Transcript
Zain
0:02
This is a strategist episode 974. My name is Zain Velji. With me as always, Corey Hogan, Stephen Carter. Guys, oh, there is so much to talk about. But before that, before that, Stephen Carter, do the sound effect. We have you here for the sound effect. Do the special sound effect. The breaking news special announcement sound effect.
Zain
0:24
beautiful. terrible fucking carter
Carter
0:26
carter you know improv has gotten worse and worse in my life as i've aged it's just terrible we're
Zain
0:32
we're here cory we're here steven you're here he's gonna stop
Carter
0:35
the recording in like 20 seconds and he's not going
Zain
0:37
to no no he's not
Zain
0:39
this is this is a special announcement cory
Zain
0:45
and it's an announcement we're putting those two things together because the
Zain
0:49
the strategists are hitting the road that is right we are doing a live show The Strategists Present, The Strategists Live, brought to you by The Strategists. Oh, it's happening. April 10th in Calgary, 8 p.m., Engineered Air Theater. This is not a joke. This is not a drill. Stephen Carter, tickets. Oh, they're available.
Zain
1:11
they are. Strategistslive.com. You interrupted me. Now the people couldn't hear, but don't worry. They're going to hear it now. Strategistslive.com. Tickets, Carter. They're at an affordable price. We don't even have to mention how inexpensive these tickets are. They're available to the people. StrategistLive.com. I should mention, do not go to TheStrategistLive.com. That's right, Corey? It's StrategistLive.com.
Corey
1:33
That's correct. StrategistLive.com. TheStrategistLive.com was taken by a competitor of ours, which is fine. We're okay with that. We're bigger than that. As long as you remember, StrategistLive.com. I
Zain
1:46
I know many of you are in shock.
Zain
1:48
Many of you are losing your mind. Many of you have had your mind blown, and some of you are saying, well, why are you only giving us a couple weeks' notice? Why only a few weeks' notice on the biggest podcasting event this country has seen? And the answer is quite simple. Carter, I'll explain it to you, and then I'll explain it to the audience, and then you can, of course, give everyone the context. Thank you. Stephen Carter wanted to renew his vows, and
Zain
2:12
and he booked the space. He
Zain
2:15
He booked the space. Yeah. And what happened then, Carter? Carter?
Carter
2:18
Heather decided that it wasn't a good idea. She thought that me renewing my vows with her wasn't something that was in her long-term best interest. So anyways,
Carter
2:31
I had the haul and $650 wasted or $650 as a deposit for The Strategist Live. And I
Carter
2:41
I went with The Strategist just live i'm just pretty excited way
Zain
2:44
way to let people in on the economics
SPEAKER_02
2:46
economics of the show steven carter i'm not wasting 650
Carter
2:51
650 dollars right once
SPEAKER_02
2:52
once again 650 dollars
SPEAKER_02
2:54
dollars is the price
SPEAKER_02
2:57
haven't told people how much tickets are but please tell us how much it was
Carter
3:00
was 650 dollars and then i got a quote back that's like here's all the technical support staff you're gonna need and it was like it's over two thousand dollars that i would have been out of pocket so i told told you guys we had to do a live show oh
Carter
3:12
oh this is i was significant significantly in the hole on this thing cory
Zain
3:16
cory doesn't he know how to sell like if there's one thing he could do it sell something yes and he's selling this it's he's selling it well i
Corey
3:23
i worked with steven and you worked with steven too i did
Corey
3:26
bit of a superpower you have steven of always being able to really just lock on to the unique selling proposition here and apparently for us it's it was available and i I need to recoup my costs.
Carter
3:39
Oh, no. That was our selling proposition. That's why we're doing it.
Carter
3:44
Why other people will come to the show is beyond me. StrategistLive.com.
Zain
3:49
.com. Please do not go to TheStrategistLive.com. Once again, I will say that TheStrategistLive. Don't go there. TheStrategistLive.com. That's not the website you need to go to. It was not available. Someone else had taken it, but
Zain
4:02
but sucks to be them because we have StrategistLive.com. That's where you can get your tickets. And, I mean, Stephen Carter. Let's talk
Carter
4:08
talk about that ticket price.
Carter
4:10
Yeah, so you guys said after I brought this to you that it had to be a $25 ticket. And I was pissed because I thought people would pay more than that. So I went to the Arts Commons folks and I said a $25 ticket. And so we're getting $25. You know how much the Arts Commons people are getting? $9.75. It's a $35 ticket, but we only get $25. It's bullshit. And how
SPEAKER_02
4:35
the Rubik's Cube? Bullshit.
Carter
4:45
we're getting nothing we have to like sell the venue out to make the 2000 bucks back that I'm gonna be out of pocket on this thing it's fucking gross
Carter
4:54
guys are the worst I
Zain
4:55
I mean to me even at 34.75 it seems like a great value it's
Carter
4:59
it's a great value for Arts Commons they're over the moon
Carter
5:03
they're over the moon
Carter
5:07
we're getting screwed once
Carter
5:10
once again we get the split we from every ticket sold each of us gets two dollars each
Carter
5:16
each of us gets two dollars wait how does that work how
SPEAKER_02
5:18
how does each of us get two dollars explain that to me okay we're
SPEAKER_02
5:21
we're gonna make first we can hold on first how much was the room room was
Carter
5:25
was like two well 650 bucks for the room and
Carter
5:29
and then seriously i gotta go through the add-ons You wouldn't believe what they sent me as the add-on. Pull it
Zain
5:35
it up. Pull up the email. Pull up the email. I want to know about the add-ons. Let's do it, Carter.
Carter
5:38
Oh, hang on a second. I got to open my email. While
Zain
5:40
While you open up your email, strategistlive.com. Do not go to the strategistlive.com. I mean, this is an incredible value. It is podcasting on stage. This is not like Ira Glass showing up and saying, hey, this is America, and then playing radio documentaries. Oh, no. You get to see how the sausage is made. Okay? Think of it like a Zoom call, but in real life. We're just going to be there. We're going to do the same show we do. We're more than likely going to ignore you, okay? We might have a Q&A at the end where I get to ask Stephen and Corey some questions, right? So we might do some of that, okay?
Zain
6:15
That's the show, okay?
Zain
6:17
And I know you want to be there, or you don't. But either way, strategistlive.com, not thestrategistlive.com. That is not the URL to go to. Corey, anything you want to add? I mean, I've talked about the value. I've talked about how Ira Glass sucks. i've talked about how you know the genesis of this show any other value propositions you want to you want to put on the table you
Corey
6:37
you know this is our first live show since 2016 this
Corey
6:40
this is true yeah
Carter
6:42
those were huge then okay thank
SPEAKER_02
6:44
thank you great thank you for that unique contribution
SPEAKER_02
6:48
okay i had to pay
Carter
6:49
pay the deposit 650 dollars right and then hang on i gotta find schedule a
Carter
6:58
it's like 19 pages here other
Carter
7:00
other items bear fate oh yeah here it is oh 75 for insurance
Carter
7:07
we also have to pay 20 of our cds and dvd sales so that's gonna hurt us um
Carter
7:17
that's gonna take all the profit out of those uh ticket setup fees uh five ten bucks like like unbelievable and uh where's the rest of it here oh yeah no ticket pricing capital expenses this is where we get uh two
Carter
7:30
two dollar crf fees i mean it's just nuts hang on i gotta find the rest oh man it's
Zain
7:37
you know what isn't gone strategist live.com that is where you get these tickets okay
Zain
7:42
25 plus a nine dollar service charge to arts commons 975
Carter
7:46
975 zane that's not That's not round down. That's
Zain
7:50
That's where the Engineered Air Theater is, April 10th, the day after the alleged UCP leadership review. I mean, it's well-timed, okay? It's available.
Carter
8:00
available. Front of house labor is $600, Zane, is what I'm trying to get at. $600. Then they've put host bar in. Who the fuck is hosting the bar? Do we have to pay for the alcohol, too? This
Carter
8:11
This is not turning out to be a good deal.
