November 27, 2025 • 19 mins
Oh man, this is so funny!!! I'd totally forgotten about this stuff!
This is a highlight from back in Episode 57, when Julie and I parked the Podvan up at Koolewong and talked about some harsh feedback we've received online.
This is also going back to when Gwandalan Bowling Club came on board for the first time. Personally, I find it just incredible to listen back to this and see how far the podcast - and Podvan Media have come since then. I am truly thankful to you for your support, to the businesses that have come on board to partner up and work with me - and of course, to Julie, for being the absolute best mate anyone could ask for.
If you'd like to hear the whole episode this bit came from, just look up Episode 57 of the Podvan Podcast!
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I actually had a plan to do a live stream from in here for the
Patreon peoples this morning, but let's try it at the end or
something like that. You gotta tell me stuff like
that before I turn up here looking like Beetlejuice.
Where have you been? The gym.
God, you're my. They must be static in there or
something 'cause I just I got the car and saw myself and went
oh hell. You still came down here though.
(00:28):
Well, you know. What are you?
Gonna do it. Used to be.
Oh, my God. I got some funny feedback the
other day. Oh, OK.
We're on away on holidays. I told you we were going away
with the whole family. Yeah.
And right before John, Paddy left two days before the rest of
us. We're there for a whole week
together. They're like, OK, we're off.
And I'd like, I'm still in my pajamas.
(00:48):
I've just rolled out of bed. And I'm like, Oh my God, We
don't have a family photo. And so family photo before they
take. I ran and got quickly changed
and we went out onto the side the deck and we got a selfie,
right, all of us together and you know, and done my hair, no
makeup, nothing, just family photo.
(01:08):
And it turned out really cool. Except Delilah's throwing a
tantrum, but that's oh. I saw this photo.
Yeah, I saw this one. Standard family photo, right?
Yeah, the little kids unhappy about it, but everyone else is
kind of. Oh God.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You look tiny next to all the
boys that are 6 foot something. It's.
I put it up on Insta and yeah, you saw it.
And yeah, it was just a little memento for me and my beautiful
(01:28):
family. Yeah.
And you know the Daily Mail? Well, this is.
This is where I've had it. So I said, I said this.
I have something about that. I'd seen this photo.
You were the boys and that. And she goes, oh, yeah, I saw
that. And I went, where did you see
it? It was on Daily Mail.
I was like, oh God. Straight away, straight away.
That on Daily Mail. Because it's a a picture of my
(01:49):
rarely seen sons understands cupboard for a few minutes yeah,
taking a photo that's a big. Cupboard.
We call it the House. Yeah.
So anyway, comments I should never ever.
Go to the. Comments on a Daily Mail thing.
It was. I was so shocked when it says
(02:13):
she's 53. We don't all get lucky jeans
when it comes to ageing and you know, unfortunately poor Julie
got bad. Oh, I thought that was gonna be
a positive thing. I thought it starts breathing.
My heart just six. And then somebody came back and
I'm like, go, sister, somebody goes and what is 53 supposed to
(02:34):
look like then? And I thought, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And somebody replied, not 65.
Oh. My God, I.
Had done my hair. You hadn't done your hair.
God, you should have replied. I'm banned from replying by my
(02:56):
husband who likes me to have a happy life.
Yeah, I'm not even supposed to go on to daily.
Look at you. Rolling your eyes as you say the
sentence. My husband likes me to have
happy life. Yeah, my husband's looking after
my mental health. Can't we just have a bit of fun
sometimes? Oh, there's gotta be an adult in
the room. That's what I keep getting told.
(03:18):
There's not here though, is it? It's safe.
Yeah, not here. We're safe here.
Hey, open them up. Let's put some comments there.
That's so funny. Oh.
Mate boy, talk about a reality check.
Oh, and and oh, here we go. I'll give you a reality check.
You're my inspiration at the moment.
What? Yeah.
Oh man, Daddy, I am not anybody's.
(03:39):
What are you talking about? You go to the gym all the time.
You're. I am OK.
I wasn't sure if I was gonna do this.
I said to sav that I might do it.
And then I'm fully committed if I do do it, Like if I announce
this in here. Today's day one.
Oh, Jolie. Of what?
Of what now? Well.
What do you mean of what? How many things do you think I
(04:01):
need to work on? Well, I mean, how long are we
start at the? Top of work now personality.
