This is when everything changes ...

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:06.160 This is where everything changes. Hey, it's John. So if you've been 2 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:10.919 listening for a long time, things are going to change, but not that 3 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:19.640 much to outsiders. Things will look way different to new people coming on than 4 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:26.440 they have in the past. For old listeners, I've been doing this particular 5 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:30.960 podcast, let's call it, basically putting the same audio files in the same 6 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:36.960 RSS feed, for about six years. Of changed host a number of times 7 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:42.280 and there's been a couple of spinoff podcasts, but generally speaking it's you, 8 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:45.280 it's the same folks, it's the same people that have been listening to me 9 00:00:45.399 --> 00:00:49.560 John Podcast for a long time. So to you, I just wanted to 10 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:53.399 give you an update and let you know why I'm doing it, how I'm 11 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:58.000 doing it and what exactly I'm doing, because podcasting is really great hobby for 12 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:02.240 me. So I'm always taking the time to tweak and and fix things and 13 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:06.159 make things better and just kind of grow with it at some point. Well, 14 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:07.879 like I do this at work also. This is not my work podcast, 15 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:11.319 but I have a podcast for work which is much more commercial based and 16 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:17.079 geared toward a specific thing, which is to get people to come buy things 17 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:19.280 from our company. So that's different and then there are, of course, 18 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:23.400 podcast what's the whole purpose is? The podcast itself makes money by way of 19 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:27.200 advertising, which is a different thing, and I'm working on another project with 20 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:32.640 somebody else for that. All all that aside, this one that I've been 21 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:36.239 calling emo Dojo, for lack of a better name or lack of no name, 22 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:40.079 is my hobby podcast. So in the next twenty minutes or so we'll 23 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:45.280 go over some earlier examples of my intro music and how I changed the name 24 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:49.239 of this podcast a couple of times, the concept of the podcast, and 25 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:53.319 then I'll give you an update on where we're going moving forward, which, 26 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:56.719 like I said, it should be kind of fun and if you've been along 27 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:01.680 for the ride this long you'll probably enjoy where it's going moving forward. Cool. 28 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:07.319 So one last time let me drop this rock and roll, as they 29 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:19.800 call it, wrestling music, intro right here. I'll do that all right. 30 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:24.759 So that music is actually a file my friend gave me from some recording 31 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:31.120 sessions. It's original music by my longtime brother Ray. We grew up together. 32 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:34.879 His family took me in when I was kicked out of the house when 33 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:38.599 I was a fourteen. So it's kind of like my adopted family anyway. 34 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:40.560 So Yeah, Ray I, when I called him, I'm like, Dude, 35 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:44.400 I need some music, and I'll get to that in a second. 36 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:50.319 But Anyway, that's Ray levou out there in the bay area, San Francisco 37 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:57.439 area, rocking out. And that file is simply called another heavy thing and 38 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:01.039 I've been using it a lot often on because it's free. We don't have 39 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:06.639 to pay for we own the music. It's just there and I've got a 40 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:10.479 couple other tracks and that was my favorite one. But before that track and 41 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:15.879 before I just dropped the name that the show was originally called a bipolar style 42 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:22.159 to just the name of my studio, Emodojo, I've had other intros and 43 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:25.159 other different types of music and I was listening to some as I was cleaning 44 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:29.439 out my digital files the other day and it is a kind of a cool 45 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:34.000 little trip down memory lane. So this first one is interesting and I love 46 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:37.960 it. It kind of captures the whole essence of why I wanted to start 47 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:42.199 a podcast, including, you know, my ego and the rock and roll 48 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:46.479 and the bombastic intro and everything. The only downside was that it's just too 49 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:52.759 long when you produce a podcast that meant to be. You know, binged. 