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Chris Webster is an archaeologist, author, podcaster, business owner, and archaeo-futurist. His passion is public education, outreach, and making commercial field archaeology more efficient – raising the quality of life for archaeological field technicians. Chris, when he is not running his archaeologist firm, is out podcasting. He has nine podcasts and one is a daily podcast. That is a lot of commitment for sure.
Life and Success Principles
- FOCUS (Follow One Course Until Success)
- Schedule everything
- Know your people and their strengths and weaknesses
- Don’t be afraid to fail
- Don’t let anyone tell you that it won’t work
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chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com
Chris Webster
0:00 welcome to timelines episode 269 we
0:02 recorded this interview at the
0:04 collective in Reno Nevada always
0:06 wonderful to go back to the collective
0:08 they’ve got a really nice place now in
0:09 studio and just came out nice our guest
0:12 today is Chris Webster Chris is an
0:15 archaeologist author podcaster business
0:17 owner and our key futurist his passion
0:19 is on public education outreach making
0:22 commercial fields archaeology more
0:24 efficient and for raising the quality of
0:25 life for archaeological field
0:27 technicians now without further ado
0:29 let’s get right to Sepp sewed with Chris
0:31 welcome to timeline today we have Chris
0:33 sweatshirt and Chris is an amazing guy
0:35 we’re in Reno Nevada by the way at the
0:37 collective so Chris welcome timelines
0:39 thank you Bill so you know where do I
0:41 start with a guy like you because you’re
0:42 you’re not know her the exact type of
0:44 people we want on timelines but you’re
0:46 also a podcaster so we have podcasters
0:48 home we have like a track of podcasters
0:51 who get on in timelines so we’re gonna
0:53 start with a lot of things you just came
0:54 back though from podcasters movement yes
0:56so we’re gonna talk about no more than
0:58two minutes about podcasters movement
0:59tell us what was the biggest impression
1:01you take away from podcast remember the
1:03biggest thing I took away from podcast
1:05movement was the the the extreme two
1:09things really the extreme variety of
1:10podcasts that are out there and things
1:12people are podcasting about and that are
1:13passionate about and that want to tell
1:15other people about and the fact that
1:17there’s about a million different ways
1:19you can set up to do this you can you
1:21know whether you’ve got a different kind
1:22of computer recording devices
1:24microphones and iPhone it doesn’t matter
1:27you can set up a podcast talking about
1:29your passion and if you do it right and
1:31you focus on content which was the other
1:32big takeaway content not gear I mean you
1:35want it to sound good but if you focus
1:37on delivering good content and being
1:38authentic with your listeners you can
1:40probably monetize that even if it’s a
1:41niche show that’s good so what you take
1:43away there they’re telling you focus on
1:45content not on equipment and systems in
1:47other words if I had to pick one word to
1:49describe the thing I heard the most was
1:51be authentic that’s what everybody said
1:54was be authentic if you’re trying to rep
1:56refute rying to just recreate somebody
1:57else’s show or their format and I mean
2:00you can learn from people you you
2:01respect but if you’re trying to just
2:02recreate what they’re doing and create
2:04another on fire podcast or something
2:05like that you’re not being authentic
2:08you’re just duplicating bring your own
2:10voice to the table and run your own
2:11ideas to the table well no matter who
2:13you are
2:13even if you’re sort of following another
2:15format you’re still gonna be your own
2:16person absolutely thoughts yeah so
2:18driving on you move down Anaheim
2:21California yep and we’re up in Reno yep
2:23it’s a way so you drove down 395 he came
2:25back five I did and what do you do while
2:27you’re driving I listen to podcast of
2:28course I feel so good cuz I found a
2:31podcast from Reno and sometimes Reno is
2:34a unique place
2:34folks I love Reno I love Nevada it’s
2:37definitely not California though they’re
2:38forming technologies and I think
