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Imagine your dreams becoming a reality through the power of connections in the metaverse. That's exactly what happened to our guest, Britney Cherry. Britney shares her astonishing journey from running a virtual radio station in the metaverse to being featured on a real-world Chicago radio show with Rick Party. Plus, Rick Party and Ding.Dong, joined us to share their side of the story and how this all played out, illuminating the fascinating intersection between our virtual and real-life realities.
We wrap up our discussions by addressing the challenges of creating content with limited resources, with Briteny and Rick offering practical advice and strategies. We emphasize the importance of mentorship, networking, and consistently seeking out opportunities. Join us to explore the inspiring world of the metaverse, where dreams become reality and virtual connections translate into tangible success. A world where your passion can indeed become your living. So, tune in, prepare to be inspired and entertained, and who knows, you could uncover how the metaverse could play a part in your own dream realization.
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Text Brian & Shawna (Fan Mail)
Imagine your dreams becoming a reality through the power of connections in the metaverse. That's exactly what happened to our guest, Britney Cherry. Britney shares her astonishing journey from running a virtual radio station in the metaverse to being featured on a real-world Chicago radio show with Rick Party. Plus, Rick Party and Ding.Dong, joined us to share their side of the story and how this all played out, illuminating the fascinating intersection between our virtual and real-life realities.
We wrap up our discussions by addressing the challenges of creating content with limited resources, with Briteny and Rick offering practical advice and strategies. We emphasize the importance of mentorship, networking, and consistently seeking out opportunities. Join us to explore the inspiring world of the metaverse, where dreams become reality and virtual connections translate into tangible success. A world where your passion can indeed become your living. So, tune in, prepare to be inspired and entertained, and who knows, you could uncover how the metaverse could play a part in your own dream realization.
Ways to Join Us LIVE 👇
Live shows are on Thursdays at 8pm EST (unless it's a holiday or fifth Thursday of the month)
Affiliate links are used when possible to help support this podcast.
But welcome to today's podcast replay from the Killer Bee Studios. Let's go ahead and dive on in. Hey everybody, thanks for joining us tonight at the Killer Bee Studios. Wow, look at everybody. This is awesome to see you all you guys. Yes, let's see some confetti. I see a lot of people who's got the emojis on their name badges now, so it looks like everybody got their updates in. I didn't put any online. I see you got a bunch of plants, you're a yes, I do Is that your emoji swag.
Speaker 3:I didn't know that's what it's called, but yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I just make it up when I go. I don't have them because I want bees, I want bees. There's no bees, but hey you guys think, give us bees, give us bees. Hey, look at the new table. This was a gift. Do you see this table here? You like that it's gorgeous.
Speaker 3:This is a gift.
Speaker 1:You guys. I don't know if he's here, but you guys, if you guys pull these, we had a builder give us this table and this new sign that looks like it's made out of glass. His name is Tanzer, so please throw him some confetti. We're so appreciative of that gift. It was awesome that he did that. I just got on one day and all of a sudden I said, hey, you have a gift from somebody. I'm like, wow, this is really cool. So I love the community in here, and tonight we're actually going to be kind of talking about this story that's going to come out from yeah, how many of you guys know Brittany Cherry? How many of you guys know Brittany? Okay, yeah, I see some confetti. Awesome, this is going to be a great story to hear, because I think this story kind of helps bridge the gap between realities when I talk about in real life realities and VR realities.
Speaker 3:Exactly.
Speaker 1:So our guest is going to be joining us to share her VR story and how connections in the metaverse, her connections in the metaverse, has made her in real life dreams a reality. And I really wanted to share this because my hope is that through this story, through this story, that it'll be encouraging to others to not give up. I mean, how many of you guys here have dreams right now Like this story is some confetti? If you guys have dreams that you're like okay, yeah, okay, all right. So we have three people dreaming, all right, okay, here we go. Here's some more. Okay, all right, there we go. So everybody, we have dreams and I think this is encouraging because it's you never know in the metaverse, like in here, you never know who you're going to encounter and how it could open up new opportunities in the people that you connect with. So this people you connect with, even in the metaverse, could be, could play a huge part in making your dreams a reality.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:And that's that's the interesting thing to think about. Mrs Cudby, you had a question for the audience.
Speaker 3:What I wanted to know is have any of you ever considered the fact that connections that you make in the metaverse could actually help you attain your dreams in the real world? Have you ever thought about that? Because, really honestly, until I heard this story about Brittany and Rick, it never occurred to me that that was really a possibility. So if any of you have any anything to say about that, we would love for you to come up. R King, could you bring up the microphone? Hey?
Speaker 1:boss, what's your thoughts on that? Have you ever thought about that?
Speaker 4:I always thought about it. I think that you know when you put your mind to something you can accomplish it.
Speaker 5:I'm very, very happy for Brittany Cherry. I think she deserves everything she's getting Awesome.
Speaker 1:I love that. I love it, thank you. Thank you, boss King. Thank you, okay, you're gonna tell me how to pronounce it again.
Speaker 6:Yeah, you said it first the right time, first the right time. You said it right the first time. Hold on, hold on she on. Okay, can I get?
Speaker 1:some confetti for that people.
Speaker 7:If you guys, if you guys have been, here long enough.
Speaker 1:this table is like gonna be trouble for me, isn't it Okay?
Speaker 2:Thank you, we should table it for now, I guess, but yeah, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1:No, you're not gonna hit it. That was all he's like. No, no, look, look at the producer.
Speaker 5:He's like no, no, no, no, you can't tell me.
Speaker 2:No, okay, he likes it he likes it.
Speaker 6:That's awesome. Yeah, have you thought about that.
Speaker 1:I'm a punny guy.
Speaker 6:I mean I'm really ponderful. Of course people are gonna like that joke.
Speaker 2:I mean if they don't.
Speaker 6:If they don't, I enjoy the punishment. Anyway, all right. So, yeah, I'm, I'm Sheehan, I'm your singing, dancing, acting martial artist, gymnast, dj host at your service. I live to entertain. It's what I'm all about in life. And, yes, what you were talking about like have. I thought that this could help with my dreams. I stopped calling it a dream a while ago. I call it the plan because the friend who says like it's not the dream, it's the plan. I was like I like that. I like that All the thought process.
Speaker 6:Anyway, but yeah, no, I definitely think you could help me in the entertainment world. Not necessarily about you know, I'll do something in here that makes me famous. I'm not doing this to become famous. I entertain because it's what I enjoy doing. If I can make a living doing it, that'd be great. But being on here, I have met so many wonderful and talented people. I see the endless potential of Horizon Worlds. Like, I don't know much about building. I'm learning about building but as far like what I've learned so far is like the only limit pretty much that we have in here is our imagination and capacity, but that's a different, uh, anyway, so um uh, where, where I'm out with this is, uh, in here, uh, if, if nothing else, if you don't like, do what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to make a bit of a platform on here.
Speaker 6:I'm going to be starting to make social medias and stuff for my entertaining. I I'm involved with a whole bunch of worlds and I'm trying to. I actually have to schedule everything and because I'm everywhere and doing everything all at once is hard to do for some reason. Anyway, uh, so, uh, I'm trying to make a platform on here and everything like that, but that's not the only thing you can do here. Like there are endless potentials for the main thing, which is networking. It's it's not always about what you know, it's who you know.
Speaker 6:Sometimes, and it's not necessarily about like hey, let me be your friend so I can uh, you know, ride off your your coat, tails or whatever. No, it's like talented people helping each other out, because no one would ever get where they want to be in life without help. That's awesome, Thank you, that's exactly like I'm like from the beginning up and like oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:I love it. I love it, thank you, thank you Awesome.
Speaker 1:So with that arcane would you cue the guest intro? And you guys, please, let's reign with some confetti. Let's welcome out Ding Dong, brittany, cherry and Rick party to the killer bee studios. Come on out, guys. Hey, it's like a group train right here. I'm not even used to it. I'm like, yes, coming out at one time. Yeah, you guys, you guys, hey, thank you guys all for joining us. Like see, I had to measure real quick to make sure everybody could fit on this couch.
Speaker 8:I'm impressed you did well. It's so comfortable. Well, it's great, I'm comfortable right now.
Speaker 5:But for some odd reason I thought you wanted me to sit there and Ding Dong here. I thought maybe it's just been a long day for me, I don't know it's okay.
