2 Weeks Using Apple Podcasts As My Only Podcast App – MDW402

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Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, whatever the

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case may be. This is Mike, and this

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is Mike Dells World number 402.

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And what is the date today? 04/23/2025.

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And today, I got something a little bit

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different. I spent

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two weeks

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using Apple Podcasts as my only

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podcast

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application. I removed all the podcast apps off

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my phone. Well, I take that back. I

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did keep fountain

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for a very specific reason,

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but all the rest of them I took

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Overcast off,

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Pocketcast,

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all

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the other apps that I play with, I

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just took them off. And my only

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daily driver podcast app was Apple Podcasts.

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So let me, give you a little story

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why

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I decided I was going to try this

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and,

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give you a pretty good review

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of Apple Podcasts. It's been a long time

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since I had used Apple Podcasts other than

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just for work,

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you know, checking out, you know, my episode

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didn't show up on Apple. So I would

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get on Apple and see if, indeed, their

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episode wasn't on Apple

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or my show notes look funny. And, you

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know, of course, I'd go look. Yeah. Indeed.

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It looked funny or whatever, and we'd figure

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it out. But

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I didn't use it as my

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normal listening app. Now I am an Apple

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fanboy, I guess. I don't know. I got,

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you know, the Apple computers.

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I got the watch. I got the phone.

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I got the iPad. I got the Apple

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TV.

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You know, I'm pretty well,

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sucked into the Apple

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ecosphere.

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So, you know, not that I was biased

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against Apple Podcasts, but

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you know, there was apps, you know my

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favorite daily driver is Overcast and the reason

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for that is its smart playlisting

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ability.

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Which means I can pick you know say

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four or five podcasts that I want to

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see first

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or

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in my case what I would do is

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like I'd listen to a lot of aviation

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shows. So I had a smart playlist for

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aviation shows. I had a smart playlist for

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podcasts about podcasting

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and another smart playlist for new shows and

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so on. It made it really easy to

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keep the ones that I was following

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or subscribing,

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you know, kept them in a place where

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I could find them easily.

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overcast really doesn't give you a good way

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to discover

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podcasts accidentally and that's where

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I've found over the last couple of weeks

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that Apple Podcasts

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does a great job of that.

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Also gives you a great, you know,

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gives you a great way of discovering

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podcasts that you wouldn't normally listen to and

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kind of a cool way to preview them.

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And the reason this came up,

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I was in Chicago for Podcast Movement Evolutions

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and Ted,

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from Apple was,

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hanging around, you know, with, Dave Jackson.

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I happened to be you know, we all

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happened to be at the same place and

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he was showing Dave all these really cool

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things that Apple Podcasts does that neither one

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of us had ever heard of.

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You know, one of the things is

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saving an episode. So, say you're just browsing

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or searching

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through the directory and you say, Oh, I

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might be interested in this podcast, but I

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want to test

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an episode.

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So you just

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hold long press on this episode and it

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pops up a menu and one of them

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is Save.

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And that will download that one episode, does

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not subscribe you or

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have you follow the podcast.

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By the way,

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I'm not a fan of the change of

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the term from subscribe to follow, but, you

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know, the whole industry is saying follow now

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instead of subscribe

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but I use those terms interchangeably.

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But anyway, without subscribing or following the show

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you get that show and it downloads to

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your phone.

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And that way you can listen to a

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sample episode or an episode that you're interested

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in.

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Also works for shows you don't really want

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to subscribe to but you want to hear

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an episode now and again.

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that's been a game changer for me. I've

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discovered or rediscovered

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episodes or

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podcasts that I

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either used to listen to, had heard of

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and never listened to,

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or whatever because, you know, in Overcast I'm

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pretty sure you could probably do that in

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Overcast. You could probably do that in a

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lot of other apps, but

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this is the first time I've ever done

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that. And, you know, in Apple Podcasts, it

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it was pretty cool, pretty easy.

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And then I ended up subscribing to shows.

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One thing it does not do well

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is a Smart Playlist. It has something that

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is similarly close,

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something that I had never seen in there

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either.

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Let me make sure I have this correct.

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It's called channels.

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No. Not channels.

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What is it called?

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Hang on. Hang on.

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I made a couple of them.

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They're not channels. Channels is something completely different.

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I don't think it's categories

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either. No, categories just let you go through

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the directory in categories.

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so let's see, what is this called?

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Stations.

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And it's not labeled as such. That's why

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I had a hard time finding it. I'm

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looking at it as I'm recording here.

