September 20, 2025 • 52 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Buddhist AF Podcast. I am
your host, Annoying chance of VISUK, and with me is
my Buddhist AF coffee mug, which has been pretty much
turned into a tea mug because I have tea again
and I'm I'm super happy. You have no idea how
much I love drinking tea, and usually it's peppermint tea
(00:24):
or black tea. Lately, I have been really really in
love with celante and I think I talked about it
a few weeks ago, a couple of weeks ago, and
I have just been completely all in celan tea and
got it with me here super hot. I like my
tea really really hot. Some people like it cold, some
(00:46):
people like it warm lukewarm where they can just drink
it normally. I like my tea really hot where I
have to take like really annoying loud slurps of it
and just black, no sugar, no h no milk, no cream,
none of that, just straight selon tea. And yeah, that's
how I like it. So if I take a tea break,
(01:08):
I will announce that I take a tea break, and yeah,
you know what, we can now take a tea Break Together,
pretty uh, pretty laid back episode this week. I didn't
really write anything because I got a A few times now,
I've had people write in leave me messages asking how
(01:31):
they can get started in podcasting. It's it's it seems
really easy, but it kind of isn't. And I'll tell
you why, because when I first started, let's see, let's
see how I actually got started. I had planned on
making a podcast for years, years, years and years. One
(01:53):
of my best friends, John Sumino shout out to. John
Sumino had done a podcast, basically a sports podcast when
his daughter was born, and I would I would listen
to this podcast and he would do it while his
daughter's like, you know, cooing in the other room, and
I just thought that was pretty funny that, you know,
I'd listened to his podcast while working out and then
(02:14):
I hear like a baby crying or something like that,
and that was pretty funny and I really enjoyed it.
And John stopped doing it after a while. He kind
of like branched off. Other people were doing podcasts on
his show and he had stopped, and so I stopped
listening for a bit, and it kind of just went
to the back back burner. And then I h it
(02:37):
came up again, and I started started really thinking about
doing it again, because you know, I just wanted to.
I just wanted to do something different. Everybody had everybody
had an Instagram, everybody had a Snapchat, everybody had a Facebook,
and I just wanted to express myself in other ways.
(02:58):
I speak pretty well, I like to say, aside from
the ums and the pauses. But it again, it's character,
and so I just wanted to get my voice out there,
and I wanted to have some fun. And so I
didn't do it after a while because I started. I
moved from New York to New England February twenty ten,
(03:23):
and I just moved everything aside. I got really deep
into working. I was a head chef at a very
well known restaurant in Chumpsford, Massachusetts, and so I just
dug deep into that, and of course I got burnt out.
It could, because that's that's what happens when you when
you just put your head down and then just go
hard in the restaurant business, and you see faces come
(03:46):
and go, you have to train new faces, and then
those faces leave, and then you have to train new ones,
and it just gets to you over and over, and
it's just again, you don't really get to do the
thing you like to do when you're a head chef,
especially in my position, I didn't actually get to do
much cooking. I showed how those things were done, and
(04:06):
then I had to coach, I had to watch. I
couldn't jump in. I'm one of those people that in
this you know, bothered my then girlfriend now wife Mary.
Like it's like when you're not even trying to show
your girlfriend how to play a video game and you're
telling her like, oh, you just press this button, press
this button, and she's doing it wrong, and you're like,
just give me the wrong you know, just give me
the remote, let me show you how it's done, and
then you just start doing it yourself. And then that
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person who's trying to learn doesn't learn anything. And so
I had to step back and watch these people that
I've trained that are doing little things here and there.
I mean, they're not doing anything wrong, they're not doing
anything wrong, they're doing everything right, but they're not doing
it my way, the way that I taught them, the
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way that I eventually learned how to do that I
was taught, but I learned how to do it better,
I want to say, and they were doing it. In
my eyes, they were doing it wrong, and so I
had to jump in and go here, let me show you.
And then eventually I just take the knife from them,
and then I just start doing it with myself. And
again I got burnt out because I was trying to
(05:11):
do too much, and so I didn't feel good. I
wasn't feeling really good. It wasn't anything like my heart
or anything like that. I just knew that I wasn't
feeling good. I was feeling foggy. My brain was just
out there. I had quit smoking by now, quit drinking kinda.
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So I just wanted to get checked out. And so
I told my doctor that, you know, I was just
I wasn't getting any headaches, but I was getting memory loss.
I was feeling a lot more overwhelmed, a lot more
stressed over the littlest things. And I would have panic
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attacks and I wouldn't tell anybody, obviously. I was just,
you know, because it's taboo and you're Asian to tell
people your feelings, and so I kept it all in.
I was having panic attacks. I would rush into the bathroom.
I would splash cold water on my face, and I
would just sit there and stare at myself as water
was dripping down and drying, and then I would just
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splash more cold water in my face, rinse, and repeat.
And so I just felt like I was in a fog,
like a fugue, Like I knew I was in the moment,
but I wasn't in the moment. It was kind of
like I can see myself moving, and I could feel
myself moving, but it was constantly like slow motion, kind
of like when you're in the water and you're trying
to run and you're trying your hardest, but you're not
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really going that far. So I felt that, and so
my doctor had ordered a cat scan on my brain.
So they scanned my cat and they found some spots,
some spots in my brain that were dark. They didn't
tell me if they were dead spots, but I mean,
(06:57):
come on, they're black spots in your brain. And so
my doctor had sent this off to a specialist. And
at this time, I was working at an Asian restaurant
and so I didn't have health care. Let's be honest here,
when you work under the table like I did, you
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make a lot of money, but you don't have any protection.
You don't have retirement, you don't have health care, so
everything is out of pocket. And so this visit to
a doctor, it was bad enough for me to actually
go see a doctor, and then once I got there,
it was pretty much out of my hands. He had
ordered a cat scan, and so I got that done
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and I waited like a week or so, and they said, yes,
mister Chantabisuk, we found some spots in your brain, you
know from what you told us. You know, multiple multiple concussions,
and a lot of it was in the front. A
lot of it was in the front of your brain,
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and so that's where memory is, that's where a lot
of important things and your speech is. And so they
they were they were thinking. They didn't really say it outright,
but he kind of tossed it out that I was
a candidate for early dementia. And so that didn't really
(08:25):
affect me much because I didn't really know what dementia was,
to be honest with you, and I didn't care at
the time. Again, I was still at that point where
it was just me, me more me, like I had
my girlfriend. I loved my girlfriend, my now wife by
the way, if she's listening, But that was just me
(08:47):
and her like she was still young, beautiful, like she
can could a got with anybody. If I had croaked,
then still can now to be honest with you, still
peace as but uh no, so I didn't care at
that time. So again very expensive. They asked to follow up,
(09:08):
but it's completely ghosted him. And then uh years later
I had Alex, my happy little surprise, and so it
flashed back, you know, when I was holding him, and
then real briefly, I looked down and I forgot why
(09:29):
I was holding him. It's something like something had flashed.
I was walking into his room, I was still holding him,
and then I next thing, you know, I'm standing against
the wall, like staring at the wall, and I looked
down and there's you know, my baby, my son, and
I forgot how I got there. I forgot how I
(09:50):
got from his doorway to staring at the wall, like
almost walking into the wall. And so that got me
remembering that I had this thing that happened a couple
of years ago, and so I dug really deep into
like alternate medicines because I didn't want to. I didn't
want to leave those stones unturned. And so when I
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did MMA, I I learned as much as I could
about how to be strong without getting bigger. Because I
fought at one forty five. I didn't want to get bigger.
I wanted to use all my muscles like farm you know,
you've heard of farmer's strength, where it's like the skinny
person could just like just heoke up haystacks. And so
(10:33):
I tried to learn as much as I could about strength,
and so I learned gymnastics. I learned how to be
really flexible. I learned how to tumble. I was at
the time living in Rochester, and I was Rochester, New York,
and I was fortunate enough to be not too far
away from a strip club, and I had met a
(10:57):
stripper by chance. Not not me, you know, not like hey,
let's let's go meet up. I managed to meet a
stripper my chance, and off the cuff, I was just like, hey,
Paul dancing, Like how do you do that stuff? And
she uh, she said she actually teaches a class at
(11:17):
at YMCA on how to pole dance. And I was like, wait, wait,
how do you how do you do that? And she goes, oh,
I bring my own pole. Wow, that's that's amazing. You
bring up there's a portable pole. I didn't even know
there was a portable pole. And she goes, yes, I
bring my own pole and everybody gets a chance to
do this, and I'm like, you know what, yeah, yeah,
(11:37):
why not? Why not? Like I need how do you
climb up a metal pole? You know? But when you don't,
you look like you don't have any muscular trick And
so she was very beatique and she's like, yeah, I'll
show you boom boo boom, And you know, I went,
I could never climb up the poole. I can't, to
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be honest with you, to be perfectly honest, we do.
At my peak, I was one forty five. I was
probably twelve percent body fat. You could see the veins
in all around me and on on my abs. I
had abs at one point and you saw veins going
across it, which was really creepy. But at my peak,
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I couldn't do a single pull up, not one. I
mean I can do the jump pull up where you
jump on the bar for the first time, you pull
yourself up and then you drop down and then you
can't do it again. Yeah, that that was me. I
can't to this day. Obviously, I'm not in very good
shape anymore. But at my peak when I was fighting
three and oh, by the way, couldn't do couldn't do
(12:45):
a single pull up t brick. And so I learned
how to do that. And so I dug myself into
alternate medicines on like memory loss, on finding out how
to regrill the brain. I guess it's the best way
to put it. And so I did a lot of reading.
