course, for so alittle bit about me. I'm
a media professional here inNew York city and I'm
also an actor and asinger. Creativity is, has always
been a huge part ofme. And I'm so happy
(01:44):
that I was able topractice that creativity in this
podcast that I started withmy brother and two friends
that have known for quitea while now. So at
a time capsule show podcastsis a podcast where we
try to define life ina 21st century through everyday
people with everyday stories. Andw one of our goals
with the podcasts is toshow to everyone in that,
no matter where you arein life, no matter what
(02:06):
position you have, no matterwhat emotions that you're going
through, we all share similarsuccesses and similar struggles. And
it's really amazing. We've interviewedcollege students.
We've interviewed someone who wasa PhD and his, a
professor we've interviewed someone whowas a former secret service
agent for the white house.So we're just trying to
show the people that itdoesn't matter where you are
(02:27):
in life. We are allconnected in some way shape
or what.
And you mentioned that there'sthree cohosts with yourself. You
can have to find fecala horse, one of which
was your brother. So, buthow did you can actually
come up with the ideaof the show?
Yeah, surprisingly, I wasn't partof the original idea of
Time Capsule. It was betweenmy brother and our other
co-host Monica. And you know,we're all in our twenties.
(02:50):
We are living in these,this time of pandemic where
opportunities are a very scarceand sometimes you have to
make your own opportunities. AndI think that's what they
did there. That's what weall did eventually. You know,
being in your twenties, it'seasy to feel lost. It's
easy to feel alone. Andsometimes people don't want to
talk about their struggles, eventhough we're all feeling the
same things. So we, theythought that it would be
best to make this podcast,especially during the hard times
(03:13):
and to make an old,to make our own opportunity.
And why not add somevalue to this planet, add
some value to this earthand try to impact, and
hopefully inspire other people outthere, especially young people who
may feel lost and whomay feel that they're not
connected with society.
And, and you mentioned obviouslythe shore cram came around
(03:33):
that the mid, mid pandemic,a guest at the beginning
of this year, a soare you doing a remote
recording? Are you managing toget any in-person a cordon
or how is that
Working? Yeah, we're actually doingeverything through zoom. We're doing
a lot of a zoomrecordings and posting audio and
video, primarily videos to YouTube.I would love to try
in-person interviews, but unfortunately we,we're not at the point
(03:55):
of where we have astudio where we can invite
people. We've thought about interviewingpeople on the streets, but
you know, there's some ofthe pandemic we're trying to
be very cautious with thatand respect people's space.
Yeah, no, hopefully with avaccine is in not coming
through a note. We werewhen we can get to
that position late or, youknow what we'll get back
to be in an inperson again, know, as I
mentioned a premiere at thebeginning of the year. So
what were your goals forit when you first, you
(04:17):
know, brought the short forlife, so to speak and
how will things evolved maybesince that first episode?
Yeah. So just from avery basic point of view
or goals for that, atleast to be consistent, right.
But at least one videoa week, what inspiring interview
rather? And we just startedoff with that. We started
off with personal contacts, ourown network, and surprisingly with
like by a third week,someone reached out to us
(04:38):
and said, Hey, I likeyour podcast. I want to
be on your show init for us. That was
such a surprise. And wewere so grateful that someone
reached out to us. Andshortly after that, we started
putting to interviews up aweek because we just had
so much on our backlogand we didn't want people
waiting for months. So ourinitial goal was to just
share stories and as whatwe're doing to this day
and were, I see usgo in the future, I
(05:00):
just want to make surethat we're always staying true
to our core and justsharing people's stories and inspiring
other people.
And as you mentioned, therewas the, the fall of
you, which I can findreal interest in the podcast
because generally you might havelike, see a coup a
host of, of cohorts, possiblythree as the one time,
a bit having for aas, as, as quite an
(05:20):
idea of, so is therea, a method that you
have to decide who doesco-host and Judy's for an
episode, or is it basedon a topic or is
it like Rotarian? How wouldyou work for that?
