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Episode 33 - Cricket Content Creator, Charlie Harden

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Welcome back to the Sunday Service with Church and Vickers - we hope you’ve all had a peaceful cricketing week.

This week, Hector is joined by one of the biggest content creators in the world of cricket.

With over 150,000 followers on all platforms, and over 100 million views on his content, his rise up the social media echelons has been exponential.

Working under the title ‘What’s He On About?’, he produces podcasts and insight-driven content: from World Cup predictions to village cricket sketches and interviews.

He’s worked with the giants of the cricket content world, Cricket District, and also with the highly acclaimed Stick to Cricket podcast.

Charlie Harden joins the show this week to discuss his fascinating career and lend his insights into the world of social media and content creation.

Also on the episode, Church and Vickers continue their hard-hitting, segment; "What cricket sound is this?" - and Church delivers a sermon in which he sings and discusses bare knuckle fighting.

A huge thank you to Charlie Harden for coming on this week's show and taking us into a world that is growing bigger and bigger by the day. Looking forward to following his content and catching up with him over the summer.

Another big thank you goes to our friends at Newbery Cricket, who are offering up their award-winning SPS bat for this month's competition giveaway. You can read all about it via the following link: https://www.wisden.com/cricket-features/the-bat-test-2026

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SPEAKER_04

Hello everyone and thank you for joining us again on the Sunday service with church and vicars. The heat wave is well and truly over. But Test Match Cricket is back on English soil once again. Thankfully, there has been no sign of artificial intelligence in the making of this podcast. Otherwise, the old man would be riding an elephant whilst wearing six-fingered batting gloves.

SPEAKER_03

Well, as I think we've seen this week, young Hector, there is no place in cricket for AI. Although, can I congratulate the Manchester Supergiants on producing one of the worst launch videos ever seen? It really took some doing.

SPEAKER_04

It was. If you haven't watched it already, you should go to the site and watch it because it won't be able to now, Hector, because they've taken it down. Finally, they left it up for it. Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sunday service with church and figures. Well, we are back at the Sunday service parish, and the temperatures have dropped unfortunately. Thunderstorms have arrived rather gloomily, but the test match summer is upon us to shine some light. I have done some T20 commentary, and sorry, have today started a pretty random championship game against Hampshire, which means that Churchy will be busy. Again, how has your week been, Churchy?

SPEAKER_03

All I can say, young Hector, is it has reminded me of that marvellous 1980s pop combo, namely Wet, Wet, Wet. I've been wishing I was lucky. I have commentated on more T20 action today. I'm back at the Kieroba, as you say, for a random game of championship cricket. I was at Lord yesterday, and I am still trying to get my head around the Manchester Super Giants launch video where Aid and Markham was bowling fast without a ball. They were seemingly playing Australia, who were dressed in white, and old Rafford had an extra floodlight which was switched on during the day. I genuinely thought I'd smoke something whilst I was watching it, young hater. Anyway, what's on today's show, please, young man?

SPEAKER_04

Well, Church has his cricketing sermon in which he sings and talks about bare knuckle fighting.

SPEAKER_03

I certainly do. We have the latest edition of a hard-hitting feature, which I'm really enjoying. What cricket sound is this?

SPEAKER_04

And our guest today is one of Cricket's biggest and best content creators.

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And thanks to our friends at Newbury Cricket, we have our competition where you can win one of their magnificent SPS cricket bats, and it is still a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful piece of widow. And don't forget you can get in touch with us, just email sundayservice.yahoo.com or tweet at Sundayservice22.

SPEAKER_04

Lots to get through, so let's get cramping with the Sunday service.

SPEAKER_01

This is Cameron Steele, and you are listening to the Sunday service with church and vicars.

SPEAKER_03

I thought I would start today's sermon with the opening lines of one of my favourite hymns.

SPEAKER_02

All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small All things wise and wonderful just focus on the ball Such wise words.

