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Podcaster Kristian Madsden ("The Random Kristian Show")!

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Podcaster Kristian Madsden ("The Random Kristian Show")!

Christian Madsen, host of the Random Christian Show, shares his journey from radio DJ and stand-up comic to a beloved podcaster known for spontaneity and authenticity. With a background in comedy, radio, and strip clubs, he brings a vibrant, unpredictable energy to his podcast, where conversations flow freely without rigid structure. Topics shift organically, often leading to unexpected connections, and the show features live chat, audience interaction, and humorous voice impressions. Christian emphasizes the importance of human connection, kindness, and emotional support in a fragmented world, believing that even small acts—like smiling or helping someone—can create a positive ripple effect. He also reflects on the challenges of indie podcasting, noting how celebrity-driven shows may overshadow grassroots content, but remains committed to genuine, heartfelt dialogue. His show, live every Tuesday, is available across major platforms and social media, with a focus on making listeners feel seen and valued. Through humor, vulnerability, and real-life storytelling, Christian creates a space where listeners feel part of a shared experience, reinforcing his belief that podcasting should be about connection, not just content.

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The podcast that you're listening to is being presented to you with the cooperation of the S.J. Network. If you're a person who needs a publicist and you want to appear on podcasts, contact Steven Joyner at s-j-network.com. Let's get on with the show. Today's guest, Christian Madsden of the Random Christian Show, is a former radio DJ, comedian and podcaster. With all of that speaking experience, I'm sure he can perform under pressure. I wouldn't know. I've only heard him perform Bohemian Rhapsody. Attention! Rebels of the show pollution. Today's podcast is brought to you by Audible. We would like to give you a free audiobook download and 30-day free trial, simply by heading to www.audibletrial.com/shurper. There are over 180,000 titles of audiobooks and podcasts, including this one, to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or MP3 player. And now, the one and only Mr. Bruce will lead you into the show per shellay. As a reminder, please refrain from smoking cigarettes, cigars, pipes and marijuana. Also do not set fire to the show per's jokes. We need something to do between episodes. Welcome to Too Many Podcasts, the podcast about podcasts. Now, podcasting from the show per shellay on Mount Podcastia, here's your host, Jim, the podcast Sherpa. Hello there, Rebels, and welcome to another episode of Too Many Podcasts, The Podcast About Podcasts, and so much more, and you know me by now. Maybe that? Well, we were listening last week. Well, I'm the same guy from last week. I'm Jim, the podcast Sherpa, and welcome to the show, the other week when we had the season seven wrap up. I neglected to mention that there will be some episodes this season that maybe have a little bit more adult content and deal with some strong subject matter. And maybe, you know, not one for the kids to listen to it. Maybe if you want to do it on headphones or maybe with the kids on around, probably be a good idea. As for this episode, now that's not going to happen. Who's our guest today, Sherpa? Because our guest today is a guy named Christian Metz, and then he is the host of the podcast. They ran him Christian show, and I had so much fun talking to Christian. Don't know who's that fun. I know I say that a lot, but he's a really talented guy. He was a radio DJ, a stand-up comic, and now he's in the podcasting field. He's doing pretty well for himself, and we really have an enjoyable conversation, and he's an incredible impressionist and a voice over artist as you will learn in this interview. And I think I had to edit out a lot of my laughing in this one, but some of it I had to leave in. But have a listen to my interview with Christian of the random Christian show. Hello there, Rebels. We are here in the random room of the Sherpa Shallae, and appropriately enough, I am with the host of the random Christian show. He has been a stand-up comic, a DJ, even in strip clubs. We have to get to the bottom of this, and he is also a voice over actor, and of course a podcaster, which is why he's on the show too many podcasts. What better place could he? Christian, welcome to the show. Hello, and welcome. Wait a minute. No, this is your show. Sorry. Hey, glad to be here. How you doing? All right. Let's have some fun. Wow. That was my strip club DJ voice by the way. All right, guys. Let's go get those dollars out. Don't forget. There's half price shots still moving on. That's right. And we've got a free blast there in the back. We're all of you who've been here for 12 hours and going and hitting the ATM. Come on. What was the weirdest stripper name that you probably heard when you were in the club? Oh, good lord. I mean, well, you know, it's so funny because you get these young girls that come in, and honestly, I have no pride in the fact that I was a strip club DJ. It was just part of my past, but, you know, you get girls that come in and they're like, I'm going to go with a name like horse shop because it's so exotic. And I don't think anybody use it. And there's like girls in the back. Listen, honey. Let me tell you that was my name when I was like 19. So, yeah, you're not really original. That's sweet. And I'm like, my God, that's a girl. Okay. People pay money for that. Maybe I took the wrong choice in a career. Yeah, you did. You should have stayed in school. Shouldn't. Yeah. All right. Great. Now get out on the