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The Taekcast

Ep. 382 - Content Creation, Betting On Yourself, How The YouTube Economy Works, Being Your Own Boss w/ Mike Zakarian

The Taekcast

Davis Mattek

Fantasy Sports, News, Sports News, Sports

4.9808 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Draft for $1,500,000 on UnderDog Fantasy & Get A $1000 Deposit Bonus With A FREE Pick 'Em Bonus Entry: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-davis-mattek Davis Mattek is joined by Mike Zakarian from the NBA Bit to discuss content creation, self employment, self doubt, always being on the clock, the YouTube economy and much more 00:00 Mike Zakarian Introduction 1:45 The Journey into self employment and content creation 3:55 How sports betting changed the entire landscape for the sports content market 6:45 The reality of the fickleness of peoples viewing habits 12:30 Marketing versus Knowledge 18:40 The over saturation of the content market: there is too much to watch! 27:00 The upside of working for yourself 31:55 No one works for the same company for their entire life anymore 38:55 The 99% versus the 1% in content and in life 47:05 Why does something bad have to happen before we are ready to make the leap? 53:00 You could be working 100% of your waking hours theoretically if you wanted to Get $40 Off A Six-Month RotoGrinders Subscription: https://rotogrinders.com/premium/nfl?promo=davis Sign Up For THE SOLVER Here: https://thesolver.com?ref=yzk0mda Try Out UNABATED'S Premium Sports Betting + DFS Pick 'Em Tools: https://unabated.com/?ref=ymjkzgj Sign up for premium fantasy football content and get exclusive Discord access: www.patreon.com/davismattek Subscribe to the AutoMattek Absolutes Newsletter: https://automattekabsolutes.beehiiv.com/ Download THE DRAFT CADDY: https://endgamesyndicate.com/membership-levels/?pa=DavisMattek Audio-Only Podcast Feed For All Davis Mattek Streams: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grinding-the-variance-a-davis-mattek-fantasy-football-pod/id1756145256 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone to another episode of the Tatecast.

0:14.9

This is Davis Maddox in this episode of the show.

0:17.3

I am joined by Mike Sikarian from the NBA Bit.

0:22.8

I invited Mike on the program to talk about one of my absolute favorite things, which is, I mean, first off myself, but more

0:27.5

importantly, the larger environment of YouTube, employment, the economy, content creation,

0:35.0

just kind of what drives someone to be self-employed effectively. Mike is

0:40.0

self-employed. He is a content creator. You guys should check out his stuff over at the NBA

0:44.8

Bit and the Elite Fantasy Hoops YouTube channel. I really enjoyed this conversation. If you're

0:49.5

listening to this on a podcast, please consider subscribing to the YouTube channel. That would be awesome and would help me out.

0:55.6

You can tell a friend about the program.

0:57.1

And if you really like the show, you can get bonus episodes on patreon.com slash Davis-Matic.

1:03.1

Now let's go ahead and get into it.

1:05.5

Hello, everyone, and welcome in to the Tatecast.

1:08.1

I'm Davis-Matic.

1:08.8

joined today by a man who prevented Peter Oversett from coming to my wedding, Mike to the carrion. Mike, you and I got married on the same day. Not same day, different year, literal same day. We have the same anniversary with our wives. And Peter was in your wedding. So did not attend my wedding. How you doing, buddy? Dude, I'm good.

1:28.5

I'm going to tell you.

1:29.1

I probably think about that at least once a year. And I do. There was like a little guilt. And I remember, I remember asking Pete to be in it. And he's like, holy shit. It's the same day as Davis. So I, uh, listen, I'm sorry. And as long as you know, I still am thinking about it.

1:27.5

You know, I'll reach out on our long as you know, I still am thinking about it.

1:45.5

You know, I'll reach out on our anniversary and just say, what's up.

1:49.3

To be honest, you know, no, no hard feelings.

1:53.5

Soccer Dave got to be there.

1:54.6

I would have been really upset if Soccer Dave was not able to be there.

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