Sept. 20, 2025

What Happens When Spotify Deletes Everything?

What Happens When Spotify Deletes Everything?

Send us feedback/questions via Text Dave Jackson flies solo this week (with special guest appearances from Randy Black and Ralph Estep Jr.) to tackle this challenging question and more. Randy shares a heart-wrenching story about losing his podcast co-host and friend, reminding us of the human connections that make this medium so powerful. His emotional recounting serves as a poignant reminder that beyond analytics and strategies, podcasting creates meaningful relationships that transcend the ...

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Send us feedback/questions via Text

Dave Jackson flies solo this week (with special guest appearances from Randy Black and Ralph Estep Jr.) to tackle this challenging question and more. Randy shares a heart-wrenching story about losing his podcast co-host and friend, reminding us of the human connections that make this medium so powerful. His emotional recounting serves as a poignant reminder that beyond analytics and strategies, podcasting creates meaningful relationships that transcend the microphone.

The conversation takes a practical turn when Ralph joins to break down the differences between LLC and sole proprietorship structures for podcasters. His expertise reveals that proper business structuring can save significant money on self-employment taxes while providing liability protection—with benefits potentially kicking in at just $8,000 of annual podcast income.

A cautionary tale emerges about platform dependence when Dave shares the story of a podcaster who lost 168 episodes overnight when Spotify deleted their entire catalog over a single music-related terms of service violation. The lesson? Always back up your content and understand platform policies before it's too late.

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00:00 - Episode Introduction

02:22 - Podcast Branding.Co

03:45 - Based on a True Story Podcast

07:35 - Randy Black Discusses Loss of Co-Host

14:13 - Podcast Growth and Audience Feedback

23:23 - Spotify's Content Policies and Risks

37:25 - LLC vs. Sole Proprietorship with Ralph

43:50 - THANK YOU!

44:25 - Join the School of Podcasting

44:39 - Podcast Hot Seat

01:00:17 - ChatGPT for Audio Settings Optimization

01:11:29 - AI Content and The Future of Podcasting

01:20:09 - Kit Platform Discussion and Show Closing

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Ask the Podcast Coach for September 20th 2025.

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Let's get ready to podcast.

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There it is.

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It's that music.

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That means it is Saturday morning.

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It's time for Ask the Podcast Coach, where you get your podcast questions answered live.

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According to the thing at the bottom of the screen, I'm Dave Jackson from theschoolofpodcastingcom, and joining me right over there is absolutely nobody, because Jim has whacked his back, and so welcome to Dave's Hell.

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There's nothing Dave loves more than doing this show solo.

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It's always a bit of a train wreck.

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Glad you're here, but if you want more, jim Collison, of course go over to HomeGadgetGeekscom, and so I will be pointing out a lot today that if you go to AskThePodcastCoachcom slash question, you could be right there.

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You could be Jim Cullison today.

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So I will be taking your questions.

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I also, I am prepared.

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I went and found lots and lots of questions.

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I also, I am prepared.

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I went and found lots and lots of questions, but there's nothing more fun than trying to read the chat as you're talking and trying to figure out what is going on with that.

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Well, I want to give a special shout out to Randy Black on the passing of his co-host.

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I don't know about you guys, but I am about done with death, a little too much this week, and just nastiness and things like that.

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And you know, what makes that stuff almost tolerable but not quite is a good coffee pour, which I don't have any coffee.

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I have my handy dandy.

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Wow, how do you pronounce that?

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Oh Walla?

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Oh Walla Sounds like some sort of I don't know the Indians called this oh Walla, which is, you know, cherokee for water.

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So cheers to everyone as we pretend to pour some coffee here.

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And that oh Walla pour is brought to you by my good friend, mark.

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He said clicking the button there we go From our podcastbrandingco.

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I have used Mark multiple times to do my artwork.

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Might have a new one coming, but that's a secret, we can't tell anybody yet.

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And the beautiful thing about Mark is number one he's a secret, we can't tell anybody yet.

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And the beautiful thing about Mark is number one he's a podcaster.

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So that whole like oh, it's like a radio show, but it's not kind of thing.

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And, randy, I see you, buddy, and there we go, I will let him in backstage and if you want to look good, because you know they're going to see you before they hear you, that is something that Mark can do.

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He can make you look beauteous and beautiful and professional and all that kind of first impression kind of stuff.

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And the beauty of it is, again, besides being a podcaster, he's been a graphic artist for over 30 years yeah, 30.

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That's 3-0.

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And he's going to give you that one-on-one kind of service that nobody on fiverr, nobody else, is going to give you.

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So, uh, go check out podcastbrandingco.

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That's podcast brandingco.

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One more time podcastbrandingco.

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Tell him dave and jim sent you and uh, if jim was here he'd be holding up his coffee cup and would have that logo that says based on a true story.

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Look, if you want.

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You know you're sitting in the theater, the lights go down, a black screen appears and it says based on a true story.

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And you always wonder I wonder how much of this like when they say based, like, are we talking 10%?

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Are we talking 90%?

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Well, there's one place to find out and that's based on a true story podcast.

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Our buddy, dan, over there, brings on somebody who knows the actual subject and then they go over the movie and you find out how much of that was based on a true story.

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So, dan, thank you for your sponsorship.

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We deeply appreciate it.

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And now we get to see if Dave can figure out how to add Randy to.

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Let's see, I see him on Zoom Now.

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See, I should have practiced this before we went.

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Can I drag and drop you from Zoom into?

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Nope, I can't drag and drop you.

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Oh, here we go, wrong button.

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I click on add because I want to add.

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Yes, I want to add.

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Now I see Randy in this and now assigned to placeholder guest one.

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There he is the one, and only I know it says Jim Collison, but Randy my my, as the old saying goes, and I do.

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I know I'm being snarky here, but I'm not.

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Thoughts and prayers, buddy.

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That was.

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That's.

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That's part of why I popped on.

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I wanted to to thank you and thank other people in the community who, throughout the last week, have reached out, have offered exactly that.

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Jim was just a month short of his 70th birthday and had a we talked before he was in stage four colon cancer and this was not the cancer that got that.

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That took jim from us.

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It was actually a gallbladder, oh man, and an infection then got out of the gallbladder into his system and they removed.

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They removed it, but he, he never woke up and it was a week of heartache.

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You know, I've been friends with his daughter for a while because I've been working with him on the show but had never met her in person and met her for the first time yesterday, helping her to try to find things at his business where we recorded and stuff.

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And I just want to say thank you to everybody.

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He was a powerful force in what he did, well known in the coach, in the basketball coaching world, yeah, but that was not what he wanted to be remembered for.

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He wanted to be remembered as someone who helped anyone and everyone.

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Yeah, and that's why that's why we were doing the show.

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I spent.

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Didn't you kind of know that, going in when you started?

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Yeah, yeah, I've.

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You know, I've known him for 30 years, met him when I was a teenager the first time and it was it was my pleasure to be able to try to help him.

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We spent hours sitting in a in a hot room upstairs at his business that we had just sound treated.

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We had just gotten drop backdrop stands and moving blankets to shut up, to kind of close us in, to help sound treat it.

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And that was the last thing.

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That was the last episode we recorded.

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We finished that night.

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We had already had things planned for the next episode ready to go.

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As we're leaving every time, because he and I had gotten very close, I tell him I love you, brother, and do you know, fist bump or handshake or that classic you know real fast, man hug.

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But this time was different and I don't know.

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I don't know what was different other than like, what was different with Jim, other than he grabbed me and he embraced me when he told me he loved me.

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That's the last time I talked to him.

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Yeah, and I'm happy that that's the last time I talked to him well, you know, I'm just glad you guys were able to record what you could you know.

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Yeah, because now, and that's- it is talking.

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When I was when I was there with his daughter and her boyfriend you're saying talking to them his wife called and I've gotten to know his wife very well over the six months we started this project and she asked me to go through and pull things out from the recordings things that he said, some of his little stuff he said or thoughts he had about stuff.

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They're working on getting pictures and things together.

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So we're gonna put together a video of pictures of Jim and his family and things he did over time and pull some music and stuff in and then insert those clips of Jim saying these things.

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But you know I will say that probably for the rest of my life the text tone on my phone will be this Bam son.

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I will never let go of that recording.

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He became one of my closest friends in this time that we've been together, and the memories I have from this short amount of time are never, ever going to go away.

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Yeah.

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But again, thank you to everyone who reached out, who said thanks, who said thank you, kind words of we're praying for you, we're praying for Jim At this point.

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It's a matter of supporting his family as much as possible.

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I'll be okay, I'll be fine.

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You know I'm going to miss him, but I miss because this is the most fun I've had in the decade I've been in this space, was working with Jim, and you know we made it 11 episodes, so we got past that magic seven that everybody's always talking about.

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But we've and I don't know if we're going to continue with that show.

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I'm waiting on things I'm going to.

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We've got a request out for anybody who knew him.

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I've got a Google voice number To call the number.

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Just tell a Jim Clayton story and we're going to put that all together for the family.

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We're going to put it out as an episode on the feed, but I'm looking to also, you know, maybe sit down and I mentioned it to his daughter Sit down with his daughter and his son and his wife and just talk about Jim.

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I've even got a recording of his two adorable little granddaughters saying bam, son, that we can use and do stuff with.

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So you know.

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Again, thank you to everybody.

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It's so appreciated the support that was out there.

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You know, and I knew there were certain people that if I reached out like you, daniel J Lewis, ralph Ralph is amazing, even reaching out to some people may know him Jimmy Pruitt, pastor of Rich Church down in Fredericksburg, texas, where the Podfather goes to church, and even the Podfather reaching out to Adam.

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The prayers and things that were coming from the community were tremendous and I'm thankful for that.

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Yeah, absolutely All right, my friend.

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Well, I appreciate it.

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And you know, yeah, races, that's an amazing gift you can give to the family.

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Yeah, it's, I have.

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I don't know where it is.

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That's the part that bothers me.

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But I don't remember what my mom sounded like and she's somewhere we have on a VHS tape and she wasn't even on camera.

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She, she didn't.

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She forgot that cameras record audio as well.

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But you know the fact that you, you know we have, you know hours and hours of Todd Cochran and we've got, you know Jim now on tape and that's, you know that's, that's precious material there.

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Yeah, and that was, and that was part of what I mean.

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His daughter was pushing him.

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You have to do this.

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We need people to have this recordings of you, we need people to know that.

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And he's got tons of stuff himself, you know.

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He posted four, five, six video, little video clips, every single day.

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And suddenly on Wednesday two weeks ago, that stopped.

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Yeah, and I was like, hey, maybe he's not feeling good today.

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And like every Wednesday he would send me his notes off of notes I put together and say, hey, here's this if you want to look over it, so we're ready for tomorrow.

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And he didn't do that.

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I was like, well, maybe he just doesn't feel good, he'll do it in the morning.

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And then, while I was at work on that Thursday morning, his daughter sent me the message and it was, it was, it was a week, just over a week, and we lost him.

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Yeah, oh man.

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Well, hang in there, my friend.

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Appreciate it, dave.

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Yeah, again, thanks to everybody.

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Love the community, you know we're.

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We're at a point in our country and in our world where we have a lot of headbanging and disagreements and strife and yeah, just, it ain't worth it.

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Yeah, in the end it's not worth it anymore.

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I just don't, I don't, it's not worth it.

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That's me.

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I woke up this morning and people are still going on about Jimmy Kimmel and I was just like you know, can we just, can't we all just get along?

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You know it's crazy, but all right.

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And I was just like you know, can we just, can't we all just get along?

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You know it's crazy, but yeah, all right, my friend, we'll hang in there.

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Okay, thanks, dave.

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Yep, we'll see you.

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Oh, my goodness.

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Yeah, brad brings up a question here.

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Should and that's how it works, by the way.

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Oh, good, you know, you just go to askthepodcastcoachcom and I will bring you in.

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Should you make clips of the funny or special comments made during every show?

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You do so?

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You can make an annual one.

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That is the way to do it, because what happens is it's December and you're like, oh, I'd like to take a week off for, you know, christmas or whatever, and then you go to do it.

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Well, when you go to do a year's worth of clips, you're like, plus, you don't remember what you did two weeks ago, let alone what you did in January.

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And so, yeah, if you're going to do anything like that, you want to do it in.

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You know, it's like when I had a cat.

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I hated cleaning the litter box, but if I did it every day just a little here and a little there, not a big deal, but if I let it go a couple of days, then it was a job and so if that's something you're going to do, definitely do it in spurts.

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Justin has a question from Twitter.

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Thank you, justin.

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Not sure if you got my last message, but how do podcasters know in the early stages whether slow growth is because of needing more time and consistency to get better traction or whether it's because the show needs tweaking?

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How do you know?

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You ask your audience.

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There's only one way to find out, right, because you're like, if we look at that, you know, is it greater traction because the show needs tweaking?

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How do you know if the show needs tweaking?

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So I always like to take things about podcasting and move it out of podcasting.

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So if I was a baker and I said, here, eat my cupcake, and somebody ate it, and they said you know, this would be a lot better if it had icing on it, and you're like, oh yeah, because it's just a cake right now.

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So you put some icing on it and they're like, oh ooh, that icing's a little, that's a little too sweet.

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And then you go here try this icing and they go, ooh, that's perfect.

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That's how you know.

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So, if you, I always go back to Jack from the Darknet Diaries, jack before keyword, before he launched, he took people and said listen to this episode.

