Jan. 3, 2026

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To we talk about Dave needing another montitor (and no Jim doesn't have a problem using 11 monitors) along with plugins to make things sound better, using switchy for link shortening, and some plugins to clean up audio. 

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00:00 - Introduction and Show Open

01:35 - Sponsor: Podcast Branding

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03:39 - Ask the Podcast Coach Anniversary

05:15 - Moving to a New Computer and Cloud Backups

06:12 - Jim's Nerd Segment: Synergy KVM Software

10:37 - New Year Resolutions and Fitness

12:08 - Upgrading Monitors and Dual Screens

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Ask the Podcast Coach for January 3rd, 2026.

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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 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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I'm Dave Jackson from the School of Podcasting.com, and joining me right over there, the one and only Jim Cullison from theaveregGuy.tv.

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Jim, how's it going, buddy?

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Greetings, Dave.

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Happy Saturday morning to you.

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Are you am I am I back?

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You're back.

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It felt like I left you for just a second.

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Happy, uh, happy new year, happy 2026 to you.

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Yeah, it's um it's almost, it almost feels like a, I don't know, four days ago it was 2025, and now it's 2026, and it's um, oh, I figured it out.

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It's minus eight degrees Celsius.

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It's like 17 degrees here, which is which means it's cold and whatever you are uh you know doing for uh you know the whole Fahrenheit, Celsius, that whole nine yards.

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It's cold.

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Yeah, it's been it's been chilly here too.

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It's a cold start to the new year.

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We got, you know, a little ice on the first day.

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But you know what?

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I think we're six years into this mug or something.

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And it's still in good shape.

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It's in great shape.

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I use it for everything.

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That's a 2013 film.

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2013 newer than that, right?

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Well, I have an interesting question here, and this may not be entirely accurate, but how many years does this make for Ask the Podcast Coach?

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Do you want to guess what year we started?

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It's 2026, right?

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I think we started in 2014.

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Oh, look at that.

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Did I get it right?

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You got it right.

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Yeah.

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I will in my folder I show and I don't know if this is the first one, but I see the there it's February 15th.

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I don't know if that's the very first one, but that's the one I show in the finished one.

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Randy Black says uh December 7th, 2013 looks to be the first episode.

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That that may have been though, we kind of tested this, right?

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It started as you goofing around.

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I joined you to help you out.

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We chatted a few times.

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I saw you the next week.

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Then you said, Hey, should we do a show?

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Because we just gathered people like we didn't even try.

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We weren't, we were uh people just started showing up in the chat, and so we were like, should we do this?

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And so probably in January or so is when we kind of January people kind of kicked it out.

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Chris says, yes, back in the day.

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Yeah, it was the first couple episodes, especially, were just me solo, and we've seen that.

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That is not a good look.

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That is that is something that I'm like, ee.

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And though, because you practiced with it, you could do you could probably do solo a lot better now than you did.

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It was it's just hard to watch the chat and talk and everything else at the same time.

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Ray from aroundthelayout.com says, I'm moving to a new computer.

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I'm going to need something stronger than coffee.

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This is where the you don't realize how much like cloud stuff is your friend.

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I what is the service I use?

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I use because everybody uses Dropbox, but I have, I don't want to upgrade my storage.

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I just want the name of the application.

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But it was fairly, it's not cheap.

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Oh, that's why it's an iDrive is what I use.

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And that's something I use kind of as a quick backup if I need, because I have my PC on this side and my Mac on this side, and I threw a thing as an iDrive to share across that.

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And speaking of that, Mac and PC, here, let's let's let's let you nerd out.

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And now oh, he's been waiting for this.

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It's time for Jim to get his nerd on.

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Because we both we both use a program.

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If you're sharing a Mac and a PC, this thing comes in really, really handy.

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So, Jim, take her away.

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Yeah, if you think of traditional KVM solutions, those are keyboard, mouse, and video.

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That's what that stands for.

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So that allows you to control all three of those devices across multiple PCs.

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So if you have two PCs but one monitor, or no, that wouldn't be that's nobody would ever have just one monitor.

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I can't believe I said that.

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But it happens.

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If you had two PCs and you were running them off separate monitors and you wanted to control them with just one keyboard and mouse, you'd use a KVM solution.

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You and I are both using Synergy, S-Y-N-E-R-G-Y.

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Been using them for a long time.

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Great solution to use.

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Not a sponsor of this show, but they did reach out to me, oh, I don't know, about a month or two ago and said, Hey, would you like to try the newest version?

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They're on version three right now.

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And I had been using version one because version two was not very good.

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So when they went to version two, I was like, I don't know, guys.

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They kind of burned the thing down and rebuilt version three from the ground up.

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And so it gave me a good chance to kind of review or monitor or or try out the newest version, their version three.

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And if you're in the space, now the KVMs are notoriously good between like if it's only Windows PCs or you're only on Mac, but Synergy will allow you to do both between PC and Mac, which is cool.

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I don't know if they have a Linux version.

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Maybe I should look into that to see if they do.

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But between most people, if they're gonna do it, they're gonna do it between PC and Mac.

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Dave, you have a PC and Mac infrastructure, so do I that I'm running here.

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And so I tried version three this week because who doesn't do all kinds of computer stuff on the New Year's holiday?

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Got it up and running here in the studio.

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Actually, I like version three better than I like version one.

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It finds the PCs easier.

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The setup is literally one click.

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So if you're thinking about or if you need a KVM solution across that, Dave, I'd I'd tried these guys out.

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Synergy, what are you are you are you on version one?

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Have you have you updated?

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Hey, that's a great question.

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I'm looking for the icon.

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Version one is fine.

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Version three has great discovery capabilities.

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So in other words, discovery is so I set it up, you know, you set up one PC, make it your oh good.

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Uh Randy says there's a Linux version of Synergy.

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Awesome.

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So you google across go across all three.

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Set up one PC as your main or one computer is your main computer, and then you install it on the other ones.

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I am on version.

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Yeah, I'm on version three.

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Okay, good.

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So pretty easy setup, pretty, pretty easy to do.

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But it really makes if you're gonna live in a multi, you know, in a multi-pc environment, and you're gonna have especially Windows and Mac together, which yes, you can have them together.

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They don't fight.

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Pretty handy, pretty handy piece of software to use.

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And again, they they reached out to me and said, hey, why don't you try version three?

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We'll upgrade you.

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So they did.

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And uh pretty easy to use.

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Your your your uh licensing file is kept online, so you can just log in and get that file.

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If you need to install it on a new PC, just grab go in, grab it, get their licensing file and install it, and you're all you're all set and ready to go.

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Yeah, Rich asks, so it it shares the clipboard, so you can copy something on the Windows machine and paste it on the Mac.

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It's a pretty slick thing.

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Listen, it even shares the keyboard shortcuts.

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So, like if on a Mac you're doing command copy, but on on a PC, on a on a Windows PC, you're doing control copy.

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So when you move the mouse over to the Windows PC, you got to do control copy.

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Now, in the newest version, it's maybe been good on the older versions.

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You can change it so it's one keyboard shortcut for everything.

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If that's because sometimes that's confusing to use different keyboard shortcuts based on the PC or Mac that you're using.

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But yes, that works across those works across PCs as well.

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Yeah, that took me a long time.

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I am now, because I'm primarily a Mac person, but I'm still using my Windows keyboard, which I have a Mac keyboard sitting behind me, ready to go.

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But I always use Windows, I think it is Windows, um yeah, Windows is my option key.

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So Windows C instead of control C.

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And then I go to my church and I'm doing Windows C to copy stuff.

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And I'm like, oh no, no, I'm on a piece.

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So it's it's weird because originally I was like, I will never learn this.

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This is driving me crazy, and now it's second nature.

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So, but the other thing is, I guess since it's 2026, there are a couple of things that I've done already three days in.

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I'm down two pounds, by the way.

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That's one.

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Oh, novel idea.

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Yeah, no McDonald's, no like just eating better.

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And here's a novel.

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There's a difference between being active and exercising.

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And active for me, nothing wrong with it, is walking on a treadmill at like three miles an hour, right?

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Not really gonna work up a sweat, but it's active.

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And we're versus, and I was really surprised on this.

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I used to bike like 50 miles every Saturday.

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I mean, I was a I got on six, and this is pre-Ask the Podcast coach, but I would get up early, go to the we have trails here in Ohio, and I would bike kind of almost halfway to Cleveland and then bike my way back.

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I got on a bike, my internal, like, you know, on a stand kind of thing, I think I lasted 10 minutes.

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And my legs were like, oh, I'm tired.

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And I was like, all right, well, that's gotta end.

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So I noticed like last night I I watched some comedy on Netflix and I did a half hour and I was like, okay, that's that's a we're getting there.

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But it was just amazing.

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Like, if you don't use it, you lose it.

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But I've found I'm so I've kind of just been doing like, what's the one thing I want to do today?

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And so yesterday, being that it was Friday, I'm like, you know, every Saturday I go, oh, I gotta drop this PC.

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I gotta like, I just need to have dual screens with my Mac.

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I know the only thing I use my PC for is to watch Netflix.

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That's it.

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Like if or something that's going on, Spotify in the background.

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I was like, I every every week I'm telling Jim, oh, I gotta lose this PC.

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I'm like, I'm losing the PC today.

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And then I went to, I was like, well, let's just make sure I can do dual monitors on my Mac Mini.

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And I was like, okay, I know there's not two HDMI ports, but I've got a a port into the port of the port thing.

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And I'm like, let's just grab the thunderbolt port on the Mac Mini that could you could get an adapter for.

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Yeah, and then I found out, oh, wait, this is using a VGA thing.

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And I'm like, monitor had a VGA, it was still VGA.

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Because I was like, let's just let's just plug it in and see if it works before I go unplugging stuff.

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And yeah, long story short, the monitor's really old.

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And I I definitely have a Thunderbolt out of my Mac that I can use.

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I'm gonna have to go Thunderbolt to which is weird because you can type in Thunderbolt all you want, and Best Buy, everybody else will give you USB-C.

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And I know there's a difference, I don't know what the difference is between Thunderbolt, probably more data, but whatever reason.

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So it is, yeah.

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Yeah, so I I think it's more complicated than we want to cover here.

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Yeah, you can this would be a good thing to Google if you're interested, but there's all kinds of different you know, USB standards on that.

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And and so yeah, it gets complicated.

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And I was I was laughing because as I'm looking for a monitor, you know, a lot of monitors now are really geared not towards people doing Microsoft Excel and Hindenburg and stuff, they're they're gaming, you know, and then like the one I think even had a fan, it looked like it built into on the monitor, you need a fan.

