Episode 240

Bill the Bleak (The dying art of Modeling)

Published on: 13th June, 2018

Bill, the owner of North Central Hobby, an old school hobby shop in Overland Missouri, was kind enough to sit down with us and share over 30 years of insight, ingenuity, and downright brilliance. He touches on RC cars, slot cars, model rockets/planes and gets into the darker parts of the hobby as well. He shares how he saved his store with a gamble during the recession, and is even so kind as to share the one secret that it takes to create a successful business. This is a heavy episode and we are beyond excited to be bringing it to your ear holes. As always like, comment,and subscribe. Follow us on twitter and like us on Facebook.

 

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My name is Chris Parsons, and about 5 years ago, I started a podcast with an old computer and a microphone that I found on eBay. The title of that show was Entertain the Geeky. More than anything, ETG served as a means of filling a void, which my sales job had left in my life. I was no longer part of the nerdy industry that I loved; I had sold out. It couldn't end like that! So, I got in touch with a friend who worked at a comic book shop, with me, and asked if he would be interested in hanging out on Sundays and recording this goofy show with me. He was on board and we were off to the races. More than anything, we over-promised and under-delivered. We started designing tabletop games, we onboarded sponsors, and we started a second title. With plans for a third show and a bright future ahead of us, we pressed on! Life had a different plan... I left my sales job and moved. Recording slowed drastically and ETG started to die. I started an online business, and went to work part time for a gaming store, with another friend from the comic shop that I used to work at. He like me, loves to talk and we decided to,(you guessed it) start a podcast.
We started the show Who Wears the Pants, and have had a blast pushing through the almost therapeutic recording sessions. My co-host started a new business and it reminded me of the birth of my first show. I was able to look back and see some of what I had done wrong , with podcasting in particular. I had arrived at the conclusion that I had only began to scratch the surface of my potential within this domain. The growth and potential of ETG and the fulfillment of WWTP existed somewhere in a new show. Here we are now. With a new show that focuses on the extraordinary that exists within the seemingly normal. We are only slightly average.