Speaker 1: One of the things about being over fifty, it really
Speaker 1: starts to solidify where you spend your time and your energy.
Speaker 1: You really start to think about who you wanna spend
Speaker 1: your time with and how you wanna do it. You
Speaker 1: decide what you're gonna do with your time. When it
Speaker 1: comes to your jobs and work, you decide by these
Speaker 1: job's worth it anymore, Ain't not worth it anymore? Family, friends, yourself.
Speaker 1: You really start looking at everything. You look at your
Speaker 1: time differently. You're looking at people and how they treat you.
Speaker 1: Also phase a major factor in that I'm going through
Speaker 1: something right now. I'm going through a growth spurt and
Speaker 1: it's wonderful my business and it's going it's it's I'm
Speaker 1: it's one. It's wonderful. It's a g I'm blessed beyond belief.
Speaker 1: I'm going to a Brospert. In most areas of my business,
Speaker 1: I have very I have different divisions, different areas. For example,
Speaker 1: I have a music division, I have a book division,
Speaker 1: I have the audio drama division.
Speaker 2: I have I mean, let me try to map all
Speaker 2: these out.
Speaker 1: I have the podcasts just in general division, and I
Speaker 1: think I have separate divisions because I have like the
Speaker 1: Star Wars, Marvel stuff, the soap stuff, the hearty stuff,
Speaker 1: the self help stuff.
Speaker 2: I have different things.
Speaker 1: I my organizing life countries. I have radious stuff. So
Speaker 1: I'm learning. I'm just really choosing, especially what I'm going
Speaker 1: to put my energy into. I'm getting older. There are
Speaker 1: things aren't just as funny anymore than do So I'm
Speaker 1: sorry to scarybody who's a fan of this, of this,
Speaker 1: of this division of mine, because I really do appreciate
Speaker 1: the fan. The fans are fine. The fans are fine,
Speaker 1: and you guys show up. It's my soap division, and
Speaker 1: it's my current sub division, not the past. People choot out,
Speaker 1: choot out, show up for the for the old soaps
Speaker 1: I do after shows for, but it's for Bold and
Speaker 1: BEAUTIFU you.
Speaker 2: Unrest is in General Hospital.
Speaker 1: James feels like I don't want to become I don't
Speaker 1: want to become this complainer. And I feel like in
Speaker 1: recent last year or so, I've become a complainer a
Speaker 1: little bit. I mean I've been I call out stuff,
Speaker 1: but i feel like I'm just like now I'm just
Speaker 1: like talking about the same thing over and over and
Speaker 1: I hate doing that. So I'm going to stop doing
Speaker 1: that because it's like I'm just making decisions now so
Speaker 1: that it won't be the same thing over again. And
Speaker 1: I have a really big decision to make, you guys.
Speaker 1: So here's what I'm talking to with you guys. So
Speaker 1: here's deal. My soap division in terms of downloads and
Speaker 1: views does very well, So that's not it's a nice
Speaker 1: chunk of my business.
Speaker 2: It's not all of it.
Speaker 1: I've diversified so other chunks are good to you, but
Speaker 1: it is a chuck. It's the oldest chunk of my business,
Speaker 1: just about because I we been doing one show for
Speaker 1: nine years. Gh they get great numbers. Gh is the
Speaker 1: biggest out of three of gh Y and R and
Speaker 1: both and Beautiful Jas gets the most. And I can't
Speaker 1: seem to get guests. I've made contact with the PR
Speaker 1: person and they barely It's it's just the person seems
Speaker 1: a nice person, seems nice, always friendly to me, but.
Speaker 2: She's only got me one guest.
Speaker 1: He's been there, and I got another guest through Tony Moore.
Speaker 1: I'm not getting guests and for years I have not
Speaker 1: had that luxury. It's either the ones that come short
Speaker 1: of ones I call in favors who are not tied
Speaker 1: to their PR. That's the world. I can get people
Speaker 1: with their times a PR soh same with bold and beautiful,
Speaker 1: young and restless bold.
Speaker 2: I know that the PR person there's been.
Speaker 1: Having some health issues over the last year, so which
Speaker 1: I can relate to that. So the communication is sporadic.
Speaker 1: They got me up person a few months ago who
Speaker 1: was great, but it's been months and I just talked
Speaker 1: to him the other day and I'm like, wait, can't
Speaker 1: make this happen. I need guests also, they I was
Speaker 1: promised a walk on roll or a back and roll
Speaker 1: on the show twice on camera by one of the producers.
Speaker 1: That has never happened, and I said there day, I'm like,
Speaker 1: just wait for my roll. All I get is a
Speaker 1: heart and I'm like, I have not. I'm like, that'd
Speaker 1: be a dream. I will sit in.
Speaker 2: The back ben on a door on a doorway, I
Speaker 2: don't even care what it is.
Speaker 1: But also on why nor I love the prey of
Speaker 1: person there. He's a great guy always. But I'm seeing
Speaker 1: what's getting me is other outlets. I gave you all
Speaker 1: first and for as long as they want them for.
Speaker 1: I've seen I've watched some of the videos of the
Speaker 1: cause I don't. I don't view anybody's competition. We're all different,
Speaker 1: we all our things. But I'm around a long time
Speaker 1: and I feel like I don't get the same consideration
Speaker 1: as some of the others. And there's some guests that
Speaker 1: I want. I'm being offered them, two of them, and.
Speaker 2: So far each one separately. I think so like that.
Speaker 1: I regard a little town separately, but I've seen someone
Speaker 1: else that's got them first, and that person has come
Speaker 1: after me. I just feel like I'm just so so
Speaker 1: treated down the line, like I'm not serious or something
Speaker 1: I don't know. And I do good interviews and and
Speaker 1: none of my other shows that are outside of Sobs,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: Have that problem.