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But I was like, which was great because if you just want a monitor to do Excel and Word and Hindenburg and you know all this other stuff, it was I think 120 bucks for a 27-inch monitor.

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That would have been a better time to be a monitor horde.

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I'm just I'm just telling you how many do you have?

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Is it 11?

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Something I have 11.

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I have 11 monitors down here.

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I love it.

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And so they're all they're all listening, they're all bought and paid for.

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If you if you wanted to be like me and be a monitor horde, you to right now the listen, everything is expensive right now.

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RAM is expensive, PCs are expensive.

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Thank god there's no RAM in monitors, and so that has made the price of monitors very, very reasonable.

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So if you're using, you know, Dave, you talked about a VGA monitor.

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Well, okay, it's still it still works, it's still a good standard, it's still fine.

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If you have older equipment that's running VGA, it's fine.

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You can get VGA adapters if you want to, don't do that.

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Just buy a new monitor.

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That's what I did.

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Yeah, they're super cheap.

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I was looking at Amazon, and it's probably one of those things, but they're all, we all know they're all Japanese made because they're, you know, names you've never heard of, you know, and they're really cheap.

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And like they're even Amazon Basics.

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I was like, Amazon basics, I could buy an Amazon, and I was like, and then I saw where I could have one delivered today from our good friends at Walmart with the cable.

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And I was like, and I'm like, I can get it here by 10 o'clock?

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I'm like, all right.

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Now, in the past, Walmart has said we will have it there by I remember once it was supposed to be here by 8 p.m.

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and then it was 9 p.m., 10 p.m.

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and then at 11 p.m.

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I was like, I'm going to bed.

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Like, never mind.

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So it showed up today, about quarter to 10.

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And I was like, do I bust it out and try to?

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And I'm like, no, no, we've we've learned that lesson.

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Don't add new equipment 10 minutes before the show goes live.

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No, you should not.

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What did you get?

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What tell me again what you got?

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Uh it's an LG 27-inch couldn't I can go straight straight because I'm it's going to be mounted on a I I have these stands that go up, and it has that was the other thing that that's called a VESA mount, V E S A, and it has four little holes.

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You I needed to see the back of the monitor to see are there four little holes in the back so I can put that on there.

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And it was, but it wasn't listed in the specs.

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You had to go to each one and then go to the super detailed of it, and it would say uh sometimes it would say wall mountable, which just means V-E-S-A is what you're you say.

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Vesus, uh, we sometimes we say visa visa, okay.

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Tomato tomato.

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It's the same.

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It is.

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It's the same.

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Depends what part of the country you're from.

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Most cu most modern monitors will have Visa, a visa mount already on it.

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So those, like you said, it's a square, right?

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And so anything, and I forget this below a certain size is gonna have the 10 millimeter something.

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I can't I have to go, I'd have to look up those standards, but hundred by hundred is was the standard visa.

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And it's like, whatever.

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I just need it to I need to bolt it to this thing.

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So yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, no, it's a good, it's a good thing.

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And then if you're gonna have more than one monitor, if you're gonna have two, and why wouldn't you have two?

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If you're gonna have one, you should have two.

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You can get those monitor mounts, right?

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That would mount to your desk and then it'll put the two on there side by side.

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That's what I have here.

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They don't have to be the same size.

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I have a 35-inch curved monitor and a 27-inch curved monitor next to each other.

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One is 1440, the 27-inch is 1440, so I get better resolution.

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The 35 is 1080p.

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It was super cheap when I bought it.

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1080p works just fine.

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Right.

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They're actually the same height, so they line up nicely together.

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They look like one continuous monitor when you put them next to each other.

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So not that I'm addicted, but yeah, that's the David.

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If you want to have two or 11, you know.

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11's fine.

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11's fine.

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Listen, I will say one of the advantages of having two somebody's like, why would you have two PCs for your podcast studio?

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Right.

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And one of the advantages to that, and especially while you're podcasting, if you have lower end equipment or if you're just using regular stuff, having two, you can separate some of your processes onto the second PC and get them completely separated from the one you're using for the show.

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That way, if you start something during the show that may be a intensive, might have, or a backup starts, which you don't want to do.

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Some of those kinds of things.

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Then you're separating kind of your processes between PCs, keeping your broadcast or your streaming PC kind of doing its job of streaming, and then you can have other things running on a separate computer.

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It kind of separates the the you know the the workflow that's on there.

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So not a bad idea.

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And you it doesn't have to be one have to be PC and the other have to be Mac.

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They can both be Macs, they can both be PCs, it can be either or.

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I just like them from a tech guy standpoint.

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I like to have both because I want to know what's going on with both.

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So I figured if I had one Mac, one PC, I would always be up to date on the things that are going on.

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I used to keep the the second PC uh Mac, when I first got the Mac, it had trouble with the the Mini versions, had trouble with dual monitors.

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So I didn't do that.

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They've fixed that since then, and now I have dual monitors on the Mac Mini, which is super handy to have as well.

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So good way.

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Just remember, right?

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Monitors aren't free from a power perspective.

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So you're running 25 or 30 watts when you're running your monitors, and so they can consume a little bit of power over time if you leave them on or if you're using them uh constantly.

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So that's one of the things I have to take into consideration with all these monitors, being honest.

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If I turn them all on, I'm pulling a little juice from the well, I you know, you always have them where they can kind of black themselves out after X amount of time.

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But I'm like, it's still on.

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It's like it's still, isn't it still pulling juice?

00:21:15.610 --> 00:21:19.529
I'm like Yeah, if it's in power saving mode, it's not pulling much.

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A couple watts.

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Okay.

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You're good.

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But if you have them all on at the same time, I sometimes I like to pretend like I'm in, you know, Houston control in NASA and I've got them all turned on.

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I'm getting a little tan from all the lights that are on here.

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Well, you know, that's five that can be up to 500 watts of power with 11 monitors on.

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So just just just remember you're pulling power from all those things as well.

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The power's not free on those.

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One of my favorite things to do is if there's a some sort of webinar and I don't want to really sit for the webinar, I will have the webinar on one.

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Computer, it goes into my Rodecast or whatever, and I will like start Otter on the second machine because it's really easy to do that.

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Now, if I was on a Mac only, I forget the name of the there's one program from Rogue Amoeba that you can use to reroute your audio everywhere, but I would just throw it into Otter.

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I'm like, record it in Otter, and I would go to lunch or whatever.

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The webinar gets done.

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I got my transcript, and I'm like, give me the main summary of that.

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And what's great is you get the nuggets without the giant pitch at the it might even say, you know, you can get 35% off if you order by Thursday, but that's always fun.

00:22:32.650 --> 00:22:34.809
So so yeah, that that'll be today.

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I've got we've got group coaching for the School of Podcasting and the awesome supporters.

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You'll get that invite when I get out of here.

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I've got coaching.

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So eventually, sometime today, I'm gonna hook that up.

00:22:44.730 --> 00:22:51.210
But busy day, so but the other thing, you want to hear something that's it's I've used to doist forever.

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Todoist is a great to-do list, it's on everything.

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It's on your PC, it's on your Mac, it's on your your phone, your tablet, whatever.

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And I I love it.

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And you can get really it integrates with a lot of stuff.

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But for me, I noticed that I live in my calendar.

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Like it's it's stupid that one of the things I have to do to be productive is to remember to look at my to-do list because otherwise nothing gets done.

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And so I just happen to like YouTube served up a video on Google tasks, and I see them all the time because it's kind of part of your calendar.

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And if you just need a simple to-do list, and you can even have multiple to-do lists like health, and then I have one for podpage one, and it's like, but it's right there in your calendar.

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And now I'm finding I'm more productive because I'm actually looking at my to-do list.

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And what I was doing in to do isn't that crazy.

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It's like follow up with Steve every three weeks because he's a new school of podcasting person, or or you know, wash your dehumidifier, the things that you like, nothing crazy.

00:24:01.610 --> 00:24:06.489
And so if you're looking for a free to-do list, Google Task is not bad.

00:24:06.650 --> 00:24:08.650
Boy, we're having a lot of monitor talk.

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Curved monitor.

00:24:09.769 --> 00:24:12.569
Apparently, I'm not cool because I don't have a cool uh curved monitor.

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Flat's okay.

00:24:13.610 --> 00:24:17.849
Flat's okay, but curves as they get bigger, it's nice to have them kind of curve.

00:24:17.929 --> 00:24:20.329
They kind of brings the corners to you.

00:24:20.650 --> 00:24:24.170
Ray says the meter on the outside of the collison house is spinning like a top.

00:24:24.409 --> 00:24:25.690
Why do you think I went to solar?

00:24:25.769 --> 00:24:32.329
That's like I've been trying to I'm gonna have 85 watts of solar coming in right now, but it's been kind of a cloudy day.

00:24:32.489 --> 00:24:36.329
But to try to cover some of the usage of my computer usage.

00:24:36.409 --> 00:24:38.730
So we have a question from the Z-Man.

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Welcome back.

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Listen to the show from last week.

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Do you recommend going to Buzz Sprout instead of Libson to get started?

00:24:45.369 --> 00:24:45.849
Yes.

00:24:46.009 --> 00:24:48.569
Now, do I recommend Captivate over BuzzSprout?

00:24:48.730 --> 00:24:48.969
Yes.

00:24:49.049 --> 00:24:51.849
So for me, it's Captivate, BuzzSprout.

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And the reason for that, because Buzz Sprout has a really nice feature set.

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Captivate lets you have it's 19 bucks a month for as many shows as you want.

00:25:02.569 --> 00:25:09.610
And the only time your bill goes up, if all your shows total go over 30,000 downloads, your bill goes up.

00:25:09.769 --> 00:25:13.769
Now, if you're getting over 30,000 downloads, I'm pretty sure you can monetize that.

00:25:13.929 --> 00:25:16.089
So I start with with Captivate.

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If you really need, and Captivate isn't hard, but Buzz Sprout's interface might be a little easier.

00:25:23.289 --> 00:25:24.409
Just a pinch.

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The other thing, being an old musician, it drives me nuts that I have to pay more to get a stereo file out of BuzzSprout.

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I'm like, wait, what?

00:25:33.369 --> 00:25:42.889
But on the other hand, I could throw a WAV file at Buzz Sprout and they will convert it to 64 mono or whatever they're it's just mono.

00:25:43.049 --> 00:25:46.009
But I I prefer Captivate by this much.

00:25:46.329 --> 00:25:48.889
And that always kind of disappoints people at Buzz Sprout.

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I'm like, no, no, you're still number two, and you only lost by this, and half of that is because I'm an old musician.

00:25:54.009 --> 00:25:58.889
But like the now it's another whatever it is, nine bucks, something like that.