(13:07):
And reading helps. Reading really does help if you can
try to read half an hour a day, just read
and not on a screen either, like try to read
an actual book, magazine, whatever, paper, try to read some
sort of paper. I remember being a kid and I
didn't have a phone. I used to read the back
of a shampoo bottle when I was taking a poo.
(13:28):
You know. So, like reading is very helpful. It helps
you exercise your brain. And like I said, reading at
least half an hour a day is great. And like
not scrolling, not doom scrolling, not reading comments, but actual reading.
So yeah, I kind of did like a lot of reading,
and so I kind of trained myself to remember things
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in weird ways. Like I remember when I was a kid,
I went to a theme park one time, and in Rochester,
New York, it was called Seabreez. If you guys are
from Rochester, New York, Sea Breeze and I went there
when I was about five six ish. My great aunt
had taken me and we went from the house on
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Arch Street all the way to Sea Breeze, and I
had a really good time. I had such a good
time there, I asked my dad to take me, and
so my mom and my dad got in the car.
For some reason, they believed me that I knew where
I was going, and so we got in the car
and I started calling out landmarks. I said, all right,
there should be a McDonald's close to here, and my
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dad knew where the McDonald's was. So he took a
left out of Art Street, going towards East High School,
and I said, okay, from the McDonald's, you take another left.
And so you see a bald man standing at a
bus stop, and my dad goes, okay, So we get
to McDonald's. There's a bus stop up about half a
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mile down the road, and so you know what, he
took a lift down to the bus stop where there
wasn't a bald man standing there at that time, but
there was a bus stop there. And this is on
Culver Road, by the way, and if you live in
Rochester and you know where Sea Breeze is, it is
off a Culver Road. And so I just kept going.
All right, so you go here and then you're gonna
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see a stop sign that's next to a CVS. And
sure enough, yes, there was a CVS on Culver Road.
So we just kept going all the way to the end,
and then we hit Duran Eastman Beach. That's where I
got lost. That's where I forgot where to go. But
I had actually directed my parents to the beach for
the first time. They never knew that the Duran Eastman
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Beach was there, and so we just ended up going
to the beach and we had a great time. And
that's how I start remembering things. I don't remember street names,
I don't remember faces, but I remember things and moments
of when those things occurred. So that's how my brain
works now. Strangely, so I remember moments like I work
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for a multi billion dollar telecommunication company right now. I
don't remember the customers, but I remember the moments, what
they were doing, why they were there, what they were
talking about, why they were yelling at each other and
why they hated their previous cell phone company, Like I
remember that. I don't remember their names, I don't remember
whatever it is it is. But from that moment, I
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can piece things together, like, Okay, now I know why
are you here. Now I know what we did. Now
I know who your daughter is, who lives in Kalamazoo.
So we'll go from there. And so I can fill
in the gaps that way. So I've trained my brain
to retrain my brain actually to fill in the gaps
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like that now, as opposed to trying to remember things
that I can't remember. So going back to podcasting, I
got really scared when that happened. When I just stood
there at the wall with Alex T Brick, that's hot.
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And so I decided to formulate what I was gonna do.
I was I was thinking about, you know, just doing
a podcast where I would just talk about random things,
talk about sports, talk about cars. I realized I didn't
know enough about that stuff, but I did know about myself,
and I think that was important. I got scared, I,
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you know, a candidate for early dementia. I'm going to
forget things when I get older, maybe, And so I decided, Hey,
I have a young son, he's a baby. Why don't
why don't I record my stories? Why don't I record
what I remember about me, about my parents, about my grandparents,
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about family members, because maybe I'm not there, maybe when
he gets older, when he starts questioning things. Right now,
I'm Alex's hero, Like he is happy to see me.
He is just the light of my life. He makes
me happy, he makes me energetic when I'm tired. He
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is the turbo boost in my car. And so you know,
eventually I'm not going to get that. Eventually he's just
going to be like whatever, dad blah, you know, and
so eventually he's going to come for a circle. Like
I didn't care about my family history. I didn't care
about you know, where we came from. And I didn't
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really care about the culture. I didn't want to go
to temples. I didn't want to go to any of
those because all that stuff was boring to me. I
didn't like being around big crowds. I didn't like talking
about Oh, you're right, you remember me I used to
hold you when you were a baby. No, no, I don't.
I barely remember what I ate for breakfast. So that
stuff I didn't care about, and you know, rebelliousness. I
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didn't want to talk to anybody. I didn't feel like
I should talk to anybody because I was a loner
my whole life. And at some point, when I got
a family, when I started taking family more seriously, I
started to question, I started to ask questions, and I
wanted to know more about my family. And suddenly my
family became everything to me, especially when I had a family,
(19:25):
when I married Mary, when I had Alex, suddenly one
became three and all of a sudden, family was the
most important thing to me. I became Vin Diesel, I
became Dominic Turetto family. And so I wanted Alex to
know about his family. I want Alex to know about
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his culture that isn't American. And so I decided this
was probably the best thing to do is to make
a podcast out of it. And it was. Again, it
was for an audience of one. It was for Alex.
And so I told my co workers about this. When
I was working at the big blue box electronic box
store best Buy. I can say best Buy now because
(20:08):
I don't work for them anymore and they don't pay me.
So I told my co workers are best Buy that
I was gonna make a podcast, and they were all like,
all right, yeah, sure, sure, yeah, you know whatever, cause
I I was a jokester. I was a joker. I was,
you know, enjoying my time there. I was having a
lot of fun and a lot of I made a
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lot of friends there, friends, And so I said, all right,
I'm gonna do a podcast. I'm gonna here's the reason why,
you know, I want Alex to know, you know, his
his family story and what have you. And so I
didn't know what to do. I didn't know how to
get a podcast going. And so from what I gathered
on YouTube, you just need to have a microphone and
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some sort of program to record you. And so I
had a I had an iPad Air three at the time,
the one with the lightning still lightning charger, and it
was ten point five, I believe, yeah. And I had
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a gaming headset. I had a gaming headset because I
wanted to be a streamer at one point. And then
I realized once I started streaming that I didn't want
to talk while playing video games. I was concentrated on
the video games. That's my autism. I'm just very concentrated,
and so I didn't want to talk. I didn't want
to engage with anybody while well gaming. I didn't even
like playing just casual multiplayer game. I didn't really talk
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to any of my partners. I talked to Corey once
in a while when we played Redd Redemption online, which
by the way, is probably one of my favorite online
games until Rockstar just gave up on it. And so
I had a gaming headset. It was a trying to remember, Oh,
actually it's right over here. It's a Razor back Shark
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version two with the THCHX adapter, by the way, So
I did get the top end headphones, and I had
the iPad air and I started using garage band to record,
and I had no idea what the heck I was doing,
but I plugged the headphones into the iPad and I
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just hit record and I just started talking. And the
first time I started talking, I hated how I sounded.
I hated how I sounded in the headphones, and so
I stopped. I stopped the recording. I listened to it,
and it just sounded awful. And so I just put
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one ear over, I took one part off, and you
know how, I just hung one ear over the over
my head, and so I had my ears uncovered, and
then I started talking. And then I liked that better.
I didn't sound like I had a stuffy news. I
didn't sound like I was in a tunnel. And to
this day, I don't wear headphones to this day, like
I'm talking to a mic without any headphones. And that
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sounded a lot better. And so I listened back to it,
and it still sounded weird. And it turns out that
I had my microphone turned away from me. I couldn't
tell because it was it was a little, you know,
headset microphone, but apparently it was directional. So I had
to record all of that over again. I had just
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talked about my history, which is the first time we
when we left Thailand, you know. I talked about my
village in Thailand, Ubu and Ratchatani, and I spilled my guts,
you know, and I listened back to it and just
sounded awful when I go, you know what, that was
about an hour. That was an hour of my life.
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And when I first started recording, I winged it. I
recorded Thursday morning because Alex was at school, and I
published it when I was done that was it. I
didn't listen back to it much. I mean, I listened
back to the first one and I was happy with it,
and so I was like, all right, you know what,
it sounded a little weird. It sounded like I was
(24:12):
in a ten can. But this is first episode out
and went and I published it through Anchor at the time,
and Anchor was kind of in the process of being
acquired by Spotify and Tea Brick, and so I didn't
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know about monetization. I didn't know about any of that.
All I know is I had published it through Anchor,
and then I started learning about RSS feeds and so
from then I started publishing from Anchor to Spotify because
at the time they weren't merged yet. I published through Spotify.
I published through Apple podcast, Google Podcasts at the time,
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and then Amazon, which I completely forgot about. I'd be
honest with you, I completely forgot I broadcasted through Amazon
until about two weeks ago when I found out that
the buddhistaf podcast is available on Audible. That's audible dot com.
I'm not getting paid I should be. But so that
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was the first episode and I went back the next
day the Friday, because I recorded on a Thursday. I
released on a Thursday, and I went back Saturday because
I was off Thursday and Friday. I'm still off Thursdays
for Fridays. And I went back to Saturday and go, yate,
you gotta listen to my podcast, and they go, no,
you have a podcast, Like I just told you I
was making a podcast, and so you know, no one knew.
