Ghostreaders Podcast

• Way too much time talking about the pronunciation of the number 20
• Our 2023 goals
• Say Alexa too loud and she appears!!
• Youversion bible app allows you to choose your narrator
• Michae doesn’t like to share the kitchen with the kids
• Our 2022 accomplishments
• Quintell’s observations from listening to the show
• Be sure to check out blogs about the shows on www.ghostreaders.com on the podcast tab
• Pick up our gear at thewritestuffmerch.com
• Being nice vs. being a people pleaser
• Letting go of things that hurt you
• Backup cameras
• Driving in South Florida
• Christmas pajamas

This is our Christmas Show! On this episode, Michae & Quintell talk about
- Christmas Shopping
- Children & Fairness
- Nothing in Alanis Morrissette’s song was ironic
- The Challenge of buying gifts for kids
- Emotionally preparing for children’s behavior
- The power of thought and forethought
- Gauntlet, retro video game
- The power of specialization
- Check us out on Fountain.fm
- Is listening to an audiobook really reading
- Reviews of: Finding Me by Viola Davis
- Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
- The War on Drugs by David Farber
- Michae answers the question, ‘What about Chicago?’
- Quintell doesn’t like the saying ‘soup to nuts’
- Audiobooks, like film, need a director
- What are we watching: Flash - Quintell hates time travel as much as she hates zombies
- You can actually earn bitcoin for listening to our show at Fountain.fm
- The camera work on The Handmaid’s Tale
- Film and tv that’s slow, until it isn’t

On this episode, Michae & Quintell talk about:
- Reading a book a week
- Trash books
- A great narrator can be an additional round of edits
- All books aren’t equal, some are just money grabs
- Favorite languages
- When do compliments get weird?
- They talk about feet for way too long
- Flip flops or flip flaps?
- Poorly executed colloquialisms
- The Giant Slide
- Is podcast editing ‘dishonest’
- Favorite apples
- Nigeria kicking out non Nigerian advertising
- Church as colonization

In this episode Michae & Quintell talk about a little bit of everything!
- Rap dates don’t work after 1999
- Wutang may or may not be forever but audiobooks definitely are!
- Michae needs to do more podcast show prep…next time
- Also, Michae lied, he neither called the #, nor went to the website
- Michae has his own ‘wait’ music (its not good)
- Quintell tells an uncle joke (aunt joke?)
- Do you monitor what your kids read like you monitor what they watch or listen to?
- Is YA for ‘kids’?
- The genius of Judy Blume
- Gospel music and its massive blind spot
- My kids know how to sing ‘Let it Go’ backwards. Not sure if that’s a parenting fail or win
- My kids are Seinfeld fans from listening to his audiobook (who knew?)
- Review of Will Smith’s biography ‘Will’
- What we are reading: Quintell, The Spiritual Life of a Leader; Michae, When Affirmative Action was White and he just wrapped up, The Color of Law
- Racism is much more than a personal thing, its a policy thing
- Bootstraps can’t beat laws and policies
- The genius of Lovecraft Country
- Reading short books twice
- Dade County has a specific sound/accent
- A doing philosophy
- Why we avoid reading ratchet stuff
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Today Quintell and Michae talk about:
- How come Quintell won’t do video
- Facebook knows you don’t have the rights to the music, telling them means nothing…
- Genius in one area doesn’t make you an expert at everything
- Check out Total Domination by: Marritta Gillcrease
- Old school board games, like Operation and…
- Why do kindergarten teachers talk to everyone like they talk to their students?
- Why is it scary to work with little kids?
- Quintell is on a journey with Jimmy Fallon
- You gotta know your mic!!!!
- Michae almost gets in trouble with Dave Anderson The Business Bully
- Michae has an evil villain laugh

We are wrapping up this season and next year we will be back with video podcasts. We will still have audio on this platform but you can see our lovely faces on YouTube!
Check out John Hargrave’s books on Crypto, they’re great!
People don’t let lack of quality scare them from putting their work out there…
Excellence is irrelevant if you’re on the sidelines
New season of Star Trek Discovery is out!!!
Its difficult to do work, even when its work you want to do. Well, getting the work started is the hard part
The Sun makes things difficult…
Tips for starting a podcast
- Plan your shows as far in advance as possible
- Have fun and be honest
- A treated space is better than high end gear
- Know how to use your gear
- Good editing does wonders for your show
- Stay away from copyright music in your show
- Be unique and stay in your lane
People like a hero’s journey
Firehouse’s cherry limeade is amazing!!!
What happened to KFC?
Olive Garden, issa no for us
Firehouse or Publix? Leave a comment
A meatball sub is not a real sub
Greatness is built on top of failure
Michae is going to do standup next year
Hamilton reference
Every business should have a commercial
See y'all next year!!

Ep 23
In this episode, Michae and Quintell cover:
- PG today is not the same PG from when we were kids
- F bomb quota and rules
- Our Marvel film double standard
- The latest Mortal Kombat film
- Excellence vs. overdoing
- Knowing when to do less
- Michae bores Quintell talking about stock options
- Cornbread dressing innovation
- We hear commercials differently now
- Working rituals
- Drying Clothes

In this episode the Ghostreaders discuss:
- Creating commercials
- Washing vs. Shampoo
- Quintell’s dance choreography skills
- Streamlining work
- Getting it right ‘in camera’ vs. ‘fixing it in post’
- Ghostreaders on Clubhouse
- Tarballs
- When your professional skill set jumps into your personal life
- The 'Newscaster' sound
- Quintell was on the news team in elementary school
- The whole last 2 minutes is shameless self promotion

We’ve been absent from these podcast streets for a while! Today Michae & Quintell talk about:
- Why we haven’t done a show in a while
- Their business structure
- Ways to keep our children quiet
- Excitement about being empty nesters from 9am - 2pm
- Having multiple kids vs. 1 kid
- The real reason why we even have a podcast
- You should have a podcast too!!
- We have a thing for Nicolas Cage
- Video is on the way!!!
- Quintell is reading ‘Medical Apartheid’
- Michae is reading ‘How Not to Be Wrong’
- Warning! Michae & Quintell talk about gum for about 7 -8 minutes (an unreasonably long period of time to be discussing gum and the talk about something else and then circle back to gum!!!!) Its really only 5 minutes but that’s still too long
- …and they sing the Big Red theme song
- We promise to have a show for y’all weekly
- Plans for the show going forward
- One last gum story before we go
- How many pieces of small gum make up a normal sized piece of gum?
- Vintage gum

After watching This is Us, Michae and Quintell talk about parenting and life as a parent, hiring movers and dessert.