November 2, 2025 • 15 mins
On this episode I discuss nostalgia and knowing yourself and who you want to be. Taking chances, opportunities and passions.
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(00:23):
Well, the title of today's episode kind of says it all and
says nothing at the same time. Jacob's Guide to Knowing
Everything and Nothing at All ismore of a nostalgia episode.
And it has been a few weeks since I received and, you know,
time and motivation to put together something interesting
(00:46):
to podcast about. And today is another one of
those days. I have time and a cool idea that
wanted to relate to the audiencea little bit.
Yes, you will get more fantasticartist interviews coming very
soon. Very soon.
Maybe as early as next week, whoknows, but there is a lot still
(01:09):
coming to this year's music artists.
But I wanted to do throwing a relatable episode and see where
everybody's at because we don't get a lot of nostalgia, feel
good episodes out there for podcasts.
Everything's always more of a anentertainment value.
Shock got you. Breaking news, gossip, others,
(01:31):
nonsense stuff. Trust me, I get into that too.
I listen to a lot of podcasts, but there's gotta be some other
ways to convey some other messages.
For this episode in particular, I wanna take you back in time.
I want to relive some of the good old days because there's
(01:52):
some stuff that we're missing now that, uh, back then we maybe
took for granted. But I'll take a look back if you
listen to the show enough, I've I'd ask a lot of questions for
from the artist. I love hearing about their their
past, how they grow up, things like that.
(02:15):
And it's it's a theme because knowing the entire artist is
very important. How they came U, their vision,
their motivation. That's extremely important.
What we don't get sometimes is your thoughts and feelings from
back then. Some of the questions I like to
visit now, like I asked myself this the other day.
(02:39):
That's why I came up with this idea for this show today is if I
look back and think of the thoughts I had back then for
what I who I want it to be now. It's completely different and I
(02:59):
look back at some yearbooks for some inspiration and Brown
really far back to start in grade school and the integrate.
We did a thing where everybody put in the yearbook, then we put
(03:22):
what we want it to be when we grew up.
The thought process as a kid is insane because back then I had
no clue. I barely know what I want to do
now and I am in my mid 40s. Don't tell anybody back then.
(03:47):
Holy crap, look at that. Some of my friends back then and
their answers for what they wantit to be and what they're doing
now. I had no idea what I wanted to
do back then. All I knew is I want to keep
playing basketball and I still do, but I've no idea in in
(04:10):
reality as what life would be like as an adult in high school
is a totally different thing. One of the sayings that I had
told to me and many ME meetings and you know, school settings
(04:30):
and performances and things, that high schools were the best
years of your life. Correct me if I'm wrong and I
want to hear comments, but that wasn't a flat out lie.
High school is not the best timeof your life.
High school. It's either nonsense or crazy,
(04:50):
but not the best time of your life because you still don't
have a clue what the hell you'redoing or what's going on.
In high school I tested out 2 bein an authority figure.
I think my goal would be wanted me to do is go into police and
policing and things. That's all well and good. 0
(05:13):
guidance. So no, I did not do that either.
But even then, you have to take a lot of tests to see where
you're at. And I don't know about you guys,
but in high school I'm not exactly thinking about career
choices. Not me.
I didn't take that all very seriously.
I probably should have, but I didn't think of that way back
then, and most of us didn't either.
(05:35):
Not in grade 10, Not at 16 yearsold, 15 years old.
None of us were thinking, hey, what do want to do as a job for
the rest of my life? No, those were not the thoughts.
And I think that's a lot of pressure.
We'll talk about pressure because high school is a lot of
pressure. High school to me is grade
(05:59):
school is supposed to be one thing.
It's supposed to be growing U and get understanding what the
world is. That's what grace should be
should be. High school should be preparing
you and giving you life skills to take care of yourself.
That doesn't happen in high school anymore.
That's what should happen. You should learn skills to help
you live. Nothing against Shakespeare, but
(06:22):
that hasn't taught me and the teachers.
Very few people that can utilizethat as a skill in their life
and those people are extremely smart and utilize it.
That doesn't do much for the majority of us after high
school. Still no clue, but this is more
my fault because at after when you're done high school, you
(06:44):
should have an idea after four years of high school, kind of
what you like to do college, You're on your own there,
people. At that point, you're an adult.
