Episode 31
Joenrhuz “JR” Tabanda on Everyday People and Everyday Stories
This week I sit down with Joenrhuz "JR" Tabanda, host and audio producer of the Time Capsule Show, a podcast sharing the everyday stories of everyday people.
Each episode asks six thoughtful questions that guests can use to define their life in the 21st century at this moment.
We wanted to give people hope, especially young people that may feel alone.
JR talks about what their goals were with the show, and how that's taken shape, and how the pandemic gave them the opportunity to put these goals to fruition.
We Are All Connected
JR and his podcast team and co-hosts share the belief that everyone has a story, and that's why they appear on the Time Capsule Show.
We just try and put up stories that are timely, powerful, and help us understand the culture of the time we're going through.
One thing they're particularly determined to do with the show is to give the guests a platform, and share their point of view, whether it fits with the hosts or not .
On Taking a Different Path
With a Filipino background, it was expected that both JR and his brother would take a career in the medical profession, or a similarly professional one. But that was a very different path from the one he envisioned.
While he may yet take that career path, for now he's more than satisfied and challenged by the route he's currently on.
Everybody has an opinion, but it's up to you what value you place in that opinion.
Heroes Don't Always Wear Capes
While he'd never describe himself as a tennis player, or even someone that has just a passing interest in the sport from a playing point of view, his all-time hero hails from it.
Rafael Nadal epitomizes everything we should aspire to be, in our personal and professional lives.
People's expectations of you don't mean anything, and if you set your mind to anything you can achieve it.
Connect with JR:
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Transcript
And, you know, in terms of cancelling I think that
Speaker:rather firm seeing it from the point of cancel culture,
Speaker:I think people should be open to discussion. You should
Speaker:be okay to disagree with someone and not everyone in
Speaker:your life is always going to grieve with what you
Speaker:have to say. And that's an amazing part of this
Speaker:time capsule. You know, I got to be honest with
Speaker:you as a host, I don't necessarily agree with everything
Speaker:that my, the, our guests stay, but, you know, were
Speaker:there for a discussion where you were to be open
Speaker:to each other. And I think there's power in that
Speaker:when you can just listen to some time,
Speaker:Hi, and welcome to Podcaster Stories. The show that gets
Speaker:to meet the people behind the voices of the show
Speaker:is we have listened to this week. I've got
gr Tabanda, who is a co-host or the time capsule
Speaker:show, a show that shared inspiring in stories through six.
Speaker:What for questions gr or Jon ruse, whichever you prefer
Speaker:welcome to the shore. Thank you for a period. And
Speaker:so a quick question or not you're in a New
Speaker:York, so let's end this argument once and for all
Speaker:New York pizza, Chicago pizza.
Speaker:Oh no. Well, first of all, thank you so much
Speaker:for having me on your show, Danny. I really appreciate
Speaker:it. And in terms of pizza, you know, I'm not
Speaker:a big fan of the crust. I'm just going to
Speaker:stick with New York. I'm a new Yorker at heart,
Speaker:so can't go wrong with that.
Speaker:Oh, the thing, because when I came to New York
Speaker:because of maybe four years ago or so, and my
Speaker:friends all told me, you have to try a New
Speaker:York pizza back because the new I'm not like a
Speaker:fake cross guy. I'll like that big a, I don't
Speaker:know, what have you had? One where its like a
Speaker:big Maui cheese crust and it just, it just piles
Speaker:up whenever you bite into it. But I have to
Speaker:say, or the New York pizza or it was amazing.
Speaker:So that's but New York freedom. Happy to hear that
Speaker:this was a Mason jar, your, the cohost of the
Speaker:time capsule show. So how about you tell us, tell
Speaker:us about yourself and your podcast.
Speaker:Of course, for so a little bit about me. I'm
Speaker:a media professional here in New York city and I'm
Speaker:also an actor and a singer. Creativity is, has always
Speaker:been a huge part of me. And I'm so happy
Speaker:that I was able to practice that creativity in this
Speaker:podcast that I started with my brother and two friends
Speaker:that have known for quite a while now. So at
Speaker:a time capsule show podcasts is a podcast where we
Speaker:try to define life in a 21st century through everyday
Speaker:people with everyday stories. And w one of our goals
Speaker:with the podcasts is to show to everyone in that,
Speaker:no matter where you are in life, no matter what
Speaker:position you have, no matter what emotions that you're going
Speaker:through, we all share similar successes and similar struggles. And
Speaker:it's really amazing. We've interviewed college students.
