June 8, 2021

032 - Dr Bryan Gregor - Veterinarian and host of The VetPodcast - part 1 of 2

032 - Dr Bryan Gregor - Veterinarian and host of The VetPodcast - part 1 of 2

Send us a text If you’ve been listening to my podcasts for the last 6 episodes or so, you’ll have heard me talk about the fan girl moment I had when Dr Bryan Gregor – show host of the VetPodcast called me out of the blue to talk ‘podcasting’. This is part 1 of 2 of my catch up with Dr Bryan. The Vetpodcast and Paws Claws & Wet Noses have complementary audiences - plus we're both a bit geeky when it comes to things podcast-y. As I’ve said a few times, The VetPodcast is where Paws Cla...

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If you’ve been listening to my podcasts for the last 6 episodes or so, you’ll have heard me talk about the fan girl moment I had when Dr Bryan Gregor – show host of the VetPodcast called me out of the blue to talk ‘podcasting’.

This is part 1 of 2 of my catch up with Dr Bryan. 

The Vetpodcast and Paws Claws & Wet Noses have complementary audiences - plus we're both a bit geeky when it comes to things podcast-y.

As I’ve said a few times, The VetPodcast is where Paws Claws &  Wet Noses dreams of being when it grows up.

Today Bryan and I talk podcasting so if you’re thinking of starting your own podcast then this show is definitely for you.  

Your podcast can be about anything that interests you – it doesn’t have to be veterinary-based.

One of the things I’m regularly amazed at is the personal talent that exists inside a vet clinic in someone’s private lives.   Some people do absolutely amazing things.   They have really interesting hobbies and skills that have nothing to do with being a veterinary professional. 

In this show Bryan shares what life as a podcaster has been like for him.

He talks about being offered early shares in Twitter – way before the rest of us had even heard of Twitter and how he said no because he didn’t think such a crazy idea would take off!

He talks about the really interesting veterinarians he’s met and the different fields of expertise they work in.

The Vetpodcast is available wherever you get your podcasts from.

Links:

Podcast host https://vetpodcast.podomatic.com/

Website  https://vetpodcast.weebly.com/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vetpodcast/?hl=en

Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/vetpodcast

Twitter  https://twitter.com/Vetpodcast

Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-vetpodcast

Bio Feed https://bio.fm/vetpodcast

Squadcast: https://squadcast.fm/

Audacity https://www.audacityteam.org/



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welcome to episode 30, two of paws claws and wit nosers.

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The veterinary seek to podcast, celebrating all creatures great and small, and the fantabulous professionals who look after the oil.

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I'm your show host Julie south.

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I've heard that the bonus episode last week or during the week on immigration was appreciated.

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If you're one of those who got in touch, thanking me for that episode.

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Thank you.

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If you've been listening to paws, claws and wet noses for the last six or so episodes you'll have heard me talk about the fan girl moment I had when Dr.

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Brian Gregor show host of the vet podcast called me out of the blue to talk podcasting.

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This is part one of my catch up, my interview, my check-in with Dr.

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Bryan, before I started paws, claws and Wet Noses I did a whole bunch of research.

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I wanted to make sure I wasn't going to be treading on any toes with anyone here in God's zone, who is producing in the same space.

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As we are, I intended to hang out and the podcast world, I knew that Dr.

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Bryan had been hosting the vetpodcast for quite a while, but her audiences, although they were similar, we were both talking about different topics.

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Brian talked about.

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Being a vet, where is I'm all about hopefully working in the vet sector and Godzone Aotearoa New Zealand and helping with the HR, the marketing and business coaching, which is my background.

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So, and in another word we have complimentary audiences.

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And as I've said, a few times, the vetpodcast is where Paws Claws Wet noses dreams of being when it grows up today.

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Brian and I talk podcasting well today in next week we talk podcasting.

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So if you are thinking of starting your own podcast, then this show is definitely for you.

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Your podcasts can be about anything entrust.

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It really doesn't have to be veterinary based.

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One of the things that I'm regularly amazed at is at the personal talent, you know, the private talent that exists inside a vet clinic and someone's private lives, all the things that people do, some people do absolutely amazing things.

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They have really interesting hobbies and skills that have nothing whatsoever to do with being a veterinary professional and it stoves topics that I'm sure will make amazing.

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Yeah.

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Podcasts.

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And this show, Brian shares what life as a podcaster has been like for him.

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He talks about being offered early shares and Twitter way before the rest of us had even heard of Twitter and how he said no, because he didn't think such a crazy idea would take off.

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He talks about the really interesting veterinarians he's met and the different fields of expertise they work in as always I'll put links to what we talk about on the episode page for this podcast, which you can find it.

