So here we go. We do have another episode. I know it's a
little shocking, a little shocking that I have so little time between my two
episodes. It has not been like three to five months between my episodes.
I think it's been a week about a week now, which is fantastic,
which is kind of the rhythm I'm hoping to get into. Whether it be
more, I'm not sure. That's still kind of yet to be seen.
But I do want to be a little bit more consistent about it because I
do enjoy it. It is fun for me to do. You guys enjoy
listening to it, which I do appreciate, and it is therapeutic for me
to do. So I will continue doing it for everyone in all parties involved.
It really is really a cool thing, and I've just enjoyed it over
the last couple of years, three years actually. But I do have something
that I did want to talk about kind of right off the bat, because
I do make mistakes, a lot of them. Unfortunately, I record into
a microphone and put it out there for the internet to listen to and dissect
and make fun of me for. So the mistake that I made in the
last episode was I was talking about my wife. That's not the mistake.
But I did say that we had been married for seven years, and I
was almost one hundred percent sure I was wrong, but I couldn't. I
couldn't really in the moment figure out if that was right or wrong. But
I knew I was kind of in the ballpark of how long we've been married
because we just not that long ago, celebrated our wedding anniversary. It was
actually in February, but I hadn't done an episode since I believe January,
so we'd missed a lot. Blah blah blah. Go back and listen to
the last episode. That's fine, but I said we've been married less than
ten but at least seven I think was my actual like verbiage, I'm not
sure. Again, go back and listen to it. So the other night
I come back. I was in the studio all day. I've been doing
a writing camp, so we basically just work in the studio recording studio all
week and we try and write as many songs as you can in five days.
So I'm in the middle of one right now. By the time you
listen to it, we'll have written probably somewhere between six to eight songs already
this week over the last like two or three days, which is absolutely fantastic.
Songs that didn't exist, songs that weren't already kind of ideas, songs.
We're doing top to bottom lyrically, production wise, top to bottom finish,
and it's all it's a lot of fun. It's a lot of work.
It's mentally tiring, but it's great. It's all part of the job
and it's a lot of fun. So I ended up not coming home the
other night until probably about ten thirty, which is fine. It's again,
it's just kind of part of it. And so Jeanie and I were just
kind of resting. We ended up going up to bed. She was already
up in bed by the time I'd gotten there, so I kind of weazled
in after I got all ready and put all my stuff away, whatever,
and it was just kind of silent, like you ever just around your your
other, your person, whatever, and it's you're just around each other,
but sometimes just no words need to be said necessarily, and that was kind
of what it does. So we're just kind of like sitting in silence in
the room. She had a long day, I had a long day,
that's fine. And about ten minutes goes by. We're just kind of doing
our thing. Ten minutes goes by, she turns, she goes, Yeah,
I listened to your episode today. It was it was really great,
Like I really appreciate like what you said and stuff like it's cool things you
said about like you know, being in the middle of answered prayer, like
that's really cool. But um, we've been actually married for eight years and
not seven, and I knew that was gonna happen. I knew that was
gonna happen. And it's fine. It's it's it's my own fault. I
should have just known how long I was married beforehand, but I didn't,
and I kind of admitted it to the internet. Um, but Jeanie does
listen to an episode on occasion, and of course that's the one she listens
to, which is fine. It's fine, it's not a big deal.
But we have been married for eight Um, we are going now into our
ninth year. So yeah, that's fine. We actually ended up getting married.
Um, I did say we ended up getting married in February. February
twelfth is the date. I actually do know that off the top of my
head because my youngest sister was born February eighth, and then we got married
on the twelfth, and then Valentine's Day is the fourteenth, so it's literally
I cannot miss it because the entire world is reminding me that, hey,
your anniversary is coming up, because there are hearts everywhere, and everything is
overpriced, especially chocolate, which is very special to Jeanie. It is,
it is very special, so it's the one time of year where it's overpriced.
But I can never I could literally never get enough of it for her.