Speaker:We've interviewed someone who was a PhD and his, a
Speaker:professor we've interviewed someone who was a former secret service
Speaker:agent for the white house. So we're just trying to
Speaker:show the people that it doesn't matter where you are
Speaker:in life. We are all connected in some way shape
Speaker:or what.
Speaker:And you mentioned that there's three cohosts with yourself. You
Speaker:can have to find fecal a horse, one of which
Speaker:was your brother. So, but how did you can actually
Speaker:come up with the idea of the show?
Speaker:Yeah, surprisingly, I wasn't part of the original idea of
Speaker:Time Capsule. It was between my brother and our other
Speaker:co-host Monica. And you know, we're all in our twenties.
Speaker:We are living in these, this time of pandemic where
Speaker:opportunities are a very scarce and sometimes you have to
Speaker:make your own opportunities. And I think that's what they
Speaker:did there. That's what we all did eventually. You know,
Speaker:being in your twenties, it's easy to feel lost. It's
Speaker:easy to feel alone. And sometimes people don't want to
Speaker:talk about their struggles, even though we're all feeling the
Speaker:same things. So we, they thought that it would be
Speaker:best to make this podcast, especially during the hard times
Speaker:and to make an old, to make our own opportunity.
Speaker:And why not add some value to this planet, add
Speaker:some value to this earth and try to impact, and
Speaker:hopefully inspire other people out there, especially young people who
Speaker:may feel lost and who may feel that they're not
Speaker:connected with society.
Speaker:And, and you mentioned obviously the shore cram came around
Speaker:that the mid, mid pandemic, a guest at the beginning
Speaker:of this year, a so are you doing a remote
Speaker:recording? Are you managing to get any in-person a cordon
Speaker:or how is that
Speaker:Working? Yeah, we're actually doing everything through zoom. We're doing
Speaker:a lot of a zoom recordings and posting audio and
Speaker:video, primarily videos to YouTube. I would love to try
Speaker:in-person interviews, but unfortunately we, we're not at the point
Speaker:of where we have a studio where we can invite
Speaker:people. We've thought about interviewing people on the streets, but
Speaker:you know, there's some of the pandemic we're trying to
Speaker:be very cautious with that and respect people's space.
Speaker:Yeah, no, hopefully with a vaccine is in not coming
Speaker:through a note. We were when we can get to
Speaker:that position late or, you know what we'll get back
Speaker:to be in an in person again, know, as I
Speaker:mentioned a premiere at the beginning of the year. So
Speaker:what were your goals for it when you first, you
Speaker:know, brought the short for life, so to speak and
Speaker:how will things evolved maybe since that first episode?
Speaker:Yeah. So just from a very basic point of view
Speaker:or goals for that, at least to be consistent, right.
Speaker:But at least one video a week, what inspiring interview
Speaker:rather? And we just started off with that. We started
Speaker:off with personal contacts, our own network, and surprisingly with
Speaker:like by a third week, someone reached out to us
Speaker:and said, Hey, I like your podcast. I want to
Speaker:be on your show in it for us. That was
Speaker:such a surprise. And we were so grateful that someone
Speaker:reached out to us. And shortly after that, we started
Speaker:putting to interviews up a week because we just had
Speaker:so much on our backlog and we didn't want people
Speaker:waiting for months. So our initial goal was to just
Speaker:share stories and as what we're doing to this day
Speaker:and were, I see us go in the future, I
Speaker:just want to make sure that we're always staying true
Speaker:to our core and just sharing people's stories and inspiring
Speaker:other people.
Speaker:And as you mentioned, there was the, the fall of
Speaker:you, which I can find real interest in the podcast
Speaker:because generally you might have like, see a coup a
Speaker:host of, of cohorts, possibly three as the one time,
Speaker:a bit having for a as, as, as quite an
Speaker:idea of, so is there a, a method that you
Speaker:have to decide who does co-host and Judy's for an
Speaker:episode, or is it based on a topic or is
Speaker:it like Rotarian? How would you work for that?
Speaker:Yeah, and it does get challenging at times, you know,
Speaker:there was four of us where for a very strong
Speaker:personalities for, for people with different thoughts, but the way
Speaker:we do it is that we try to delegate the
Speaker:work accordingly. Monica is in charge of our social media.
Speaker:I do some of the booking, my brother also to
Speaker:some of the book, and we all share with some
Speaker:of the work Vanessa and my brother. They do primarily
Speaker:with a lot of the video editing that we're so
Speaker:thankful for and also editing the thumbnails. So we all
Speaker:found a way to delegate the process accordingly when it
Speaker:comes to hosting, we actually book people. We find interesting
Speaker:for people to put it on the podcast and we
Speaker:kind of just put it in a group chat and
Speaker:say, Hey, who wants to do this podcast? And we
Speaker:were very open. We try to communicate with each other.