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And then he launched, he took people and said listen to this episode.

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And then he said did you make it all the way through?

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And if not, why did you stop?

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Because maybe you stopped not because it was bad, but because, hey, I'm at the dentist, you know that type of thing.

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And then he asked them on a scale from one to 10, how likely are you to share this with a friend?

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And if he got a seven or less, he kind of went back to the drawing board and so he figured out okay, this is now resonating with my audience.

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And once he got that, then at somewhere in his show he would slowly and specifically and confidently ask them to share the show.

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Now, that's not a 10,000 download switch, but he knew they should want to share the show because he knew it was good.

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Now, in my travels including, you know, some of my shows I'm not sure we want to hear feedback.

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You know, like I just started off the show with a couple minutes of advertising.

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If I was coaching myself, I'd be like that's not a great way to start the show, but I do that because I'm only going to do a half hour to 40 minutes without any commercials.

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So if you look at the percentage of content to ads on this show, it's very small.

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But the fact that I do them at the very first two minutes is not great placement, and so I realized that not every podcaster is open to feedback or they just go.

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Yeah, this is the way we do it and I'm like okay, you know so, but that's it.

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Ask your audience the key.

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If you haven't read it yet.

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Where is the book?

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Oh, my goodness, I know it's right in front of me somewhere, but the book by Tom Webster the audience is listening is a must read it's.

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And by that it's, and by that I mean don't like you should read it, but it's here it is.

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I knew I had it.

00:16:04.750 --> 00:16:08.975
The Audience is Listening by Tom Webster Great, great book.

00:16:08.975 --> 00:16:16.304
I still think he should have called it your Baby is Ugly, because there are, you know, a lot of people.

00:16:16.346 --> 00:16:22.187
The title of the show or the title of the episode is how to Make a Million Dollars Turning Dog Poop into Gold.

00:16:22.187 --> 00:16:23.410
Thank you, steve Martin.

00:16:23.410 --> 00:16:29.048
And you know you start off talking about whatever and you're like no, no, get, get to the topic it says.

00:16:29.048 --> 00:16:31.902
It says right above this, this is the thing.

00:16:31.902 --> 00:16:38.803
And you know you're talking about your cat and the fact that you had to get a new carburetor for your car or whatever.

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You know so.

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And Dan says the key word there is audience and not making change.

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Oh boy, I salute you, dan.

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In fact, I will put your logo on the screen one more time just for that.

00:16:49.409 --> 00:16:53.059
Yeah, he says you know it's not a single person.

00:16:53.059 --> 00:16:55.028
We've talked about this story on this show.

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We had a guy give us like two and a half pages of notes and they were great notes.

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And I mean he was like hey, on you know episode, you know, and they were great notes.

00:17:06.414 --> 00:17:13.987
And I mean he, he was like hey, on you know episode, you know, one 37 from February 26th, at the 37 minute mark.

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You guys did this Like he really went back and listened.

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But there was only one problem.

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It's called ask the podcast coach.

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It's a.

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It's a way for me to do free podcast consulting.

00:17:18.962 --> 00:17:21.906
It's a way for me to connect live with my audience.

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And he wanted me to do interviews and like, doing interviews is tough enough, I don't want to do it live.

00:17:28.965 --> 00:17:33.324
And then just, he basically wanted a completely different show than this one.

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So I appreciated his feedback.

00:17:35.854 --> 00:17:39.964
It was like this is great feedback, except this is not my show, you know.

00:17:39.964 --> 00:18:02.369
So, again, if it's in, if it's something I can do and something that more than one person wants absolutely, and then you get into weird situations where, speaking of cats and litter boxes, when I had one, 50% of my audience loved when my cat would interrupt my show and 50% absolutely hated the fact that my cat would interrupt my show.

00:18:02.369 --> 00:18:09.671
And so you know, chris from Podtastic Audio and his new car show type in the name of your show, Chris, I'll throw that in here.

00:18:10.099 --> 00:18:16.582
I heard on Buzzsprout that they were saying that SEO isn't worth as much as a lot of podcast gurus preach.

00:18:16.582 --> 00:18:29.755
I'm not buying that yet because we don't know what AI is doing to get their answers and my guess is they're using search, and search is based on what?

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Oh yeah, that's right SEO.

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So I'm not buying that yet it may.

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In fact, I am right now kind of doubling down on SEO a little more than I used to.

00:18:39.432 --> 00:18:42.568
So that's right.

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He says Bernie the cat should be in the Hall of Fame, yeah, so yeah, we'll see, I guess.

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But anything I can do to boost SEO, why not?

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If I can add some alt text to my images, why not If I can, you know, find some keywords that in theory I mean the whole.

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I know mom said don't go play in traffic, and that was good when you're, you know, eight years old.

00:19:06.923 --> 00:19:10.393
But if I can't, why did I do an episode about Ozzy Osbourne?

00:19:10.393 --> 00:19:18.244
Well, number one I wanted to talk about Ozzy Osbourne and part of him dying was blowing up my childhood and I didn't feel like talking about podcasting.

00:19:18.244 --> 00:19:22.593
So I talked about Ozzy Osbourne, but I would be lying if I said I didn't do that.

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Partially because I knew people were talking about Ozzy you know, give people what they want and so he was popular at the moment and I was like, well, that's kind of a win-win.

00:19:32.285 --> 00:19:37.250
I'm not really in the mood to talk podcasting and this will maybe get me some better SEO.

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We'll see.

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And I've had people say that was a really cool episode because it wasn't your typical way of talking about podcasting.

00:19:42.983 --> 00:19:45.547
So yeah, because it wasn't your typical way of talking about podcasting.

00:19:45.547 --> 00:19:50.011
So, yeah, tim says Dave once called my baby ugly and I'm grateful because my friends wouldn't.

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I have had many a people that I have said, and it's not that I rip people to shreds, I'm just like, hey, this is confusing.

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This is what I'm thinking, I'm thinking out loud and you know, and then in the end they go well, my friend said it was great and I'm like, well, okay, you know again, not everything.

00:20:08.968 --> 00:20:10.709
Sometimes I'm not your target audience.

00:20:10.709 --> 00:20:13.672
I always tell people that you know, so keep that in mind.

00:20:13.672 --> 00:20:19.656
There are times when Ray is here from around the layoutcom model train show.

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Well, when Ray gets into talking about you know, companies and brands and different types of traffic, I have no idea what he's talking about.

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And I kind of look at that and go, that's good, because in one hand, yes, that's jargon.

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But when you're in that bubble, that's not jargon.

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So that's kind of when I go, oh, you're talking in a way that only people that really love this stuff are going to get it.

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Ralph has a question here.

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Ask your audience.

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But what if they don't even respond to the survey?

00:20:47.965 --> 00:20:50.381
Well, that's going to happen from time to time.

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Do we assume that if the downloads aren't growing, it's working?

00:20:54.809 --> 00:21:01.730
Wait, if we let me reread that, do we assume that if the downloads are growing, it's working In theory?

00:21:01.730 --> 00:21:10.509
Right, if I'm dumping water into a bucket and I can see it going up the bucket and the bucket is getting fuller, I'm assuming the bucket's working.

00:21:10.509 --> 00:21:18.925
But if I'm dumping water into a bucket and I see a bunch of water coming out the back of it and the water is not rising, then there's something wrong with the bucket.

00:21:19.626 --> 00:21:32.614
So, yeah, if they don't respond, then what you want to do and it's not always gifts and things like that, but you want to you want to put who doesn't want to benefit?

00:21:32.614 --> 00:21:33.702
I would love to benefit.

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What's the benefit?

00:21:34.405 --> 00:21:36.862
I don't know, but if you tell me I'm going to benefit, I'm up for it.

00:21:36.862 --> 00:21:54.750
And so if you can explain to them that, hey, I'm doing this for you, you, mr or Mrs List, I'm doing this for you and I want to make the best podcast for you, and I can only do that, there's only one way to do that and that is I need your feedback.

00:21:54.750 --> 00:22:01.094
And I realize that you're thinking oh well, I'll do that later and somebody else will send him some feedback.

00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:12.098
No, no, I need your feedback because I'm doing this show for you and if you get nothing there, then you're just like well, okay, then you, you can't.

00:22:12.098 --> 00:22:15.568
You don't want to scold them, but you can say well, I asked for feedback and I didn't get any.

00:22:15.568 --> 00:22:18.942
So today I'm going to do this based on my feedback.

00:22:18.942 --> 00:22:24.048
Now, if you don't like this show or if you didn't like this topic, hey, let me know and I will do less or more of this.

00:22:24.048 --> 00:22:33.346
But because I've had audiences that just the only time I got feedback is when I threatened to quit and I just said, hey, I think I'm done with this show.

00:22:33.346 --> 00:22:39.912
It was called Weekly Web Tools and the only time I ever got in, they came out of the woodwork no, don't quit the show.

00:22:39.912 --> 00:22:45.231
So yeah, ralph says I set up a short link to buy a coffee.

00:22:45.231 --> 00:22:51.150
I use short links and see that people are visiting the link, but in six months, zero people have given Try Patreon.

00:22:51.220 --> 00:22:52.605
Nope, it's not the thing.

00:22:52.605 --> 00:22:56.808
It's not so the idea that people do this with media hosts too.

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They're like hey, I'm on Podbean and my audience isn't growing, so I'm going to switch to Buzzsprout and that's isn't growing.

00:23:04.144 --> 00:23:09.991
So I'm going to switch to Buzzsprout, and that's not the problem, it's not the media host that grows the audience.

00:23:09.991 --> 00:23:23.067
And I always use the analogy if I take a little red Corvette because, baby, you're much too fast and you ride that on a flat runway in Texas, that thing is going to go about 225 miles an hour.

00:23:23.067 --> 00:23:31.788
Now you take that same little red Corvette and you put it on a flat runway in Maine, that thing's going to go about 225 miles an hour.

00:23:31.788 --> 00:23:32.089
Why?

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Because it's not the runway, it's the car.

00:23:35.299 --> 00:23:43.028
So here should I take my content and try to promote it with buy me a coffee, I'm going to get X amount of money.

00:23:43.028 --> 00:23:46.170
Or should I take my content and put it on Patreon?

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It's not the platform, it's the content.

00:23:49.385 --> 00:23:55.746
And so because in both cases, like buy me a coffee, you know you can pick how many coffees you want.

00:23:55.746 --> 00:23:59.961
Now if a coffee costs you a hundred bucks, they may not donut and I'm not.

00:23:59.961 --> 00:24:02.962
I know you're not doing that, but there's that, but it's.

00:24:02.962 --> 00:24:07.066
It's kind of disheartening because that means somebody thought about it.

00:24:07.066 --> 00:24:11.249
And either A, because with Patreon I mean really what's the difference?

00:24:11.249 --> 00:24:20.296
Like coffee could be $5 and then you can buy me one, two or three or whatever when, with Patreon, like mine is five, 10 and 20.

00:24:20.296 --> 00:24:22.757
And like, well, what if somebody wants to give me three?

00:24:22.757 --> 00:24:29.443
Well, they can't, you know, but I don't think it's the platform there it's gotta be.

00:24:30.666 --> 00:24:36.346
And this is where the you've heard the whole teacher thing, right, where tell them what you're gonna tell them.

00:24:36.346 --> 00:24:38.586
Tell them and then tell them what you told them.

00:24:38.586 --> 00:24:40.005
Well, that third step.

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That's why we say do the Jerry Springer at the end of an interview.

00:24:44.042 --> 00:24:44.344
Right?

00:24:44.344 --> 00:24:49.753
I just got done interviewing Ralph from you know, ask Ralphcom, and it was great.

00:24:49.753 --> 00:24:58.057
Ralph reminded us that you know we need to run our podcast like a business and you know you can write off some of those expenses and blah, blah.

00:24:58.057 --> 00:24:58.701
So I'm, I'm.

00:24:58.701 --> 00:25:17.165
I don't want to redo the show because he just heard Ralph say that too, but anytime, for me, what I call the Jerry Springer is where you get to talk, because if you do an interview, you're getting out of the way of the guests so they can just, you know, spread all their chocolatey goodness all over your show and then at the end you can.

00:25:17.205 --> 00:25:23.646
You know, ralph brought up that point about how we should monitor our expenses and I happen to look the other day.

00:25:23.646 --> 00:25:31.932
I use Monarch money for my budgeting and I'm spending close to $60 a month on McDonald's and I had no idea.

00:25:31.932 --> 00:25:35.852
So Ralph has a great point when he says you should be tracking every expense.

00:25:35.852 --> 00:25:41.910
Okay, so I just shared a little story about me, how I used it and how Ralph just delivered value.

00:25:41.910 --> 00:25:45.926
Because sometimes you have to go hey, that thing you just got I don't know if you know this or not, but that's valuable.

00:25:45.926 --> 00:25:55.263
And so sometimes if somebody goes to, we just haven't quite convinced them that what they got was valuable in theory.

00:25:55.263 --> 00:26:03.403
And I'm going by the value for value thing here, cause in theory, if I gave them value and I asked, that's the other thing.

00:26:03.403 --> 00:26:09.034
If I just put a buy me a coffee button there, not everybody's going to go oh look, it's a yellow coffee cup.

00:26:09.034 --> 00:26:09.881
They don't know what that is.

00:26:09.881 --> 00:26:17.482
You have to tell them and ask them hey, if you find value in this, you know, give me some of that value back, kind of things.

00:26:17.482 --> 00:26:18.845
It's tough.

