June 3, 2025 • 33 mins
Ever dreamed of starting a podcast but felt overwhelmed by the seemingly high barrier to entry? This candid behind-the-scenes episode pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to begin creating content.
From my first $20 microphone and ancient laptop to professional Shure mics and a Mac Mini, I share the step-by-step evolution of our podcast setup. The message becomes clear through personal anecdotes and technical mishaps: the most important element of podcasting isn't expensive equipment but simply starting with whatever resources you have available.
The journey unfolds through technical challenges that became valuable learning experiences—figuring out how to connect multiple microphones, adding soundproofing to eliminate echo, creating proper lighting, and developing a visually appealing background. Each improvement represents not just a technical upgrade but a deeper commitment to the craft and the audience.
Beyond equipment, we explore how living in New Mexico provides endless fascinating topics—from historical legends and ghost stories to UFOs and border issues. The rich cultural tapestry of the Southwest creates a natural wellspring of content that connects with listeners seeking authentic conversations about both mainstream and fringe subjects.
At its heart, this episode is about overcoming the biggest obstacle to creating anything worthwhile: yourself. As Henry David Thoreau observed, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." Too many potential creators never start because they're waiting for perfect conditions or guaranteed success. The reality? Even when episodes don't turn out exactly as planned, the experience itself provides immense value.
Ready to start your own creative journey? Press record with whatever equipment you have. Your future self will thank you for having the courage to begin. If you enjoy our content, please subscribe and join us as we continue improving with each episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One, two, three, four .
All right, that's good and weare live.
Okay, thanks for joining ushere at the Mark and Jeanette
Show.
We have been doing this now forsolid going on about a year now
, but this project is probablyabout three years in the making.
So if you've stayed with usthis long and you've hung
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through our shenanigans, throughour inception, I thank you for
joining us.
That's very awesome of you, andtoday it's going to be just a
real short show, but thanks fortaking the time to hang out with
us.
You know, when we get together,we always get together like
friends, do?
We always say we get togetherlike friends and have a drink.
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And if you've been on this longenough, you know I always have
a bang, but these things arereally good.
I don't know.
I often question how healthythey are, but this Blue Raz Bang
has just been my favorite.
It's been my drug of choice, soto speak, and I don't know what
to say.
If you're like me and you drinkcoffee and chew nicotine gum
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and have energy drinks to getyou through the day, then you
know where I'm coming from,right?
But anyway, yeah, thanks forjoining us.
I hope you have something todrink, or you're at work or
you're on the drive and you'rejust kind of flipping through
the stations and trying to findsomething good to listen to, or
you're on the drive and you'rejust kind of flipping through
the stations and trying to findsomething good to listen to.
Thanks for taking the time.
We try to make this fun content.
You know, kind of light.
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We touch bases on news items,things that pop up, whether it's
US politics, whether it'snational news.
We tend to get bingy and godown the rabbit hole with all
sorts of topics related to UFOsand ghosts and craziness going
on in the world, and sometimeswe just talk crazy shenanigans
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and have a good laugh and youknow, I kind of like where we go
with that.
You know it's been really niceand it's been very cool.
We've had some cool people onhere our usual guests Artie I
don't know, I guess I shouldn'tsay guests Our usual co-hosts,
jeanette and Artie.
They're a staple of the showand they're very busy with their
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lives and sometimes it's hardto get one or the other on or
even myself, and I think thistoday's show is for those of you
that are, you know, kind oflooking like to start your own
podcast or you're questioningyourself like good Lord, I don't
get a lot of viewers, or man,this is just a lot to put
together, or what do I use?
And I know it gets hard, like itgets kind of crazy difficult at
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times.
It gets kind of crazy difficultat times and I don't know you
know where to tell you to startor what it takes, and I don't
know you know like or maybe Ishouldn't say I don't have the
best advice for people otherthan just do it.
You know, if this is somethingyou want to do and you're kind
of wanting to dip your toes inthe water, so to speak I mean,
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that's where I came from Iwanted to dip my toes in the
water and just kind of see whathappened, where this went to,
and then why not Go for it?
I think it's easy to drop cash,drop tons of cash, and I know a
lot of us are working a job ortwo jobs or three jobs, side
hustles, all sorts of stuffgoing on.
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You probably do like DoorDashor Sparks Delivery or Uber.
I mean, I know I do, and that'son top of having a full-time
job and family life and gym andfriends and all that.
But you know.
If this is something you wantto do, then I would say don't
hesitate to pull the trigger.
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You know, make it happen, gofor it.
You're not letting anybody downby not doing it.
But I think you get a naggingfeeling in the back of your head
like what if and I think it's awhat if that really kind of
kill us in our life, in our dayto day.
Right, what if I did that?
What if?
And some people, you know, somepeople legitimately, they don't
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do things because you know whatif they fail?
You know, then they havenothing to show for and I, me
myself, personally, I'm not fromthat camp.
If it doesn't work out,personally, I'm not from that
camp.
If it doesn't work out well,there's a lesson learned,
there's experience gained.
You try once.
You don't succeed.
You know, yeah, it's kind ofcorny to say, but I am of that
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school where it's like, yeah,you get back up and you try
again.
I started this with a very old,very cheap laptop that I had for
years.
You know, one of the kind oflaptops back in the day where
you had to leave it plugged inbecause the battery was dead.
You couldn't find batteries forit.
So that was my first laptop andmy first microphone.
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This is it right here.
Actually, it looks really cool.
I bought it either on Amazon oreBay.
It came in really nicepackaging and I guess it worked
good for what it was, but it waslike 10 or 20 bucks.
I was so excited.
I didn't know the cable types.
I didn't know how to get thesecables to plug into the computer
, how to make that work, andthat's kind of a cool experience
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to have, though, right, likeyou go through it and you just
kind of figure it out.
You know my little microphone.
I got my little microphonestand that I clipped to my desk
and I did a couple of shortrecordings with this sitting at
my desk and with really nothing,just to say I think my first 20
videos were just like test,test, test one, two, three, and
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I'm glad that I got past that.
So this is what I started with,and and and I think you know
when you're dipping your toes inthe water, it's okay to try
something like this.
Why not?
Right?
Because, uh, you know you haveto start somewhere.
These, uh, auto techniquetechnicas.
This was like my first attemptat getting a better,
high-quality mic.
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It was recommended off of apodcast program I use, and this
was kind of a cool mic.
I definitely could tell thedifference in the quality of the
volume with this versus thoseChinese-made ones which I don't
know, these might beChinese-made too, but they're
just higher quality.
