Tim Nun with Complete Game Broadcasting

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Stone Payton: Welcome to another exciting and informative edition of Atlanta Business Radio. Stone Payton here with you this afternoon. Please join me in welcoming to the broadcast with complete game broadcasting. Mr. Tim Nun. Good afternoon.

Tim Nun: Sir. Good afternoon. Stone Thanks for having me.

Stone Payton: It is a delight to have you in the studio. Man, I got a ton of questions. I don’t know that we’ll get to them all. But I think a great place to start would be if you could share with me and our listeners mission purpose. What are what are you really out there trying to do for folks, man.

Tim Nun: So complete game Broadcasting was originally Atlanta Broadcast Institute in Atlanta way back in the 1990s, and it was bought out by a by name, a guy by the name of Jeff Batten, who took over complete game broadcasting and he owns like seven radio stations up in North Georgia. And he decided to get out, get out of the business. And what we do is we’re a post secondary school. So people that want to change careers, high school graduates that don’t necessarily want to go the traditional college route. So we have a certificate program through the Georgia Education Commission for TiVo, TVE Radio Broadcasting.

Stone Payton: Man, that sounds like very rewarding work. I bet you enjoy seeing the kids come in at one level of knowledge and understanding and then watching them evolve through the program and get out there and do the work they’re.

Tim Nun: Meant to do. Well, what’s great about this is that I actually went through this program. Oh, really? In the like early in 2012, I believe. So my background was in sports administration and I decided to want to do some things on the side. I was an Olympic level swim coach here in Atlanta for 18 years, and my kids were getting older and I was like, okay, it’s time to not be gone so much. So I decided to take the complete game broadcasting class, got into it, loved it, did a lot of things on the side, just as a hobby type of thing. And then when Jeff decided to actually it was funny because I went in to do some voiceover work and use his studio and he told me he was closing shop and I was like, Why? You know, What are you doing? I go, This is so great for people. And so I took it over and I’ve been not the perfect timing, took it over right before 2020, and we all know what happened with that. Oh my. But we have survived, have had small classes and it’s been awesome. Awesome.

Stone Payton: So I said kids, but but it’s probably not all kids. You may have some people looking for a second chapter in their lives.

Tim Nun: I tell you what, we’ve had people anywhere from the age of 19, and I’ve had a couple of guys come in in their fifties. So people that are starting up their own Internet radio stations do that. But we go, you know, we’re hands on school training. So it’s a nine week course. We learn everything from voiceover work to editing video and audio editing in front of a mic, in front of a camera, behind the scenes production. We cover it all nine weeks.

Stone Payton: So I bet you’ve seen an awful lot change over the years as early as you got into it.

Tim Nun: Oh, no doubt. No doubt. It’s been like especially on the and we’re not just sports oriented. We do it all in the business side and sports, but the sports side just for example, just. You see so many things that are broadcasted on on TV, on computer, right? I mean, you can go look at a basketball college basketball schedule and there’s like hundreds of games. They’re all being broadcasted somewhere. They need people. They need people to do graphics. They need people to do on air, play by play. They need people to do camera work. So we train all these kids for that. I think a great success story. We had a young man, his name was Miles Williams, and he came to the class very unsure of himself and is in his twenties and took the class and he ended up getting on with the radio station as a bored op producer. Mm hmm. Had his own show. Within six months, he was doing interviews at Super Bowl Radio row.

Stone Payton: So sweet.

Tim Nun: Awesome. Awesome stuff. So it’s just great seeing these kids. I say kids. It’s not kids. It’s adults, young adults that are changing careers, even, you know, wanting to do something on the side.

Stone Payton: Yeah.

Tim Nun: And it’s great.

Stone Payton: So at this point, what are you finding the most rewarding about the work? What’s the most fun about it for you?

Tim Nun: Oh, for me is seeing where these these students go and what they’re doing, because there’s so many different areas. I mean, we have guys, somebody working at I heart media, you know, doing producing podcasts. We have people like Myles doing Super Bowl radio row. We have people doing their own hosting, their own shows. Other people doing, you know, there’s a lot of streaming. Companies out there that are broadcasting a lot of, you know, sports and whatnot, got students over at Georgia State Athletics doing their production for all their sports stuff. Channel five News, I mean, Fox five News. I mean, we have them all over the place, which is great. I love it.

Stone Payton: So talk a little bit about the curriculum. You touched on some some high spots, but what can I expect if I put myself in this process over the course of those nine weeks?