00:26:18.845 --> 00:26:25.214
And again, remember that only about 3% of your audience, if you're amazing, is going to actually, you know, go on that.

00:26:25.214 --> 00:26:28.247
Now there are absolutely exceptions to that rule.

00:26:28.247 --> 00:26:35.271
If we go back to Ray, from Around the Layout there's a guy that lives in his community gets information that you can't get anyplace else.

00:26:35.271 --> 00:26:47.784
So sorry, chatgpt, you're not giving me information that you can't get anyplace else and you know he's got that community, and you know, raised way, way, way over 3% when it comes to engagement.

00:26:47.784 --> 00:26:50.990
Yeah, and I'm trying to find Chris's name.

00:26:50.990 --> 00:26:58.750
Yes, the new show Cool Cars with Chris is Chris from Podtastic Oda, so it's a matter of when.

00:26:58.750 --> 00:26:59.492
You know.

00:26:59.492 --> 00:27:06.551
So, randy, you know obviously he's going to go through a period of of helping the family and all that, but trust me, randy's got other podcasts in him.

00:27:06.551 --> 00:27:07.394
He's going to come back.

00:27:07.394 --> 00:27:09.906
I think he already has like three or four.

00:27:10.619 --> 00:27:18.128
Randy asked do you think a TV show kind of an Anthony Bourdain format, with a Bill Burr as a host would be a success?

00:27:18.128 --> 00:27:22.191
Visit the studio, go out to eat, discuss the show and other topics.

00:27:22.191 --> 00:27:24.226
That works with Bill Barr.

00:27:24.226 --> 00:27:28.664
I'm combining people's names Bill Maher and not even Bill Maher.

00:27:28.664 --> 00:27:29.508
How about Bill Burr?

00:27:29.508 --> 00:27:29.909
There we go.

00:27:29.909 --> 00:27:30.780
Third time's the charm.

00:27:30.780 --> 00:27:36.240
Yeah, chris, nessie, in case you're wondering, jim hurt his back so we're gymless today.

00:27:36.780 --> 00:27:50.625
But here's the thing I you know I can look at this and go a TV show kind of a Anthony Bourdain format where we go out and, you know, go out to eat and discuss others and Bill Burr.

00:27:50.625 --> 00:27:54.682
The question is, is that a good format?

00:27:54.682 --> 00:28:01.619
It is a format, but there's a lot of things that work there, If you only have like.

00:28:01.619 --> 00:28:02.803
Right now we've got a single host.

00:28:02.803 --> 00:28:04.204
I don't know, I can't see.

00:28:04.204 --> 00:28:07.971
I don't know how many people are watching right now, but I'll wait a minute.

00:28:08.053 --> 00:28:12.428
If I look at my thingamabob, 30 people according to my stream deck.

00:28:12.428 --> 00:28:15.141
So right now I am holding 30 people's attention.

00:28:15.141 --> 00:28:16.463
That's the thing.

00:28:16.463 --> 00:28:18.989
Can I hold your attention?

00:28:18.989 --> 00:28:21.053
And that's hard to do.

00:28:21.053 --> 00:28:28.047
You know, later I'll be singing and dancing and you know I'll do my Britney Spears routine, all those fun things that we do.

00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:33.231
So the only I mean I've never tried like I've got some beef sticks.

00:28:33.231 --> 00:28:44.750
That's like my new thing, like beef sticks as a snack versus like potato chips or something like that, because I'm just going for the protein and I've never put tartar sauce on a beef stick.

00:28:44.750 --> 00:28:49.646
Only one way to find out if it's good and that's to do it.

00:28:49.646 --> 00:28:50.528
You know.

00:28:50.528 --> 00:28:58.191
So there is, there is no rule when it comes to hey, I've got an idea for a podcast, you think this will go viral?

00:28:58.191 --> 00:28:59.900
I have no cause.

00:28:59.900 --> 00:29:03.267
There are things that go viral that I go wait what?

00:29:03.267 --> 00:29:11.349
And then I have other things that I'm like this should be amazing, everyone's going to love that, and it's just you know, it just doesn't work.

00:29:11.349 --> 00:29:17.391
So the only one way to find out and the key to that, randy, is do you love that topic?

00:29:18.019 --> 00:29:37.633
Whatever you're talking about, wherever you're going to go eat, you know comedians in cars getting coffee with Jerry Seinfeld work, because he was talking to Eddie, eddie Money, eddie Money, yeah, eddie Murphy, and he was talking to Kramer and he was talking to, you know, comedians in cars and in general they were being funny.

00:29:37.633 --> 00:29:45.571
Most of the comedian shows the Mark Maron's I need to listen to Bill Burr because I know a lot of people love that.

00:29:45.571 --> 00:29:48.721
So, yeah, that's always.

00:29:48.721 --> 00:29:53.530
You know those get views and actually it doesn't make them good.

00:29:53.530 --> 00:29:55.413
It gives me.

00:29:55.413 --> 00:30:01.211
I clicked once on that because, oh, wow, jerry Seinfeld's talking to Eddie Murphy.

00:30:01.211 --> 00:30:03.903
Click, great, now was it good?

00:30:03.903 --> 00:30:13.026
Okay, it was pretty funny because it's Eddie Murphy saying he might come back to comedy, which, for the record, he never did, but I wish he would and so.

00:30:13.386 --> 00:30:23.040
But I've listened to other celebrity shows, like Larry King had a show where he just argued with his wife and I'm like, yeah, if I wanted that I would have stayed married.

00:30:23.040 --> 00:30:25.070
It was just one of those things that like, yeah, okay, I wanted that I would have stayed married.

00:30:25.070 --> 00:30:26.980
It was just one of those things like, yeah, okay, you're a celebrity.

00:30:26.980 --> 00:30:31.288
But besides Larry going, all right, poughkeepsie, you're on with you.

00:30:31.288 --> 00:30:38.429
Know, randy Statlin from the Statlin brothers, you know how long can you hold my attention?

00:30:38.429 --> 00:30:39.685
How long should my show be?

00:30:39.685 --> 00:30:41.606
How long can you hold my attention?

00:30:41.606 --> 00:30:43.955
That's really it in a nutshell.

00:30:43.955 --> 00:30:45.000
How long can you hold my attention?

00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.000
That's really it in a nutshell.

00:30:51.339 --> 00:30:54.150
So, yeah, we're talking LLC, sole proprietorship, which is the best for the podcast.

00:30:54.150 --> 00:30:58.505
Now, what Ralph told me because he says it depends to discuss this more yeah, go to askralphcom, he'll be happy to do that.

00:30:58.505 --> 00:31:04.833
Llc is not and Ralph correct me if I'm wrong it's not as ironclad.

00:31:04.833 --> 00:31:07.923
It doesn't mean there's a gaping hole.

00:31:07.923 --> 00:31:14.601
It's not as ironclad as a sole, as a yeah, the sole proprietorship when it comes to getting sued.

00:31:14.601 --> 00:31:17.009
But Dan has a great point.

00:31:17.009 --> 00:31:25.861
He says again, anything can be popular with enough money, marketing behind it, yeah, but if it's not good you know good content people watch once and be done.

00:31:25.861 --> 00:31:27.683
You know that's key.

00:31:27.683 --> 00:31:31.171
It depends on how you define that success.

00:31:31.590 --> 00:31:35.027
Yeah, I mean, I remember Amy Schumer and I like Amy Schumer.

00:31:35.027 --> 00:31:40.702
She's pretty funny, but unfortunately she was nine months pregnant or eight months pregnant when she did her show.

00:31:40.702 --> 00:31:49.075
She did it in a glass patio which was horrendous for the audio and sounded like she did zero prep.

00:31:49.075 --> 00:31:51.248
Well, it turns out she did zero prep.

00:31:51.248 --> 00:31:51.468
Why?

00:31:51.468 --> 00:32:00.140
Because she was eight months pregnant and that show was horrendous in my book because it was like Amy and Friends or something like that.

00:32:00.140 --> 00:32:02.405
So I've heard Kathy Lee Gifford was another one.

00:32:02.405 --> 00:32:05.380
That's like I'm Kathy Lee Gifford, that.

00:32:05.380 --> 00:32:06.603
So I've heard Kathy Lee Gifford was another one.

00:32:06.603 --> 00:32:07.786
That's like I'm Kathy Lee Gifford.

00:32:07.786 --> 00:32:09.449
You will like my show because I'm, you know, mayim Bleylik on.

00:32:09.449 --> 00:32:11.761
She's Amy on the Big Bang Theory and she was Blossom.

00:32:11.801 --> 00:32:22.911
For those of you that remember, I can't listen to her show because every time you get something good, it's like and I found the best recipe for apple pie, it's, it's great, here it is.

00:32:22.911 --> 00:32:26.256
Wait, there's a commercial, and then it's like what?

00:32:26.256 --> 00:32:33.101
And then anytime I see somebody bring in their old co-hosts, I'm like oh, ratings must not be that good.

00:32:33.101 --> 00:32:39.693
Yeah, so Daniel says it's not as ironclad as a corporate regarding getting sued.

00:32:39.693 --> 00:32:41.103
Yeah, thank you.

00:32:41.103 --> 00:32:42.547
You said sole proprietor.

00:32:42.547 --> 00:32:44.811
Thank you, daniel, for giving me straight there.

00:32:44.811 --> 00:32:50.393
Yeah, and then Ralph says LLC is better than sole proprietorship, depends on the plans for taxes.

00:32:50.393 --> 00:32:56.553
Yeah, well, you know, askthepodcastcoachcom slash question, we'll get you into the show.

00:32:56.553 --> 00:33:04.270
It's a lot of fun and I did find out that whichever one I went with is more paperwork than an LLC.

00:33:04.270 --> 00:33:10.047
And if I had to do it again, because you know who doesn't love paperwork, but it is what it is.

00:33:10.607 --> 00:33:22.035
So while we're playing around here, I did want to talk about a thing that came up on Reddit, and this is really not new.

00:33:22.035 --> 00:33:26.872
This guy says hello everyone, and I wanted to share my experience to help others avoid what happened to me.

00:33:26.872 --> 00:33:31.070
I like this guy because he took responsibility for his actions.

00:33:31.070 --> 00:33:36.152
He says I ran my podcast for over six years with 168 episodes.

00:33:36.152 --> 00:33:44.048
In one episode I played a few music tracks I had created using Sonos, so not illegal or copyrighted content.

00:33:44.048 --> 00:33:48.682
He says that was against Spotify's terms of service.

00:33:48.682 --> 00:33:51.107
My mistake, I should have checked more clearly.

00:33:51.107 --> 00:33:54.663
So, yeah, it's not just illegal music, it's any music.

00:33:54.663 --> 00:33:58.393
They don't want any music on your podcast in Spotify.

00:33:58.393 --> 00:34:05.931
He said the fun thing was, instead of just removing that episode, they deleted my entire podcast.

00:34:05.931 --> 00:34:08.494
Yeah, 168 episodes.

00:34:08.494 --> 00:34:09.221
See you bye.

00:34:09.641 --> 00:34:13.168
No warning, no strike, no way to recover the feed.

00:34:13.168 --> 00:34:15.333
Support is almost non-existent.

00:34:15.333 --> 00:34:17.648
My last email was completely ignored.

00:34:17.648 --> 00:34:19.414
So what he took away from this?

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Big platforms can remove your content without warning.

00:34:21.963 --> 00:34:24.851
Yep, you give them almost full usage rights.

00:34:24.851 --> 00:34:28.329
When you upload, they can remove it, change it or ignore you completely.

00:34:28.329 --> 00:34:33.510
And again, with Spotify, well, you could not not pay them anymore.

00:34:33.510 --> 00:34:35.034
Support is minimal.

00:34:35.034 --> 00:34:39.469
Yep, you get what you pay for, mostly automated replies, no real conversation.

00:34:39.469 --> 00:34:43.880
Always back up your episodes, including show notes, and be ready to move if needed.

00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:47.110
Yep, I have mine's in Backblaze.

00:34:47.110 --> 00:34:50.389
I have all my old episodes in Backblaze because it's dirt cheap.

00:34:51.059 --> 00:34:56.652
After a takedown, you can't access your podcast at all anymore, even though you're the one who created it.

00:34:56.652 --> 00:35:01.512
Yeah, you don't own it because you paid nothing for it.

00:35:01.512 --> 00:35:02.846
You get nothing.

00:35:02.846 --> 00:35:04.364
Good day, sir.

00:35:04.364 --> 00:35:06.065
I haven't given up.

00:35:06.065 --> 00:35:07.445
I'm now self-hosted.

00:35:07.445 --> 00:35:09.467
Oh, that's a bad idea.

00:35:09.467 --> 00:35:11.547
My podcast with a new feed.

00:35:11.547 --> 00:35:14.146
Why is why?

00:35:14.146 --> 00:35:15.170
He said there we go.

00:35:15.170 --> 00:35:17.059
Why is it a bad idea to self-host?

00:35:17.059 --> 00:35:20.309
Because and I know you can go but I'm on HostGator.

00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:25.545
Unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage, and that sounds great.

00:35:25.545 --> 00:35:40.976
It's not the bandwidth, it's not the storage, it's the that thing, resources I'll use I don't know if that's the right word but basically a website is made up of text and images, so we're talking kilobytes of information.

00:35:40.976 --> 00:35:54.570
A podcast is made up of, you know, mp, mp3 files, which are megabytes, and so there's a big difference between serving a website page, that's I don't know 13 kilobytes, versus a single MP3 file that's 50 megabytes.