SPEAKER_03

It has been another extremely busy week in the parish. Monday was the weekly clean of Boycott Vicarage. I find the busier the week, the more scruffy the Vicarage gets, and a good polish of all surfaces and a proper hoover was required. During my break, the Manchester Super Giants launch video reached me, and all I can say is Mother Cricket was watching, and I for one am looking forward to seeing Ada Markham bowl quick. Tuesday was Parish Visits and removing Reg, the Parish 11's opening bowler, from the Badgers Googly. Now, you may remember Reg had left our bank holiday Monday game against those cheating vicars when he injured himself in the field diving for a ball on the boundary and colliding with a passing border collie. Well it turned out that Reg had spent a week in the Badgers Googly as part of his own concussion protocols. This seemed to involve consuming copious amounts of the local brew and sleeping behind the bar. When I was called to collect him, he seemed extremely sprightly and was deposited back at Willis Cottage, saying he felt much better. Wednesday was a night of T20, watching Surreyshire take on Middlesex Shire in the London Derby, the Battle of the Capitol, South of the River versus North of the River, the People's Home of Cricket versus the Home of Cricket. Call it what you will. Thursday, young Mr. Vickers and I settled ourselves in the village hall with some of the ladies of the WI to watch the opening day of the Test match summer as England took on New Zealand. Mrs. Bartholomew made a rousing speech before the start of play, saying she didn't care what Mr. McCullum said as long as England started winning Test matches again. Mrs. Watts pointed out that Mr. McCullum had been using lots of boxing analogies in the build-up to the match and reminded us that in her early 20s she was unbeaten as a light middleweight and got to the final of the WI All England bare knuckle fighting competition in 1956, only to be beaten by an insurance secretary from Shropshire. As she was keen to point out, words are just words. It's how you react to the first time you take a full right hook from a Shropshire secretary that really matters, and that set us all up nicely for the opening day from Lords. Friday it was back to the Ovalshire for Surreyshire women against Essexhire and then Surreyshire men against Hampshire Shire. And Saturday I made my way to Lords to worship at the altar of Test Match Cricket. I arrived early in my full regalia with the good book under my arm and in cooler conditions than last week soaked up the day. During the tea break, I bumped into two of the cheating vicars, namely Father Bradford and Father Bingley, who both hail from the beautiful parishes of Yorkshire. It was really lovely to see them, and they gave me some excellent investment advice for the WI money raised from the cake sale so it would get us to our monetary target quicker for the new parish Burbath. This morning you find me back at the Ovalshire for a surprise game of championship cricket in the middle of the T20 between Surreyshire and Hampshire Shire. It means once again young Mr. Bickers has been left in charge of the parish, and I must say in recent weeks he has been doing a splendid job. There was no Parish 11 game this week, which enabled him to concentrate on his organising of the parish run that takes place next Sunday afternoon. It's an annual event where money is raised with parishioners pairing up, being tied together by the legs, and then running the circumference of the parish three times. It is always a marvellous occasion, and I'm delighted to say a couple of marriages have been the product of the pairings over the years. Mr. Vickers assures me everything is coming together, and I look forward to seeing the results this time next week. So, my cricketing friends, another busy week in the parish, and I would like to leave you today with another of my favourite hymns. Strangers waiting up and down the boulevard be shadows, searching in the night street lights people living just to find emotion hiding somewhere in the night Don't stop believing hold on to that feeling wise words and something for you to keep with you as we head into a new week. All I can say is that well everyone. Bat very, very well.

SPEAKER_04

Thank you, boys.

SPEAKER_03

Thank you, mate. Alright, mate, safe journey home.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you, Ben.

SPEAKER_04

That was, of course, the great man, Mr. Martchurch, thanking Jason Roy after conducting a hard-hitting interview at the Utilitabowl, and also thanking Sorry's content king, Ben Redwood.

SPEAKER_03

So obvious. If people haven't got that, uh what are you doing with yourselves? That is so obvious.

SPEAKER_04

Alarm bell should be ringing when you're so obvious. Well, this week as well, you should be getting it. But the question is, as always, what cricket sound is this? If you think you know, email sundayservice.pod at yahoo.com or just tweet at Sundayservice22.

SPEAKER_00

Hi, Matt Fisher, Surrey in England. Um you're listening to the Sunday service with church and vicars.

