Is This Thing On!? | Ep #001 ProdPod

This is the moment to be a part of something bigger.

It's a producer party, baby.

Hey!

Hello.

Hello.

This

is a bit weird.

This is a true crime podcast.

It's a sunny August morning in Shepparton.

Wow.

Shepparton.

Yeah, I feel like there's crime there.

There is a lot of

crime.

I reckon there's heaps of crime out there.

So we're back.

Hi, guys.

This is a weird feeling, isn't it?

We've had so much to say while we were setting up our beanbags and now the mic's in front of us and we feel a little bit...

Do we talk about the beanbags first or do we talk about where the hell we've been?

Let's talk about where the hell.

What have we all been doing?

You have

a ring on your finger.

I know.

That's a thing that happened.

Don't even know where I'm looking.

Do we want to establish who we are first? In what way, William? Why would we do that?

I don't know which audience.

Which camera do I look at? Am I looking down the barrel of three? I'm there.

You're on two.

I'm on two.

Yeah, so the three of us were members of a radio show team

together on Triple M.

Marty's name isn't Voldemort.

We can be mature about it.

Sure.

And we had a spin-off podcast that we called The Producers Podcast.

Yes.

Am I establishing this well? No, you're doing

a wonderful job,

William.

And we shortened

it to ProdPod over the journey.

And now you've found it here, wherever you're watching.

And we thought about changing the name.

We said, why? We

have such a strong brand.

The market research is in.

Very popular brand.

Between grocery shoppers.

Yeah, yeah.

What is it? The grocery buyers.

Grocery buyers.

Grocery buyers demographic.

I'm going

to need a massage gun after this.

I'm like playing tennis with my...

Oh, yeah.

What do

you think about that? Is the middle not the place you want to sit?

I know it's done for a gender purpose, but it feels weird.

Yeah, we need to stagger it.

Nah.

We'll see.

Unless you go further back.

Oh, yeah.

No, but you're still going to.

No.

No, that would

help because I can just use my eyes.

Yeah,

peripheral.

Is there anything behind

me? So, the female voice you're hearing is Lauren.

Hello.

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

So, we're setting this up for the audio only listeners, are we?

Is that what we're doing? Yeah.

Yeah, I like it.

Yeah, do it.

What percentage do you think of the consumption will be? I don't know.

I have no idea.

Hey, we've never done this before.

Yeah.

Maybe not 100.

100 listeners?

No, percent.

100% of people will be audio only?

No, I thought you were saying have listened to us before.

Oh, yeah, for the first episode, sure.

But there is a chance that we have future episodes and people see a clip.

Imagine if you're

John in Zimbabwe and you've just been on YouTube flicking through and going, what's this? Start watching it.

Oh, look at this cool podcast.

Cool

podcast.

What we love to do the most.

Is that a

Zimbabwe accent? They sound a little bit South African in Zimbabwe.

The white ones.

Yeah,

yeah.

Hey, I heard an audio grab of Troye Sivan the other day.

He sounds really South African now.

We need to talk about Troye.

Now?

Did

he? Well,

I don't remember him sounding that South African.

He's from South Africa, isn't he? I know, I know.

But he lost that accent, didn't he?

No. Oh,

I feel the rush.

What was the, we need to have a Troye Sivan conversation.

We

could do it later, but we can do it now.

He has like a full private Instagram.

Are you across the whole Finster thing?

Oh, I've heard about this.

Yeah.

And so.

This is news.

It was like followers only.

He was like, you had to request to follow this Instagram, but he just posts thirst traps.

Can I follow?

He's now opened it up to the public, so it's not really a private Insta.

Oh, that's less fun.

Yeah,

no, I want to be a part of something amazing.

There's something happening with Troy at the moment.

He's

about to release music.

Is that what it is? I signed up for a text message mailing list, and I got a text today with some voice memo from, I haven't listened to it.

What is

it?

No, so you call his phone number because he did it for the show.

What is that? You're

both across

this? Because of the show I work on.

Lauren's

now like the home of the hits or something like that.

She's on the pulse of pop culture.

You make him, we break him.

Yeah.

Is that your...

No, I love your show.

No.

What is our thing?

What do you mean? It's your show.

You do it every night.

Yeah.

Glance

over

at Matthew.

Matthew, what is that?

Matthew's my assistant.

When

are we

on? Now, let's talk about our beanbags.