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Scott Maffei, a Winter Garden, FL resident finds joy in content creation. With a passion for going live on TikTok from theme parks, hosting a live podcast on YouTube, and producing 'No New Friends Podcast,' Scott's creativity shines through. At 44, he achieved a top 3 spot for 'No New Friends Podcast' in Orlando Weekly and successfully monetized TikTok. Explore Scott's world of content creation and join the conversation at www.nonewfriendspodcast.com. Follow his adventures on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram at @no.new.friends.podcast.

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Hello listeners, welcome to another episode of Sound Connections brought to you by Mainline Marketing in Winter Park, Florida. On today's episode we talked with the No New Friends podcast, Scott and Mary. It was a great time. They were such a wonderful energy to have in the studio. They gave us a little insight into how their process works and what they're hoping to achieve moving forward with their very new podcast. It was great. It was insightful and a lot of laughs. So without further ado, here is Sound Connections featuring the No New Friends podcast's own Scott and Mary.

Pat

Guys welcome back to another episode of Sound Connections. We are here with the No New Friends podcast. Would you guys like to introduce yourselves?

Scott

Yeah!

Pat

We can start with the gentleman in the shark drinking beer shirt.

Scott

Shark drinking beer Hawaiian shirt. Yeah. You know, I was told to be camera ready, and I am camera ready.

Pat

You're beautiful. You are beaming right now.

Scott

Thank you.

Pat

If we turn the lights off, you would be the only thing that was visible.

Scott

Exactly. I’d do me. So my name is Scott and I'm the co-host of the No New Friends podcast and with me as always my beautiful co-host, Mary.

Pat

You didn't have to.

Scott

In fact, if you just want to pass me the questions, we'll just handle this.

Mary

No, actually.

Pat

They're all in here.

Mary

Pass. We're going to perform a lobotomy now. So I'm Mary. I am the kind of co-host. I'm just here for the fun. Just here for just here for a really long time.

Scott

If you look at her, she's the talent. She's the entertainment. So I really don't hold her to a very high standard on the business end of the podcast. I handle all that. I'm like, just show up and be you.

Mary

Which is honestly the job I've always been looking for. Like I just want somebody to pay me and tell me I’m pretty. Yeah, it's—

Pat

It meets your goals.

Mary

It meets my goals. I was told to be camera ready. So I brushed my hair and slapped on some chapstick. I forgot my shark t-shirt at home. So I just wore this.

Pat

Missed opportunity.

Mary

I know. I'm sorry. I didn't even know we didn't coordinate.

Scott

We did not. Obviously we did coordinate times to arrive though.

Pat

You guys will get to the point where Josh and I got where you will match just accidentally. But it's coming.

Scott

We did on autism day. We wore blue, and I didn't even know it was autism day until—

Mary

I was like happy national autism.

Scott

I was like, uh, during the middle of the show and she said, “Hey, happy, uh, happy autism awareness day.”

Mary

Yes.

Scott

And I was like, “Oh, I'm wearing blue.”

Mary

Well, you pointed it out and I was like, “Oh, me too.”

Scott

I got to tell you, these microphones are fantastic. I mean, you whisper, and it picks you up perfectly.

Pat

It really does.

Scott

I mean on our show, Mary uses the Apple.

Mary

I rely on the Apple earbuds, which are a great product.

Pat

Do you even have the pros? Are you on the pro level or no?

Mary

I don't even know.

Pat

You don't have the pros, the ones that are like this and they, they like don't move outta your ear.

Mary

You talked about my ears and I'm really upset that you brought those up again.

Scott

Like Dumbo called and they, he wants his ears back.

Mary

Okay. That's an old joke and they used to say it a lot when I was younger. We just talked about therapy. Like let's start the GoFundMe page. I don't need any more.

Pat

So the GoFundMe page is because Mary just watched the Game of Thrones episode, uh, “The Red Wedding.” And how are you feeling about that post? Okay. Give me a post-mortem breakdown. I know you did this on your podcast, but I'm asking you to relive with me. Um.

