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Speaker 1:So they got a preview of it I guess as it were and, so that's one of the perks of being on there. Patreon just launched a made a little easier to add, podcast feed that you can subscribe to, for Patreon supporters. So check out patreon.com/ichris. So first of all, a little bit of explanation. I help out with a site called @you2.com.
Speaker 1:It's a YouTube fan site and news site and, lots of things. And about a year ago, approached Matt McGee, the owner of the site, about doing a podcast for YouTube and as of now, this weekend anyways, we've done published 40 episodes of the podcast. So and lots of people think it's a paid gig. The people who work on the site, myself, etcetera, it's not. It's a it's a hobby for fun because I love you too and all the other folks who help out with it love you too obviously, so nobody on the site is making money.
Speaker 1:There's I think there's one or two Google Ads. They probably could turn on the ad money faucet if they wanted to, but it's kind of just kept as a labor of love. So when @u2.com decided to partner with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland to throw a party in honor of u two's fortieth anniversary, I definitely wanted to try and go. But, we'd you know, we just you've heard me talk about it. I don't we're not like flush with cash.
Speaker 1:We don't really have the money to just fly out for fun for a weekend plus holiday or plus hotel and food expenses and stuff, especially Canadian dollar to American dollar gets a little more expensive but Sue, my wife, suggested that I should do it. It's part of my own. Happens to be my fortieth anniversary birthday year as well coincidentally with you too. So we'd figure out the money stuff later because it was kind of like a once in a lifetime opportunity to be a part of something like this. So without her insisting, I probably wouldn't have gone and so definitely thankful to her for pushing me out the door as it were.
Speaker 1:So I flew out Friday really early and got there flew all day, for those who are curious Saskatoon to Minneapolis to Cleveland and finally got there and got there in time to have a dinner we had on Friday night with the at youtube.com folks, everybody who was there. So it's great to definitely great to finally meet a lot of the folks who are involved with the site, particularly those who I've talked to on the podcast but obviously never talked face to face. We've done a couple of video versions of the the show but usually it's just Skype audio only and, so it was fun to just actually meet the people. I actually got to meet Matt, for the first time. He we happen to both be flying, connecting in Minneapolis to Cleveland and so, had, in and out no.
Speaker 1:What's the other one? Chicken? Chick fil a? Chick fil a for the first time in in Minneapolis Airport with Matt. So, anyways, moving on.
Speaker 1:We, Saturday we had a scheduled recording of the of the YouTube podcast that we're gonna do in front of folks. The the Rocket Hall of Fame has this awesome theater space, for either showing movies and stuff which they did later than the weekend. They showed the U2 three d which is a great concert in three d that you can experience from U2's Vertigo tour from a few years ago. They just a little sidebar they do some really great things with I was kind of skeptical of like a concert in three d. And it would be cheesy but they don't overdo the three d ness.
Speaker 1:There's a few moments where people different band members or whatever come out, and sort of reach into the the camera as it were reach out to you but they don't overdo that too much. The really cool thing they did actually is with audio where for a few times there where you're kind of focusing on maybe it's Edge or Bonner or Adam or whatever on the stage on the screen and they kind of mute, lower a lot of the audience level and even a lot of the other band level and you're kind of just hearing them specifically and only what they're doing and, it makes for a really neat effect. But anyways, digress back to the podcast we, yeah, we had a chance to do. I've never done a live in front of a bunch of people recording of a podcast so it was nerve wracking but lots of fun to try and do that. There's about 80 to a 100 people I think.
Speaker 1:I don't I'm terrible judge of crowds but, one, a bunch of fans from around the world of of you too who happened to also listen to podcasts were there including Fabiano, a guy who came all the way from Brazil who's very active in our chat room when we record the the YouTube podcast. It was great to finally meet him and and a few other folks too who listen to the show throughout the weekend just getting to say hi to them and and meeting meeting them face to face and just cool to see the the sort of real world impact beyond just shows like this that are often feel like anyways it's like friends or family who maybe pity listen to the show. Anyways, that's just my own issue. But yeah, so along with Matt, Sherry and Tisuluth, the folks from at U2, we got to interview Dave Fanning on this podcast on in front of a crowd. He's the Irish DJ that first played U2 when they broke and continues to be one of the people who gets to play their music first on the radio.
Speaker 1:He's, you know, obviously he's friends with the band, goes over the house, got to hear great stories of, you know, getting to hear new music and having Bono shout in his ear as he's listening and all that kind of stuff. And so you'll you can go listen to the episode. It's just published live yesterday, goodstuff.fm/atu2/44zero. Link will be in the show notes. But, yeah, it was nerve racking to do but lots of fun once we got going and how, so fun to have the crowd there that, appreciates and enjoys some of the, podcast inside joke stuff and and obviously like a crowd that just loves you too and anything that you're talking about they all know all about as well.
