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Hello everybody, welcome to another edition of the Subi Scoop, I think you might know what
this Scoop is going to be about.
Last week, last Monday, a week ago today, I got laid off from my job.
So that's not all this Scoop is going to be about.
That would be lame and depressing, but yeah, despite not having a job, I'm actually feeling
pretty good and I'm doing okay for now.
I'll be okay for a little bit, but I got to figure something out, of course.
Thankfully, I was given a severance through November 7th, so that'll definitely help.
And then unless I get a job before then, I'm going to file for unemployment.
That will help as well.
Also huge, huge shout out to the community and for all the people that became a patron
this past week, I really, really appreciate it.
It really means a lot because as you know, as many of you know, what I would really
love to do is to do this podcast full time, but I have to be able to maintain a place
to live, my car, other expenses and everything.
I've had people say, oh, just go do the podcast full time.
That would be great, except I have to be able to make a living.
I have to be able to pay all my bills and everything.
Every little bit helps.
It really does.
So I really, really appreciate everybody that decided to become a patron.
And if you're unsure of what Patreon is, Patreon is just a place to go and support
people who are producing and creating content.
So if there's content that you consume, if they create a Patreon account, then that
is a way to help support that content that you consume.
That's what Patreon is.
Therefore, if you are able to help support the podcast and help support me through this
journey and it's only $7 a month, which I know is not a whole lot, but it definitely
helps me for every person that becomes a patron because that's a little bit more.
Because of Patreon and their cut that they take, plus considering I'm going to have to
pay taxes on that money, it's more like $4.50 that I actually make, or that I can actually
retain.
But so, again, every little bit helps and I really, really appreciate it.
But like I mentioned earlier, that's not all I'm going to talk about on this
Subi Scoop.
I started or I created a YouTube channel back in 2022 and it was designed specifically for
patrons initially and I got really, really busy with the podcast.
I was doing an episode every week and I was doing the Subi Scoop every Wednesday on
top of having a full-time job and traveling because I was traveling back with my old
job.
So that made it even more difficult to get in time for stuff.
So I was making some behind-the-scenes videos and I did upload them to Patreon.
If you scroll back, you can find some of the old stuff that I uploaded to Patreon, I believe.
So there is some content in there.
But now that I have more time, I want to utilize that time and create some more content.
So the YouTube channel I have is just called SubiNU because way back then I was kind
of thinking ahead that maybe someday I will do media stuff centered around just
Subaru related things.
So that's why I just called it SubiNU, not SubiNU podcast YouTube channel.
And I recorded a welcome video that I'm going to have to go back and re-record because
I realized that I had the settings on my roadcaster or on my road wireless pro.
I had it set wrong and it was only recording into one channel.
So like if you were to listen to it with headphones, it would only be on the left side.
So I need to go back, I found out how to get it to record in stereo basically so that you
can hear it out of both channels.
So I need to go back and record the intro video but I did that or I need to do that.
And then I recorded a kind of like an introduction video that I'm going to do as YouTube short
for Pearl.
The majority of my audience since I started this podcast has been people that I've connected
with on Instagram and more and more people have come to know about the podcast and mostly
because of somebody else's story they saw on Instagram.
And I haven't ventured out beyond Instagram because I honestly I did not want to put
in all the extra time outside of doing the podcast, outside of doing my full time
job, outside of having a long distance relationship, being a dad and just all the other life stuff.
Because if I were to do all this extra stuff, I would be working all day and then working
on podcast stuff all night and I wouldn't have any time for anything else.
And I would burn out very quickly.
And that's the last thing that I would want to do because I don't want to stop
doing the podcast.
I want to keep creating content for you.
So now that I have more time, I want to get some YouTube videos in the banks and then start
publishing them over time.
So I'm going to take some of this extra time that I have to start creating some videos
and it's going to be more centered around just my car, my build, you know, the partners
that I have, the mods that I have.
I also want to use it for when I go to events but I do have video content from
previous events that I just uploaded to Instagram, like to my stories or as a real.
So I want to go back and take some of that content and create some YouTube shorts out
of that because I want to try to reach a bigger audience.
I want to get beyond just Instagram.
Hopefully I can connect and get an audience, you know, that's much bigger because I
want more people to know about the podcast.
I've had so many people say it's a great podcast.
I don't want to sit here and say, oh yeah, the podcast is awesome and you should listen
to it.
That's, I feel like that's not for me to decide.
That's for the people that are listening to it to say, hey, to tell somebody else,
hey, you got to check out this podcast.
I think it's awesome.
And there's a lot of really great stories with or from people all around the community.
The host is great, whatever you want to say, that's not up to me.
I don't want to like toot my own horn.
I don't like doing that.
That's just not my personality.
That's not the type of person that I am.
So if you want to say it's great, then that's, that's awesome, of course.
But I do want to reach a larger audience and I'm hoping that through YouTube I can do that
to get more listeners and get more people excited about it.
And I just, it's something that I've been wanting to do anyway.
I've been wanting to do YouTube videos that are kind of centered around just
general Subaru stuff.
So like I said, I have videos of stuff that I've done before events.
Like all the expos, I have videos that I took and put together for a real or that I posted
in my stories.
So I want to go back, take some of that content, create YouTube shorts.
And then also, like I said, I did a like an intro video or an introduction to Pearl
video and I'm going to put that up.
