WEBVTT 00:00:00.110 --> 00:00:02.509 Tell me about your vision. What's the goal? What's 00:00:02.509 --> 00:00:05.769 the vision? So basically, like I said, like basically, 00:00:05.769 --> 00:00:09.130 before I go to sleep every day, I have an insomnia. 00:00:09.429 --> 00:00:13.650 So my mind races with a million things. So in 00:00:13.650 --> 00:00:16.690 order to kind of focus that and try to relax 00:00:16.690 --> 00:00:19.670 and fall asleep, I listen to podcasts while I 00:00:19.670 --> 00:00:23.489 fall asleep. So, you know, it used to be audio 00:00:23.489 --> 00:00:25.649 books. And then I discovered podcasts and I got 00:00:25.649 --> 00:00:27.570 into them. And that's why I'm starting one myself. 00:00:28.219 --> 00:00:32.619 But I like to learn things while I'm in that 00:00:32.619 --> 00:00:35.759 state of falling asleep. Who knows what actually 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:40.799 sticks? Maybe I dream about it. But I was on 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:42.939 this kick of like, okay, I want to get better 00:00:42.939 --> 00:00:44.799 at content creation. So I'm going to listen to 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:47.460 all these podcasts about content creation. And 00:00:47.460 --> 00:00:51.340 there wasn't really anything focused on IRL streaming 00:00:51.340 --> 00:00:54.880 specifically. uh for for people that want to 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:56.979 become irl streamers there was some stuff that 00:00:56.979 --> 00:01:00.380 kind of talked about it in like a tmz sense or 00:01:00.380 --> 00:01:04.319 like you know news gossip whatever of irl streamers 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:07.879 but there wasn't like and it wasn't really focused 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:09.659 on that either but there wasn't anything that 00:01:09.659 --> 00:01:12.579 was specifically focused for irl streamers and 00:01:12.579 --> 00:01:16.680 travel video creators that was active at the 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:20.379 time so um you know there's there are podcasts 00:01:20.379 --> 00:01:22.379 that are for travel creators and stuff but they're 00:01:22.379 --> 00:01:25.700 more focused on like instagram creators and stuff 00:01:25.700 --> 00:01:27.760 i'm not really like like i have an instagram 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:30.040 but i'm not primarily an instagram creator right 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:34.400 okay or short form content creator so i was like 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.120 you know what like maybe i should think about 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:41.200 this and then i went to the pod tour event in 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:44.299 new york which if you don't know uh pod tour 00:01:44.299 --> 00:01:46.680 is a series of events promoting podfest which 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:53.590 is um a convention for podcasters happened this 00:01:53.590 --> 00:01:57.349 January 2025. I just think what year it was for 00:01:57.349 --> 00:02:00.670 a second. All right. And yeah, in Orlando, Florida. 00:02:00.909 --> 00:02:03.510 So I learned about Podfest. I met people and 00:02:03.510 --> 00:02:05.629 they're like, oh, you should go. And I ended 00:02:05.629 --> 00:02:08.669 up going in January and I was like, okay, so 00:02:08.669 --> 00:02:11.610 now it gives me purpose. Like, okay, I'm going 00:02:11.610 --> 00:02:13.210 to this convention. I'm spending the money. I'm 00:02:13.210 --> 00:02:15.770 going out there. I'm going to take this seriously 00:02:15.770 --> 00:02:20.050 and learn about podcasting. And basically I did 00:02:20.050 --> 00:02:23.789 that and I'm now creating, you know, IRL Ventures, 00:02:23.789 --> 00:02:27.349 the Travel Video Creators Podcast. So that's 00:02:27.349 --> 00:02:29.729 the story behind it and where it came from. And 00:02:29.729 --> 00:02:32.590 like I said, I want to learn with you. I don't 00:02:32.590 --> 00:02:35.669 pretend to be an expert, but we can learn together. 00:02:35.889 --> 00:02:39.150 And, you know, I do have some, it took me, it 00:02:39.150 --> 00:02:41.610 took me three weeks to figure out how to make 00:02:41.610 --> 00:02:46.430 the IRL streaming setup work. I just use my phone. 