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Paws, claws, wet noses dot F M episode 32.

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We recorded this using zoom.

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So there's a bit of zoom, like atmospheric stuff happening.

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I'm sure you hear it.

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Dr.

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Bryan Gregor is a mainlander Christchurch raised.

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He graduated from Massey in the class of 1982.

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He worked originally in a small animal practice in Christchurch, but always wanted to be a dairy vet.

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So he jumped when the opportunity came his way in 1983 to move to Taranaki as a mixed practitioner.

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Then he was invited to open a small animal clinic a couple of years later, in terms of Ru for ordering new vets in 1986, which he then became a partner of shortly after a retired late in 2019.

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He produced his first podcast in 2004.

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As I mentioned here today, I've been podcasting since about 2010 and my private life, which is a long time in the world of podcasting.

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But Bryan trumps that by quite a few years, he produced his first podcast in 2004.

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Here's a little bit of useless information.

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Most podcasts.

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Don't go beyond episode one.

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People check it in at episode two today Bryan's interests include podcasting fishing.

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Cheesemaking gardening and traveling, not so much lately, but he's traveled a lot around New Zealand over the past year or so.

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I'll put all links to the vetpodcast which.

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It's all about current animal health issues discussed by professionals from around the world on the notes page at paws claws with noses episode 32.

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So you can listen yourself.

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An old vet told my father when he was a student in Glasgow.

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He said, if you want to be a success in veterinary practice, Just keep the bubbles open and just the rest of God, nutrition is not an opinion.

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It's a science.

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They called me that weird herbal needle.

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That, and I, I just remember thinking, well, I'm still going to do it cause I know it works.

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And I've got the research to back it.

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Yeah.

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From reminiscences of the real James Harriet son to Pete, you attrition.

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To acupuncture, the big podcast discusses current animal health issues from around the world on veterinarian, Brian greeter from New Zealand, just search for the vet podcast, wherever you get your podcasts from

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Now let's meet Dr.

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Brian Gregor.

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Righty podcasts.

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You have been podcasting for a long time, which to me means that you are an early adopter.

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Has, have you always been an early adopter, even in your PR you know, not even in, but in your professional career.

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As a veterinarian where you're an early adopter.

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Yeah.

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I'm sure I was, you know, was with irony bits, which was my old practice here in tomorrow.

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We were one of the first practices that become computerized.

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We used an old system called in Australia developed.

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I think we want IDEXX machine number seven in New Zealand, things like email newsletters and those sorts of things.

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So, and, and even.

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Techniques that we were using were feeling progressive.

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I sort of think back and crunch sometimes now.

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Yeah.

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Some of the things that we did try, but definitely always, always been an early adept or a few, like probably in my personal life.

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I've matched the same.

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I'm a gadget person, much to my wife's chagrin.

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I'm always buying the appliances, engage it.

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So, yeah, I think why did you choose the medium of podcasting?

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It's sort of jumped on me.

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I mean, you're saying I've been doing it for a long time.

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I once.

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We started to organize this discussion of, oh gosh, I should try to make them find it when I'm done with this podcast, I got back to a bit 2004 is the earliest one that I can actually find.

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But when I listened to it and it was rough, but when I listened to it, it was mentioned that previous podcasts, and I think I was up to something I keep aside teen means.

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So.

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I don't know.

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Um, the podcasting came about in a little bit of a weird way, I suppose.

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Um, I was watching, I think the program was called click on the BBC and I'd never, never really heard of the podcast for, but they started talking about podcasts.

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Then they were pushing a company called Odo, which.

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It's probably a weird story.

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We can go into that later, but they were pushing out a company called Odo and it looked simple to record a podcast.

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Something I can probably use that for the practice.

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So the first.

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Podcasts.

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Definitely.

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There was a thing called animals.

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Get sick too.

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Um, basically the same thing.

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I remember setting with my very rough guitar playing, making an, making an intro music track for us.

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And, um, it was very, very amateurish.

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Not that I'm saying that my podcasts particularly professional now, but, um, you know, it was very, very amatriciana and it sort of started from there and it sort of bounced through a few different.

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People who are holding that, holding that the traits, even through differences, see that, see that providers and it's just really grown.

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Yeah.

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Hey, has the format changed?

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It's chopped and changed a few times.

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I went through a little bit of a hiatus up until about a year and a half ago for two or three years, because life just got in the way to be truthful.

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The original format was disgusting.

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Veterinary matters basically for my clients for primary needs, big, small animal clients that went from there.

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Odd quite often put an anecdote at the end of it.

