Ep 323. Podhouse San Antonio: Day 1 at Sponsor Games with Eric Triplett!

Summary

Podcast Summary: Side Hustle Squad – Ep 323

Podhouse San Antonio: Day 1 at Sponsor Games with Eric Triplett!
April 7, 2026

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode features a “day one debrief” from the Sponsor Games event in San Antonio, TX, where creators and entrepreneurs learn how to build meaningful sponsorships — not just land deals, but create win/win/win partnerships (for creator, brand, and audience). Host Mike Garvey, with guest Eric Triplett (and team members), unpack their biggest surprises, share strategies learned, and reflect on team dynamics and personal growth as they prepare for Day 2’s high-stakes creative competition.

Tone: Raw, candid, and highly entrepreneurial — with plenty of humor, self-reflection, and strategic takeaways for anyone looking to build business, especially in creative or lawn care industries.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. First Impressions: Beyond Expectations

• Eric and team arrived unsure: Expected simple networking and games, but found in-depth learning and strategy on genuine brand partnerships.
  • “You’re not begging for sponsorships, but actually building partnerships… the end user, the listener, the audience is really the winner. It’s everyone’s winning together.” – Eric (01:57)
  • Sponsor Games staff impressed them from start (knew attendees by name), though initial audio glitches created nerves for event host Justin Moore.

2. Learning to Serve Brands (Not Just Get Paid)

• The event stressed understanding brand goals and customizing pitches accordingly — not just seeking logos/money.
  • “If you want to get paid, you have to serve, right?” – Eric (04:08)
  • Importance of research: Look into what each brand currently prioritizes (e.g., launching a NYC studio) to tailor outreach.

3. The Pitch Process: Real-World, Hands-On

• Teams created and delivered live pitches to present to event sponsors, simulating what it would take to win a real deal.
  • “The pitch…was extremely helpful to me. That pitch is designed to help you in anything… it helped me narrow it down.” – Joe (11:11)
• Each attendee realized that not all sponsors matched their business, but the learning process was universally valuable.

4. Synergy & Strategy: Event Structure

• Justin Moore designed the games to create mutual benefit: brands meet creators, creators learn to serve brands, and new partnerships form.
  • “Justin Moore blows my mind…The whole event is built around helping them help the audience and help the audience help them. It was so synergistic, it fucking melted my face off.” – Eric (15:27)
• Observed that some attendees still “collect sponsors” for practice rather than fit; panel debated ethics and practicality.

5. Teamwork & Individual Styles

• Collaborative dynamic: Each team pitched as a unit, then individually. Eric emerged as a natural leader, guiding focus, ensuring rule adherence, and strategizing team strengths.
  • “We all need to line up. We need to get together…so we’re all on the same page.” – Eric (21:32)
• Diverse working styles:
  • Eric processes verbally, using voice-to-text and ChatGPT to organize ideas
  • Others handwrite or type
  • Team celebrated how each member’s strengths contributed — timing, leadership, creativity.

6. The Power (and Pitfall) of Branding

• PodHouse team’s matching hoodies drew attention and opened conversations throughout the event, even influencing how pitches were received.
  • “This sweatshirt is my blessing and my curse on stage with Justin Moore…he couldn’t get past this jersey.” – Eric (32:23)
  • Branding (attire, posture) shapes perception before a word is spoken.

7. Prepping for the Creative Challenge

• Tomorrow’s task: Teams will produce a creative, themed video for a sponsor using only iPhones and a specific microphone (Shure MV88).
  • Every team gets a different theme; theirs: “Overheard on the Riverwalk” (cinematic, ambient sounds, narration required).
  • Strict requirements: mic must be visible 50% of video, must show team, must include sponsorship disclosure, and feature “Denoiser” mic setting.
  • Team quickly shifted into strategy mode, debating shot composition, editing workflow, and how to best showcase both scenery and product.
  • “I want to win. I want to destroy everyone. I want to melt their faces off.” – Eric (53:50)

8. Team Dynamics, Roles & Self-Discovery

• The group reflects on how different personalities thrive in different roles:
  • Eric prefers leading and presenting
  • Garvey likes idea-generation and backstage logistics
  • Joe values structure and self-awareness, and openly asks for support when needed
• Open dialogue about strengths/weaknesses fosters stronger teamwork and builds trust
  • “You lock in all the Airbnbs, and I’ll do all the filming. I’ll do the pitch, like, yeah, dude. It became apparent to me today.” – Eric (41:57)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [04:08] Eric: “How do you serve the brand? Because you know, if you want to get paid, you have to serve, right?”
• [15:27] Eric: “Justin Moore blows my mind… So synergistic, it fucking melted my face off. I had no eye—I did not see it coming.”
• [19:09] Eric: “I want to win as a team. I want to dominate, but trust and believe, I want to win every one on my team… I learned things about Garvey today.”
• [21:32] Eric: “Hey, we all need to line up. We need to get together. Like, stop talking individually…So we’re all on the same page.”
• [32:23] Eric: “This sweatshirt is my blessing and my curse on stage with Justin Moore…He couldn’t get past this jersey.”
• [53:50] Eric: “I want to win. I want to destroy everyone. I want to melt their faces off. Right.”
• [54:42] Eric: “I’m a very close up kind of guy…there’s a couple of close ups that make angles feel more bigger, you know what I mean?”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:54 – Eric introduces Sponsor Games; lays out episode goals
• 03:24 – Garvey’s first impressions and sponsor outreach insights
• 06:28 – Reflections on initial event setup, brand staff, early challenges
• 11:10 – Hands-on pitch process and personal growth
• 15:27 – Synergy of event design; real partnership focus
• 18:25 – Team structure for sponsor pitching
• 21:32 – Teamwork: building a collaborative pitch
• 24:45–25:41 – Workflow differences (voice-to-text, ChatGPT, handwriting)
• 28:37 – Planning for Day 2 creative challenge
• 32:23 – Branding’s impact, PodHouse jersey anecdote
• 39:27–41:57 – Debating sponsor targets, division of team roles
• 49:29–54:33 – Detailed breakdown of Day 2 video challenge requirements and strategy session
• 55:50 – Final thoughts, framing event’s value, and preview for next debrief

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Summary Takeaways

• Level Up: Sponsor Games is about building authentic, mutually beneficial creator-brand partnerships, not just “chasing sponsors.”
• Serve to Win: Understanding and serving a sponsor’s specific goals is vital—know their current focus and show how you can help.
• Team Power: Teamwork, honest self-assessment, and leveraging each member's unique skills give a critical edge.
• Branding Matters: Your outward brand (even clothes!) changes perception and can influence opportunities in subtle ways.
• Creative Hustle: Success means strategy, preparation, and the will to “melt faces” with creative execution—even in a room full of hungry entrepreneurs.
• Stay Growth-Focused: Honest feedback and open dialogue about strengths and weaknesses solidify teams and produce real growth.

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The episode closes with the team looking ahead — energized, competitive, and full of strategic ideas for dominating the next phase of the Sponsor Games. The next episode will reveal if their planning pays off in creative victory, partnership opportunities, and (of course) a killer debrief.

