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Pod Help the Outcasts21. The NYC Summer, Schaefer Beer, and our ATX Pole Fitness jingleWe begin this broadcast with a brief public service announcement. The world is coming back, y’all. We are running around like chickens with our pod-casting/jingle-ing heads cut off. We are going to scale back to an episode a month. It’s better for you. It’s better for us. And, most importantly, it’s better for the business. They get a whole month of a feature. We are constantly trying to streamline and find out what works best for us. You get it. We are finding less is more. (Remember to follow us @podhelptheoutcasts and subscribe anywhere you get...2021-07-2131 minPod Help the Outcasts20. The highs and lows of restaurant work, Folger’s coffee, and our Boopa’s Bagel Deli jingleJohn has a shit-eating grin on his face. Why? I think he has been thinking about naughty things he doesn’t want to say. That’s okay. We don’t want to know. OK, folks, so please remember to send us your small business ideas and buy the people you love a flash jingle. Flaaaaaash jingle. Refer-O-Matic: https://refer.glow.fm/outcasts John talks for a while about those people, (you know the people), who sit in restaurants long after closing and make the servers wait for them. All I can think as he does th...2021-05-1232 minPod Help the Outcasts19. Diminishing beer returns, the Band-Aid jingle, and Bubbles & Brews PhillyWe are very happy to be back, y’all. Our new format will tastefully, beautifully and efficiently reach DOUBLE the amount of small businesses we reached in season one. You hear me, DOUBLE?! (Remember to follow us @podhelptheoutcasts and subscribe anywhere you get your podcasts.) Use Refer-O-Matic to earn perks for sharing with friends. In This Episode: We begin with talking about what we are thinking about this week. Spoiler alert: As usual, mine is booze and John’s is some crazy train of thought. (Opposites attract, guys.) His tangent has a p...2021-04-2821 minPod Help the Outcasts18. NYC moves, vaccines, the Chili’s baby back ribs jingle, and our new tune for Jackie’s Place Soul Food in San Jose, CAWe are fully back in business, y’all. We love our new format, we love our new musical sound bites, but, mostly, we love our listeners. Please love us back. Share us, follow us, tell people about us, follow us, SEND US YOUR SMALL BUSINESSES! (If you need a refresher, here it is: @podhelptheoutcasts and podhelptheoutcasts.com Subscribe anywhere you get your podcasts). Share us with your friends! Share with five friends and get a custom flash jingle for anyone you choose. And the rewards are only up from there! Refer-O-Matic Texas...2021-04-1433 minPod Help the Outcasts17. The Apology EpisodeIn This Episode: We are going to begin with some apologies. We have been very busy trying to improve ourselves as not only joint, small business owners and podcast makers, but also as individual small business owners now. What?! We now live, think, breathe and poo small businesses. John has founded an audio company and I now have an online cocktail class company. This in no way means that we are taking time off from creating POD HELP THE OUTCASTS. Oh, no. If anything, we are coming back stronger with a much more efficient, m...2021-03-3106 minPod Help the Outcasts16. Christmas Time, A Smattering of Carols, and A Jingle for Drive-Thru Christmas in the Park in San Jose(Referral Link! You know the drill. Tell your friends; get a flash jingle about you or someone you love! Easy. Refer-O-Matic) In This Episode: It’s that time of year, folks! This episode is a special Christmas edition. Well, it’s basically the same thing we always do, but it’s Christmas this time. Ok, so we need to get back to a certain formula moving forward. We need get back to talking about our favorite tunes and why we like them so that John can do what John does best: give you n...2020-12-2631 minPod Help the Outcasts15. Covid Tests, Back at V&T’s, and our Jingle for City Lights Theater CompanyIn This Episode: (Referral Link! You know the drill. Tell your friends; get a flash jingle about you or someone you love! Easy. Refer-O-Matic) Justin is back in California. You know what that means?! Quarantine and Covid test tiiiiiiiiiiiiiime. John is in New York. OK, I want you to listen to how crazy I drive John in this episode. Listen to his voice. His job consists not only of finding meaning in my rants and having to sit through them, but also, in this episode particularly, how I never want to talk into th...2020-12-0836 minPod Help the