Leila: Hello. Fun Fact Friday Fun
David: Fact Friday.
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David: No.
Leila: Oh my Reena, we
David: talked about No, Reena hasn't been introduced yet.
Nobody knows she's here.
Leila: Oops. I'm Leila. Okay.
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Leila: So is us today you go we have Reena rhymes with Leila
Yes, a
David: little bit. It's up there. So Reena. I was going to
introduce you but I decided I'm gonna let you introduce
yourself. That way you can put forward what you want to have
put forward. I
Reena: am the host of another daddy daughter podcast called
Daddy
David: better called Daddy. I've been listening to it and I'm
enjoying it. You've got some really good guests. Yes, some
good questions. Better. Oh, who was the guy? I'm terrible with
names. He was he's disabled, but he's an athlete. Diane Clark
zankel. Okay, yes, that was an excellent episode. Very
inspirational guy. And just his attitude. And you can tell that
him and his girlfriend just have a great relationship. I just
thought that was great.
Reena: Yeah, he was just on America's Got Talent. And he is
a Guinness World Book record holder. And he is a very sweet
guy. I love that episode. Because each one of my kids got
to and I have for God to introduce themselves to him. So
it was fun to involve my kids in that episode. That's
David: great. Yeah, we're we're the only two dad daughter
podcasts that exist. Yeah, so like it was destined now there's
I actually know a few people that
Reena: actually don't know too many and they're gonna have to
have you on. I love daddy daughter pairs. That's very
cool.
David: We just a quick I don't know how much of our show you've
listened to. But we started in spring of 2020 You know when?
When that that that event 10 when that event was going on?
You know the before times. But yeah, we we got started because
I'd be driving her to school. And on Fridays, I'd be like,
what did you learn this week? Give me a fun fact. And became
Fun Fact Friday. And then I was like, Yeah, we should do a
podcast where we literally just get on no intro No, nothing, say
one fact and then get like a one minute podcast. And then it
turned into you know, we're doing regularly in our episodes
or whatever. But it's it's evolved but kind of kept the
same formula. We add segments take segments away. We did video
for what, 20 episodes or so. Yeah, didn't really have it.
Yeah, it was. It was a lot of extra work for not any extra
listeners or engagement or anything. So we just kind of
went back to audio. That's where our bread and butter is. Yeah.
So that's your video
Reena: still looks good for those who can't see it.
David: Yeah, we're we're for those who haven't hopped right
now ever seen pictures of us. We are so ridiculously good
looking. Yeah, that we felt that it was unfair to everybody else
on the internet for us to do video going. Yeah, that's the
real
Leila: we would break the cameras because of how pretty we
are.
David: So what we've been up to this week, what have you been up
to Leila?
Leila: Oh, nothing.
David: You've been sewing.
Leila: I've been sewing that's about it. Yes.
David: She's working on her strong doing strawberry dessert.
Miku
Leila: strawberry X Miku. The 15th anniversary version.
David: Yes, it's coz cosplay outfit that she's doing for a
convention we're going to. And it
Leila: has like six skirts, and that's a lot of skirts. And
David: she's doing them all from scratch. So it's a thing
Reena: you taught you to sew me the internet.
Leila: I learned how to needle and thread a bobbin from the
internet. I figured everything else out.
David: She has been she's been she rearranged her entire room
to get this to work around where the sewing machine is like the
main thing this like, I had
Leila: my craft desk like underneath my bed because um, I
had a loft bed. But that wouldn't really work with my
sewing machine. So I bought a regular bed and put it in the
corner. That wasn't the only reason I bought a regular bed.
But I put the craft desk like opposite from it with the sewing
machine on it and then I put my dress form next to it. And I put
a shelf next to it to keep all my stuff on. It's a lot. It's
all from my sewing machine. My $100 Sewing Machine nonetheless.
David: It's not even yeah Mmm,
Leila: I might get a better one. I haven't even money
David: have been working really hard on my other show me this
pod. I've got five episodes in production. Now I've been
getting with my actors and getting because I want to get a
few in the can before I release another one so I can have a
regular release schedule. So if you're not subscribed to meet us
pod, go subscribe to that and should be some new episodes
coming out very very soon. So that's what's going on. Are you
thirsty?
Leila: I'm thirsty, and I brought a lower level.
David: Oh, wait, no, crack it open. Thank you. Okay. So since
we have a guest, we are going to skip the good news segment.
