This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - 25k Download Special

Episode Date: January 2, 2026

We did it!!  25,000 Unique Downloads for the entire podcast!  Let's keep up the good work!!!

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Just press play where I was a sharp opinion Hello everybody So hey we did it We did it, 25K. So thank you to everyone who has been supporting the podcast over these past six plus years now. Let's go over some numbers. So as you can see, 25,000 unique downloads on the podcast. which episodes are

our best performing all time? Well I say well number one is Laura which isn't really a episode of the podcast just a song that I wrote back in the college

in MIDI music composition and thought it as a cool I'll first use it in an episode of the podcast and then added as a Yeah, cool bonus for the pod. So technically that's number one, but number one episode-wise is stories I would otherwise be left untold,

which is how we ended season one and 549 downloads. Number two is its sequel, Stories Untold 2, which ended season 2 of the podcast at 541. Next is the most downloaded interview episode we ever

did and that was Brian Boy his first time on the podcast at 534. Next would be ghost stories

back in season two told some ghost stories for Halloween. Next would be Pat Lamb our very first

episode then a thought on being a tricky then uh adam sadique uh shout out to the k c games designers group and uh next we had the uh famous cronky outs episode and absolutely that guy out and uh then we had uh chris lineman and 313 next would be uh and this was in the 300 download club

thoughts on being multilingual so uh thank uh... much thanks

and now we had our 200 200 200 download range so George Dean

the first time he came on the podcast is next then the smash up playthrough with Brian then uh

1K unique downloads then the second appearance of Luke and Dan Dan, I still owe you a game day, bud. So we'll discuss that later. Probably closing in season 10 here. Top 10 board games. Then Luke and Dan the first time around.

also known as our drinking episode Why I'm now a Cards fan This is recycled from Winningside Then Adams Adam McKeith is second time On the podcast Top 10 movies Including my telling you of the aristocrat joke

Then Conrado My all-time favorite episode Is in the 200 range Thoughts on being ex-Morman up there And McKeith's first time on the podcast Part 1 of our Twilight Empire Three-Parter And I can't stress enough

That that that three-parter is all one game It does take that long to play one game Of Twilight Empire Jared Feldman, his first time on the podcast Is up there Then George Dean's second time on the podcast Chris Hertz first time on the podcast

thoughts on independent soccer pro pro ral for USA that's mostly recycled from winning side tour of KC is up there the first door of KC not the Swift D version

and 500 unique downloads live stream so a lot of season two in here So now we go from 200 downloads to the 1 to 200 range and I think we'll stop there. So just shy of 200, quite a few on this part of the list. So we have the podcast ending seminar.

We have Andrew Rainey the first time he was on the podcast customer. He came back not too long ago. so we could talk about the past election. And Mark Parton, all just one download away from 200. Caroline is next, along with the 2000 unique download live stream. And then my thoughts on the 2016 election for clarification. No, I'm not talking about Donnie. I'm talking about what happened with me in 16.

Coach Sir Millen will be next and the French volunteers when I did that before I even thought about doing the podcast in fringe the final song of our recording

so they're the special happy birthday songs on another non-episode of the podcast but so a pretty cool song it is an AI version of what we call the special happy birthday song from my camping days in Scouts

Rick Daniels is next then the original trailer where the podcast is up there Matt Seul Tai Gap Arts the original thoughts on the NFL in St. Louis, most of which is recycled

wingside then we have Trevor then Twilight Empire in Part 2 which I think was the more interesting other one then we have Season 2 AMA

which bombed but started our second season and we have a top 20 South Park episodes top 10 colleges and no I think that's a good place to

stop because we have a We still have a lot that got over 100 downloads and a lot still that

needs to happen so the last the bottom of that list of 100 downloads is the April Fool's joke

I tried to pull on everyone those almost extra for a mar right and how we

and by the way these downs do also include all the trailers all little songs and even our second podcast within our feed,

the unofficial fan lounge. And yes, I have been keeping up with the off-season news of the league. I'm going to wait until that becomes official before I comments any further, but it is pretty messed up. Now, per country, let's actually... Now, this is only a select past a few months. I want the full podcast. So we've got to go May 2019 through July 2025.