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Transcript

[Mike Garvey]

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[Eric Triplet]

What's happening, rockstars? It's Triplet here. We're coming to you live from San Antonio, Texas, inside Pod House Mobile Studios. And today was day one of sponsor games with none other than Justin Moore, the guy who did sponsor Magnet book. And I learned a ton from that book. And when I heard about sponsor games and the event that's happening here where he's going to like teach you live, I thought, yeah, it's definitely something that I should be attending and checking out. And I'll tell you what, today was one of those days where your brain gets kind of just like cracked open just a little bit. Like, you know, head hits the pavement, you know, like you're, you're like bleeding out, trying to figure out what to do. Seriously. We spent the day surrounded by creators, entrepreneurs and brands, literal brands that are sponsoring people. And we're trying to figure out how to work together in a smarter way. Okay, not begging for sponsorships, but actually building partnerships where not only the creator benefits greatly, but the brand is creating and, or benefiting in a massive way. But really the end user, the listener, the audience is really the winner. It's everyone's winning together. So that's how we figured out working with Justin Moore makes this all happen. So tonight what I want to do is we're going to do a quick day one debriefing. And in this conversation, I'm with Garvey, my partner in Pot house. My brother's in town with us. We drug him sass out to Texas. Jason Triplet, call him jt. And what we want to do here is we're going to talk about what, what surprised us, what hit hard, what strategies were, you know, like, we're already thinking about implementing one thing, things that we didn't think about. And most importantly, we're going to, what we're going to do to attack tomorrow. Like, we have specific things that we're supposed to be doing tomorrow. We've already like had tactical strategical plans for tomorrow. We've been working on for audio and video voiceovers and text overlays. Like, we got homework to do and we've like put in the work to figure out how to make it work to our benefit. So if you've ever wondered how creators actually build real sponsorship deals or what happens when a bunch of hungry ass entrepreneurs get in the same room to level up, you're about to hear it right now. Let's jump right into it. Garvey. What's up? How'd you feel about today?

[Garvey]

It was, it was a lot. It was a. I'm not sure it was exactly what I anticipated. I knew there was going to be like some collaboration, some stuff with like teams and like, I didn't really know what to expect. But they broke it down, man, they broke it down. You know, numbers one through four on this is the process. This is where you start and this is how you go and got like molecular into like talking to brands and how, you know, and even getting feedback from brands and like, oh yeah, if I get that, I'm just deleting that, like email if like you don't even know what you're talking about or whatever. So it's super insightful not just to

[Eric Triplet]

like talk to brands to get in their space, but how to serve brands. Yeah, like that's really it. How do you serve the brand? Because you know, if you want to get paid, you have to serve, right?

[Garvey]

Yeah, you have to hit their goals and finding out what those, those goals are and doing research into brands and looking at what is this brand and what is their, what is their big thing? Oh well, they're opening a studio in New York City. Like that's going to be their, their. Everything's going into that and you know, finding that out. And you know, every brand is different, different things that they want to do. And I don't know if I never really, not that I didn't think of that, but I was always like, oh, I want to work with this brand because I, it's that brand.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah, but how do you serve them?

[Garvey]

How do you serve them?

[Eric Triplet]

You know that.

[Garvey]

No, no, no, no. I just wanted to like be sponsored by them.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah, I just wanted their, their logo on my shirt and say that they pay me. Like. But there's more to it than that. But I want to be transparent about, you know, our, what, what happened last night because, you know, we traveled across the country. We, we met in the Middle right, Texas. Right. And you know, I'm up at 3:30 in the morning, heading this way in the airport, you know, all this stuff. And we get to the like the, the pre gaming, like. Right. It's like just like the networking. Yeah, it's registration and networking and say hello and like kind of hang out and they had a couple of games that they played. And again, I'll be transparent. I don't know if Justin will ever listen to this or not, but like when I was there I was like evaluating things. Like I was being maybe critical on things like what's, what's working, what's not working, what. How are things work? You know, like I'm just really evaluating things. And it's outdoors and it's 98 degrees, it's hot. You know, luckily it wasn't humid, which was fine. I can handle the heat. But I'm thinking like this as a group, is this okay? You know, there's women here, there's you know, guys that, you know, aren't as tough as us. You know, there's all sorts how you want to, however you want to take that, however you want to spin that. I don't give a. Yeah, but like

[Garvey]

we're, we're like there's people from all

[Eric Triplet]

over, you know, and yeah, it was cool. It was like kind of a get together and a cocktail party and it was very, very, it was very done well. And you know, when we walked in, we were greeted amazingly like the, the team from, from sponsor games, they were like, hey, like they knew who me? Like they, I didn't have a tag on. I was going in to get my name tag and they called me by name. They already knew who I was. I was like, oh, they, they actually did their homework. They're. They're watching for people. Right. And so I thought that was really impressive to me. And then, but when, then, you know, it's, it's 97 degrees, we're outside and you know, there's food and drinks and charcuterie and like it's cool. And then, then, then they get their audio out. Bianca goes up on stage and she's speaking and it didn't hurt that she's, you know, gorgeous, beautiful to look at. You know, she's up there like talking and. But you know, then the mic goes to Justin and he's having audio troubles and I could tell immediately he's like, this is not cool. I'm really upset by this. Lot's on the line. I've invested a lot. These people paid A lot of money, traveled all across the country, and now, like, they can't hear me, and it keeps cutting out. And I saw the frustration from Justin, and I really felt for him. Did you catch that?

[Joe]

Yes, I saw it.

[Garvey]

I caught it right away. And as I go to more of these, I pick up on all this stuff. I'm like, sucks.

[Eric Triplet]

I think he handled it really graciously. I think he handled it really, really well. And so I gave mad props to him on that. And then. But then it's at the end, and so, like, he's overcoming that frustration, and I think his personality pushed through it. I think he did well with it. And then we played a couple silly games, and it was just like, I traveled all day. I'm in the airport. I left my family, my fucking. My dogs behind. I'm in the middle of training him, and. And, like, my kids and my business and my. I'm trying to level up, and I have all this, you know, I got death threats going on. I'm hired security detail. Like, I. A lot going on, you know, like. And I'm like, man, this is. I don't know if I'm digging this little game thing. Sponsor games, you know, Tomorrow we're gonna have a lot of fun. We're gonna do these games, and we're gonna. You know. And he's like, who's. Who can run around the most? I'm like, I'm not here to run around.

[Garvey]

I'm here to. Yeah.

[Eric Triplet]

And so I had. I. But I was like, okay, all right. Okay, cool. Like, I'm here. I'm gonna make the most of it. I'm gonna get the roi. Today, though, we go in total. Total game changer. Because I had built it up as. Like, I built it up, like, expect the worst, prepare for the best. And the worst didn't show up. I think it was. I think. I think today was really fucking awesome.

[Garvey]

Oh, it was. It was sick.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah.

[Joe]

I actually learned. I actually lear today. One thing, though, I noticed.

[Eric Triplet]

And

[Joe]

it's just. Just, you know, me looking. Looking the outside, because there's what, 50, 50 people here? 50, 60 people.

[Eric Triplet]

About 50.

[Joe]

I. I understand the sponsors that are here.

[Eric Triplet]

That.

[Joe]

That's really cool for me, personally, aside from maybe. Sure. You know, they don't really do anything for me. It's not. It's not like I'm. I need to have those things. Right.

[Eric Triplet]

It doesn't matter.

[Joe]

That's what I'm saying. But my point is. So when I found out the sponsors, I'm like, okay. That's cool. I know they'll probably be good for somebody, but it wasn't really in my. In my wheelhouse.

[Eric Triplet]

You're writing Memoirs of jt.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Eric Triplet]

You could use Lumen.

[Joe]

That's true, that's true. But when I decided that though, my thought was, you know, I'm going to learn while I'm here because these may not be the sponsors that I'm seeking, but I can definitely learn something from what's transpiring here. And this is all new to me and like here I go in here. I think I'm pretty, like tech savvy and I understand what's going on, especially being in a musician before. Got a shit ton of sponsors on my own. I didn't have much help. I just went out and did it. But this is a different. This is a different scenario. This is more business related. And like I said, they may not. The sponsors may not be for my thing, but I'm learning a shit ton of things here. Especially when we did the whole. What was the thing we did before the package? Oh, when you kind of ride out when you're soliciting for a sponsor and you write up and you want to make like.