SPEAKER_04

Well, now it's time for our cricketing guest. Charlie Harden is one of the best cricket content creators in the game with over 150,000 followers on all his platforms and having already amassed over 100 million views on his content. His rise through the social media echelons has been exponential. Working under the title What's He On About? Charlie produces podcasts but specializes in short form insight-led content from insightful World Cup predictions to village cricket sketches and interviews. He's worked with the content super giants cricket district and also with the highly acclaimed overlap podcast Stick to Cricket. Now I caught up with Charlie earlier in the week and I started by asking him how he was and how his start to the season had been.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, good mate, thank you very much. I'm jumping around every single county ground at the minute. So I've I've ticked off seven or eight of the eighteen. Yeah. Um, just done Lords, and I'm just at the media, I went to the media day earlier today, which is great fun. Um, don't quite feel like I'm a full-on journo yet, yeah, but uh I'm definitely on my way to being so. Nice.

SPEAKER_04

Um, well, we'll get on to all the content that you do just in a moment, but take us back to the start. When did you decide that the content world, content space was for you? And was it always cricket as well?

SPEAKER_06

It was always cricket since early days. I mean, those pictures as a seven-year-old, as everyone has, who loves cricket, holding a bat for the first time. And well, I I I went to university to do science, decided biomedical sciences as my degree, and um then about a we about a month in to my teaching job, yeah. So I I taught science for one and a half years. I uh about a month in I thought I'd you know I want to be a commentator on TMS, which was a big reach, it was a huge reach at the time. Um it still is a bit of a reach, actually. But so then my my best effort to get towards that was to start a 20-30-minute podcast to show I can talk cricket so that when the opportunity comes along to commentate for Hampshire, I can show them this 20-minute video. That then evolved because I tried to advertise my podcast in clips, and then I realise the clips got more engagement, and then I realise actually if I designed my clips for engagement, therefore I'd yeah, I'd I'd I'd trend upwards. So that's how it how it began, and my content is evolving constantly, and I'm trying to currently evolve my way towards journalism, as we've said as we said pre-show, and towards commentary.

SPEAKER_04

Amazing. So, did you have anyone that you look for for advice? I know we commentated the other day with Darren, Felix. Um was yeah, did you look at anyone and sort of think, oh, that's the blueprint I want to follow, or is it more sort of try try bits of this, bit of that?

SPEAKER_06

Well, uh but because there's two main strings to what I'm doing, I've got the content and I've got the commentary, yeah. It's quite actually hard to find myself someone to role model myself on. Yeah, and I was thinking on the on the way over that actually I'm I'm I'm I'm sort of sailing my own way into a into something that hasn't really properly come true yet for anyone else. And I've got various people I look up to in the content world, and I've got various people I look up to in the commentary world, Jonathan Aggie's big big eye on the line. I I was able to speak to him for the fur for the first time ever not long ago, uh, which is incredible, but that's that's where I want to be. And even being at the Media Day today, constantly I'm thinking almost that it's it's good to be here, yeah, but it's not why I'm here yet, you know. And actually, the content's a great segue uh to the final dream of commentating.

SPEAKER_04

That's the thing, you're getting taste a bit along the way just to keep you going, keep keeping incentive. Yeah, but I mean you mentioned those two branches, uh, commentary and content. I mean, also check out your website, a bit of a plug, Charlie Harding, what's he on about? Uh, there it says a bit of uh host and presenting as well. I know you do a bit of that down at the Aegeus Bowlers, or I think was it Sonny Baker was your first one last summer? Talk us through that. Is that something you also want to add to the weaponry?