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I mean, it's a great anecdote.

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So I'm throwing an anecdote and at the end of it, that went from there as far as the format and it morphed into the fit podcast and it became more of a.

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I don't know, what's the term used it with a number of smaller segments.

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So I changed it from being for the clients of to move for animal owners and fig teaks, eight nurses, physios in vets.

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They haven't listened to.

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And I had a grip.

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I used to call them my foreign correspondence.

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I had a group of vets and England's and Bob like Canada.

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I can't remember what else?

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All Australia.

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And we used to talk about topical topical things.

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I mean, there's been some interesting conversations coming out of it.

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Probably the most interesting, I think was I'll go ahead and contact with a guy called Jim white, which might run some bales.

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So some people Jim White's father was Applewhite and Applewhite was James Harriet.

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It was a pseudonym and it was the 50th anniversary or something of something to do with James Harriet.

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So ended up having a really, really good discussion with Gemma who was Jen Harriet's real life son who has a V as well.

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The next generation up for me is things tend to go with this light planes.

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We hit internet issues seemed, I sort of got three quarters of an interview done, but that's probably the most listened to too.

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Podcasts that I've done.

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There's been a few others met too, I suppose, uh, had an interesting conversation with an English feat that they are passport fraud, peak passport fraud, which it's a fight.

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It's been a bit news who was working out of somewhere in one of the arriving countries is a big news and one of these compounds and she was discussing the problems that people had when they are buying pizza.

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So quarters like the market and.

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There's all sorts of shenanigans goes on and these animals are brought over from Poland and I've got garden as one of the cities.

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So yeah.

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I ran.

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There is a magazine for a while.

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I slipped into, out of laziness, probably a little bit for a while.

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Um, just with a few, few anecdotes, but now I'm gone to more of a, just a straight one-on-one interview.

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I mean, some of the previous ones that I've done.

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Yeah.

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Last last one.

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I think it was the last one was two fish feet who knows, who knows that there are bits that specialize in fish, fishery, acupuncturists, hype, contract therapists, zoo bits, rain, a couple of them with this.

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And how COVID is affected them.

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So that's sort of the format that I'm dealing with NASA at my, with change, but it's moment you, you mentioned James Harriet, and I remember watching the programs or creatures.

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Great.

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And small Paws Claws Wet noses is.

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Who is close with noses.

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His tagline is celebrating all creatures great in smaller on the fantabulous professionals who look after them all.

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And it's because of the James Harriet association that I use that tagline.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I have to admit that one of the reasons that I became a vape was probably, I was in trance with James Harriet's box and, you know, back in my early days, cause I'm sort of 80, 82 graduate or something.

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I mean, I've been doing this guy for a long time.

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We didn't have a lot of.

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The great drugs that we've gotten there.

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And a lot of the stories that he was talking about Danny generations, who prior to me, you know, his son was practicing when I was practicing.

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So it's a lot of it actually rang true with the things that he was doing, especially.

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My clearest Erie practice that I worked in was, was in coastal and deal were, you know, who'd step we're, milking 30 or 40 cares.

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And then I walked through a cashier and a lot of the stuff that he was dealing with was the kind of stuff that I was still dealing with.

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So it's come full circle.

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Do you think he's James Harriet, do you think he's well known down under here?

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Oh, he probably is.

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I mean, there's been a new James Harriet series that company we're at popped up on Netflix or somewhere, which has been redone.

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It's got really, really good reviews.

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So I'm sure that the new generation of got to, got to see that.

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I don't think that it's as common as it was, as well-known, as it was say, 20 years, 30 years ago, but yeah, most people.

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Who have got any affinity with animals then somewhere, at least food of James here.

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And what cha what technological Willem, what technological changes have you noticed over the years that you've been podcasting?

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Probably the one that's that's the most is basically what we're doing now.

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We know, we know it was recording.

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Podcast previously I would be using Skype and there was this little, little clip on program called picky mail pretty may or something.

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And it was chunky and everything can through a single channels.

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We're using zoom to record this.

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Uh, I normally use a program called squat cast, not a program.

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So it's an online and much the same as zoom.

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And I mean, it's really good.

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You can do video stuff on, it brings you podcasts and a Kappa channel so that you can eat at them.

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If one's a bit shonky you can amplify or.

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Took a treasury rate on that.

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So the actual recording is a lot easier than it used to be.

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The recording quality is better.

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Hold on.

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I'm actually struggling Dunham office and there's a lot of glass and climb walls.

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So I'm getting a little bit of reverb at the moment, but the recording quality is better.

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I mean, we are both using specialist, podcast microphones, which makes things a lot easier.