Sorry, y'all.
Leila: I couldn't find anything good.
David: Yeah. That's the real.
Leila: I looked everywhere, I promise.
David: So why don't you give us the premise of better called
Daddy, because it is a great premise. I really like it.
Maybe?
Reena: Yeah, so better call daddy is kind of bringing back
the family values. I felt like I grew up with all of my
grandparents. And I'm super lucky. I didn't realize how
lucky I was. I grew up in Kentucky lucky in Kentucky, with
four grandparents and many great grandparents. And my dad has
always given me a lot of advice. He is who I call for
relationship advice, taking client advice, pretty much
anything that I'm struggling with. And I was like, wow, I
would love to share his wisdom with the world. And I knew he
wouldn't back out on me because my dad is like always who I call
he's loved me through all of my chapters. And so originally, my
idea was share my dad's wisdom with the world. But turns out
every guest that I have on my show, I interview a wide range
of guests that from daddy's girls to inspirational fathers
to people that have daddy drama in their life. I've kind of gone
with those angles. They've been upping our wisdom rating, and
there's nothing better than having a project with your dad
and your 40s. I mean, really, at any age, but like something
positive that we can create together. has been so amazing
for my wife. Yeah,
David: that's awesome. Yeah, that I liked the dynamic that
y'all had, like Sava watched, I've watched, mainly listened to
I listened to most of the shows that I listened to like, while
I'm doing housework and stuff. And y'all is dynamic. I hope
that Leila and I hold the dynamic that we have through her
whole life, you know, as long as I'm around, which will probably
be another, you know, 100 years, 100 180 years.
Reena: Amen, amen. But
David: yeah, it's just it's a really great dynamic on the
show. And I really enjoy listening. I like how you, he's
not in the show talking to the guest. I like how he listens,
and then gives his perspective. That's awesome. Yeah, it's, it's
really, really cool. And I like the premise of it. And that's
part of with Fun Fact, Friday, it started off, we're just gonna
do a few episodes, which was just a fun, fun gag thing to do.
But we found out we really enjoyed it, we got a boost from
a very, very large show called no agenda. The hosts liked the
show, and they played like a three minute segment of our show
on there. So they have huge hundreds of 1000s of listeners.
So we got a real big boost of listeners from that. But, you
know, once we got the boost and listeners, donations started
coming in, and we were like, Oh, wow, you know, this is not going
to cost us anything to do. Because our supporters covered
this server costs, cover all that stuff. Yeah. So we're like,
well, let's just keep doing it. And now we just it's like, part
of my highlight of my week, you know, I get to go hang out with
Leila, this is the only time we talk. Yeah, totally. We don't
ever talk, except for our weekly show together. And, um, but no,
my secret motivation is that I now have, as of right now, 171
episodes of our life, because we do that. What have we been up to
par, you know, that I can go back and listen to when she's
off, you know, doing her thing. I've got a chronicle of the last
three, three, almost four years. So, and for everyone,
Reena: we get so special and truthfully, you're creating your
legacy together right now.
David: And, yeah, we we have a good time doing it. And so it's
fun. And yeah, so that's part of it. Now. That's your show now.
But we're gonna grill you about your past about your past 1997
Reena: Oh, no.
David: You were at a gas station. And you wanted a
Snickers bar but you didn't have enough to pay for it. We don't
know I don't I don't really think you've worked on reality
television shows However, however the thing on your
Internet Movie Database profile, which will be linked in the show
notes that caught my eye was Team America World Police. I
don't know what that is. Is that like a puppet? Should Leila be
watching that as I mean, she's 13 Oh, she probably.
Reena: That was the South Park guy. No.
David: week I quote that movie weekly. Yeah.
Reena: No, get me to curse.
David: But yeah, well, we'll leave that one alone on the you
know, because of our listener base. But um, yeah, the reality
shows my wife is a huge fan of court shows. She, when she, I
Leila: think she's watched every episode of People's Court,
right?
David: She loves she, when she has her lunch. Yeah, it's all on
YouTube now. So like, she pops on YouTube and eats or lunch.
And, you know, that's it like, and I'll be out here in the
studio working on the days that she works at home. And she's
like, Hey, I'm about to make myself some lunch. And I'm like,
do you want me to join you? Do you want me to come in? I'm
working on something and she'll be like, no, no, no, no, no, I'm
telling you. So you will stay out there because I want to
watch people's court and eat my you know, whatever. She's making
me Nene or whatever. And I'm so late. Yeah. She had a couple of
questions for you. Me. Oh, her? No, my my wife your your mother.