Speaker 1:In addition to that, just checking out the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame like not it wasn't just all focused on YouTube. There's obviously YouTube stuff there but, getting I didn't get to even get through the whole Rock Hall just because there's so much stuff there. I I was very impressed actually with how much stuff is there and and would be worth, Cleveland itself doesn't seem like an amazing city to visit. Apologies if there's any Cleveland folks listening but, the Rock Hall is definitely a good place to stop if you're driving through or whatever and especially if you're obviously musically interested as well. So so there's lots of other like panels.
Speaker 1:There's YouTube tattoo project that was had their exhibit with showing off and and talking the stories behind a bunch of people's YouTube related tattoos. Kelly Eddington who helps out with the YouTube site, also has an exhibit of a bunch of her artwork that she's done, YouTube and other, other stuff as well. So which stuff again I've seen on the web but never actually in person, so beautiful artwork that she's created was great to see there and and yeah, just a whole bunch of other stuff that was awesome to see and people to meet and just hanging around with, as I've said before I think to just an opportunity to hang out in in meat space in real real life with your tribe. People who are into a thing that you're into, who are willing to drive to be a part of a thing that you're into and, and just knowing that you're not the odd one out or the weird one who's really loving say the band in this case, and their music and stuff like that. So we, on Saturday night we had the opportunity to, the the site had booked, a theater and was showing U2's movie from late eighties, Rattle and and, it's kinda like your concerts documentary kind of thing, but it was it was a lot of fun to see Rattle and with a bunch of U2 fans who laughed at the stuff that was goofy, who you know, sang along with every single song, who, gave you know the yeah, just all the emotional responses to this movie that's obviously shown it shows a bit of its age but it still is a classic movie and time period in U2's life when they really sort of rocketed in popularity up to the top and so as Dave Fadding kind of said in in his interview I think and then throughout the weekend just how you know most bands get one sort of shot at being on top and they have their their five years of fame or whatever with it and then they sort of settle back down and U2 has had a couple of those in each decade and you can like love or like or hate U2 but you can't argue with sort of their success and the the worldwide appreciation of the band or whatever and they've just kind of got to do that over you know you know, each decade almost for the last three and so it was fun to just be a part of that and Saturday was the rattlehunt thing and then Sunday morning there that's when I watched the YouTube three d movie and and was about to was trying to get into our last session with Dave Fanning.
Speaker 1:I wasn't the one conducting the interview or being involved with that but just gonna pick around stick around for a little bit before heading to the airport and but it was late starting and for reasons I found out later and so I headed to the airport and found out at the airport, Tasula and I actually were both there and found out that we had left and Adam Clayton, the bass player from YouTube called in, Skyped in video call into the the session that, I wasn't or we weren't there for or whatever. And so it was a bit of like happiness because obviously it's awesome that it happened, sadness because we weren't there to be a part of it. But knowing that obviously there's video versions of it, audio versions of it, etcetera. We just got the video version from the Rock Hall and so that'll be published on the YouTube site shortly and but yeah. So it was kind of like a bit of bittersweet of way to end the the weekend of kind of the sadness of missing out on a really cool event that happened but but also just yeah overall still a great weekend and opportunity to be a part of that.
Speaker 1:So anyways the weekend was awesome. I would hardly heavily encourage you to be if there's a thing you're into and you do a lot of it online with a lot of other folks and you feel like that's a really strong community, if they're having some sort of real life meet up in you know somewhere that's attainable anyways, I would hardly encourage you to consider going and being a part of it because it it does kind of change it. It kind of makes this, it's yeah. It's not that it's not real obviously just because it's on the Internet but it does turn it into this thing where you're sharing maybe a meal with her drinks or whatever, or a hug or or high five or whatever with these folks that you know you carry with you and and take that experience back and and kind of just enriches what's already there maybe online, in the forum or or website or Twitter chats or whatever you end up doing with whatever you're doing with the folks who are into the same thing as you. So I post on Twitter a question the other day yesterday of what would you admit to being obsessed with and it's a bit of like a question related to some ideas of podcast stuff that I've got floating around my head but also it was just kind of fun to get like a lot of responses back from YouTube fans who knowingly, you know, I knew that that's obviously what they would say, but it's still fun to know that now I've met some of those folks in person and seen them and and we've shared our our love or crazy obsession with this band.
Speaker 1:And so thanks to anybody who happens to listen to this who was there. It was great to meet you, great to see you, great to be a part of that with you, and, and hope you enjoyed the the podcast session we did, and here's to whatever happens next, whatever next session. There's actually there's a concert U2 is doing as part of a sort of a big charity event in near San Francisco, next week I think and, so there's a bit of like, hey, maybe you should come back down and like it would be super fun obviously to be in that kind of space, money and time wise to be able to do that stuff but unfortunately that's not in the cards right now, but it was a lot of fun to be able to be a part of this thing this time. So who knows what happens next? We'll see.
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Speaker 1:And like I said, be sure to check out the YouTube podcast, goodstuff.fm/atu2 and the website thereis atu2.com. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Bye.