Imagine I do. I just went, alright, today's
day one, I'm gonna get this sorted out and you go, oh great.
And are you working with a psychologist or?
(04:22):
A. A dentist.
No A. Cardiologist.
No, no it wasn't. An endocrinologist.
A proctologist. Got it.
An orthopaedic. Surgeon cause, oh cause all of
these are things I've been meaning to bring up, but I
wasn't sure if you knew about them and if you were prepared to
do anything about it, but oh Godan.
Orthodontist A. Manicurist A.
(04:49):
Fashion designer What's the skindoctor?
What do they do? Dermatologist.
Dermatologist, we went some of those professions.
For the straight guy. That's just nothing.
They have limits, you know. But all together I'd be a.
(05:10):
Super team do you reckon? Maybe yeah, the all the before
and after, yeah. I was up at the air at a fair
one day and and I was taking Jordan in there for a haircut at
the Barber and and they looked out at me and they went you next
buddy? And I went like this is before I
had the beard and this was cleanshaven head, clean shaven face.
(05:31):
And I just looked, I thought, what does he think?
Maybe they do other kind of escaping.
I just go in there and start undoing my pants.
We've got the Sesquatch Sackwatch ready to go.
And then and then and. A straight.
Razor But then like, like women going in there and showing the
photo of Jennifer Aniston and the This is what I want.
(05:56):
OK, so we can't turn you into Jonny Owens.
That's that's that's outside ourpurview.
This. Is what I'm going for.
I wonder if hairdressers have todo that as well in the same sort
of thing. This is what I wanna look like,
yeah. And I.
Walk in with Jlo. Go here.
That's what I'm after. Lady, you in the wrong store.
Ohh we. Are a plastic surgeon first?
(06:17):
We are booked up from now until the end of time.
Yeah. No, look, I am at the heaviest
I've been in my entire life. Really.
Oh, yeah. In my life.
Really. Yeah.
OK. Yeah, look who.
Cares. I do now.
I do. Do.
I do? I do.
Because pick you up that that's a problem.
(06:40):
And I tell you don't have to pick me up.
You've got me now. You know, it's the getting out
of breath. It's that side.
Yeah. Yeah.
And you feel gross when your clothes don't fit right.
Well, you know what you can do for that?
Yeah, buy bigger. I have been, no, I did.
I got to that comfortable with it point a couple of months back
(07:02):
and just went you know what, I have been super fit and healthy
my whole life. Yeah, and there comes a point at
some point I think we just gottalet go and enjoy your life.
Yeah, but you know what? I'm not enjoying my life at the
moment. As far as that side goes.
Let. All the way go and then and then
things get hard to do yes and that's painful as well yeah you
(07:24):
gotta choose your heart that's what I that's what I heard
recently choose your heart it's hard to.
See that video? It's hard to get out of breath
walking up a. Hill Yes.
You just gotta choose which kindof hard you wanna do.
Absolutely. The downside of the just living
your life and whatever. I'm going to have chips and
chocolate and watch a movie and that kind of is I get out of bed
the next morning, everything is inflamed, everything hurts.
(07:45):
The knees are creaking and I know that when I'm fit and
healthy, I don't feel like that.I feel so much better.
That's what I'm going for now ismore the feel better?
Yeah. Yeah, so watch this space.
I'm going to be rapidly shrinking just to get myself
back to a fit and healthy place.Rapid Rabbit.
No, that's the way I do it. Uh huh.
Yeah, I'm all or nothing. I am.
(08:07):
You know that. Well I do remember get commando
fit time when you and I would goto the gym at 4:00 in the
morning or something. To me, yeah.
To pull my Mini through the car park.
Did I? Yes, With your teeth.
Yes. Wait, I was going.
You were going to pull your mini?
Said you reckoned I could do it.Yeah, well, you, you were like
(08:27):
super fit and strong and. My teeth aren't.
Though Oh OK yeah, why am I looking at my?
I don't know. Phone did I have Oh, I know.
So on that back door if possible.
And of course, that's a reference to the, I believe it's
known as viral video clip that we put up on the page.
What is the algorithm doing? I don't get it.
I don't see some of the stuff turns up in my feed and I'm
(08:49):
like, I know I'm responsible forthis somehow but I don't know
how I know. I wish I knew how because I'd
like to stop it. You can't stop it.
It knows you better than you know you.