Phaedra. The silent third partner of our show. Yes. What
was the craziest case you found when you're scouting?
Reena: Oh, that's such a good question. I have to say it's
competitive out there in grabbing these stories that
because all the television shows go to the major cities and major
courthouses. So one, you have to become friends with the clerk so
you know when there's like a good stack of cases and then to
when you get there, you have to kind of know who your
competition is. And then if you get a good story, you better
scan it quickly and have direct access to LA to be able to send
it off. So one time I came into this story, I couldn't even
believe it. Somebody was suing over ordering the wrong
crossbred animal. So they ordered as the donk and they got
as the horse what?
David: Hold on. Some of those words don't make sense. And the
ones that do make sense don't make sense in that order. So
what Okay, Z donk. What, so that's
Reena: a zebra donkey. Okay, and the other one is the Z horse,
which is what they got, I believe, okay, which is the
zebra horse. First of all, I didn't even know that like
crossbreeding animals was like, a loud or a thing. Like,
Leila: I mean, I know like, what's it called?
David: I don't know. A lion, a lion and a tiger, a lion. You
Yes, you can have a lighter. And then you can also have a tie in.
Depending on if the father was the lion or the father was the
tiger. It's different. It comes out different. There's a fun
fact
Reena: inspired fun facts around prosperity.
David: You know, why did genetic mutations we did do genetic
mutations. We got 171 episodes before this one. So we've
covered a lot. I'm actually going to put crossbred animals
in our, in our possible ideas, because sometimes we'll think
something's a good idea. And then like, we go looking for
facts for it. And there's just not enough for for an episode,
we have to pad the episode out with, you know, hilarious
banter. So part of the fun facts thing, some people might not
know how the court shows get their cases, and they are actual
cases that are filed with courts. And correct me if I'm
wrong, but you go ask them if they will drop the case. And
then have it arbitrated by the judge on the show. Very good.
Yes. Okay. Correct. Okay. So and then
Reena: it can't have been tried already, if they want to be on
the show. Okay. And they have to be okay, with whatever happens
that's determined on the show,
David: right? And then that the thing that's determined on the
show can be simply for the entertainment of it, not the
actual justice thing.
Reena: Goes to paid up to a certain amount. But that's why
we focused on small claims because right obviously, yeah,
beyond a certain number, they're not gonna pay that
David: I was reading up on it. And I want to say it was
cracked.com. I'll see if I can find the thing to put in the
show notes. If I don't it's own cracked.com It's, they say that
like,
Leila: when something bad Hold on, no.
David: cracked.com is a comedy website, but they actually have
a really good article sometimes. And they always put a funny,
funny twist on it. But like, if let's say, I'm suing somebody
for $3,000, there's a pool of money that both of the people
split. So like, let's say it's 10 grand, each would get five
grand. But if I win the three grand that comes out of the
other person's thing. Is that correct?
Reena: That sounds right. So I did work on a couple different
shows. So
David: okay, they may do it differently. Different Yeah,
Reena: but that does sound right. Yeah. Cuz, ya
David: know, because like, sometimes when they're upset
that they're lost, they're just like, oh, well, whatever. I'm
still getting, I'm still getting something and I got to come to
New York,
Reena: or wherever. Usually, you know, small claims are, like,
hard to collect from people. So if you come on the show, like,
you know, you're gonna get something.
David: Yeah. Cuz it's like, the judge is like, Oh, you owe them
$400. And he's like, I don't have $400. Like, well, when you
get $400, you have to give it to them. Okay.
Reena: Whatever boss sent me a warrant looks like I'm
David: getting paid under the table from now on. Okay, and
then my wife Phaedra. Also had, what do you think out of your
whole career and reality TV? What what episode was the best
that you were a part of? Like, like that? You're just like, oh,
wow, that was that was the best that I've ever worked on.
Reena: It was actually one of the stories that got me
promoted. So there was a fort. This might get me in trouble.
David: get you in?
Reena: Here. I'll keep it is G rated as I can.
David: Okay, and we can always bleep things we got hold on. We
said we've got this. We got
Reena: Yeah, there was a 14 year old girl that didn't even leave
her name. This is when people were calling in when 809 Six
year eight to leave a story idea. Okay. She, she
David: Oh, we're gonna have to cut that out. So like, I'm gonna
cut that out. And then I'm gonna leave that part. And then I just
totally, totally, no, yeah, well, we'll have to. We'll edit
that out. No worries.