00:25:59.130 --> 00:26:05.849
I'm using their version of Auphonic that removes the ums out of this show.

00:26:06.009 --> 00:26:11.769
And there are plenty of ums in this show because it's live and Dave hasn't figured out what he's saying yet.

00:26:12.009 --> 00:26:17.610
So in fact, let me put in case you're going that way, here is my link in the chat room.

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So this will be in the show notes for captivate, and there is my affiliate link for Buzz Sprout.

00:26:26.170 --> 00:26:33.289
So supportthishow.com slash captivate, supportthishow.com slash buzzsprout, and that uses multiple tools there.

00:26:33.369 --> 00:26:40.250
I'm using a tool called Switchy that counts all of my anytime somebody clicks on those.

00:26:40.329 --> 00:26:44.009
So that allows me to see what people are clicking on.

00:26:44.409 --> 00:26:52.889
And then the other thing I'm using there is text expander, which if you work in support, you need text expander.

00:26:53.049 --> 00:26:56.250
So if you're tired of typing the same thing over and over and over, yes.

00:26:56.329 --> 00:26:57.210
And Daniel J.

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Lewis chiming in, the one and only.

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New episodes of uh the future of podcasting coming soon, kind of maybe.

00:27:04.650 --> 00:27:10.250
I found things work best when I talk about affiliates in relevant context, just like Dave did just now.

00:27:10.329 --> 00:27:10.569
Yeah.

00:27:10.889 --> 00:27:16.489
That goes back to a question that Ralph had asked earlier, by the way, about affiliate relationships.

00:27:16.809 --> 00:27:18.329
Yeah, it's uh oh, here we go.

00:27:18.489 --> 00:27:20.489
One of my goals is to build affiliate income.

00:27:20.569 --> 00:27:26.329
I would love to get some ideas of the best way to start the best system to create manage it from the end.

00:27:26.489 --> 00:27:29.049
First things first, what do you use?

00:27:29.369 --> 00:27:39.130
So, like for me, like for Ralph, being an accountant, either I'm sure Quicken has some sort of thing.

00:27:39.210 --> 00:27:40.730
I you I'm running over to grab mine.

00:27:41.049 --> 00:27:47.210
This one I don't have in my text expander, but I use a program called Monarch Money.

00:27:47.289 --> 00:27:51.610
I switched to it when crap, what was the name of that thing?

00:27:51.690 --> 00:27:54.170
That we it was free, everybody used it to budget.

00:27:54.489 --> 00:27:56.250
Mint Mint went out of business.

00:27:56.329 --> 00:28:02.170
I switched to Monarch Money, and you can get 50% off, and I'll get 30 bucks using the link in the show notes.

00:28:02.409 --> 00:28:15.210
So it's stuff like that when you can talk about something that you use because somebody, you know, brought up, you know, like I'm sure I have a link to to Walmart somewhere that is probably an affiliate link.

00:28:15.289 --> 00:28:16.730
It it's I'm with Daniel.

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I don't now you can use it as a sponsor.

00:28:20.489 --> 00:28:27.529
So if I wanted to, I could say, you know, this episode of Ask the Podcast Coach is brought to you by Monarch Money.

00:28:27.690 --> 00:28:33.769
Go to Askhepodcastcoach.com/slash monarch, which doesn't exist right now, but it will after the show.

00:28:34.089 --> 00:28:37.289
You know, that kind of stuff, you could treat it like a sponsor.

00:28:37.529 --> 00:29:03.449
But for me, one of the mistakes I see a lot of people do with affiliate marketing is they're like, oh, holy cow, you know, Hostgator pays you$100 per referral, and you're like, okay, well, I'm gonna start promoting Hostgator, except your show is about NASCAR and nobody's building websites, so it's the right product for the right um, you know, uh audience.

00:29:03.690 --> 00:29:05.769
And so I've probably told this story before.

00:29:06.089 --> 00:29:07.049
I'll keep it short.

00:29:07.210 --> 00:29:11.369
I promoted the Total Gym for a year on a weight loss show.

00:29:11.529 --> 00:29:11.929
Why?

00:29:12.089 --> 00:29:16.329
Because I had one and I loved it, and I made one sale in a year.

00:29:16.409 --> 00:29:19.929
I got my$75 commission and was like, huh.

00:29:20.009 --> 00:29:27.130
But then I started talking about fit decks, which I think I made$1.50 if somebody bought a fit deck.

00:29:27.289 --> 00:29:35.529
But it was the right product for the right audience, and people were buying three and four at a time, and all of a sudden I was getting hundred dollar affiliate checks.

00:29:35.849 --> 00:29:47.769
On my weight loss show back in the day when I was getting like 2,000 downloads an episode, I started promoting chronometer, and I got I think it was seven dollars or something if somebody signed up for their biggest tier.

00:29:47.849 --> 00:29:51.289
So it's it's really the right product for the right, right audience.

00:29:51.529 --> 00:29:58.889
And so, Ralph, with you being an accountant, I would, you know, you need a budget is another one.

00:29:59.049 --> 00:30:02.489
I know they have a an affiliate program where they did.

00:30:02.809 --> 00:30:04.089
Monarch Money.

00:30:04.329 --> 00:30:05.849
I don't know if Dave Ramsey.

00:30:05.929 --> 00:30:08.569
See, that's that's this that's the part that gets scary.

00:30:08.889 --> 00:30:13.049
Because I know Dave Ramsey has a budgeting tool.

00:30:13.130 --> 00:30:16.329
I used it for about six months before I went, yeah, it's enough of that.

00:30:16.569 --> 00:30:21.289
So yeah, apparently QuickBooks does not, but I can offer something internally, which is great.

00:30:21.449 --> 00:30:23.130
Now that's that's the best price.

00:30:23.289 --> 00:30:29.049
When you can promote your own stuff, that's where the money starts rolling in.

00:30:29.289 --> 00:30:44.170
Because now I did, when I was doing the chronometer thing, I did the math and I was making$52 CPM, which is a lot from you know the$5 CPM you're getting at Red Circle and Lipson and things like that.

00:30:44.489 --> 00:30:56.009
So, you know, and the chronometer, what was great about that one, and I'm probably still have a link somewhere, is the fact that it was cheaper and better than MyFitnessPal.

00:30:56.170 --> 00:30:58.250
And everybody knew about MyFitnessPal.

00:30:58.489 --> 00:31:02.489
And when I said, hey, this is better and cheaper, everybody went, Well, I gotta go check that out.

00:31:02.650 --> 00:31:04.170
And so, and I'd used it.

00:31:04.250 --> 00:31:05.049
That was another one.

00:31:05.130 --> 00:31:09.610
I I I use these things so I can talk about them from a first first hand standpoint.

00:31:09.849 --> 00:31:13.369
Jim, I know for a while you had some sort of food service or something.

00:31:13.690 --> 00:31:20.009
Yeah, we were using HelloFresh, and I had HelloFresh, and that God, that made me that was that was kind of sweet.

00:31:20.170 --> 00:31:22.650
They would not uh give it to you all at once.

00:31:22.809 --> 00:31:28.489
It was a credit towards what you were buying each month, and you could take one of those credits each month.

00:31:28.809 --> 00:31:31.449
And so every month for, I don't know, a year.

00:31:31.769 --> 00:31:36.250
You know, there's a credit on our HelloFresh bill, which was super nice, so you can do it that way.

00:31:36.409 --> 00:31:44.489
I I do think getting your own assigning those, and I use pretty links to do that, assigning those to your own domain is handy.

00:31:44.650 --> 00:31:46.170
So, like I threw this in chat.

00:31:46.250 --> 00:31:49.769
My Patreon account is at the average guy.tv slash Patreon.

00:31:50.089 --> 00:31:54.409
I think I've taken this down, but I think it was theavereguy.tv slash hello fresh.

00:31:54.569 --> 00:31:57.769
I did a Coinbase for a while, theavereguy.tv slash coinbase.

00:31:57.929 --> 00:32:01.130
I think that one's down too, but because our program has changed.

00:32:01.369 --> 00:32:10.409
The key, I think, is to make sure you're keeping track of all of those in some way, that you've got a good idea of where they're at and what they point to.

00:32:10.809 --> 00:32:17.690
Affiliate companies that do affiliate relationships are notorious for changing that link on a fairly regular basis.

00:32:18.009 --> 00:32:19.289
So make sure they work.

00:32:19.449 --> 00:32:24.489
I created for a while, I created a page on my site that was just all my affiliate links.

00:32:24.650 --> 00:32:30.730
So it was just a section where it would go and it would have the affiliate, like, hey, HelloFresh is here, blah blah here.

00:32:30.889 --> 00:32:33.690
So you could go to the average guy.tv slash affiliate.

00:32:33.769 --> 00:32:39.449
Although no one knows how to spell affiliate, so maybe you make it something easier than that.

00:32:39.769 --> 00:32:46.889
But it's a good way to kind of keep track of your own, you know, keep track of the affiliate relationships that you have from time to time.

00:32:47.049 --> 00:32:51.929
I would test them to make sure they're working and they're going to the right place and they're doing the right thing.

00:32:52.250 --> 00:32:57.529
The far and above, the Amazon affiliate relationship has done the best for me, anyways.

00:32:57.610 --> 00:33:00.489
Now I'm a gadget show, so I show a lot of those.

00:33:00.730 --> 00:33:04.969
And and Daniel's saying, yeah, he had joined through the my referral link on Coinbase.

00:33:05.049 --> 00:33:07.210
That one was also very profitable back in the day.

00:33:07.449 --> 00:33:13.289
They're back to Coinbase is back to$30 like per link you get.

00:33:13.369 --> 00:33:16.170
If they sign up and you sign up, they get$30, you get$30.

00:33:16.650 --> 00:33:18.569
That's nothing to shake a stick at, right?

00:33:18.809 --> 00:33:24.650
So it I don't have my Coinbase affiliate setup, but if you want to talk to me about that thread, chat, I'll get it to you.

00:33:24.969 --> 00:33:34.889
The but but Dave, I I would just say make sure you're keeping track of your affiliate relationships, making sure that at least once a month you're testing them to make sure they're still working.

00:33:35.130 --> 00:33:37.369
Yeah, that's you you hit the nail on the head.

00:33:37.529 --> 00:33:44.409
Either A, the product goes out of business, B, they go out of stock, or B, they just change.

00:33:44.650 --> 00:33:53.289
So let me, for anybody listening to this, I will try to explain what I'm doing here, but I am oh wait, I'm I went over to Zoom to share my screen.

00:33:53.369 --> 00:33:53.769
I forgot.

00:33:53.849 --> 00:33:55.369
I'm doing Ecamm Live.

