Michael Smoak
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Podcast Appearances
It's the criticism of all style and no substance, right?
But I think all substance and no style doesn't tend to get listened to.
James Smith had this fucking unbelievable line about his first podcast.
He's now on his second one.
He's like a guy with multiple wives.
I think he might be on his third one now.
Did you say multiple wives?
He's like a guy with multiple wives.
It's like serially dating his own podcast and renaming them and then fucking flipping the channels.
I was like, damn, you're putting James on blast right now.
No, no, no, not at all.
No, he's fucking living a dad life in Australia.
And he had this line and he said,
On my podcast, I speak to people who are far smarter than me, but much more boring.
It's so true, dude.
Or another way to look at it is everything worth saying has been said before, but nobody was listening, so it has to be said again.
Has to be said with more clarity and conviction.
And...
I think that's where James got it really right was that a lot of people's ideas are fucking fantastic, but they just haven't yet quite worked out how to package them or promote them fully.
And if you can, lots of people feel like they're,