What Happens When A Community Powers A Podcast

Hey, Friends and Family.

Even in the months of the podcast season when things are slow, we have content for you. Our team thought it was a great idea to start reviewing previous (but timely) episodes of our show during the times that Mista Yu is away from the microphone. All of these episodes (or beautiful Blasts from the Past) were previously broadcast, but we are sharing them with you at a time that you might need it most. It seems like people are neglecting their health in some really harmful ways these days. I felt like this episode would be a great support to those who might be in that category. Hope you enjoy this beautiful blast from the past!

We lay out a clear, practical plan to grow the show without losing the heart that started it in 2020. Subscriptions, downloads, interviews, and listener texts all tie back to one goal: serve a community that values family, faith, culture, and honest sports talk.

• how to subscribe on YouTube and Apple Podcasts
• why audio seasons one to three matter for context
• clarifying the purpose behind sports content
• direct text link for questions and topic ideas
• opening up one-on-one interviews with a vetting process
• email details for pitching guest stories
• financial support options through the host platform
• analytics, downloads, and why 296 in 3 days matters
• plan to give free ad spots to aligned podcasters
• new and partner shows across the week and schedule

Please continue to like, share, subscribe on YouTube and Apple Podcasts, and download as many episodes as you can today. We are excited about hearing your insights on our brand of shows!

Chapters

• 0:29 Subscribe to All Purpose Pod
• 5:47 Support and Engagement for Podcast
• 17:43 Help Us Reach Our Goal