Speaker 3:It's just like that.
Speaker 8:I'm sitting in between a Ding Dong and a party. I think he's a party. I'm the Ding Dong today. So bad, this is crazy. Oh my gosh, you're going to be laughing so hard in my headset sliding off my
Speaker 1:face Well you guys do you guys hear that you guys have another whole instance packed full. Wait, when did you hear your story? We did hear that. That's crazy, that's amazing. That's the only thing. They'll be able to hear the podcast, right, they'll be able to hear the podcast replay. I would like to give you guys each about 60 seconds to introduce yourself. Tell us a little bit about who you are and how you first discovered the metaverse or horizon worlds and what drew you to this platform. I would love to start with. We'll go to Ding Dong, then Brittany and then Rick. So Ding Dong, how about you Go ahead? 60 seconds, yeah absolutely.
Speaker 4:Yeah. So many of you who I know and don't know in here, ding Dong, digital creator Don't really create worlds in here much. Although I have dabbled with it a bit, it's not really my forte. I do a combat sports analysis platform with my brother, leroy, who's in the crowd there, so we do that every Friday for all combat sports. In addition to that, I do a combination of different content creation-esque endeavors on Instagram, tiktok, youtube, and I started my journey in the metaverse because I got knocked out of the headset and I was beating somebody in ping pong.
Speaker 2:Ding Dong ping pong.
Speaker 8:I was like okay, got it.
Speaker 6:He intrigued me and boom, here I was. Horizon Worlds, August of 2022.
Speaker 3:That's awesome so you're almost at your one year anniversary, then?
Speaker 1:That's correct.
Speaker 4:Mrs.
Speaker 1:Kelly. Very good, that is awesome. How about you, brittany?
Speaker 8:I hit my one year in July. So what happened was my brother had a headset and I don't know I was feeling like I was bored and he was like, try this headset. And he had never ventured into Horizon. So I found Horizon on his headset and his avatar was a guy. So the whole time everybody thought I was a guy and I started talking and they were confused and his Facebook picture was all up there. They were like this is a man.
Speaker 8:So for like a whole week, I had to convince people that I was a woman and I was like you know what? I need to get my own headset and get off my brother's headset.
Speaker 8:So after that traumatic experience I bought my own headset and my name is Brittany Cherry radio personality, content creator and just super. I just wanted real quick. I know it's in my 60 seconds, but I just want to say thank you so much. You guys really showed out to support. If you've ever shared any posts that I've put on Instagram or threads, or liked or commented or just really engaged with me like that means so much to me and I just really want to thank you for supporting and for being here. You can be anywhere in the world in your killer big studios with us, so thank you.
Speaker 5:Well, actually they're at home right now.
Speaker 2:So it could have been anywhere in the world, but you're on your couch and you're listening to me talk.
Speaker 8:Yeah, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 1:And she's bringing in the reality here, Rick, Whatever.
Speaker 8:Rick, wait a minute. What happens to the party? It's party in his name. He's being a party pooper.
Speaker 2:That's my 60 seconds.
Speaker 1:I love it, yeah, and she knows her 60 seconds because we were recording 60 second clips downstairs for social media and she was like run, I'm like wow, that was right at 60 seconds, so she knows her time. So I do yeah, because you want to know why?
Speaker 8:Because you want to know why. Because Rick always is like look, we've got my 60 seconds for this break We've got 20 seconds to get it in, and so like. I'm a master summarizer at this point.
Speaker 1:She sure is. That's awesome. Well, Rick, why don't you introduce yourself and tell everybody what got you into horizons?
Speaker 5:Well, what got me in here was about a good friend of mine by the name of Hurricane Dave. He had been talking about the metaverse Like what the heck is a metaverse over and over. I said I got to do something and I mean he said you can have a house there, you can have an office there. Hey, how about you do a voiceover class? I was like, whoa, I should do a voiceover class and he said yeah, I just said that.
Speaker 2:So I got that.
Speaker 5:I finally got the headset about a year ago, right before my daughter's 13th birthday, and I have not been able to put this thing down. And for a living I'm a radio host. I'm a voiceover talent and for two years we kind of coached voiceover on Clubhouse, but by me helping so many people, they were literally helping me and I said, well, how could I further this? So I opened a world in Meta Horizon called Voiceover Universe and I got more people to help me and that's how I got here.
Speaker 1:That is awesome. Are you still doing your voiceover classes too? Are you still doing them in Horizon?
Speaker 5:Yeah, it still exists. I'm just taking a little break.
Speaker 1:I know you're still on Clubhouse because I see your stuff on Clubhouse, so I see that too.
Speaker 5:Every now and then yeah, okay cool.
Speaker 1:All right, that's awesome. And the last time you were here, I don't Go ahead, Ms Killer B.
Speaker 3:I just want to say I'm just glad to meet you, rick, like I loved your last interview and I wasn't the co-host at that point, but I'm so glad to be here this time.
Speaker 5:Glad to have you here, yeah.
Speaker 1:I can say you haven't got to meet my wife because she wasn't here during she wasn't co-hosting. Now she's been co-hosting and Arkane's the producer. Arkane over there, you want to say hi on the mic, on the producer mic over there, if I can say it? Hello.
Speaker 5:Oh, so he's like the Russell Simmons of the show. Yes, that's right, you got it, you got it, you got it.
Speaker 1:Sometimes metal lilies over there too, we kind of cycle through.
Speaker 7:But no, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:And we're always looking for volunteers that want to be a part of the producer booth too. So this is all new. The new studio has got a lot of new things happening, but that's great, okay. So, ding Dong, I want to go back to you here because this story is very exciting for me to have Brittany, rick and Ding Dong all here to share this story, because I met you not probably what a couple months ago after a show. Yeah, and you're like hey, I got to tell you this story about when Rick was here. So I would love for you to share, tell us how this all started. And then, how did you know? Start us off by sharing the story of how this metaverse connection began. And did you know Rick or Brittany in real life? And I don't know that for sure, but you can answer that. And then, rick and Brittany, you guys feel free to join in where you guys would like their story. This is your guys' story, this is Brittany's story, so I would love to hear it from your guys' perspective. So, thank you.
Speaker 4:Yeah, absolutely so. I don't know either of them in real life per se, but I anticipate that that will change in the future. But essentially I joined the OG I'm going to call it the OG Killabee Studios Before this magnificent building was put in place and Rick Party was the guest. I didn't know he was. I really hadn't been to a Killabee Studios show previously and I sat there and I was compelled by the story, particularly because Rick talked a little bit about having a stutter. Having grown up with a stutter and it was I just couldn't move past. It was so fascinating to me that not only did he overcome his stutter but he also monetized the very thing that previously was a hindrance to him as it being a stutter and now he makes a living from his voice in a lot of different ways. So that was just insane to me.
Speaker 4:Probably a few weeks slash months before that, I met Brittany by chance at the Turn Up podcast by GoldenRace. Thanks for watching. There was a debate happening. For anybody who's ever been there it's very audience engaging and a lot of opportunity for people to speak and I kind of stepped up. Somebody maybe made an off-color comment that offended someone else and there was an argument happening back and forth and I stood up to somebody's defense that was Brittany's friend and that's essentially how we met. So after all of that kind of calmed down, she reached out and said hey, thanks for doing that. You didn't have to speak up for somebody you didn't know. Yeah, I admire that.
Speaker 4:And so from there the relationship just started where we would just kind of look to one another, hang out in horizons and do what most of us in here do, where we interact and figure out kind of what's going on day to day. So at that point in time I learned a little bit about her endeavor, which was she was the first digital radio station in the horizon worlds, called Bay Shop Radio, which many of you know and have been a part of it at any given time. And I was again fascinated by that because I was like what is it? What's a digital radio? Like the breakfast club in the metaverse, like what is this? And they had studio shows that they did on Wednesdays at 830, and I was just blown away by that idea. So, of course, me just kind of being a supporter and trying to figure out my own way in horizon we work together a lot behind the scenes to kind of help push the thing forward and figure out what was going to be next, bounce ideas off each other and things like that.