Carter
8:13
They've got to be selling those drinks. Box office services are $175. Holy shit. It came out to $2,322.50.
Carter
8:22
We're going to get hosed
Zain
8:23
hosed on this thing. Here's the thing. There's a good chance we do more than an hour on stage, okay? And if you just look at that, $34.75 for more than an hour, that's less than a dollar a minute. But here's the thing. You got three of us. Production labor is $5
Zain
8:36
At this point, we're paying you, and Carter will testify to that, okay? We are paying you to attend the show. The show, of course, The Strategist Presents, The Strategist Live, brought to you by The Strategist. We, of course, struggled with the sponsor. uh flair airlines was unfortunately not available um they they might be available for future gigs is what they've said to us uh in their cease and desist letter um but but cory
Zain
9:01
cory once again the website for people in case they have forgotten it the website is well
Corey
9:06
well that would be strategist live.com oh
Carter
9:09
oh i almost said
Zain
9:11
no carter it is not not strategist live.com okay that is that is of course indeed taken anything else any other sales sales pitches. I mean, we don't sell a lot on this show, okay? You know, we usually spend a couple minutes on banter up front. We don't talk a lot about ourselves. We don't talk about monetizing or getting ourselves out of financial holes on this show a lot, okay? I mean, this is two weeks in a row with the Stephen Carter job pitch and now this. But that being said, Stephen Carter, anything else to tell the audience about the Strategist present, the Strategist Live brought to you by the Strategist happening on April 10th at 8 p.m. at the Engineered Air Theater here in Calgary.
Carter
9:46
Well, I think that people should know that if they show up early, like sometime around seven 30 or so, they'll watch you strolling into the venue about 30 or 40 minutes after Corey and I were there making sure everything was set up. And if you're seated in your seats around seven 30, you'll actually get to see Zane Velji try and talk his way out of recording the show. It'll
Carter
10:04
It'll be a pretty great moment where he says, no, I don't want to do this anymore. Uh, I really don't want to record the show tonight, guys. Is that okay? And we'll, and Corey will lose his fucking mind and i'll say i got 2400 into this thing we're recording the fucking show
Corey
10:21
show up 10 minutes before and you get to see zane velgey write the show so yeah that's
Zain
10:25
that's pretty good we'll
Zain
10:26
we'll pull right the show uh in very loose terms once again strategistlive.com i mean not the strategist live please do not go to the strategist live.com that website as i explained played earlier was taken but strategist live.com available tickets 34 75 a fair share to us a fair share to arts commons uh stephen carter uh of course uh not able to renew his vows but that means you get lucky audience that means you get a live show think
Zain
10:58
think of it like a zoom call but we're on stage i mentioned that already we are on stage in front of you you all sit facing the same direction uh it's it's it's unique it's new and it's better than what ira glass does it's
Carter
11:11
it's and there's also two chances right like chances are we're either going to be really funny because we got a live audience or we're going to bomb right in front of everybody right so both of those things are pretty great because people watching us bomb they love that i'm going to get a haircut pretty excited you
Zain
11:28
know we will be asking for vaccine passports uh just mumps measles and rubella That's all we all we care about. So dig that up. Make sure you have it. We also want to ensure everyone has a mask. We just want to make sure you have it. We're not going to make you put it on. We're just going to we're just going to make make sure everyone has that, Carter, because that's what we do. We're a safe show. And we ensure that people have their vaccine passports from the sixth grade. That's what we want, Carter. Corey,
Carter
11:56
Corey, are you in for paying for the strategist's live masks? masks.
Zain
12:02
20% does go indeed to Artscom. Once again, strategistlive.com. Corey, what is the website not, just in case people are forgetting?
Zain
12:17
You know, tickets are $34.75. Now you might be thinking to yourself.
Carter
12:22
If you were at the live show right now, you could see the look on Corey Hogan's face. it's not a good look he does not look happy this is perfect you
Zain
12:31
you know why because he hasn't bought tickets yet at strategistlive.com okay we get updates
Carter
12:35
updates on this do people tell us how many tickets we've sold we
Carter
12:39
we should be announcing
Zain
12:40
announcing it as we speak jesus christ card you'd expect for 975 a ticket they'd get back to you about how we think it's
Carter
12:48
been on sale since the 19th why did we take so long to launch this like okay
Zain
12:55
you're okay anything else carter you want to you want to throw on the table i
Carter
12:59
just think we should tweet about it or something maybe get some additional promotion we've got a facebook page don't we we should try that get some what's
Zain
13:06
what's up what's up with that you look uh you look worried that i haven't mentioned the full depths and extent of the strategists present the strategist live brought to you by the strategists happening Happening April 10th, 8 p.m., Engineered Air Theater.
Zain
13:20
Corey, you look concerned that I haven't mentioned that, and also tickets $34.75, but that includes a generous $9
Zain
13:28
$9.75 to Arts Commons, available at strategistlive.com. Corey, you feel like I haven't mentioned that enough.
Corey
13:35
do, Zane. I am also modestly concerned that people will not fully appreciate that the website is strategistlive.com.
Corey
13:46
anybody test this? Does this actually work? Not the strategist live.com.
Carter
13:50
Carter, do you want to try it in front of us and just see if it works?
Carter
13:53
I'm not going to buy a ticket. I'm already out $650. I'm not adding. How much are you out? Is it
Corey
13:59
or several thousand? This number is moving around a lot. $650
Carter
14:02
$650 is what I had to put down in the deposit, but I'm committed to another, to $2,300 total.
Zain
14:12
should have read the contract. We're sponsoring Arts Commons at this point. Corey, anything else you want to mention? Because I've got a couple of things I want to mention before we move on.
Corey
14:20
Oh, you know, I wouldn't want to get in the way of your other announcements, Zane. Carter,
Zain
14:24
Carter, anything you want to mention before we move on?
Carter
14:27
Well, I should mention that we are in the Engineered Air Theater. And things went badly because we tried to get the Jack Singer Concert Hall because that holds 1,800 people. How much does this hold,
Zain
14:39
actually? That's a really good question. Some people might be wondering, am I going to be in a big theater? No,
Carter
14:43
No, it's only 168 people. Tickets are limited, okay. Very limited, yeah, which really hurts our profitability. I hate
Corey
14:53
hate you both so much.
Zain
14:57
You know, one thing I should mention, tickets are limited. Only 160 of these puppies. The Max
Carter
15:02
Max Bell Theater was also not available at 750 seats, but that would have been pretty good. But the Martha Cohen Theater at $349, I thought was too small for the total cost. So we wound up going with the engineer there. This is for your
Zain
15:17
your vows, yeah. So
Zain
15:19
is, you know, as we have taken on this show on Stephen's behalf, there's a couple of important things I should mention. Number one, it's called The Strategist Presents, The Strategist Live, brought to you by The Strategist, 8 p.m. April 10th. I mean, this is right after the UCP Leadership Review. I mean, you could be traveling from out of anywhere. You could come to Calgary and you'd get the freshest takes, the hottest takes on the UCP Leadership Review. And tickets $34.75. Now, that includes, you might be saying, why $34.75? It doesn't make sense. Where
SPEAKER_02
15:49
Where does that number come from?
Carter
15:53
Comes from Arts Commons and saying that we couldn't get more than $25. Okay, so that's
Zain
16:00
that's on the cost side. Carter, what's on the expense side? can
Carter
16:05
what happens is you start with 650 for the venue and then you start adding in things that i don't quite understand but the production labor and charges is
Carter
16:15
is 550 bucks six hundred dollars for front of house labor like how many people come in for this thing um
Carter
16:21
um event supplies is confusing 75 and then the host bar i'm really nervous about that cory apropos of nothing can i have your credit card number i need to check
Carter
16:34
check some things out anyways
Carter
16:37
go ahead carter please no i'm i'm i'm pretty excited because 600 or 100 680 come on we'll never fill that 168 people would be pretty good show for us we have sold this venue out before this is a real good test to see whether or not we are still popular so it
Zain
16:54
it is it is it is a good test and you know what also is a good test is to check out the website strategistlive.com. I mean, that is where you get your tickets, okay? The Strategist Live, I don't know if I've mentioned this before, was taken, but strategistlive.com, not taken, now ours, okay? So this is how it worked. It was initially nobody's, then it became ours, it was taken, and now it's for you. It is for you to use strategistlive.com to get tickets. Corey, I mean, I know that this is a lot of information. It's a lot of fresh information. And delivered so quickly, yeah.