Tim Nun: So it’s a nine week course and we meet three times a week and you’re going to get from day one. Skills on hand learning. I mean, that’s the key. And almost like a vocational school.

Stone Payton: You’ve got equipment, you’ve got.

Tim Nun: All Oh, we have it all. We have it all. So what? We didn’t go for that. So at the school, what we have we have a newsroom, ESPN Green Wall Room. Wow. We have a stand up green wall Room like the Weathermen and all that kind of stuff. We have an editing room where we have over 12 computers where people can have their own station do all their editing. We have two recording studios. We have a podcast room and then we have a corner board operation like radio room type of thing. So from day one, we’re doing voice work. They’re learning how to edit commercials, do their own commercials going from. Audio editing. All the used art. We started out with audio editing because they’re going to use that for the rest of their life.

Stone Payton: Sure.

Tim Nun: So they’re learning that we have projects throughout the year. Let’s see.

Stone Payton: So when you say a project or does it like create a program or something?

Tim Nun: We start.

Stone Payton: Very high concept, all that.

Tim Nun: Stuff. Absolutely. We do very simple at the beginning. So very first project is to do what we, you know, a little Segway commercial. Mm hmm. And they learn how to do a voiceover. Bring in the music, music bed, all that kind of stuff. Commercial. That’s the very first. Within the first week they’ve done that. Wow. Then they’re doing a little bit longer projects and then by the end they’re doing their own. We call it a five minute podcast where they do an interview. They have an open with like sound effects, and it’s almost like a show just like you had today, right? With an open an intro and an out. And the cool thing is the last four weeks of class on Mondays, on Monday nights, I actually rent out a radio station and the students get to produce. Co-host, host, run the board, their own radio show live.

Stone Payton: Wow. That sounds like a lot of fun.

Tim Nun: That’s. That’s always their favorite. That’s all. There’s always their favorite. So I always tell them, you know, I’ll know within two or three weeks if you’re if this isn’t going to be for you. Yeah. And I haven’t had a single person. I mean, we had a kid and I saw a kid because he was he was just a recent graduate high school coming from North Carolina for class two hour and 15 minute drive to and from class. Did not miss a class. He loved it.

Stone Payton: It seems to me like this could be such a practical path. I mean, it could be an alternative to traditional college. And and I’m a big believer, particularly in this day and age in college is great for certain professions, certain people. But there are other people who ought to be in a in a different in a trade or some a different path. And I’ll bet you’re finding that, too.

Tim Nun: That’s what we’re finding a lot of with our stuff, especially the younger generation. It’s a different path. It’s a vocational type of school, hands on learning. And like I said, the the Miles Williams guys I mentioned earlier, his story was when we did rent it out our radio station, they were actually looking for board operation people and producers. And I said, Miles, go put in your application and interview for the job there. He said, All right, I’ll do that. So he comes back to me all discouraged. I’m like, What’s going on? What’s going on? And he’s like, Well, he is the HR person. She’s a Clark Atlanta grad. And one of the people that’s interviewing for the for the position as a Clark Atlanta grad. And I’m like, I get I get what you’re saying. Go through the process. It’s a two week trial process. So he goes through the process, comes back and says, I got the job. I said, Well, how’d that work? And I knew. And he goes, Well. The gal that went to Clark Atlanta for your college. She was very smart. Knew nothing as far as the equipment was scared of, you know, touch and stuff. And he goes, I knew enough to go in there. And put it to work. And I got. Exactly.

Stone Payton: Well, I got to tell you, as you know, I own a pretty good chunk of a pretty successful media company. And if I were in the process of hiring right now and one of your people came in here, I mean, they would have such a leg up on someone I had to teach all this stuff to. I mean, they must have a tremendous competitive advantage in the marketplace when they evolve from your program.

Tim Nun: I think so, too. And plus, I think it’s a lot of times we get people that want to change careers. So you’re getting people in their thirties even. And like I said, we’ve had people in our in their fifties come through the class, but they’ll come through and you’re getting somebody that sort of. Is not scared to tackle a problem or an issue or or even, you know, your your workflow or whatever’s going on and they’ll just attack it and it’s great.

Stone Payton: What about military, like people who have served in the military? Do you ever have some of those folks looking down as to.