Speaker:Of course, it's not always going to be a smooth
Speaker:sailing road.
Speaker:Right. But we try to make the best of what
Speaker:we have in always be understanding of why, what everyone's
Speaker:going through
Speaker:And in a group chat, their obviously. So what you
Speaker:do, what would be your story in a normal process
Speaker:for an episode when it comes to ideation getting a
Speaker:gas research, et cetera, how would you, how would that
Speaker:work?
Speaker:Yeah. So when it comes to finding a guests, versus
Speaker:if we're a very open to inviting anyone, because we
Speaker:believe that everyone has a story and that's why we
Speaker:wanna put them in a time capsule. Everyone has a
Speaker:valid story. And when it, this, when we decide who
Speaker:we want to put up, we don't necessarily try to
Speaker:pick who has a better story, or who do we
Speaker:think will get his view is like, that's definitely not
Speaker:in early. We just try to do We just try
Speaker:and put up stories that we think that are timely.
Speaker:Like for example, for a March was women's history month.
Speaker:And we put every week, very strong, powerful stories coming
Speaker:from female leaders and female colleagues. And I think that
Speaker:we just try to understand the culture that we're going
Speaker:through so that people can relate to the content.
Speaker:And at the same time, we're also continually interviewing people
Speaker:and just hearing more stories. And unfortunately we do have
Speaker:a backlog of people might have to wait a month
Speaker:or a few weeks for their episode to come out,
Speaker:but it's all about the right timing
Speaker:And you buy it. Do you know, obviously the, the,
Speaker:the, the, the woman's a topic from earlier a and
Speaker:you also have the, the black, a black lives matter
Speaker:in the black history month topics on your show as
Speaker:well. So is it important for you too, to prove
Speaker:from it being in your twenties to prove from the,
Speaker:the, the cultural and societal issues that are happening at
Speaker:the moment and they've been happening for awhile?
Speaker:Definitely. That's one thing that we want to do with
Speaker:this podcast is to impact people and to, or be
Speaker:a reflection of culture in society. I mean, this is
Speaker:why we're in a time capsule, right? Literally everything that
Speaker:people say, everything that people put into our time capsule
Speaker:is what it reflects the century. And I think it
Speaker:would be absolutely horrific if we just ignored all the
Speaker:social and cultural changes that we're seeing in society. So
Speaker:I think it's really important that our podcast or flex
Speaker:that, and we reflect relevant and genuine stories that many
Speaker:people can understand and relate to
Speaker:It. And, and based on a, obviously we're seen a
Speaker:lot of pushback on cancel culture where I, I, I
Speaker:feel like, Mmm, I don't know, what are your problems
Speaker:the same? What I feel like people were finding a
Speaker:reason to push back on doing the right thing and
Speaker:blame it on, or cancel culture have how's your show,
Speaker:or have you had any pushback like that, or negative
Speaker:feedback are, or any kind of a, you know, negativity
Speaker:because of some of the topics that you knew guests
Speaker:are talk to you. And
Speaker:So when it comes to the topics that we give
Speaker:our guests, even on our booking form, it, we actually
Speaker:state to our guests that what we give you a
Speaker:platform, right? We gave our guests the MC to speak.
Speaker:We don't necessarily agree or disagree, but were there to
Speaker:discuss we're there to a story time and to just
Speaker:talk and to hopefully influence someone's life. And we haven't
Speaker:come across any negative impact or a negative comments yet.
Speaker:I'm sure that's something that every podcast, his bounce through
Speaker:and into, but, you know, in terms of cancelling, I
Speaker:think that rather for him seeing it from a point
Speaker:of cancel culture, I think people should be open to
Speaker:discussion. You should be okay to disagree with someone and
Speaker:not everyone in your life is always going to grieve
Speaker:with what you have to say.
Speaker:And that's an amazing part of this time capsule. You
Speaker:know, I got to be honest with you as a
Speaker:host, I don't necessarily agree with everything that my, the,
Speaker:our guests stay, but, you know, were there for a
Speaker:discussion where you were to be open to each other.
Speaker:And I think there's power in that when you can
Speaker:just listen to someone else.
