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Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Poduty Live Podcast Theater. I'm Jeff, your host. I've got

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a special in theater guest today. I've got DJ Sky.

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While I'm wandering through the theater trying to find my seat, I don't know where

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to go. We've got six stories about live news

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podcasting recorded live coming at you after.

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What time is it?

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What time is.

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The only live news podcast about

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podcasting from the st.

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How do we end the news?

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How do we in the news?

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The only live news podcast about

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podcasting from the stage.

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Just requested. DJ sky wants the full version of the

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podcast theme song to play at his next gig because you made a big

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announcement. It had almost went locally viral.

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I think everybody in this town saw your announcement. And welcome to the

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show again, DJ sky. Two timing on the show here.

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Glad to have you back. And tell us a little bit about what you. What

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did you announce last week? Hey, thank you for having me. I actually announced

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it's a four bar tour three city between

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Tarentum, Lower Burrell and Freeport. I'm going to be at the

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Praha Hotel, Barley

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Lock Five Tavern and Barrel and Bloom. And all of those

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dates are on the screen, so I set them out of order. But as long

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as you show up on those right days, you're going to have a good

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time. At least I hope you're going to have a good time. I know I

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will. And one thing that shocked me, the ticket price.

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It's free and you can win some stuff.

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So right now, all of these places are putting up a

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gift card for you to come back. Marmac is

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actually sponsoring Uber rides, so I'm going to raffle off an

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Uber ride each night. It's a $50 gift card, so

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if you're traveling locally, that's a whole bunch of rides.

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Yeah. Yeah. What, what better way to play it safe? You're going to go out,

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have a good time. Why not take it safe? Take the Safeway home, Get in,

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call a cab. Yeah, get an Uber. Or if you're going down to the draft,

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that is from here to Harmarville, because it's going to be

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ridiculous to do anything during the draft. Tell us a

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little bit about how can people find out more if they want to connect with

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you personally, learn about all your gigs. I mean, you're doing trivia.

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You're torn to rent them week on a weekly basis. So you're always around here

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working. Where can people find you on the regular right now? Facebook,

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just Skylor Hayden. It's Skylor with an O and same with my

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Instagram. I just try to keep everything simple so that way you can find

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me. Because if you like me, you'll remember me.

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If you don't like me, you'll definitely remember me.

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Well, a funny story about people liking you is,

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you know, you did a local high school prom about two years

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ago, a school that my daughter goes to, and the next year they hired a

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different dj, and she said, man, I really miss

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DJ Sky. So if you're out there, you're thinking about events, you want

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to get somebody that the kids like. DJ sky was well

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missed at my daughter's high school. I miss being there. There was a

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weird scheduling thing. I don't know what I did, but I was

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probably on vacation or something. Yeah, it's hard to believe because

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every time I turn on Facebook, there's a new thing that you're doing. You're always

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working, you're always out there and doing two or three trivia nights a

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week sometimes. Tell us a little bit about how do you structure trivia? How do

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you play the games when you're in pub? So I just like to keep

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it interesting. It's not rocket science. We're just supposed to be out and

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having a good time. So I don't like themes

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because if I do a theme and you're not interested, you're not coming out.

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So I try to just keep it random, keep people on their toes,

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and I mix it between trivia and name that tune.

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So that's a little hard because I have some young kids, but I

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gotta bridge the gap and make sure that they can have a good time

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to sound. Yeah, but that's what we

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have going on. It's pretty cool. I'm having fun.

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And for those of you watching at home, you're not gonna believe that there's 90

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years of experience up on this stage. I'm turning 50 this year, and

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believe it or not, DJ sky is 40 and I

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41. 91 years of experience up on this

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stage, which is crazy. They are putting something in the drinking water in tarentum.

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But every time I hear you're 40, it just blows my mind. It's definitely

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not fluoride because they just took that out of brackenry. I miss it.

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So do my teeth. Watch it. Watch our healthy. We'll be walking with

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walkers by the end of the year. I hope not.