00:35:54.570 --> 00:36:06.581
And now 300 people try to grab that MP3 file at the same time and the poor little web host is going and it can't keep up and so they go.

00:36:06.581 --> 00:36:09.952
Hey, you're kind of like killing our servers over here.

00:36:09.952 --> 00:36:13.911
You either need to move or get yourself a real media host.

00:36:13.911 --> 00:36:17.610
So when he says, I moved to self-hosting, that's not a good idea.

00:36:18.260 --> 00:36:25.786
See Buzzsprout, see Captivate, see Transistor, see Blueberry, see anybody but Spotify If you need free Red Circle.

00:36:25.786 --> 00:36:28.561
But come on, now hobbies cost money.

00:36:28.561 --> 00:36:31.568
So, yeah, it's always.

00:36:31.568 --> 00:36:33.070
Yeah, no music at all.

00:36:33.070 --> 00:36:38.550
That, yeah, rich says it is pretty stupid, but you know it's, it's, oh, it's what you call it.

00:36:38.550 --> 00:36:39.612
It's, it's Spotify.

00:36:39.612 --> 00:36:43.467
They're not known for being smart unless it's you know how to.

00:36:43.467 --> 00:36:48.081
You know scam musicians out of money and all that fun stuff.

00:36:48.081 --> 00:36:59.925
So, coming in to help us understand all this stuff about LLCs and that whole nine yards, the one and only Ralph Estep Jr, even though it says Jim Cullison.

00:36:59.925 --> 00:37:02.501
Welcome to being Jim Cullison, Ralph from.

00:37:02.581 --> 00:37:03.264
AskRalphcom.

00:37:03.264 --> 00:37:06.320
All good, my friend, I don't mind it at all.

00:37:06.501 --> 00:37:10.422
Yeah, so tell us LLC SoulCorp all that you know.

00:37:10.422 --> 00:37:13.929
We're in your wheelhouse, my friend of accounting, so fire away.

00:37:14.655 --> 00:37:15.820
I'll back up a step first.

00:37:15.820 --> 00:37:16.543
So let's start here.

00:37:16.543 --> 00:37:25.429
So if your concern is protecting personal liability, then you definitely want to be in something besides a sole proprietorship.

00:37:25.429 --> 00:37:30.347
Because if you're in a sole proprietorship, there is no separation between you and the business.

00:37:30.347 --> 00:37:34.606
So if someone was to sue you, you're going to get sued personally.

00:37:34.606 --> 00:37:35.940
So that's first step.

00:37:35.940 --> 00:37:39.925
So most people are going to say, yes, it's good to be in something.

00:37:40.635 --> 00:37:46.380
Now, daniel J Lewis mentioned something about you have to have at least $120,000 in revenue before a corporation makes sense.

00:37:46.380 --> 00:37:47.697
I'm going to disagree with that.

00:37:47.697 --> 00:37:56.208
Here's the deal If you are a sole proprietor, then all of your income, that's and I'm talking about net income minus your expenses.

00:37:56.208 --> 00:38:04.126
So you've made this much on Patreon, you made this much on buy me a coffee, whatever those things are you made a certain amount of money.

00:38:04.126 --> 00:38:08.360
Well, if you're a sole proprietor, you're going to pay not only federal and state tax, but you're going to pay something called self-employment tax.

00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:10.304
That's an extra 15.2%.

00:38:10.304 --> 00:38:11.264
That's a big number.

00:38:11.264 --> 00:38:19.909
So one of the benefits to go into a corporation or an LLC is to try to mitigate some of that self-employment tax.

00:38:19.909 --> 00:38:21.878
Well, so that's why I said it depends.

00:38:21.878 --> 00:38:24.284
So if you are in a position.

00:38:24.284 --> 00:38:26.056
Let's say you're married, husband and wife.

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One of the things we could do is we could create a two-member LLC, and not to get everybody lost in the weeds, but by creating a two-member LLC, and not to get everybody lost in the weeds, but by creating a two-member LLC, the game we're trying to play and it's totally legal, totally appropriate is to divide the income into two pieces and basically so let's just say you're married, dave.

00:38:41.793 --> 00:38:43.152
I know you're not, but let's just say you were.

00:38:43.152 --> 00:38:44.954
So you're married, husband and wife.

00:38:44.954 --> 00:38:48.001
You assign each of you 50% ownership in the business.

00:38:48.001 --> 00:38:51.969
Well, dave is the only one that actually does stuff in the podcast.

00:38:51.969 --> 00:38:54.039
So we make Dave the active owner.

00:38:54.039 --> 00:39:01.483
Well, on Dave's income the self-employment tax happens, can't get around that, but on Dave's wife's it doesn't.

00:39:01.483 --> 00:39:04.896
So I just sheltered half of that income from self-employment tax.

00:39:04.896 --> 00:39:10.503
Now Daniel J said okay, but how much money do you have to make the break even for this?

00:39:10.503 --> 00:39:14.007
This to break even cost-wise is about $8,000 a year in net income.

00:39:14.447 --> 00:39:32.548
Now, if you're not married, then we go in to talk about corporations and specifically what I put people in is what's called a subchapter S corporation, and what I do there is if you're not married, you don't have that other person you can bring into the mix, then I put you in a subchapter S corporation and I pay you a salary from that.

00:39:32.548 --> 00:39:34.170
Why do I pay a salary?

00:39:34.170 --> 00:39:37.958
Because on that salary you're going to pay social security and Medicare tax.

00:39:37.958 --> 00:39:43.755
But here's the beauty of it On the income that's not from salary, no social security, medicare tax.

00:39:43.755 --> 00:39:45.338
So let me use a simple example.

00:39:45.338 --> 00:39:50.806
Let's say that your content is making you a net profit of $100,000 a year Big number.

00:39:50.806 --> 00:39:52.168
But let's just say it's doing that.

00:39:52.168 --> 00:39:58.237
Okay, if we do nothing you're going to it's going to cost you an extra $16,000 a year in tax.

00:39:58.237 --> 00:40:00.481
That's that 15.8%.

00:40:00.481 --> 00:40:04.237
I'm rounding up, but seek a math on on the on the audio rounding up.

00:40:04.237 --> 00:40:08.387
But if we do that as corporation, we pay you, let's say, a half of that as a salary.

00:40:08.387 --> 00:40:13.478
I just saved you $8,000.

00:40:13.478 --> 00:40:15.246
So not only have I saved you money, I've also given you that liability shield.

00:40:15.266 --> 00:40:19.141
Now, I'm not an attorney, so I'm not going to give you legal advice, but any other thing.

00:40:19.161 --> 00:40:24.523
I think it brings to the table and, dave, you and I've had this very conversation it brings to that more stability.

00:40:24.523 --> 00:40:26.307
It's a corporation, it's an LLC.

00:40:26.307 --> 00:40:30.338
I just think it brings you a sort of street cred is probably the best word to use.

00:40:30.338 --> 00:40:36.402
I just think it brings you like sort of street cred is probably the best word to use, but it also, honestly, I think it also insulates you from IRS audits a little bit.

00:40:36.402 --> 00:40:41.527
Because if you're doing it as a sole proprietorship, there's very little difference between you and the business.

00:40:41.527 --> 00:40:52.963
So these expenses like you go to the grocery store well, I had to buy stuff for the podcast, or I went to Staples or I went on Amazon If you have a separate business account, you're doing everything separate.

00:40:52.963 --> 00:41:01.396
I love that in an audit I deal with audits all the time I can say to the IRS no, no, no, dave Jackson has a business account and Dave Jackson has a personal account, and never the twain shall meet.

00:41:01.396 --> 00:41:03.762
And the auditor goes oh, you got me there.

00:41:04.965 --> 00:41:05.365
That's it.

00:41:05.365 --> 00:41:12.775
There you go, excellent, and where can people find more fun-filled advice from you, mr Ralph?

00:41:12.815 --> 00:41:15.083
So you can get advice from me at AskRalphcom.

00:41:15.083 --> 00:41:19.447
But if I can plug this real quick, starting October 7th I'm going to be doing a live show.

00:41:19.447 --> 00:41:25.846
It's going to be Grit and Growth Business Live and you can get to it by going to gritandgrowthbusinesscom slash live.

00:41:25.846 --> 00:41:28.878
It's going to be at 8 pm on Tuesday nights, Eastern time.

00:41:28.878 --> 00:41:30.619
You can come there, ask questions, just like this.

00:41:30.619 --> 00:41:31.860
I'm going to be out there.

00:41:31.860 --> 00:41:36.885
If you want to do some business talking business coaching, I'm going to put myself out there absolutely free.

00:41:36.885 --> 00:41:40.387
Be happy to talk to anybody, Sort of just like ask the podcast coach.

00:41:40.969 --> 00:41:41.528
Only better.

00:41:41.528 --> 00:41:42.449
There you go.

00:41:42.851 --> 00:41:44.472
Oh no, it's not going to be better, my friend.

00:41:44.472 --> 00:41:49.961
I don't have the street.

00:41:49.961 --> 00:41:50.822
This from 30 years.

00:41:50.822 --> 00:41:51.184
It's funny.

00:41:51.184 --> 00:41:52.385
I was doing an interview on a.

00:41:52.385 --> 00:41:53.447
I did a comedy show.

00:41:53.447 --> 00:41:54.028
Dave knows this.

00:41:54.028 --> 00:41:55.199
I did a comedy show the other day.

00:41:55.199 --> 00:41:57.931
Talk about stepping outside of your, your element, right.

00:41:57.931 --> 00:42:01.925
So I did this comedy show and the guy's like, well, you're a pretty boring guy If you're an accountant.

00:42:01.925 --> 00:42:13.440
I said, dude, I've been doing this since I was eight years old, up in it.

00:42:13.460 --> 00:42:15.425
So if anybody hasn't seen something, I've seen it because I've been doing it for such a long time.

00:42:15.425 --> 00:42:16.327
Wow, excellent, all right, askralphcom.

00:42:16.327 --> 00:42:17.875
And when you said October, what?

00:42:17.916 --> 00:42:21.065
date is it October 7th, first Tuesday in October.

00:42:21.065 --> 00:42:23.293
It'll be at 8 pm Eastern time.

00:42:23.293 --> 00:42:26.262
Again, that's gritandgrowthofbusinesscom slash live.

00:42:26.262 --> 00:42:31.248
I'll be using Ecamm just like you're using Dave, but you can come on, you can do live just like we're doing here.

00:42:31.248 --> 00:42:33.190
You can put questions in the chat.

00:42:33.190 --> 00:42:37.632
Be happy to answer any of those business questions, because a lot of people don't even know what questions to ask.

00:42:37.632 --> 00:42:39.112
And that's the problem.

00:42:39.112 --> 00:42:40.797
Sometimes we just don't know what to ask.

00:42:40.818 --> 00:42:42.101
Yeah, we don't know what we don't know.

00:42:42.742 --> 00:42:44.916
I'm here to help because I want to see people be successful.

00:42:44.916 --> 00:42:45.978
That's my passion.

00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:46.579
There you go.

00:42:46.579 --> 00:42:48.523
Excellent, all right, my friend.

00:42:48.523 --> 00:42:50.005
Well, thank you so much for jumping in.

00:42:50.786 --> 00:42:51.467
You're welcome, David.

00:42:51.467 --> 00:42:52.650
You're doing a great job, by the way.

00:42:53.195 --> 00:42:54.878
I am doing better at this than I.

00:42:54.878 --> 00:42:59.188
Well, I also knew I had like an hour and 15 minutes.

00:42:59.188 --> 00:42:59.809
He texted me.

00:42:59.809 --> 00:43:01.922
He's like dude, I really shouldn't be moving.

00:43:01.922 --> 00:43:03.340
And I'm like all right, I'll figure it out.

00:43:16.574 --> 00:43:17.177
And that's what I was like.

00:43:17.177 --> 00:43:18.503
All right, I've noticed, yeah, probably, yeah, yeah, it's that.

00:43:18.503 --> 00:43:18.844
Deep breath, dave.

00:43:18.844 --> 00:43:19.666
We all love you man.

00:43:19.666 --> 00:43:21.273
We love you Dave, it's all good, we love you.

00:43:21.273 --> 00:43:22.335
Dave, you're the man.

00:43:22.335 --> 00:43:24.556
It's all good, I appreciate that man.

00:43:24.597 --> 00:43:27.237
All right, take care, yep, take care buddy.

00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:29.639
There you go.

00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:32.161
The one and only Ralph, amazing guy.

00:43:32.161 --> 00:43:36.284
Let's do this just because it's a good, fun spot to do this.

00:43:36.284 --> 00:43:38.445
Let's talk about my awesome supporters.

00:43:38.445 --> 00:43:42.148
I do appreciate every single one of you because we've got a few people.

00:43:42.148 --> 00:43:44.489
We did lose a few people, but you know that happens.

00:43:44.489 --> 00:43:46.331
And so thanks to everyone.

00:43:46.331 --> 00:43:49.733
That is, you know, liondencom, homegadgetgeekscom.

00:43:49.733 --> 00:43:52.056
Well, that's that.

00:43:52.056 --> 00:43:52.755
Jim Coulson guy.

00:43:52.775 --> 00:43:57.081
I Am Salt Lake Indie, drop-ins, spiberary, all those Yep podcast.

00:43:57.081 --> 00:43:58.222
Thank you so much.