SPEAKER_06

Uh it's it's something in the weaponry, absolutely is. Uh, and every single time I get to interview a player, I feel like I I grow in that aspect. And and being have able to have Sunny as my first one, it was a bit of a deep end job, but actually it was a great experience. And Sonny, weirdly, Sonny was actually probably the best person to have my first interview with because it was in front of about 250 people, and Sonny didn't didn't run the show, but actually I could pass him over the mic and he'd be absolutely fine. I wasn't gonna get a cold answer, and we spoke. I mean, it's two key lessons that taught me was one, you've got to really get to know him beforehand. Yeah, because when I got up there, it was like I was speaking to a mate, yes, yeah. Um, and the other thing, he actually gave me some advice afterwards, and I and I and I told um my mentor at the time and he was like it's quite rare players give advice. What did he say? And so well well, so Sonny, the one thing Sonny said was um the best interviews in the world are concise and to the point. Yeah and sometimes when and they'd rehearsed their questions, and I'd rehearsed them, but once I got up on the stage for the first time, I wasn't I I was trying to, if I didn't quite get it perfect in the first half, I'd try and mend it as I went on in in my questioning, and so conciseness and well-rehearsed questioning is the main thing I got from that, for sure. Amazing.

SPEAKER_04

Oh yeah, as you say, what a person, what a first cricketer to interview as well. He could talk talk for days. And your commentary, as you said, the dream TMS, uh well on your way. You're commentating up and down the country, you're based in Hampshire, I know, but you've been you've been all over the place on this road trip as well. Is that quite key for you to see sort of different segments of English cricket?

SPEAKER_06

Absolutely, both commentary and content. On the content side, it's key for the mission of trying to get more bums on seats. Yeah. And from my current position, it's not the easiest thing to do. It's quite a big hurdle, but actually trying to showcase the match day experience of every single county ground might just make one or two people think I'm near Durham, I'm gonna go to Durham today, even though it took me seven hours to get up there. But on the commentary side, a main thing for me in terms of my growth is doing it as much as possible, and that can sometimes mean I've got to go up to Durham to commentate because I want to commentate as much as I can. And if Durham have asked me to commentate on that day and I've got nothing else, I'm gonna go up to Durham to commentate. Yeah. So that's the current position I'm in, which is important on the content wise to showcase what England and the UK has got to offer, and then on the commentary side, being able to do as much as possible.

SPEAKER_04

So I guess you are in quite a unique situation in which you know you do commentary, it helps the content, you're doing content, it helps the commentary, as you said, you can show it to potential employees. Is that something that you will, you know, even if you make it to Smash Special, you'll keep doing the content side of things as well? Just because they basically go hand in hand at the moment.

SPEAKER_06

It's that's a great question, and and to be fair, something I've thought about as well. Um definitely both are helping each other at the minute. Yeah, uh, and w when I get to the TMS level, uh I I think the way the world's evolving, my role in content will also be key to keep building, and especially whether I then move into doing content for uh the BBC. I could see a world where I am on TMS for commentary and I'm also producing content for BBC.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Um, so I think it will go hand on hand in hand for a while.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, yeah, perfect. I'm just gonna have to look at my notes for this one, just to get about it out. No, no, no, just to get the figures right, because over 150,000 followers on all social media platforms, and more than 100 million views as well. Uh we were speaking about this on Friday. I think a lot of people get nervous putting a face to the brand that as you said you started off as an audio podcast. When did you make that decision to put your face to it? And would you say you know that's essential for the growth that you've seen in recent years?

SPEAKER_06

Uh absolutely not essential. Yeah. Um but the reason why I put my face out I was teaching at the time, so I was always cautious that my students would pick up on it, which they eventually did, and I got plenty of uh of ribs in the classroom, which made my job slightly trickier. But in terms of the face reveal, um the first time I did it, I think was April of last year, because I went on someone's podcast, not knowing it was face podcast, and then my face went up on their podcast, and I thought, actually, I might as well put my face on it now. And it was quite funny. I was actually playing golf with my cricket club chairman a few moments before that, a few days before that, and they couldn't tell it was my voice, even though we'd been mates for a while. Yeah, so actually, it it really improved my career when I put my face on it. It's not essential for any growth. I've got growth without the face on. But to get to the next level, I absolutely need to get my face out there for sure.