2:41sometimes we’re like 10 years behind the
2:43Bay Area yeah whether it’s real estate
2:44or wherever it might be right so we’re
2:46in the collective tell us about the
2:48collective and what you do here and how
2:49long you’ve been podcasting so the Reno
2:51collective is now as of about two months
2:54ago housed in a in what used to be
2:55called granny’s recording studio and
2:57we’re using most of the space for
3:00co-working spaces such as you can see
3:01back behind us here and we’re kind of in
3:03what we’re calling the maker space right
3:04now actually they call it the holodeck
3:05but that’s another term anyway so people
3:09just come here and they work I have a
3:10resident desk here which means I have my
3:11computers my business I’m running it
3:13basically out of the collective and we
3:15also have a podcast studio back there
3:16which I do most of my recording from and
3:19I started podcasting about five years
3:22ago I had a show that I’ve taken off the
3:24internet entirely because it was
3:26horrific that that’s how it happens when
3:27you first start podcasting I didn’t even
3:28want to listen to it was so bad I did it
3:30for a year but it busted my podcasting
3:32chops so to speak I learned a lot and
3:34then I started the panel style
3:36educational show that I always kind of
3:38wanted but what really wasn’t ready to
3:40start until I got that first one under
3:41my belt so I started that and then about
3:44three years later I started the
3:45archeology podcast network because I
3:47wanted to talk about more things on
3:48different shows so I said well let’s
3:51assume we’re gonna be ambitious and and
3:53bring in other shows eventually even if
3:54I’m just starting one more show and I
3:56found a co-founder who’s Tristen boil
3:57over in Scotland and we both basically
4:01started this thing we run it under my
4:02company heading of Digg tech under my my
4:05cultural resource management firm and
4:06and now we have 17 shows on the website
4:10folks that’s amazing I saw a 17 shows
4:13and said I don’t know how you have any
4:14time to do anything else and I know how
4:16he actually makes a living not many
4:18people really make a living from
4:19podcasting not really no I mean it is
4:21very difficult I know a few folks I’ve
4:22interviewed some people are making 5 to
4:247
4:24yeah it takes some work to make you have
4:26to have other things affiliates
4:28donations all that yeah but how do you
4:30make your real money I make my real
4:31money with my CRM firm and in this
4:33context a lot of people here CRM and
4:36they think something else but in this
4:37context it’s cultural resource
4:38management so it’s contract archeology
4:41that’s federally mandated in advance of
4:44like federal project here in Nevada it’s
4:45gold mine silver mines solar projects
4:47wind farms highways anytime federal
4:50money or permitting is required for the
4:52project you have to have a cultural
4:54resources assessment it’s part of an
4:55environmental impact statement or
4:56environmental assessment or other things
4:58that was well said I’m I come from that
5:00industry the construction industry and
5:02that was well laid out even the average
5:03person I think they understand concepts
5:06where you go out and we live in a great
5:07location the south on the west yeah and
5:10you can get from Reno to about anywhere
5:11to work yeah yeah I covered Northern
5:14California most arena most of Nevada so
5:16yeah and we have a lot of Native
5:17American sites up and down this west and
5:20the East Coast must be crazy to the
5:22whole country Civil War yes use
5:25battlegrounds as well as all the other
5:27they’ve got different yeah they’ve got
5:30different issues are working with on the
5:31East Coast I’ve actually worked in I
5:32think 18 different states across the
5:34country before my wife and I landed in
5:35Reno she was an archaeologist too at the
5:36time she’s gotten out of it but you know
5:39we worked all over the country in pretty
5:41much every region in the continental
5:43United States and they have different
5:45concerns and different styles of ways of
5:47doing things out here not to spend too
5:50much time on this but geologically most
5:51of our archaeology here in Nevada is
5:53sitting on the surface going back you
5:55can have 15,000 role artifacts sitting