00:43:58.222 --> 00:44:02.126
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00:45:00.820 --> 00:45:10.567
And Jim, our thoughts are with you today, because I know I just hate sleeping wrong and you wake up and you can't move Like I can't look left for the next two days.

00:45:11.088 --> 00:45:21.661
That's always fun and it's time for the wheel of names, which, as much prep as I did this morning, I did not get ready for the wheel of names.

00:45:21.661 --> 00:45:23.867
Here we go and let's share our screen.

00:45:23.867 --> 00:45:25.617
And there it is.

00:45:25.617 --> 00:45:27.259
So who will it be?

00:45:27.259 --> 00:45:33.150
Will it be Greg over to Indie Drop-In, or Craig at AI Goes to College, or Glenn or Jody?

00:45:33.150 --> 00:45:36.465
Well, we're going to spin it and see what happens.

00:45:37.474 --> 00:45:42.887
And the survey says it's going to be my buddy, shane from Spybrarycom.

00:45:42.887 --> 00:45:52.704
If you like James Bond, okay, that's cool, but we're talking like real spies doing real spy stuff.

00:45:52.704 --> 00:45:57.420
He's even been on I forget, I want to say BBC one or two.

00:45:57.420 --> 00:46:09.005
He's been on like a big shot, smarty pants news channel because they were talking about spies and they're like well, we need a spy expert and, lo and behold, shane Whaley came up when they searched for that.

00:46:09.005 --> 00:46:10.507
So, congrats on that.

00:46:11.277 --> 00:46:28.306
And that's not the right button, but this is the one we want to go to and as always, you know, if you found this show, maybe that we saved you some time or saved you some money, maybe we saved you a headache, Maybe we kept you educated, maybe we even entertained you and made you smile.

00:46:28.306 --> 00:46:30.702
Well, you can be an awesome supporter.

00:46:30.702 --> 00:46:33.498
Don't have to spend the $20 to get on the wheel of names.

00:46:33.498 --> 00:46:39.398
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00:46:39.398 --> 00:46:41.282
Slash awesome.

00:46:41.282 --> 00:46:44.668
And thanks again to all of the awesome supporters.

00:46:44.668 --> 00:46:47.942
I do deeply appreciate that, as does my.

00:46:47.942 --> 00:46:51.016
You know, car payment and things of that nature that always come in handy.

00:46:51.476 --> 00:46:52.059
Let's take.

00:46:52.059 --> 00:46:55.186
You know we talked about Spotify and how they kick that port.

00:46:55.186 --> 00:46:56.820
Well, they just deleted a show.

00:46:56.820 --> 00:46:57.543
Let's go.

00:46:57.543 --> 00:46:59.141
I'll take Spotify for 200,.

00:46:59.282 --> 00:47:09.887
Alex and this one came up and it said I had a podcast and we're so close to hitting all the criteria to join the Spotify partner program, which is particularly difficult.

00:47:09.887 --> 00:47:10.596
What?

00:47:10.596 --> 00:47:16.648
9,500 consumption hours or over 30 days, which means you got to have a pretty popular channel.

00:47:16.648 --> 00:47:22.204
Then my country got removed, yeah, from the eligible countries.

00:47:22.204 --> 00:47:33.474
The fact that I divide my time between two countries doesn't help, but still, we worked so hard on uploading material interviews way more frequently than usual to hit the target.

00:47:33.474 --> 00:47:39.304
And then nada, spotify partner program removed from our monetization options.

00:47:39.304 --> 00:47:40.507
Simple as that.

00:47:40.507 --> 00:47:46.003
So bloody frustrating, starting to wonder if Spotify is the right platform.

00:47:46.003 --> 00:47:47.045
It's not.

00:47:47.045 --> 00:47:51.239
Yeah for a podcast, if you want to be seen.

00:47:51.239 --> 00:47:55.036
There's a thing called YouTube that you might want to look into.

00:47:55.036 --> 00:47:59.806
Now realize you're not going to make heaps of cash on YouTube.

00:47:59.806 --> 00:48:15.094
I think I, now that I'm not having birthdays and things like that, I think I'm back to making like $5 per 1000 downloads, something like that, and so, yeah, so just you know I, yeah, yeah.

00:48:15.094 --> 00:48:17.159
Somebody asked what platform I am I using.

00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:18.802
Chris Nessie is chiming in.

00:48:18.802 --> 00:48:19.724
I'm using Ecamm.

00:48:20.266 --> 00:48:23.998
I did use Riverside for a presentation.

00:48:23.998 --> 00:48:29.023
I did on for PodPage and it worked.

00:48:29.023 --> 00:48:32.007
The fun part was the chat.

00:48:32.007 --> 00:48:47.543
My chat was completely empty and, as you know, when you do a live show that you it's live, and so I'm trying to talk into the camera and do this while over on this computer I'm like where's where's the?

00:48:47.543 --> 00:48:48.525
Where's the chat room?

00:48:48.525 --> 00:48:58.945
And so I went over to the pod page, youtube channel channel, and I saw that I was live and I'm like, okay, it's live, it's streaming, and I had a chat room on YouTube.

00:48:58.945 --> 00:49:06.909
But I and I'm going to blame that on Operator Air that somehow the comments were not coming back into Riverside.

00:49:06.909 --> 00:49:10.721
But other than that I've had I'm batting 25% with Riverside.

00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:13.065
I've had my very first time I used it.

00:49:13.065 --> 00:49:15.849
It kicked out my guest about the minute and a half mark.

00:49:15.849 --> 00:49:24.146
The second time I used it I had a horrendous echo and then I had the webinar and that went fine.

00:49:24.146 --> 00:49:25.862
So I'm batting 30% then.

00:49:25.862 --> 00:49:31.266
So, and just realize, whoever you use, I don't the only time I have problems with Ecamm.

00:49:31.266 --> 00:49:35.594
It's not usually Ecamm, it's the Ecamm talking to the stream deck thing.

00:49:35.594 --> 00:49:37.282
That makes things kind of icky.

00:49:37.282 --> 00:49:49.885
So just a reminder if you have a question, you can go over to askthepodcastcoachcom slash question, and if you don't want to come on screen, there's a way you can join via audio as well.

00:49:53.414 --> 00:49:54.378
So I realized, like David, saturday I even had a.

00:49:54.378 --> 00:49:55.079
You know, I barely had my coffee.

00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:55.721
I haven't had a shower yet.

00:49:55.721 --> 00:49:56.623
I do not want to be on camera.

00:49:56.623 --> 00:49:59.536
Well then, don't just do the audio thing.

00:50:00.057 --> 00:50:01.902
Here's another fun one that I just titled.

00:50:01.902 --> 00:50:07.184
Yeah, no, and that is starting my first episode of a podcast tomorrow.

00:50:07.184 --> 00:50:13.902
Tomorrow, me and my co-host will be starting our first podcast episode, looking for some good stories to talk about on our podcast.

00:50:13.902 --> 00:50:15.286
I think I did this one before.

00:50:15.286 --> 00:50:22.027
Now that I read that If you're running out of ideas and you haven't launched yet, no, that's you know A.

00:50:22.027 --> 00:50:28.364
I always love people that think the day we record is the day I'm going to be an Apple, and that's not correct either.

00:50:28.364 --> 00:50:43.427
It takes a while to, you know, get it Well, first of all, the first thing you record I typically call a rough draft, you know, and then do it a second time, maybe, maybe a third, get some feedback on it and then launch.

00:50:44.054 --> 00:50:51.148
And so, yeah, ralph wants to know why are you not using the Ecamm interview platform instead of Zoom?

00:50:51.148 --> 00:50:52.389
Is it the delay?

00:50:52.389 --> 00:50:56.585
I'm going to be having a sidekick for my show and we did see a bit of delay.

00:50:56.585 --> 00:51:27.487
I didn't see any delay with Zoom, the thing I'm doing that, for we had a couple people when I was using the interview link and one of them was Randy, and we know Randy knows his stuff and Randy had somehow and this might be a Dave issue, but I remember I like right now, right now I don't have the interview up, I have the zoom window, but I was always kind of had you know, out of the corner of my eye I was watching the interview box but Randy had said he connected and it was waiting for me to let him in and I got nothing.

00:51:27.487 --> 00:51:38.092
And then I had other people that would join and their microphone like it wouldn't use, like they again I'm talking to podcasters so they had the stuff set right.

00:51:38.112 --> 00:51:43.605
So we just hit a few hurdles using the Ecamm thing and everybody and their brother knows Zoom.

00:51:43.605 --> 00:52:12.681
So I just was like when they said they have the, the Zoom integration, and I have found out that if the, the Zoom integration, and I have found out that if, if people join the Zoom I found out last week and I haven't I've just noticed that I start the Zoom call at the beginning of this, then we go 90 minutes and I'm not sure when, but I've just noticed over the last couple episodes I will go over and look at the Zoom window and it's gone and I'm like is this a case where if nobody's in the Zoom meeting it just kind of closes itself down?

00:52:12.681 --> 00:52:14.143
I'm not really sure.

00:52:14.143 --> 00:52:18.016
So that's why I'm using Zoom, just because everybody and their brother, I mean.

00:52:18.297 --> 00:52:27.463
I used to use Google Meet for PodPage, pretty similar products, you know and I'd be like, okay, now share your screen and I'll show you.

00:52:27.463 --> 00:52:41.983
And getting people to share the screen on Google Play or Google Play Google Meet, was at times like pulling teeth and I'm like, hey, can we just splurge the 15 bucks for Zoom, because everybody knows Zoom and so that's why we're using Zoom.

00:52:41.983 --> 00:52:45.896
Yeah, rich says the Zoom is super easy.

00:52:45.896 --> 00:52:47.561
Yep, everyone knows how to use it.

00:52:47.561 --> 00:52:51.838
The interview mode looks blurry to the user and will throw off a gas Plus.

00:52:51.838 --> 00:52:53.159
It gets cumbersome for them.

00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:53.601
Yeah, it's.

00:52:53.601 --> 00:53:08.427
I don't quite get it because there are times when I'd be like click the share button at the bottom and or I would say, on a Google meet I forget what the icon was and it'd be like, and there are times it just some people are new.

00:53:19.114 --> 00:53:22.385
You know, anytime you do anything for the first time, it's typically not smooth and I just said, can we please spend the $15 on Zoom?

00:53:22.385 --> 00:53:22.565
So, yeah.

00:53:22.565 --> 00:53:24.010
And then Chris says practice makes perfect and then practice some more.

00:53:24.010 --> 00:53:30.806
Yeah, so I last night I always go in and make sure I try to that Ecamm and everything is going to play nice together.

00:53:30.806 --> 00:53:36.744
I usually reboot my computer before I start and then pray that nothing changed.

00:53:36.744 --> 00:53:44.387
There's nothing more fun than you know when you everything's working great and then you reboot and you break everything.

00:53:44.554 --> 00:53:50.141
You're like oh great, probably shouldn't have rebooted, but then there are other times that if I don't reboot, you know nothing works.

00:53:50.141 --> 00:53:56.541
So if you are running out of time for your podcast, I saw this in Reddit.

00:53:56.541 --> 00:54:02.500
It says one of my biggest pain points with podcasting was recording an episode every week.

00:54:02.500 --> 00:54:07.818
It sounds like a lot, but I want to spend less days per month recording due to my full schedule.

00:54:07.818 --> 00:54:11.445
One of the best decisions I made was recording two episodes at a time.

00:54:11.445 --> 00:54:19.775
Instead of recording one episode each week, I have recorded two episodes at once every other week and then schedule them to release in advance.

00:54:19.775 --> 00:54:21.380
I'm doing that this weekend.

00:54:21.380 --> 00:54:36.407
I will be at the Empowered Podcasting Conference next weekend, so I'm recording this week's episode and I'm recording next week's episode because I'm not going to be here or I get back late Sunday night and don't feel like staying up till four in the morning to record Monday show.

00:54:36.407 --> 00:54:40.402
He says is this some huge genius secret of a strategy?

00:54:40.402 --> 00:54:46.063
Not really, Absolutely not, but it was a small change that allowed me to continue podcasting and stay motivated.

00:54:46.565 --> 00:54:51.565
Sometimes a small change can make a huge difference and it keeps you on the right track.

00:54:51.565 --> 00:54:57.862
This may not work for your show if it's an in-person or an interview type of podcast.

00:54:57.862 --> 00:55:00.371
But if it's something that you know might work for your show, I 100% recommend it.

00:55:00.371 --> 00:55:05.802
This can also be used to double the amount of episodes you release each month without changing the amount of days you record.

00:55:05.802 --> 00:55:07.802
Yeah, Jody, does this a lot.

00:55:07.802 --> 00:55:14.356
Jody Kringle from the Audio Branding Podcast does this a lot.

00:55:14.356 --> 00:55:15.478
Jody Kringle from the Audio Branding Podcast.

00:55:15.498 --> 00:55:21.369
And I know Courtney Elmer does this for her show, where you'll get on with her or to do an interview, and then she will.

00:55:21.369 --> 00:55:31.903
She does this in advance and about halfway through the interview, when you've talked about, you know, topic A, and she'll go all right, thanks, Dave, for coming on the show.

00:55:31.903 --> 00:55:33.527
And you're like, thanks for having me, this is great.

00:55:33.527 --> 00:55:37.246
And then she will say I mean, it's the same recording.

00:55:37.246 --> 00:55:39.242
She'll be like hey, Dave, thanks so much for coming back.