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:31

Welcome back to the all-purpose pod for an all-purpose life, wherever you are and however you are listening to the Call Me Mr. You the podcast. We thank you again for making us a part of your morning, your day, and your week with your weekly mirror check before you change the world. Thank you for joining us. However, you're listening to our show, we definitely appreciate you doing that. Your support is invaluable. Now, if you are a video only listener, that means you're watching us on YouTube or simulcasting on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and of course uh the Twitter. You can do that continually. Uh, definitely love for you to subscribe to our channel, youtube.com. At they call me Mr. You. Please continue to do that. Uh, that's gonna be very helpful. I know we're just pressing one little subscribe button. You're not gonna get spammed. Your email is not gonna get blown up. When you hit subscribe, you're gonna just get an alert, especially if you are a YouTube follower already, that we have a new episode or new content for you to look at. It's not gonna be a burden. I promise you on that. I'm a big proponent against that. I don't like that in my inboxes either. So trust me when I tell you, hitting the YouTube button to subscribe to our channel is not gonna cause you harm and danger. So please continue to support us that way by doing that. If you haven't done it, please jump into youtube.com at they call me Mr. You. Please subscribe to the show. At least you the channel there. You get all of our recent episodes. Man, everything from season four, I'd say you have access to that because it's gonna be uh video and audio. Now, if you are audio listener, we have several of you guys that don't do YouTube, you don't do Twitter, you barely do Facebook, but you do listen to the show. First off, thank you for being consistent and loving the show the way you love it and listening the way you want to listen to it. We definitely appreciate that. Now, that's gonna be uh our audio listeners. So if you're listening on Pandora, uh iHeartRadio, if you're using Spotify, or if you're using Apple Podcasts, Apple Podcasts is the only place you can subscribe to our podcast. The other ones don't allow you to do that. Uh, it's been like that for years, not quite sure why that's still going on, but that's the thing, that's what's going on. So sorry about any confusion there, but Apple Podcasts will allow you to subscribe to our podcast. So please go to Apple Podcasts to hit the subscribe button, and you get access to all of our episodes all the way back to season one. That being said, I recently I sent a shared a quick vision of the podcast, uh, direction that we're going, the why that we started this podcast in 2020, some of the new direction that we're uh undertaking the past six months. And I got some great response from you guys regarding that. Thank you for listening to the episode. If you missed it, it's right there and it's available. It's talking about casting the vision. I think that's part of the title, casting vision. So you can check that out and you can kind of hear where we started from in a quick snippet, anyways, and what we're trying to accomplish. Uh, also, just a quick tip. I'm not trying to get you to give us more download, but this is kind of important. In order for you to understand where we are now and where we're going, you gotta understand where we came from. So, for all you guys to support me on a personal basis, and for all you guys to support the podcast because you like what we're talking about, you like what's happening, you like to see all the different aspects of our life, our family, marriage, relationships, uh, things that we're doing, uh, gardening and agricultural-wise, and even the sports content, family and life and the culture that we talk about in our society, and all of the teachings that are are going out there regarding that. Season one to season three is all audio. I don't have any video there. So when you go to listen, we'll go to Apple Podcasts, for example, hit subscribe button, and you'll see all of the podcasts pop up and it'll populate for you from season one all the way up to now. But season the first three seasons, seasons one, two, and three, are all audio. There's no video attached, but but it's a lot more in-depth, it's a lot, it's very authentic in what we're talking about. We're talking about things regarding uh biblical teachings and uh we're talking a lot about family life, relationships. We talked a lot about business and entrepreneurship. A lot was going on in those first three seasons, but they're definitely great context for you to understand why we're doing what we're doing and why we're going in the direction that we're going in and why I come to you to where I am today, asking for your support. I want you to understand the heart of why we're doing what we're doing. Some folks jump in at the back leg and they're looking at sports and they think that's what we're talking about. I'm trying to be the next ESPN guy. If you know me, you know better. I don't I don't care to do that, it's not my goal, it's not a mountain I'm trying to climb, it's not my interest whatsoever. There's a reason why I'm doing sports. If you listen to some of the shows, you'll see why I'm trying to do that. I try to be as clear as I can on most of the episodes in regards to that. But if you go back to seasons one through three and you listen to the heart of this podcast, you see, probably in the first episode, and even especially in the season one, because I emphasized it a lot during that time. You see the heart of why we're doing what we're doing and why we're diversifying the way we are right now. You saw a glimpse of it even back then in the first season. So check out seasons one through three. I want you to catch the vision and understand why we're doing what we're doing and why we're asking for your support in regards to uh the financial support, and of course, hitting subscribe and Apple Podcasts for the audio side, and of course, the YouTube channel. We're asking for your subscription to help us uh move forward into different things, which we'll talk about shortly. But I know that recently you guys got a chance to see the uh presidential