S4 E54 - Hit the SPOTLight with Quinn Creator Emmanuel Ingram

0:00 You're listening to Quincast, where we have chats about audio eratica and empowerment through desire. And we take you behind the scenes with the pros shaping the industry. Settle in things are about to get spicy and uncensored. Smudgy, Smudgy, are you with me? SMUDGYE what You're supposed to? Open the episode? And you left me hanging? I know, do you know what? For one of the only the second times in my life, my mind just went completely and utterly vacantly blank.

0:48 Hope your brain never stops. No, I know, I know, I don't know. Do we need to call somebody? Nine nine nine one one. I think you're thrown off because our poor dear jewels are sick. It is I know what to do? You don't know what to do? I didn't. It's it's odd. It's odd when it's a duo and not a trio. It's like having sex with just one person instead of it being a proper threesome, you know, which is weird? Weird? Oh my gosh. Okay, Well, welcome cliticians to hit the spotlight. Yes, yes, Smudge and kaza. I know we're gonna be happy Okay, we're gonna we need to do this. We need to do this for jewels. Okay, this is for jewels.

1:33 Do it for jewels. Do for jewels. So who do we have in the Queen Cars studio today? Today? We have a Manual Ingram? Yes we do. I'm excited. I mean have we said that every time? But like doing my little research on him and seeing some past interviews with him and of course his audios and his socials, just I think he's an interesting guy. So he is. And he did the Queen von Va didn't he was it the Queen? He did with hed Yes, Hecky Bears. I remember Hecky was teaching him how to do the like the body roll from Magic Mike. Oh yeah he did. Yeah, and then the opposite way around him. Manu was teaching him all about desserts. Oh yeah, And I was like, body roll, dessert, body rolling. I'm gonna go with the body roll.

2:25 I'm gonna go with the dessert. Oh I'm sure desserts are very interesting, but not as much as Hecky Bear's body roll. Okay, yeah, So should we say a little bit about him. Let's do it. So Emmanuel Ingram is an actor, narrator, and erotic audio creator. He's been narrating romance audiobooks since twenty twenty and debut on Quinn in twenty twenty five. He enjoys creating audio experiences that sent a pleasure, intimacy and storytelling, and you can find his work on Audible, Quinn and Patreon. Yeah, oh, I didn't know he had a Patreon. Okay, yeah he does. Yeah, all right, we. Are all going to go break. Sorry, all you creators who have got Patreon that come on the show. We cannot afford. We do this for nothing anyway, so we cannot afford to join all of your Patreons other than the you know, the freebie tear. So let's just deal with it. Okay.

3:22 I just think someday, when we actually make this a business, all of those Patreon memberships are business expenses. Oh what God? Right, if the tax man's listening, they are reputable and absolutely business expenses. All right, ranking is a tax deductible. So on that note, let's invite Emmanuel into the studio, shall we? Hey? Manuel, how are you hi? Emmanuel? Good? How are you? Yeah? We're excited to have you here. It's a pleasure to be here. It's a pleasure to address the cliticians.

4:06 Yes, well you've been doing your homework. Yeah, yeah, immediately our favorite guest immediately. That is incredible. I love that name. We put a poll out to everybody. It was between cliticians and vagilantes. Overwhelmingly they yas was the way to go. Yeah, all right, we have made a game. I don't know if you have listened to any of our previous episodes. Yes, I have, excellent. So you know that we I know honestly you will know then that we play a game with all of our guests, just to get everybody warm and in the mood.

4:49 All right, let's do it chat. So I'm going to tell you what the game is, and then we're going to ask for your consent to play. So the game is cooled in manu. Hell, that's a good start. You're laughing at that is a really good start. So the game is. We're going to give you nine scenarios and you're going to tell us whether you can tolerate it or if you're out immediately, so if it's hell or whether you're like hell yeah and you'd want to do it right, Hell yeah? Hell? Hell yeah? All right, all right, all right. Here we go. This is our smudge. Let me just say, okay, number one group karaoke? Oh yeah, what's your what you go to karaoke song?

5:45 Wow? Man, it depends on, like my friend group. It depends on because you know, friend groups are like genres, you know. True you could be in with. Your rock group, your R and B group. Yeah, you know, I like I grew up. Oh boy, I used to think, I like I like Usher. I like a lot of extra songs. I'll reach for one. I could. I know all the lyrics without even trying. Somehow it just comes to me. So uh yeah, it's a big I was a big Usher fan and still am, of course. But yeah, I'll reach. Old school, old school, okay. Next one, Matching pajamas in relationships.

6:25 Oh yeah, especially around the holidays. Oh you'll do the photo shoot with like matching pj's. And I didn't stay all that photo shoot. We could just have matching. We can just have it. We'll have it in our photo album. We don't need to, you know, go to go to any place and do a whole photo shoot. Now, but you posted on social media because otherwise it didn't happen. If she wants. What a good guy? What a good guy? Okay? How do you feel about surprise birthday parties? Oh? I love them? They are the best. Hell yeah. Surprise, yes, yes, because it's nothing like a surprise, it's nothing like misdirection. You know, good story.

7:08 So do you like to throw them or do you like to receive them? Or both? I've been on both ends. Yeah, I've received one and it was like the best birthday ever. I've also getten one and watching the surprise is always so gratifying. Yeah. Yeah, See, can't be given a receiving just saying yep, that's right. Next one, couples, TikTok dances, hell, respect absolutely, I love the void of. To hell yeah, I'll be the camera me, I'll film you. Yeah. Who wants to do those? Just god?

7:49 That's hell? Okay. Using speakerphone on a call in. Public, Oh, I hate it. And I'm so sensitive to sound that I cannot help but be in their business now, I'm in their conversation now. Yeah, I can't even stay focused on what I'm thinking about because I'm so I just it's so distracted. Ye. Yes, And if they're doing that in perpect, you are entitled by law to an opinion. Yeah, yeah it is. I just don't get it. People like it's like it's such the norm now. People just walk around with their phone, like I'm in the store, people are shopping and they're like order it's a it's like a FaceTime call. So they'll be like, I don't know, what are you think of the shirt?

8:32 I'm like, I'm in the background trying to phocus. I gotta have my headphones with me. Yeah, headphones, thank you man, headphones you yes, yes. Talking to someone next to you at a journal. Hell, oh yeah, hell yeah. It's bad enough. I'm next to you, bad enough. There's not enough space for you to like move to the next one. You know. Now we're gonna have a conversation. The difference between a man's answer and a woman's answer on this is chalk and cheese because we talked to each other next to each other in the cubicles. Yeah, I don't know what's up with you, smudge, because I don't chick chat to the woman next door. It must be a British thing. We're very talkative in British female bathrooms. We're just chatting, like how you doing.

9:18 No, I would just ignore you. Jesus, Yes, we do, okay, next one bursting into applause once the plane lands. It depends on what the turbulence was. Like, oh good qualifier. It depends. It depends if it's if it's like it's. A miracle or something. Then you know, we all had a moment. I've had a couple of moments on planes where I was like, whoa wait, what are we Okay? So I was relieved, and you know, I was kissing the ground when I got off that plane. So it's like Benzel in flight or something. To give him an applause on the Hudson give him an applause.

