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Jay Papazan, welcome to podcasting Made Simple.

So excited to have you here with us today.

Hey, I'm excited to be back.

It's great to see, Alex.

Yeah, man, you too.

Hey, before we got started, something I want to mention real quick is that you talked about your one thing, which is we're going to get into today, really ultimately being around this idea of content creation.

Yeah. And I just want to hear you riff a little bit here just about your passion for creating content

because if anyone looks at your resume, what you've accomplished, like that might not be

the first thing somebody says that you are, right?

But that's still how you identify and that's still your major one thing.

Can you just talk about that real quick?

Because I want this to relate to both podcast guests and hosts really well.

Yeah, sure. I mean, I've always been kind of a book nerd, right? That was where I went to

escape as a kind of a very small-sized seventh grader and nerdy, like playing Dungeons and Dragons.

I'd go read my books because I wasn't that socially adept. I grew late. Lay Bloomer. That turned into an English major. That turned into being an

editor in New York, working on books. And eventually, like where I kind of think of the two chapters

in my life, I had this period where I thought, maybe I'm going to be an academic, maybe I'm going

to be an editor, met my wife, we moved to Texas. I could have maybe tried to get a job at the

University of Texas, but I kind of was turned off on academics

after getting my master's. You think that business is cutthroat. Academics can be really political.

And I was also naive and young, so I didn't know, like, maybe everything's that way. But I was

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