sport. Yeah. So, um, geez. Well, there was this one girl. She tried to think of this like Italian, exotic feet fear. And I hated it because it was long. It'll like feel a real lemie or something. And I was like, just, and I think we ended up just calling her fee fee because she gets so mad. But it's like, you know, what are you going to do? You're already calling you out to the stage. You got to get out there. And, uh, oh my gosh. But yeah, I was like, feed. Here's fear real. Nobody ever got it right. I mean, it wasn't just me. It was other DJ. You know, they're just like, just tears fee fee. Get out there. Come on, fee fee. And she likes to stop out. Oh, my God, you guys are so red. And you're like, yeah, just get out there and spin on the pole and make your money so we get our 15%. Yeah, it's a long name that you would probably be like by the time you get the name out of the staff over it. It's like, and that was like, wait a minute. I wasn't done writing that down, man. She took my $5. Wow. Sure. Hope it was worth it. Yeah. Okay. Have another half beer and you're, you're good, bro. So, were you a standup first or were you a radio DJ first? Um, actually, uh, yeah, I grew up dreaming of being a radio DJ. I mean, when I was a kid, I fell asleep with the, uh, Hey, I'm an older guy. I'm, I just turned 56. So, uh, I used to have a little AM FM radio that I plugged the ear into and I'd hide it under my pillow and I'd fall asleep listening to the late night DJs and I'd wake up listening to, uh, and I, I'm from California. I'm from the Bay Area. So I had, uh, this, this one guy, Dr. Donald E. Roads. He was on 610 KFRC and he was the typical morning AM jock. I mean, just, Hey, Kim's all right. We're gonna go crazy. You know, and he'd have his little cowbell and stuff. And, but I mean, he was, he was hilarious. And he was fun. And dude, he made people's mornings. You know, I mean, I remember, you know, we had an earthquake one time and people were just devastating. He just, he's, you know, he was like the voice of reason. And he was so cool and he kept everybody cool. And then he's like, all right, it's over with, okay, little shake him, but we're ready to go. You know, and, and you just, he, he was part of it. He was part of your day. And it was great. And he got you going. He got you fired up. He got you ready to go to work or school or whatever you were doing. And so I've, I fell in love with that. So I really lucked out in the fact that I, I had, you know, I had a music background. I have friends who are actually some, some pretty big bands. And more punk rock, whatever, but I've always loved music and I love being around it. And that was one of my ways. You know, I play music and whatever, but obviously not very skilled at it. But, you know, so those who can't become DJs. So I lucked out, I started out at San Jose State. And they just said, you know, we, we think you'd be great. And they, they gave me the midnight jazz midnight. Oh, you know, midnight to six a.m. And I'm playing like extreme jazz, not just like, you know, happy little pop jazz that you hear every now and then. No, this is like 15 minutes songs of, you know, God knows what sometimes. And you never any sex. Oh, dude, I mean, like just carrying on a note for, I mean, you're like, how's this guy got belongs that deep, you know, I just, I mean, I think it's a foghorn. I'm not sure. But hey, you know, either way, I'm not getting paid. It's I'm here for the experience. And I used to show up hammered. This is, I used to drink heavily. And I'd show up hammered sometime. I'd fall asleep. And I'd wake up in the song. It's still be playing. Oh, my God, you got to be kidding me. This is the longest freaking song ever. But I, and so I, I got to the point where I'm like, I'm not a midnight jazz guy. So I went from, you know, okay, hey, that was Charlie Parker and, you know, this is KS jazz and I think we seven have happened. So I went from that to, okay, all right, listen, we're listening to the jazz. And I know it's great. And I just, I started having fun with it, you know. And all of a sudden, my phone line started lighting up. And I'm getting people, you know, some people were pissed, obviously. But then like, you know, I do thank you so much for breaking up the monotony. And I'm like, so you're not mad. Oh, no, I mean, I, some of the music's good and whatnot. I just, I have it on in the background. But dude, you're funny as hell, you know, we're having a blast. And I'm like, okay, cool, you know? And then, so the program director of the station at that time goes, okay, we get it. You're not a midnight over guy. Oh, we're not guy for jazz. So how'd you like a morning spot? And I was like, oh my God, yes. And so I started from there. And then they gave me three different morning spots because I actually started pulling ratings against some of the other morning shows on like bigger stations, KSJL and KLME and stuff like that. Which were huge rock stations out there. And just progressed from there. And at the meantime, I kinda started dabbling in standup. I always loved comedy. And I got invited to join an improv team out in the central coast and traveled around with them a little bit doing this and that. And then I kinda did my own standup for a little bit. You know, it was just something to kinda dabbling at the mean time and meet chicks and get free beer. So what are you gonna do? I know, I don't wanna do this and make fun of people. Come on. If you're in the center of your arm twisting at that point, eight, you're like, oh no, stop me. No, don't stop, don't stop. So yeah, it was just really a natural progression into all of it. And then I met my radio partner. So we started doing bits, you know, comedy bits and stuff. And that's when we pissed off the FCC. And we got kicked off the air three times. We did a lot of commercial parodies and whatnot