SPEAKER_04

And you speak about your cricket club. I mean, looking back to the early days of the face on your content, I remember those pitch reports you did. I think that must have been at your local cricket club as well. I mean, you've had all these ideas, you're touring around uh around the grounds, you've got some great stuff coming out tomorrow for the Lord's test. Uh well, it'll already be out by the time this podcast comes out. But how how hard or easy do you find thinking up with these new ideas? And is it kind of a battle for relevancy? Because there are so many cricket content creators out there. Do you feel that pressure as well?

SPEAKER_06

In terms of the ideas, you go through spells. Yeah, I think every creator will. Um you go through spells like in a test setting where you have content flowing through the windows, yeah. And it's been quite refreshing of late because all of a sudden, especially the way I'm going towards the international game and towards a journalistic approach, uh now I've got no struggle for content ideas. When I was earlier in my content career and producing more skitty content, more um humorous content, I quite enjoyed thinking up ideas on the run. And actually, because I had a niche because I had a genre, I could pile in ideas constantly. Now I've gone more journalistic, it it can sometimes rely on the cricket, and it can be quite tricky to then think up those those new ideas. But it's it's a battle I'm I'm I'm willing to take. And the other one question was about relevancy, correct?

SPEAKER_04

Well, yeah, just do you feel the pressure of you know that so many creators are out there? Do you are are you always looking to your side or behind you or in front of you? Do you feel a bit of a bit of pressure to perform?

SPEAKER_06

I guess uh really good question. I don't feel it because I f I feel like my content's in a position now where I'm very much in my own space. Yeah. And it's quite easy for content creators to compare your views. Yeah. And some people go out for they go out for pure views. Often they don't really care how it looks. And other people in different niches go for views. And it's important that when you produce your specific content, you don't compare yourself to the people who go for views. And it's important to uh push your niche, yeah, push what you want to do. Um because the engagement's not always going to match up, you know, and actually as long as you make the videos you want to do, um, and the ones that you feel work and you get various amounts of engagement, that for me is the absolute key. Don't compare it to anyone else.

SPEAKER_04

So is a lot of it then just making sure you're producing the content, like you can't really have a have a day off where you don't post any videos. Is it more sort of also interesting to know about the algorithm side of things? I've got no idea. Is it you've got to post X amount of videos to be pushed out to X amount of non-followers?

SPEAKER_06

In terms of the algorithm, there's no certain amount of videos, you could post one and it could go for millions of views. That's just how it works. Yeah. Um, the way you get millions of views is an art, yeah, and so much of it's in the first three seconds. Okay. Absolute key. You need to hook the viewer enough so that they have to watch the full video. Yeah. You know, like think of yourself back as a kid, and your mum is telling you dinner's ready, uh, and she's getting quite angry, but you've just swiped this new video, you've got three seconds in, and I think I I just can't go downstairs. But but but even for just the most average video, it could be about non-league football. Yeah. And I am absolutely gripped.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

But that's what makes the perfect video, it's relatable to you. And in terms of that content style, there's there's no hack with the algorithm. You're gonna make a great video which gets five views. Yeah. That's how it works. You're gonna make a bad video that gets a million views, yeah. Well, unlikely potential potential. But but but that's the main thing. First three seconds, and they've got to be relating to it. Sure. Find it either funny, interesting, uh insightful, one of those few things. That is the key to getting the algorithm.

SPEAKER_04

I also imagine much of it is down to the enthusiasm, enthusiasm that you're portraying, and that obviously shines through on all your videos. But in terms of also demographic, I guess that's quite important. As you said, you've got to find a niche, but also sort of targeting a specific age group. I think I saw on your website sort of 16 to mid-30s. Is that one, is that right? And two, how do you sort of target for the younger generation then?

SPEAKER_06

Um, it is right, majority is 16 to 34, as is the majority of the social media app users. Yeah. Um just repeat to me the second part of that question.

SPEAKER_04

How do you target that generation? Is that quite playing on your mind every time you're making a video?