Speaker 8:And I want to interject real quick because I want to set the record straight I did not start off doing Bay Shop Radio alone. It was not a me thing. Was I heavily involved? Did I create it? Did I curate it? Did I have a lot to do with the planning and the execution? Absolutely. But we're going to speak about the power of collaboration. I had two other folks with me when I started Bay Shop Radio who were just as important to the foundational curation of a digital radio station.
Speaker 8:So I do want to set the record straight that there's nothing in this world that you can do by yourself. There is nobody on the face of the earth who's ever created something completely alone. But what I will say is that you have to do your part and, whatever it is, that you collaborate with people to make it a success. You have to give your 100%, because when you collaborate together and you pull things together, that's when you get the buzz, that's when people notice you, that's when you become not only part of the community but you help engage the community and build the community. And I don't want to get started on a soapbox, but I just want to set the record straight because Actually you're on a couch.
Speaker 8:I don't want to get caught between the cushions.
Speaker 2:Can I curse on here, because I don't want to slip up, I don't want to curse, I don't want to curse.
Speaker 3:Okay, all right.
Speaker 8:Curse scene is all right. Look, I know it's the angle of curse, but I almost did Look God working on me still. But I want to set the record straight because everything is collaborative. Okay, go ahead, that's good.
Speaker 4:So, you know, in the midst of kind of realizing what Bayshire Aurelia was and seeing behind the work that went into it, behind the scenes, as well as the production itself, I sort of put two and two together and watching Rick's show, his interview on this show, and I was like I wonder if this guy's ever seen this show, like I think that the production that he's doing here is incredible. He's in radio in real life. You know, I fully believe in diversifying and if he's in here, in theory he's into this stuff. So I basically called them on Instagram. I was like, hey, you know, really inspired story, loved it. And he's like, you know, thanks, man. And I'm like, hey, have you ever, like checked out this?
Speaker 3:show.
Speaker 4:You know, but he's like, and I asked if he had met her or ran across her at any point and he's like maybe, but I don't remember if I did.
Speaker 5:I'm not rememberable. I'm sitting here looking at no no no, I'm sitting here looking at the text right now and it's exactly like he's is.
Speaker 3:It is.
Speaker 2:I'm sitting here in a queue, okay.
Speaker 8:Okay.
Speaker 5:But I didn't know you yet, I didn't know.
Speaker 8:You trying to say I have a face for radio.
Speaker 2:No, I had never, oh my gosh Ding Dong. You see what you got me into, man Geez.
Speaker 5:I'm not going to get into this man, Whatever.
Speaker 3:No one could say so. You don't know me, huh, no, you got to be glad.
Speaker 8:I can't curse on this podcast. Yes you're accurate Ding Dong.
Speaker 4:Look, so, so, so. So, you know he says that, and then I say well, have you ever checked out this show based on radio? He's like no, but you know I love to check it out. Where can I, where can I see it? And you know, I told him the world name and he was gracious enough to actually go and check it out. Yeah, and I think you know who better suited to pick up the story than my friend here to the right, my dear friend who's now a great friend of mine. We talk very frequently, you know the wonderful Brittany Cherry.
Speaker 1:And as he gets right handed off to Brittany, that's. You know, my God. I want you guys to remember what he said there too. He didn't know either one of them in real life.
Speaker 3:I mean, he just made a connection. Made a connection.
Speaker 1:Like you're putting yourself out there, and I think that's so important, because there's a lot of people that we meet in here that are like they're trying Like who's the right people when you talk, to Just be you and do what you love doing. You said it right there, Shehan, that you know you do it because you love doing it. That's right. That's where you guys got to start, Like there's a lot of people that's doing it, trying because they want to be a big star, but you need to do it because you love doing it, not just because you're trying to make something. Do it because you love doing it and the other stuff will follow. But it does take hard work. So I think this is a great time to hand it over to Brittany, so go for it.
Speaker 3:Let me just say real quick too. Just one other quick takeaway.
Speaker 1:I have to let Mrs Killer, be go first, because you know yeah you don't want to be in trouble.
Speaker 8:You don't want to be in trouble you better chill out, mrs Killer, or Mrs Killer.
Speaker 1:This is a smart man over here.
Speaker 4:We don't want to put you in the behind the scenes. You can have couched, no, ok, no, I just want to say very quickly.
Speaker 3:Another thing really Ding Dong too. It took courage to reach out to Rick, because you know it's kind of hard, like reaching out to number one, someone you don't know. But number two, you know, someone who you look up to and you know you were drawn by his story. So that takes courage and I applaud that, because there have been times in my past before where I wanted to do that but I felt too shy, you know. So, like I think that's encouraging to think of, like hey, what's the worst that can happen? Just reach out, you know.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and I think I mean just really quickly. I think it's a lot easier to in this space, right, because we're all avatars, so what's?
Speaker 2:Rick going to do.
Speaker 4:You know, toss my IP like I mean. He's not.
Speaker 8:Yeah, he's going to block you. You know he'll be a blob. He'll be a blob.
Speaker 2:Give me a thumbs up or a thumbs down, because you know.
Speaker 4:So I just think you know, if you're afraid, then just put on your avatar, you know be in control of the leaks.
Speaker 8:You can change your identity here without getting surgery also like yeah, you're a dummy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm a dummy, but with that said yeah, Brittany, we would love to hear your perspective on this, OK so Ding Dong, thank you.
Speaker 8:But but what I really want you guys to take from what he said was get you some friends who do things like that behind your back. I had no idea he had reached out to Rick Party asking him to check me out. Yeah, and friendships are tough, you know, friendships are hard, and especially friendships in a space like this where you don't really know people. You're like still trying to figure out what this thing is about and you're still trying to like gauge the environment and who you can trust and all of this stuff and not giving too much information away about yourself.
Speaker 8:I was very guarded, but I was always professional. I always carried myself in a professional way, and the reason why I did that is because this place, this environment, is like any other environment. You don't know who you're going to run into, who's an avatar, but who they really are in real life. So I wanted to represent myself how I represent myself in real life, right, yeah, on the off chance that what I'm doing might put me in a position to meet someone. And again, I had no idea that he did that Like, when he did that, it really it really caught me off guard because he was like hitting me up. He's like look, it's a guy on the radio and his name is Rick Party. He didn't say it like that, but he was like this is man on the radio.
Speaker 8:His name is Rick Party and me being the researcher that I am, I Googled this man. I was like uh-uh.
Speaker 5:You Googled everything.
Speaker 8:Who does Ding Dong have me meet?
Speaker 5:in who is?
Speaker 1:this guy, and then, as I'm, reading.
Speaker 8:it was like Voice of ESPN Sports Center radio Chicago legend Rick Party and I was like what? And if I could curse, bleep.
Speaker 2:What the bleep who?
Speaker 8:is this guy? And I was like, oh, that's probably not even him. Like Ding Dong probably met an impersonator. Like what the fuck this? Is an avatar and then he came to a show and when he came to the show, it happened to be one of the best shows. We had other celebrity guests If you guys are familiar with Mims Sean Mims in this space, he came to the show. This is why I'm hot. This is why I'm hot.
Speaker 3:He came.
Speaker 8:Yeah, he's a good friend of mine. He came to the show. Dj Epps was there. We had so many people there and Rick happened to be at the show. And after the show Rick was like oh you know, I caught the tell. End of the show was a great show. He was like send me an air check.
Speaker 2:Yo, I didn't know what an air check was.
Speaker 5:I didn't know, explain him what an air check is.
Speaker 8:Explain what an air check is.
Speaker 5:So an air check is really just a snippet of like, say, if you have a four hour show, it's the entire show without the music. Just, we want to hear what you sound like, your personality, how you evoke emotions, how you introduce records, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 8:Oh right, right, right, like Netflix commercial free, right. So my father a little background about me. My father was actually a radio host. He was a radio host for a number of years. I'm from North Carolina, he graduated from the University well, shaw University in North Carolina and that university is an HBCU and it was one of the first HBCUs in that area to have an independent radio station. And so my father, in my eyes, was a radio legend, right, and I never really got into radio, like it was always around me, always knew my father was on the radio. My father has a really electrifying personality. People listen to him when he speak and I never thought that I had that commanding power like my father.
Speaker 8:Like it's really hard to live in the shadows of a parent. If they are successful, right, they're out there, they're doing big things, and it's really hard to live up to that. And so I just never even touched it. I never thought I had what it took. And Rick Party was like send me an air check. So y'all already know. I didn't know what an air check was and so I said, ok, let me go ahead and Google this thing, right, google is your friend. So I downloaded a software Adobe Audition.