Tim Nun: What’s great about our school with the Georgia Education Commission? We are a CERT program so we do not have federal funding. However, we are contracted with the VA 0ru and the GI Bill is covered for military vets. So anybody that’s been in the military has GI Bill. They can come to our school. And what’s great about it is since it’s a nine week program, it’s not going to take a lot of your GI Bill away. So you’re still going to have somewhat you’re going to have plenty left. So, yes, we have tackled that and it’s been a good thing. We’ve had a lot of military vets come through the class.

Stone Payton: Also, it sounds like you have really made it a priority to cultivate relationships with people out in the marketplace who need the talent that you’re producing. I mean, this is an important area of focus for you. It’s not just come to the school, get your certificate, let’s get you ready.

Tim Nun: Well, that’s what’s going to make complete game broadcasting look good. Yeah, sure. I mean, you can go through the class and if they’re not successful or they don’t get their foot in the door somewhere, then. What does that say about the program? You know, that’s what we’re there for, right? So and we’ll even do it like this. The last class, a very small class. And within three or four weeks of the class, they were already doing part time work. Really, They were already in the field doing stuff.

Stone Payton: And that’s encouraging.

Tim Nun: So we have some good connections in the Atlanta area. Our biggest challenge, my biggest challenge has been especially starting out the business in 2020.

Stone Payton: I can’t imagine.

Tim Nun: And been pretty hard is getting the word out right, the marketing side of things. And you can do ads on radio. But like, it’s expensive. Like, it’s really expensive. Right. So we’re trying different things. A lot of online ads hitting, hitting high schools where kids are getting ready to graduate. And maybe they don’t want to go to a four year college. Maybe they don’t know what they want to do. And this is a great avenue.

Stone Payton: Yeah, I would certainly think so. So tell me more about the sales and marketing process for you, because one of the things that strikes me that you that you may be able to do is use your platform to build relationships with other people that have these kinds of facilities that are hiring people. So maybe you could probably do some of that or maybe.

Tim Nun: You are doing No, we’re trying that. That’s a groundworks I’m a one man show right now. So it’s been very interesting and I’m learning a lot on that side of things. But like, for example, the streaming companies that are doing a lot of coverage of athletic events, we’re getting commercials on there, you know, where people, thousands of people are watching some of these events. So, for example, you know, the World Cup is going on right now in soccer, right? Well, there’s a there’s a united premier soccer league upsell and probably a lot of people don’t know about it, but it’s 400 teams in the in the states. And one of the main hubs is here in Atlanta. And so what they were supposed to do, it’s like probably comparable like a baseball, it’s probably like a single a soccer. Right. So it’s not just people showing up. I mean, it’s decent competition. So there when they started out, they were like, okay, you guys have to tell them the teams, you have to stream the games. Well, what they were getting was, you know, Joe Smith on the sidelines not playing because phone out trying to watch the game. Right. Right. So a guy by the name of Andre Boehmer, who is Atlanta Sports Media Group, decided, you know, we’re going to take this to the next level. So he has produced has a play by play, a colored guy, a graphic guy, a camera’s guys and is doing the games. So he’s streaming those. And we got commercials on there. The Svtv guy that streams a lot of stuff. We got ads on there. So just trying different avenues with the military. There’s TAPS program, it’s transitional assistance program at each base. So when they get out of the military, they’re supposed to go through this TAPS program. So I’m trying to work with the bases in the Georgia area. Right. And say, hey, this is an opportunity for somebody that’s coming out of the military. That I want to try something different tries to go into broadcasting sometimes.

Stone Payton: And I would certainly think so. Yeah. So when people when the students start in the very beginning, they probably several of them, they don’t quite know what direction they want to go, radio, TV. But but this is where they can discover.

Tim Nun: That, right? They think they know, right? They think a lot of them come in thinking, Oh, I’m going to be on the mic. I’m going to be a personality. That’s just not that easy. Unless you’re doing podcasting, you can always do your own podcast. Right? Then they get into it and I’ve had people like, Oh, I really like this creative side of the editing and producing or Ooh, I really like the action. I like to be on top of the action with camera or I want to be in front of a camera. For Fox five, right. Or behind the scenes. So yeah, it’s covering a lot of different avenues where they can narrow it down and sort of get an idea what they like.