Yeah, and it does getchallenging at times, you know,
there was four of uswhere for a very strong
personalities for, for people withdifferent thoughts, but the way
we do it is thatwe try to delegate the
work accordingly. Monica is incharge of our social media.
(05:42):
I do some of thebooking, my brother also to
some of the book, andwe all share with some
of the work Vanessa andmy brother. They do primarily
with a lot of thevideo editing that we're so
thankful for and also editingthe thumbnails. So we all
found a way to delegatethe process accordingly when it
comes to hosting, we actuallybook people. We find interesting
for people to put iton the podcast and we
kind of just put itin a group chat and
(06:03):
say, Hey, who wants todo this podcast? And we
were very open. We tryto communicate with each other.
Of course, it's not alwaysgoing to be a smooth
sailing road.
Right. But we try tomake the best of what
we have in always beunderstanding of why, what everyone's
going through
And in a group chat,their obviously. So what you
do, what would be yourstory in a normal process
for an episode when itcomes to ideation getting a
(06:26):
gas research, et cetera, howwould you, how would that
work?
Yeah. So when it comesto finding a guests, versus
if we're a very opento inviting anyone, because we
believe that everyone has astory and that's why we
wanna put them in atime capsule. Everyone has a
valid story. And when it,this, when we decide who
we want to put up,we don't necessarily try to
pick who has a betterstory, or who do we
think will get his viewis like, that's definitely not
(06:47):
in early. We just tryto do We just try
and put up stories thatwe think that are timely.
Like for example, for aMarch was women's history month.
And we put every week,very strong, powerful stories coming
from female leaders and femalecolleagues. And I think that
we just try to understandthe culture that we're going
through so that people canrelate to the content.
(07:10):
And at the same time,we're also continually interviewing people
and just hearing more stories.And unfortunately we do have
a backlog of people mighthave to wait a month
or a few weeks fortheir episode to come out,
but it's all about theright timing
And you buy it. Doyou know, obviously the, the,
the, the, the woman's atopic from earlier a and
you also have the, theblack, a black lives matter
(07:32):
in the black history monthtopics on your show as
well. So is it importantfor you too, to prove
from it being in yourtwenties to prove from the,
the, the cultural and societalissues that are happening at
the moment and they've beenhappening for awhile?
Definitely. That's one thing thatwe want to do with
this podcast is to impactpeople and to, or be
a reflection of culture insociety. I mean, this is
(07:52):
why we're in a timecapsule, right? Literally everything that
people say, everything that peopleput into our time capsule
is what it reflects thecentury. And I think it
would be absolutely horrific ifwe just ignored all the
social and cultural changes thatwe're seeing in society. So
I think it's really importantthat our podcast or flex
(08:12):
that, and we reflect relevantand genuine stories that many
people can understand and relateto
It. And, and based ona, obviously we're seen a
lot of pushback on cancelculture where I, I, I
feel like, Mmm, I don'tknow, what are your problems
the same? What I feellike people were finding a
reason to push back ondoing the right thing and
blame it on, or cancelculture have how's your show,
(08:34):
or have you had anypushback like that, or negative
feedback are, or any kindof a, you know, negativity
because of some of thetopics that you knew guests
are talk to you. And
So when it comes tothe topics that we give
our guests, even on ourbooking form, it, we actually
state to our guests thatwhat we give you a
platform, right? We gave ourguests the MC to speak.
We don't necessarily agree ordisagree, but were there to
discuss we're there to astory time and to just
(08:57):
talk and to hopefully influencesomeone's life. And we haven't
come across any negative impactor a negative comments yet.
I'm sure that's something thatevery podcast, his bounce through
and into, but, you know,in terms of cancelling, I
think that rather for himseeing it from a point
of cancel culture, I thinkpeople should be open to
discussion. You should be okayto disagree with someone and
(09:19):
not everyone in your lifeis always going to grieve
with what you have tosay.
And that's an amazing partof this time capsule. You
know, I got to behonest with you as a
host, I don't necessarily agreewith everything that my, the,
our guests stay, but, youknow, were there for a
discussion where you were tobe open to each other.
