speaker-1: Yeah. Hi everyone, my name's Amy and I'm here to introduce the Beyond the Belt podcast by Smiley Monroe. We this is episode zero. We are officially launching a podcast. We're jumping on the bandwagon just a few years late. And I'm here with Lucas from our marketing team to kind of tattoo a wee bit about what to expect. Lucas is gonna be our executive producer, is that the top? ⁓ yeah.
speaker-0: I like the title, yeah. Don't mind that.
speaker-1: So Lucas, you've been working on this for ⁓ a few months, I suppose, sort of putting the plan together. So from your point of view then, you tell me why ⁓ what the purpose of the podcast is and why you think we should ⁓ why why we're launching
speaker-0: Okay. ⁓ I think that we started this conversation from it came from the SLTE. They thought it would be a good tool for them to be closer to to the customers and give more information about what happens behind the curtains basically. So it's just giving a little bit of a sneak peek of how Smiley Murray runs and why we do what we do and how much we value to give like proper information to the customers. So it came from from the heart of the company. And ⁓ even though We're trying to to do something that we know that we can get more interaction from our customers from a marketing point of view. But it's also we we see a lot of value on on this for the customers themselves because they can get proper information from experts like our product support or or account managers. We can bring people from the production floor to talk about the more technical. We have a great engineering team in the house so that can also talk about it. And so the idea of this is just to have like a chilled conversation about belts, but we want to bring a little bit more flair to it and just just have the customers joining us to this conversation so they can learn as we learn as well about this this industry.
speaker-1: Yeah, so I suppose we're g the plan is ⁓ to do a mixture of content so there'll be some more product troubleshooting focused episodes with the as you say, our technical teams and our product support teams kind of ⁓ maybe common conveyor questions that people might have and chatting around c ⁓ issues and themes coming up in the industry. And then we're also keen to not narrow our audience, I guess, to just the engineers ⁓ and the people out in the field. But also give the wider sort of business at industry community a bit of a feel about who Smiley Monroe are, sort of behind behind the belts, I guess. That's the the reason, I suppose, for the name. ⁓ and get to know a wee bit about our culture, our processes and some of the sort of personalities here and a little bit more about our stories. So We'll focus on things like our culture and our values. I think that's gonna be our first episode. And then a little bit around maybe we'll we'll get a few sort of well known personalities on the chat maybe about their experiences in the industry and we about this Manny Moonroe story. So we've got a we've got a hit list of guests that I'm not even sure they know. Yeah. So we'll have to do a bit of persuading. But yeah, we would love for you guys to
speaker-0: Yeah. No, they're probably nowhere. Yeah.
speaker-1: What is the all you have to like, comment and subscribe?
speaker-0: Definitely, yeah, just like comment, subscribe. Yes. And if you have any questions, just send to us as well. Any any suggestions of things that you want to hear. We are here just to talk to you. Yeah.
speaker-1: Yeah, so be nosy. If ⁓ there's anything you wanna know about the inner workings of Smile Monroe, we're happy to answer those questions and ⁓ do a deep dive. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you're looking forward to it, Lucas.
speaker-0: Yeah, that's great. I am, I'm very excited. I'm just like I love doing this on the background and I think it's a great value and I'm so happy that we're doing this. I'm not gonna Yes, yes, I'm very happy. The journalist in me is just like so ha happy right now.
speaker-1: Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm nervous. ⁓ I also and also excited. Yes, yes, yes. So ⁓ we'll see how it goes. But ⁓ we hope to have you all on the journey with us. ⁓ and let us know what you think and what you'd like to hear more of. So we'll see you soon for the next episode.
speaker-0: See you soon guys. Bye.
speaker-0: I like the title, yeah. Don't mind that.
speaker-1: So Lucas, you've been working on this for ⁓ a few months, I suppose, sort of putting the plan together. So from your point of view then, you tell me why ⁓ what the purpose of the podcast is and why you think we should ⁓ why why we're launching
speaker-0: Okay. ⁓ I think that we started this conversation from it came from the SLTE. They thought it would be a good tool for them to be closer to to the customers and give more information about what happens behind the curtains basically. So it's just giving a little bit of a sneak peek of how Smiley Murray runs and why we do what we do and how much we value to give like proper information to the customers. So it came from from the heart of the company. And ⁓ even though We're trying to to do something that we know that we can get more interaction from our customers from a marketing point of view. But it's also we we see a lot of value on on this for the customers themselves because they can get proper information from experts like our product support or or account managers. We can bring people from the production floor to talk about the more technical. We have a great engineering team in the house so that can also talk about it. And so the idea of this is just to have like a chilled conversation about belts, but we want to bring a little bit more flair to it and just just have the customers joining us to this conversation so they can learn as we learn as well about this this industry.
speaker-1: Yeah, so I suppose we're g the plan is ⁓ to do a mixture of content so there'll be some more product troubleshooting focused episodes with the as you say, our technical teams and our product support teams kind of ⁓ maybe common conveyor questions that people might have and chatting around c ⁓ issues and themes coming up in the industry. And then we're also keen to not narrow our audience, I guess, to just the engineers ⁓ and the people out in the field. But also give the wider sort of business at industry community a bit of a feel about who Smiley Monroe are, sort of behind behind the belts, I guess. That's the the reason, I suppose, for the name. ⁓ and get to know a wee bit about our culture, our processes and some of the sort of personalities here and a little bit more about our stories. So We'll focus on things like our culture and our values. I think that's gonna be our first episode. And then a little bit around maybe we'll we'll get a few sort of well known personalities on the chat maybe about their experiences in the industry and we about this Manny Moonroe story. So we've got a we've got a hit list of guests that I'm not even sure they know. Yeah. So we'll have to do a bit of persuading. But yeah, we would love for you guys to
speaker-0: Yeah. No, they're probably nowhere. Yeah.
speaker-1: What is the all you have to like, comment and subscribe?
speaker-0: Definitely, yeah, just like comment, subscribe. Yes. And if you have any questions, just send to us as well. Any any suggestions of things that you want to hear. We are here just to talk to you. Yeah.
speaker-1: Yeah, so be nosy. If ⁓ there's anything you wanna know about the inner workings of Smile Monroe, we're happy to answer those questions and ⁓ do a deep dive. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you're looking forward to it, Lucas.
speaker-0: Yeah, that's great. I am, I'm very excited. I'm just like I love doing this on the background and I think it's a great value and I'm so happy that we're doing this. I'm not gonna Yes, yes, I'm very happy. The journalist in me is just like so ha happy right now.
speaker-1: Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm nervous. ⁓ I also and also excited. Yes, yes, yes. So ⁓ we'll see how it goes. But ⁓ we hope to have you all on the journey with us. ⁓ and let us know what you think and what you'd like to hear more of. So we'll see you soon for the next episode.
speaker-0: See you soon guys. Bye.