She freaking lops it. So February twelfth is our our anniversary date eight
years. We are starting our ninth year. We are a couple of months
into our ninth year. We do have a little bit longer, a couple
more months until our second eighth anniversary. We did get married twice. That
is another story for another day. I've gone into it, but it's coming
around again, so maybe I'll just bring it up again. So we do
have our second eighth anniversary coming up in the next handful of months, so
that's fantastic. The question, the question that I do have today for this
episode is pretty it's a pretty straightforward one. I'd actually sat and thought about
this for a minute, and there was nothing else that I had immediately thought
of. And I think that's the point, all right, Like you're supposed
to read the question in this book, and I'm supposed to write down and
or say the first thing that just comes out of my mouth, not make
it, you know, scripted or thought like overwhelmingly thoughtful. You would like
it to be thoughtful. But you are dealing with me here, so that's
we'll deal with that, you know whatever. We'll cross that bridge when we
come to it. Whatever verbs you want to say there. But in this
book, if you are new, I do actually have a massive surgeon audience.
In the last handful of days, my audience has grown again buy another
like seventy what is the person? Let me look at the my phone here,
m My audience has grown since my last episode. I've had a surge
in subscribers, so I've grown another seventy eight percent. So it's a pretty
massive following that I actually have. And then I just had like another It
nearly doubled, which is absolutely fantastic. So thank you guys so much.
It's cool, Like I I have no idea why why you're here, but
here you are, and it's fantastic. It does mean a lot that you
are here on all the major platforms. I don't know, it's really cool.
It really does mean a lot. Goodness, gracious, I forget to
breathe. I still do that. Three years in. I forget to breathe.
I get rushing a little bit, and I just forget to breathe.
But I do have. The question for the day is in my five five
year question today memory Journal. And I've done this now for the last handful
of episodes, which is really fun. And again I'm just supposed to say
the thing without thinking much about it, and I did think about it.
Unfortunately I was cheating a little bit. But the only thing I could come
up with is this. So the question that I have today, and you
could answer it for yourself, whatever that may be, is what is something
that is widely popular that doesn't appeal to you? So again, what is
something that is widely popular that does not appeal to you? And I'm sure
if I really sat and thought about it, I could come up with a
ton of things. But the only thing that I can think of immediately when
I was like, no doubt, this one thing. Hey, it will
always hate this. The only thing I could think of was, shockingly enough,
it was coffee. And I know, before you stop the episode or
unsubscribe or whatever you're doing, that's fine, just know that I don't like
coffee. Like I something about it just doesn't hit right with me. I
don't like fundamentally. I don't even like the smell of coffee. It gives
me almost a headache. It makes me almost a little bit nauseous. I
feel weird around it. Everyone always is always like, oh, let's hang
out, let's go drink coffee, and it's like, ad, that's a
horrible idea to me. It's a horrible idea. Cool you might be able
to go and have your coffee dates and put all sorts of weird nuts and
things in it, and honey and all sorts of different weird forms of milk
and sugar and whatever. I don't like it. And you always have like
your weird forms of drinking it, whether it's on ice or whether it comes
out of your like fancy machine things, or you do it like with what
is that thing called where it's like a weird shaped it's almost like an hourglass.
You put paper in it and you like grind up all the dirt and
you put it in there, and then you pour hot water over it,
and you pour like the hot water over the dirt and then it drips down.
What is that called? I forget, it's gross pour over. Yeah,
there you go. Hate those. My wife loves them. I just
like don't like drinking dirt water. A lot of you guys do, and
that's fine. I'm not gonna judge you for doing that. I'm just telling
you, it's just dirt water. Like I don't really know if like that's
a real thing you need to be like, hey, hey, I'm friendly
with you as another human being. Let's go drink dirt water together. It's
basically like mud to me. I don't know, but it's it's definitely it
is definitely coffee for me. Not a fan. Don't like the smell.
