Hey, everybody. Welcome to Poduty and the News for Monday for Saturday,
November 1st, 2025. I'm Jeff. I'm joined with a very special
guest, DJ Sky. We're talking UK tours,
football history that doesn't suck, and
podcast meetups. What time is it?
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stage. I'm Jeff Reilla, joined with DJ Sky. DJ sky, welcome
to the show. Thank you for having me. This is. This is going to be
awesome. We have a good time. We've had. I've been here about a year and
a half now, and we were joking before the show a little bit. Every time
I'm in town and I have a show somewhere else in Tarentum,
DJ sky is doing something. You have to be the most
booked DJ in the area. I. I'm trying. It's. It's just
nice that people still want to book with me and work with. Yeah.
Hashtag blessed, upright and blessed. Because we both
have been down for weeks. Yeah. When I
tore my Achilles this summer, I was. This place was closed
for three months at a time, and we were trying to do some trivia shows,
and I just couldn't get enough momentum, me being down. And
so if you ever. In Tarentum Thursday night somewhere, DJ
sky is doing either trivia somewhere or name that tune every other week,
you can find it. Soon he'll have a website and you'll be able to see
his schedule posted on there. And one of the other things we were joking about,
this would be for the podcast, but when I didn't know
how old you were when I moved here and had this theater open,
and we were. Was one Saturday morning or Sunday morning, I think you were cleaning
up the praha from next door. You had a birthday party and you're like, man,
I had such a great time. I think you got engaged that night. Yes. And
then you're like. And then you said, I turned 40, and I was like,
40. I was like, I. I would have. If I had to guess how old
you. I would say 27, 28, 29. Very
young. And when I tell people I'm 50, right. You don't look. People don't think
I'm 50 either. The joke is there's. If you're looking for the
fountain of youth, it could be to rent them. There's something in the water here.
I think it's the fluoride. Lots of fluoride.
Well, we got six great stories for you. DJ Sky's here with
us all morning. Well, for about 45 minutes and then
we'll get into them. Are you ready? Our first story
tonight comes to us from Urban Myers. The Triple Option
podcast goes live at Urban Myers Pine House. It's a
football fan's dream come true. The Triple Option podcast is
going live at Urban Myers Pine House in Dublin, Ohio.
Just in time for the Buckeyes. Penn State weekend coach Urban
Meyer, Mark Ingram and Rob Stone are taking the stage
for an unfiltered night of game stories, rivalries,
and insider strategy straight from the guys who
lived it. This one's free, open to all ages and packed with
giveaways, drinks, and plenty of Buckeye pride. And since it's
Halloween Eve, fans are encouraged to come dressed as their favorite Big
Ten coach. Yes, even Connor. Stallions, if you dare.
With three legends fired up in a fired up crowd and Wendy's as a
sponsor, this live taping might be the biggest
kickoff before kickoff. And this
is one of those stories that when you hear something, okay, somebody started
a podcast. They love this sports town. They love their
Buckeyes, and they're gonna do a live show. They found
a location, they're inviting their fans. They
got Wendy's as a sponsor. That's pretty impressive. It's a
great way, I think, maybe to bring the community together and
talk about the things they love. What did you take from this story?
The cool thing that I took from this story, it's all about your alma mater.
As soon as you graduate, you are with them for life. So
the fact that you can relive your glory days and still celebrate
and still look forward to the future because it's all about building,
that's really, really cool. Because not a lot of people are doing that. You just
relive your glory days by yourself in the corner of a bar, and nobody wants
to hear your stories. Yeah, I did the old Statue of Liberty play for
a touchdown against Aliquippa. Can you believe it? 40 years
ago. And you know the host of these shows
were part of the school, right? They went to the school there and they
loved it. And what did they find? They found other people who
also loved her school. And they're bringing them together. They're bringing them together to
celebrate their sports history, their legacy, their current. I
don't know how they're. How they did against Penn State. Well, that'd be today, I
guess, huh? Well, they beat them last year. Yeah, I believe
so. They got so they're rolling high off of last year's game. Rolling high.
So, you know, if you. If you're part of an organization, if you're part
of some neighborhood community group, there's
an opportunity for you to get together and bring people like
you together. Even. I bet even hoas could have a podcast
or where they. They talk smack on the president. Well, the
hoa, yes, but I don't think the president would like it too much.
They charged me $45 because I didn't have my bushes 2
inches off the top. I was, like, left my garbage can out past three.
Yeah, it's called the HOA heckler. It's just
tenants talking smack on their hoa. Let's go to that second story.