because one of the country DJs and you may remember the old Bud Light commercials where it was, I love you, man. Sure. Yeah, okay. So we did a lot of parodies off of those. Well, fourth of July was coming up. Well, what says fourth of July more than getting drunk and hitting on your own sister? Yeah, Bud Light beer. So we did, and like I said, the guy that the country DJ that we got to do the voiceover part for the commercial sounded just like the Bud Light guy. So he's doing Bud Light, you know. And so we had this whole incestuous commercial and it wasn't really extreme, but, you know, yeah. So the beer distributor for the whole entire central coast area from Budweiser, heard of the commercial. Listen to the commercial, call the radio station and said, if you don't pull those jackasses off the air, I will pull my contract right now. And we were like, oh my, you know, we found out the nice day. What happened? So we went on air, we apologized. No, not good enough. We went and tried to visit the guy. Wouldn't see us. He was, he was that pissed. And we're just like, come on, man. So needless to say, don't piss off your major sponsor when you're on a classic rock station. And yeah, that's your, that's your genre, right there. It's the Bud Light drinking people of the world. Yeah, so I was my friend. Yes, yes, so anyway. And that's, we kind of went from there and then we, we, we went our separate ways. And as I was kind of telling you in the footnotes before the show, he moved out to Connecticut, working in radio still, but then started dabbling in this thing called podcasting and tried to get me to join in with him. And I'm like, I can't afford all that. You know, of course, this is back back in the days before, you know, everybody was using laptops like we do and, you know, anyway. So instead of costing $50 to get a podcast going, it was, you know, several hundred dollars and whatnot and thousands. So yeah, I was like, no, I can't do it. So anyway, he started getting real big in podcasting. And it's the Bauer show, Mike Bauer, the Mike Bauer show. He does a lot of sports stuff and he's had Frank Callie and a lot of his show and things like that. He's a great guy, but anyway. So bringing us up to date, I actually was in the process and Kitty remarried. I had moved in with my wife that I'm married to now and something, well, I started, I started dabbling with voiceover again because I used to do that in radio. And somebody was like, man, you should do a podcast. I'm like, now dude, I don't got all time and money for that. And they're like, dude, it doesn't. And my buddy did it and call it. I'm like, really? And so I had these younger guys encouraging me from my job 'cause they found out I was in radio and did stand up. So like, oh yeah, you gotta do it. So I started messing around, found anchor.fm, started doing my own little podcast and I brought a buddy in that helped me out back when I was doing radio by myself. And it was just kind of expanded from there. And I'm like, you know what? I think I really got something. And everybody has been listening and they're like, oh my gosh, dude, you gotta keep doing this. So I've invested more now. I do the live stream, you know? And which is amazing. I just, you know, it's really, it's my old radio show without music, which kind of sucks, but I do sneak some music in without licensing and approval or using it. (laughing) I have complete licensing agreements with every band out there. So, hmm, but yeah, I thought it was some static to cover that up, Chris. (laughing) So, and so, so here we are today. Yeah, and, you know, I guess that I do the voiceover stuff and whatnot and I actually, I've had people because I have a clip of some of the impressions that I do and it's not like I'm an impression, daughtery thing, but I do impressions of people's impressions. If that makes any sense. Well, now that you've said that, you do realize that any guests of the show that do impressions are obligated to do at least one for the show. If you want to do more, you are more than welcome to play. We're gonna move one. (laughing) She stripped clothes on you. What the question is, let me get one today for, right? (laughing) Well, my wife seems to think that my bill of Clinton's pretty hot and I do like to keep things sexy, so. Or a sexy, like I play my saxophone. Oh yeah, you know it. And then, well, one of the accessories of my kids is Homer Simpson. He's my absolute favorite experience when I'm eating donuts and chasing the boy. Oh, the boy, but then there's donuts. (laughing) And beer, boy, love beer. (laughing) There's a margin to tell him that because they'm, where are my fat pants? So, I got, yeah, I got all, I got, and then of course, there is Dr. Eviel, which I dropped on Mr. Steve Rubin the other day because he likes to talk about 007. (laughing) He's insolent, you bastards. Yeah, so. Things like that. Oh, thank you, you were the major price of admission, sir. (laughing) Well, you know, do it again, do you? Do you got a pool of points that I, I hear the punch, which for me, so. What are you gonna do, right? Can you go with the Dalai Lama? Play a little 18 holes and, you know, it's coded to be Jesus afterwards. Okay, sorry, I, yeah. Like again, the voices start coming out, man. (laughing) That's like the open box and. (laughing) Oh, dude. Oh, come on. (laughing) So, you show, it's basically, you're talking about whatever you feel like talking about, but I mean, I know you have guests on the show as well. Yeah, and see, that was the thing too. I mean, I was like, well, what are you gonna call it? And, like I said, you know, and I used to drive my old program director, not when I was in radio, because I just, I did. I was very random. And I, you know, I'd come in. He's like, what are you gonna do today? I don't know. Well, you gotta have some kind of, I, you know, I'm