Damn it. Yeah, I see things pop up in
mine as well, and game, so there's obviously something to
do with my browsing history. So it was the story that you
(09:12):
told about someone got their Airpods case engraved and
thought it was delivery instructions, so they typed into
that box back door if possible, and that's what got engraved on
the thing. Yeah, it's very funny.
Yeah, sure. I.
Just saw it online, it made me laugh, I shared.
It with you, it made me laugh and so I shared it on on me
Instagram. I remember messaging you with a
screenshot and it was up to like175,000 views or something and
(09:35):
the two of us were going hilarious.
I think the first screenshot I sent you was about 60,000 or
something like that. You ready for the number now?
No, I think I am because I can'tsee insights on that one.
Can't you? No, I can't.
I rely on you and your updates. Well, you ready for this one?
God, it's a shame because if youcome back to me, I reckon 2 days
(09:56):
from now, by the time this episode goes to air it will have
hit a million players. It is currently at here.
I'll show you. 957. 957,000 views.
How many times have you watched it?
Like are you responsible for like?
Probably 57,000, but the other 900 are straight.
(10:19):
Holy crap. It's so funny.
I love, I love things like this,like it comes up with helpful
things from within the Instagramapp.
It says this reel reached sixty,1047%.
Percent. In 10s of thousands, like
(10:42):
sometimes one of my reels it'll say this reached you know, 20%
more than your last one. So this one comes up saying
you've reached 61,047% more accounts than the average of
your recent reels. Create more reels like this.
OK my God, just tell me how Instagram tell.
Me how I can't actually if I go into the comments of that,
(11:03):
there's a few things that are that are actually what was
that's right. Someone commented.
This reminds me of my father. He wanted to invest in crypto
and eventually he managed to do it, but when they requested
wallet access, he entered his real address to his parents
house. So they want outlet, they want
(11:28):
access to his wallet. Well, this is where I live.
Come around, I suppose you can have it.
Someone else said can you get Samsung engraved on the case?
That's funny. Grab all iPods.
Said my airpod engraving says noengraving.
Thanks. Oh my God.
(11:54):
That's well, that's good becauseyou can see that one happening.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Would you like something engraved?
No engraving. Thanks.
And then they put on it. Oh, that's great.
Wow. So yeah, that'll hit a million
plays and. That's just that's just off the
charts. Isn't it?
Yeah, I have some big news for you.
Oh, oh, it's pretty exciting, is.
(12:14):
It good news. Yeah, it's really good news.
OK. I think you, you you knew it was
a possibility of happening. What?
But it has happened. What?
What? I'm pregnant.
Hence the weight gain. Gosh.
I was. Gonna, I was gonna say I got, I
went out for a meeting the otherday with a potential advertiser.
(12:37):
Yeah, they're on board. So we actually have a first
actual advertiser now, King Cumber Mitre, 10.
They they pay to have their nameon the outside of the van
they're proudly supported by. So they'll always go down as the
first of putting some money intointo the van.
But the first advertiser, which I'll be doing ads for in the
(12:58):
podcast. Yeah, Guandalan Bowling Club.
Anya guando bolo the. Guando Bolo.
That's awesome. Can't believe it.
So they reached out to me when it all sort of first kicked off
and they said, this is awesome. How can we be part of it?
How can we support this? And I went and then couple
months later in a post where people were asking, I think it
(13:22):
was in a post where I put up like some of the numbers and
stats and stuff just going, thisis unbelievable.
It's yeah, taken off and I'm so thankful for that.
And people were going, are you are you making money?
Are you breaking even yet? And I'm like, no, I'm about to
let my sales team go because they've done nothing.
And in the comments up pops going and Bowling Club.
Yeah, still here when you need us.
(13:43):
And I'm like. I do.
But I don't know how. So then I put together.
On your sales team, I know how do you.
Yeah, see, I don't like asking people if you're coming.
To sales team then. Yeah, 100%.
The job of the sales team is to ask people, yeah.
I know, I know. And that's.
For stuff. So in the Patreon page now I've
(14:06):
got bonus episodes of the podcast and they're called Pod
Van Postcards, and I record themas I drive around 'cause I just
sit and talk to myself in the car anyway.
And I was actually. Doesn't.
Right. Yeah.
So I was recording as I was driving to the meeting, and then
I was recording after I left themeeting going.
