Hello. Welcome to Daily(ish) for Thursday? Thursday, July 14. I always lose it in my,
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Speaker 2:I'll make it available eventually, publicly or whatever but, Patreon supporters get first crack at that kind of stuff. So you can check that out if you like patreon.com/ichris. We are slowly, very slowly working on the, good stuff Patreon campaign because we've heard some from some folks and it kind of makes sense that, they might rather just support the network as a whole rather than like individual shows and things like that and just kind of contribute to the overall running of a site. Obviously, in the end, whether he's contributing right now at a morning show or daily ish like my my Patreon or, Three Guys, Three Questions, etcetera, ultimately the money does end up paying for server costs and stuff. Nobody has bought a yacht or a small robot even.
Speaker 2:Don't think with the money from I have a webcam from my Patreon supporters, which is awesome. That's what I recorded the video with yesterday. That's Patreon supporters where we got over that, reward level, or not reward level, goal level, I guess it was, and, then have since dropped back down. So it was cool. It's come and go.
Speaker 2:Do it for a while. That's the way it works. And I won't go on a Patreon rant. I was gonna do that, but I will save that for another time. I think thanks to if you tuned in, listened, watched whatever yesterday's episode, I kind of, it's one of those things where last night, which I'll get into why it was up, but you know you I kind of was like debating at around 2AM thinking I'm just gonna go run downstairs delete that because I just should not have done that or let that publish that.
Speaker 2:I should have just kept to myself. But, part of this little experiment is just to to keep a little bit more of myself. I I promised myself at the back of the year, beginning of the year that I was gonna be a little more honest, a little more vulnerable, a little more open about stuff, and and I haven't really followed through that well on that because it's it is really hard for me to do, and I hadn't planned to be that sort of open or whatever about stuff that was going on, and especially because I was I plan to do a video version of it just for fun for Patreon folks, but I, yeah, wasn't realizing sort of where I would go with the discussion, and and so then I had this video version of me being all, the sads and stuff and so, which I don't say lightly. I just don't know how to talk about it in a yeah. Anyways, in a great way, because I don't know exactly what's all going on in my brain sometimes chemically or otherwise.
Speaker 2:If it's just exhaustion, if it's just stress, if it's a combination of all three, or if there's real depression issues or whatever. I don't really know all that. But, at any rate, thanks for listening. Thanks for sticking around if you have, and if you, if you so desire to, if you if you could, if I could ask of you to go to iTunes if you use that or Google Play if you use that and, leave a rating or review about the podcast. It it kinda just helps.
Speaker 2:I I don't know if there's been a little one in a little while. I'll have to go check but, that, just helps to get the word out about the show and stuff like that. So follow the iTunes link wherever you find it and, and do that. And if you do that if you have other podcasts you listen to, even if they're not asking you to, it helps so much. It seems silly and I know it's a pain the way iTunes has it set up to do to it's not a simple process to leave a review, but it really really does help a podcast both in terms of morale for the show just to see some reviews, but also to let Apple and other listeners searching for podcasts out there know that, hey, this show is great.
Speaker 2:And especially if you tweet about a show, tweet or Facebook post or, blog post if you still write a blog. Podcasts are like the lowest thing to get shared on the Internet it seems and any amount of sharing and helping you can do for a podcast is super appreciated. I know by us at Good Stuff and I'm sure by most any, I don't know what podcaster wouldn't be happy to have their show shared a little bit more widely. So on a podcasting note, I I think I finally figured out this I have this smaller mixer. I sold my big multi track mixer that was taking up a bunch of desk desk space, sold it, got a Sapphire Focusrite 18 I eight, I think it is, for less money than what the other big mixer was, newer hardware sort of, there's reasons and I can talk about those if you want sometime.
Speaker 2:But anyways, I'd never really delved into it. It has this different software setup and it's all kind of software based instead of hardware based with mixers and knobs and dials and stuff. And so I'd never really gotten into figuring out how to make it all work properly and and this morning I just was like, I have a YouTube podcast I'm recording in a couple hours that it would be great to be able to play. We're we got the okay from YouTube's management to play, know, fifteen ten fifteen seconds of music, thirties up to thirty seconds of music or something like that in the podcast without getting sued or taken down. And, and so I'd it'd be great to be able to play music and stuff in the podcast.
Speaker 2:And so I think I finally got it. So I'm recording it and I'm also live streaming it out to the Internet at the same time. That's the weird part. If I was just recording conversation, no big deal. That's pretty easy to handle.