[Garvey]

The pitch.

[Joe]

Yeah, the pitch. There you go. That was extremely helpful to me. Like.

[Garvey]

Yeah, that initial.

[Joe]

It really was, man. It really was.

[Eric Triplet]

You're looking to connect with the safety, like a PPE brand.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah.

[Eric Triplet]

For your business and what you do. Yeah.

[Joe]

So it's extremely helpful. And even writing it out and, and understanding. Yeah. It's not for the same thing, but it's. That pitch is designed to help you in anything that you're tactical, thoughtful. Here I thought I had my own thing, but this helped me narrow it down and focus into a smaller. Smaller things, which is just very helpful. I learned a lot today. I really did. So that was very cool.

[Garvey]

Yeah. I mean, same here. It got again to the molecular level of 1, 2, 3, 4 and in. In to collaborate with. We're talking with people from. We would never see these people walking across Africa.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Eric Triplet]

He's trying to get clean water for people across the world.

[Joe]

He's so commendable. Dude.

[Garvey]

Yeah, I'm hot.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah.

[Garvey]

Oh, you're right.

[Eric Triplet]

So, yeah. But hey, it's funny. It's because back to hot, you know, so when they were up on stage on day one, like the pre game and it was hot outside and the mics were failing, the wind, the wind comes through. It's almost like a tornado. And he's like, oh, pardon me for the tornado. Like, he handled it really, really professional. Yeah, he was. He was pretty tight like that. But so back to today, I had some expectations of, like a bunch of silly games. And, you know, one of the first things that happened when I walked in and I was trying to, like, absorb the room, you know, he's like, going to see Lulu. And I have no idea what Lulu is, like, branding wise, like, Lulu, what do they do? Like, I literally, I swear to you, since his wife did all the makeup and all that stuff, right? I was like, is this Lululemon?

[Garvey]

Yeah. What is this? Yes, I'm a contractor.

[Eric Triplet]

I don't know what Lulu is. And then to find out that it's, you know, this. They publish books and they publish on, man. I'm like, I could even use this. That. That struck me and I was like, okay, cool. Like, this is gonna be great.

[Joe]

You know, on the outside, it was. I. I almost saw like a light bulb go off in your head because you, like, immediately went to business mode, bro.

[Eric Triplet]

You saw it.

[Joe]

Oh, dude. I was like, oh, my bros on some. Oh, yeah, dude, something.

[Garvey]

You just gotta scan the room and you're like, really? He's like.

[Joe]

You're like, hold on, hold on. I'm thinking, I'm thinking right now. Yep. Okay, let him go.

[Garvey]

He just flips the switch.

[Joe]

It really is, like, cool to watch. It really is like that.

[Eric Triplet]

So. But here's the thing. When I walked into the room, we came in a little bit late. You know, I just came off my big 4x4 by 48 challenge. Sleep deprivation. Then I traveled across the country. I only had like four hours sleep. And then we drank a fifth of whiskey last night. And like, so, like, like I needed a little extra sleep. When we walked in, we barely got there in time. We ate breakfast here, we ate breakfast here instead of eating there. So we have a little bit more time. Walked into the room and immediately when we went to sit down, like, I didn't really understand what was happening. But, you know, one of our teammates comes up to me and he's like, would you believe I'm the only person who talked to the sponsors this morning when we got here? And I was like, oh, shit. No, no, shit. I. I didn't even think about that. Like, I didn't know. So, like, he was the only person in the room that came in early, talk to all the sponsors that were there. It was like a mini convention. There's five sponsors at the event. And so consider that a mini convention, right? And so he comes in early and talks to all five sponsors to the show to try and figure them out, what they do. He'd really done his homework really well and I was super pumped for him for that. But then I really, like, I thought about that poor sponsor, those five sponsors that put in all the money and put in all the effort and paid sponsor games and Justin Moore and they, they flew across the country and then they set up a booth and they're here and like, they have a lot invested into it. And day one, one person comes and talks to them and I'm like, these poor vendors, I, I would like to know more about these vendors. I would like to maybe see how I could help them. And that's how where my heart was. And I thought, man, these poor guys that are going to be like, how are they going to recoup what they've invested into this deal? Right? And then Justin Moore blows my mind. And the whole event is built around helping them help the audience and help the audience help them. It was so synergistic. It fucking melted my face off. I had no eye. I did not see it coming.

[Garvey]

No.

[Eric Triplet]

And as I was evaluating the room, I was like trying to plot this all and it was like watching it unfold, I was like, wow, this has done really well. Justin. Congratulations, sponsors. Congratulations to you members that are here today. Congratulations to you. This is going to be a really cool event.

[Garvey]

Yeah. You're going to have 50 or whatever, whoever you want to pitch to. Right. Like, these sponsors are going to get so many leads and they get to pick whoever they want to work with.

[Eric Triplet]

Yes.

[Joe]

Well, I think part of that though, some of the, and just again, my personal. I'm giving you my thought on this. There's some people in there that have no need for those particular sponsors.

[Garvey]

Absolutely.

[Joe]

But they're so jazzed on this scenario right now and they're like, like me, they're small time. Like, I'm looking for sponsors, but I

[Garvey]

know I want the right ones.

[Joe]

I know internally these aren't the ones.

[Garvey]

Yeah, you've said that since you walked in.

[Joe]

So I'm not gonna go and like waste their time and try. Although I will pick their brain, maybe I can learn some things. But I know I have a, there's a, there's a part of me that sees some of these people have no need for these guys, but they're going to go try to hit them up anyways.

[Garvey]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe]

Is it, is it for practicing purposes? Is it, is it just like, are they learning something from this or. They do. They generally want It. Or they just want to say they. They got. They can chalk it on their belt and say, I got a sponsor.

[Garvey]

Like, I think it's a mixture of all the above.

[Joe]

I think there's got to be some kind of. They gotta look in where it's like, okay, look, these generally aren't for me, you know, like, don't waste. My point is, don't waste their time on some nonsense, you know, Like, I know you're learning. I know you're. You're educating yourself and trying to grow your. Your platform or whatever it is you're doing. But some of these people have no business trying to try and approach these people. And that's just my personal thought. I could be wrong, but it's just kind of something I noticed, and I certainly don't want to waste people's time. That's my main thing.

[Eric Triplet]

Okay, let's get to the real point of the way that the sponsor games was set up, because I think it was done really well in the fact that boom. Sets up teams, and then each team is trying to create, you know, a pitch to the brands that are in the room. And so what's interesting is this is real life stuff. I. I have a couple of books that are unfinished, and it bothers the. Out of me all the time. And I could leave it on the shelf for a long time and, like, go on to other things. I can. I had a lot of irons in the fire, but the fact that Lulu's here and they're talking about it, I want to fucking get it done, you know? And it struck me like, that I am that person's client.

[Garvey]

Yes.

[Eric Triplet]

Now the paper form guy, like, it doesn't hit me. It doesn't strike me, but a different team, a different table, it's striking them. And so, boom, boom, boom. It's all clicking, right? So I think. I think. I think Justin lined it up really well. So that's clicking with me. Right. But the way it was designed, it's like each table pitching. You know, you got. Let's just say you got eight people at each table, and each eight people are pitching the brand as a team and then pitching it individually. So it's really competitive in a way. Like, I am a competitive spirit. And the fact that this is. I am. And the fact that this. Like, I want to compete as a team. I want to compete with my team, and I want every. I want to. I want my team to kick ass on every fucking team in the whole room.