Zain
17:27
mean, it is fresh information for the people. Tickets are limited, though. You know, one of the other things, Carter, just one second. Tickets are limited, right? 168. They're not unlimited. Not unlimited. They're limited,
Zain
17:37
and they're limited to 168. For a limited
Zain
17:41
one might argue it's limited upon limited. It's compounding the limitation. Limited squares. There are so many limitations, but one limitation in addition to the limited time that we have, the limited number of tickets is that we were limited by the choice of website url that we have now what is the website url it is the website you go to and one of them wasn't available the one we wanted the strategist live.com it makes natural sense unfortunately taken so what we have chosen is strategist live.com that's where you need to go for your tickets limited website limited time limited number of seats carter it
Zain
18:19
sounds like it sounds like a great value i mean if i if i would say so myself i
Carter
18:24
i think it's a value at twice the price uh i can't believe we didn't have oh oh oh we should mention that you can in fact sponsor this but not in a traditional sense if you pay 1500 to me stephen carter um we will put your seats on stage and we will make fun of you for For the entire show. So that information will also be coming out if you want to do that. But it has to be paid to me, Stephen Carter, because we don't have a strategist bank account, which was also a little bit of a problem when we were trying to switch it over from my vow renewal to this podcast live thing. So apparently
Carter
19:00
apparently Corey's got a criminal history that we weren't able to get our own bank account.
Zain
19:06
anything else to add before we move on? I know we spent a couple minutes here just giving people all these details. else anything else you want to mention before we
Corey
19:13
we move on i'm just uh
Corey
19:14
i'm hoping that steven can expand on his pricing strategy where we told him no more than 25 dollars and the tickets are now 34
Zain
19:24
if we didn't do is you support arts commons now it might seem like this is not common arts okay these are not this is not arts for the commoners this is quality art that arts commons produces i feel like the 975 well earned okay a couple of items that that they're earning from It's the 20% of CDs and DVDs, okay? They're going to take it, but they deserve it, okay? It's also the additional stuff Stephen Carter mentioned. I mean, wait, Carter, the stuff that they're taking is in addition to the $9.75?
Carter
19:52
Like, it's a lot of money is what I'm trying to get across. Yeah,
Zain
19:54
Yeah, I think it's unfortunately
Zain
19:55
too much money for them. What we need you to do is pay the full money, but also send a strongly worded email. We'll release a template shortly about why we should fuck it, the $9.75. And we're going to make, yeah,
Carter
20:08
we're going to make like nothing.
Carter
20:10
They're going to make $4,000. Each of us is going to walk away with about $300 if
Zain
20:19
Yeah. Which is almost an infinite
Carter
20:20
infinite amount more than we get paid for recording the podcast.
Carter
20:24
Corey, his head's going to explode. This is the best day ever for me. You
Zain
20:28
You okay, buddy? Corey, before we move on to our next segment, I just want to see how you're doing. Just test the waters a bit. And then I've got a couple of announcements to make, and then we'll move on to the next segment.
Corey
20:36
Well, I'm wondering if we're going to use any of this money perhaps to cover our recording costs for the past two years.
Carter
20:44
that was not actually part of the plan.
Carter
20:48
How much did it cost to
Carter
20:50
to record this thing?
Carter
20:51
Because it's always been free to Zane and I.
Zain
20:55
It honestly has been free. I have taken it for granted. And sometimes when you take things for granted that you can just show up and it's available, kind of like how we wanted the strategistlive.com. Now, let me tell you about this. This was a website URL that we wanted to point to our show, but
Zain
21:12
but was not available. So what we had to do is get with strategistlive.com, strategistlive.com for your tickets. Once again, The Strategist Presents, The Strategist Live, brought to you by The Strategist. 8 p.m., April 10th, Engineered Air Theater here in Calgary, Alberta. This is going to be a heck of a show.
Zain
21:27
Let's move it on to our next segment. The Strategists are hitting the road. That is right. We are doing a live show. the strategist present the strategist live brought to you by the strategist oh it's happening april 10th in calgary 8 p.m engineered air theater this is not a joke this is not a drill steven carter tickets oh they're available strategistlive
Zain
21:51
strategistlive.com where you interrupted me now the people couldn't hear but don't worry they're gonna hear it now strategistlive.com tickets carter they're at an affordable price we don't even have to mention how how inexpensive these tickets are they're available to the people strategistlive.com i should mention do not go to the strategistlive.com that's right cory it's strategistlive.com that's
Corey
22:13
that's correct strategistlive.com the strategistlive.com was taken by a competitor of ours um which is fine we're okay with that we're bigger than that as long as you remember strategistlive.com now
Zain
22:25
now i know many of you are in shock many
Zain
22:27
many of you are uh uh, losing your mind. Uh, many of you have had, had your mind blown and some of you are saying, well, why are you only giving us a couple of weeks notice? Why only a few weeks notice on the, on the biggest podcasting event this country has seen? And, and the answer is quite simple. Carter, I'll explain it to you and then I'll explain to the audience. And then you can, you can of course give everyone the context. Um, Stephen Carter wanted to renew his vows and he booked the space. He
Zain
22:54
He booked the space. Yeah. And what happened then Carter? Carter?
Carter
22:58
Heather decided that it wasn't a good idea. She thought that me renewing my vows with her wasn't something that was in her long-term best interest. So anyways,
Carter
23:11
I had the haul and, you know, $650 wasted or $650 as a deposit for The Strategist Live. And I
Carter
23:20
I went with The Strategist just live i'm just pretty excited way
Zain
23:24
way to let people in on the economics
SPEAKER_02
23:26
economics of the show steven carter i'm not wasting 650 dollars right
SPEAKER_02
23:32
like once again 650 dollars
SPEAKER_02
23:33
dollars is the price
SPEAKER_02
23:36
haven't even told people how much tickets are but please tell us how much so it's
Carter
23:40
it's 650 dollars and then i got a quote back that's like here's all the technical support staff you're gonna need and it was like it's over two thousand dollars that i would have been out of pocket so i told told you guys we had to do a live show oh
Carter
23:52
oh this is i was significant significantly in the hole on this thing cory
Zain
23:56
cory doesn't he know how to sell like if there's one thing he could do it's sell something yes and he's selling this it's he's selling it well i
Corey
24:03
i worked with steven and you worked with steven too i did it's a bit of a superpower you have steven of always being able to really just lock on to the unique selling proposition here and apparently for us it's it was available and And I need to recoup my costs.
Carter
24:19
Oh, no. That was our selling proposition. That's why we're doing it.
Carter
24:24
Why other people will come to the show is beyond me. StrategistLive
Zain
24:28
StrategistLive.com. Please do not go to TheStrategistLive.com. Once again, I will say that TheStrategistLive. Don't go there. TheStrategistLive.com. That's not the website you need to go to. It was not available. Someone else had taken it.
Zain
24:42
But sucks to be them because we have StrategistLive.com. That's where you can get your tickets. And, I mean, Stephen Carter, let's talk about that
Carter
24:49
Yeah, so you guys said after I brought this to you that it had to be a $25 ticket. And I was pissed because I thought people would pay more than that. So I went to the Arts Commons folks, and I said a $25 ticket. And so we're getting $25. You know how much the Arts Commons people are getting? $9.75. It's a $35 ticket, but we only get $25. It's bullshit. And how
SPEAKER_02
25:14
how much was the Rubik's Cube?