So I just I just force fed all of my
(25:45):
co workers that you know, listen to my podcast. It's awesome,
listen to it. Listen to it, listen to it. And
I got maybe ten listeners on my first episode, and
I was like, oh wow, that's cool. Ten listeners. That's awesome.
And so the next week recorded changed my mic position around,
tweaked a garage band a little bit, and did that episode?
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Fired it off Saturday. Did you guys listen to my podcast?
Did you listen to my podcast? No? No, I didn't,
well you know what, listen to my podcast, but boo,
word of mouth just best Buy alone. I didn't talk
to anybody else. I didn't tell anybody else about it.
I kind of told some Facebook friends and things like that,
but uh no, it was just basically best Buy people
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and that started getting some traction. People were listening to it,
people gave me feedback that was cool, and I didn't
really get much after that, you know, like ten fifteen,
twenty was peak. Twenty was peak, and I just kept
doing that. And so that was my setup, was an
iPad and headphones. And the hardest part of that wasn't
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wasn't the software, it wasn't my equipment. It was pressing
that record button. That was the hardest thing to do
because I had hyped myself up. This is going to
be great, this is this is going to be awesome,
and then I forgot that this was for Alex, like
this is something I did for him so he can
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listen to this. It's not really for anybody else. And
I kind of got lost in that because of the excitement.
I wanted, you know, other people to listen to this.
But when I started talking about things that were personal
that the episode about Brooks was here, White Rabbit, those things,
I remembered who I was talking to, and that's I
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think that's when things started to kick off more. When
I talked about my grandparents, I I formatted in a
way where I was talking directly to Alex a lot
of times, and some people got turned off by that.
In the later episodes when people came on, more people
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alright listening, But initially chasing chant of VISUK was the
original name of the show. Was me talking directly to
Alex and the audience, you guys, the ones that are
listening now, the audience was more of people who sat
at the dining table next to us. I want to say,
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like Alex and I are having a dinner and we're chatting,
and he's listening, and I'm telling these stories and you
guys are just at the next table, just overhearing what
we're saying. And that's what I was shooting for. I
was trying to make it where I was speaking to
an audience of one, but I was speaking enough loudly
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enough so that the audience can hear it too and
feel like they were actually part of the conversation. And
that's how I went about it. And again I lost
my way a few times. I started pandering towards the
audience instead, and then I found my way back. I
found my way back to speaking directly to Alex. And
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this went on for about a month, and then I
realized I don't like I didn't like the sound I
could have done better, and so I tweaked. I tweaked
the sound more. I went on I went on YouTube,
and I found out people were like, oh, well, what's
the garage band setting for podcasters and how to make
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your your sound sound better? And so oh, excuse me yawning,
it's late, it's eleven o'clock. And so I did those
setups and then suddenly they sounded better. But it felt
like I could use a little bit more, and so
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I went and got a microphone. I went and got
myself a hyper ex solo cast, and it's the mic
that I used to this day. It's still the mic
that I use. At first, it was a desk sitting
mic where it just sat on the desk, and I
find that I would tap on the desk while I
was talking, kind of like a nervous tick because I
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am talking about some personal things, and so I would
just tap on the desk and the mic would pick
up on that. Luckily, I had garage band do a
little bit of background cleaning. But I found I can
find I find it in my ears that I can
hear the tapping, and so I got a mic arm
(30:29):
and so I got the mic arm, I've got my
Air three and I've got the hyper X solo cast,
and things are doing good. I was really enjoying myself,
and suddenly the fifteen to twenty became fifty. And then
(30:49):
Spotify suddenly goes, hey, if you can get fifty people
to listen to you and upload three episodes within the month,
we're gonna start paying you. And I have fifty listeners.
I have more than three episodes, and so I applied
from monetization and it was denied. It was denied because
(31:13):
they had just changed their requirements to now a hundred
listeners and three uploads per per month. And I go,
all right, you know what, you know what, bet, Bet,
I can do that. And so I started started calling
myself the number one podcast in Laos, just in Laos.
(31:39):
And that's because I figured, you know what, it's a
communist country. They're not going to let anybody listen to this.
I can claim this and no one else is gonna
claim it because no one else is listening to me,
you know, Like I said, I got fifty listeners and
it's just me talking to myself. And so suddenly, for
no reason, to be honest with you, the West Coast
(32:01):
started listening, and on Spotify you can actually see anchor
anchor Slash Spotify, you can actually see what state is
listening to You can then you can click on the
state and it shows what city's listening to you. And
so far it's been Massachusetts, New York, and New Hampshire.
That's all it's been. Suddenly I'm getting listeners in California,
I'm getting listeners in Colorado. I'm getting listeners in Florida. Weird.
(32:26):
And I was like, all right, all right, cool, and
I start saying hello to those people, go hey, Hello,
San Diego, Hello, like Kassimi Saint Cloud, and that for
some reason, that starts working. And so I got a
hundred listeners to listen to to this show on a
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regular basis. And then Crickets Crickets from Spotify, and that
really that really got me down. Like that, that depressed
me a lot, because I'm like, all right, you know,
not for nothing. I am saying these things like I'm
saying my life, I'm giving my life to these people,
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and I'm not seeing any return on investment here. And
that's when I went on a little hiatus. That was
the first time I went on hiatus. So season one
was done. I was like, all right, you know, I
don't know if I want to do this anymore. I
don't know if I want to chase this magical dragon
of being paid by Spotify and never actually catching the dragon,
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I guess to say. And again I forgot why I
was doing this. I was thinking more about the money,
which never came. And so I came back. I came
back and I go, you know what, you know, what's
screw it. Let's let's let's do this. Let's I've already
committed to doing this. I've already committed to telling my
(33:56):
stories to Alex. And so I went back to it.
I went back to season two and I gotten a
new iPad. I had gotten an iPad air m one
and I started doing the recordings there and it went
really well. I really liked it, but I wanted more control.
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I wanted more control of the sound. I want it more,
a more professional sound as opposed to the first couple.
The first season was very tiny, it's not a very echoey.
And that was the best I can do with my knowledge.
And so I started looking up new new software and
(34:40):
somebody told me about zoom Zoom had really good automatic
sound deadening, Like so if there was a car, I like,
for instance, my room that I'm in right now, the
room that i'm recording in faces a very busy road,
and you can hear cars go by, you can hear
cars zooming, you can hear cars exhausts going off, you know,
(35:02):
blah blah blah blah bah, and you know all that stuff.
And Zoom really takes care of that. They really kind
of almost erased that sound. And so I started recording
on Zoom and I really really liked the sound of Zoom,
and I also liked the ability to be able to
interview people. And that's when I started, And that's when
(35:25):
I started interviewing people. And yeah, it became fun again.
And all of a sudden, I noticed a surge in listeners.
Suddenly it went from from one hundred to two hundred
to three hundred, and now it's getting kind of serious,
Like I'm getting international listeners Canada, Germany, England, for some reason, Belgium, France.
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I got one listener in Russia. I don't know how
you're doing it, but you know what, I congratulate you
because you're still listening to me. There's still one person
in Russia. It's still listening to me, so Spaceiva, I guess,
I guess that's how do you say thank you? I'm
pretty sure that's it. I'll have to look it up,
but I'm pretty sure that's it. Be empty tea brick
(36:13):
and so things have gotten better. So suddenly I figured
I need to move this because I don't want I
don't want Spotify's algorithms. I don't want Spotify's trackers to
to tell me what I need to do to get listeners.
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I already know what I need to do to get listeners.
I need to not worry about my listeners. I need
to not worry about getting paid. And I decided to
move platforms. I moved over to Speaker, which I didn't
know at the time starts paying you day one. And
it was never about that because I had actually gotten
a sponsorship offer while I was at Spotify, and I
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turned it down because I didn't like the product. I
didn't really care for the product. I never used the product,
and I'm still haven't used the product. So I found
a long time ago that if you don't take their money,
they can't tell you what to do. So I decided
to say no to that sponsor. I could have gotten
paid for it, I could have shilled for it, but
(37:22):
that's not what this is about. And so I moved
over to Spreaker and they have a much better support.
They have paying day one, which I have gotten paid
several times over. Now cool and all, but it just
gave me more more of the ability to control my
(37:43):
own show again. And so I am. I'm still on
Spreaker to this moment. So if you guys are thinking
about starting a podcast, check out Spreaker and you can
still connect to Spotify. You can still connect to Apple.
iHeartRadio is actually owned by Spreaker, or Speaker owns iHeart
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Radio one way or another. So I still have my
shows distributed throughout wherever you get your podcast, and excuse me.
And so what I have to say is pressed that
record button. That's the hardest thing to do is to
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know what you want to talk about, sometimes wing it
like I'm winging it right now. I didn't write any
notes usually now that it's a cohesive show, now that
it's like a therapy session, I usually write notes on
what I want to talk about. But since so many
people have asked, how do I start a podcast. This
is it right here, this is it. This is press
(38:50):
the record button and go. It's like going to the gym.
No one wants to go to the gym. No one
is motivated to go to the gym until you're actually
at the gym, and then you're like, all right, damn it,
I'm gonna work out because I'm already here. Unless I
forget my headphones that I'm going home. But all you
gotta do is press that record button, start talking, and
(39:13):
then go from there. You're not gonna get success right away.