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All right, well, are you ready to get into our

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stories? We've got story number one coming

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your way. This one was a music podcast, so a lot of the times with

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my guests, I try to pair the stories with their expertise, with their

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knowledge, with what they do on a daily basis. And

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this is the classroom to career podcasting, the music

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industry playbook. And this was a really interesting concept done at a university

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for kids who are studying event production, music

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production, the music industry. And this is Emily White, recorded season

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five of her podcast live at Northeastern University.

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Turning into an interactive in person learning experience.

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With a small audience, industry guests and student involvement in

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production, the show blends education, networking and

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live podcasting into real world training ground for building

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a sustainable music career. And this was a smaller event,

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15 people, but the industry experts, the knowledge

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that you got, being in the smaller, intimate environment, you

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don't get that in the classroom. You're not getting that real world experience. You're getting

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textbook experience and the knowledge of the professor. But here's

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somebody who lived through it, who built an empire, not an empire, but built

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something in the music industry. And sharing those with students in real time,

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they're able to ask questions and, and really dive in deeper.

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And all of these people who show up to these events, they're not getting lost

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in the shuffle and their voices are heard. Because since it

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is one on one, there's time. And whenever you got

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to see more than 15, it gets hard. And

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you might not either think your question is valid or somebody else

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is going to ask it, but the answer that they get won't be the

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answer that you need. Yeah, I mean, I couldn't imagine, you know, I took a

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lot of marketing classes, but having somebody like Mark Cuban or Bill

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Gates, even a local business

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entrepreneur to sit in a room with, you tell their story

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and then you can ask them questions. I never got an experience like that in

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college. And through podcasting, I think these types of things are now possible.

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So I have been to a couple DJ conventions.

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One was really huge. Djx. It was amazing because you still got

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the top tier speakers of the hour, the top tier people in

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your business, but from me to them, I'm

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80 people away. But then when I went to the Pittsburgh DJ summit,

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it was cooler. It was a little bit smaller scale from me to them.

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I'm like 35 people away. And it was just cool because

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they took time out and was able to give you the time that you

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wanted more than just you needed. So it makes a big

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difference whenever you can actually get up close and personal. Yeah. That

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intimate experience, one on one knowledge. If you're one of 15

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questions that are going to be asked and there's only 15 people in the audience,

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you have a good chance of getting that itch scratched of like, what's

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that thing burning in the back of your head? Like, how do I do this?

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How did you do that? I see that you've accomplished these types of things.

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How can I pull some of that knowledge and build off for my own

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career? And then even if they do ask a question that you have,

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you still have a few other questions in the chamber. So that way, whenever they

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do get to you, you still have your opportunity to speak

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and get some knowledge. Yeah. And sometimes there's. Even afterwards, after the show

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cuts, they got what they needed for the recording. You can hang out,

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you can thank them for coming out. You make those connections that you

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just, you can't get through an email or just through sending in

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a fan mail of, hey, listen to your podcast was really great. Now they know

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you and they're able to connect with you on a personal level. Yeah,

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well, keep it going. Story number two

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is from podcast to festivals turning content

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into a cultural event. This is the 2026 Black Effect

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podcast Festival in Atlanta is more than live shows.

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It's a full scale experience combining live podcast tapings,

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panel discussions, networking, a marketplace and an audience

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participation. This is podcasting as an event

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ecosystem where content, community

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and commerce all come together. And this is kind of the opposite of

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our previous story. This is big scale. This is

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podcasts up on the stage, entertaining a crowd

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and built around this network. This idea of podcast

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as performance is something I really from talking to me for the

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last couple years, I'm very passionate about performing

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podcasts live for audience. And this is scaling it way beyond

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what I'm doing. It's not that it's scaling it way beyond what you're

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doing. People don't know that they can come down to the theater,

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they can come sit down, watch, hang out,

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interact. So that's another thing. When people realize that

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they only got to come 5, 10 minutes, see something that they're listening

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to or something that they're interested in, and it's in their backyard.

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I had a few other different ideas that I think could work for

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you. Maybe going down to the Trenum Amphitheater and

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doing an outside live podcast, kind of sort of like this

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where you could interview people on the street or

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just do a show. And I think that'd be really cool. Right along the river.

