Hey, everybody, this is your host, Jeff. I've got just one question for
you.
The only live news podcast about
podcasting from the space.
The only live news podcast about
podcasting from the stage.
The only live news podcast about podcasting from the
stage. Very meta. And I've got a very special guest,
Rachel Minion, joining me today. Rachel, welcome to the show. Thank you
so much for having me. This is awesome. Well, thank you. It's a
one man show and I feel like I'm over producing it at this point.
This is Coffee with Poduty in the news. We started this show as a way
to celebrate and showcase our live podcast theater here. But
during the week, a lot of us work jobs, a lot of us are doing
interviews. So we thought, hey, Saturday morning, let's slow it down a bit, let's have
some coffee, let's talk about what's going on in live podcasting news
and let's have incredible guests like Rachel come on and share the
news with us. Tell our story, Tell her story. And that's kind of one of
the things we want to do early on here. Let's do a quick introduction. Rachel,
where are you calling in from? I'm calling in from a tiny little
town. It's a 700 person town in the middle of Florida called
Walaka. Walaka. We got one
stoplight here. A true one stop light
town. Almost like one of our. The first guests we ever had on here is
Maria Daniels. Very same situation, the
middle of Ohio. I think they just got their first stoplight and they'd
have a coffee shop right on the corner, so it's perfectly placed. Well,
we are right on the St. Johns River. And the best part about this
is there's so many different things to do on the river and restaurants
and bars and live music. This is the ultimate place. Awesome. Well, tell us
a little bit about what you do down in Florida. So
I run Rockstar Moon, which is a rev ops organization
that helps consultants go kick some butt. Let's get the foundation
in place so that they can go soar and do what they do best and
get them out of the day to day admin. But get systems running that really
help them scale so they don't need to add additional people to their team.
It's all about efficiency. I love it. Getting those right
strategies in place. You know, every business is different, right? You, you might have
different people in different places, different positions, and sometimes it's like a
big jigsaw puzzle. How do you put it all together? Well, I think the cool
Part is we have AI now and we have so many different
automations and so many things that could just be an engine for you
if you knew how to put it in place. I lost one of my key
employees in June and believe it or not, my husband challenged me. He said,
instead of trying to hire somebody who has all of this company knowledge all of
a sudden and can go make things happen for the company, what happens
if we just try to automate 80% of her?
And after 21 days of a very,
very long, long, no day off experience,
she was almost fully automated. And we're running
faster and better than ever. So if I can do that in my business in
21 days, what can we do for your business?
Awesome. And if people want to reach out and connect with you, what's the website
or best way to do that? Rachelminion.com
well, that's easy. Super easy. You know, like
I'm like one of those little yellow people.
I was gonna ask you. I didn't want to do that joke because I figured
you get that everywhere you go. Well, there's no way that I
ever would have changed my last name to my husband if that
movie wasn't out. Well, Rachel, we have some
incredible stories today. We have Anderson Cooper, Rapid
Response, Going with the Grain, and Broadway
Takeover. Are you ready to start?
I am. Let's make it happen. Let's go to that first
story. We've got crisis mode. How to win back trust
without burning the brand. This might be a great topic for you to jump
in on. This comes to us from fast company. When your company's
reputation is in ashes, do you rebuild or start
fresh? At the 2025 Masters of Scale Summit,
rapid response host Bob Safian sat down with two leaders
who walked straight into chaos. Karla Vernon of the
Honest Company and Jessica Berman of the National Women's
Soccer League, both inherited organizations shaken by scandal
and learned that trust isn't restored with slogans. It's rebuilt
through vulnerability. Focus and showing up with real humanity.
From union negotiations to cartoon inspired empathy lessons,
their playbooks for transformation prove that transparency and
emotional intelligence might be the most underrated
business tools of all. And this was the Masters of
Scale Summit. And the podcast that we're going to be talking about is the rapid
response. And one of the focuses of this podcast is to
look at why you would put on an event like this. Why would you bring
business owners into a. Into an event like this? One
is the connections. Right here we have business owners
two and telling they have two great stories about crisis management.