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There are a lot of.

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Programs around for editing podcasts.

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And they probably, the thing that's really changed is the number of people who listen to podcasts.

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I think I read it last week or the week before it was in the UK, 25% of the population listened to a podcast at least once a week.

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Now it's big business back in the day.

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I was the top victory podcast on my chains.

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I'll certainly dribble down the ranks for a number of reasons.

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I just like to interrupt you listeners.

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That is huge.

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Every podcast dreams of being number one with apple.

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Yeah, it lasted for a while.

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I mean, the story that goes with that, and I actually alluded to it, alluded to it earlier.

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I was originally with, I provide a cool audio.

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Now things were going great.

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The podcasts were being picked up by iTunes and they were on.

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The of matrix, which is the salt that I use, which has got RSS feeds going around to all the sites.

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I've got an email from REI signed.

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We are experimenting with a new kind of format.

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We're going to stop doing podcasts.

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We have got this new.

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Messaging system, what people I need to communicate with each other in 64 liters, we think it's going to be a big thing.

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And in my mind, I'm pretty sure there was a thing.

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If you want, if you want to, if you want to contribute place, come join us.

00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:33.319
I had an acronym for whatnot, extra tequila, certainly of takeoff.

00:18:33.930 --> 00:18:35.430
At tuned out to be twist that.

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Yeah.

00:18:36.210 --> 00:18:51.839
I'm sort of like the drummer of these drum or the Roman style, the Beatles, I think, but to carry on from that, there's a, is a thing called at three oh one redirection, which, you know, a lot of people would've got four oh one, then pop up when the website's not available.

00:18:52.230 --> 00:18:55.349
A three oh one redirection is the redirection net.

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We'll pick up the old feed and being an in somewhere outside.

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So it's supposed to be seamless that hadn't been invented back in the day.

00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:12.180
So I was unable to get my old feeds directly back into, into iTunes at the level it was at.

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And I mean, it's been number one, the gate's been number one.

00:19:15.329 --> 00:19:20.339
So once you fall down the ranks, it's very, very hard to push it back up again.

00:19:20.819 --> 00:19:22.440
So I sort of.

00:19:24.045 --> 00:19:25.875
Crushed and doing their little bit.

00:19:26.234 --> 00:19:33.404
I hit the change providers a couple of times, so I can see now there's a number of them around aims.

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Now that on your talk, I record a year and a bit ago, I'm spending quite a bit more time doing these podcasts.

00:19:40.154 --> 00:19:43.845
So we're actually starting to build up quite a bit of traction again, which is great.

00:19:44.704 --> 00:19:46.355
I would have cried.

00:19:46.355 --> 00:19:50.555
I think if I had lost the history that you've lost.

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It is, but it's still, yeah.

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And like you say, you know, it's just so hard to get back up there again.

00:20:01.845 --> 00:20:12.434
I think at the moment, When you hit to look at the arch in stats, I mean, that sort of Def that do the math for different geographic areas.

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And, you know, oh, I said some ski places that not five or six or seven, so I'm starting, starting to get back up again.

00:20:19.035 --> 00:20:26.805
You know, the psych stuff, income setting, some of her and to be at 40 or 50 or something at the moment, which is okay, because it's a very, very cluttered.

00:20:27.305 --> 00:20:31.684
He hates spice in there because it's so easy to do a podcast, 70 people that day.

00:20:32.154 --> 00:20:43.974
Have, have you ever wanted to like extended an invitation to do meet with a vet for a podcast and they say, yeah, I'd love to do that.

00:20:44.184 --> 00:20:45.144
What's a podcast.

00:20:46.045 --> 00:20:47.575
No, no, I haven't.

00:20:47.694 --> 00:20:51.625
I haven't actually, but, um, you know, I get a lot of, you know, what are you doing now?

00:20:51.654 --> 00:20:56.474
I'm doing podcasts, but really, you know, these corporate disbelief that they've been doing it for.

00:20:58.380 --> 00:20:58.769
Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And my private life I've been podcasting since 2000 in nine, which I thought was a long time, but you know, you're 2004 or earlier.

00:21:10.789 --> 00:21:11.930
Why you idiot in that?

00:21:13.549 --> 00:21:19.250
My mum, when I, a little while ago, I told her that my podcast had got to a thousand.

00:21:19.755 --> 00:21:20.295
Downloads.

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We've just crossed the thousand three shot show.

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That's really exciting.

00:21:23.984 --> 00:21:25.394
What's a, what's a podcast.

00:21:27.765 --> 00:21:27.974
Yeah.