00:02:48.330 --> 00:02:51.330 I only pay $10 a month. That's what it costs 00:02:51.330 --> 00:02:55.210 to do IRL streaming. So there's a lot of technical 00:02:55.210 --> 00:02:57.870 things that you have to figure out, but YouTube 00:02:57.870 --> 00:03:00.810 and Reddit and discord are your friends. You 00:03:00.810 --> 00:03:03.509 can learn from other people in the space, believe 00:03:03.509 --> 00:03:05.129 it or not, they're actually really friendly and 00:03:05.129 --> 00:03:08.110 helpful. Cause it is difficult. There's like 00:03:08.110 --> 00:03:09.990 all this technical stuff you have to go through 00:03:09.990 --> 00:03:13.110 kind of like coding type things. And if you want 00:03:13.110 --> 00:03:15.370 to do it yourself and you don't have money to 00:03:15.370 --> 00:03:18.789 do it like me, it's. the the barrier to entry 00:03:18.789 --> 00:03:23.009 is high um but you can do it and i it took me 00:03:23.009 --> 00:03:24.849 three weeks to figure it out but eventually i 00:03:24.849 --> 00:03:28.069 did and now i just go streaming with just my 00:03:28.069 --> 00:03:31.069 cell phone the ten dollars that i spend is for 00:03:31.069 --> 00:03:33.930 baila box cloud which is disconnect protection 00:03:33.930 --> 00:03:38.270 which is really important so if you are irl streaming 00:03:38.270 --> 00:03:40.870 and you don't have disconnect protection basically 00:03:40.870 --> 00:03:43.330 what that means is when the signal drops because 00:03:43.330 --> 00:03:44.789 it will drop because you're out in the world 00:03:44.789 --> 00:03:47.210 you don't have a stable wi -fi connection right 00:03:47.210 --> 00:03:51.569 um then your stream ends and when your stream 00:03:51.569 --> 00:03:55.969 ends you lose all your viewers and that is really 00:03:55.969 --> 00:03:58.389 bad right so what disconnect protection does 00:03:58.389 --> 00:04:02.810 is it allows the connection to redirect to a 00:04:02.810 --> 00:04:07.969 signal on the cloud um and basically the one 00:04:07.969 --> 00:04:11.400 i pay for connects back to my computer here And 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.520 I have my streaming set up on my computer kind 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:17.079 of running as a remote server, if that makes 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:22.399 sense. So when it disconnects, I automatically 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:26.199 get re -transferred back to a Be Right Back screen, 00:04:26.300 --> 00:04:29.339 a BRB screen. And it says, hey, like Be Right 00:04:29.339 --> 00:04:33.379 Back. And I have it showing clips of previous 00:04:33.379 --> 00:04:37.480 streams and videos while it waits to disconnect. 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:39.620 So that way the audience is watching something. 00:04:40.310 --> 00:04:43.430 And I don't lose everybody when it disconnects. 00:04:43.430 --> 00:04:45.430 And that's a very normal thing for IRL streaming, 00:04:45.569 --> 00:04:47.470 the disconnect. So people are used to that. But 00:04:47.470 --> 00:04:50.149 basically you have to pay for the, it's just 00:04:50.149 --> 00:04:52.790 $10 a month, Bailbox Cloud, and you can get disconnect 00:04:52.790 --> 00:04:55.069 protection. But that's the only thing that costs 00:04:55.069 --> 00:04:59.269 me money with the stream. So you can do it on 00:04:59.269 --> 00:05:03.829 a shoestring budget. You know, it's possible, 00:05:04.029 --> 00:05:07.779 right? You just have to be a go -getter. It's 00:05:07.779 --> 00:05:11.279 more time than anything. That's amazing. And 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:13.199 when you said the be right back, I'm like, how 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:16.899 does that happen? So you totally. in my opinion, 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:18.879 just nerded out. And I'm just sitting here like, 00:05:20.100 --> 00:05:23.439 that's how this works. And so that's what I love 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:26.279 about having guests that have an expertise in 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:28.519 something that I don't know about, because now 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:30.560 I'm sitting here in shock and all these people 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:32.639 got to watch me with my mouth open because I'm 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:34.899 learning. But you were just talking about behind 00:05:34.899 --> 00:05:37.879 the scenes. What is one unexpected challenge 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:41.220 travel video creators faced that most people 00:05:41.220 --> 00:05:46.500 don't realize? So I think in a weird way, The 00:05:46.500 --> 00:05:48.279 biggest challenge is just getting comfortable 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:55.240 talking to yourself in public. It's strange, 00:05:55.660 --> 00:06:00.000 right? And you feel self -conscious, not subconscious. 