Select all 2,277 days. And there's our 2,500. And if you're seeing the video, you can see, we've had 10 different countries They've given us at least 100 downloads So number one, of course, The good old, our country of origin, the USA With 19,6808 downloads

India would be second at 3,010. Then France, 374 Germany, 354, no, 354 excuse me, I've got that wrong. So Germany, 351. Spain is next, 261. The Netherlands, 232, which is interesting because Kronky Apps was partially produced in the Netherlands.

Ireland, 133, Canada at 110. Singapore, 106, and the UK at 102. too. So I thank you to everyone in those countries especially, but everyone around the world who's been downloading if you're just

listening, you can't see the map, but if you're watching, you can see the map. You see we have most of Europe cover. We have Mexico. Colombia, Peru, Brazil. We have a smattering of countries in Africa, including Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, just the name of few. We have a lot of the Middle East's including Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

We have mostly Indian subcontinent, I think, actually all the Indian subcontinent. covered. I have, I think, at least one from Kyrgyzstan, which is this whole country there. We managed to get quite a bit from China. Got Thailand,

we have Malaysia, got the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Nihol. So thank you. to everyone. Let's take a special look at the states.

So other, I don't know what this other means, but the United States Other, they have this listed 5,400, saying 4. Then thank you to the Buckeye State, Ohio, 2,190 downloads coming

from there. Oregon is seconds 1,756. Our home state of Kansas, 1,640 and our other home state, Missouri,

1,465, so right in there. Virginia is giving us a love, love 1,445. Colorado gives us a law of to 1,235. California.

California hasn't quite gotten to the thousand range, but they're getting there, 9,717. And Arizona would be next at 597. Lots of catching up to do. Iowa, very close by 400. 400 even. That's awesome. So thank you for that. Then rounding up those that gave us at least 100.

Dallas, Massachusetts, Texas, I know we can do better, Texas, Illinois, New York, Florida, Indiana, and New Mexico. Utah is at 99. So they're just one shy. Georgia, Pennsylvania. So, yeah, thank you to everyone who has been, listen. And can we please get some downloads out of, uh, Well, there are two states that gave us, they've given us no downloads so far. They would be Alaska and Vermont.

So, can we please get some love out of those two cities. I'm not going to try to worry about the cities right now. Because the way things are set up and there's a lot of math that needs to happen there. So, yay, we did it, 25K. All right. So we're going to pause this part of the presentation. And we will resume with hopefully a more celebratory part of the presentation. And I'm going to invite all of our friends and anyone else who wants to do.

podcast shut I'm going to pass May night the stars align a mic a dream and borrowed time who knew a voice

could echo this far started with whispers now it's a roar 25,000 knock in the door this podcast is uncalled for

but you called you called some more 25 K strong we're sore and high uncomfortable we touch the sky untold every listen's worth more than gold who needs rules when we've got a vibe each plays a spark each shares a flay listens work more than gold so this is the official uh 25k download uh celebration of the podcast

so i'm glad to be doing this uh some people have been invited um made them friends of the podcast and uh if you do show up late. I will legend. I was hoping this be like a Q&A type thing but I will take this opportunity to promote some ideas I have for the podcast and other

things going on project wise so I'll start we'll share screen. I'll just start sharing screen with this graphic here courtesy of the

KC Streetcar authorita one of the things I want to do for 2026 just time for the World Cup is do a

documentary on the doc on I'm going to call it to Secrets of the KC Streetcar. The idea is based on Jeff Marshall. I'll probably wind up playing a clip of one of his Secrets of the Underground. Shorts here a little bit.

that being the case is what would this is what would be a lot of I think I think I would do separate videos in each segment so start here at the south

at UMKC and then travel north plaza art museums South Moreland Westport and at Westport we stop and do a separate dock on the East-West line because this

stop will be affected by that with a future line going west to KU Medd and then Armour we paused right here between Armour and Union Hill is Linwood and that's the other part of that

East West the line it would go east on the way to Van Brunt and then Union Hill World Woman Museum Memorial one would just call it Libre Memorial like everyone else does

and then Union stations where that extension the new parts meets the starter line and as you can see from the graphic and this is official

