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Not Everything Is Cruise: Patience on a Podcast | Nigeria

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0:00And so what makes you want to start a podcast? What makes you like interested in like having your own platform? Okay. Basically, I would want to give people opportunity to express themselves and drop their opinions and also learn. Because if I were to have a podcast or if I were to be in sessions, right? If people invite me to their podcast sessions, I always tell them, okay, I always want to have an insight of what we are talking about before I come. Because I would not just want to It’s not everything that You know, Nigerian, we always want to cut Cruise, it’s not everything that is

0:32Cruise, like it should be educated What does Cruise mean? Okay, when you say Cruise, like Make fun out of things That’s what we call Cruise, yeah, like we just want to Make fun, whether important or not important Things, right, so people just want to Make fun out of a lot of things and Shouldn’t be so, so I feel like I would want to start my own podcast because I would want To enlighten people about relationships Let’s make the money while we are young Stop playing with it Yeah, so we need to be able to put our people Media mobile energy Yeah, all of that So I feel like bringing in people in text, in media, in the fashion industry, art, whatever it is

1:16I’m bringing platforms that are enlightening people If you do this to make money, oh you could do this, oh you’re having health issue, oh you’re depressed, oh this is someone who was once depressed, this was how they came out of it, nobody’s judging you, you’re feeling very like oh so there’s a platform like this who’s not judging me for doing this, oh you know that time where something that has happened to you and you see someone talk about it and you’re like damn I’m not alone, that feeling is so relieving. So picking topics, picking people that have experiences that are relatable You will be shocked how much of a lifesaver you have been to someone listening

1:57Because then maybe you just hear someone talk about your story and like, oh wow, I’m not the only one who went through this You are eager to want to hear their testimony of that story So I feel like a good podcast would do that A good podcast or a talk show or whatever it is would really do that