Speaker 8:I downloaded.
Speaker 2:Adobe Audition.
Speaker 8:I looked at Google, I looked at YouTube, I studied the air checks that I saw Like I literally emailed him and I was like I'm sorry, I'm working out some sound stuff. That wasn't true, sorry.
Speaker 2:I was like I didn't lie, I was really.
Speaker 8:I was really re-recording my voice over and over again, trying to make it perfect and I wouldn't necessarily say that.
Speaker 4:She went on to teach me what a sound check was. After that, I mean an air check, excuse me, right after that.
Speaker 2:So I just want to say that she took care of it. She didn't tell me she didn't know what it was.
Speaker 3:I was like.
Speaker 8:But let me tell you about it. Let me tell you what it is. And so I was re-recording my voice over and over and over again. And I don't consider myself a perfectionist, but what I know is I know what my best is. And if I'm never giving, if I don't give my best, I know when I do something I could do better. Oh, I could do better than that. Oh, I can do better than that. And it's not that I'm reaching for perfection. I'm reaching for something I could be proud of, and I wanted to give Rick something that I could be proud of.
Speaker 8:So, to my creators out there, create to your taste, create to what makes you feel good about yourself. Nobody else, because at the end of the day, you will never reach perfection. Nothing will ever be perfect, but the best art ever is something that is imperfect. If you're familiar with MCV Unplugs, which was one of the best series ever, if you're a music lover, it was so imperfect. It was not a studio session, it was people's voices cracking, it was emotion, and Lauren Hills Unplugged, mtv Unplugged. If you've never heard that before, go listen to that, because I listen to that every time I'm in a mood. I'm in a mood, feels and stuff like that.
Speaker 8:But I say this to say I handed him the most imperfect air check Right and he called me and was like I want to work with you. He heard something and the most imperfect thing and that and what that means is that don't don't try to be perfect. Give it all that you've got and you never know if somebody might see something in you or hear something in you and they're like you, the one. You're the one that I want to work with. You're the one. You got it. You got what it takes and it may take you doing that aircheck or or drawing that picture or Doing that voiceover or whatever it is that you, if you're in entertainment, recording that song, you might have to do that a hundred Times and it won't be perfect, but on that one hundred and one time, when you like this is it, and somebody hears you or sees you and they like I Want to work with you, you'll be like it was all worth it and that that was my experience.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's awesome. I love that Love about what you just point out. There's so much there but needy you point out. But what I do, I think, is really important to that when people to get to is this isn't something just happened overnight for You've been pulling in. This is something you've been aiming towards, you've been working towards and you're even doing it in Horizons, because it was something you wanted to do. You just never knew when that connection was going to happen. But it happened here and we're just blessed to be a part of that story, knowing all of you guys. So I thank you so much.
Speaker 1:I want to encourage you guys don't give up. And you know, I know we run into issues here in horizons. We're always working with horizon bugs and stuff like that. But this is part of this new technology. But this new technologies open up some amazing opportunities.
Speaker 1:I mean we've connected with some amazing people that we've never. We're actually our business works of people here that we've Met and brought into horizons and that never would have happened without this platform here. I mean my wife is actually working on Writing a help and put together a whole publishing, a whole book on Amazon publication and all this stuff with amazing author because of it all came from here, from a tour. The people wasn't even guess. I just gave them a tour and that connection and turn it all. So I mean, don't give up on what your dreams are, just keep putting in that hard work and do it because you love doing it, and just wait for that right opportunity. Now, rick, I would love to ask you, like I want to. I want you to share your side of the story and how this all came.
Speaker 8:Okay, brittany's got her finger up, so yeah, I'm gonna let Bernie I do want to say. I do want to say one other thing. I see some people in the audience that I want to give a shout out to Presby and Harls Mac Harls is an incredible artist, musical artists here in Horizon worlds, and they've been part of my meta family and what I love so much about Harls and Presby is that you know they've always been some super hard workers and they're part of the sampler team. So, like the sampler over Over at VR chat, we do the sampler and it's we're on the sixth season now. I host with boo bangers, but I just really wanted to give a shout out to Harls Mac y'all.
Speaker 8:Make sure you stream his music on all music platforms Spotify, apple music like he, he's really he. If anybody in his room really deserves a shout out, it's. It's gonna be that guy up there, so I just want to give.
Speaker 1:Rick, let me know, I get first off from you, from being in the entertainment industry and ding dong comes you if this, with this you know this person you don't know of in the metaverse. I Would like you to share from your point of view, your heart, to actually even step in here and come, come and see what, what he's talking about, because there's not everybody does that. So for those that's maybe in in entertainment already, that are hearing about horizons, are in here, what would you want to say to them about giving somebody a shot like this to kind of reach out, like what, what pulled your heart to do that?
Speaker 5:Yeah, um, from from the inception with me, a guy helped me. When I was a kid I was calling into the radio station every day making a dedication, and he took the time to talk to me and I didn't know I guess in the back of my mind I wanted to become a radio personality and this guy took the time out to say to me, like, why are you home every day? I told him I was sick and that's why I'm not in school. He's that, get back in school. And that from that moment he became my, my mentor and I met so many people like this. I didn't have a father figure in in in my life at the time. So every young man and young person I met, I gave them the same time that this man gave me. Oh, boston, that was always my goal, always my goal to go along and help people. So when I got the phone call from I mean the text from from Ding Dong about Brittany I, I just like helping people because, like I said earlier, they're actually helping me as well.
Speaker 5:So when I, when I Went to her show, I was just moved by Her virtual presence, just the way she she carried herself, her, her sound, her ability to to research and just pull off a great show, and that's something that that I've always Loved about talent, the hard work that they put in for me.
Speaker 5:You know you, I guess you can find a talent there diamond doesn't but someone who actually loves her work and Puts it in, that's very rare, and I saw that in her and, just like she said, when she created the demo, it was imperfect, but I I heard that one thing that mattered to me. But I also heard and and and saw, if you will, a person that reminded me of myself and and that was one of the things that just really attracted me to her and I said from there we could, you know, whatever, whatever it doesn't exist in her mind, because I already know what she's gonna be able to do. We're gonna build this together. We're gonna build and, you know, grows, grow together. And after Ding Dong even introduced Brittany to me it was then El Michelle over here she said hey, I want you to meet Brittany. I said, well, guess what this guy, ding Dong, told me about her? And she says she's awesome.
Speaker 1:You need to come in.
Speaker 5:You need to come in, you need to come in, she's at an event.
Speaker 5:So Everybody just kept saying Brittany cherry and all the roads pointed to Brittany cherry and that was it so working, working with Brittany, it's, it's been a, it's been amazing because I get to see, you know myself and her, like she, she's kind of at the beginning Of her career and I'm kind of, you know, phase and out a little bit. I've got, I've got so much more in me and it's it's simply because I've been working with her, like you, you have literally you've, you've breathed life into me. So you.
Speaker 5:Yeah, you make it exciting and and my goal is to it's to really just pour everything I have done to you and just Allow you to just conquer the world and just sit back and go, yeah.
Speaker 3:I've been crying the whole time.
Speaker 1:I just got this emoji today, so this is for you guys. Listen the podcast. It was a heart emoji, so you don't get. But no, you know, I love that Rick because and you are, I mean you you love to give back. I mean, when we had Rick on here gosh was over a year ago we had you, had you on here to share your story, and I remember afterwards you said In real life, my name is Brian, real life, and he's like Brian If you have anything, anything I can do to help you guys, let me know. And it wasn't for like a while. I reached out to him I said, rick, Would you be all willing to help us out, do an intro and outro for the show, cuz I'm always trying to do all that and you're like I would absolutely love to. So when you guys hear the intro, the Shows and the outros of the music, that's Rick party.
Speaker 1:You know, you didn't have to do that.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I think what really shocked you too was the big invoice that I sent you to in the end. That was huge, that was a big shot you guys you guys talk about an air check.
Speaker 1:He told me it was the cash app.
Speaker 4:It's.