And I think there's powerin that when you can
just listen to someone else.
And it, it's definitely somethingthat I've seen, especially on
social media may have beenin the last two years,
(09:41):
maybe the last for it,to be honest I'm. And
I think there is areason for that, that as
well, but there's very mucha divisive attitude. It's either
your webinar sort of guests,that's a myth, seem to
you as a lost inthis middle ground where we
can have, or try andhave a respectful discourse in
and see, and land fromsomeone else in a point
of view. I think it'skey, like, to your point,
that it's, it's awesome thatyou have people on that
(10:01):
you may not necessarily agreewith it, but you give
them the space in thevoice to share that and,
and let people make theirown minds up, I guess,
100%. And that's just life.I think that if you
expect everyone to think likeyou there's no, but I
mean, there's no diversity inthat. Honestly, if you expect
everyone to think, like, youhave to look like for
you, and if no oneagrees with you, then you
kind of shunned them out.I don't think that's any,
(10:22):
right. I think that peoplehave to learn how to
agree to disagree, and don'tlet the conversations completely impact
your relationships with other people.And one
Of the things I likeabout your shop, it's a
very clear for March, youhave six questions that you
have them on your website,and these are the six
topics that we're all the,the sixth of questions we're
going in. We speak aboutAndy, the same six questions
(10:42):
or asked to each guests.So it's, it's always interesting
to see different viewpoints anddifferent answers from people in
different places in their life.So of these questions, or
maybe your guests, or what'sbeen your favorite so far,
and why that question stillcancer.
Oh, that's such a goodquestion. You know, I'm not
used to actually getting thequestions because on our podcast,
where are the ones askingpeople the questions. But if
(11:03):
you're going to make mepick just one question from
those six, you know, it,it's a hard one. And
I'll tell you to twotop questions that come to
mind. One of them iswhat are you grateful for?
And another question is, ifyou were to leave something
at a time capsule forpeople to dig up 100
years later, what would youput in their, and why
people always struggle with thattime capsule question, because it's
so hard to pick somethingthat would define the century,
(11:26):
but now that I'm verbalizingit to you and saying
it out loud, I thinkof my favorite question is
where are you grateful for?And it's because it's so
amazing to see how positiveof that question is, and
its crazy to see howit always, the little things
in life that give moremeaning to people and what
people are grateful for.
The best answer that reallytouched me was from my
professor in college, Dr. AnthonyPalomba. And he said during
(11:49):
the interview, he's grateful forpeople who gave him a
chance. And that was suchpowerful statement. I would never
have thought of that inmy life. But when you
think about it, at somepoint someone took a risk
on us, in someone gaveus the chance and some
times we grow from thoseopportunities. So just to hear
the answer was really heartwarmingand it really put life
into perspective. For me,
That's a very strong answer.Or actually, as you mentioned,
(12:11):
it's, it's all about gettinga chance to his, right?
And it's up to you,what you do with them.
Obviously the beginning of achance on a first place
is definitely, are you gonna,it's a nice to have
for one or the battleward. And you'd mentioned also,
like I said, there aresix questions on your, a,
your short for each gasand one of the questions,
it was about what peoplesee themselves and X amount
of years, you know, wewere speaking of earlier. Ah,
(12:31):
and I know you're onbackground and how did your
parents, or maybe see youon a very different feature
for you than the onethey're or the past that
you're currently at the moment.I'm wondering how much have
that may be lead tothe, the, the questions on
the shore, a subconsciously andor what was that like,
trying to take your ownpath when maybe, you know,
(12:53):
your parents wanted a verydifferent path for
You? Yeah. I'm so happyyou brought that up. Well,
if it gets a littlebackground about me, our parents
always pushed me and mybrother to become doctors and
to enter the medical route.And for the longest time
I was kind of conditionedto tell people I want
to be a plastic surgeon.I don't want to be
a dermatologist. I didn't reallyknow what that meant to
be honest. But when you'reyoung, you're a kid, you
(13:13):
kind of just say whatyour parents want you to
say. And I kind ofwoke up to it in
called and say, Hey, Idon't know if I want
to spend the rest ofmy life doing this. It
sounds nice to say itas a kid. So people
think it's impressive, but whenyou actually grow up, it's
like, what the heck? Idon't really know if I
want to do that. Andto ask that on the
podcast, I think it's reallygreat for people to reflect
on who they were fiveyears ago, who they are
(13:34):
now and what they'll seefor yourselves in the future.
