Higher Side Chats Podcast Introduction, Listener Donation Giveaway Program
Host Greg Carlwood introduces episode 78 of The Higher Side Chats, featuring researcher Freeman Fly and a new news segment titled Higher Education. Carlwood announces a new monetization model where half of all monthly donations will be gifted back to a random listener starting in episode 85. Listeners can enter the "THC Money Bomb" by donating via the website or mailing a postcard to the show's PO box.
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00:04 In the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed a nation through a series of radio broadcast known as the Fireside Chats. His aim was to reassure the common man that our society would recover from its troubled times but we're far from 1930 and I deal with a different kind of fire For a new era of worldly frustration We offer a fresh conversation! I'm Greg Carlwood These are The Hireside Chats How's it going, Hireside Chatters? Wow! Drinking a little drink and smoking way too much smoke in San Diego. I'm Greg Carlwood your host and handler for the next however long And this is probably one of my favorite episodes in awhile For three main reasons which I will present to you now Number 1 we got motherfucking Freeman Fly An awesome guy with some amazing research And I really had a blast talking to him and I love the information in this episode I need more like this
00:58 And number two, it's the introduction of a new quickfire news segment that my buddy Rob Davin is going to help me out with every week which I think adds a lot to the show. Let me know what you think! It's called Higher Education. Number three...I've decided we're gonna go for it and do what I've been talking about for a little while. I'm gonna take half the donations I get from this show every month and gift that back to a random listener So how am I gonna know who the listeners are? Well there are 2 ways First, you can make a donation on the website. Any donation like $5 or whatever you want Or write your info on a postcard and send it to the address that is posted on thehiresightchats.com under
01:37 It'll explain everything. So to be clear, you don't have to donate to be in the running but when you do donate, you help out the show and increase the impact of this little program and what it could do. I look at it as a way to help a show that you like, to help like-minded people who could probably use a few extra bucks or that person could be you then I won't have to explain why its a good idea. And im going to be honest...I dont get alot donations now so I could be giving away 30 bucks But I just have a good feeling that this new program could grow and be a very positive thing for a lot of people. This could even be the new model for podcast monetization that spreads across the web So, I plan to do this about once a month How will people identify the shows with a winner? Actually how about every fifth show so this is episode 78 We'll give it until episode 85 for the first one Give it a little extra time And then after that episode 90, 95, episode 100
02:33 Wow, I gotta figure something out special for that one. But either way donate to the show at TheHigherSideChats.com Whatever you feel like donating to the show however much you love me or you can mail the card with your name and address on it to the PO box on the website as we go i'll talk about how many donations We've gotten in an episode 85. We will have the first recipient of the THC money bomb So let's have some fun help each other out And that took a little bit of explanation, but now that we know what's happening I'm gonna skip the conspiracies. Everybody knows I sell amazing water-based high quality fashion conspiracy shirts at conspiraties dot net Here is your higher education for the week and then on the other side my man Freeman is going to drop knowledge