[Joe]

We're not losing tomorrow, bro.

[Eric Triplet]

Well, but listen, listen, I want to be real. I want to be real. Like, this is. It's. It's a competitive team. Like, there's going to be individual prizes, and there's going to be team prizes, like the team set up. I want to fucking win as a team. I want to dominate, but trust and believe. I want to win everyone on my team, Like, I want to fucking win. And Joe does, too. And you do. And they like. Like, I think it. It's really interesting, but I. I learned things about Garvey today as the 38 special productions, like, that. I was like, that's good to know about Garvey. I. I want to talk about that in a minute. But, like, I want to. I want to, like. Like, Joe. Joe gave us that information today that was really important, and I'm trying to bolster Joe and build his spirit back up. He got broken down real easy today.

[Joe]

That kind of surprised me.

[Eric Triplet]

Like, shrug that up, bro. You're gonna be fine. Yeah. Like, let's build, right?

[Garvey]

People just can't take a while.

[Eric Triplet]

I want to. Yeah, I want to build him back up, but trust and believe. I want to win if I can, you know, I would.

[Joe]

Do you think, creep into the number 12 position, bro, right there.

[Eric Triplet]

Show up on a table today?

[Joe]

I was like. I was like, damn, dude, they pulled

[Garvey]

that file off of LinkedIn.

[Eric Triplet]

So I. I want to talk about my style today. Okay. Because when they. When we broke into teams, like, everyone's teaming together, and I felt like I controlled it a little bit because, like, our table was like, these two people are talking. These two people are talking. It wasn't a team. I'm like, hey, we all need to line up. We need to get together. Like, stop talking individually.

[Joe]

Yeah, let's.

[Eric Triplet]

Let's get back. Let's read it together. So we're all on the same page. We follow the rules correctly, and we don't get disqualified because, like, we didn't. Like, you didn't know the rule on page seven. Like, we need to know this. Right? So I was trying to be a leader in that regard, and. I remember I was going with this.

[Garvey]

Oh, the 30 minutes. Were you talking about the. You want to talk about something that I did?

[Eric Triplet]

I do, but that's not this. That's not it.

[Joe]

You need to pull everybody in because we're all getting sidetracked on things.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah. So I. I was real focusing on that leadership part of it, but I. We. I got lost here somewhere. It'll come back, It'll circle back, but. So when we're working as a team. That's one thing, right? But then, oh, I know. We individualized each other. It's like, hey, you guys work as

[Joe]

a team to do this.

[Eric Triplet]

And then we did it. He's like, okay, next, everyone goes to themselves and like, we're all sitting at the table together and we're supposed to be working on ourselves. We're sitting at a table. Hold on. Excuse me. And I looked around the room and all the tables were sitting there talking to themselves. Like they were all, like, doing their own thing. And then you got the film crew coming around, and then you have cameras coming in and clicking and moving and things. And I was like, I can't be here. This is not. This is not how I function. This is not how I work. And so, like, boom, I get up, I push my chair out of the way and I get up and I get my phone out and I like, open ChatGPT and I press and I press record. I press like, voice to command. And I start pacing the room and I'm just. Just like vibing into my phone. Like it's on my face. Like, it's kissing my face. Like, I'm talking into the phone. And I'm looking around the room and the entire room is like, bent over their table, like, doing something. Some people are on laptops, some people are on paper, some people are on their phones, whatever. And I'm pacing, just right. Ripping into my phone. And then I, like, I literally did like a 10 or 12 minute prompt. We had. We had 15 minutes. Yeah, we had 15 minutes. And I talked for 12 minutes into my phone as a prompt and press go boom chat. GPT organized my thoughts and put it in a format. And then I looked at it and I copy pasted it into a note program, went into notes and then edited really quick, deleted this paragraph, changed something to this. Walk back to the table, sat down. I'm like, okay, I'm ready to go. But, like, I. I think I was the only one that functioned that way. And. And I don't. I'm not saying that to Flex. I'm just saying, like, people computer paper, you know, like, voice to command. Like, people are. Are. They're creating content in their own different ways, you know?

[Garvey]

Yeah. And some of it's. I don't think it's the most efficient. You know what I mean? Like, some, but like, you know, and you got me. I'm like, oh, man, I need to. I don't do it in as in depth as you, but like, like, I'M gonna use this tool to help me build what I need to build out.

[Eric Triplet]

But you were typing. You were both texting.

[Garvey]

I was doing both. You voiced as I voiced it, but for not maybe two minutes.

[Eric Triplet]

But I had to voice, like, while

[Garvey]

I'm walking, you need to be in your element.

[Eric Triplet]

I wanted. I wanted to headbutt the wall, dude.

[Garvey]

Is that what you do at home?

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah.

[Garvey]

In the office a lot of times.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah.

[Garvey]

Yeah.

[Eric Triplet]

I'll walk the ranch.

[Garvey]

Walk the ranch.

[Eric Triplet]

Just working out, spitting into the phone, you know?

[Joe]

You know, it's funny to me. Like, I don't like to write. I don't like to write shit down. And the fact that I didn't. I didn't realize about ChatGPT, but I was actually really fascinated about the pitch scenario. Like, I literally wrote fucking four pages.

[Eric Triplet]

I liked how you wrote it.

[Joe]

It was cool of my ideas.

[Eric Triplet]

But you'll like the way I do it, for sure. So here's the thing, too. So we went that. And I. And I had my pitch. I went up on stage. That's why I'm in 12 spot.

[Joe]

Wish you did very well, by the way.

[Eric Triplet]

That's why I'm in 12 spot, because I did that voice command.

[Joe]

I agree.

[Eric Triplet]

And I fixed it. I went on stage, and that pitch was pretty okay.

[Garvey]

Did really well.

[Eric Triplet]

I'm still confused by it, and I want to push back a little bit. On.

[Joe]

Did you watch that video yet, by chance?

[Eric Triplet]

No.

[Joe]

It was really good, dude.

[Eric Triplet]

I want to push back on it a little bit because I feel frustrated and excited and I want to learn. I haven't watched it yet, but I think that's why I'm in 12 spot because of what I did, so. But then after that, the next thing was about something else, and Joe got into a dark spot, and he was all upset and he was excited about something, and I was like, let me help you. And I only went to help my teammates because I want my whole team to win.

[Joe]

Right?

[Garvey]

Yeah. That's awesome.

[Eric Triplet]

And so I had this cool moment with Joe.

[Garvey]

Yeah.

[Eric Triplet]

Because he was like, what about this question? What about that question? I was like, this is important. That's important. He's like, oh, yeah. And like, we were taking notes together, and I'm like, give me your chicken scratch. Because it was just a. It was just like he couldn't even read his own writing.

[Joe]

I couldn't read. No, he couldn't read his own writing.

[Garvey]

What are you, a doctor?

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah. What are you, a doctor? So I'm like, what is this? What is this? What is this? And I was like, can I organize this for you? He's like, okay, like, like, how are you gonna do that? Right? And I took his chicken scratch and I just voice commanded into my phone and he's watching me talking to my phone, like reading his chicken scratch. And there was long pauses. I was like, wait, wait, wait, I think I know this. And I'm like, you're making it work. Yeah. And then I handed him back his paperwork and I pressed go. And then it came up and I, I copy pasted it, put in a note, I made some edits, corrected it and texted to him and he, he read it and he was like, like he looked at me like, what, what kind of wizardry did you just do? It was cool. And then, and then it like pulled him out of the, out of the ditch, you know, like, oh, I'm ready to go on stage again. You know, it was cool. So, yeah, I mean I, I really liked the dynamic of the whole room. And I think, I think Justin was very good about not being, Showing favoritism and like just picking one person all the time.

