Speaker 1: 0:15

Hey everybody, it's George Blitch with the Son of a Blitch podcast and I made it three years. That's right. Today marks the three-year anniversary. When I first picked up a microphone, sitting across the kitchen table with my buddy, matthew Mitchell, talking about where I was going to go with this podcast, I mean with a name like Blitch, son of a Blitch kind of led itself right in the works and I was like, all right, I'm going to start interviewing people.

Speaker 1: 0:39

And, for those who didn't know, I used to travel around the world interviewing indigenous elders with my buddy, harvey Arden for National Geographic, and we would kind of sit at the feet of these elders and ask them to share some wisdom, share some stories, record their history and, without editing it for any purpose, leaving it as is to share the words that they wanted to share, kind of being a conduit. We called it being a bridge keeper, and I kind of wanted to do that same thing when I started this podcast. I wanted to provide a platform to talk to some interesting people that I've met along the way, reaching out to other people who are doing interesting things and really promote those and talk about art and creation and, you know, whether it's through books or through music. You know I've been very blessed in the last few years working with you know, whether it's through books or through music, you know I've been very blessed in, you know, the last few years working with you know different uh publishers and being able to put out uh podcasts that were with books. You know Jack Carr, the Brad Thors of the world, multiple New York times uh bestselling authors and being able to work with some of these musicians that have been uh bands that I grew up listening to and, you know, wanting to perform in, as I was a musician myself I guess still am, but that was something I always wanted to be the drummer of Nine Inch Nails, and then I get to interview the drummer of Nine Inch Nails and that was kind of fun. It's about as close as I'll get to sit in that drum throne and just having one that I recorded with Tim DeLauder from Tripping Daisy Polyphonic Spree, another group of bands that have been inspirational, and a lot of different groups, and there's more coming up. You know I thought about hitting 100 and hanging it up and I realized that I'm not going to do that.

Speaker 1: 2:16

Now I have some other projects that I really want to work on, and in this next year I've got a book that I want to finish up about a guy named Bob Lemons, and he was a former slave turned wild Mustang or one of the most famous black cowboys of all time. Uh, he's just a legendary man and my family uh worked with. Uh, he had a ranch next to my great great grandfathers, my great grandfather, and they worked together, side by side. Uh, they were like brothers, man, great friends, and so we we have a lot of personal artifacts and a lot of his stories that he's passed down, that our family recorded, uh, that aren't anywhere else. I mean, there's been a lot of books and little chapters he's been talked about, but never a full fledged book. So that's something I'm working on, uh, working on a screenplay there too, and there's a few other projects that I got in the works.

Speaker 1: 3:04

But I do want to continue to interview people. I mean, I'm just fascinated with the idea of sitting down and chatting with people and, you know, kind of finding out what makes them tick and what makes certain these exceptional people such, and I just love that. I love exploring, having conversations, connecting with people. It's something that I feel like I've grown to be much better at. You know, listening back to some of those earlier podcasts, it was a skill that I was still sharpening back up. I hadn't picked up those tools in the toolbox for you know, quite a few years. As I said, I used to travel around and do this for a living and interview people, but a lot of times I was behind the camera setting up the microphones, editing things, you know, building websites and doing stuff, but I wasn't really necessarily. You know, it took a little while to kind of get those skill sets up to where I could feel comfortable sitting in that seat and now I feel like I can sit down and talk with anybody about anything.

Speaker 1: 3:56

And you know, as many of you guys know, it's a lot of hard work. I'm a one-man show doing this. I'm scheduling all the interviews, I'm doing all the research and you know I spend many, many hours researching each person I have on, each person I'm going to have on. Uh, sometimes you know in 20 hours that I'm trying to soak in all the things that they've done in the past so that I'm not boring them and recreating something. I want to find something new. I want to touch on, uh, you know, topics that maybe they haven't explored before, or just, you know, really trying to do a new angle and making sure that it's still fresh and invigorating for them to sit down. And some of these people who may have been on interviews thousands of times, you know that thousand and one time. You know what is it that's going to make that one special. So you know I put a lot of effort into these and it's something that it takes a lot of time.

Speaker 1: 4:43

So I might slow down a little bit in this next year to come. You know I've kind of done a. You know where are we now? Kind of every year on the anniversary of, you know, looking back on the year past and what's the year future and that's something I've always kind of done on my birthday too I look at the year past and what have I done? You know, what are some successes, what are some failures, what can I build on, what do I want to do in the year to come? So you know I haven't really fully sat down and grasped everything about what it is that I want to do in the year to come, but you know there's a lot of different people that I've interviewed that you know, kind of serially. We'll come back on here, jack Carr, when he has his next book. You know certain friends of mine who are, you know, some top end chefs that have some big projects coming out, you know, or some cookbooks, whatever it is that you know they're going to be releasing new albums that you know, or tours that some bands are coming out. I'll be, uh, promoting those as well, and so I'm very excited to see what this next year comes.

Speaker 1: 5:36

Um, and I just want to thank everyone who has tuned into the audio version or the video version of these podcasts, or even the little shorts or reels that I've put out, and who shared those and commented you know, the giveaways, things we've done, uh, you know, and there's a lot of people who have shown me a lot of support and it means a lot to me and I just want to say thank you so much Cause, you know, I didn't know that I could get to a hundred podcasts and here we are and now it's going. I don't know what the end date is on this, I don't know if there's another hundred in me or beyond, but, uh, it's been a very fulfilling thing and I'm just honored that, uh, people are out there and they're interested in, you know the show and uh, what I've been producing and it means a lot to me to get all the feedback and, you know, all that support along the way. So just want to take a second to say thank you.

Speaker 1: 6:25

Um, like I said, guys, a lot of uh really cool interviews coming up. Uh, there's some really neat artists that I've interviewed. Uh, the next one that'll be coming up will be with Tim DeLauder from Tripping Daisy and Polyphonic Spree. They got a tour coming up. Uh, we'll be discussing that and you know, make sure you guys go check that out over at trippingdaisycom, get your tickets that tour.

Speaker 1: 6:45

Uh, go over to Good Records and, uh, you know, recently Tim lost, uh, his really dear friend, chris Penn, who was a co-founder of Good Records, and he passed away. And you know I'm going to have a QR code and check out the links below for you guys that want to help contribute to the GoFundMe for Chris's family. Please do so and I'll just be continuing to. You know, let you guys know as new episodes are coming out. Always welcome to give me some suggestions on you know people who you know. As new episodes are coming out. Always welcome to give me some suggestions on. You know people who you think are interesting, uh, that I might want to cover. So, uh, again, thank you, thank you, thank you. Here we are end of year three, beginning of year four. A hundred podcasts and growing could have been done. That, all you guys, thank you again for all the support and, uh, yeah, see what's next, I'll take care.