Outcasts14. Interview with 10glo, Uptown Players, and a jingle for Sister Helen Holy’s Holiday Streaming SpectacularIn This Episode: Whoa. Warning: The excitement John is going to give you right off the bat is going to alarm you. It’s for a legitimate reason. We have a new referral program! Get 5 friends to check us out: get a free personalized flash jingle. For you, for grandma, to drop on ‘em as you enter a Zoom call. Get 10: get a flash jingle and PHTO merch. Get 20?! You will get a full out 45-60 second jingle pitch. Click the link —> PHTO Refer-o-matic Add the names. Share us. It’s that simple. Both our li...2020-11-1445 minPod Help the Outcasts13. We’re a Small Business? Getting to Know You. And Stop Spinning Your Wheels: Our new jingle for Harlem Cycle, Harlem NYCIn This Episode: Democracy matters, people. We discuss democracy matters while discussing how democracy matters? DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE?! Hey, so, okay, you need to vote. You. That’s all we say about that. We aren’t a politics podcast. Firstly, it’s season 2! We can’t believe we completed Season 1. Twelve great episodes! What’s the first and most exciting thing about Season 2?! Introducing Pod Help The Outcasts as a small business. We are now a small business. We make jingles. It’s what we do. What’s exciting about this is that we can...2020-10-3136 minPod Help the Outcasts12. Season 1 Finale: Joining the creative team, Hold Fast flash mob, and Leigh Weimers Emerging Artists Award (and jingle)In This Episode Update: We pushed the season 1 finale a little further down the road. But I’m leaving these notes intact so you can hear Justin’s unbounded joy and excitement. He’s always best unedited. So. This is an extremely exciting episode for us; it is Number 12 and the FINALE of our first season! Do you comprehend?! This means since May 29th, we have created and released Twelve. Original. Jingles. Promoting. Small. Businesses. During. The. Pandemic. A moment of silence, please.........It’s honestly more like an empire being born. We are so freaking...2020-10-0938 minPod Help the Outcasts11. Joh...NO...Rachel Ray, A call with Kiara of Hold Fast, and our new Jingle for Ramen Alley in Columbus, INIn This Episode: Name that tune. If you recognize the tune that opens the episode and can name the episode it comes from, you get a free coaster and water bottle sticker sent to you. Not kidding. First and foremost, John makes me breakfast because I am always hungover when we work on Fridays because of my cocktail club on Thursday nights. This guy’s eggs will make you weak. Jalapeño. Onion. Potato. Fresh tomato. Avocado. Mushroom. This guy. Okay, so the jingle at the top is Mikey Abrams’ jingle that was sped up, per Mikey...2020-10-0231 minPod Help the Outcasts10. Still John Denver, Justin imitates Chewbacca, Fall in NYC, and our jingle for Colorado Plus in Wheat Ridge, ColoradoIn This Episode: John is still in Denver and he is “living his dreams.” We have many exciting things on the way here at Pod Help The Outcasts, all of which will be revealed very soon. Very soon. Two more episodes on the season, but we are moving along in a wonderful way. WE WANT YOUR DMs. We want to hear your comments about all we do. Sooooooooooo, we are having a bit of mic drama. We are overcoming it, because that’s what we do, but we still have a bone to pick with a few compani...2020-09-1527 minPod Help the Outcasts9. John Denver (John’s in Denver), Keeping it in the Family with Matthew Campione, and our new Jingle for Inspiration Roofing of Dallas, TXIn This Episode: John has finally lost his mind and fled New York. Will he come back, ever? It’s not looking good. I have this feeling this will be the first of many more remote Pods. Please, no one think that John HATES New York. He doesn’t HATE it. He just LOVES mountains more. So, respectively, I think you could call that hate but IT’S NOT HATE. Anyway, he has to come back because there are lots of very exciting things coming in the fall and we have much exciting Pod content to bring...2020-09-0232 minPod Help the Outcasts8. We need merch, a phone call with Aby, and our jingle for Maurice Harris of Bloom and PlumeIn This Episode: Another bourbon and coffee or “bourbee and coffee,” I slur. We have come to a crossroads and we need your help. Firstly, we need to up our cocktail game during taping. We can’t drink bourbon and coffee forever. Plus, we ran out of John’s bourbon anyway. We are on it. JUST YOU WAIT FOR SEASON TWO, FRIENDS. Secondly, merch. We are thinking stickers and coasters. Would