You're not going to unless you're you know, unless you're
a celebrity, or unless you have a lot of family
and co workers. It took me maybe three four months
before I finally start seeing like numbers per se. And
(39:33):
at one point this was like the eighteen thousandth podcast
in the world, say what you want, eighteen thousand in
the world. This podcast, this stupid podcast of me sitting
in a room ranting about how much I hate dairy
New Hampshire. So yeah, if you got some things to say,
(39:55):
like you can say it. This is your show. No one,
no one's gonna tell you what to do. No one's
gonna tell you what to say. It's it's you versus
you into the microphone. It doesn't matter what equipment you have.
I just picked up its iPhone season, So I just
picked up an iPhone Air, the new iPhone seventeen Air,
(40:18):
whatever you want to call it. It's got a Type
CEE DOC or Type CE charging port, and my microphone
is Type C. That's that's all you really need. Just
get that record button and don't make it about ego.
Don't make it about I'm gonna make money off of this,
because you're not gonna see that for a very long time.
(40:40):
I'm not making a living off of this I make.
I make. I make potato chip money, like I can.
I can buy potato chips with the money I make
from from spreaker. I could probably get myself a a
McDonald's meal if I use rewards points, you know, if
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that's what I'm gonna say, unless you're like high up there,
and even those people who are high up there don't
make as much as you think they do. And so
it's still weird. It's still surreal that there are people
listening to me that are outside my little circle there,
outside of my like coworkers and family, it's funny that,
(41:25):
you know, it's still weird that family is listening to
me and they're like, hey, I heard your show. Oh cool, thanks,
it's the first time you supported me ever. Cool. But
that's all I got to say about starting a podcast
is just doing it, just hitting the record button and
then just letting the words flow. I've talked many times
(41:48):
about writing notes. You can do that. You can do that.
You can definitely write notes. You can put little bullet points,
like sometimes I'll put bullet points on my phone and
I'll stare at them and I'll check them off as
I go. But basically, it's again just you versus the microphone,
and don't worry about the audience. The audience will come
(42:08):
to you. You just got to be interesting. I don't
know why people are interested in what I have to say,
but here they are, Hi, guys. And it's free. It's
not like it's charging you anything to start up a show,
to start up anything, it's takes time. Obviously, you have
to come up with a cool name. The Buddhist podcast
has already been taken. Chasing Chant, the VSOO has already
(42:31):
been taken. Any Chant the VISUUK has been taken. So no,
you can't make any chant the Visu podcast. I'd appreciate
it if you tried, but you can't. But oh, here's
the thing. Here's the weird part about it is last
week I told you I released a book. I have
a book. Now I am a published, published author. T
(42:52):
break tease con code. I wonder why, but uh yeah,
this is when it gets weird now because this podcast
is free. I'm not charging anybody to listen to this podcast,
and I get a decent amount of listeners I will say,
I won't say how many. But again, I get paid
(43:14):
monthly and Speaker doesn't pay you until you hit a
certain point monthly, so I do get paid monthly by Spreager.
But this is free. I'm not charging anybody. There's no
subscription fee. Like you guys can hear me every week
for free. But I released a book last week and
(43:36):
it's sold. It's selling. People are buying the book, and
I appreciate that. Please, if you get a chance, check
it out The Grove on Amazon. Available on Amazon, not
on Audible yet, I'm not that desperate, but it is
available as an ebook and as a soft book soft book,
soft cover, softcover book, and it's a nice gift. It
(43:57):
is a paranormal romance. Yes, maybe I'll read a passage
or something like that next week just to get people
into it. But here's the weird part is people are
buying this book. And at first I'm like, oh, oh wow,
somebody's buying my book. Cool. And then I'm like, oh,
(44:18):
wait a minute. People are buying this book like having
people listen to your podcast for free. Awesome, awesome feeling.
Like you see the numbers and the spikes and the
analytics and you're like, that is fantastic. People are listening
to me, And then you look at the book. When
you write a book, you can look on Amazon of
(44:41):
how many people have ordered your book, and how many
people have ordered it softcover, how many people have ordered ebooks.
And I'll tell you right now, if somebody bought an ebook,
if somebody bought my ebook, The Grove, available on Amazon
dot com, if somebody had bought the ebook, I get
seven that. If somebody had bought it boughten, if somebody
(45:04):
had bought a soft cover, I get sixty percent of that.
Because you know, the book's gotta be printed and it's
gonna be shipped on all this other stuff. I gotta
pay middlemen, so cool, I get it. But all of
my orders lately have been soft covers, like people want
a physical copy of this. And it's weird to me
because now people are paying for my words, which is weird,
(45:26):
very strange, like a guy who who's the guy who
started a podcast because he was losing his mind essentially
and is just talking nonsense into a microphone and you know,
ums and stutters and and all this stuff. Suddenly people
are paying to read my words and I still can't
(45:49):
get a grip of that. That that is still to
me very strange, and I appreciate it. God, believe me,
I appreciate it. So keep doing it, keep it up,
don't stop. Keep buying those books, buy my book, but
definitely check out uh my YouTube channel too. Yeah. I
(46:10):
started a history YouTube channel called the Random Facts of
Boredom and it's only got one video right now, and
that's fine. I again, these are things that I enjoy doing.
I'm probably going to release another book very soon. I'm
(46:31):
almost done with this one. It's just flowing through me.
It's it's a kid's book this time. So the first
one was Paranormal Romance. You know, for all the for
all the homeschooler moms to read on the playground while
they're they're knowing their kids. This one, this one's actually
going to be a kid book. It's called Wander Rust.
That's just a working title. It's about a kid named
(46:52):
Rusty whose mom has to go to another state. It's
an emergency, she has to go to another state, so
she drops him off with his uncle, who is a loser,
I guess would probably be the best way to put it.
His uncle is one of those, you know, adult children,
(47:14):
kind of like every Vince Vaughan movie. And the uncle
doesn't have any money to take rust anywhere, Rusty anywhere,
and so he starts telling him these magnificent stories about
where he's been, like, he tells him about all the
adventures he's ever done. And Rusty, being an impressionable kid,
is imagining this in his head and he starts taking
(47:38):
a shining to his uncle, and his uncle starts noticing this,
and so the stories he's telling become more fanciful, bigger, like,
more vibrant. And it's because his uncle is telling him
stories that he has seen in movies and TV and
video games that he's experienced, and he's never actually been
(48:00):
to any of these places, but he's just making them
up as he goes because that's that's what he knows.
And he's seeing that it's entertaining Rusty and so it
becomes a magical journey sort of thing. And so that's
where I'm working at right now. As you can see,
I already got the outline. I just have to finish shit.
(48:20):
That's the hard part. It took me two years to
finish the groves. So we'll see, we'll see. But yeah,
other than that, I think that's all I got. I
got the new iPhone, the iPhone seventeen air. I am reading. Oh,
I am reading for the first time. Actually, I didn't
even know this was a thing. I am reading the
(48:42):
histories by hero Dos. And if you guys don't know
who Herodidos is, I knew of him, I didn't really
know who he was. I knew of the man. I
knew that he was a historian, I didn't know he
was the historian. He was the first historian. He writes
about his time during the Greek Persian War, and so
(49:09):
he was actually the first war correspondent as well, And
so I just thought that was fantastic for somebody who
loves history. I never knew what this man was and
so I'm reading that right now, and it is a
thick book. It's probably gonna take me a while. It is.
It is about six hundred and eighty or so pages,
so it's gonna take me a while. And so thirty
(49:29):
minutes a day, like I recommend, it probably takes me
about a week, maybe more. I'll be honest, it's probably
gonna take me a month. But yeah, that's all I
gotta say. If you guys are thinking about starting a podcast,
just do it. The more you think about doing it,
the more you talk about doing it, you're not gonna
do it. You're just gonna talk. You're just gonna be
that person who sits on the couch and tells your
(49:52):
friends that you know, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna
do this, and then they're just like, yeah, you should,
and then after a while that you'll shut up. You're
not going to So just do it. There's there's really
nothing to stop you accept that first time. Once you
click that record button for the first time, that's it.
That is that is a new that is the gateway.
(50:14):
Once you step through that gateway. It is a drug
like it's I don't know. I don't know what it
is like. I can't stop talking. I don't know what
I'm even talking about sometimes, but once I get there,
it's it's it's showtime, and I like to say I deliver.
I don't know. I don't know. Way, single guy in
in Russia? How am I doing? How am I doing?
(50:37):
Let me hear, because I've never heard from you. You've
heard from me. I've never heard from you, the one
guy in Russia? I want to know? How am I
doing over there? How's how's my demographic? What's my numbers?
Is anybody else listening to me? Is like, are you
guys huddled around listening to me? Are you even allowed
to listen to me? How are you listening to me?
I want to know, reach out to me. I really
want to know. And that's about it. So thank you
(51:02):
for listening. Thank you for those who bought my book
The Crow available on Amazon. Please please buy more, buy
some of her friends. It's really cheap, it's affordable. You
know what Christmas is coming up? Great stocking stuffers. I
sized it, I sized it and formatted it to be
able to fit in socks. True story. I'm lying, but
(51:25):
I bet you it works. I bet you it fits
in socks. So try it, try it, try it, Try
buying it and then putting it in socks and let
me know. Guy in Russia, Guy in Russia, buy my
book and put it in a sock and let me
know how it is. But I appreciate everybody for listening.