gonna figure something out as I'm doing it. And I mean, I did it in my head. Know what I was gonna do, but I'm not gonna tell him that because for one, it's the funnest thing in the world to watch your program director just stressing, 'cause you know he's listening, and you'll watch the phone line light up. What, if you say one thing that's kind of borderline, that phone, that little red line starts bleeping and you're saying, (laughs) it's all mine. I'm on the air! So, yeah. And, you know, I was, and it's saying idiots, so I would, I'd always push the borderline. But, yeah, it's, I kind of start with some kind of topic in one way or another, and it depends on the guests that I'm gonna have. Like, you know, Steve Rubin, writer, director, film historian, you know, he wears multiple hats, and so I just brought it back, you know, how, especially over the past year or so, we've all had to kind of change our careers around or rearrange our lives, do a lot of multitasking, whatnot, you know, work a few different jobs. Like, you know, I'm sure you and me both, we all have the podcast, we have our jobs, and I, like, I do my voiceover stuff on the side as well. So, you know, we're all wearing multiple hats and trying to keep the sanity of it all, And so we kind of loosely based it off that. And yeah, and then again, where the random comes in is it goes one direction, then starts off shooting from that to another direction, then to another direction. And the next thing you know, I've got 15 different things we've talked about. And then I've got to try and bring it all back in towards the end there and bring it back down to the main point that we started with. And yeah, and it just, it gets funny. And the thing about it is, I think the real appealing thing is it's real. You know, I don't edit it. It is what you get. And yeah, you're going to hear the ohms and like one of one of my, I call them side cakes, but they're really co-host. One buddy Matt, his favorite thing because he'll, he starts going off on a point or something. And then you just kind of hear him start, something goes anyway because he's lost whatever it was he was talking about. So and once he does that, me and, me and the other guy, Andy, we just start laughing. We're like, oh my god, Matt did it again. But it is great. I mean, the guys that work with me are awesome. And I brought them in for the specific reason. And he's got great movie and history, technical, you know, background. Matt just has a general knowledge of so many different things. It's great. So there's always something he's been dabbling in and whatever. So I just, I love having them around. And it just, it adds to the show, it adds, and I call them my color commentators is what I call them. And every guest that comes on, they're like, okay, so we're going to have like a 30 minute show or four. I said, well, we just had a three hour show last week, they're like, oh my god, three hours. And, you know, they're like, well, you know, and I always give them the out and say, hey, you know, if you don't, if you don't feel comfortable or if you're like getting tired or something, those people are always the ones that, you know, they get freaked out because it goes over 30 or 40 minutes, they're the ones that are trying to stay on and they want to keep going. And I have to like shut down my, okay, listen, we all have lives too. And this has been a great conversation, but got to cut it short now. And we've been on here for two and a half hours. And it's great. And then they want to come back on and do another show. And because, and that's the great thing about it is, and plus I have the chat, there's a chat that you can talk with. So when I do it while I'm live, there's people, you know, throwing in questions or comments and stuff like that. And that really adds to it too. So it's, you know, it's like call her online too. We see your, we see your message here. I don't really bring anybody in live. I probably could, I guess if I figured out how to do that. But again, I'm not a technical, well, you already see how technical I was earlier trying to get this zoom thing to work, my 13 year old daughter couldn't figure it out. So it ain't going to work for us. But yeah, it's just, it's a, I try to, you know, like I said, the early morning DJ guy, he's out there to get your day started. That's why I like doing the show on Tuesday. Everybody hates Monday. I don't even want to try and pick anybody up on a Monday. Because if that's the start of your week, which, you know, for probably 80% of the world, that is, I'm, I'm not there to do that. You know, everybody's doing through the dredge of coming off the weekend. So Tuesday, Tuesday's a good pick up day. I would say, you know what, forget Monday, Monday's over with, we're starting Tuesday. We're going to skip over Wednesday and Thursday. We're going to go right into Friday. So today is like Friday and then we're starting the weekend all over again. So get in here and let's go. And, you know, I just, I want them to have fun. I want them to forget about the other part of the world for a while, because we live in a freaking, especially nowadays, crazy ass world. And, and I mean, we've brought a lot of it on ourselves, unfortunately. And we've got to get out of it. We've got to start standing by each other and working together with each other. Don't give in to all the devices and the division that's being put out there, man. Stand strong with each other. And that's, that's what I want. And that's, you know, if I can make one person's day better, they try to make somebody else's day better. We start a chain effect. Everybody's day gets a little bit better just by doing one stupid, simple thing, you know? Sure. Just even if you smile at somebody, you know, and they go, whatever, dude, but then they turn around, they smile at somebody. Boom. You