In this special Saturday episode of the Joe Rooz Show, Joe broadcasts live from Eagle Pass, Texas, bringing a refreshing change of pace with guest Barry Luijbregts from Podhome.fm. Known for his expertise in podcasting and technology, Barry shares insights into the world of podcast hosting, the benefits of audio-only podcasts, and the innovative features of Podhome.fm. The conversation also touches on the challenges and joys of podcasting, the importance of quality audio, and the evolving landscape of digital media.
Joe and Barry delve into personal health journeys, discussing the transition from traditional medicine to alternative health practices. Joe shares his experience of moving away from prescription medications to natural supplements, highlighting the benefits of lifestyle changes and the importance of taking control of one's health. The episode also features discussions on the value of podcasting as a medium for connection and learning, and the exciting potential of new podcasting technologies.
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(00:04:14) Introduction to the Joe Ruge Show
(00:05:17) Special Guest Announcement: Barry Luebbrecht
(00:06:48) Reflecting on Past Shows and Guests
(00:09:50) Ezra Healing and the New Wellness Paradigm
(00:11:00) Introducing Barry Luebbrecht and Podhome.fm
(00:13:38) The Evolution of Podcasting with Barry
(00:17:21) Audio vs Video Podcasting: A Discussion
(00:25:37) The Cost and Equipment of Podcasting
(00:35:26) The Power of Podcasting: Meeting Influential Guests
(00:50:38) Health and Wellness: A Personal Journey
(01:02:36) Personal Insights and Inspirations
- Wayne Rankin
- Rosanna Rankin
- Carolina Jimenez
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Transmitting live from the asylum studios, deep in the bowels of Southwest Texas, it's the Joe Ruge Show. The show where we talk about anything and everything. Where nothing is sacred, nothing is watered down, and nothing is PC. Alright. Hey, folks. This is Joe Roos. It is twelve zero five hours on Saturday, 09/13/2025. And it is great to be with you guys once again from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass. And we are doing the very best that we can to bring you the best quality talk radio we can muster without all the bluster.
Welcome to the Joe Root Show. Alright, folks. We got a treat in store for us and ourselves today. We don't normally do 12:00 shows on a Saturday. We don't normally do shows on a Saturday period. But we have waiting in the wings, Barry Luebbrecht from hotholme.fmfame, and, we're gonna bring him on here momentarily. We just have a little bit of housekeeping things we normally do, so we're gonna get into that right now. This way we could, get him on here. Alright. So I hope you guys had a great, great week. I hope you guys are enjoying your weekend, and, again, thank you so much for being here with us, on this Saturday afternoon.
Lot of stuff going on in the world, a lot of things that we could be talking about, but you know what? Sometimes you need a break from all that stuff. You need to you need to sit down and just have a conversation, you know. You know, I love talking politics. I love talking all that stuff, and and with everything that's been going on over the last over the last week, you know, it kinda wears you down a little bit, and, you know, you need to change gears, switch gears. You need to do something a little bit different. So, so that's why, you know, having Barry on today is is gonna be a real treat for us, and just a great change of pace for everything else.
Barry has amazing energy. He's just a really cool guy, you know, and, you're I think you're really gonna like him. And on top of that, Barry actually was the first guest we've ever had on this show when it started way back last November. He was the first guest, actually the first show we did. So this is gonna this is great, and, again, Barry's a good guy, and you're gonna you're gonna love him. And I hope you guys caught the show yesterday with, with Christopher Baum from Vote Right. And I I I will confess, I will confess. He he he he caught me flat footed yesterday with some information that he that he threw out there, and shame on me for not being better prepared for the show. But, I think the information that he presented was fantastic.
It's worth looking into. I'm still a skeptic on what he's putting out there. I still think that paper ballots are the best way to go. But, he made a compelling argument for for electronic systems, and, you know, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. I'm gonna do some more investigation on what his company is all about and what his software is all about. And, you know, I'll we'll have him back on again, and we'll we'll talk about it some more. But, hope you guys were able to check that out. It was a it was a lot of fun talking to him. Nice to talk to a fellow Northeasterner, you know, as they say a Yankee.
I hate that term, but that's really what it is. Alright. Enough said on that. Let's get to the housekeeping stuff. Alright, folks. Head over to the website, joeroos.com. It should be up there on your screen. Joeroos.com. When you get over there, make sure you open up the contact section and send us over a message. Let us know whatever's on your heart, whatever's in your mind. Any questions, comments, cares, concerns, any issues, any suggestions for guests, topics, or anything that you'd like to talk about, we're always open for it. So please let us know. Drop that note, in the contact form or email it to us, [email protected], or you can drop it right down there in the comment section, and, we'd be happy to, entertain your suggestions. Alright. Also, don't forget this is a value for value show, so all we're asking is that if you're receiving anything of value from what we're putting out, we're asking that you return that value to us in the form of a donation, which could be your time, your talent, or your treasure.
And, we always, we're always appreciative of everything that we get. We're thankful to our producer team that, helps us out by donating their donating their time, talent, treasure. Then you can get in involved in that too, which we'll talk about at the end of the show like we always do when we give our shout outs to our producing team. Alright. With all of that said, let's head over to, Ezra Healing. Now Ezra Healing is a substantial part of the new wellness paradigm currently being born in North America and around the globe. Global citizenry are no longer satisfied with the sick care version of so called health care. Band aid medicine, endlessly treating symptoms rather than root causes, must be abandoned as soon as possible.
Patient centric care must be the priority. We need to transition towards the do no harm model of private care that places humanity at the forefront of real health and wellness care. In this new model, your entire lifestyle is examined and analyzed to promote and support the totality of your body's integrated systems. Ezra Healing is a solutions based health promotion and disease prevention grassroots movement that is always evolving to best serve you and your family. For more information about Ezra Healing, just head over to their website up there on the screen, ezrahealing.com. That's ezrahealing.com, and make sure you let them know that you heard about it right here on the Joe Root Show.
Alright. Now without any further ado, Barry Luebbrecht is the host of About Podcasting, a must listen podcast on podhome.fm, the most modern podcast hosting platform in the business, which, by the way, is one of our first sponsors, and of which Barry is the proud owner, CEO, head tech guy. Every little thing you can possibly imagine runs through Barry. With over a 100 episodes as of as of September 2024, Barry dives into the art of podcasting, interviewing podcasters and musicians to uncover the why behind their storytelling, educational, and entertaining audio journeys.
He views podcasts as a powerful audio only medium that taps it to primal human connection to not to, to a primal human connection to narrative perfect for learning, inspiration, and entertainment, especially while while multitasking. Beyond podcasting, Barry is an accomplished independent software developer and architect, specializing in Microsoft Azure and holding the prestigious Microsoft Azure MVP award. He's also the voice behind the improving Barry platform, where he explored health and wellness and previously hosted the developer weekly podcast before focusing on Azure, tech consulting, and personal growth. Barry is also the author of 200 things developers should know.
Available on Amazon as a paperback, ebook, and audiobook. Known for his commitment to consistency, quality, he uses tools like Riverside, SquadCast, Descript to craft top notch audio experiences. Barry, welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me, Joe. I did my homework this time.
[00:11:39] Unknown:
How did you get that? How did you how did you get that, bio? Oh, I have my ways.
[00:11:45] Unknown:
Oh. I have my ways. Was it AI? Partially. Some of it. Some of it I knew already. Okay. Some of it I knew already. So I just I just plugged it all in there and said, alright, let's see let's see what you can give me here. So, so they they helped out a little bit, for sure, for sure. Well, a lot has changed since episode number one. Totally different setup in here. So it's, You're doing great, man. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. And you know 164 is this one. Right? This is episode one sixty four, sir. That is crazy. From from November. From last November.
We were talking we were talking before the show, and, you know, I was I was telling Barry that, we we had signed up on these two platforms, to help us with, you know, the with obtaining guests for the show. And good grief. We did that and all of a sudden, I think from from June from the June when we first started with it, as far as, like, using those booking services for guests, from the June all the way through up until the September, we are booked every single day with at least one guest. And, some days we have two, some days we have three. So it's, it's interesting. It's a very interesting experience. I love it because, you know, honestly, through this medium, podcasting, because even though we do videos, I still consider this podcasting.
You know, I still maintain we still have the audio stream going, you know, which which is actually doing better than the video stream. Good. Well, again, that's great. Well, you know, and it makes sense too because, you know, not everybody can sit there and watch a long form two hour, talk show. Yeah. You know? So people can listen in the car, you know, they can listen while they're running, they're walking, whatever they're doing, not necessarily sitting down in front of a screen for two hours, you know, watching it. So, so I think the audio side is always gonna do great.
But, but yeah. So much has changed, my friend. Much has changed. So what's going on with you? I have a I have a bunch of questions for you. I am prepared today. Oh, that's there is there's a lot. Yes. So
[00:13:46] Unknown:
for those, that don't know me, so I run podhome.fm, so that is p0dhome.fm. That is a podcast hosting platform. Like, for instance, podcast that, you're listening to right now, we host, and that means that we, that that Joe can upload, the episodes, goes automatically, actually, in this case. Mhmm. And then it gets distributed to all the podcast apps, like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, all the modern podcast apps, including the Pod Home app, because we also have a player app. Which is a great app, by the way. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks. Took a lot of work creating an app. It's just it's just it's the devil's work. It's just horrible. It's so much work.
And it's just so finicky with all these platforms.
[00:14:34] Unknown:
Very, very difficult. Yeah. I I would imagine.
[00:14:39] Unknown:
So, yeah, we do that and, we host all sorts of podcasts, people that talk about writing from, Joe's podcast to Bitcoin podcasts to, privacy, all sorts of things, and also, disenfranchised people that, got kicked out of other podcast hosting platforms. They are very, very welcome to host their, podcast on our platform. Obviously, we are not censorship resistant. Not nothing is. Mhmm. But we do our best to not, censor. Yeah. They're very welcome, to do that. And now that we have the Polterhome app, which is a podcast player app, we own the whole chain. So you can upload your podcast. Awesome. It gets distributed and people can listen through that app as well. So that means that we're a little bit more censorship resistance. Like I said, nothing is, absolutely censorship resistant because, you know, if people come to my door here, I got no choice.
But, yeah, it it's nice. It's understandable.
[00:15:42] Unknown:
Own the whole chain. Yeah. It's good. And that's great. And and the the platform is great. And, you know, on every show, I I do I do a short read for it, for for Pod Home. And, one of the things that I always tell everybody is that, for everything that you get with Pod Home, you would be paying double to up to triple on some of the bigger, more well known platforms that are out there, and you get you get less than what Pod Home offers. So it's a it's a great app to be on. It's a great platform to be on. I I what did I I came over about two two years ago or three years ago, something like that. And, and, it's it's been it's been fantastic, you know.
No really no problems. Yeah. I get little glitches here or there. That's normal, but, but usually it's very very quickly resolved, and just the quality of it is great. The AI is fantastic, you know. It it really does generate fantastic show notes. I mean, very rare do I have to edit the show notes down, other than typos, but, you know, but making little changes here. Because for some reason, the AI always changes my last name, and it changes it Yeah. It's it's bad at that. In two different ways. It it because, the the name I used for the show was Roos, r o o z.
So, the AI changes it to r u g e, Rouge. Oh, okay. Yeah. And then and then there's there's another one too. It it makes me Japanese. It it changes it changes my last name from r o o z to r y o. So
[00:17:15] Unknown:
Okay. So, you know, it's like, well, eventually, it'll learn. You know, hopefully, it'll it'll pick up on the changes. But Yeah. Yeah. It's not it's not really self learning in that way. But, yeah. So that's kind of the mission. Right? To, so it it costs $15.99 a month. Right. And then you get unlimited podcasting. So our mission is to build in as many, tools that podcasters need to just get their podcast out out there. Right? So that is hosting. That is, like you said, help with creating metadata, like show notes, chapters, transcripts. That's what we call PulteHome AI. You just flip a switch. You say, generate all that stuff for me. Mhmm. And then it does that, and that's included within, the $15.99.
You can go live, for instance, which we're doing right now, which is also included in the fifteen ninety nine. Right. And so we try to build those useful things that people need and and so that you don't have to go to another platform to also do that and to pay another, I don't know, $5.99 to to do that. You can create clips, for instance, to promote your stuff, all that type of stuff, which are also different than separate apps. It's also, you know, for ourselves because this is like a developer built thing where, you know, I wanna make my life as easy, as possible when creating a podcast. And so, you know, that translates into a product that other people can also use that is, that is useful. And on the Pod Home AI, it is useful, but it become it will become more useful because, we're about to roll out a bit smarter, of an agent in the back end that will then also pick up all the things you talk about within a podcast.
So for instance, you've we've spoken about a lot of things already. It will look those things up. It will put a link in those Oh, awesome. In the show notes. Can be a news article. It can be your social media profile, whatever. We make it double check that it actually exists. Okay. Because it can, dream up some stuff. Okay. And then you get a very useful list of things you actually talked about. So you don't have to, you know, go back and search for all that stuff, which is very useful. Yeah. It it's it it is. And it's like,
[00:19:20] Unknown:
there are reviews on on Pod Home. You see it. A number of people say it. I say it a lot too. It really is like having a whole team working with you to to get the podcast, published, to get it sent out. And it's it's a great platform, and it's it's it's so smooth. And also switching over to Pod Home was seamless. It was no issues whatsoever with that. It was great. And, and I know that there's so many more things in the works. You know, you've you've told me other projects and stuff that you've been looking to work into. And, so I'm excited to see what direction Pod Home is gonna be going in the future. And, I think rolling out the app was fantastic.