Speaker:And it, it's definitely something that I've seen, especially on
Speaker:social media may have been in the last two years,
Speaker:maybe the last for it, to be honest I'm. And
Speaker:I think there is a reason for that, that as
Speaker:well, but there's very much a divisive attitude. It's either
Speaker:your webinar sort of guests, that's a myth, seem to
Speaker:you as a lost in this middle ground where we
Speaker:can have, or try and have a respectful discourse in
Speaker:and see, and land from someone else in a point
Speaker:of view. I think it's key, like, to your point,
Speaker:that it's, it's awesome that you have people on that
Speaker:you may not necessarily agree with it, but you give
Speaker:them the space in the voice to share that and,
Speaker:and let people make their own minds up, I guess,
Speaker:100%. And that's just life. I think that if you
Speaker:expect everyone to think like you there's no, but I
Speaker:mean, there's no diversity in that. Honestly, if you expect
Speaker:everyone to think, like, you have to look like for
Speaker:you, and if no one agrees with you, then you
Speaker:kind of shunned them out. I don't think that's any,
Speaker:right. I think that people have to learn how to
Speaker:agree to disagree, and don't let the conversations completely impact
Speaker:your relationships with other people. And one
Speaker:Of the things I like about your shop, it's a
Speaker:very clear for March, you have six questions that you
Speaker:have them on your website, and these are the six
Speaker:topics that we're all the, the sixth of questions we're
Speaker:going in. We speak about Andy, the same six questions
Speaker:or asked to each guests. So it's, it's always interesting
Speaker:to see different viewpoints and different answers from people in
Speaker:different places in their life. So of these questions, or
Speaker:maybe your guests, or what's been your favorite so far,
Speaker:and why that question still cancer.
Speaker:Oh, that's such a good question. You know, I'm not
Speaker:used to actually getting the questions because on our podcast,
Speaker:where are the ones asking people the questions. But if
Speaker:you're going to make me pick just one question from
Speaker:those six, you know, it, it's a hard one. And
Speaker:I'll tell you to two top questions that come to
Speaker:mind. One of them is what are you grateful for?
Speaker:And another question is, if you were to leave something
Speaker:at a time capsule for people to dig up 100
Speaker:years later, what would you put in their, and why
Speaker:people always struggle with that time capsule question, because it's
Speaker:so hard to pick something that would define the century,
Speaker:but now that I'm verbalizing it to you and saying
Speaker:it out loud, I think of my favorite question is
Speaker:where are you grateful for? And it's because it's so
Speaker:amazing to see how positive of that question is, and
Speaker:its crazy to see how it always, the little things
Speaker:in life that give more meaning to people and what
Speaker:people are grateful for.
Speaker:The best answer that really touched me was from my
Speaker:professor in college, Dr. Anthony Palomba. And he said during
Speaker:the interview, he's grateful for people who gave him a
Speaker:chance. And that was such powerful statement. I would never
Speaker:have thought of that in my life. But when you
Speaker:think about it, at some point someone took a risk
Speaker:on us, in someone gave us the chance and some
Speaker:times we grow from those opportunities. So just to hear
Speaker:the answer was really heartwarming and it really put life
Speaker:into perspective. For me,
Speaker:That's a very strong answer. Or actually, as you mentioned,
Speaker:it's, it's all about getting a chance to his, right?
Speaker:And it's up to you, what you do with them.
Speaker:Obviously the beginning of a chance on a first place
Speaker:is definitely, are you gonna, it's a nice to have
Speaker:for one or the battle ward. And you'd mentioned also,
Speaker:like I said, there are six questions on your, a,
Speaker:your short for each gas and one of the questions,
Speaker:it was about what people see themselves and X amount
Speaker:of years, you know, we were speaking of earlier. Ah,
Speaker:and I know you're on background and how did your
Speaker:parents, or maybe see you on a very different feature
Speaker:for you than the one they're or the past that
Speaker:you're currently at the moment. I'm wondering how much have
Speaker:that may be lead to the, the, the questions on
Speaker:the shore, a subconsciously and or what was that like,
Speaker:trying to take your own path when maybe, you know,
Speaker:your parents wanted a very different path for
Speaker:You? Yeah. I'm so happy you brought that up. Well,
Speaker:if it gets a little background about me, our parents
Speaker:always pushed me and my brother to become doctors and
Speaker:to enter the medical route. And for the longest time
Speaker:I was kind of conditioned to tell people I want
Speaker:to be a plastic surgeon. I don't want to be
Speaker:a dermatologist. I didn't really know what that meant to
Speaker:be honest. But when you're young, you're a kid, you
Speaker:kind of just say what your parents want you to
Speaker:say. And I kind of woke up to it in
Speaker:called and say, Hey, I don't know if I want
Speaker:to spend the rest of my life doing this. It
Speaker:sounds nice to say it as a kid. So people
Speaker:think it's impressive, but when you actually grow up, it's
Speaker:like, what the heck? I don't really know if I
Speaker:want to do that. And to ask that on the
Speaker:podcast, I think it's really great for people to reflect
Speaker:on who they were five years ago, who they are
Speaker:now and what they'll see for yourselves in the future.
