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Speaker 2: I love Jammin, I use Spotify. I would about you guys,
Speaker 2: any Spotify, no app? Okay, Amazon, baby, I don't know it.
Speaker 2: CDs even. I used Spotify and we had the raps
Speaker 2: came out yesterday.
Speaker 3: That's fun. Sounds like none of you know what that is.
Speaker 3: So Spotify rapped. They track thank you a couple of
Speaker 3: men all right, Spotify.
Speaker 4: Move day of business. So they track all your listening.
Speaker 4: Who do you listened to? How long you listen to it?
Speaker 3: And they, you know, get together the data and they
Speaker 3: give it to you towards the end of November every year,
Speaker 3: and it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: You can see go back through, you know, maybe the beginning.
Speaker 3: Of the year when you were depressed, and see who
Speaker 3: you were listening to. Right, I did have seasonal depression
Speaker 3: last year. I saw my list. The playlist is dark,
Speaker 3: but it's fun and they have the artist videos and
Speaker 3: this send you thank you, you know, mine was odd.
Speaker 2: They called out that I liked to listen to the
Speaker 2: full album, which I didn't think was a bad thing.
Speaker 2: Probably showed my age. But the artist video was very
Speaker 2: on point, young blood. He said, thanks for listening. So
Speaker 2: you're the one.
Speaker 4: Huh, You're the one guy.
Speaker 1: We are back. It's a brand new episode. This is
Speaker 1: Laugh with Me, a podcast with Jeremyotam. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Jay Oh And Happy Friday. It is the Friday Happy
Speaker 1: Hour edition. Oh my god, it feels good to crack
Speaker 1: open the first beer of the weekend and get right too.
Speaker 1: We got a lot to celebrate this week. We have
Speaker 1: so much to celebrate. This week, Spotify released the rapt.
Speaker 1: If you don't know what rap is, let me give
Speaker 1: you a quick synopsis here. Basically, they take all your
Speaker 1: data from what you listen to the entire year on
Speaker 1: Spotify and they put it together in a very creative
Speaker 1: little package.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: They let you know who your favorite artist was, that
Speaker 1: you're the top half percent or top ten percent or
Speaker 1: whatever it is of fans of that artist. That's kind
Speaker 1: of fun. They tell you the top artist, she tell
Speaker 1: you how many minutes you listen to music or listen
Speaker 1: to Spotify this year, you know they and they tell
Speaker 1: you your you know, your your favorite playlist, They'll put
Speaker 1: together this big ass playlist. Here's your top one hundred
Speaker 1: songs of the year. Uh, here's your top five artists.
Speaker 1: Here's top five songs. Like it's good to go back
Speaker 1: because sometimes you're like, oh shit, I forgot you know
Speaker 1: that I listened to that freaking song one hundred times
Speaker 1: back in March, and it is kind of like a
Speaker 1: tale of your year and where you've been. And you know,
Speaker 1: if you were going through some things, you might have
Speaker 1: you know, found certain albums or certain songs that just
Speaker 1: kind of spoke to you. That's music, right, And you know,
Speaker 1: we also have it for us podcasters. I've got the
Speaker 1: wrapped for Laugh with Me. That was fun to see
Speaker 1: last year, so we're not talking about this year. Twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, twenty twenty three, which was our first year
Speaker 1: of the show we had it was something like it
Speaker 1: was something like sixteen or eighteen or maybe even less
Speaker 1: than that fans that we were their number one podcast
Speaker 1: that they listened and that was fantastic, Like that was
Speaker 1: quite the feeling when you see that and you're like,
Speaker 1: holy shit, like that many people were their number one
Speaker 1: podcast like that was very humble this year twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: laugh with and I knew the show had been growing, right.
Speaker 1: I know we're doing good things. I think our storytelling
Speaker 1: is connecting with some folks. I also have found that
Speaker 1: we've done an okay job promoting the show in various avenues.
Speaker 1: Sometimes something will hit, a lot of times things don't.
Speaker 1: But we have found that some things have hit, and
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, let's let's find more of that magic.
Speaker 1: Our guests this year we're fans fantastic and we're going
Speaker 1: to bring back some of those guests. Uh here just
Speaker 1: in this month of December, we've got two Time o
Speaker 1: e a A Award nominee. Leavetti Vegas makes his return
Speaker 1: December sixteenth. But we've also got a lot of brand
Speaker 1: new guests and December is going to be a fun time.