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I'll have to show you. One of the original concepts for this space

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was I called it theater anywhere. And I built something that fit in

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the back seat of my sedan, so I had to travel with it. And you're

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familiar. DJ loading in and out equipment. And it was two

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speakers, it was a mixer, some microphones, and a podium

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all slid in perfectly into the backseat of my car. And my

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original concept was to go, like, set up along a river walkway

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or the clamshell theaters and parks and just start

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ambush. Like podcasting. Like, kind of like Billy in the Streets. But it was Jeff

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in the Streets doing this podcast. Anywhere I wanted to be, anywhere

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I went, that's where the podcast would be. And I love that idea. So maybe

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this summer I'll ambush the. What's it, Miss Doctor, Mr.

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Wolf Amphitheater. James. James P. Wolf Amphitheater.

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I thought it was Carl Magnetta. Is it Magnetta? Yeah, I thought it

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was the Carl Magnetta. Yeah, Maybe Wolf was the skateboard

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guys. We can ambush there, too, because they still have

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the rinks up. Well, I remember one of them didn't like

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skateboarding, and it was ironic that they named the skate park after them.

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2002 Tarentum story. But again,

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bringing people together, people who like podcasts, people who like, in some cases,

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music, they like entertainment. They're going to come together and

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people are realizing that you can get a great level of

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entertainment for 10, $20 a ticket.

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$80 for balcony seats, you're paying $300 to be on

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the floor with a live podcast, you're going to meet people

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who are like you. They like the same things that you're interested in. Usually the

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topic of the podcast is what people are conjugating around. They're.

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They're meeting together, they're thinking about the same things, they're passionate about the same

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topics, and you're meeting people for $10. $20. You could have the

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worst night of your life. And it doesn't break the bank to hang out with

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podcasters. Or even if it's outside, you can still walk

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by and still be entertained because you just never know what you're

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going to hear at that moment. As long as you put yourself out there,

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you can get something. They are doing one cool thing. It's called Pitcher

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Podcast, where they're having a stage where you can go up. If you have an

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idea, you can pitch it, kind of like a shark tank

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or America's Got Talent. You pitch your idea,

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your concept, and judges give you feedback and how to put it together.

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So if you're kind of on the fringe, like, I like these topics. I love

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what these people are putting together. How can I build my own

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podcast? Well, here's an idea. You take the stage in front of them

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and you get to pitch your idea and see if it has some value. Now,

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that would be cool if they turned that into a reality show and like a

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legit contest where people could vote on it and the

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winner gets their own podcast. Win a podcast at the

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Poduty Podcast Theater. I mean, we can get some local

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sponsors, at least give them a speaker or two. Yeah,

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let's do it. We'll keep going to our next story.

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Another story about live podcasting, and this one is

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one. Here's a ticket price that it's after. My own heart. This is where I

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think the value is for small, independent podcasters.

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$13.50. I'm all in turning a local

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podcast into a live platform. The Connect the Dots podcast

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in St. Louis hosted its first live event after years of

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building its brand, offering tickets for just

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$13.50 to bring the community together.

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The show combined live podcast tapings, performances, and

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networking and transforming a digital platform into a physical stage

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for local artists and setting the foundation for

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future events. And a lot of times we talk about taking your show live

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and you don't have to do it as soon as you start your podcast. They're

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building up a podcast over six years. By now. They're ready,

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they're confident on the microphone. They want to perform in front of people. Six

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years later, they're building live shows now and monetizing that for

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$13.50 a ticket. And especially if

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you do multiple shows where if you can get a

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group discount or pay for several shows at

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once, I mean, that's just hand over fist right there.

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here in Trenum. I say we're. Because I'm on the show. I have

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no. The stage is always yours here. Oh,

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yeah, you say that now. And that's the thing. The more

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you know, the more you can do. And

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people just need to know that you can come here and just hang out

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and be interactive. Most

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podcasts cost between 20 and $100 a month to

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run. If they sold 10 tickets at $13,

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I guarantee you they covered their expenses for a month. So just think about live

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events. How do I. How can I bring in some revenue to make

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this hobby, at least pay the bills? I can at least cover my expenses.