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But what stations are, like in my case,

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I have my

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daily pod

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my daily list that I would have in

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Overcast. I kind of

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did that,

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in a channel called Mike.

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But the thing is, is it does pull

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in all the episodes

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from the selected shows, you know, just like

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Overcast does with their smart playlist,

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but it doesn't

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make them into a playlist. So I can't,

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you know, hit play on the first episode

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and it'll go to the next episode in

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order to go to the next episode in

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this playlist. It's not a playlist.

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queue them up, which is not terrible. I

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mean, you know. So I go through here

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and say, you know, I

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long press, the long press is the key

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by the way, and you can hit Add

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to Cue or Add to Play Next.

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and it does it backwards. So the last

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one you hit Play Next on is the

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next thing you're going to hear in your

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player. Then you bring up the player and

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you can see that it added that

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episode that I hit on play next. So,

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you know, it's a tiny bit of foreplanning

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on my part

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to get the same result as I had

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with, say, my news playlist or my daily

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in overcast.

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But again, it made it really easy to

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save an episode to play

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later, you know, to to, you know, just

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sample things.

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I really did I do like that. I

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I I'm not sure if I'm gonna stick

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with this because I do really like the

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smart playlist.

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Cast o Matic also does that one with

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the podcast two point o apps.

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almost as well as Overcast, but Marco's got

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it. You know, that Overcast is something else.

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I do love it.

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you know, I wanted to give it a

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fair shake.

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And some of the things it does better

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than Overcast

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or Pocket Cast or

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you know some of the other alternative apps,

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is and this must be new because when

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I first started listening to podcasts,

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iTunes,

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the old desktop software, and then I synced

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it to my iPod,

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didn't do anything with the audio.

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you know, we have audio processing.

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Overcast famously has this thing called,

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audio boost or something like that where,

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you know, on certain podcasts that you know

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low. I I listened to Scott Adams, the

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real coffee with Scott Adams.

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It's the Dilbert guy.

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low volume because video first and

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doesn't care as much for the audio.

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I get

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it. But, you know, I listened to it

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in Overcast and I had to use Overcast

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because none of the other apps did

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the audio boosting, you know, or it boosted

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it up to a listenable level.

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I I think Apple's doing it even smarter.

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I don't know this to be a fact.

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I you know, ask Ted next time I,

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talk to him.

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anyway, I had no problem with Scott Adams'

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show. You know, I don't have to reach

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for the volume

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control.

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Another thing I like about Apple since I'm

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ecosystem

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is the sync between

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the Apple TV app, the phone, the iPad,

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it syncs really well and really quickly.

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So say I'm sitting here in my office

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and I'm listening on my desktop

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to a podcast, I hit pause, I go

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to my truck,

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I plug in

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the phone, it goes to Apple CarPlay

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and my podcast is queued up ready to

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go right where I left off on the

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desktop.

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And same thing with the Apple TV, you

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know, the podcast app and Apple TV. It

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syncs right up.

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And one of the other bonuses, Apple supports

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podcasting via RSS.

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Now I'm not gonna sit and look at

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or even the iPad in most cases or

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the laptop even or the desktop even.

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I like it on my big screen. So

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I have another

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station of video podcasts that I watch

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and I only access that station

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via

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the Apple TV app.

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So you know I can sit here in

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La Z Boy and watch my 55 inches

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big screen TV and watch the video podcasts

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that I want to watch.

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And I'm not talking about podcasts

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on YouTube.

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That's not really a podcast. That's a YouTube

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channel that's called a podcast. That's fine. Whatever.

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Listeners, viewers don't care.

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But, you know, Truly RSS delivered video

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comes right to my Apple TV.

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I hit play and I watch it. And

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that's, you know, that's one of the other

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advantages of,

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you know, Apple Podcasts. Overcast does not support

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video. Now you can download a video

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to Overcast and it'll play the audio for

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you and all that. But of course, videos

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are huge.

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So do you really want those on your

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phone?

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Yeah. Of course now the phones have all

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the space in the world it seems. I

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got 256

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gigs on

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my iPhone so I'm not gonna

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run out of space that's not the big

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issue with,

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you know, with Overcast it downloads that whole

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big file and all I get is the

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audio.

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You know, so

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just to to sum it up, I I

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really do like the Apple Podcasts app,

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on the iPhone and the iPad and the

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computer and the Apple TV and I guess

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sort of on the watch, but

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you know, the only thing I use the

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watch for is turn the volume up and

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down when I'm listening on ear pods

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or the, you know, the the the headphones

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of my phone, which I don't do an

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awful lot.