Speaker 2:So I think that you might be hearing music right now. We're talking about the album October which came out in 1981, '83, long time ago by most people standards. Today we're doing as part of YouTube's fortieth anniversary year, we're going back episode by episode talking, album by album. And so the early albums I'm not as familiar with, so I I have to play host and trying to get caught up on how and what was going on at the time when these albums were made. But it also allows me to play little sound effects like Chris is gonna be so excited that we're talking about wieners right now.
Speaker 2:In podcast, and which is very important obviously to be able to play that kind of stuff. So, at that note, it's just kind of exciting. It was like this thing that I was up against mentally and hadn't just sat down and put the time in to figure it out and watch a bunch of YouTube videos to figure it all out. So yay me. This is all about me.
Speaker 2:Last night, what I alluded to at the beginning of the show and and tweets, was one of those nights where we just all needed sleep and we'd kept the boys up a little late. Their cousin was coming passing through town on their way home, from a trip to the Calgary Stampede and stuff and so the boys were up. Our youngest Lucy, she was in bed before they came around and, just because she had been she's three. She still needs occasional naps in the afternoon and when she doesn't nap, she often gets up in the night just complaining about not being able to sleep basically. She doesn't know what it is but she's tired and but can't sleep through the night, overtired and stuff.
Speaker 2:So anyways, last night from about, you know, typically it happens about twenty minutes after you lay down and finally you're about to go to sleep then she's up. This time it was like repeatedly for a couple hours just like a rough go of of sleeping and, which I was normally not all the time, but normally I can handle it okay and I don't get too upset about it, don't get stressed about it. Last night I was like really just feeling the exhaustion and the tiredness and the stress. I'm a lighter sleeper than my wife and so I end up usually just quickly getting up with her because if generally if you wait long enough she'll go back, put herself back to sleep. When she's crying out I can't sleep I just figure I'm just gonna go give her some water or put her back in her bed and get her back to sleep so I can go back to sleep and not have to wait twenty minutes while she sort of settles herself again.
Speaker 2:It's okay to let your kids cry by the way if you're not aware that's okay. I'm telling myself that at two in the morning. But this time she was I was getting stressed and you know, kinda stomping around huffing and puffing because I was frustrated not getting sleep. Sue then gets upset and is frustrated with me for not for getting upset and frustrated with Lucy. So we're all kind of like the boys luckily slept through the whole thing, but we're all kind of just like frustrated with each other.
Speaker 2:And then at finally at 2AM, I was going in again to settle her and she was complaining about her toes and and often when she's overtired or middle of the night, just you know, you get she gets, like leg cramps or or leg sore legs and stuff and just kinda like, yeah. Stuff like that's just when she's overtired and can't sleep. But anyways, last night she was complaining about her toes, which we know that that they hadn't been hurt that day or anything like that, so it's not like we're ignoring injury. But she's complaining about her toes and she wanted to show me how they could be made better so that she could sleep and I just wanted her to tell me and she doesn't she won't tell me. She wants to show me.
Speaker 2:So fine. We get up, we go to the bathroom is where she wants to go. I'm thinking maybe she's gonna get a band aid. She sits on the toilet seat and points to the toilet paper and I'm like, you want what do you want with the toilet paper? She's like, that's gonna put that around my toes.
Speaker 2:That'll make them feel better. So I scrap some toilet paper as you do at two in the morning, start wrapping it around her foot and then halfway through it as I'm in my own fog, I'm like, no, this is not gonna help. Don't we're not doing this. Why am I doing this? And so I put it sort of around her foot, put her back in bed and then say, okay, your foot's okay, go to sleep because she's half awake.
Speaker 2:She's not even awake with aware of what's going on. And then at that point, I think, I don't know, it's all a blur. You know, any parent knows how this is. The nights just kind of blur together when you're up with your kids. I'm pretty sure that was the last time she went to sleep.
Speaker 2:By that point Sue decided she's gonna sleep down or she wanted me to go sleep downstairs because I was so frustrated but I was like annoyed and I'm not gonna sleep downstairs just because Lucy's keeping me awake, so I'm gonna sleep in my bed. So then Sue decides to go downstairs and sleep and then luckily somehow that that combination meant Sue downstairs me and our bed alone and Lucy in her bed because at one point Lucy was in our bed which we don't usually do but it's just kind of like maybe we can just get through this night as you do as parents. Anyways that combination of things worked. So from two ish until seven, 06:30, somewhere in there, the whole house was quiet and slept mostly. But then six 07:00 hits and she was begging for a yogurt and cereal.
Speaker 2:So the moral of the story is oh, I went long. Sorry folks. The moral of the story is spend the time watching YouTube videos to fix your sound card, sound boards, mixer issues, and toilet paper will fix your toes. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.
Speaker 2:Bye.