00:06:00.379 --> 00:06:05.040 You feel self -conscious. And I don't know if 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:08.000 you ever get fully used to it. I mean, I'm sure 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:12.720 eventually you do. I'm still not there yet. But, 00:06:12.860 --> 00:06:15.209 you know, and the thing is like. If you're a 00:06:15.209 --> 00:06:17.110 considerate person, which I hope most people 00:06:17.110 --> 00:06:20.509 are, you don't want to disturb people. You don't 00:06:20.509 --> 00:06:23.930 want to, especially if you're traveling and you're 00:06:23.930 --> 00:06:26.329 in a destination where there's other people like 00:06:26.329 --> 00:06:29.050 trying to appreciate where you are. You don't 00:06:29.050 --> 00:06:32.709 want to ruin that experience for them. So it's 00:06:32.709 --> 00:06:34.410 that kind of thing of like, yeah, I want to make 00:06:34.410 --> 00:06:39.209 my video the best that I can. I want to, you 00:06:39.209 --> 00:06:41.910 know, like capture everything and I want to explain 00:06:41.910 --> 00:06:44.930 it well. you know with a beautiful backdrop but 00:06:44.930 --> 00:06:49.769 i don't want to be obnoxious so it's like trying 00:06:49.769 --> 00:06:52.990 to find that balance and and uh you know because 00:06:52.990 --> 00:06:55.290 it's like you you are doing a service for people 00:06:55.290 --> 00:06:57.149 in a sense if you're if you're making videos 00:06:57.149 --> 00:07:00.459 with passion and with you know love behind it 00:07:00.459 --> 00:07:02.819 then you are sharing parts of the world that 00:07:02.819 --> 00:07:04.800 most people will never get to see you're sharing 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:07.540 experiences and that is a you know a service 00:07:07.540 --> 00:07:10.040 that you're providing to people and you're you're 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:11.660 helping people through that way they're learning 00:07:11.660 --> 00:07:14.319 things about culture and history and geography 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:19.040 um but it's that kind of balance for me that 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:23.180 i is at the forefront of my mind um yeah so you 00:07:23.180 --> 00:07:27.050 just have to be aware Don't be obnoxious. And 00:07:27.050 --> 00:07:30.170 sometimes you have to wait and you can take some 00:07:30.170 --> 00:07:32.649 footage and then later you can do a voiceover. 00:07:32.750 --> 00:07:36.910 Or if you're not around a bunch of people, you 00:07:36.910 --> 00:07:39.129 can do your talking head portion where you're 00:07:39.129 --> 00:07:41.389 explaining stuff, you know, when you're not in 00:07:41.389 --> 00:07:43.709 everyone's faces necessarily. Or maybe it's, 00:07:43.709 --> 00:07:47.209 you know, a place like like if you're I don't 00:07:47.209 --> 00:07:50.750 know if you're like right. underneath the Empire 00:07:50.750 --> 00:07:52.829 State Building and you're like I'm here at the 00:07:52.829 --> 00:07:54.850 Empire it's like that's fine because everyone's 00:07:54.850 --> 00:07:57.470 just walking by you know so you have to like 00:07:57.470 --> 00:08:01.149 judge where it's appropriate um and I think that 00:08:01.149 --> 00:08:05.329 today that's a very pertinent uh conversation 00:08:05.329 --> 00:08:09.209 to have because particularly IRL streamers have 00:08:09.209 --> 00:08:14.029 cotton caught a lot of flack recently um because 00:08:14.029 --> 00:08:18.639 there are some bad actors um that are what they 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:21.839 call nuisance streamers, right? So there's a 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:24.060 lot of high profile cases going on right now. 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.980 There's people that are currently in prison or 00:08:26.980 --> 00:08:30.399 in jail awaiting trial for what they have done, 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:34.000 you know, being a nuisance while doing IRL streaming. 