Podcast: YouTuber with 6.5 Million Subscribers
I was shocked to discover that my neighbor is a major personality on YouTube and is the CEO of an extraordinary online shop called Vat19.com.
Jamie Salvatori is a guy you almost always see wearing T-shirts. He’s understated, humble and almost no one in the “regular world” has any idea who he is or what he does.
Jamie stopped over to the studio late one evening and we talked about how he got his start, what he thinks about kids exploring YouTube, demonetization of certain content and so much more. I loved the interview, and unlike most of the conversations I have… when this interviewed wrapped up, I was even more intimidated by Jamie because I finally realized just how amazing he is.
Jamie Salvatori is a digital entrepreneur that has created a online retail business that sells unorthodox toys, candies and games. To market his products, Jamie has built a YouTube channel that gets millions of views per video- some of them over 100M views. Vat19.com is one of the most mesmerizing and fun channels online.
Jamie talks about who makes money on YouTube, how YouTubers make money and how advertising revenue compares to mainstream media dollars.
Follow Vat19:
Facebook: https://facebook.com/vat19
Instagram: https://instagram.com/vat19/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/vat19
Jamie is extremely humble and has a very good handle on the nature of celebrity:
Jamie is very open to treating kids in an honest manner, but even he struggles with opening the door to social media at too young of an age:
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Conversation with web developer Chris Oliver; "Do things that scare you."
Businessman, software developer, podcaster, world traveler. One of my closest friends, Chris Oliver stopped by the studio to have a conversation about his philosophies, education and ways of thinking.
Chris Oliver is founder of Go Rails an online computer programming teaching program that teaches developers how to create new website features. Chris Oliver is an extraordinary thinker, a person that can imagine entirely novel solutions to very complex problems.
Chris Oliver's Go Rails program is used by more than 22,000 people and Oliver is considered an expert in his field, being regularly invited to deliver talks at software developer conferences.
Chris, along with Square founder Jim McKelvey, founded Launch Code a nationally recognized pair-programming school that teaches people to code. Chris uses the mantra "Do things that scare you" which has led him to programming at companies in New York City, Saint Louis, Germany and be regularly recruited by Silicon Valley companies. Chris Oliver hosts two podcasts "Business Time" a podcast about what it is like to start a business from the perspective of two software developers, and "Remote Ruby" a podcast for Ruby developers.
Clinical pharmacist discusses prescriptions, essential oils, & working in a drugstore
I’ve always wondered why it takes 25 minutes for a pharmacist to count out 28 pills. The white lab coat standing in the back of a brightly lit drug store seems like a highly paid prison guard- ensuring that all the drugs are protected. I didn’t know how my conversation with clinical pharmacist Kelly Erdos would go, how much could there be to know?
Erdos is a family friend. She has a giant personality with the biggest laugh I’ve ever heard- I knew there must be more to her profession than meets the eye, but I really didn’t understand how much education pharmacists have, the challenges they help regular people solve, or just how horribly wrong things can go when patients don’t understand their medicine.
Erdos is a clinical pharmacist, which is different than the retail pharmacists that we see on a regular basis, but she did a great job helping me to understand - why it takes so long to fill my prescription, and what to look for when searching for a pharmacist that may make a huge difference in my medical care. She talks about her time working in poison control, essential oils, moderation around CBD and cannabis, and what to look for when deciding to move pharmacies.
Here Erdos describes why it is difficult to automate the role of the pharmacist:
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Registered Dietitian talks about dieting, calories and alcohol.
Over that last four years, I’ve lost around 45 pounds. It took me years to understand how to eat so that I could lose weight, not fall off the wagon and still get stronger from lifting. I have a lot of opinions about weight loss- and so I decided to test that knowledge with a nutrition and dietitian expert, Connie Diekman.
Connie Diekman is the former president of the 100,000 member Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She has a background in lipids research and has worked with people that have eating disorders and was the nutritionist for the Saint Louis Rams.