00:55:39.242 --> 00:55:41.121
And you'd be like thanks for having me.

00:55:41.121 --> 00:55:42.721
And then you go into topic two.

00:55:42.721 --> 00:55:46.518
It's the same interview, but she plans to split it into two.

00:55:46.518 --> 00:55:49.563
So you did one interview and you get two episodes out of it.

00:55:49.563 --> 00:55:52.166
So it just takes a little planning ahead of time.

00:55:52.166 --> 00:55:56.530
So, yeah, and then Chris Nessie says yep, in the end, do what works for you.

00:55:57.315 --> 00:56:10.824
Yeah, I always say look at your, you know record, you know, track your time, whether it's while you're doing research, while you're actually recording it, while you're doing the editing, while you're doing the post-production, while you're doing the show notes, all that stuff.

00:56:10.824 --> 00:56:12.666
Record it, your time.

00:56:12.666 --> 00:56:24.557
And then look at how much time did it take you and ask you hey, you know, that took me, you know, 12 hours to do a 45-minute podcast.

00:56:24.557 --> 00:56:25.820
Do I have 12 hours a week to do a podcast?

00:56:25.820 --> 00:56:26.141
And you go no.

00:56:26.141 --> 00:56:30.608
Well, again, then guess what, You're not doing a weekly show, or you need to do a shorter show or something like that.

00:56:30.608 --> 00:56:32.349
So keep that in mind.

00:56:32.349 --> 00:56:37.659
It's always fun when you, you know, when you, especially when you first do it, it's always going to take longer.

00:56:37.659 --> 00:56:40.440
So, but there are all sorts of things you can do to.

00:56:41.023 --> 00:56:49.360
I always say, for those of us that remember seesaws which is sad that there's a large chunk of the population what is a seesaw?

00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:54.885
But it was this little board and you would sit on it and when one end went down, the other one went up.

00:56:54.885 --> 00:57:02.969
And I always say podcasting is a little bit like a seesaw, because the more planning you do, the less editing you do.

00:57:02.969 --> 00:57:06.722
The less planning you do, the more editing you end up doing.

00:57:06.722 --> 00:57:08.706
So that's always fun too.

00:57:08.706 --> 00:57:11.239
That's why I've never been a fan of winging it.

00:57:11.320 --> 00:57:21.465
I have an interview now in the can that we had scheduled so far in advance that when it came time to do the interview, I forgot who was interviewing who.

00:57:21.465 --> 00:57:23.442
I had not done my prep.

00:57:23.442 --> 00:57:30.342
So we did a quick kind of pre-interview call on the interview and then I'm like, okay, let's start this.

00:57:30.342 --> 00:57:44.844
And just because I kind of didn't know where I was going that's a lot of times when you hear the person's like, tell us a little bit about yourself what they're really saying is I didn't do any homework and I need to know where I'm going, and so there was a bit of that.

00:57:44.844 --> 00:57:50.400
Now, the fun part is then right, no less planning, more editing.

00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:59.585
So that's one of those things that it was an interesting exercise and what I ended up with was not what I thought I was going to get.

00:57:59.585 --> 00:58:03.882
But it was one of those where I'm like, yeah, this is where planning comes in a lot.

00:58:03.882 --> 00:58:05.708
So here's another fun one.

00:58:06.954 --> 00:58:16.789
So I've been working on a new podcast and I was working on drawing some branding assets for said podcast when OPE my nearly I don't know what OPE sounds.

00:58:16.789 --> 00:58:18.760
Ope, yeah, you know me.

00:58:18.760 --> 00:58:23.244
I don't know what that is, Other people's ears I don't know.

00:58:23.244 --> 00:58:29.684
But my nearly 10-year-old iPad bit the dust Like straight up, decided life was no longer worth living.

00:58:29.684 --> 00:58:35.661
It had seen too much of my abuse and sent itself into oblivion, and along with it went my new logo.

00:58:35.661 --> 00:58:45.976
Youtube channel banner talk sprites for the video version of the podcast Makes sense, since I'll be talking about a lot of art topics and about 10 years worth of artwork.

00:58:45.976 --> 00:58:57.371
Because I'm an idiot and I only backed up some specific pieces because I didn't realize that auto backup for the specific software I was using was a premium feature.

00:58:57.371 --> 00:59:12.409
The cost of repair for my old iPad was more than buying a refurbed, newer model, but I was really happy with the way things were looking and I was so excited to share my new podcast with my teeny, tiny but full of incredible people audience.

00:59:12.875 --> 00:59:22.987
Yeah, I cannot stress enough Back up, back up, back up, and so I use Backblaze for that, and it backs up my entire hard drive.

00:59:22.987 --> 00:59:33.775
It backs up an entire two terabyte external hard drive and so if things go kablooey then you know you're not so messed up of going.

00:59:33.775 --> 00:59:34.976
Oh wait, my logo.

00:59:34.976 --> 00:59:36.981
Yeah, that's a bad thing.

00:59:36.981 --> 00:59:40.327
Let me, I think I can do this.

00:59:40.327 --> 00:59:43.277
I don't want to do that.

00:59:43.277 --> 00:59:47.766
I have a fun tool that I can share my phone with.

00:59:47.766 --> 00:59:54.496
Yeah, I know my phone with.

00:59:54.496 --> 01:00:01.235
Yeah, I know Chris says so many nerdy topics this morning and there's no gym, so keep that in mind.

01:00:01.235 --> 01:00:04.139
And, Randy, are you coming back or are you just still there?

01:00:04.139 --> 01:00:11.086
We'll, we'll find out here in a second, but let me, and we will put him here.

01:00:11.086 --> 01:00:13.969
That makes sense because Randy's a big IT nerd as well.

01:00:13.969 --> 01:00:19.222
So, here, hold on, We'll even give you the fun field even though he's not here.

01:00:19.643 --> 01:00:20.065
Wait, what?

01:00:20.065 --> 01:00:21.956
What I was?

01:00:21.976 --> 01:00:22.958
going to share a tip with you.

01:00:22.958 --> 01:00:24.041
Oh, I discovered.

01:00:24.041 --> 01:00:27.168
Oh, okay, well, hold on, I was going to do, I'll rant.

01:00:27.215 --> 01:00:28.795
Tell me what to rant on and I will rant.

01:00:28.795 --> 01:00:28.976
No.

01:00:28.996 --> 01:00:29.197
I don rant.

01:00:29.197 --> 01:00:30.041
Tell me what to rant on and I will rant.

01:00:30.041 --> 01:00:30.603
No, I don't, I will go for it.

01:00:30.603 --> 01:00:31.688
I'm looking for this, even though you're not.

01:00:31.688 --> 01:00:35.364
Jim, and now Randy's been waiting for this.

01:00:35.364 --> 01:00:38.139
It's time for Jim to get his nerd on.

01:00:38.139 --> 01:00:43.047
Yes, yeah.

01:00:44.148 --> 01:00:46.862
Okay, my preferred term is geek.

01:00:46.862 --> 01:00:48.195
Geek, that's right, I'm sorry.

01:00:49.097 --> 01:01:16.521
So I discovered that ChatGPT has this really great ability to take an unprocessed piece of audio and if you tell it what microphone you're using and what device you're recording to, for instance, Rodecaster Pro 2, Rodecaster Duo, Rode PodMic it will analyze the audio and will then give you settings appropriate for your voice, for your purpose.

01:01:16.521 --> 01:01:37.240
Interesting, so like and I've done this like recently and hadn't thought about it, and as I'm working here listening to the show, watching the show and everything, I came across my printout of the microphone settings for myself and Jim, and it reminded me, oh, I should share this.

01:01:37.240 --> 01:01:46.474
So it will break it down for you for the high-pass filter settings, the de-esser settings, every single component in there, the noise gate settings, the compressor, the EQ.

01:01:46.474 --> 01:01:48.036
It will, even after you set everything, you can do another recording.

01:01:48.036 --> 01:01:51.577
It will, even after you set everything, you can do another recording.

01:01:51.577 --> 01:01:54.239
Stick it back in, have it, analyze it.

01:01:54.719 --> 01:01:58.141
And the RODECaster devices are notoriously low in volume.

01:01:58.141 --> 01:02:00.202
Yeah, In LUFS they're notoriously low.

01:02:00.202 --> 01:02:06.565
Like, my master compiler is set as high as possible and the highest LUF level I can get is negative 22.

01:02:06.565 --> 01:02:12.487
Yeah, and negative 19 is what you should be at for mono, negative 16 for stereo.

01:02:12.487 --> 01:02:17.289
And it will even tell you that, oh, you're low and you go higher.

01:02:17.289 --> 01:02:20.751
No, well, you need to use another tool and then it'll recommend another tool.

01:02:20.751 --> 01:02:21.692
So it recommends use.

01:02:21.692 --> 01:02:23.972
Auphonic is the big one and I love Auphonic.

01:02:23.972 --> 01:02:25.097
Yeah, so just something.

01:02:25.097 --> 01:02:34.804
If anybody's using a Rodecaster device, you can even do it like if you're using just the Rode PodMic USB, the settings that are available in road central for that.

01:02:34.804 --> 01:02:39.501
It's the same, it's almost the same settings, and it will walk you through that process and give them to you.

01:02:39.501 --> 01:02:41.065
It is amazing.

01:02:41.065 --> 01:02:42.590
I simply took a.

01:02:42.590 --> 01:02:47.061
I turned all the processing off, recorded my voice, just natural.

01:02:47.061 --> 01:02:49.545
I added that file to my prompt.

01:02:49.545 --> 01:02:52.782
And let me pull my prompt up and I'll tell you exactly how I prompted it.

01:02:52.855 --> 01:02:55.981
Yeah, I was going to say what is the prompt, because that's what somebody Chris wanted to know.

01:02:56.215 --> 01:03:10.452
The prompt I used was and this is when I did the two voices, because I had two separate recordings was I think I got it.

01:03:10.452 --> 01:03:11.235
I think I got it.

01:03:11.235 --> 01:03:15.143
I think I got it.

01:03:15.143 --> 01:03:18.382
Let's go all the way to the top, to my original prompt, because this is a combined prompt here.

01:03:18.876 --> 01:03:26.666
I have a Rode PodMic USB this is what I did it with for just the PodMic USB, and I want to tweak the settings to make my voice sound as good as possible.

01:03:26.666 --> 01:03:29.623
I have a sample recording with no processing turned on.

01:03:29.623 --> 01:03:34.146
Can you use that to make some recommendations for processing settings for me?

01:03:34.146 --> 01:03:36.260
And then it lays out there.

01:03:36.260 --> 01:03:45.242
You know, when you send me the file and this is what it says it will do Check the raw tone of your voice so it's looking at low tone, low range, low balance, mid highs, everything with that.

01:03:45.242 --> 01:03:48.382
Look at the noise levels and the room sound.

01:03:48.382 --> 01:03:49.585
That's nice.

01:03:49.585 --> 01:03:53.204
Recommend EQ bands so where to cut, where to boost.

01:03:53.204 --> 01:03:58.581
Suggest compression ratios, ratios, thresholds, attack and release to fit with your voice delivery.

01:03:58.581 --> 01:04:07.405
Provide guidance on limiting and overall loudness and, if needed, give you tips for mic technique and room treatment that was a nice one here at the end.

01:04:08.608 --> 01:04:38.719
That's interesting so and it even gave me out the waveform and the frequency spectrum, showed me those forms so that I could see where my voice was naturally, and then gave started giving me the details on how to adjust the settings to get my voice sounding as good as it could and I think my voice sounds pretty good, yeah, well, and, like I said, I just told it what microphone, what device I'm or interface I'm using and it walked right through the process and there's a, there's a couple little things like it.

01:04:38.719 --> 01:04:40.402
It gave me something.

01:04:40.402 --> 01:04:46.418
I think it was the the on like on the noise gate with the roadcaster.

01:04:46.418 --> 01:04:51.675
You have a setting for hysterious still not really sure what that is sounds like a great.

01:04:51.755 --> 01:04:55.259
it sounds like a song or an album by, or even an awesome band name.

01:04:55.259 --> 01:04:56.519
Yeah, exactly.

01:04:56.539 --> 01:05:07.309
But it gave me like a number for that and I said, well, it's expressed as percentage on the settings and it went, oh easy to adjust, and adjusted it to the percentage.

01:05:07.309 --> 01:05:14.740
Oh, Just a tip for anybody out there who wants to try to get the best they can out of whatever they're using to record.

01:05:14.740 --> 01:05:32.842
I'm sure that if there's processing settings similar on and I haven't used the Zoom products for the PodTracks, I haven't used the Tascam, whatever Tascams is called I'm sure there's similar stuff and it may even be something you can use to tweak your settings for EQ and different stuff in Audacity and all the other ones.

01:05:32.983 --> 01:05:34.646
That's what Chris says, yeah.

01:05:35.376 --> 01:05:35.998
It's pretty cool.

01:05:35.998 --> 01:05:37.141
It worked really well.

01:05:37.141 --> 01:05:39.146
Somebody else had suggested it in a Facebook group.

01:05:39.146 --> 01:05:45.547
I was like I don't know about this, so I jumped on it one day and I am extremely happy.

01:05:45.547 --> 01:05:53.182
Like I'm in a room with multiple monitors in front of me, so sound is bouncing back at me, it's bouncing off the wall behind me.

01:05:53.182 --> 01:05:57.784
There's a little fan setting next to me that now nobody hears.