Dare to Disrupt goes live with Jerry Parsons
at Penn State Brandywine. I've got another college story. You're going to
see a pattern with a lot of the stories we've done over the last few
weeks. Colleges are really leaning into podcasts
for entertaining their students, for
showcasing their alumni, and showing what's possible once you
graduate college. So this one comes to us from Penn State University.
Innovation met inspiration at Penn State Brandywine as Dare
to Disrupt hosted a special live recording with
CTDI founder and chairman Jerry Parsons. The Penn
State alum shared how he turned a garage startup into a global
tech powerhouse, all while keeping it in the family business.
Host Ryan Newman guided the conversation through Parsons
early struggles, breakthrough moments, and his honest take on what
it really takes to build something lasting. It's not magic.
You need a good idea and a ton of hard work. Students filled the room
for the Q and A, eager to learn from one of Penn State's most
successful entrepreneurs. For anyone chasing their own big
idea, this live taping proved that disruption
doesn't come from luck. It comes from grit, persistent,
and a spark of niddy lion
ingenuity.
There's. I just made the blooper reel. We're gonna have to write that down.
Yeah. You want to take this one? Start off with, what'd you
take from this story? What I took from this story is he is creating
a chance for after you graduate, especially if this is your major.
Even if it's not your major, you can still show up to this class and
learn how to. He's giving you the.
The blueprint. He's giving you the blueprint on how you did it, on how he
did it. Now you just got to adapt it to how you're going to do
it. Yeah. And for a student perspective, too. Okay, I'm going to
school. I'm taking on a lot of debt to study the thing
that I love to do, see if there's some light at the end of the
tunnel. And I think events like this show you that, hey, this guy
did something. He made something out of what he studied. He built a business, made
a family business. And if anything, some of the
weirdest connections in your life come from events like this. If
you just shook his hand afterwards, you thank him for his story.
Those are little things that people remember. And a couple years down the road, maybe
you run into him at a brunch and you say, hey, I was at that
speech you gave. I really liked it. That kind of connection is like, oh, why
don't you reach out to my HR department? So attending events like this are very
important for students to make those connections, build those bridges, but also,
I think, see what's possible. Like you said, and especially
after all these events, everybody is open to
getting emails because they just never know who they're going to find. So they're
going to willingly sift to find the next person to take their
spot. Yeah, I'm sure that if you're an owner, a CEO of a
business, and somebody comes to see you speak and they're that interested,
that's probably a good prospect for. For hiring
down the road because they're taking this very seriously to come out on a Saturday
morning, you know, and hear what you got to say.
Let's move on. We're sticking. We're going back to the
uk. Oh. At Home with the Buckleys hits
the road for a UK tour. This comes to us from the Herald Wales.
From YouTube screens to theater stages, At Home with the
Buckleys is going live across the uk. James
Buckley. Yes. Jay from the Inbetweeners and his
wife Claire are stepping out from behind the camera for their first ever
tour. Out with the Buckleys. The duo's hit
podcast and YouTube channel have already made fans laugh,
cringe and cheer from home. But now audience will
see a raw, unedited version of the couple as they bring their
hilarious chemistry and no topic off limits banter to
13 cities, starting at London's legendary
Palladium. Expect laughs, honesty, and a lot of nonsense
as the Buckleys prove that married life, when shared with the
world, can be awkwardly beautiful and brilliantly
funny. This is one of those instances where
I talk about my theater and what I built and why I think this is
a future model for podcasters, and this is somebody doing that
on a scale far beyond, you know, my what this little place
can do. And they're able to take what they built, find an
audience online talking about their marital problems, their struggles, the
fun times, the happy times, and connecting with other people. And
they've done that through YouTube and a podcast. And now they're like, okay, well, let's
take that into the world. Let's go to 13 cities. Let's do
a small tour and bring our community together. And
when we look at these types of events, there's a couple things that I tell
people that you may not have heard this. You're going to hear my podcast math
real quick. When you host a podcast, you're looking
to get about $20 per thousand downloads for ad
rates. So if you can get 1,000 people to download your podcast,
about $20 per 1,000 you can charge for ads.
And 90% of podcasters do not get to
a thousand downloads. So it's a very high bar to reach.