Casey Streetcar graphic here. So right here is where old meets new. So the institution that just built a second platform

and tied everything together here. I think just a few almost a year ago now. And then it picks up there from the for the starter line. So crossroads I'll stop here. I'll stop here between Crossroads and Kaufman Center is 18th Street. The streetcar authority recently proposed a study for an 18th Vine line, which would start 18th Street,

about here, going east to the 18th of Vine District. So we'll probably do a separate video on that. The study is still underway, as far as I know. or just getting started, really. But I will tell you, haven't recently driven that parts of 18th Street. I could think of at least a couple of places

they could put stops. So that'll be a... Then Kaufman Center, then P&L, and Metro Center. Let's pause here because the Mid-American Regional Council, which is like a regional. body for things like transit projects are doing a green corridor study and it's a huge

one it really should all be some form of rail but unfortunately most of it is going to be bus going from that the entire corridor goes from Village West and KCK you know where Sporting Park and the legends and the racetrack are all the way to Independence Square and would cover State Avenue and Independence Avenue and Truman Road. But they only have a small portion for a possible streetcar line

and it would intersect with the mainline here at Metro Center. Go and east not too far, but just to East Village. where the transit center is and where the ballpark should have been built and should still be built because it's still nothing but empty field. And west it would go through the west bottom past Barrow Hall, Quality Hill, and through the west bottom into KC and stop at 7th and Minnesota, which is also a bus terminal. and I should buy Van Brunt on that east-west line is also a bus terminal. So cool. And then continuing further, we have the library stop, North Loop, then the River Market Loop, so we have the St. Market, River Market, North, Web Market, West.

And then this is the Riverfront extension. Now, right here at the Sting Market, you could, we could do a North. rail video because it would continue it doubled the size of this loop potentially and go north of river into north kc and that is also currently under study now you're looking at this it says river market where's this uh river market north well uh there's little secret folks um for this uh riverfront extension which opens next year and why i've waiting until next year for this to open to do a documentary work. River Market is the new platform going north to the Riverfront,

but the existing platform in the loop is still River Market north. So it would be a manum and bonk-time situation. And then Riverfront is the final stop on the current map. So there's that. And we'll probably be looking for talents for that project. You're coming very soon. So it'd be a really cool. It'd be pretty cool.

And I'm now going to play for you a little bit, not too much of the Jeff Marshall clip. This one's specifically the South London Trams. Tram is in this case a the British word for what we

would call streetcars here in the states. So a little bit Jeff Marshall. And the YouTube channel is Londonists Limited. And I think that's going to be enough to get a

and that's enough and i think it's going to be more than enough to hopefully avoid a claim fair use all right so there is that all right um yeah you may uh if you are a friend of mine and uh also friend the podcast, then you probably know I've been continuing to have car troubles. In fact, in April, my car decided you don't want to work anymore, just completely died. Turns out of any new engine, I am not willing to part with that car just yet, so I ponied up for a new engine. Seven grand, if you must ask, and I currently have a GoFundMe to help to help. pay it down so far we've had a few folks donate to that and I appreciate I greatly appreciate the donations and trust me none of them are going to waste they are all going down to

pay down this debt so I'm so just want you to be aware of this You can donate if you want. I'm not going to beat you over the head with donations. Everything. So if you won, I'll go and share that with you as well. You can find it at this is the GoFundMeety, assist Mike Chernivsky in Overcoming Car. Issues.

Phrase $570. Again, all of it has gone to paying down this debt that I have. Donations are protected. And I wish I took a bare photo, to be completely honest with you. And, yeah, there is a photo of the car while it was. in the shop waiting for the parts of the biggest

reason for the such long wait I had a way months for a new engine to come in and it is a brand new engine I don't wait months for that

so I just posted updates because I recently got a thousand miles on this new engine and they asked it so

so fun thing that happens when you get a new engine is after a thousand miles they want to just take a look see that you know you're not leaking oil or anything that everything looks good

and everything does look good. I just had that inspection I think it's covered entirely by the cost of the engine itself because it didn't pay anything further they said yeah everything looks good what did not look good was after getting it out initially and having a check engine

lights and starting issues I'm still having the starting issues but the check engine eyes no more had to wait a couple more weeks for a wiring harness to properly wire everything and yeah yeah not fun so uh hopefully it'll be a while before we're having that discussion again but uh the next time we're having this discussion i'm considering either buying a new car or converting it to an electric vehicle i know only know of one place in the entire KC Metro that does EV conversions, and that would be the ignition lap. So have a bunch of high school kids work on it.