My my only suggestion well, not suggestion. My only, and I think I I probably told you this already. Is there a way that if you are a, if you are a a user of podhome.fm to publish your podcast, that you could get into that your account through the through the app, the player app? No. Well, I know there isn't, but but is there separate things. Yeah. So it would have to so it wouldn't be able to to do that?
[00:20:22] Unknown:
But why do you want to? Oh, just make it easier. Yeah. Like, do you want to, so, in the Pothome player app, there's a premium features. Mhmm. A couple. Is that your question? Like, do I also get premium because I'm already a Pothome subscriber?
[00:20:39] Unknown:
Well, no. That's a good but that's a good question though, because, I I hadn't thought of that one. But no. No. I mean, like, for as far as, as a I'm a I'm a I'm a content creator, so I wanna get into my Pod home account to check my stats or or, if I after I upload audio, maybe I'm recording it on on my on my phone or something. I can upload it and go and do all the editing stuff through the app. You know you know what I'm saying? So something like that.
[00:21:04] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. No. So the the the app is really separate completely from the hosting platform. Many apps do do that. They let you claim your podcast, and then you can change some things, for instance, that, get inserted into the feed, for instance, or, Spotify for podcasters, previously known as Anchor. They used to have an app as well. I don't know if they still do. Or you can just, you know, you press a button, you start recording, and poof, you have your your episode, and it goes up in into Spotify. Right. They do actually That is nice. It's not it's not through Anchor anymore, obviously. It's through Spotify. It's
[00:21:37] Unknown:
yes. Spotify Spotify for for creators. Creators. Yeah. That's Right. Yeah. So a little purple app now.
[00:21:42] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That is nice. So, we are looking at a feature for some rudimentary recording stuff. Mhmm. So we're kinda already doing it right now. Right? So we are right now live within Pothome. We have our own streaming server. That's all included in price, of course. And so when Joe ends this show and he says, alright. I've ended live, then we take the audio and we put that into the show. So we right now, we're already recording. So we have that basic infrastructure. Wouldn't it be just lovely if you could just ditch StreamYard and just, you know, record straight into pothole or use an app or or do something like that. For sure. That would be nice. And that that's another tool that you then don't, use anymore. Mhmm. It's a difficult problem to solve to make it reliable,
[00:22:31] Unknown:
but, yeah. We're we're thinking about it. Yes. I I'm sure I'm sure platforms like StreamYard and, and and Rumble Studio and all that stuff, all these studios are are monsters to to to put together and to maintain and and to to to keep upgrading and updating. I'm I'm sure that it is. But, if that's I mean, if that's something you guys can work on, that'd be awesome. You know? And that that kinda leads into, what I was gonna ask you about, about audio only podcasts. Yeah. Now, do you do you think that audio only is is is still the way to go? Or do you think that video casts are gonna slowly kinda fade out? Or you think they're gonna become two separate entities altogether?
[00:23:14] Unknown:
To me, they are two separate things because they are two separate use cases. So when you watch a video, you kinda have to sit down and watch the video, or, you know, you're sitting in a train or or whatever. You're not doing anything else. You're watching the video. You're not driving. I hope not, at least.
[00:23:29] Unknown:
Some people do.
[00:23:31] Unknown:
Some people do. Yeah. Please stop. Stop. Put the phone down. Don't do that. That's super dangerous. But that's a that's a focused, activity. Right? And listening to a podcast, you can also listen to a video. Mhmm. But just listening to the audio is completely different experience. You do that divorced from what you're actually doing. You might be walking around. You might be cleaning your house. You might be driving. You might be flying an airplane. I don't know. You can do all sorts of things. So those are two very different use cases. Now I'm not saying that video is not a podcast. It's not it's not the definition of a podcast, what we're doing right here at Rumble, for instance. That can be a podcast. Sure.
But that is not something that we support, from Pulte Home because that's a very different use case, requires very different infrastructure, different cost structure as well. And it's, also is built for a very different audience. Mhmm. Now you have a lovely camera and you know how to do this. Most people do not have a lovely camera nor a light take. I don't know what I'm doing. Oh, you're doing great. But it it's a very different thing Yeah. Doing video than just audio. Most people do not do that. Most people are not technical enough or just do don't want to do it, or simply do not have to face for a video also happens. True. It's not not a bad thing, but it's just a thing. You know? And not everybody wants to see your video. That's true.
So there there are many things. So, less people will do video and are able to create suitable video that is actually fun to watch as well because it has to be engaging. You know? We're not creating YouTube content where the screen changes every, two seconds, for instance. That is engaging and interesting. It's very different, with this. So we choose to focus as a business on the audio part because that's something we know we can do well, and we know that we can support it with our price and that we can keep our price as such for, yes, unlimited podcasting. I know I don't think I mentioned that, but that means you can have as many podcasts and episodes for that $50.99.
And some people really go for it. They have, like, 20 shows and all sorts of episodes. They go nuts. And that's fine, because that fits within the fifty ninety nine audio only. Right. Because that works for us. Yeah. I don't know how people do So that's why we choose for that. I don't know how people do more than one show. I I don't Well, there's a lot of AI generated stuff.
[00:25:58] Unknown:
I'm sure there is. I'm sure there is. So but so then you don't think that, you need to have a you need to do video in order to be a successful podcaster?
[00:26:06] Unknown:
No. That's it's a completely different thing. You need to do video if you want to do a successful video show. Mhmm. I gotcha. Or not not per se for a podcast. You can call it a podcast if you want, but it it's not necessary for a podcaster. And I know, you know, you hear differently on all the platforms and within the world of podcasting is a very hot topic as well to do video. But not everybody will sit down to watch your video as well. You know? The the odd it's not only the people that produce the video. There's not a lot of them that can do it well. But there's also not a lot of people that will actually watch your video. There's so much video content out there, and most is way more engaging than two guys or or just one guy talking. True that. Because True. For a video, that's not very entertaining.
[00:26:50] Unknown:
Yeah. It's it's I I I watch a lot of, vidcast. That's what generally we like to call them. You know, so I like I watch a lot of vidcast, and, you know, I'm I'm really impressed with the quality of the shows that these that these people are putting out. You know, the they have all the the the lower thirds, they have the chyrons, they have the graphics, they have all that stuff going on, and, you know, I'm just one guy, you know, sitting here. That's a lot of work. Yeah. And and budget, and you need people Right. Studio, lighting, all that type of stuff. Yeah. I mean, my my goal whole handful of My goal is one day to have my own media empire and, you know, completely Oh, yeah. You know, rule the world here. But, you know, but, it it's, it's a challenge for sure for sure, you know, and and having the right equipment and, you know, it's not cheap. It's not this is something I I I mentioned to you before. We had Dave Jackson, from the School of Podcasting on the show, about a week ago, and we were talking about the the the cost of a lot of these things.
Now if you're if you're doing a podcast, you know, you don't necessarily need to have, what do you you're using on a Shure SM seven? Yeah. Alright. So that's that's like You don't need to. That's overkill. Yeah. That that's like that's a that's like a $300 mic. Alright? Yeah. The one that I'm using here is a Rode Procaster. This thing is almost $400, you know. You don't really need No. That stuff. You don't. You know, there there's really not much difference between a $40 microphone and a $200 microphone.
[00:28:18] Unknown:
Yeah. But we have these things because we're very geeky, and we love Yes, exactly. That stuff. That's why I have I have a pile
[00:28:24] Unknown:
right across from me. I have my Procaster, my my PodMic, I got my Shure, I got my m v my SM seven, my, what is the m v seven, I got two of those. I got, you know, I got all that stuff sitting over there. It's a lot of money, but, you know, we don't need all that stuff. You know, but but if you can do an odd a video show, then you need to have some quality. You you don't wanna sit there looking like you're you're talking to a an iPhone three, you know, quality video. No. Or iPhone four quality video. That's part of the reason why I switched over to, to StreamYard instead of using the Rumble Studio. Rumble Studio is great. You know, it has a lot of potential, has a lot of features that even StreamYard doesn't have, but it's just not stable. And I know it's a work in progress, you know, and they're and they're getting there.
I I was doing a show, with a, with a gentleman from Washington state who's running for for congress, and, we were in the middle of conversation. I was on the rumble studio, and the thing crashed. Oh, wow. But it only crashed on my end. Oh, okay. It stayed connected on his, and so I just disappeared from the feed, and he was still going on talking, talking, talking, and I didn't know he was still connected. You know, the audio was still running, so I was watching what I was saying. You know, I wasn't I I wasn't cursing and throwing things all around the place, but, you know, I I was trying to tell him, so this time I can't get reconnected, we'll we'll just, you know, we'll start again, because I figured I can just go into the audio and edit that moment out and put it back together again.
But, I we were he was he was connected the whole time, and and and he didn't even know I was gone. I'm like, well, that's crazy. But these are difficult,
[00:30:09] Unknown:
technology problems to solve. Yeah. They are. And this stuff that we're doing right here. But I I was just thinking, like you said, you asked, do you need video to be a successful podcaster? So I think no, but perhaps what people, get get mixed up is, you know, to be able to discover your show, you can use clips. Mhmm. Right? And clips for social media, for TikTok, for x, for, Instagram, or what what have you. Those are visual things. Correct. Usually. So if you have a video thing and you have an interesting clip there, then you can create a viral moments and then you can really create, discovery. So for for that part, yeah, you can use that. That that's true. You can use it to for people to surface your podcast. Right. But then the the the only
[00:30:58] Unknown:
well, not the only, but but one of those downsides to that is then people are expecting to see a video Yeah. Podcast, and they're only getting the audio, and then, you know, you might they might lose interest. You might garner some follows and and plays, but, you know, if somebody sees a video, they're they're expecting to see a video all the time.
[00:31:17] Unknown:
Yeah. But it is, you know, you are where the people are. And unfortunately, they spent a lot of time just looking at their phone True that. True. At those app. So Very true. In the the podcast player app, in the one of the premium features, there's I'm showing it now on the screen. There's a thing called, episode shuffle, and that is kinda exactly this. When you click on that, it just loads You have one shark doing the A random episode. And you can just swipe through the episodes like you swipe through Instagram. And then you just Three
[00:31:49] Unknown:
Floyd's.
[00:31:50] Unknown:
You just get,
[00:31:53] Unknown:
that's pretty neat. I know I haven't played with that feature. I gotta play with that a little bit.
[00:31:57] Unknown:
Yeah. And then you just get, you know, you get to discover all sorts of stuff. And it it's not ranked on on an algorithm for popularity or anything like that. It's just random stuff.
[00:32:07] Unknown:
And that's fun because there's I'm gonna load up my methylene blue while you're talking.
[00:32:12] Unknown:
Okay.
[00:32:14] Unknown:
We were talking about that. Stuff. Right? There's there's
[00:32:17] Unknown:
so many podcasts that, that people create. Joe is creating a concoction there. Oh, god.
[00:32:25] Unknown:
My methylene blue.
[00:32:28] Unknown:
And, you know, you can filter here also on, language, like, also only, Dutch or US English and, give me something, from the comedy category or something like that. So the the Pod Home app there, we try to in in this widget and also in other features to just surface random stuff so that you just get exposed to all sorts of stuff that you usually wouldn't hear ever. Right. Right. It's a great app though, and I do have to play around with with some more of the features. There's only so much time in the day.
[00:32:57] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know? But, it it is a great app. And and just getting back to the tech stuff, you know, it's it's when I started doing the video stuff, and you know this, I I told you this, I I was very reluctant and very hesitant to do it, you know? And, it it wasn't something I really enjoyed doing, and, you know, because I have, like most people, I have like little quirky things, ticks and stuff like that. Like, I have somebody who watches the show who who who texts me all the time, stop chewing the inside of your mouth. And I do because I I play with my, you know, I'm I do that. And it it Oh, okay. But it's a it's a it's like I don't know if it's a nervous tic or if it's just that, you know, it's just a tic. It's something you do. Yeah. So, you see, when you're doing video, audio, you can't see that, you know. And, if if a screen goes out and I'm reading notes or something like that, you know, you're not seeing me going like this as I'm speaking. You're Yeah. You know?
[00:33:58] Unknown:
So it it has Have you seen a lot of traction with it? With the video?
[00:34:02] Unknown:
It's it's actually improving. It's it's getting better. At this point last month, I only had, like, barely a 100 followers on the channel. And, as of this morning, when I when I logged in, I had two seventy. So it's it's growing. It's growing, and, I'm also getting a lot of traction with, with the guests because my the the quality of guest has been improving. All the guests are great. You know, when I say quality, I'm talking about, like, high profile people. You know, like, Yeah. The audience that they bring. Yeah. And it's it's it's, like like, for example, I interviewed, recently Peter Ticton, who's a a constitutional attorney, who is representing Tina Peters, who is the 70 year old woman in Colorado who's been locked up, was sentenced for nine years in jail for, for doing her job as an election, official and turning over the documents that were that she was required to. And the previous administration prosecuted her and put her in jail for nine years.
So he represents her, and, he's he's he's spoken at at at several several, popular events, like, with with general Mike Flynn and, and and and folks like Steve Bannon and folks like that. So, you know, so that type it's been getting more and more of that. I interviewed a couple of congressional candidates. I I interviewed a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. You know, so it's it's been great. I've, you know, it's it's it's an amazing it's an amazing thing, podcasting, whether it's video or audio. It's an amazing thing because you get to meet people that you never thought you would get an opportunity to ever meet.
You know? I've I've met every every person that that has come across this show has left something with me that I take with me. You know, I I I've learned so much from the interactions that I've had with folks, and I hope the audience has too, and that's the reason why we booked them, you know, because we wanna bring something different. You know, I could sit here, we could talk politics all day long, and you know, after a while, it it kinda wears you down, it beats you down. You know, you need to have a change of pace, and I think bringing in the the type of guests we have. Look, we've we've done, like I said, Nobel Peace Prize nominees, paranormal investigators, doctors, lawyers, theologians, tech, crypto.