Stone Payton: Well, I can say. Speaking for me personally, I if it comes to producing a radio show, I feel pretty well equipped. It doesn’t seem like this big hairy thing for me, right? I’ve been doing it for 18 years and I’ve got a handle on everything from workflow to equipment to hosting mechanics, all that kind of thing. But to this day, man, if I had aspirations of getting into the TV world, it would be this big, hairy thing for me. Everything. Because there’s a lot of moving parts. There’s the lighting, the editing is a whole nother ballgame in the in the TV world. So there’s there’s a lot to learn, but I suspect a lot of it gets sort of demystified, right, going through your process.

Tim Nun: Right? Because it’s like we’re sitting right here and the equipment you have in here is what some of the equipment they’re learning on at school.

Stone Payton: Is that right? Yeah.

Tim Nun: And so, you know, and.

Stone Payton: That’s changed a lot. Hadn’t I know when Lee and I got.

Tim Nun: Stars all the time, right.

Stone Payton: We had this we had this great big old mixer thing like the garage bands would use, and you had to have different equipment to plug the headphones into. And so that is one nice thing about some of this. Getting more prolific is the equipment’s getting better and better and the support services and the technology around it. Now that’s another thing though, man. You’ve got to stay in front of all that, right?

Tim Nun: Yeah, we try to, but now we are teaching facility, right? So it’s, it’s learning the basics. Yeah. Getting the groundwork, getting your cornerstone set and know, for example, we have a radio board. Operation board in our sample radio room. And it’s old school, but it does everything. It has an off and on for mikes. It has the levels for everything. So, you know, they learn on that. And then when we go do our live show, they see a board that’s a little bit bigger and fancier, but it’s the same thing. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, yeah, technology is just flies, flies by and we have to try to keep up with it the best we can.

Stone Payton: Sure. Now, you made it sound like a no brainer, almost a matter of fact that you bought this business. But I mean, you had to have I mean, was it that at least a little bit scary jumping off the cliff and buying the business?

Tim Nun: Absolutely. I mean, so. My deal was in in 2006, I got out of the swimming world. Mm hmm. And at the same time, my mom got diagnosed with breast cancer. And so my mom and dad lived over in Chamblee. Over in Tucker.

Stone Payton: Mm hmm.

Tim Nun: And Dad had a hard time. Had a hard time. And so I said, you know what? And he owned his own business. So I said, You know what? I’m going to come help you with the business and help you take care of Mom. Hmm. And so I sort of got. Sort of stuck in that little area, which is fine. It worked out. Mom passed in 2010, but. Me being with Dad and helping out with his business was help me out financially. Right. But it wasn’t something I loved. It’s not something I wanted to continue with. So I was like I said, I was just going. I called Jeff up Batten, who owned complete game broadcasting before me, and I said, Listen, I need to come over and do some demo real stuff. And he said, okay, yeah, just come on over. And, you know, we got talking. And that’s when he said he was. Live in ship and he was over off on North Hills Road.

Stone Payton: Yeah.

Tim Nun: So we got to talking. And since I’ve known him for a while, it wasn’t as scary necessarily to take over the business because we got a pretty good deal over time that went. So I moved everything over off of North Ridge Drive in Sandy Springs. Got a nice location. And like I said, the scary part for me was when COVID hit.

Stone Payton: I can’t imagine.

Tim Nun: Living because this is just right when I bought the business.

Stone Payton: Yeah. Yeah.

Tim Nun: Yeah. And I’m still having to pay rent for my commercial location.

Stone Payton: And what you’re doing is not it doesn’t lend itself to virtual. I mean, maybe you could do some supplemental virtual stuff, but.

Tim Nun: Right. It’s a lot of hands on, so you need people there. So I had to make my classes a little bit smaller. Mm hmm. And it worked out. It worked.

Stone Payton: Out. Well, I’m so glad that it did.

Tim Nun: And I’m excited about now because things are starting to open up. Yeah. And it’s getting exciting, so.

Stone Payton: Sure. So now, are you still doing any voiceover broadcasting work yourself, or are you just too busy keeping this funny?

Tim Nun: You mentioned that I haven’t really, just because I have so much going on. But I did do my own radio show for two years. Mm hmm. Over at a place called Real 100 AM, it’s often Northside Drive. We just sports show. We did a sports show three times a week and just having fun with that, that was just a fun thing that I did. So I haven’t gotten into the back, into the play by play stuff and all that. I just don’t have the time. I’ve got to really focus on the school and get that up and running. So we have four classes coming up in 2023, okay, starting in January and we’ll go. What’s great about it is it’s like, okay, guys, so we’re starting January 10th and we’re going to be done March 16th. And you’ll be somewhere doing something.