00:33:55.610 --> 00:33:57.849
So I will switch over to my screen.

00:33:57.929 --> 00:34:02.170
So just to show you here, I am here's my Monarch money.

00:34:02.329 --> 00:34:05.049
I'm going to copy my referral link.

00:34:05.130 --> 00:34:08.329
I'm going to go into Switchy, which is just a link shortener.

00:34:08.409 --> 00:34:12.489
And all I have to do is paste that in there and go switch it.

00:34:12.650 --> 00:34:13.690
And it goes, okay.

00:34:13.769 --> 00:34:24.969
And I'm going to add, I've already added these things for, hey, in case I ever want to do more tracking, put a pixel on there from Facebook and a pixel from TikTok, because you know, I am the TikTok king.

00:34:25.130 --> 00:34:32.250
And down here, I'm going to say, hey, use they have these other like switchy.io and Swy.co.

00:34:32.409 --> 00:34:38.329
And I'm like, I added my own domain, which is supportthishow.com, and I'm going to say a monarch.

00:34:38.650 --> 00:34:45.289
Now, all I have to do, and down here, I'll just put, you know, affiliate link to monarch.

00:34:45.449 --> 00:34:53.529
If I wanted to, you can get super detailed here, and I have all my eCamm windows in my way, so I can't even see what I'm doing.

00:34:53.690 --> 00:34:59.289
But I will say, hey, this is a I could put it as software, but I'm going to say this is more of a service.

00:34:59.449 --> 00:35:09.610
So if I later want to go in and track which services are performing the best, but now I'll say, get my link, and it says, okay, you can't use this custom slug.

00:35:09.690 --> 00:35:11.849
Well, that means I'm probably already done this one.

00:35:12.089 --> 00:35:16.569
So I will go over here and say, show me all the links.

00:35:16.809 --> 00:35:19.690
Do I have Monarch in here already?

00:35:19.929 --> 00:35:22.489
And again, I can't see because I've got 30.

00:35:22.569 --> 00:35:23.049
Here it is.

00:35:23.210 --> 00:35:24.730
You're invited to this.

00:35:24.809 --> 00:35:26.809
So I've already got this link.

00:35:27.130 --> 00:35:35.369
So from there, and if I just want to test it, I can go here and say, Yeah, I used the wrong link for this, but there's fine.

00:35:35.690 --> 00:35:37.049
You're going to get 50% off.

00:35:37.210 --> 00:35:40.250
Now, the other thing I used is text expander.

00:35:40.409 --> 00:35:43.369
And I can come over here, and I don't think so.

00:35:43.449 --> 00:35:45.449
I have my snippets.

00:35:45.529 --> 00:35:45.929
There we go.

00:35:46.009 --> 00:35:48.409
And I'll say, I want to make a new snippet, please.

00:35:48.650 --> 00:35:52.170
And I will just paste in my lovely link to that.

00:35:52.409 --> 00:35:56.170
And I will say, I'm going to call this monarch money.

00:35:56.329 --> 00:36:01.609
And all I have to do is type in hashtag monarch.

00:36:02.489 --> 00:36:04.489
And yep, not used.

00:36:04.649 --> 00:36:04.969
Great.

00:36:05.049 --> 00:36:05.689
So I'm done.

00:36:05.769 --> 00:36:08.489
All I have to do is click outside of this now and it's saved.

00:36:08.649 --> 00:36:16.969
And now when I come over to the chat room and type in hashtag monarch, voila, it puts that in there.

00:36:17.049 --> 00:36:24.569
So when Jim says things like, I don't know, BuzzSprout, I just have to type in hashtag B-U-Z-Z, and there's my link.

00:36:24.730 --> 00:36:28.569
And then when somebody says whatever, and I don't think I have one for switchy.

00:36:28.649 --> 00:36:30.730
If not, I will make one here in a second.

00:36:31.049 --> 00:36:31.929
No, I have some.

00:36:32.169 --> 00:36:35.289
Oh, and this is where you run in when you have a lot of these.

00:36:35.609 --> 00:36:42.009
I have a keyboard shortcut, hashtag SWI, which shows me an image from Sweetwater.

00:36:42.169 --> 00:36:44.809
So hashtag Sweetwater SWI.

00:36:45.049 --> 00:36:50.009
So I will get a link for Switchy here, which of course is in Switchy.

00:36:50.329 --> 00:36:54.569
So I will go over here and say, which is also going to show all the switchy links.

00:36:54.649 --> 00:36:57.289
It's going to be a little icky if I press enter.

00:36:57.449 --> 00:37:00.009
But I use this thing all the time because I can go in.

00:37:00.169 --> 00:37:02.169
Apparently, it helps if you spell it correct.

00:37:02.250 --> 00:37:04.089
Oh, I have to go to all links.

00:37:04.489 --> 00:37:06.009
Now type in switchy.

00:37:06.329 --> 00:37:09.129
And it's just S W I T C H.

00:37:09.209 --> 00:37:12.089
Yeah, boost your whatever this thing is down here.

00:37:12.250 --> 00:37:16.889
And right now, and I don't understand why, it's still on App Sumo.

00:37:17.369 --> 00:37:18.009
It's been there.

00:37:18.089 --> 00:37:21.369
It's$39 a year for a once for a lifetime deal.

00:37:21.529 --> 00:37:35.289
And you can also, if you go to right now, as of January 2026, if you go to power of podcasting.com, that is kind of a link tree looking thing from switchy.

00:37:35.369 --> 00:37:38.809
And all of these links are then trackable.

00:37:39.049 --> 00:37:41.449
So I can see who's clicked on what.

00:37:41.609 --> 00:37:47.929
I don't really recommend these kind of sites because there is zero SEO.

00:37:48.169 --> 00:37:52.009
But I use if if somebody says, where can I find all of your stuff?

00:37:52.169 --> 00:37:54.329
I go, Oh, go to powerpodcasting.com.

00:37:54.409 --> 00:38:00.009
And in this case, I just have it forwarded to this particular site.

00:38:00.250 --> 00:38:01.769
So lots of fun.

00:38:01.849 --> 00:38:04.250
That's that's how I do all my affiliate stuff.

00:38:04.409 --> 00:38:11.929
Daniel says, I made a text expander snippet for simply my domain, and then it pops up an empty field for whatever comes after the blank.

00:38:12.169 --> 00:38:18.569
So I type dot TAP for the URL and type the rest instead of hundreds of URL snippets.

00:38:18.730 --> 00:38:20.009
That's why he's Daniel J.

00:38:20.169 --> 00:38:20.730
Lewis.

00:38:21.049 --> 00:38:21.369
See?

00:38:21.689 --> 00:38:23.449
He's using that noodle.

00:38:23.689 --> 00:38:26.089
I should share my app sumo affiliate link.

00:38:26.169 --> 00:38:26.489
I should.

00:38:26.569 --> 00:38:28.409
Let's go app sumo.

00:38:28.969 --> 00:38:32.169
Chat now has every affiliate link that link ever existed.

00:38:32.569 --> 00:38:33.289
No, it's good though.

00:38:33.369 --> 00:38:35.929
It's good that that's it's a great question, right?

00:38:36.089 --> 00:38:39.689
And managing these things because they can get away from you pretty fast.

00:38:40.009 --> 00:38:46.409
Well, the other thing, if you go to schoolofpodcasting.com, I think it's under my about section.

00:38:47.209 --> 00:38:48.009
Somebody asked.

00:38:48.169 --> 00:38:52.409
They said, Hey, I want to use your affiliate link for Captivate.

00:38:52.489 --> 00:38:53.609
Where can I find it?

00:38:53.769 --> 00:38:58.329
And then that person then came back and said, you know, you should just make a page with all your affiliate links.

00:38:58.489 --> 00:39:06.569
So if you go to about on the School of Podcasting, you'll see I have it creatively named affiliate links, except I clicked on the wrong one.

00:39:06.730 --> 00:39:09.049
Come on, mouse, be my friend.

00:39:09.289 --> 00:39:10.250
What's up with that?

00:39:10.329 --> 00:39:12.969
That's really uh part of it is because I'm logged in, I see.

00:39:13.609 --> 00:39:14.649
This is why you test.

00:39:15.209 --> 00:39:15.449
That's right.

00:39:16.569 --> 00:39:16.969
There we go.

00:39:17.129 --> 00:39:18.009
Support this show.

00:39:18.169 --> 00:39:27.769
So these are all here's my AI writing tools, here's my business operations, here's my and Jason mentioned some other invoicing tool I'd never heard of.

00:39:27.929 --> 00:39:29.449
So I might look into that.

00:39:29.529 --> 00:39:34.409
I use waves for that, wave apps, if you just want to track income and outcome.

00:39:34.569 --> 00:39:39.129
But this is something that, and I'm starting to see where more people are going to this page.

00:39:39.369 --> 00:39:41.449
So I just put all my affiliate links on this.

00:39:41.609 --> 00:39:41.849
Yeah.

00:39:42.009 --> 00:39:44.250
Randy says affiliate overload.

00:39:44.409 --> 00:39:44.809
Yeah.

00:39:45.049 --> 00:39:47.609
But well, but Dave, it's tax time, though.

00:39:47.689 --> 00:39:49.769
This is another thing you need to take into consideration.

00:39:49.849 --> 00:39:55.769
All every single one of those affiliate links you're gonna need to get a document from or check back in on.

00:39:55.849 --> 00:40:01.529
Now I'm not a tax advisor, but it nor do I play one on TV and I didn't even stay at a holiday and express function.

00:40:02.489 --> 00:40:09.449
The the you're gonna want to make sure that you're reporting that income that's coming in.

00:40:09.689 --> 00:40:26.809
This is this is one of those things where, like, if you're gonna dabble in this, this could actually be harder on when it comes tax time than you know, you may, because all of a sudden you're now recording, you you become self-employed when you report this kind of income.

00:40:27.049 --> 00:40:37.369
And so if you don't regularly do that and you're using tax software, you might have to purchase the version that is for small businesses or some of those kinds of things.

00:40:37.689 --> 00:40:48.649
So I I kind of think, I mean, I'm not telling you what to do, but I think if you're gonna do this affiliate stuff, even with like Amazon, I think you really need to go for it to make it worth, you know, the dabbling.

00:40:48.730 --> 00:41:02.169
If you do Amazon and you you make 150 bucks in a year, that may not even cover the filing, you know, if you have to buy an advanced version of tax software or get help doing that, or even your time, it may not even be worth it.

00:41:02.329 --> 00:41:06.250
So I think it's I listen, if you're gonna dabble test, that's fine.

00:41:06.409 --> 00:41:08.409
I just think it's one of those things that go in.