And if you could, you're going to make about 20 bucks. So what
I say is when you do events like this, if you look what the in
betweeners and Jay is doing here with his wife James,
he's going out with a probably a skeleton crew,
maybe a little bit of a stage design, lighting design, sound,
and he's filling these theaters in these spaces to do these live
events. And when you look at like what you do here in the theater, if
you were to bring in four people to have a live show,
those four people paid $10. The way that the works here, you
get $5 for you get half of every ticket. So four people
watching you would give you $20. That's the same
amount as trying, as trying to get to a thousand
downloads. So for most, for 90% of podcasters who can't
get a thousand downloads, I think this business model makes a lot of sense. And
when you look at somebody scaling this, they're scaling it in a
way that this could be the only thing they do all year is these 13
dates. Now, obviously there's prepping and planning and getting
everything together, but you can make significant money
taking your podcast on the road and connecting it with your audience. Because I
believe we still are in a society of see it, hear it, feel it and
touch it. Now, they might like them on their
podcast, but it makes the experience more personal when you
can actually see them, hear them shake their hand. So that's actually
really cool too, because they're bridging the gap to fans that they may not
reach on their podcast or YouTube channel. Yeah,
the, the level of connection is exponential when you See
somebody in person. Like you said, you can see them. You can see how they
react in the moment. How do they think when they're on stage, when they're under
pressure, you can afterwards shake their hand, you know, thank them. Hey, all those
episodes you've been doing for years, they crack me up. I fall asleep to
you like my wife and I watch you at night. Thank you, thank you,
thank you. You could never do that with a digital file, with an
MP3 file, because. Even sending the message in the stream and the feed,
I mean, it gets lost after a couple seconds. So you might
feel left out that they didn't respond to you right away. They just might not
have seen it. Yeah, yeah. That's a great way to bring your
podcast to the community. Share what you love with the people who
also love what you do. So, you know, keep thinking about live
events as part of your business model for your podcast, even. Even for your
business. If you're somebody who's looking for leads, maybe you're an accountant or
a consultant. Speaking gigs. Live
podcasts are a great way to help grow your business. And
they're doing it on the entertainment side. Then you add in merch, you add
in sponsorships, you add in all these other things that come along with
doing a live event. And the Buckleys are. They're doing it right in the
uk. Let's head over to New York City. We're going to
civic nerd. Civic nerd comedy took over New York City
by the time October's wrapped up, which was yesterday. New York proved
that local politics can be just as funny as national headlines.
Comedians Charlie Todd and Casey Lindquist, the
husband and wife duo behind not in My Backyard, brought
their rebranded live podcast to the Upright citizens brigade on October
29, and it was a hit. What started years ago
as two beers in a loose political chat over drinks has
evolved into a smart, hilarious, deep dive into city life.
From congestion pricing and weed shops to community board
drama. Since shifting focus to hyperlocal issues,
their shows have been packed, drawing an audience that loves to laugh
and stay informed. The rise of civic nerd comedy
is turning neighborhood debates into punchlines, and audiences
can't get enough. Forget Washington. The funniest
politics right now are happening right outside
your apartment door. That would be cool to watch,
because taking something so serious and just breaking
it down to where it's comically relieving
it makes it that much easier to understand. And you can actually
see it from a different side. Yeah, blend in
their comedy background, their improv skills, upright Citizens
brigade. I'm assuming they're doing some improv there as well. They're
performers and they're mixing what they love, which is probably
performing, making people laugh and telling stories with current events, which
is a hot button topic with a lot of people right now
everywhere. So we're having a good time, like you said,
maybe letting the air out of some of the tension a little bit through laughter,
through sharing these common grounds and having a good time.
This is a night out, probably for a few bucks, five, ten bucks.
And they're bringing the news to life. Yeah. You know, it's like right there, it's
getting acted out. It may be very loose to what it's supposed
to mean, but you can actually see it and it'll make sense to somebody.
Yeah. Or just send you cracking up, having
a good time. And it used to be two beers in. So this is, you
know, the evolution of your podcast journey. They
didn't start this way, but they started something. They took a hiatus
and then people were like, hey, whatever happened to that show? And they started to
re envision it. They started to think, how can we bring this to life? And
the way they're bringing it to life is in front of a live audience. They're
having these live shows, they're selling tickets. Then they're also recording
the show to release it as their actual podcast. And the nice thing
about it is it's local, so you really don't have to travel
far to see them. And then since they are releasing the episode, you are
part of the episode. Yeah. Sometimes you hear yourself laughing in the background.
Yeah. Here we go. Story number
five already. We're moving right along. How about History that Doesn't Suck? This comes
to us from the West Hampton Beach. On
October 25th, the Hit Podcast History that Doesn't Suck
transformed the West Hampton Beach Performing Arts center into a
time machine. Hosted by historian and professor Greg
Jackson, the live show, titled Unlikely Union,
took audiences on a whirlwind journey through the first
hundred years of America's history, complete with music, sound effects
and cinematic visuals. Jackson, who also hosts
the chart topping podcast, didn't record this one for the feed.