5:56on the surface because there’s not a lot
5:58of soil that gets deposited or created
6:00because it’s a desert mm-hmm so for us
6:03to do a survey the first phase we just
6:06we just walk across the landscape and
6:07see what we see and record it right I am
6:10actually environmental impact statements
6:13I’m very I yeah I’ve had to deal with
6:15them left and right yeah for sure yeah
6:17ours and phase ones and phase twos and
6:20we’re usually the the first step in
6:22those things you know they have us come
6:24out to see how much more money it’s
6:25gonna cost them to develop even small
6:26projects you have to have a phase one at
6:28least for a bank will even loans yes yes
6:30so anyway going on that’s kinda neat now
6:32Chris is not too preneur to the ant’s
6:34degree he was in the Navy
6:35thanks for your navy service thank you
6:37and he got out he won
6:38to flight school yeah I went to flight
6:40school in Tulsa Oklahoma under Spartan
6:42school of Aeronautics and after about a
6:45year there and seeing a few people
6:47transfer out Spartan at the time just
6:50offered an associate’s degree and to be
6:52a commercial pilot which was what the
6:53goal of everyone at that school was you
6:54need a bachelor’s degree and they don’t
6:56care what it’s in you can have a
6:58bachelor’s degree to anything and they
6:59will take you but one of the
7:00requirements for being a commercial
7:01airline pilot in the majors was a
7:03bachelor’s degree so at Spartan you got
7:05an associate’s degree from them that was
7:06basically based in aviation and then you
7:08had to do like night courses while you
7:10flight instructed with them to build
7:11your time and your bachelor degree so
7:13instead of doing that I had a more
7:15passion for knowledge and learning and I
7:17didn’t want to just learn the little
7:18things that they had so I ended up
7:20transferring to the University of North
7:21Dakota which aside from Embry Riddle
7:22which is a private university Norton
7:25University of North Dakota’s though has
7:28the best flight program of any public
7:29university in the country and I went
7:31there finished out a lot of my flying my
7:33instrument commercial things like that
7:34but as I was telling telling you in the
7:37before we started talking here I just
7:38want to be a bus driver for a living and
7:40I was filling up all my other courses
7:41with anthropology so at some point I
7:42dropped aviation picked up math for a
7:45little while because that was fun and
7:46then graduated with a degree in
7:48anthropology in anthropology but you’re
7:50not from there though you get your
7:53masters yeah in archaeological resource
7:56management yeah yeah that’s even better
7:58so you got the A+ really weird
8:00combination but it allows you to run
8:01businesses yeah so there’s two sides you
8:03got the university professional side or
8:05like a Human Terrain team system like
8:06guys in an Afghanistan and then you’ve
8:08got the civilian professional services
8:11side mm-hmm so you with the entrepreneur
8:13side where you’re contracting pulling
8:14teams together and making a living and I
8:17don’t know how you do it all I honestly
8:18don’t know how I know how much work it
8:20is to podcast yeah that’s a lot and tell
8:22us about your network so the archaeology
8:24podcast network our focus is on public
8:26education and outreach ever I’ve got
8:28it’s rotating around a little bit but
8:30I’ve got 18 to 22 hosts that I co-host
8:33or host entirely six shows on the
8:36network and then all the other shows I
8:38don’t have any involvement at all in the
8:40content creation of those but we do the
8:42editing and post-production and and
8:44uploading of those and tracking the
8:45social media and things like that but
8:47all of our hosts are there either
8:50graduate level archaeologist or
8:52professional archaeologists in one way
8:53or another and they do this for a living
8:55and they podcast on the side so very
8:57good so I mean my hats off I know how
9:00much time it takes and how many I can
9:02how many of you edit a week oh I mean
9:04right now we’ve got because we have a
9:06daily show they were running for 2017
9:08it’s only 5 to 15 minutes but every
9:10single day the bots of the year and that
9:13makes it about 9 episodes 9 to 10
9:16episodes a week that go up when that