50 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:57.199 You got to have podcast intros that are short so they don't have to 51 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:00.560 hear the same fucking intro. You know, a minute long intro for a 52 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:05.080 fifteen minute long podcast its way too ridiculous. And the more I listen to 53 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:10.000 podcast, the more I'm thinking, man, intro should be next to nothing, 54 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:12.879 just the tone, just the note to remind me that I'm on the 55 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:16.079 right feed or whatever. But aside from that, the INTRO, it doesn't 56 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:20.079 need to be that long. That said, this was the very first intro 57 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:28.240 I put together for my podcast when it was called bipolars style. Give a 58 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:45.240 listen to this real quick. You don't understand. I could class, I 59 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:49.439 could have been a contemner, I could have been somebody. Dude, if 60 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:53.160 it's going to be that kind of part, I won't think my thinking about 61 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:04.120 Johnny. So it's pretty cool, right. It's kind of conveys the sense 62 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:09.360 of chaos and fun I'd like to try to have on the show. Maybe 63 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:13.040 if that was the theme song, then people would hear the type of show 64 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:15.519 I was trying to make. Anyway, it's still it's just too long. 65 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:20.959 It's too fucking long. So then, and I lived prior down right next 66 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:26.319 to skid row and downtown Los Angeles, and then I had moved up to 67 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:30.360 a section of San Francisco called the tenderloin, which is equally crazy, and 68 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:34.360 I've always had this dystopic view of how life was anyway. And one of 69 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:41.480 my favorite films is called Brazil by Terry Gilliam and the Intro Song from Brazil 70 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:46.759 was always fascinated to me when it's juxtaposed against the fucked up living conditions on 71 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:51.959 the streets right. So I went in and just whipped together a much shorter 72 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:57.399 kind of intro that sounded kind of weird and distopic. I don't know if 73 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:00.680 people understood it that way, but that's how I meant it, and it 74 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:08.680 sounded like this. Welcome back to bipolar style, the podcast for bipolar people 75 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:14.680 and those who love them. Join US online at by polar stylecom and now 76 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:18.759 use your host, Johnny emotion. So there's a lot going on there. 77 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:27.920 Obviously you can't use unlicensed, copyrighted music in any official capacity. So yeah, 78 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:30.560 that's kind of a strike there. I knew that when I was putting 79 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:32.680 it together, so it didn't really matter, but don't copy my example. 80 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:38.639 In that case. The upside though, or what I thought did work if 81 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:42.920 I had used original music, was the voice I bought from fiver, so 82 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:47.079 that Gal's voice. got that off of fiver and I think it costs me 83 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:49.439 like, I don't know, Fifty Bucks and I gave her like a twenty 84 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:53.399 five tip or something like that, and she read a whole bunch of lines. 85 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:56.160 I have a whole bunch of her talking like that, because you sounded 86 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.399 kind of like, well, not me. Sounds like a female's voice and 87 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:02.360 kind of upbeat and pleasant and something that might entice you to stay and listen 88 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:06.000 to a podcast if you heard that voice right. It also, I think, 89 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:12.759 represented my official commitment to using that nickname John Emotions, like that stage 90 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:17.319 named John Emotions. And Yeah, so that was that again. You know, 91 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:20.879 eventually I'm like, Ah Shit, I can't use license music if I 92 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:24.959 want this to grow, because I might get kicked off the platform for one 93 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:29.240 or might get this podcast episode muted or whatever. I did think I had 94 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:32.199 two good experience dance with fiver. So I went back to fiver and just 95 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:38.759 looked for somebody to do a fullblown podcast introduction or intro or whatever. Not 96 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:42.560 sure what I looked up, but you know, I literally look at and 97 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:49.399 listen to probably a hundred different five accounts trying to find something that I don't 98 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:54.040 know fit the mood I was going for or the vibe or something, and 99 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:58.000 then something just stood out. So, while this wasn't the first kind of 100 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:01.519 sound I was looking for, it really jumped out at me. It was 101 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:05.120 by a provider on a fiver called you STA, and I think he lives 102 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:09.759 up in the Nordic countries or something like that. Kind of a Swedish name, 103 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:16.199 Jooste your Sta. Anyway, this, if this were star wars, 104 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:20.959 this next intro would be the original episode for straight on Storm Trooper version all 105 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:33.600 that. It's only now it's online Bible. This stylecom emotions with Bible style. 