Mary

Everybody died and I was really upset. I went through a lot of emotions and I think that when, um, they killed Robb's wife and spoiler alert, sorry. Yeah.

Pat

Well, if you haven't seen it now—

Scott

You’re eight years behind!

Mary

Hello, my name is Mary. Um, but I've binged it so hard. I'm on season four, episode seven now. So, uh, and that happened on what Tuesday?

Scott

Yeah. But Pat, here's the funny thing is—that is a traumatic episode.

Pat

Yeah, absolutely. Make it stop. Make it stop.

Scott

She was upset about the human deaths. She was more upset about the dog—

Pat

The direwolf.

Mary

No, there’s a reason. So I was very upset about that, but when the wolf died, that's when we knew there was no return. Like—

Scott

Like they’re not holding back.

Mary

It was like, there's no, yeah, there's no—really bad things are going to happen.

Scott

No death is off the table.

Mary

Yeah. It was just going to happen, but—

Scott

And it's funny if you go to our YouTube channel, uh, No New Friends podcast on YouTube, she's sitting right next to my dog. When the dog dies, she throws the pillow down, and my dogs were very concerned at that point.

Mary

They were worried about my wellbeing. He wasn't, he wasn't clearly.

Scott

I'm laughing. I'm laughing my ass off the whole time.

Mary

But, um, so that was very traumatic for me, and I was kind of left in shock because, and I even, I think at one point it was like, what are we going to do now? Like we're all in this together.

Pat

Is the show over?

Mary

Like what are we going to do? I didn't know how to recover from that. So we binged a little more and we got to Joffrey's wedding.

Pat

Oh, sweet, sweet vindication.

Mary

My goodness. I, I don't know if, you know, there's a few moments in your life where you just are like optimum happiness, marriage, children, Joffrey's death. Like it's like, and that's not even in—

Pat

It’s not even in the right order.

Scott

And I think that's a major life event where you can actually change insurance providers. I don't know. Maybe. And I was cruel to her. So this is, this was the whole setup. I knew right about when she was going to get to that episode. And I said, “Okay, when we get to season three, episode nine, you have to watch it at my house because I'm going to put it, I'm going to put it on YouTube.”

Pat

It's not fair.

Mary

And he gave me no heads up. He just said, he was like, “Oh, the red wedding.” And so I had, and he was like, “Don't Google anything.” Oh, okay.

Pat

How have you not had it spoiled for you over many years?

Mary

Let's revisit the fact that I have 57 children.

Scott

So I said, “Mary, you've got to come watch this episode because I want to put it on our YouTube channel.” Because I mean, some of these videos of the red wedding reactions have gotten into the millions of views. So I'm like, you know, let's take this YouTube channel from 25 views to 200 views. So we set it up.

Mary

It's a lofty goal. I don't know.

Scott

We currently record our podcast on zoom. So I had everything all set up, and I didn't even do the intro of the show as soon as the red wedding ended. I turned off my phone from recording her, and we went right into the episode.

Mary

It was terrible.

Scott

I went right into the show.

Mary

I felt like I had just been tarred and feathered. I was like fresh for the.

Pat

You got starked. Is that what you're saying?

Mary

I got Starked, that’s exactly what happened.

Scott

Too soon. Too soon.

Mary

Oh, God. And I was not—

Pat

That was six years ago.

Scott

Actually, eight years ago, I looked it up. Oh, man. Eight years ago.

Mary

Even at the end of the video, you see me get up and like I needed to do a lap.

Pat

You stomped off. I watched the video in preparation.

Mary

I like literally stopped at the edge of the couch, and like just dipped my head over like I just ran five miles because I had been through something very—

Pat

Quarantine has been hard on everyone.

Scott

What's great about that video, though, is she starts off so happy.

Pat

Yeah.