And I still have one there onthe on the uh the table there.
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But my, my, my, I don't knowhow to say it my art right.
The triumph uh uh that I gotwere these, uh, sure, mics.
I think I've seen them on everyprofessional podcasting forum,
from joe rogan to gosh, I don'tknow.
Every everybody I've seen doinga podcast, video, video
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podcasting has these mics andthey're amazing.
They just sound good.
And this I feel like that wasthe first step up in my game,
like I was doing something right.
You know, probably the nextbest thing I did.
Well, there's a couple things Idid.
I had an, an iPad, and I justgave it away and it was an iPad
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Pro.
Again, same thing battery waskind of half dead on it, so you
had to keep it plugged in hereand have to get everything to
plug into my iPad.
And that was a big evolutiontoo, because Apple really let me
do a lot of cool stuff likethat in terms of editing and
putting having a good camera.
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I had a camera stand whereeverything plugged into and I
would record off my iPad, and sothat was kind of cool and I
would edit on my iPad becausethere's all sorts of really cool
apps you could download as well.
I think probably the next bestthing I got after that was these
Mevo Logitech multicams.
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I got about a box of three ofthese.
They're wireless.
They connect wirelessly.
They work great with my iPadPro.
I really like these and they'revery mobile.
I don't have really like adesktop or tabletop stand.
I have tripods everywhere thatI use for these and these were
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really cool and I think ifyou're a podcaster, whether
you're goofing around or you'retrying to do something a little
bit more serious, that's kind ofa cool way to go to, you know.
But I've made these little leapsand bounds where I could
because you know, first,everything costs money.
Let's be honest.
It's just it takes money to buythis stuff and you know, I got
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these used $600.
These were about $100-something.
My cheap mic was like $20.
These ones were a lot moreobviously, and my newest
addition and I'm excited aboutit but man, it's been
frustrating, but it's been kindof cool.
I guess I just got the Mac Miniwith the M4 chip in it and I
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just got the Apple editingsoftware and I'm trying to get a
nice little setup here.
I have kind of everything justset up here just so I could make
it all work and I'm excited I'mtrying to use it.
I've had some glitches with thecameras, getting the cameras to
work.
You know there's no new apps orwhatever, but that kind of
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comes with it, right.
You kind of figure out how youhave to step up your game.
Like when I first started goingmulti-mics, trying to get that
to work, I had to buy a littleChinese soundboard Cheap but it
has all the different pluginsfor your mics and that Trying to
figure out how to get that intothe computer.
And then probably another bigstep for me were these
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Auto-Technica headsets Gettingthese rolling and trying to
figure out how to listen toyourself.
And you wouldn't think that's abig deal because you're talking
right.
But it's kind of interesting,like when you're talking how
when you get really close to themic it just sounds so much
differently.
Like I'm all the way up to themic here, but if I go further
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away here.
You don't get a sense of ituntil you have headphones on.
So that's been a really coolexperience to have as well.
So I uh, probably the otherthing I did you can't see this
here, but off camera I have a, amounted, uh, um 26 inch monitor
on the wall which I probablycould upgrade that as well, and
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I probably will at some point.
But uh, and see, I just had aglitch.
Right now I don't know ifsomething fell asleep.
Oh, I'm still recording.
Oh, my, so this is.
I just got this Mac Mini, I'mjust setting it up, but the
screen just fell asleep for asecond.
I had that happen once when Iwas doing a like a long version
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podcast where we had three.
We were like two and a halfhours in and the display went to
sleep and everything shut downand, and I don't know how much
video I lost.
It must have been like 45minutes, half an hour.
But these are all things thathappen to you when you're doing
this podcasting, you know, and Iguess there's no better
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experience or tool to learn fromthan experience.
You know, I watch a lot ofvideos and some people have some
really cool setups, good Lord,I mean it's beautiful.
I don't know if they have thedisposable income to throw at it
.
Maybe they have sponsors thatpay for it.
I don't know.
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I don't know how they do it,but it's really cool to see what
people do and then trying tofigure out what works for us
here.
You look around me.
You say like God, mybackground's all black and you
have a couple things up.
I bought these shelves offWayfair and I started decorating
with cool stuff.
I got some cool you know WorldWar I helmet.
This is a Vietnam Marine helmetfrom the Vietnam War era.
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I've got this German pickle humhere and just slowly I've
started putting stuff on myshelves and slowly I'm trying to
think what I'm going to addonto the wall because I put all
this soundproofing on and itreally, you know, it really
helps with the echo.
If you've never done podcastingand you just kind of set chairs
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up somewhere, you make it workand you're like, all right,
that's cool.
Then you realize, like in mycase, I realized our first
couple of episodes were justsitting in front of a closet
walls, doors.
You know there's a white wall,closet doors.
I'm like, okay, how can Iimprove on that?
And so then, as all thissoundproofing went up, it's all
black.
Then the next question is okay,what do I do about lighting?
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So I've got some lighting inhere, but now it gets hot in
here and it's just.
It's not unbearably hot, butit's summertime right now.
Outside, it's like nine o'clockright now and it's probably
it's probably at least 80degrees outside, so it's really
warm in here.
This is like a.
The sun hits the room, you know, most of the day, so it gets
really warm.
But it's been a cool experienceand it's been exciting and I
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think you know people.
You know if you want to do this,you should give it a try.
You don't have to buy the crazyexpensive stuff.
You can do things on youriPhone.
You don't have to buy the crazyexpensive mics.
You don't have to buy theexpensive cameras.
I know people that use thoseSony mirrorless cameras.
They hook those up and thoseare phenomenal and that's you
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know.
I'm paying $600 for these threelittle cameras here and those
are like over a grand a piece,brand new.
You know what I mean.
So you've got to find whatworks for you and kind of figure
out what you know, whatapproach you're going to take to
make this work.
Like I say, I was fortunate tohave my iPad Pro, which is kind
of why I got it, but even thatat some point when I was editing
it's like, oh man, that's just,it's easier, but it's not as
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easy as I'd like it to be.
So that's why I upgraded to myMac Mini.
I've got my box here.
I was totally excited aboutthis.
I got this from Best Buy and,yeah, we'll see how this works.
You know it's supposed to besuper, super good.
And the Apple, the videoediting software I just, you
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know, subscribed to it justseems pretty legit.
Yeah, I got Final Cut Pro, sothat's gonna be a new uh thing
to learn.
I used to use cap cut, whichwas, I think it was made more
for like, uh, um, like tiktokand uh, stuff like that.
But uh, or um, instagram, butum, I'm trying to take the next
step.