106 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:37.759 That's a classic right. So, anyway, it really good and I 107 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:41.720 loved it. I started to have a kind of an identity crisis with the 108 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:48.639 show idea because of the name bipolar style. I originally called it bipolar style 109 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:52.080 because I don't like the word disorder, because there is no baseline order for 110 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:56.320 the quote unquote unbalanced chemicals. In your mind, there is no standard with 111 00:08:56.360 --> 00:09:00.720 the chemicals something like. It's not actually this order. It's more of a 112 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:05.080 yes style. So I like the style part. However, it turns out 113 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:11.840 people don't like sharing things when you use the word bipolar. Not Ironically. 114 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:15.679 It's okay to say the weather's bipolar, Haha, funny memes and share all 115 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:20.080 that shit, but if you're actually talking about bipolar disorder, people don't like 116 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:24.039 to share that. So I started toying around with other interesting names. That 117 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:28.720 would means sword of the same thing, but they also were sort of the 118 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:35.279 same thing. So this first one was just me kind of riffing off the 119 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:43.759 Jackass intro and I was starting to call the show manic episodes. I'm John 120 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:50.879 with a bipolar style and these are the manic episodes. Yeah, so that 121 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.519 one makes me cringe a little bit now. However, it does capture a 122 00:09:54.600 --> 00:10:00.320 lot of the right ideas. So I had modified the name of the PODCAST 123 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:03.480 and I changed it up in the you know, Seo settings and all that, 124 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:07.600 the description for the show at the platform, and I was trying to 125 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:11.360 move away from the word bipolar right and I kept it nice and short and 126 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:16.000 I was also using original music and I just didn't like the way I just 127 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:20.159 come on there and was started off cold with I'm John, like who gives 128 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:26.480 a fuck, shut up, sit down. But clearly I was having issues 129 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:31.879 with the production of the show, not the production as much as the direction 130 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:37.320 of the show. Now, by this point I had moved to Louisiana and 131 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:41.279 I thought it might be a good idea to try to find a cohost, 132 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:46.200 which was utter disaster. And Strangely, the intro for that period kind of 133 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:52.200 sounds like a cluster fuck to it's a little bit of the original stormtrooper kind 134 00:10:52.200 --> 00:11:00.279 of intro mixed with a little bit of the another heavy thing from ray and 135 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:11.480 it just blas all together and it kind of sounded like this, it's our 136 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:18.879 Yad and now it's online at bi color soundcom. All right. So I 137 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:24.159 kind of had to cut that one short because the announcer then announces the cohost 138 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.840 name and we had a pretty bad falling out and I don't speak that person's 139 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:33.240 name now. But anyway, you could tell by the intro like as just 140 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:37.080 a message. Just look, let's blend all the shit together and one thing, 141 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:41.159 which it's not usually a good idea, hmm, but I tried to 142 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:46.159 make it work, at least in my hypomanic state of mind, I guess, 143 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:52.240 anyway. So I really liked another heavy thing, rays music. Oh 144 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:56.320 by the way, ray also played the music for the thing with hey you 145 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:01.320 guys. So basically that was re playing guitar that was read a Morano doing 146 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:03.080 the hey you guys on the earlier one, and then the clip from the 147 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:09.000 Marlon Brando movie and the Johnny Carson Guy Ed McMahon. Well, I just, 148 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:13.399 you know, stripped all that stuff away and went right back to another 149 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:16.480 heavy thing without any intro, and I thought that that was a lot cleaner. 