01:05:58.567 --> 01:06:01.965
Yeah, so you're saying you actually took the settings and put it in and it worked?

01:06:02.876 --> 01:06:10.101
I put it all in on my Rodecaster and the last thing I have to do like my voice sounds good, everything comes in pretty crisp and clear.

01:06:10.101 --> 01:06:18.467
The last thing I do is I send it to Auphonic and process and it gets my level up and if there is any noise in the background it gets rid of pretty much all of it.

01:06:18.567 --> 01:06:18.867
Yeah.

01:06:19.126 --> 01:06:21.170
So I've, I've, I've got a sweet setup.

01:06:21.170 --> 01:06:26.695
But chat GPT is what helped me get to that point.

01:06:26.695 --> 01:06:27.376
Just just a tip for anybody yeah.

01:06:27.396 --> 01:06:27.938
Something to try, right.

01:06:27.938 --> 01:06:32.543
Sometimes you're not sure where to start and you're like all right, well, let's go with this, yeah, cause we have some, some skeptics.

01:06:32.543 --> 01:06:40.057
Daniel's like I'm not really sure you know of its capability to analyze audio, but you know, give it a shot.

01:06:40.057 --> 01:06:43.043
And it's like everything else I know.

01:06:43.043 --> 01:06:51.068
When I do demos of pod page, I'm like there comes a part where you go better, this way, better, that way, better, this way like, and pick one.

01:06:51.068 --> 01:06:52.117
It's, it's up to you.

01:06:52.177 --> 01:06:57.746
So if you, oh, it's and the the settings I had gone through and worked on and tried to get dialed in on my own.

01:06:57.746 --> 01:07:08.204
This is so much better yeah, it sounds so much better than it did and I didn't think it sounded bad, but this has cleaned it up a lot and made it more fit with where I want my voice to be and my sound to be.

01:07:08.204 --> 01:07:08.744
Very cool, excellent.

01:07:08.744 --> 01:07:09.164
All right, man.

01:07:09.164 --> 01:07:09.846
Well, thanks for the tip.

01:07:09.846 --> 01:07:10.387
I appreciate it.

01:07:10.387 --> 01:07:11.989
Awesome, very cool.

01:07:12.349 --> 01:07:13.030
Excellent, all right, man.

01:07:13.030 --> 01:07:13.851
Well, thanks for the tip.

01:07:13.851 --> 01:07:14.552
I appreciate it.

01:07:14.552 --> 01:07:15.594
Awesome.

01:07:15.594 --> 01:07:16.275
Have a good day, man.

01:07:16.275 --> 01:07:19.567
Yeah, we'll see you.

01:07:19.567 --> 01:07:32.182
Yeah, the the thing I want to share here, and I think this will work if I do this.

01:07:32.182 --> 01:07:35.126
Yes, you guys can see, it is a tool.

01:07:35.126 --> 01:07:38.170
So I'm talking about this thing.

01:07:38.170 --> 01:07:40.052
It is I was hoping about.

01:07:40.052 --> 01:07:42.775
Well, here, let's go to the support page.

01:07:42.775 --> 01:07:44.699
That will help me figure out.

01:07:45.681 --> 01:07:51.456
Edit point is the name of the software, and now I got to go find it again.

01:07:51.456 --> 01:07:57.844
But if you're a person that does since we're talking about feedback, it's kind of wonky.

01:07:57.844 --> 01:08:11.847
But basically, if you're using Apple's cloud-based iCloud, right, you upload a file in iCloud and then you can go in and say, hey, give me a show from such and such and get the file that way.

01:08:11.847 --> 01:08:13.922
That's the only thing I was like, ah, that's kind of clunky.

01:08:13.922 --> 01:08:19.206
And then you listen to it and you can basically say, hey, I want to enter a note at this point.

01:08:19.206 --> 01:08:32.162
And then, when you're done, you can basically say, hey, I want to export these markers and then I set as text and then basically, I said copy it and then I threw it into a note.

01:08:32.162 --> 01:08:36.087
And so if you're a person who is giving feedback on stuff.

01:08:36.087 --> 01:08:37.368
This is a handy.

01:08:37.368 --> 01:08:54.823
It's like $15 a year, I think it wasn't, you know, expensive in my opinion, if it's going to save you time, the only thing I thought was wonky and I kind of wondered, being an iOS I don't know if it's on Android or not but for giving feedback and a way to listen.

01:08:54.823 --> 01:09:10.162
I like Pocket Cast because I can mark bookmarks, but in terms of actually writing a note, which I guess I could, I could have a really long name for a bookmark, but that's a handy little tool that I just found out about.

01:09:10.363 --> 01:09:14.484
From it's the show, from what do you call it?

01:09:14.484 --> 01:09:15.119
With Colin Gray and Matthew?

01:09:15.119 --> 01:09:15.604
I know it's the podcast.

01:09:15.604 --> 01:09:16.734
From what do you call it with Colin Gray and Matthew?

01:09:16.734 --> 01:09:19.420
I know it's the podcast host.

01:09:19.420 --> 01:09:22.667
Is their website and they talked about it on one of their shows.

01:09:22.667 --> 01:09:24.615
Yeah.

01:09:24.935 --> 01:09:41.122
And then Chris Nessie brings up hey, since we did kind of mention, if you're talking about AI and audio stuff, mike Russell has an amazing channel where every day he's like I did this and I typed in these three prompts and look, it built me a house.

01:09:41.122 --> 01:09:42.164
It's amazing.

01:09:42.164 --> 01:09:46.822
And then he says also, if you're doing legal stuff, check out Gordon Firemark.

01:09:46.822 --> 01:09:48.948
He's a good guy, as always.

01:09:48.948 --> 01:09:55.960
And then Harlow wants to know do we have any input on who is actually listening to AI-generated podcasts?

01:09:55.960 --> 01:10:01.363
Anyone meet a person that has recommended oh, there's the key, that's recommended one.

01:10:02.484 --> 01:10:21.355
And in my travels, no, because my two episodes ago, if you go to schoolofpodcastingcom, slash 1000, we talked about what is remarkable content and in my opinion, ai content is not remarkable.

01:10:21.355 --> 01:10:30.016
It's not bad sometimes, but it's nothing that I'm like oh man, I can't wait to tell Daniel about this.

01:10:30.016 --> 01:10:31.359
He's going to lose his mind.

01:10:31.359 --> 01:10:37.470
I've never heard lose your mind kind of content come out of AI, unless it's wrong.

01:10:37.470 --> 01:10:40.659
Like my favorite was the.

01:10:41.520 --> 01:10:50.324
There's a blog post on Castos' website that says podcasting has had a discoverability problem since the nineties.

01:10:50.324 --> 01:10:56.161
And I'm like, yeah, I'm pretty sure they did have a discoverability problem in the nineties because it didn't exist yet.

01:10:56.161 --> 01:10:59.654
I'm like, yeah, I'm pretty sure they did have a discoverability problem in the 90s because it didn't exist yet.

01:10:59.654 --> 01:11:06.682
And that's kind of when I went OK, I'm not going to really trust the.

01:11:06.682 --> 01:11:07.528
You know the things on that blog anymore.

01:11:07.528 --> 01:11:08.975
Your integrity goes right out the window when you do that.

01:11:09.815 --> 01:11:16.189
I talked about this earlier, but just to repeat it, what's the best way to move from one host to the other.

01:11:16.189 --> 01:11:20.038
Just to repeat it, what's the best way to move from one host to the other?

01:11:20.038 --> 01:11:22.344
A, what is your current host or not doing that you want the new host to do?

01:11:22.344 --> 01:11:36.484
Because I know a lot of people think that like, oh, if I move from you know Buzzsprout to Captivate that I'm now going to get the names and email addresses of my audience.

01:11:36.484 --> 01:11:39.640
And that would be a no, nobody does that.

01:11:39.640 --> 01:11:49.653
There's a little thing called GDPR from our good friends in Europe, and the only way you can get even gender information is from Spotify.

01:11:49.653 --> 01:11:54.083
So that's where you want to do your own audience survey to get that kind of stuff.

01:11:54.083 --> 01:11:59.318
And it's again, it's not the media host that's going to make your show grow, it's your content.

01:11:59.318 --> 01:12:02.564
So yeah, so keep that in mind.

01:12:03.064 --> 01:12:09.386
Chris says I sampled the Notebook LM audio and video tool to go over my latest YouTube video.

01:12:09.386 --> 01:12:11.273
It was okay but not fun.

01:12:11.273 --> 01:12:25.368
I have tried that where I will take the transcript from a show, throw it into chat TPT and say this is a podcast for, in my case, podcasters who are trying to do blank yada, yada, yada.

01:12:25.368 --> 01:12:27.101
Here's the transcript.

01:12:27.101 --> 01:12:30.962
And so you paste that whole thing in and then you go either.

01:12:30.962 --> 01:12:31.784
What's missing?

01:12:31.784 --> 01:12:33.307
How could I have made this better?

01:12:33.307 --> 01:12:36.942
And I get the artificial part.

01:12:36.942 --> 01:12:40.658
I'm not sold on the intelligence part, but it did.

01:12:40.658 --> 01:12:41.320
Do I remember?

01:12:41.341 --> 01:12:48.487
I did this once with the future of podcasting, which is a show I do with Daniel J Lewis, and it said you guys use too much jargon.

01:12:48.487 --> 01:12:55.639
And so I looked at it, because anytime somebody gives you feedback, the first thing you want to do is go do they have a legitimate point?

01:12:55.639 --> 01:13:01.386
And I looked at it and I was like, yeah, we do, but for our target audience.

01:13:01.386 --> 01:13:04.376
That's not jargon, that's just the way we talk.

01:13:04.376 --> 01:13:15.542
So if I had been using words that people, like most podcasters, don't know or maybe we're more advanced podcasting and the beginner podcast wouldn't know.

01:13:15.542 --> 01:13:19.421
But that was one note that I was like huh, and I was like, well, I get their point.

01:13:19.421 --> 01:13:22.945
But in the end I was like, ok, I get why it said it.

01:13:22.945 --> 01:13:31.159
And I think it said that we took tangents and I'm like, hey, dave Jackson's one of the co-hosts, you're taking tangents.

01:13:31.159 --> 01:13:33.097
So that was another thing.

01:13:33.097 --> 01:13:39.048
So it's something you might try, you know, because the thing that ChatGP doesn't have.

01:13:39.048 --> 01:13:46.042
I'll give you a prime example If you go to YouTube and type in redneck Star Trek.

01:13:46.623 --> 01:13:51.215
There is a video and it's AI obviously like.

01:13:51.215 --> 01:14:00.682
It has Spock sitting on a porch with some sweet tea and he's got tattoos all over him and you know, and Captain Kirk has a giant mullet.

01:14:00.682 --> 01:14:06.779
It's pretty funny, and so anytime somebody shares something with me, I go why did they share that?

01:14:06.779 --> 01:14:14.100
So, number one, it's pretty funny, it's something you can't see anyplace else because Leonard Nimoy is dead.

01:14:14.100 --> 01:14:18.957
So you know, we can't have him dress up like a redneck on a front porch anymore.

01:14:19.819 --> 01:14:22.323
The song wasn't bad, it was country.

01:14:22.323 --> 01:14:27.220
So you know, take it for what it is Three chords and the truth, you know.

01:14:27.220 --> 01:14:29.323
And then if it was nostalgic.

01:14:29.323 --> 01:14:35.064
So there were a couple things that I was like okay, why are people sharing this?

01:14:35.064 --> 01:14:36.548
So nostalgia was one.

01:14:36.548 --> 01:14:38.738
You can't get it anyplace else.

01:14:39.340 --> 01:14:41.707
The song wasn't bad and it made you laugh.

01:14:41.707 --> 01:14:48.936
So I was like okay, cause anytime somebody shares something with me or I share something with someone else, I'm always like okay, why?

01:14:48.936 --> 01:14:52.404
And for me nostalgia was a lot of that one.

01:14:52.404 --> 01:14:59.104
That was a lot of like, oh wow, look, that really does look like Kirk and Sulu, and, you know, scotty and the whole, the whole crew.

01:14:59.104 --> 01:15:02.609
And so I don't think Chatship.

01:15:02.609 --> 01:15:08.805
Et gets nostalgia because it's that's an emotion and it doesn't have that.

01:15:08.805 --> 01:15:15.363
So I think that's where, again, anytime, you can lean into stories.

01:15:15.363 --> 01:15:18.529
Yeah, there you go.

01:15:18.529 --> 01:15:22.145
Ralph says be careful, there it's more than three chords, I think it's four.

01:15:22.145 --> 01:15:24.640
Yes, on the bridge they throw in the.

01:15:24.640 --> 01:15:26.726
You know they might even throw in a seventh chord.

01:15:26.726 --> 01:15:28.600
Now I played in a country band.

01:15:28.600 --> 01:15:33.699
There's some really good pickers in country, so keep that in mind.

01:15:33.699 --> 01:15:36.422
Arliss says thanks, dave and Dan, for the input.

01:15:36.502 --> 01:15:40.222
I wanted to get a community gut check on that versus a company's press release.

01:15:40.222 --> 01:15:42.328
Oh yeah, that's here's the thing.

01:15:42.328 --> 01:15:43.398
Here's what I like about it.

01:15:43.398 --> 01:15:46.485
There's that one company that's making 3000 episodes a week.

01:15:46.485 --> 01:15:48.497
It's going to be absolute slop.