I think that we don'tsee enough of that reflection
time. We don't see enoughof that. Hey, I'm hot.
Like how much I've grown,look, how much I've changed.
And that really helps usgrow more as a person
when you can acknowledge thatgrowth and change. And to
ask our guests that areguests. Actually, I have some
(13:55):
difficulty answering the question sometimesbecause they really have to
think, and they really haveto reflect on their life,
their choices during mistakes, possibly.And after the data side,
what their life has lookedlike, sometimes our guests coming
on our show and say,Hey, I've never said that
out loud before. I've neverreally thought about that. And
(14:15):
that's what we want toget from our guests.
And obviously,
As you mentioned, being ona different path in and
not knowing what are youquite want to do because
they know you mentioned thata bit before we came
on with the show, butwe'll come back and forth
on email. And I knowyou mentioned even now, you're
still not really sure youhave, or you're not quite
a phone to the thingyou're you wanting to do.
Although obviously you enjoy it.A lot of things that
(14:36):
you do it at themoment. So I'm, I'm curious
or what's your parents thinkof you, what you are
doing now then, because obviouslyyou're not on a plastic
surgery and you may notbe a doctor or what,
what's a feedback from themon all of the cool
stuff that you'd been doing
So far, or I'm goingto be so honest with
you doesn't really matter muchto them. I mean, sure.
I'm thankful to have anopportunity, a job during this
(14:56):
pandemic. And at the endof the day, it matters
a lot to me, butfor them, its kind of
like, oh your still they'restill getting used to it.
I think getting used tothe fact that we're exploring
different fields and avenues becauseI come from a Filipino
background and in that culture,it's huge to go to
medical school. It's huge togo to law, school of
engineering. Those are the topthree. I'm sure other people
have Asian descent. You canshare that sentiment. And he,
(15:20):
and I think I'm proudof myself to be honest
for trying a new fieldI'm entering media and mentoring
entertainment, sports news, and it'sa whole different play field.
I'm not even thinking aboutthe money. I'm not even
thinking about regrets at thispoint. I think I'm just
happy to be exploring watersthat I've never swam in
before. And to hopefully hopefullylearn from this experience, Hey,
(15:44):
maybe I might become adoctor at some point, but
it'll be my decision andit won't be anyone else
with decision. If I dowant to become a doctor
again in one day
And you, you mentioned obviouslyin some cultures, it can
be difficult for T todeviate, I guess, from the
path that that S traditionallyseen for you or, you
know, whether that's medical ora professional, you know, a
(16:05):
degree or some degree aprofessor, or that's a terrible
sort of professional GRI ofsome degree, but it, it,
it can be difficult forDV. So I was wondering,
was there any difficulty sortof, was it any like
major argument's you have toovercome when you let your
parents know that this wasn'twhat was going to happen
for me? Unfortunately, not inthe model, like you said,
maybe a doctor leader, butright now, what do you
(16:25):
have or had you haveto overcome or anything like
that?
Yeah. And I had toovercome problems and struggles with
myself because yeah, they havetheir own opinions. Everyone has
their own opinions. Everyone hastheir own expectations for other
people, but at the endof the day, it's up
to you, whether you wantto decide to let that
get to you and tofind value and appreciation within
yourself. And I think that'sa struggle that I'm still
(16:48):
trying to understand up tothis day as this trying
to be content with myselfand trying to appreciate myself.
I think that I puttoo much of my value
into other people's opinions andother people's thoughts. And it's
been a real growth forme to start appreciating and
to start being okay withmyself. And Hey, I don't
need someone else's approval forme to validate myself.
