heres the thing

i dont like to beat people over the head with the things i make

but i do not want to be in an office job again unless all of my demands are met

and im sure they’ll say fine, just pee in a cup

and i will say but i dont wanna pee in a cup

i just want to be creative and learn things and get good at things and

make magic happen

this podcasting business is so hard because it is PAINFULLY CLEAR

that i have a long way to go and if it wasnt for Jordan i would be way back further away from the goal than i am now

like, im gonna have to get a job because we’ve done this for one month now and i dont have a lot of patreons i dont have any sponsors and we probably shouldnt count on many for at least a year

so i need to advertise

The problem is, if i advertise too much people are gonna get sick of it and me and the thing

and i want them to love it, me, and the thing.

i am madly in love with it

we’ve done 8 episodes in less than a month.

tomorrow imma write a medium post about the things i have learned in my first month of podcasting

that way i can summarize those first 8 episodes.

and in a way advertise for them

i have a few more from hollywood that we are going to roll out

and i really wanna interview this palm reader

omg forgot to tell you, my neighbors, the church, thought some hate mail was a bomb and today the bomb squad was here, and the fire dept and about 10 cops.

none of them bothered to tell us what was happening but because im mr nosybody i asked a few of them and then i texted my neighbors

turned out it was just a suspicious envelope that may have had some laundry detergent in it

but for a minute there i thought oh im gonna die from an lapd-assisted bomb explosion?

if i do die know i love you and

the memories of all the good things that have happened to me

are what fuels me every day.

i have these pictures on my wall of good things and great people ive been blessed with

and i have some spots intentionally open

bc i know good things are right around the corner

but i do need a vacation

i did it in my hallway because i still havent put many things on the walls

and it looks extra creepy.

i wore a $5 party shirt that was in the clearance rack because 4th of july had ended

but since Hear in LA launched on the 4th, i figured i should buy something to commemorate that

anyways its bad enough everyone has to listen to my voice 2x a week

but now they gotta see me too?

this podcast could really use a spokesmodel

one of the things i learned today is ive gotta figure out how many of these ultra long blog posts do i wanna do

these Hear in LA blog posts take two full days.

maybe two and a half.

ive gotta edit them down.

maybe 5 segments tops, and thats it for the blog.

i had making decisions like this.

more is more for me.

everyone is less is more

im all, sure, say that and then go to Costco

something i learned today was how to make the podcast into a youtube video.

this might be easier for my mom to listen to

this is the latest episode: Christina Ortega

bam!

hearinLA.com

some annoying things happened too but on balance it was a good day

got my post up last night of William G., it’s the second in our Hollywood series.

people fucking loved it, as they should, as was expected, and to be honest im not so sure how we top it

in part because he is so intense and wild and going against THE LAW in their face

god bless all the other people ive already interviewed who we have in the can

but very few people live his life and do the things he does.

and get away with it.

i hate re-watching or re-listening things but i must have listened to that interview a dozen times.

heres the crazy long blog post i made for it

heres the podcast

a very lovely woman even reached out to me, someone who i very much wanted to reach out to me and she did. and she said she liked it.

swoon.

thats why you learn to play the guitar. not for the whole arena to applaud.

but for that one right there to just look at you for a minute instead of the bass player.

tomorrow more good things will happen.

hopefully very good things.

but one thing for sure is i am going to podcast with a different william who swears he has some stories.

he better because i wanna wrap up hollywood

and i want to do it in the next two weeks and head to venice.

but you know what happens with best laid plans

Steve Coulter wrote about Popsicko and Keith Brown for the Independent and I got a few words in edgewise

and i had a lot of help with it, which is normal, we can try to do things alone

but the Good Lord put a shitload of us all on this crust for a reason

no, not orgies, pee tape man,

so we could work together to make things that are way better when we cooperate.

could a man build a skyscraper alone?

could a man build a 747 alone?

can a man please a woman alone?

exactly.

so after the thing was born unto the world i got a tweet DM from someone who had done this thing many many many times

he said youre doing everything wrong.

i said everything?

he said no, the idea is great, you are great, the sound is great,

even the art is great

but everything else is totally wrong and you are going to be poor forever

and your thing is not even going to reach many people.

i said tell me everything.

two hours later i finally said,

wanna join us?

he said

yes

lets see if this worked