Please check out my YouTube channel, please buy my book,
(51:49):
and please continue to listen for free. And so as always, guys, Bobine,
I'll talk to you next week. By
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Buddhist AF Podcast. I am
your host, Annoying chance of VISUK, and with me is
my Buddhist AF coffee mug, which has been pretty much
turned into a tea mug because I have tea again
and I'm I'm super happy. You have no idea how
much I love drinking tea, and usually it's peppermint tea
(00:24):
or black tea. Lately, I have been really really in
love with celante and I think I talked about it
a few weeks ago, a couple of weeks ago, and
I have just been completely all in celan tea and
got it with me here super hot. I like my
tea really really hot. Some people like it cold, some
(00:46):
people like it warm lukewarm where they can just drink
it normally. I like my tea really hot where I
have to take like really annoying loud slurps of it
and just black, no sugar, no h no milk, no cream,
none of that, just straight selon tea. And yeah, that's
how I like it. So if I take a tea break,
(01:08):
I will announce that I take a tea break, and yeah,
you know what, we can now take a tea Break Together,
pretty uh, pretty laid back episode this week. I didn't
really write anything because I got a A few times now,
I've had people write in leave me messages asking how
(01:31):
they can get started in podcasting. It's it's it seems
really easy, but it kind of isn't. And I'll tell
you why, because when I first started, let's see, let's
see how I actually got started. I had planned on
making a podcast for years, years, years and years. One
(01:53):
of my best friends, John Sumino shout out to. John
Sumino had done a podcast, basically a sports podcast when
his daughter was born, and I would I would listen
to this podcast and he would do it while his
daughter's like, you know, cooing in the other room, and
I just thought that was pretty funny that, you know,
I'd listened to his podcast while working out and then
(02:14):
I hear like a baby crying or something like that,
and that was pretty funny and I really enjoyed it.
And John stopped doing it after a while. He kind
of like branched off. Other people were doing podcasts on
his show and he had stopped, and so I stopped
listening for a bit, and it kind of just went
to the back back burner. And then I h it
(02:37):
came up again, and I started started really thinking about
doing it again, because you know, I just wanted to.
I just wanted to do something different. Everybody had everybody
had an Instagram, everybody had a Snapchat, everybody had a Facebook,
and I just wanted to express myself in other ways.
(02:58):
I speak pretty well, I like to say, aside from
the ums and the pauses. But it again, it's character,
and so I just wanted to get my voice out there,
and I wanted to have some fun. And so I
didn't do it after a while because I started. I
moved from New York to New England February twenty ten,
(03:23):
and I just moved everything aside. I got really deep
into working. I was a head chef at a very
well known restaurant in Chumpsford, Massachusetts, and so I just
dug deep into that, and of course I got burnt out.
It could, because that's that's what happens when you when
you just put your head down and then just go
hard in the restaurant business, and you see faces come
(03:46):
and go, you have to train new faces, and then
those faces leave, and then you have to train new ones,
and it just gets to you over and over, and
it's just again, you don't really get to do the
thing you like to do when you're a head chef,
especially in my position, I didn't actually get to do
much cooking. I showed how those things were done, and
(04:06):
then I had to coach, I had to watch. I
couldn't jump in. I'm one of those people that in
this you know, bothered my then girlfriend now wife Mary.
Like it's like when you're not even trying to show
your girlfriend how to play a video game and you're
telling her like, oh, you just press this button, press
this button, and she's doing it wrong, and you're like,
just give me the wrong you know, just give me
the remote, let me show you how it's done, and
then you just start doing it yourself. And then that
(04:29):
person who's trying to learn doesn't learn anything. And so
I had to step back and watch these people that
I've trained that are doing little things here and there.
I mean, they're not doing anything wrong, they're not doing
anything wrong, they're doing everything right, but they're not doing
it my way, the way that I taught them, the
(04:51):
way that I eventually learned how to do that I
was taught, but I learned how to do it better,
I want to say, and they were doing it. In
my eyes, they were doing it wrong, and so I
had to jump in and go here, let me show you.
And then eventually I just take the knife from them,
and then I just start doing it with myself. And
again I got burnt out because I was trying to
(05:11):
do too much, and so I didn't feel good. I
wasn't feeling really good. It wasn't anything like my heart
or anything like that. I just knew that I wasn't
feeling good. I was feeling foggy. My brain was just
out there. I had quit smoking by now, quit drinking kinda.
(05:33):
So I just wanted to get checked out. And so
I told my doctor that, you know, I was just
I wasn't getting any headaches, but I was getting memory loss.
I was feeling a lot more overwhelmed, a lot more
stressed over the littlest things. And I would have panic
(05:53):
attacks and I wouldn't tell anybody, obviously. I was just,
you know, because it's taboo and you're Asian to tell
people your feelings, and so I kept it all in.
I was having panic attacks. I would rush into the bathroom.
I would splash cold water on my face, and I
would just sit there and stare at myself as water
was dripping down and drying, and then I would just
(06:15):
splash more cold water in my face, rinse, and repeat.
And so I just felt like I was in a fog,
like a fugue, Like I knew I was in the moment,
but I wasn't in the moment. It was kind of
like I can see myself moving, and I could feel
myself moving, but it was constantly like slow motion, kind
of like when you're in the water and you're trying
to run and you're trying your hardest, but you're not
(06:36):
really going that far. So I felt that, and so
my doctor had ordered a cat scan on my brain.
So they scanned my cat and they found some spots,
some spots in my brain that were dark. They didn't
tell me if they were dead spots, but I mean,
(06:57):
come on, they're black spots in your brain. And so
my doctor had sent this off to a specialist. And
at this time, I was working at an Asian restaurant
and so I didn't have health care. Let's be honest here,
when you work under the table like I did, you
(07:17):
make a lot of money, but you don't have any protection.
You don't have retirement, you don't have health care, so
everything is out of pocket. And so this visit to
a doctor, it was bad enough for me to actually
go see a doctor, and then once I got there,
it was pretty much out of my hands. He had
ordered a cat scan, and so I got that done
(07:39):
and I waited like a week or so, and they said, yes,
mister Chantabisuk, we found some spots in your brain, you
know from what you told us. You know, multiple multiple concussions,
and a lot of it was in the front. A
lot of it was in the front of your brain,
(08:00):
and so that's where memory is, that's where a lot
of important things and your speech is. And so they
they were they were thinking. They didn't really say it outright,
but he kind of tossed it out that I was
a candidate for early dementia. And so that didn't really
(08:25):
affect me much because I didn't really know what dementia was,
to be honest with you, and I didn't care at
the time. Again, I was still at that point where
it was just me, me more me, like I had
my girlfriend. I loved my girlfriend, my now wife by
the way, if she's listening, But that was just me
(08:47):
and her like she was still young, beautiful, like she
can could a got with anybody. If I had croaked,
then still can now to be honest with you, still
peace as but uh no, so I didn't care at
that time. So again very expensive. They asked to follow up,
(09:08):
but it's completely ghosted him. And then uh years later
I had Alex, my happy little surprise, and so it
flashed back, you know, when I was holding him, and
then real briefly, I looked down and I forgot why
(09:29):
I was holding him. It's something like something had flashed.
I was walking into his room, I was still holding him,
and then I next thing, you know, I'm standing against
the wall, like staring at the wall, and I looked
down and there's you know, my baby, my son, and
I forgot how I got there. I forgot how I
(09:50):
got from his doorway to staring at the wall, like
almost walking into the wall. And so that got me
remembering that I had this thing that happened a couple
of years ago, and so I dug really deep into
like alternate medicines because I didn't want to. I didn't
want to leave those stones unturned. And so when I
(10:12):
did MMA, I I learned as much as I could
about how to be strong without getting bigger. Because I
fought at one forty five. I didn't want to get bigger.
I wanted to use all my muscles like farm you know,
you've heard of farmer's strength, where it's like the skinny
person could just like just heoke up haystacks. And so
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I tried to learn as much as I could about strength,
and so I learned gymnastics. I learned how to be
really flexible. I learned how to tumble. I was at
the time living in Rochester, and I was Rochester, New York,
and I was fortunate enough to be not too far
away from a strip club, and I had met a
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stripper by chance. Not not me, you know, not like hey,
let's let's go meet up. I managed to meet a
stripper my chance, and off the cuff, I was just like, hey,
Paul dancing, Like how do you do that stuff? And
she uh, she said she actually teaches a class at
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at YMCA on how to pole dance. And I was like, wait, wait,
how do you how do you do that? And she goes, oh,
I bring my own pole. Wow, that's that's amazing. You
bring up there's a portable pole. I didn't even know
there was a portable pole. And she goes, yes, I
bring my own pole and everybody gets a chance to
do this, and I'm like, you know what, yeah, yeah,
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why not? Why not? Like I need how do you
climb up a metal pole? You know? But when you don't,
you look like you don't have any muscular trick And
so she was very beatique and she's like, yeah, I'll
show you boom boo boom, And you know, I went,
I could never climb up the poole. I can't, to
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be honest with you, to be perfectly honest, we do.