(17:10):
And you mentioned L itobviously you've had a, a
few different experiences so farsince making that the jump
away a on your ownpath, or if your brother,
you, you mentioned that you'vebeen doing like you or
you've done a real estateTV production in, and currently
your work in at Foxa. So how's the experience
of being a, with allof these different things you've
been doing?
Yeah, it's been one hellof a roller coaster. I
(17:33):
came in to school witha mathematics degree with a
pre-med intention. And when Iwas in college, you know,
I always wanted to beon TV. I knew that
was something that I alwayswanted to, to be on
front of the cameras. Irather, because I as love
the energy of being infront of a camera. So
I'm like, Hey, let metry real estate because there's
a show called million listingin the company. Nest seekers
is actually on that show.So I got an internship
at nest seekers and whatI was so terrified going
(17:56):
in for this interview. AndI was so terrified seeing
all these professional people ina really nice office in
the city of Madison Ave,but I just went blindly
into it. Most things Idid, I just went blind.
Linda said, what the heckwant to just do it?
And I got that internship.Thank God. And it grew
to a really great experience.
You got my license topractice real estate, and I
was actually able to learnmore about the city. I
didn't really know where anythingwas in the city. And
(18:17):
because of that, I learnedmost of New York is.
And shortly after that, Istarted to do background acting
in the city and thework in some production sites
I've worked for now onNetflix sets HBO, F X,
the most thrilling experience thatI've had was dancing in
time square dress as Peterpan for a Korean national
television. They had me danceto a K-pop dance. I
(18:40):
don't know much about K-pop.I had to learn to
dance of it in onehour. Dancing is not my
forte. I'm mostly when anactor and singer I'm like,
well, what the heck amI doing? Probably what are
the most scary and terrifyingexperiences of my life? But
I was so proud ofmyself.
I got through it. Andthen, you know, now I'm
working in media, in NewYork. Unfortunately we aren't able
to go back to theoffice, but I'm loving it
(19:01):
so far. Everyone's been sofriendly, been so patient with
teaching you the ins andouts immediate, especially since I
don't have that, that typicalbackground going in to this
kind of a job. Sowhen I think about I'm
going to collect it, butI have my experience all
over the place, but it'swhat you make of it.
And it's what you takefrom each experience that slowly
builds up and to hopefullysomething where you meant to
(19:22):
belong in the future. So
I'm, I'm guessing at themoment as they a media
part be in your favoror the opiates of equal
Or, Hmm, good question. Iwould say it's different. It
wouldn't necessarily be greater orless than the other. I
think that working media issuch a fast pace. It's
always changing. There's so manynumbers that goes behind everything.
(19:42):
I mean, when do youwatch a commercial spaces on
TV? There is so muchin negotiation and so much
of numbers that goes behindthat. I'm like, whoa, I
never knew any of this.And there's a different seasons.
There's reasons why certain showsgo on during certain times
of the year. And whenyou understand that to kind
of puts everything into perspective,it's like, oh, so that's
why for example, talent showsare put over to some
(20:05):
or like America's got talent,or that's why news shows
new episodes and new seasonsare towards the end of
the year.
Like in October, there's somany numbers, a, it goes
into these things.
You mentioned at the startof how your show is
a relatively new, it's apremier in January this year,
but what are your goalsfor the future? Are you
going to continue to dojewel format? So you can
(20:25):
to obviously when mentioned, youwant to get, you just
love to do the in-personwith a studio or what
else or you go toa plan.
What do we have inplay on our plan is
to be consistent, first ofall, and to just keep
hosting, inspiring interviews in andmeeting great and wonderful people
and building a fantastic networkof inspiring interviews, our goal
is to just keep doingwhat we're doing and whether
(20:47):
we go big or nothinghappens. You know, I don't
think that's the point ofanything. And it's really a
passion project. It's really somethingthat I don't mind doing.
And it's been so greatto talk to people and
it's really pushed me outof my comfort zone. I
was always a shy kid.I didn't really know how
to talk or to speakmy mind and being in
this podcast and starting tohost and challenging myself has
(21:10):
really forced me to comeout of my shell.