Reena: So yeah, me to come up with another example. Yeah,
yeah. Okay,
David: so yeah, right around 17 minutes. I'll have to do a
little editing on this episode. All right. So the first story
that Reena said we cannot air so that's what that little obvious
edit was. So Reena is going to come up with a better one
that's, you know, more family friendly.
Reena: Well, Jerry Springer was not necessarily family friendly.
Right. There was another guy too that has currently been featured
on Howard Stern, this is not really G rated either. I have
one more if this one doesn't pass the test. Did
David: you work on like a nanny show? And
Reena: should I think about that. So I worked on the post
production side of nanny. Well,
David: yeah, if you had anything to do with the episode, that's
what we're talking about. She did you know, and this will be
great. This will be great for for my wife. She's gonna listen
to all interesting.
Reena: Here's, here's the kind of heartwarming one. Okay, from
this Springer is this. This was a very memorable interaction and
kind of heartwarming, but we had conjoined twins on the show. Oh,
wow. And one of the conjoined twins wanted to date. So we took
them on a date with a guy to a bowling alley. And that was very
interesting to see. And kind of forming. Yeah, that can
conjoined twins find love if one isn't interested.
David: And always thought about that. So
Reena: that's heartwarming. And then recently, on my podcast, I
interviewed a guy who this is also super heartwarming. Jerry
had a 70 pound baby on his show. His name was big baby Zach. And
then 20 years later, they did a reunion episode with him. And he
has been featured on Oprah inside edition Jerry feel like I
was like, Oh my God, you had a 20 year reunion, or a 20 year
reunion with Jerry too. I would love to have you on my podcast.
And just hear kind of the behind the scenes of that. Like,
David: did you I mean, do you come on? Yeah. Awesome. came
Reena: on. That's awesome. Told me that behind the scenes,
Jerry, like helped him find his geneticist, and that he was like
very kind to his mom and helped him figure out kind of the
medical condition that he had and even like, helped them
financially a little bit. So that was like a very touching
story and amazing closure. And I didn't know that.
David: Yeah, that's that's really cool. Yeah, from from all
accounts that I heard, Jerry Springer was just a great guy,
like everybody that I've ever heard that met him or you know,
anything like that, just like as a person. You know, you can talk
about the merits of the show, but it was popular. It was
popular and it was fun to watch.
Reena: So yeah, it was I really feel like the birth of reality
TV. Right.
David: Right. And that was one of the things that you had
talked about with him on your podcast, and I I better call
daddy. The Jerry Springer episode. You talked about if you
worked on that show and reality TV, you could go anywhere.
Because chaotic it was
Reena: that you got that that was so key in that interview to
me. It just really supported everything that I had felt for
like the last 20 years. It was like such an endorsement. I was
like, yes, thank you for saying that. I've led with that in my
career, but to hear it from the man.
David: I went to the University of Jerry Springer. But yeah, I
mean, and to a lesser degree, it's like, I want Leila to work
in the foodservice industry, at least for a little while, like
be down in the trenches, waiting tables, certification,
Reena: probably next year university I
think there was McDonald's university.
David: Well, I mean, I went I worked at Outback. And I tell
you, you learn a lot. You learn how to sell, you learn how to
just take the worst. The worst insults from people and smile at
them the whole time. You learn a lot waiting tables.
Reena: About the human world Dairy Queen. Right? For two
years. That's how I bought my first car, but time in my life.
And yes, you might the thing that stayed with me was God,
time to lean got time to clean.
David: Oh, well, we had, we had flashing red lights that would
go off every two minutes. And if you were in the kitchen, when
the lights went off, you had to wash your hands. It was just
like, because they wanted to wash your hands constantly.
Which you know, that's great, because we're all about
cleanliness in our, in our outback. And it was just
something I remember that that red light. So like even now I
see a red light. Did one of the spinny ones. And I'm just like,
look for a sink. You know? It's just like things stick with you,
you know? Wow. And I've always also one of the things in the
restaurant industry that that I learned was that 30 seconds can
mean up to and including five minutes. How long that stick? 30
seconds. Yeah, give or take. Give me a give or take five
minutes. Yeah. Okay, so that was it for Phaedrus questions. I
think Leila's got some questions, and they're more
about your podcast.