know, it's chain reaction, man. Open a door for, you know, somebody to come in the door ahead of you, you know? And then maybe they do that for somebody, it just one thing leads to another. And hopefully it's all good things and we're all taking care of each other because nobody else is taking care of us. Whether we want to believe it or not, nobody is. So we got to start looking out for ourselves. That's what I want. It's a really good philosophy. So I'm looking for you. I got, I got freaking deep there, didn't I do it. I'm like, oh my, here we go. It's the soft emotional side of Chris. So it's all random, brother. Yeah. In your time with podcasting and in radio, was there any specific people that you came across that would were very unforgettable for you? I've, I actually, when I was, when I was at the college station before Green Day got big, I got to meet them, which was just, I mean, if you had met them back then, you would not think they would be where they are today. They showed up. High as hell, I'm pretty sure have been drinking. I was hungover and I'm hanging out with them. And we basically, I had, I had a, a little sidekick guy that was helping me out with the show. I had him lock the door to our booth because they were in there. They were grabbing records and like Fris being on and we were just laughing and having a good time. We didn't, I was playing whatever they wanted me to play. We were ignoring it. We kept stopping the middle of the song and just starting to talk and, you know, I was, they were, they were putting out, this was the year before they put out dukey. Anyway, they, they were a blast. They were fun. They were just, they were just fun, idiot punks. And it was great. So I love punk rock. Okay. I love Scott music and I love punk. And, and like a couple of my friends, Lars Frederson from the band Rancid, the guitarist from Rancid, I actually was at his first band with him. And then if you've ever heard a gold finger, a Scott punk band, yeah, John Feldman, he grew up with him. We're been lifelong friends, haven't, he's out there doing his thing, but yeah, we still talking stuff and I keep trying to get him on the show, but good Lord, that's like trying to rope a jellyfish. But him and then I also got to meet Kenny Wayne Shepard when I was doing, I, I know he's kind of not a big name or whatever, but he's guitarist singer. And he was opening up for, when the Eagles did their reunite to their first reunite to work. Yeah. And this is date myself. But they were, they were coming down to Santa Barbara. We were in the central coast, up in San Luis at Dispo, and his tour manager heard us playing their song and he called the station and he said, Hey, I'm Kenny Wayne's mate. We're like, yeah, whatever, dude, and he's like, listen, believe it or not, we're passing through where you're at. You want us to come in and Kenny will come in, maybe sign some CDs or something. We're like, yeah, okay, sure, dude, whatever. And so about an hour later, there's a tour of us rolling up outside and what the country DJ that was, you know, worked with us, it comes banging on the studio window and he goes, Hey, he's out there, man, he's out there. And we're just like, no way. And so he come and he was the coolest freaking. He was like 19 years old, coolest kid ever, dude, I mean, no attitude at all, but yet a swagger about it. He was, it was just so cool. He had this presence about him and it was so great to just, and he came in and he brought to you trying to say, yeah, man, I don't play a couple songs and so we'd, you know, quickly worked up a mic and stuff. And trust me, the radio station we worked for, even though it was a very big station, the equipment they had was total crap. I mean, I've got better sound equipment here right now than they had it. But we had we wired it up and we just sat there and jammed out a blue one black and he just he whipped that and we were just like, oh my gosh, this kid is great and the manager is sitting over there. He's like, I told you man, you know, I didn't, we're like, hey, dude, right on. So yeah, he signed a few things for us. It was just super, super cool. And then, you know, just there's always, dude, I've met so many just people that were just fans of the show and stuff. And to know, you know, like, you get those people, hey, man, you know, there was that one day you guys were doing this bit. I just, you know, had been, you know, had devastating news, you know, and, you know, and I remember, I remember, there was a mom whose son had gotten cancer and had just been diagnosed and we were just like, Oh, wow, you know, and he was, he was, uh, was about 14 or 15. And he was trying to get a job to help pay for his cancer treatments, dude. And we were just like, wow. And the kid, the kid was great. I mean, just super sweet, super kind of. He was kind of a smart ass. But, you know, I mean, he'd just been diagnosed with cancer. So we're like, yeah, cool. So we actually were working to get him a job. And we put him on the air. We interviewed, like got him interviews on air. And his mom just, I mean, she came in one day and just hugged both of us. He got a job doing the newspaper route. And we're like, in this paper route, we can get him a better job. We're like, we didn't stop there, you know. And and she's like, well, he's got school still, you know, and then he's got his treatment. We're like, okay, well, we'll find something. So we ended up, you know, we got him another couple of hard time jobs to help and he kept him busy and he kept him going and he gave him whole, you know, and just the fact that, you know, we were doing things like that. And that's, you know, when you, even though you don't have big power, okay. But you have something, you know. And if you can use it to help somebody, dude, it's the best feeling in the world. It really is to be