Stone Payton: Yeah.

Tim Nun: And then we’ll run a class in April. A class in June and class in September.

Stone Payton: So days, evenings. Does it depend.

Tim Nun: We. We do. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. Yeah, we do. Evening, class. 6 to 9. And we have attempted if there’s enough interest to do an afternoon class from 1 to 4.

Stone Payton: Nice.

Tim Nun: So we can do both.

Stone Payton: Yeah.

Tim Nun: If the interest is there.

Stone Payton: So is it the kind of thing that lends itself to the students helping each other out and kind of, you know, sharpening each other’s soul during this whole process?

Tim Nun: Definitely. I mean, you see, you see the guys in class together, they ended up becoming like friends. And it’s it’s a networking business, right? I mean, everything you do is networking, right? So you might have somebody that’s getting into, you know, behind the scenes production at a TV station. And something comes across away and they’re looking for a talent or something. And they’d say, Oh, I know a guy for you. So it’s a great networking group, complete game broadcasting. It’s been around, I think, since 2006. So we have guys all over the place in Atlanta.

Stone Payton: Yeah.

Tim Nun: And so, yeah, it’s they help each other out. I mean, certain people are going to be better at certain things, right? Like the editing. So audio editing and have a better ear and they might be able to help out a classmate through that. Whereas sure, vice versa. Getting in front of Mike might be scary for some and they’ll help each other out.

Stone Payton: So in the near term you’ve got a few classes on the horizon. Are you are you thinking longer term than that, that you might expand the operation, maybe even open another site, or have you got that far?

Tim Nun: Yeah, that would be amazing. Yeah. I have thought of that. That’s sort of on the back burner. But it’d be great to get the Atlanta location going, the Sandy Springs location going because we can draw from all over. We’re easily accessible. And then maybe, you know, my next spot, I think if I were to expand to another location, would be like Greenville, South Carolina. Yeah, be cool. But we’re also trying to do some other things besides the traditional nine week class. So we’re going to do some high school camps for kids during the summer when they’re off school. We, you know, can rent out our podcast room for those that are just starting a podcast and trying to get into the the industry type of thing. We can rent out our green wall rooms. We’ve had some realtors that have enjoyed doing something like that, you know, because it makes sense. Yeah. Instead of, you know, getting on some of these websites and reading, they want to see somebody talking. Sure.

Stone Payton: So you’ve got the students facilitating all this.

Tim Nun: Exactly. Exactly.

Stone Payton: And when you say hands on, you really you really mean hands on.

Tim Nun: The one blessing that came from COVID is doing remote broadcasts. Right. So nobody wanted to go. And I’ll give an example. The Atlanta Braves. When COVID hit. The Chipper Jones and the people like that that are doing broadcast, Ben Ingram, stuff like that. They’re doing them from home.

Stone Payton: Yeah.

Tim Nun: You know, Right. So we’ve converted one of our recording studios to be able to do that.

Stone Payton: Nice.

Tim Nun: So we can bring in streaming and they can do. From our studio, whatever play by play or commentary or whatever they want to do.

Stone Payton: Oh, you got to tell me more about play by play, because I am fascinated at the people who can do that, because they not only have to have the sports knowledge, but they have to be great on their feet. They have to have a certain level of enthusiasm and energy and presence.

Tim Nun: And so there’s two different you know, you’ll have the play by play guy and then you’ll have your color commentator and the color commentator is more of the analyst, the expert, I would say. Gotcha. So if you watch like an NFL game and I would say probably one of the best color guys right now is Tony Romo.

Stone Payton: Oh, I agree. And I don’t know football that well, but I know enough to know that that.

Tim Nun: Guy and he’ll just say everything. Right. Right. So he’s not the play by play guy, but he does the color play by play guy is basically painting a picture for you if you’re on radio. Yeah. Of the event that’s in front of you or they’re explaining what’s going on during the game.

Stone Payton: Which I need right exactly and enjoy.

Tim Nun: And it’s it’s what people don’t realize is they’re getting a lot of information fed to them. Yeah. From the production staff. Oh so stat stats that roll off their tongues.

Stone Payton: That’s not necessarily in their head.