Speaker:I think that we don't see enough of that reflection
Speaker:time. We don't see enough of that. Hey, I'm hot.
Speaker:Like how much I've grown, look, how much I've changed.
Speaker:And that really helps us grow more as a person
Speaker:when you can acknowledge that growth and change. And to
Speaker:ask our guests that are guests. Actually, I have some
Speaker:difficulty answering the question sometimes because they really have to
Speaker:think, and they really have to reflect on their life,
Speaker:their choices during mistakes, possibly. And after the data side,
Speaker:what their life has looked like, sometimes our guests coming
Speaker:on our show and say, Hey, I've never said that
Speaker:out loud before. I've never really thought about that. And
Speaker:that's what we want to get from our guests.
Speaker:And obviously,
Speaker:As you mentioned, being on a different path in and
Speaker:not knowing what are you quite want to do because
Speaker:they know you mentioned that a bit before we came
Speaker:on with the show, but we'll come back and forth
Speaker:on email. And I know you mentioned even now, you're
Speaker:still not really sure you have, or you're not quite
Speaker:a phone to the thing you're you wanting to do.
Speaker:Although obviously you enjoy it. A lot of things that
Speaker:you do it at the moment. So I'm, I'm curious
Speaker:or what's your parents think of you, what you are
Speaker:doing now then, because obviously you're not on a plastic
Speaker:surgery and you may not be a doctor or what,
Speaker:what's a feedback from them on all of the cool
Speaker:stuff that you'd been doing
Speaker:So far, or I'm going to be so honest with
Speaker:you doesn't really matter much to them. I mean, sure.
Speaker:I'm thankful to have an opportunity, a job during this
Speaker:pandemic. And at the end of the day, it matters
Speaker:a lot to me, but for them, its kind of
Speaker:like, oh your still they're still getting used to it.
Speaker:I think getting used to the fact that we're exploring
Speaker:different fields and avenues because I come from a Filipino
Speaker:background and in that culture, it's huge to go to
Speaker:medical school. It's huge to go to law, school of
Speaker:engineering. Those are the top three. I'm sure other people
Speaker:have Asian descent. You can share that sentiment. And he,
Speaker:and I think I'm proud of myself to be honest
Speaker:for trying a new field I'm entering media and mentoring
Speaker:entertainment, sports news, and it's a whole different play field.
Speaker:I'm not even thinking about the money. I'm not even
Speaker:thinking about regrets at this point. I think I'm just
Speaker:happy to be exploring waters that I've never swam in
Speaker:before. And to hopefully hopefully learn from this experience, Hey,
Speaker:maybe I might become a doctor at some point, but
Speaker:it'll be my decision and it won't be anyone else
Speaker:with decision. If I do want to become a doctor
Speaker:again in one day
Speaker:And you, you mentioned obviously in some cultures, it can
Speaker:be difficult for T to deviate, I guess, from the
Speaker:path that that S traditionally seen for you or, you
Speaker:know, whether that's medical or a professional, you know, a
Speaker:degree or some degree a professor, or that's a terrible
Speaker:sort of professional GRI of some degree, but it, it,
Speaker:it can be difficult for DV. So I was wondering,
Speaker:was there any difficulty sort of, was it any like
Speaker:major argument's you have to overcome when you let your
Speaker:parents know that this wasn't what was going to happen
Speaker:for me? Unfortunately, not in the model, like you said,
Speaker:maybe a doctor leader, but right now, what do you
Speaker:have or had you have to overcome or anything like
Speaker:that?
Speaker:Yeah. And I had to overcome problems and struggles with
Speaker:myself because yeah, they have their own opinions. Everyone has
Speaker:their own opinions. Everyone has their own expectations for other
Speaker:people, but at the end of the day, it's up
Speaker:to you, whether you want to decide to let that
Speaker:get to you and to find value and appreciation within
Speaker:yourself. And I think that's a struggle that I'm still
Speaker:trying to understand up to this day as this trying
Speaker:to be content with myself and trying to appreciate myself.
Speaker:I think that I put too much of my value
Speaker:into other people's opinions and other people's thoughts. And it's
Speaker:been a real growth for me to start appreciating and
Speaker:to start being okay with myself. And Hey, I don't
Speaker:need someone else's approval for me to validate myself.