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You know, it's either in the car or

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in the,

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you know, in the house or

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or in the office here, whatever. You know,

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I prefer speakers to headphones.

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But, again, you know, sometimes you're out for

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a walk, mowing the lawn, doing all that

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stuff, which you can't do with a YouTube

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video most of the time.

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You know, that's kinda nice. I can listen

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and control it with my watch and,

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you know, it syncs up with all the

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other places I listen. So I I'm gonna

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stick with it for a while. I'll I'll

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report back. At some point, I am gonna

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do a review of Overcast,

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which is an iOS only

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independent app. Marco Arment,

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I believe his last name,

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does that and does a really good job.

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Also, gonna give Pocket Casts a try again.

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I have,

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you know, used it on and off over

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the years.

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Had a little project at work where, we

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were trying to figure out, you know, just

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which apps

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and, directories and web pages and all that

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support RSS video podcasts. And, you know, I

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did come up with a list.

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I haven't done the blog post over at

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Blueberry yet but, I am going

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to do a blog post over there explaining

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which apps do video, which ones don't,

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for RSS delivered video.

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Of course, Spotify and Apple or not Apple,

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Spotify and YouTube claim to have video podcasts

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but

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their video product over there is not

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via RSS.

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So

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technically,

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again, viewers listeners don't care.

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So call it a podcast if you want.

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We don't care but

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again

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it's not technically

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a RSS delivered podcast.

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You know what what's, you know, near and

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dear to my heart is the RSS feed

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is the key to

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free and open podcasting. You don't have to

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have a particular app

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to watch and or listen

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to

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a podcast of your choice because it's available

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via RSS. You can use any of about

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200 apps out there for listening to podcasts,

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you know. And then of course there are

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what I call real podcast apps, and there

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are apps that do other things that added

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podcasting.

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Again, nothing wrong with that. I don't care

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how you listen, just as long as you

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do.

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But, you know, like Spotify, that's a music

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app. IHeartRadio

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is a radio app

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and they've added podcasting

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to their

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catalog, their directory, whatever, so to the user

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of

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those apps there's really not a lot of

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difference.

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So, you know, that's not the be all

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end all. I don't

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care how you listen, as long as you

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listen.

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But, you know, all the real podcast apps

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get their

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catalogs from either Apple or

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Podcast Index and

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pull the RSS feed in to, deliver

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shows to the listeners.

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And

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the thing about the RSS feed is, you

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know, as long as you own that feed

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address

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you can't be canceled. Now

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certain

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ways of creating an RSS feed do lend

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themselves to cancellation.

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Podcasts or I mean,

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Spotify for creators comes to mind.

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You know, they Spotify owns the the feed.

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Anchor.fm/whatever,

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that belongs to them. If you're on Libsyn,

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libsyn dot com slash feed slash whatever,

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dot XML or .RSS.

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Okay. Libsyn owns that feed. No. Libsyn's not

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going to censor you,

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I don't believe. You know, most most podcast

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hosts won't. RSS.com

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definitely won't.

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Buzzsprout won't.

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You know, a lot of the a lot

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of the, the bigger hosts do not. Blueberry,

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of course, does not.

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But

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you know if you're,

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you know, if you have that RSS feed

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you really can't be canceled. Yes Apple could

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take you out of their directory. Podcasts Index

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could take you out of their directory, which

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they also won't because they believe in Open

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RSS

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and non censorship,

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free speech, all that good stuff, wave the

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flag, yeehaw.

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But,

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you know, there's a whole lot less of

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a chance you're gonna get canceled

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if you're using an open RSS feed.

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And, you know, you really don't need to

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do any of that. You know, you could

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self host and use a WordPress site and

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generate a feed that way.

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You could hand roll the RSS feed. It's

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not that hard.

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And we did it. We all did it

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twenty years ago.

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So there's the FreedomController

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and there's lots of ways of generating an

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RSS

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feed and that's just a file sitting on

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a web server somewhere.

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And, you know, then you just have enclosures,

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so you have to have your media hosted

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somewhere.

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It could be on a web server, although

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that's not the best way to do it.

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Or it could be on a CDN, could

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be on Amazon, could be on, you know,

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a myriad of

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places.

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So, you know,

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to not be canceled,

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the RSS feed is the key.