Leila: Yeah. I do have one about shows. Yes. But what was your
favorite sort of you've been a part of
Reena: that is, I mean, I have to say Springer, because it was
like my training ground. But aside from that, I mean, I've
kept in touch with so many people from each show, when that
was crazy. And I probably only could have done in my 20s like
Springer was a show called Kill reality, where it was reality
stars from a bunch of different shows. So ones that had been on
survivor, Amazing Race apprentice, and they all lived
in a house together. And then they got an opportunity to star
in like a Hollywood feature. So we filmed them around the clock
in the house that they live together, which is where the
majority of the drama went down. And then we filmed them in the
making of a Hollywood feature. Can you imagine it was so
comical? Wow. It seems
David: like that's that seems to be a formula that works across
the board is take people that you know, have big
personalities. Yep. And make them live together and just put
cameras everywhere. Yeah, but like people at oh my gosh,
there's some of the most you're gonna get gold. Exactly.
Exactly. Yeah. I'm just we go off topic a lot. One of the
shows that I liked, recently, last couple years, I can't
remember exactly when it came out. It was snowflake mountain.
Are you aware of that?
Reena: I feel like I've heard of it. So they took my mind. They
took a group
David: of influencers who are trying to just be influencers,
like be the biggest, you know, wanting to be on reality TV want
to be big stars without doing any work. And they, their
parents basically sent them on a trip with some survival experts.
Okay, they told them they were going to a party house that some
billionaire was making a reality show where basically they
partied 24/7 for like two weeks. But in reality, they went to
live in tents out in the woods for two weeks with these
survival people where they had to collect their own food, clean
out their own latrine make fire, skin animals, you know, all that
stuff. So it was very funny watching these people who've
never lifted a finger have to try and survive. I thought that
was really interesting. And again, all of these people were
influenced or type people so they were all very, I'm the
center of the universe type people. Yep. So you throw a
bunch of those together, and they all are, you know, they're
at each other's throats about things. It was it was just it
was really entertaining reality TV. So,
Reena: go I love it. Do you think that you would agree to
something like that?
David: A survival thing or a party thing? either or survival
yes party. No, I'm not a partier. I will go to a party.
Given that, you know, it's not going to be more than a couple
of hours. Because I'm an old man, I'm out of shape. But it's
survival stuff. Yeah, I'd love to go out in the woods for a
couple of weeks and just live off the land. I think that'd be
amazing. But I was also a big fan of that show survivor man
with Les Stroud. That was an excellent show.
Reena: I worked on one season of amazing race, but I was to the
executive producer. And it's amazing. When you have that
role, you're literally just catering to their personal
needs. But let's be a contestant on that show. I thought that
that would be crazy. And I was also thinking like, who would be
a good partner, like you need somebody who's like, good at
directions, somebody that's physically fit somebody that can
handle traffic and last minute switches, it'd be hard, I feel
like to pick, I think my husband would be good.
David: I've always thought I'd be good to go there. I'm, I love
puzzles. And yeah, so a lot of the challenges that they have on
there, I'm like yelling at the screen. I'm like, No, you just
gotta. And then I think my brother would be a good partner.
Because he's very, he's physically fit. And you know,
he's very bold, you know? Yeah, I'm more cautious. So I think
with the two of us, we could probably probably get pretty
far. But you know, real life. Yeah.
Leila: So how did you learn about podcasting?
Reena: How did I learn about podcasting? That's a great
question. So I started in college, working at an NPR radio
station, where I kind of learned how to edit audio, how to run a
radio station manually. So I would say that I got some skills
there. But then I was a co host, on a podcast called next level
people about five, six years ago. And originally, I was just
casting guests for the show, I was friends with the host, and
he was looking for somebody that could help him grow his show a
little bit and bring them new guests. And then he was like,
Hey, would you like to co host this? You know, it might be
interesting to have your perspective. And I loved it so
much that it kind of like, re sparked that. And then I worked
for a couple of podcasters. So it was just all of these
building blocks first working in radio, then casting a show, then
co hosting a show, then working for some podcasters that had
some pretty decent sized audiences and booking them some
big guests. And then I was like, Hey, I'm doing all of the steps.
Let me try
David: this. Exactly. And then you start looking at
microphones, and you're like, ooh, those are expensive. Yeah.