able to just, you know, and I've gotten emails, you know, it's like, oh, man, uh, you don't know who I am, but I think your show is great, you know, uh, I had a guy like it was probably about three months after I started. And I did, I did kind of a rant podcast. And he was like, dude, I totally, I'm right there with you. And thank you so much. I felt alone here. And I was just like, whoa, okay. And of course, the English was very even when typed broken. But, you know, I got, I got what he was saying. I was just like, thank you so much. I'm so glad you were listening and, uh, keep listening and, and let me know if there's anything I could do. And, uh, you know, just things like that, dude, and I'm sure you, you know, you get people who are just like, thank you so much, you know, it's every, just like I said, we live in a crap ass world. Let's just make it the best we can and support each other and have good, good times and good vibes with each other. That's all I'm trying to do. And when I know I do that, that's, that's the, that's the boom I'm done. It, you know, and so many people are like, oh, well, you know, you're not a big show. No, and I'm not. But, you know, if I make that one person happy, that's what it's about. Oh, yeah, be host, dude, you just want to make money. Uh, if I wanted to make money, no, I mean, yeah, that would be great. And I'd love to do that. But, uh, I don't have the support of a Joe Rogan. I don't have the fame behind me of a Joe Rogan or, uh, you know, and that's, that's the thing it kind of pisses me off about some of this. And I don't know if you feel the same way, but, you know, you see a lot of these actors and, uh, very popular people starting to do podcasts. And it takes away from all of us indie guys because there's a lot of people like you, dude, you do a great show. You do a great interview, man. And I, uh, like I skimmed through so many of your shows while I was waiting to come on here. And you, you got a great skill, man. And I love it. And you, you make these guys, you make people talk about themselves in ways. I don't think that some of them, there was some people there that I don't think they ended up wanting to talk about what they did, but they did. And it was great because I think they, it helped them, you know, they opened up a little bit. And it was, it was really cool to hear it. Like, you could hear the switch in the show, but, and that's just because I am who I am. And I've done what I've done. So I, I hear it. A lot of people other don't, but hey, it is what it is. And, uh, I'm just rambling now there. Welcome to the show. This is the random Christian show. No, I'm sorry. Yeah, that is the, the power of celebrity. They, like you said, when they do their own podcasts, they've got like a built-in audience. People want to hang on there. They're gonna hear it. Yeah, they're gonna listen to them no matter what. I want to hear what, you know, Billy Madison says, or whatever, I don't know. Uh, but yeah, I mean, and I'm, you know, some of them are great shows. Some of them are like, really? You, you, I think maybe you should just stick back to your acting, dude, you know, or, you know, like, uh, who was, oh, Michelle Obama and some other lady did started doing a podcast and I let, I'm, I'm like, oh, I'm intrigued. You know, I mean, you know, obviously ex-presidents, wife and stuff. So I just want to hear what they're saying. And I was just like, oh, my God, are you just, what do you mean? Want to feed a bunch of propaganda to people? Jeez, man, with the politics, you're not in it anymore. Let's just talk like a human being. You want to be real, be real. You're dead. Anyway, I don't like politics. I hate politics. And I want to punch every politician right in the face and right in the crotch. And so anyway, I was out there and I was riding my skateboard. No, it's like so cool. So anyway, sorry, I digress. Yes, I'm 56 years old and I still ride a skateboard. So, don't judge me. There's no judgment in this year for shall I see, you know, that's right. We are a top. What is a Mount podcast? Yeah. And if I'm surrounded by voice over bots who just tell, I could tell bad jokes that I write for them, you know, I'm not going to make any jokes. They're called back to. Yes. Oh my God. And those are like the bane of voiceover people, by the way. I was like, oh my God, the AI voices. There's like, I'm on these these voiceover pages where people are like, hey, do you believe what they're doing with this? And then they're trying to, and I'm like, what are you scared about? If apparently you're not very good at it. So if a robot's going to beat you out of a job, I think you got bigger problems to worry about there, baby. I mean, because of a robot, no matter what kind of AI that you got, you're not going to get inflection like this. You're not going to be able to talk all crazy at one point to another and and have fun. Okay. I'm sorry. I go into different worlds, don't I? That's right. The lady with the thing doing this stuff. Oh boy. We do have a portion of the show and it is called shameless self promotion. And then do it. Now you get to do the formal version of it. It's the way you can let everybody know where they can follow you on social media and catch your show and you can talk about things that happened like six months ago. Yeah, because this is airy to what, 2023 or something. Oh, good. I can tell you who the next president will be. Hey, give me the world series picks. And we'll be good. Go go Martians, right? That's probably how far cast we're going to go. Okay. So how do you get all to me? We do have our own web or we, we, I have, well, with all the voices in my head, I guess I could say, I could say we. I have my own web page. It's called the random christianshow.com which in there, there is a link to any any either podcast or when we do the live