I guess you can say so we'llsee how that goes.
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Um I there's.
There's a number of people Iwatch online.
Obviously, I think everybodywatches Joe Rogan.
He was like the leader of this,all right, when he started
podcasting long format and justreally good content, really
interesting topics.
And then I started watching.
Oh, I think it was called theIncredible Channel, the
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Impossible Channel.
It's this guy on YouTube andhis stuff is just great too.
I really like how he edits andlet me see if I have that here.
Yeah, it's called that IsImpossible.
And he has a second channelcalled the James Channel.
I think that's called the JamesShow, the James show, and it's
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spelled James J-A-Y-M-E-Z, andhe has really good content too
and he does really good editingand, uh, I can see him starting
off this way a long time ago too.
Right, like just trying tofigure it out as he goes along,
but his content's really goodand uh, um, the Y files I know
that's been getting bigger andhe has really good topics as
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well.
So I've been watching them andsee what they do and you know
you want to pick somethingthat's interesting to you and
you don't want to pigeonholeyourself into one topic or
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another.
So I think we all try to figureout what works for us and then
present in a way that'sinteresting to you, in the hopes
that there's probably someother people out there that find
it interesting to you.
I know myself I always thinkyou know, like gosh, if I find
this topic interesting and wecan talk about it.
There might be some other guyslike us that would too, and so
that's always been our approach.
You know, if we find itinteresting and we could have a
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talk or laugh about it or findit interesting, we present it
that way and we try to, you know, hopefully make a connection
with the people that will watchus.
And if that's you, hey, weappreciate it, thank you.
And I say we, but it's reallylike a small group, there's like
two, three of us, but it's funand it's exciting.
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And for those of you that arethinking, like gosh, I can do
this, yeah, I would say, youknow, give it a try, you know,
and be appropriate and pickthings that you think are going
to be legitimate for you.
I think you know we wing it.
We don't have like a lot ofscript writing.
We.
I've really just have startedgetting into like AI.
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I use Grok a lot, sometimesChatGPT, but I'm a bit more into
Grok and I've been using Grokas giving me more of a layout of
what to follow on certaintopics, and that's been working
for the time being.
So I've been pretty excitedabout that.
That's been working well too,but it's just been a whole
project, what turns out to besomething we're going to do real
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quick for an hour, turns outthree, three and a half hours
Technical difficulties breaks tobe like something we're going
to do real quick for an hour,turns out three, three and a
half hours technicaldifficulties breaks.
We always have all sorts ofdrinks up here because, again,
our theme was just always kindof just a couple of friends
hanging out talking aboutcurrent events.
So, yeah, so I.
So.
I guess the point of that islike you know, yeah, do what
feels good.
You know, try to.
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Uh, if you're trying to getyour toes wet with this, don't
be afraid to do it.
Don't worry about not havinghigh-end equipment, don't worry
about, you know, if you don'thave an Apple, if you have a PC,
it works, go for it, just do it.
You know our biggest enemies isourself, right, I think you know
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whenever, growing up, you knowall the times you want to do
something.
You're always your biggeststumbling block.
You know when?
I always tell people when I wasa little, when I was younger I
shouldn't say when I was little,but when I was younger I was
this short, fat, shy guy thatmumbled too much and couldn't
get two words out right and, godyou know, wasn't really very
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physically active and I don'tknow when I started just jumping
, diving in, just going at it.
But you, you come to a pointwhere you just have to get past
these things and I think that'sa very legitimate stumbling
block, block that we face in ourlives.
We are our biggest enemies andit and it doesn't have to mean
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on social media, it doesn't haveto be in the gym or dating,
meeting girls, guys, it could beyour work life, it could be
anything right.
We always just kind of get inour own way.
So, you know, take a chance.
If this is something you wantto do, just do it.
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I've really enjoyed this and I'mgoing to try to continue to do
this and I think my goal is toreally, you know, try to step up
the content for the people thatdo like the way we present it.
You know they do kind of likemy little studio here I've put
together.
They kind of find itinteresting.
Then I want to continue toprovide you guys with something
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interesting.
Hopefully I can provide morediverse topics.
I'm following theRussia-Ukraine thing pretty hard
and I still do.
Although we don't talk about itas much, we talk about a lot of
history stuff, a lot of events.
Like I say, we go down thebinge or the fringy rabbit hole
pretty often too and talk aboutour experiences.
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I don't know if anybody knowsthis, but we're here in New
Mexico, in southern New Mexicoman, that's like fringy topics
is top of the list here in NewMexico.
It's called the Land ofEnchantment and we call it like
an old country, right.
There's been inhabitants herefor thousands of years and
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you've had Indians, europeans,spaniards.
You've had all sorts of peoplecome through here gunslingers.
There's legends, spanish Trail,and people have lived and
people have died here andthey've had celebrations and
what have you.
And so there's a lot of stories, there's a lot of memories,
there's a lot of things here.
You know Billy the Kid, right,and along with that old history
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you hear stories of ghosts andLa Llorona and all this stuff
that's just really attached tothe land here in New Mexico.
That's really interesting.
And then you get into the modernera where you're talking about,
you know, world War II andyou're talking about Roswell,
and then you start talking aboutUFOs and there are stories here
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about Bigfoot and abductionsand where we're at, we're not
far from the border.
So there's cartels and there'sdrugs, and there's immigrations
and politics, and there's justsuch a diverse amount of topics
here that we dabble with that.
You know, I don't think we canadequately cover in one show in
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one week or one month, orwhether it's long format or
short, but you know it's stillthough.
It's cool to talk about it all.
And you know, once we starttalking about all that stuff,
you know Texas is right here, sowe get stories from Texas and
we, you know, start talkingabout Arizona Before you know it
we're talking about the wholeSouthwest and this side of the
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United States and just thestories go in so many directions
.
And that's what's really coolabout this, especially when you
have people on here that youreally like, you just don't know
where the topics are going togo and it's just so exciting and
if that's for you, you shouldgive it a try.
We did and we're reallyenjoying it.
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You know my co-host, jeanette.
She's super intelligent andshe's a hardworking professional
and I've learned a lot from herand she's learned a lot from, I
hope, from me.
She's maybe one or two thingsfrom me.
Let's be honest, artie is thisreally dynamic guy and he's just
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such a go-getter People likehim.
He's very outgoing and he'svery pleasant to have around and
he's just going after it.
He's been doing a lot of acting, a lot of acting gigs and what
have you?
It's guys like Garty you've gotto tip your hat to because you
can look at him.
And it's guys like Garty you'vegot to tip your hat to because
it's definitely like areflection.