Scott

Because I started it right as Arya and the Hound arrived to the castle. Get to. Oh, my. She's sitting. She's sitting forward in the chair. She's like, they're going to make it. They're going to make. She's so happy.

Mary

And just going to sneak in.

Scott

The range of emotions was fantastic.

Pat

So this all leads me into how would you describe the No New Friends podcast?

Scott

Well, it's go ahead.

Mary

I would like to say that it's about everything and nothing all at the same time.

Pat

Okay.

Mary

Yes, it's a life.

Scott

Yeah, it's it's it's this it's it's talking about kind of current events, whether they be current events in the news or our own current events with parenting, adulting, relationships, uh, whatever. I didn't, and we're probably, you know, we're, we're new at this. I didn't want to get stuck into this. It's gotta be—podcasts need to have this, this kind of niche market where you're either talking about sports, you're talking about relationships, you're talking about a certain topic, and I didn't want to do that. I wanted to kind of keep it broad. And our niche.

Mary

He had a plan about his approach. I have ADHD, so I was just like, “Hey, let's talk about some areas.”

Pat

This is every day for me.

Mary

This is just actually my life.

Scott

Well, the funny thing about it is, is this starting a podcast for me. It has been a two year process. I had a show plan. It was called the working dad jokes podcast. And I do a lot of work with, uh, real laughs on real radio 1 to 4.1 and they're, they're doing the recordings virtually and they're like, “Hey, we need to just sub in.” And so I didn't have any at home equipment. They're doing everything virtually. So I go to Best Buy and I get this crappy gaming headset and they do their recordings on stream yard. And I'm like, wait a second, if they can do this, why can't I get something started. Because I'm unemployed right now. I just, I need something to fill my time and it's been about a lifelong—podcasting or radio fills two needs for me. One, I like to talk a lot and two, I like to hear my own voice. So both things solved. So I called Mary and I was like, “Hey, I need you to help me test. I need to record something on, on zoom. I need you to help me record it. Just help me test it. And look, if it goes well, I'm going to post it.”

Mary

And so like the good best friend that I am, I dropped everything I was doing. Grocery shopping, probably.

Pat

57 children, they need to eat.

Mary

They do. They got to eat. Um, and swooped into the rescue and, uh, got honeypotted. We've been doing it every week since multiple times a week.

Scott

So multiple.

Pat

So he trapped you is what you're saying.

Mary

Yes. He, he, I don't want to say soundtrapped me. I don't know what it's called. Blink twice. If you're being held.

Pat

Against your will.

Mary

Is she sleeping? Is she having a seizure? What's happening? I don't know. Um, I mean, it's been fun. I just, I never thought of myself as a podcaster. Uh, I would like to give—

Pat

That was very dapper the way you said that.

Mary

Thank you. I also know that I don't have a voice for this.

Scott

That's so not true.

Mary

No, it's always true.

Scott

Especially when you talk soft like this, because you've got this great microphone. You're talking so soft. It's hot.

Mary

Paris Hilton now. What is this? That's hot. This is hot.

Scott

I'm actually thinking that if the one nine hundred lines are still hiring, you could do that.

Pat

They're not, that's not a thing.

Mary

Wait, is that a 1099 though? Because I feel like I would go to like federal prison, like taxes get really crazy when you have to do that. I don't know. They do. I'm not ready for that.

Pat

So what, what steps have you guys taken? You said you run it from zoom, and you got a gaming headset. Are you looking into a different set of equipment? Are you looking into, what are you, what are you looking to do? What's the first thing you want to upgrade as new podcast, as new content creators?

Scott

The first thing that I want to upgrade is our microphones for sure. I mean, Mary is on, she was on Apple, Apple earbuds, but because she's lost four different sets, she's now on 7/11 earbuds.

Mary

Now I went back to the apple ones. I left the 7/11 ones at your house. So I'm back on the Apple, back on the Apple.