Well, that's a discussion for much further down a road, hopefully with a more environmentally friendly president, like unlike the piece of shit we have in there right now. speaking of which I have two episodes in the can for this 10th season

and two episodes are already in the can already on the service just ready to be scheduled and one of them is on climate change in fact is a repurposing of a Sunfly Brew episode

specifically because Google who owns BlockSpot took down the Block Spot post on that specific episode all right unfortunately that podcast we had to cycle everything through

anything so that episode is long cycled through but I still have all the master recordings and all that's so I was like you know what they're going to play that game we're not just going to talk about climate change I'm going to recycle that particular episode so you'll be hearing that for season 10 try to stop me and another episode I already have in the can for this season is the thoughts on the defunding of public media of course I'll on

A lot of friends already know this but I interned in the public media specifically my local PBS station so I so I

understand probably better a lot of people how how great benefits public television actually is and not and we're talking about

the local level because that was the first thing Nick Haynes ever told me when I was doing my intertorn ship, we only focus on local stuff at this station. And in our case, local means anything going to do with Kansas City and anything having to come out of Jefferson City or Topeka. And for those who don't know what I'm talking about, especially our international, listeners, I know those guys exist.

The state capitals, the state capital of Kansas is Topeka. The state capital of Missouri is Jefferson City. And that's where all the politics happened. So they will, they affect our area because we are pretty much in both of those states. So I got my thoughts. on that. If you can, donates to your local PBS station

and donates to your local NPR station as well, because they do great work. And they're being unfairly targeted. It's there. The closest thing we have to public media in this country, the closest thing in the BBC we have in this country, and they deserve our support.

And don't buy for a second that there's a liberal bias going on with these outlets, because there is not. And don't buy for a second that there's a liberal bias happening at any of our mainstream media here in the states. And I do talk a little bit more about that. in that episode. In fact, there's an entire episode released available now on the thoughts on media bias or like thereof is the title.

And I talk about this sort of stuff. Most of the rest of the media in our country is owned by corporations. That is a fact. Do you think those corporations are going to willfully have a, overtly progressive

bias, I think not. There is a separate right-wing media apparatus, but that's a totally different beast in everything. I do have a list of

types of guests I would like to bring on the podcast. I'm going to share that with you then. So go back here. And let's go instead to... No, not GoFund me. Facebook. So we're on Facebook real quick.

This thing is as slow as all hell. I'm going to... Where the heck is it? Where the heck is it's? I'm just talking. And one thing I don't usually do with these videos, I don't usually post the video, but I will post this video to our uncalled for interviews.

Let's go. Podcasts. It's first posted here, podcast guest collaboration, community. Find a guest be a guest. Let's click on members. Let's click on myself. Ah, here it is. Here it is. So, good, well, evening in this case now, but I wrote this in the morning. Podcast World, I'm preparing for start production on the new season of this podcast I'm called for. We're coming close to 200 episodes. So for 200, I want to a live show.

For 200, for 200 episode, I really want to do a live show. But in the meantime, I want to open the things up to the podcasting community. Here are a few topics I'm interested in exploring.

So, here are the topics. So, yoga and meditation. Okay, I've gotten a lot of health experts, probably some of them do have yoga background as well. We haven't actually talked about yoga or meditation yet on the podcast.

Impriming public transit, especially in the Kansas City area. But let's be honest, public transit is an issue everywhere in the U.S. All right. We have two car-centric country people outside of a few areas like New York. Bob's discussions on health and wellness. I've already gotten a couple of folks lined up just to talk about health and fitness. Sports discussions are always welcome, especially if you are a fan of the UFL. I want to get your perspectives on that or a UFL team.