SPEAKER_06

No. I target all generations. Yeah. Um, and what is lovely to see is what an age demographic at the minute, some people in cricket are relatively worried about. I'm unlocking.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

And hitting that sort of 18 plus demographic of people that are coming through the world of cricket, engaging those people in the game and almost showing them the love I have for it and passing it on. Uh, there's never any pressure to hit a demographic. My video of a day in the life of an MCC member did better in the elder demographic. Whereas my video from near when I started on top five best cover drives ever might have got the younger generation. So the best thing I've found is to be completely open, never target yourself into anything. And actually, I think it's a great thing for me that I have particularly good reach in the 16th of 84.

SPEAKER_04

A few more for you then. Um, collaboration, obviously massive thing in social media and kind of just some work in general, I guess. Um, we were speaking before before recording about cricket district, sort of the super giants of the content world. I know you've done some work with them, you've done some work with the rest of cricket. Uh sorry, stick to cricket, the podcast there. I was like, who have I working for? Yeah, I don't even know if that is a podcast, but um how do you choose well, first of all, how important is collaboration and do you have to choose uh a group to collaborate with that fits your brand, or is it sort of just spread the net far and wide?

SPEAKER_06

Um you definitely have to fit your brand, yeah. Whether you're whether you're pairing with brands or whether you're pairing with just collaborations, it can never, in my opinion, it can never be off-brand. Never. Because then you lose respect, you lose I I I feel like I'd lose a lot than anything I gain from collabing outside of my world.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Um collabs, do they help? Well, to a certain degree. I never found that I needed collabs. Yeah. I I I don't think anyone does. There's a big feeling amongst a social world that the only way I grow is if I collaborate with a big gun. Yeah, that's not the case. Um, you can definitely, definitely do your thing, yeah, and collabs down the line, they really help. You know, if I if I collaborate with a county, that levels up my content. Yeah, if I collab with cricket district, again that levels up my content, but also if I collab with someone with less followers than me or with less engagement, I think that levels you up as well because you are not only you know levelling up to the counties and and and the big names in sport, you're also bringing people up with you to your level, and that's why I think collabs are class, but they're not necessary to grow, not appeal and then exactly. You can do it by yourself, but there's an important moment where you think actually collabs are gonna level me up, and it's important that I collab to bring others along with me. So it's quite a communal space and 100%. I found cricket as a whole is pretty communal. I found that everyone in cricket is always incredibly helpful, um, and what I can do to help others as well is gonna be a big part of me going forward for sure.

SPEAKER_04

Final couple then. Uh we've got we've got the big one, first of all, the content world, just in the cricket space that you worked in. Uh, where sort of are we now? Because there's so much talk about social media and the growth is exponential. Some people say it's a bad thing, a lot of people say it's a force of a good as well. Obviously, it's your job. Uh where is uh yeah, what where is the world of content now in terms of a force of a good, a force for bad in the cricket?

SPEAKER_06

There's always gonna be pros and cons. Always, and I think one of the major cons at the minute, as with any sport, almost as with anything, is um players that come under pressure. Yeah, there's always gonna be, and social media has has hyped that. Let's take Zach Crawley for example. Poor lad has played loads of test matches, and he's averaged over 30, which is which is it's not horrendous, but the problem is it's because he's been given so much of a go and he's still yet to hit his full potential. Sure. A lot of people for a long time have called for him to be dropped, and it's almost been heightened by social media, and that for me is not a great thing, um, but the pros are endless. Yeah, the insights you get as a as a viewer, as a as someone who consumes media through short form, it's unbelievable. Yeah, there's there's it's it's it's brilliant. Yeah, well, yeah. Because I mean I can go to South Africa and post a one and a half minute video of an insightful moment about at Cape Town. And what a video. What's a video? But but but the point I'm trying to get here is is is the pros are endless, the insight you gain, uh the extra access behind the scenes, everything is so good, and I love unlocking the engagement. There's definitely cons in terms of um people spending too long on their phones, but actually, if you if you go out and play cricket on a Saturday, yeah, you earn it all back on a Saturday.

SPEAKER_04

Exactly. Quick 50, yeah, and you're fine. Uh so final one then every week on the podcast, we have a new guest in a in a different role in cricket. We always ask them what advice they give to our listeners. I imagine a lot of listeners would be interested in going down the content route, the commentary route. What I don't know, top three best pieces of advice could you give to anyone looking to go down a similar path to you? Down a similar path to me.