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You must've meet all sorts of interesting people.

00:21:33.424 --> 00:21:33.634
Yeah.

00:21:33.634 --> 00:21:39.664
That's, that's one of the interesting things that I get out on something professionally it's it's correct, because.

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The first thing is that you don't want to go to talk to somebody and look like an absolute idiot at be at the field.

00:21:46.484 --> 00:21:53.805
So, I mean, one of the podcasts that I've got coming up and HDU introduced me to him as a, as a guy.

00:21:53.805 --> 00:21:57.375
And that's a Spanish guy who is BVS of all things.

00:21:57.375 --> 00:21:59.055
I mean, who knew there was such a thing as a baby.

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I know nothing about beekeeping and nothing about what about the diseases.

00:22:04.755 --> 00:22:05.565
So.

00:22:06.779 --> 00:22:12.690
My next job probably been not finished with you here is to start studying paint.

00:22:12.809 --> 00:22:17.970
You know, it's essentially really, really good for learning areas, which I don't know, not a heck of a lot of, yeah.

00:22:18.089 --> 00:22:20.369
I mean the first step was, it was a prime example.

00:22:20.869 --> 00:22:26.009
I know very little, except on the very king fishermen, but I'm not very, very level of it out.

00:22:26.355 --> 00:22:27.825
Social media sentiment and what to do.

00:22:27.825 --> 00:22:29.174
So that was interesting.

00:22:29.174 --> 00:22:36.795
But one of the things that are really is that I've got quite a group of vets that I touch base with quite frequently.

00:22:36.795 --> 00:22:49.994
So if people do listen to the podcast and you know, this is where we're getting the track and game, that feed podcast, the one word, if you just search for that feed podcast, you find me I've got these gone or guys and girls that I actually interviewed.

00:22:50.289 --> 00:23:11.680
Relatively frequently, you know, these are a guy he's almost become a, a nice, I suppose, the Lou and even Mason, who is my sort of vented, uh, vision in Canada, who I remember having an interview with him not long after marijuana became legal in Canada, pooling about the effect that that's having on the work that they were doing.

00:23:11.710 --> 00:23:15.849
So, yeah, it's, it's really interesting talking to some really, really interesting people.

00:23:16.170 --> 00:23:19.140
What benefits did you see?

00:23:19.785 --> 00:23:26.684
In your clinic, if any, I expect that you would have by being a broadcaster.

00:23:27.424 --> 00:23:28.414
Well, I'll be truthful.

00:23:28.474 --> 00:23:30.244
It wasn't huge.

00:23:30.335 --> 00:23:39.365
Again, if you look at the statistics of where the dam are coming from, and even, even back in the day, 80% plus, uh, overseas.

00:23:39.394 --> 00:23:41.914
So if you are running.

00:23:42.390 --> 00:23:43.980
Uh, practice in New Zealand.

00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:57.960
There's not much benefit in somebody in Australia or Canada or the UK or the United Arab Emirates, actually listening to the podcasts so easily the word there were advantages.

00:23:58.019 --> 00:23:59.869
I did push them in the, in the.

00:24:00.420 --> 00:24:03.569
Podcast has sorry, in the company newsletters as well.

00:24:04.170 --> 00:24:09.150
So because the newsletters were digital, that was easy enough to put a link in there.

00:24:09.150 --> 00:24:15.210
So I guess people were listening and there was back in the day where I was using them for education and a lot of ways.

00:24:15.210 --> 00:24:19.680
I mean, one of the things that I would do would be if I.

00:24:20.295 --> 00:24:21.375
Hey, somebody come in.

00:24:21.375 --> 00:24:35.654
For example, with the Cape with diabetes, I would give them the discussion, but I've also done a diabetes podcast with one of the, the company guys that guys that make Ken insulin, actually I would put them on to onto their paint issue.

00:24:35.654 --> 00:24:41.444
One thing that I do remember now from their previous question is have you changed the format of the podcast?

00:24:41.894 --> 00:24:46.125
I did have the Nate's video podcasts for a level, but they, it was just.

00:24:47.565 --> 00:24:59.654
Quite complicated to, you know, you can, you can knock up a podcast as you know, relatively quickly, but when you've got to start putting in videos and pictures and nice sort of things, it's a whole new ball game.

00:24:59.654 --> 00:25:00.634
It does take quite a lot.

00:25:00.654 --> 00:25:03.714
it's harder to edit the sound quality.

00:25:04.184 --> 00:25:10.755
You know, some of the programs I use, it's not quite as good for changing the sand quality.

00:25:10.875 --> 00:25:12.825
Is that due to that on using.