9:18ends in 2017 if I if I don’t decide to
9:20have an aneurysm and continue it into
9:212018 then we’ll be back down to about
9:24three or four hour long shows a week so
9:26I mean we could talk on forever cuz
9:28you’ve got three or four different
9:28businesses a lot like I am yeah and but
9:31that’s what I like that’s you know
9:32you’ll hit something you always have
9:33just something that brings in the money
9:34though so you can continue to build
9:35something else yep and eventually you’ll
9:37hit it big because podcasting there’s
9:39some huge podcasters out there if you
9:40hit the top 200 yeah you’re gonna make
9:43revenues that are very large but right
9:46but there’s tons of podcasts well and
9:48the only thing stopping us from
9:48monetizing because we have the numbers
9:50we have the listeners we’re at you know
9:52again I don’t have solid analytics but
9:54the analytic I do have say that we have
9:56about seventy one thousand monthly
9:57subscribers across the whole network now
9:59some of those shows are more popular
10:00than others but we have we can monetize
10:03we can bring in money it’s really
10:04finding the time right now which is
10:06another thing that’s shifting for me
10:07right now is I’m being able to shift
10:09more time to the podcast network and I
10:10think that’ll start paying the bills
10:11yeah you know it’s I think it takes a
10:13small team sometimes you need someone
10:15out there out front generating some lead
10:17generation some monetization and someone
10:19actually doing the editing right in a
10:21system and that’s just a process I’m
10:23around a lot so with that I’m gonna take
10:25a quick break and I’m gonna come back on
10:26the back side and we’re going to talk
10:28about your life and success principles
10:29so we’re gonna talk about Reno and a
10:32little commercial from you and like what
10:34do you like to eat in Reno where should
10:35we go to eat okay hey this is Bill quick
10:38little commercial break three quick
10:40peaches one for Karen at Karen Conrad
10:42comm she’s my real estate broker here in
10:44Reno Nevada of course check out and look
10:47at podcasters home comm as well as AOC
10:50Chris calm now let’s get right back to
10:52the episode with Chris okay we are back
10:56to Chris’s life and success principles
11:00so I’m gonna go ahead and read all five
11:01of these and we’ll go one at a time
11:02how’s that sounds good so the first one
11:05is focus FOC
11:06us and then two is scheduled everything
11:08three is know that know your people and
11:10their strengths and weaknesses nope and
11:12four is don’t be afraid to fail and five
11:14is don’t let anyone don’t let anyone
11:17tell you that it doesn’t work that right
11:19now that’s right okay so if one focus
11:21what does focus me so focus is an
11:23acronym I first heard it on John Lee
11:25Dumas is CEO fire podcast and it’s it’s
11:27it’s follow one course until success
11:29it’s something that I struggle at
11:31actually because there’s so many things
11:32I want to do and they all need to work
11:34together right Shenyang that’s right the
11:36military we had that left I know I know
11:37and it’s not like and this is why I was
11:40actually in some other stuff back in May
11:41with app development of things like that
11:43for archaeology and I had to back away
11:44from that and it was a really tough
11:45decision to make so I could focus on
11:48building up the APN because I want to
11:50back away also for my cultural resource
11:52management firm and do less fieldwork
11:54stuff and focus more on the public
11:56outreach so that’s kind of what I’m
11:57using that to keep my self centered you
11:59know I’m just gonna sidetrack here we’re
12:01gonna talk about not focusing in the
12:03workup show we didn’t talk about we’re
12:04not going to talk about in detail but
12:06one of the projects you’re working on is
12:07bring some technology to archaeology
12:10absolutely which they’re way behind I
12:12know I just went through this a couple
12:13years ago and the social scientists that
12:15it’s likethey they’re scientists or
12:16social scientists they’re not engineers
12:18right they’re not engineers not bring
12:21into a design concept of digitizing and
12:23yes we could talk about that and maybe
12:25in leadership maybe on your archaeology
12:27soul or something I’ll tell you what go