Speaker 1: But the thing is we've Johnny and I were talking,
Speaker 1: it's like we're connecting with the audience in some ways
Speaker 1: or some of you and and it's awesome. It's humbling,
Speaker 1: and thank you so much to all of you that
Speaker 1: do listen to the show. If it was one person
Speaker 1: that we were the number one fan. That would be awesome,
Speaker 1: Like I they would be. It would put a big,
Speaker 1: old fat smile on my face and I'd crack open
Speaker 1: a beer and cheers to you. That's for sure. Well
Speaker 1: that is it. And Spotify says on and this and
Speaker 1: this is just Spotify right. I think we've had an
Speaker 1: even bigger here on on the Apple platform, but for Spotify.
Speaker 1: Laugh with me this year was the number one podcast
Speaker 1: for three hundred and fifty nine listeners. No, no, the jotty. No,
Speaker 1: that's not no jotty, that is not a joke. That
Speaker 1: is huge. Three hundred and fifty nine fans. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much. We couldn't be more thankful for you. We
Speaker 1: couldn't be more excited for where this show is going.
Speaker 1: Three hundred and fifty nine, thank you so much. We
Speaker 1: were the top five show for eight hundred and forty
Speaker 1: eight fans. Thank you. What else are you guys listening to?
Speaker 1: That's the dad I want to see? And we we
Speaker 1: were the top ten podcast for one thousand, eight hundred fans.
Speaker 1: Holy cow, Johnny, you guys keep listening. We get more
Speaker 1: and more. I'm gonna have to start paying Johnny from
Speaker 1: Johnny Palermo and myself. We just want to say thank
Speaker 1: you so much from all the guests that we had
Speaker 1: this last year. Thank you for listening and thank you
Speaker 1: for listening to their stories. We have so much more
Speaker 1: to come, and it seems like the audience that we've
Speaker 1: grown the most in I mean ages twenty five to
Speaker 1: twenty nine, and we did skew a little older a
Speaker 1: year ago. In our primary listener it went all the
Speaker 1: way up to cause I think it was like twenty
Speaker 1: six to forty or thirty nine or something like that.
Speaker 1: Whatever that range was, that was our predominant listener and
Speaker 1: it still may be. But the age range that we
Speaker 1: grew the most, we grew by one thousand over one
Speaker 1: thousand percent, was in the twenty five to twenty nine range.
Speaker 1: So somehow, someway, we're finding a younger audience and uh,
Speaker 1: which is incredible because as you know, I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not the youngest guy on the block anymore. Baby, There's
Speaker 1: a lot of young folks out there. But uh, we're
Speaker 1: we're we're we're connecting to you and I just could
Speaker 1: not say thank you enough and uh be appreciative enough.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's very humbling that you guys listen to
Speaker 1: the show every single week, sometimes multiple times a week,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna we're gonna work to give you even more.
Speaker 1: In fact, a lot of announcements coming up this month
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty five that is going to uh add
Speaker 1: I guess elements to the listening experience, maybe into the
Speaker 1: viewing experience, if you know what I mean. It's like
Speaker 1: watching stuff like and you know what, and a lot
Speaker 1: of you you stuck with me through all of season
Speaker 1: one and you're like, he all he does is talk
Speaker 1: about season two is coming. All he like half of
Speaker 1: season one is talking about how season two is coming
Speaker 1: and the launch on YouTube and the YouTube page is up.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. The exciting part we're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to give you. We're gonna be able to give
Speaker 1: you the show, and we're gonna be able to show
Speaker 1: you it. We're gonna have the pictures. We're gonna show
Speaker 1: us some pictures. Some of you are gonna be like,
Speaker 1: what the hell he looks like that he's got red hair,
Speaker 1: guy do okay? And that's there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: We're a rare breed anymore. I've got the red hair
Speaker 1: of the blue eyes. That's a rare breed. Okay, something
Speaker 1: special happening over here that I think you're gonna wanna,
Speaker 1: you know, pay attention to. That's that's all I wanna,
Speaker 1: you know, say about that. But Spotify rapped, man, that
Speaker 1: was it's always fun when it drops. It's uh, it's
Speaker 1: seemingly random when it drops, because, uh, this year it
Speaker 1: was what a week or two later than it was
Speaker 1: a year ago. So I don't know how that works.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we can maybe try to get
Speaker 1: somebody from Spotify on the show and just kind of
Speaker 1: explain how that works. I mean, we maybe we can
Speaker 1: call maybe we can call them and just ask some questions,
Speaker 1: you know, about Spotify rapped and see if we can
Speaker 1: get like a maybe a better understanding of, you know,
Speaker 1: of this process, because it's uh, they don't they don't
Speaker 1: really put it out there. They just say it's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: It's gonna drop, and it's definitely the number one. I
Speaker 1: feel bad because like you always see the posts of
Speaker 1: people like, uh, nobody cares what you listen to on Spotify,
Speaker 1: and you know that couldn't be for from the truth.