And what better way to share that in real time than with an
audience full of people who are not only love
this podcast rapid response, but probably running their own business,
probably looking for their own advice for their own
situations. What did you see or take away from this story,
Rachel? Well, what's interesting to me is
I came from Ticketmaster. I think Ticketmaster
is the most hated company
because they're doing this incredible thing of connecting
you with live music, but there is no transparency.
And they're been working really hard over the years to be able
to restore that transparency, but
I don't think that they've done enough. And for a live event company,
there hasn't been a live event on the transparency and
ticketing or having any type of vulnerability or
sure, there's blog posts about where ticket fees come
from, but let's look at our
demographics. Who's going to read a blog post
and who's going to believe it? Because it's pumped out by company PR versus
the alternative of putting somebody up on stage and having that
conversation because it should be one of the most
loved entities in the world. Yeah,
Ticketmaster seems to keep trying to be a better company,
but then acquires another silo of entertainment,
then takes over all the event spaces that the large
acts can travel to. Then they contract the large acts. So.
Well, that's the Live Nation side. The Ticketmaster side is
under the umbrella of Live Nation. Right. And
as an employee, it's awesome. My first
year at Ticketmaster, I went to go see 275 different
artists. It's access that we all want and we
all crave to those idols that we have, whether
it's WWE or NASCAR or
NFL or some amazing band
that you've been dying to see. It doesn't matter. We just
all want that access. And that's what the company, in the end provides.
And how they get it to us
is the most muddled thing. And there's no consumer that will ever
understand it. And this is, this is one of those examples for this event in
particular, that transparency, how important that is. And events like
this can show a human side to your organization, to your
business. You can show the audience, hey, look, we're trying here.
We're people, we're trying to do the best we can. Sometimes we make
mistakes, sometimes we get it right. But here's what we're doing, and here's what
we're doing to work toward to a better future, a better tomorrow.
And I think fans will really appreciate that transparency.
There was a day I was in the office and I was sitting across
in Chicago from the war room. And this
is the day Hamilton went on sale. Okay.
The level of stress in the office, you know when you can walk in and
all of a sudden you feel like, oh, my God, I think I might be
having a heart attack. I'm not sure what's happening. Like, it's. Everyone is that
tense. So I go to my office,
which has glass on it, so I can go see into the war
room. And I am watching this in real time and I'm thinking to myself,
wouldn't it be so cool right now if I had a camera and
I'm filming this so we can watch bot takedowns? Because the
bots had scooped up so many of the tickets in the beginning, and then there
was so much fraud. And then they're re releasing and they're validating. Right.
All in real time. And had anyone seen that,
the level of comments and nonsense on socials
would have ended. Yeah, it's a never ending
war trying to battle these bots and the ticketing system.
I wouldn't ever sleep at night if I had to be in charge. But I
think that's where the vulnerability could come in. Especially when
we're looking at. Look at all these people who are behind the scenes trying to
make sure that you can get access to go see your favorite things. And
we don't ever show that. Had the team shown any part of
that and how hard they're working and that they're trying to do the right thing
by fans, and it would have changed the whole narrative. Awesome.
Let's go to our second story. We're
going to an industry where you might not think a podcast
would be a place to host one or to have an event.
And this one's called off the Wall. When Podcasts build Community
brick by brick, this comes to us from the Fine Home building channel on
YouTube. At the 2025 Fine Home Building Summit, the
FHB podcast took the stage for a live episode
that quite literally broke down the walls of houses
and of podcasting. Hosted by Senior Editor
Patrick McComb and a panel of industry pros, the show
invited builders, engineers, and energy experts to share
questions straight from the audience about the future of wall
assemblies, air quality tools, and explaining mechanicals
to clients. Sponsored by Koop Koopman
Lumber, this live session turned a niche trade conversation
into a master class in audience participation, showing
that when you put your podcast in front of people who
live your content every day, the dialogue gets a whole
lot smarter. Do you want to take this one first, Rachel?