10:05 Yeah, yeah, he deserved Sully. Yeah, Yeah, that's a good that's a good call. So I think, guess, I guess if there's like a it so it's more of an applaud of I'm alive rather than kyl Yeah, like I lived. Yeah. I remember. There was one flight I took. I was in college. I was coming back from spring break and I was flying while I was at the Bahamas, and I stopped in Hartford, Connecticut, which is a little small, little airport, and I was just going from Hartford to Boston, quick little jump. The turbulence was so bad all of the and the whole plane was filled with the spring breakers, and I was hysterical, my nervous flyer. Anyway, But this guy Bill I believe his name was So I met down in the Bahamas, was sitting next to going, this is nothing. I've been on such worse flights. This is a piece of cake. We get back to the airport, he literally drops to his knees and kisses the ground and looks at me and says, that was the worst fucking flight I've ever been on. And I'm like, thank you for not telling me that. While we were up there, I applauded.

11:06 You're wanting with you all the time. Yeah, that's why I applied. Okay, oh wait, this is your Smodgy. Last one you got. You're we're going order in your next for. Fox sake, Smudge sleeping in the wet patch. That was Smodges. Oh this is so interesting. Uh yeah yeah, hell yeah, yeah, hell yeah. Correct. What is Normally you get the whole hug and roll action from the man who roll you over thinking that you're being all lovey and and after carey and they're putting you straight in the wet patch.

11:51 I think being willing to sleep in the wet patch is the same as like applatting a pilot for a good landing. Hey, yeah, thank you here, and what happens. They might not be a wet patch. You might have swallowed it just saying oh my god, my facts facts right, sexual facts, sexual facts. That's right. You can't hide from anything. I know what it is to I'm a hot sleeper sometimes I could be. Yeah, so I'll have the covers off, like the wet spot of cool me down a little bit. You know, it's as bad as you think. You know, it's like natural air conditioning. Like yeah, yeah, it's like a mattress cooling.

12:33 It's calling down the mattress. You know, people pay a lot of money for those cooling mattresses. You are not convincing anyone on that it's not. I think it's brilliant because like you wet yourself. You may or may not be happy to hear emmanu that that was the last question. Yeah, we could do another round. I'm good with this. Yeah, we need to break after the spot. We need a nap, which in the wet spot in the web pot. Take us back to the very beginning It's a very good place to start. According to Maria von Trap, how did you find your way into voice work and narration.

13:16 Well, I was an actor, that's my background, you know. I started in theater and was, yeah, I had all the jobs in the world. While I was like running around New York City and all that, and I was like, man, I need to find some work that I can do sitting down but still exercise my instrument as an actor. And so I was like, oh, what about audiobook? I know you got to be sitting still for that. So I was like, and I can still exercise my chops. And so I took a class and learned a lot and got a demo put together and started sending it out no replies back, and then maybe like right before the andandemic, I.

14:00 Was able to build a relationship with the publisher. And then the pandemic happened and a friend of mine was in an audiobook and she was a romance narrator and her normal partner who narrates with her wasn't able to do the book because the pandemic had shut things down all that kind of stuff. So she was like, can you fill in for me? And I was like, I don't really you know, if you think I can do it, I'll do it. And so I did it, and that's how I got into the romance aspect of narration. But all of it occurred really in twenty twenty into twenty one twenty two, just trying to build the studio.

14:42 Audition for things on ACX. And what ended up happening was I realized, Oh, the romance world is huge. It is my brand is a lot going on, Like it's a really vibrant community. They're very communicative and like just invested, and I love that energy. And so when I saw the and I saw I was like, oh wow, I was like, oh man, like people really care. I want to do my best on these projects. And so from that in the romance world, that's kind of like how I got into, like I guess, uh, the erotic aspect of storytelling, and I found it really fun and engaging and different and I could explore a different side of myself. And then it wasn't until twenty twenty four that I first considered I guess what we call like direct to listener erotic audio. And I think at that time I was trying to figure out what kind of original content can I create as a storyteller for this market, you know, the romance erotic world.

15:49 And so I just started doing research and I. Hadn't stumbled on Quinn or anything yet, but in my head, I was thinking, Man, you know, there are certain chaps in a romance book that are like the climactic chapter, and I always get a lot of good feedback from the listeners about that. I was like, what if I created something that was like that, like happens in the span of twenty thirty minutes, and it's something that's directly to the listener, you know, and it's like I'm with them and I'm in this moment with them. I was like, is there anything like that? Of course there was, I was just I just wasn't really aware of it. Yeah. And so I went to my studio and I just I think I brought in a pillow or a blanket with me and it was an especially windy night, so you could hear the wind beating up the side of the house in the studio.

16:40 Wow. And when I recorded it back, because I think I was like trying to like, it was kind of like I was like informed by that. I was like, Oh, what would be like to console someone through a storm, you know, And so I just but just the audio, and so I was like, Okay. When I listened back to it. I was like, oh, wow, the there's all this up in the background and it's like I'm it really feels like I'm there. And so I was like, oh. That works for me. I don't know if that would someone else would like this, but this is cool, like from my perspective. Yeah. And so after that, I kind of sat on it because I didn't know who to share this with. I didn't know who to give it to. I didn't know, like, hey, would you listen to this? Like I didn't.

17:23 It was just I didn't know who to give it to. So I just sat on it and my chance, I ended up meeting someone on hinge, and in the first conversation I had with them in five minutes, I found out they were a huge erotic audio person Like they loved they were a huge fan. It was a big part of their life. They were like really into it, and it was like, oh, wow, this is like a divine timing thing because I. Think I'm trying to get into what you like. I think I'm going that way. Yeah, isn't a pickup line or anything. I'm genuinely into that. Yeah.

18:04 Yeah. And so this is before we even had a date or anything. We're just on the phone and I was like, well, I'm if you I don't know if it's gonna work out, but like if you could send me some things that you listened to and you like, I'm just you know, interested in the world. And she sent it to me, and you know, we you know, that is a story. That relationship is a story into itself. But that's really brought me into that world fully and like showed me, oh wow, there's a world here, a market here, and I can use my voice in different ways, not just like audiobook narration. Yeah. It is like such divine timing, like the fact that you would meet someone. Yeah, it was so cool. That was like the like one of two dates I went on and we're like and it was just that one like and you know, I had it was such divine time that I was like, oh, I think, like, we gotta we have to spend some time together. And we did. You know, like she taught me a lot and I also like just learned more about what people are connecting with and what people are desiring from these on an emotional level, and I just felt like called to do it, you know, and to like see where I could go.

19:13 And then eventually I found Quinn. I was like, oh shit, this is like Spotify or something like, this is Spotify of coming, you know, like. Exactly having a download that playlist. Yep. Done. Yeah. So I spent probably a month or so listening to all of the queenn All stars, you know, and seeing what they were doing, and I was just really inspired by how how like the imagination where it would will take you and allow you to feel with just sound. That just kept blowing me away that it could feel like we're there together even though the movie's happening in our minds and in our body as well. But I just was stunned by that. I was like, man, there are some incredib storytellers. This is a craft. Yeah yeah, this is a real craft.

