People Reviewed Podcast

This episode is the second of a four-part series of my first night reviewing people in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, at the Centennial Park on May 21st, 2023. I talk about my job, some new breathing mechanics I have been working on, and about welding with my new guest that I had on.
My second guest is a man named Vincent who has been living on the street for the last 20 years, following a series of changes in his life. He used to be a welder on the railroad and talks a lot about his past and the last two years of the present, as he was able to find work as a parking lot attendant due to the generosity of the owner.

Welcome to the pilot episodes of People Reviewed. This was a series of episodes where I went out by myself without a co-host to interview people.
This episode is the first of a four-part series of my first night reviewing people in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, at the Centennial Park on May 21st, 2023.
I will talk about the nervousness I experience, and you will hear the shaking in my voice from trying to invite people over to my table to talk in exchange for two dollars that I offer to everyone.
My first guest (ever) is a man named Brian who talks about what living on the streets, after the passing of a family member, is like. The struggles he has had have been unfortunate as he waits on temporary housing, and the resources that there are for people who consider themselves homeless, unhoused, or between residences.

This is People Reviewed with Nic and Jake. After weeks of our podcast topic being identity, this is the coup de grace to end the identity series.
In this episode, we have on a medical resident doctor who Nic works with, that joins the podcast after running by on The Beltline. After meeting him for the first time, we expand beyond out medical roles to explore life crises, the pursuit of financial happiness, and even a shared interest in the refreshing and often polarizing topic of La Croix water. As healthcare professionals, we witness firsthand the fragility of life, and our discussion will touch upon how these experiences have shaped our views on living life to the fullest.
This is the last week with subpar audio due to technical difficulties!

Welcome back to People Reviewed with Nic and Jake currently. We are in the endgame for the topic of Identity.
With Identity today, we have a couple who paused mid date to join the review. We discussed living in big cities, hard topics, soft topics, after enough big talk we went back to small talk.
Today, we have on Aj. This is the second episode where we used the combination of a phone microphone and adobe AI to fix the podcast after the memory card on my Zoom H6 filled up with pointless blathering of two men and their insightful guests. It sounds very good though for the high wind and background noise.

Welcome back to People Reviewed. If I was any line, I would be the Atlanta Beltline. Not out of choice, I just don't know any other lines, so if you think this is a joke, then I guess you would be upset when there's no punch line.
Today on this episode we talk about identity (for the 8th time in a row) and we are reaching the end of episodes on identity. Up next, we have music, summer camps, baseball, and the beach!
Today, we have on Simone, and Tay. Two freshmen that just finished their first year of college! Sadly, halfway through the episode, my SD card became full of data, and because I didn't know that .WAV files were so large, I could not get the full interview. This is a small episode with a recap at the end, but we discuss guess/ask culture, who do we depend on, misperceptions, and more!

Welcome back to People Reviewed. If this Atlanta Beltline series was a tv show this would be season 2 where we have the special guest star Jake receive applause for appearing on the show. Today on the podcast we will talk about healthy routines and setting boundaries which are important and I feel we either learn early in life, or late in life.
My favorite boundary to set is read receipt privileges. My closest friends will have them turned on to let them know I read them, but there have been times I have had to rebuke those (in a joyful way) who believe I am "leaving them on read". I will always return a response that is needed, but I will do so in my time (I do have 900+ notifications on my phone, but I still check every one coming in to see if it needs a response. Kind of like a fun tally game.).
Today we have on King, a person who waited to be on the podcast because she wanted this year to be more intentional and direct. She loves to learn languages, and she takes time out of the week to volunteer with international people.

Episode 6 of People Reviewed is the first episode to feature a co-host, and the beginning of the last recorded episodes on the weekly (For four weeks in a row) topic of Identity. My good friend Jake and I plopped down on the side of the Georgia Beltline and invited people on and gave each guest five dollars.
My first guest is unexpectedly a person I met at "Jay's Birthday Party", and it wasn't until the podcast ended that I realized he must've meant Tony P's Birthday party as that was the first and only Atlanta birthday I celebrated that year. It is not the first time that someone's mistaken me for another person as I guess I have a very average face, and we have him on as I pay for his electric bike rental.

Here is the theme song to People Reviewed. Written by myself, Nic Burgess, and not produced by me, Sam Swinnerton. The idea behind the theme song is that each guest has their own ideas, their own reasons they get into their careers, and hobbies, and interests. I realized that the people I meet everyday are usually directly from my circles of friends, coworkers, and family, and I wanted to go out to hear from people I would have never met otherwise!