you stick us to your stuff? Would you sit your glass on our faces and then drink from it and then put it back? Would you...2020-08-2139 minPod Help the Outcasts7. Physical Ailments, Bourbon Iced Coffee, and Mikey Abrams of Texas Pride RealtyIn This Episode: We begin by giving John a physical assessment of his alignment. He’s not symmetrical. Neither am I. It’s because we are old and used to be young. What do we decide to do about it? Drink. Coffee and bourbons. We are very excited to enter into the Texas market of podcasting. John is from Texas, everyone. John also gives us more history we didn’t know we needed, as well, as tells us that he, unlike me, actually listens to lots of Podcasts. Well, I feel like a real a$$&^*e. Oh, gu...2020-08-1229 minPod Help the Outcasts6. Are We Songwriters? A Musical Bro-Out, A Fake Campaign, & Aby’s Upholstery JingleIn this episode: We talk about being ‘songwriters’?! WHAT?! Over more coffee and bourbon, we bro-out on this question. John thinks songwriters have to do with bands and music, I think they have to do with theatrical composers and lyricists. See why this relationship works somehow? The bourbon continues to do its work... We discuss our very fake Chick-Fil-A campaign. Are we getting sued for this? Hopefully. Justin is now slightly slurring, more than usual. John is talking about Lord Knows What. Hey, everyone. We’re going to Croatia? Uhhhh, we’re giving ourselves props for our regional...2020-07-2434 minPod Help the Outcasts5. Day Drinking, New York Pandemic, and V&T’s Laundry Box JingleIn this episode: Finally, we record an episode drinking coffee and bourbon at 10:40 in the morning. This is our dream and has been our dream for this podcast. We talk about my Thursday night cocktail club that you are all invited to. The bourbon leads us to a conversation about New York and her abusive and demanding treatment of her inhabitants. She’s a demanding lover. Obviously, there is mention of how the pandemic might look in the fall. Duh. THIS WEEK’S BUSINESS: V&T’s Laundry Box 906 St Nicholas Ave, New York, N...2020-07-1728 minPod Help the Outcasts4. Chat with the Dogfather, Europe travel ban, and Berkeley life at Masse’s PastriesIn this episode: In the continuing battle to eliminate background noise from my home recording station, John demands another sound check. I retaliate with Cinderella. Brian, the Dog Father of Harlem, tells us he feels like a superhero!! YAAASSSSSSSS! AND he wants a cut for a radio spot he is doing. (You guys, it’s happening. We are going global.) John and I talk about how sad we are about the Europe ban, places we have visited, Justin tries to recall facts about Europe’s economy but then just talks about crashing a mob boat on the Amal...2020-07-1030 minPod Help the Outcasts3. Return to NYC, Phase 2, and Harlem Doggie Day Spa JingleIn this episode: Justin talks about being back in NYC. The MTA is clean, empty and early. WHAT?! We are very excited for summer and Phase 2 in New York City. We are taking every opportunity to get as much Vitamin D as possible while we can. THIS WEEK’S BUSINESS: Harlem Doggie Spa (http://www.Harlemdoggiedayspa.com) Brian Taylor, AKA, The Dog Father of Harlem, runs a mobile pet grooming service that has a cult following and rave reviews. In the multi-million dollar pet industry where black business owners are highly underrepresented, Brian has become a local celebrity, philanthropist and rock s...2020-06-2925 minPod Help the Outcasts2. BLM, Hold Fast Kitchen & Spirits Jingle, and Cauliflower SteaksIn this episode: We briefly debrief, (you see what we did there?), on BLM and how small businesses are coping with the current climate. We, then, move on to our LOVE DU JOUR: Hold Fast Kitchen & Spirits @ 364 W 46th St (b/t 8th and 9th Avenues), on Restaurant Row in Manhattan. It’s a mom & pop on Restaurant Row! Open for Limited Food Takeout Menu & Takeout Full Bar. It’s Hell’s Kitchen & Broadway’s latest hangout; •Open Tues-Fri 2-8p •Open Sat-Sun 12-8p Follow them at @holdfastnyc on Instagram!! Thank you so m...2020-06-2331 min
Pod Help the Outcasts1. Welcome, Wheaties, and Roy’s Station JingleIn this episode: Why on earth we created a jingle podcast, a bit about the history of commercial jingles, and we (musically) promote our first business: Roy’s Station, a dazzling little coffee shop in the heart of San Jose, CA. http://roys-station.com/ | @roysstation Wish we had music videos with our jingles? Of course you do! On YouTube and Instagram @podhelptheoutcasts Don’t forget to like and subscribe! 2020-05-2927 min