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You can look at him and it's areflection of yourself.
Like when you see a guy goingat it hard like he does, you
know you hope that you have thatdrive to be just as successful,
because he's going to be great.
He's going to really do stuffin this world.
You know, going to really dostuff in this world.
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You know, Probably ouroff-camera person that we've had
from time to time is our goodfriend.
We call him Fabio Fabuloso Darioand again, just another piece
of the puzzle that we bring inSuper intelligent he's yeah, I
always tell people he's the mostintelligent person I know and I
think all of us here we justlearn so much from him and his
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approach to life and family andwork, and he's the kind of guy
that you wish you would be, inthe sense that he throws himself
into things and when he wantsto learn something he really
throws himself at it until hefully understands it and it's
just so admirable really throwshimself at it until he fully
understands it, and it's just soadmirable.
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So I know another person we'vehad on here often is Mark Monger
, and you know he's just retiredand I've we were both named
Mark and we I always say he's mybetter half or he's the better
Mark, and again, very insightfulman, he's traveled, he, he's
worked hard, he's beensuccessful and uh, and he's he's
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different than, say, dario,than already.
And and for me, when I hear him, he just really, he really uh
gets to like, uh, looks like.
I watched a video here but hereally uh hits a part of me that
I get and I I really love hishumor because it's it's from my
generation.
If I, I talk about like the 80s, I grew up in the 80s, I was a
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kid in the 80s but and it marksa little older than me, but man,
the things he says just remindsme of people in my life that
have been on my journey and uh,and I get it and I click with it
.
And we had, we had one episodein here that was like four hours
long and we were just sharingall sorts of stuff and, man, it
was good, I really liked it, andI never aired it because we
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talked about a lot of personalstuff and we talked about our
friend and shared a lot ofthings and we just decided it
would be best to save that videofor us, which I did.
But yeah, so that was justreally good stuff and it's the
kind of things, the kind ofopportunities you wouldn't have
if you didn't do this.
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Now, for me, moving forward, I'mnot a perfectionist.
I would say I'm the kind of guythat I'll work hard at
something and I try to improveand I try to learn from my
mistakes and I'll keep going atit and keep going at it until I
get what I want and the qualityof what I'm doing in here.
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Yeah, the format it's almostwhere I want it to be, just at
this level.
It's not a professional studio,it's not a warehouse, it's just
a simple room that we're doingthe best what we have with and
try to throw some cool stuff up.
But as we move forward withthis, yeah, we do have plans of
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what we would like to do and beable to present better content
and learn how to edit.
You know, I think there'sprograms where they have people
that are paid for editing andvideo overlays, photo overlays
and they just look so solid.
But I'm pretty sure thoseprograms when they first started
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they kind of started.
Like me, I like to think that alot of these people that are
getting good at what they do,they're just kind of like the
guys that were in the garagejust tinkering away at events
and stuff.
Well, here we are tinkeringaway on this on YouTube.
You know, if you watch me onYouTube or Rumble, or if you
listen to me on one of thepodcasting platforms, you're
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just, you know, we're just oneof those guys that are just
chipping away at it, but it'scool and it's exciting.
And again, I can't stress thisenough If you're an older guy
like me I'm not going to say I'molder, I'm not going to say I'm
younger, I'm just kind of there.
But if you're one of these guysthat you're like, you feel like
you have a pretty good messageand it's worth being said and
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worth being, you know, listenedto and that you might have
people that might find youinteresting, do it.
You know there's no time likethe present and, yeah, I just
think you should just give it,just give it your best shot and
go at it.
You know, and as time goes on,you start to figure out maybe
you need this, maybe you needthat, and that's just how this
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goes.
That's just the name of thegame, you know.
So, anyhow, I just wanted tomake a short video, make some
content.
I'm going to try to do a betterjob of making content and, yeah
, you know, and I woulddefinitely.
You know, if you like whatwe're doing, give us a like,
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give us a subscribe.
That always helps out.
And if you, you know, stumbleacross our podcast and you want
to, you know, pour yourself adrink or have an energy drink,
like I am, or you're just tryingto pass some time and you're
listening to us, we appreciatethat too, thank you.
You know I was looking up aquote and I just can't think of
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the name of the quote right now,but let me look it up real fast
.
It's a quote I often say onhere a lot and it's just a
really good quote.
Oh, okay, here it is.
It's by Henry David Thoreau andI think about this quote a lot.
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It's just, it's one that speaksto me and I hope it speaks to
you, know, to everybody.
Or I hope it hits you guys thesame way.
Speaks to me and I hope itspeaks to everybody, or I hope
it hits you guys the same way ithits me.
But this one really hits mepretty good and I reflect on
this one a lot.
But basically the quote saysthe correct quote attributed to
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David Henry Thoreau is the massof men lead lives of quiet
desperation and I say this to alot of people.
But don't live a life of quietdesperation.
Go after your dreams, Do whatyou want to do.
You know I'm not telling you togo hurt anybody, go rob a bank,
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go assault somebody on thestreet.
If that's you and that's yourissue, I'm not talking to you.
But if you're a man or a woman,young or old, if you're trying
to make your way through thisworld and trying to find your
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place and make your mark andfigure it out, don't live a life
of quiet desperation.
You know, if you want to clockout of work and you have a day
off and you want to take a quickroad trip somewhere and you can
get there, be back in time forwork and slum it out, living out
of your vehicle.
Go surfing somewhere, go havesome tacos somewhere.
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I mean, we're just blessed inthe United States you can get in
your vehicle, you can driveanywhere you want to and be
anywhere in a reasonable amountof time and meet new people and
do cool stuff.
And if you want to do that, dothat.
Like I say, don't live that lifeof quiet desperation.
And if you want to do this,then get a simple setup, just do
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it.
You know, and I hope you have avery successful, you know
journey doing this.
And you know that whatever itis that you do choose to do,
that that it is successful andthat it bears you much fruit.
And you know that whatever itis that you do choose to do,
that that it is successful andthat it bears you much fruit.
And you know, and if it doesn't, if it doesn't work out, that's
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okay too.
You know you learn from it.
You've got great memories, youmeet good people along the way.
So even when it doesn't workout, it kind of still does work
out.
And I always tell people thisyou know, I always say that life
has a way of working out.
And just because somethingdoesn't work out right now or
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doesn't work out the way youwant it to, it just has a funny
way of working out in the end.
You just have to be patientenough to get there and see what
happens, see what comes of it.
So, anyways, thank you, youhave a good night.