I think one of the coolest things is once we become a
fan of content, we just want to know more.
We want to know, okay, what does it take to make this happen?
How does this next segment go together?
How, if I'm thinking about this, what's the right way? And while we see
in pieces of content the high levels and some get a little bit
deeper, we all have those questions when we are a fan of
the content, and that keeps us even more engaged because we want to keep
turning in. But once you turn it into something interactive, where
now I get to ask the thing that's been bothering me for the last three
months, since I've been following you, it changes the game.
Yeah. And a construction conference, you wouldn't expect to see
a podcast pop up. And if you're attending that conference
or if it was a home show, you're invested.
You may be a contractor, you may work in contracting, you may have
some sort of role in putting houses together. But now you're at this event,
and here's a panel of people who are experts in your industry
giving you the ins and out and what's coming. What's down the road. Are there
new laws changing, new zoning requirements? And
what a great way to stay updated and be current and
relevant in your industry. It creates fans for life.
And I think that's the biggest piece is once you get
involved with a podcast that's live, you become
part of it. If you're there and there's some energy
about being live in a live event with all the other people
around who have just as much passion as you do, it takes it to a
whole new level. Yeah. That immersion. One of the things
we say is when you listen to a podcast, maybe in your morning commute or
just passively in the background, you really feel like you're in the room
with those hosts. Now, here's an opportunity at this
FHB summit to be actually in the room. And like
you're saying, Rachel, when you see somebody in real time,
you know how they react, how they think about the questions, how they, you
know, interact with the audience. You can't get that from just listening to
this podcast in your earbuds. It's a whole new experience on
a whole nother level to really immerse yourself in
contracting. And then these five guys, they probably feel like your
buddies. Now. You might have a beer after or go get a burger. You feel
like you could be best friends with them. And there's
something going from just the guy that's talking in my ear
to having a shared moment together.
And that makes them feel even more human
than anything else that we could do. Right. If you walked into them in
a coffee shop, you may fangirl a little bit and say, oh, look who it
is. But having this experience where you're all in the same room, you're talking the
same things, we're all doing this together, that energy there,
it just changes the game. Yeah, I love it. I
am so bullish on real time, in person events. This
is a great way. And this was in an industry that I didn't expect that
was going to be doing podcasting. So really wanted to showcase it here this morning
on Piduti in the news. Let's
go to story number three. I translated this one, so apologies
to anybody in Germany. The first Hamburg podcast night
turning local voices into a live stage
revolution. This comes to us from pop 64 in Hamburg,
Germany. Podcasting just went live. Literally the first
ever Hamburg podcast night packed the historic Hansa
Theater with five local shows, each performing in front of an eager
crowd of first time listeners. From comedy to local
politics to football, the night turned passive podcast fans
into an active community. Some hosts brought guests, others
served food. One even grilled the city's education
senator live on stage. It was a reminder that
podcasting doesn't just belong in studios, it belongs in theaters,
cafes, and communities ready to laugh, learn and
connect in real time. And I mean, this is my mantra,
basically. I love this event and to see
a bill with five events on it, five entertainers on it,
this is where I see the future of podcasts going. When we talk
about like in the 80s, I'm a, I'm a, I'm A child of the 80s.
There were these things called the Monsters of Rock tour, and
then we had Lollapalooza and the Lilith Fair and the
Vans Warp Tour. And as like a band would go and
they'd fill an arena, they realized I can't just be the only person on the
ticket. If I want to sell more tickets. I got to have an opening act,
I got to have a local act. And so as concerts
grew through the 80s, they started to add more and more people to the show
to sell more and more tickets. And right now we're doing a live show. It's
just Rachel and I and it's just two of us. But if we had a
night put together and we had two or three podcasts on
there, that might be something on there that somebody might want to come see.
