Unique Path in Podcasting

Creating a content or video show or any of this is really an exploration and development of your individual skills. And that is really the differentiator. So I would say keep learning, keep growing, keep getting better at what you're doing. And that lucky charm will fall in your lap is really the only thing that one can say about it is that, you know, through persistence and being there and putting yourself in situations where there's a good chance that you will succeed. It's the same thing that happened to me with my radio show that I did. I started back in 1999. I had no audience for that. I was on the radio. I was doing live radio at the time, but it took— I built that show for 6 years and it grew over time into being something significant. And I was excited about that. And that really created backdrop for the career that I created in podcasting, in working for these platforms, Lipson and Spreaker and PodcastOne and Microsoft and all these places. It was really getting that on-the-ground experience with this so I could take that and help others. And then lastly here, I wanted to talk about the impact of AI. And I know I talk about that a lot because I do think that it's a significant influence on the direction of new media and podcasting and video. It's because soon we're going to be at a point where we have ASI, which is super, super intelligent agents out there that are going to do things for us to help us to streamline our lives. And I hope that AI maintains this relationship with humans as if they're there to help us. They're there to make us better. To make humans better. Now, granted, there may come a point where they get their own consciousness and they decide that they're— they don't need to work with humans anymore. They can just go off and do their own thing. That day may come. But I think we will have a period of time here where these AI bots will be very supportive of us and help us find success.