Several months ago, I decided to branch out from doing just audio podcasts to developing a YouTube channel.  It's definitely a process, but one I think I am doing fairly well.  I seem to learn a new trick or workaround every week. I love learning something new.  I am far from being an old dog, so to speak

My grand plan is to maintain the audio podcast, the video channel, and this website. Ideally, I would like to post more written content on this website.  I seem to averaging about once a month, which, if I may say so, is a definite improvement.

The audio podcast, is, well, not catching on as much as I hoped it would.  I know a lot of it is that everybody, it seems, has a podcast. I am a small frog in too large of a pond. However, I'm not abandoning it quite yet.

As far as YouTube goes, I have three related things I do.  One is a weekly video, called Culture Cafe.  It's basically a rundown of literary, film, and music history for the week.  I post it every Sunday morning.  The other videos I post is a bi-weekly podcast, still called Coffee Before Pants, different subjects but with a literary focus.  This posts every other Wednesday.  This is a new post day.  I tried to post on every other Monday. but it was too much to produce the weekly and the bi-weekly on those particular weekends. The third feature of my channel are the "shorts."  Bite size videos under 60 seconds.  These are taken from the weekly Culture Cafe.  These seem to be the most popular, a few of them have gotten over 1000 views.  This does wonders for my serotonin levels.

So, where am I going with this?  Considering the possibility of having a second YouTube channel, and this was Valerie's idea, is to have an umbrella that all the media can be under.  I thought
Coffee Before Pants Productions, but Valerie brought up that having a channel and podcast called Coffee before Pants, the production aspect should be a different name, but still coffee related.

I might mention that all the while I am trying to improve my video editing skills, I am also working on mastering Canva.  So, having said that, I present to you Java Jive Productions.

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I will be placing this short clip at the end of my long form videos, from here on out.  I have to say I am pretty proud of being able to set this up. 

If you are interested, check out my YouTube channel.  There is a link above that will take you straight to the channel. As far as a second channel goes, I am not even in the planning stages. I will keep you posted on any developments.