Hello and welcome to the Jeff Macolino podcast. Thanks for listening and hey while we're on the topic let's let's let's all tell a friend to listen this week. See if we can get a boost in my ratings here. I mentioned before that listen notes who kind of is the I don't know encyclopedic

pdf of podcasts now has the Jeff Macolino podcast in the top 10% globally and it stayed there when the latest rankings came out just a week or so ago. I'd love to see that get even better. I'm very happy wouldn't have expected with my lack of marketing abilities to have gotten there as quickly as I did but let's see if we can push that.

Tell a friend come on grow this thing together and I do promise as the ratings get better and the ranking gets higher probably be able to get some even more dynamite guests probably not more dynamite than the one I will be interviewing in this episode but we'll talk about him in just a second one more housekeeping item. I did put this link I'll put this link in the show notes.

The 2021 Discover Pods Award nominations are open. If you would be so kind and I've done it myself it takes less than five minutes even if you are thoughtfully going through and voting on each individual category.

But even quicker if you're just doing this as as a favor for me I would love to see you nominate me for the best new slash debut podcast of 2021 it's the third box on the list pretty easy to see you just type in the Jeff Macolino podcast right there and if you don't have a favorite podcast you can go ahead and pop me in the best overall podcast because that is a required field.

Don't stuff the ballot just vote once you can put me down for as many categories which I would actually qualify for but again the best new debut podcast of 2021 you know would love to see some traction there.

They do they do discourage stuffing the ballot box however the amount of nominations you receive are a factor in selecting the finalists and if I am chosen as a finalist well then I'll be telling you all to vote like crazy.

You know as unlikely as it is I'd love to see you know some free publicity from even being a nominee for the award so again I'll link that in the show notes and again if you would be so kind I promise it does not take much time or effort on your part I promise.

I would appreciate that and do the normal stuff I'll tell you at the end of the episode to do the Twitter's the Facebook's Instagram if you can give me a follow and you know if you see a post you like you hit the like button that all helps at all kind of folds in together.

All right now that we're done with past and future let's talk about the guest I'll be talking to today I haven't spoken with them yet I like recording these before I speak to the person because I haven't been doing that lately but it can be interesting to see how how it ends up going into the episode or whether I need to be recorded afterwards.

So today I have Justin McElise on the podcast no relation which you should know because McElise is quite different than McElino except for the first little first sound there he is a filmmaker from Fresno California had a couple of feature films come out last year.

Comedy mockumentary brick madness I'll talk to him about that and he also had a documentary come out called better it's about how to eat feel and live better pretty highly rated on IMDB actually both these are for what they are a pretty high ratings on IMDB.

So I will talk to him about his movies and about filmmaking and wherever else the wind blows my alcohol adult brain I don't even know if that's saying anyways hope you enjoy it always feel free to reach out to me you can you know hit me up on any of the social things

I've mentioned I also have a website Jeff McElino dot com you know it's the same spelling as the podcast title you're listening to but just take out the and show pretty easy Jeff McElino dot com if there's a demand for it I'll start maybe a blog on there if not then I won't but you can also contact me through there if you prefer opposed to Twitter or Facebook or Instagram or carrier pigeon.

Or telephone or however hell else you would like to and that's about it shout out to all my listeners I love looking through the I do get notice for the different countries 99% of my listening audience is shockingly you're located inside the United States and then in order of next we've got Canada Australia the United Kingdom.

Poland Switzerland shout out Switzerland Mexico Iran that's an interesting one India and Italy. Glad to see Italy joined in the mix there so shout out to all my less than 1% of my audience international you in Ontario Canada.

It seems to be my biggest 62% of my Canadian audiences in Ontario see these analytics can be fun to look at and shout out to my listeners in England 85% of my United Kingdom audience so anyways enjoy the pod I'll see you on the flip side and enjoy Justin McElise.

All right now I welcome Justin McElise to the Jeff McElino podcast already said there's no relation between us just the first just the first syllable of the last name.

How are you Justin? I'm doing great yeah here in a reasonably temperature the Fresno California do it all right.

Nice yeah the California you guys are always kind of reasonably temperature orange.

I'm not close enough to the coast so it gets really down hot here sometime for a couple months in the summer.

So yeah and then it doesn't get too cold ever really it never it'll get freezing overnight but not for very you know for a week or two something like that.

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