At my peak, I was one forty five. I was
probably twelve percent body fat. You could see the veins
in all around me and on on my abs. I
had abs at one point and you saw veins going
across it, which was really creepy. But at my peak,
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I couldn't do a single pull up, not one. I
mean I can do the jump pull up where you
jump on the bar for the first time, you pull
yourself up and then you drop down and then you
can't do it again. Yeah, that that was me. I
can't to this day. Obviously, I'm not in very good
shape anymore. But at my peak when I was fighting
three and oh, by the way, couldn't do couldn't do
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a single pull up t brick. And so I learned
how to do that. And so I dug myself into
alternate medicines on like memory loss, on finding out how
to regrill the brain. I guess it's the best way
to put it. And so I did a lot of reading.
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And reading helps. Reading really does help if you can
try to read half an hour a day, just read
and not on a screen either, like try to read
an actual book, magazine, whatever, paper, try to read some
sort of paper. I remember being a kid and I
didn't have a phone. I used to read the back
of a shampoo bottle when I was taking a poo.
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You know. So, like reading is very helpful. It helps
you exercise your brain. And like I said, reading at
least half an hour a day is great. And like
not scrolling, not doom scrolling, not reading comments, but actual reading.
So yeah, I kind of did like a lot of reading,
and so I kind of trained myself to remember things
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in weird ways. Like I remember when I was a kid,
I went to a theme park one time, and in Rochester,
New York, it was called Seabreez. If you guys are
from Rochester, New York, Sea Breeze and I went there
when I was about five six ish. My great aunt
had taken me and we went from the house on
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Arch Street all the way to Sea Breeze, and I
had a really good time. I had such a good
time there, I asked my dad to take me, and
so my mom and my dad got in the car.
For some reason, they believed me that I knew where
I was going, and so we got in the car
and I started calling out landmarks. I said, all right,
there should be a McDonald's close to here, and my
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dad knew where the McDonald's was. So he took a
left out of Art Street, going towards East High School,
and I said, okay, from the McDonald's, you take another left.
And so you see a bald man standing at a
bus stop, and my dad goes, okay, So we get
to McDonald's. There's a bus stop up about half a
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mile down the road, and so you know what, he
took a lift down to the bus stop where there
wasn't a bald man standing there at that time, but
there was a bus stop there. And this is on
Culver Road, by the way, and if you live in
Rochester and you know where Sea Breeze is, it is
off a Culver Road. And so I just kept going.
All right, so you go here and then you're gonna
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see a stop sign that's next to a CVS. And
sure enough, yes, there was a CVS on Culver Road.
So we just kept going all the way to the end,
and then we hit Duran Eastman Beach. That's where I
got lost. That's where I forgot where to go. But
I had actually directed my parents to the beach for
the first time. They never knew that the Duran Eastman
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Beach was there, and so we just ended up going
to the beach and we had a great time. And
that's how I start remembering things. I don't remember street names,
I don't remember faces, but I remember things and moments
of when those things occurred. So that's how my brain
works now. Strangely, so I remember moments like I work
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for a multi billion dollar telecommunication company right now. I
don't remember the customers, but I remember the moments, what
they were doing, why they were there, what they were
talking about, why they were yelling at each other and
why they hated their previous cell phone company, Like I
remember that. I don't remember their names, I don't remember
whatever it is it is. But from that moment, I
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can piece things together, like, Okay, now I know why
are you here. Now I know what we did. Now
I know who your daughter is, who lives in Kalamazoo.
So we'll go from there. And so I can fill
in the gaps that way. So I've trained my brain
to retrain my brain actually to fill in the gaps
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like that now, as opposed to trying to remember things
that I can't remember. So going back to podcasting, I
got really scared when that happened. When I just stood
there at the wall with Alex T Brick, that's hot.
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And so I decided to formulate what I was gonna do.
I was I was thinking about, you know, just doing
a podcast where I would just talk about random things,
talk about sports, talk about cars. I realized I didn't
know enough about that stuff, but I did know about myself,
and I think that was important. I got scared, I,
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you know, a candidate for early dementia. I'm going to
forget things when I get older, maybe, And so I decided, Hey,
I have a young son, he's a baby. Why don't
why don't I record my stories? Why don't I record
what I remember about me, about my parents, about my grandparents,
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about family members, because maybe I'm not there, maybe when
he gets older, when he starts questioning things. Right now,
I'm Alex's hero, Like he is happy to see me.
He is just the light of my life. He makes
me happy, he makes me energetic when I'm tired. He
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is the turbo boost in my car. And so you know,
eventually I'm not going to get that. Eventually he's just
going to be like whatever, dad blah, you know, and
so eventually he's going to come for a circle. Like
I didn't care about my family history. I didn't care
about you know, where we came from. And I didn't
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really care about the culture. I didn't want to go
to temples. I didn't want to go to any of
those because all that stuff was boring to me. I
didn't like being around big crowds. I didn't like talking
about Oh, you're right, you remember me I used to
hold you when you were a baby. No, no, I don't.
I barely remember what I ate for breakfast. So that
stuff I didn't care about, and you know, rebelliousness. I
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didn't want to talk to anybody. I didn't feel like
I should talk to anybody because I was a loner
my whole life. And at some point, when I got
a family, when I started taking family more seriously, I
started to question, I started to ask questions, and I
wanted to know more about my family. And suddenly my
family became everything to me, especially when I had a family,
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when I married Mary, when I had Alex, suddenly one
became three and all of a sudden, family was the
most important thing to me. I became Vin Diesel, I
became Dominic Turetto family. And so I wanted Alex to
know about his family. I want Alex to know about
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his culture that isn't American. And so I decided this
was probably the best thing to do is to make
a podcast out of it. And it was. Again, it
was for an audience of one. It was for Alex.
And so I told my co workers about this. When
I was working at the big blue box electronic box
store best Buy. I can say best Buy now because
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I don't work for them anymore and they don't pay me.
So I told my co workers are best Buy that
I was gonna make a podcast, and they were all like,
all right, yeah, sure, sure, yeah, you know whatever, cause
I I was a jokester. I was a joker. I was,
you know, enjoying my time there. I was having a
lot of fun and a lot of I made a
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lot of friends there, friends, And so I said, all right,
I'm gonna do a podcast. I'm gonna here's the reason why,
you know, I want Alex to know, you know, his
his family story and what have you. And so I
didn't know what to do. I didn't know how to
get a podcast going. And so from what I gathered
on YouTube, you just need to have a microphone and
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some sort of program to record you. And so I
had a I had an iPad Air three at the time,
the one with the lightning still lightning charger, and it
was ten point five, I believe, yeah. And I had
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a gaming headset. I had a gaming headset because I
wanted to be a streamer at one point. And then
I realized once I started streaming that I didn't want
to talk while playing video games. I was concentrated on
the video games. That's my autism. I'm just very concentrated,
and so I didn't want to talk. I didn't want
to engage with anybody while well gaming. I didn't even
like playing just casual multiplayer game. I didn't really talk
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to any of my partners. I talked to Corey once
in a while when we played Redd Redemption online, which
by the way, is probably one of my favorite online
games until Rockstar just gave up on it. And so
I had a gaming headset. It was a trying to remember, Oh,
actually it's right over here. It's a Razor back Shark
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version two with the THCHX adapter, by the way, So
I did get the top end headphones, and I had
the iPad air and I started using garage band to record,
and I had no idea what the heck I was doing,
but I plugged the headphones into the iPad and I
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just hit record and I just started talking. And the
first time I started talking, I hated how I sounded.
I hated how I sounded in the headphones, and so
I stopped. I stopped the recording. I listened to it,
and it just sounded awful. And so I just put
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one ear over, I took one part off, and you
know how, I just hung one ear over the over
my head, and so I had my ears uncovered, and
then I started talking. And then I liked that better.
I didn't sound like I had a stuffy news. I
didn't sound like I was in a tunnel. And to
this day, I don't wear headphones to this day, like
I'm talking to a mic without any headphones. And that
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sounded a lot better. And so I listened back to it,
and it still sounded weird. And it turns out that
I had my microphone turned away from me. I couldn't
tell because it was it was a little, you know,
headset microphone, but apparently it was directional. So I had
to record all of that over again. I had just
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talked about my history, which is the first time we
when we left Thailand, you know. I talked about my
village in Thailand, Ubu and Ratchatani, and I spilled my guts,
you know, and I listened back to it and just
sounded awful when I go, you know what, that was
about an hour. That was an hour of my life.
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And when I first started recording, I winged it. I
recorded Thursday morning because Alex was at school, and I
published it when I was done that was it. I
didn't listen back to it much. I mean, I listened
back to the first one and I was happy with it,
and so I was like, all right, you know what,
it sounded a little weird. It sounded like I was
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in a ten can. But this is first episode out
and went and I published it through Anchor at the time,
and Anchor was kind of in the process of being
acquired by Spotify and Tea Brick, and so I didn't
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know about monetization. I didn't know about any of that.
All I know is I had published it through Anchor,
and then I started learning about RSS feeds and so
from then I started publishing from Anchor to Spotify because
at the time they weren't merged yet. I published through Spotify.
I published through Apple podcast, Google Podcasts at the time,
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and then Amazon, which I completely forgot about. I'd be
honest with you, I completely forgot I broadcasted through Amazon
until about two weeks ago when I found out that
the buddhistaf podcast is available on Audible. That's audible dot com.
I'm not getting paid I should be. But so that
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was the first episode and I went back the next
day the Friday, because I recorded on a Thursday. I
released on a Thursday, and I went back Saturday because
I was off Thursday and Friday. I'm still off Thursdays
for Fridays. And I went back to Saturday and go, yate,
you gotta listen to my podcast, and they go, no,
you have a podcast, Like I just told you I
was making a podcast, and so you know, no one knew.