Speaker 5:It's my voice, it's my voice and and Brian, you, you gave me a Platform to share my story and that really meant a lot for me. And when I say that to people, I'm here and I've probably said it to you know each of you that that have spoken to me there's no such thing as too much. You can't call me too much. You can ask a stupid question.
Speaker 8:Call me. I definitely call him in the middle. What you don't, what you're doing.
Speaker 5:So that's it. I mean listen people like me, we need stuff to do right? I work from home now I don't work in a physical studio at a radio station anymore. I have a studio built in my home and I'm just, I'm blessed man, I'm. It's something I've always wanted. Thank you, lord, for the the. What do you call the thing that?
Speaker 8:for two years oh.
Speaker 5:Oh, oh, pandemic. Yeah, I try to forget about it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:What I love about you, rick, too, is, like you know, I've heard stories talk about, like you know, when you're, when people are down the valley and you've been there before, like we, like you said, like you, you were there before you, we were at the starting point, we all started the same place yeah, is that through time, you, you get, you got higher up on.
Speaker 1:You know, sometimes let's just put it this way you might be in a valley and someone else has been in a valley, is now up on top of the mountain. But the problem is we can get into is, if we're on top of the mountain, we can be shouting out to the person of values that you need to do this, this, this, and you can get up here. Like you need some water, you need to get some water. But instead what you do is you kind of come down and you give them some water and help, show them like, hey, like you try to help them get up that mountain, and that's a huge piece to what we can do together in Real life and through horizon worlds. Yeah.
Speaker 5:Go ahead because you know I'm older and I may forget. No, no, that that's so true. Listen, my mother said to me you know when, when you marry and when you, when you have a partner that's gonna be with you forever, be with someone that can take care of you when you can't take care of yourself. And when she passed away has it been four years now On on on the obituary it said if you love me, feed my sheep. So if you know that, that's that's how I, that's how she lived, that's how I live. I take care of people that not only will take care of me, but will take care of other people.
Speaker 1:So that's a man.
Speaker 8:Amen, yes, and Rick. Rick is absolutely exactly who he says he is.
Speaker 5:I think I'll say something else.
Speaker 8:No, no, and it's rare that you meet people who are exactly who they say they are. They show up authentically. I have a joke that I don't. I always tell the truth, and it may sound funny, but it's I really. If you ask me a question, I'm going to tell you the truth.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I can attest to it. I'm like hey, what do you think Is she like?
Speaker 4:no, I will tell the truth.
Speaker 8:And and Rick posted a really good quote that you guys should check out on his page is that it was a quote about friends and it says you know the friend who pushes you, the friend who tells you about yourself, the friend that you don't like because they hold you accountable, the friend that is going to tell you the truth. You may not like them in the short term, but you'll grow to love them in the long term. Get you some people around you that's not going to coddle you, that's going to tell you the truth. And you know it's been unfortunate that I've lost friendships for telling the truth, but I won't apologize for it. I'm always going to push people I care about to be great because I see the potential in them.
Speaker 8:And you know Rick is feeding the sheep. You know he's feeding. He's feeding. He's feeding into people, he's pouring into people and I see that in him and I want to do the same to other people. I want to help people, Like, if I have the resources to do it, if I have, you know, the breath in my body to keep going, and to help people. That's what I want to do Now. My help may show up like accountability. It may show up like putting your feet to your fire, but sometimes you got to do that to really help people, because the help that they need is not.
Speaker 8:You're doing great Sleedy Like the internet is going to tell you the help they need might be. You need to get your butt up and work and you know, like and I'm not going to sit here and sugarcoat you know the entertainment industry or anything like that, anything in life Everything is hard y'all. Yeah, yeah, look at gas prices and rent and everything. Like I'm your homegirl and I'm saying like I'm not a celebrity. Everything is hard. Ok, don't make it harder for yourself by lying to yourself. You know what I'm saying, like, if you know there's work that you need to do, get up and do that work. Get up and put the work in.
Speaker 8:I've lost nights of sleep behind this. It didn't happen where it was like an introduction and then boom, like I had to convince this man that I really wanted to do what I said I was doing. That was really about it in order to get the result that I've gotten. And I want you to take that. Don't make the connection and then get slack when somebody introduced you to somebody who can change your life. Take that introduction and get to work. It's not.
Speaker 8:It's not it's not a it's not a time to slack off. It's a time to really crank it up. You work as hard as you ever did in your life when you meet someone who can change your life.
Speaker 5:So now Brian before you go next.
Speaker 5:You have to tell them, like see a couple of things now for people who don't know and I don't know if you're going to get to this or not, but Brittany for meeting me on social I mean not social media but in VR she's now heard with me on on Odyssey Media's biggest radio station in Chicago, which is one of four through jams to throw back hip hop station at Lover Does the night show, we do the midday show and she does the social media rewind and we just have a great time. But one of the biggest highlights happened about two months ago. You got to tell them about that.
Speaker 8:Yes, tell us so. Rick and I were guests, hosts on the Big Tigger Morning Show down in Atlanta V one oh three. If you guys are familiar with Big Tigger, you know you might remember him from BC.
Speaker 5:He he's like I kind of a vendor or something or the rap rap city rap city the basement.
Speaker 8:He's really, you know, a big, huge part of the culture down there in Atlanta, and Atlanta is the number one urban station. So we were, we were down there. I mean the fact that I got exposure to, I mean millions of listeners since I've started to do radio is is insane. But I think it also is just like super cool, because I remember a comment that Rick had made. I got to Atlanta, I got lost, y'all trying to get to the station, but that's another, that's another show and it's tricky.
Speaker 1:I got lost, y'all it's another show.
Speaker 8:But when I got there, Rick was like you, so calm, you're so cool. Let me tell you something when you've been preparing for something your whole life and you know what you want to do and you in that position, there is nothing that is going to faze you. You're like I am exactly where I should be. It feels right. So if you're ever questioning in life where you should be, when calm comes over you, that's where you belong. When you're calm. That is where it is.
Speaker 6:It's good and you did it, peace and what you're doing.
Speaker 8:That is where you belong, and it was. It was a huge, it was huge, it was huge, it's huge, I think he was expecting me to like do cartwheels at a radio station. But I did that inside my inside myself, but you didn't see it out, yeah.
Speaker 5:That's all, and after, after the show, the program director, who's one of the biggest program directors in the country. Can you hear me?
Speaker 8:You know I can't get that again, oh yeah.
Speaker 5:Oh yeah. So after the show, one of the biggest program directors in the country, who programs at radio station, you know he met with us. We did two, two days right. We did two days right.
Speaker 8:Did y'all hear him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it might be me.
Speaker 8:It might be me. Oh, is your battery home? Ok, oh yeah, go ahead. I don't know, I'm not here, so we did. Can you hear me?
Speaker 5:We did two shows and she met the program director and he's, he asked her he goes. I think he asked her has she ever worked in radio before? And as she said, well, I just do the segment with Rick, but I've never worked at a terrestrial radio station he's like, wow, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1:So he was pretty amazed yeah.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 1:I love that I love that.
Speaker 3:That's the creation right.
Speaker 5:He's off, yeah, so so, just in case you didn't believe me or Ding.
Speaker 2:Dong or Elmichelle, you know you had a program director.
Speaker 8:Well, here's what I didn't believe, anybody y'all, and that's, and that's let me tell you something.
Speaker 8:Let me tell you something. That's the curse of the artist, that's the curse of the person who's a creative. You don't believe that you're good to anybody. So you, you don't believe it because you know in your heart there's so much more that you have to give, there's so much work that you have to do, but you don't get to experience yourself from somebody else's vantage point. And here I am experiencing myself from somebody else's vantage point and they're telling me that I'm great. You know what? And it was Ding Dong, I have to give it to him. And Elmichelle and Rick Elmichelle, I used to call her up y'all. I didn't even go get emotional, I ain't going to do it to you. I used to call her up about in tears y'all, because I was.
Speaker 8:I was pouring out everything that I had into this, this VR, the VR radio station, baystrock radio. I was pouring everything into one of four point three jams with with Rick. I was pouring everything. Oh, mind you y'all, I still have a nine to five. Ok, like, understand that nothing about this is like coast. You know what I'm saying? It's still nine to five. It's still family obligations. It's still, you know, my own digital station. It was still, you know, working with Rick and getting to know Rick and Ding Dong. Like things, we're human. So there was times where I was like, y'all, I want to give up. I don't think I can do this, I don't think I'm good enough. Something clicked one day between talking to Elmichelle, ding Dong and Rick where I woke up and I was like hold up, I'm not sick, I can do this, I'm supposed to do this.