We do actually I don't know if you know, we do a regular, every two weeks. The next show we're doing is on the twentieth, I think, the twentieth, next Saturday. We have a resident crypto psychic who who does a show with us. She comes on every two weeks, and, it's it's great. You know, it it it brings a nice audience, and we we have a good conversation. And and what she does, it's very to me, it's very unique. I mean, she she uses, she uses tarot cards to make crypto predictions. And so far, everything that she's been talking about has been freaking spot on. You know? I need to pay attention to this. So it's so it's it's really good. And, like, she's she's very big on Algorand, XRP, and, there was another one.
Was it Solana? I think it was Solana. Maybe. Something. I'm not I'm not a 100 I'm I'm not sure about that one. Why these senses are tingling. Yeah. I'm I'm not sure about that one, but but those those two are are are the are the ones that she's really, like, like, she she had spent a lot of time working on, you know, and and studying for. And, so far, you know, I've I've taken some of her advice, and I've invested in some of these things, and, you know, I'm I'm not complaining. You know, I don't throw a lot of money. I don't have a lot of money to throw at it, but, you know, I make a little bit here, a little bit there. It's it's good. You know, it's it's she's she's good, and she's like I said, she's spot on. So, that's a that that's a thing that I never thought I'd be sitting here with a person reading tarot cards, picking, cryptos, but it's but it's a lot of fun. I've learned. I've learned a lot, you know, doing stuff like this, with you. And And then, of course, on Tuesdays, we have, we have the CEO of Ezra Healing, one of our sponsors who comes on and, does a show just specifically about, the do no harm model of, private health care. You know? We we garner some some suggestions most of the time from the audience.
What do you wanna hear about? What do you wanna talk about? And then we do the prep for that, and we do a show together with that one. I've learned an incredible amount
[00:38:45] Unknown:
Yeah. From doing that. It it's amazing how, receptive and generous people are. Mhmm. Like, I had the same with, when I did the developer weekly podcast and also the improving Barry podcast. The latter is about health as well, where I would just, you know, I would shoot an email to, like, a hero of mine, the tech world. And if I would think, you know, I would never hear from this guy again. He would never do this in a million years. He doesn't know me. Mhmm. Yeah. Sure. I will come on and say the show. Sure. And everybody does. Yeah. Because why not? So it it's such a connecting mechanism. It's amazing. Absolutely.
[00:39:20] Unknown:
Absolutely. I'm still waiting to get Adam Curry on the show, but, you know, that's gonna that's gonna be a tough one. The pod father. He's busy. Yeah. Oh, I know. I know. I know. I'm sure he will. And he's and they they've got a how how long has their show been running? It's been running for a while. No agenda. Which one? No agenda? Oh, seventeen years? Yeah. Yeah. It's been a long they've they've, like, they've had a long run. Great show. I I love how they do it. I love the work they do on it. It's it's it's amazing. And you wouldn't you wouldn't know see, that's how that's how good technology is now, especially with the audio.
You you wouldn't know if they didn't tell you that, John Dvorak is on the West Coast. He's in California, and and Adam Curry's down here in Austin. It sounds like they're sitting in the same room with each other, which is, you know, which is just great. This is technology. It's fantastic. And they use a very basic service from what I understand. I don't I don't even think that it's anything crazy. It was a clean feed or or clear feed or something like that. They use clean feed. Yeah. Yeah. And that's just audio only. They don't even see each other. Yeah. So it's it's wild. It it's wild. It it works. It's good stuff. And And then so it's podcasting. So, let's let's let's talk about your podcast.
So you Yeah. You've done a few podcast. The three that we mentioned already. When are you gonna get back into doing shows?
[00:40:40] Unknown:
Oh, man. Well, I'm not as prolific as you, obviously. It it's difficult to, maintain a podcast. All the podcasts that I had were, also guest driven. Mhmm. So I I did interviews with with other people. And I found it very difficult difficult to find guests on a regular basis. So usually, I did, once a week Mhmm. Something. And to get that spot filled with somebody that I really wanted, that was very difficult. So perhaps I should take, your advice and and use these platforms like Potmatch, for instance. Yeah. I you you could. Gotcha. It's it's it's it's really good. And, you know, one of the little perks to it too is, on the host side of it,
[00:41:23] Unknown:
you you do get some commission for some of the guests that that come on. So you you get a couple bucks here or there, you know, at the end of the month. Not a bad deal, and it's relatively inexpensive. I I I forget what the I know the I know the the the guest side is considerably more to sign up for than the host side. The host side is is much less. I'm trying to remember how much it was. I don't I don't remember. But it's a it's a good platform, and it and it it the way they do it is and I had I had Alex Sanfilippo on the show, early on, talking about PodMatch when I first started up with them.
And, it's really it's it's kinda like the way the way we described it was, like, it's like Tinder for podcasters. Yeah. Yeah. You know? So it's like a dating app. It's really what it is. You you plug in all your information, and somebody else plugs in their information. The the algorithm puts you together, and and you decide if you wanna pass or if you wanna, you know, you know, swipe left, swipe right. You know? It's basically what it is. And, but, you know, I I I loved using PodMatch. I still use PodMatch. Like I said, I got to meet so many great people, and it was also good for me to develop my interviewing skills.
Yeah. You know? So because and the frequency of it and then putting the work into it. And honestly, you know, I have, I have, I have a lady, her name is, Angela. Anon we call her anonymous Angela. And and for those for those of you uninitiated as to why we call her anonymous Angela is when when I was, when she first started out helping me out with the show, I I on pod on pod on Podholm, you could add people to your show, and they're automatically inserted all the all their information. So, like, if you would if you go to the show notes for this show, you'll see you'll see Barry's information, you'll see my information, you'll see all my my producers listed as well. Well, all that information is I I input all of that information way back when, and, it just automatically populates that for me when the show notes are generated, when the show is published.
So I wanted to put Angela's information in there, and I had already called her out a few times on the show before I I started putting her in there. And, I said, so I I need just a couple of thing. I need a I need a headshot, and a a little bio for you, and I'll I'll put, you know, my my website because you're my one of my producers, so I'll put my website on there for you so you don't have to give out your personal stuff. And she was like, well, I don't know if I wanna have my name out there. And I was like Okay. Well, I've already thrown it out there, so we're just gonna call you anonymous, anonymous Angela now. But, but but she's great. I mean, she and she donates. She she does the value for value model. She donates her time and her talent. You know? So, so she has access to my calendar. She has access to PodMatch. She has access to the other site I use, Radio Guest List. She has access to all that stuff, and and every all the emails and stuff come to both of us, and she'll help me do the background on it, and she'll help me put all the stuff together and and or keep things organized.
And, it's great. I've come to really depend on every morning getting that email from her. Usually about six in the morning, I get an email. Okay. So this is who you have today on the show. You know, it's like That's nice. It's No. It's great. And I really appreciate that. And and I don't know how she does it. You know, without give without giving up too much information, I mean, she she she has a big family that she takes care of. She she's very active politically in in her community. She's involved with a political action committee that I'm a member of, which is how she found how how we really connected. Oh, okay. And, you know, she she how she how she manages everything, because and then there's another podcast that she helps.
I I don't know how she does it. I really don't know where she gets the time to do it. I'm frazzled throughout the course of the day, because I I'm working my regular job, and I'm like, I got the show tonight. I gotta think about this. I gotta think about that. I gotta figure that. I gotta put this thing up. I gotta build the studio. I gotta get all that stuff. And then usually on my lunch hour is when I'll sit down and I'll I'll I'll start sending out the links, the emails, all that stuff to everybody, let them know. Okay. So here's the link for the studio tonight. Here's the link to share tonight. This is what time we start. This is how it's gonna how it works, and so on and so forth. Like, I sent you, an email, which I I modified that one because because we know each other. So, I I modified that heavily, but, you know, just that's basically the format that everybody gets. Yeah. You know, just some basic instructions, and this is how we do it, you know. And then then I for a little while there, I wasn't opening up the studio earlier, Like it's like, I'd I'll open it up thirty minutes to fifteen minutes before the show, and I'll have everybody well, if you wanna check out to make sure your settings work, jump on in, and we'll make sure they work. And the reason why I do that is because I had to do a show one night, and the guest, tried to tried to connect at the start of the show, and he couldn't get in. And he was having some kind of a technical problem, the link wasn't working, and and so this I was delayed almost twenty minutes starting the show. Yeah. You don't wanna do that. Right. Because I'm I was I was on the phone with him and and and his people trying to figure out what the problem was.
You know? So thirty minutes, fifteen minutes before the show, check-in with me. Let's make sure everything's working good, and then once we got that done, we'll get started at showtime. And, so far so good. It's been it's been working. But you learn on the go you learn on the go, and the same thing with the audio, with just the audio side of it. You you learn as you go, you know. You are a tremendous resource for me. I mean, how many times, honestly, how many times have I text you after a show has said, I'm done. I'm throwing this thing out the window. I'm not doing this anymore. Right? Yeah. How how many times? It's
[00:47:12] Unknown:
Yeah. But you've tweaked your whole audio process and, your studio and all the settings and stuff. And now it's it's just sounds great. Thank you. That it that's a lot of work though. You know, it people
[00:47:22] Unknown:
like we were talking with Dave Jackson about this. You know, people seem to think that podcasting, all it is is sitting down in front of a microphone and talking. It's not what it is. It it's this is it's a lot of work.
[00:47:34] Unknown:
It's a lot of work. Yeah. And also to make the audio sound good, for instance, to listeners now with headphones on, you can hear that I am probably I am in an echoey room, which is true. Even though I have a good mic and all that type of stuff, this room is untreated.
[00:47:48] Unknown:
Mhmm. Which is really not my style usually. Right. That is how it is. Especially since when I introduced you, I said you're you're you're big on quality and
[00:47:57] Unknown:
Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. So I I also created many, many online courses, and then I really need to make sure it's all very much, on on par and that's super high quality. And then, you know, sometimes I just sat in the closet with lots of,
[00:48:12] Unknown:
pillows everywhere. That works too. Hey. I did that too. Record something. Before before I had a studio, yeah, I did that too. I I I had a little table. And my I had my computer, a little table, a microphone, and I would sit in the closet. I would close the door, have all the clothes and everything all around you. Yeah. And Works perfect. Yeah. It was it's great. The room that I'm in right now is a treated room. I have I have, acoustic foam, ceiling walls everywhere. And I put up the flags just to cover it all, but, you know, that's basically Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's all treated. But even so, the the problem is that the ventilation in here is horrible. Like, there there's Yeah. Just no air in here whatsoever. So, I live in the desert, and it's hot. And, like, e like even right now as as we're talking, it I have I have a an AC unit running, and, it's on a low setting, but, like, you may not be able to hear it too much this way, but like you said with earbuds, you'll hear that in the background.
But basically, if I don't have that on, this room gets ridiculously hot. And and even with the AC running right now, I have a I have a clock up on the wall there that tells me the temperature in the room. And even with that running, and I have a fan here, I have a fan over my head, it is 84 degrees in here.
[00:49:39] Unknown:
I'm just translating that in real money. Because eighty eighty four degrees Celsius, I would be dead. Yeah. No. No. 84 Fahrenheit. Oh, Jesus. Really? That is 32 degrees, something like that. Is that right? In Celsius, I have no idea.
[00:49:59] Unknown:
Hot. It's hot. It's hot. The the only metric the only metric that I concern myself with is for the the the rounds for my pistol. That's it. My nine millimeters. So that's all I worry about. But, yeah. So it yeah. So it's it gets hot in here. So you gotta it's it's Yeah. It's it's not easy to do this stuff.
[00:50:21] Unknown:
You struggle. But I do wanna get back into it. So,
[00:50:24] Unknown:
the one that I loved the most was improving Barry, because that was about health. That was the first that was the first podcast of yours that I heard, was improving Barry.
[00:50:33] Unknown:
Yeah. It's it's or health and wellness, I used to call it. As in I'm I'm just very, curious about it. I've been learning about health and the human body and how it works for now decades now. And and the reason is simple, because when I grew up, I was in pain the whole time, because basically, I was drinking milk and I was lactose intolerant and nobody told me. Nice. The doctor didn't care. They just said, you know what? You just have, irritable bowel syndrome. Just Just take it easy. Stupid. I know. I know. That's crazy. But that's But that that kinda it's good because that woke me up. I'm like, alright. These guys are are no good. You know? They're the the whole system is just, it's unreliable.
They don't know anything Yeah. Apparently. Or they don't care to know anything. I don't I don't know. I agree with that. And then you go down the rabbit hole, and then you find out, you know, these guys don't even learn about, food, or or nutrition. Nothing. And so, you know, through the improving barrier podcast, I also spoke to many, you know, lots of doctors and people that, kind of woke up to, how corrupt the system is and that it's, like you said in the intro here, it's mostly just sick care and not actually health care. And so what happens in also in my country in The Netherlands, but also in your country and most countries I can imagine is that they just, you know, treat symptoms, make money, never look at the root cause, never ask, you know, what are you actually eating, for instance. Do you exercise? Do you sleep? How are you sleeping? You know, all the first things that, a vet asks Yes. When you go when you take your dog there, you know, what are your feelings? That is a great observation, man. That's that's fantastic.
No doctor ever asks you what you eat, which is, which is fantastic.
[00:52:16] Unknown:
Well, they and you know, and even in medical schools, and I learned this with, Svetlana Rokoff, the CEO from Ezra Healing, on the show that we do, that even in medical school, they don't really even teach nutrition.
