I'm Brian Myers. I'm Mike Ritalik. I'm Becky Hiddad. And this is Al Pelletz, a podcast featuring tips for ad teachers.
We are your agricultural education resource across the web, sharing research-based tips and tackling the tough questions facing agriculture teachers every day. But this is Brian, Becky, and Mike, and we are here by the Al Pellet once again and sadly for the final time of this season. I feel like we should like, at the convention, for the final time, the officers, you know, they do their the final time. He's telling the crowd we're tiring.
We're not retiring. I'm a long way from retiring. No. We don't know what's in anymore.
We just got so invested in this many seasons. I got to keep listening. Shoot, they're not retiring. Okay, we have another season comment.
No, this is cool. You know, I forgot I have to. I long how long we've been doing this. This is what?
Season eight, nine, eight, whatever. But it's been cool. We've had some great conversations this season. It's been fun to hang out with the two of you.
Oh, always the highlight of my week. Okay. So I'll tell you all a lot about my life. I've been thinking about not necessarily this recording the last couple of days, but just the evolution of Al Pelletz in general because I listen to Al Pelletz as a night teacher.
Not that many years ago, but enough years ago. So Brian's talking about like eight, nine seasons. The thought I had in my head this morning when I was thinking about us recording today, recognizing there's only an audio podcast. Thinking about the image in my head when I listened to Al Pelletz as an act teacher of like where they were recording and how they got together when like Brian was in Florida and Kate was at Arkansas and Marshall was in like way before zoom was really a thing.
There was there are other images in my head of like how that all happened and funny images in my head about how professional Al Pelletz was in those first two seasons, which have since been shattered, like totally shattered. Now that you see the sausage gets made. Yeah. For those of you that are counting at home sometime in spring of 24, we hit number 200 on the number of podcasts, not that we're keeping track, but that's about where we're at.
As you can tell, we're not keeping track because we didn't know that because like sometime. No time. No, it's been cool with the goal and hopefully that's what we're trying to do with this season as well as take research that our good researchers and across ag education are doing and provided in a organized manner that ag teachers can actually use because again, all three of us and everybody has ever hosted Al Pellet. We're ag teachers and we know we know what it's like.
We know that we're going to be able to do that every single day and we hope that folks find this to be useful in their daily lives. So I think I'm supposed to kind of kick this up. We have not, I don't think really done like a end of season show before. And this is a great opportunity to shout out Kylie and we'll do it right in the middle.
So she can't edit us out and I'll just keep talking so there's not a clear pause. It's like an easy break to cut this out. But we do need to shout out Kylie as well as the other student workers that have been involved with editing and making Al Pelletz sound good and make it available because I think that's been a huge when we talk about kind of the evolution of Al Pelletz. That's a little bit different than what Brian talks about in terms of like we scrambled for one take and like we were getting them recorded hours before we posted them.
Yeah, you can definitely tell if you've been listening to Al Pelletz for a few years on which season we got a producer and we've been working with him before times when Brian was doing the editing on his back porch on a computer back there and what we got somebody that's going to do what they were doing. But now that we have someone who knows what they're doing, she tells us that we need to do things like end of season shows. We have no material. We have not like we just said, okay, let's hit record and see what happens.
So we threatened that we would ask Mike what his favorite episode of the season was and that feels really unfair to any episodes that weren't my favorite. We also suggested that maybe Brian and I could try to guess which one was Mike's favorite. The bummer is I don't necessarily have like stats of Mike's airtime during any individual episode. And I think we've talked about before like I don't go back and listen.
And already you have a list of all of the podcasts that we've done this year. I do have it right up in pretty me. Okay. I do I can look right down the line.
Unfortunately, like this is not Kylie's call to tell me how many minutes Mike talked in each one. So Becky did plan this out. She's got stuff in front of her when she told us that this was just all impromptu. Well, if I was going to guess which episode was your favorite, I needed to know what episodes are you doing?
I also had to have it up to know what we were talking about in our last couple of mentoring episodes. Well, the crazy thing about this whole deal we've been doing here this season is we actually have people that come back like guests like we invite them and talk to them and they go through this process and then they come back the next year. We invite them again. So it's kind of cool.
You're talking about the people that we get a chance to visit with on the LPAT. I thought you were talking about people come back and listen. Well, I mean, I hope there's that. Yeah.
Nice. The one who shares all, but I don't know, Brian shares all the listening, the listening stats. One of the things I really appreciated in all seriousness about this season and it's something that we've evolved into a little bit is this series that we did on mentoring. I thought that was a great way to have a deeper conversation about something that's really important and something that we ought to value and spend some more time thinking about it.
So being able to chunk that up into a set of our mini series of podcasts, I think really added some value. And I hope that our listeners got a chance to really enjoy and spend some time thinking about mentoring from that standpoint. Yeah. It was a great conversation to go through there.
And as one member of the team has pointed out several times, a couple of us may be longer in the tooth than that member is in the profession. And so we have opportunities to apply a lot of that mentoring, things we talked about in our own lives. I think to the guests though as well. I mean, yeah, good job.
I was doing a great mentoring series. But I think one of the things that I've appreciated with our guests is getting to connect with researchers as people too. And I think Brian, like you mentioned, you know, we're all our teachers recognizing that they're folks concerned with some of the problems that we are seeing and who are really thinking about what do we do about what do we do about some of these things. And I think that that's just something that I've that I really value, especially for our return guests, where we get to get to know people a little bit better each time.
They each time they join us. I think that's been a really, really fun, really fun piece. Well, I think the torture has gone on long enough. It also, it has been a great, great year, a great season with you guys.
We'll make it a prediction show too. I say we do it again next season. What do you say? Mentoring again?
No. What is the end that we're doing again? Well, I do hope that our listeners and Becky and Brian enjoy this as much as I do enjoy it because it's a great way to engage with a profession, engage with a couple of great colleagues and talk about what's important to us as ag teacher. So I really do appreciate the opportunity to do it.
It is fun whenever we're out and about doing things at conferences or stuff and people come up and they're like, I don't know what you look like, but I hear I recognize that voice. So come on up, talk to us. We love to get ideas of feedback we're doing and engage with what we got going on. Absolutely.
Well, thank you all for a great season. Go back and opportunity to go back and catch up on any podcasts that you might have missed over the years and we'll be getting ready to put together another season here. And so for Becky and Mike, this is Brian here by The Outpellets. Thanks for a great season.
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