Figure it out. But the thought process are
those specific ages as artists, as musicians, as creatives, must
(07:16):
be completely different. For me, I didn't get into this
mind space of creativity until Iwas about 16 started writing
them. I didn't get to creative writing
(07:36):
until college, which came out ofthe studying journalism adding
into podcasting until UH of 2005.
O it took takes a long time sometimes to realize what your
passions are. And overall of everything I've
(07:57):
just said, that's the focus, focusing on passions, because we
can be taught to do things to workplaces, to create things,
pick things up, put them down, jobs work.
Most of them can be taught and we can all do them for the most
(08:20):
part. But how many of those jobs are
passions? How many of people figure out
their passions early in their lives?
There's a lot of artists that did and follow those passions,
which is great. That's why I like to dig through
(08:40):
this show and find those passions.
And when you've discovered yours, I love hearing that the
creative process for artists comes from somewhere, and
passion is a big one. For some artists, the passion
brings them to the forefront late in their life.
(09:01):
Mine did. A lot of the artists have been
on the show. Same thing, but your passions,
depending if you like living in society comfortably or not, have
to be accommodated for a lot of the starving artists out there.
Understand what I just said, andprobably chuckled a little bit
there. Not everybody can survive on
(09:24):
just passions. I'm just saying, but it doesn't
mean you shouldn't follow your passions.
Quite the opposite. Something I learned late in life
over the last 10 years is realizing the not taking chances
(09:45):
isn't worth it. Not living with regrets and that
life is short. It took me a while to figure
that out. You have to look at it from a
(10:06):
point of view where don't be your own obstacle.
If you've always wanted to do something, find a way to do it.
There's no shame, regardless of your age, finally starting your
(10:29):
passions. I got into music finally about
10 years ago, don't regret it. Then last very long few years.
No regrets. I'm still working on my passion
in writing podcasting. Well, you guys know that story.
(10:51):
It's been a very long time with podcasting and that's not going
away. There's many passions you can
have in life, things you want todo, and yes, there are many
obstacles that prevent people from doing it, but the rewards
of having tried it leaves you with less regrets.
(11:15):
What I don't want to see is in myself at least as having a
regret. You know what?
I had time and I had the opportunity, but I didn't seize
the moment. Yes, lots of cliches.
We can get over that. Still the same point.
(11:35):
Take them even for a little bit to try it.
Take them. If it means taking a six month
sabbatical or avoiding your daily coffee purchase to make
things work, do it. It's worth it.
It's worth it discovering if it's something you can actually
(11:58):
do, for one, and if it's something you can continue doing
and make a living from regardless of what it is.
Writing, painting, whatever. Sports.
Oh God, I can't do sports. I'm way too old for that now.
What I've encountered a few times in my career as a
(12:18):
podcaster and many other things I've done is there are artists
with talent, but they are their own obstacle.
I've met a handful of fantastic,fantastic singers, but they have
(12:47):
not pursued their talent or their passion.
Would it be from high expectations of themselves or
just losing faith or betting on a day nine to five day job?
(13:13):
Regardless, they abandoned not only their passion but their
talent and left it behind, whichis not only sad, but it's also
not fair. Pick an artist, any artist that
you know from the independent ormainstream, and think if that
(13:34):
one artist that you listen to didn't pursue their passion, we
could be missing out on the next.
Well written, well sung, well performed, whatever that might
(13:56):
change somebody's life. If anything this episode should
do is hopefully encourage everyone, regardless of age, to
just go out and try it. Go record something.
Go write something. Go do something outside of your
(14:19):
comfort zone that was once your passion to prove to yourself.
Don't be that person with regret.
Life is hard, life has challenges.
Life doesn't give you much and maybe seizing that one
(14:41):
opportunity you get or creating that one opportunity you might
have will be the next big thing.That's it for today's episode.
Let me know you guys think aboutanything I've said today.
Hit that follow subscribe buttonon Spotify or any podcast
(15:03):
streaming platform. You're listening to this show
right now to this voice. And if you made it this far, I
thank you so much. The merch store is open.
Hope you guys like the new designs that I put out there.
I'm wearing them. They're fantastic and a lot of
good comments about it. Word of mouth is so much and if
anything Spotify listens half picked up lately.