mom and Facebook under the random christian show, Twitter is back Christian random. Wow, I gotta think now. Bring her instant Instagram should just be the random christian show. Anyway, that's called a hook called bringing it back around comedy cycle. Yeah, okay, you, guys, you get, yeah, all right. Great. Don't make me do grumpy old man. Remember Dana Carvey? Yeah, that's our net life. Sure. Pick him my day. We didn't have podcast. All we did was pick up rocks and throw me people with messages on him. And the message is to be written in our bloody stubby fingers. And we wouldn't be able to understand it. Nobody go what you said under the skin and he hit me in their head. That's where was it? We like it. Play what he said. Rocks with words. Sorry, okay. I'm back now. Everything's better. The medication is working. While you're in voice mode, Christian, I was wondering if you could take one of your impressions to make a comment about being in the Shirtfish LA on too many podcasts. Well, you know, we could do Billy Quinn talking about being hot and sexy on the Shirtfish show. Baby, this is, this is where it's that up top of the mount podcast. Yeah. Yeah. Ain't no blue dresses up here condemning me for nothing, baby. That's what I'm talking about. We're just having a good time and shooting the crap. But can I say shit? No, can't say shit. Oh, I can. Oh, hey, we're un-sensored. Oh, this is hot. Let's order some brods. I mean, let's order some beers and brods. Woo! And some cigars. Woo, yeah! Yeah, we don't want to talk about this stupid brodge. It just wordlessly needs a more beer. Yeah, to be delicious, and pizza. Woo-hoo! Okay, we're gonna have to sedate him now. His name is Christian. He is the host of the Reds and Christians show that you can hear live every Tuesday. Even in 2022, you can. Hopefully, unless the FCC starts, you know, hold those back then. And it's, yeah, that's a very good possibility. Yeah, Tuesday is a four-clock central time. I am live, so you can join in the chat, and we have a great time. I welcome anybody. It's on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, LinkedIn. God, who knows at this point by the time? If I'm the only human, but that's not a national. And then the podcast is downloaded on all the popular. All every pod beans, good pods. What I'm gonna think. Oh, Spotify, Apple, Google, Amazon. Any way that pods are cast. Yes, there you go. Yeah. Why not? That's right. Yeah. Christian, thanks so much for being on this show. Jimmy, thank you so much, man. This is awesome. We got it. We got to do this again. And you got to come on my show, brother. Sure. All right. We're gonna do it. We're doing it. Okay. Yes. Excellent. We'll bring it on, baby. We'll do it. Oh, yeah. Let's get back to the show. Sorry about that. And now it's time for Shurpa Suggestions. Since Christian hosts a random podcast, I figured for this week's Shurpa Suggestions in addition to Christian's podcast, I would recommend some random podcasts. So here we go. There is today I learned random but memorable. Stream of random. Random notes. Literally with Rob Blow. Random random blinks. Random movie roulette. OMG. So random. He he. Never ending random discussion. Random acts of cinema. That's still random. A random movie podcast. And random thoughts. So I figured I would also end this list with a random gong. Hit it. Thanks so much to Christian Madsen of the Random Christian show. And make sure you check out this podcast. And I really appreciate him coming by. This is really a lot of fun. Next week, we're going to the dogs. Let's go to the dogs. What do you mean? We're going to the dogs, Shurpa. What I mean is we are talking to a lady named Kim Hawkinson and Kim is a dog trainer and we're gonna learn how to keep our pups in line. Sit. Stay. Download. Listen. Follow on social media at ShurpaLution on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. I would like to see your dog try that trick. And by the way, if you are listening to me on Facebook at ShurpaLution, there's a little tab there that said podcasts. And if you click on it, you'll see all the episodes just like on my website, ShurpaLution.com. And you can also hear me on any of the other podcast apps that are out there. You know, and I've been running around like crazy finding which ones I'm not there. And I'm really working on getting this show on as many possible podcast apps for you to listen. And we are also on the internet radio, on the helium radio network Friday mornings 830 AM Eastern Standard Time. So if you're up that early and you want to listen to a fun podcast, that'll be the one. Hey, you know what? If you can, please leave a nice review on Apple podcasts and help spread the word about the ShurpaLution, okay? I really appreciate that, folks. Until next time, people with ShurpaLution. All right, Mr. Bruce, we got to get our leashes ready. And I'm not breaking up the special snossages for, no, no, no, no, that's, I keep those for special occasions. Oh, okay, you know what, let the mic is still on. Okay, better go. Bye, Rebels. Thanks for listening to Too Many Podcasts. Please disperse. You can go home now. I said you can go home now. Yeah, I'll come back now. You're here.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Christian Madsen, a former radio DJ, stand-up comedian, and strip club DJ, hosts the Random Christian Show and brings a lively, unpredictable style to podcasting rooted in improvisation and spontaneity.
  2. His show emphasizes authenticity, allowing unedited conversations that drift across topics, featuring guest interactions, live chat, and comedic impressions, fostering a sense of community and emotional connection.
  3. Christian highlights the value of small acts of kindness and human connection in a divided world, promoting empathy, support, and joy as core values of his podcasting journey.

Summary:

Christian Madsen, host of the Random Christian Show, shares his journey from radio DJ and stand-up comic to a beloved podcaster known for spontaneity and authenticity. With a background in comedy, radio, and strip clubs, he brings a vibrant, unpredictable energy to his podcast, where conversations flow freely without rigid structure. Topics shift organically, often leading to unexpected connections, and the show features live chat, audience interaction, and humorous voice impressions.

Christian emphasizes the importance of human connection, kindness, and emotional support in a fragmented world, believing that even small acts—like smiling or helping someone—can create a positive ripple effect. He also reflects on the challenges of indie podcasting, noting how celebrity-driven shows may overshadow grassroots content, but remains committed to genuine, heartfelt dialogue. His show, live every Tuesday, is available across major platforms and social media, with a focus on making listeners feel seen and valued.

Through humor, vulnerability, and real-life storytelling, Christian creates a space where listeners feel part of a shared experience, reinforcing his belief that podcasting should be about connection, not just content.

FAQs

Christian Madsen was a former radio DJ, stand-up comedian, and podcaster. He also worked in strip clubs as a DJ and has experience in voice over acting and impression work.

Christian Madsen hosts the podcast called 'The Random Christian Show'.

He chooses Tuesday because it's a fresh start after the weekend, and he believes it's easier to engage listeners compared to Monday, which is often a day of post-weekend fatigue.

Yes, his podcast includes a live chat where audience members can send questions and comments in real time, adding to the interactive experience.

The podcast is unstructured and random, often shifting topics mid-way with no clear agenda. It includes impressions, personal anecdotes, and guest discussions, with a focus on humor and real, unedited conversation.

Yes, he notes that podcasting is accessible and affordable now, especially compared to earlier days when it required significant investment. He encourages others to start with simple tools like Anchor.fm and to be authentic in their content.

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