Speaker:And you mentioned L it obviously you've had a, a
Speaker:few different experiences so far since making that the jump
Speaker:away a on your own path, or if your brother,
Speaker:you, you mentioned that you've been doing like you or
Speaker:you've done a real estate TV production in, and currently
Speaker:your work in at Fox a. So how's the experience
Speaker:of being a, with all of these different things you've
Speaker:been doing?
Speaker:Yeah, it's been one hell of a roller coaster. I
Speaker:came in to school with a mathematics degree with a
Speaker:pre-med intention. And when I was in college, you know,
Speaker:I always wanted to be on TV. I knew that
Speaker:was something that I always wanted to, to be on
Speaker:front of the cameras. I rather, because I as love
Speaker:the energy of being in front of a camera. So
Speaker:I'm like, Hey, let me try real estate because there's
Speaker:a show called million listing in the company. Nest seekers
Speaker:is actually on that show. So I got an internship
Speaker:at nest seekers and what I was so terrified going
Speaker:in for this interview. And I was so terrified seeing
Speaker:all these professional people in a really nice office in
Speaker:the city of Madison Ave, but I just went blindly
Speaker:into it. Most things I did, I just went blind.
Speaker:Linda said, what the heck want to just do it?
Speaker:And I got that internship. Thank God. And it grew
Speaker:to a really great experience.
Speaker:You got my license to practice real estate, and I
Speaker:was actually able to learn more about the city. I
Speaker:didn't really know where anything was in the city. And
Speaker:because of that, I learned most of New York is.
Speaker:And shortly after that, I started to do background acting
Speaker:in the city and the work in some production sites
Speaker:I've worked for now on Netflix sets HBO, F X,
Speaker:the most thrilling experience that I've had was dancing in
Speaker:time square dress as Peter pan for a Korean national
Speaker:television. They had me dance to a K-pop dance. I
Speaker:don't know much about K-pop. I had to learn to
Speaker:dance of it in one hour. Dancing is not my
Speaker:forte. I'm mostly when an actor and singer I'm like,
Speaker:well, what the heck am I doing? Probably what are
Speaker:the most scary and terrifying experiences of my life? But
Speaker:I was so proud of myself.
Speaker:I got through it. And then, you know, now I'm
Speaker:working in media, in New York. Unfortunately we aren't able
Speaker:to go back to the office, but I'm loving it
Speaker:so far. Everyone's been so friendly, been so patient with
Speaker:teaching you the ins and outs immediate, especially since I
Speaker:don't have that, that typical background going in to this
Speaker:kind of a job. So when I think about I'm
Speaker:going to collect it, but I have my experience all
Speaker:over the place, but it's what you make of it.
Speaker:And it's what you take from each experience that slowly
Speaker:builds up and to hopefully something where you meant to
Speaker:belong in the future. So
Speaker:I'm, I'm guessing at the moment as they a media
Speaker:part be in your favor or the opiates of equal
Speaker:Or, Hmm, good question. I would say it's different. It
Speaker:wouldn't necessarily be greater or less than the other. I
Speaker:think that working media is such a fast pace. It's
Speaker:always changing. There's so many numbers that goes behind everything.
Speaker:I mean, when do you watch a commercial spaces on
Speaker:TV? There is so much in negotiation and so much
Speaker:of numbers that goes behind that. I'm like, whoa, I
Speaker:never knew any of this. And there's a different seasons.
Speaker:There's reasons why certain shows go on during certain times
Speaker:of the year. And when you understand that to kind
Speaker:of puts everything into perspective, it's like, oh, so that's
Speaker:why for example, talent shows are put over to some
Speaker:or like America's got talent, or that's why news shows
Speaker:new episodes and new seasons are towards the end of
Speaker:the year.
Speaker:Like in October, there's so many numbers, a, it goes
Speaker:into these things.
Speaker:You mentioned at the start of how your show is
Speaker:a relatively new, it's a premier in January this year,
Speaker:but what are your goals for the future? Are you
Speaker:going to continue to do jewel format? So you can
Speaker:to obviously when mentioned, you want to get, you just
Speaker:love to do the in-person with a studio or what
Speaker:else or you go to a plan.
Speaker:What do we have in play on our plan is
Speaker:to be consistent, first of all, and to just keep
Speaker:hosting, inspiring interviews in and meeting great and wonderful people
Speaker:and building a fantastic network of inspiring interviews, our goal
Speaker:is to just keep doing what we're doing and whether
Speaker:we go big or nothing happens. You know, I don't
Speaker:think that's the point of anything. And it's really a
Speaker:passion project. It's really something that I don't mind doing.