Just like, people wanted to go see these touring heavy metal bands in
the 80s, and I love that they're already thinking about that. There was five
different types of podcasts to really bring in a wide
array of people, local people to come in and watch these podcasts.
I thought it was just a great way to bring the community together. You know
what's interesting? I love that you compare it to the festivals, because
growing up in the world of music, it's my favorite
thing. My walls are covered in guitars. There's no question I am a girl who
is a f. But I will tell you, I found
all of my favorite bands by being the opening act
to a band I really wanted to see. So, for example,
Jimmy's Chicken Shack came out and they opened for Violent
Femmes. I really want to see Violent Femmes. I think I'm 14 or
15. And so we bought the tickets and we go. And
we didn't stop talking about Jimmy's Chicken Shack for three years after
that. There's a level of awareness that you get because, you know, you
want to go see this that you're already aware of, but you're not going to
have enough time, effort, and energy to go find all the other podcasts and things
that you should be listening to. I'll give you another example.
We bought tickets to go see Guns N Roses in Chicago when we were
living there, and it was their first tour back. We were really excited.
They didn't even announce who was opening. We get
there early because I want to see the openers and it's
Alice in Chains. I didn't even know that they were
back. And we are very involved in the music space.
So if I didn't know that and, you know,
then how else was I going to find out that they existed? And so I
went to go see the next few tour stops that they had just of Alice
in Chains, which is so cool. And I never would have been able to do
that otherwise. Just a little opening act.
Not. Not one of the biggest acts of the 90s. We're not even going to
mention it. They didn't mention it on the ticket. I had
no idea. I didn't even know they were touring. Yeah.
And with your Ticketmaster background, this is. I chose
this story because of your love of entertainment. And you're telling this great
story already about Violent Femmes and Guns N Roses.
And I really do believe I wouldn't have opened a theater space like this
if I didn't believe that this is the future of podcasting
and just this ability to Have a night out. Get out of your
house for maybe, this was maybe $10, $15 for
a night out. You're not doom scrolling on TikTok all night. You're
meeting people who think like you and talk like you and have your
interests. And it's just something that we really need to get
back to to build community and to just share our passions
with each other. You know, there was. There's
a moment of awareness that is probably the biggest
hurdle for every single content
provider, because you have to get to that person. How are you
going to get there? You hope that it's a referral. You hope they stumble across
you, but that may not necessarily be the case. And
so while, yes, we ask our friends, okay, who should
I be listening to? That doesn't get you to
the podcast. That just fits you perfectly. And you have to try
so many, right? And then we get stuck and
it's like, we'll watch the same TV series for forever.
We'll listen to the same podcast forever, and we'll be fans for life. But how
do you introduce something new and find the time to do that?
And I think being able to have a festival
style brings people who love
podcasts and live entertainment and everything together
into something that they never would have had otherwise. What better
way to celebrate each other and to just have
these shared passions, shared experiences? It's, you know, what's the worst
case scenario? $10. If you have the worst night
of your life, you probably meet 30 new people and you get introduced to
four or five shows. It sounds like a win win.
Well, it's the same as going to a comedy club. Do you remember way
back when you could go to a comedy club in New York and you'd
have no idea who was going to come on stage, but you just went
and it introduced you to all those people who were coming up or same
as if you go in Nashville. We went in Nashville and
I took us on a bar crawl, and
in one of the bars we met an artist named
Hunter Girl. She was up on stage. This is at
noon, right? This isn't at prime time in the
evening. She isn't an opening act. This is Hunter Girl before
anything happened, and her name stuck out to me. And then
fast forward a few years and she's on American Idol now.
We already were introduced to her content. So of course we're huge
fans because we've seen now this epic
transformation. And without that
level of awareness in the beginning, would
we have cared? Probably not. Would we have followed? Nope. Would I have Downloaded any
of her music? Nope. But it gave us that
amazing warm intro that changed the game for us.