00:25:13.755 --> 00:25:18.134
But it was quite handy to be able to tell clients to go and have a listen to this.

00:25:18.134 --> 00:25:22.785
I mean, it was some of them that were put up in a valley grass valley grass podcast that I did.

00:25:22.875 --> 00:25:28.634
And I mean, by they not too long after that, we hade a few people come and say, oh, listen to podcasts, paint.

00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:30.490
My dog's got the same between it's tough.

00:25:30.490 --> 00:25:33.769
I think it might be a podcast that, sorry, it might be a bounty dress.

00:25:33.769 --> 00:25:43.609
So there, there certainly are advantages, but that sort of podcast, you hit the targets, your clients and decide why are you actually doing it?

00:25:44.109 --> 00:25:44.380
Yeah.

00:25:44.380 --> 00:25:46.240
It with Paws Claws Wet Noses.

00:25:47.109 --> 00:25:50.859
It's the majority of our listeners buy.

00:25:51.130 --> 00:25:53.799
I think that the split is about 75%.

00:25:54.375 --> 00:25:55.724
Domestic New Zealand.

00:25:56.025 --> 00:26:18.974
And then the balance is made up from another 29 also countries with Australia being number two in the ranks that I'm I'm also because this podcast is specifically for Kiwi VIPs and fits, wanting to work in New Zealand.

00:26:19.394 --> 00:26:23.444
I'm very deliberate and how I market it as well.

00:26:24.045 --> 00:26:24.315
Yeah.

00:26:24.315 --> 00:26:35.134
And I th I think that's the point is that, you know, if people do decide that they want to do a podcast, they have to decide who detaches, what number one is, why are you doing it?

00:26:35.414 --> 00:26:48.164
It might be something as simple as may where on you're doing enjoy doing them, but who is going to listen to it because it's not only geographically where you're going to see it, but it's also what level you're going to send it to.

00:26:48.224 --> 00:26:51.704
I never sit here to be a podcast for.

00:26:52.605 --> 00:27:19.914
Veterinarians, you know, a lot of it's listen, but I did, you know, it was genuine information, you know, it was a magazine type program where, you know, people, all I remember air really intro was, you know, something along the lines of, you know, It's the type of dog for a walk or cuddle a cat and listen to the podcast, you know, because I am in it, those sort of people, there are a few niche level markets that I seem to have gotten to.

00:27:19.924 --> 00:27:35.365
And one of them is the animal physio acupuncture, a hydrotherapist group, these quite a number of them, uh, of those people who are, who have subscribers and the other one, which has popped up because I did a podcast.

00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:43.559
Six months of solid go on and an end of life practice in the states suddenly I'll have actually got a group of, into the live practices.

00:27:45.420 --> 00:27:55.769
So yeah, things evolve through through time, but you know, if people are looking at doing podcasts, I think there's questions are who, who do you want to listen to it?

00:27:55.829 --> 00:27:58.349
Like we're out a little, shall I put it too?

00:27:58.815 --> 00:28:16.575
I am not sure about you, but when I'm recording and when I'm doing a solo podcast, as opposed to an interview like this, I have a vet in my mind and I am speaking specifically for them.

00:28:16.634 --> 00:28:24.934
There's like the show is for you rather than a big general all of New Zealand veterinarians.

00:28:24.974 --> 00:28:26.835
I mean, I

00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:36.809
do the same sort of thing, except I'm not just one person on, you know, in my mind, I'm actually standing in front of an audience thing, just rambling all the time.

00:28:37.890 --> 00:28:39.059
I'm very succinct.

00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:43.099
You are very succinct and specific with your podcast.

00:28:43.099 --> 00:28:43.309
Yeah.

00:28:44.414 --> 00:29:01.244
What's the technological changes from, from a production who speak to have, have you found that your, your skills I getting more refined or that the, the software is getting.

00:29:01.634 --> 00:29:04.035
Easier for nonspecialists.

00:29:04.065 --> 00:29:16.265
Do you use it probably is the software that I use for doing the eaters and things is just which is a multi-track recorder.

00:29:16.325 --> 00:29:19.595
It's got a heap of a fix in the back of it that you can use.

00:29:19.595 --> 00:29:29.555
I mean, when I say a fix, you know, filters and all those sorts of things, so this is probably the gay community coming out a wee bit, but I quite like watching YouTube videos on.

00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:31.640
The best way to eat it out.

00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:36.000
I mean, like I said before, I've got a little bit of a problem in the room.

00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:41.069
I'm recording at the moment because you know, I'm going to glass title, which has got a public case on it.

