Thank you for the awesome feedback, including those who may not be fans of Dive Talk. Speaking Sidemount isn't solely about interviewing the elite. While I enjoy learning from the "luminaries," my podcast also focuses on conversations with sidemount and cave divers on their journeys, offering unique perspectives, or accomplishing something noteworthy. Gus and Woody have built a massive following with Dive Talk. Although I don't frequently watch their reaction videos, I fully recognize their target audience and respect the effort required to build such a following. I'd love to achieve even a portion of their success and prefer to celebrate their accomplishments rather than criticize them. Having met Gus, I can attest to his passion for diving and excellent sense of humour. He may joke about his diving skills, but he is a cave diver and has earned the respect of Mike Young. That's good enough for me :) Cheers Steve
Steve, thanks for having me on the show. I appreciate the great questions and the opportunity to discuss some of the work we've been doing over the last 4 years. We hope to meet you in person one day and go diving together, I'm sure our viewers would love a collaboration between both channels!
Awesome interview 🎉 I am a side mount diver from Saudi Arabia and of course Dive Talk flounces spread between dive communities all over the World , they are the reason I got to diving in a perfect knowledge way ❤
For anyone who is negative go pound sand. It is because of their show that I decided to take up diving. It was that they made it accessible by providing information that made me comfortable so I'll always be grateful to them. Good video by the way.
btw really admire your capacity of rephrasing what people tell you, jump on further questions on the fly, you are an amazing interviewer! Congrats man! 👏
Very cool to see Gus on here. I’m a little sad to see some of the negativity, but had it not been for some of the content that Gus produces I wouldn’t have had the gumption to decide that cave diving was a skill I was “allowed” to progress at. A lot of folks here think you can’t teach a single diving topic unless you hold depth and penetration records. Interest in this field is way too high to rely on a group of a couple dozen masters to teach every single recreational diver or normoxic ccr open water diver.
Great episode, enjoyed the interview of Gus! Too bad there's a lot of jealousy against dive talk. I've noticed massive jealousy regarding Dive Talk and Woody and Gus.... Amazing success sometimes causes huge envy.
huge envy ?? lol... divetalk is a zero effort production, purely for entertainment for those that never dived and most of them never will. Someone mentioned in the comments the lonely hose wives which is bang on! They have zero credibility within the dive industry and no surprise there. Anybody can run their mouth 'analyzing' videos of others sitting in the basement. The reason why not many do this because people usually realise how low ball of an approach this is.. no problem with any of this but coming up with an agency is totally out of line and apart from those handful idiots that blindly follow them, nobody gives a rats a** about this. Its actually sad
Thank you for the comment…and of course you can see by the response to your comment that we’re living rent free in the heads of jealous haters around the world. 😂
This whole academy non-sense is such a joke. Simply because these 2 have zero credibility as teachers, educators or divers apart from the fact that they are running their mouth in the basement talking about other divers but demonstrate or show absolutely nothing. They have a large US based following (mainly non-divers) and some that think they wanna become CCR divers just because they overhyped this whole "cave divers are the best" story.. in reality, who the F are these people.. just because you network and build a large but low quality community doesn't mean you should embrak on a journey of becoming some scam agency
Neither of you clearly know them or their entire story. So courageous of you to speak behind your keyboards about something you obviously know not much about.
@@ScubaGirlsInternational Chill out Terri, you are on the other end of the spectrum. Just because you drank the divetalk koolaid and their existence gave you purpose + you feeling socially involved because of them, doesn't mean you have an objective view on this. I'm very well aware who these guys are and I'm working directly with several of those people thats in your circle so let express my opinion on this rubbish without you defending anyone
@@damcamino-oc2nr I am absolutely all about respecting opinions and even having differing opinions. These guys didn't give me purpose. I was out here doing my own thing long before they started. Yes, the 3 of us came from the same dive shop. Yes, they were my mentor/friend before their path brought them here. I know they don't have a lot of fans in certain circles. I'm not even going to attempt to talk you out of your thoughts or feelings that might be from your personal experience - but to say they have zero credibility as teachers, educators, or divers is wholly inaccurate. Yes, there is a large part of the community that is non-diver - but there is a significant number of divers with credible training as well who respect what these two have built. Is there a lot of entertainment? Yes. Is there still value, yes. To also say they are creating a scam agency because they are building something different that isn't currently being done by any agency, shouldn't anger you. Especially if you're a great instructor. It should excite you. It's the instructors who are worth their weight that will benefit the most out of what they are creating, to bring those great instructors more business and foster a great learning environment for the student. If it's personality for you, that's one thing. I get that. Not everyone, is going to be everyone's cup of tea.
I really loved the work you do but the divetalk segment is a real downer. These guys should be left alone doing their american scam type clickbait sh*t for the masses and you should stick to quality diving Steve
so true.. I was also expecting that this channel will not fall for this BS that divetalk represents.. whats next, selling divetalk merch ? they got about 500 different items lol
Thank you for the awesome feedback, including those who may not be fans of Dive Talk. Speaking Sidemount isn't solely about interviewing the elite. While I enjoy learning from the "luminaries," my podcast also focuses on conversations with sidemount and cave divers on their journeys, offering unique perspectives, or accomplishing something noteworthy. Gus and Woody have built a massive following with Dive Talk. Although I don't frequently watch their reaction videos, I fully recognize their target audience and respect the effort required to build such a following. I'd love to achieve even a portion of their success and prefer to celebrate their accomplishments rather than criticize them. Having met Gus, I can attest to his passion for diving and excellent sense of humour. He may joke about his diving skills, but he is a cave diver and has earned the respect of Mike Young. That's good enough for me :) Cheers Steve
Steve, thanks for having me on the show. I appreciate the great questions and the opportunity to discuss some of the work we've been doing over the last 4 years. We hope to meet you in person one day and go diving together, I'm sure our viewers would love a collaboration between both channels!
