This is the Tech John Holiday Edition.

I'm your host, Rob Dunwood.

This looks a little different to you because this is number one, it's not a live stream.

Number two, this isn't really about news.

This is me chopping it up with some of my friends that are deep into tech like I'm deep into tech.

And today I am having a conversation with Corey Thumbs, who was the founder of the Black Podcasts Association.

I know you're on the board of air media.

I'll let you tell folks, any of the other stuff you want to let them know.

But Corey and I go back for, for multiple years and we have had, we probably have a good

conversation every six weeks, every time.

And at the end of the conversation, we always say, like, man, we should have recorded this. That was, that was good content. That was good content. So I have actually done it. I hit the record button before we started talking today. So welcome Corey Yoms to the TechChine. That's. I know you listen to the show.

That's about all the introduction you're going to get.

I'm not considering you a guest.

I'm considering you family because you're my boy and we're just having this conversation.

But I really do want to get into you are running this, you know, this association.

It's not a small deal. It's not your little, it's not your little thing. This is, this is a well-known thing. It's got hundreds of members. You've been doing it for a while. I've seen you move off of Facebook over to, um, to mighty networks. I've seen you move off of mighty networks into the platform that we're on now. So I just want to let us start this conversation. Tell us about what's going on with, you know, with BPA. So yeah, what's going on with you, man? Thanks, number one, for coming and hanging out with me. Well, first, I made it. I wanted to take you on. So, like, I've been looking forward to it forever. I really appreciate what you guys are doing because that's how I got. That was my original goal, my friend, and how we got into the podcast space, which was a black-centered, black-led conversation on tech. So I really appreciate the work that you guys do. I learn a lot from watching the show. So thank you for having me.

I guess for people who don't know, my name's Corey Gomes.

Like you said, I'll introduce myself.

I'm the founder of the Black Podcaststers Association as well as Black PodNews.com,

which that's BLKPodNews.com, which is the only, apparently the only black-centered publication that deals with black, not just just black podcasts, but the industry as a whole. And we were real rated at the

cusp of our 5K mark. So I'm excited about that. And I got to thank that Rob for this.

I was waiting. I was wondering. you better say something because it took me,

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