[00:52:29] Unknown:
No. They get a couple of hours of a curriculum. Yeah. That's it. Which is crazy.
[00:52:35] Unknown:
Like I I I've I've mentioned this before, so I I don't know if you've heard it yet or not, but, you know, I have weaned myself off of all the prescription medications that I've been on. I take Excellent. No prescription medications now. So I don't take I I came off my blood pressure medication. I was on two of those. I was on, Celebrex for, like, nerve pain and and, and and arthritis and all that nonsense. And then I got, then, of course, you know, I was on antidepressants for a while, you know, because of all the other stuff that was going on, and just so many different medications that that I then I can go down the list. Actually, I have to put the list together because she wants to talk about that on the show next Tuesday.
So, you know, I was on all these medications, and I just wonder I just got up, and I was like, you know what? There's gotta be a better way. Because I started I started questioning it saying, well, you know what? This this medication is supposed to take care of this problem, but yet it has all of these side effects to it. And then there's a medication to take care of those side effects, which has side effects, and there's the medication to take care of that side effect. That's ridiculous. Yeah. You know, what what are we doing here?
[00:53:44] Unknown:
Yeah. Plus, what's what's the root cause? Why do you have this problem in the first place? Right. Exactly. So I modified my diet. I started doing supplements as opposed to,
[00:53:53] Unknown:
prescription medication. That's why, like, you know, nice little lead in, the methylene blue. You know, that's why I I had been taking this because methyl the methylene blue affects everybody a little bit different. Alright? And if you're interested in checking this out, I have a link on the website to the alexjonesstore.com/joe, and you get, some great deals on these supplements and others that I all take, and I will never tell anybody to try something if I didn't try it myself. And so I take this, I take the Shilajit, and, I take the Ultimate Irish Sea Moss, and I take the, the Turmeric.
I take all of those additional supplements, and every single one of those things has benefited me tremendously. And, and and there's others too that I take that I'm not even listening. But, this stuff, everybody everybody's that takes this experiences a little bit different. Alright. Got some stain in my hand. So some people feel like they get this this energy, almost like an electrical feeling that that courses through the body. Why? Because this stuff works at the mitochondrial level in your body. It, it it works with oxygenation and and the, you know, mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell.
So once you get those cleansed and those working properly, man, your energy level is gonna increase naturally. Some people say that it helps them with their vision, and some people say that it helps with arthritis pain. Everybody's a little bit different. For me, what this does for me is it helps me stay focused, and it helps me it it puts me into a very relaxed, contemplative, kind of meditative frame of mind, and it gives me an energy that that lasts throughout the day. There's no crash to it. It it just lasts throughout the day, and I and I I get much I've been getting much more accomplished, and I've been feeling better psychologically, mentally, however you wanna put it, since I've been taking this stuff and not the prescription medications.
This has been a this has been a godsend for me. And, you know Super. And I would recommend it. I mean, it the the great part is, like, next week, I have a doctor's appointment, and I cannot wait to give a urine sample. Because the beautiful colors that come out, you know, it's like,
[00:56:08] Unknown:
we're guys. We can talk about this next week. Why do you have a doctor's appointment? What, you know, what do you hope to,
[00:56:13] Unknown:
this guy is gonna tell you? Oh, it's just it's just for a well visit just to satisfy insurance.
[00:56:18] Unknown:
So Oh, okay. Yeah. Sorry. I didn't know. You guys need to do that. Yeah. Yeah. So,
[00:56:23] Unknown:
so I so I gotta go so I so I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna, you know, do my check-in. And, I'm looking forward to telling him, listen, I took myself off the medications. I'm doing great. I'm fine. Yeah. And another thing I learned too, and and we were talking about this the other day, was, just to show you how crazy the medical profession is, you know, at one point, normal blood pressure was considered to be one forty ninety. That was normal blood pressure. Okay? Mhmm. Then they can then the the medical hierarchy there decided that, well, we're gonna change that. We're gonna make it normal blood pressure is gonna be one twenty over 80. And then now it's even lower than that, I think. I think it's like one eighteen or one seventeen something.
So what did you just do? You just took millions of people that had one forty ninety as normal blood pressure, and just made them borderline hypertensive, and now in need of medications to get the blood pressure lower. Yeah. Maybe. I don't know. Instead instead of modifying diet, exercise Definitely. And change and changing lifestyle, you threw millions of people onto medication that they don't
[00:57:37] Unknown:
really need. Yeah. So that last part, definitely. Yeah. I I don't know if the indication that normal is a 120, for instance, is more normal than a 140. That might be right. But then the the fix to put people on medications, obviously, is nonsense. Because especially blood pressure is very modifiable through lifestyle, changes. Exactly. Very very much so. So
[00:58:01] Unknown:
Exactly. You know, I've added I've added more activities, so I'll take the dogs out for the walk more often than I than I had in the past. I'm eating better, I'm making better choices with what I'm eating, I've been exercising more, you know, so I I feel great. I do. I really do. And I'm gonna do the best I can to make sure it stays that way. I don't wanna get back on meds. I don't wanna do that again, because honestly now that I'm off of it, I actually feel better than I did when I was on them.
[00:58:30] Unknown:
Yeah. Of course.
[00:58:31] Unknown:
So it's it's it's the craziest thing, because medical care, health care has not become a means to solve the problem. Now it's to perpetuate the problem, to keep it going just so you stay on medications.
[00:58:48] Unknown:
Yeah. And but I do think that most, medical professionals, they mean well. You know, you don't go to medical school, because you wanna cheat people. It's a lot of work. It takes many, many years. You know, an individual doctor, you you make that choice probably, because, you know, you wanna help people or you you, maybe you had an experience or something. You went to the hospital. I don't know. Or your your dad was a a surgeon or something. I don't know. And you wanna help people and then, you know, quickly or quickly over the years, you might get, you know, you go into the system, basically. And then you start to believe certain things or you just don't know about things and then, you know, you just start to do your work and your day looks like, I have 20, patients. You need to get out of here because in five minutes, the other guy is there. Mhmm. And I need to, you know, give him his pills. Revolving doing that. Yeah. You know, and maybe you don't like it anymore, but, yeah. Yeah. Some people wake up and then they start to do alternative medicine or have their own private practice, for instance. A lot of them, do that nowadays, which is also very brave, I think, because you get ousted from the medical community. Mhmm.
And that can be dangerous for your career, of course. Of course. To your ego as well. It's complicated. There's a lot of gray there as well. Sure. Absolutely. So it's not per se an evil industry. Just like, you know, people at Coca Cola, for instance. Most people that work there, they have no idea that they're harming people. Mhmm. I believe. No. It's just a job. Yeah. Exactly. They're just doing their work, and that's just a side effect of their work Mhmm. Unfortunately. Yeah. I agree. Yeah. So But I think, yeah, for most people, if you just, you know, eliminate most of your toxic loads, which means don't eat poisonous things, fast food, poisonous thing. Try to not smear poisonous things on yourself.
So everything that you put on your skin, you cannot eat it. Don't put it on there. That's right. Your skin absorbs it. That's right. That's that's a good step to do. And then, you know, get proper nutrition. So eat things that actually feed you, actual food that your grandmother would, also recognize. And then do some exercise, and it can be super simple. Walk, for instance. Mhmm. Just do walking.
[01:01:03] Unknown:
Awesome. Yeah. You walk. Like what I do is I I do I take the dogs out for the walks. I do some pretty intensive stretching at least twice a week, You know? Intensive stretching. Yeah. It's like it's like, it's it's it's it's kinda like, like how do I describe it? It's a head to toe routine that you do. It takes about takes about an hour and a half to get through it. Wow. A lot of it is, based on yoga poses, but it's not yoga itself. It's just stretching of it. Usually, you know, putting your body in those situations. And it is man, sometimes sometimes I work up a sweat just doing that, you know. Okay. Good. But it's but it's good because it it keeps you loose, it helps with the arthritis, you know, helps your blood flow, and and you just feel much you feel more relaxed, you sleep better. It's great stuff. You you it's it's you have to make a decision to to to, you have to make a decision to live better, to choose better. You don't don't rely on the medical profession to make you feel better because they're just not. They're not interested in that. They're No. Exactly. The The pharmaceutical industry makes sure of that. They wanna make sure they get as much money as possible. Exactly. You need to take control of it yourself. And that's the thing with with Ezra Healing with the do no harm model. That's what they promote.
And, and you should check out the show on Tuesday night if you can. It it would be great. I'm sure I'm sure you and and Svetlana would be able to exchange some really good ideas. Maybe we can arrange that somehow. Maybe do a special show one day to accommodate your time. I don't know. We'll we'll we'll work something out. But, the, but what you could do though, if you want, if you have questions or anything like that you wanna ask or like us to ask, just let me know. Just shoot shoot me an email about it, and I'll I'll make sure we we address them on the show. But, so we're running up at a against the clock here. So I have just a couple of things I wanna ask before we go. So tell us something about you that most people don't know but should.
[01:03:07] Unknown:
Everybody. It should as well. Mhmm. Well, I don't know if anybody should know this. I do high I don't know. No. I do, I've been I've been doing High Rocks for a while. I don't know if you know what that is. No. So it's a sports, like an endurance type of sport. It's like CrossFit. Okay. Slightly different. I don't know. You shouldn't know that about me. But, it might be a fun thing to know. Now I've been I've been, I've run a couple of marathons when I was a bit younger. Did a lot of running, played tennis, and then I really I struggled to find a sport that I enjoyed for longer. Right? So So I did all sorts of stuff. I did, fighting as well, Krav Maga, all that type stuff. But it didn't just, it didn't stick. And now finally, I found, Hyrax, and that really, does it for me. It's like a combination of running and lifting things and, functional movements, stuff like that. That's good. That's good.
[01:04:08] Unknown:
Yeah. That that's something. It's it's good. That's good. I I I gotta I'm gonna I'm interested in doing, like, a CrossFit thing, and there there's a place that's over here not too far from me that that does it. I wanna check them out one day. I just I just feel like I'm I just wanna try to lose a little bit more weight before I I start doing that and get a little bit more loose. So you know what I mean? So I'm I'm CrossFit really, you don't need that much,
[01:04:33] Unknown:
yeah. It's more lifting things and doing that correctly without injuring yourselves, like doing deadlifts, stuff like that. Right. And not so much flexibility.
[01:04:41] Unknown:
Well, I just feel like since I haven't worked out in so long, that to to do the all the stretching first and get myself loose enough where I can feel comfortable doing it, I don't pull something. Yeah. Yeah. You know? I am getting older. I am getting older, Barry. I'm gonna be 55 this year, dude, so I gotta, you know. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, what's your go to beverage to help you unwind at the end of the day?
[01:05:04] Unknown:
Glass of red wine. I I like it. Nice. Nice. Nice.
[01:05:07] Unknown:
One of the few who say that. Whenever mostly it's water. Lately I've gotten a few Mountain Dews, which I don't know if you guys have Mountain Dew over there, but We don't have that. No. We don't have that. You're lucky. It's it's like it's like it's like a fluorescent green
[01:05:23] Unknown:
something. I had a couple ones when I was over. Yeah. Oh, okay. Very very strange sensation. Makes me makes me pee a lot. Yeah. It it well, it's horrible. It's terrible for you. Chemical crap. Yeah. So,
[01:05:35] Unknown:
last last question. Who is someone that you respect right now, and what are they doing that inspires you?
[01:05:46] Unknown:
I think it's my, friend, Peter. I visited him today. He's a guy that lives in Netherlands. He keeps working on himself, even though, it's difficult for him sometimes. But he just keeps, a good perspective about what is important to him Good. And just, you know, he doesn't, just sit down and says, you know what? Everything sucks. No. He just,
[01:06:11] Unknown:
says, you know what? This is what I can do. And so he goes and and does that, and that is inspiring. That's great. That's really good. I like that. That's really good. I wish him the best, and I'll be fine to what it is that he's searching for.
[01:06:26] Unknown:
Yeah. Me too. It's a difficult thing to do. Everybody should, you know, try that, because, there's so much negativity in the world, and we can all watch the negativity on the news and be, oh, everything sucks. Yeah. But, you know,
[01:06:39] Unknown:
it doesn't really matter because everything sucks anyways. So let's try and find things that we can do. I agree. I agree. Alright. Alright. So where can where can the folks go to find out more about you and what you do?
[01:06:50] Unknown:
You go to, it's on the screen here, podhome.fm. So p0dhome.fm, for podcast hosting. You'll find everything there. And if you're interested in the app, so the podcast player app, you can, type in pod home, p0 d home, in the App Store on iOS and also the Play Store, or go to podhome.fm/app and find everything there. Outstanding.
[01:07:14] Unknown:
Barry Luebbrecht, thank you. I appreciate you being here today. This is great. I know it's late over there for you, so we're gonna let you go. I do have to do my my Pod Home read, so, I'll do it. I'll do it. Yeah. I'll do it with you sitting here right now. Folks, podhome.fm is the most modern and easy to use podcast hosting platform. Use it to publish your episodes, enhance your audio, automatically generate transcripts, chapters, titles, show notes, and more, and you can even podcast live. And something that we didn't mention is that, you know, if you are a podcaster, it's very important that you have a website.