So I just I just force fed all of my
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co workers that you know, listen to my podcast. It's awesome,
listen to it. Listen to it, listen to it. And
I got maybe ten listeners on my first episode, and
I was like, oh wow, that's cool. Ten listeners. That's awesome.
And so the next week recorded changed my mic position around,
tweaked a garage band a little bit, and did that episode?
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Fired it off Saturday. Did you guys listen to my podcast?
Did you listen to my podcast? No? No, I didn't,
well you know what, listen to my podcast, but boo,
word of mouth just best Buy alone. I didn't talk
to anybody else. I didn't tell anybody else about it.
I kind of told some Facebook friends and things like that,
but uh no, it was just basically best Buy people
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and that started getting some traction. People were listening to it,
people gave me feedback that was cool, and I didn't
really get much after that, you know, like ten fifteen,
twenty was peak. Twenty was peak, and I just kept
doing that. And so that was my setup, was an
iPad and headphones. And the hardest part of that wasn't
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wasn't the software, it wasn't my equipment. It was pressing
that record button. That was the hardest thing to do
because I had hyped myself up. This is going to
be great, this is this is going to be awesome,
and then I forgot that this was for Alex, like
this is something I did for him so he can
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listen to this. It's not really for anybody else. And
I kind of got lost in that because of the excitement.
I wanted, you know, other people to listen to this.
But when I started talking about things that were personal
that the episode about Brooks was here, White Rabbit, those things,
I remembered who I was talking to, and that's I
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think that's when things started to kick off more. When
I talked about my grandparents, I I formatted in a
way where I was talking directly to Alex a lot
of times, and some people got turned off by that.
In the later episodes when people came on, more people
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alright listening, But initially chasing chant of VISUK was the
original name of the show. Was me talking directly to
Alex and the audience, you guys, the ones that are
listening now, the audience was more of people who sat
at the dining table next to us. I want to say,
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like Alex and I are having a dinner and we're chatting,
and he's listening, and I'm telling these stories and you
guys are just at the next table, just overhearing what
we're saying. And that's what I was shooting for. I
was trying to make it where I was speaking to
an audience of one, but I was speaking enough loudly
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enough so that the audience can hear it too and
feel like they were actually part of the conversation. And
that's how I went about it. And again I lost
my way a few times. I started pandering towards the
audience instead, and then I found my way back. I
found my way back to speaking directly to Alex. And
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this went on for about a month, and then I
realized I don't like I didn't like the sound I
could have done better, and so I tweaked. I tweaked
the sound more. I went on I went on YouTube,
and I found out people were like, oh, well, what's
the garage band setting for podcasters and how to make
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your your sound sound better? And so oh, excuse me yawning,
it's late, it's eleven o'clock. And so I did those
setups and then suddenly they sounded better. But it felt
like I could use a little bit more, and so
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I went and got a microphone. I went and got
myself a hyper ex solo cast, and it's the mic
that I used to this day. It's still the mic
that I use. At first, it was a desk sitting
mic where it just sat on the desk, and I
find that I would tap on the desk while I
was talking, kind of like a nervous tick because I
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am talking about some personal things, and so I would
just tap on the desk and the mic would pick
up on that. Luckily, I had garage band do a
little bit of background cleaning. But I found I can
find I find it in my ears that I can
hear the tapping, and so I got a mic arm
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and so I got the mic arm, I've got my
Air three and I've got the hyper X solo cast,
and things are doing good. I was really enjoying myself,
and suddenly the fifteen to twenty became fifty. And then
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Spotify suddenly goes, hey, if you can get fifty people
to listen to you and upload three episodes within the month,
we're gonna start paying you. And I have fifty listeners.
I have more than three episodes, and so I applied
from monetization and it was denied. It was denied because
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they had just changed their requirements to now a hundred
listeners and three uploads per per month. And I go,
all right, you know what, you know what, bet, Bet,
I can do that. And so I started started calling
myself the number one podcast in Laos, just in Laos.
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And that's because I figured, you know what, it's a
communist country. They're not going to let anybody listen to this.
I can claim this and no one else is gonna
claim it because no one else is listening to me,
you know, Like I said, I got fifty listeners and
it's just me talking to myself. And so suddenly, for
no reason, to be honest with you, the West Coast
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started listening, and on Spotify you can actually see anchor
anchor Slash Spotify, you can actually see what state is
listening to You can then you can click on the
state and it shows what city's listening to you. And
so far it's been Massachusetts, New York, and New Hampshire.
That's all it's been. Suddenly I'm getting listeners in California,
I'm getting listeners in Colorado. I'm getting listeners in Florida. Weird.
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And I was like, all right, all right, cool, and
I start saying hello to those people, go hey, Hello,
San Diego, Hello, like Kassimi Saint Cloud, and that for
some reason, that starts working. And so I got a
hundred listeners to listen to to this show on a
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regular basis. And then Crickets Crickets from Spotify, and that
really that really got me down. Like that, that depressed
me a lot, because I'm like, all right, you know,
not for nothing. I am saying these things like I'm
saying my life, I'm giving my life to these people,
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and I'm not seeing any return on investment here. And
that's when I went on a little hiatus. That was
the first time I went on hiatus. So season one
was done. I was like, all right, you know, I
don't know if I want to do this anymore. I
don't know if I want to chase this magical dragon
of being paid by Spotify and never actually catching the dragon,
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I guess to say. And again I forgot why I
was doing this. I was thinking more about the money,
which never came. And so I came back. I came
back and I go, you know what, you know, what's
screw it. Let's let's let's do this. Let's I've already
committed to doing this. I've already committed to telling my
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stories to Alex. And so I went back to it.
I went back to season two and I gotten a
new iPad. I had gotten an iPad air m one
and I started doing the recordings there and it went
really well. I really liked it, but I wanted more control.
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I wanted more control of the sound. I want it more,
a more professional sound as opposed to the first couple.
The first season was very tiny, it's not a very echoey.
And that was the best I can do with my knowledge.
And so I started looking up new new software and
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somebody told me about zoom Zoom had really good automatic
sound deadening, Like so if there was a car, I like,
for instance, my room that I'm in right now, the
room that i'm recording in faces a very busy road,
and you can hear cars go by, you can hear
cars zooming, you can hear cars exhausts going off, you know,
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blah blah blah blah bah, and you know all that stuff.
And Zoom really takes care of that. They really kind
of almost erased that sound. And so I started recording
on Zoom and I really really liked the sound of Zoom,
and I also liked the ability to be able to
interview people. And that's when I started, And that's when
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I started interviewing people. And yeah, it became fun again.
And all of a sudden, I noticed a surge in listeners.
Suddenly it went from from one hundred to two hundred
to three hundred, and now it's getting kind of serious,
Like I'm getting international listeners Canada, Germany, England, for some reason, Belgium, France.
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I got one listener in Russia. I don't know how
you're doing it, but you know what, I congratulate you
because you're still listening to me. There's still one person
in Russia. It's still listening to me, so Spaceiva, I guess,
I guess that's how do you say thank you? I'm
pretty sure that's it. I'll have to look it up,
but I'm pretty sure that's it. Be empty tea brick
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and so things have gotten better. So suddenly I figured
I need to move this because I don't want I
don't want Spotify's algorithms. I don't want Spotify's trackers to
to tell me what I need to do to get listeners.
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I already know what I need to do to get listeners.
I need to not worry about my listeners. I need
to not worry about getting paid. And I decided to
move platforms. I moved over to Speaker, which I didn't
know at the time starts paying you day one. And
it was never about that because I had actually gotten
a sponsorship offer while I was at Spotify, and I
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turned it down because I didn't like the product. I
didn't really care for the product. I never used the product,
and I'm still haven't used the product. So I found
a long time ago that if you don't take their money,
they can't tell you what to do. So I decided
to say no to that sponsor. I could have gotten
paid for it, I could have shilled for it, but
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that's not what this is about. And so I moved
over to Spreaker and they have a much better support.
They have paying day one, which I have gotten paid
several times over. Now cool and all, but it just
gave me more more of the ability to control my
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own show again. And so I am. I'm still on
Spreaker to this moment. So if you guys are thinking
about starting a podcast, check out Spreaker and you can
still connect to Spotify. You can still connect to Apple.
iHeartRadio is actually owned by Spreaker, or Speaker owns iHeart
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Radio one way or another. So I still have my
shows distributed throughout wherever you get your podcast, and excuse me.
And so what I have to say is pressed that
record button. That's the hardest thing to do is to
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know what you want to talk about, sometimes wing it
like I'm winging it right now. I didn't write any
notes usually now that it's a cohesive show, now that
it's like a therapy session, I usually write notes on
what I want to talk about. But since so many
people have asked, how do I start a podcast. This
is it right here, this is it. This is press
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the record button and go. It's like going to the gym.
No one wants to go to the gym. No one
is motivated to go to the gym until you're actually
at the gym, and then you're like, all right, damn it,
I'm gonna work out because I'm already here. Unless I
forget my headphones that I'm going home. But all you
gotta do is press that record button, start talking, and
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then go from there. You're not gonna get success right away.