Yeah, it's those little chance encounters throughout your life that you'll find they
kind of meander back and through your timeline. That hunter girl you
met, you never heard of before. You had this great
lunchtime experience and you kind of
followed the career. Then all of a sudden, boom pops up on American Idol. Hey,
we know that person. It's just amazing how
getting out and getting involved in the community, in real life,
having real life experiences can really change the trajectory of your
life. It's kind of funny, right? Like, if you
think about the gamer community, we all the phrases
go touch grass because we want you to go get outside.
And it's almost the same thing with podcasts, because we're listening to them when
we're working out, when we're driving, when we're commuting, when we're doing this, when we're
doing that. But now, when you have that moment of
live entertainment and an experience together, it completely
changes. The atmosphere. The energy and how you're feeling at the moment
will immediately change. It's automatically going to be elevated.
Yeah. Yeah. Love it. This type of event, there's things like this.
You don't need to have a theater space like we have here. There are bars,
coffee shops, restaurants in your hometown that are probably doing live
podcasting. Probably just somebody who's maybe
generating five to 10 people in the audience. Imagine the experience
you could have so early on as this form of
entertainment gets built up. You could go see. I don't want to. You know, the
next big podcaster could be in your own hometown.
And we were talking Nashville, Nashville music. The other thing to do in
Nashville was drinking. Let's go to our next story, Going
with the Grain. Brewing collaboration into
community. This comes to us from Crafty pint on episode
68 of Going with the Grain. Three Australian pioneers,
wildflower Wildflower Bear Wildflower
Beer Organically. Greenwood and Voyager Craft
Malt show that collaboration can be as intoxicating as the
beer itself. What started as a shared curiosity about
regenerative farming and sustainable brewing turned into a friendship
that sparked Grain Stock, a live event uniting farmers,
maltsters and brewers under one roof. Recorded live at the
festival, the conversation flowed from saltbush brewing in Belgium
to the science of Voodoo juice. All serve with laughter and
community spirit. Together, these makers prove that when
creativity meets purpose, collaboration
becomes its own kind of craft.
I love how you wrote that in there.
And we'll start off this one with Rachel,
this type of event, here's. We had one with home builders,
here's one with beer crafters and farmers. What were some of
your takeaways on this one? Well, I don't know
about you, but if we're in a new town, I love to go to
the breweries. There's something about hearing a
brewmaster speak about the inspiration behind something or
what it means to them or where something came from or what's coming
up next that connects you to that brewery forever.
Now, if you're adding in the farmers, you're adding in the maltzers, you're
doing all of those things with the brewers. It changes the game
for how someone connects to a brand. And I
think the coolest part about it is, you know,
when you go to a brewery, you normally get, it's just somebody up on stage
playing music, if there's a stage or a guy in a corner. But then
you also have the time to go do the tours or even if you go
to a distillery. It's the same thing. And
what I truly loved was there's
a collaboration that takes it to an
exponential level. Yeah. The fact that three competitors,
right. Their passion for brewing. And you hear that passion, if you're
somebody who loves beer, you love trying different beers, seasonal beers and
beers with all kinds. They put all kinds of things in beers now. Beer has
everything in it. And you hear the brewers, they're
talking about why they do this, how they do it, this where they're
sourcing from. If you're a beer fan, your
love of beer just got elevated, just like you're saying, Rachel, like, it's incredible to
immerse yourself in between people who are already passionate about
it. They're supporting local farmers. They're brewing
very passionately, and they're not even worried about the competition.
They're just want to talk about beer. They just want to share their love for
beer. And it's kind of that rising tide lifts all ships. If.
If we can all get together with similar people in our community and
bring that community together, imagine what you could do for. For all
three of those businesses and the love and respect that the community
would have for. For each one of those, it just.
