Don Martin

A lot of times we engage with deep, dark topics, loneliness, death, religion, politics, all of those kinds of things, and come away just feeling really depressed and hopeless.

And who am I?

I'm just one person.

I don't matter.

And I think bringing it back to something that you all talk about, I think giving people a sense of purpose and a sense that this information isn't too much for you.

You can learn it.

You can learn a new thing.

You can embrace a new thing.

You can talk about the big scary stuff in life.

And your opinion on it, your involvement in it, even just your willingness to learn about it matters because you matter.

Oh, gosh.

Well, I started way back before podcasts were anything, when it was just a hobby that weirdos did in their basements back when it was like, oh, that guy has a podcast, when it was a weird thing.

I remember the first time I started the first iteration of my podcast back in 2009.

But I remember realizing that like podcasts had changed in pop culture and like society at large because like seven, eight years in, I'd been doing it a while.

I saw a commercial for some kind of prescription medication because we have those here in the U.S., commercials for prescription medications.

And I remember I'm a busy attorney.

I'm a busy doctor.

I'm a busy mom, those kinds of things.

And it was like, I'm a busy podcast producer.

I need Genomex or whatever.