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I can have a good time doing it, and I'm not worried about

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the size of my audience. Whereas most podcasters chase this idea

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of if I build a big enough audience, I can read ads for

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purple mattress or meundies or Sherry's Berries. They can do

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all these things if they get the audience. But you don't have to have a

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live audience. If you think getting 1000 downloads is difficult,

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how difficult is it to get 10 people to show up right, so you can

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cover your expenses without having large audiences? And

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1350. So we're talking almost what,

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$6.75 a pop per show. You get two shows for

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1350 and for them that's two weeks of

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content that covers half of their month, that those sales

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probably covered their expenses for a month or two months. They're ahead of

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the game now. They're in the green. They're not operating at a loss or as

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a hobby anymore. They're making this a business. And that's the

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nice thing about just being able to create that movement to where

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you can be there in person and you can interact. And that

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just changes the whole grand scheme of things. And

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I think that's really cool. Let's

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go to the first impressions. Winning or losing

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at check in. I love this story we're talking about. DJ sky has an event

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coming up at four different locations. And this whole

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article here is about how do

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we control that process. The check in is part of the experience.

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So if you get to a venue and you're waiting to

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get scanned in, if there's tickets, if you're waiting to get checked in because they

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can't find your email, or in DJ Sky's case,

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the process is free. There's no tickets, but you're gonna be

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doing these events. You may wanna capture some of that information. So in your mind,

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how do I get this information so that I'm not holding up the

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experience, but I wanna be able to talk to these people, market

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to them after the show and bring them back to future episodes. So that

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whole check in process is something great to think about, especially for your upcoming events.

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And the success of your event is not decided when the music starts,

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it's decided when people walk through the door. Long lines,

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confusion and slow check ins can ruin the energy before your show even

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begins. The strategy here is simple. Plan the experience

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from the first touch point. Registration, staffing and flow

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all matter. Because if people walk around frustrated, it is a

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lot harder to win. Win them back once the show starts.

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And I think I almost said all those things verbatim before I read the

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paragraph. But this is part of the experience. And

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this is something. When you're hosting a live podcast, a live event,

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you gotta think about, how do I get people through the door so their experience

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can begin in the most positive way possible? Because I was

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thinking about this after I read it, I'm like, wow. Because with

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our access passes, whenever you get it stamped,

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that puts you in the running for the raffle. And I'm like, how am I

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gonna collect all the information? Raffle tickets are cool, but

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it's kind of outdated. But this is the route that I have to take,

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and then I can't lose them. So it's like little

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things that make. I hate to say

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my guests, but the people are coming out, make them feel valued,

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and it goes a lot.

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So this one is really. I'm going to pay attention to this one.

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Yeah. We were talking before the show started today, and I think the

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best way for you to do this is you'll have the raffle tickets. That's fine.

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But part of the entry is they scan a QR code and

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they sign up for your newsletter. Then you'll have the people who signed up

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pick a number, 1 to 20. Or have somebody randomly pick a number,

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and that person's the one who wins the raffle. So you can still do the

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raffle, but now you're capturing that information easily and

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flawlessly because they just scan it, they're entering, and you're good to go. So

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that's something we could talk about. Happy to help set that up and

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see what you can do with it. It'd be fun to see you walk away

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with 100, 150 names at the end of the four days.

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That's a pretty good starting point for marketing for future events.

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Yes, that's a great base. And

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that also would streamline that process because they're not waiting

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for either me or the bartender to scan them. And if it's busy,

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the bartender can't punch their card. So it's a great way

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to do both. So we have to figure that out.

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Yeah, let's do that. Let's figure that out. Keep the event moving. When

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I said we, I didn't mean you. I'll be there.

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That's true. I'm sure you'd have me.

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Yeah. Anything you need to do.

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I got you. I got you. That's my favorite saying. I got you.