And if Yeah. You might not be you might not be ready to set up a website, but Pod Home provides that for you. You could set up a website under under the Pod Home. What do they call that? The the sub
[01:07:59] Unknown:
something or other? I I I had Just a website. So for every show, we just automatically generate a website. You can change some things like the colors and stuff, and you can also, hook up your own custom domain to it so that it's really your website and you don't have to do anything. All your episodes
[01:08:15] Unknown:
come on there automatically. It just works. Is it a sub domain though? Is it it's a that's what I was what I was looking for, a sub domain. So it would be likepodhome.fm/ Yep. No. It can be anything. Whatever you you want. You see? There you go. There you go. Everything that you needed in one place for one affordable subscription of $15.99 a month. Just $15.99 a month. And you heard me say it before. I'll say it again. And it's not just because Barry's here. It's a great platform to be on. I I love being part of Pat Podholme's family. And, and I'm telling you, you're gonna pay three times as much in most other big name podcast hosting platforms than you are at Pod Home, and you're gonna get less than what you're gonna get at Pod Home. So head over to Pod Home, sign up today, get thirty days free.
Thirty days free to play with it. Guarantee you're gonna stay with it, And then $15.99 a month after that. So podhome.fm up there on the screen. Make sure you check it out. Alright. Barry, thanks so much for being here. I appreciate you. I'll let you know when all the stuff is, is available, on the audio, to download so you can spread the joy, spread the love. Yes. Alright. Barry, thank you so much. All the best to you. I'll talk to you in a bit. Yeah. Thank you, man. Alright. Barry Liebrecht. Folks, don't forget to head over to our website, joeroos.com, joeroos.com.
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Transmitting live from the asylum studios, deep in the bowels of Southwest Texas, it's the Joe Ruge Show. The show where we talk about anything and everything. Where nothing is sacred, nothing is watered down, and nothing is PC. Alright. Hey, folks. This is Joe Roos. It is twelve zero five hours on Saturday, 09/13/2025. And it is great to be with you guys once again from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass. And we are doing the very best that we can to bring you the best quality talk radio we can muster without all the bluster.
Welcome to the Joe Root Show. Alright, folks. We got a treat in store for us and ourselves today. We don't normally do 12:00 shows on a Saturday. We don't normally do shows on a Saturday period. But we have waiting in the wings, Barry Luebbrecht from hotholme.fmfame, and, we're gonna bring him on here momentarily. We just have a little bit of housekeeping things we normally do, so we're gonna get into that right now. This way we could, get him on here. Alright. So I hope you guys had a great, great week. I hope you guys are enjoying your weekend, and, again, thank you so much for being here with us, on this Saturday afternoon.
Lot of stuff going on in the world, a lot of things that we could be talking about, but you know what? Sometimes you need a break from all that stuff. You need to you need to sit down and just have a conversation, you know. You know, I love talking politics. I love talking all that stuff, and and with everything that's been going on over the last over the last week, you know, it kinda wears you down a little bit, and, you know, you need to change gears, switch gears. You need to do something a little bit different. So, so that's why, you know, having Barry on today is is gonna be a real treat for us, and just a great change of pace for everything else.
Barry has amazing energy. He's just a really cool guy, you know, and, you're I think you're really gonna like him. And on top of that, Barry actually was the first guest we've ever had on this show when it started way back last November. He was the first guest, actually the first show we did. So this is gonna this is great, and, again, Barry's a good guy, and you're gonna you're gonna love him. And I hope you guys caught the show yesterday with, with Christopher Baum from Vote Right. And I I I will confess, I will confess. He he he he caught me flat footed yesterday with some information that he that he threw out there, and shame on me for not being better prepared for the show. But, I think the information that he presented was fantastic.
It's worth looking into. I'm still a skeptic on what he's putting out there. I still think that paper ballots are the best way to go. But, he made a compelling argument for for electronic systems, and, you know, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. I'm gonna do some more investigation on what his company is all about and what his software is all about. And, you know, I'll we'll have him back on again, and we'll we'll talk about it some more. But, hope you guys were able to check that out. It was a it was a lot of fun talking to him. Nice to talk to a fellow Northeasterner, you know, as they say a Yankee.
I hate that term, but that's really what it is. Alright. Enough said on that. Let's get to the housekeeping stuff. Alright, folks. Head over to the website, joeroos.com. It should be up there on your screen. Joeroos.com. When you get over there, make sure you open up the contact section and send us over a message. Let us know whatever's on your heart, whatever's in your mind. Any questions, comments, cares, concerns, any issues, any suggestions for guests, topics, or anything that you'd like to talk about, we're always open for it. So please let us know. Drop that note, in the contact form or email it to us, [email protected], or you can drop it right down there in the comment section, and, we'd be happy to, entertain your suggestions. Alright. Also, don't forget this is a value for value show, so all we're asking is that if you're receiving anything of value from what we're putting out, we're asking that you return that value to us in the form of a donation, which could be your time, your talent, or your treasure.
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Alright. Now without any further ado, Barry Luebbrecht is the host of About Podcasting, a must listen podcast on podhome.fm, the most modern podcast hosting platform in the business, which, by the way, is one of our first sponsors, and of which Barry is the proud owner, CEO, head tech guy. Every little thing you can possibly imagine runs through Barry. With over a 100 episodes as of as of September 2024, Barry dives into the art of podcasting, interviewing podcasters and musicians to uncover the why behind their storytelling, educational, and entertaining audio journeys.
He views podcasts as a powerful audio only medium that taps it to primal human connection to not to, to a primal human connection to narrative perfect for learning, inspiration, and entertainment, especially while while multitasking. Beyond podcasting, Barry is an accomplished independent software developer and architect, specializing in Microsoft Azure and holding the prestigious Microsoft Azure MVP award. He's also the voice behind the improving Barry platform, where he explored health and wellness and previously hosted the developer weekly podcast before focusing on Azure, tech consulting, and personal growth. Barry is also the author of 200 things developers should know.
Available on Amazon as a paperback, ebook, and audiobook. Known for his commitment to consistency, quality, he uses tools like Riverside, SquadCast, Descript to craft top notch audio experiences. Barry, welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me, Joe. I did my homework this time.
[00:11:39] Unknown:
How did you get that? How did you how did you get that, bio? Oh, I have my ways.
[00:11:45] Unknown:
Oh. I have my ways. Was it AI? Partially. Some of it. Some of it I knew already. Okay. Some of it I knew already. So I just I just plugged it all in there and said, alright, let's see let's see what you can give me here. So, so they they helped out a little bit, for sure, for sure. Well, a lot has changed since episode number one. Totally different setup in here. So it's, You're doing great, man. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. And you know 164 is this one. Right? This is episode one sixty four, sir. That is crazy. From from November. From last November.
We were talking we were talking before the show, and, you know, I was I was telling Barry that, we we had signed up on these two platforms, to help us with, you know, the with obtaining guests for the show. And good grief. We did that and all of a sudden, I think from from June from the June when we first started with it, as far as, like, using those booking services for guests, from the June all the way through up until the September, we are booked every single day with at least one guest. And, some days we have two, some days we have three. So it's, it's interesting. It's a very interesting experience. I love it because, you know, honestly, through this medium, podcasting, because even though we do videos, I still consider this podcasting.
You know, I still maintain we still have the audio stream going, you know, which which is actually doing better than the video stream. Good. Well, again, that's great. Well, you know, and it makes sense too because, you know, not everybody can sit there and watch a long form two hour, talk show. Yeah. You know? So people can listen in the car, you know, they can listen while they're running, they're walking, whatever they're doing, not necessarily sitting down in front of a screen for two hours, you know, watching it. So, so I think the audio side is always gonna do great.
But, but yeah. So much has changed, my friend. Much has changed. So what's going on with you? I have a I have a bunch of questions for you. I am prepared today. Oh, that's there is there's a lot. Yes. So
[00:13:46] Unknown:
for those, that don't know me, so I run podhome.fm, so that is p0dhome.fm. That is a podcast hosting platform. Like, for instance, podcast that, you're listening to right now, we host, and that means that we, that that Joe can upload, the episodes, goes automatically, actually, in this case. Mhmm. And then it gets distributed to all the podcast apps, like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, all the modern podcast apps, including the Pod Home app, because we also have a player app. Which is a great app, by the way. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks. Took a lot of work creating an app. It's just it's just it's the devil's work. It's just horrible. It's so much work.
And it's just so finicky with all these platforms.
[00:14:34] Unknown:
Very, very difficult. Yeah. I I would imagine.
[00:14:39] Unknown:
So, yeah, we do that and, we host all sorts of podcasts, people that talk about writing from, Joe's podcast to Bitcoin podcasts to, privacy, all sorts of things, and also, disenfranchised people that, got kicked out of other podcast hosting platforms. They are very, very welcome to host their, podcast on our platform. Obviously, we are not censorship resistant. Not nothing is. Mhmm. But we do our best to not, censor. Yeah. They're very welcome, to do that. And now that we have the Polterhome app, which is a podcast player app, we own the whole chain. So you can upload your podcast. Awesome. It gets distributed and people can listen through that app as well. So that means that we're a little bit more censorship resistance. Like I said, nothing is, absolutely censorship resistant because, you know, if people come to my door here, I got no choice.
But, yeah, it it's nice. It's understandable.
[00:15:42] Unknown:
Own the whole chain. Yeah. It's good. And that's great. And and the the platform is great. And, you know, on every show, I I do I do a short read for it, for for Pod Home. And, one of the things that I always tell everybody is that, for everything that you get with Pod Home, you would be paying double to up to triple on some of the bigger, more well known platforms that are out there, and you get you get less than what Pod Home offers. So it's a it's a great app to be on. It's a great platform to be on. I I what did I I came over about two two years ago or three years ago, something like that. And, and, it's it's been it's been fantastic, you know.
No really no problems. Yeah. I get little glitches here or there. That's normal, but, but usually it's very very quickly resolved, and just the quality of it is great. The AI is fantastic, you know. It it really does generate fantastic show notes. I mean, very rare do I have to edit the show notes down, other than typos, but, you know, but making little changes here. Because for some reason, the AI always changes my last name, and it changes it Yeah. It's it's bad at that. In two different ways. It it because, the the name I used for the show was Roos, r o o z.
So, the AI changes it to r u g e, Rouge. Oh, okay. Yeah. And then and then there's there's another one too. It it makes me Japanese. It it changes it changes my last name from r o o z to r y o. So
[00:17:15] Unknown:
Okay. So, you know, it's like, well, eventually, it'll learn. You know, hopefully, it'll it'll pick up on the changes. But Yeah. Yeah. It's not it's not really self learning in that way. But, yeah. So that's kind of the mission. Right? To, so it it costs $15.99 a month. Right. And then you get unlimited podcasting. So our mission is to build in as many, tools that podcasters need to just get their podcast out out there. Right? So that is hosting. That is, like you said, help with creating metadata, like show notes, chapters, transcripts. That's what we call PulteHome AI. You just flip a switch. You say, generate all that stuff for me. Mhmm. And then it does that, and that's included within, the $15.99.
You can go live, for instance, which we're doing right now, which is also included in the fifteen ninety nine. Right. And so we try to build those useful things that people need and and so that you don't have to go to another platform to also do that and to pay another, I don't know, $5.99 to to do that. You can create clips, for instance, to promote your stuff, all that type of stuff, which are also different than separate apps. It's also, you know, for ourselves because this is like a developer built thing where, you know, I wanna make my life as easy, as possible when creating a podcast. And so, you know, that translates into a product that other people can also use that is, that is useful. And on the Pod Home AI, it is useful, but it become it will become more useful because, we're about to roll out a bit smarter, of an agent in the back end that will then also pick up all the things you talk about within a podcast.
So for instance, you've we've spoken about a lot of things already. It will look those things up. It will put a link in those Oh, awesome. In the show notes. Can be a news article. It can be your social media profile, whatever. We make it double check that it actually exists. Okay. Because it can, dream up some stuff. Okay. And then you get a very useful list of things you actually talked about. So you don't have to, you know, go back and search for all that stuff, which is very useful. Yeah. It it's it it is. And it's like,
[00:19:20] Unknown:
there are reviews on on Pod Home. You see it. A number of people say it. I say it a lot too. It really is like having a whole team working with you to to get the podcast, published, to get it sent out. And it's it's a great platform, and it's it's it's so smooth. And also switching over to Pod Home was seamless. It was no issues whatsoever with that. It was great. And, and I know that there's so many more things in the works. You know, you've you've told me other projects and stuff that you've been looking to work into. And, so I'm excited to see what direction Pod Home is gonna be going in the future. And, I think rolling out the app was fantastic.
My my only suggestion well, not suggestion. My only, and I think I I probably told you this already. Is there a way that if you are a, if you are a a user of podhome.fm to publish your podcast, that you could get into that your account through the through the app, the player app? No. Well, I know there isn't, but but is there separate things. Yeah. So it would have to so it wouldn't be able to to do that?
[00:20:22] Unknown:
But why do you want to? Oh, just make it easier. Yeah. Like, do you want to, so, in the Pothome player app, there's a premium features. Mhmm. A couple. Is that your question? Like, do I also get premium because I'm already a Pothome subscriber?
[00:20:39] Unknown:
Well, no. That's a good but that's a good question though, because, I I hadn't thought of that one. But no. No. I mean, like, for as far as, as a I'm a I'm a I'm a content creator, so I wanna get into my Pod home account to check my stats or or, if I after I upload audio, maybe I'm recording it on on my on my phone or something. I can upload it and go and do all the editing stuff through the app. You know you know what I'm saying? So something like that.
[00:21:04] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. No. So the the the app is really separate completely from the hosting platform. Many apps do do that. They let you claim your podcast, and then you can change some things, for instance, that, get inserted into the feed, for instance, or, Spotify for podcasters, previously known as Anchor. They used to have an app as well. I don't know if they still do. Or you can just, you know, you press a button, you start recording, and poof, you have your your episode, and it goes up in into Spotify. Right. They do actually That is nice. It's not it's not through Anchor anymore, obviously. It's through Spotify. It's
[00:21:37] Unknown:
yes. Spotify Spotify for for creators. Creators. Yeah. That's Right. Yeah. So a little purple app now.
