Nobuddies Talking: The Smorgasbord of Awesome

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Life

What is life? Is it just something to get in your way? Something to stand in between you and your hopes and dreams? Is it something to take advantage of to get what you want? Well, I suppose it is all of the above. Life can be cruel, and it can be mean and unforgiving. But it can also be beautiful and amazing. What do you do whenever life gets you down? When aspects of your life get in your way, it can be very difficult to figure out how to get around them. I think it is important to own up to the way your life is going. Sure, there can be things in your life that you can not control, but for the most part, you make decisions that influence how your life turns out.

This is what is happening in my life right now. My podcast, Nobuddies Talking is something I really want to be recording and putting out every week, but my co-host Fausto has the unfortunate circumstance of his life getting in the way of us being able to record. He has schoolwork that he let get piled up, and he prioritizes other things over our commitment to out podcast and our listeners. It is a very unfortunate thing, because it affects our listeners and me. I am not sure if he is as worried about it as me, but we always come up with an idea or a goal and we start it, and then something gets in the way, or we get lazy and our idea slowly fizzles out. I really hope that doesn’t happen with out podcast, because it is one of the greatest, and most easily implemented, ideas that we have ever had. Once again, I hope we can start recording soon to get out an episode for you all.

Great Online Tools for Blogging

Sometimes you want to post a gif, a nice quote, or even just a picture on your blog. You have an idea in your head for what you want to do, but you do not know how to do it yourself. Well, good news, there are countless online tools for blogging, with many of them even being free.

Here are a few of these online tools:

Google image search

By far my favorite online tool is the Google image search. You can find so many images related to the purpose of your post or brand. It is, also, astonishingly easy to use; you just type in the theme or a keyword related to your post, and you can find thousands of images to use. This is one of my favorite tools due to its ease of access. Google is already my favorite search engine, so knowing that all I have to do is type in a key word or phrase, and click images, makes it that much better to use.

https://imgflip.com/memegenerator

Another of my favorite tools to use online is imgflip’s meme generator tool. I have made some very funny memes in the past, and I have made most, if not all of them with imgflip’s meme generator tool. It is another very easy to use online tool. All you have to do is upload a blank meme picture, and you can put your own words on it. This tool is great because there is a lot of customization you can do to your meme. Memes can be extremely funny, so if your business is humor related, posting memes might be a great way for you to reach your audience. One thing about posting memes, in a business’ social media page, is you have to be careful about the content of the meme. Not everyone has the same sense of humor. Some people might find a meme to be absolutely hilarious, while another person might find it highly offensive. Because of this, you have to find a middle ground when it comes to posting memes. You can either do that, or you can post what you want and not worry about what other people think. It just depends all on the business type, and the image they are trying to portray.

Do yourself a favor and give these tools a try; maybe they will make your blogging easier.

Blogger’s Note: This blog was repurposed from a discussion in my Marketing Class. In it, we had to list and describe our favorite online tools.

Our Story so Far

Welcome to Nobuddies Talking, with your hosts Tom and Fausto. We are a comedy entertainment podcast focused on conversation. We talk about a range of things from sports, video games, music, etc. We have a preview episode out, but we are looking at the direction we are wanting to take with our podcast, so we are taking a hiatus, and hopefully we will be ready to record soon. Hopefully we can churn out a new episode for you guys!

Fausto and I are both United States Marine Corps vets with a penchant for entertainment. We both love to entertain people and to make people laugh. We are also both very creative and have goals and dreams we have never been able to accomplish. We have always had an idea to make some form of entertainment media; we thought about videos, a movie, websites, and now a podcast. We think that this could be the perfect thing to get our creative juices flowing.

We are thinking about what we want to talk about, and how, specifically, we want to format our discussions on our podcast. At first, we just wanted to talk about entertainment, but once Fausto and I start talking, we start to get into serious, thought-provoking topics, which might be seen as boring if not talked about in a humorous or an enjoyable manner. So that is where we are at; stuck in a rut as to where we want to take our podcast. We do not want to be seen as boring, but we do want to talk about what we want to talk about. I want to just talk and not have to worry about being boring. I don’t want to say that I don’t care what our listeners think, but I also don’t want to conform about what we “should” talk about.