01:15:48.497 --> 01:15:50.439
And then she called us what is it?

01:15:50.439 --> 01:15:54.765
Luddites, the CEO, people that think all AI is AI slop.

01:15:54.765 --> 01:15:56.988
And I'm like, well, ai, that's like.

01:15:56.988 --> 01:15:59.291
I don't mind AI on images.

01:16:00.176 --> 01:16:03.426
You know I use it occasionally for pod page on our blog.

01:16:03.426 --> 01:16:07.426
I'll write a blog and I'm like hey, can you make this better without losing my voice?

01:16:07.426 --> 01:16:10.524
And you know I like it as a touch up tool.

01:16:10.524 --> 01:16:11.136
I'm not a.

01:16:11.136 --> 01:16:13.341
I don't think I trust it as a.

01:16:13.341 --> 01:16:14.864
Hey, write this.

01:16:14.864 --> 01:16:16.256
And I'm just going to copy and paste it.

01:16:16.256 --> 01:16:25.510
You always want a human in there to again make sure it's not saying things like podcasting's had a discoverability problem since the 90s, because you'll lose your credibility.

01:16:25.510 --> 01:16:30.521
And I also think again, if we look at what makes remarkable content.

01:16:31.304 --> 01:16:34.788
I've never seen anything come out of ChatGBT that I was like wait hold on.

01:16:34.788 --> 01:16:37.122
Oh my gosh, did you, did you see this?

01:16:37.122 --> 01:16:38.920
Oh my, I got to go tell everyone.

01:16:38.920 --> 01:16:40.003
You must read.

01:16:40.003 --> 01:16:41.057
I've never done that.

01:16:41.057 --> 01:16:46.699
When I've gotten something out of chat GPT, I'm like, oh, that's, that saved me some time and now I'm going to make it better.

01:16:46.699 --> 01:16:47.743
I always tweak that.

01:16:47.835 --> 01:16:50.725
So, and the one I heard was on knitting.

01:16:50.725 --> 01:16:58.698
And so Google has the E-E-A-T, which is experience.

01:16:58.698 --> 01:17:10.662
So when you like, I remember the one time my grandma taught me how to knit and blah, blah, blah, and I forget what the other E is, authoritativeness, e-e-a-t, and I forget what the T is Just makes me hungry every time I talk about it.

01:17:10.662 --> 01:17:14.462
But there's none of that in, you know, unless they start making.

01:17:14.462 --> 01:17:33.166
I did do something where I had I call it Kyle and Sheila the Google LM, cause you know they're going to do a deep dive and it was some transcript and I talked about how I'd lost my wallet and somebody actually returned it to me and Sheila said oh, I remember the one time I lost my wallet.

01:17:33.166 --> 01:17:38.447
And I'm like, liar, liar, Sheila, you lie, you never had a wallet, you're not a person.

01:17:38.447 --> 01:17:42.164
So eventually I think they're going to have AI start making.

01:17:42.164 --> 01:17:46.827
I remember that one time we went to the amusement park and the you know I'm like no, that never happened.

01:17:47.494 --> 01:17:49.323
You know, dan says AI is a tool.

01:17:49.323 --> 01:17:53.402
It needs humans to use, use it properly, yep, amen, brother.

01:17:53.402 --> 01:17:57.048
And, just as importantly, to keep other humans to use it improperly.

01:17:57.048 --> 01:18:03.131
Yeah, so when I hear 3,000 episodes that are horrible, I'm like, on one hand, I hate the fact.

01:18:03.252 --> 01:18:08.264
Now for the new podcast, the person's like I've never listened to a podcast.

01:18:08.264 --> 01:18:19.189
And then they go to Apple Podcasts and they find the show and, by the way, the one I went to listen to started off with, I think, a minute and a half of ads that were not targeted at all.

01:18:19.189 --> 01:18:22.364
They weren't about knitting, because the show was about knitting.

01:18:22.364 --> 01:18:31.055
And then you know it was Jamie Lee, you know Capricorn or whatever her name was, and she's all friendly and bubbly and you know.

01:18:31.055 --> 01:18:41.189
So she had the presentation and she was all happy and fun and so glad you're here, and I was like, yeah, but, and there's no disclosure that she was AI, which I believe you're supposed to do.

01:18:41.189 --> 01:18:49.387
I know, at least on YouTube you have to disclose when you have somehow made your voice sound funny, or let's see, though there's reverb.

01:18:49.387 --> 01:18:50.609
So I need to do that.

01:18:50.609 --> 01:18:52.618
But there is this one.

01:18:52.618 --> 01:19:00.796
Yeah, all right, baby, let's OK, there's, that's a little weird.

01:19:00.796 --> 01:19:02.159
And then this other one's not quite as low.

01:19:02.159 --> 01:19:06.048
So this is when you're doing the whatever.

01:19:06.048 --> 01:19:07.512
Welcome to.

01:19:07.512 --> 01:19:11.257
Yeah, here's a fun one.

01:19:11.257 --> 01:19:14.400
Oh, wait, a minute, let's do, let's turn that off while we're at it.

01:19:15.202 --> 01:19:24.332
If anybody here is a kit power user, I would love to know, because I'm trying to talk myself out of doing something stupid.

01:19:24.332 --> 01:19:33.090
And so pricing for right now I'm like closing in on 2000.

01:19:33.090 --> 01:19:41.703
So when I look at this for kit let me share my screen because I'm on kit kit is going up by a hundred dollars a year.

01:19:41.703 --> 01:20:02.814
So if I go to kit creator pro right now I'm on people it's 470.

01:20:02.814 --> 01:20:06.222
So I'm like wait, I could get 7,000 more subscribers.

01:20:06.222 --> 01:20:10.399
And this is where you start getting bright, shiny in.

01:20:10.399 --> 01:20:12.064
You know like, ooh, this one does this.

01:20:12.565 --> 01:20:13.716
So I looked, I'm like what's the?

01:20:13.716 --> 01:20:15.798
And I spent a lot of time because it's free.

01:20:15.798 --> 01:20:16.921
They have a free tier.

01:20:16.921 --> 01:20:18.203
That's actually pretty powerful.

01:20:18.203 --> 01:20:26.363
And so I looked at this and they have smart recommendations and I wish I cannot find it yet.

01:20:26.363 --> 01:20:33.545
I wish there was a way to identify how many people from on my list came from this recommendation.

01:20:33.625 --> 01:20:36.113
Engine that they have in kit, cause I do get people that join.

01:20:36.113 --> 01:20:36.600
I get that more on sub stack as well.

01:20:36.600 --> 01:20:37.105
Engine that they have in Kit, because I do get people that join.

01:20:37.105 --> 01:20:39.103
I get that more on Substack as well.

01:20:39.103 --> 01:20:44.082
And then they have Facebook custom audiences and you're like, oh, look at that.

01:20:44.555 --> 01:21:04.987
And then it dawned on me I'm not running Facebook ads and I just looked at this and was like, well, I'm thinking of upgrading to this one because it had an insights dashboard and some other things that again, at least here they're letting you know what they are, get actionable insights about your marketing and sales performance to drive more revenue.

01:21:04.987 --> 01:21:09.939
And I'm like, okay, well, that's $900 a year and I'm like versus 470.

01:21:09.939 --> 01:21:20.922
So if anybody knows how to like, because I the other thing is that I was like wait, dave, don't, don't get lost in the bright, shiny new tool.

01:21:20.922 --> 01:21:29.314
And then I saw that if you buy a yearly subscription of any version, they'll move your email list for you and recreate all your automations.

01:21:29.314 --> 01:21:30.877
Cause that was the big negative.

01:21:30.877 --> 01:21:36.849
I'm like, oh, I don't want to create my welcome sequence, I don't want to do all my lead magnets again.

01:21:36.849 --> 01:21:39.323
And they're like, oh, we'll do that for you.

01:21:39.323 --> 01:21:41.922
And I was like, hmm, interesting.

01:21:41.922 --> 01:21:53.323
So if you're a kit user and a power user, I'd love to know how much, because they're getting into things like an e-commerce platform and I'm like I don't really need that.

01:21:53.323 --> 01:22:00.099
And if you're going to be an all-in-one thing kit, well then I'll just use this other all-in-one thing and have it.

01:22:00.099 --> 01:22:03.567
You know, basically save myself 500 bucks a year.

01:22:04.234 --> 01:22:07.024
So Steven is asking about Randy's little trick there.

01:22:07.024 --> 01:22:10.364
Did you use a WAV file or an MP3 when you prompted chat?

01:22:10.364 --> 01:22:12.301
I would use a WAV file if it was me.

01:22:12.301 --> 01:22:15.222
I'm not sure what Randy used, but yeah.

01:22:15.222 --> 01:22:21.118
So if anybody has, if you're a power user of Kit, let me know.

01:22:21.118 --> 01:22:27.953
Or if you're listening to this later, there's a link at the top of the show notes that lets you send me a text message if you want to answer it that way.

01:22:27.953 --> 01:22:34.228
And of course, you can always go to askthepodcastcoachcom, slash voicemail and leave a message that way.

01:22:37.835 --> 01:22:39.618
Going back to the AI slop it is slop today, but it'll get better.

01:22:39.618 --> 01:22:41.122
I think we need those disclosures.

01:22:41.122 --> 01:22:42.324
Yeah, that's what they.

01:22:42.324 --> 01:22:45.917
I mean, it didn't sound bad, you know, it wasn't.

01:22:45.917 --> 01:22:49.466
If you think back to the early AI voices, they've come a long way.

01:22:49.466 --> 01:22:56.807
Even what's her name in the box from Amazon now is much more friendly and bubbly because they, they use that.

01:22:56.807 --> 01:23:00.298
Now she's, you know, they're using AI and she's much more.

01:23:00.739 --> 01:23:07.385
Last night I asked her what the temperature was outside and it was like, you know, a quarter to one in the morning.

01:23:07.385 --> 01:23:10.740
And she's like well, it's 64 degrees outside, blah, blah, blah.

01:23:10.740 --> 01:23:17.935
And then she's like but you know, she, she made a remark like, kind of like, why are you asking what's the temperature outside at a quarter to one in the morning?

01:23:17.935 --> 01:23:19.439
And I'm like well, I just need to know.

01:23:19.439 --> 01:23:22.806
If I, you know, is it warm outside, I'll turn on a fan.

01:23:22.806 --> 01:23:24.697
If not, you know, et cetera, et cetera.

01:23:24.697 --> 01:23:26.658
Yeah, jeff is a kit guy.

01:23:26.658 --> 01:23:33.765
I might ask Jeff, I thought about that and so, with that, I think, as I look at the clock, we're going to call it a day.

01:23:33.845 --> 01:23:36.087
Thanks to everyone for chiming in and jumping in.

01:23:36.087 --> 01:23:37.248
I really appreciate that.

01:23:37.248 --> 01:23:39.230
Oh, no show next week.

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I will be in Charlotte, north Carolina, hanging out with Ralph from askralphcom, craig from AIgoestocollegecom and Mark from practicalpreppinginfo all members of the School of Podcasting.

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I'm looking forward to that, and anybody else that's there.

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You can find it at empoweredpodcastingcom.

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I hope that's the right address, I believe so, if not just Google Empowered Podcasting Conference.

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Mark Roenick is running that thing and it looks to be a good event.

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Now, I've never been there.

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So if it's not, it's, you know their marketing did a great job.

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But so if it's not, it's, you know their marketing did a great job.

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But I kind of know Mark a little bit.

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I think he's going to put on a good I.

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I listened to his show that he does daily on clubhouse and he seems like a good guy.

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So his brand is strong with that.

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Dan says great job on the solo show.

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Yeah, I hung in there.

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It wasn't quite as, as Ralph said, I might've been going at a little quicker pace.

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But I, I might have been going at a little quicker pace, but I think I didn't go squirrel, you know, four million times like I normally do.

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So I appreciate that.

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So, yeah, no show next week.

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We will be back whatever two weeks from today is, which is, if I pull up a calendar, would be October 4th.

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So we will kick into October with a new episode of Ask the Podcast Coach.

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I'll be telling you about my time at the Empowered Podcasting Conference on the School of Podcasting, and we'll probably talk about Randy Black a little bit.

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We're going to talk about what happens to your podcast if you die, and it's something I believe I talked about years ago.

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But I got to go to Todd Cochran's funeral this week and that was and it was open casket and it's one of those like oh, are we still doing those?

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So that kind of caught me off guard.

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But we'll talk about that and some other things that are going on in the podcasting space.

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But I know myself I am 60.

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I don't plan on dying anytime soon, but heaven forbid.

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I don't want to put this, I don't want to manifest this, but if I, you know, tripped over a shoe and hit my head on a coffee table on the way to do lunch today and I died, I got no passwords anywhere.

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Like my family is in bad shape, if I were to kick the bucket, and so I with Todd, and then if we go back to Neil.

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Every time a friend of mine dies.

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I go, yeah, I probably should do that.

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And I reached out to Gordon.

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Gordon is the guy.

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If you want entertainment law kind of stuff and you know if you need an LLC, if you need a contract, read over, he's the entertainment lawyer, not the will lawyer.

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That's not his thing.

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And plus he gave me great advice and said, oh, and it's also really dependent on the state, so don't die out of state because that messes everything up too.

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So thank you, gordon for that.

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Find him at Firemarkcom and we will see you in two weeks with another episode of Ask the Podcast Coach.

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Take care, everybody, stay safe.