On October 24, 2024, I'm embarking on a major new adventure to document my life in diary form. That includes daily journal entries and vlogs, and then backdating and going back and doing these as many things as I can remember from the rest of my life. I woke up at four in the morning today.
Finding a format I can actually keep up with
I've been publishing music and trying comedy and wondering what to do with my creativity in addition to my crypto videos. You all love my crypto videos so much. And yet I know I've got something I want to give that's a bigger context than just crypto videos on a day to day basis. And I think I finally figured out a perfect formula.
These need to be kept short. Just little diary entries. I read a book called Theft by Finding by David Sedaris, and I loved his diary entries. They were little quick diary entries in his book over the period of like 20 years. And I've wanted to put together all the stuff I'm learning and my life experiences in a format that you could easily consume across multiple platforms.
The conversation with Melissa
I was talking to my friend Melissa last night after a meeting, and she was talking about how she listens to a podcast on Spotify. And I was thinking, how is it possible that I've created five plus thousand YouTube videos? I used to have a podcast with like a thousand episodes on it. Why do I have nothing set up for Melissa to listen to on Spotify? And why am I struggling to put out content for my followers on my original YouTube channel and on X?
I have all of you that are willing to listen to me and are interested in my life. Literally, all I need to do is figure out a format that I can use to do that and put it out on an ongoing basis. And I think I've got it.
Labeling my life as comedy
I'm going to label this as comedy on Spotify. Oh, that can be funny, isn't it, Jerry? Well, I'm going to try and take my life as comedy and laugh as much as possible at my life. I've noticed when I think about diary entries and talking about my past, it gets so serious and it was so heavy. And this is my life and I really want to lighten it up.
So I've been listening to some stand up comedy on Spotify, which has been amazing. Like Louis C.K. — I'm listening to a few of his. And I've been wondering, what kind of music can I put out on Spotify that's basically spoken word? In addition to my instrumentals — I love my instrumental music. And I want to put out something that gets all my life lessons and stuff that I could just give to Melissa and be like, here's a playlist, listen to this.
The vision: a Jerry Banfield Show
And I got this vision in my head at like five in the morning that if I had a playlist on Spotify called like the Jerry Banfield Show or Jerry Banfield Diary, or something like that. And then it was like little three minute songs. And I'd put out like an album every month with like 30 plus diary entries in it. And then just have this one master playlist, or maybe break them up into parts and do the same thing on YouTube. And then you could just listen through to all the different little stories, and it would be more interesting.
Taking as many shots as I can
I've noticed a lot of my videos in the past were too long and too rambling. And it'd be better for me to make a couple of short videos every day instead of making these really long 20, 30 minute, hour long videos, and to stick to just telling stories from my life. So I am intending to do that. And I'm getting started on that here today.
And my mind's like, this sucky intro won't get anyone to listen to this crap. Well, maybe we shall see about that. But I'm thinking like basketball. I'm going to just take as many shots as I can, try and make it as long as I can, put them into a format you'll enjoy, and see what happens. That whole idea is what eventually grew into my daily vlogs from St. Pete, and you can watch the newest ones in my Life playlist.
So thank you for embarking on this journey of my life. This is what I'm doing and obsessing about on October 24th, 2024.