(15:25):
So I thank you so much for subscribing rate and follow
subscribe once again and I will talk to you guys soon.
Well, the title of today's episode kind of says it all and
says nothing at the same time. Jacob's Guide to Knowing
Everything and Nothing at All ismore of a nostalgia episode.
And it has been a few weeks since I received and, you know,
time and motivation to put together something interesting
(00:46):
to podcast about. And today is another one of
those days. I have time and a cool idea that
wanted to relate to the audiencea little bit.
Yes, you will get more fantasticartist interviews coming very
soon. Very soon.
Maybe as early as next week, whoknows, but there is a lot still
(01:09):
coming to this year's music artists.
But I wanted to do throwing a relatable episode and see where
everybody's at because we don't get a lot of nostalgia, feel
good episodes out there for podcasts.
Everything's always more of a anentertainment value.
Shock got you. Breaking news, gossip, others,
(01:31):
nonsense stuff. Trust me, I get into that too.
I listen to a lot of podcasts, but there's gotta be some other
ways to convey some other messages.
For this episode in particular, I wanna take you back in time.
I want to relive some of the good old days because there's
(01:52):
some stuff that we're missing now that, uh, back then we maybe
took for granted. But I'll take a look back if you
listen to the show enough, I've I'd ask a lot of questions for
from the artist. I love hearing about their their
past, how they grow up, things like that.
(02:15):
And it's it's a theme because knowing the entire artist is
very important. How they came U, their vision,
their motivation. That's extremely important.
What we don't get sometimes is your thoughts and feelings from
back then. Some of the questions I like to
visit now, like I asked myself this the other day.
(02:39):
That's why I came up with this idea for this show today is if I
look back and think of the thoughts I had back then for
what I who I want it to be now. It's completely different and I
(02:59):
look back at some yearbooks for some inspiration and Brown
really far back to start in grade school and the integrate.
We did a thing where everybody put in the yearbook, then we put
(03:22):
what we want it to be when we grew up.
The thought process as a kid is insane because back then I had
no clue. I barely know what I want to do
now and I am in my mid 40s. Don't tell anybody back then.
(03:47):
Holy crap, look at that. Some of my friends back then and
their answers for what they wantit to be and what they're doing
now. I had no idea what I wanted to
do back then. All I knew is I want to keep
playing basketball and I still do, but I've no idea in in
(04:10):
reality as what life would be like as an adult in high school
is a totally different thing. One of the sayings that I had
told to me and many ME meetings and you know, school settings
(04:30):
and performances and things, that high schools were the best
years of your life. Correct me if I'm wrong and I
want to hear comments, but that wasn't a flat out lie.
High school is not the best timeof your life.
High school. It's either nonsense or crazy,
(04:50):
but not the best time of your life because you still don't
have a clue what the hell you'redoing or what's going on.
In high school I tested out 2 bein an authority figure.
I think my goal would be wanted me to do is go into police and
policing and things. That's all well and good. 0
(05:13):
guidance. So no, I did not do that either.
But even then, you have to take a lot of tests to see where
you're at. And I don't know about you guys,
but in high school I'm not exactly thinking about career
choices. Not me.
I didn't take that all very seriously.
I probably should have, but I didn't think of that way back
then, and most of us didn't either.
(05:35):
Not in grade 10, Not at 16 yearsold, 15 years old.
None of us were thinking, hey, what do want to do as a job for
the rest of my life? No, those were not the thoughts.
And I think that's a lot of pressure.
We'll talk about pressure because high school is a lot of
pressure. High school to me is grade
(05:59):
school is supposed to be one thing.
It's supposed to be growing U and get understanding what the
world is. That's what grace should be
should be. High school should be preparing
you and giving you life skills to take care of yourself.
That doesn't happen in high school anymore.
That's what should happen. You should learn skills to help
you live. Nothing against Shakespeare, but
(06:22):
that hasn't taught me and the teachers.
Very few people that can utilizethat as a skill in their life
and those people are extremely smart and utilize it.
That doesn't do much for the majority of us after high
school. Still no clue, but this is more
my fault because at after when you're done high school, you
(06:44):
should have an idea after four years of high school, kind of
what you like to do college, You're on your own there,
people. At that point, you're an adult.