00:29:41.069 --> 00:29:47.130
So it's not really bragging too much, but you know, these concrete floors and, you know, things, things rumble away.

00:29:47.130 --> 00:29:52.680
But so it's actually quite, it's been quite a challenge to get the filters in place to get that rumble out.

00:29:52.950 --> 00:29:54.420
Cause I don't actually want to hit that.

00:29:54.539 --> 00:30:01.849
Soundproof the road and you know, yeah, it's expensive and I've got nice views out the windows and yeah.

00:30:01.849 --> 00:30:05.420
So there's things like that that are great.

00:30:05.630 --> 00:30:09.170
The microphone sees days a lot better.

00:30:09.230 --> 00:30:14.029
They mean even simple things like marketing them, a marketing, the podcasts.

00:30:14.059 --> 00:30:15.740
I use a.

00:30:16.214 --> 00:30:30.884
Program called Canva, which is, I think that's not a sacred, a lot of people using it, but I use that to make the Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

00:30:32.250 --> 00:30:33.750
Aids if you like for it.

00:30:33.750 --> 00:30:46.200
So, I mean, if people do want to chase in the out there, you know, if I searched that podcast on any of those social media things, I can find this as well, but life is a lot easier than it used to be for, for doing those sort of things.

00:30:46.529 --> 00:30:52.589
Wherever in the country, we've got pretty slow internet here, but even some of us, a heck of a lot faster than it used to be.

00:30:52.650 --> 00:30:57.150
And it doesn't take too long to upload a podcast app on the servers.

00:30:57.150 --> 00:31:05.625
So, you know, The the more we're going, the easier things get and on at the stage.

00:31:05.625 --> 00:31:07.484
And I'm sure you are the same where.

00:31:07.904 --> 00:31:10.575
You know, I've actually got templates of almost everything that I do.

00:31:10.664 --> 00:31:15.444
So it doesn't take too long, even though, you know, can I interview you for my podcast?

00:31:15.615 --> 00:31:19.035
I've got a template for just change the nines and then bang it out.

00:31:19.424 --> 00:31:19.875
Same thing.

00:31:19.875 --> 00:31:27.404
There's templates for the squad cast recording in the, well, I suppose these days we hit a, the legal leads that goes with it.

00:31:27.404 --> 00:31:28.394
So the release.

00:31:28.980 --> 00:31:31.740
Forms to sign, you know, that will computerized now.

00:31:31.769 --> 00:31:37.609
So, so you do go down the, the podcast released guests release.

00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:55.529
Yeah, I've been doing it for a long time and I have got a little bit slack where they're all on and off, but, you know, it's that some of the horror stories of people who've done a podcast and, you know, next thing there's legal action taken against them because they have gone and posted it somewhere else.

00:31:55.529 --> 00:32:00.029
And that person who was interviewed didn't realize it was going to get posted somewhere else.

00:32:00.029 --> 00:32:01.529
So, you know, there are.

00:32:01.890 --> 00:32:05.640
There are times when you do require something in the back, but what has it on property?

00:32:07.430 --> 00:32:10.250
I have a release as well.

00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:19.009
And a few months ago I was in discussion with a major well international corporate.

00:32:19.740 --> 00:32:35.549
As for being a guest in, they were prepared to sign the release, but that they put a time limit on for 12 months because they were worried that the information that we were going to be talking about would change.

00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:38.400
And in 12 months it would no longer be suitable.

00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:40.380
And I said, well, that's, you know, that's fine.

00:32:40.380 --> 00:32:42.599
But, and then they wanted the podcast down.

00:32:43.035 --> 00:32:48.015
Removed at that point, as I, sorry, I, I need my podcast to be there.

00:32:48.325 --> 00:32:48.884
Yeah.

00:32:49.115 --> 00:32:49.545
Yeah.

00:32:49.984 --> 00:32:56.865
I mean, I think my oldest podcast out of the mine is 2014, but I still got the recordings of.

00:32:57.390 --> 00:33:04.559
A lot of the really old ones, you know, I haven't listened to them now and that the content of them is quite old fashioned as well.

00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:06.660
So it's not the kind of thing that you would put up.

00:33:06.660 --> 00:33:16.980
And that is one thing that I do is I do tend to print the bottom off the, off the list because I think these I've probably recorded a hundred sites and I think there's 40 app or something at the moment.

00:33:17.474 --> 00:33:21.585
45 or something, something like that, which is that someone wants to punch them.

00:33:21.615 --> 00:33:24.164
God help them, but at some of them wants to punch them.

00:33:24.174 --> 00:33:27.164
Not that these more than more than enough content there for people who listened to it.