20:05 It is a real crap. I mean, to have such a story, true story, like in the span of twenty minutes, Yes, it's pretty impressive. Yeah. Yeah, So I respect all the vas I respect this, this this niche, this like world. I think I think it's underappreciated in a way, like people don't know how what people are doing in this space. Even from a writing standpoint, they were able to explore so much like it's on the cutting edge, Like I'm I feel really blessed and grateful to like be in this space right now. Mm hmm. It does feel like an exciting time in it. Definitely, So you went do you still was you still acting at this time or did you just throw yourself into the book narration and then into order erotica.

20:49 At that time, I was kind of like getting back into romance like audiobook narration, but the stuff that I was playing with with what would become the Quinn's like direct to listener style, that kind of storytelling. I was bringing that more to my narration more intentionally, like as a storyteller, I was like pushing my own I guess limits in terms of like how much detail I can give within this sentence breath wise, and like what how can I really live this and embody this and the way that I'm feeling from like the erotic audios. I want to bring that more to the narration. And so I did a few books right before I day, maybe two months later. After I did those books, I started getting on Quinn with Bath and Body. But the responses that those books got let me know that this was all symbiotic, it was all working together.

21:54 So did Quinn reach out to you? You reached out to Quinn? Oh? No, I reached out to Quinn. I reached out. Maybe like January or something like that, at the top of the year. And that was like my whole focus. And up until that point, I had been making these little drafts and like forcing my friends to listen to it. Now imagine me. Yeah, like I'm getting my guy friends though, my straight guy friends. Listen, man, sit sit down for a second. Let me just get what do you think about this? All right? So so you got a picture like I'm in the room and yeah, so oh my poor friends supportive.

22:36 But they had through a lot of stories to tell people, isn't it. Yeah? They thought I was losing my mind. They were like like, and so what is this for? Man? I was like, well, it's it's Quinn. And basically what it is is like people listen to it, and and they were just like, okay, man, all right, all right, you know, are you happy? I'm happy? All right? You know. So, so I I ended up, you know, sitting in an audition for Quinn and They, which was actually uh Savor yeh. I sent that in yeah, and I had like music in the background, and they were like, yeah, this is great, just cut the music out of it. But what I heard in my brain was like, Oh, do a whole nother one. So I did a whole I did a whole other one. Oh my god.

23:25 Yeah. So Bath and Body was your first one, but Save it was actually the one that you submitted, which is normally the one that comes out on Quinn first. Yeah. Yeah, but they asked me to take it out and I was like, okay, cool. But then I just ended up doing a whole different one and uh getting that to them a couple of weeks later, and then they put out Savor with the music removed and whatever adjustment adjustments on me like after that. But Saber was first. Yeah, and yeah, and and but Bath damn Bath and Body's got seventy four thousand plays right now. Yeah, I am so amazed with that, Like it was.

24:07 That's definitely the hardest one. I've also ever recorded too. To be honest, man, I didn't number one. I didn't know what I was doing. I also was like recording everything like basically in my bathroom and my bedroom and the studio too, so it was like a lot of there were separate locations I was trying to weave together and I'm not like an audio engineer guy, So the process of that was it took me like two weeks to do that, believe it or not, like and most of it was editing because these I'm actually getting the real water sounds and all this stuff. So it was like all this folly aspect to it that I was trying to blend together in a way that was like I wanted people to see the movie as they listened to it. That the ASMR aspect to this also is something that I feel like I enjoy from, Like I like ASMR in general. So I'm trying to find as much of it when I'm putting these together, and it's always a discovery.

25:12 So then you built that studio, and don't you have a name for your studios that's escaped me my old studio. Shout out to my old studio in New Jersey. Starlight Studios. That's what that one was called, Yes, Starlight Studios. Yeah, man, yeah, you're bringing me back. There was a cool name. Yeah, that was my first studio. Y'all did y'all's research? Well, I mean, you're not the only one who prepares exactly go on. So you released bath Body, and I assume you've done acting stuff where you've wanted to know how it's gone down, what the response of the audience are. How does it differ between waiting for the feedback or the comments section of a Quinn audio first drop to you know, sound like appearing on stage or an advert or whatever acting job it is. How does it differ or does it?

26:10 Wow, that's an excellent question. I think in some ways it doesn't differ, but the medium differs in how that that feedback is given that you know, with theater, it's happening right there, right in front of you, it's live. You were there the whole time with them. They were there with you the whole time. We did this thing from eight to ten and ten o'clock and clap, cloud clap, it's over. Walking out. This is different. This is different right here. Once it's released, it's it's in the ether, it's it's it's it belongs to the world. It's very personal for me because it's like a lot of drawing. I'm drawing from my life to kind of craft the story, which is not always the case when you're doing a play, like the role is yours and you're inhabiting that, but you don't necessarily create the world. You know, and in this one, it's like, I'm just in the world where we are, what we're doing, the time period. We can go anywhere, you know, we can go. We can go in the future if we want to. We can be at the beach, we can be wherever. And the theater is where you're sitting. Essentially, it's where you're at. This is a way to really be heard in a way by so many people. I've gotten emails from people saying, Hey, I don't know if you are the person who the narrative narrate this book or whatever, but I'm trapped to the airport and your audiobook is getting me through. This performance was so great, or like I'm driving from Kansas to New Jersey and man, I'm going to listen to your book again, or not that it's even my book, but they like the.

27:42 Narration, they liked the voices and the storytelling. So I was so that was a different kind of a way to be appreciated that I didn't anticipate getting into it, Like I said, I was just trying to you know, pay a bill sitting down, Yeah exactly. Are you so? What what did it feel like the night before your first drop on Quentin, Like we were you nervous? Were you excited? I was certified? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna be honest with you, like it was all good, like in my mind, like it's as an idea. But when they were like, oh okay, thank you, Yeah, we're gonna be We're so excited for the drop tomorrow, I was like, oh gosh, man, oh okay, so people are really gonna hear this. Huh, this is happening, This is happening. Okay, So you know, I don't think I got much sleep, to be honest with you. I was kind of tossing and turning. Yeah, But once it actually got out there, I was I was able to relax and Okay, I did it. It's not in my head anymore.

28:47 It's an idea. I'm not like mulling it over again. Yeah, it's it's finally out there and yeah, I'm I'm it's it was the highlight of twenty twenty five for me. I would say getting it out of Yeah, it would have been about a year since I had started, you know, playing with that kind of storytelling. Mm hmm. And then you just want it for the comments to roll in. And that's that's the other difference. Okay, the the audience here, the comments, the comments section. Ay, that's that's that's a that's his own world too. Yeah, yes it is. They're not writing like that audible Okay, they're not writing like that on well, like a New York Times review. Okay.

