Mo Facts Final Season and Podcast Production Mechanics
Adam Curry and Mo Facts announce the beginning of the final season of the podcast, targeting a 100-episode milestone. Mo explains how transitioning from a corporate job to entrepreneurship due to vaccine mandates impacted his ability to consume content and produce the show. The discussion highlights the intensive research process required to maintain the show's quality while balancing family and business obligations.
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00:05 Mo Facts with Adam Curry for April 5th, 2023, episode number 91. Hey, did you miss us? We're back with another Mo Facts with Adam Curry. That's right. Month of April 2023. I'm Adam Curry coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country. Time once again to spin the wheel of topics from here to Northern Virginia. Please say hello to my friend on the other end. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Mo Facts. How you doing, Adam? I'm good, Mo. How about yourself? I'm doing well. Doing well. I'm so happy to hear that. Now, it's been a oh man. Let me see. The last time we did a show was, I think, February, if I'm not mistaken. Middle of February. And a lot of people missing us, missing the regular shows.
00:48 And Mo and I have been talking. And kind of came to a conclusion that, you know, there was some big changes in your life, Mo. You know, we started this show. How many years ago has it been now? Has it been almost four years, I think? We're headed into the fourth year. In the fourth year? No, no, no, no. We're headed towards the fourth year. Yeah, exactly. I remember because we first started talking when I was on my honeymoon. Right. Which I remember. May 15th. May 19th. Oops. May 19th. 2019. Easy to occur. Yeah, I know, I know. And it was, yeah, it was, I don't know, almost maybe a couple weeks after that after we were talking back and forth. And then we decided, hey, let's do this show. Of course, things were very, very different then. You had
01:33 a corporate job. You were kind of set the way you wanted your life to be the way that you expected it. And then boom, not only did COVID hit, and they came out with the vax mandates, and that really changed everything, didn't it? That took my life into a whole nother trajectory that I didn't expect and has caused some time tension other than anything else because when I do this show, I'm dedicated 100% to making the highest quality product possible. And if I can't do that, then I guess we might need to make some changes.
02:12 So as it looks right now, we're going to be bringing the show to an end, but not right now. We're going into the final season. I guess that's how I look at it. We got, I want to get to the 100 number because I think that's that's significant to me as far as accomplishment. As you know, I know who knew I was going to be a podcaster. First of all. Also, but you were forced into being an entrepreneur. I mean, you had to set up a whole different business just to really keep some consistency going in your family fed.
02:49 That's correct. And what people don't understand with the whole vax situation and why we talked about it so intensely on several episodes is it wasn't that I was losing one job and you go to another job for what field I am in. There's kind of like you're blackballed for lack of a better word if you're not vaxxed. And so I had to, like I said, go out on my own, be an entrepreneur. And that's consuming far more time than I thought it would. But that's my foundational wealth. And as I told you when we first discussed this, I'm torn between two families, my
03:27 natural born family or my actual blood family and the facts family. And this wasn't an easy decision, but I'm not going to look at it as a negative. I think we got 10 episodes to go and we're going to make a party out of it. That's the only way we can do it in the only fashion. And I have some episodes I've been dying to get to. And also, I want people to know that, you know, it'll probably take us. I mean, so the reason for the time in between episodes is literally because Mo has to do so much work. But it was different when you had the corporate job. It was a little easier for you to find time to do that. Allow me to explain the mechanics of that across the four years of us doing this show.
04:11 When we first started, I was an individual contributor at my job and I could consume a lot of content. Podcast, as you know, people consume the level of content is being consumed. I could consume that while running my investigations and experiments. And I could make notes of time stamps as I was doing it. And then there was a change when I went into management where you're more in meetings. That's not that free ear time that I used to have. And that's when this show became a little bit more sporadic because I'm at the will of my family, my job, you know what I'm saying, and myself squeezed in there and the show. And then it went from there. And then now I'm working for myself. And it's even less time to actually digest the information.
04:56 I want to let people know that, for instance, this show. listen to 90 pieces of information, some ranging up to two hours. I don't do any 1.5x, as you pointed out, is unhealthy, and I've never done it. Not good. It's very unhealthy. So I actually consume it. And then you go into the clipping process and then the ranging. And I'm very critical of myself when I'm doing this because, like I said, I'm a professional at doing this. I didn't start off that way. I mean, because this is my first Fourier in podcasting. But what a hell of a way to do it with the guy who created it. I'm trying to tell you. Like, that's a movie. We're going to make a movie out of this once it's all said and done.
05:41 Because how does that work? You know, how does that even work? And also, you never know what the future will bring. And of course, we become friends. We become brothers throughout this process. And, you know, we'll always be. In fact, it was the hardest part is because the show has to be fresh and us not really communicating beforehand. That's always been my rule. And that worked well. You even would not listen to no agenda, which is how you found me in the first place. That's correct. And so we really couldn't even talk that much in between shows just because we didn't want to ruin too much of the show. And it just kept getting wider and wider.
06:22 And you came to me and said, hey, this is what's going on. And I think it's the right decision. It's definitely the right decision for the show. No doubt for your family. I mean, you got four kids. When I heard that you were falling asleep on the couch at night with your shoes on, this is, but we're going to round it out. We got, including this one, 10 more episodes to go. So they will be spread out still. We'll be able to probably schedule them a little bit better now now that we have less stress of trying to get stuff done. And you never know what the future will bring. You never know. So you never know. You never know.
07:02 And of course, we're still value for value. And we appreciate all the value people have given to the show, which has certainly helped in comment. It certainly helped during the transition, you becoming an entrepreneur. And we appreciate all of that. And we're, you know, I agree. But to take this to 100 is going to be, it's also timeless, right? It's a beautiful document that people will be able to listen to far into the future. And who knows what the next chapter will bring. And that's the whole point of before we get to the wheel is that I want to make a product that you can start from one.
07:42 And if you find it five years from now, if you're that one that found it five years from now, it's still relevant. I try to unpack the history behind things. We hear a lot of surface talk, especially on the topic of race. We're not race exclusively on this podcast, but that's what brought us to the table, right? What Malcolm said. Exactly. And I think four years, we've been having a four-year conversation where we didn't start off where we were friends. Hey, let's do a podcast. We have become integrated each other's lives off of this conversation and what we take away from it back into our everyday lives.
08:21 So hopefully we provide that value to other people that they can open up and have that conversation with someone or at least have a better understanding about it. So like I said, this next, I'm trying to tell you, these next 10, we're not going out or the duh. I hate it that I brought it up. I told you that before. The wire, my favorite television show, went one season too long. Game of Thrones went one season too long. And you all, one thing about it, you always leave them wanting more. And in sports, you don't want to be the old Kobe. You see what I'm saying? Like, and this is not a retirement. I'm just saying the retirement of this conversation. It's going to, nobody did what we did, and nobody will ever be able to do what we did. I'm certain of that.