[00:21:42] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That is nice. So, we are looking at a feature for some rudimentary recording stuff. Mhmm. So we're kinda already doing it right now. Right? So we are right now live within Pothome. We have our own streaming server. That's all included in price, of course. And so when Joe ends this show and he says, alright. I've ended live, then we take the audio and we put that into the show. So we right now, we're already recording. So we have that basic infrastructure. Wouldn't it be just lovely if you could just ditch StreamYard and just, you know, record straight into pothole or use an app or or do something like that. For sure. That would be nice. And that that's another tool that you then don't, use anymore. Mhmm. It's a difficult problem to solve to make it reliable,
[00:22:31] Unknown:
but, yeah. We're we're thinking about it. Yes. I I'm sure I'm sure platforms like StreamYard and, and and Rumble Studio and all that stuff, all these studios are are monsters to to to put together and to maintain and and to to to keep upgrading and updating. I'm I'm sure that it is. But, if that's I mean, if that's something you guys can work on, that'd be awesome. You know? And that that kinda leads into, what I was gonna ask you about, about audio only podcasts. Yeah. Now, do you do you think that audio only is is is still the way to go? Or do you think that video casts are gonna slowly kinda fade out? Or you think they're gonna become two separate entities altogether?
[00:23:14] Unknown:
To me, they are two separate things because they are two separate use cases. So when you watch a video, you kinda have to sit down and watch the video, or, you know, you're sitting in a train or or whatever. You're not doing anything else. You're watching the video. You're not driving. I hope not, at least.
[00:23:29] Unknown:
Some people do.
[00:23:31] Unknown:
Some people do. Yeah. Please stop. Stop. Put the phone down. Don't do that. That's super dangerous. But that's a that's a focused, activity. Right? And listening to a podcast, you can also listen to a video. Mhmm. But just listening to the audio is completely different experience. You do that divorced from what you're actually doing. You might be walking around. You might be cleaning your house. You might be driving. You might be flying an airplane. I don't know. You can do all sorts of things. So those are two very different use cases. Now I'm not saying that video is not a podcast. It's not it's not the definition of a podcast, what we're doing right here at Rumble, for instance. That can be a podcast. Sure.
But that is not something that we support, from Pulte Home because that's a very different use case, requires very different infrastructure, different cost structure as well. And it's, also is built for a very different audience. Mhmm. Now you have a lovely camera and you know how to do this. Most people do not have a lovely camera nor a light take. I don't know what I'm doing. Oh, you're doing great. But it it's a very different thing Yeah. Doing video than just audio. Most people do not do that. Most people are not technical enough or just do don't want to do it, or simply do not have to face for a video also happens. True. It's not not a bad thing, but it's just a thing. You know? And not everybody wants to see your video. That's true.
So there there are many things. So, less people will do video and are able to create suitable video that is actually fun to watch as well because it has to be engaging. You know? We're not creating YouTube content where the screen changes every, two seconds, for instance. That is engaging and interesting. It's very different, with this. So we choose to focus as a business on the audio part because that's something we know we can do well, and we know that we can support it with our price and that we can keep our price as such for, yes, unlimited podcasting. I know I don't think I mentioned that, but that means you can have as many podcasts and episodes for that $50.99.
And some people really go for it. They have, like, 20 shows and all sorts of episodes. They go nuts. And that's fine, because that fits within the fifty ninety nine audio only. Right. Because that works for us. Yeah. I don't know how people do So that's why we choose for that. I don't know how people do more than one show. I I don't Well, there's a lot of AI generated stuff.
[00:25:58] Unknown:
I'm sure there is. I'm sure there is. So but so then you don't think that, you need to have a you need to do video in order to be a successful podcaster?
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No. That's it's a completely different thing. You need to do video if you want to do a successful video show. Mhmm. I gotcha. Or not not per se for a podcast. You can call it a podcast if you want, but it it's not necessary for a podcaster. And I know, you know, you hear differently on all the platforms and within the world of podcasting is a very hot topic as well to do video. But not everybody will sit down to watch your video as well. You know? The the odd it's not only the people that produce the video. There's not a lot of them that can do it well. But there's also not a lot of people that will actually watch your video. There's so much video content out there, and most is way more engaging than two guys or or just one guy talking. True that. Because True. For a video, that's not very entertaining.
[00:26:50] Unknown:
Yeah. It's it's I I I watch a lot of, vidcast. That's what generally we like to call them. You know, so I like I watch a lot of vidcast, and, you know, I'm I'm really impressed with the quality of the shows that these that these people are putting out. You know, the they have all the the the lower thirds, they have the chyrons, they have the graphics, they have all that stuff going on, and, you know, I'm just one guy, you know, sitting here. That's a lot of work. Yeah. And and budget, and you need people Right. Studio, lighting, all that type of stuff. Yeah. I mean, my my goal whole handful of My goal is one day to have my own media empire and, you know, completely Oh, yeah. You know, rule the world here. But, you know, but, it it's, it's a challenge for sure for sure, you know, and and having the right equipment and, you know, it's not cheap. It's not this is something I I I mentioned to you before. We had Dave Jackson, from the School of Podcasting on the show, about a week ago, and we were talking about the the the cost of a lot of these things.
Now if you're if you're doing a podcast, you know, you don't necessarily need to have, what do you you're using on a Shure SM seven? Yeah. Alright. So that's that's like You don't need to. That's overkill. Yeah. That that's like that's a that's like a $300 mic. Alright? Yeah. The one that I'm using here is a Rode Procaster. This thing is almost $400, you know. You don't really need No. That stuff. You don't. You know, there there's really not much difference between a $40 microphone and a $200 microphone.
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Yeah. But we have these things because we're very geeky, and we love Yes, exactly. That stuff. That's why I have I have a pile
[00:28:24] Unknown:
right across from me. I have my Procaster, my my PodMic, I got my Shure, I got my m v my SM seven, my, what is the m v seven, I got two of those. I got, you know, I got all that stuff sitting over there. It's a lot of money, but, you know, we don't need all that stuff. You know, but but if you can do an odd a video show, then you need to have some quality. You you don't wanna sit there looking like you're you're talking to a an iPhone three, you know, quality video. No. Or iPhone four quality video. That's part of the reason why I switched over to, to StreamYard instead of using the Rumble Studio. Rumble Studio is great. You know, it has a lot of potential, has a lot of features that even StreamYard doesn't have, but it's just not stable. And I know it's a work in progress, you know, and they're and they're getting there.
I I was doing a show, with a, with a gentleman from Washington state who's running for for congress, and, we were in the middle of conversation. I was on the rumble studio, and the thing crashed. Oh, wow. But it only crashed on my end. Oh, okay. It stayed connected on his, and so I just disappeared from the feed, and he was still going on talking, talking, talking, and I didn't know he was still connected. You know, the audio was still running, so I was watching what I was saying. You know, I wasn't I I wasn't cursing and throwing things all around the place, but, you know, I I was trying to tell him, so this time I can't get reconnected, we'll we'll just, you know, we'll start again, because I figured I can just go into the audio and edit that moment out and put it back together again.
But, I we were he was he was connected the whole time, and and and he didn't even know I was gone. I'm like, well, that's crazy. But these are difficult,
[00:30:09] Unknown:
technology problems to solve. Yeah. They are. And this stuff that we're doing right here. But I I was just thinking, like you said, you asked, do you need video to be a successful podcaster? So I think no, but perhaps what people, get get mixed up is, you know, to be able to discover your show, you can use clips. Mhmm. Right? And clips for social media, for TikTok, for x, for, Instagram, or what what have you. Those are visual things. Correct. Usually. So if you have a video thing and you have an interesting clip there, then you can create a viral moments and then you can really create, discovery. So for for that part, yeah, you can use that. That that's true. You can use it to for people to surface your podcast. Right. But then the the the only
[00:30:58] Unknown:
well, not the only, but but one of those downsides to that is then people are expecting to see a video Yeah. Podcast, and they're only getting the audio, and then, you know, you might they might lose interest. You might garner some follows and and plays, but, you know, if somebody sees a video, they're they're expecting to see a video all the time.
[00:31:17] Unknown:
Yeah. But it is, you know, you are where the people are. And unfortunately, they spent a lot of time just looking at their phone True that. True. At those app. So Very true. In the the podcast player app, in the one of the premium features, there's I'm showing it now on the screen. There's a thing called, episode shuffle, and that is kinda exactly this. When you click on that, it just loads You have one shark doing the A random episode. And you can just swipe through the episodes like you swipe through Instagram. And then you just Three
[00:31:49] Unknown:
Floyd's.
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You just get,
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that's pretty neat. I know I haven't played with that feature. I gotta play with that a little bit.
[00:31:57] Unknown:
Yeah. And then you just get, you know, you get to discover all sorts of stuff. And it it's not ranked on on an algorithm for popularity or anything like that. It's just random stuff.
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And that's fun because there's I'm gonna load up my methylene blue while you're talking.
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Okay.
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We were talking about that. Stuff. Right? There's there's
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so many podcasts that, that people create. Joe is creating a concoction there. Oh, god.
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My methylene blue.
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And, you know, you can filter here also on, language, like, also only, Dutch or US English and, give me something, from the comedy category or something like that. So the the Pod Home app there, we try to in in this widget and also in other features to just surface random stuff so that you just get exposed to all sorts of stuff that you usually wouldn't hear ever. Right. Right. It's a great app though, and I do have to play around with with some more of the features. There's only so much time in the day.
[00:32:57] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know? But, it it is a great app. And and just getting back to the tech stuff, you know, it's it's when I started doing the video stuff, and you know this, I I told you this, I I was very reluctant and very hesitant to do it, you know? And, it it wasn't something I really enjoyed doing, and, you know, because I have, like most people, I have like little quirky things, ticks and stuff like that. Like, I have somebody who watches the show who who who texts me all the time, stop chewing the inside of your mouth. And I do because I I play with my, you know, I'm I do that. And it it Oh, okay. But it's a it's a it's like I don't know if it's a nervous tic or if it's just that, you know, it's just a tic. It's something you do. Yeah. So, you see, when you're doing video, audio, you can't see that, you know. And, if if a screen goes out and I'm reading notes or something like that, you know, you're not seeing me going like this as I'm speaking. You're Yeah. You know?
[00:33:58] Unknown:
So it it has Have you seen a lot of traction with it? With the video?
[00:34:02] Unknown:
It's it's actually improving. It's it's getting better. At this point last month, I only had, like, barely a 100 followers on the channel. And, as of this morning, when I when I logged in, I had two seventy. So it's it's growing. It's growing, and, I'm also getting a lot of traction with, with the guests because my the the quality of guest has been improving. All the guests are great. You know, when I say quality, I'm talking about, like, high profile people. You know, like, Yeah. The audience that they bring. Yeah. And it's it's it's, like like, for example, I interviewed, recently Peter Ticton, who's a a constitutional attorney, who is representing Tina Peters, who is the 70 year old woman in Colorado who's been locked up, was sentenced for nine years in jail for, for doing her job as an election, official and turning over the documents that were that she was required to. And the previous administration prosecuted her and put her in jail for nine years.
So he represents her, and, he's he's he's spoken at at at several several, popular events, like, with with general Mike Flynn and, and and and folks like Steve Bannon and folks like that. So, you know, so that type it's been getting more and more of that. I interviewed a couple of congressional candidates. I I interviewed a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. You know, so it's it's been great. I've, you know, it's it's it's an amazing it's an amazing thing, podcasting, whether it's video or audio. It's an amazing thing because you get to meet people that you never thought you would get an opportunity to ever meet.
You know? I've I've met every every person that that has come across this show has left something with me that I take with me. You know, I I I've learned so much from the interactions that I've had with folks, and I hope the audience has too, and that's the reason why we booked them, you know, because we wanna bring something different. You know, I could sit here, we could talk politics all day long, and you know, after a while, it it kinda wears you down, it beats you down. You know, you need to have a change of pace, and I think bringing in the the type of guests we have. Look, we've we've done, like I said, Nobel Peace Prize nominees, paranormal investigators, doctors, lawyers, theologians, tech, crypto.
We do actually I don't know if you know, we do a regular, every two weeks. The next show we're doing is on the twentieth, I think, the twentieth, next Saturday. We have a resident crypto psychic who who does a show with us. She comes on every two weeks, and, it's it's great. You know, it it it brings a nice audience, and we we have a good conversation. And and what she does, it's very to me, it's very unique. I mean, she she uses, she uses tarot cards to make crypto predictions. And so far, everything that she's been talking about has been freaking spot on. You know? I need to pay attention to this. So it's so it's it's really good. And, like, she's she's very big on Algorand, XRP, and, there was another one.
Was it Solana? I think it was Solana. Maybe. Something. I'm not I'm not a 100 I'm I'm not sure about that one. Why these senses are tingling. Yeah. I'm I'm not sure about that one, but but those those two are are are the are the ones that she's really, like, like, she she had spent a lot of time working on, you know, and and studying for. And, so far, you know, I've I've taken some of her advice, and I've invested in some of these things, and, you know, I'm I'm not complaining. You know, I don't throw a lot of money. I don't have a lot of money to throw at it, but, you know, I make a little bit here, a little bit there. It's it's good. You know, it's it's she's she's good, and she's like I said, she's spot on. So, that's a that that's a thing that I never thought I'd be sitting here with a person reading tarot cards, picking, cryptos, but it's but it's a lot of fun. I've learned. I've learned a lot, you know, doing stuff like this, with you. And And then, of course, on Tuesdays, we have, we have the CEO of Ezra Healing, one of our sponsors who comes on and, does a show just specifically about, the do no harm model of, private health care. You know? We we garner some some suggestions most of the time from the audience.