And, like I say, this is my veryfirst podcast using my new Mac
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Mini, so I was excited to giveit a go because I want to figure
it out before I bring somebodyback on and have it crash on me.
But it looks like we've made itand it's kind of holding up and
, yeah, we'll continue with this.
So thanks for being on thisjourney with me, thanks for
putting up with our sillyshenanigans.
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I hope to be making bettercontent, better editing and just
better things across the board.
So be patient with us as we getbetter at this and thanks for
your time.
And when we come back up again,get comfortable or do what
you're going to do.
And if you want to have a drinkand chat with us, cool, drop us
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a comment, give us a like, giveus a subscribe.
We really appreciate it and Ilook forward to seeing you next
time.
Thank you, have a good day.
Bye.
One, two, three, four .
All right, that's good and weare live.
Okay, thanks for joining ushere at the Mark and Jeanette
Show.
We have been doing this now forsolid going on about a year now
, but this project is probablyabout three years in the making.
So if you've stayed with usthis long and you've hung
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through our shenanigans, throughour inception, I thank you for
joining us.
That's very awesome of you, andtoday it's going to be just a
real short show, but thanks fortaking the time to hang out with
us.
You know, when we get together,we always get together like
friends, do?
We always say we get togetherlike friends and have a drink.
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And if you've been on this longenough, you know I always have
a bang, but these things arereally good.
I don't know.
I often question how healthythey are, but this Blue Raz Bang
has just been my favorite.
It's been my drug of choice, soto speak, and I don't know what
to say.
If you're like me and you drinkcoffee and chew nicotine gum
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and have energy drinks to getyou through the day, then you
know where I'm coming from,right?
But anyway, yeah, thanks forjoining us.
I hope you have something todrink, or you're at work or
you're on the drive and you'rejust kind of flipping through
the stations and trying to findsomething good to listen to, or
you're on the drive and you'rejust kind of flipping through
the stations and trying to findsomething good to listen to.
Thanks for taking the time.
We try to make this fun content.
You know, kind of light.
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We touch bases on news items,things that pop up, whether it's
US politics, whether it'snational news.
We tend to get bingy and godown the rabbit hole with all
sorts of topics related to UFOsand ghosts and craziness going
on in the world, and sometimeswe just talk crazy shenanigans
(01:54):
and have a good laugh and youknow, I kind of like where we go
with that.
You know it's been really niceand it's been very cool.
We've had some cool people onhere our usual guests Artie I
don't know, I guess I shouldn'tsay guests Our usual co-hosts,
jeanette and Artie.
They're a staple of the showand they're very busy with their
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lives and sometimes it's hardto get one or the other on or
even myself, and I think thistoday's show is for those of you
that are, you know, kind oflooking like to start your own
podcast or you're questioningyourself like good Lord, I don't
get a lot of viewers, or man,this is just a lot to put
together, or what do I use?
And I know it gets hard, like itgets kind of crazy difficult at
(02:43):
times.
It gets kind of crazy difficultat times and I don't know you
know where to tell you to startor what it takes, and I don't
know you know like or maybe Ishouldn't say I don't have the
best advice for people otherthan just do it.
You know, if this is somethingyou want to do and you're kind
of wanting to dip your toes inthe water, so to speak I mean,
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that's where I came from Iwanted to dip my toes in the
water and just kind of see whathappened, where this went to,
and then why not Go for it?
I think it's easy to drop cash,drop tons of cash, and I know a
lot of us are working a job ortwo jobs or three jobs, side
hustles, all sorts of stuffgoing on.
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You probably do like DoorDashor Sparks Delivery or Uber.
I mean, I know I do, and that'son top of having a full-time
job and family life and gym andfriends and all that.
But you know.
If this is something you wantto do, then I would say don't
hesitate to pull the trigger.
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You know, make it happen, gofor it.
You're not letting anybody downby not doing it.
But I think you get a naggingfeeling in the back of your head
like what if and I think it's awhat if that really kind of
kill us in our life, in our dayto day.
Right, what if I did that?
What if?
And some people, you know, somepeople legitimately, they don't
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do things because you know whatif they fail?
You know, then they havenothing to show for and I, me
myself, personally, I'm not fromthat camp.
If it doesn't work out,personally, I'm not from that
camp.
If it doesn't work out well,there's a lesson learned,
there's experience gained.
You try once.
You don't succeed.
You know, yeah, it's kind ofcorny to say, but I am of that
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school where it's like, yeah,you get back up and you try
again.
I started this with a very old,very cheap laptop that I had for
years.
You know, one of the kind oflaptops back in the day where
you had to leave it plugged inbecause the battery was dead.
You couldn't find batteries forit.
So that was my first laptop andmy first microphone.
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This is it right here.
Actually, it looks really cool.
I bought it either on Amazon oreBay.
It came in really nicepackaging and I guess it worked
good for what it was, but it waslike 10 or 20 bucks.
I was so excited.
I didn't know the cable types.
I didn't know how to get thesecables to plug into the computer
, how to make that work, andthat's kind of a cool experience
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to have, though, right, likeyou go through it and you just
kind of figure it out.
You know my little microphone.
I got my little microphonestand that I clipped to my desk
and I did a couple of shortrecordings with this sitting at
my desk and with really nothing,just to say I think my first 20
videos were just like test,test, test one, two, three, and
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I'm glad that I got past that.
So this is what I started with,and and and I think you know
when you're dipping your toes inthe water, it's okay to try
something like this.
Why not?
Right?
Because, uh, you know you haveto start somewhere.
These, uh, auto techniquetechnicas.
This was like my first attemptat getting a better,
high-quality mic.
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It was recommended off of apodcast program I use, and this
was kind of a cool mic.
I definitely could tell thedifference in the quality of the
volume with this versus thoseChinese-made ones which I don't
know, these might beChinese-made too, but they're
just higher quality.
And I still have one there onthe on the uh the table there.
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But my, my, my, I don't knowhow to say it my art right.
The triumph uh uh that I gotwere these, uh, sure, mics.
I think I've seen them on everyprofessional podcasting forum,
from joe rogan to gosh, I don'tknow.
Every everybody I've seen doinga podcast, video, video
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podcasting has these mics andthey're amazing.
They just sound good.
And this I feel like that wasthe first step up in my game,
like I was doing something right.
You know, probably the nextbest thing I did.
Well, there's a couple things Idid.
I had an, an iPad, and I justgave it away and it was an iPad
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Pro.
Again, same thing battery waskind of half dead on it, so you
had to keep it plugged in hereand have to get everything to
plug into my iPad.