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And

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Apple so far,

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Apple Podcasts, back to the subject,

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Apple Podcasts also does not do

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any of or much if not

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at all censorship. Now if you're doing something

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illegal

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or you're violating copyright,

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that kind of thing, then yeah you might

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get pulled down

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from those apps, those directories,

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maybe even from

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Blueberry. I mean you know, if we get

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a takedown notice for copyright we're obliged

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to deal with that. Now we'll take it

484
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down, we'll give you the

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option to fight it. If you

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protest it then we can put it back

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up

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until it's settled in court. But you don't

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really want to go that way, so don't

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do anything illegal. Don't do anything copyright

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violating.

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I've been guilty of that in the past,

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violating

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copyright probably.

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But then again, if you don't get caught,

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who cares?

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But eventually you will get caught so don't

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don't do it.

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You know, podcasting is just a good way

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to get your,

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your word out there.

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So anyway,

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I would recommend

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you give Apple Podcasts a try.

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You know, if you're a podcast listener

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and you haven't looked at it in a

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while or, you know, and if you have

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an iPhone, of course, Apple Podcasts sort of

509
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works on Android but as a

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progressive web app. So you can go to

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the Apple Podcasts

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and save it to your

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home screen as a progressive web app, but

514
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it's not as robust

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a way to do that. Best one for

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Android,

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the mainstream wise anyway is Podcast Addict.

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That seems to be the number one Android

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app, although Pocket Cast is good.

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There's a few, you know, Spotify, I guess,

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if you have to. I'm not a fan.

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But, you know, if you have to, you

523
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can listen to podcasts on Spotify for Android.

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But, you know, for the full podcast RSS

525
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experience, Podcast Addict

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or or PocketCasts

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or any of the podcast two point o

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apps that have an Android app are probably

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better.

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But,

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just my humble opinion. So

532
00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:02,259
on to some personal stuff.

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I think the last episode I talked about,

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you know, the snow. Finally the snow has

535
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melted. In fact, it's,

536
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it's like 09:00 at night here and it's,

537
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still around 60. That's about as warm as

538
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it's been so far this spring,

539
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but,

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it's been nice. Getting a little bit of

541
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rain. Probably could use a little more.

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So,

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I don't want a lot of rain because

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I wanna I wanna get back to flying.

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And

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it seems like every time I schedule a

547
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flight, the weather goes to crap. So, you

548
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know, it is what it is. But,

549
00:20:36,970 --> 00:20:39,369
so you can tell if, Traverse City, Michigan

550
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gets a

551
00:20:40,865 --> 00:20:42,005
a line of thunderstorms,

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probably I scheduled an airplane to go for

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a flight.

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So it's alright.

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00:20:50,305 --> 00:20:52,404
Kathy's doing alright, my wife.

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The family is sort of

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settled in after

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the passing of my dad.

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We're, getting things at the old homestead,

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in line.

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I had to do some deck repair and

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got the snowblower off the tractor

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and the cab off the tractor. And, I

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didn't put the, mower deck on it yet,

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but, I figured that might tempt fate and

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get us some snow.

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Whenever

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I take the

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snow removal equipment and put that away for

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the year, then we get another snow. But,

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I figured

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mother nature brings it, she can take it

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back.

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Let's see. Got the camper into town. Haven't

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started really de winterizing that yet, but, that's

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on the agenda.

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Got a few camping trips planned. And I

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do have a

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ham radio station I'm gonna install in the

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camper, and I'm gonna install a TV antenna

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in place of the satellite dish that's on

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it.

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So, when we do go camping, we might

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have a little bit of over the air

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TV and, definitely some over the air radio

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and, all that good stuff. Where we where

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we end up camping usually is out of

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range of

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of good,

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Internet.

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It has some Internet, but not great Internet.

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So can't really rely on that. Of course,

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I could just drive up the hill and

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download all my podcasts, Apple podcasts, and

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have all the entertainment I need.

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But most of the time camping is chasing

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the dog around

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or or,

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playing in the lake

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or whatever.

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So

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but I guess that's it.

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Thanks for

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listening.

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Of course. Oh, I've been working on the

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website too.

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I that website's been really terrible for the

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longest time,

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And I think I found a theme that

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I like and

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I've been, tweaking things. So

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don't mind the dust, but, go check out

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mikedell.com.

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And I do have some blog posts over

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there. I got some other things going on

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over there. Of course, you can also listen

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to the podcast over there

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if you don't want to listen to it

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on Apple Podcasts or any of the other

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apps I mentioned.

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So periodically, I will, review

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a podcast app

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or two for,

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you guys that are listening to this, our

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podcast listeners by definition.

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So

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it might be interesting. Might not. Not sure

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when the next one will be, but we'll

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see you then. Go check out mikedel.com.

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Catch me

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later.