150 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:20.399 It's the one you hear a lot past the year or so, which 151 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:31.080 is just this classic right here. So that's where we stand up till now, 152 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:37.320 with intro music and theme songs, if you will, but the whole 153 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:39.559 thing. So I mentioned it about a year ago. I was having troubled 154 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:43.480 like I don't know what I want to actually call the show, and I 155 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:46.879 just it wasn't a high priority. So I just said Emo Dojo. That's 156 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:50.480 actually the name of the studio I record in and I had always thought that 157 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:54.720 the show itself needed its own name and you know, kind of deserved its 158 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:58.080 own name eventually, if I came up with a good enough one, because 159 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.919 Emo Dojo is a killer name. For the studio Great Seo. You know 160 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:05.720 search engine optimization. If you look for Emo Dojo, it's like the first 161 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:09.159 page or two of results. That's fucking awesome. And it's also become the 162 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:15.519 number one bipolar disorder podcast for like a year running. And I don't mean 163 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:18.120 on the kind of APPs and little communities where you have to be voted by 164 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:22.919 your community. I'm talking by ones that are searched by domain authority and actual 165 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:28.440 domain traffic and downloads and things like that. So I appreciate that. It 166 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:35.639 doesn't really mean anything to me in the sense of like monetary compensation or anything 167 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:37.720 like that because, of course, if it's always been a hobby podcast, 168 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:41.639 and for the main reason is, who am I going to take money from? 169 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:48.879 I'm not taking money from pharmaceutical companies or therapy APP companies or anybody charging 170 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:52.679 my listeners a monthly fee for anything. I don't charge a feat so I'm 171 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:56.799 not going to take money from somebody else who was charging a fee for any 172 00:13:56.840 --> 00:14:01.080 of that stuff. So inherently these type of shows don't make money, but 173 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.759 it's nice to know that the work you put into your hobby results in, 174 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:09.799 you know, you having a podcast that's well regarded in that sense. So, 175 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:13.919 as a hobbyist, I want a new challenge and I don't want to 176 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:18.440 keep talking about mental health and mental illness. I have a mental illness. 177 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.039 Why I don't want to keep talking about it. I'm and I've mentioned this 178 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:26.000 that several episodes of the past few years. It's just it brings you back 179 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:28.039 down. If I'm trying to live a normal life, I should focus on 180 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.519 normal life things, or at least fun things. Right. It doesn't all 181 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:37.120 have to be listening to the next person's story about I got depression and anxiety. 182 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:41.080 I got depression and anxiety, I got an anxiety and depression. I 183 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:46.000 mean will fuck okay, and people with the hardcore diseases, the bipolar, 184 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:50.279 the psychosis and things like that, they don't want to come talk about it 185 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:54.320 on a show like this and it's really hard to get anybody to open up 186 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:58.919 about that stuff. So all of the guests I've ever had running a show 187 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:03.960 called bipolar style or even Emo Dojo, you know, that's really brave thing 188 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:07.600 for them to do, to the speak up and share their their emotional problems 189 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:11.480 with the world. Anonymously or not, it's still a brave thing to do 190 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:16.519 and I appreciate them doing that and people have told me they appreciate me doing 191 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:20.000 it as well, like sharing my story. But whatever, we could do 192 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:22.639 more things on this particular show. If there's tons of other shows in the 193 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:26.759 past six years. Oh my God, there's so many other shows that are 194 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:30.960 basically the same fucking thing I've been doing all this time anyway. And since 195 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:35.559 I'm not like invited on their shows or in their little click, fine go. 196 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:39.080 You know, there's tons of other mental health podcasts to go listen to. 197 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:41.240 So let's make this one, our show, the one that I do 198 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:46.399 for you and that you've been listening to. Let's expand and do something else. 199 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:52.639 Let's listen and talk about different topics other than mental health. One of 200 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:58.600 my main concerns with getting guests for Mental Health podcasts was that you get people 201 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:04.000 that are not podcasters wanting to be guessed, so there's inevitably audio and technical 202 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:08.000 problems that you run into. Well, what we're going to do moving forward 203 