I think it went great. I'm waiting on that.
(14:28):
They're going to talk to their people and their people are
going to talk to my people, and I don't have any people need
some? People, yeah.
I'm just going to have to put onan accent or something.
Not allowed to do accents. Anymore.
So I do running commentary of all of that in those in those
episodes in the Patreon page. And as part of that, I was
saying that, you know, things like, Mick, Happy day go along
(14:48):
to that and, you know, through the radio station.
And I was always clear that I don't want to be shaking the
can. I don't want to be going up and
asking people for money. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My part that I'll do. To get other people along who
will donate or do fun things or yeah.
So I'll talk about it on air andhopefully they'll get more
people there. I'll go down on the day and I'll
(15:08):
go on the drive thru and track the headset on, have fun with
that and we'll generate more content.
And yeah, all, all that I feel comfortable doing that.
I don't feel comfortable asking people for money.
I never have. No.
So let me give you a little tip about sales.
Yeah, because I've worked in theIT business and all that sort of
stuff. You can't think about it as
asking for money. What you're doing is providing a
service. Yes, And it's a service that's
(15:30):
going to be helpful to someone. And you like helping people.
I do. So let me help you.
Yeah. Let me help you get your brand
out there. If you like my brand, let's
align with our brands, you know?Yeah.
Let me help you. I've got a solution to the IT
problem that you have. Let me help you.
I can teach you how to cook all those sorts of things.
It's not. It's not selling.
This is my sales document. Partner profile POD van.
(15:51):
Interesting font choice. OK What?
Oh. No, it took me months to make
that. And you know what?
And I didn't make it. So when I say I can't reach out
to people and ask for help, if they offer it, I'm OK at
accepting it. So I had this lady Tracy, she
used to work for Channel 7. Now she's got her own production
(16:11):
company. She reached out to me and said
she. Looks really good.
Thank you. She reached out to me and said,
hey, let me know the things thatyou can offer.
Yeah, to a client and I'll take it to my sales guys and we'll
help you format that. This is it.
That's sales. Who?
What? Offering.
Yeah. It's not.
It's not. You're not out there going.
Give me your money. Yeah.
(16:33):
What's you saying? Oh, that's the idea.
I can see some synergy between your brand and my brand.
Let's talk about that. Uh huh.
So then I got all that document together and then Cassie who
used. To be this, align your brand
with the pub van. It's almost like you wrote it.
Cassie, who used to be promotions director at the radio
station, she reached out and said if you need anything.
And so she actually designed allof this.
(16:55):
I send off all the all the words.
Nice font, Cass. And, and so we've worked on this
for four months and then, you know, you gotta put all stats in
there and. Over 3 decades of on air
experience. Yeah, that didn't need to be.
There's a point where it makes you sound old.
We've reached it. Here we are.
(17:16):
We are at the point. I don't think I am.
Well well, there's a time you just gotta lean into the older
experienced dude. I know.
Yeah, I'm leaning in. That was about 10 years.
I'm so leaning in I'm almost I need a cane.
Little walking frame. If I lean in much further, help
(17:39):
me out. This is.
Great. And your stats ohh my gosh,
imagine what the back door post is gonna do ohh.
That was before the back door was introduced to the world.
Just need to write that on there.
This is pre. Pre my back door being exposed
to the world, yeah. Love it live.
Read commercials to be read liveduring broadcast recording.
Yep. Wow.
(17:59):
So there's different packages, you know, do ads and they'll get
baked into the episodes and thenthose ads stay there forever as
well, right. So it's not just for that week
when that episode comes out. Love it.
There are people finding this podcast all the time, finding
old episodes. Yeah.
Pod Van Gold gets the pod van atyour business and we record an
(18:20):
episode there with your customers, with staff if they
want to and and we'll do a live stream from there and why.
You've got a website. Yeah, whoops.
I've got everything. To know that.
Yes. Hurry up man.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to have a word to the promotions team now
because Julie didn't even know we had a website.
(18:42):
Start getting your brochure out there.
I've seen it. Gwendoline Bowling Club, that
good honour. So I went out for a meeting with
them the other day, that right on the water there.
I've never been there before, never been out.
Gwendoline. Oh.
It's lovely, Gwendoline. So nice, it's.
Beautiful. And do they do barefoot bowls
there? Probably.
I mean, they do bowls. What partners now?