[Garvey]

No, no. He was like, hey, I wouldn't even skip people.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah. Deliberately, like to get to people.

[Joe]

I noticed that he's like. I was like, okay, yeah, okay.

[Garvey]

Like when you're in school.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah.

[Garvey]

Okay.

[Eric Triplet]

Jimmy, you can't raise your hand.

[Garvey]

Yeah.

[Eric Triplet]

Seconds before.

[Garvey]

Jimmy, we already heard from you.

[Eric Triplet]

Yes.

[Garvey]

Right?

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah. Yeah. So I think he did really well like that. But. So let's talk about. I want to talk about tomorrow because we have our assignment for tomorrow, which I'm amped out of my face about. I'm so psyched about.

[Joe]

But let's do. If we don't win this assignment, I don't.

[Eric Triplet]

I'm not going to go there. I'm not going to go there.

[Garvey]

Not even going to happen.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah, I'm not going to go.

[Garvey]

This is your element. We have to, we have to focus. We have to just tell us what to do.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah, I just have to focus. You know, it just, I don't want to jinx it, you know?

[Garvey]

Yeah, I can't wait to talk about it.

[Eric Triplet]

Let's talk about that. But let's, let's talk about our podhouse gear today.

[Garvey]

Yes.

[Eric Triplet]

So first of all, it's 97 degrees. It was. I knew. I checked the weather. It was gonna be 97, but I checked. It's like it was gonna be like cold in the morning. I was like, well, maybe I'll pack my sweatshirt, maybe. And literally it was 3:30 in the morning I found my sweatshirt and I grabbed J.T. his sweatshirt. I wasn't gonna. I wasn't gonna go to our. Our apparel line and pull out a shirt for him because I was like, it's gonna be hot, dude.

[Garvey]

Right, Right.

[Eric Triplet]

I wanna. I don't wanna drag this around. And so. But last second, I pulled. I pulled our hoodies out and loaded them in in luggage, and boom, off to the airport. We get here, it's 97. Like, you just. You look outside and you start sweating.

[Garvey]

Yes.

[Eric Triplet]

Right? And then. Then day two. What's high of 60?

[Garvey]

Perfect.

[Eric Triplet]

How did this happen?

[Joe]

Sweater weather, bro.

[Eric Triplet]

Okay, so sweater weather. Tell us about what we're wearing. Our. Our pod house content creation hoodies. We go to the event. Tell us. Tell us a scenario.

[Joe]

Well, basically, I mean, you got it. You know what? Yeah. I think aside from the sweaters, initially, we. The three of us together, hold ourselves in a certain way. We just kind of stand out in a crowd. Okay. It's just natural for us. But when we're wearing sweater. We're like, chaos, content sweater. Sweater detail. Like, these know. What's up, dude? Like, you know, just.

[Garvey]

Where do I get one of those?

[Joe]

Like, okay, these are legit. You guys are like our security details. Security guards. Security guards are like, oh, the purple hair? Yeah. She was like.

[Eric Triplet]

Is that what she said?

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah. She's like, you guys are like our security. And Karen.

[Eric Triplet]

Karen showed up to our table. She's like, you are the baddest in this room.

[Garvey]

That's awesome.

[Eric Triplet]

The three of you.

[Joe]

Oh, my God, that was awesome.

[Garvey]

And it's just by wearing shirts, like, and carrying ourselves.

[Eric Triplet]

The bald head. It's the muscles. All right, fat ass.

[Joe]

She's looking at that ghetto booty, bro.

[Garvey]

The badonka dog.

[Joe]

Crazy, dude.

[Eric Triplet]

How much. How much does it cost you to get pants to custom fit around your.

[Garvey]

A lot. Got to get them from overseas.

[Joe]

You know what? But where Eric's going with this. Where Eric's going with this is. I think it comes all back to the branding and marketing of.

[Garvey]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Of what we're doing. I mean, the sweaters are dope as they are. Like, I'm not a guy who typically likes to have stuff on the front of a shirt or especially my sweaters. My sweaters I'm pretty particular about. But, dude, this sweater is dope and it stands out. It's. It's.

[Eric Triplet]

Dude, it's got. It has a purpose. It's a house on the pocket.

[Joe]

Yeah, it has a purpose, dude.

[Garvey]

It does. Yeah.

[Joe]

It's just and even at the airport, like you said the other day when we were walking through, I was noticing everybody was reading the sweaters. Everybody was like, yeah, checking them out.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah. We're at the airport in Ontario, coming to the airport, and he and I had the same sweatshirt on. And people are like slowing down and stopping and looking at you. What are these guys doing?

[Garvey]

Yeah.

[Eric Triplet]

Okay, let me get to this sweatshirt. This sweatshirt is my blessing and my curse on stage with Justin Moore. It literally fucking is because he can't see past it. He can't see past it. That's exactly the point. When I went on stage, I was wearing this thing. He couldn't get past this jersey. No, right. He even said, hey, before we get started, tell us about Pot House.

[Garvey]

I was like, yeah.

[Eric Triplet]

So here I am pitching. Did I pitch it okay to the group?

[Joe]

You did great, dude.

[Eric Triplet]

I just.

[Garvey]

Just hit on the stage.

[Eric Triplet]

Home run, like, right off the cuff. Right? So he's like, tell us about pot House. So I tell him about pod House, and then I sit down, he's like, pitch Lulu. And I pitched Lulu as pond digger and. And who I am with my books and my coaching program. But he couldn't get past the fact that pod house was not included in that pitch.

[Garvey]

Pitch.

[Eric Triplet]

And it. The whole thing up for me.

[Joe]

I don't think. I don't think it affect. He even said everybody in here has their special thing. Eric obviously has a niche.

[Eric Triplet]

My book has nothing to do with Pothouse, though. You see what I mean? My book has nothing to do with Pothouse. It has everything to do with my coaching program. It has everything to do with my. My 30 years of building pots.

[Garvey]

Right.

[Eric Triplet]

Pothouse is five months old and he couldn't get past the fact that we have to.

[Joe]

No, that's not a bad thing, though, bro.

[Eric Triplet]

I know. I'm not saying it is, but it is. It's my blessing and it's my curse is what I'm saying. On stage right there. And so. But it. It did help me expand my eyes and my. Open my mind on some stuff. But it. It's so big that it. It like stifled. It stifled 30 years of content creation.

[Garvey]

Sorry.

[Eric Triplet]

You know what I mean?

[Joe]

I would get stifled it, bro. I think, if anything, I think it added to the mystique of the pond Digger because the pondigger.

[Garvey]

What do you have a pod? You all. You have one podcast? No, no. And then, like, that's what I'm saying.

[Joe]

The mystique of Eric Triplet is. Yeah, Eric Triplet is not Eric Triplet. He's got, like, umbrellas of, like, two hands of.

[Garvey]

Right.

[Joe]

You know, so it's like he's. He's an author, he's an inventor, He's a business owner, entrepreneur, married man. His podcaster father. Like, he's got so many elements.

[Eric Triplet]

Manufacturer. Don't believe that.

[Garvey]

Are we missing anything?

[Joe]

And I'm not trying to flex for you, bro. I'm just saying. I'm just being honest, bro. At the end of the day, look, some people are gonna do name recognition and some people aren't gonna know. They're not going to look at the Eric Triplet, the. The author and the inventor. You know what? If they remember you from one thing, if they remember you from the pot house, that's awesome. If they remember you as the pond builder, well, hey, that's cool, too.