And that was a big evolutiontoo, because Apple really let me
do a lot of cool stuff likethat in terms of editing and
putting having a good camera.
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I had a camera stand whereeverything plugged into and I
would record off my iPad, and sothat was kind of cool and I
would edit on my iPad becausethere's all sorts of really cool
apps you could download as well.
I think probably the next bestthing I got after that was these
Mevo Logitech multicams.
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I got about a box of three ofthese.
They're wireless.
They connect wirelessly.
They work great with my iPadPro.
I really like these and they'revery mobile.
I don't have really like adesktop or tabletop stand.
I have tripods everywhere thatI use for these and these were
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really cool and I think ifyou're a podcaster, whether
you're goofing around or you'retrying to do something a little
bit more serious, that's kind ofa cool way to go to, you know.
But I've made these little leapsand bounds where I could
because you know, first,everything costs money.
Let's be honest.
It's just it takes money to buythis stuff and you know, I got
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these used $600.
These were about $100-something.
My cheap mic was like $20.
These ones were a lot moreobviously, and my newest
addition and I'm excited aboutit but man, it's been
frustrating, but it's been kindof cool.
I guess I just got the Mac Miniwith the M4 chip in it and I
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just got the Apple editingsoftware and I'm trying to get a
nice little setup here.
I have kind of everything justset up here just so I could make
it all work and I'm excited I'mtrying to use it.
I've had some glitches with thecameras, getting the cameras to
work.
You know there's no new apps orwhatever, but that kind of
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comes with it, right.
You kind of figure out how youhave to step up your game.
Like when I first started goingmulti-mics, trying to get that
to work, I had to buy a littleChinese soundboard Cheap but it
has all the different pluginsfor your mics and that Trying to
figure out how to get that intothe computer.
And then probably another bigstep for me were these
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Auto-Technica headsets Gettingthese rolling and trying to
figure out how to listen toyourself.
And you wouldn't think that's abig deal because you're talking
right.
But it's kind of interesting,like when you're talking how
when you get really close to themic it just sounds so much
differently.
Like I'm all the way up to themic here, but if I go further
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away here.
You don't get a sense of ituntil you have headphones on.
So that's been a really coolexperience to have as well.
So I uh, probably the otherthing I did you can't see this
here, but off camera I have a, amounted, uh, um 26 inch monitor
on the wall which I probablycould upgrade that as well, and
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I probably will at some point.
But uh, and see, I just had aglitch.
Right now I don't know ifsomething fell asleep.
Oh, I'm still recording.
Oh, my, so this is.
I just got this Mac Mini, I'mjust setting it up, but the
screen just fell asleep for asecond.
I had that happen once when Iwas doing a like a long version
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podcast where we had three.
We were like two and a halfhours in and the display went to
sleep and everything shut downand, and I don't know how much
video I lost.
It must have been like 45minutes, half an hour.
But these are all things thathappen to you when you're doing
this podcasting, you know, and Iguess there's no better
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experience or tool to learn fromthan experience.
You know, I watch a lot ofvideos and some people have some
really cool setups, good Lord,I mean it's beautiful.
I don't know if they have thedisposable income to throw at it
.
Maybe they have sponsors thatpay for it.
I don't know.
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I don't know how they do it,but it's really cool to see what
people do and then trying tofigure out what works for us
here.
You look around me.
You say like God, mybackground's all black and you
have a couple things up.
I bought these shelves offWayfair and I started decorating
with cool stuff.
I got some cool you know WorldWar I helmet.
This is a Vietnam Marine helmetfrom the Vietnam War era.
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I've got this German pickle humhere and just slowly I've
started putting stuff on myshelves and slowly I'm trying to
think what I'm going to addonto the wall because I put all
this soundproofing on and itreally, you know, it really
helps with the echo.
If you've never done podcastingand you just kind of set chairs
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up somewhere, you make it workand you're like, all right,
that's cool.
Then you realize, like in mycase, I realized our first
couple of episodes were justsitting in front of a closet
walls, doors.
You know there's a white wall,closet doors.
I'm like, okay, how can Iimprove on that?
And so then, as all thissoundproofing went up, it's all
black.
Then the next question is okay,what do I do about lighting?
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So I've got some lighting inhere, but now it gets hot in
here and it's just.
It's not unbearably hot, butit's summertime right now.
Outside, it's like nine o'clockright now and it's probably
it's probably at least 80degrees outside, so it's really
warm in here.
This is like a.
The sun hits the room, you know, most of the day, so it gets
really warm.
But it's been a cool experienceand it's been exciting and I
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think you know people.
You know if you want to do this,you should give it a try.
You don't have to buy the crazyexpensive stuff.
You can do things on youriPhone.
You don't have to buy the crazyexpensive mics.
You don't have to buy theexpensive cameras.
I know people that use thoseSony mirrorless cameras.
They hook those up and thoseare phenomenal and that's you
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know.
I'm paying $600 for these threelittle cameras here and those
are like over a grand a piece,brand new.
You know what I mean.
So you've got to find whatworks for you and kind of figure
out what you know, whatapproach you're going to take to
make this work.
Like I say, I was fortunate tohave my iPad Pro, which is kind
of why I got it, but even thatat some point when I was editing
it's like, oh man, that's just,it's easier, but it's not as
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easy as I'd like it to be.
So that's why I upgraded to myMac Mini.
I've got my box here.
I was totally excited aboutthis.
I got this from Best Buy and,yeah, we'll see how this works.
You know it's supposed to besuper, super good.
And the Apple, the videoediting software I just, you
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know, subscribed to it justseems pretty legit.
Yeah, I got Final Cut Pro, sothat's gonna be a new uh thing
to learn.
I used to use cap cut, whichwas, I think it was made more
for like, uh, um, like tiktokand uh, stuff like that.
But uh, or um, instagram, butum, I'm trying to take the next
step.
I guess you can say so we'llsee how that goes.
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Um I there's.
There's a number of people Iwatch online.
Obviously, I think everybodywatches Joe Rogan.
He was like the leader of this,all right, when he started
podcasting long format and justreally good content, really
interesting topics.
And then I started watching.
Oh, I think it was called theIncredible Channel, the
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Impossible Channel.
It's this guy on YouTube andhis stuff is just great too.
I really like how he edits andlet me see if I have that here.
Yeah, it's called that IsImpossible.
And he has a second channelcalled the James Channel.
I think that's called the JamesShow, the James show, and it's
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spelled James J-A-Y-M-E-Z, andhe has really good content too
and he does really good editingand, uh, I can see him starting
off this way a long time ago too.