Amplifies that reach, and it creates this mutual momentum
that creates
for people who are already passionate about something. If you're passionate about
craft beer, you are passionate about craft beer. You want to be able
to know more about it, see more about it, watch it created,
go to the place that it's brewed. You will also go Find it in every
single store that you can. So as you're walking through your local
ABC or liquor store, say, hey, wait a minute,
I know about that. You're going to go pick up a case. And it
makes it so much more connected to who you are and the things
that you know. And not only that, once you have the case and
you know the story behind it, guess what you're going to do when you share
that beer with a friend or a family member? You're going to tell
that story like, oh, I met the crafter, the guy who makes this incredible, you
know, the way he sources, the way he brews, the way the love and passion
he puts into it. You're going to share that experience and multiplies
throughout. It's a ripple effect through the community and just
another great event to showcase talent in real
time. And I love that this was three
competing, I'm guessing competing crafters, competing brewers that just
want to share their story and their love of beer. And I think
in the end it's those live experiences that bring us all together.
But it's also, if we take a step back, it's the love of
beer and brew that just brings us even
closer together. And it's just such a great takeaway.
Very much so. Let's go from beer to Broadway
behind the curtain. Broadway's live podcast
Takeover comes to us from Variety. Broadway took center
stage in podcasting last month as Variety's stagecraft
podcast wrapped its season with a live recording from
the Business of Broadway 2025 Breakfast, featuring
Keanu Reeves, Kristin Chenoweth, Lea Michele
and more. Together, the stars of Chess Ragtime, the Queen
of Versailles and Waiting for Gadot shared
backstage secrets, wild rehearsals and
years of creative evolution that led to opening night.
The audience got stories straight from the Source, from Keanu and
Alex Winter studying Japanese dance for Gadot, to
Chenworth producing her own musical debut. It might be
Godot. Is it Godot or Godot? It's Godot.
They're gonna correct me in the comments. Godot. To Chenworth
producing her own musical. It was a master class in
collaboration, creativity and how live conversation
can transform a panel into pure performance. It's Gail
Gadot and then Godot. I love.
So here's a. Here's obviously Broadway,
massive segment of entertainment, but there's these, all these
little events around Broadway where they're showcasing the talent,
the behind the scenes stories and I love that they have a breakfast.
You know, there's a breakfast where they're just talking Broadway and they have
a Recording. They're recording a podcast here. And not.
Not B or C listers. There's some A listers on this one.
You know, my coolest moment in time is that
through a family member, I was introduced to Archer King.
Archer King is the one who
found James Dean, right?
Ron Howard. The list of names with this man is
unbelievable. And Broadway
was his baby. And one of the things that was really cool
is that I got to meet him later in life and
he gave me the behind the scenes of everything.
Told me who was fun to work with, who was great. He got
us house seats to all the local Broadway shows and told us
where we want to be and what shows to go see
and the drama behind them or ones that really work well.
He gave me a connection that I
couldn't have found otherwise. And then it happened.
We were invited to his 90th birthday.
And this firecracker. I think that's
the best way to describe him, opened us up to a whole new
world where I'm standing in a corner and I. I love to talk,
I'll chat with anybody, but I am absolutely, totally,
utterly starstruck because I'm looking around and I'm seeing
all the soap stars that I've known and watched over the last 20 years,
and then there's some Broadway stars that are coming in, and
I just don't have words. It has changed
that level of emotional connection that you have
as being a. Fan again, that immersion
being there. Here's the soap stars from Days of Our Lives
or Guiding Light are all in this room that you grew up watching.
Sometimes you watch them with Grandma when you're home sick from school. You got the.
Grandma always had to watch her soaps when I was over her house. And
you just see these people, you kind of grow up with them. And then all
of a sudden, here you are in a room. Here you are getting to see
them face to face. And those reactions and seeing people
alive and in the moment and just living is so much
different than seeing them perform or being on stage.