Connie has appeared on Good Morning America, Oprah, and spoken before the congressional hearings that determine the FDA food guidance like the Food Pyramid and MyPlate.
Connie was quick to bring up a subject that she is passionate about, the failures of diets that are overly simplistic, have too many rules and can’t be adhered to, what she calls “Fad Diets.” One in particular that we discussed is the “Keto Diet,” where Connie revealed what happens when someone stops following their strict ketogenic (mostly fats and protein) diet:
Another surprising part of the conversation was how alcohol is metabolized by the body. Very interesting to realize how one should count the calories in their drinks:
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During the conversation we discuss controversial nutrition topics; "calories in, calories out"; the ketogenic diet, "tracking macros" and various diet fads.
St. Louis Detective shares what it is like to be a cop
Within five minutes, I had torn up my index card of questions and just paid attention because Detective Bob Bayes had just shocked me with how candid he was willing to be.
He was prepared to talk about being a beat cop, solving murders, conducting sting operations, going undercover, and even what happens when the higher-ups wanted a report to be written incorrectly.
This interview gave me a whole new appreciation for the challenges of being a police officer in today’s world. Detective Bayes discusses what it feels like to have the community be angry at him for doing his job, the dark side of legalized prostitution and why he thinks police body cameras have drawbacks.
Detective Bayes even told stories about when they accidentally caught the county prosecutor in a prostitution sting.
And the story of catching the murderer of a 10 year-old girl was so shocking, in the middle of it, I start looking around to make sure my audio and video equipment was getting all of what he was saying.
“On the blanket there was aluminum shavings; and there were paint chips some white some orange. So that’s one of your clues... so what are you looking for?”
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Honey bee expert talks colony collapse & Africanized bees
With such a wise, weather beaten face, it is surprising that international honey bee expert Jerry Hayes is so self effacing. If he wanted to, he could look stern, but he is so quick with a smile that you can’t help but feel at ease. He is a hero in the eyes of many and yet he simply won’t accept accolades or praise. It makes him fun to interview… but a little wiley.
We spoke about honey bee behavior, colony collapse disorder, and Jerry even told about the first time he saw Africanized “Killer” bees (at the autopsy of a 900 lbs horse!)
The conversation was wide ranging and fun. Jerry and I are long time friends that worked together for 4 years while at Monsanto in Saint Louis, Missouri.
A few days before I did the interview, I went to Facebook and asked if anyone had questions. In less than an hour I had over 30 different questions. I will have to remember for later that the group often thinks of a lot better interview questions than I do.
There are two fun clips I took from the full interview:
This next clip, you will notice that I had to back away from the new microphones because I was so shocked by what I heard that I didn’t want to blow out the sound when I reacted to what he was telling me. The entire interview is great- but this clip about killer bees is the best thing I have recorded to date.
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Podcast: Shirley Sahrmann, A woman that can fix your physical pain
Today’s podcast guest is Dr. Shirley Sahrmann, P.T., Ph.D. an expert on human movement. She can watch you move and most of the time figure out what is causing you pain and why.
This interview was a little nerve wracking for me. My wife, Annie, is a physical therapist that adores Dr. Sahrmann. She conveyed to me the impact that Sahrmann has had on the field of physical therapy. I knew that Annie would listen to the interview (I discovered on our walk last night that she hasn’t listened to any of my other podcasts because “they make me too nervous...”) and she would be unable to hide her opinion of my questions and interaction.
Communications is funny that way. Here I was talking to a literal world expert, (Sahrmann was en route to teach in Japan when she stopped by the studio) and a significant portion of my stress came from worrying about what sweet Annie would think.
Sahrmann is a sweet woman with a soft voice and a cute laugh that she shares as often as she can. But Sahrmann is also a force of nature, she pushed the field forward when medical doctors did not have respect for the musculoskeletal movement system.
I learned about the value of headrests in cars for tall men, why not all girls can be ballerinas or cheerleaders, what happens if you slouch in your office chair all day long, and what Sahrmann thinks of chiropractors.
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