12:29check out art pot Netcom we talk about
12:30it extensively a couple episodes all the
12:33time I think you’re talking about
12:34politics one day listen to it and I’m
12:35sure we work that way yeah right okay
12:38number two is schedule everything yeah I
12:41mean that’s just I know so many people
12:43in fact you know as a as a podcaster I
12:45interview a lot of people and I even use
12:47a scheduling tool online for them today
12:49I was used to just do email but I’m like
12:52no here’s a link go check this out
12:53whatever times are there will work for
12:55me and I still that system sends them an
12:58alert the day of the meeting and and if
13:02I need to cancel it it’ll send them that
13:03and people still forget to show up for
13:04the interview people still forget
13:06because they don’t use a calendar you
13:09know that’s the only way I can keep
13:10everything straight is if I wake up in
13:12the morning some people look at Facebook
13:13I look at my calendar first electronic
13:15calendar yeah electronic calendar 5:30
13:17in the morning I wake up my alarm goes
13:18off
13:19my phone over and I look at my calendar
13:21and I make sure I don’t have something
13:22going on it say so what’s the best
13:23scheduling software to use I use
13:26calendar leaf counting scheduling
13:27software I might be shifting to acuity
13:29because it integrates with Squarespace a
13:31little better and I’ve heard some good
13:32things about it but I’m not really sure
13:33but I really love calendly right now
13:35schedule once used to be really hot I’m
13:37using calendly myself yeah
13:38problem is when two podcasters both have
13:40calendar like use my know y’all use
13:42yours yeah right right but it’s like you
13:45more difficult in Reno I’m actually
13:46doing these field interviews like this
13:48yeah I feel aren’t podcasters and
13:49they’re not techies per se right so
13:51anyway number three know your people and
13:55their strengths and weaknesses now you
13:56pull teams together right whew yeah so
13:59one of the ways that this business of of
14:01contract archaeology works in everywhere
14:04from big massive engineering firms
14:05multi-million dollar firms down to small
14:08mom-and-pop firms we call them which is
14:09basically what I am the way they operate
14:11is they have a couple people or a team
14:13of people that are full-time on staff
14:15and then when they have a big survey or
14:17excavation project they hire people
14:18temporarily and so you’re constantly
14:21working with new people you might have a
14:22team of people you work with locally but
14:24they could be out on other projects you
14:25might have to go to the local job boards
14:27with the ones we all use that are online
14:28and and pull people in so they might be
14:32working with people that the only thing
14:34they know about them is reading their CV
14:35you know reading their resume so one of
14:37the things I try to do when I have
14:39people is I try to really get to know
14:40them and find out okay what are you
14:43actually good at what do you want to be
14:44good at can I help train you and can you
14:46leave this job with some new skills you
14:47know and but first and foremost the
14:50client’s needs come into play and I have
14:52to say okay there’s a time for training
14:53and there’s a time for let’s get this
14:55done and that comes down to exactly
14:57knowing what they’re capable of and
14:59putting him in those spots where they’re
15:00most effective Chris that’s excellent
15:02you know I you must you contract with
15:05the federal government yes the in-state
15:07I’m sure and some jury and private
15:08contractors in private clients yeah I
15:10remember in the contracting and the Fed
15:13side you had to have a special license
15:15or not a license but number mmm-hmm
15:16favorably can you have all that and you
15:18said yeah yeah we’re set up with all the
15:20all the proper numbers and things that
15:21you remember that a lot of the bids is
15:24he had the general contractor or the
15:26engineering firm already our art
15:28architect and a lot of the
15:30subcontractors there’d be seven or eight
15:32ten packages a lot of
15:33to be the same people just different yes
15:35weeds yes they’ll happen that still
15:37happens word often especially a firm