Scott

And, I started with a gaming headset. Now a buddy of mine who's been podcasting for years, he listened to me the other day and he goes, man, he goes, “It sounds like you're talking to a tin can.” So he let me borrow his microphone. So we've recorded one episode on a good microphone. So yeah, I've looked into other—

Mary

He said “we.” I mean, I recorded on a good microphone. I mean the fine folks at Apple do a great job, but it's not quite, uh…

Scott

I live life one segment at a time. So everything that I do from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to sleep is thinking about how to make this podcast better so that we can make some money on it and buy new equipment. And it's like, which comes first, the chicken or the egg? Like I want to make money so I can buy equipment then.

Pat

But you also need equipment to make money.

Scott

Exactly.

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Pat

With, with both of you having children, does that affect the way that you record? Does that affect how frequently you can record? Does that hinder or, or...

Mary

Boy, do we have a story for you.

Scott

For me, listen, not, not a, look, all of your basic questions are going to go into this long tangent for me, not at all, because I was smart, and I had like multiple baby mamas, and I just share the kids.

Mary

I just share the camera that I can like Office this and just like, look at it.

Scott

I could share the kids. So no, you know, I, but my oldest is 20. He lives, he moved out.

Pat

He's got a place of his own thing.

Scott

He's got, yeah, he's living his best life. He's eating Sour Patch Jolly Ranchers and going to the theme parks all the time. So he's gone, uh, my, my 15 year old, you know, she needs to be with her mom. So she's, you know, making bad decisions there. Uh, and then my eight year old, I have on the weekend. So that leaves five days where we can podcast. And I know that she's got the car line, which leads to car line chronicles in the morning and the afternoon. So we record about 10, 11 o'clock. That gives her that I only need her for an hour. And then she can go back upon her business of spending money on Amazon or watching Game of Thrones.

Mary

So things get a little sideways though, if he plans anything during the day though. There was one particular episode that we just could not find a time for it, and we had nailed it down. We were like, okay, what? 7 p.m. Six. No, it was earlier 4 p.m.

Scott

We were supposed to start on a Monday. It was like Monday at 9 a.m.

Mary

And then it got pushed. And so finally it's like a Tuesday, and we posted on Wednesday.

Scott

We posted Tuesday at 10 p.m. We finished recording it like Tuesday at 8 p.m. Okay, so that gives me two hours to edit.

Mary

He was like, “All right, let's go ahead and start.” And I couldn't because my six year old jumped out of his window. He escaped. I told him that he had to clean up his room before he invited his little neighborhood friend to come play. Okay, so I was like—

Pat

Reasonable request, right?

Mary

So and I mean, it's a booby trap in there. Like it's Indiana Jones style. Like there's Lego bricks.

Pat

I don't want to step on a Lego.

Mary

No, and I don't want to send this poor kid back home injured. And that's what would have happened. So I was like, Grace and Michael go, you know, spread your wings and prepare to fly, go clean your room. And so I shut the door and I go about my business. And the next thing I know is I see him run by. Homey had opened his window, kicked out the screen and just jumped out and went and played with his friend anyways. And, and then the dog escaped. It was very rough.

Scott

So Mary recorded that episode from her car. That was our first on-air fight, I believe.

Mary

Um, no, because you were, he was day drinking at the parks and didn't invite me, and I'm still upset about that. If we want to talk about like my problems, this is a couch. Can I lay down?

Pat

Yeah, of course.

Mary

Like, is this like, do you have a notepad? Like, I don't, I don't know.

Pat

I could get a notepad.

Mary

You could. Yeah. So that's, yeah. So we do have challenges with recording sometimes, but most of the time, no today, almost because the weather was so beautiful.

Scott

So we just went to three episodes per week and basically—

Mary

Because I don't have anything to do.

Scott

You don't. Uh, I'm actually saving you money by doing three episodes per week because now you're not, you have less time to shop on Amazon or Publix or wherever you go. So, and I would get so depressed when we recorded the Thursday episode, and we were done for the weekend, and I had to wait four or five days to record another episode. So I was like, you know what? Let's just do three a week, which I recognize is a lot. Everybody that I tell.