00:41:08.489 --> 00:41:09.929
If you're gonna do it, go all in.

00:41:10.089 --> 00:41:11.849
If you're not gonna do it, don't.

00:41:12.250 --> 00:41:16.409
Like it's not worth it for less than a certain amount of money.

00:41:16.569 --> 00:41:20.089
I mean, and it again, and it may vary in your jurisdiction.

00:41:20.250 --> 00:41:21.609
This has been my own personal thing.

00:41:21.769 --> 00:41:26.250
It's like for the little that I make on it sometimes, I'm like, why am I doing this?

00:41:26.489 --> 00:41:30.089
You know, is this really worth my time to track all this stuff?

00:41:30.250 --> 00:41:33.129
So I think you have to ask yourself that question as well.

00:41:33.449 --> 00:41:35.209
Yeah, well, you said the magic word.

00:41:35.289 --> 00:41:36.649
I'll go back to this one.

00:41:37.609 --> 00:41:44.089
Amazon makes their this, they make their affiliate program impossible to understand.

00:41:44.489 --> 00:41:50.809
Their rules, their rules are really so I use this is the best six bucks I've ever ever spent, which is Genius Link.

00:41:51.209 --> 00:41:52.730
And so here I can.

00:41:53.209 --> 00:41:57.129
Go in and let's see what's the last thing I put in here.

00:41:57.209 --> 00:42:00.489
The Audio Technica AT89.

00:42:00.569 --> 00:42:11.849
I don't even know what this is, but if I go to it, this is what the big thing about Genius Link is it says, hey, we may earn from qualifying purchases from Amazon and other retailers.

00:42:12.009 --> 00:42:20.250
So this way I can always link to this and I never have to worry about Amazon going, you didn't disclose that this was an affiliate link, and we're going to kick you out of the program.

00:42:20.569 --> 00:42:22.889
And so that's what this does.

00:42:23.049 --> 00:42:30.730
It then I have to go in and manually add my sweet water link because sweetwater's better, but it's here.

00:42:30.969 --> 00:42:39.529
And if you want an inexpensive shotgun mic, that's the one that Tom, the guy that does all the bad dad puns.

00:42:39.689 --> 00:42:40.889
That's going to drive me nuts.

00:42:41.049 --> 00:42:52.250
Anyway, so this is you just go in and when you make a new link, you grab your link without your Amazon Associates ID, and then it automatically adds it.

00:42:52.329 --> 00:42:56.809
And then I can add BNH and Best Buy and Walmart.

00:42:56.889 --> 00:43:03.769
And let me see if I can find a link here that maybe has like if I go to like that one we saw.

00:43:04.569 --> 00:43:07.369
Oh, that just in that case I just had one link.

00:43:07.529 --> 00:43:09.929
But some of these will have multiple products.

00:43:10.169 --> 00:43:11.609
Maybe the Osbot.

00:43:12.969 --> 00:43:13.369
Nope.

00:43:13.609 --> 00:43:15.289
Some of these have just Amazon.

00:43:15.369 --> 00:43:16.089
It really depends.

00:43:16.169 --> 00:43:24.809
But I love the fact that it kind of handles the whole Amazon, hey, this is an affiliate link kind of thing.

00:43:24.969 --> 00:43:26.409
And it gives you reports.

00:43:26.569 --> 00:43:33.929
And the other thing it does is after I started using her for like a month, it's like, you're getting a ton of traffic from Italy.

00:43:34.089 --> 00:43:47.449
Now I don't know what a ton means, but it was, I was like, so I went over and set up an Amazon Associates account in Italy and put that in there, and they handle the whole, hey, if somebody's coming from the UK, give them this link.

00:43:47.689 --> 00:43:50.169
So that's something else that it does.

00:43:50.329 --> 00:43:55.769
That if you really want to do Amazon links, that's it's six bucks.

00:43:55.849 --> 00:43:57.289
It's the best six bucks ever.

00:43:57.449 --> 00:44:05.689
And the beauty of it is when, like, especially in podcasting gear, lighting and stuff like that, they'll just they'll make a great kit.

00:44:05.769 --> 00:44:11.529
Like, oh, here's the newer three light set with remotes, blah, blah, blah.

00:44:11.689 --> 00:44:13.209
180 bucks for three lights.

00:44:13.289 --> 00:44:14.649
You know, that's amazing.

00:44:14.809 --> 00:44:18.649
And you put it up and they sell out, and it's like out of stock.

00:44:18.730 --> 00:44:21.449
And you're like, it's it's been out of stock since 2022.

00:44:21.609 --> 00:44:23.209
Like, yeah, it ain't coming back.

00:44:23.449 --> 00:44:25.689
So now you have that link everywhere.

00:44:25.849 --> 00:44:31.129
You can update the link to point at something else, which happens unfortunately more than I like to.

00:44:31.369 --> 00:44:41.209
And GeniusLink will actually email you and you like you log in and it says, Hey, you got two links that are dead, or they're linking to out of stock products.

00:44:41.369 --> 00:44:42.730
Do you want to point to something else?

00:44:42.889 --> 00:44:51.369
So yeah, Daniel says, I'm still angry at Amazon for kicking me out for not replying to their warnings when I replied immediately.

00:44:51.609 --> 00:44:56.329
Yeah, I uh my favorite Amazon story, and they they were absolutely right.

00:44:56.489 --> 00:44:58.489
I used the wrong link by accident.

00:44:58.730 --> 00:45:03.529
You can, I forget what it was, you know, an iframe or something, and you're not allowed to use those.

00:45:03.609 --> 00:45:04.569
And I was like, oh crap.

00:45:04.809 --> 00:45:09.049
And I actually had a guy on the phone from Amazon, and I'm like, hey, I changed it.

00:45:09.209 --> 00:45:10.329
Like, I'm so sorry.

00:45:10.489 --> 00:45:13.209
I I know that's it was just I clicked on the wrong thing.

00:45:13.289 --> 00:45:14.569
And I go, Am I in?

00:45:14.730 --> 00:45:17.049
And he goes, Well, no, Kevin has to approve this.

00:45:17.129 --> 00:45:23.049
And I'm like, Okay, well, tell Kevin I'm really sorry, and I fixed it and it we're good to go, and I won't do that again.

00:45:23.209 --> 00:45:27.849
And Kevin came over and looked at me and just gave me the old thumbs down, and I was like, What?

00:45:28.089 --> 00:45:32.809
And what was really weird is I thought it was gone forever, and then somebody said, No, just sign back up.

00:45:32.969 --> 00:45:33.929
And I was like, What?

00:45:34.089 --> 00:45:37.929
So I'm like, Well, I don't want to be weird and slimy about it.

00:45:38.009 --> 00:45:44.250
So I signed up with my name and the same email address and everything else, and they let me right back in.

00:45:44.409 --> 00:45:49.289
And then I made the mistake of saying, support this show, use this link below.

00:45:49.529 --> 00:45:57.769
And even though that makes sense because your audience wants to help you, and you know, you you've given them another reason why to shop at Amazon.

00:45:57.929 --> 00:46:01.689
No, that got me kicked out, and that's when I went over and actually read the terms.

00:46:01.849 --> 00:46:07.369
And even in my book, Profit from your podcast, I even said you wrote a book about this.

00:46:08.250 --> 00:46:18.089
And even in the book, it's like, look, do your best to read Amazon's like terms of service, but don't feel bad when you don't understand them because they don't make any sense.

00:46:18.329 --> 00:46:18.649
Yeah.

00:46:18.809 --> 00:46:28.250
And Daniel says, aside from the fact they claim I didn't respond when I did, they also claimed I violated their social media rules, which I proved I did not.

00:46:28.329 --> 00:46:28.649
Yeah.

00:46:28.809 --> 00:46:36.969
And this is where the Amazons, the YouTubes, the Spotifies of the world, they don't care about you.

00:46:37.209 --> 00:46:39.209
You know, I've been dealing with banks.

00:46:39.369 --> 00:46:47.049
My, my, I believe in the end, my PayPal account got hacked because I found out that there was another user on my PayPal account.

00:46:47.129 --> 00:46:51.929
And I found out a couple days ago there was another credit card on my account that wasn't mine.

00:46:52.329 --> 00:46:59.129
And in the process, that person in PayPal was transferring money to my other account.

00:46:59.209 --> 00:47:02.329
Like he's trying to take$1,000 out of my PayPal account.

00:47:02.409 --> 00:47:10.329
And jokes on him, there wasn't a thousand dollars in my PayPal account, but it went into my my I was switching from one bank account to another.

00:47:10.489 --> 00:47:13.129
And he ended up kind of half hacking both of them.

00:47:13.289 --> 00:47:16.329
And dealing with banks is like ridiculous.

00:47:16.569 --> 00:47:18.489
It just, they, you know, they love stuff.

00:47:18.569 --> 00:47:21.129
Yeah, it was it was very scary, especially when I saw the credit card.

00:47:21.209 --> 00:47:22.329
I was like, wait.

00:47:22.569 --> 00:47:24.809
So I have changed my password on everything.

00:47:24.889 --> 00:47:32.250
I use one password for everything, but somehow they had hacked my PayPal account, and I immediately changed the password on that.

00:47:32.489 --> 00:47:36.009
My checking account, I changed my account number.

00:47:36.089 --> 00:47:37.369
I use acorns for that.

00:47:37.529 --> 00:47:39.449
Do I have an affiliate link for acorns?

00:47:39.529 --> 00:47:50.730
If you're not using acorns, you should because every time I don't have which, oh, it does help if you spelled the uh acrons.

00:47:51.209 --> 00:47:52.009
Acorns.

00:47:52.089 --> 00:47:53.769
I should have an affiliate link for acorns.

00:47:53.929 --> 00:47:54.409
I don't.

00:47:54.730 --> 00:47:55.769
We did have a question.

00:47:55.929 --> 00:47:57.609
I saw one come up here.

00:47:57.929 --> 00:48:08.809
Do either of your hosts, but acorns, by the way, to finish that thought, they have a deal where A, you earn interest on your stuff, which is who who knew that.

00:48:09.129 --> 00:48:18.009
But also, if I buy something for, let's say, a dollar eighty, they take the 20 cents and put it into my savings account.

00:48:18.169 --> 00:48:20.649
And I can do all sorts of fun stuff like that.

00:48:20.730 --> 00:48:24.489
But it's that's that's again going banks are fun.

00:48:24.569 --> 00:48:28.969
That one's actually they're really their their customer sort support was really cool.

00:48:29.289 --> 00:48:32.809
I do have an acorns affiliate link.

00:48:33.049 --> 00:48:35.129
I just don't have it set up to text expander.

00:48:35.289 --> 00:48:43.369
But meanwhile, back at the ranch, the lovely, the lovely chat.