15:39might like mine that just as archaeology
15:41will will often be a second or
15:43third-tier sub on a really big federal
15:45project yeah I got it yeah I’m one of
15:47the subs yeah King stop because because
15:49a lot of these a big environmental
15:50assessments license and you have yeah
15:52I’m certified payroll like it’s
15:54absolutely bring payroll on I have a
15:56payroll company yeah just bring that on
15:58it’s all certified yeah that’s the art
16:00now you went to school Business School
16:01to figure out a little bit of Navy time
16:04probably not a little bit but you did
16:06what four and a half years yeah and I
16:07because of the program that I took I was
16:09made in e4 pretty much immediately upon
16:12graduating are getting out so so I was I
16:14was actually running a night shift crew
16:16on the enterprise on the USS Enterprise
16:18during a cruise I worked the 7:00 at
16:20night to 7:00 in the morning shift on
16:22the flight deck when I was 20 so I had a
16:24lot of leadership training while I was
16:26in there because they require you to
16:27take that stuff and I appreciate it you
16:28know when you’re sharp and young and you
16:30go into military and get such a head
16:32start
16:32oh yeah realize that four years of they
16:35get so much if you’re if you’re capable
16:37and getting right training and you know
16:39the right places and do the right things
16:40absolutely get a huge amount of but
16:43responsibility at a young age but it’s
16:45like anything else too though if you
16:47don’t see those opportunities and take
16:49them they’ll pass you by and you’ll
16:50waste your time there I know so many
16:51people that wasted their time in the
16:52military to get anything out of it right
16:53but yeah again but the primary didn’t
16:56progress in their leadership and yeah
16:57exactly our duty positions and all that
16:59so I don’t want to forget this don’t
17:02don’t be afraid to fail number four yeah
17:04that’s that’s a big one because if
17:06you’re if you’re a serial entrepreneur
17:08or if you’re trying to make your
17:11business successful there’s things that
17:12you have to try and you can’t you can’t
17:15let them get you down I’ve tried I’ve
17:17tried different things from a technology
17:18standpoint I love trying to anytime I
17:20see something whether it’s you know my
17:22iPhone or some little gadget or
17:24something like that the first thing I
17:25say is can I use this for archaeology
17:27and I try it and sometimes it fails
17:30sometimes it’s a success sometimes we
17:31have to change things or sometimes you
17:33try a whole new methodology I’ve had
17:35projects that went over-budget because I
17:37didn’t know what I was doing first early
17:39on and I lost money on the project I
17:42can’t look back on that and say well I’m
17:44never gonna do this again I’m never
17:45gonna do that again
17:46whatever
17:47caused me to do that but I’m gonna learn
17:48from that mistake and move on and not
17:50dwell on it
17:50yet one of the ways to make money is
17:51find something actually makes money and
17:53I repeat it over and over and over and
17:55change slowly absolutely and there’s
17:57pros and cons to that sometimes with all
17:58these this technology is moving so fast
18:00that things are just changing a whole
18:03new industries are coming up yeah and I
18:05like in your industry I think it’s a
18:07little slow to change probably because
18:09of the government systems and
18:10regulations as well as the professors
18:12and the universities well in its the we
18:15have a we’re in a unique position in
18:16time for professional archaeology firms
18:19a lot of those are run right now by
18:22people who got their PhDs back in the
18:24late 70s early 80s and they’re starting
18:25to retire out and pass on to younger
18:27generations but they’re really resistant
18:30to change and technology and I’ve seen
18:32that yeah I’ve seen that firsthand
18:33absolutely it’s just crazy yeah and then
18:35finally don’t let anyone tell you that
18:38you that it won’t work I’ve got so much
18:40yeah don’t let anybody tell you that it
18:42will not work I I have as an
18:44archaeologist people expect me when I
18:47when I first started doing this people
18:48expect me to you know toe the line and
18:50just be a field technician and then go