It's kind of just like dirt water. It's expensive, and I, you
know, I just don't do it. You're like, WHOA, what else
you do you drink? Anything like that? Like do you drink? Not?
Really? I do have like a couple of Red Bulls a week probably
maybe, But for the most part, I don't really like have a lot
of caffeine, like I just kind of get my adrenaline from life. I
suppose I'm not saying like I'm a better person than a lot of people,
but yeah, I don't know. You can kind of come to that judgment
by yourself. Man, that's fine, that's fine. I just don't like
it. I don't like it. I I do like if I if I
had to give up, probably I don't know. I really do like red
Bull. I really like Red Bull, so I would have a hard time
giving up Red Bull. But I don't even drink it every single day.
So maybe that's my form of dirt water. But the thing that is widely
popular that doesn't appeal to me again is coffee. I'm curious what it is
for you. You guys can let me know on Facebook, if you guys
are still on Facebook. There's not really a lot of people on Facebook.
It seems like it feels like Facebook is very good at very specific things to
me, and the the reach for it is kind of shrinking. I think
Facebook is really great at like groups. If you're on groups, like in
a bunch of groups, like sports groups, or very specific like parenting groups,
or whatever it may be. I'm on a lot of like different hockey
pages for here in Nashville, Like they're very good for those things. But
like outside of that, like I don't know, there's just the most of
the people that I know have just been on it, so like that's kind
of why I'm on it, and I don't really want to learn another social
media. But if you guys are on Facebook, you can follow Dahm Reviews
podcast, and I do post on there every once in a while. I'm
pretty bad at like posting on there, but I'm better on Instagram. So
if you go to the Dahm Reviews Podcast Instagram, I'm on there a lot.
You also go to the link tree and you can find my personal one
there. That's probably the best one because it is a little difficult, like
switching back and forth between you know, my personal ones and like my podcast
ones, and it just feels, I don't know, at some point,
it just feels a little silly because it's all just kind of me at the
same time. But every once in a while I will post them there.
But if you really want to see things I'm doing kind of day today and
you know, everything in between, you should probably hit that link tree on
the Dahm Reviews podcast and that will give you all my stuff right there,
including like my personal Instagram, which is probably again the best one. But
thank you guys so much for listening. I will have more episodes coming up.
I did have somebody talking about maybe I should do more videos. I
did videos for a while. I really only do videos for Beer League hockey.
Here. I do have a like a version of my podcast that is
just solely talking about Nashville Beer League hockey, and people love it here.
It's really fantastic. I have like a ton of subscribers to which is really
funny. I get a lot of engagement and people talking to me, like,
you know, just all over Nashville when I go to the rinks and
stuff like that. So that's a that's a fun thing. But I do
videos for that, and I've thought about bringing back my videos for this podcast
as well. If you guys are interested somehow, let me know. The
best way again would be through Instagram. So you find me on Instagram and
you let me know, like, hey, I'd like to see like you
do some videos. There's nothing special about them. It's literally like I'm sitting
here at my desk and it's just like a one shot, like I just
have my camera and it's just like fine, just me talking to the abyss
like it works I think in this setting because it's just my voice, right,
so like whatever, like it's fine. But like when I'm talking to
a camera or like I have a camera on, like you, I guess
you see my manners. Whatever, It's fine if you want that, let
me know. I might start posting snippets of me doing them again or like
me doing episodes again because they're just a really great way to promote and actually
have people like see my face and stuff like that. So that's fine.
But if you just again go to my Instagram, my personal Instagram, you'll
just see me all over the place on there. So that's fine, but
great, fantastic. It does mean a lot again that you're listening. You
can subscribe on all of your major platforms. Spotify and Apple Music. Really
is my main two ones. I'm on like a myriad of other ones as
well. I'm sure you can find them Dumb Reviews podcast. That way,
you get the notifications of when I post episodes, which really is helpful for
me and it's really cool. It's really really cool that you guys are listening
and I'll never take that for granted. So great. I'll see you in
the next one. This is a lot of fun. Okay, bye,