Speaker:And it's been so great to talk to people and
Speaker:it's really pushed me out of my comfort zone. I
Speaker:was always a shy kid. I didn't really know how
Speaker:to talk or to speak my mind and being in
Speaker:this podcast and starting to host and challenging myself has
Speaker:really forced me to come out of my shell.
Speaker:And hopefully our show can inspire other people to come
Speaker:out of their shells too, and just live life and
Speaker:do what you love.
Speaker:And that leads me nicely to my next question, actually,
Speaker:because obviously the show's about inspiring stories and people find
Speaker:an inspiration from either what they're doing and, or the
Speaker:people of Maine are, or their own background, ah, and
Speaker:who their heroes are. Some curious w with him on
Speaker:the inspirational stories you've heard and your own experiences, doing
Speaker:your own thing, et cetera, who's your all-time hero
Speaker:And why. Right. So, you know, I don't, I don't
Speaker:think many people notice about me, but I am a
Speaker:huge tennis fan. I watched tennis everyday. I can not
Speaker:play tennis. I've took in a few tennis lessons and
Speaker:I swung out like a baseball bat and the teacher
Speaker:is quite annoyed with me, but I was, I'm always
Speaker:inspired by Rafael Nadal. He is a tennis player, but
Speaker:he's left to end. It plays a tremendous spin on
Speaker:his tennis balls. I don't know if people, most people
Speaker:know what that means, but it means the ball. It
Speaker:spins a lot when he hits it. And you know
Speaker:what, this man doesn't give up. It doesn't give up.
Speaker:When the game, when he's losing the game, he doesn't
Speaker:give up. He doesn't give up when he's down, even
Speaker:if he has zero, if you want zero games and
Speaker:he needs to, when six in a row, it a
Speaker:win, like he doesn't give up.
Speaker:And I think that's such an amazing quality that makes
Speaker:a champion. And I take that same quality and most
Speaker:tennis players, like a champion tennis player as they don't
Speaker:give up. And that's so amazing. That's why I love
Speaker:tennis because the game's not over until you give up
Speaker:because there's no time limit. And if you just keep
Speaker:fighting and you keep trying and you keep finding new
Speaker:ways to strategize, I think that anyone always has a
Speaker:chance to make the greatest comeback. And that's one thing
Speaker:I've learned with my tennis idle, Rafael,
Speaker:I'd say, it's interesting. You mentioned tennis. One of my
Speaker:heroes, a from us from a sports or an ankle,
Speaker:his Andre Agassi. A way to, yeah. It's like, oh
Speaker:yeah, I just loved his story because he was this
Speaker:magic, a gas with a long cake. It didn't look
Speaker:like on a tennis player, which has awesome to start
Speaker:with. But then he had this big injury and it
Speaker:was out for a long, long time. And it came
Speaker:back. I think it was two Wimbledon or maybe in
Speaker:the U S masters I'm and everyone had written him
Speaker:off their, because of the injury I'm and he was
Speaker:up against I D I can recall who was at
Speaker:the time that someone of his own and the, the
Speaker:male tennis circuit at the time, it might've been a
Speaker:land all back on the day of, I'm not sure,
Speaker:but he came back and, and he one, and it
Speaker:was just amazing. And he got injured, I think, during
Speaker:a game, like he's a rest or something, he got
Speaker:injured, but it's what you see as to, to this
Speaker:point, you kept pushing on it.
Speaker:It wouldn't give up. So I it's cool to hear
Speaker:like a nutshell, his name mentioned
Speaker:Their, oh, for sure. And that's this most tennis players
Speaker:that are you looking at? Kim Clijsters is in the
Speaker:U S open. She came back after being pregnant and
Speaker:she won all of a grand slam. I mean, it
Speaker:shows you that peoples' expectations of you. You don't mean
Speaker:anything. And if you set your mind to something that
Speaker:you can definitely achieve it,
Speaker:Let's speaking of tennis, did you hold a little, got
Speaker:to follow a tangent here, but M w what's your
Speaker:take on? I know there's always been the question of,
Speaker:well, you know, a man of far stronger than women
Speaker:or men and women can't compete with men, but when
Speaker:you look at it to your point, you can close
Speaker:those in. You look at the, the Williams sisters. And
Speaker:do you think there will be a town? What it's
Speaker:it, it's not like mixed doubles, his best classes doubles,
Speaker:and anybody can compete against anybody have the wish.
Speaker:You know, I've always thought about that, but I think
Speaker:we need to sometimes see the realistic aspects of tennis.