Carter
25:25
we're getting nothing we have to like sell the venue out to make the 2 000 bucks back that i'm gonna be out of pocket on this thing it's fucking gross
Carter
25:33
guys are the worst i
Zain
25:35
mean to me even at even at 34 75 it seems like a great value it's
Carter
25:39
it's a great value for arts commons they're over the moon they're
Carter
25:43
they're over the moon
Carter
25:46
we're getting screwed once
Carter
25:49
once again we get this split we from every ticket sold each of us gets two dollars each
Carter
25:55
each of us gets two dollars wait how does that work
Zain
25:58
work how does each of us get two dollars explain that to me okay we're gonna make first we can hold on first how much was the room the room
Carter
26:05
was like two well 650 bucks for the room and
Carter
26:09
and then seriously i gotta go through the add-ons you wouldn't believe what they sent me is the add-on pull it
Zain
26:14
it up pull up the email pull up the i want to know about the add-ons let's do it oh
Carter
26:18
oh well hang on a second i gotta open my while you
Zain
26:20
you open up your email yeah strategist live.com do not go to the strategist live.com i mean this is an incredible value it is podcasting on stage this is not like ira glass showing up and saying saying, hey, this is America, and then playing radio documentaries. Oh, no. You get to see how the sausage is made, okay? Think of it like a Zoom call, but in real life. We're just going to be there. We're going to do the same show we do. We're more than likely going to ignore you, okay? We might have a Q&A at the end where I get to ask Stephen and Corey some questions, right? So we might do some of that, okay?
Zain
26:55
That's the show, okay?
Zain
26:57
And I know you want to be there, or you don't. But either way, strategistlive.com, not thestrategistlive.com. That is not the URL to go to. Corey, anything you want to add? I mean, I've talked about the value. I've talked about how Ira Glass sucks. I've talked about how, you know, the genesis of this show. Any other value propositions you want to put on the table?
Corey
27:17
You know, this is our first live show since 2016. This
Carter
27:22
were huge then. Okay.
SPEAKER_02
27:23
Okay. Thank you, Corey. Thank you for that unique contribution. you should okay
SPEAKER_02
27:28
okay i had to pay the deposit
Carter
27:29
deposit 650 dollars right and then hang on i gotta find schedule a to
Carter
27:36
to get the expense you know it's
Carter
27:37
it's like 19 pages here other
Carter
27:40
other items bare fate oh yeah here it is oh 75 for insurance um
Carter
27:47
we also have to pay 20 of our cds and dvd sales so that's gonna hurt us um that's
Carter
27:56
that's gonna take all the profit out of those uh ticket setup fees uh five ten bucks like unbelievable and uh where's the rest of it here oh yeah no ticket pricing capital expenses this is where we get uh two
Carter
28:10
two dollar crf fees i mean it's just nuts hang on i gotta find the rest oh man it's
Carter
28:17
it's in the you
Zain
28:17
you know what isn't gone strategist live.com that is where you get these tickets okay they're 25 plus a nine dollar service charge to arts commons 975
Carter
28:26
975 zane that's not that's not round down that's
Zain
28:29
that's where the engineered air theater is april 10th the day after the alleged ucp leadership review i mean it's well timed okay it's available labor
Carter
28:40
labor is 600 zane is what i'm trying to get at 600 bucks then they've put host bar in who the fuck is hosting the bar Do we have to pay for the alcohol, too? This is not turning out to be a good deal.
Carter
28:53
They've got to be selling those drinks. Box office services are $175. Holy shit. It came out to $2,322.50.
Carter
29:02
We're going to get hosed on
Zain
29:03
on this. Here's the thing. There's a good chance we do more than an hour on stage, okay? And if you just look at that, $34.75 for more than an hour, that's less than a dollar a minute. But here's the thing. You've got three of us. Deduction labor is $5
Zain
29:16
.50. at this point we're paying you and carter will testify to that okay we are paying you to attend the show the show of course the strategist present the strategist live brought to you by the strategist we of course struggled with the sponsor uh flair airlines was unfortunately not available um they they might be available for future gigs uh is what they've said to us uh in their cease and desist letter um but but cory cory
Zain
29:40
cory once again the website for people in case they have forgotten it the website is well
Corey
29:46
well that would be strategist live.com oh
Carter
29:48
oh i almost said
Zain
29:50
no carter it is not not strategist live.com okay that is that is of course indeed taken anything else any other sales pitches i mean we don't sell a lot on this show okay you know we we usually spend a couple minutes on banter up front we don't talk a lot about ourselves we don't talk about monetizing or getting ourselves out of financial holes on this show a lot okay uh i mean this is two weeks weeks in a row with the stephen carter job pitch and now this but but that being said stephen carter anything else to tell the audience about the strategist present the strategist live brought to you by the strategist happening on april 10th at 8 p.m at the engineered air theater here in calgary well
Carter
30:26
well i think that people should know that if they show up early like sometime around 7 30 or so they'll watch you strolling into the venue about 30 or 40 minutes after cory and i were there making sure everything was set up and if you're seated in your seats around 7 30 you'll actually get to see zane velge try and talk his way out of recording the show it'll
Carter
30:44
it'll be a pretty great moment where he says no i don't want to do this anymore uh i really don't want to record the show tonight guys is that okay and we'll and cory will lose his fucking mind and i'll say i got 2400 into this thing we're recording the fucking show you
Corey
31:00
show up 10 minutes before and you get to see zane velge write the show so oh
Zain
31:06
we'll pull right the show uh in very loose terms once again strategistlive.com i mean not the strategist live please do not go to the strategist live.com that website as i explained earlier was taken but strategistlive.com available tickets 34.75 a fair share to us a fair share to arts commons uh stephen carter uh of course uh not Not able to renew his vows, but that means you get lucky, audience. That means you get a live show.
Zain
31:38
Think of it like a Zoom call, but we're on stage. I mentioned that already. We are on stage in front of you. You all sit facing the same direction. It's unique. It's new. And it's better than what Ira Glass does.
Carter
31:50
And there's also two chances, right? Chances are we're either going to be really funny because we got a live audience or we're going to bomb right in front of everybody. right so both of those things are pretty great because people watching us bomb they love that i'm gonna get a haircut pretty excited you
Zain
32:08
know we will be asking for vaccine passports uh just mumps measles and rubella that's all we all we care about so dig that up make sure you have it we also want to ensure everyone has a mask uh we just want to make sure you have it we're not going to make you put it on but we're just gonna we're just gonna make Make sure everyone has that, Carter, because that's what we do. We're a safe show, and we ensure that people have their vaccine passports from the sixth grade. That's what we
Zain
32:36
we want, Carter. Corey,
Carter
32:36
Corey, are you in for paying for the Strategist Live masks?
Zain
32:43
20% does go in detail. Once again, strategistlive.com. Corey, what is the website not, just in case people are forgetting? the
Corey
32:53
website is not the strategist live.com you
Zain
32:57
know tickets are 34.75 now you might be thinking to yourself if
Carter
33:01
if you were at the live show right now you could see the look on cory hogan's face it's not a good look he does not look happy this is perfect you
Zain
33:11
you know why because he hasn't bought tickets yet at strategist live.com okay we
Carter
33:15
we get updates on this do people tell us how many tickets tickets we've sold we
Carter
33:19
we should be announcing
Zain
33:20
announcing it as we speak jesus christ carter you'd expect for 975 a ticket they'd get back to you about how much it's been
Carter
33:28
on sale since the 19th why did we take so long to launch this like huh
Zain
33:35
you're okay anything else carter you want to you want to throw on the table i
Carter
33:39
just think we should tweet about it or something maybe get some additional promotion we've got a facebook page don't we we should try that get some what's
Zain
33:45
what's up what's up with that you You look worried that I haven't mentioned the full depths and extent of the Strategist present, the Strategist Live brought to you by the Strategist, happening April 10th, 8 p.m., Engineered Air Theater.
Zain
34:00
Corey, you look concerned that I haven't mentioned that, and also tickets $34.75, but that includes a generous $9
Zain
34:07
$9.75 to Arts Commons, available at strategistlive.com. Corey, you feel like I haven't mentioned that enough.