And, of course, film and acting, especially in the KC area, because most of our guests, if you've a long time, listen, to the podcast, you know a lot of our guests are filmmakers and actors in the KC area. Chess and other board games, I am a licensed TD.

And other topics you might be interested in but check with me first because oh yeah, let me show you some of the comments I have gotten from this particular post. Of course, we're based in Kansas City. So

if you're in the KC area, I can meet up with you. If not, that's what Zoom is for, and unfortunately we're limited it's in time because I'm a fucking cheapo. But yeah, let's look at some of these. This time. No, this one's a good one.

This one's a good one. Shout to Amy for this. I'm probably not a great fit for your podcast. Thanks for a minute in advance. But I'm saying, hi, as I'm also based in the KC. Metrae here. Side notes. you mentioned the film industry. They shut down the grocery store by my house on Wednesday.

This was a week ago. To film part of a Tadlasso episode and filmed on my friend's streets Monday and Tuesday, wishing success in the upcoming season. At which point I told her, well, you know, we have an episode for that with Marnie and Nick. and I do at least just that episode to which she responds oh wow very cool I'll check it out I hope you do Amy

and then this one I got mentioned so so so Kate I'm going to read your words here I'm interested as a holistic practitioner I help women overcome relentless

exhaustion mood swings, disruptive periods, and PCOS. What the heck is PCOS? By naturally bouncing their hormones and building a life they live. My clients experience life-changing results like steady energy,

regular and painless periods, and even natural pregnancies through my unique approach that blends nutrition, mineral balancing and nervous system repair. I would love to chat about the rice epidemic of early paramenopause.

How I think that's BS and what's really going on for women in their 30s right now. To which I initially say, you know, I appreciate it, so let me think about it. And then the next morning I'm like,

no, I'm going to pass because I'm not I myself and not female and I have no idea how many of my listeners actually are, but thank you anyway for your interest in the podcast.

Makes sense. All right. Yeah, that's fine. And I posted in a couple of other groups and everything. So a couple of these folks I did

contacts have not heard back from. I can't schedule you if I don't hear back from you. And I've got a long list of people I need. to get in touch with two. I'm working on one of my old high school buddies. So another one coming on.

I will try to get Brother John on the podcast. I think he'd be great, and he is, in fact, interested in doing the podcast. So we'll have to find a way to... I need to stop being lazy and actually contact him. on that. I'd love to bring Heather back to the podcast to do some more co-hosting

opportunities. And full disclosure, I'm working on my faction analysis for a smash-up. It's going to take at minimum

four episodes to do. So I'm waiting for the rest of the game to come out for that's when that will be i cannot say much more other than uh it's under nda so can't talk much more about it right now uh but yeah there's plenty of uh coach jason as well that'd be a good uh here for you uh given that he is the neighbor of Kelsey that

have been referencing I'd love to hear and record his perspective on that whole situation so well it seems that no one's going to be joining and that's

perfectly all right people have things to do and that's no that's it's only fine and of course everyone that's our that hours repeat is a friend of the podcast so of course you're always welcome back on the podcast and just let me know first and I think that's going to do it go up on a half hour here so so if you're watching the video portion of it we'll see you

later. If you're listening on the podcast, I'm going to end with some audio from some of the videos I've been doing starting my car. All right. Just because I've had so many

issues with starting the damn thing and still I am especially when I'm at work at the office. It tends to give me starting problems there.

in particular. So we will leave it that and I'm looking forward to this 10th season of Uncalled for it. I want to thank everyone for listening and getting us to

25,000 downloads on the entire podcast. It's nothing compared to some of the bigger podcasts. They're getting millions of downloads. I mentioned Kelsey earlier.

I bet he's getting millions of downloads for New Heights and all respects to him. And I'm actually listening to Kylie Kelsey's podcast now to the Nekyllis. And it's quite entertaining. In fact, two of that expert that was talking about paramenipar. pause. I think she'd be a more appropriate to guess for Kylie's podcast. Anyway, I think that

will wrap it up for this edition. And I will talk to y'all again very soon. Thank you once again for your continued support. Podcast is uncalled for is hosted, produced, and edited by myself, Mike Chernevsky.

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