And then I want to record some content that's related to like the partners that I've had,
like Melee Design Firm, Ryco Wheels, and Orbis Overlanding, eccentric designs, and
just feature some of those products and some of those brands through my YouTube channel.
And that's why I was thinking it could be like Subi and you media, not just podcast
focused.
So if you're thinking that maybe there will be YouTube videos of the episodes, that's
not what it's going to be.
I want to keep it as an audio podcast.
I know that may sound crazy, but I like that it's an audio podcast.
I like that it stayed in that format, that it's kind of stayed true to what it originally
started off as.
But I do want to use YouTube videos for other topics and other things that are Subaru related.
And I will do some things like behind the scenes stuff of the podcast and maybe record
some editing and throw it up there.
So there will be podcast content, but it's not going to be podcast focused.
So other than that, just this week I'm going to DoorDash and throw out my resume,
some other places, contact some people and try to figure out what's next.
But I'm doing okay and I don't feel stressed.
I feel very, very blessed.
And this past week or last week, I got laid off, of course, and then so Monday was very
surreal.
I just packed up all my stuff like you see in the movies.
I grabbed a bag, actually had a bag in a drawer that I had saved from Whole Foods
because there was a Whole Foods right next to my office.
I don't know why I had been saving it all this time.
Maybe I saved it for a reason.
Maybe it was there so that I could have it for the last day that I was going to be there
and I could pack up all my stuff.
So I packed up all my stuff in the bag after they said that they were going to let
me go.
And I left.
I got out of there and I went to, I think I went to my mom's house after that
or something.
I don't even really remember.
It was a very surreal day because I know people get laid off all the time, but I have never,
ever in my life.
And since I've been working since like 16, I'm now 52.
Never have been laid off from a job in my life.
I have quit jobs, but I've never been laid off.
So it's very different for me.
Tuesday, I don't even remember.
Oh, Tuesday I went and did DoorDash for a while.
I wanted to give it a try.
I had already signed up on Monday and I was ready to go because I want to be making
some money.
I don't want to just sit around and be a bum.
So did that.
And then Wednesday, Wednesday, I was just packing and getting stuff ready because I went and
met Kelly and her daughter down at Seabrook.
We stayed at an Airbnb from Wednesday evening through Saturday afternoon.
And I enjoyed doing absolutely nothing.
I think there, I needed that.
I needed to be able to do nothing for a while.
And I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I sat out on the patio there every morning except for Saturday.
I sat out there Thursday morning and Friday morning, had a banana, some orange juice and
just sat there and enjoyed the peaceful, you know, the peacefulness of being out there
near the beach.
We were a few blocks down from the beach, so I couldn't hear the water or anything.
But I heard the birds and it was just the weather was pretty nice.
So I enjoyed downtime.
I enjoyed not having to go to work.
And even though it was sucked that I didn't have a full-time job anymore, it was nice.
It was nice to not have to go to work.
But of course, like I said, I do want to work.
I do need to work.
But I feel like also this podcast, everything that I put into it, that's work.
And I really enjoy being able to put together the episodes and doing the Soobie Scoop,
doing what I'm doing right now because this is all for the community.
This is for everybody that's listening.
And I really, really appreciate everybody that's stuck around since the very beginning
because we've been doing this for over four and a half years.
And the fact that people are still listening, that's just, that's so cool to me.
But I, again, I just, I really, really appreciate everybody.
And I know I'm just kind of rambling and talking about whatever, but so, yeah, so last week
I didn't do any work.
I didn't do any door dashing because I was enjoying the downtime.
And then on Sunday, I slept in for a while, but then I got up and started doing some
stuff around the apartment.
And then I went to my mom's house Sunday afternoon and I washed Pearl, like properly
washed her for the first time in probably over six months.
It had been way too long, but living in an apartment, I can't just like, you know, wash
my car in the driveway because I don't have one.
And I can go to my mom's house, but I don't feel like just going over there and being
like, hey, I'm here to wash my car.
Okay, see you later.
I usually end up spending quite a bit of time over there when I wash my car.
But yeah, I was glad to get her really, really clean and looking good.
So I feel good about that.
So this next week I'm just going to start coming up with a list of things that I need
to take care of, things that I didn't really have a whole lot of time to do or that I just
like sometimes felt overwhelmed, you know, whenever I got done with work and there
were days I just didn't feel like doing anything because I would get really, really
stressed out.
And now all of that work stress being gone feels so good.
So I just need to take time the next few weeks to figure out what my game plan is going
to be, what my path is going to be and go from there.
You never know.
We'll see what happens.
But even though I don't have a job, I'm excited.
I'm really excited.
I know that sounds weird, but I'm also not like overly concerned because I know that
I'll be taken care of.
I know that things will work out because they seem to have always worked out.
And right now I feel so much relief.
I feel free and I feel like I have an opportunity to figure out what I want to do and I'm really
excited about that despite not having a job.
I'm really excited and I'm excited to see what's going to come next.
So I, yeah, again, thank you all so much.
I really, really appreciate it again.
If you're able to support and you can join Patreon, that would really, really
help and not just for right now, but moving forward and continuing to help move this podcast
forward through the next several years or however long it goes on.
But I really, really appreciate everybody and I hope you all have a great week.
Much to be loved.
Raph.
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