[Eric Triplet]

Just. Just remember, if I. If I wasn't wearing this pod house thing when I went on stage, that pitch might have worked just as is. I. I swear to you.

[Joe]

It was a good pitch, though. It was a good pitch, though.

[Eric Triplet]

I do believe that. So. So let's get to our assignment tomorrow. Can we pause for just one second?

[Garvey]

Sure.

[Eric Triplet]

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[Garvey]

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[Eric Triplet]

Okay. Okay. Let's transition to our assignment for tomorrow, which I'm psyched out of my brain about. I'm. So.

[Garvey]

This is in your wheelhouse. Director of photography, dude.

[Eric Triplet]

So. So explain the end of the night. What he said was what everyone had to do tomorrow morning and they were going to sign, like, the detail. Share that with what that looked like to you.

[Garvey]

Oh, at the end of.

[Eric Triplet]

It was like almost end of sponsor games.

[Garvey]

Everyone, they won. They're like, okay, everyone's going to. Team captains come up and you're going to get a scenario. Right. That you need to build for sure. Microphones. Right. Every one of them is different. Right.

[Eric Triplet]

We had film content for them.

[Garvey]

Film content for them.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah.

[Garvey]

Every and everyone has a different task in a different. How would you say it's like a different.

[Eric Triplet]

It's a different theme.

[Garvey]

Theme. Yeah.

[Eric Triplet]

Like, hey, you guys are gonna theme this, you guys are gonna theme that. I was a little worried about the theme.

[Garvey]

I was like, I hope we get. And we got something great.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah. But so imagine there's. I don't know, there's nine teams. Nine people. Like, nine team captains go up randomly assigned, randomly pull a. They're like, hey, you're gonna be. You're gonna brief one through nine. Right. And so they were reading them off. The funeral one got me weird. Like, I didn't like that one at all. I'm so glad we didn't get a funeral.

[Garvey]

Wasn't like, using the people walking as your. As your. Like, people attending your funeral. Random people.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah, yeah, it was. It was a really. That was a tough one. I feel sorry for those guys, but. But maybe someone on the team really hasn't worked out that. That's the cool thing about content creation. You got, you know, 50 different people in the room. You got 50 different minds. Even Joe said, like, one of his big takeaways was, Joe's our team captain. For those of you listening, he took away, like, hey, I'm sitting here with a bunch of guys, and they think differently than I do. And I didn't imagine that I should think like this. And by hearing them interject their thoughts has me thinking differently. That was cool.

[Garvey]

That's cool. Yeah, it's cool to hear.

[Eric Triplet]

So when I was. When I was back there, I'm like, give us something good. Give us something good. Give me something that I can be creative with. Because I am very driven by a motive. Like, when I'm motivated by a, you know, something creative, to me, it gets me excited. And I've seen it. I can lean in. Like, yeah, when we did our goodbye video. Goodbye video podcast one, you're like, you saw how pumped I was.

[Garvey]

So fun. We just got like, oh, that's awesome.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah, do that, do that.

[Garvey]

Like. But, like, like, you. You're the. At the helm, and I can't wait to see it tomorrow. You're gonna be direct. Like, quiet on the side.

[Joe]

Oh, yeah.

[Eric Triplet]

So that was. That was really cool. So it's exciting for me to know that each team has to create a video for one of the. For the brand there. And we're all creating for the same brand. We all have the same requirements with

[Garvey]

different themes with the same technology.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah. And we're all shooting from an iPhone. We got to edit it and whatever. So it's cool. You Know, so I think we have several, you know, a couple hours in the morning to do this, and so tell us your thoughts of my. Like, you felt pretty comfortable. This is what I'm going to go back to. I think we. We evaded this.

[Garvey]

Yeah, I. I want to. Yeah, I want to step back. What are you saying?

[Eric Triplet]

Something I learned about you because, like, I was locked into LULU Publishing. You know, like, the publishing books and stuff. Because it's something that I think I could lean into and I could. It could serve me, and I could serve them, and, like, it just really locked with me. But, Kit, for some reason, you were, like, locked in on them. They're in New York, you're in New Jersey, broadcasting, like, and it aligns with me and Pot House and all that stuff. But, like, I was so locked in the lulu, trying to figure out how that would work. But I saw behind the scenes, like. Like, Kit was really special to you.

[Garvey]

Yeah. Something. And I want to know. And it's not just the podcast studio in New York City. It's. I want to learn more about what they all. They offer all this other stuff, like email campaigns and stuff like that.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah.

[Garvey]

But I was like, oh, man. Like, if you're opening, like, you're. You're opening something in New York City, like, like, it's serious and it's going to be super focused. And then when I saw the. Hey, you know, the requirements to apply is like, hey, you're gonna have to be committed to come to New York. And, like, that's a huge commitment for people that are not from around that area. So I'm like, oh, man. Like, this kind of. This might work.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah. So when. When there was a part in the sponsor games where it's like, lock in individually, and I, like, leaned into you, I was like, let me help you individually. Like, you want Kit, Let me help you lock it in so you can pitch it to her. And you're like, no, no, I'm not the pitch guy. Like, you looked at me like, nope. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You got this wrong. Triplet. That's not who I do. That's not how I roll. Like, that's what happened today. And I don't know if it was a timing thing and the travel and like, or if it was just like, hey, I want to make like, you know, a lot of things happen behind the scene.

[Joe]

I want to.

[Eric Triplet]

I want to create the. The thought and the vision of it all, but I don't want to. I don't want to be that person.

[Garvey]

Correct. I think that's part of it.

[Eric Triplet]

That's what I saw today.

[Garvey]

Yeah. Like, you're like. You. The. The stage, and I'm like.

[Eric Triplet]

You're like, no, no, no. You. You know that I'll help here.

[Joe]

Yes, you do that.

[Garvey]

Yes. Can I give you the ideas?

[Eric Triplet]

I was like, okay, guess what? You. You lock in all the Airbnbs, and I'll do all the films. I'll do the filming. Yeah, we'll think together. I'll go open. I'll. I'll do the pitch. Like, yeah, dude. It became apparent to me today, that's

[Joe]

where everybody has their real.

[Garvey]

But that's what it's all about, right? It's like. Like, we don't know each other. We knew each other for a year, and we're learning more and more about each other. Some I'm not super, like, in your face. And, like, me. It's all about me. And I want to brag and, yeah, I'm a three, right? But I'm not, like, I want to be at the center of the attention. That's not me.

[Joe]

Strengths and weaknesses, bro. Yeah, most people know their strengths and weaknesses. Like, I have absolutely no problem when my bro takes charge.

[Garvey]

I love it.

[Joe]

I'm like, yeah, dude.

[Garvey]

Yeah, you're on it, bro.

[Joe]

I know it's gonna happen.

[Garvey]

How can I help you? And like, like, even today, like. Like, oh, like, what is it? A three? You give me, like, a little bit of a praise, right? Like, I'll thrive off that, right?

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Garvey]

So, like, it was with. I'm like, hey, we had 30 minutes to do the three things, like, break down the pitches for packages and. Yeah, yeah, the package. No, it wasn't the packages. It was the pitches, I think, whatever. But we had to do this. And I'm just, like, looking at the clock, and I was like, I think we should dedicate 10 minutes to each one of them. We have six minutes left with number one. He's like, yes, that's awesome. That's a great idea.

[Joe]

And I was like, you were the timekeeper.

[Garvey]

I'm like. Like, he loved my idea. Like, that's. I like that.