debate. Uh, I was on the air live, so I didn't get a chance to see any of that. So I heard a lot of the backlash. Well, today we're doing the state of the you address. State of they call me Mr. U address today. All right. So, first thing in our episode description, especially on the audio side, specifically on the audio side, there's a link at the top of the episode description. The link says if you want to send Mr. U a text, click this link. Nothing wrong with it. It's good. What that allows you to do is to send me, it could be a topic idea. Most times it's a question about something we're talking about on the show. It could be a comment, it could be the question you were thinking about. Even if it covers anything in the realm of sports, family, life, culture, entrepreneurship, whatever we talk about on this show, on this entire brand of podcast. You can send a link, hit that link there, and you can send a text to me directly, and I will respond to your comment or your question and try to answer it on the very next episode that we do. No matter what brand of shows that episode is going to be on under, I'll answer it. So it's it's basically called fan mail. It's a link at the top of our episode descriptions in our podcast host account. So you can see that copied up. And of course, if you if you go to social media, you can see a lot of those uh descriptions there in the show, whether it be on YouTube, whether it be in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, whatever it is, you can see a link there. You can click on it and it'll allow you to send me a text that I can read and respond to on our very next episode of the show. It's really cool because you got a chance to be interactive and to really be a part of the show. And if you can't be there live when we do most of our shows, which is what we do, mostly three, four days a week, they're live. Uh, you can send that question or comment via text, and I can still have you involved and be interactive, and I can answer it on the very next episode. So I just want you to know that that was there, it's available for you. Uh, also, you're going to be noticing a lot of they call me Mr. You one-on-one interviews taking place on the show. Uh, I've been wanting to do that for a while. The first three seasons, I've kind of labored, I wanted it so badly, but it just couldn't make it work. But season four was obviously the right time. It was a green light go to do more interviews, and we're hearing some very compelling stories so far. I'm so excited about what we've been hearing from people. Stories that have been unfolding, and just the things that we've been learning about people that we labor with, people that are friends and associates and connections about, and we're hearing so many things that are so touching and so heartbreaking in some cases, and enlightening in other cases. And I'm excited about keeping that going. Uh, we're definitely gonna do that. We have some people on the uh calendar for more interviews, but I want to kind of open it up for you guys. I don't know, interview everybody that says, I want to be interviewed. There is a process for this, there is a uh a vetting process, if you will, regarding this. But I want to let you know that we're not uh looking for some big names of people who are so all so-called famous or so-called social media influencers. I don't care about that. I care about the story, I care about whether it's relatable, I care about if our viewers and listeners who I know better than you guys do, and what I think they're gonna enjoy to hear, enjoy listening to and learning from and gleaning from. So that's open. We're gonna talk about that. If you have a question about uh potentially being an interviewee, or you have a question about the process of that, you know somebody who you think may be a good fit. We got podcast uh communities that are feeding us information like this. So we have a pool to choose from, but I want to open it up to people who actually know me that are not strangers to me and think I might find value in some areas. Email me directly at theycallmeisteru at gmail.com. It's M-I-S-T-A-Y-U. They call me Mr. U. M-I-S-T-A-Y-U at gmail.com. Send me an email. I take a look at the uh request and see if it fits what we're trying to accomplish, and I'll let you know directly. More than happy to do that. Now, some of you have been uh thinking about financially supporting us. I kind of want to make it clear that you know it could help us in some of the community things that we're trying to accomplish, but just upkeep of the equipment, some upgrades that are needed camera-wise, just some of the new things that we're getting ready to do, some new shows we're getting ready to launch or relaunch, things like that. So the brand is growing and it requires some finances. Obviously, it's not just a uh a microphone and a computer. There's a lot going on back here. So we definitely could use the financial support. Uh subbing to the uh subscribing to the YouTube channel and Apple Podcasts, trust me, it does help. It allows us to have some flexibility, which I'll talk about in a second. But as far as the support goes, they got some friends that are helping us out. They financially support us every single month. And of course, you don't have to do that, but it's an option. Uh, we have the opportunity to do that, and you can do that through our uh podcast host account, which the information should be published on the socials or in our YouTube channel, should be there for sure, or in one of the links to our Budsprout.com account, which is our podcast host. You can be able you can actually help us out financially there, walk you how to do it, walk you through how to do it. It's not hard, it's not anything laborious, pretty easy. And you can just decide how often you want to support us, if it's monthly or what have you, and how much you want to support us with. Uh, not begging, just making an option there for you that you guys can do that. If you'd like to help support us financially, we'd appreciate it. It goes to a good place, and for a worthy cause, trust me, it's gonna be uh very helpful at the end of the day. Uh, one of the reasons why we ask about financial support and for the subscriptions is not because we're trying to get famous. I had to