Pat

It’s a lot.

Scott

Yeah, it is. But I'm doing all the work for it anyway. She shows up, so it's fine. It's fine. I have nothing else to do.

Mary

It's really hard being me. I know. So I just, it's like a full time job.

Scott

I said, I said on my patio, I edit the episode, smoke some cigs, drink some beer. I'm good. Uh, this is my job now.

Pat

So with a show that doesn't really have a main through line, do you guys outline anything or is it just kind of a, we're going to jump into this and see where it goes? Is it a Whose Line is it Anyway? scenario or…

Scott

That's what we'd like to, for you to believe is that it's just natural conversation, but no going into the episode, we have about five or six topics. That—

Pat

In the chamber, just ready.

Scott

Ready to go, three of which I want to definitely hit. And the other two, if I feel like those three aren't going anywhere, we can kind of pull them in. There was one episode that we had, uh, we have a nationally touring comedian on with us, a good friend of ours, and we blew through five topics in one minute segment because it just wasn't flowing the way that I wanted it to. So no, even though, even though it's, it's not, you know, we're not really following a theme or anything like that. We do have topics that we want to have. We do have kind of a theme.

Mary

Oh, bartender.

Scott

Um, first of all, the people here at mainline are fantastic. Okay.

Mary

So we do have different topics and there's different days of the week. Like we'll do car line chronicles or a history lesson with Mary or, um, yes, that's very fun. I'll talk about all kinds of fun things. I love history and murder. They're my favorite.

Pat

History and murder.

Mary

They're my favorite documents.

Scott

She loves cults too.

Mary

I do love cults, not that they exist just to observe them. Psychology major. So naturally I worked in marketing. It makes a lot of sense. Um, but so we have these topics and different days. We'll—like today we visited on a strange news. So we'll talk about, you know, different strange, uh, news headlines, which is actually my favorite.

Scott

And she's our sexy news girls. So, you know, she brings us the, that's what we should call it.

Pat

Did you just, did you just gym at the office? You did just, I saw it.

Scott

Instead of strange news, we should call it sexy news. I like it. I just thought I'm onto something,

Mary

But also you have to remember that there's one segment that we put on YouTube. So people can also see what I look like when I talk about the news, and they'll know that it's not sexy because I'm in sweat pants and usually a t-shirt. Um, so about that, that is not the sexy news. That is the sweatpant news.

Pat

Sweat pants. I mean, also works, also works. Yeah.

Scott

We're also doing suggestion of the week where we suggest a movie to each other.

Mary

Oh, this week was good.

Scott

Yeah. So this week it was, this was our first week I suggested Howard Stern's Private Parts.

Mary

And I initially suggested a classic Disney movie that nobody knows about. Probably it's called So Dear to My Heart. Very old. I love this movie when I was a kid. It's I mean, probably a hot pile of garbage if you revisit it now. Uh, but he couldn't find that. So I was like, uh, Zenon Girl.

Pat

DECOM.

Scott

So I watched Zenon girl of the 21st Century.

Pat

Did you watch the Z equal right after?

Mary

No, he didn't. And I'm not doing it. He didn't sign up for that. And first initially I was like, Roots the entire series. That's what you're watching. And he was like, no, I can't sign up for that.

Scott

The sad thing Pat is I've been saying Zetas. Zetas. Zetas. Way too much, way too much of my daily, uh, conversations.

Mary

So he assigned me a movie that kind of set him up for where he is now and kind of—

Scott

It was my inspiration. It's kind of like why I wanted to do—

Mary

I just want to be a supernova girl. So it's the same thing. Like I understand that's why I assigned you that movie. And so I'll work on next week. I'll try to make it better. Oh no, we're doing, um, Earth Girls are Easy, right?

Scott

Yeah. We're watching earth girls are easy. So what we're doing is my wife suggests because my wife, for some reason—

Mary

He says “my.”