Speaker 1: People love to see what other people are into, so
Speaker 1: that's false. What that shows is you're a little jealous
Speaker 1: because you didn't have a Spotify rapped yourself, and you're
Speaker 1: probably telling yourself, you know what, next year, I'm gonna listen.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna jump right in. But
Speaker 1: then you don't right away, because if you don't do
Speaker 1: it now, you're you're not gonna jump in in June
Speaker 1: and be like, all right, I'm starting Spotify, so I
Speaker 1: get a raped, but you've already missed half the year's
Speaker 1: you know, listening experience. So the data is not true
Speaker 1: because then you're not as excited about it. That's real.
Speaker 1: So if you don't use Spotify, now's the time to
Speaker 1: do This isn't even an advertised the Spotify's not paying
Speaker 1: me shit, I promise you that right now. They ain't
Speaker 1: pay me nothing. They should, but they're not paying me
Speaker 1: anything to tell you. Now's the time to get you know,
Speaker 1: a sign up, log in and start using Spotify to
Speaker 1: listen to your tunbes, listen to your podcasts. They can
Speaker 1: get a cool wrapped at the the end of the year.
Speaker 1: That's what it's about. Literally, the only reason I use Spotify.
Speaker 1: It's a great and it's a great product. That's not
Speaker 1: like one of those things where you're using a product
Speaker 1: but you're not happy with it. I'm plenty happy with Spotify.
Speaker 1: Like there's there is no you know, negative vibes in
Speaker 1: there when I'm listening to it, Like I don't have
Speaker 1: a shoddy experience using Spotify. I'm just telling you right now,
Speaker 1: I specifically use Spotify so that I can get my
Speaker 1: wrapped at the end of the year, like they do
Speaker 1: it right. And I know other you know, other streamers,
Speaker 1: other apps or whatever are are doing that or starting
Speaker 1: to do that, and they're trying to build on it.
Speaker 1: Because it's true. There is people that listen to Spotify
Speaker 1: because of the rapped and hand up. I'm one of them. Johnny,
Speaker 1: damn it, you're gonna be next year too. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be uh, it's gonna be fun. We're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: see how how many folks that are not using Spotify.
Speaker 1: We can get on the Spotify bandwagon for twenty five.
Speaker 1: Let's grow that number three hundred and fifty nine top
Speaker 1: fans laugh with me. In twenty four. Let's see if
Speaker 1: we can double down, baby, Let's see if we can
Speaker 1: double down I remember specifically last year saying, what if
Speaker 1: we doubled it? Holy cow, probably not possible. Let's give
Speaker 1: it a go. Oh, we did it. We did it
Speaker 1: all right, thank you, Johnny. We certainly did it. Now
Speaker 1: let's do it again. Can you imagine, let's play this
Speaker 1: like we're playing blackjack. Okay, we just want to hand. Now,
Speaker 1: let's double down, take your winnings piled on top of
Speaker 1: your base bet, and let's go. Let's go, let's win
Speaker 1: it again, and let's see where this baby can land.
Speaker 1: It's the Friday Happy Hour. It's gonna be a great weekend.
Speaker 1: I can just feel it. It's early December. The weather's nice,
Speaker 1: right like the weather's nights. We had a cold day.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm for those of you that know I
Speaker 1: live in Omaha, Nebraska, so like the weather flips by
Speaker 1: the hour. But we had a really cold day yesterday.
Speaker 1: Today it's beautiful. It's supposed to be a beautiful weekend.
Speaker 1: We've got Chargers versus Chiefs in Kansas City, Missouri on
Speaker 1: Sunday night, Sunday Night football. A lot on the line there.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good, good weekend. I'm excited. Cheers
Speaker 1: to you. Guys, thank you so much for listening and
Speaker 1: being a fan. We have so much more content coming
Speaker 1: your way and we I just I can't say thank
Speaker 1: you enough for those of you that listened listen to
Speaker 1: the show, and specifically those of you that listen to
Speaker 1: the show on Spotify only because I've got data on
Speaker 1: it right now. Thank you so much. We appreciate so much.
Speaker 1: So from Johnny Palermo and myself, Jo have her self
Speaker 1: Happy Friday.