SPEAKER_06

Commentary or content or everything.

SPEAKER_04

I guess, yeah, just being a bit of a hybrid, hybrid model.

SPEAKER_06

Uh I think you've got to be pretty obsessed with with what you're covering. Uh I wouldn't be where I am now if I wasn't obsessed with cricket. Uh it means I post a video every day, which is my second piece. To go down the content route, you've at the start, you've got to post every day.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

You've got to find time to post every single day. And there's there's no niche, in my opinion, that can't be started with a TikTok from home. Yeah. Yeah, I've got a friend who's thinking about starting in the world of water and surfing and and things, but he's like, I live in London.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

That doesn't matter. You can make content fr from a room, you can be faceless, and it can grow. You've just got to find a time every single day to post. Whether that's bulk filming one day and then releasing it sequentially, yeah, or you post every single day. You have to to grow on social media, you have to post every single day. And the main piece of commentary advice I've been given is uh be you. Yeah, yeah, well which which is which is what I've heard so much. Absolutely be yourself. And sometimes I've found over the year and a half, two two years I've been doing this, that uh whenever I'm not myself, I'm not as good. Yeah, yeah. So Hector, I'd say to you, be you. This interview, I thought you think you've been brilliant, and I think you've been yourself. So amazing. This class, that's number one piece of advice. Be you.

SPEAKER_04

Well, Charlie Harding, what's he on about? Um thank you so much for your time. I know you're a very busy man, you just come from Lords, and you'll be back there tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you've choose. But yeah, thanks so much for your time and looking forward to seeing more things.

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So there are our friends at Newbury Cricket, and now it is competition time, and thanks to our friends at Newbury Cricket, we have an SPS bat to give away. And Churchy, we know your thoughts, but I know you've been giving it some extra thought over the past.

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Do you know what I've been doing this week? Amongst everything else, in quiet moments, of which there haven't been many, but in those quiet moments, I've been thinking about the beauty of the SPS bat, and how there would be no way I would be using it in this weather. That is not a bat that should be used in wet conditions. It is like like yourself, Hector. It is far too gorgeous in wet conditions. Now, everybody, time for this week's question. And it's the same format. We'll be asking you a question, email in your answer, or tweet in your answer, and if your answer is correct, your name will go in our big hat, and then we will put out the name. And if your name comes out of the big hat, you win the beautiful SPS cricket match. So, first of all, last week's question. Now, the last time you've seen them played a test match at Lord, who was the concussion substitute for Jack Leach and made his test debut? And the answer hex Parkinson's correct was last week's question. Had you written Matt Parkinson in your email to us or in your tweet to us? Your name's just gone in the hat. So well done. This week's question, everybody. What milestone did Jason Roy reach in Surrey's T twenty game against Ken Spitfires at the Kierobo last week? This week's question. If you think you know the answer, you know what to do. Email Sundayservice.com or tweet at Sundayservice22. And our friends at Newbury have released an official Sunday service discount code. You can now use the discount code SundayService15 and get fifteen percent off goods at www.newbri.co.uk, excluding the spoken house. So why not tweet yourself to some premium gear and quality willow?

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Right, that is stumps for this episode of the Sunday service with Church of Vickers. We will be back together next Sunday, the 14th of June. So get that date in your download diary. Don't forget you can send us your answers to the quiz and to what cricket sound is this. And you can still get anything you want to off your chest cricket wise by emailing sundayservice.pod at yahoo.com or just tweeting at Sundayservice22.

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So thank you very much for listening. If you've liked what you've heard, please rate and review us as it really helps others find the podcast because, as we always say, we want us all to join together and be one big happy cricketing family. Thank you to Charlie Harden for joining us this week, and of course, thank you to our friends at Newbury Cricket for all their support and their magnificent competition prize. Yes, but it is still a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful piece of willow.

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Until next Sunday from London and London, this has been the Hex of Wickers and March production. Have a magnificent cricketing week, everybody. And remember, use cricketing intelligence for the artificial