Speaker 2:I'm exactly, it was a good thing. It was a good thing because you already know me. I was like yeah.
Speaker 8:Yeah almost, you almost slipped up.
Speaker 4:It's good because I actually and I'm talking to you about this I saw that change. I watched that moment happen, that's all. It was incredible. Cool Just to see the difference between am I good enough to who's going to tell me I'm not?
Speaker 2:Right, who's going to tell me boo?
Speaker 5:No one knew, brian, that when, when she came to the radio station with me, atlanta, I said listen. I told her a couple of days in the advance is the biggest radio station in Atlanta, probably one of the biggest hip hop stations in the country. Can you be there.
Speaker 3:No, I'm pressing, you got to be there.
Speaker 5:She drove five hours from where she lives. She got in a little bit after midnight. She probably slept about three hours.
Speaker 1:She was sweet, she slept at all, she was sweet, she was sweet.
Speaker 8:Michelle knows I was on the phone with her at like two o'clock in the morning. I was like I'm not going to be able to sleep. I need to be at the station at four o'clock in the morning. If I go to sleep, I am not going to make it to the station.
Speaker 5:I did not sleep. I was on the phone with Elm Michelle. I was like I don't know where your girl is.
Speaker 2:I don't know what's going on here, but she got here and she showed up and showed out.
Speaker 5:Listen, when someone gives you an opportunity, there are no excuses. Either you want it or you don't want it. She wanted, she showed up, and here she is celebrating her. That's it, no weakness.
Speaker 3:I love it. I think it's so funny. I think it's so funny, like when she's like late or whatever he's like Elm Michelle, where's your girl? No, our problem.
Speaker 8:I'm Elm Michelle's girl when I'm late, but when I'm on time it's oh, you guys, you guys got to hear bring your cherry on.
Speaker 3:That is so funny.
Speaker 7:Who do you guys want to collab?
Speaker 2:with in the future Like who do you like go to collab in the future.
Speaker 7:Good question.
Speaker 8:Go ahead, Ding Dong Any everyone for what we do.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8:Really.
Speaker 4:Oh, that's tough, I'm actually you know what, and I don't think that I'm trying to be funny, but, honestly, the two of them.
Speaker 2:For sure, like to be honest. It's good to know, it's awesome.
Speaker 4:So sweet.
Speaker 8:My answer is not going to be that sweet. I'm sorry, but I love you, but I love you still. So I grew up, you know I'm a woman of color and I didn't grow up seeing a lot of women of color in the media space when I was a young a young child, and someone that I always looked up to was MTV VJ Ananda Lewis, because I got a chance to see what a black woman in media and interviewing and in the culture and she knew hip hop, she was educated, she was beautiful and I looked at her and I was like that's going to be me when I grow up. I don't know how, so if I could ever sit down and collaborate or talk to Ananda Lewis, it would make my life. So that's, that's mine. Let's go find her.
Speaker 8:I know.
Speaker 3:We're going to make that happen.
Speaker 5:Well, I know a demo. Do you remember a demo? She did the show with him on BET, the talk show.
Speaker 8:I think you know free because I could talk. I mean free is free is on my list. Okay, yeah, all right, there we go.
Speaker 5:She's from. She's from Boston too. So yeah, my collaboration. I've been talking about building my, my show, my team and I've reached out to Ding Dong and I've talked to To Brittany and she whispered to Ding Dong, and Ding Dong is just such a he's such a. Amazingly creative person. I mean the questions that he asks on his the show that he hosts the video that he puts together, I mean, his mind is to be picked.
Speaker 8:It's crazy. Yeah, he's so crazy creative and he doesn't even know it. Yeah.
Speaker 5:No it and then El Michelle. I mean listen, she's been a part of everything that I've been doing, so listen, even if it's my radio show, she's she's been my, my, my partner in voiceover and I, just I, just, not only she just incredibly talented. Yes just like us, like she loves people. Yeah, and those are the people I want to keep by my side. I want to keep my pocket as close as I can and just continue to collaborate so we can help people.
Speaker 8:I want to work with everybody in this room. How about that? I?
Speaker 5:Want to work with the lights too, and the speaker.
Speaker 3:I'm glad you had your answer. I'm glad you said what you said, because you know you put it out there. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 8:Yeah, I'm putting a Nanda Lewis free All of all of the black media og girly y'all come come find me.
Speaker 1:Thank you, thank you, thank you. Is there any person, alive or not alive? I guess that's the two options In history that you could interview on your show. Who would it be?
Speaker 5:Oh, man, muhammad Ali. For me, that quote that I was trying to get out earlier, guys, he said if your heart is impure, you can't be great, and that, just that, stuck with me. Muhammad Ali was a man who who fought the US government. He didn't want to go fight because he didn't feel like that was his fight, and he fought for civil rights and for so many reasons, and While he was, you know, braga doshas, it was all for marketing.
Speaker 5:Mm-hmm and as he got you, as he got an older he, he wrote a book and it's called the soul of a butterfly. And that book touched me so much because he talked about how, how much he changed and how every experience and every person in his life meant something to him, and doesn't matter how big or small they are. And it was just. That was the first book that I I literally I just read all the way through without stopping go, and I just always keep it by my, my bedside, and I said, if that's one person I could interview, yeah, I, I would want to. And I never did. And when that man passed away, oh my, I never met him but it hurt so badly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a great, I leave yeah.
Speaker 5:He just loved people, he just loved people, yeah.
Speaker 8:So I think my answer might actually really surprise people. Lucille ball is the person and, and the reason why it would be Lucille ball is because here's here's some fun facts that you guys may not know about Lucille ball. She, first of all, she was the first female comedian to display interracial marriage on television. I mean, you guys think about how revolutionary that was back then. She was the first comedian to use three-angle cameras on her show she was.
Speaker 8:You know, she was the first woman on television that was pregnant. She she revolutionized television and media for women. She fought for Women being able to have the rights to own a media company she owned, she co-owned Desi Lou productions with her husband. So when I, when I look at like a revolutionary and I'm we're talking about in the 50s yeah, you know I mean like that.
Speaker 8:That was crazy. I was a I love Lucy fanatic. I had the lunchbox, the clock and it was. It was a very odd thing a little black girl from North Carolina, you know, watching I love Lucy and I saw, I saw something on the screen that was magical. She could make people laugh and I think Sometimes I'm unintentionally funny, but I love. I love to put a smile on people's face and make them laugh and make them think. And it would be, it would be Lucy.
Speaker 5:I don't have any connections to her, so I.
Speaker 1:Can you want to bring up that mic up one more time. Let's see if this works. I'm gonna try to reset. I don't know if I'll let me do it from here. So Go ahead, she hand. Let's see if you can get in there.
Speaker 6:Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right. So ding dong, you go ahead and give your answer, and then we'll go ahead and go to see him.
Speaker 5:That's first, I think, you're gonna not ain't no you.
Speaker 4:I would say Dana White. I'm just intrigued by kind of what he's done with, with sports in general, and and just the way his brain works is intriguing.
Speaker 4:That's especially being that you know he talks about being a doorman and then just being like man, I'm done, like I'm finished, I gotta go chase his dream. And then you know, all these years later he was. He's like the guy that everybody's like he's gonna fail because he's doing something and nobody gets behind. And Fast forward 25 years and he's got one of the the highest Value companies in the world. So very intriguing and I'd love to see what, what, like, what made him go past that adversity, after all those years of people saying you're not gonna be able to do this, like nobody's ever gonna sign off on this stuff. So and he's doing it again.
Speaker 4:Those of you who don't know.
Speaker 8:You can literally do anything you put your mind. So there is, there is no, can't not, won't, stop there, there's no. The answer no doesn't exist. It's do it differently, find another way, ask a different question, open another door. Um, though, that's what you need to say to yourself, and Dana White is a prime example of find another way. If 20 is 20 people on the street, tell you know, keep going, because all you need is one yes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thank you for that question.
Speaker 2:Good soldier good soldier, always, always.
Speaker 4:You know support anybody?
Speaker 3:Oh see who we got, we've got. Oh, thank you, Sean.