You just get a whole nother different reaction from people
and a whole new experience, a whole new way to absorb who that person
is and how they act. It's something about being in the room where
it happens. Right. Little nod to Hamilton.
Yeah. First person point of view, and
not a great point of view, a first person point of view. But this is
kind of a sad story that turns positive. This is a traditional
media play, turn podcast, turn turned back into
traditional media. I love the story. I
don't wish that you had to make a show out of grief. But
Anderson Cooper has really been helping people,
turning grief into these connections with some of his fans. And
this is from Mike to mainstream, and maybe from mainstream to
Mike to mainstream and back. Anderson Cooper turns grief into a live
connection. This comes to us from USA Today and Anderson
Cooper's deeply personal podcast. All There Is a heartfelt
exploration of grief, loss and healing is stepping out of the
earbuds and onto live television. CNN announced
that Cooper will host a weekly live version of the show, blending
real time audience interaction with his signature empathy and storytelling.
What began as an intimate audio diary has become a movement proving
that vulnerability isn't just good
radio, it's powerful television. In an era when
authenticity rules, Cooper's evolution from
podcaster to live host shows that the next big stage for storytelling
might just be the one with a camera pointed right back
at the truth. I got through that one, Rachel. I don't know how,
but I did. And we're not going to take away
that Anderson Cooper hasn't built a legacy career in television.
He hosted a podcast, and now that same legacy is
bringing him back to traditional media. And he has a different path than most
people. But it is a testament to the
power of podcasting, the power of authenticity, and
just being one on one with people and sharing
stories with them. I think there's some level of being
honest and raw that helps us all connect better.
When I was diagnosed with cancer,
when it was a hard moment, right as you can
imagine, now you're facing life and death. But it went from
my phone ringing 24 hours a day. I always had someone calling
me, texting me. It just never stopped. My husband used to scream, put down the
phone. To where after the diagnosis, it went silent.
And I think that there is some level of people don't
know what to say and they don't know what to do
when something terrible happens unless they've had it happen to them
before in some way, shape or form. So it could be that their mother was
diagnosed with cancer and then they know how to speak to you and how to
respond. But I think
in most cases, someone's going to say, okay, like you've had
something terrible happen to you. I don't know what to do. So it's probably best
to just leave you alone so you can go through this journey and then I'll
see you on the other side. And being able
to watch something that is raw and see
other people going through it now gives you that shared collective experience.
So whatever that episode is that you're watching it
now. You have felt it, because you've heard
on the other side what someone experienced
and now you know how to react. So if someone says to you, hey,
I was just diagnosed with cancer, well, hey, I just saw a podcast on this
here, you know, here's some resources, here's what to say, here's what
to do. And just breathe with me.
Yeah, we tend to be so isolated today. We have more technology,
more connection than ever, and we're so isolated a lot of times
that. And you end up wallowing in your own grief or, or you don't
know the right way to seek a solution. Some people are
turning to artificial intelligence. They're
asking ChatGPT how to deal with their grief. And that may or
may not be the best answer. We don't have the data on that yet.
If that's the right way to seek help,
I would suggest it's probably better to make these real time connections
or seek out shows like this where you can at
least experience real emotion from other people. You can at
least understand how they're grieving and how they're feeling
and how they're handling their emotions in that situation. And I think shows like
this are maybe that bridge to let's get back out of our
house, let's get back into the community. But start here. Maybe
start with, how do I handle this emotion? I've never felt this
before. What are some other people doing to handle something like
this? And I think there's a very big difference
between what we would expect is the sensationalized media
that he would have previously reported potentially, versus
the raw, authentic emotions and how you
navigate that story gracefully.
Yeah, this won't be like New Year's Eve with Anderson Cooper. This will be
very heartfelt, very emotional, very raw.
And it's, I think, just a bridge that's needed for a lot
of people to understand and deal with and cope with,
just to hear, you know, how my neighbor is dealing with the
situation. And it's a great. Not only a great show, I think,
but a great service and a great way to cope.