We found? Well, we'll talk we'll talk mics after the show. But
um, yeah, we I started my show meet us pod in 2014. I'm only on
like, Episode 21. It's kind of a whenever I make when I make one.
But this year, I'm planning on putting out at least 15 or 16
episodes. Like I said, I've got a bunch in the pipe, working on
it. And I've just kind of learned I like I write my own
RSS feed. I do all this stuff manually, we self host
everything, so we can't get cancelled. Our hosting, our
hosting is actually done on the interplanetary file system,
which means that we have like 90 or so nodes around the planet
with volunteers who host our files for us. And it's kinda
like torrent, but not. So when you go to listen to our show,
it's pulling parts from 90 different nodes. And which means
that even if our entire infrastructure goes down, our
shows are still available. So it's really neat. Let's look a
little bit. I actually had a prepper company for about two
years. Meet a strategic survival LLC. But that didn't work out.
So yeah, concealed carry instructor firearms and all that
stuff. So but yeah, that's, that's my journey for that. So
Leila has another question.
Leila: I do have one more philosophy. Okay. How? Oh, what
do you talk about on your podcast?
Reena: Oh, that's a great question. I would say I have a
wide range of topics. Although I have been kind of leaning into
the daddy angle. I sometimes go after news stories. So I
interviewed a girl who I saw went viral because she went in
for a mammogram and she was told it was a benign cyst. And then a
year later, she was in stage four cancer my mom is a cancer
survivor. So I wanted to cover that because it really hit home
and it's something that I am personally worried about. And I
kind of wanted to spread awareness around breast cancer
and it's also something that my dad had to live through. So I
I've covered new stories. I also since I've worked in reality TV,
I love connecting with other creators and people who have
worked in reality TV, I've interviewed the host of the
judge Alec show Jewish matchmaking. Just if I see a
show that I love Indian matchmaking, I interviewed for
people from Indian matchmaking, because I watched the series
with my daughter. And I was like, Oh, let's see how many of
those I could get a hold of right. And maybe they'll tell
their story on my show. So
David: I think yeah, matchmaking is an interesting, interesting
thing. Like, my wife and I were about to hit 20 years, in March.
So we look at the dating, how it is out there now. And you know,
I see what's on social media, I don't see what the real world.
But just from what I'm seeing on social media, I am so glad I'm
not dating anymore.
Reena: It's not easy. And I feel like during the pandemic, a lot
of people stayed inside. And even with my own children, I'm a
mom of four, I see my kids on electronics all the time. And my
oldest son, he's 15. And I saw during the pandemic, his only
like community that he was really involved in was like
gaming, I am so glad that they're back to school and that
two of my kids have joined the basketball team, and that
they're in the real world and making friends and going bowling
and doing things like roller skating and ice skating and
experiences. I think that it's so necessary to I mean, it's
great to connect virtually. But it's also I tried to mix it up
and I'm meeting somebody in real life that's going to be on my
podcast tomorrow for coffee. I like to do live interviews as
David: well. We have our first in in studio guest coming in
coming over tomorrow. driving about an hour and a half. Yeah,
Tomorrow is Monday, today's Tuesday. It's Tuesday. Monday
was a holiday Monday was a holiday. That's why you think
it's Monday because it was your first day back to school. Oh,
crap.
Leila: I gotta do some homework.
David: So let's do tomorrow. Okay, well, just a second. Yeah.
Yeah, Elijah Moore's coming down, and he's gonna, we're
gonna have some chili, I'm going to cook some Texas style chili.
And then we're going to come out and have the have the studio
setup for three people instead of two. And we're going to do
our first in studio interview, because I'm going to pod fest
Expo next week, I'll still post our episode, our normal time for
our listeners. And so the episode will come out with
Elijah, we're gonna record tomorrow, but it'll come out
next week. So if you donate or support the show this week, it
might be you know, two weeks before we give you a shout out.
So but yeah, reality TV, I could, I could sit and grill you
on it for for hours about like just crazy stuff that happened
or just like the, like you were talking about your Associate
Executive, Assistant, producer, associate producer, okay.
Reena: Or executive assistant, I honestly have tried pretty much
every role. And I think that, again, all of those skills kind
of build on themselves. I've been an assistant editor, I've
been a post production supervisor, I've been an
associate producer, a producer, a script supervisor, the more
rolls you try, you figure out what you like, and what you
don't like. Right,
David: right. And so like, how many of those is just like you
were talking about, you're pretty much okay, go get me a
coffee. Like, because like, I see these I see these rolls.