Right, like just trying tofigure it out as he goes along,
but his content's really goodand uh, um, the Y files I know
that's been getting bigger andhe has really good topics as
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well.
So I've been watching them andsee what they do and you know
you want to pick somethingthat's interesting to you and
you don't want to pigeonholeyourself into one topic or
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another.
So I think we all try to figureout what works for us and then
present in a way that'sinteresting to you, in the hopes
that there's probably someother people out there that find
it interesting to you.
I know myself I always thinkyou know, like gosh, if I find
this topic interesting and wecan talk about it.
There might be some other guyslike us that would too, and so
that's always been our approach.
You know, if we find itinteresting and we could have a
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talk or laugh about it or findit interesting, we present it
that way and we try to, you know, hopefully make a connection
with the people that will watchus.
And if that's you, hey, weappreciate it, thank you.
And I say we, but it's reallylike a small group, there's like
two, three of us, but it's funand it's exciting.
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And for those of you that arethinking, like gosh, I can do
this, yeah, I would say, youknow, give it a try, you know,
and be appropriate and pickthings that you think are going
to be legitimate for you.
I think you know we wing it.
We don't have like a lot ofscript writing.
We.
I've really just have startedgetting into like AI.
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I use Grok a lot, sometimesChatGPT, but I'm a bit more into
Grok and I've been using Grokas giving me more of a layout of
what to follow on certaintopics, and that's been working
for the time being.
So I've been pretty excitedabout that.
That's been working well too,but it's just been a whole
project, what turns out to besomething we're going to do real
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quick for an hour, turns outthree, three and a half hours
Technical difficulties breaks tobe like something we're going
to do real quick for an hour,turns out three, three and a
half hours technicaldifficulties breaks.
We always have all sorts ofdrinks up here because, again,
our theme was just always kindof just a couple of friends
hanging out talking aboutcurrent events.
So, yeah, so I.
So.
I guess the point of that islike you know, yeah, do what
feels good.
You know, try to.
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Uh, if you're trying to getyour toes wet with this, don't
be afraid to do it.
Don't worry about not havinghigh-end equipment, don't worry
about, you know, if you don'thave an Apple, if you have a PC,
it works, go for it, just do it.
You know our biggest enemies isourself, right, I think you know
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whenever, growing up, you knowall the times you want to do
something.
You're always your biggeststumbling block.
You know when?
I always tell people when I wasa little, when I was younger I
shouldn't say when I was little,but when I was younger I was
this short, fat, shy guy thatmumbled too much and couldn't
get two words out right and, godyou know, wasn't really very
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physically active and I don'tknow when I started just jumping
, diving in, just going at it.
But you, you come to a pointwhere you just have to get past
these things and I think that'sa very legitimate stumbling
block, block that we face in ourlives.
We are our biggest enemies andit and it doesn't have to mean
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on social media, it doesn't haveto be in the gym or dating,
meeting girls, guys, it could beyour work life, it could be
anything right.
We always just kind of get inour own way.
So, you know, take a chance.
If this is something you wantto do, just do it.
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I've really enjoyed this and I'mgoing to try to continue to do
this and I think my goal is toreally, you know, try to step up
the content for the people thatdo like the way we present it.
You know they do kind of likemy little studio here I've put
together.
They kind of find itinteresting.
Then I want to continue toprovide you guys with something
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interesting.
Hopefully I can provide morediverse topics.
I'm following theRussia-Ukraine thing pretty hard
and I still do.
Although we don't talk about itas much, we talk about a lot of
history stuff, a lot of events.
Like I say, we go down thebinge or the fringy rabbit hole
pretty often too and talk aboutour experiences.
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I don't know if anybody knowsthis, but we're here in New
Mexico, in southern New Mexicoman, that's like fringy topics
is top of the list here in NewMexico.
It's called the Land ofEnchantment and we call it like
an old country, right.
There's been inhabitants herefor thousands of years and
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you've had Indians, europeans,spaniards.
You've had all sorts of peoplecome through here gunslingers.
There's legends, spanish Trail,and people have lived and
people have died here andthey've had celebrations and
what have you.
And so there's a lot of stories, there's a lot of memories,
there's a lot of things here.
You know Billy the Kid, right,and along with that old history
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you hear stories of ghosts andLa Llorona and all this stuff
that's just really attached tothe land here in New Mexico.
That's really interesting.
And then you get into the modernera where you're talking about,
you know, world War II andyou're talking about Roswell,
and then you start talking aboutUFOs and there are stories here
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about Bigfoot and abductionsand where we're at, we're not
far from the border.
So there's cartels and there'sdrugs, and there's immigrations
and politics, and there's justsuch a diverse amount of topics
here that we dabble with that.
You know, I don't think we canadequately cover in one show in
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one week or one month, orwhether it's long format or
short, but you know it's stillthough.
It's cool to talk about it all.
And you know, once we starttalking about all that stuff,
you know Texas is right here, sowe get stories from Texas and
we, you know, start talkingabout Arizona Before you know it
we're talking about the wholeSouthwest and this side of the
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United States and just thestories go in so many directions
.
And that's what's really coolabout this, especially when you
have people on here that youreally like, you just don't know
where the topics are going togo and it's just so exciting and
if that's for you, you shouldgive it a try.
We did and we're reallyenjoying it.
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You know my co-host, jeanette.
She's super intelligent andshe's a hardworking professional
and I've learned a lot from herand she's learned a lot from, I
hope, from me.
She's maybe one or two thingsfrom me.
Let's be honest, artie is thisreally dynamic guy and he's just
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such a go-getter People likehim.
He's very outgoing and he'svery pleasant to have around and
he's just going after it.
He's been doing a lot of acting, a lot of acting gigs and what
have you?
It's guys like Garty you've gotto tip your hat to because you
can look at him.
And it's guys like Garty you'vegot to tip your hat to because
it's definitely like areflection.
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You can look at him and it's areflection of yourself.
Like when you see a guy goingat it hard like he does, you
know you hope that you have thatdrive to be just as successful,
because he's going to be great.
He's going to really do stuffin this world.
You know, going to really dostuff in this world.
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You know, Probably ouroff-camera person that we've had
from time to time is our goodfriend.
We call him Fabio Fabuloso Darioand again, just another piece
of the puzzle that we bring inSuper intelligent he's yeah, I
always tell people he's the mostintelligent person I know and I
think all of us here we justlearn so much from him and his
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approach to life and family andwork, and he's the kind of guy
that you wish you would be, inthe sense that he throws himself
into things and when he wantsto learn something he really
throws himself at it until hefully understands it and it's
just so admirable really throwshimself at it until he fully
understands it, and it's just soadmirable.