Tim Nun: No. They’re going to hand it to them. It’s right there in front of them. You know, you got a production guy typing, Hey, this this trend is going on in this game. Yeah. And they’ll bring that up. So it’s a whole production, which is pretty neat. Not a lot of people see that. And even like the graphics that you see during the game or during the news broadcasts, you know, of who’s on the air or whatever is going on. There’s somebody doing that. So it’s great when the students I think it’s great when they after three or four weeks they’ve gotten enough where they’re listening to radio for mistakes or they’re listening and they’re catching things, or they’re watching the TV and say, Oh, did you see that with their family? And their family is like, What? What are you talking about? So yeah, it’s a cool thing. It’s great. And I tell people, you know, if you can go out in the world and do something that you love. Yes. You’re going to make it. You can make it work. And I think the younger generation, especially the younger generation now, is all about how much money I can make and how fast. Yeah. And then by the time they’re in their thirties, they’re miserable, Right? They want to do career change. And it’s like I tell everybody, you know, you’re never you’re not too old to start. I’ll get people in their thirties and forties come in. So man, you’re not too old to start.

Stone Payton: And the marketplace, it is anything but saturated is continuing to grow. There are places that these folks can really go and get the work, which is I mean, that’s where the rubber meets the road and that’s the end game, right?

Tim Nun: Absolutely. I mean, you know, we have a lot of guys who come through sports oriented, but then we don’t. And it’s like, you know, it’s like what you’re doing here at Business RadioX. Right. You know, they can get involved here or they even know, like, I hurt media headquarters right here in Atlanta. You know, they’re big time. They can sure get on there. So there is you’re you’re right. The expansion is like huge. Huge. And what a great opportunity to get enough education in nine weeks and get your foot in the door somewhere or something, you know, can be lasting. I mean, how long have you been in this business?

Stone Payton: 18 years.

Tim Nun: Right.

Stone Payton: And it was a second chapter for me. I came from the training and consulting world. And, you know, one day the clouds parted and it does flew. And I met Lee Kantor and it changed my whole life. And I thoroughly enjoy this work. And our work, We we’re on the business side of things, so we interview business people and it’s business people interviewing business people all day, you know, across all 50 states. We love.

Tim Nun: It. So you don’t dread coming to work, do you? Not even a little bit, right?

Stone Payton: No.

Tim Nun: Absolutely. And I don’t either. When I go to help people out and teach. It’s amazing.

Stone Payton: Well, I agree with that, too. And I am looking forward. We are going to work with you and have you feed some of your students in here, at least, you know, to help them to have some of that practical application during their their nine weeks and as opportunities come available. I got to tell you, man, they are definitely going to be they’re going to have a leg up on other people competing for those for those slots. And or they may learn enough about what we’re doing that they want to get into the Business RadioX business and we’ll we’ll make that happen for them. I, I personally and Lee’s the same way. We get a great deal of joy out of working with young people and introducing them to this kind of thing. We don’t have the formal curriculum or anything like that, but there’s a show here that we do locally and it’s called Kid Biz Radio, and there’s a local nonprofit called Kid Biz Expo. It was two ladies who founded it, and they founded it because their kids were interested in business. And we had their oldest daughters and they were in the studio last Wednesday. And so the the mothers, instead of interviewing other business people, the mothers interviewed the daughters. The two kids did a great job as guests. But after the show, we had Leila in Austin. They wanted to redo the intro. You know, we had a professional vo person to the intro, and so now the intro for Kid Biz Radio is this Leila and Austin. They had a great time, but you could just see their confidence, you know, swelling and, and it just I mean, it warmed my heart to see them do. It’s just a ton of fun.

Tim Nun: When I was a kid, I go to college, we didn’t even have computers.

Stone Payton: Right.

Tim Nun: And now it’s like you see, holy cow, like six and seven year old run in an iPad or whatever. Like, right. I’m like, What is going on? So yeah, these technically. These kids, young adults are so sound and so good. But I think it’s the coaching that comes out of me, too. I sort of have that passion, right?

Stone Payton: Right.

Tim Nun: To help people and teach. And it’s an exciting time. It’s exciting time for us, I.

Stone Payton: Got to believe. Equally rewarding, though, is it that guys coming out of the service lady who’s coming out of the service and are looking for that, for that next chapter of their lives? And you can you can give them something that’s practical and fun and right.

Tim Nun: And I think it’s a great opportunity. I mean, like I said, G.I. Bill covered and it’s a small amount. It’s not a huge amount. So there’s not using up their whole GI Bill. Right. And it’s something that they can pursue full time if they want or if they just want to do something on the side even.