reiterate that because people don't seem to understand sometimes and they make judgments about that. I want to make sure that people understand what we're trying to accomplish. Now we have analytics and stats behind our podcasts, and all those things drive our growth and they drive our productivity. So every time that we have a show, there's stats attached to it. Every episode that we publish, there's stats attached to it. Like in like most stuff in life. There's performance and things that are incentive-based when you grow and you provide enough uh content and you have enough downloads and you have enough reaction to those downloads and how many people are streaming your podcast. All those things are things that our podcast host, and that's what they care about. Okay. That being said, there is a metric, and we talk about it pretty often, but they call in the podcast where we call them the DLs, but that's they downloads. So what that is, is it has to be an authentic download. That means you have to go to one of our sites like a Spotify or an Apple podcast and actually hit the download button on episodes, and we need to have that happen at a uh at a greater pace, at least for the next two or three days. So, what that means is that when you hit this episode, that clock's already starting. As soon as this episode is clear to you, you can see it on your feeds. That means the three to three out the three-day clock starts. So, what we're looking to do is try to smash the goal of 296 downloads. Now, you think that's a lot because you think about being one person, it's not. If you go into Spotify or Pandora, you yourself with one press of a button, it's like it's usually like it's usually an arrow in most of those cases. I'm not quite sure what it is. It depends on which medium you're actually using. But when you hit that button, it'll download every episode of our show, and we have almost 400 episodes that we've done in this show. So one person can solve this uh analytical issue, so to speak. What that does, and I want to encourage you to do that. I hope that there's more than one of you that does do that. What that allows us to do, it allows us to give free advertising to many podcast uh members of our community who I definitely care to support. Uh, some I won't support, but there's some that I do want to support. And and giving them free advertising on our show is something I want to do. We do interviews with guests on the show while we have podcast shows with people who are new to podcasting and trying to get their feet wet is because I want to give a platform to people who I think should have that. So free advertising for the people who are doing some of these really good shows and offering really good content. I want to support them through this show as much as I can. As long as I can get behind it uh spiritually and morally, I want to do that. And reaching that download uh plateau, so to speak, or that that benchmark will allow us to be able to advertise more for them. And of course, it will bring some uh revenue to the show. It will allow us to, for they'll be downloaded, it will allow us to get a percentage of that coming to the show, and that will help grow the show financially as well. So there's a lot of things going on, but I want to just give you a quick update on what we're talking about and why we ask for support. I hope that all makes sense to you. I promise you, you get clarity if you check out seasons one through three of our audio only podcasts. I promise you, you get clarity of about why we're doing what we're doing. So we're looking for a goal of 296 downloads within the next three days. If it's possible for it to be done today, even better. If we can smash that number and triple it, that's even better. If we can go even beyond that, it's gonna be great. It's gonna open the door for us to do a lot more things that we haven't been able to do on this show in almost four years. September is our four-year anniversary. So we definitely want to try to smash that goal uh in the next few days because I think it's gonna help us do more and take a next step on our anniversary and beyond. So please continue to like, share, subscribe to the Call Me Miss You the podcast. We have a host of shows that are out there. We are partnering with Sports and Money Podcasts, which I'm on every Tuesday nights. We are also we also launched a brand new professional wrestling podcast called the Thursday Night Triple Threat. I'm one of four guys that are on there that uh bringing the uh level of professional wrestling back, talking about the old days, our childhood stories, how it impacted our family, some great things that can come out of it, and how we've kind of just grown up with this uh sports entertainment medium. Uh, we also, of course, do the Wednesday wrap-up on Wednesday mornings at nine, and of course, they call me Mr. You podcast at 9 a.m. It'd be Monday morning, which is a all live show, so you can find us there. And of course in a while I do some other shows where I'm a guest. So we have a lot of content flowing around. But please continue to like, share, and subscribe. The YouTube channel is a great place to start. And of course, on the audio side, the Apple Podcasts, we can subscribe to that, but also download the show, whether it be Apple Podcasts, Pandora, Spotify. Please download as many episodes as you can uh and listen to them at your pace, but download them now. But listen to them at your pace so you can be able to hear all the episodes in your own time, whether you're doing the laundry, whether you're jogging, whether you're exercising at the gym, whether you're at home, just chilling, wherever it is. But go ahead and download all of the shows now and listen to them at your own pace. We definitely appreciate that. If you have any questions, please email us or reach out to us at the Call Me Mr. You on YouTube channel or or however you can reach us on all of our socials. But thank you again for hearing me on this and hearing my heart. I pray this was a blessing to you guys, and I hope that you are open to help us out with this lofty goal, but it's doable, it's not impossible, it's doable, it's a mountain that we can climb. So thank you for your help with this. And of course, you enjoy the music.

unknown: 18:09

Coach out.