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:11.960 is I'm going to have other podcasters come on and we're going to talk about 204 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:17.440 interesting topics and more of a round table kind of set up. So my 205 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:21.840 thought is to get three or four people on each episode a mixture of people, 206 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:27.519 different perspectives, different lifestyles, different backgrounds, talking about one common and 207 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:33.519 interesting topic. It'll be thought provoking but not provocative. I'm not trying to 208 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:37.159 roll anybody or, you know, put headlines or pay, you know, 209 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:42.840 just click bait type of episode titles, anything like that. It's more of 210 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:48.639 let just this ponder life's bigger questions so we can get to the heart of 211 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:52.679 the matter. And there's a lots of independent podcasters out there that show up 212 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:59.840 by themselves, get on a mic, record, edit, upload, promote, 213 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:03.000 they do the whole thing. They're doing that without any pay or anybody 214 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:06.079 else's help. Those of the people that I want to connect with and talk 215 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:10.119 about interesting topics, so they don't have to grind all week and just to 216 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:12.039 figure out what they got to do to keep an episode up. Well, 217 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:15.480 they can come on over to the EMO Dojo studio here. You know, 218 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:22.359 I vicariously through technology and we can record an episode about almost anything, as 219 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:26.039 long as it's interesting and uplifting. So, like I said, I was 220 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:30.319 talking about how hard it is to come up with a cool name. I 221 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:34.480 worked for naming companies and marketing firms in the past, so I take the 222 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:41.200 naming thing pretty seriously and there's no rush to name your podcast. In my 223 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:45.759 mind, this is all in just my perspective. So here's how I came 224 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:49.480 up with the names. Back many years ago, Gary, my friend, 225 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:55.240 my brother and one of my producers that I work with frequently because we went 226 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:59.160 to broadcasting school together, so I know that he knows his shit well. 227 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:03.640 When I had moved to San Francisco the first time, it turned out that 228 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:10.960 San Francisco has a fantastic community access TV program and we effectively started our own 229 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:15.680 Wayne's world TV show in San Francisco that went out over the air fun. 230 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:18.319 We had a blast. It was called TV pirates, like we were taking 231 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.599 over the airwaves, and we kind of framed it that way, like ay 232 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:26.119 too crazy guys took over the TV station because the place we did it called 233 00:18:26.119 --> 00:18:30.359 BAYVAC, Bay area video coalition. They didn't care as long as we were 234 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:33.200 cool and that we respected the equipment and everything, and as so long as 235 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:37.359 we didn't get any complaints from the people in San Francisco. Well, San 236 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:41.519 Francisco is crazy. They're not going to complain about anything on the TV. 237 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:45.599 There's nothing we could have done in that studio on live TV at Bay Vac. 238 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:48.960 That would have generated any complaints, so we were free to do what 239 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:53.359 we wanted to. So that was called TV pirates. Later, as it 240 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:59.559 moved on to the Internet, I wanted to call it signal pirates because we're 241 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:03.160 just like hey, we're taking over the signals. Instead. Well, signal 242 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.599 pirates was taken in many different forms and I'm like fuck, can't you signal 243 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:11.480 pirates? We did a podcast for I don't know, dozens of episodes called 244 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:15.680 signal jams, which is kind of cool. Pretty cool name. Still a 245 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:22.240 pretty cool name. I have issues a little bit obsessively with words, so 246 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:26.759 I can't focus on the word jams and I'm like jams, just like Jelly 247 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:30.519 and preserves and jams. And even as a musician I'm like no, you 248 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:33.599 fucking idiot. Like jams, you know, you get a get on the 249 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:37.920 air and jam, like we're going to Improv some bits on the podcast and 250 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:41.559 just jam. We've signal jams. So it was easy enough for me to 251 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:47.160 sell to like Gary as an idea for name anyway, and the podcast was 252 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:52.680 cool. The podcast eventually got completely pulled off of anchor because it used copyrighted 253 