18:52do this and they say oh well you know
18:54don’t do that because no-one’s ever been
18:56found success doing that or no one’s
18:57ever done this and when I started
18:59getting into podcasting I thought from
19:01day one that when I first started my
19:03first show which I ended up taking down
19:04again don’t be afraid to fail that
19:06podcast doesn’t exist anywhere because I
19:08thought it was terrible and I didn’t
19:09want it out there and I took it down and
19:11I started another one and from day one
19:13of starting that second podcast I
19:14thought this is what I’m gonna end up
19:16doing I didn’t know I was gonna start a
19:18network three years later I can’t sing
19:19can be addicting you’ve stayed well yeah
19:20you’ll be with it forever
19:21I I will and it’s something public
19:23outreach and doing these things even if
19:25it never made me any money I’d be doing
19:27it in some way shape or form but I know
19:28that there’s such a need and a craving
19:30for this stuff that regardless how many
19:33people tell me you can’t make money in
19:34podcasting I know that this will pay the
19:36bills for me and other people someday
19:37well there’s just so many other elements
19:39like we talked about earlier I have
19:41switched over in timelines to go 24
19:43local interviews because I realized four
19:46five interviews I’m five or ten
19:47interviews one year my wife made about
19:49$50,000 in Commission mmm
19:52offer connections that she made through
19:53the podcast yeah she sponsors the
19:55podcast and people get to know man it’s
19:57a relationship so 24 podcasts should
20:01$100,000 that’s so there’s different
20:03ways of podcasts help in business
20:05absolutely
20:06I can’t I I’m not gonna go in much
20:08detail there yeah he has like two
20:09minutes I thought I had a lot a lot of
20:12websites oh we’ve got another one we
20:13recorded today thank God that we haven’t
20:15even published yet and we long on this
20:17interview I like I’m so intrigued and
20:19I’m completely changing how I do the
20:21local interviews right help you it more
20:23time because it’s having so much fun
20:24okay go in the last section here of the
20:27podcast it’s more about you and your
20:29commercial so give me a commercial how
20:31the listener mm-hmm both on YouTube and
20:34in the podcast can help you what can we
20:36do to help you well honestly as far as
20:40the podcast network goes we like people
20:42to go to our Facebook page and Twitter
20:44and things like that cuz all our stuff
20:45posts there and one of the the biggest
20:48things that we need is for the public to
20:51understand more about public outreach
20:53and and archaeology and heritage and
20:55things like that
20:56so even if you’re already drinking the
20:57kool-aid and you love everything that
20:58we’re doing share those on your own
21:00social networks so your family and
21:02friends that don’t hear these things can
21:05benefit from the information and while
21:06you’re doing that if you like what we’re
21:08doing you know we have a membership
21:10program that we just started because
21:11because you know I’ve done advertising
21:13I’m probably gonna do some more I’ve
21:15done sponsoring but I want this to be a
21:17listener-supported network and we have
21:19we’re bringing in you know a few hundred
21:21dollars a month right now on on
21:22memberships and that’s slowly climbing
21:24every week and and I love it and that’s
21:27the one reason we have some gear and
21:28things like that because we give those
21:30we give those to people and that become
21:33our Pro subscribers and we’re producing
21:35learning content for these pro
21:36subscribers so you know all kinds of
21:39different things so I guess the the
21:41commercial aspect that the how can you
21:44help us is to really just spread the
21:46word the more people that hear about
21:47what we’re doing and what we’re trying
21:48to do I think the better we’re trying to
21:51counter things like the History Channel
21:52and their shows and the Discovery
21:54Channel that just the ancient aliens
21:56crowd things like that that just there’s
21:57misinformation out there you know what I
21:59am saying now like you said it’s
22:01starting to build is you talked earlier
22:02is in the universities now it’s funny
22:04I’m just seeing the first pot yeah