Corey
34:15
I do, Zane. I am also modestly concerned that people will not fully appreciate that the website is strategistlive.com.
Corey
34:25
Did anybody test this? Does this actually work? Not the strategistlive.com.
Carter
34:30
Carter, do you want to try it in front of us and just see if it works? I'm not going to buy a ticket. I'm already out $650. I'm not adding – How much are you out of? Is it $650
Corey
34:39
or several thousand? This number is moving around a lot. 650
Carter
34:41
650 is what I had to put down in the deposit, but I'm committed to another – to 2,300 total.
Zain
34:52
Should have read the contract. We're sponsoring Arts Commons at this point. Corey, anything else you want to mention? Because I've got a couple of things I want to mention before we move on.
Corey
35:00
Oh, you know, I wouldn't want to get in the way of your other announcements, Zane. Carter,
Zain
35:04
anything you want to mention before we move on?
Carter
35:07
Well, I should mention that we are in the Engineered Air Theater, and things went badly. Because we tried to get the Jack Singer Concert Hall because that holds 1
Carter
35:18
How much does this hold,
Zain
35:19
actually? That's a really good question. Some people might be wondering, am I going to be in a big theater?
Carter
35:23
No, it's only 168 people. Well, tickets are limited, okay. Very limited, yeah, which really hurts our profitability. I
Corey
35:32
I hate you both so much.
Zain
35:36
You know, one thing I should mention, tickets are limited. admitted only 160 of these puppies the max
Carter
35:42
max bell theater was also not available at 750 seats but that would have been pretty good but
Carter
35:47
but the martha cohen theater at 349 i thought was too small for the uh for the total cost uh so we wound up we wound up going with the engineer this is
Zain
35:57
is for your your vows yeah so
Zain
35:59
is you know as we have taken on this show on steven's behalf there's a couple of important things i should mention number one it's called the strategist present Present the Strategist Live, brought to you by The Strategist, 8 p.m. April 10th. I mean, this is right after the UCP Leadership Review. I mean, you could be traveling from out of anywhere. You could come to Calgary, and you'd get the freshest takes, the hottest takes on the UCP Leadership Review. And tickets, $34.75. Now, that includes, you might be saying, why $34.75? It doesn't make sense. Where
SPEAKER_02
36:29
Where does that number come from? Yeah, it
Carter
36:33
comes from Arts Commons and saying that we couldn't get more than $25. Okay, so that's
Zain
36:40
that's on the cost side. Carter, what's on the expense side? Basically,
Carter
36:43
Basically, what happens is you start with $650 for the venue, and then you start adding in things that I don't quite understand. But the production labor and charges is
Carter
36:55
is $550, $600 for front of house labor. Like, how many people come in for this thing? um
Carter
37:00
um event supplies is confusing 75 and then the host bar i'm really nervous about that cory apropos of nothing can i have your credit card number i need i need
Carter
37:13
need to check some things out anyways
Carter
37:17
go ahead carter please no i'm i'm i'm pretty excited because 600 or 100 680 come on we'll never fill that 168 people would be pretty good show for us We have sold this venue out before. This is a real good test to see whether or not we are still popular. It
Zain
37:34
It is a good test. And you know what also is a good test? Is to check out the website strategistlive.com. I mean, that is where you get your tickets, okay? The Strategist Live, I don't know if I've mentioned this before, was taken. But strategistlive.com, not taken, now ours. Okay? So this is how it worked. It was initially nobody's. Then it became ours. It was taken. And now it's for you. It is for you to use strategistlive.com to get tickets. Corey, I mean, I know that this is a lot of information. It's a lot of fresh information. And delivered so quickly,
Zain
38:06
I mean, it is fresh information for the people. You know, people say— Tickets are limited, though. You know, one of the other things, Carter, just one second. Tickets are limited, right? 168. They're not unlimited. Not unlimited. They're limited, and they're limited to 168. For
Zain
38:18
For a limited time
Zain
38:21
one might argue it's limited upon limited. It's compounding the limitation. Limited squares. There are so many limitations, but one limitation in addition to the limited time that we have, the limited number of tickets, is that we were limited by the choice of website URL that we have now. What is a website URL? It is the website you go to. And one of them wasn't available, but what we wanted, thestrategistlive.com. It makes natural sense. Unfortunately, take it. So what we have chosen is strategistlive.com. That's where you need to go for your tickets. it's limited website limited time limited number of seats carter it
Zain
38:59
it sounds like it sounds like a great value i mean if i if i would say so myself i
Carter
39:03
i think it's a value at twice the price uh i can't believe we didn't have oh oh oh we should mention that you can in fact sponsor this but not in a traditional sense if you pay 1500 to me steven carter um we will put your seats on stage and And we will make fun of you for the entire show. So that information will also be coming out if you want to do that. But it has to be paid to me, Stephen Carter, because we don't have a strategist bank account, which was also a little bit of a problem when we were trying to switch it over from my vow renewal to this podcast live thing. So apparently
Carter
39:40
apparently Corey's got a criminal history that we weren't able to get our own bank account.
Zain
39:46
anything else to add before we move on? I know we've spent a couple of minutes here just giving people all these details. Anything else you want to mention before we move
Corey
39:54
I'm hoping that Stephen can expand on his pricing strategy where we told him no more than $25 and the tickets are now—
Zain
40:03
What you do is you support Arts Commons. Now, it might seem like this is not common arts, okay? This is not arts for the commoners. This is quality art that Arts Commons produces. I feel like the $9.75, well-earned, okay? A couple of items that they're earning from. It's the 20% of CDs and DVDs. But they deserve it. It's also the additional stuff Stephen Carter mentioned. Wait, Carter, the stuff that they're taking is in addition to the $9.75?
Carter
40:32
It's a lot of money is what I'm trying to get across.
Zain
40:34
I think it's unfortunately
Zain
40:35
too much money for them. What we need you to do is pay the full money, but also send a strongly worded email. We'll release a template shortly. They could make $4,000 off of this. the 975 i feel like that is what's yeah
Carter
40:48
we're gonna make like nothing they're
Carter
40:50
they're gonna make four thousand you and each of us is gonna walk away with about three hundred dollars if
Carter
40:56
if this goes well yeah
Zain
40:59
which is almost an infinite
Carter
41:00
infinite amount more than we get paid for recording the podcast cory
Carter
41:04
cory is his head's gonna explode this is the best day ever for me you
Zain
41:08
you okay before we move on before we move on to our next segment just want to see how you're doing just test the waters a bit and then I've got a couple of announcements to make and then we'll move on to the next segment.
Corey
41:16
Well, I'm wondering if we're going to use any of this money perhaps to cover our recording costs for the past two years.
Carter
41:23
that was not actually part of the plan.
Carter
41:27
How much did it cost to
Carter
41:29
to record this thing?
Carter
41:31
Because it's always been free to Zane and I.
Zain
41:35
It honestly has been free. I have taken it for granted. And sometimes when you take things for granted that you can just show up And it's available Kind of like how we wanted the strategistlive.com Now let me tell you about this This was a website URL That we wanted to point to our show
Zain
41:52
But was not available So what we had to do was get with strategistlive.com Strategistlive.com for your tickets Once again, The Strategist Presents, The Strategist Live Brought to you by The Strategist 8pm, April 10th Engineered Air Theater, here in Calgary, Alberta This is going to be a heck of a show
Zain
42:07
Let's move it on to our next segment The strategists are hitting the road. That is right. We are doing a live show. The strategists present. The strategists live. Brought to you by the strategists. Oh, it's happening. April 10th in Calgary. 8 p.m. Engineered Air Theater. This is not a joke. This is not a drill. grill. Stephen Carter, tickets. Oh, they're available.
Zain
42:30
Strategistlive.com. You interrupted me. Now the people couldn't hear, but don't worry, they're going to hear it now. Strategistlive.com tickets, Carter. They're at an affordable price. We don't even have to mention how inexpensive these tickets are. They're available to the people. Strategistlive.com. I should mention, do not go to thestrategistlive.com. That's right, Corey? It's strategistlive.com.