00:33:27.805 --> 00:33:33.904
Where do you find your, most of your listeners listen through which channel, which platform.

00:33:35.700 --> 00:33:37.140
They come from all over.

00:33:37.500 --> 00:33:47.099
Most of them, um, I'm struggling to get, um, I mean the, the big players of mine, the Spotify, Google podcasts, and.

00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:48.450
April origins.

00:33:48.809 --> 00:34:05.519
There's the other biggest ones in the statute was that I love I have, I have a radio, but most of them are actually coming through all of the wreck take buyers that are around, you know, quite a few of the players.

00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:08.820
He candidate actually have a look and see how many people are subscribing to them.

00:34:08.849 --> 00:34:09.269
But.

00:34:09.824 --> 00:34:17.565
One of the metrics that comes out of the department, excite is the number, the number of subscribers that you've got, which doesn't mean that they've listened to us all.

00:34:17.565 --> 00:34:28.275
That means that subscribed to, and certainly that no way tallies with what the Spotify stats and I, that get the podcast up in that, call them there.

00:34:28.545 --> 00:34:30.525
What if it was the Google one?

00:34:30.824 --> 00:34:44.420
So I think the bulk of my people are still downloading and through the normal players, There are a reasonable number of people who I think who, because the states are split two ways downloads in place.

00:34:44.780 --> 00:34:49.940
So it's, three-quarter download one core play probably is the split that I'm getting.

00:34:49.940 --> 00:35:00.139
So the people who are playing had got into our player somewhere, so I do tend to beat the buyer, the PA, PA the planner for the podcast and quite a lot of places.

00:35:00.139 --> 00:35:03.230
So, you know, I think a lot of people are actually listening to the players as well.

00:35:03.670 --> 00:35:05.889
W what's your, your release?

00:35:05.949 --> 00:35:06.550
She, Joe.

00:35:07.860 --> 00:35:09.329
Not as good as it should.

00:35:09.780 --> 00:35:28.139
It's probably one of the things that people are looking at doing at podcast regularity is really, really, really important when I started, I was doing it fortnightly, but I was also had a young family and was running a busy practice and skiing and just doing.

00:35:28.875 --> 00:35:29.655
Life.

00:35:29.715 --> 00:35:32.505
So that got a little bit hard at the moment.

00:35:32.775 --> 00:35:35.235
I'm regular ish.

00:35:35.324 --> 00:35:38.445
Isn't every two or three weeks on point running out.

00:35:38.835 --> 00:35:42.644
I should have get more organized and do do it every couple of weeks.

00:35:42.704 --> 00:35:45.465
But at the moment I've just got too many other.

00:35:46.139 --> 00:35:48.000
Lawns in the fall for Tom.

00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:49.349
It isn't as easy as that night.

00:35:49.989 --> 00:35:51.230
It takes up a lot of time.

00:35:51.230 --> 00:35:52.250
I understand.

00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:53.719
Yeah.

00:35:53.780 --> 00:35:54.000
Yeah.

00:35:54.289 --> 00:35:58.250
Do you have a newsletter subscription?

00:35:58.280 --> 00:35:59.389
Do you know?

00:35:59.480 --> 00:35:59.840
No.

00:35:59.989 --> 00:36:02.179
I've been thinking about doing it again.

00:36:02.179 --> 00:36:04.219
It's just something else that needs to be done.

00:36:05.269 --> 00:36:06.650
It would be easy enough to do.

00:36:06.710 --> 00:36:09.230
I ran the news, the newsletter subscription.

00:36:11.664 --> 00:36:14.054
You know, it's basically people ID stuff as well.

00:36:14.065 --> 00:36:15.114
It's all nice and easy.

00:36:15.114 --> 00:36:19.135
So I should, I should get onto that list.

00:36:19.724 --> 00:36:34.244
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Fiona Esamof companion animals, New Zealand talking microchip myth-busting in cat management, improving the welfare of cats, humans, and the environment.

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And also about the advances that have been made in facial recognition in animals.

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We've got Janet Natta of smart money advice.

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A woman who's in her happy place when she's helping Kiwis, reduce their debt and improve their wealth.

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And if you remember last year lockdown, licensed immigration consultant, Katy Armstrong, and I co-hosted a webinar on what was happening then with border control and immigration, we are planning another catch-up.

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So stay tuned for that as well.

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Wherever you're listening to this.

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At the gym on your drive to, or from work, or if you're like me doing the housework or doing the ironing, then thank you.

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I'd really love to hear what you like or dislike about paws claws in wet noses.

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So please get in touch and give me some feedback.

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Because I'd love to hear it from you.

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