Speaker 1: I have people just waiting in line and be on
Speaker 1: my shows. We have great times and it's good interviews.
Speaker 1: And I said, I don't want to.
Speaker 2: I want to.
Speaker 1: I'm tired of complaining about this, So that's why I'm stopping.
Speaker 1: I'm saying it now to you guys. But that's what
Speaker 1: has been going on for me. The memories are dead
Speaker 1: now for me. I mean, that's clearly, that's just let's
Speaker 1: not happy anymore. I'm gonna apply next year and it
Speaker 1: sours me as an MV judge, I mean voter. I
Speaker 1: am really soured by it all and disillusioned. And I
Speaker 1: have been voting. Last couple of vote rounds. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm on the mood. So that's what I
Speaker 1: was counting on every year. And it's kind of like
Speaker 1: taking away from me and I don't know, I just don't.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm out loss on what it is. What else
Speaker 1: can I do to get these people to give me
Speaker 1: guests that I used to on a regular basis. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's just it's just for you guys out there.
Speaker 1: I watched the week we recapped the week that was
Speaker 1: in Born, Charles. You should also have someone who is
Speaker 1: part of that week. Let's talk st and find out
Speaker 1: how they felt about that scene or seeing do and
Speaker 1: so and so, or that they had the writing, or
Speaker 1: that should be happening every week or every other week
Speaker 1: or every every.
Speaker 2: Couple of weeks. They should be happening regularly.
Speaker 1: And I feel like I've worked so hard with I'm
Speaker 1: learning people are.
Speaker 2: Something the younger sense telling me hard works mean anything anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very doesn't. It means something to me. Marie doesn't anymore.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's vere that that that's over and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: as I get older, have let time for this. That's
Speaker 1: patience and how No, it's just it's like the same
Speaker 1: old song and it's the minors, and I.
Speaker 2: Literally do not know what else I need to do.
Speaker 1: To get like, Okay, James, this is this is that
Speaker 1: should be also maysically happening next week. You should be eaters.
Speaker 1: You should talk to these two people and we're got
Speaker 1: to say, do an embargo whatever. Same with neighbors. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: people leaving the show and even asking can I get somebody,
Speaker 1: and you guys just like, oh, we're just something. Later
Speaker 1: in September, I told I'm like, I have gotten any interviews.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I got some access.
Speaker 1: They seem really nice, but I'm like, again, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to promote your show in America.
Speaker 2: I don't. I've asked over and over. I don't. I'm
Speaker 2: trying not to. I'm trying to be polite and not over.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, but there's one guy who's in England. It's
Speaker 1: gets everybody. I don't know how he's doing it. He's
Speaker 1: getting He's getting everyone. Yeah, he's good this show. It
Speaker 1: shows I forgot his name. I would I would actually
Speaker 1: would promote him.
Speaker 2: He's good. I'm like, I don't even understand. I don't
Speaker 2: even understand.
Speaker 1: I feel like in the soap world, I'm still a
Speaker 1: second class citizen.
Speaker 2: People know me, but they seem to like me. He
Speaker 2: smiles to my face.
Speaker 1: And then I still don't get treated the same as
Speaker 1: other people. I feel like it, and there isn't much.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's any much I can do. I
Speaker 1: think this point, nine ten years in the business, I'll here.
Speaker 1: There's nothing else I can do. I've showed you get
Speaker 1: good numbers. I showed him a great interviewer. I showed
Speaker 1: you be trusted. I literally do not know.
Speaker 2: What else.
Speaker 1: So I'm keeping so I don't know. I just I
Speaker 1: don't know. It just it's it's too much. But I'm
Speaker 1: but I'm thinking as a results all cause I'm making
Speaker 1: other decisions. And I said, I I want to scare
Speaker 1: you guys, but I might make some decisions. It might
Speaker 1: be not exactly everything done, but it might be I
Speaker 1: might be cutting down or cutting off. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I why am I busting my hump.
Speaker 2: Every week.
Speaker 1: And not getting equal busting my you know back. It
Speaker 1: just it really really sucks when you know you've work
Speaker 1: very hard and you put in the work and you
Speaker 1: try to smile and play the game and you do
Speaker 1: everything they ask you to do and it still doesn't
Speaker 1: work out. No one's checking. I mean the soaps, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's it's I I'm I I'm gon talk
Speaker 1: about now.
Speaker 2: I'm done talking about it. I did on the show.
Speaker 2: It's the last I'm gonna talk about it.
Speaker 1: The next time I'm gonna bring up the subject is
Speaker 1: if I make a huge decision, and I'm announcing the
Speaker 1: decision because I'm putting this to band now, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: going to talk to my divine creator and do some
Speaker 1: and just and do some number looking and calm down
Speaker 1: and just think about this and we'll see. Because being
Speaker 1: fifty plus, there are things I could have my Sundays back.
Speaker 1: I can watch the stumps leisurely if I want you again,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm putting it's a lot of work to
Speaker 1: watch fifteen shows a week and then remember them all,
Speaker 1: organize it. You're your packaged show. I could do it.
Speaker 1: I love doing it, but it's a lot of work.
Speaker 1: So I'm really considering other options. It might be a
Speaker 1: reduced thing, it might be just do it once a month.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I don't know, So just stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Follow this of course with you play us, follow my
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Speaker 2: Ye Harm many spots that I run. So's your media.
Speaker 2: Thank you for listening. I appreciate each and every one
Speaker 2: of you, and I'll talk to you next time.