You're not going to unless you're you know, unless you're
a celebrity, or unless you have a lot of family
and co workers. It took me maybe three four months
before I finally start seeing like numbers per se. And
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at one point this was like the eighteen thousandth podcast
in the world, say what you want, eighteen thousand in
the world. This podcast, this stupid podcast of me sitting
in a room ranting about how much I hate dairy
New Hampshire. So yeah, if you got some things to say,
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like you can say it. This is your show. No one,
no one's gonna tell you what to do. No one's
gonna tell you what to say. It's it's you versus
you into the microphone. It doesn't matter what equipment you have.
I just picked up its iPhone season, So I just
picked up an iPhone Air, the new iPhone seventeen Air,
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whatever you want to call it. It's got a Type
CEE DOC or Type CE charging port, and my microphone
is Type C. That's that's all you really need. Just
get that record button and don't make it about ego.
Don't make it about I'm gonna make money off of this,
because you're not gonna see that for a very long time.
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I'm not making a living off of this I make.
I make. I make potato chip money, like I can.
I can buy potato chips with the money I make
from from spreaker. I could probably get myself a a
McDonald's meal if I use rewards points, you know, if
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that's what I'm gonna say, unless you're like high up there,
and even those people who are high up there don't
make as much as you think they do. And so
it's still weird. It's still surreal that there are people
listening to me that are outside my little circle there,
outside of my like coworkers and family, it's funny that,
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you know, it's still weird that family is listening to
me and they're like, hey, I heard your show. Oh cool, thanks,
it's the first time you supported me ever. Cool. But
that's all I got to say about starting a podcast
is just doing it, just hitting the record button and
then just letting the words flow. I've talked many times
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about writing notes. You can do that. You can do that.
You can definitely write notes. You can put little bullet points,
like sometimes I'll put bullet points on my phone and
I'll stare at them and I'll check them off as
I go. But basically, it's again just you versus the microphone,
and don't worry about the audience. The audience will come
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to you. You just got to be interesting. I don't
know why people are interested in what I have to say,
but here they are, Hi, guys. And it's free. It's
not like it's charging you anything to start up a show,
to start up anything, it's takes time. Obviously, you have
to come up with a cool name. The Buddhist podcast
has already been taken. Chasing Chant, the VSOO has already
(42:31):
been taken. Any Chant the VISUUK has been taken. So no,
you can't make any chant the Visu podcast. I'd appreciate
it if you tried, but you can't. But oh, here's
the thing. Here's the weird part about it is last
week I told you I released a book. I have
a book. Now I am a published, published author. T
(42:52):
break tease con code. I wonder why, but uh yeah,
this is when it gets weird now because this podcast
is free. I'm not charging anybody to listen to this podcast,
and I get a decent amount of listeners I will say,
I won't say how many. But again, I get paid
(43:14):
monthly and Speaker doesn't pay you until you hit a
certain point monthly, so I do get paid monthly by Spreager.
But this is free. I'm not charging anybody. There's no
subscription fee. Like you guys can hear me every week
for free. But I released a book last week and
(43:36):
it's sold. It's selling. People are buying the book, and
I appreciate that. Please, if you get a chance, check
it out The Grove on Amazon. Available on Amazon, not
on Audible yet, I'm not that desperate, but it is
available as an ebook and as a soft book soft book,
soft cover, softcover book, and it's a nice gift. It
(43:57):
is a paranormal romance. Yes, maybe I'll read a passage
or something like that next week just to get people
into it. But here's the weird part is people are
buying this book. And at first I'm like, oh, oh wow,
somebody's buying my book. Cool. And then I'm like, oh,
(44:18):
wait a minute. People are buying this book like having
people listen to your podcast for free. Awesome, awesome feeling.
Like you see the numbers and the spikes and the
analytics and you're like, that is fantastic. People are listening
to me, And then you look at the book. When
you write a book, you can look on Amazon of
(44:41):
how many people have ordered your book, and how many
people have ordered it softcover, how many people have ordered ebooks.
And I'll tell you right now, if somebody bought an ebook,
if somebody bought my ebook, The Grove, available on Amazon
dot com, if somebody had bought the ebook, I get
seven that. If somebody had bought it boughten, if somebody
(45:04):
had bought a soft cover, I get sixty percent of that.
Because you know, the book's gotta be printed and it's
gonna be shipped on all this other stuff. I gotta
pay middlemen, so cool, I get it. But all of
my orders lately have been soft covers, like people want
a physical copy of this. And it's weird to me
because now people are paying for my words, which is weird,
(45:26):
very strange, like a guy who who's the guy who
started a podcast because he was losing his mind essentially
and is just talking nonsense into a microphone and you know,
ums and stutters and and all this stuff. Suddenly people
are paying to read my words and I still can't
(45:49):
get a grip of that. That that is still to
me very strange, and I appreciate it. God, believe me,
I appreciate it. So keep doing it, keep it up,
don't stop. Keep buying those books, buy my book, but
definitely check out uh my YouTube channel too. Yeah. I
(46:10):
started a history YouTube channel called the Random Facts of
Boredom and it's only got one video right now, and
that's fine. I again, these are things that I enjoy doing.
I'm probably going to release another book very soon. I'm
(46:31):
almost done with this one. It's just flowing through me.
It's it's a kid's book this time. So the first
one was Paranormal Romance. You know, for all the for
all the homeschooler moms to read on the playground while
they're they're knowing their kids. This one, this one's actually
going to be a kid book. It's called Wander Rust.
That's just a working title. It's about a kid named
(46:52):
Rusty whose mom has to go to another state. It's
an emergency, she has to go to another state, so
she drops him off with his uncle, who is a loser,
I guess would probably be the best way to put it.
His uncle is one of those, you know, adult children,
(47:14):
kind of like every Vince Vaughan movie. And the uncle
doesn't have any money to take rust anywhere, Rusty anywhere,
and so he starts telling him these magnificent stories about
where he's been, like, he tells him about all the
adventures he's ever done. And Rusty, being an impressionable kid,
is imagining this in his head and he starts taking
(47:38):
a shining to his uncle, and his uncle starts noticing this,
and so the stories he's telling become more fanciful, bigger, like,
more vibrant. And it's because his uncle is telling him
stories that he has seen in movies and TV and
video games that he's experienced, and he's never actually been
(48:00):
to any of these places, but he's just making them
up as he goes because that's that's what he knows.
And he's seeing that it's entertaining Rusty and so it
becomes a magical journey sort of thing. And so that's
where I'm working at right now. As you can see,
I already got the outline. I just have to finish shit.
(48:20):
That's the hard part. It took me two years to
finish the groves. So we'll see, we'll see. But yeah,
other than that, I think that's all I got. I
got the new iPhone, the iPhone seventeen air. I am reading. Oh,
I am reading for the first time. Actually, I didn't
even know this was a thing. I am reading the
(48:42):
histories by hero Dos. And if you guys don't know
who Herodidos is, I knew of him, I didn't really
know who he was. I knew of the man. I
knew that he was a historian, I didn't know he
was the historian. He was the first historian. He writes
about his time during the Greek Persian War, and so
(49:09):
he was actually the first war correspondent as well, And
so I just thought that was fantastic for somebody who
loves history. I never knew what this man was and
so I'm reading that right now, and it is a
thick book. It's probably gonna take me a while. It is.
It is about six hundred and eighty or so pages,
so it's gonna take me a while. And so thirty
(49:29):
minutes a day, like I recommend, it probably takes me
about a week, maybe more. I'll be honest, it's probably
gonna take me a month. But yeah, that's all I
gotta say. If you guys are thinking about starting a podcast,
just do it. The more you think about doing it,
the more you talk about doing it, you're not gonna
do it. You're just gonna talk. You're just gonna be
that person who sits on the couch and tells your
(49:52):
friends that you know, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna
do this, and then they're just like, yeah, you should,
and then after a while that you'll shut up. You're
not going to So just do it. There's there's really
nothing to stop you accept that first time. Once you
click that record button for the first time, that's it.
That is that is a new that is the gateway.
(50:14):
Once you step through that gateway. It is a drug
like it's I don't know. I don't know what it
is like. I can't stop talking. I don't know what
I'm even talking about sometimes, but once I get there,
it's it's it's showtime, and I like to say I deliver.
I don't know. I don't know. Way, single guy in
in Russia? How am I doing? How am I doing?
(50:37):
Let me hear, because I've never heard from you. You've
heard from me. I've never heard from you, the one
guy in Russia? I want to know? How am I
doing over there? How's how's my demographic? What's my numbers?
Is anybody else listening to me? Is like, are you
guys huddled around listening to me? Are you even allowed
to listen to me? How are you listening to me?
I want to know, reach out to me. I really
want to know. And that's about it. So thank you
(51:02):
for listening. Thank you for those who bought my book
The Crow available on Amazon. Please please buy more, buy
some of her friends. It's really cheap, it's affordable. You
know what Christmas is coming up? Great stocking stuffers. I
sized it, I sized it and formatted it to be
able to fit in socks. True story. I'm lying, but
(51:25):
I bet you it works. I bet you it fits
in socks. So try it, try it, try it, Try
buying it and then putting it in socks and let
me know. Guy in Russia, Guy in Russia, buy my
book and put it in a sock and let me
know how it is. But I appreciate everybody for listening.
Please check out my YouTube channel, please buy my book,
(51:49):
and please continue to listen for free. And so as always, guys, Bobine,
I'll talk to you next week. By
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