Let's keep that in mind for our discussion. It was a full blown stage
production. The show combined storytelling, humor, and
historical insight, showing how the idea of the United States,
once considered harebrained, somehow held together through
revolution, compromise, and the chaos of the Civil War.
Audiences got the energy of a rock concert with the depth of a
history class, as Jackson reminded everyone that democracy hasn't
always been messy, resilient, and worth celebrating.
It has always been. It's always been messy. Oh, man,
I guess we've been worried about nothing. Democracy has always been messy,
resilient, and worth celebrating. It turns out history doesn't really
suck when it's told like this. And one of the things I
took from this was they didn't record this. This was a
podcast. Hey, come watch us do a live show.
And they didn't record this. So if you're a true
fan, this show built an exclusive
experience. One time only to see it. If you weren't there,
you missed out. The people in the audience, they get the chance to talk about
that for the rest of their life. The rest of people missed out on it.
So, yeah. So having these
exclusive events, once you have a community, once you have an audience, you don't
always have to record everything. You can do something special for
the people in the audience. And then the nice thing about that, the word of
mouth will build. So even though they're just at the beach,
they are going to need a bigger place. And the more people that see it,
hear it, they can learn and still have a good time. So that's, that's the
cool part about that. Let's go to story number
six, our last story tonight or this morning. I
forget what time it is, but we do these meetups and there's a great one
coming up in Austin. It's November 5th. We like to share these
other meetups because it's not just what we do here in the theater.
All these ideas that we're talking about and discussing, these are things
that are happening in your community, your area. Go out and
support people. And if you have any interest in podcasting, this is a great way
to do it in Austin. This comes to us from
kut.org earlier this week, Austin's or
earlier next week. Early next week, Austin's podcasters,
producers and storyteller enthusiasts will come together at KUT Public
Media Studios for a special podcast meetup to celebrate the
city's vibrant audio community. The free
event, held on November 5, feature tours of the KUT
and KUTX studios led by Elizabeth McQueen,
along with plenty of pizza, drinks and inspiration. That's what I do. I buy pizza
for everybody. That's a podcaster's secret weapon.
Creators swapped ideas, made new connections and got a behind the
scenes look at how KUT and KUTX craft award winning
local shows that amplify Austin's people, music and culture.
Whether you're a first time podcaster or A seasoned producer. This meetup
proved that the heart of Austin beats loudest when its
storytellers come together. What do you think of doing meetups like this?
Community meetups are really cool because not everybody
reads the paper, gets the paper, but you know what's going on down
the street from your house, and it's all accessible. You can get there
by walking. And they're really fun because you just never know what your neighbor's doing.
So you just got to get out and just support. Yeah. And an event like
this, where this is also built around a skill set, learning the
podcast, I think, is a skill. So you have to learn how to entertain, how
to talk from the stage, how to not say. And
you learn these things over time from being in front of people.
And where are you going to go to learn these things? Well, how about the
people in your community that are doing it? Learn from your neighbor,
who's editing three shows a week in their basement. They don't talk to
anybody, but when they go to an event like this, they grab a slice, they
get a drink. They're probably meeting 20 other podcasters that they didn't know even
existed in Austin. That is a weakness of podcasting. You can
release a podcast, and you have no idea where that podcast
is from. They could be next door. They could be in California. But
events like this bring people in the Austin area
to. To the event center. And then the same thing about meetups, if you're
struggling with something, you never know who is having that same struggle.
And then you two can find somebody else who's in the room who already
went through that struggle and can help you through it. Yeah. Yeah.
They always say the. You're the sum of the five people you're in contact
with the most. So if you're. If you're five new friends or
five new podcasters from the Austin meetup, your podcast is going to be
as good as those five people who are already doing it. So, you know,
make better connections. Make connections with people that are doing the things that
you love. Go to the events that are supporting the things you love. Like,
they'll do more of these if people show up. Like we do the Pittsburgh
Podcast meetup monthly, because people show up and want to learn about podcasting. If
you're in Austin, if you're in Indianapolis, Chicago, I'll keep naming
cities. Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles. And that's a
cool. A cool way for your viewers to grow, too, because if you
network with five other people, they can tell their followers to Follow
you and vice versa. And then that way, everybody's just growing together.
Yeah. I will tell you, just from our meetups, people have guested on other
people's shows. People have co hosted other people's shows. I've had people
that I met co host this show with me from the Pittsburgh Podcast Meetup.