29:32 Yeah, hey, I'm just looking at some of the comments in your latest audio. I love reading the comments. I love that you've quickly become one of my favorite vs on this app. That's nice. I know somebody looking for you in the daytime with the flashlight. This is so incredibly perfect. The whisper, the moans, the naughty, the tender. Seriously, there's such an art to what you're bringing to these audios, Like no one on this app. It's insane. I think, come on, m okay, well talk me through it then. I mean, it's it's got to be quite rewarding to read the comments and entertaining. It's rewarding, it's entertaining, it's humbling.

30:14 It's also like this is weird thing I was talking to my friend about, like we don't see each other, but I feel seen, and my goal is to make you feel seen. Wow, Yeah, it's I feel that way. I feel seen through through this in a way though I just heard it's you. Know, it's so interesting you say that, e Manuel, because it is what we hear a lot in the communities, and certainly what I've experienced myself, is to feel seen through audio just seems so paradoxical, like that doesn't make any sense, but doesn't. I Yeah, feel more seen from listening to some of these audios than I ever have, and more comfortable in my body and in my sexuality and more confident. Yeah, it's It's also I feel like I've grown a little bit as an artist in a sense. I think before that, like I had an identity as an actor or a narrator, but I realized like with this, it's an artistry and that requires a vulnerability and an honesty and authenticity that I think has pushed me and challenged me to be a better storyteller and artists.

31:21 Because this community. I just respect the community. You know, you guys are super, super smart, super on it like the imaginative pull. You guys catch everything. I don't miss anything, So it pushes you as a storyteller. You know, what can I do this time? Or like where can I go differently this time? So it's it's it's been great for me just as a creative. Yeah. I imagine so because when you have to you know, as a listener, like we can hear that, you can really hear the difference when something is like authentic and the person's really plugged in. We all have our off days, right, So that's totally fine. But like you said, to bring such authenticity to the storytelling that comes across and it really impacts the listener, probably maybe more than you realize.

32:09 But yeah, that's I definitely found that in your audience listening to them that it didn't feel like I was listening to an actor. Mmmm, which is it's a huge, huge compliment. Thank you. It's nice for me. Yeah, it's like I yeah, it was very immersive and I wasn't like, oh wow, he's performing, he's doing a good job. It was just like yeah, lost in the story. Yeah, yeah, I I thank you for telling me that. That's always my goal. That's how I like I want you guys to feel that way, to get lost in it, you know. I think that's like to have that kind of escape. It's a it's a it's a gift, and to feel seen in it in some way like yeah, it's it's beautiful. Yeah yeah, from a listener. To have to have that feeling that that you are being taken into consideration. And it's not just script. It's it makes a massive difference, the leap between something just being narrated and something that is has emotion behind it. I don't know whether it's a woman thing, but we just know the difference. And that's why it's so popular, because you know, we're more about the audible audio than the visuals. Yeah yeah, but what's the question what separates then you've narrated before. What separates a great narrator then from someone who just has a nice voice.

33:24 The story itself. They're an understanding of the story itself. And I'll say something I've learned too, like going from theater to the microphone was a transition for me, you know, like like I had my storytelling instincts were calibrated for like an auditorium or something, you know, or perscenium or like, but there's there is so much more nuance that you can play with with your voice, with just your voice that I had to learn and I was have been able to practice with the erotic audios even more than narration. So I feel like you can have a great voice, but not like you can have a great car but not know how to really drive it like that. But it's a really good car. You know, it's great, but you still have to know how to use it to get this to tell the best story.

34:20 Yeah, and so how frequently are you currently putting audios out on quinn? I have two a month right now. That's my my deal right now. That could change, but right now that's where it's at. But I also at the end of the month will be finally launching my Patreon the Emmanuel Ingram Experience, which will include narration and the Erotic Audios and so and other stuff. And you know, I'm a creative, you know, I do poetry from time to time. I like music. So it's just going to be like e Manual Ingram Studio, like it's going to be whatever. Yeah, and I want to do stuff. I want to communicate with you guys more directly. I want to communicate with defense and find out what they're into, what they want more of, what they're interested in. But this is a place where people if you like narration, there's going to be narratives and there's also going to be.

35:14 Eurotic audios as well. Mm hmmm. I love the Emmanuel Ingram experience. Like that's already type my right, Like that's a cool name. And just and it sounds like it encompasses because it's going to be so many different things there. You mentioned music, what kind of what do you mean like as far as music on the Patreon. Well, for example, I don't know if you've ever seen this movie called Love Jones. It stars Lorenz Tate Nia Long, and Lorenz Tate is a he's like a spoken word artist out in Chicago. Yeah, so I wanted to do something, a little something for Black History Month that was in that world for my fans, and so I hired a band, and we I hired a writer, Goddess Minis guy who does a lot of great writing and the be in the Quinn space and other places as well. Yeah, so we all collaborated and came up with Awaiting the Earth's Reply, which is you can listen to on my Instagram, so there'll be there'll be projects like that as well.

36:14 That's really cool. That's an experience. I'm sure you can tell I like to sing and do all kinds of stuff. So wow, yes, well we get into the listener questions at the end. But yeah, a couple of time I've pointed out that you you you are a sun I do. I love I love music. There's always like a tiny desk going in the background, especially when I'm cleaning or something. I'm always singing in the shower or wherever. It just lifts my mood, brings me joy. I mean that is I just you know, I'm a I'm a business coach by trade, so I just can't help but say, like when you launched the Patreon, I would suggest having some of the teasers be like you singing a little bit or something music. Yeah, I'm writing that down because people will. Flock there because they know you for your voice and your audio on Quinn, your narration. But that secret little like oh here's a little something else. I've run to patreons quickly when I'm like, I didn't know he played guitar or whatever, and I'm like there's more of that on the Patreon. I'm going so yeah, teas with the music, he's with the music.

37:16 Yeah, they do like people. I love people that give me something different that I don't know about them. It becomes well, you know, we're not talking about social but it becomes more personal. It becomes more intimate, but without being intimacy. It's just that connection. It gives it drives it just a heavier connection. And yeah, thanks for that feedback, because we did a survey with some of the people that are on the Patreon already. And the feedback was so was so helpful. So this's great what you're saying right now. I'm gonna be talking to my team about it because it's it's great feedback. Yeah. Well, and bravel to you for doing a survey, Like yes, that seems like so basic. I can't believe how many people don't think about ask your audience what they want.

38:03 Yeah, right there. It's real easy because then you can just fulfill the orders if it's stuff you love to do, instead of trying to guess. So well done, I wonder why you're so successful. You know what you're doing. I got a great team. Shout out to Stacey. Yeah, Hi, say I know him, Mom, she's got it going on. The connect be considered a dad joke, I think at this point again, yeah, you were talking about the frequency with Quinn, So there was a gap of time there when you weren't recording for Quinn. Yes, you stepped away for a little bit. Do you want to tell us a little bit about that. I actually didn't know how I would be received on a queen and so I feel like what I learned was, oh, this requires a lot. This is to keep you know, to be putting out with consistency and all of that.