Scott

Our wife, yeah. Our wife.

Pat

Using “we” and “my” in the wrong way.

Mary

In the wrong way, yeah it’s not okay.

Scott

She, she, for some reason knows and loves all of these way out and obscure movies that I've never heard of. Mostly eighties flicks. So she suggested earth girls are not—uh, Earth Girls are Easy. Why do you keep saying not easy? I feel like. Starring Gina Davis and Jeff Goldblum.

Pat

It's a good movie. Jim Carrey's also in it. Yeah. I was a film major though, so I don't count. I'm not like a normal person.

Mary

I feel like you count.

Pat

No, I don’t count.

Mary

You count to me.

Pat

There’s a movie I want to watch recently. They came out on HBO Max, it's called Action Park. Great movie.

Scott

Great. It's a documentary.

Mary

Guys. I love documentaries.

Pat

You're going to love this documentary about basically the jankiest water park in the history of the world. And it was in New Jersey.

Scott

Yep.

Pat

So I have. I don't have firsthand knowledge as someone who grew up in New Jersey because it was no longer a big thing when I was alive.

Scott

Now, Pat, have you seen Action Point starring Johnny Knoxville?

Pat

I have not.

Scott

So that is a, it's a motion picture loosely based on Action Park. So like they have that same water slide, but the big loop and all that, but it's.

Mary

I feel like that is very dangerous. There's a water slide with a loop.

Scott

Action park had a water slide. It was an enclosed water slide that it went down, and it did this whole loop de loop thing.

Pat

They never opened it for the public because people would have died.

Scott

Yeah. People died at that, but at that park, like a lot of people,

Pat

A lot of people died at that park.

Scott

Yeah.

Pat

Yeah. It's kind of crazy.

Mary

I can't wait to watch it. We just visited—

Scott

As soon as that thing came out and it was very eighties because that, that park was real big in like the seventies eighties.

Pat

Right.

Scott

I watched that thing immediately on HBO Max. It's Class Action Park. Class Action Park.

Mary

Oh, because of class action lawsuit.

Pat

That is correct.

Mary

I love it so much. I can't wait to see it. I'll have to break up my Game of Thrones watching.

Pat

It's on the same app though. So it'd be, it's, it's very, it's very conducive to watchability. A nice palette cleanse.

Mary

A nice palette cleanse!

Scott

If you have another rough, rough episode, which you will soon, you just switch over to class action park.

Mary

Wow. Well, what, which one can you tell me when you're due? Listen to that. It's true. Which one though?

Pat

Uh, you're due.

Scott

The season five finale I know is the next major thing that happens for her.

Mary

Season five finale? Oh, well I have time then. Cause I'm just finishing up season four. I have a little bit of time.

Pat

A little bit of time. It's not a lot of time.

Mary

It's not enough time.

Pat

It's not enough time.

Mary

To heal from the wounds.

Pat

So let's circle this back into the podcasting sphere, even though, you know, I will ramble with you guys all night. Um, where do you envision No New Friends going? Do you envision sort of a streamlined process? Do you envision consistent segments? Do you envision, or is this just going to be throw it to the wall and whatever sticks sticks from now into perpetuity?

Mary

So that was a big word and I'm proud of that.

Pat

Yeah. So I haven't had three Celsius, so yeah.

Scott

He could still do the big words. Meanwhile, I'll say three sentences and forget where I was going.

Pat

But what were we talking about?

Mary

We noticed.

Pat

We'll edit that out. It's fine.

Scott

That was embarrassing. I apologize for that. No, you know, it's always been my dream to be on the radio. I mean, that's probably why all people start podcasting is there's that little bit of—

Pat

There’s a performance element to it for sure.

Scott

And, but for me, I've always wanted to have my own radio, my own talk radio show. So I think that's kind of how I structure our show, and I'll, I'll catch myself a lot of times doing it when we have a guest on I'll do the, okay. If you're just joining us, the voice that you're hearing is.