Yeah. But we haven't, we haven't
listen, we're at the point where, like, we've decided we're
(19:04):
going to go out. OK, right.
You don't know whether or not you can take your shoes off
around each other. Yeah, or like, you know, till we
go to the bathroom with the dooropen, I'm still.
Talking about barefoot bowls. Oh, oh, alright, that'll do us
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I actually had a plan to do a live stream from in here for the
Patreon peoples this morning, but let's try it at the end or
something like that. You gotta tell me stuff like
that before I turn up here looking like Beetlejuice.
Where have you been? The gym.
God, you're my. They must be static in there or
something 'cause I just I got the car and saw myself and went
oh hell. You still came down here though.
(00:28):
Well, you know. What are you?
Gonna do it. Used to be.
Oh, my God. I got some funny feedback the
other day. Oh, OK.
We're on away on holidays. I told you we were going away
with the whole family. Yeah.
And right before John, Paddy left two days before the rest of
us. We're there for a whole week
together. They're like, OK, we're off.
And I'd like, I'm still in my pajamas.
(00:48):
I've just rolled out of bed. And I'm like, Oh my God, We
don't have a family photo. And so family photo before they
take. I ran and got quickly changed
and we went out onto the side the deck and we got a selfie,
right, all of us together and you know, and done my hair, no
makeup, nothing, just family photo.
(01:08):
And it turned out really cool. Except Delilah's throwing a
tantrum, but that's oh. I saw this photo.
Yeah, I saw this one. Standard family photo, right?
Yeah, the little kids unhappy about it, but everyone else is
kind of. Oh God.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You look tiny next to all the
boys that are 6 foot something. It's.
I put it up on Insta and yeah, you saw it.
And yeah, it was just a little memento for me and my beautiful
(01:28):
family. Yeah.
And you know the Daily Mail? Well, this is.
This is where I've had it. So I said, I said this.
I have something about that. I'd seen this photo.
You were the boys and that. And she goes, oh, yeah, I saw
that. And I went, where did you see
it? It was on Daily Mail.
I was like, oh God. Straight away, straight away.
That on Daily Mail. Because it's a a picture of my
(01:49):
rarely seen sons understands cupboard for a few minutes yeah,
taking a photo that's a big. Cupboard.
We call it the House. Yeah.
So anyway, comments I should never ever.
Go to the. Comments on a Daily Mail thing.
It was. I was so shocked when it says
(02:13):
she's 53. We don't all get lucky jeans
when it comes to ageing and you know, unfortunately poor Julie
got bad. Oh, I thought that was gonna be
a positive thing. I thought it starts breathing.
My heart just six. And then somebody came back and
I'm like, go, sister, somebody goes and what is 53 supposed to
(02:34):
look like then? And I thought, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And somebody replied, not 65.
Oh. My God, I.
Had done my hair. You hadn't done your hair.
God, you should have replied. I'm banned from replying by my
(02:56):
husband who likes me to have a happy life.
Yeah, I'm not even supposed to go on to daily.
Look at you. Rolling your eyes as you say the
sentence. My husband likes me to have
happy life. Yeah, my husband's looking after
my mental health. Can't we just have a bit of fun
sometimes? Oh, there's gotta be an adult in
the room. That's what I keep getting told.
(03:18):
There's not here though, is it? It's safe.
Yeah, not here. We're safe here.
Hey, open them up. Let's put some comments there.
That's so funny. Oh.
Mate boy, talk about a reality check.
Oh, and and oh, here we go. I'll give you a reality check.
You're my inspiration at the moment.
What? Yeah.
Oh man, Daddy, I am not anybody's.
(03:39):
What are you talking about? You go to the gym all the time.
You're. I am OK.
I wasn't sure if I was gonna do this.
I said to sav that I might do it.
And then I'm fully committed if I do do it, Like if I announce
this in here. Today's day one.
Oh, Jolie. Of what?
Of what now? Well.
What do you mean of what? How many things do you think I
(04:01):
need to work on? Well, I mean, how long are we
start at the? Top of work now personality.
Imagine I do. I just went, alright, today's
day one, I'm gonna get this sorted out and you go, oh great.
And are you working with a psychologist or?
(04:22):
A. A dentist.
No A. Cardiologist.
No, no it wasn't. An endocrinologist.
A proctologist. Got it.