00:48:44.409 --> 00:48:47.289
Um, we have a couple questions here.

00:48:47.529 --> 00:48:52.809
Do either of you hosts or anyone in the chat have experience with angry audio products?

00:48:53.129 --> 00:48:53.849
Never heard of it.

00:48:54.009 --> 00:49:00.169
Specifically, the chameleon smooth for the sure SM 7B.

00:49:01.049 --> 00:49:01.849
Never heard of it.

00:49:01.929 --> 00:49:02.889
Have you ever heard of that, Jim?

00:49:02.969 --> 00:49:05.129
That's a you have stumped the band, my friend.

00:49:05.529 --> 00:49:06.730
Congratulations.

00:49:07.209 --> 00:49:09.369
So that one I've never heard of.

00:49:09.689 --> 00:49:16.329
The Z Man said, I'm in operation Build My Brand after being away for a spell.

00:49:16.569 --> 00:49:18.409
What is the best start first?

00:49:18.649 --> 00:49:19.849
Internet radio.

00:49:20.329 --> 00:49:23.049
What is up with my there we go.

00:49:23.369 --> 00:49:26.649
Or internet radio station or podcast.

00:49:26.889 --> 00:49:29.529
I have a dual website for the two.

00:49:29.929 --> 00:49:31.049
Podcast, my friend.

00:49:31.209 --> 00:49:34.489
Podcast, it is Ask the Podcast Coach, so I'm biased on that.

00:49:34.649 --> 00:49:35.769
I have a radio station.

00:49:35.849 --> 00:49:38.169
I use a although I'll probably cancel this.

00:49:38.409 --> 00:49:41.609
I use a company called Radio Lies because they were on App Sumo.

00:49:41.849 --> 00:49:44.649
Even when they're not on App Sumo, it's 10 bucks a month.

00:49:44.889 --> 00:49:57.529
And the first thing you will learn is obviously internet radio, much popular outside the US than just because you can see your stats and you're like, oh look, I'm huge in France.

00:49:58.009 --> 00:50:06.169
But it's it's one of those things where you upload a bunch of MP3 files, and then I have mine like play these two files.

00:50:06.329 --> 00:50:14.730
So it's uh clips from Ask the Podcast Coach or uh from your podcast consultants, because those are are actually short, and then play this ad.

00:50:14.809 --> 00:50:20.730
And the ad is has a coupon, use the coupon code radio when you sign up at the school of podcasting.

00:50:20.809 --> 00:50:26.329
And I've had this thing for probably three years, and not once has somebody used the coupon code radio.

00:50:26.730 --> 00:50:29.609
So it's you know, and it's it's an ego stroke.

00:50:29.689 --> 00:50:38.009
You're like, ooh, look, you know, somebody from you know, a company or a country I can't pronounce is listening to my show.

00:50:38.250 --> 00:50:44.169
And but it's it's one of those things if you don't promote it, and it's it's the direct opposite of a podcast.

00:50:44.250 --> 00:50:54.250
If I do I have that set up somewhere, is it like schoolapodcasting.com slash radio or something, but it's you join in the middle of an episode.

00:50:54.489 --> 00:50:56.250
Nope, it's definitely not slash radio.

00:50:56.329 --> 00:50:59.609
That takes you to another expired link.

00:50:59.849 --> 00:51:05.609
It's just I for me, for me, for my show, internet radio did absolutely nothing for me.

00:51:05.689 --> 00:51:14.730
So I would say a podcast where it's time shifted, people get to pick what they want to listen to, as opposed to, hey, here's an episode you're in the middle of that you don't want to listen to.

00:51:14.889 --> 00:51:17.529
You have to sit here for another four minutes until it's done.

00:51:17.689 --> 00:51:20.169
Yeah, so I would say definitely a podcast.

00:51:20.409 --> 00:51:27.449
But it used to be there were a ton of internet radio stations back in the day in Apple Podcasts and iTunes.

00:51:27.609 --> 00:51:29.769
So you got more exposure.

00:51:30.009 --> 00:51:32.009
Now it's, you know, not a big deal.

00:51:32.169 --> 00:51:35.209
So yes, Jason says acorns is great.

00:51:35.289 --> 00:51:45.129
I've taken the money I use to spend on cans of dip, cans of dip, and other things like beef, jerky, and soda per week, and I've saved over$20,000.

00:51:45.529 --> 00:51:45.929
Very good.

00:51:46.089 --> 00:51:57.369
I quit dipping almost 10 years ago, and your friends quit finding Dixie cups of dip from three weeks ago that are moldy because there's nothing better than moldy dip cup.

00:51:57.529 --> 00:51:58.009
Mm-mm.

00:51:58.329 --> 00:51:59.609
Just like mom used to make.

00:51:59.769 --> 00:52:12.250
I had a friend that used to do that, and we'd play ping pong, and you'd find a cup of dip from like three weeks ago, and you're like, Yeah, yeah, just give me a hobby so that I can start spitting in cups.

00:52:12.409 --> 00:52:14.089
Boy, I miss those days.

00:52:14.969 --> 00:52:18.329
Jason says, I can't change my damn PayPal phone number.

00:52:18.409 --> 00:52:26.089
I've deleted an 18-year-old number multiple times, and I always get the prompt, confirm your info, and that's the old number every time.

00:52:26.250 --> 00:52:32.409
Yeah, some of these big companies are just you know, customer service is not their strong suit.

00:52:32.730 --> 00:52:34.649
So keep that in mind.

00:52:34.969 --> 00:52:37.289
You know who I don't want to spit on, Jim?

00:52:37.609 --> 00:52:38.809
Maybe our awesome supporters.

00:52:39.049 --> 00:52:39.929
Our awesome supporters.

00:52:40.009 --> 00:52:41.609
Yeah, I would never spit on these people.

00:52:41.769 --> 00:52:42.809
And you say, like who?

00:52:42.969 --> 00:52:50.649
And I'm like, well, all the people, if you're watching on YouTube, people like jcaldigital.org or Matt Talk Online.

00:52:50.889 --> 00:52:51.849
Yeah, that's that's Mr.

00:52:51.929 --> 00:52:52.649
Jason right there.

00:52:52.730 --> 00:52:57.129
And of course, the content creators account.com is in the the uh chat room as well.

00:52:57.289 --> 00:53:00.809
Jody's in here, voiceovers and vocals.com.

00:53:01.049 --> 00:53:05.209
All sorts of fun people are supporting the show, and we deeply appreciate it.

00:53:05.529 --> 00:53:08.969
But if I can get my mouse to work, everything it's just one of those days.

00:53:09.129 --> 00:53:12.329
The show is brought to you by thescho of podcasting.com.

00:53:12.409 --> 00:53:14.329
So if you have more questions, hey, guess what?

00:53:14.489 --> 00:53:22.089
That comes with five hours of one-on-one consulting with little old me, along with the courses and the amazing community.

00:53:22.250 --> 00:53:28.489
The only thing cooler than the world's greatest chat room is the world's greatest community over at theschofodcasting.com.

00:53:28.649 --> 00:53:34.969
And if you need some feedback on your show, because it's not just growing the way you want it to, check out podcasthotseat.com.

00:53:35.049 --> 00:53:40.009
The last two hot seats I've done, I've really had to struggle to find something that I like.

00:53:40.089 --> 00:53:41.129
Oh, I wouldn't do that.

00:53:41.369 --> 00:53:43.609
Usually it's almost always the call to action.

00:53:43.769 --> 00:53:54.489
I have one today where I'm doing a uh and the call to action is like, hey, here's here's the uh the thing I'm gonna measure my success with, and yet you never mention it.

00:53:54.569 --> 00:53:56.329
And that's absolutely normal, by the way.

00:53:56.409 --> 00:53:58.169
We are horrible at promoting ourselves.

00:53:58.409 --> 00:54:01.449
If you go to Ask the Podcast Coach, you're looking at podpage.

00:54:01.609 --> 00:54:08.809
If you want to try pod page, go to tripodpage.com, and that is where I am the head of podcasting over there.

00:54:08.889 --> 00:54:24.489
And if you need more Jim Cullison, and hey, who doesn't, then take your mouse, go right over to theaveregeguy.tv and check out home gadget geeks, where Jim keeps you up to date on all the the gadgets that are geeky and you use them in your home.

00:54:24.649 --> 00:54:27.849
That's why he calls it, you guessed it, home gadget geeks.

00:54:28.169 --> 00:54:33.609
And also, it's time for the wheel o names.

00:54:33.929 --> 00:54:35.929
And so who will it be?

00:54:36.649 --> 00:54:39.369
It's interesting that okay, that's good to know.

00:54:39.529 --> 00:54:44.089
The Ecamm things that are always in my way do not show when we go to the wheel of names.

00:54:44.169 --> 00:54:50.489
So will it be Ralph from the Financially Confident Christian or Glenn from Horse Radio Network or Jody from Audio Branding?

00:54:50.649 --> 00:54:51.689
Well, we're gonna find out.

00:54:51.849 --> 00:54:56.730
In fact, just to make it fair, we'll click shuffle and then we will click the wheel.

00:54:56.889 --> 00:54:59.049
It spins round and round.

00:54:59.849 --> 00:55:07.369
And it's gonna be, it could be Ralph, it could be Ralph, it's not so close, Ralph, the content creator's accountant.

00:55:07.529 --> 00:55:11.209
It is John Munz, who's been a supporter for a long time.

00:55:11.449 --> 00:55:17.209
And if you go over to johnmunz.com, you will see all the different things that he does because he does quite a bit.

00:55:17.369 --> 00:55:20.169
But thank you, John, for your awesome supportage.

00:55:20.329 --> 00:55:22.329
Supportage, I think I just made up a verb.

00:55:22.569 --> 00:55:25.609
What it is it what is it when you're supporting Ask the Podcast Coach?

00:55:25.769 --> 00:55:26.649
It's supportage.

00:55:26.809 --> 00:55:28.329
You're soaking in it, myge.

00:55:29.129 --> 00:55:31.849
If you go over, nobody gets that.

00:55:31.929 --> 00:55:34.329
You have to be 50 to get that joke, at least.

00:55:34.569 --> 00:55:37.769
If you're sitting there thinking, hey, does this show save you time or money?

00:55:37.929 --> 00:55:39.289
Does it save you headaches?

00:55:39.449 --> 00:55:40.649
Does it keep you educated?

00:55:40.809 --> 00:55:42.489
Did we help you solve a problem?

00:55:42.649 --> 00:55:48.329
Well, then you could go over to Asthepodcastcoach.com slash awesome and become an awesome supporter today.