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Let me tell You a story. We were at the Olive Garden, and there's an

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Olive Garden up at the Pittsburgh Mills. Here we had

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this waitress. She was busy and doing

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things and doing 100 things. But no matter what you asked,

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she would reply with, I got you. And I love this. And my whole family,

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to this day, we talk about this waitress like, roman, what you need?

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I need an iced tea. I got you. How about you? I need some more

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breadsticks. I got you. I can't get a refill on the salad. I got you.

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She would say, I got you. No matter what we said. Like, the same way.

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Like, oh, she got everything right. And she would. The same

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way. Like, when you say thank you at Chick Fil A, they have to say,

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my pleasure. This girl would say, I got you for whatever you

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asked. To everybody who asked. She wouldn't wait till we were all done

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individually. I got you. That's my favorite thing. So if you ever hear me saying,

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I got you, it's some waitress in Olive Garden. Who's my favorite person in the

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world? That I have no idea who she is. Well, I think we need to

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go back and find her. Let's find her. Well, let's go. This

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could be her. This is from stage to stage, from story to

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stage. Turning personal conversations into live experiences.

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Karen Thorne launched her new podcast, Finding Foundations, with a live

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event centered around real unscripted conversations about

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overcoming adversity. With tickets around 25 bucks,

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the event combined storytelling, audience Q and A and post

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show connection, turning a podcast into a shared

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emotional experience. And this was our first live event, not just a

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digital experience. There was these authentic unscripted

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conversations and it included an audience Q and A and

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social time afterwards. So when you're putting these types of events together,

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you start to think about, okay, what's the experience look like? 1 we're looking

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at? Check in. That's going to be an important part of it. People are going

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to get seated. We're going to put on a great show. We're going to give

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Q and A. So there's interactivity. But then like a

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VIP experience, even if it's for everybody, there's a hangout

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afterwards. You get to walk by, talk to the host,

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take pictures with the host, proof that you were there. That's a big part of

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this whole experience that we're trying to build. How do you connect with everybody? How

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do you connect with the audience, the hosts, and build a system

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that people leave raving about talking? I'm so glad I went to

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that. It just Goes back to making them feel

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valued because they're not only there for you,

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they're also there for themselves to share experiences. And

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if anybody can relate, that just helps. And the whole question

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and answer part, that's really cool because some people have

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a question and they just might need to know how to get through something or

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take the right steps on what they need to do just to overcome an

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adversity. And that's, that's really cool. I like that. I talk,

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I talk a lot about people who put on shows here. And there's

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like three stages. There's the, the pre show where most of the people

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are, have this nervous energy that's, it's, it's a lot of fun to like,

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like lift the mood and make them laugh. But they're pacing, they're going

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through scripts, they're. They're going through their notes and they're overly

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prepared or overly nervous and there's too much time between what they're doing. So you

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get this nervous energy. Then during the show, all that gets released, they

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come alive. They're doing the performance. It's amazing. They're having

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a great experience. The audience is enjoying it. But the thing that has shocked me

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the most about building this type of event space, this type of experience

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is getting people out of the theater afterwards. They

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have such a good time that they're taking pictures, they're

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coming up on stage, getting photos, recording small videos, thank yous,

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they're shaking hands, they're telling stories. And

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it's always as long as the show was performed is how long

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it takes to clear out. Which is something that I didn't expect. But

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I also love at the same time that that type of connection on a

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small stage like this is happening with just 40 people.

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Imagine in larger events and if you're a bigger celebrity

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and people get to come in and meet you and shake your hand and thank

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you for the things you've done, that's a big part of the experience. And

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you're building that and giving that as a gift to the attendees.

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Especially if One of these 40 are fortunate to see somebody

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who really, really takes off and makes it big, they're gonna remember

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where they met him, where they first saw him, the

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time that they had, and that's gonna last longer than a

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lifetime because those stories will get passed on from generation.

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And it's cool that it's taking place here. And

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that's just, it's really nice. I remember in

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2026, I saw DJ Sky. I was gonna

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say I was Gonna go with the comedian Loaf. I was listening to the

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comedian, and he told this one joke, and then we hung

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out afterwards.