When I go look at the credits for shows and stuff. And I'm
like, I bet that guy is just in charge of like cleaning the
whiteboard, when they're in the idea room. That's his job.
Reena: Interesting is even as a post production supervisor, my
first post production supervisor role, I still got the star
editor a coffee, because if you're willing to do that as a
boss, then people are willing to go the extra mile for you. So I
figured out as a post production supervisor was nobody liked
doing their time cards. So instead of hounding people to do
them, I was like, Look, I'm going to fill out your hours. I
know the days you're here, I'm here. And then you can just sign
it. Yeah,
David: I've managed a couple places than like, you know,
store manager, and I always put myself on the bathroom cleaning
list, the trash duty list. And I would actually put myself more
than any other employee individually, like I would, you
know, just because like, they see you, you're willing to go in
there, scrub the toilet because it needs to be done. Yep. Then
they aren't going to complain about it as much. They can't be
like, Man, you never have to do any of this stuff and you get
paid more, you know, and it's like, if you are willing to get
in the trenches, But from what I've heard with production, I
don't know if this is just a union thing. I don't know if
your union I'm not okay, so I wouldn't ever, but the, like, if
the star of a show, if there's like a chair, and they like they
can't move that chair, like if they want to scoot it over.
You're right, like too few. Yeah, that's ridiculous to me.
Reena: It's so funny to like, recently, a couple of months
ago, there was an executive producer in town friend of mine,
and he was inviting me out to dinner. And then he also asked,
like, is there anybody local that could drive him to set and
it was like an hour and a half drive. And like, you know, me
who's worked every position, I'm thinking to myself, I would do
that. But let's just keep this a producer relationship right now.
But in the back of my mind, I'm thinking to myself, well, you
know, let me help out somebody. Right.
David: Right. I would do that. And it's just, it amazes me
that, like, the union rules are so strict that like, you can't
move your chair because like, the sun is hitting you in the
eyes, you have to call somebody. And if that person is on break,
you've got to wait 15 minutes and holds up everything. And
it's just like, wow, wow. So but you can't take that guy's job
away from them. Because that, you know, that's his job is
moving that chair. So good. So, we are running up on the 37
minute mark, we can continue talking. But I did want to thank
some of our supporters. We did not have any Pay Pal come in
this week, but that's fine. We do have some boosts we do. Now,
since you're a podcaster and I spoke to you earlier and you do
not do boosts or lightning payments. I'll give you a quick
explainer. Plus it's been a while since we've done it on the
show. Podcasting 2.0 has a new set of specs for podcasts,
chapters, transcripts, pod roll, which is like the old blog rolls
where you can basically suggest other podcasts. Our chapters are
actually done by one of our listeners, Dred Scott, thank you
drab. He goes in after we produce the episode and creates
your chapters for us and puts in artwork and puts in links to
things and and all that. But one of the main things that we like
about podcasting 2.0 is the value for value system, modern
podcast apps like fountain.fm curio caster pod vers pod
friend, they have a feature where you can do what's called
boosting. And you can load your wallet up in the app with
Bitcoin. And when you're listening to a show, if I say
something hilarious as I do, like 15, or 20 times per
episode, they can hit the boost button and send us what's called
Satoshis, which is the smallest subdivision of a Bitcoin. And
they can send whatever they want. And it automatically gets
split, because I put this in the feed amongst everybody that
helps with the show. So if we can get you a wallet before we
release this episode, we'll talk about it after I'll cut you in
for a split 25%. Anything that comes in, you'll automatically
get 25% of it sent to your wallet. straight to it. We don't
touch it. Dred Scott gets a percentage for doing the
chapters, Kyle a bear for doing our outro. And the
interplanetary file system I was talking about earlier, gets a
split because they host for us. But I don't have to do anything.
That's the beauty of it. I put them in the split. I don't have
to do any accounting. It goes to them, not me. So it's a really
neat system. And you can attach messages to the boosts of up to
however many characters it's a good amount like 250, something
like that. Maybe 450 And that's what we call booster grams. And
we got some booster grams this week. Leila, do you want to read
them? Or would you like me to?
Leila: We can do have now. Okay,
David: I'll do the first time. Oh, there's five. Okay, so we'll
just alternate out to the first one. Okay. From fountain 333
Satoshis from Baroness love and light. This is for episode 171.