Agree. I think the coolest part about it is
that no matter what happens in the podcast
and how he's navigating the story, I think we all have something to learn from
it and it's growing us
emotionally and growing that EQ that we all have and need to have.
Definitely, definitely. And that wraps up our stories and probably the worst
transition into the next slide. I've got
Poduty shirts for $10 are here at the theater, but it
Sounds Ridiculous now. 5 sizes, 4 colors. Stop into
the theater and pick up your own Poduty shirt. We
have some upcoming shows. The Pittsburgh Podcast meetup was announced
December 6th. If you come in theater in person at 6pm,
I feed you. We usually have pizza, sandwiches, drinks. The live stream
starts at 7pm we do one hour of the show livestream where we're doing Q
and A, answering your most pressing podcast questions.
Tonight, this won't matter because this slide will be out of date by the time
the show comes out. But tonight, Tamara is doing her Nailed
It Motherhood podcast. It's a live event already 20 tickets
sold. Her goal was 10, so she has doubled her goal. We'll
be doing this show tonight at 6pm we have an
improv class coming up with Paul Mattingly November 18th.
It's a free class 2 hour immersive into the
deep dive into improv. We're thinking of it as a
play for podcasters. Learning how to be on stage, learning how to react
with one another, how to give energy, bring energy back and
push the topics around the stage. So and if you like
the podcast, hey, why don't you join me old Jeffers November 22nd.
I'll be doing a three hour immersive. Everything you want to know about
podcasting, but you didn't even know what to ask. We'll be talking about the
basics. What is an RSS feed? What's a podcast even
defined as in 2025? All that
night, right after my my session, Anime on the Allegheny is
back. They're going to film their second episode November 22nd.
Tickets just went on sale this morning. We have
Davin the Vaughn Magwood, the Black Friday
Comedy special. On Black Friday, it's going to be a
$10 show. There's five comics, two 2 hours of live
comedy. The first time ever we're going to do comedy live on stage
as an as an entertainment. And we have Audio Fiction
Primer with Jessica SUTTON Coming up December 28th. That's
coming up right after the weekend after Christmas. It's a three hour
immersive audio drama. You can take it in theater
or live on stream. You can stream the whole class
and the Tarentum Holiday Spectacular. This is an event
I'm putting on here to showcase the businesses of the town that we're located. We're
in Tarentum, Pennsylvania. Every night, December 3rd and
4th, for two hours, every 10 minutes, we're going to bring up a
new local business and showcase, tell their story, give their links,
show what they sell. And we're going to do that for two nights straight to
help Toronto business owners finish the year strong.
And the humorous podcast Last one coming in March. Check
this, check the site for details at some time in March. They're coming in from
New Hampshire or Connecticut. I got to get all the details because I keep not
having it ready for this episode. And I wouldn't
be remiss if I didn't turn the stage back over
to Rachel and let Rachel.
Where'd she go? Oh, wait, we lost. Hey,
Anna. Rachel, you knocked it out of the park on this episode.
Thank you so much for joining us. One more time, let us know
how can we connect with you, meet with you? I know the website's super easy.
Wait till the audience hears this. It's all
rachelminion.com come join and connect me. Let's go have a great
conversation. Awesome. That was. See how
easy rachelminion.com the link is in the show notes.
Let's play that theme song. What time is it?
The only live news podcast about
podcasting from the stage.
Poduty and the News Rachel, thank
you once again. That was a blast. You really brought it on this episode.
I love the perspectives. I love that we could tie some live event stories
with your ticket master background. And
I just had a great time today. Thank you so much. I had such a
blast. Thank you so much for inviting me. I'm so grateful. Awesome. And if you
want to hear more about Rachel in January, we're recording a
My Guest Tonight episode, so check it out. Myguestonight.com you
will hear the full Rachel Minion story.