What do you wanna hear about? What do you wanna talk about? And then we do the prep for that, and we do a show together with that one. I've learned an incredible amount
[00:38:45] Unknown:
Yeah. From doing that. It it's amazing how, receptive and generous people are. Mhmm. Like, I had the same with, when I did the developer weekly podcast and also the improving Barry podcast. The latter is about health as well, where I would just, you know, I would shoot an email to, like, a hero of mine, the tech world. And if I would think, you know, I would never hear from this guy again. He would never do this in a million years. He doesn't know me. Mhmm. Yeah. Sure. I will come on and say the show. Sure. And everybody does. Yeah. Because why not? So it it's such a connecting mechanism. It's amazing. Absolutely.
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Absolutely. I'm still waiting to get Adam Curry on the show, but, you know, that's gonna that's gonna be a tough one. The pod father. He's busy. Yeah. Oh, I know. I know. I know. I'm sure he will. And he's and they they've got a how how long has their show been running? It's been running for a while. No agenda. Which one? No agenda? Oh, seventeen years? Yeah. Yeah. It's been a long they've they've, like, they've had a long run. Great show. I I love how they do it. I love the work they do on it. It's it's it's amazing. And you wouldn't you wouldn't know see, that's how that's how good technology is now, especially with the audio.
You you wouldn't know if they didn't tell you that, John Dvorak is on the West Coast. He's in California, and and Adam Curry's down here in Austin. It sounds like they're sitting in the same room with each other, which is, you know, which is just great. This is technology. It's fantastic. And they use a very basic service from what I understand. I don't I don't even think that it's anything crazy. It was a clean feed or or clear feed or something like that. They use clean feed. Yeah. Yeah. And that's just audio only. They don't even see each other. Yeah. So it's it's wild. It it's wild. It it works. It's good stuff. And And then so it's podcasting. So, let's let's let's talk about your podcast.
So you Yeah. You've done a few podcast. The three that we mentioned already. When are you gonna get back into doing shows?
[00:40:40] Unknown:
Oh, man. Well, I'm not as prolific as you, obviously. It it's difficult to, maintain a podcast. All the podcasts that I had were, also guest driven. Mhmm. So I I did interviews with with other people. And I found it very difficult difficult to find guests on a regular basis. So usually, I did, once a week Mhmm. Something. And to get that spot filled with somebody that I really wanted, that was very difficult. So perhaps I should take, your advice and and use these platforms like Potmatch, for instance. Yeah. I you you could. Gotcha. It's it's it's it's really good. And, you know, one of the little perks to it too is, on the host side of it,
[00:41:23] Unknown:
you you do get some commission for some of the guests that that come on. So you you get a couple bucks here or there, you know, at the end of the month. Not a bad deal, and it's relatively inexpensive. I I I forget what the I know the I know the the the guest side is considerably more to sign up for than the host side. The host side is is much less. I'm trying to remember how much it was. I don't I don't remember. But it's a it's a good platform, and it and it it the way they do it is and I had I had Alex Sanfilippo on the show, early on, talking about PodMatch when I first started up with them.
And, it's really it's it's kinda like the way the way we described it was, like, it's like Tinder for podcasters. Yeah. Yeah. You know? So it's like a dating app. It's really what it is. You you plug in all your information, and somebody else plugs in their information. The the algorithm puts you together, and and you decide if you wanna pass or if you wanna, you know, you know, swipe left, swipe right. You know? It's basically what it is. And, but, you know, I I I loved using PodMatch. I still use PodMatch. Like I said, I got to meet so many great people, and it was also good for me to develop my interviewing skills.
Yeah. You know? So because and the frequency of it and then putting the work into it. And honestly, you know, I have, I have, I have a lady, her name is, Angela. Anon we call her anonymous Angela. And and for those for those of you uninitiated as to why we call her anonymous Angela is when when I was, when she first started out helping me out with the show, I I on pod on pod on Podholm, you could add people to your show, and they're automatically inserted all the all their information. So, like, if you would if you go to the show notes for this show, you'll see you'll see Barry's information, you'll see my information, you'll see all my my producers listed as well. Well, all that information is I I input all of that information way back when, and, it just automatically populates that for me when the show notes are generated, when the show is published.
So I wanted to put Angela's information in there, and I had already called her out a few times on the show before I I started putting her in there. And, I said, so I I need just a couple of thing. I need a I need a headshot, and a a little bio for you, and I'll I'll put, you know, my my website because you're my one of my producers, so I'll put my website on there for you so you don't have to give out your personal stuff. And she was like, well, I don't know if I wanna have my name out there. And I was like Okay. Well, I've already thrown it out there, so we're just gonna call you anonymous, anonymous Angela now. But, but but she's great. I mean, she and she donates. She she does the value for value model. She donates her time and her talent. You know? So, so she has access to my calendar. She has access to PodMatch. She has access to the other site I use, Radio Guest List. She has access to all that stuff, and and every all the emails and stuff come to both of us, and she'll help me do the background on it, and she'll help me put all the stuff together and and or keep things organized.
And, it's great. I've come to really depend on every morning getting that email from her. Usually about six in the morning, I get an email. Okay. So this is who you have today on the show. You know, it's like That's nice. It's No. It's great. And I really appreciate that. And and I don't know how she does it. You know, without give without giving up too much information, I mean, she she she has a big family that she takes care of. She she's very active politically in in her community. She's involved with a political action committee that I'm a member of, which is how she found how how we really connected. Oh, okay. And, you know, she she how she how she manages everything, because and then there's another podcast that she helps.
I I don't know how she does it. I really don't know where she gets the time to do it. I'm frazzled throughout the course of the day, because I I'm working my regular job, and I'm like, I got the show tonight. I gotta think about this. I gotta think about that. I gotta figure that. I gotta put this thing up. I gotta build the studio. I gotta get all that stuff. And then usually on my lunch hour is when I'll sit down and I'll I'll I'll start sending out the links, the emails, all that stuff to everybody, let them know. Okay. So here's the link for the studio tonight. Here's the link to share tonight. This is what time we start. This is how it's gonna how it works, and so on and so forth. Like, I sent you, an email, which I I modified that one because because we know each other. So, I I modified that heavily, but, you know, just that's basically the format that everybody gets. Yeah. You know, just some basic instructions, and this is how we do it, you know. And then then I for a little while there, I wasn't opening up the studio earlier, Like it's like, I'd I'll open it up thirty minutes to fifteen minutes before the show, and I'll have everybody well, if you wanna check out to make sure your settings work, jump on in, and we'll make sure they work. And the reason why I do that is because I had to do a show one night, and the guest, tried to tried to connect at the start of the show, and he couldn't get in. And he was having some kind of a technical problem, the link wasn't working, and and so this I was delayed almost twenty minutes starting the show. Yeah. You don't wanna do that. Right. Because I'm I was I was on the phone with him and and and his people trying to figure out what the problem was.
You know? So thirty minutes, fifteen minutes before the show, check-in with me. Let's make sure everything's working good, and then once we got that done, we'll get started at showtime. And, so far so good. It's been it's been working. But you learn on the go you learn on the go, and the same thing with the audio, with just the audio side of it. You you learn as you go, you know. You are a tremendous resource for me. I mean, how many times, honestly, how many times have I text you after a show has said, I'm done. I'm throwing this thing out the window. I'm not doing this anymore. Right? Yeah. How how many times? It's
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Yeah. But you've tweaked your whole audio process and, your studio and all the settings and stuff. And now it's it's just sounds great. Thank you. That it that's a lot of work though. You know, it people
[00:47:22] Unknown:
like we were talking with Dave Jackson about this. You know, people seem to think that podcasting, all it is is sitting down in front of a microphone and talking. It's not what it is. It it's this is it's a lot of work.
[00:47:34] Unknown:
It's a lot of work. Yeah. And also to make the audio sound good, for instance, to listeners now with headphones on, you can hear that I am probably I am in an echoey room, which is true. Even though I have a good mic and all that type of stuff, this room is untreated.
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Mhmm. Which is really not my style usually. Right. That is how it is. Especially since when I introduced you, I said you're you're you're big on quality and
[00:47:57] Unknown:
Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. So I I also created many, many online courses, and then I really need to make sure it's all very much, on on par and that's super high quality. And then, you know, sometimes I just sat in the closet with lots of,
[00:48:12] Unknown:
pillows everywhere. That works too. Hey. I did that too. Record something. Before before I had a studio, yeah, I did that too. I I I had a little table. And my I had my computer, a little table, a microphone, and I would sit in the closet. I would close the door, have all the clothes and everything all around you. Yeah. And Works perfect. Yeah. It was it's great. The room that I'm in right now is a treated room. I have I have, acoustic foam, ceiling walls everywhere. And I put up the flags just to cover it all, but, you know, that's basically Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's all treated. But even so, the the problem is that the ventilation in here is horrible. Like, there there's Yeah. Just no air in here whatsoever. So, I live in the desert, and it's hot. And, like, e like even right now as as we're talking, it I have I have a an AC unit running, and, it's on a low setting, but, like, you may not be able to hear it too much this way, but like you said with earbuds, you'll hear that in the background.
But basically, if I don't have that on, this room gets ridiculously hot. And and even with the AC running right now, I have a I have a clock up on the wall there that tells me the temperature in the room. And even with that running, and I have a fan here, I have a fan over my head, it is 84 degrees in here.
[00:49:39] Unknown:
I'm just translating that in real money. Because eighty eighty four degrees Celsius, I would be dead. Yeah. No. No. 84 Fahrenheit. Oh, Jesus. Really? That is 32 degrees, something like that. Is that right? In Celsius, I have no idea.
[00:49:59] Unknown:
Hot. It's hot. It's hot. The the only metric the only metric that I concern myself with is for the the the rounds for my pistol. That's it. My nine millimeters. So that's all I worry about. But, yeah. So it yeah. So it's it gets hot in here. So you gotta it's it's Yeah. It's it's not easy to do this stuff.
[00:50:21] Unknown:
You struggle. But I do wanna get back into it. So,
[00:50:24] Unknown:
the one that I loved the most was improving Barry, because that was about health. That was the first that was the first podcast of yours that I heard, was improving Barry.
[00:50:33] Unknown:
Yeah. It's it's or health and wellness, I used to call it. As in I'm I'm just very, curious about it. I've been learning about health and the human body and how it works for now decades now. And and the reason is simple, because when I grew up, I was in pain the whole time, because basically, I was drinking milk and I was lactose intolerant and nobody told me. Nice. The doctor didn't care. They just said, you know what? You just have, irritable bowel syndrome. Just Just take it easy. Stupid. I know. I know. That's crazy. But that's But that that kinda it's good because that woke me up. I'm like, alright. These guys are are no good. You know? They're the the whole system is just, it's unreliable.
They don't know anything Yeah. Apparently. Or they don't care to know anything. I don't I don't know. I agree with that. And then you go down the rabbit hole, and then you find out, you know, these guys don't even learn about, food, or or nutrition. Nothing. And so, you know, through the improving barrier podcast, I also spoke to many, you know, lots of doctors and people that, kind of woke up to, how corrupt the system is and that it's, like you said in the intro here, it's mostly just sick care and not actually health care. And so what happens in also in my country in The Netherlands, but also in your country and most countries I can imagine is that they just, you know, treat symptoms, make money, never look at the root cause, never ask, you know, what are you actually eating, for instance. Do you exercise? Do you sleep? How are you sleeping? You know, all the first things that, a vet asks Yes. When you go when you take your dog there, you know, what are your feelings? That is a great observation, man. That's that's fantastic.
No doctor ever asks you what you eat, which is, which is fantastic.
[00:52:16] Unknown:
Well, they and you know, and even in medical schools, and I learned this with, Svetlana Rokoff, the CEO from Ezra Healing, on the show that we do, that even in medical school, they don't really even teach nutrition.
[00:52:29] Unknown:
No. They get a couple of hours of a curriculum. Yeah. That's it. Which is crazy.
[00:52:35] Unknown:
Like I I I've I've mentioned this before, so I I don't know if you've heard it yet or not, but, you know, I have weaned myself off of all the prescription medications that I've been on. I take Excellent. No prescription medications now. So I don't take I I came off my blood pressure medication. I was on two of those. I was on, Celebrex for, like, nerve pain and and, and and arthritis and all that nonsense. And then I got, then, of course, you know, I was on antidepressants for a while, you know, because of all the other stuff that was going on, and just so many different medications that that I then I can go down the list. Actually, I have to put the list together because she wants to talk about that on the show next Tuesday.
So, you know, I was on all these medications, and I just wonder I just got up, and I was like, you know what? There's gotta be a better way. Because I started I started questioning it saying, well, you know what? This this medication is supposed to take care of this problem, but yet it has all of these side effects to it. And then there's a medication to take care of those side effects, which has side effects, and there's the medication to take care of that side effect. That's ridiculous. Yeah. You know, what what are we doing here?
[00:53:44] Unknown:
Yeah. Plus, what's what's the root cause? Why do you have this problem in the first place? Right. Exactly. So I modified my diet. I started doing supplements as opposed to,
[00:53:53] Unknown:
prescription medication. That's why, like, you know, nice little lead in, the methylene blue. You know, that's why I I had been taking this because methyl the methylene blue affects everybody a little bit different. Alright? And if you're interested in checking this out, I have a link on the website to the alexjonesstore.com/joe, and you get, some great deals on these supplements and others that I all take, and I will never tell anybody to try something if I didn't try it myself. And so I take this, I take the Shilajit, and, I take the Ultimate Irish Sea Moss, and I take the, the Turmeric.