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:56.799 music and that was before they allowed it. So Anyway, signal jams was 254 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:02.880 always pretty close. I just didn't know. I didn't know like what the 255 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:06.680 logo look like. We're using like skulls and heavy metal imagery and things like 256 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:08.920 that. I'm like yeah, it's yeah, it's fine, it's okay, 257 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:12.599 it's not. Doesn't hit home. It's not a big audience show. And 258 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:18.160 we had already tried a heavy metal specific show called thrashbacks, which was all 259 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:22.279 about us talking about the old shows and the good old times, the metal 260 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:26.680 days and things like that, but that felt a little two pigeoned old. 261 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:32.400 We didn't just want to talk about heavy metal or nostalgia. I didn't just 262 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:38.799 want to talk about mental health. On emodojo and signal jams. Great Name 263 00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:41.200 But, like I said, I was stuck on the word jams. I'm 264 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:48.000 like a signal jams and plus jams kind of has a negative connotation, like 265 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:52.599 traffic jams, things like that. So it wasn't quite right. It was 266 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:56.880 like eighty seven percent, which is fucking yeah, irritating to me. It 267 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:03.079 could be better. So I kept looking around and then several weeks ago, 268 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:06.440 Gary and I we're trying to get on. I was doing some shit. 269 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:08.400 Whatever he lived, where he lives or the way his house is constructed. 270 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:12.039 It just has a bad phone signal. So he was trying to send me 271 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:17.160 a youtube video or something and it ends up sending like three fucking times. 272 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:19.200 I'm like, Dude, enough with the and enough with the fucking youtube video. 273 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:25.319 I get it and it's like those not my fault. Is a signal 274 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:27.559 drops you, just like one line in his text back to me was signal 275 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:33.079 drops, and like a fucking classic Gary, Signal Drops, Gary, Gary, 276 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:37.359 Gary. But I'm a little spectra me in this sense, and well, 277 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.119 maybe in the in the real sense, but I pick up on crazy 278 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:47.880 interesting things from a different perspective, so I hear and see phrases differently. 279 00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:52.119 So when I saw the word signal drops in my text, I'm like wait, 280 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:56.079 hold it, that's actually a dope fucking name for a show. Not 281 00:21:56.200 --> 00:22:00.440 Signal Jams, but signal drops. So, in other words, because nowadays 282 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:04.559 we used to launch albums, but nowadays people drop albums and they drop new 283 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:08.240 episodes, they they drop things, I'm like, Oh, signal drops, 284 00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:14.119 and it actually works out really well because then we can get the different signals 285 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:18.960 from all the other podcasters to drop their signals in our podcast, in the 286 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:22.079 words, you know, give us their hot take on the daily current events 287 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:26.160 and news items, and you know. So with the and then within seconds, 288 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:30.640 if not minutes, I'm on my computer, like pulling up my design 289 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:33.519 programs and go hmm, drops, and I'm like, I need a new 290 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:37.000 logo that's not black and white, it's not a face, is completely different, 291 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:41.960 and I just start fucking route them with drops and made a little drop 292 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:44.720 logo. It's enough to where people like, Huh, I don't know what 293 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:47.359 this means. I'll give it a shot, but really, between you and 294 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:52.880 me, it's going to be a cool sounding podcast made by and for people 295 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:56.400 with mental illnesses. I guess that's going to be our secret. I may 296 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:03.039 actually delete all the episodes older than this one. That's a bipolar style or 297 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:07.200 Emo Dojo. We might start fresh, why not? But no, it's 298 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:11.440 still me and it's basically the same podcast with just a few extra people that 299 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:17.039 I've managed to corral in here to have a new podcast experiment with. And 300 00:23:17.079 --> 00:23:19.599 also, when you come up with the name for a podcast or a project 301 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:23.720 or a band or anything really, man you got to cover all the details 302 00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:30.519 because consistency matters. So before you settle on a name, make sure you 303 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:34.400 can get that the at handle on the fucking you know, social platforms you 304 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:40.319 want to be on. That's important. So of course, signal drops. 