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Let's go. Our final story of the day

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is south by South. I love this one, because there was a big event that

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happened at south by Southwest that happened parallel was called

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podcast movement. It happened alongside. So a lot

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of people didn't realize there were separate events. But in this case,

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this is a substack article, and she's

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talking about how podcasts were the center stage of south by Southwest, which I love.

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If you needed proof that podcasting has gone mainstream, south by

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Southwest made it clear podcasts were everywhere.

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Live shows, brand activations, music performances, and major

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platforms all leaning into audio. The strategy here is not

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about where you post your content. It's about owning your voice and

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bringing it to life on stage. Because the future of podcasting is not just

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something people listen to, it's something they experience. And I

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mean, if there's any proof about how big podcasting has become

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as part of an entertainment structure, look at conferences,

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events. Part of their big entertainment is now

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live podcasts. Where it used to be bands and comedians and

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magicians, now podcasts are right in that mix. They're

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replacing panel sessions, they're doing a live podcast, they're replacing

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comedy, they're replacing the headliner with a live

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podcast. And it's becoming a number one

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form of entertainment at conferences. Especially since it's

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the entertainment base.

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Watching something and being there and actually interacting with it

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is a whole different experience than just listening to it.

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It's so weird because whenever you're there

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and they're doing the podcast and they're interviewing somebody that you know

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and follow, and they're still right there, 40

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people away. It's pretty amazing what they're able to do with

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the live podcasting right now. You know, on the

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last show, we were talking about, like, podcast conferences, and it's

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so weird. You listen to these podcasters for years at home, during your

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morning commute, in the background, when you're. You're doing the dishes

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or whatever, and all of a sudden you're at a conference and you see them

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up on stage, everybody has their badges on, and then you

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leave and you're walking the hallways, and you see that podcaster that

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you've listened to for 20 years, or you see them over there,

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they're approachable. You can talk to them. So when you go to these

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events that are centered around the topics that you care about, and you see

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the industry leaders, they're almost Always very

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approachable. You can thank them. You can tell them how much

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you appreciate the content they're creating, how it's helped you in your career or

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during your own podcast journey. And they're

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right there. It's that surrealness of you're only 40

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people away, but they're also approachable. They're not surrounded by

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10 bodyguards like a Kardashian.

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Yeah, the bodyguards. I'm so glad that they don't have

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those when we go to these things because it's the

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interaction that lasts a whole lot longer and

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that just sets it apart from seeing them, listening to them,

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but being able to take that picture. It just shows

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that they appreciate you and value as a listener. Yeah. Now I guess as a

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watcher, because everything is live now. Yeah, we

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went full circle today. We went from putting on events, the check in

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process, the experience. These are all things that anybody watching at

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home can take for their own podcast, for their own live events, Even some

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tips that you may see DJ sky put into place

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for his four stop tour starting April 11th right

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here in Tarentum. At Barley is the first stop. Praha is the first.

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Praha is the last stop. Praha's the headliner. They got those

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weed mushrooms. The weed mushrooms, the patio.

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It goes lock five barley barrel in

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bloom, then the Praha. Yeah. But

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all these places are only 10, 15 minutes away. So

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that's the cool thing about it. I'm in everybody's backyard.

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Yeah. Love to see it. April 11th. Check out Skyler Hayden on Facebook. You'll

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see the tour poster. You're going to get a little. What do

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you get? You get little punches for each stop. There's the access pass.

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You get little punches for each stop. That'll put you into the grand prize

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raffle. So whenever we get the QR code, we'll

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figure out how to do that. And then the second place is

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I'm gonna put together probably a chip of some sort

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from each location and then I'm gonna give away

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hopefully a whole bunch of swag. So some T shirts, some gear.

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So if you are a local business and you do want to sponsor, please reach

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out. We'll take whatever you can give. I don't care if it's a shirt, a

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koozie. People just like stuff. I'll give a

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stage rental as a prize a night. You can come in, use the theater

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for whatever you want. I'll give a two hour prize.

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That's like $150 value. Does that count? That

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count? All right, go see DJ sky, you can win a two hour rental at

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the Poduty Podcast Theater at Downtown Tarentum. This has been Poduty

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