Figure it out. But the thought process are
those specific ages as artists, as musicians, as creatives, must
(07:16):
be completely different. For me, I didn't get into this
mind space of creativity until Iwas about 16 started writing
them. I didn't get to creative writing
(07:36):
until college, which came out ofthe studying journalism adding
into podcasting until UH of 2005.
O it took takes a long time sometimes to realize what your
passions are. And overall of everything I've
(07:57):
just said, that's the focus, focusing on passions, because we
can be taught to do things to workplaces, to create things,
pick things up, put them down, jobs work.
Most of them can be taught and we can all do them for the most
(08:20):
part. But how many of those jobs are
passions? How many of people figure out
their passions early in their lives?
There's a lot of artists that did and follow those passions,
which is great. That's why I like to dig through
(08:40):
this show and find those passions.
And when you've discovered yours, I love hearing that the
creative process for artists comes from somewhere, and
passion is a big one. For some artists, the passion
brings them to the forefront late in their life.
(09:01):
Mine did. A lot of the artists have been
on the show. Same thing, but your passions,
depending if you like living in society comfortably or not, have
to be accommodated for a lot of the starving artists out there.
Understand what I just said, andprobably chuckled a little bit
there. Not everybody can survive on
(09:24):
just passions. I'm just saying, but it doesn't
mean you shouldn't follow your passions.
Quite the opposite. Something I learned late in life
over the last 10 years is realizing the not taking chances
(09:45):
isn't worth it. Not living with regrets and that
life is short. It took me a while to figure
that out. You have to look at it from a
(10:06):
point of view where don't be your own obstacle.
If you've always wanted to do something, find a way to do it.
There's no shame, regardless of your age, finally starting your
(10:29):
passions. I got into music finally about
10 years ago, don't regret it. Then last very long few years.
No regrets. I'm still working on my passion
in writing podcasting. Well, you guys know that story.
(10:51):
It's been a very long time with podcasting and that's not going
away. There's many passions you can
have in life, things you want todo, and yes, there are many
obstacles that prevent people from doing it, but the rewards
of having tried it leaves you with less regrets.
(11:15):
What I don't want to see is in myself at least as having a
regret. You know what?
I had time and I had the opportunity, but I didn't seize
the moment. Yes, lots of cliches.
We can get over that. Still the same point.
(11:35):
Take them even for a little bit to try it.
Take them. If it means taking a six month
sabbatical or avoiding your daily coffee purchase to make
things work, do it. It's worth it.
It's worth it discovering if it's something you can actually
(11:58):
do, for one, and if it's something you can continue doing
and make a living from regardless of what it is.
Writing, painting, whatever. Sports.
Oh God, I can't do sports. I'm way too old for that now.
What I've encountered a few times in my career as a
(12:18):
podcaster and many other things I've done is there are artists
with talent, but they are their own obstacle.
I've met a handful of fantastic,fantastic singers, but they have
(12:47):
not pursued their talent or their passion.
Would it be from high expectations of themselves or
just losing faith or betting on a day nine to five day job?
(13:13):
Regardless, they abandoned not only their passion but their
talent and left it behind, whichis not only sad, but it's also
not fair. Pick an artist, any artist that
you know from the independent ormainstream, and think if that
(13:34):
one artist that you listen to didn't pursue their passion, we
could be missing out on the next.
Well written, well sung, well performed, whatever that might
(13:56):
change somebody's life. If anything this episode should
do is hopefully encourage everyone, regardless of age, to
just go out and try it. Go record something.
Go write something. Go do something outside of your
(14:19):
comfort zone that was once your passion to prove to yourself.
Don't be that person with regret.
Life is hard, life has challenges.
Life doesn't give you much and maybe seizing that one
(14:41):
opportunity you get or creating that one opportunity you might
have will be the next big thing.That's it for today's episode.
Let me know you guys think aboutanything I've said today.
Hit that follow subscribe buttonon Spotify or any podcast
(15:03):
streaming platform. You're listening to this show
right now to this voice. And if you made it this far, I
thank you so much. The merch store is open.
Hope you guys like the new designs that I put out there.
I'm wearing them. They're fantastic and a lot of
good comments about it. Word of mouth is so much and if
anything Spotify listens half picked up lately.
(15:25):
So I thank you so much for subscribing rate and follow
subscribe once again and I will talk to you guys soon.
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