Stone Payton: Yeah. So what is the process if someone hears this gets a chance to to sort of begin tapping into your to your work. Is there like an application they get on the phone with you? What’s the process?

Tim Nun: Both You can go to complete Game studio. That’s our website and there is an information form there that they can fill out that I can get in contact with them and talk about, you know, everything going on. I welcome people to call me at 400 49290523 and leave a message or and you’ll get the boss. I’ll get you’ll get me because I’m the only guy around. But we can set up a time for you to come check out the studios and we can sit down and talk and things like that.

Stone Payton: Yeah, absolutely. And if someone is out there and they have some sort of broadcasting operation, anything where they could use this kind of talent either in a kind of an internship or practical application study or whatever you call it, and or they’re looking for a talent to recruit. You want them to reach out to you.

Tim Nun: Absolutely right. No, absolutely. Absolutely. And it’s funny, it’s like in the the terminology of internship has changed. I think back in our day it was like an internship. People think of internship as, okay, you’re going to go grab coffee for somebody, right? You’re going to spend your time doing basically nothing.

Stone Payton: Go for. Right?

Tim Nun: Not anymore. I mean.

Stone Payton: That’s not the way it would be here.

Tim Nun: I know. Internship on this. You’re working across the a lot and a lot of them are paying a little bit to to help you out. You know, it’s not just a free dig. But yes, we have a lot I mean, like I said, Georgia State Athletics, we’ve had Georgia Tech call us about public address announcers. You know, I heart media. Just a lot of different people. So anybody in the broadcasting industry that are looking for potential people, we have a pool, we have a pool. And even after you graduate, we call it a lifetime membership class. So even though when you’re done with the nine weeks, you can come over to the studio. Get some work in if we if, like you said, technology changes. So if we get new technology and things advance, we’ll have a seminar where everybody that has been through the class can come back nice and do that. Also, they’re in our job bank. So when jobs come across my my table, I’ll make sure I get it out to all the graduates and current students.

Stone Payton: Oh, I love that. And I’ll bet your grads who have been successfully placed and it sounds like a great many of them have, I bet the first place they look is absolutely right.

Tim Nun: Absolutely. Absolutely.

Stone Payton: So it just keeps on going.

Tim Nun: It’s a good thing. It’s a good networking group.

Stone Payton: Yeah. All right. Well, what can we do to help? And when I say we, I mean our listening audience and the Business RadioX community, man, How can we help?

Tim Nun: Hey, if you’re interested in any type of broadcasting, whether it be like Stone said, you need people to help you out at your business, or if you know people that are looking to career change or young people that don’t know the direction that they’re going in life and they don’t want to commit to a traditional school route and broadcasting always been an interest TV or radio, and you want to see everything. Just because you say TV, radio broadcasting doesn’t mean you’re on the mic or in front of the camera.

Stone Payton: You know, there’s so many other moving parts, so other.

Tim Nun: Roles to behind the scenes production and producing and directing and everything. Get in touch with me. Like I said, complete game. Studio 4049290523.

Stone Payton: Well, it has been an absolute delight having you come into the studio. Don’t be a stranger, man. And you know what I’m thinking? It might be fun to have you come in with a student or two or three student students and we can talk about the business and more, but also get their perspective on their experience coming through the class.

Tim Nun: Oh, that’d be great. That’d be a great idea.

Stone Payton: Yeah. Or I’ll come to your shop and we’ll do it then.

Tim Nun: We could do it there too. We could do it either way.

Stone Payton: But no, I think that would be. Yeah. So maybe we’ll do that. That would be.

Tim Nun: Fun. Sounds good.

Stone Payton: And then we’ll go grab a beer under the elm tree, right? Oh.

Tim Nun: That would work too, right? We could do that. That’s the best.

Stone Payton: All right, one last time before we sign off here. Let’s leave him with the right coordinates. Website, you know, phone number, whatever is appropriate.

Tim Nun: Okay. My name is Tim Nunn. I’m the owner director of a complete game broadcasting. Our website is complete game studio, and that’s where you can fill out your information form and I can get in contact to you with you or you can give us a call at 4049290523.

Stone Payton: What a fantastic way to invest a Wednesday afternoon. Thank you so much for coming, man.

Tim Nun: Appreciate it.

Stone Payton: Stone All right. Until next time, this is Stone Payton for our guest today, Tim Nunn with complete game broadcasting and everyone here at the Business Radio X family saying we’ll see you again on Atlanta Business Radio.

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