In addition to my own podcast, which you can find here, I also line produce and host a podcast called New Music Now over at Ink19.com. Its a show where we invite 2 guests, one a music fan and the other a musician, and we each choose an album and talk about a couple songs off of each one. It’s spurs some fun conversation and also help broaden our exposure to various musicians we may not have heard of before.
New episode is here and you can read the transcript from the show at this link as well.
This past weekend, Rod Hullaby, and I sat down at the Cedar Rapids public Library to knock out our first podcast. The Untitled Podcast is the working title for now and between the 2 of us, we rambled enough to fill an hour of time and had a lot of fun doing it. This is our Origin story and how it all came about.
Rod and I were both members of an online forum run by a supplement company out of NJ. I had set up a local chapter of the Animal Barbell Club and was getting a meet scheduled when Rod messaged me that he was in Cedar Rapids, where we live, and would be at the Jesup Gym meet up.
Awesome I thought and messaged him something like, I’ll be the short guy with the Yellow shirt. He messaged back something like, I’m sure you’ll see me when you get there. I wasn’t sure what that meant but thought, cool. That picture above of Rod dead lifting is from that first meet and the second pic is from a meet up in May that year. He’s a little taller than me and he was right, I spotted him all right.
The next year we went out to the Arnold classic with another friend, Eric Van Kerckhove. Rod had a minivan and offered to take his vehicle. We left on Friday and made it back late Sunday. 16 hours of driving between Cedar Rapids, IA and Columbus, OH. I learned that Rod is a beast of a long distance driver while Rod and Eric learned that I fall asleep as soon as the doors closed on the minivan. I really suck on long distance trips in a car.
We’ve always stayed in touch and share a number of common interests and 8 years later when I decide to start up a podcast, Rod was the first guy that I thought to get a hold of. I asked if he was interested and he said yes right away and when do we get started. He always seems to have a lets do it attitude and is exactly why I wanted to do this with him.
On 1/27/2018 we recorded our first hour. There are some sound issues and our virtual mentor, Gary Vaynerchuck, would be proud because, it’s way far from fancy. Were working on #2 and will be back in the next couple weeks to get it recorded. #1 should be posted this week and I will let everyone know where to find it.
I don’t know if Rod has a blog or not but I’ll be putting up a link where to find him as well if he does.
(2/13/2018 Update. The podcast is out there)
I’m not big on resolutions but, I do see the turning of the year as a tick mark on my available days left on this earth. Being that my birthday is in December, that adds a little urgency come Jan 1 to reevaluate everything and see where I can make improvements. There are many to make but here are a few I don’t mind sharing.
This year I discovered the ever present and continually inspiring Gary Vaynerchuk. His insight into himself and others has lead me to side hustle on a variety of my interests and start to make some nice advancements into something that I really love. (Plus he put out some really great shoes) I’ve yet to put out any content besides this blog but, it’s all in the works.
The passions that I plan to “triple down on” this year are varied but, I have steps in place to tackle a few different things. I will start my own podcast in the next 2 weeks and put out content that I enjoy. I will advance my guitar playing and musicianship to a higher, more professional level. I Will figure out my DAW and get some of my musical ideas recorded.
I’d love to start a band or, at least pick up a singer to play some gigs on the weekends but, with 3 children all under 8, it does not allow for a lot of extra time to get in practice and dedicate the time needed to make that happen. Until I can, I’ll continue to work my craft and knock off a few of those 10,000 hours needed!!!
So here’s to the short term goals and long term hustle and finally doing what makes me happy and not just what’s convenient.
Make yourselves a great new year.