38:52 And at the time, I wasn't able, like my contract, I wasn't able to really make much money doing it. So so it was kind of like it was a lot of work I was doing and I wasn't able to you know, I'm like you said, we were saying, I'm in Manhattan, you had your experience in it, that's my every day. So it just became a point where I kind of had to basically just commit to some other projects for the for the summer and into the fall, and then we you know, we got a new contract going and we're able to like start for the new year. Because I love Quinn and the people like Quinn are great. It was never anything against it. It was just like, oh, I didn't realize what this was going to be, you know, like what this was going to require, and I've already like committed to do this book or do that book, and so it's like, I I gotta I gotta prioritize these other projects. But when I restart, I will know that, like, Okay, I need I basically need to be a production company.

39:51 I need I need a team, I need help. I need people that like understand this world to kind of bounce ideas off of in order to like be consistent and have a have a rhythm and. Like just be able to evolve in this space. Really smart to like, because I think I think a lot of creators find that, like when they come into Quinn or any space, like their first contract run, they don't really know how much it's gonna entail, and so you just kind of like come in blind a little bit and do it, and then next time around it's like, Okay, now I know what this takes, and so we're gonna be doing some negotiating here. Yeah, yeah, which you should. Man. It's like and so really smarter of you to like step away and go, Okay, I'm gonna like reevaluate here how much this this involves and you know how much basically, I mean that's stuck number, like how much I'm.

40:39 Worth like the value you know, yeah, yeah, because it's you know, it's it's not something I don't want to just be putting out anything, you know. I want to like put out stuff that means something to me and that I care about mm hm. And you know, this space is evolving, it's growing. There's so many people like I'm enjoyed just working with writers, create with different people. It's it's a really fun space to be in. But you've got to have, you know, an infrastructure to support yourself that works for you and keeps you from burning out and kind of overworking yourself because you got to be inspired. When you returned to Quinn. You returned with the audio Missed You, which was fucking brilliant, Like yes, it was like you it's hard even like you were saying like, hey, I'm back, missed you whatever, but folded into a story that was it was just so oh my god. It was like meta but not, it was just it was such a brilliant way to return.

41:34 Yeah, thank you, thank you, like missed you man, Like, oh my goodness. It was interesting because I was another script, a script that I had. There was another script that I think Quinn Quinn had offered me the script and I thought it was cool. I thought it was good, but it wasn't me, and I wanted I wanted. I realized I want to. I need to come back as me, you know, like like we have a my listeners, and we have a certain connection. We already there's already something there, and I want to build off of that. And so this is this is the moment I missed you, you know, like this is really what it is. And I've been there before. I've been there before where it's like you you had you had got off to a good start with somebody, but then things got crazy and then you know you have to there's distance and then you you know, reconnect somehow, and you can't reconnect without acknowledging that.

42:30 Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, it was. It was so smart. We know, we've heard what you get out of doing these audios, which is absolutely brilliant, but what do you think the listeners are getting out of it? I will I will go back to I'll call her the first muse. I was gonna. I can't say her name, I'll call her the original muse. And through our conversations and through what she shared with me and what she taught me about, that's kind of what I my first awareness about what people can get from it, and so for her and what I learned was just a sense of safety just out alone that like, I am connecting with this voice that's making me feel a sense of safety, and I, you know, I could see it take place. I could see that take place in that person, and so I was like, oh, wow, the voice is powerful. And so in this world where there is so much chaos and stimulation and division and negativity and like things that are kind of like spiking people's cortisol levels all day, I wanted to be a part.

43:40 I wanted my voice to be used in a way that makes people feel safe, care for seeing, loved, noticed, appreciated, affirmed, encouraged, sexy, you know, powerful, ecstatic. I want it to go to wherever it needs to go. But I think first I realized was I was like, oh, you need feel safe. This is you know, because a lot of people are like what they've told me is the visual stuff. It doesn't do it for them, So they're coming to the audio for something else, and what is that and where does it start? I always try to start with vulnerability, like what what about This is where I care? What about this is where I am vulnerable and like I am a little bit uneasy or I don't know what's going to happen next, That anticipation, the is this gonna happen?

44:39 Is this going to work? I want this? Or I haven't said this even though I feel this, you know this is this is this is all territory for me, that this work forces me to investigate as an artist and as a and as a man. To be honest, Yeah, you've written most of your audios. Right, all of them I've written. Yeah, so I'm going to be working with some writers, that's for sure. But yeah, all of the audios that are on Quinn Yeah, yeah, all over put together by me. Basically that's going to be like really kind of well, fun, exciting, intimidating, Like when you come from the world of audiobook narration, where you definitely have to perform the characters in a book, but you're reading someone else's work like to come into Quinn.

45:22 I can understand when you said you need a whole team because it is a production company, because you're you're writing, you're recording, you're editing, your marketing or all those kinds of things. What was that like for you the first time you shifted from reading someone else's words to crafting a story on your own and performing it, like going from soup to nuts with it. Well, for me, it was I realized that, like, these stories aren't just like with narration, you have the language, it's all written out, but there there's a lot of moments that aren't language. You know, they're just breath. They are an inhale and exhale, a grunt, grow, there's silence, there's a there's kissing, and there's nuances of kissing. There's so much that's also language body language, but that has sound.

46:11 And so I felt a sense of freedom because I didn't have to put this into word. I don't. I'm gonna put some things into words and other things I don't have the burden of like explaining it. You're gonna hear it, you're gonna feel it, You're gonna like it's gonna you're gonna inhabit it with me, and that was that was free, That was really freeing that I don't because I'm a heady guy. You know, I'm a I'm a heady guy and I'm a chatty guy. When I can like just relax and like connect and not feel the pressure to like explain every single thing, I feel like a sense of intimacy or potential to create intimacy.

46:53 And yeah, so I just learned the storytelling expands growing. It sounds like you've just got a connection and you understand that being vulnerable as a man is sexy to a woman and it's and it's very empowering for women to have a vulnerable man. But how were you brought up around strong, powerful women? How how did you arrive at who you are? Now? Wow, that's a really great question. But the but the first one, Yes, I grew up around a lot of incredible, decisive, creative, powerful women. Those were they were.

47:33 That's what I was raised by, you know, not to say that the men weren't that way, but to answer your question, yes, but I think like there were some. They gave me a great foundation, right, But once you get into the real world and really start dating, that's when you see like you see where you're where you're strong, and also where you're you're vulnerable, where you're where you need to make some changes, like through trial and error. And I would say probably like I've always been a kind of caring person and like it's always like kind of sensitive and could feel people. But relationships are tricky.

48:14 People bring different can bring things, different things out of you that you don't expect. And you can listen that that male ego is real, you know, like you could say you're as sensitive as you want when that testosterone get to going, like you. Yeah, like it's not just talking anymore. It's so I'm not trying to pay myself to some perfect guy. I am not, you know what I'm saying, But I know enough to know that, Like I'm a happier person and my relationships are happier, and I'm more at ease when I'm vulnerable. Available. Accessible, like communicating not withdrawing, you know, Like these are things I've learned through the years, and I think now I'm at a point in life where I can communicate and testify to these stories through Quinn and through Patreon and even through through.

