Jason and Kate are back for Episode 18.
Episode 18 "highlights"....
(00:31) - Mailbag time!
(03:47) - NETFLIX RECOMMENDATION: Lie To Me (TV show, FOX, 2009-2011, 48 episodes)
(08:10) - SONG OF THE WEEK: Closing Time (Semisonic Cover) by Me and The City (CLICK HERE to download the song. Make sure you follow them on Soundcloud, and like and leave a comment.)
(12:07) Jason discusses losing his virginity to someone that wasn't very good (and also insane).
(14:22) Kate discusses her first time, as well as some disturbing "issues" her partner had.
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This marks the 10th episode in a row that my co-host, Evan, has missed. I don't even bother reaching out to him about it anymore. He knows when and where we record. He knows how to get a hold of me. He's flaked out on me...........again. It kind of sucks b/c his flaking out was a big reason as to why our first attempt at the podcast (from March 2013 to July 2013) failed.
We started back up on May 1st of this year. This time around he didn't even make it to July, despite starting 2 months later. It's really frustrating. Actually that's not the word I should be using. It's more disappointing than frustrating. I think Evan his hilarious and that we put on a good show together. I think our stuff was very funny together. I understand he has a lot more family responsibilities now than he did last year, but he flaked out last year too, so yeah, there's that. I love him like a brother and I think he has all the talent in the world, I just think he lacks the hunger.
My lovely girlfriend, Kate, has been sitting in with me in Evan's absence. I think our shows together keep getting better and better each week. Our shows are more focused. They have more of a format. Our shows are getting about 50 plays per episode. Evan and I were averaging about 120 plays per episode, but I'm not entirely sure if those numbers are accurate. I think Podbean (the hosting site) may have been fudging the numbers a bit. It's in their best interest to make me think I have an audience so that I keep making podcasts and keep paying them $10 a month. So while I don't think their numbers are entirely accurate, I do think they are more accurate than they were early on. I also had autoplay on on my website, so I think this was bringing up my numbers as well. I turned it off, and the numbers seem more accurate.
Now that I have a pretty good idea of our fanbase I can focus on growing it. Our listeners may be small in number, but some of them are big fans of the show. That makes me feel good. Like I'm not wasting my time and putting on a show for no one. I may look into doing some advertising in the not too distant future. So we'll see how that goes.
The main thing with a podcast is to not miss a week. If you say your podcast comes out every Wednesday, then you need to put one out every Wednesday. Thus far I am proud to say that we have not missed a deadline yet. There were weeks where I wanted to skip putting out a show, but we sucked it up and that's normally when we put out our best work. As I said before, I think Kate and I have gotten better each week. One thing that has helped us is our episodes are about half as long as the ones Evan and I used to do. Evan and I used to do 30-40 minute episodes, and Kate and I aim for 15-20. I think a 15 minute episode of all great stuff is much better than a 40 minute episode with only 20 minutes of decent material. So we try to cram all the good stuff into 15-20 minute episodes. It seems to be working.
Now to BUTT STUFF. I bought some advertising from Facebook for the album release. I did all the targeting (targeted my favorite comedians: Louis CK, John Mulaney, Mike Birbiglia, Eugene Mirman, etc..) I paid for CLICKS, which means Facebook only charges me when someone clicks on my ad. I had 53 people click on my ad (supposedly) and not one of them actually downloaded my FREE comedy album. I'm sorry, but I find it very hard to believe that 53 comedy lovers clicked on my ad out of curiosity and went to my album download page and did not download the FREE album. I've never had good luck with Facebook advertising and that was probably the last time I waste money on those greedy fucks.
You know what's cooler than a million dollars? A billion.
You know what's cooler than a billion dollars? Not becoming obsolete by pissing off your customer base. Wasn't all that long ago that Myspace was king. Now look at them. They kept fucking with people and people left.......for Facebook. Now Facebook has gotten worse every year since I've joined (I was late to the party, I jumped ship (from myspace to facebook) in the spring of 2010.
That's all I got for this week. Hope you enjoyed the rants!
Jason W. Schaver
Moped Jones Entertainment
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