It's just the best way to meet people who are doing the things that you
love. Let's go to our plugs and
promotions. I got Poduty shirts. You see me wearing them every week.
$10 a shirt only at the Poduty Podcast Theater. Come in
four colors, five sizes. We've got some shows
coming up. We have the next Pittsburgh podcast meetup.
December 6th. It's the first Saturday of every month. If you haven't caught on yet,
but December 6th is that Pearl Harbor Day. That's the 7th,
6th or 7th. History is. We have to
go. I think it's the 6th. Let's go back to history. It doesn't suck.
December 6th, we'll be having slices of pizza and remembering
Pearl Harbor Day. 6pm Stop if you're in person. 7pm for the
live stream, we've got Tamara. Tamara, set
a goal. This is my favorite story of the theater so far. She's like, I
just want to sell 10 tickets. I said, let's do it. I don't have any
minimums. There's no contracts. If you want to do 10 tickets, that's your goal.
Great. She's at 17 already, so she's almost going to
double her goal. It's her season one wrap up, like season two kickoff.
It's kind of this in between. It's the Nailed It Motherhood podcast. It's
live next Saturday, November 8, 6pm you can watch
it in theater online. Our improv class is back. Paul
Mattingly, free improv class. Come take it. Take a class.
It's two hours. It's a lot of fun. We get anywhere from 10 to 15
people show up and it's. That's like the perfect size for an improv class. We
clear out all the chairs in the theater and they're just doing improv in the
center here. I'm going to be teaching November 22nd. It's
the learn to podcast class with old Jeffers. Three
hours, fully immersive. This one's a $25, but I'll have.
I always. I always cater. So there'll be food, there'll be drinks, there'll be
chips and snacks. And you're going to get three hours of your podcast questions
answered. Our first Comedy special Coming up, the day
after Thanksgiving, our Black Friday comedy special, Devon Magwood
is going to be here. We've got five total comedians taking the stage for
the first time ever on the Poduty Podcast theater
and we're looking to do regular comedy events. I've had so many people come in
here and say this is a comedy club and if you've heard other of
me talk about this, yes, the model of business that I'm doing is very
similar to a comedy club. It's no, I didn't invent something here but
improv comedy. This theater is also perfect for that. And so
we're going to start trying it out hopefully to get some improv
regular occurring things going on. Jessica Sutton met
her at a Pittsburgh podcast meetup. She's going to do a three hour
immersive audio fiction primer. So if you ever wanted
to do like an audio drama, some sort of podcast where you're telling
stories and narrating. She's a showrunner for a great podcast.
She's going to share what she's learned being a showrunner and producing
an audio drama podcast that's coming up in December after Christmas.
So check it out at poduty.com and the one I'm excited
about, the Tarentum Holiday Spectacular. DJ sky will be on the stage either
December 3rd or December 4th. We haven't put the schedule together yet, but
we're going to have every 10 minutes a Torenum business is going to take the
stage. We're going to tell their story. We're going to plug and promote. We're going
to show what they sell. If they have a video produced, we'll play their video.
It's 10 minutes at a time. There's going to be 12 business owners per night
for two nights and we're going to just keep telling their story and put to
rent them on the map and have have to run a businesses finish out
2025. Super strong. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. We've got,
we've have a ton of registrations and I've got about a half dozen businesses so
far. So we're still looking for to rent a businesses but keep those registrations coming
in. And in 2026 we got the humorous podcast
where humor meets chaos that's coming up in 2026. Check the
website for the dates they're coming in from like Connecticut or New
Hampshire. They'll be traveling through town and they're gonna stop here
and I wouldn't be remiss if I didn't let DJ sky close
out the show tonight. Dj, dj, DJ Sky. Tell us,
tell us where can people find you, connect with you? What's the best way
to get you out there even? Let's do. How about corporate gigs? You like doing
corporate gigs? I like. I like it all. They fly you out to Hawaii. Will
you take the gig? I would probably stay there, but yes, I'll go and
Casey will go. You can find me on Facebook. It's just Skyler Hayden.
Same with my Instagram. My TikTok is DJ Sky
Boogie, probably 2003. Everything is derivative
of that. But you can always find me. I'm always somewhere.
And tonight I'm at the Tarentum Eagles karaoke and name that
tunes. 8 to 12. 8 to 12 to Tarentum Eagles. They
also have a cheeseburger night, like on Tuesday or Wednesday. It goes crazy. No, don't
go there. I don't think they have. Oh, they don't do that. Yeah, I don't
think they have it anymore. Oh, when your kitchen was there, it was good. Oh,
my good. I'll get the scoop afterwards. This has been Poduty and the News for
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