Corey
42:53
That's correct. StrategistLive.com. The StrategistLive.com was taken by a competitor of ours, which is fine. We're okay with that. We're bigger than that. As long as you remember, StrategistLive.com. I
Zain
43:05
know many of you are in shock.
Zain
43:07
Many of you are losing your mind. Many of you have had your mind blown. And some of you are saying, well, why are you only giving us a couple weeks notice? Why only a few weeks notice on the biggest podcasting event this country has seen? And the answer is quite simple. Carter, I'll explain it to you, and then I'll explain it to the audience, and then you can, of course, give everyone the context. Thank you. Stephen Carter wanted to renew his vows, and
Zain
43:31
and he booked the space. He
Zain
43:34
He booked the space. Yeah. And what happened then, Carter?
Carter
43:37
Heather decided that it wasn't a good idea. She thought that me renewing my vows with her wasn't something that was in her long-term best interest. so uh anyways
Carter
43:51
anyways i had the hall and uh you know 650 dollars wasted or 650 dollars as a deposit for the strategist live and i
Carter
44:00
i went with the strategist live i'm just pretty excited way
Zain
44:04
way to let people in on
SPEAKER_02
44:05
economics of the show steven carter i'm not wasting 650 dollars
SPEAKER_02
44:12
once again get $650
SPEAKER_02
44:13
is the price for
SPEAKER_02
44:16
haven't even told people how much tickets are but please tell us how much it was $650
Carter
44:19
$650 and then i got a quote back that's like here's all the technical support staff you're gonna need and it was like it's over two thousand dollars that i would have been out of pocket so i told you guys we had to do a live show oh
Carter
44:31
oh this is i was significant significantly in the hole on this thing cory
Zain
44:36
cory doesn't he know how to sell like if there's one thing he could do it's sell something yes and he's selling this it's he's selling it well Well, I
Corey
44:42
I worked with Stephen. You worked with Stephen, too. I did. He's a bit of a superpower you have, Stephen, of always being able to really just lock on to the unique selling proposition here. And apparently for us, it was available, and I need to recoup my costs.
Carter
44:59
Oh, no. That was our selling proposition. That's why we're doing it.
Carter
45:03
Why other people will come to the show is beyond me. StrategistLive
Zain
45:08
StrategistLive.com. Please do not go to the StrategistLive.com once again. I will say that The Strategist Live, don't go there. TheStrategistLive.com, that's not the website you need to go to. It was not available. Someone else had taken it, but
Zain
45:21
but sucks to be them because we have StrategistLive.com. That's where you can get your tickets. And I mean, Stephen Carter, let's
Carter
45:28
let's talk about that ticket price.
Carter
45:29
Yeah, so you guys said after I brought this to you that it had to be a $25 ticket. And I was pissed because I thought people would pay more than that. so i went to the arts commons folks and i said a 25 ticket and so we're getting 25 you know how much the arts commons people are getting nine dollars and 75 cents it's a 35 ticket but we only get 25 it's bullshit and how
SPEAKER_02
45:54
how much was the
SPEAKER_02
45:55
the room again that bullshit
Carter
46:04
we're getting nothing we have to like sell the venue out to make the 2 000 bucks back that i'm gonna be out of pocket on this thing it's
Carter
46:13
guys are the worst i
Zain
46:14
mean to me even at even at 34 75 it seems like a great value it's
Carter
46:19
it's a great value for arts commons they're over the moon they're
Carter
46:23
they're over the moon
Carter
46:26
we're getting screwed once
Carter
46:29
once again we get the split we from every ticket sold each of us gets two dollars each
Carter
46:35
each of us gets two dollars wait how does that work how
Zain
46:38
how does each of us get two dollars explain that to me okay
SPEAKER_02
46:41
we're gonna make first we can hold on first how much was the room room was
Carter
46:45
was like two well 650 bucks for the room and
Carter
46:49
and then seriously i gotta go through the add-ons You wouldn't believe what they sent me is the add-on.
Zain
46:54
-on. Pull it up. Pull up the email. Pull up the email. I want to know about the add-ons. Let's do it, Carter. Oh,
Carter
46:57
Oh, hang on a second. I got to open my email. While
Zain
46:59
While you open up your email, strategistlive.com. Do not go to the strategistlive.com. I mean, this is an incredible value. It is podcasting on stage. This is not like Ira Glass showing up and saying, hey, this is America, and then playing radio documentaries. Oh, no. You get to see how the sausage is made, OK? Think of it like a Zoom call, but in real life. We're just going to be there. We're going to do the same show we do. We're more than likely going to ignore you, okay? We might have a Q&A at the end where I get to ask Stephen and Corey some questions, right? So we might do some of that, okay? That's the show, okay?
Zain
47:37
And I know you want to be there, or you don't. But either way, strategistlive.com, not thestrategistlive.com. That is not the URL to go to. Corey, anything you want to add? I mean, I've talked about the value. I've talked about how Ira Glass sucks. i've talked about how you know the genesis of this show any other value propositions you want to you want to put on the table you
Corey
47:56
you know this is our first live show since 2016 this
Carter
48:02
those were huge then okay thank
SPEAKER_02
48:03
thank you cory thank you for that unique contribution
SPEAKER_02
48:07
okay i had to pay the deposit
Carter
48:09
deposit 650 dollars right and then hang on i gotta find schedule a
Carter
48:17
it's like 19 pages here other
Carter
48:20
other items bear fate oh yeah here it is oh 75 for insurance
Carter
48:26
we also have to pay 20 of our cds and dvd sales so that's gonna hurt us um
Carter
48:36
that's gonna take all the profit out of those uh ticket setup fees uh five ten bucks like like unbelievable and uh where's the rest of it here oh yeah no ticket pricing capital expenses this is where we get uh two
Carter
48:50
two dollar crf fees i mean it's just nuts hang on i gotta find the rest oh man it's
Carter
48:56
it's in the you
Zain
48:57
you know what isn't gone strategist live.com that is where you get these tickets okay
Zain
49:01
25 plus a nine dollar service charge to arts commons 975
Carter
49:06
975 zane let's not It's not round down. That's
Zain
49:09
That's where the Engineered Air Theater is, April 10th, the day after the alleged UCP leadership review. I mean, it's well-timed, okay? It's available. Front of house
Carter
49:19
house labor is $600, Zane, is what I'm trying to get at. $600. Then they put host bar in. Who the fuck is hosting the bar? Do we have to pay for the alcohol, too? This
Carter
49:30
This is not turning out to be a good deal.
Carter
49:33
They've got to be selling those drinks. Box office services are $175. Holy shit. It came out to $2,322.50.
Carter
49:41
We're going to get hosed
Zain
49:42
hosed on this thing. Here's the thing. There's a good chance we do more than an hour on stage, okay? And if you just look at that, $34.75 for more than an hour, that's less than a dollar a minute. But here's the thing. You got three of us. Production labor is $5
Zain
49:56
.50. At this point, we're paying you, and Carter will testify to that, okay? We are paying you to attend the show. The show, of course, The Strategist Presents, The Strategist Live, brought to you by The Strategist. We, of course, struggled with the sponsor. uh flair airlines was unfortunately not available um they they might be available for future gigs is what they've said to us uh in their cease and desist letter um but but cory
Zain
50:20
cory once again the website for people in case they have forgotten it the website is well
Corey
50:25
well that would be strategist live.com oh
Carter
50:28
oh i almost said
Zain
50:30
no carter it is not not strategist live.com okay that is that is of course indeed taken anything else any other sales sales pitches. I mean, we don't sell a lot on this show, okay? You know, we usually spend a couple minutes on banter up front. We don't talk a lot about ourselves. We don't talk about monetizing or getting ourselves out of financial holes on this show a lot, okay? I mean, this is two weeks in a row with the Stephen Carter job pitch and now this. But that being said, Stephen Carter, anything else to tell the audience about the Strategist present, the Strategist Live brought to you by the Strategist happening on April 10th at 8 p.m. at the Engineered Air Theater here in calgary well
Carter
51:06
well i think that people should know that if they show up early like sometime around 7 30 or so they'll watch you strolling into the venue about 30 or 40 minutes after cory and i were there making sure everything was set up and if you're seated in your seats around 7 30 you'll actually get to see zane velgey try and talk his way out of recording the show it'll
Carter
51:23
it'll be a pretty great moment where he says no i don't want to do this anymore uh i really don't want to record the show tonight night guys is that okay and we'll and cory will lose his fucking mind and i'll say i got 2400 dollars into this thing we're recording the fucking show you
Corey
51:40
show up 10 minutes before and you get to see zane velgey write the show so oh
Zain
51:44
oh yeah that's pretty good we'll pull pull write the show uh in very loose terms once again strategistlive.com i mean not the strategist live please do not go to the strategist live.com that website as i explained earlier was taken but strategist live.com available tickets 34.75 a fair share to us a fair share to arts commons uh stephen carter uh of course uh not able to renew his vows but that means you get lucky audience that means you get a live show think
Zain
52:17
think of it like a zoom call but we're on stage and i mentioned I mentioned that already. We are on stage in front of you. You all sit facing the same direction. It's unique. It's new. And it's better than what Ira Glass does.