So what did you name it? So what I named it so what? We were
talking about sewing the whole episode, so, so my gosh, I love
your banter, heart emoji and sewing. My fun fact is that
you're using a commercial pattern. Yeah. And it doesn't
fit you well. It's the patterns fault, not your body, I believe
or your sewing. Yeah.
Leila: I haven't used a commercial pattern since like
2022 Because I hate them. I will not make money from patterns I
make my own or I get them from someone that I trust. And once
like I can either gather to fit my waist or you can make a
custom like waistband for it. Or custom measurements. Because the
commercial patterns are terrible with sizes and I hate it
David: That's gonna say, All right, go ahead and read the
next one. Okay,
Leila: we got 1776 from fountain from just listening. We have
team Imperial. Excuse me. Welcome to the dark side. Good
to hear from Ainsley. Congrats the show was very good.
David: No. We have an argument about Imperial versus metric.
Yes. I'm adding up all the Satoshis right now. So if you
want to read the next one, you can go ahead.
Leila: Okey dokey. Let's see what we got. We got 1000 SATs
from phantom power music. From honor Ainsley Costello in the we
got a we got two from it. Yes, two from
David: phantom power music here
Leila: from phantom power music that's 6000 in total. And one of
them says, fun show guys love the Father data dynamic.
David: That was for the employee Costello episode. And then we
have from fountain 1776. That's the freedom boost Satoshis. And
it is from just listening. And it is for the 2023 is so over
episode. And it just says boost boost boost.
Leila: Nice.
David: Thank you everybody who sent in Satoshis. I just did a
quick conversion on cracking. And all of those Satoshis
altogether come to $4.25. Now that's the raw amount that was
sent. So Ainsley got a part of that, and drept got a part of
that. And so it just everybody who's supporting the show is
supporting everybody who's involved with the show. So we
definitely appreciate that everybody. And yeah, that's our
support section, go to store dot FunFactFriday.com and get the
merch. And yeah, there you go. So, trying to think I was gonna
ask something else. dead air. You gotta love that we're
professional podcasters we are. We're gonna ask. I can't
remember what I was going to ask. And if I think of it while
we're in the post show, I'll hit record and then ask why
everybody, we appreciate y'all stopping by. Did you have any
questions for us?
Reena: We're have wanted to be able to say Satoshis Satoshi
sign up for the Satoshi.
David: So what what we're going to do is we're probably going to
set you up on fountain.fm. That's a really easy way because
when you sign up on that app, as you listen to podcasts, you earn
Satoshis. They pay you to listen. And then you can in
turn, give those Satoshis back to podcast you listen to or just
rack them up and then cash them out. And you cash them out
through there's a bunch of different ways to do it. We can
talk about that after we're wrapped up but I think there's
another think I think get Alby is still around for for opening
up wallets. But I think they might be getting out of it. I'll
look into it before I give you any information on that. But
yeah, we can get you involved in that. And it's really neat.
Ainsley Costello we had her on Two episodes ago. I don't know
did listen that episode. I did that one. Yeah, she was she did
a concert live and was receiving boosts live. And I want to say
she got like seven or 8 million SATs. No more than that. It was
like 10 10 million SATs it was it was a lot of money. I think I
did the math. And I want to say it came around eight grand. For
her live show. It was awesome. It was really awesome. And she's
she's a fun person. She's just fun to talk to. But yeah, so
it's really neat. And I think every podcaster should just hop
in on it. Because it doesn't take that much. It takes a
little bit. But it doesn't take that much to get set up with it.
And it's a real interesting way for your listeners to support
you directly. The app that you're using normally takes a
percentage, but that's supporting the app and the
infrastructure infrastructure for the app and all that. But
other than that, there's not like, again, you can't get
cancelled. Because the money's going directly from you to me.
And if an app starts to be weird, you can move to another
app, you know, so it's it's interesting stuff. So,
Reena: but yeah, so Mike. Yeah, no problem.
David: We'll talk about that more in the after show because
it kind of gets kind of get into the nitty gritty, you know, set
up wallets and all that kind of stuff. And it's like, so it's
not that hard, but we can we can get rolling on it. And so yeah,
if you'd have any more questions for us, we'll go ahead and hit
the outro music we did we do we miss any segments or anything
other than news?
Leila: I don't think so. Okay. All right. You ready? Yeah. And
let's go no flooding trial here. I think so. Ready?
David: Yeah. Fun
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