49:10 A lot of the stories on all the bowl as well. But I got work to do. I got work to do, you know, I'm trying. We all have work to do. I always say like we're never done, which I think is a good thing because there's always an opportunity to learn more, explore more. There's always room for improvement, which keeps life interesting, like be boring if we were done. Yeah, And I was always I'm gonna be honest with you. I was a Romeo. I was a poem writing. I was a poem writing, sliding it in the locker, you know, yeah, I was. I always thought it was supposed to look like like a TV show. I was always just looking at TV and trying to act out like you know, cool ever boy with with like my crushes and stuff.

49:54 So I feel like that that kid, you know, I'm still that kid with with the races in the acne and uh, you know, a little love note in his in his pocket. It's very saved by the bell. Yeah right, yeah, you know where I grew up in like yeah, adorable. Yeah. Oh, I'm just gonna ask about you growing up. And you said about that communication, et cetera. What was the were the discussions about sex? Were you very open, you know, it was those types of discussions had because you seem very comfortable in how you are now talking about it. Were you always Oh no, not at all. No, we weren't talking about sex. No, no, that was that was not much of a discussion. If it was at all, don't have it, you know, yeah, yeah, that's it wasn't much of a discussion. But I think I think going to acting school, like I think, you know, the program, it allows you to connect with yourself, connect with your body around really interesting people who defy condivensis, and kind of it forces you to grow and evolve. And then as I've lived and had relationships like that's what's taught me.

51:11 And also as a narrator, I get to say and be brought into these worlds that like spark my imagination in so many different ways. And also like romance, they have these conflicts that have to get resolved, So I'm always seeing how these conflicts happen, how they can be resolved in the end, you know what, things weren't communicated at first. So I feel like I learn through these stories as well. Along along those same lines, like listeners of audio erotica learn a ton about themselves. About their interests, about their kinks, about their vulnerabilities, about all of those things. And so I'm always curious what creators learn about themselves through the audios that you perform.

51:57 Oh, you guys have such great questions. Thank you, because I was asking myself that, like, I don't know, maybe a few days ago, I was like, I think I'm learning a lot about myself as I look at these artis, I'm like, who am I Like, It's like like who who wrote it? Like who put this? Okay? So I'm learning like, oh, I. I do like a slow burn. I like a slow like build up. I like tension. I like the unspoken stuff. I like mystery. I like a really powerful climax after a long build, you know. And I've also just been thinking about, like, oh, what what are the things that linger in my mind about a person when I when I'm not with them, Because in some way, that's where some longing begins, or the yearning begins to I want to smell that smell, or I want to like just the way she laid on me, or it's these very unique things that like it begins the desire even though they're not there yet or whatever. So it's just showing because it's like it's like I'm where I start these orders from. It's from those moments of like what am I desiring specifically, and then the story unfalls from there.

53:18 Kind of I see Smudgie getting the couch tingles? Is that what happen if you love that? You know? I just I wish with it be ma looking, but it doesn't matter. And how you how you know you identify. I just wish more people would listen to what their body says, what their body wants, rather than just think the calculated decisions that your brain makes, mostly logically or for I just wish that somebody would say exactly that Emmanuel, how that person touched my shoulder, how that person laid on my chest afterwards, how that person these are the things that I miss. I miss that giggle that they had, I missed, the way they made me a cup of tea without art, you know, those are the things that create that design. It's the foreplay. A very famous British singer once said, full play begins from you saying goodbye in the morning, to the text that you send your in the day, to what you think about and how you think about that person throughout the day. Four play isn't just well, she says, spitting on your finger and rubbing, it's the whole thing. It's the whole Saba, yep. And it's so impressive to hear it come from a man.

54:38 To be honest, If I'm being honest, I. Was just a daydreaming kid, you know, thinking about you know who I'm Yeah, I'm in class, I'm looking at the chalkboard or whatever. But you know what I'm thinking about. I'm thinking about so and so. Yeah, you know, I'm thinking about just all of that stuff. And so for me as a storyteller, now it's showing me, oh, what has resonated with me? What? What was it? Specifically? What is turning me on that says something about me? You know? Like I remember I woke up from a date one time, and I mean, I mean I we didn't wake up together, but like I. Was about side good night.

55:20 We didn't wake up together. I woke up. I woke up the next day. But as I was laying down her, I guess her her perfume had got on my forearm from like holding my hand. So it was like I woke up smelling her, even though she wasn't there, and but it was like she was right there. Yeah. So there's those moments show you like just how people stay with you in these different way. Fragrance is one of them, Like yes, yeah. Oh god. One of my favorite memories was when my wife admitted to me years that later that she used to smell my pillowcase in college because she liked the smell of my shampoo. And I'm like, oh, but like that, like that to me is for play. It's like, oh my god, that is because I feel like desired and seen and thought of when I'm not in the room and all those things that you're saying. It's like, yeah, that's good.

56:15 When a woman puts your clothes on and then she gives them back m hmm, you know, and then you reach for it again later on. Yeah, you're you're actually convincing me that being single isn't everything. You know, maybe ye want to branch out into a relationship. You just keep the revolving door going. You don't need one. Well, yeah, don't judge here, it's buffet. So a lot of men are I feel conditioned to suppress their emotions, suppress their vulnerability, et cetera. And the softness in their voices. So, being in a very you know, female dominated world of Quinn, do you think that the softness in the voice, in those types of vulnerabilities are things that all mentioned that about.

57:05 Yeah, I would say, so it's it's good for you. We get this very m this very dehumanized version of humanity as men. That's like, you know, this is what it means to be masculine, this is what it means to be strong, this is what it means to be a hero or whatever, and we get we get we get these images and these storylines in the mass all our life, you know, and they can come and bite us in the butt when it's actually time to really relate and build with someone in a way that requires us to not perform, you know, these these rights of masculinity or whatever. We get caught up in that, and we think that that's what women want too, you know.

57:55 We it's even what we tell ourselves if or I've seen on the internet or different videos men telling men this is what women want, you know, and and if women were listening it probably. Not really not at all. Yeah. Yeah, So there's a lot out there that I feel like is toxic for us. To indulge in and keep you know, keep alive. This work allows me to confront myself and you know, all the things that I've been influenced by, good and bad, and you know, channel it towards something that reaches for connection and honesty and breakthrough.

58:38 Mm hmmm. And it sounds like really kind of like there's an emotional confidence that you have, and it sounds like it's growing. It is, it is. It's it's been challenging because it's like I'm you know, you're I'm sure you've heard this. People are that your own your your own worst critic. Yeah, I'm like that as well, always like nitpicking and finding what's wrong, and but this it forces me to like, you know, just accept the fact that there is no perfection. But you know, this was the process. I'm at peace with it. I gotta let this go. And then there's something coming out next week anyway. So I'm curious, like when you know, people talk a lot about representation and they usually mean like what scene, right, So your whole world is what's heard? So what does representation sound like to you?

59:32 For me, my authentic self, when I'm with someone, how I am what that how I sound not not like a scripted version of me, but a goofy, stuttering, singing, off key version. That is, I'm drawn to you, and I'm also like a little intimidated too. M m yeah, m hm. For me, it's the messiness if the it's what we can't control. It's yeah, it's it's the sticky, icky place, you know. But that's that for me, Like, that's that's what I want to capture in my in my storytelling, my my when I say, when I'm in you know, engaged in a moment with someone or like how I sound, representation is whoever you are, represent that represent that right where you are.