An orthopaedic. Surgeon cause, oh cause all of
these are things I've been meaning to bring up, but I
wasn't sure if you knew about them and if you were prepared to
do anything about it, but oh Godan.
Orthodontist A. Manicurist A.
(04:49):
Fashion designer What's the skindoctor?
What do they do? Dermatologist.
Dermatologist, we went some of those professions.
For the straight guy. That's just nothing.
They have limits, you know. But all together I'd be a.
(05:10):
Super team do you reckon? Maybe yeah, the all the before
and after, yeah. I was up at the air at a fair
one day and and I was taking Jordan in there for a haircut at
the Barber and and they looked out at me and they went you next
buddy? And I went like this is before I
had the beard and this was cleanshaven head, clean shaven face.
(05:31):
And I just looked, I thought, what does he think?
Maybe they do other kind of escaping.
I just go in there and start undoing my pants.
We've got the Sesquatch Sackwatch ready to go.
And then and then and. A straight.
Razor But then like, like women going in there and showing the
photo of Jennifer Aniston and the This is what I want.
(05:56):
OK, so we can't turn you into Jonny Owens.
That's that's that's outside ourpurview.
This. Is what I'm going for.
I wonder if hairdressers have todo that as well in the same sort
of thing. This is what I wanna look like,
yeah. And I.
Walk in with Jlo. Go here.
That's what I'm after. Lady, you in the wrong store.
Ohh we. Are a plastic surgeon first?
(06:17):
We are booked up from now until the end of time.
Yeah. No, look, I am at the heaviest
I've been in my entire life. Really.
Oh, yeah. In my life.
Really. Yeah.
OK. Yeah, look who.
Cares. I do now.
I do. Do.
I do? I do.
Because pick you up that that's a problem.
(06:40):
And I tell you don't have to pick me up.
You've got me now. You know, it's the getting out
of breath. It's that side.
Yeah. Yeah.
And you feel gross when your clothes don't fit right.
Well, you know what you can do for that?
Yeah, buy bigger. I have been, no, I did.
I got to that comfortable with it point a couple of months back
(07:02):
and just went you know what, I have been super fit and healthy
my whole life. Yeah, and there comes a point at
some point I think we just gottalet go and enjoy your life.
Yeah, but you know what? I'm not enjoying my life at the
moment. As far as that side goes.
Let. All the way go and then and then
things get hard to do yes and that's painful as well yeah you
(07:24):
gotta choose your heart that's what I that's what I heard
recently choose your heart it's hard to.
See that video? It's hard to get out of breath
walking up a. Hill Yes.
You just gotta choose which kindof hard you wanna do.
Absolutely. The downside of the just living
your life and whatever. I'm going to have chips and
chocolate and watch a movie and that kind of is I get out of bed
the next morning, everything is inflamed, everything hurts.
(07:45):
The knees are creaking and I know that when I'm fit and
healthy, I don't feel like that.I feel so much better.
That's what I'm going for now ismore the feel better?
Yeah. Yeah, so watch this space.
I'm going to be rapidly shrinking just to get myself
back to a fit and healthy place.Rapid Rabbit.
No, that's the way I do it. Uh huh.
Yeah, I'm all or nothing. I am.
(08:07):
You know that. Well I do remember get commando
fit time when you and I would goto the gym at 4:00 in the
morning or something. To me, yeah.
To pull my Mini through the car park.
Did I? Yes, With your teeth.
Yes. Wait, I was going.
You were going to pull your mini?
Said you reckoned I could do it.Yeah, well, you, you were like
(08:27):
super fit and strong and. My teeth aren't.
Though Oh OK yeah, why am I looking at my?
I don't know. Phone did I have Oh, I know.
So on that back door if possible.
And of course, that's a reference to the, I believe it's
known as viral video clip that we put up on the page.
What is the algorithm doing? I don't get it.
I don't see some of the stuff turns up in my feed and I'm
(08:49):
like, I know I'm responsible forthis somehow but I don't know
how I know. I wish I knew how because I'd
like to stop it. You can't stop it.
It knows you better than you know you.
Damn it. Yeah, I see things pop up in
mine as well, and game, so there's obviously something to
do with my browsing history. So it was the story that you
(09:12):
told about someone got their Airpods case engraved and
thought it was delivery instructions, so they typed into
that box back door if possible, and that's what got engraved on
the thing. Yeah, it's very funny.