And hopefully our show caninspire other people to come
out of their shells too,and just live life and
do what you love.
And that leads me nicelyto my next question, actually,
because obviously the show's aboutinspiring stories and people find
an inspiration from either whatthey're doing and, or the
people of Maine are, ortheir own background, ah, and
(21:30):
who their heroes are. Somecurious w with him on
the inspirational stories you've heardand your own experiences, doing
your own thing, et cetera,who's your all-time hero
And why. Right. So, youknow, I don't, I don't
think many people notice aboutme, but I am a
huge tennis fan. I watchedtennis everyday. I can not
play tennis. I've took ina few tennis lessons and
(21:51):
I swung out like abaseball bat and the teacher
is quite annoyed with me,but I was, I'm always
inspired by Rafael Nadal. Heis a tennis player, but
he's left to end. Itplays a tremendous spin on
his tennis balls. I don'tknow if people, most people
know what that means, butit means the ball. It
spins a lot when hehits it. And you know
what, this man doesn't giveup. It doesn't give up.
(22:12):
When the game, when he'slosing the game, he doesn't
give up. He doesn't giveup when he's down, even
if he has zero, ifyou want zero games and
he needs to, when sixin a row, it a
win, like he doesn't giveup.
And I think that's suchan amazing quality that makes
a champion. And I takethat same quality and most
tennis players, like a championtennis player as they don't
give up. And that's soamazing. That's why I love
(22:32):
tennis because the game's notover until you give up
because there's no time limit.And if you just keep
fighting and you keep tryingand you keep finding new
ways to strategize, I thinkthat anyone always has a
chance to make the greatestcomeback. And that's one thing
I've learned with my tennisidle, Rafael,
I'd say, it's interesting. Youmentioned tennis. One of my
heroes, a from us froma sports or an ankle,
(22:54):
his Andre Agassi. A wayto, yeah. It's like, oh
yeah, I just loved hisstory because he was this
magic, a gas with along cake. It didn't look
like on a tennis player,which has awesome to start
with. But then he hadthis big injury and it
was out for a long,long time. And it came
back. I think it wastwo Wimbledon or maybe in
the U S masters I'mand everyone had written him
off their, because of theinjury I'm and he was
(23:15):
up against I D Ican recall who was at
the time that someone ofhis own and the, the
male tennis circuit at thetime, it might've been a
land all back on theday of, I'm not sure,
but he came back and,and he one, and it
was just amazing. And hegot injured, I think, during
a game, like he's arest or something, he got
injured, but it's what yousee as to, to this
point, you kept pushing onit.
(23:36):
It wouldn't give up. SoI it's cool to hear
like a nutshell, his namementioned
Their, oh, for sure. Andthat's this most tennis players
that are you looking at?Kim Clijsters is in the
U S open. She cameback after being pregnant and
she won all of agrand slam. I mean, it
shows you that peoples' expectationsof you. You don't mean
anything. And if you setyour mind to something that
you can definitely achieve it,
(23:57):
Let's speaking of tennis, didyou hold a little, got
to follow a tangent here,but M w what's your
take on? I know there'salways been the question of,
well, you know, a manof far stronger than women
or men and women can'tcompete with men, but when
you look at it toyour point, you can close
those in. You look atthe, the Williams sisters. And
do you think there willbe a town? What it's
it, it's not like mixeddoubles, his best classes doubles,
(24:17):
and anybody can compete againstanybody have the wish.
You know, I've always thoughtabout that, but I think
we need to sometimes seethe realistic aspects of tennis.
Like, I think that themens vs the women's games
are vastly different. Like menplay with so much more
spin, stronger, serves hitting over120 to one 30 miles
an hour. And women's service,for example, the average around
(24:40):
what 90, maybe the lowerhundreds and they're six and
there's the exceptions like theWilliams sisters. Right. But I
think it's such a complicatedissue too. Look at at
the moment. But I thinkthat the sport will always
be it it's T Htennis. We'll always be tennis.