22:06Studios pop-up yeah if you’ve been well
22:08ahead of the power curve alright some of
22:09the geeky guys and Technology we’re
22:11doing it right but not the professional
22:13fields like absolutely
22:14that’s the other thing I’m trying to do
22:16is with the public outreach stuff is I’m
22:17I’m passionate about podcasting in
22:19general and podcast movement just
22:20ignited this because it was the first
22:22thing I’d gone to that wasn’t archeology
22:23related that was pretty much all these
22:25fields
22:25it’s nice you you give a free one-hour
22:27orientation start podcasting here here
22:30at the collective say what shoot him
22:31over to my free course podcasters home
22:32absolutely and what I like is before you
22:35go and do the perfect podcast learn how
22:37to do just a basic quick little podcast
22:39yep and that’s that’s it so as we finish
22:42up here we always ask your from Reno we
22:45didn’t really ask how you got here
22:46yeah LG brought me here that’s why I
22:49assume because great archaeologists
22:51imich called a Great Basin we learn the
22:54environment we’re at the start the part
22:56of the Great Basin starts here yep we
22:58got burners up here absolutely burners
23:00are here in town or even they go out in
23:02the field now if you gotta bring man yet
23:04I haven’t yet actually know why I don’t
23:07make it out there as a burner myself but
23:09it’s so many people 60,000 yeah it’s a
23:11lot and they clean it all up – yeah they
23:13must have to use an archaeologist
23:14somewhere out there you would think
23:16right yeah they’re gonna need to later
23:17yeah so we’ll watch that this week on TV
23:20yeah
23:21but going out word when I come to Reno
23:23where should I gotta eat I’ll tell you
23:25what my wife and I when we first came
23:28here we we like sushi and Reno is such a
23:31crazy place you have a lot of sushi here
23:33well not only do we have a lot but it’s
23:35all all-you-can-eat yeah oh yeah this is
23:37crazy yeah one of our favorites that we
23:39go to in we used to live up in Northeast
23:42no no we used to live up in Sparks and
23:46we went there because it was close and
23:48now it’s far away because we’re down in
23:49downtown Reno we still go there it’s
23:51called the joint tha joint there’s
23:53actually one down here in Reno now off
23:55Virginia but I think it’s it’s different
23:57somehow we still go to the one up in
23:59Sparks and we love it
24:00you know Reno has we’re a small city and
24:03then everyone comes in the weekends or
24:04we have Vince all the time all the time
24:06so when they all go away it’s really
24:07small we have all these great places but
24:09because we have so many great
24:10restaurants here it’s because of the
24:11tourism absolutely yeah there’s so much
24:13to do but that that sounds neat we do
24:15have a lot of sue she’s really strange
24:16hello is drench somebody else talked
24:19about sushi we look at the history of
24:20sushi and started like an LA and it’s so
24:22la everything comes to LA it here in San
24:24Francisco and all these different
24:26cultures you go somewhere else and
24:28sushi and you’ll get a single roll for
24:29like twelve or fourteen dollars that’s
24:30really big that’s the one thing people
24:32don’t realize when they come to Reno the
24:33rolls are really tiny but that’s cuz you
24:35order like ten of them and share them on
24:36the table I know it’s crazy
24:38yeah well Chris we could go on and on
24:40and we went you took we probably took an
24:42extra hour and something just talking on
24:43the pretty work up I’m actually gonna
24:45start blocking more of these local pre
24:46work up so it’s really a pleasure to
24:48have a local podcaster here thank you
24:49yeah I appreciate it to know you I heard
24:51about yeah and it’s just mice
24:53outstanding all right Chris Wade goodbye
24:55all right thank you we want to thank
24:57Chris for coming on time lines I want to
24:59make a quick announcement to chris is
25:01gonna start a podcast meetup group in
25:04Reno I know I’ll be part of it probably
25:06be at the collective so look up at the
25:08meetups to make sure when you’re in Reno
25:10to look us up and attend one of the
25:12podcast meetups the meantime I want to
25:16thank you again for tuning in to this
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