Yeah, sure. I.
Just saw it online, it made me laugh, I shared.
It with you, it made me laugh and so I shared it on on me
Instagram. I remember messaging you with a
screenshot and it was up to like175,000 views or something and
(09:35):
the two of us were going hilarious.
I think the first screenshot I sent you was about 60,000 or
something like that. You ready for the number now?
No, I think I am because I can'tsee insights on that one.
Can't you? No, I can't.
I rely on you and your updates. Well, you ready for this one?
God, it's a shame because if youcome back to me, I reckon 2 days
(09:56):
from now, by the time this episode goes to air it will have
hit a million players. It is currently at here.
I'll show you. 957. 957,000 views.
How many times have you watched it?
Like are you responsible for like?
Probably 57,000, but the other 900 are straight.
(10:19):
Holy crap. It's so funny.
I love, I love things like this,like it comes up with helpful
things from within the Instagramapp.
It says this reel reached sixty,1047%.
Percent. In 10s of thousands, like
(10:42):
sometimes one of my reels it'll say this reached you know, 20%
more than your last one. So this one comes up saying
you've reached 61,047% more accounts than the average of
your recent reels. Create more reels like this.
OK my God, just tell me how Instagram tell.
Me how I can't actually if I go into the comments of that,
(11:03):
there's a few things that are that are actually what was
that's right. Someone commented.
This reminds me of my father. He wanted to invest in crypto
and eventually he managed to do it, but when they requested
wallet access, he entered his real address to his parents
house. So they want outlet, they want
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access to his wallet. Well, this is where I live.
Come around, I suppose you can have it.
Someone else said can you get Samsung engraved on the case?
That's funny. Grab all iPods.
Said my airpod engraving says noengraving.
Thanks. Oh my God.
(11:54):
That's well, that's good becauseyou can see that one happening.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Would you like something engraved?
No engraving. Thanks.
And then they put on it. Oh, that's great.
Wow. So yeah, that'll hit a million
plays and. That's just that's just off the
charts. Isn't it?
Yeah, I have some big news for you.
Oh, oh, it's pretty exciting, is.
(12:14):
It good news. Yeah, it's really good news.
OK. I think you, you you knew it was
a possibility of happening. What?
But it has happened. What?
What? I'm pregnant.
Hence the weight gain. Gosh.
I was. Gonna, I was gonna say I got, I
went out for a meeting the otherday with a potential advertiser.
(12:37):
Yeah, they're on board. So we actually have a first
actual advertiser now, King Cumber Mitre, 10.
They they pay to have their nameon the outside of the van
they're proudly supported by. So they'll always go down as the
first of putting some money intointo the van.
But the first advertiser, which I'll be doing ads for in the
(12:58):
podcast. Yeah, Guandalan Bowling Club.
Anya guando bolo the. Guando Bolo.
That's awesome. Can't believe it.
So they reached out to me when it all sort of first kicked off
and they said, this is awesome. How can we be part of it?
How can we support this? And I went and then couple
months later in a post where people were asking, I think it
(13:22):
was in a post where I put up like some of the numbers and
stats and stuff just going, thisis unbelievable.
It's yeah, taken off and I'm so thankful for that.
And people were going, are you are you making money?
Are you breaking even yet? And I'm like, no, I'm about to
let my sales team go because they've done nothing.
And in the comments up pops going and Bowling Club.
Yeah, still here when you need us.
(13:43):
And I'm like. I do.
But I don't know how. So then I put together.
On your sales team, I know how do you.
Yeah, see, I don't like asking people if you're coming.
To sales team then. Yeah, 100%.
The job of the sales team is to ask people, yeah.
I know, I know. And that's.
For stuff. So in the Patreon page now I've
(14:06):
got bonus episodes of the podcast and they're called Pod
Van Postcards, and I record themas I drive around 'cause I just
sit and talk to myself in the car anyway.
And I was actually. Doesn't.
Right. Yeah.
So I was recording as I was driving to the meeting, and then
I was recording after I left themeeting going.
I think it went great. I'm waiting on that.
(14:28):
They're going to talk to their people and their people are
going to talk to my people, and I don't have any people need
some? People, yeah.
I'm just going to have to put onan accent or something.
Not allowed to do accents. Anymore.