I take all of those additional supplements, and every single one of those things has benefited me tremendously. And, and and there's others too that I take that I'm not even listening. But, this stuff, everybody everybody's that takes this experiences a little bit different. Alright. Got some stain in my hand. So some people feel like they get this this energy, almost like an electrical feeling that that courses through the body. Why? Because this stuff works at the mitochondrial level in your body. It, it it works with oxygenation and and the, you know, mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell.
So once you get those cleansed and those working properly, man, your energy level is gonna increase naturally. Some people say that it helps them with their vision, and some people say that it helps with arthritis pain. Everybody's a little bit different. For me, what this does for me is it helps me stay focused, and it helps me it it puts me into a very relaxed, contemplative, kind of meditative frame of mind, and it gives me an energy that that lasts throughout the day. There's no crash to it. It it just lasts throughout the day, and I and I I get much I've been getting much more accomplished, and I've been feeling better psychologically, mentally, however you wanna put it, since I've been taking this stuff and not the prescription medications.
This has been a this has been a godsend for me. And, you know Super. And I would recommend it. I mean, it the the great part is, like, next week, I have a doctor's appointment, and I cannot wait to give a urine sample. Because the beautiful colors that come out, you know, it's like,
[00:56:08] Unknown:
we're guys. We can talk about this next week. Why do you have a doctor's appointment? What, you know, what do you hope to,
[00:56:13] Unknown:
this guy is gonna tell you? Oh, it's just it's just for a well visit just to satisfy insurance.
[00:56:18] Unknown:
So Oh, okay. Yeah. Sorry. I didn't know. You guys need to do that. Yeah. Yeah. So,
[00:56:23] Unknown:
so I so I gotta go so I so I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna, you know, do my check-in. And, I'm looking forward to telling him, listen, I took myself off the medications. I'm doing great. I'm fine. Yeah. And another thing I learned too, and and we were talking about this the other day, was, just to show you how crazy the medical profession is, you know, at one point, normal blood pressure was considered to be one forty ninety. That was normal blood pressure. Okay? Mhmm. Then they can then the the medical hierarchy there decided that, well, we're gonna change that. We're gonna make it normal blood pressure is gonna be one twenty over 80. And then now it's even lower than that, I think. I think it's like one eighteen or one seventeen something.
So what did you just do? You just took millions of people that had one forty ninety as normal blood pressure, and just made them borderline hypertensive, and now in need of medications to get the blood pressure lower. Yeah. Maybe. I don't know. Instead instead of modifying diet, exercise Definitely. And change and changing lifestyle, you threw millions of people onto medication that they don't
[00:57:37] Unknown:
really need. Yeah. So that last part, definitely. Yeah. I I don't know if the indication that normal is a 120, for instance, is more normal than a 140. That might be right. But then the the fix to put people on medications, obviously, is nonsense. Because especially blood pressure is very modifiable through lifestyle, changes. Exactly. Very very much so. So
[00:58:01] Unknown:
Exactly. You know, I've added I've added more activities, so I'll take the dogs out for the walk more often than I than I had in the past. I'm eating better, I'm making better choices with what I'm eating, I've been exercising more, you know, so I I feel great. I do. I really do. And I'm gonna do the best I can to make sure it stays that way. I don't wanna get back on meds. I don't wanna do that again, because honestly now that I'm off of it, I actually feel better than I did when I was on them.
[00:58:30] Unknown:
Yeah. Of course.
[00:58:31] Unknown:
So it's it's it's the craziest thing, because medical care, health care has not become a means to solve the problem. Now it's to perpetuate the problem, to keep it going just so you stay on medications.
[00:58:48] Unknown:
Yeah. And but I do think that most, medical professionals, they mean well. You know, you don't go to medical school, because you wanna cheat people. It's a lot of work. It takes many, many years. You know, an individual doctor, you you make that choice probably, because, you know, you wanna help people or you you, maybe you had an experience or something. You went to the hospital. I don't know. Or your your dad was a a surgeon or something. I don't know. And you wanna help people and then, you know, quickly or quickly over the years, you might get, you know, you go into the system, basically. And then you start to believe certain things or you just don't know about things and then, you know, you just start to do your work and your day looks like, I have 20, patients. You need to get out of here because in five minutes, the other guy is there. Mhmm. And I need to, you know, give him his pills. Revolving doing that. Yeah. You know, and maybe you don't like it anymore, but, yeah. Yeah. Some people wake up and then they start to do alternative medicine or have their own private practice, for instance. A lot of them, do that nowadays, which is also very brave, I think, because you get ousted from the medical community. Mhmm.
And that can be dangerous for your career, of course. Of course. To your ego as well. It's complicated. There's a lot of gray there as well. Sure. Absolutely. So it's not per se an evil industry. Just like, you know, people at Coca Cola, for instance. Most people that work there, they have no idea that they're harming people. Mhmm. I believe. No. It's just a job. Yeah. Exactly. They're just doing their work, and that's just a side effect of their work Mhmm. Unfortunately. Yeah. I agree. Yeah. So But I think, yeah, for most people, if you just, you know, eliminate most of your toxic loads, which means don't eat poisonous things, fast food, poisonous thing. Try to not smear poisonous things on yourself.
So everything that you put on your skin, you cannot eat it. Don't put it on there. That's right. Your skin absorbs it. That's right. That's that's a good step to do. And then, you know, get proper nutrition. So eat things that actually feed you, actual food that your grandmother would, also recognize. And then do some exercise, and it can be super simple. Walk, for instance. Mhmm. Just do walking.
[01:01:03] Unknown:
Awesome. Yeah. You walk. Like what I do is I I do I take the dogs out for the walks. I do some pretty intensive stretching at least twice a week, You know? Intensive stretching. Yeah. It's like it's like, it's it's it's it's kinda like, like how do I describe it? It's a head to toe routine that you do. It takes about takes about an hour and a half to get through it. Wow. A lot of it is, based on yoga poses, but it's not yoga itself. It's just stretching of it. Usually, you know, putting your body in those situations. And it is man, sometimes sometimes I work up a sweat just doing that, you know. Okay. Good. But it's but it's good because it it keeps you loose, it helps with the arthritis, you know, helps your blood flow, and and you just feel much you feel more relaxed, you sleep better. It's great stuff. You you it's it's you have to make a decision to to to, you have to make a decision to live better, to choose better. You don't don't rely on the medical profession to make you feel better because they're just not. They're not interested in that. They're No. Exactly. The The pharmaceutical industry makes sure of that. They wanna make sure they get as much money as possible. Exactly. You need to take control of it yourself. And that's the thing with with Ezra Healing with the do no harm model. That's what they promote.
And, and you should check out the show on Tuesday night if you can. It it would be great. I'm sure I'm sure you and and Svetlana would be able to exchange some really good ideas. Maybe we can arrange that somehow. Maybe do a special show one day to accommodate your time. I don't know. We'll we'll we'll work something out. But, the, but what you could do though, if you want, if you have questions or anything like that you wanna ask or like us to ask, just let me know. Just shoot shoot me an email about it, and I'll I'll make sure we we address them on the show. But, so we're running up at a against the clock here. So I have just a couple of things I wanna ask before we go. So tell us something about you that most people don't know but should.
[01:03:07] Unknown:
Everybody. It should as well. Mhmm. Well, I don't know if anybody should know this. I do high I don't know. No. I do, I've been I've been doing High Rocks for a while. I don't know if you know what that is. No. So it's a sports, like an endurance type of sport. It's like CrossFit. Okay. Slightly different. I don't know. You shouldn't know that about me. But, it might be a fun thing to know. Now I've been I've been, I've run a couple of marathons when I was a bit younger. Did a lot of running, played tennis, and then I really I struggled to find a sport that I enjoyed for longer. Right? So So I did all sorts of stuff. I did, fighting as well, Krav Maga, all that type stuff. But it didn't just, it didn't stick. And now finally, I found, Hyrax, and that really, does it for me. It's like a combination of running and lifting things and, functional movements, stuff like that. That's good. That's good.
[01:04:08] Unknown:
Yeah. That that's something. It's it's good. That's good. I I I gotta I'm gonna I'm interested in doing, like, a CrossFit thing, and there there's a place that's over here not too far from me that that does it. I wanna check them out one day. I just I just feel like I'm I just wanna try to lose a little bit more weight before I I start doing that and get a little bit more loose. So you know what I mean? So I'm I'm CrossFit really, you don't need that much,
[01:04:33] Unknown:
yeah. It's more lifting things and doing that correctly without injuring yourselves, like doing deadlifts, stuff like that. Right. And not so much flexibility.
[01:04:41] Unknown:
Well, I just feel like since I haven't worked out in so long, that to to do the all the stretching first and get myself loose enough where I can feel comfortable doing it, I don't pull something. Yeah. Yeah. You know? I am getting older. I am getting older, Barry. I'm gonna be 55 this year, dude, so I gotta, you know. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, what's your go to beverage to help you unwind at the end of the day?
[01:05:04] Unknown:
Glass of red wine. I I like it. Nice. Nice. Nice.
[01:05:07] Unknown:
One of the few who say that. Whenever mostly it's water. Lately I've gotten a few Mountain Dews, which I don't know if you guys have Mountain Dew over there, but We don't have that. No. We don't have that. You're lucky. It's it's like it's like it's like a fluorescent green
[01:05:23] Unknown:
something. I had a couple ones when I was over. Yeah. Oh, okay. Very very strange sensation. Makes me makes me pee a lot. Yeah. It it well, it's horrible. It's terrible for you. Chemical crap. Yeah. So,
[01:05:35] Unknown:
last last question. Who is someone that you respect right now, and what are they doing that inspires you?
[01:05:46] Unknown:
I think it's my, friend, Peter. I visited him today. He's a guy that lives in Netherlands. He keeps working on himself, even though, it's difficult for him sometimes. But he just keeps, a good perspective about what is important to him Good. And just, you know, he doesn't, just sit down and says, you know what? Everything sucks. No. He just,
[01:06:11] Unknown:
says, you know what? This is what I can do. And so he goes and and does that, and that is inspiring. That's great. That's really good. I like that. That's really good. I wish him the best, and I'll be fine to what it is that he's searching for.
[01:06:26] Unknown:
Yeah. Me too. It's a difficult thing to do. Everybody should, you know, try that, because, there's so much negativity in the world, and we can all watch the negativity on the news and be, oh, everything sucks. Yeah. But, you know,
[01:06:39] Unknown:
it doesn't really matter because everything sucks anyways. So let's try and find things that we can do. I agree. I agree. Alright. Alright. So where can where can the folks go to find out more about you and what you do?
[01:06:50] Unknown:
You go to, it's on the screen here, podhome.fm. So p0dhome.fm, for podcast hosting. You'll find everything there. And if you're interested in the app, so the podcast player app, you can, type in pod home, p0 d home, in the App Store on iOS and also the Play Store, or go to podhome.fm/app and find everything there. Outstanding.
[01:07:14] Unknown:
Barry Luebbrecht, thank you. I appreciate you being here today. This is great. I know it's late over there for you, so we're gonna let you go. I do have to do my my Pod Home read, so, I'll do it. I'll do it. Yeah. I'll do it with you sitting here right now. Folks, podhome.fm is the most modern and easy to use podcast hosting platform. Use it to publish your episodes, enhance your audio, automatically generate transcripts, chapters, titles, show notes, and more, and you can even podcast live. And something that we didn't mention is that, you know, if you are a podcaster, it's very important that you have a website.
And if Yeah. You might not be you might not be ready to set up a website, but Pod Home provides that for you. You could set up a website under under the Pod Home. What do they call that? The the sub
[01:07:59] Unknown:
something or other? I I I had Just a website. So for every show, we just automatically generate a website. You can change some things like the colors and stuff, and you can also, hook up your own custom domain to it so that it's really your website and you don't have to do anything. All your episodes
[01:08:15] Unknown:
come on there automatically. It just works. Is it a sub domain though? Is it it's a that's what I was what I was looking for, a sub domain. So it would be likepodhome.fm/ Yep. No. It can be anything. Whatever you you want. You see? There you go. There you go. Everything that you needed in one place for one affordable subscription of $15.99 a month. Just $15.99 a month. And you heard me say it before. I'll say it again. And it's not just because Barry's here. It's a great platform to be on. I I love being part of Pat Podholme's family. And, and I'm telling you, you're gonna pay three times as much in most other big name podcast hosting platforms than you are at Pod Home, and you're gonna get less than what you're gonna get at Pod Home. So head over to Pod Home, sign up today, get thirty days free.
Thirty days free to play with it. Guarantee you're gonna stay with it, And then $15.99 a month after that. So podhome.fm up there on the screen. Make sure you check it out. Alright. Barry, thanks so much for being here. I appreciate you. I'll let you know when all the stuff is, is available, on the audio, to download so you can spread the joy, spread the love. Yes. Alright. Barry, thank you so much. All the best to you. I'll talk to you in a bit. Yeah. Thank you, man. Alright. Barry Liebrecht. Folks, don't forget to head over to our website, joeroos.com, joeroos.com.
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Introduction to the Joe Ruge Show
Special Guest Announcement: Barry Luebbrecht
Reflecting on Past Shows and Guests
Ezra Healing and the New Wellness Paradigm
Introducing Barry Luebbrecht and Podhome.fm
The Evolution of Podcasting with Barry
Audio vs Video Podcasting: A Discussion
The Cost and Equipment of Podcasting
The Power of Podcasting: Meeting Influential Guests
Health and Wellness: A Personal Journey
Personal Insights and Inspirations