Mary

We’re like, yes, they've been with us the whole time.

Scott

My wife has reminds me, she's like, this is a podcast. If they're listening to you, they're not going to just pick up in the middle of an episode. And I have to remind myself that this is not radio.

Pat

I just envision them like opening a podcast app, scrolling to the middle and being like, “Let's see what happens.”

Mary

We all know the first segment isn't best. It's not the best one.

Pat

Let's get to the juicy stuff.

Scott

And that's kind of how I structured the show because I want it to, my, my big goal, uh, Tom and Dan, uh, you know, mediocre time with Tom and Dan corporate time with Tom and Dan, they started as a podcast, and they got paid. Oh, I mean, they started on the monsters.

Pat

Right.

Scott

But then they got, they started their own podcast and then got. I mean, Daniel left and Tom left, but then they got picked up by real radio. The station that kind of, they burned some bridges with—

Pat

Right.

Scott

They get picked back up and their podcast is now a radio show. And that's kind of what I have envisioned for us. And I know that it's a stretch, but that's just, that's what I want it to be. I don't, I don't want to fall into any niche thing where, you know, we talk about the same stuff over and over again. And we've, and we've tried going down the hospitality route where we talk about it because that's our background. Most of our friends on Facebook are all restaurant employees, theme park employees, and those episodes don't do as well. And we're finding that our listeners just love when we just BS and.

Mary

Yeah. So as far as streamlining, yes, we, I think that what we've started to talk about is that we should have some sort of structure to like, you can expect this on certain days, like we talked about strange news or car line chronicles, like little silly things like that. You can expect some sort of structure from that. Um, as far as like goals of where we see this going, I just want it to be a fun place for people. That's what I look for in podcasts. Um, and I know like Scott's a little more serious. Obviously I'm not the serious one in the, I don't know if you can tell in the, uh, the, uh, the crew here.

Pat

I mean, the attire alone.

Mary

The attire alone!

Scott

No, the attire alone. It doesn't because I look crazy. And you look very serious.

Mary

That was the joke, Scott.

Scott

Oh, sorry.

Mary

It's okay though. It's fine.

Pat

We’ll edit that too.

Mary

Um, we'll edit that too. No, but I, um, I'm having a lot of fun and that's great. And I think that's just the goal for me now is to kind of give that almost happy place to other people. And the more people we can reach the better, and if we can, you know, monetize it, then that's also cool. And we'll see where it goes. But I think for now it's just a good way for us to, um, you know, connect with people and keep ourselves busy and kind of share all the fun, quirky things that happen to us, maybe touch on some not comfortable topics every now and then. I mean, we've talked about, you know, mental health and things like that. So I think it's good. Um, and that's it. That's kind of my goal right now. I'm just hanging out.

Scott

And I think. How different, how, how much of different places we are in this actually really works because I do take it super serious.

Mary

He does all the work, and I just show up. It's wonderful. But I really love it.

Pat

Hashtag goals.

Scott

But I mean, I take it super seriously and I've, I've studied the art of radio, not any formal classroom setting, but just I've picked apart how Howard Stern did his show, how are the Monsters do the show, how Jim Phillips did his show, Jim Colbert, real life and pick different things. And, and, you know, I've had the opportunity to be fortunate enough to have conversations with these people also about how they've kind of put these shows together, and so I'm able to take it serious but have fun with it and then bring Mary in as the comedic relief. Which is perfect. It's a perfect diet.

Mary

I don't know if I've ever been called the comedic relief before, but I really like it. I'm going to stick with that. I think from now on,

Pat

He said it, that's a thing that we could clip that and you can just have it forever.

Mary

Mary, the comedic relief. Make me a bicycle clown. That's essentially what just happened.

Pat

So Scott, if you being that you're, you take this a little more seriously, what would you, if you had to describe your style, how would you describe it to someone who hasn't listened to No New Friends yet and you were trying to hook them?