So I do running commentary of all of that in those in those
episodes in the Patreon page. And as part of that, I was
saying that, you know, things like, Mick, Happy day go along
(14:48):
to that and, you know, through the radio station.
And I was always clear that I don't want to be shaking the
can. I don't want to be going up and
asking people for money. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My part that I'll do. To get other people along who
will donate or do fun things or yeah.
So I'll talk about it on air andhopefully they'll get more
people there. I'll go down on the day and I'll
(15:08):
go on the drive thru and track the headset on, have fun with
that and we'll generate more content.
And yeah, all, all that I feel comfortable doing that.
I don't feel comfortable asking people for money.
I never have. No.
So let me give you a little tip about sales.
Yeah, because I've worked in theIT business and all that sort of
stuff. You can't think about it as
asking for money. What you're doing is providing a
service. Yes, And it's a service that's
(15:30):
going to be helpful to someone. And you like helping people.
I do. So let me help you.
Yeah. Let me help you get your brand
out there. If you like my brand, let's
align with our brands, you know?Yeah.
Let me help you. I've got a solution to the IT
problem that you have. Let me help you.
I can teach you how to cook all those sorts of things.
It's not. It's not selling.
This is my sales document. Partner profile POD van.
(15:51):
Interesting font choice. OK What?
Oh. No, it took me months to make
that. And you know what?
And I didn't make it. So when I say I can't reach out
to people and ask for help, if they offer it, I'm OK at
accepting it. So I had this lady Tracy, she
used to work for Channel 7. Now she's got her own production
(16:11):
company. She reached out to me and said
she. Looks really good.
Thank you. She reached out to me and said,
hey, let me know the things thatyou can offer.
Yeah, to a client and I'll take it to my sales guys and we'll
help you format that. This is it.
That's sales. Who?
What? Offering.
Yeah. It's not.
It's not. You're not out there going.
Give me your money. Yeah.
(16:33):
What's you saying? Oh, that's the idea.
I can see some synergy between your brand and my brand.
Let's talk about that. Uh huh.
So then I got all that document together and then Cassie who
used. To be this, align your brand
with the pub van. It's almost like you wrote it.
Cassie, who used to be promotions director at the radio
station, she reached out and said if you need anything.
And so she actually designed allof this.
(16:55):
I send off all the all the words.
Nice font, Cass. And, and so we've worked on this
for four months and then, you know, you gotta put all stats in
there and. Over 3 decades of on air
experience. Yeah, that didn't need to be.
There's a point where it makes you sound old.
We've reached it. Here we are.
(17:16):
We are at the point. I don't think I am.
Well well, there's a time you just gotta lean into the older
experienced dude. I know.
Yeah, I'm leaning in. That was about 10 years.
I'm so leaning in I'm almost I need a cane.
Little walking frame. If I lean in much further, help
(17:39):
me out. This is.
Great. And your stats ohh my gosh,
imagine what the back door post is gonna do ohh.
That was before the back door was introduced to the world.
Just need to write that on there.
This is pre. Pre my back door being exposed
to the world, yeah. Love it live.
Read commercials to be read liveduring broadcast recording.
Yep. Wow.
(17:59):
So there's different packages, you know, do ads and they'll get
baked into the episodes and thenthose ads stay there forever as
well, right. So it's not just for that week
when that episode comes out. Love it.
There are people finding this podcast all the time, finding
old episodes. Yeah.
Pod Van Gold gets the pod van atyour business and we record an
(18:20):
episode there with your customers, with staff if they
want to and and we'll do a live stream from there and why.
You've got a website. Yeah, whoops.
I've got everything. To know that.
Yes. Hurry up man.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to have a word to the promotions team now
because Julie didn't even know we had a website.
(18:42):
Start getting your brochure out there.
I've seen it. Gwendoline Bowling Club, that
good honour. So I went out for a meeting with
them the other day, that right on the water there.
I've never been there before, never been out.
Gwendoline. Oh.
It's lovely, Gwendoline. So nice, it's.
Beautiful. And do they do barefoot bowls
there? Probably.
I mean, they do bowls. What partners now?
Yeah. But we haven't, we haven't
listen, we're at the point where, like, we've decided we're
(19:04):
going to go out. OK, right.
You don't know whether or not you can take your shoes off
around each other. Yeah, or like, you know, till we
go to the bathroom with the dooropen, I'm still.
Talking about barefoot bowls. Oh, oh, alright, that'll do us
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