Speaker:Like, I think that the mens vs the women's games
Speaker:are vastly different. Like men play with so much more
Speaker:spin, stronger, serves hitting over 120 to one 30 miles
Speaker:an hour. And women's service, for example, the average around
Speaker:what 90, maybe the lower hundreds and they're six and
Speaker:there's the exceptions like the Williams sisters. Right. But I
Speaker:think it's such a complicated issue too. Look at at
Speaker:the moment. But I think that the sport will always
Speaker:be it it's T H tennis. We'll always be tennis.
Speaker:And a matter of who's playing who I think there's
Speaker:always going to be a great way to enjoy it.
Speaker:A sport. Cool.
Speaker:I'd love to say, I know M I know a
Speaker:Williams of trying to think of, of Williams, a venous
Speaker:woman was to call on one sec. I can recall
Speaker:how that, but yeah, I hear you on that. The
Speaker:sales, the, the killer, our guests, when it comes to
Speaker:their speed of the south. And fortunately, so your podcast
Speaker:to come back on, on top of that. And I
Speaker:like,
Speaker:What 10 isn't it later on. No worries. I
Speaker:Love talking about the time that's what's what is all
Speaker:about, so your podcast, or obviously you started in January
Speaker:and you've got four, have you on the team. And
Speaker:you mentioned that you have your, your role that, you
Speaker:know, you know, whose expertise or who was more suited
Speaker:to that roll. So no, and all that. Ah, and
Speaker:whether it be in a newish podcast, what would your
Speaker:advice be for someone looking to start a podcast themselves,
Speaker:as part as the team, like for you? What, what
Speaker:top of advice would you give them?
Speaker:Right. I bought on this question before and I got
Speaker:to be honest. Sometimes I think to myself, who the
Speaker:heck am I to give advice? I just started a
Speaker:podcast. I'm a very young, I don't really know much
Speaker:of the things that I'm doing, but if there is
Speaker:a statement of guidance I can give to people is
Speaker:just to, don't be perfect. Stop wearing what being perfect,
Speaker:shut down in that perfectionist mindset and just do it.
Speaker:Stop thinking, Hey, am I going to look stupid? If
Speaker:I do this or a people think I sound dumb.
Speaker:If I say this, or what is the audio? Doesn't
Speaker:it sound like this or other podcasts, honestly, who cares?
Speaker:Nothing starts perfect. Everything starts a little bit scratching, edgy,
Speaker:and you learn from every single mistake that happens. And
Speaker:that's the best way that you can improve yourself.
Speaker:No, that's a good advice. I like that. So I'm
Speaker:in a future podcast in groups, in Facebook, and that's
Speaker:one of my pet peeves is when some people say,
Speaker:well, you've got to get X makes, and you can
Speaker:to make sure that you've got the studio set up,
Speaker:but you got to get this audio on your face.
Speaker:You really have to get this, their mixed or et
Speaker:cetera in your, your thinking. But we'll just start to
Speaker:know. I don't have one to $5,000 to blow down
Speaker:and all of this up and, and not even know
Speaker:what I'm going to enjoy it or not. You know?
Speaker:So that's, that's a good advice. I like that.
Speaker:Definitely. And people just have to realize that if you
Speaker:really want to do a podcast or anything in general,
Speaker:you will do it. If you want to film with
Speaker:your cellphone and film the speaker out of it and
Speaker:the mic like do it, it's not, but a sound
Speaker:perfect, but it's a great place to start. And you
Speaker:will learn as you go and you gotta be patient
Speaker:with yourself and you just got to be S you
Speaker:got to tell you herself, Hey, I made it a
Speaker:little booboo, their, but no worries. I'll make it up
Speaker:next time.
Speaker:And as loud as it goes back to your point
Speaker:of, you know, a guy on a chance and analog,
Speaker:a
Speaker:Trauma. Exactly.
Speaker:So a jar I've really enjoyed chatting today, and I've
Speaker:loved a tangent there. I had gone in to the
Speaker:tennis world when she started on the tennis podcast. And
Speaker:we'll have you back on it now, for sure, to
Speaker:talk longer for that, for people that want to catch
Speaker:up on past episodes or get to know you and
Speaker:the team, et cetera, where's the best place for them
Speaker:to find
Speaker:You. Awesome. So you can find more about us@atimecapsuleshow.com. We
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Speaker:Cool. And I'll be sure to drop all of these
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Speaker:make sure to collect through to the relevant links. So
Speaker:again, Joe, I really appreciate it. You went on the
Speaker:shore today.
Speaker:Of course. Thank you so much for having you, Danny.
Speaker:I truly had a great experience talking with you, and
Speaker:I hope you can talk more in the future.
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