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:39.580 And so that gives everyone that does it a bad 00:08:39.580 --> 00:08:42.899 rap. And that's the problem is that, you know, 00:08:42.940 --> 00:08:45.340 like a lot of these countries, like in Japan, 00:08:45.379 --> 00:08:47.990 it's become a big issue because. People think 00:08:47.990 --> 00:08:49.809 that, oh, I could just do whatever I want in 00:08:49.809 --> 00:08:53.929 Japan and, you know, prank people and be like, 00:08:53.970 --> 00:08:56.110 sometimes like people are being like outwardly 00:08:56.110 --> 00:08:59.809 like racist and just trying to get a rise out 00:08:59.809 --> 00:09:02.370 of people, you know, making messes, breaking 00:09:02.370 --> 00:09:08.129 things, trespassing. And it reflects on not only 00:09:08.129 --> 00:09:12.169 IRL streamers, which I would like to believe. 00:09:12.190 --> 00:09:14.429 And I think it's true that most are not like 00:09:14.429 --> 00:09:17.440 that. Most are. respectful people trying to share 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:20.919 things in the world but that small minority of 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:23.960 that loud minority of the nuisance streamers 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:26.580 is reflecting poorly on the rest of us and not 00:09:26.580 --> 00:09:29.620 only that just foreigners in general that go 00:09:29.620 --> 00:09:34.840 and visit these places um you know that that 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:37.080 kind of like makes it harder for everyone as 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:41.559 a whole um who is a tourist or who's there for 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:43.360 business or whatever but they're just traveling 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:45.879 there and they're they're a foreigner it reflects 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:49.100 badly on everyone and so that's something i wish 00:09:49.100 --> 00:09:52.379 that people would really think about um and also 00:09:52.379 --> 00:09:55.259 on the other side of the the coin you know people 00:09:55.259 --> 00:09:58.039 should understand like hey if you have a camera 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:01.320 and you're doing you're not always gonna be doing 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:04.679 something bad um but that's i think that's like 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:07.509 a very like pertinent conversation right now 00:10:07.509 --> 00:10:11.230 is like that balance of being respectful and 00:10:11.230 --> 00:10:15.070 also sharing with your audience and you made 00:10:15.070 --> 00:10:18.450 me think about going over into different countries 00:10:18.450 --> 00:10:23.350 as a uh as a tourist or whatever and and if you 00:10:23.350 --> 00:10:27.009 don't actually read into it right what is their 00:10:27.009 --> 00:10:30.830 culture like how do How do you make yourself 00:10:30.830 --> 00:10:34.149 respect their culture? If you just go over there 00:10:34.149 --> 00:10:37.470 with the intent of doing the IRL travel video 00:10:37.470 --> 00:10:41.690 without actually researching, I can see where 00:10:41.690 --> 00:10:44.950 that across the line a lot because what we do 00:10:44.950 --> 00:10:47.730 here, you can't do everywhere else. And the respect 00:10:47.730 --> 00:10:50.889 level is completely different. So I love that 00:10:50.889 --> 00:10:53.470 you said that for those that have intentions 00:10:53.470 --> 00:10:56.649 of going to another country or going somewhere 00:10:56.649 --> 00:10:58.799 else that they don't know about. research it 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.399 first you know what i mean because yeah you don't 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:04.019 want to be obnoxious and in my opinion not most 00:11:04.019 --> 00:11:06.720 people want to end up in jail but that's where 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:10.500 you want to go that's okay too um but i never 00:11:10.500 --> 00:11:12.940 really even thought about that and i i honestly 00:11:12.940 --> 00:11:16.580 um i'm so glad you decided to come on and talk 00:11:16.580 --> 00:11:20.039 about this because if it's a lot of people that 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:22.080 are doing this, these are things like you said, 00:11:22.139 --> 00:11:24.320 it's a really good conversation to have. And 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:27.240 as you mentioned that you may not be, you know, 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:29.600 an expert in this, you're definitely the expert 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:32.600 right now, especially for someone who's just 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:35.860 trying to begin and being obnoxious and annoying. 