00:55:48.409 --> 00:55:49.929
And it doesn't have to be monthly.

00:55:50.009 --> 00:55:54.569
If you just want to throw us a bone once, yep, those work as well.

00:55:55.049 --> 00:55:57.529
So, yes, Jason says, great segue.

00:55:58.250 --> 00:56:06.809
Yeah, John says, I used acorns for years and it creates slight dilemma for me every time a vendor offers a roundup for charity option during your purchase.

00:56:06.889 --> 00:56:08.889
I end up thinking the best charity is me.

00:56:09.129 --> 00:56:10.730
I'm not the only one who thinks that.

00:56:10.889 --> 00:56:12.889
I'm like, no, no, I got my own charity.

00:56:12.969 --> 00:56:15.209
It's called, you know, David70.

00:56:15.369 --> 00:56:16.409
I'm gonna need that.

00:56:16.569 --> 00:56:18.730
So keep that in mind.

00:56:19.449 --> 00:56:22.809
We haven't talked about where is my note, joy?

00:56:23.049 --> 00:56:24.089
Oh, here's a good question.

00:56:24.169 --> 00:56:25.209
We'll ask this for Ray.

00:56:25.289 --> 00:56:27.929
Ray's in the chat room from around the layout.com.

00:56:28.409 --> 00:56:33.689
Jim, how what's the factor for editing your show?

00:56:33.769 --> 00:56:45.849
And and what we mean by this is like, okay, if I do an hour-long show, just because it's easy to do math with that, how long should it take me to edit an hour-long show?

00:56:46.089 --> 00:56:48.329
Yeah, my standard answer is six to one, right?

00:56:48.409 --> 00:56:50.329
That's what I tell people when they first start podcasting.

00:56:50.569 --> 00:56:51.049
Six to one.

00:56:56.250 --> 00:57:01.209
I've gotten mine down to about two and a half or three to one.

00:57:01.769 --> 00:57:03.689
For just the editing or the whole thing?

00:57:03.929 --> 00:57:09.769
Oh no, I'm thinking about the whole thing, show notes, posts thing, like my my editing part.

00:57:10.009 --> 00:57:12.169
Yeah, just the like one to one.

00:57:12.250 --> 00:57:13.849
So if it's so if it's an hour.

00:57:14.730 --> 00:57:16.730
See, to me I always said like one point five.

00:57:16.809 --> 00:57:20.889
So if it's an hour-long show, because I'm gonna stop and make edits, it's not gonna be an hour.

00:57:22.730 --> 00:57:23.769
I do very little edits.

00:57:23.849 --> 00:57:26.409
Like I try to make it so I don't have to do a ton of edits to it.

00:57:26.649 --> 00:57:27.289
Well, that's it.

00:57:27.449 --> 00:57:30.329
That's the old and I realize for that one.

00:57:30.409 --> 00:57:30.569
Yeah.

00:57:30.730 --> 00:57:34.089
Yeah, I used to say 1.5 to 2 when you first start out.

00:57:34.250 --> 00:57:40.489
And that's where I where I always say the more you plan, the less you edit.

00:57:40.809 --> 00:57:42.489
The less you plan, the more you edit.

00:57:42.649 --> 00:57:44.730
So it's kind of tricky.

00:57:44.889 --> 00:57:54.569
And then there were things like you know, like in Ray's case, he's got an SM7B, he sounds great, you know, so he's not gonna have to do a lot of editing on the making it sound better side.

00:57:54.809 --> 00:57:58.730
He's just looking for, you know, things that don't deliver value.

00:57:58.969 --> 00:58:11.129
The things that what can happen sometimes that'll boost that is you just take your audio, you don't even listen to it, and you run it through a phonic, and then somebody is, you know, they actually breathe.

00:58:11.369 --> 00:58:23.689
And in some cases, they're just a little louder than normal when they breathe enough to where Auphonic thinks it's a word, and it's like, oh, this word is much quieter than the rest of them.

00:58:23.769 --> 00:58:30.569
And then all of a sudden, somebody goes from sounding like this to because it's you know a breath.

00:58:30.649 --> 00:58:33.769
And you're like, so that can then triple your editing time.

00:58:33.849 --> 00:58:48.889
And there are times when I will go, you just have to go back, and that's where I will A, listen with earbuds, B, throw it like Pocket Cast, Overcast, Podurama, which I still think is one of the best names of a podcast app ever.

00:58:49.289 --> 00:58:54.009
You can upload files on the web and then download them on your phone.

00:58:54.089 --> 00:58:56.009
So I'll go listen in the car if I really go.

00:58:56.089 --> 00:58:56.889
How does this sound?

00:58:56.969 --> 00:59:02.250
I'll listen on the, I'll go to where people listen to podcasts to go, you know, in the car I don't even notice the breathing.

00:59:02.329 --> 00:59:03.529
I don't notice this and that.

00:59:03.609 --> 00:59:06.089
And a lot of times we edit stuff.

00:59:06.250 --> 00:59:11.129
Yeah, Todd the Gator says, with my AI editing went from five to one to two to one.

00:59:11.449 --> 00:59:43.689
Yeah, I remember it used to take me four hours to edit this show because it's live, and a lot of times we're figuring out what we're saying, and I'm really I just did one because I'm not sure what I'm saying, and we double words, so like like when you do this, and Descript was great for ripping all those out and doing pretty good with the edits, and I have sent switch because the last time I looked at the script, I go, Is this the same company?

00:59:43.849 --> 00:59:48.569
Like, I hadn't used it in like three weeks, and we kind of joke that they changed their interface a lot.

00:59:48.809 --> 00:59:52.409
I literally didn't like is this like what what happened?

00:59:52.569 --> 00:59:59.129
And so Buzz Sprout has a tool which is just all phonic in the background that will remove your ums.

00:59:59.209 --> 01:00:02.409
And I was like, Well, let's let's see how this works.

01:00:02.569 --> 01:00:05.129
And so far, I haven't really heard a bad edit.

01:00:05.289 --> 01:00:11.129
Now it's leaving in all the double words and things like that, but I'm like, people say those things.

01:00:11.209 --> 01:00:14.009
People say as long as it's not distracting.

01:00:14.250 --> 01:00:24.329
I once worked with a teacher, and every time she paused, she would say something and then she'd pause, and then she said something, and she would pause.

01:00:24.409 --> 01:00:28.730
And like, and once you noticed it, it was like nails on a chalkboard.

01:00:29.289 --> 01:00:34.169
You know, Jeff says, Jeff C says, if you have guests, that's where the variable is for me.

01:00:34.329 --> 01:00:36.889
Some guests are a nightmare to get the sound decent.

01:00:36.969 --> 01:00:38.250
Yep, that's true.

01:00:38.809 --> 01:01:00.009
That's where I I spent the 300 bucks on the accentize one plug-in, and Chris Stone has one he mentioned a while ago that's a really good, like just magic kind of plug-in that pulls out you know, room noise, it pulls out reverb.

01:01:00.409 --> 01:01:03.449
Drevive Pro, I believe, is what I'm using.

01:01:03.609 --> 01:01:04.009
Yeah.

01:01:04.169 --> 01:01:09.529
And this thing takes out room noise, it but it's it's costly.

01:01:09.609 --> 01:01:11.049
It was like 300 bucks.

01:01:11.209 --> 01:01:18.649
And I was but when I have yeah, and there's even one more, like if I wanted the complete pro, it's 1300 bucks.

01:01:18.730 --> 01:01:21.849
But I got they have a D-Revive for 99.

01:01:22.250 --> 01:01:25.289
They and I do not have an affiliate link for Xantiz.

01:01:25.369 --> 01:01:36.489
I did wish I did, but I use D-Revive Pro, and I just I kept getting horrible audio from people uh from my one client, and it saved me hours and hours.

01:01:36.569 --> 01:01:42.089
And I was like, okay, it's 300 bucks, but I'm not staying up till two in the morning editing your crap anymore.

01:01:42.250 --> 01:01:43.849
So it was it was worth it.

01:01:44.009 --> 01:01:48.250
And you know, it's something I could somewhat write off on my taxes.

01:01:48.409 --> 01:01:52.730
So yeah, Chris Stone, D room and D revive from Xentize.

01:01:53.049 --> 01:01:54.409
And what was the other one you mentioned?

01:01:54.489 --> 01:01:55.449
There was another company.

01:01:55.529 --> 01:02:00.489
It was like Gold Audio or something, something with a G or a C.

01:02:00.809 --> 01:02:01.209
I don't know.

01:02:01.369 --> 01:02:03.049
Can I buy a Val something?

01:02:03.129 --> 01:02:07.609
I forget what I forget what the the one that he had mentioned that wasn't from Xentais.

01:02:08.329 --> 01:02:11.769
Ralph says, I'm thinking I meet might need a program for myself today.

01:02:11.929 --> 01:02:16.009
I sunseted one of my shows, and now I keep having the feeling of doing another one.

01:02:16.169 --> 01:02:17.849
Does anyone else get this feeling?

01:02:18.009 --> 01:02:20.250
Yes, sit on that thought for a week.

01:02:21.049 --> 01:02:21.929
On a week.

01:02:22.169 --> 01:02:27.849
Because I have almost started the podcast pitch slap multiple times.

01:02:28.009 --> 01:02:31.289
And then I go, wait, is there let me check.

01:02:31.449 --> 01:02:34.809
Is ChatGPT are there still 24 hours in a day?

01:02:35.049 --> 01:02:36.649
And it'll be like, yes, Dave, you're correct.

01:02:36.730 --> 01:02:38.569
And I'm like, okay, then I can't do that.

01:02:38.809 --> 01:02:41.209
Because there are only 24 hours in a day.

01:02:41.449 --> 01:02:43.049
So that's always fun.

01:02:43.289 --> 01:02:45.929
Todd says, I always do my shows live.

01:02:46.089 --> 01:02:48.489
Edding editing has been much easier as well.

01:02:48.649 --> 01:02:55.529
Well, if you're going to do a live show, you kind of have to have something planned so you know what you're going to say.

01:02:55.849 --> 01:02:57.849
Jim, you do your show live, right?

01:02:58.329 --> 01:02:58.649
Yeah.

01:02:59.449 --> 01:03:00.169
That's the question.

01:03:01.129 --> 01:03:03.369
And I was like, hmm, maybe not.

01:03:03.449 --> 01:03:03.769
Yeah.

01:03:04.009 --> 01:03:05.689
Well, but you you need to be good enough.

01:03:05.849 --> 01:03:08.969
Like, we know you've got some things planned for this show.

01:03:09.209 --> 01:03:13.129
And you know what we're gonna, we kind of know where we're gonna go.

01:03:13.209 --> 01:03:15.129
We and we rely on the chat room to come in.