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So I know another person we'vehad on here often is Mark Monger
, and you know he's just retiredand I've we were both named
Mark and we I always say he's mybetter half or he's the better
Mark, and again, very insightfulman, he's traveled, he, he's
worked hard, he's beensuccessful and uh, and he's he's
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different than, say, dario,than already.
And and for me, when I hear him, he just really, he really uh
gets to like, uh, looks like.
I watched a video here but hereally uh hits a part of me that
I get and I I really love hishumor because it's it's from my
generation.
If I, I talk about like the 80s, I grew up in the 80s, I was a
(24:50):
kid in the 80s but and it marksa little older than me, but man,
the things he says just remindsme of people in my life that
have been on my journey and uh,and I get it and I click with it
.
And we had, we had one episodein here that was like four hours
long and we were just sharingall sorts of stuff and, man, it
was good, I really liked it, andI never aired it because we
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talked about a lot of personalstuff and we talked about our
friend and shared a lot ofthings and we just decided it
would be best to save that videofor us, which I did.
But yeah, so that was justreally good stuff and it's the
kind of things, the kind ofopportunities you wouldn't have
if you didn't do this.
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Now, for me, moving forward, I'mnot a perfectionist.
I would say I'm the kind of guythat I'll work hard at
something and I try to improveand I try to learn from my
mistakes and I'll keep going atit and keep going at it until I
get what I want and the qualityof what I'm doing in here.
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Yeah, the format it's almostwhere I want it to be, just at
this level.
It's not a professional studio,it's not a warehouse, it's just
a simple room that we're doingthe best what we have with and
try to throw some cool stuff up.
But as we move forward withthis, yeah, we do have plans of
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what we would like to do and beable to present better content
and learn how to edit.
You know, I think there'sprograms where they have people
that are paid for editing andvideo overlays, photo overlays
and they just look so solid.
But I'm pretty sure thoseprograms when they first started
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they kind of started.
Like me, I like to think that alot of these people that are
getting good at what they do,they're just kind of like the
guys that were in the garagejust tinkering away at events
and stuff.
Well, here we are tinkeringaway on this on YouTube.
You know, if you watch me onYouTube or Rumble, or if you
listen to me on one of thepodcasting platforms, you're
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just, you know, we're just oneof those guys that are just
chipping away at it, but it'scool and it's exciting.
And again, I can't stress thisenough If you're an older guy
like me I'm not going to say I'molder, I'm not going to say I'm
younger, I'm just kind of there.
But if you're one of these guysthat you're like, you feel like
you have a pretty good messageand it's worth being said and
(27:26):
worth being, you know, listenedto and that you might have
people that might find youinteresting, do it.
You know there's no time likethe present and, yeah, I just
think you should just give it,just give it your best shot and
go at it.
You know, and as time goes on,you start to figure out maybe
you need this, maybe you needthat, and that's just how this
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goes.
That's just the name of thegame, you know.
So, anyhow, I just wanted tomake a short video, make some
content.
I'm going to try to do a betterjob of making content and, yeah
, you know, and I woulddefinitely.
You know, if you like whatwe're doing, give us a like,
(28:10):
give us a subscribe.
That always helps out.
And if you, you know, stumbleacross our podcast and you want
to, you know, pour yourself adrink or have an energy drink,
like I am, or you're just tryingto pass some time and you're
listening to us, we appreciatethat too, thank you.
You know I was looking up aquote and I just can't think of
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the name of the quote right now,but let me look it up real fast
.
It's a quote I often say onhere a lot and it's just a
really good quote.
Oh, okay, here it is.
It's by Henry David Thoreau andI think about this quote a lot.
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It's just, it's one that speaksto me and I hope it speaks to
you, know, to everybody.
Or I hope it hits you guys thesame way.
Speaks to me and I hope itspeaks to everybody, or I hope
it hits you guys the same way ithits me.
But this one really hits mepretty good and I reflect on
this one a lot.
But basically the quote saysthe correct quote attributed to
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David Henry Thoreau is the massof men lead lives of quiet
desperation and I say this to alot of people.
But don't live a life of quietdesperation.
Go after your dreams, Do whatyou want to do.
You know I'm not telling you togo hurt anybody, go rob a bank,
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go assault somebody on thestreet.
If that's you and that's yourissue, I'm not talking to you.
But if you're a man or a woman,young or old, if you're trying
to make your way through thisworld and trying to find your
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place and make your mark andfigure it out, don't live a life
of quiet desperation.
You know, if you want to clockout of work and you have a day
off and you want to take a quickroad trip somewhere and you can
get there, be back in time forwork and slum it out, living out
of your vehicle.
Go surfing somewhere, go havesome tacos somewhere.
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I mean, we're just blessed inthe United States you can get in
your vehicle, you can driveanywhere you want to and be
anywhere in a reasonable amountof time and meet new people and
do cool stuff.
And if you want to do that, dothat.
Like I say, don't live that lifeof quiet desperation.
And if you want to do this,then get a simple setup, just do
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it.
You know, and I hope you have avery successful, you know
journey doing this.
And you know that whatever itis that you do choose to do,
that that it is successful andthat it bears you much fruit.
And you know that whatever itis that you do choose to do,
that that it is successful andthat it bears you much fruit.
And you know, and if it doesn't, if it doesn't work out, that's
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okay too.
You know you learn from it.
You've got great memories, youmeet good people along the way.
So even when it doesn't workout, it kind of still does work
out.
And I always tell people thisyou know, I always say that life
has a way of working out.
And just because somethingdoesn't work out right now or
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doesn't work out the way youwant it to, it just has a funny
way of working out in the end.
You just have to be patientenough to get there and see what
happens, see what comes of it.
So, anyways, thank you, youhave a good night.
And, like I say, this is my veryfirst podcast using my new Mac
(31:59):
Mini, so I was excited to giveit a go because I want to figure
it out before I bring somebodyback on and have it crash on me.
But it looks like we've made itand it's kind of holding up and
, yeah, we'll continue with this.
So thanks for being on thisjourney with me, thanks for
putting up with our sillyshenanigans.
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I hope to be making bettercontent, better editing and just
better things across the board.
So be patient with us as we getbetter at this and thanks for
your time.
And when we come back up again,get comfortable or do what
you're going to do.
And if you want to have a drinkand chat with us, cool, drop us
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a comment, give us a like, giveus a subscribe.
We really appreciate it and Ilook forward to seeing you next
time.
Thank you, have a good day.
Bye.
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