• Darren@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Every Monday night I do a radio show. Most weeks I get about 15 people listening, and have had to work really hard to stay at a place where I’m happy that it’s as many as that.

    Time is fleeting, we don’t get back what we’ve used, so it blows my mind that 15 people choose to spend two hours of their week listening to my bullshit. Sure, I’d like it to be more, but I’ll take what I can get.

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      1 day ago

      Every week you have 15 people sitting in a circle hanging on your every word for two whole hours. And they keep coming back. That’s a lot of good friends, man! If they were there in person we’d all wonder if you were a cult leader.

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            15 hours ago

            Its theme based. At the end of every show I announce the theme for next week’s, then the suggestions come pouring in via Mastodon.

            Tonight’s theme is covers, and I currently have 5 1/2 hours of suggestions to dig through.

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              11 hours ago

              Seems like a lot of suggestions for just 15 people… Sounds like you might have more listeners than you think.

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                8 hours ago

                Yeah, what @Notyou@sopuli.xyz said. I stream with Owncast, so can see how many are online. On average it’s 15. But yeah, I seem to get around 30 listens per episode on Mixcloud during the weeks after.

                This week’s theme is cover versions, which everyone loves, so I’ve had an unusual number of suggestions. One guy dropped about 20 at me.

                All in all it’s a nice, manageable number for me. I’m very aware that if I had 1000 people throwing suggestions at me each week I’d feel like I was drowning and would almost certainly get scared away from it. While it’s something I fit in around a full time job, that is.

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                9 hours ago

                15 people probably listen to it live and then the rest look it up on mixcloud.

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      1 day ago

      This made me realize that I never really knew how many listeners my radio show had, and that I never really cared.