And so it begins …
It’s been a year almost since I started posting here, and of course starting the page. Several years of ideas gone through - some kept some tossed. Most shelved on more than on occasion. And of course all that I have to date chronicled here so far.
BUT NO LONGER!
Thursday and Saturday the first 2 videos are up on the Youtube page. The first is the most defining moment of my life, well one of them. And the second is more of a fun one. How it all began. Some of the stories you may have read here are and will be fleshed out in video format.
But where do we go from here? Right now I will be doing the glorified vlog thing. If things go well, and with everyone’s help I hope the next step will be possible! Planning for a Livestream weekly on Saturdays before even the multi angled podcast get’s up and running. Maybe once I have built a small following we can do Hangouts and AMAs. A poll with a whopping 1 vote so far also on Youtube, has a vote for Game streams and videos.
Basically following 2023’s Basement Dweller’s Guide to Internet Visibility and Streaming guidelines. (Mancave is also acceptable replacement to Basement.) Build a following, maintain a following, interact with audience wash rinse repeat.
However why did it take so long? That answer is stupidly simple - I know what I am walking into.
I am not an expert in Video anything, Radio was not overnight. I was a hobbyist for my first few years. Not until Jennifer Steele started training me did I begin to perfect the Fuzzy Madman on the Mic that was my time with The Vault of Metal. And I have heavily invested in gear that has been phased into obscurity in just 3 years. And I am a perfectionist. I hold myself to a higher standard. My EGO demands it!
Yet my vision, goals, and dreams FAR outreach my skillset at … this … time.
I am damn well aware that it’s going to be 5 years at least of a grind of all the time everyday. Promoting the videos, promoting pages, sites and merchandise, Members area and more. The workload has always been a hefty one, and in the last few years once I ended my homelessness. MY TIME is very valuable and priceless. I have become selfish in my own wants and needs. I WANT to relax when I get home from a long day. I want to play my video games or with my dogs. Eat dinner and relax with the wife. Normal stuff.
Podcasting or Internet Radio - both require a lot of work even if it’s just a hobby if you want to go somewhere with it. And on top of that trying to start a brick and mortar store in 2023’s economy. Never let it be said I do not reach for the galaxies when I reach for the stars. But I view it like negotiations. Big ask and shoot for the Ultimate Outcome, be happy with getting some of what you really wanted.
I want to do a podcast with guests sitting down and talking on multiple cameras. I still do. But every show I follow started out talking at a camera on their phone of some Logitech HD web camera. So why do I think somehow I will break the market with better gear. Ego.
The Diva that was the DJ still likes to look good. I cringe at a good picture of me. My videos have to be even better. If you have ever had to hear your own voice in a editing sort of situation. Add in seeing all your flaws that only you see. TADA we are now where I have found myself.
Lately however, at the shop I go to on occasion I recently had the pleasure of meeting a young college aged woman who inspired me. Yea may seem a bit creepy but life sometimes will throw you nudges you need even if you don’t see it. Kind of like the joke about the guy stuck on a roof praying to god.
[ Guy is trapped during a flood on his roof, begins to pray asking God for help. Soon a guy in a small boat comes by and offers the man a ride and he says No God will send me Help. Later the house floats and he still is praying and passes under a bridge where people throw down a rope. Still No God will Save me. Finally as the water has almost reached him and the roof is beginning to come apart a Helicopter flies overhead and drops down a Rope Ladder. And again GOD WILL SAVE ME. Soon the man dies and meets St. Peter and asks why God didn’t save him and St. Peter replies “We sent you a boat, we sent you past the bridge and when those did not work we sent you a helicopter. What more evidence did you need?”]
And meeting this young woman was one of those. I was talking of what I am working towards and how despite the politics of the world we are living in the most exciting times in human history. Space travel is becoming a possibility.
She replies “I agree I want to be a part of it, I’m in college for Astrophysics and Electrical Engineering.”
My jaw hit the floor, this is the kind of person whose story I want to know more about. These are the stories I want to tell. Pursuit of dreams and Entrepreneurialism. Aspirations and inspiring stories. Not just fluff pieces about the new movie or album of the week. People living their best lives despite the world around them.
And that was when I realized I was the only one stopping me from achieving my dreams. By making excuses as to why I wasn’t able to yet. So Time to work because I can’t hit a reset button on my life!
In Case you missed the first 2 Videos:
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https://youtu.be/COULgo-O9fw
https://youtu.be/2QsYKGJBH7I
