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I'm Eli Hollingsworth and I'm 13 years old. I do my podcast, "The Movie Majors Podcast," with my brother Jake Hollingsworth who is 15. We listened to one podcast about Disney movies, thought it was super cool, and looked kinda fun, and we decided to make our own. When we first started, we were "The Marvel Majors Podcast," and before THAT, we were going to call our podcast a codpast. Ah, those were the days. We love Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, Disney, so it's not very hard to sit down and talk about these movies that we really enjoy. It's a whole lot of fun for us, and we hope to continue.

As I mentioned before, Jake and I listened to a podcast about Disney films and liked it a lot. They used Anchor, and so do we. It's the easiest and cheapest way to make a podcast. We hope to really catch on and become popular so we can share our love of movies with as many listeners as possible.

We try to make a podcast every Wednesday and Saturday. Sometimes we make more because of something else happening. Neither of us have a job, so we usually find the time to produce two or more episodes weekly. We do have some activities that we are involved in, plus, of course, school, but it usually takes about an hour to record an episode.

We really love podcasting because it's fun for us. We enjoy the thrill of seeing how many listens, how many followers, what people like, what people don't like, it's all a very enjoyable ride every week. We have 16 followers on Spotify, so we're pretty small. We are very excited to grow gain more followers and listeners, and reach more people.

Our routine of recording episodes looks something like this: Jake and I wake up on Saturday, we eat breakfast, get ready for the day, then we sit down at my desk to record our podcast. Our biggest struggle is GETTING. STARTED. Jake always wants to add some comedic, silly intro that will be "his thing," while I'm constantly saying "tone it down." "no, we can't do that" "stop, that's annoying." "people won't like that." etc. etc. etc... It takes up to fifteen minutes to actually record the first thirty seconds. When we get started though, it's a blast. It all goes by in such a blur that even I don't remember all of what happens, since I don't do very much editing in post. I will add music, put that's practically it. Our podcast layout is always the latest movie news, an activity or random movie review, our sponsorship, and then a movie that coincides with the season. For instance, if it were in season three, the second half would be a Star Wars movie, because we went through all of the Star Wars movies that season. After the podcast episode is posted, we'll go drive somewhere as a family and listen to it with our parents in the car. This is nice because we get immediate thoughts on if our episode is good, or if it's a dud. On Wednesdays, it is a little different. I have Jiu-Jitsu right after I finish school, and we have about a two-hour window once I get back to record our podcast and eat dinner before we have to go to youth group at church. Sometimes the Wednesday episode won't get published until the next day.

As mentioned before, we use Anchor to publish our podcast. Anchor is really great because you can get your podcast out to all of these big name places(iTunes, Spotify) very easily and efficiently. I had to manually submit our podcast to all of these different places, but usually Anchor would do that already. I especially love Spotify because they just have a very sleek, cool looking design that looks very pleasing to me. Plus, more than half of our audience listens from Spotify. We don't have a website or anything like that, no instagram, facebook, twitter. We don't really market our podcast too much.

Advice? Hmm... on the internet, nobody really listens. That sounds really mean. But I think very true actually. When we started our podcast, we were not very careful about the things we said, especially me, and I think some of our listeners may have taken it the wrong way. Some things may have come out wrong, or I was using a wrong tone, but tiny changes like that can change how people recieve what you say entirely. That's why there's a lot of miscommunication, which causes fighting, which leads to a lot of ugly things. People don't really stop and pay close attention to what is being said, and if it was really an attempt to hurt you. It probably wasn't, people! So basically, be careful about the things you say, and how you say them.

Learn more about Jake and I by listening to our podcast, "The Movie Majors Podcast," on iTunes, Spotify, and almost anywhere podcasts are found! We don't really have a website or anything like that LOL.