Absolute pleasure. Thanks for sharing with us :)
You need to go dive together in The Shaft with Mike and Woody.
Awesome interview 🎉
I am a side mount diver from Saudi Arabia and of course Dive Talk flounces spread between dive communities all over the World , they are the reason I got to diving in a perfect knowledge way ❤
For anyone who is negative go pound sand. It is because of their show that I decided to take up diving. It was that they made it accessible by providing information that made me comfortable so I'll always be grateful to them. Good video by the way.
Awesome interview! Both of you are great!
Thanks :)
Great interview, can't wait for the next episode
Cheers :)
btw really admire your capacity of rephrasing what people tell you, jump on further questions on the fly, you are an amazing interviewer! Congrats man! 👏
Appreciate your kind comment. I've worked at it and while I still think I've got a way to go everything is flowing for me now :).
WOW! It is cool that I just found out I am related to Gus. 🤣
Great show. And I have a new podcast to watch.
😂😂😂😂
Thanks for watching :)
Great to see two great diving channels sharing knowledge!!
Thanks :)
Looking slim Gus!
Gus is awesome
Thanks to Gus and dive talk I'm able to support another awesome channel, loved the collab❤
Thanks for the support :)
Very cool to see Gus on here. I’m a little sad to see some of the negativity, but had it not been for some of the content that Gus produces I wouldn’t have had the gumption to decide that cave diving was a skill I was “allowed” to progress at.
A lot of folks here think you can’t teach a single diving topic unless you hold depth and penetration records. Interest in this field is way too high to rely on a group of a couple dozen masters to teach every single recreational diver or normoxic ccr open water diver.
Great episode, enjoyed the interview of Gus! Too bad there's a lot of jealousy against dive talk. I've noticed massive jealousy regarding Dive Talk and Woody and Gus.... Amazing success sometimes causes huge envy.
huge envy ?? lol... divetalk is a zero effort production, purely for entertainment for those that never dived and most of them never will. Someone mentioned in the comments the lonely hose wives which is bang on! They have zero credibility within the dive industry and no surprise there. Anybody can run their mouth 'analyzing' videos of others sitting in the basement. The reason why not many do this because people usually realise how low ball of an approach this is.. no problem with any of this but coming up with an agency is totally out of line and apart from those handful idiots that blindly follow them, nobody gives a rats a** about this. Its actually sad
Thank you for the comment…and of course you can see by the response to your comment that we’re living rent free in the heads of jealous haters around the world. 😂
awesome having images! even if its more job for you, really appreciate it!
You're welcome happy to do it. I think it brings more to each episode.
This whole academy non-sense is such a joke. Simply because these 2 have zero credibility as teachers, educators or divers apart from the fact that they are running their mouth in the basement talking about other divers but demonstrate or show absolutely nothing. They have a large US based following (mainly non-divers) and some that think they wanna become CCR divers just because they overhyped this whole "cave divers are the best" story.. in reality, who the F are these people.. just because you network and build a large but low quality community doesn't mean you should embrak on a journey of becoming some scam agency
Cannot agree more 100%
Neither of you clearly know them or their entire story. So courageous of you to speak behind your keyboards about something you obviously know not much about.
@@ScubaGirlsInternational Chill out Terri, you are on the other end of the spectrum. Just because you drank the divetalk koolaid and their existence gave you purpose + you feeling socially involved because of them, doesn't mean you have an objective view on this. I'm very well aware who these guys are and I'm working directly with several of those people thats in your circle so let express my opinion on this rubbish without you defending anyone
@@ScubaGirlsInternational can't wait till you pull the poor woman in diving card
@@damcamino-oc2nr I am absolutely all about respecting opinions and even having differing opinions. These guys didn't give me purpose. I was out here doing my own thing long before they started. Yes, the 3 of us came from the same dive shop. Yes, they were my mentor/friend before their path brought them here. I know they don't have a lot of fans in certain circles. I'm not even going to attempt to talk you out of your thoughts or feelings that might be from your personal experience - but to say they have zero credibility as teachers, educators, or divers is wholly inaccurate. Yes, there is a large part of the community that is non-diver - but there is a significant number of divers with credible training as well who respect what these two have built. Is there a lot of entertainment? Yes. Is there still value, yes. To also say they are creating a scam agency because they are building something different that isn't currently being done by any agency, shouldn't anger you. Especially if you're a great instructor. It should excite you. It's the instructors who are worth their weight that will benefit the most out of what they are creating, to bring those great instructors more business and foster a great learning environment for the student. If it's personality for you, that's one thing. I get that. Not everyone, is going to be everyone's cup of tea.
I really loved the work you do but the divetalk segment is a real downer. These guys should be left alone doing their american scam type clickbait sh*t for the masses and you should stick to quality diving Steve
so true.. I was also expecting that this channel will not fall for this BS that divetalk represents.. whats next, selling divetalk merch ? they got about 500 different items lol
Hey Brandon, thanks for commenting... see my comment at the top.