2:13:29 I'm a former employee of Podcast One. Now, Podcast One is a podcast network who put together an app and a bunch of podcasts, and it's Norm Pattis. Now, Norm Pattis is a legend in the radio business, and he built Westwood One. Just huge, huge... And he's a radio guy, so radio guys are a little weird. Then, you know, he wants to make this a big success. He wants to be the, you know, the network for podcasts and it's meh. You know, you can't monetize the network. I've said this a million times. Just forget about it. It's not bad. Sorry. It's thematic with you. Yeah, it is thematic. And I'm all in agreement because I, you know, as far as I'm concerned, I've worked at BVO and we've gone through this and I've seen it in action and I'm, you're totally right.
2:14:18 So, there's now two lawsuits going on with a former employee. The story is that the guy says, um, Norm Padas sat me down in his office, pulled out his gun. He's a sheriff, he's a deputy sheriff. Then he's like a police groupie, I think. But, you know, he has all the- maybe he's just doing great for his community, I don't want to downplay it. I don't- but it seems like, knowing radio guys, they're into weird shit. Then, you know, he's a radio guy. So he pulls out his gun, lays it down on his desk with the muzzle pointing towards former employee and says, uh, I want you to, uh, doctor the numbers on the downloads so we could charge more for the advertisements. And apparently the guy did it. But you know, then they got into a whole dispute and he was accused of something. So now this is his story that's coming out and he's counter-suing, I believe. And I, and... All these operations doctor the download numbers. Exactly.
2:15:20 in different ways. Yes. Usually they have a third party do the dirty work. Well, I just pointed out just to show you that this is not going to work. It's just not. Podcasts are great. They're beautiful works of art. To make money, to monetize, you know, you got to think differently. Think differently. Why is it so hard to explain this to people? You have to explain it to them one-on-one pretty much. And one of the other problems is they have all these dozens and dozens of podcast seminars and conventions, and all the podcasters go to these things except us.
2:16:02 I said, you're going to pick up a lifetime achievement or something. You go to it then. But generally speaking, we don't go to any of them. And and you talk to people that go to him and it's just the blind leading the blind. These guys all well, here's how you get your advertising numbers off and here's how you get new advertisers. It's all about advertising. Here's how you get featured on iTunes. Yeah, here's how you get your number on iTunes, you can brag about that, doesn't mean anything of course. And it's all, it's nuts and these guys, which is a problem for a lot of guys who actually want to make some money. And then you find a lot of these podcasts, and we bitch about this constantly, and we're going to get to the birthday in a minute. But you find a lot of these guys, they're, they're, they got too many people working on the podcast to ever make any money.
2:16:46 You can't have a staff, you can't have like, by the way, the Star Trek, the new Star Trek, not the one on TV, but the one on the YouTubes, Star Trek Continues, looks like a real TV production. It's a very well produced show, but you look at the, the staff is huge. It's got, they got everybody, they got the gaffers and the best boys, they got all these people. This is another very important point. You do this whether you do that sort of thing with a podcast thing and it's a radio show you have to produce you'll never make money You'll never make money. You can't make money It's impossible because you can only get the amount of money you could ever get in which is always gonna be mediocre Is not gonna be able to pay these anybody they have to all be volunteers, which is the mistake that a lot of people make
2:17:34 Yeah, you can't get people, you know, volunteers are handy for certain kind of minor things. You can get a lot of people in a group, like our artists, for example, are all volunteers, but we have, you know, there's at least 10 or 20 or 30 people that jump in and out of the idea of doing some art for us once in a while. And it's not like they have to come in every week and do the show, you know, which is a lot of work to produce a show. I'll say. Yeah. Well, luckily we have an idiot savant that produces our show and it's like, it's astonishing at what a job he does. Oh boy. Thank you. I feel good. Nice reach around. I didn't mean idiot savant. I mean a savant. Okay. Well, I'll say this. I've been following this trend, how podcasts and podcast networks are going and I'm saying I'm short podcast jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma.