We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Jeramy Kahle. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Jeramy below.

Jeramy, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. One of our favorite things to hear about is stories around the nicest thing someone has done for someone else – what’s the nicest thing someone has ever done for you?

In 2016, we were interested in having a table at a convention to promote our show and earn a little bit of money. We didn’t know where to start. We had nothing to sell or enough know-how to be at all successful. So we decided to put those plans on hold.

Around that same time, we were talking with Richard Rivera (creator & writer of the comic series Stabbity Bunny), a good friend we met on the podcast. He had mentioned that he had some conventions coming up which led to us telling him about our convention woes. He immediately offered to help out. Not only did Richard donate a large amount of comic books for us to sell at the convention, he flew to Columbus, Ohio from Orlando solely to help us with our table’s presentation, taught us how to engage with people who seem interested, and how to catch the eyes of people passing by who might not. On top of all that, he asked for nothing in return.

It was an incredible gesture that, to this day, remains the kindest thing anyone has ever done to help our show grow.

Jeramy, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

My name is Jeramy Kahle and I am the host and producer of the show Canned Air: A Tribute to Pop Culture. Canned Air is a nostalgic pop culture, comedy podcast on the Evergreen Podcast Network that is also hosted and produced by Jack Dougherty and Randy Hardenbrook. Since the show’s premiere in 2013, we have hosted a wide variety of conversations and special guests, featuring comic book writers and artists, movie and television producers and directors, musicians, and voice and screen actors.

For as long as we’ve been creating this show, we’ve been strictly an audio podcast. But the time has come to include the video element. We’re way behind on taking this step, but better late than never. We intend for all of our future episodes to have an audio and video option, as well as release all the videos of our conversations with amazing guests we’ve accumulated over the past few years on YouTube as well. We hope this will expand our reach to a larger audience.

We just celebrated our 10 year anniversary and the experiences we’ve been lucky enough to have creating this show are just as rewarding as when we started. We’ve always said, “We’ll stop making this show when it stops being fun to create.” After all these years, we’re still having a blast and intend to keep going until we aren’t enjoying ourselves anymore.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

I can’t say we’ve ever had a particular goal or mission in mind for our show. All podcasters obviously want to get their content in front of as many people as possible, so thats an inherent goal. We want to always have interesting guests and content, but we’ve never had big expectations of what we want the show to become.

I think having too specific a goal can be damning. If your expectations aren’t met in a timely manner or aren’t being fulfilled the way you hoped, you can get discouraged. I love knowing that I’ll never know where this journey is taking us. It makes it more exciting. Without too specific a focus on one mission or goal, we can enjoy the ride and continue to be surprised by the amazing experiences we’re privy to as a result.

We enjoy doing what we do, and all of the opportunities that have come along in the past 10 years. As long as we keep having a great time, then mission accomplished!

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

I think the biggest thing would be to help share content you’ve come across with people who might like it, even if you don’t. Word of mouth goes a long way.

Quarantine had a huge impact on the podcasting world. Not only did thousands of new shows pop up as a result of people being stuck at home with nothing to do, but the amount of celebrities with podcasts shot up too. With so much new content available, it’s easy to be overlooked no matter what you’re doing. A lot of great content falls through the cracks. I can’t say whether or not our show is on the “great content” list, I just know that it’s a lot harder these days to keep a listener’s attention, and it will only continue to get more difficult.

I think if society wants to support any creative medium, I’d say to take a chance on something you might normally overlook. And if you do, reach out and let those people know you like, or dislike, what you’ve heard or seen. Constructive feed back of any kind can help motivate and drive content in the direction of new listeners.

Contact Info:

• Website: CannedAirPodcast.com
• Instagram: @Canned_Air
• Facebook: Canned Air Podcast
• Twitter: @Cannedairpod
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfdkXlpEj2oN_taVI2FjYCQ
• Other: TikTok: @CannedAirPodcast