Bush Mackel

Those of you that subscribe to this blog PROBABLY don’t know of The War Machine a.k.a. Bradley Fukes a.k.a. Chad Dukes. But you probably should as he’s one half of the radio team “Big O and Dukes” which have a radio show here in the Washington DC area. But that’s neither here nor there at the moment…

Chadwick has recently started a blog called The Fukerton where he talks about several things you’ll find on his show including video games, girls, comics… Basically whatever is worth a decent discussion. Well after a little while of plugging away at his blog trying to make a buck, yesterday he said this over the air…

Chad Dukes (podcast from Segment 10 [10/16]) -

This website thing is just eating me alive dude like just trying to learn everything about like running a website is so time consuming and I have so much more respect for like people that actually do it for a living that like Tyler Durden and all these blogs that we go to like superficial and deadspin and bloody elbow and all these blogs..

I get a feeling that a lot of people think the Internet is like a goldmine and it’s just a way that you can just make a quick buck and become famous real quick… It is A LOT of F’ing work – I got like 3 guys helping me out and it’s just… I just have a lot of respect for people that do that for a living at this point.

It’s such an unbelievable amount of work and really, I’ve earned a great deal of respect for people that do it now just trying to do my little low rent thing. So, I dunno… If that’s the way that you can make a living doing that then more power to you. That’s a hustle like no other. That’s like selling cans. You know the people who collect cans and sell them? Like to me, that’s what blogging is like. It’s just like selling cans where you know you make so little money…

And it goes on from there. My advice for the guy (coming where I am with my site now) is try and figure out really WHY you’re doing the blog and WHAT you want to do with it. I think we’ve all been where Chad has been but for all of us (and I’m thinking Chad included), our blogs are a labor of love and if we’re lucky enough to make some side money from it that’s just a bonus.

So anyone else have any advice for Chad a new blogger? And BTW, if you want to check out his show, you can listen to a live stream from wjfk.com from 10:20ish to 3pm (EST) or check out his podcasts that you can also get from WJFK!