00:11:36.259 --> 00:11:40.279 Yes, it may make a rise. with viewers, but what 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:43.460 does that say about you as a person? Because 00:11:43.460 --> 00:11:45.659 you still have to go out with your family, your 00:11:45.659 --> 00:11:49.399 friends, and what reflection or brand are you 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:51.899 truly trying to make? So I love that you talked 00:11:51.899 --> 00:11:55.139 about that. That's a big deal. That's a big deal 00:11:55.139 --> 00:11:59.440 for me. But when you were talking about speaking 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:02.159 and doing that in front of people and the confidence 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:06.269 you have to have. Hey, hands down for you, because 00:12:06.269 --> 00:12:08.809 I can barely take a picture in public with somebody 00:12:08.809 --> 00:12:12.269 behind me without feeling like. Yeah. Yeah. So 00:12:12.269 --> 00:12:15.149 I still feel like that, but I just do it. I push 00:12:15.149 --> 00:12:18.309 through. Yeah. And then you get home and I'm 00:12:18.309 --> 00:12:20.370 sure you're like completely worn out after that. 00:12:20.409 --> 00:12:25.110 Right. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's easy for 00:12:25.110 --> 00:12:27.809 me to get worn out, though. So I never sleep 00:12:27.809 --> 00:12:32.299 right. crazy i love this um i want to say thank 00:12:32.299 --> 00:12:34.899 you so much for choosing to take the time to 00:12:34.899 --> 00:12:38.820 meet with me be my guest um i really truly loved 00:12:38.820 --> 00:12:40.700 it i'm learning about something that i've never 00:12:40.700 --> 00:12:43.259 really known anything about so at the end of 00:12:43.259 --> 00:12:46.000 the day your your audience is like in the dub 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.559 mode which is me and now that we're able to share 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:52.850 it with everybody else you know um I think that 00:12:52.850 --> 00:12:55.669 this is great. Do me a favor. Share with the 00:12:55.669 --> 00:12:58.710 audience where they can contact you at, where 00:12:58.710 --> 00:13:02.730 they could follow you at and the podcast. When 00:13:02.730 --> 00:13:07.070 will that come out? So we are going live. Let 00:13:07.070 --> 00:13:10.669 me double check. Look at my calendar here. The 00:13:10.669 --> 00:13:16.269 exact date and time. So, oh, no. OK, so it is. 00:13:16.370 --> 00:13:19.309 Yeah, we are going live with our first episode 00:13:19.309 --> 00:13:24.139 with Nadine. mulvina from uh the sober butterfly 00:13:24.139 --> 00:13:28.860 as our first guest um at 7 p .m eastern time 00:13:28.860 --> 00:13:34.080 on march 10th okay and that will be live streamed 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:37.620 on my twitch channel twitch .tv adventures live 00:13:37.620 --> 00:13:41.080 uh and then like i said i'm going to be doing 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:45.960 the uh editing of that podcast, and we'll be 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:49.059 putting the video version out on YouTube later 00:13:49.059 --> 00:13:51.820 on my YouTube channel, youtube .com slash adventures 00:13:51.820 --> 00:13:57.539 vlog. And that will be released on YouTube and 00:13:57.539 --> 00:14:02.019 Spotify and all other spot. or all other podcast 00:14:02.019 --> 00:14:04.419 platforms. Thank you for being here today. I'm 00:14:04.419 --> 00:14:06.139 really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros 00:14:06.139 --> 00:14:09.100 Live. I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions 00:14:09.100 --> 00:14:11.740 as these episodes continue to move forward. This 00:14:11.740 --> 00:14:13.639 is going to get more and more fun. We'll have 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:15.460 more and more engagement as well. We'll invite 00:14:15.460 --> 00:14:17.860 people to participate in the show. And thank 00:14:17.860 --> 00:14:19.840 you for giving us your time and attention. Have 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:22.480 an excellent time building out your vision and 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:23.600 becoming a vision pro yourself.