Carter
52:30
And there's also two chances, right? Chances are we're either going to be really funny because we got a live audience or we're going to bomb right in front of everybody. Right. So both of those things are pretty great because people watching us bomb. They love that. I'm going to get a haircut. Pretty excited.
Zain
52:48
we will be asking for vaccine passports uh just mumps measles and rubella that's all we all we care about so dig that up make sure you have it we also want to ensure everyone has a mask uh we just want to make sure you have it we're not going to make you put it on but we're just gonna we're just gonna make make sure everyone has that carter because that's what we do we're a safe show and and we ensure that people have their vaccine passports uh from the sixth uh grade that's what we want cory
Carter
53:16
cory are you in for paying for the strategist live uh masks all
Carter
53:21
all right thanks 20 20 does
Zain
53:22
does 20 does go indeed to arts comms once again strategist live.com cory what is the website not just in case people are forgetting the
Corey
53:32
the website is not the strategist live.com you
Zain
53:37
you know tickets are 34.75 now you might be thinking to yourself if
Carter
53:41
if you were at the live show right now you could see the look on cory hogan's face it's not a good look he does not look happy this is perfect you
Zain
53:50
you know why because he hasn't bought tickets yet at strategist live.com okay we
Carter
53:54
we get updates on this do people tell us how many tickets we've sold we
Carter
53:59
we should be announcing
Zain
54:00
it as we speak jesus christ car you'd expect for 975 a ticket they'd get back to you about how
Carter
54:07
It's been on sale since the 19th. Why did we take so long to launch this? Like,
Zain
54:15
You okay? Anything else, Carter, you want to throw on the table?
Carter
54:18
I just think we should tweet about it or something. Maybe get some additional promotion. We've got a Facebook page, don't we? We should try that. Get some Facebook.
Carter
54:25
Facebook. Yeah, Corey, what's
Zain
54:25
what's up with that? You look worried that I haven't mentioned the full depths and extent of the Strategist present the strategist live brought to you by the strategists happening april 10th 8 p.m engineered air theater cory
Zain
54:40
cory you look concerned that i haven't mentioned that and also tickets 34 75 but that includes a generous 975
Zain
54:47
975 to arts comments available at strategist live.com cory you feel like i haven't mentioned that enough i
Corey
54:54
do zane i uh i am also modestly concerned that uh that people will will not fully appreciate that the website is strategistlive.com.
Corey
55:05
Did anybody test this? Does this actually work? Not the strategistlive.com.
Carter
55:10
Carter, do you want to try it in front of us and just see if it works?
Carter
55:12
I'm not going to buy a ticket. I'm already out $650. I'm not adding – How much are you out, Alex?
Corey
55:19
or several thousand? This number is moving around a lot. $650
Carter
55:21
$650 is what I had to put down in the deposit, but I'm committed to another – to $2,300 total.
Zain
55:31
should have read the contract. We're sponsoring Arts Commons at this point. Corey, anything else you want to mention? Because I've got a couple of things I want to mention before we move on.
Corey
55:39
Oh, you know, I wouldn't want to get in the way of your other announcements, Zane. Carter,
Zain
55:44
Carter, anything you want to mention before we move on?
Carter
55:46
Well, I should mention that we are in the Engineered Air Theatre. And things went badly because we tried to get the Jack Singer Concert Hall because that holds 1,800 people. How
Carter
55:58
How much is this called, actually?
Zain
55:58
actually? That's a really good question. Some people might be wondering, am I going to be in a big theater?
Carter
56:02
No, it's only 168 people. Tickets are limited, okay. Very limited, yeah, which really hurts our profitability. I hate
Corey
56:12
hate you both so much.
Zain
56:16
You know, one thing I should mention, tickets are limited. Only 160 of these puppies. The Max
Carter
56:22
Max Bell Theater was also not available at 750 seats, but that would have been pretty good. But the Martha Cohen Theater at $349, I thought was too small for the total cost. So we wound up going with the engineer there. This is for your
Zain
56:36
your vows, yeah. So this is, you know, as we have taken on this show on Stephen's behalf, there's a couple of important things I should mention. Number one, it's called The Strategist Presents, The Strategist Live, brought to you by The Strategist, 8 p.m. April 10th. I mean, this is right after the UCP Leadership Review. Review. I mean, you could be traveling from out of anywhere. You could come to Calgary and you'd get the freshest takes, the hottest takes on the UCP Leadership Review and tickets $34.75. Now, that includes, you might be saying, why $34.75? It doesn't make sense. Where does
SPEAKER_02
57:09
does that number come from? It
Carter
57:12
comes from Arts Commons and saying that we couldn't get more than $25. okay so that that's
Zain
57:20
that's on that's on the cost side carter carter what's on the expense side can
Carter
57:24
what happens is you start with 650 for the venue and then you start adding in things that i don't quite understand but the production labor and charges is
Carter
57:34
is 550 bucks 600 for front of house labor like how many people come in for this thing um
Carter
57:40
um event supplies is confusing 75 and then the host bar i'm really nervous about that Corey, apropos of nothing, can I have your credit card number? I need to check
Carter
57:57
go ahead. Carter, please. No, I'm pretty excited because 600 or 100, 680. Come on. We'll never fill that. 168 people would be a pretty good show for us. We have sold this venue out before. This is a real good test to see whether or not we are still popular. It
Zain
58:13
It is a good test. And you know what also is a good test is to check out the website strategistlive.com. I mean, that is where you get your tickets, okay? The Strategist Live, I don't know if I've mentioned this before, was taken, but strategistlive.com, not taken, now ours, okay? So this is how it worked. It was initially nobody's, then it became ours, it was taken, and now it's for you. It is for you to use strategistlive.com to get tickets. Corey, I mean, I know that this is a lot of information. It's a lot of fresh information. information so quickly yeah
Zain
58:46
i mean it is fresh information for the people you know people tickets are limited though you know one of the other things carter just one second tickets are limited right they're not unlimited not unlimited and they're limited to for a
Zain
58:58
a limited time only
Zain
59:01
one might argue it's limited upon limited it's compounding the limitation limited there are so many limitations but one limitation in addition to the limited time that we have the The limited number of tickets is that we were limited by the choice of website URL that we have now. What is a website URL? It is the website you go to. And one of them wasn't available. The one we wanted, thestrategistlive.com. It makes natural sense. Unfortunately, taken. So what we have chosen is strategistlive.com. That's where you need to go for your tickets. Limited website, limited time, limited number of seats. Carter, it
Zain
59:38
it sounds like a great value. I mean, if I if I would say so myself, I
Carter
59:43
I think it's a value at twice the price. I can't believe we didn't have. Oh, oh, oh, we should mention that you can, in fact, sponsor this, but not in a traditional sense. If you pay fifteen hundred dollars to me, Stephen Carter, we will put your seats on stage and we will make fun of you for the entire show. So that information will also be coming out if you want to do that. But it has to be paid to me, Stephen Carter, because we don't have a strategist bank account, which was also a little bit of a problem when we were trying to switch it over from my vow renewal to this podcast live thing. So apparently,
Carter
1:00:19
apparently, Corey's got a criminal history that we weren't able to get our own bank account.