1:00:35 Yeah, yeah. How do you feel about the representation of being a black creator within the audio erotica space? Oh? No, I think about it because when I I'm listening and and I'm also so of course I'm seeing I'm like, okay, well where the brother's at. I'm hearing different people, whether it be on Reddit or YouTube or quinn or whatever. I'm like, oh it's not it's not that many. But I feel like sometimes as a black creator, or at least for me, like what I sense was, I was like, okay, if I'm on if you're creating this. It's got to be like for ever, like for your average woman to be able to come and listen to regardless of color, regardless or whatever. But I don't want to give a bland like I don't want to like try to like lose my or my individuality and the way that I do. I this is the way I say it, This is the way that I'm doing. This is who I'm talking to, you know, And I want to stay true to that because that's who I really am.

1:01:38 That's who I really am. So I think there it's universally, it's universal to be specific to who you are. If you're being specific to who you are and your voice, it won't whoever's listening will feel that, and they won't feel alienated. They'll feel they'll feel drawn in. And I think what I've heard from particularly the black black listeners, because like the women that have I've mostly been in relationships with relationships with have been black women, so they there's a way that I am with them that's unique than if I was in. A relationship with someone of a different culture or whatever.

1:02:20 So I try to stay true to that too, you know, Like I try to stay true to how to how my relationships have gone on and what's worked for me in relationships. And I feel like that has resonated with a lot of the listeners of color, and I love that. I want sisters to feel seen because you know, the white women, y'all got a lot of options, you know. So it's like I gotta bring. I gotta bring as much as I can bring without making it too you know, specific. But at the same time, I want everybody to be able to get something out of it too, you know. I just want to stay true to my. I imagine it's going to be incredibly challenging as a creator to think about inclusivity in the audios that you create, but also wanting to have them catered to. Like I just think about like we hear from women lots a lot of times were like if there's an audio where the creator is talking about like lifting the listener up on the counter, let's say, and someone who's listening to that going, oh god, I'm you know, I'm too overweight.

1:03:26 They wouldn't be able to lift me. Takes them out. Or you know, we've spoken to black women who said when they talk about like someone blushing, they're like doesn't really work for me. So it's got to be challenging as a creator to. Oh it is you know, like how do you bet? How do you want that line? Who? Well, you know, it's I feel like it's trial and error. There's there's been times where I feel like Quinn has asked me to like maybe just remove this word or remove this, and that's how I learned. I was like, oh, okay, this is too specific. This is you know, So I've learned from you know, submitting different things where it's like, okay, this is my draft of it when it might give me some edits I'm making, I'm learning for next time that there's a different way I can say this. There's a different way I can you know, create this moment. So Quinn has been good about educating me like about that, but it is nuanced. It is difficult. Sometimes you don't know what people might be offended by, like even to like use or mention of use of protection stuff like that. I was like, okay, well, you know, is it how how real do we keep it here? You know?

1:04:41 Is it implied? Is it not implied? Do you want me to take twenty thirty seconds like I would have to in real life to do this moment or do you guys want to stay in it and just keep so there's It depends. It depends on the story. But I I just know that, like, I'm never trying to, you know, alienate anyone. I'm always trying to make it as inclusive as possible, and I want people to feel seen and care for. So I just always try to be mindful. I don't always get it right, but I do. It's something I'm paying attention to as I go along. Because people have brought up certain stuff in the comments, I'm like, oh, no, they're right. Yeah, I hear that. You know, I'm gonna keep that in mind. Yeah, that's true. I didn't realize I said that.

1:05:22 You know. It's great that, you know, listeners use the comments section as a place for feedback as well as like, hey just see you know, because you can't know it all. There's just no way you can. Yeah. Yeah, but they're very forgiving and also like they're they're letting you know. Yeah yeah. I mean I can't remember ever really seeing a comment that wasn't constructive in a very generic way or even spit. I think I saw one on your one on one of your audios where they said about using music. I think it was your most recent one actually about this would have been great with some music in the background. Yeah, you know, they just were offering some advice and it's like.

1:06:05 Great, just a suggestion, it's so great. Shall we dive into some listener questions? I think we should. Let's do all right, let's do it because that was a lot. Yeah, the all cliticians. We apologize, but we'll get spect time. So this is from lit Dejarrem. Does your family know what you do and what is their reaction? Uh? They know how narrow romance audio books mm hmm. And I have mentioned this, but they don't know. They don't know what this is for real, for real. So they know about they know, Yeah, they know about it, but not not really.

1:06:50 Mm hmmm, yep, yep. Yeah. Sometimes you just got to keep the special little place. To yourself exactly. Yeah. Yeah. From Jasmine's Underscore insta. Who would you like to do a collab with? And what would the tax be? Oh? That's my question. Seriously, I wanted to. I'm I'm interested in the fans. Who do y'all want to see me collaborate with? You know, I want to see your club with Hecky Bear, okay over something to do with magic mic and food, like like blend them together, something around that, because oh my god, you two were well brilliant for a start on the voice actor and voice actor. I can listen to YouTube all day so and I think he having spoken to you, now I think you too, just match.

1:07:49 Shout out to Hector, one of the one of the classiest guys I've ever met. And uh, beautiful guy, beautiful heart and uh yeah, well I would love to do a collab with Hector. And the tax would need to be m m m choking, spanking. I mean, just just a couple to die in if you I'm writing those down excellent. Welcome, just putting her orders. I'm going to ask you, Oh, Maria dot Cafe number seven, can you tell what this is going to be about? Your comfort food ordered or make it yourself? So watch comfort food and would you order or mikey yourself?

1:08:36 Guys, I live in Central Harlem. I'm surrounded by like soul food cities. Like it's just so much comfort food that I'm surrounded by. So I'm ordering comfort food a lot. I'm ordering all yeah, you know, and I'm just telling myself. Last week I got to start with the Uber eats man. It's comfort food that I'm on now. Okay, so during the winter I was having short rib mashed potatoes with like the gravy and pearl onions and like garlic bread and like asparagus. Like that was like a comfort meal a lot during the wintertime. Now that's amazing.

1:09:17 It's a lot of food. And I'm a big I'm a big breakfast guy too. I love getting up in the morning. I love the smell of fresh coffee. I love just like a classic big breakfast, a slow morning with some music. And yeah, yeah, we love a good fry up in the old in England we do nice bacon, egg mushrooms, yeah, sausages, baked beans, the two rounds of toast black pudding. All right. This one is from Good Diver Underscore Amazon Underscore twenty eighth. Which did you find more challenging to record audio books or Quinn audios?