[Eric Triplet]

But did you see I executed on it? I'm like, yeah, right? Because Joe was trying to go, like, the team captain was trying to go to a different spot. I'm like, no, no, no. Shut the up.

[Garvey]

You're killing it.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah, right, right, right back here now.

[Garvey]

Taking that, like, 38 special. 38. Yeah. So, like, yeah, I love that. You're learning more and more. About me.

[Joe]

But you know what? To give Joe credit, he didn't mind either. He didn't. He took it. Yeah, you know what?

[Eric Triplet]

You're right. He's like, okay, okay, okay. And in fact, he was. He was. And I don't know if it has to do with the shirts or our bald presence or whatever it was, but he's like, hey, you guys got locked in. I feel comfortable with you guys, like, helping me.

[Garvey]

Yeah.

[Eric Triplet]

Like, so it would have been different, like, if we were all wearing different shirts and had her hat backwards and one guy's in thongs and one guy's in a short and one guy's in pants. And, like, we're just like, if anyone's

[Joe]

wearing a thong, it's this.

[Eric Triplet]

I don't know where you're wearing thongs right now, bro.

[Garvey]

Wasn't there something you were wearing? Edible underwear?

[Joe]

Edible ch.

[Eric Triplet]

Transparent. Edible ch

[Garvey]

is what you wear.

[Eric Triplet]

Stretch. Okay, we. We digress. We digress.

[Garvey]

We digress.

[Eric Triplet]

But. But you and I locked in like you said, hey, we should do this. And I said, I agree. And I. I said, great idea. Boom. Execute on it. And I was pushing people to it, like, I don't care. This is how it's going to go down. And I had a little bit of. I. I hit. I hit things off at the pass early with Joe because he's got a lot of. A lot of knowledge. He's got a knowledge, a lot of traction and a lot of conviction on YouTube and things of that nature. And then I made this fun little comment to see if there would be friction. I wasn't doing it to flex. I wasn't doing it to be a devo or demanding. I did it to see if there would be friction and then how to deal with it and how to deal with it. And how would we deal with it? Because when we go to the games tomorrow, we're going to hit it off. Because if there would have been friction when I said this, then I'd have known we'd have to outline it and get it figured out before tomorrow. So I was like, hey, just so everyone knows right now, I'm director of photography tomorrow or I'm fucking out. I don't give a fuck. I'm director of photography. Anyone has problem with it.

[Joe]

And even though I knew right now,

[Eric Triplet]

tell me right now if we have a problem with this.

[Joe]

Even though I. Even though I knew you were kind of kidding, but you.

[Garvey]

No, he wasn't.

[Eric Triplet]

Hold on.

[Joe]

You were kind of kidding, kind of serious. I knew where you were going with that dude, everybody fell in line.

[Eric Triplet]

I wasn't going to let him.

[Joe]

I didn't mind. I didn't.

[Eric Triplet]

I don't want him telling me tomorrow, like, oh, we got to film this. Like, no, no, no.

[Garvey]

Just.

[Eric Triplet]

Just listen.

[Joe]

Just.

[Garvey]

Just listen to what I have to say.

[Joe]

Well, that's where I gotta. We gotta give Joe credit because he knows that we're in the podcasting world and that we kind of have the knowledge of this. So he's like, you know what? You're right, let's do it.

[Eric Triplet]

I don't think. Oh, you know what's interesting? I'm gonna find out from tomorrow morning. This is a really important factor that we don't know right now. We're sitting here right now. I'm looking across the stage that you two guys right now in Pothouse Studios, number two, San Antonio, Texas. Joe did a lot of homework on all the brands and things of that nature. He showed up early and saw the people. Do you think he knows that I have155,000 followers on, I mean, subscribers on YouTube?

[Joe]

He probably knows now.

[Eric Triplet]

I don't.

[Joe]

I. I don't think he knew it because he's added me on all my. Has he added to you on all your. On all your stuff?

[Eric Triplet]

I don't know if he done it on YouTube.

[Joe]

Interesting.

[Eric Triplet]

So he. I don't know if he's already done the, the research and he knows that I'm double him on YouTube and he just conceded or.

[Joe]

Because he's got 71, 000 followers right now that I'm looking at.

[Eric Triplet]

Subscribers.

[Joe]

Subscribers?

[Garvey]

I don't think so.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah, so I'm gonna ask him tomorrow, like, hey, I saw your YouTube last channel. Have you seen my YouTube by chance? Let's do that tomorrow because that'll be. That'll be a little interesting piece because I want to do another debriefing after day two. So we. So this will be an interesting twist to find out if he conceded knowing that I already had a bunch of followers or not knowing, but just by our presence and by our fucking jerseys, you know, jerseys are sick. They must know what they're doing. Okay, okay, so let's get back to this. So we have specific rules tomorrow. Tomorrow. You know, someone's doing a funeral procession. That was so weird. I don't even know.

[Joe]

I didn't even think about that.

[Garvey]

And are we all gonna be on top of each other or will we spread out?

[Joe]

You want us to be on top of you, don't you?

[Eric Triplet]

No, we have. We have the Whole river walk.

[Garvey]

But it's not like just right outside the museum.

[Eric Triplet]

Okay. I can do whatever we want.

[Joe]

I think there's naturally. We need a person walking. We need maybe some chains dropping in a distance. We need some birds chirping. We need to capture some water flowing, which should be easy, but could you

[Garvey]

paint this the objective?

[Eric Triplet]

Okay, so we have. We have this list. And I'll just. I'll just briefly do it. So this is brief. One out of nine. And this is specific to us. They pulled numbers out of the hat. So. So we're shooting for a new product from sure Mike or sure sure, the brand. Right. And they have a cool new mic that we're going to be using that attaches to your iPhone. And we're going to be like capturing a video and audio from it for. So here are the terms, the rules, the universal rules for all teams. The universal rules for all teams are the video's got to be 60 seconds or under. We're going to be using the Shure MV88. It's a USB C. It must be visible for a minimum of 50% of the video. So this is really, really important. Okay, so it has to be visible in the video. So we have to be filming it while another. While it's catching the audio. That's gonna be hard. Dude, I just figured this out.

[Joe]

Not really.

[Eric Triplet]

Why?

[Joe]

You don't want to know why. Like, say, for example, we're. We're shooting boots walking, right? If I can put the boot. The microphone on the pants and somebody's shooting, you can see it. I'm just gonna shoot. We're gonna shoot. But it's attached to something. No, you have to.

[Eric Triplet]

You have to. They have to see the. They have to see the mic in the.

[Joe]

That's what I'm saying. So like, the. The mic would be like clipped on the pant leg or something.

[Garvey]

It might give us more than one. I don't think that's gonna solve it with that.

[Joe]

I don't think it's gonna be a process.

[Eric Triplet]

Okay, that. That's potential solution from a 3:38 special. So we're gonna ask. We need two mics.

[Garvey]

Okay, we need two.

[Eric Triplet]

So it's got to be visible in 50 of the videos. No other microphones can be used. All team members must appear on screen at least once in. In any capacity. So we have a smaller team because we have lost two members. So we have four man team. And then. So we can't swear or offensive language can't be used. We're done. Wind it up f we're out. Okay? So we have to be on our best behavior. Watch your fucking mouth. Okay? And then we must include a sponsorship disclosure somewhere in the video, which means, hey, this is a paid sponsorship. I'm sure we're microphone. But it all, you know, like we have to do something fun and cool. Right? Right. Deliverable how we have to upload it so they can have it as. They can show it off. They can present it tomorrow at the. At the event. And then all videos will be viewed together during game six feedback.