Zain
1:00:25
anything else to add before we move on? I know we spent a couple of minutes here just giving people all these details. Anything else you want to mention before we move on? I'm just –
Corey
1:00:33
I'm hoping that Stephen can expand on his pricing strategy where we told him no more than $25 and the tickets are now – $34
Zain
1:00:43
If we didn't – What you do is you support Arts Commons. Now, it might seem like this is not common arts. Okay? These are not – this is not arts for the commoners. This is quality art that Arts Commons produces. I feel like the $9.75, well-earned, okay? A couple of items that they're earning from. It's the 20% of CDs and DVDs, okay? OK, they're going to take it, but they deserve it. OK, it's also the additional stuff Stephen Carter mentioned. I mean, they wait, wait, Carter, the stuff that they're taking is an addition to the 975. Like
Carter
1:01:11
Like it's a lot of money is what I'm trying to get. Yeah,
Zain
1:01:13
Yeah, I think it's
Zain
1:01:14
too much money for them. What we need you to do is pay the full money, but also send a strongly worded email. We'll release a template shortly. They could make $4,000 off of the 975. I feel like that is what's. Yeah,
Carter
1:01:28
we're going to make like nothing.
Carter
1:01:29
They're going to make $4,000. Each of us is going to walk away with about $300 if
Zain
1:01:38
Yeah. Yeah. Which is almost an
Carter
1:01:40
an infinite amount more than we get paid for recording the podcast.
Carter
1:01:43
Corey, his head's going to explode. This is the best day ever for me. You
Zain
1:01:47
You okay, buddy? Corey, before we move on to our next segment, I just want to see how you're doing. Just test the waters a bit, and then I've got a couple of announcements to make, and then we'll move on to the next segment. well
Corey
1:01:56
i'm just i'm wondering if we're going to use any of this money perhaps to uh cover our recording costs for the past two years no
Carter
1:02:03
that was not actually part of the plan
Carter
1:02:07
how much did it cost to
Carter
1:02:09
to record this thing because
Carter
1:02:11
because it's always been free to zane and i
Zain
1:02:14
it honestly has been free i have taken it for granted you know and sometimes when you take things for granted that you can just show up and it's available uh kind of like how we wanted the thestrategistlive.com. Now, let me tell you about this. This was a website URL that we wanted to point to our show,
Zain
1:02:32
but was not available. So what we had to do is get with strategistlive.com, strategistlive.com for your tickets. Once again, The Strategist Presents, The Strategist Live, brought to you by The Strategist, 8 p.m., April 10th, Engineered Air Theater, here in Calgary, Alberta. This is going to be a heck of a show. All
Zain
1:02:47
All right, guys, let's move it on to our final segment, our final segment, the over, under, the lightning round. Stephen Carter, we do this for you. the show taking on the show the live show steven
Zain
1:02:59
me tell you something overrated underrated the live show uh
Carter
1:03:02
uh underrated live shows are the best shows uh anybody who's ever attended one of our live shows uh knows that it usually ends with nudity
Zain
1:03:12
cory overrated underrated the live show april 10th engineered air theater 8 p.m the strategist present the strategist live brought to you by the strategist cory overrated underrated oh
Corey
1:03:22
oh overrated there's no way it could live up to the hype but that doesn't mean it's not worthwhile definitely worth i'd say 34.75 somewhere around there i
Zain
1:03:32
i mean and what could be better uh than having 975 of that go to arts club at stupid corner i mean that is a healthy healthy margin that they take from us isn't it i
Carter
1:03:43
mean what are they gonna do with like the two thousand dollars that they make off of that like is there going to be some special expenditure as a listener
Zain
1:03:50
listener of this show you need to write a strongly worded comment with accountability for what your 975 will do okay you need to know where your 975 will go we'll tell you where the rest goes we'll tell you where the 25 goes okay it goes to steven now we will we are being very transparent about that cory you know overrated underrated while we're on the subject the 975 for arts comic is that Is that overrated? Is that too much, underrated, not enough? What do you think? It's underrated.
Corey
1:04:20
underrated. People forget all the time, all of the back-of-house costs that Arts Common is so kind to assist us with. Somebody's got to create that website. Somebody's got to maintain and provide support when you, our simple listeners, are unable to use the interface.
Carter
1:04:35
interface. On my credit card, there's $2,322.50 that's going to go.
Carter
1:04:40
I better get some money back on this.
Corey
1:04:43
you're not going to yeah
Zain
1:04:45
carter it's it's really not going to happen uh carter overrated underrated the 975 uh service handling back of house aggregated cumulative costs uh that our listeners will be paying to to arts commons overrated
Carter
1:05:00
overrated um who the fuck cares about the arts
Zain
1:05:06
steve carter you know final one here for you overrated underrated uh today's episode You know, we covered a lot of terrain. It was kind of like a deep dive, but also a breath dive because we took a lot of breath and depth together. The episode, overrated or underrated in your mind?
Carter
1:05:23
Underrated. Anytime that Corey's that uncomfortable, I feel good.
Corey
1:05:29
I'm not even sure we're going to be together as a team by the time this show comes to the 10th.
Zain
1:05:34
Corey, you know, I'll start with you for our actual final question. If you could whisper one sentence of strategy or one sentence of advice for Stephen Carter, as he prepares for the live show at ticketsavailablestrategistlive.com, The Strategist Presents, The Strategist Live, brought to you by The Strategist, April 10th, 8 p.m., okay?
Zain
1:05:52
You're whispering to one Stephen Carter at 7 p.m. He's about to go on stage. It's April 10th. A lot has happened. A lot's going to to happen. What
Zain
1:06:00
What are you telling Stephen Carter as he's about to go on that stage? Engineered air theater, 168 people, max, limited, right? They've all paid their $34.75, $9.75 of that, going to Arts Commons, right? They got their tickets from strategistlive.com. They did not get their tickets from the strategistlive.com. That's not where they went. They went strategistlive.com. You are interacting with Stephen Carter. Now he's there. What is he there for? He's there for the strategist present. The strategist live brought to you by the strategist what are you telling steven carter just about just
Zain
1:06:31
just before he's about to go on stage two
Corey
1:06:32
two really important things first of all it's not actually a host bar you need to pay for those drinks i will take that money out of your cut that's number one that's really really important number two is 168 people will be in the audience uh that's 168 prospective employers i don't want that to get in your head i don't want you to think about that i don't want want you to think about how much you need their adulation and their work. Because desperation is a stinky, stinky cologne, Stephen. So you've just got to keep it together.
Zain
1:07:03
Stephen, Stephen, this will go both ways. Stop the panting. Here we go. Stephen Carter, Corey Hogan, okay? He's preparing. He's preparing. Do you know what he's preparing for? He's preparing for the Strategist Present, the Strategist Live brought to you by the Strategist, 8 p.m., April 10th, Engineered Air Theater, okay? You know what he's preparing for? He's preparing for 168 people that
Zain
1:07:22
that have paid 975 to Art's comments. Okay, that is what he's preparing for.
Zain
1:07:27
And he's preparing because they've gone to strategistlive.com to get their tickets, not the strategistlive.com. What are you telling Corey Hogan just before he's about to go on stage for The Strategist Present, The Strategist Live brought to you by The Strategist?
Carter
1:07:38
For fuck's sake, pull your pants up.
Corey
1:07:42
It's the style, Steven.
Zain
1:07:44
my... We're going to leave it there. That's a wrap on episode 9 74 of The Strategist. My name is Zane Belger. With me, as always, Corey Hogan, Stephen Carter, and we'll see you next time.