Speaker 5:No, question what they can hear me. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, yes.
Speaker 2:What's your overall goal? With everything that you do in life, like you are, you see yourself at the very top, but we're like what's the very top for what you do it right now?
Speaker 8:Okay, that's a good question. Anybody want to go first?
Speaker 5:Um, for me, I've done any and everything I've ever wanted to do and For me it's just. It's just pouring, pouring into people and make sure that they continue the job to just pour in more people. That's it. It's good, it's, it's. It's not a lot, it's just really that simple, yeah.
Speaker 8:I've been. I've been called the Angela E and the metaverse by myself. I call myself that, um. So I, you know, I look at her career. Um, she started off, you know, or, in radio. She started. She was, you know, working with Wu Tang clan and all that. And One thing I will say that I admire about Angela E is that she's just not a radio personality, she's a business owner. She, you know, she's a podcaster, she's doing stuff for the community. Um, so I, I see myself not necessarily having her same career, but I think that if I continue to not I think what I just say about these words I know that when I continue to do and do what I'm doing and continue to pour into myself and Listen to those who are giving me guidance, that I could have a career bigger than hers because why not?
Speaker 8:Right.
Speaker 3:Britney, this is kind of off the subject, but do you know a lot about Wu Tang clan?
Speaker 8:You know what? Let me, I'll be honest with you. No, but what I do know about, well, I'm going to be honest. But what I do know about them is that they're super. I mean, we're celebrating 50 years of hip hop, so they're an iconic group. And if you ask me right now, you put me on the stop because you know D-Dawn like to ask a lot of these random questions like name all the members of the Wu Tang clan and post that on social media and I'm like yeah, y'all looking stupid.
Speaker 4:That's not what I asked. I just asked what.
Speaker 8:I couldn't name all the members of Wu Tang clan, but do you have Ms Killer Bee?
Speaker 3:You got a, you got a something about Wu Tang clan. Yes, I don't know much about them either but people always ask us if that's where Killer Bee came from, was Blue Wu Tang clan.
Speaker 8:So we're wondering like did they have a song named Killer Bee, like what I need to Google it, okay.
Speaker 2:So I'm welcome to the Wu. Hold on, let me put the Wu Tang.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we got to get the clean version for you guys.
Speaker 3:So we don't have to have the clean version. Rick, it's all right.
Speaker 5:Okay, all right.
Speaker 8:That was a good question.
Speaker 5:That would be super dope though how about you?
Speaker 4:D-Dawn. What do you want to see at?
Speaker 2:your highest.
Speaker 4:I would say and I've talked to Bernie about this privately I envy the position that Rick is in and I think I think, generally speaking, it's sort of a situation where he's he's sort of like an overseer. He gets to be a teacher and sit back and watch people flourish with the things that he's given them, and I envy that Honestly. I think that that's such a precarious position of being and something that I would aspire my entire life to get to, to where I've done enough, and my goal is to just give it back now and see the next generation flourish.
Speaker 2:That's what's up. I wish y'all nothing but the best. I look up to y'all when it comes to the media and the entertainment industry.
Speaker 8:Y'all keep on killing shit.
Speaker 2:What is that?
Speaker 5:That's a real voice. I love your voice.
Speaker 2:She has a big voice.
Speaker 1:We are going to do a couple more questions and if some people want to line up, just let you guys know. After the show we're going to bring everybody up so we can grab a selfie together. And, rick, I want to say, like you know, I actually I love that you're giving back and you're helping other people. You know, fill that spot for you to move on to. I showed my wife I have to kind of throw her into the bus right here I showed her a video of you. She's like I don't think I've seen Rick Pardes. I said, oh, here, let me go to his Instagram. She's like he's a lot younger than I thought. Wait a minute, I see the gray hair in his beard. I was like, okay, he's a young.
Speaker 8:He's a young old man.
Speaker 5:She calls me old man all the time. She calls me old man all the time.
Speaker 6:She's not old, you're just a high level wizard at this point.
Speaker 3:Exactly, you're not going to be my friend.
Speaker 5:This is why she's my friend. She's honest.
Speaker 8:He is old, but he is also a genie. He's a wizard, he's a master, and y'all need to start respecting your elders. Okay, I've got something to say about that.
Speaker 2:His name.
Speaker 3:I've got something to say about that, rick. So I just recently read a book by Dick Van Dyke and, as you may or may not know, he's like 94, I think yes. And he said that you cannot call yourself old until you've surpassed the human limit of life, which is basically about 100. So you can't call yourself old until you're about 100. So don't be saying people are telling you the truth if you're old because you're not old.
Speaker 8:Well thank you. I was doing something right, because he was just on the mass finger.
Speaker 5:I saw him on the mass finger. Did he actually perform?
Speaker 8:No, he was performing.
Speaker 3:He was singing underneath the mass. Dick Van Dyke dances every day.
Speaker 2:Is that amazing?
Speaker 1:He's crazy. All right, shahan, go ahead. Oh sorry, that's all right, thanks for joining us again.
Speaker 2:I did watch Dick Van.
Speaker 5:Dyke show. He just danced in the beginning of the show every day, maybe because we're too young to see it.
Speaker 8:I do know, dick Van Dyke, are you guys going?
Speaker 5:to hear me Dick.
Speaker 6:Van Dyke, anyway, chimneys.
Speaker 2:Chimneys. Thank you guys.
Speaker 6:So much for the show. I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is actually the first show I've been able to attend Harry Kilderby. I loved all everything I saw, I heard, saw, I guess. Yeah, it was wonderful. I really enjoyed the information.
Speaker 6:I really enjoyed the technical question when it comes to trying to get you know, make content and get it out there, as you know, for good voiceover recording, if not also as well as singing like because, for instance, the internal microphone in the Oculus apparently is not too good that I can't really figure out where it is, so I can't like mess with how far away I need to get when I get louder or higher or whatever, and sometimes it'll break up on me. So I'm looking for a good headset that I can attach to the Oculus that will actually use the external microphone, because as it is I have some headphones and they connect and it has an external mic, but for some reason the Oculus will not recognize it will not use the external mic. And I've heard there are some, some that I can get. I've been told a few options. I was wondering if you guys had some recommendations for that, for looking into something like that to to help start create content.
Speaker 1:I don't think there's anything on the Oculus that will work on an external mic.
Speaker 7:I'm not talking outside to it right now.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you're doing it through the Oculus headset, that's the only mic you can use. I know Arkane's looking at pulling his apart and trying to figure out a way to wire one in, but as far as the research we've done, there's no mic that plugs in. You can only plug in earbuds or you can hear, so you can use separate speakers but not a separate mic. So but if you're going to be doing things for that recording, there's a lot of mics that you could use from you know I could. I could send you links. In the description below I'm going to be talking about the mic from you know I could.
Speaker 1:I could send you links to some that that we use in production and you guys probably have the same, but when it comes to the Oculus, it's just pretty basically, you've got to do that.
Speaker 6:From what I heard, I talked. I've been talking to a lot of people. I've talked to community guides. I've been researching online.
Speaker 6:I've talked to chat GBT and from what most people are saying, like if you get some headphones, a headset that is specifically made to like work with a console, or there are a few other ones that have like mic amplification, this, that and the other that are specifically tailored to work with like a, a, like a Xbox or something like that, one of those will work with the with the headset. I've heard some people do it. I just haven't figured out which one to go after. Like I have a few options but I haven't gotten one yet.
Speaker 1:Well then what I would suggest doing is going Amazon order it, because you know you can return it with no problem. I would try that because we've tried different ones and I think, like what we've, I ran into some people that think it does work and then we tell them that to to ways to test it to make sure that it doesn't. You know, they find out that it's not yeah, then they find out.
Speaker 6:It's really not working.
Speaker 1:It's just they just think it's working. But so, but yeah, I mean that's the best way to test it out from. I would say is good on Amazon, order one, test it. If it doesn't work, then send it back and try it.
Speaker 6:Yeah, if that doesn't work, then I guess that my question kind of changes to what? Like? What's the best way to be able to put out content with the, with what limited resources I have, like, for instance, I have this Oculus Quest 2, I have my Galaxy S9 Plus phone several years old, I have my MacBook Pro from several years ago and that and that's about it. Like, maybe some headphones with the next turn on mic, but they're not, you know the best, they're okay.
