Gadgetory

this episode of Android Weekly is brought to you by fresh books so to start off one of you wanted proof that at one time it may have been a long time ago like when grunge rock was all the rage that I had hair so most of the questions you guys have asked have already been answered in the first you know five fun facts about Jase that I did over a year ago that'll be annotated here at the end of today's show but I thought I'd answer some questions that I get fairly often that I don't normally get to answer when I'm doing tech news how old are you 42 going on 12 was pudding so good so we really have to get to what is probably one of the most common comments about me personally and that is my voice yes this is really my voice it's not a put-on voice it's not artificial it's how I speak it's how I've spoken for a long long time but it's not always how I spoke you see I'm from a little town in southwestern Ontario where most people speak like this hey how's it going it's going what's going for you it's good right on see this way of speaking without actually breathing it's called a vocal fry because are they on top of that southwestern Ontario accent is a vocal fry and when I was in theater school it was beat into me to properly support my voice with breath and so over time I just trained myself to not speak with the right on yeah no vocal fry' but what's happened now since I do many so many voiceovers I think what's happened is that I'm overcompensating and I'm adding way too much breath to it and so it sounds wispy and and whispering so I'm aware of it I'm working on it it's just hard because I'm so accustomed to it and I don't actually hear the excessive breath but I'm working on it what nationality is your family well it's really a mix my wife is from China Hong Kong specifically and I grew up here and obviously our kids are a mix so but if you look under the surface it's even more diverse than that my wife is a mix of Hakka and Han Chinese those are two different Chinese ethnicities and I'm a mix of European descent Chinese German polish Scottish and some Aboriginal my dad is 1/2 or 1/4 Aboriginal something like that so it's a mix why do you read so many books I love books as a kid I wasn't a big reader so I didn't read pretty much at all when I was a kid but when I moved out of my house and I got some Joe jobs somewhere I had many many hours to read as a security guard and on the subway going to and from work so I was consuming books at a veracious rate because that's all I could do at the time you know my favorite book that I've recommended the most is the war of art I talked about that in the last bio show go check that out do yourself a favor if you ever want to do any work that's meaningful or anything you know like start a charity lose weight do anything that's difficult check out the war of art by Steven Pressfield it has nothing to do with war and very little to do with art and everything to do with just making a change in the world and doing great things great book so the question of how did I join Android Authority was answered in the first bio show but it's a question I get so often that I thought I would answer here again for all the new people because last time I did this question we were much much smaller so it was a process and it was a process of demonstrating to and her authority that I knew how to build an audience keep their attention know what I'm talking about and build quality content on a schedule ok so that know that by a certain deadline I'm gonna get that show out now I'm not always perfect it's hard it's hard to put stuff happens right life happens and it gets in the way but relatively speaking you need to get that content on a regular basis and so if you have had your own channel if you work somewhere else for free or internship for my internship in my late 30s I was interning ship at xda-developers TV ok it was really an internship because I got pennies it was less than minimum wage for many hours that I put in there so but that got the attention of Android thority and you know auditioned the Nexus 5 video the FIR Nexus 5 video on this channel was my audition and you know they liked it I made some mistakes but they decided to keep me thank goodness and you know here we are we're growing a big audience that loves tech but the moral of the story is to start small I mean I started 12 years ago with a blog called the Tao of dad no one read it virtually right but I got the experience on how to build an audience on a blog and eventually I started my own YouTube channel that had a moderate success like 8,000 subs or something but that got the attention of another channel and I kept building up and building up until I got to where I am now there you go so I also got a number of questions regarding the future of Android authority and my show specifically and the YouTube channel well I can't speak for all of and/or authority but I can speak to my own contribution it can't be overstated I know you guys hear it most of you are young and perhaps you take new media and the Internet for granted but the Internet has nucular bombed the media industry I mean everything from television to movies to music you name it is just lost I mean they do know how to make money in sustainable ethical ways at least not nearly as much as they did in the 90s where you know media companies were just breaking it in so everyone is still learning trying to figure it out what works and what doesn't what's ethical what's not what's sustainable what's not but I can tell you I am extremely excited about it because whoever wins is gonna have a major major impact and hopefully the people who win are ethical enough to have a positive impact and will be responsible with the voice that they get because the new media companies like vice media BuzzFeed Vox media you know most of you don't even know who Vox is but you know their blogs SB Nation polygons the verge is all owned by Vox media and these companies are worth over like a billion dollar valuations I know vice media and BuzzFeed are worth more than a billion dollars and these were digital first companies right now Android authority isn't there yet but we're growing and we're working hard and we have a fantastic team so exactly where we're going I don't know but we're going we're moving we're working hard if you were in our slack chat room I mean it just constantly abuzz with activity and we love what we're doing and so we're trying our best I read all your comments I hear your your praise and your criticisms I don't know respond to them but I hear them we're listening so thanks a lot for being along for the ride now you guys know I am happy to pay for something that solves a pain point and our sponsor fresh books I have used in the past and does solve a pain point it allows me to invoice my clients and they can pay me in a seamless fast easy way and I like that a lot managing your expenses is also just as easy you can take a picture 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