Scott

So I mean the science behind it is I'm always keeping track of the time. Uh, and I'm, I'm keeping track of, do I think the flow is working? Do I think that we're, we're—

Mary

You misunderstood the question. So I'm going to jump in here.

Scott

Please jump in. Describe being what?

Mary

No, not you know what style is the podcast. So if you were to say like, okay, I would say lifestyle and is an everyday, like I said, everything and nothing all at the same time. We're a hodgepodge. What type of podcast is this? If you're trying to explain to a complete stranger.

Pat

Even more narrow than that, what kind, what type of podcast host are you?

Mary

Oh yeah. You specifically, not me. Count me out.

Pat

She's the comedic relief. We know that she's been labeled that already.

Mary

I don’t like labels. It’s fine.

Scott

Right. Gosh. I mean, this is a tough question. I mean, first of all, I definitely have a face for radio and I've, I've, I've done some voiceover work, so I really try to showcase my voice and talk as much as possible. Um, but also a lot of the hosts that I listen to, they're kind of the straight guy and I'm not that straight guy. I do kind of throw in my jobs here and there, uh, for sure. I get called rude a lot.

Mary

Well, I mean, calls them like I sees um. I don't know.

Scott

But you know, I'm enthusiastic. I listening to our episodes, my wheelhouse is, I, I feel like I do very, very good interviews. We also had a comedian on, James Yon, who's got several shows on, uh, on Afro Entertainment, which is a nationally syndicated station and him talking about his show, Funny, Not Famous, which is giving comedians the opportunity to showcase their abilities. But you've, they're the funniest people that you've never heard of, right? Because in order to make it in the standup comedy world, you've got to have credits. Well, these guys don't have any credit, so he brings them on his shows so that they can have credits. So getting the feedback from some of our listeners, my dad, some other people saying, you know, I know these people, but to hear their story and to hear kind of what makes them ticks. That's why I love doing interviews. So if, if there's a show that you get to listen to one of our episodes where we've got a guest on, I feel like those are, those are some of our best episodes because I get that opportunity to interview people and kind of, you know, like you're doing now, just kind of play quarterback.

Mary

Yeah. I agree that you are a good moderator.

Scott

Right.

Mary

Like you like, yeah, I think so because there's, I mean, even the episode when we had Miguel Colon on, I think that him and I would have bantered all day about clavicles and nothing else.

Pat

Well, if people are looking to listen to the No New Friends podcast, where can they find you guys?

Scott

Yeah, we're all over the place. We're on the big four. We're on IHeart, we're on Spotify, we're on Google podcasts and Apple podcasts. We're also on some of the smaller ones, Breaker, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Overcast—

Mary

Anchor.

Scott

Anchor. The anchor is our main platform. So if you've got an anchor.fm, the easiest way to make a podcast, uh, where we've also have our YouTube channel, No New Friends podcast on YouTube. You can find us on Facebook, No New Friends podcast.

Mary

Don't do it.

Scott

And then on Instagram, no.new.friends.podcast. There's all sorts of dots.

Mary

There's just a lot going on in my life right now.

Scott

Ask her to do one thing. She had one job and we have a bunch of dots in our Instagram name.

Mary

Once again, you said that I was here. Um, just to make jokes, comedic relief here. That is me.

Pat

It's true. Well guys, thank you so much for joining us on sound connections. We appreciate you coming out and we will hopefully see you guys again next time. For sure. Thank you.

Scott

Thank you for having us.

And that does it for another episode of Sound Connections. Thank you to Mainline Marketing and Shure for sponsoring the podcast. It was great talking to Scott and Mary. I hope that they gave you a little bit of insight into what you can expect with the No New Friends podcast. Don't forget to check them out. Don't forget to subscribe to us wherever it is that you listen to podcasts. If you like what we're doing here and don't hesitate to let us know who you think should be on the next Sound Connections. Thank you guys so much. And we'll see you next time.