Speaker 3:And Sheehan are you specifically talking about? Like you're a singer, right?
Speaker 6:Well, not well, I'm your singing, dancing, acting martial artist, gymnast, dj host. That's your service. But not all of that transfers over to VR very well.
Speaker 2:Okay, Well, I can. I can try to answer this question a little bit.
Speaker 8:I say you work with what you've got. So do you have a video editing software, or do you have any software that you can use to edit video?
Speaker 6:Yes, on my MacBook, Okay. Okay, I'm working on trying to get used to getting content from here onto either my phone or onto my MacBook. I haven't fiddled with that yet because I have to get a bunch of memory on my MacBook free.
Speaker 8:Do you have? Do you have, an external microphone?
Speaker 6:Just the microphone on those headphones that I have, but it doesn't connect to the Oculus, but I can probably use it from my phone or whatever.
Speaker 8:Okay. When I first started putting out content metaverse content I will say it was rough. I'm not going to sit here and lie to you, okay, I'm not talking about rough to do, rough looking Okay. So what I would suggest you do is find a good software, play around with it. Remember what I said earlier about things don't have to be perfect. You're going to get into the groove of what looks and sounds good to you. Try a few things. Connect with people. If you have someone in here, people are your best resources. Right, there's always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, and that's not a slight to you, because no?
Speaker 8:no, no, of course I reach out to people all the time Like you know how to do this, because I don't know how to do this.
Speaker 8:Either you can show me or I can pay you, whatever it is that your resource allows you to do. Find someone who knows how to do something better than you. Okay, don't be intimidated by that. Use that as a guide. I'm going to find and surround myself with all of these people who know how to do something better than me and they're going to show me, because if you're eager to learn, they're going to teach you. Yeah, and then, just like Rick, you know, just like Ding Dong, we will talk and collaborate together about software. I mean, you told me about um was video yeah.
Speaker 7:Video.
Speaker 8:So you right. So you find out what on your phone, you find out what people are doing and you're like, okay, how do you use this and how can I? How can I use this to my benefit? So, use your resources. Use your um video editing software. When I started editing video in here, I did voice over because the microphone in here was so trash that I would record the video and do a voice over on top of it.
Speaker 7:Yeah, Okay, can I make a quick recommendation? Good, okay, so you can actually go into the settings of your audio recording in here, um, specifically for audio, you can actually go into the settings of your Oculus and increase the audio quality. It's a under bit rate and I think you can bring it up to like 20 megabytes per second, which gets way better. I think the default is five or maybe it's 10. Uh, and personally, like me and killer B, when we edit videos on our phone we use spark camera and we use splice, that's the one.
Speaker 7:That's the one Capcom. Both of those are amazing for like video editing on the go.
Speaker 1:And I think that you know what Brittany is saying is very important. Like you know, focus on the connections that you can make, because a lot of people can help you. Uh, you know there's a message me on the LinkedIn. I'm going to um LinkedIn message. Well, you can message me on LinkedIn if you're on there, but you can message us on Instagram, um, and I can send you a bunch of stuff that you can use for your mobile phone.
Speaker 1:But the thing is, don't get stuck in the in the mindset that you have to have certain types of equipment to move forward. Just do what you do, because people in here I mean, we have artists that come in and perform and and they're cool with doing it. They know the sounds not going to be great, but what they do is they have resources. People can go to that. They do on the side and people can go listen to their music and stuff from there. So, make those connections. The equipment will it'll catch up, but use what you got. Use what you got, uh, but I can send you some some great mics that connect to your mobile phones that have really good, uh, good quality. That can help out as well. So I'm going to do that.
Speaker 6:So, uh, that would be amazing.
Speaker 8:Thank you. Here's some also. It's a little bit of encouragement for you. Okay, I want you to take this home. People have gotten record deals by recording songs on their mobile phones. Okay, All right, people have recorded songs and closets on Metro PCS phones and have gotten record deals.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 8:So do not think that the equipment makes you, you make the equipment, yeah All right, that's great.
Speaker 5:That's great, you can take you can take that home, and he's already at home.
Speaker 6:So, uh, mission accomplished, well done.
Speaker 2:You uh did what you said, I did it. Good job, you did it.
Speaker 8:When you take the headset off, I want you to marinate on that? Certainly Well, thank, you.
Speaker 2:Thank you guys so very much. I definitely will.
Speaker 6:Um, uh. Yeah, I had something else to say, but I used to get hit in the head for living, so I forget.
Speaker 1:Thank you. I think you did Right there what did you want to say? Go ahead.
Speaker 7:RK. One other thing when we were talking to the, was it the founder of buzzsprout? I believe yes. Um, we found out one of the top podcasters, like on um, like just basically across the board, was still using that little $10 apple earbud.
Speaker 3:Um yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7:Whatever they're called um the little $10 ones that always came with your iPhone. They were still using that and they'd been podcasting for like six years and made all this money and like was a top podcaster. So it really goes to show you don't need a fancy mic yeah.
Speaker 1:He was speaking at an event and he said he was kind of ashamed when people asked him what mic he used, because everybody there is spending like thousands of dollars. You know mics can get expensive and he's like, uh, he's like.
Speaker 7:I found embarrassed to tell him.
Speaker 1:I'm using the $10 at normal air.
Speaker 5:you know apple earbud, so yeah, so there's nothing wrong with that it gets the job done, it gets the job done, that's right and to the truth about when you record with a microphone, since I use microphones a lot. You can buy the most expensive microphone, but if you're in a room that's not treated and doesn't absorb sound, the mic will sound like crap.
Speaker 5:So where you record, where you record, makes a lot of sense. And what Arcane suggested about changing the uh the bit rate, that's going to help you. And if you get a good software like uh uh Adobe audition, which costs, you can probably also get uh audacity right, and you could. You could kind of change the, the sound in you know, in your heads, add a little compression or a little EQ to you know, give it a cleaner sound.
Speaker 8:And if you need to go in that closet, go in that closet. Yeah, go in that closet.
Speaker 1:I mean, we've literally made sound we've we've literally made from my office here at the house. We've made sound boards out of old frames and you fill it in with old towels and wrap them in towels and they match the wall. You can't even tell there, but they they take in all the sound. It really does a great job. So there's a lot of things you can do.
Speaker 8:Go old school. If you have to, you gotta do what you gotta do.
Speaker 1:That's right. That's right. I love it, all right. Well, guys, we're going to get ready to wrap up. Please, rainnard guest, with some confetti. They stayed here way longer than than they were asked and I really appreciate you. Guys, we are going to bring everybody up for a picture after we hit the outro music, but before we go, I would love to ask um, brittany, we always ask our guests and since we have three, I'm going to give you the spotlight because it's your story. I'm going to ask you out of our whole conversation today. Uh, and with keeping it clean, no, I'm just joking.
Speaker 2:You don't have to you, don't have to keep it clean.
Speaker 8:I have a hard time with that.
Speaker 1:Our rules say no vulgar language. Just let that be clear. It says no vulgar, I mean people, we, we. A cuss word is not going to, oh, it's not going to offend us, but no, it's just no vulgar language. Is there a difference between vulgar and cussing? Is that? Is there a difference? Yeah, so there is.
Speaker 2:I thought so, I thought so, I thought so.
Speaker 1:Okay so, but I would love to give you the opportunity to what would be a takeaway that you would hope everybody here, or anybody's listen to the podcast replay, would take away from today's conversation.
Speaker 8:You are not a failure if you fail. You're a failure if you quit. And I know that it's hard when you are grinding it out. You stand up all night. You don't feel like people are liking your post or or reposting your, your stuff or commenting on your stuff. And I said in the beginning of the show everyone who's ever reposted something of mine added it to their story, commented like thank you, shared y'all. Y'all are amazing for that. Because in the world right now that we live in, something that is free as a like is so hard to get.
Speaker 8:And that's because people will look at you and watch you and they'll make a comment to themselves and they'll keep keep scrolling. But don't let that affect you, because you're not going to win watching someone else's plate. Eat your own food and when you eat don't leave any crumbs. And that's all I gotta say.
Speaker 1:That's good. That's good, I love it. I love it. Well, hey, thanks for tuning into today's podcast episode, if you liked, loved today's episode.
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