[Joe]

So we can edit it in any way we want. See, my only thing is, so we're going to shoot the video, we can upload it into Riverside FM and then just put it together that way. Right?

[Garvey]

We're going to do two edits, right?

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah, we're going to do two edits. We're going to do one on the phone through Instagram edits or something like that. And we'll do a cap cut on computer or whatever. Riverside FM or whatever. But so our tone is like. So ours is considered. The briefing for us is overheard on the Riverwalk. So we're in San Antonio, Texas, the Riverwalk. And what their hope is. They want a cinematic tone, observational. A team member walks the river. The Riverwalk, capturing ambient sound bites. Water, footsteps, boats and narrates like a natural. Like a nature documentary. And the mic is the star. This is gonna. I got. I'm gonna spend some time on this tonight after we finish this bottle of whiskey. But the concept is done, but we must include. We have to switch between at least two sound modes on the mic. So tomorrow we have to test the sound modes and see which we like the best.

[Joe]

That should be no problem.

[Eric Triplet]

I know, but we have to figure out which ones we like the best because they have like four or five different.

[Joe]

Different.

[Eric Triplet]

Different choosings from 1, 2, 3, surround sound. Or they. Well, they have four. We have to show at least two. So we're going to do that and then we have to call out or demonstrate in real time the Denoiser feature. They have a Denoiser feature which we still haven't figured out with. Let's figure that out. Like, oh, I'm going to try my Denoiser feature to block out this sound. To do that. Like we have to. That's an important factor. So, and on. All team members must appear on screen at some point. So they have guidelines. Slow, deliberate handheld movement. So the guidelines for us might be different than someone else. Right, right. Than the other team members. And then we have to have a. We have to keep the framing wide and environmental and let the scenery breathe around the mic so that it has to be these wide shots. And that's interesting because I'm shooting horizontal.

[Joe]

I don't think it matters.

[Eric Triplet]

I think we should do, like, we have to choose one. One format.

[Joe]

I don't think it matters.

[Garvey]

For Instagram. It doesn't matter. Right.

[Joe]

Just know that if you shoot this way, it's gonna be more problematic, bro. I think we should just use.

[Eric Triplet]

I'm planning on vertical.

[Joe]

So you want to do. You want to do this way? No, that's okay. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. If we go horizontal, it's going to be more editing and.

[Garvey]

Yeah, we don't have. We're not going to be on a time cr.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah. But we have, like, this is what's cool about this game is like, we have this really specific task and we're competing against nine teams. And I want to win. I want to destroy everyone.

[Garvey]

Right.

[Eric Triplet]

I want to melt their faces off. Right.

[Garvey]

I love it.

[Eric Triplet]

So there's dos and don'ts and so that, like, that's kind of what we're up against tomorrow. So as far as I know, you

[Garvey]

know, also, none of these people are talking about this right now.

[Eric Triplet]

None of these people have drinking a fifth of whiskey right now and live

[Garvey]

in the pot house.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah.

[Garvey]

Right.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah.

[Joe]

That's why we have to win, bro.

[Garvey]

Yeah.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah. Although Joe's awake right now, laying in bed, trying to.

[Garvey]

Like, he said he's not sleeping tonight.

[Eric Triplet]

He's reviewing this right now.

[Joe]

No, apparently he was going to the

[Eric Triplet]

gym, so we should send him a text after this with a bottle of whiskey. Be like, hopefully they make it tomorrow. Definitely won't sleep tonight. He doesn't know. That's when we work best.

[Garvey]

Right?

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah. So. So we definitely have. Have. We definitely have this work cut out for us, and I'm super excited about it. But this is important.

[Garvey]

This is right in your wheelhouse.

[Eric Triplet]

I'm a very close up kind of guy. Like when we shot the. The. The farewell video for Pot House one,

[Garvey]

you got very close to my ass.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah, I did lots of close ups. Lots of close ups.

[Garvey]

You know, they were great and they were shot so not like.

[Eric Triplet]

Well, I think. I think. I think this.

[Garvey]

We do it very similar to that.

[Eric Triplet]

I'm gonna do some. I mean, there was a lot of wide angle stuff too, but I. There's a couple of close ups that make angles feel more bigger. You know what I mean?

[Garvey]

Yeah.

[Eric Triplet]

I'm I'm gonna mix in a couple.

[Garvey]

And do we put music to this?

[Eric Triplet]

I think, I think we're gonna attempt music to it for sure.

[Garvey]

It's a big.

[Eric Triplet]

Yeah, well, because. Because we don't have, we don't have any restrictions against music. It doesn't say that. So we can do that.

[Garvey]

Cool.

[Eric Triplet]

So I don't know we're gonna play with that a little bit, but I'm excited about tomorrow.

[Garvey]

Yep.

[Eric Triplet]

And you know, I don't even know what's in store. We still got two and a half days here, right? Yeah, yeah. All day tomorrow, all day the next day in the morning. One and a half days. Yeah, yeah. So it's going to be super exciting. So let's land the plane here because first of all, Sponsor Games has been amazing. It's worth, you know, all the stress.

[Joe]

It's definitely been worth it, dude.

[Eric Triplet]

It's stressful leaving our companies and our businesses and our homes and our animals to come to an event like this. But as it stands right now, I'm like, I'm super pumped. Yeah, I mean, it's, there's, it's a no brainer.

[Joe]

It's.

[Eric Triplet]

It's been working for us. So you have any final words, Garvey?

[Garvey]

No. Looking forward to tomorrow. Being on the set.

[Eric Triplet]

Dude on the set. Quiet on the set.

[Garvey]

Tell me where to be. Tell me what to do.

[Eric Triplet]

I can't wait for the debriefing after day, day two.

[Garvey]

Yes.

[Eric Triplet]

Triplet, you got anything?

[Joe]

No, I'm excited for tomorrow, man.

[Eric Triplet]

All right, well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna rock this out. Okay. So listen, hey, rockstars, thank you so much for your ears and attention to the podcast today. I hope you found some value to it. Hope you're hearing about how special the sponsor Magnet book is and Justin Moore and his whole team of sponsor games. It's really, really, really cool. So this is the debrief from Sponsor Games here in San Antonio, Texas, from the Pod House studios and remotely here in San Antonio. So we're recording all of this from Podhouse Mobile Studios. It's content creation room, where we're traveling 16 major events across the country. Right now, my partner and I, Mike Garvey, are inviting different podcasters to come in and record content with us in our mobile hub. And if you're interested in doing something like that, we want you to reach out to us. And there's no, there's no, like, for sures. We have lots of commitments already and we want to make sure everything's just like lined in it fits perfectly. But so tomorrow we're heading back into the Arena Day 2 for the sponsor games. We're super pumped about it. It more conversations, more strategy, tactical pieces of the puzzle, more chances to turn ideas into actual partnerships. So tomorrow we're going to see like who steps up and who executes and who's going to actually listen to me when I start to get pushy when it comes to director of photography. And trust me, I will be pushy and I will be demanding. But these conversations are what's going to turn into real opportunities for us and real learning factors from the whole thing. So. And when we come back tomorrow night, we're gonna tell you exactly how it went down. Trust me that we will be recording our our efforts like win, lose or draw, however that looks, we're gonna record and tell you what that looks like tomorrow and we'll be updating that as well. So like, until then, I want you to stay dangerous. I want you to stay like thoughtful and creative and I want you to continue to become the best version of yourself. And remember, opportunities don't just show up, up, okay? You have to go out there and get them. You've got to put yourself in the room where they happen and when you're in that room, you have to execute on them. So that's it for tonight. Hope you learned something from everything and I will see you on the next one. Over and out.

[Mike Garvey]

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