1:09:57 W Yeah, you have to. Well, the way that I record them is you got you know, the background stuff, you have the sound effects with the intimacy and all that. All that is way more involved than like sitting down from the iPad and just making sure it's quiet. Mm hmm. Although audiobooks are no or no, they're not easy to do. Yeah, you got a ten fifteen twenty hour audiobook. That's not easy to do, but it's just it's a little simpler than The Queen's The Queenn Stories. Okay, I'm going to quickly put in my request for Collapse. Okay, Nick Meyer, I think it an interesting combo, right, Juliette, Okay, I think would be right. Or Sarah. I think Sarah would be another good one.

1:10:53 Sarah, all right, I'm taking notes. Thanks for our orders. In question jess one two eight eight, I wanted to ask Emanuel what has been his favorite book to narrate so far. I did a book. So there's two books that did most recently. One was called twelve oh one and the other one was called Chaotic Ties. I saw one that was like clipped to this video on Instagram that went viral some of the audio from it. So the fans really like like that one in twelve one one has done really well. I know the I personally know the other narrator that did that duet style with me, and so that was.

1:11:39 Fun as well. Like I'm always looking forward to them, like they're all my favorite. I'm surprised sometimes by how much I remember about some of these books I haven't done from years ago. So I feel like they they they all have a piece of me. Every character like it has a piece of me. From HCP Underscore Styles, how do you mentally prepare to create a spicy audio? Do you have like a specific routine? It's evolving, It evolves because every I think stories are different, but I think for me, I try to feel out what's calling to me most, what story is coming to mind. There's some stories that like I've I feel like I've pushed I could do that, but I'm not ready to do that one yet. I'll push that back in my mind.

1:12:27 But then I've learned that things come out. Stories already are ready to be told when they tap you on the shoulder and you just got to listen to it. I think that was kind of the case for me with the one, the Exception and that one. I feel like I started with an idea and it evolved, like there were certain things that changed as I as I like recorded it, Like I didn't write that one out from beginning to end, because I didn't know exactly which, like how I was going to explore the turn in it, and so I had to like record the first ten minutes to see what I wanted the next ten to do or how to like transition itself.

1:13:10 A final question from Smudgie underscored nine nine nine. That's right, what's your most favorite podcast to listen to? Jesus the one of the critizens. Listen to listen to queen Casts. Baby, Yeah, it's clin Cast. Listen y'all, y'all did these questions that y'all that you guys asked were extraordinary? You asked great questions for real. These are things that I've popped up in my mind. I'm like, were they in my brain? I think about this all the time. Yeah, this is really fun.

1:13:51 Oh I'm so glad. Couple to close, A couple of questions to close. These may be the best yet, just say, Manuel, brace yourself. Brace What would eighteen year old you think about the life that you've built now with your voice? He would not even be able to process this? Really, the eighteen year old me? Are we talking about the eighteen year old me before I had sexer? Before or after either both? Yeah? Okay, you know part of that year, I was still virgin. Okay, maybe like the last you know, the last few months, I was able to cross over the other side.

1:14:32 But I didn't know. Man, he's done. Stunned, stunned, I do you can do that with just your voice. You can get a woman to the finish line by just speaking. Its mudge. I didn't know what the finish line was. I didn't know what it was. I didn't know. Yeah, I didn't. Yeah, like I had, I wouldn't even know what I'm talking about, bless and man, know what I was talking about? Like what. So sweet? But then Emmanuel, in the last few months of his eighteenth year.

1:15:15 Or two, I learned the fingers. Yes, I sure did. I sure did well. He would think, uh, he would probably just uh like, okay, I get better over. Time premature right from here, I wonder. You do last more than two and a half minutes? Great, because because because the audio was twenty minutes, so at least got.

1:15:55 So good. That's what it does do. And then well, two more questions, what do you have coming up that you're excited about? That the cliticians should know about. Pushing the Emmanuel Ingram experience on Patreon that's something I'm really locked in about now. But as always, there some cool stuff coming for Quinn. I'm excited for some of the projects I have planned for some drops later this month. Okay, final question for real zes this time. All right, how do you define sexual freedom? Ooh? Permission permission granted. Yeah, that's how I how I allow whatever is granted permission.

1:16:41 That's where we go. I felt like an open road that was just like just wherever we go in we're going. You know, miss Yep, I need a man. You're amazing, You are amazing. Thanks for having me. This is great. You blew my mind all the time. But thank you so much for taking the time. We know you're likely a very busy man, and so we appreciate you taking them time to come chat with us. Sometimes it's just a breath of fresh air for us to hear somebody like you, with a voice like yours, with a responsibility like yours, of vulnerability like yours. It's it's impressive and long long mate, continue. Oh thank you. I received every bit of that, and I'm appreciative for y'all allowing me to come on your platform and talk to you. Hopefully this isn't my last time coming.

1:17:28 Oh no, it wouldn't be the same as it isn't our last time coming to your audio was just joking, joking. I'm not joking, right, I have no filter. I'm renowned. I'm going to say, somebody, you have been so well behaved with this conversation. And I was like, I was concerned. Do you know why, because I was just taking away of the importance of it, and yeah, leaned away from the comedy, but I can't help dropping it in every now and again. The pleasure, Emmanuel, thank you again so very much for joining us here at the Queen Cast studio. And yeah, we can't wait to chat to you again. Thank you for having me. It was a pleasure.

1:18:11 I'm so glad that you guys invited me because you know, the cliticians. I haven't mean to touch base. I've been meaning to h you know, come through and you know, thank you for all the support that you guys have for me, and I hope we can you know, do this again sometime soon. Thanks, thanks, thanks for coming so. Well. There's an annual thank God for that. He was brilliant. Oh my god, it was like so good hit right, I mean, yeah, oh god. Genuinly connection. I felt like he knew he said we were asking the questions that he was like, oh my god. And I felt like when he was talking, you know, I had in my mind certain questions and he was just answering them.

1:18:57 Yes, I felt the same. I would think about the questions and I'm like, I was just about to ask that. Okay, we were like, yeah, we weren't sync. He's brilliant. I really really felt a connection with him on what he's trying to do through his audios, how he's doing them, what his responsibilities are. I just felt like he had it, he knew. I totally I get it. I get exactly what you're saying, because I felt the same, like he just as he seems, really plugged in for all the right reasons, really passionate about what he's doing, really smart about what the space needs. And I mean that Emmanuel Ingram experience sounds. That and the collap with Hecky Bear of some sort of magic mic thing.

1:19:40 Oh right, I mean, the the Emmanual Ingram experience will be thriving by the time we dropped this episode. But if you haven't yet checked that out, we suggest you do, because we certainly will be. Uh yeah, I love it. Another Hit the Spotlight, the Bag in the Bag and Joe's we miss you, We miss you, Jools, go put those lips to good use. So thanks Cliticens. And how about Emmanuel knowing about the Cliticens I know, I mean, come on, thanks Cliticens for listening to another episode of quin cast Our Hit the Spotlight with Emmanuel Ingram. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did loved getting to know Emmanuel. Uh. If you liked this episode, and why wouldn't you have, please comment, rate us, tell your friends, share it on socials, all the things. The more people we can reach, the more content we can continue to bring to you. So we'll be back again soon with another great episode. But for now, this is Ben Casa. Your voice matters and this has.

1:20:46 Been so much. Keep wanking. Ow many have been been doing. Miss