And a matter of who'splaying who I think there's
always going to be agreat way to enjoy it.
(25:01):
A sport. Cool.
I'd love to say, Iknow M I know a
Williams of trying to thinkof, of Williams, a venous
woman was to call onone sec. I can recall
how that, but yeah, Ihear you on that. The
sales, the, the killer, ourguests, when it comes to
their speed of the south.And fortunately, so your podcast
to come back on, ontop of that. And I
like,
(25:21):
What 10 isn't it lateron. No worries. I
Love talking about the timethat's what's what is all
about, so your podcast, orobviously you started in January
and you've got four, haveyou on the team. And
you mentioned that you haveyour, your role that, you
know, you know, whose expertiseor who was more suited
to that roll. So no,and all that. Ah, and
whether it be in anewish podcast, what would your
(25:42):
advice be for someone lookingto start a podcast themselves,
as part as the team,like for you? What, what
top of advice would yougive them?
Right. I bought on thisquestion before and I got
to be honest. Sometimes Ithink to myself, who the
heck am I to giveadvice? I just started a
podcast. I'm a very young,I don't really know much
of the things that I'mdoing, but if there is
a statement of guidance Ican give to people is
just to, don't be perfect.Stop wearing what being perfect,
(26:06):
shut down in that perfectionistmindset and just do it.
Stop thinking, Hey, am Igoing to look stupid? If
I do this or apeople think I sound dumb.
If I say this, orwhat is the audio? Doesn't
it sound like this orother podcasts, honestly, who cares?
Nothing starts perfect. Everything startsa little bit scratching, edgy,
and you learn from everysingle mistake that happens. And
that's the best way thatyou can improve yourself.
(26:28):
No, that's a good advice.I like that. So I'm
in a future podcast ingroups, in Facebook, and that's
one of my pet peevesis when some people say,
well, you've got to getX makes, and you can
to make sure that you'vegot the studio set up,
but you got to getthis audio on your face.
You really have to getthis, their mixed or et
cetera in your, your thinking.But we'll just start to
know. I don't have oneto $5,000 to blow down
(26:49):
and all of this upand, and not even know
what I'm going to enjoyit or not. You know?
So that's, that's a goodadvice. I like that.
Definitely. And people just haveto realize that if you
really want to do apodcast or anything in general,
you will do it. Ifyou want to film with
your cellphone and film thespeaker out of it and
the mic like do it,it's not, but a sound
perfect, but it's a greatplace to start. And you
(27:10):
will learn as you goand you gotta be patient
with yourself and you justgot to be S you
got to tell you herself,Hey, I made it a
little booboo, their, but noworries. I'll make it up
next time.
And as loud as itgoes back to your point
of, you know, a guyon a chance and analog,
a
Trauma. Exactly.
So a jar I've reallyenjoyed chatting today, and I've
loved a tangent there. Ihad gone in to the
tennis world when she startedon the tennis podcast. And
(27:31):
we'll have you back onit now, for sure, to
talk longer for that, forpeople that want to catch
up on past episodes orget to know you and
the team, et cetera, where'sthe best place for them
to find
You. Awesome. So you canfind more about us@atimecapsuleshow.com. We
have new episodes every Mondayand Wednesday at 8:00 PM.
Eastern, you can find uson YouTube at a time
(27:52):
capsule show on podcasts andSpotify or apple podcasts, and
most of the podcasts thingsout there. And you can
follow up on social mediaat T C show at
21 on Instagram or Twitterand Facebook.
Cool. And I'll be sureto drop all of these
links in to the shownotes. So of you'll listen
in on your favorite podcastapp, or even on the
website, hop on over tothe show notes section and
(28:12):
make sure to collect throughto the relevant links. So
again, Joe, I really appreciateit. You went on the
shore today.
Of course. Thank you somuch for having you, Danny.
I truly had a greatexperience talking with you, and
I hope you can talkmore in the future.
You've been listening to podcastthe stories. If you enjoyed
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