305 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:44.759 Go to twitter. We're there. Signal dropscom. That was available. So 306 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:48.039 you can go to signal dropscom and it'll take you right to this podcast, 307 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:52.640 just like Emo Dojo does. So if you're old school, you can go 308 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:57.759 to Emo dojocom bring you to the podcast. If you just got here, 309 00:23:57.799 --> 00:24:03.240 you just notice signal drops, so go to signal dropscom. These are important. 310 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:07.680 Like if you come up with the name for a podcast, go check. 311 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:15.599 There's in fact a website called name checkcom and am hkcom named, and 312 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:17.880 just type in the name you want to use. It'll tell you if it's 313 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:22.920 available. On instagram, twitter, facebook, fucking Linkedin, whatever, it 314 00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:26.799 will tell you if thecom's available. All these things are important and it only 315 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:30.799 takes about five extra seconds to go to that website instead. So when you 316 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:33.759 come on up with the name, do a little research and it will go 317 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:37.519 a long way. So yeah, signal drops is the new name for this 318 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:41.759 podcast. We're still recording at EMO Dojo. So if you ever hear me 319 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:47.799 mention Emo Dojo. That's where we record. In fact, I think, 320 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:53.680 for to keep like a slight thread of continuity, I will probably put the 321 00:24:53.759 --> 00:25:00.119 producer of this podcast as Emo Dojo and I'll let John Emotions fade off into 322 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:06.400 the background or even the past. I'll just call myself John. With the 323 00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:07.839 New People, we're just all going to be on our first name basis. 324 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:12.519 It'll be John, and you know Gary and roam and all. You know 325 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:18.119 all the other people have talked to and you know the one thing I like 326 00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:22.880 about signal drops. It kind of reminds me of candy drops. In other 327 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:30.319 words, it reminds me both of like candy crush land and wreck it Ralph 328 00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:34.480 and the Matrix like signal drops. When there's like a glitch in the signal 329 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:40.559 actually drops. That's the moment that we want to get in your head. 330 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:45.720 But it also sounds like candy. So what does that sound like? Well, 331 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:48.680 I have an idea, and getting back to my idea, that we 332 00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:53.839 don't need a fucking gigantic intro every time, because the podcast episodes are going 333 00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:56.240 to be timed. I'm going to try to keep them like right at two 334 00:25:56.160 --> 00:26:00.839 thousand and twenty five minutes each time and because of that you're going to be 335 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:04.000 hearing the logo, then the logo noise, the theme music, however you 336 00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:07.240 want to call it, you're going to be hearing that frequently. So I 337 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:14.559 wanted to go with something really simple and effect this tone. When I tweaked 338 00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:15.920 on it, when I was playing with the keyboard, I just liked it 339 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:21.200 so much that I've kept it around for a long time trying to find a 340 00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:26.799 good podcast that would go along with this tone. So moving forward, the 341 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:32.799 signal drops music, the signal drops sound tone. It's going to sound like 342 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:41.400 this. What it's boring. Nah, I think it's just right because I 343 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:45.799 listened to podcast in the car and sometimes when I'm going to bed and I 344 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:52.000 don't want a jarring podcast theme music every time the podcast ends. So if 345 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:59.839 it's just a subtle little tone like that, I think that's perfect. So 346 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:04.200 that's it. That's all this podcast is it just explaining the transition. I've 347 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:08.240 got one more guest for what I'll call a hybrid episode, because I've recorded 348 00:27:08.279 --> 00:27:15.000 the interview when the show was Emo Dojo. So he signed up as an 349 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:18.400 Emo Dojo guests, so I want to respect that and keep that in contained 350 00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:22.079 and as an EMO dojo episode. But, as you'll hear in that episode 351 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:26.839 that's coming up next, the conversation we had basically alludes to the fact that 352 00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:30.920 we're just going to start talking together on the regular and make it a more 353 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:37.359 of a round table, cohosted or recurring guest host type of show. So, 354 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:41.799 that said, I'll let you go. I appreciate you sticking around and 355 00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:41.960 and now back to the wall.