01:03:15.289 --> 01:03:16.809
Both of us have been doing this long enough.

01:03:16.889 --> 01:03:18.889
We could go on the fly if we needed to.

01:03:19.129 --> 01:03:23.849
And if we didn't have anything more to talk about, you'd be like, hey Jim, let's wrap this thing up.

01:03:24.009 --> 01:03:28.009
And if it's early, I'm not gonna get, I'll be like, oh, it sounds good.

01:03:28.089 --> 01:03:30.569
Let's, you know, let's go in 15 minutes early.

01:03:30.809 --> 01:03:31.769
We've never done that.

01:03:31.929 --> 01:03:32.169
Right.

01:03:32.409 --> 01:03:34.969
But, you know, we could if we done live.

01:03:35.129 --> 01:03:39.929
I think live uh tightens things up a little bit and actually makes your guest better.

01:03:40.169 --> 01:03:51.209
And so I've done, you know, I've done them live and I've just recorded them, and I consistently get better content out of live shows than I do from just recorded with no live audience.

01:03:51.369 --> 01:03:53.449
It just it just tightens things up.

01:03:53.689 --> 01:04:03.369
The the question I get all the time from some people, like I've done it live and I'm you I'm you I'm using air quotes, and there's been no one on the other side listening.

01:04:03.689 --> 01:04:05.449
It still has the same effect.

01:04:05.689 --> 01:04:08.409
Like the the guest doesn't know for the most part.

01:04:08.569 --> 01:04:11.929
They just think they're live, and so I get better content that way.

01:04:12.329 --> 01:04:15.449
I've s I've asked some people have said, well, then why do you do it live?

01:04:15.609 --> 01:04:17.689
Like if there's nobody there, why would you do it live?

01:04:17.849 --> 01:04:26.489
Because I get better content if I do it, if I've if if the if somebody could be there live and record it that way, I just consistently get better content.

01:04:26.730 --> 01:04:29.369
So I I that's the what I like to do.

01:04:29.449 --> 01:04:31.129
Not everybody wants to do that.

01:04:31.449 --> 01:04:34.649
In fact, I feel weird when it's not live.

01:04:34.809 --> 01:04:37.049
Like when it's not live, I'm not as good.

01:04:37.129 --> 01:04:38.649
I just like it live.

01:04:38.889 --> 01:04:40.809
So that's just that that's just me.

01:04:41.049 --> 01:04:44.089
Yeah, Todd says you're more guarded when doing a show live.

01:04:44.250 --> 01:04:46.730
So you do a little internal self-editing.

01:04:46.889 --> 01:04:47.289
Yeah.

01:04:47.609 --> 01:04:51.129
Chris from castahead.net, another plug-in I can't live without you.

01:04:51.209 --> 01:04:52.009
I have this one.

01:04:52.250 --> 01:04:53.929
Vocal writer from Waves.

01:04:54.089 --> 01:04:55.449
It keeps the voices.

01:04:55.609 --> 01:04:56.489
Ooh, it's a big word.

01:04:56.649 --> 01:05:01.609
He went 50 cent word here, commensurate on a podcast in case the levels aren't the same.

01:05:01.769 --> 01:05:08.889
And it's wild because normally, like you would just it's like moving a slider on the Rodcaster duo, except it's a plug-in.

01:05:09.209 --> 01:05:16.250
And so you kind of set some volume, like I want it to be this level, and it'll just sit there and you just watch this knob continually turn it up.

01:05:16.409 --> 01:05:25.209
So it's if I have somebody that a compressor won't level them out and I don't feel like running it through all phonic, I'll throw in the the uh vocal writer.

01:05:25.369 --> 01:05:26.809
So that's always fun.

01:05:27.049 --> 01:05:27.369
Yeah.

01:05:27.529 --> 01:05:35.289
Ralph says, I I don't have a live show right now, and that is what I have the urge to do because I agree, and he thinks it's better.

01:05:35.449 --> 01:05:37.609
Well, then take one of your shows and do it live.

01:05:37.769 --> 01:05:39.369
Uh, this is the one I was looking for.

01:05:39.609 --> 01:05:44.889
Chris said the plug-in you may be thinking of is clear by supertone.

01:05:45.049 --> 01:05:46.329
I love them in the 70s.

01:05:46.409 --> 01:05:47.049
What was their hit?

01:05:47.209 --> 01:05:48.649
Ladies and gentlemen, supertone.

01:05:50.889 --> 01:05:52.169
We're so clear.

01:05:52.409 --> 01:05:54.409
Yeah, uh, I need to write that down.

01:05:54.649 --> 01:05:57.769
Clear pulls out the room audience and voice reverb.

01:05:57.849 --> 01:05:59.369
Yeah, so that's another one.

01:05:59.609 --> 01:06:02.409
Because Accentise has one just called D room.

01:06:02.489 --> 01:06:03.209
That's pretty cool.

01:06:03.369 --> 01:06:05.129
But I remember Chris mentioning that.

01:06:05.209 --> 01:06:09.769
Uh so just remember it can't always make crap perfect.

01:06:09.929 --> 01:06:10.089
Right.

01:06:10.329 --> 01:06:14.489
So if you've got a lot of crap audio going in, it doesn't listen.

01:06:14.569 --> 01:06:16.329
In the future, AI will fix this.

01:06:16.409 --> 01:06:22.409
Like you'll give it crappy vocal audio, it'll take a voice print, get it over the top.

01:06:22.569 --> 01:06:26.169
In fact, a couple could probably do it today, just to be honest.

01:06:26.409 --> 01:06:30.889
So if you get really bad audio from somebody, I think 11 Labs.

01:06:31.049 --> 01:06:33.289
There's some there's here's the hard part with this.

01:06:33.449 --> 01:06:37.689
You can't just take someone's voice and make something new out of it.

01:06:37.769 --> 01:06:42.169
They're gonna want verification that that person has permission and some of those kinds of things.

01:06:42.489 --> 01:06:49.689
But I think there's gonna come a day for you, at least for yourself, or if the audio's bad, just put an AI filter on top of it, it'll fix it.

01:06:50.009 --> 01:06:52.569
Same cadence, same, it'll just be better sound.

01:06:52.889 --> 01:06:55.049
In fact, I'm pretty sure that's capable.

01:06:55.529 --> 01:07:16.569
It's yeah, you you could you could get yourself a good clone of yourself, yeah, and then upload the bad audio of you, and it would because there's a I forget what it's called, there's a a way you can upload a file, and the clone version of you will follow your voice inflections, yeah.

01:07:17.129 --> 01:07:21.609
And so that would be an easy way to get good sound every time.

01:07:21.689 --> 01:07:27.609
But Adam Curry just played a clip of himself on the podcasting 2.0 show, and it's close.

01:07:27.769 --> 01:07:28.730
It sounds like him.

01:07:28.809 --> 01:07:34.809
He's like, but it's the clone is gonna sound as good as the audio you give it.

01:07:34.969 --> 01:07:44.409
And so his audio didn't have all its chocolatey goodness that it normally does, and so consequently his clone didn't sound quite as good, but it was it's still pretty close.

01:07:44.489 --> 01:07:50.569
And the whole like you have to verify and have permission, uh, they didn't ask for a whole lot when I cloned my grandpa.

01:07:50.730 --> 01:07:55.449
Just just I think I had to pinky swear that I had permission, so we'll see.

01:07:55.769 --> 01:07:58.649
Tanner Relage says, I'm monetizing with my own product.

01:07:58.730 --> 01:08:03.849
Should I have a separate website for my podcast and for Shopify Storefront?

01:08:04.009 --> 01:08:07.369
If so, where should the blog go for SEO?

01:08:07.929 --> 01:08:09.689
That's a good question.

01:08:11.529 --> 01:08:21.289
This is where you have to ask yourself, is my website a business that has a podcast or a podcast that has a business?

01:08:21.449 --> 01:08:29.130
So for like the first five, ten years of the school of podcasting, you would go there and you would see all my episodes, and I was trying to build my audience.

01:08:29.210 --> 01:08:33.050
And then after about 10 years, I'm like, I'm not getting as many signups as I want.

01:08:33.130 --> 01:08:33.930
So I switched it.

01:08:34.010 --> 01:08:40.170
Now when you go to the school of podcasting, it's all about me and Dave's great, and school of podcasting is wonderful, blah, blah, blah.

01:08:40.329 --> 01:08:42.810
And then at the top, there's a button for episodes.

01:08:43.130 --> 01:08:53.449
Didn't really affect my episodes a whole lot, my downloads, because usually only about 3%, maybe 5, depending on your audience and how tech-savvy they are, listen on a website.

01:08:53.850 --> 01:08:59.689
And the beauty is your show notes, if you write more than a paragraph, are SEO.

01:08:59.770 --> 01:09:04.810
It's a I always set up podcast, I treat it like a blog with an audio player at the top of it.

01:09:06.329 --> 01:09:08.730
The SE Shopify, hmm.

01:09:09.050 --> 01:09:09.770
I'd do both.

01:09:09.930 --> 01:09:10.649
I'd have both.

01:09:10.810 --> 01:09:13.289
There's no reason to try to consolidate it into one.

01:09:13.609 --> 01:09:16.649
And neither is important, is more important than the other.

01:09:16.810 --> 01:09:23.449
I would treat them like two separate, like especially if that Shopify storefront has a separate URL.

01:09:23.770 --> 01:09:30.649
Because then with SEO, now listen, we know we all know SEO is dying and it's dying pretty quick.

01:09:30.970 --> 01:09:45.930
But but you know, the storefront, the link, the links between the different URLs, if if you if they're being put on either of the websites, especially going from the blog to the Shopify page, you're gonna get some credibility for that.

01:09:46.090 --> 01:09:49.449
So I just do both, you know, and then I'd measure.

01:09:49.689 --> 01:09:58.810
So do both and measure, get an indication of because the way you do your blog and its SEO score and ranking matters too.

01:09:59.050 --> 01:10:04.329
So this isn't a best practice kind of thing because it does it depends on how your site is set up today.

01:10:04.569 --> 01:10:08.090
I think I would say, How is my website trending for SEO?

01:10:08.170 --> 01:10:14.329
And then how do I set up my Shopify Shopify website to take advantage of the current SEO setup that it has?

01:10:14.570 --> 01:10:20.890
So you're gonna have to do a little bit of work on that just to kind of see how is my how is my current site ranking at this point.

01:10:21.050 --> 01:10:27.210
Because listen, if your current blog isn't ranking an SEO today, adding a Shopify site's not gonna change that.

01:10:27.690 --> 01:10:33.130
Like you've got to get your site ranking hard for SEO now before it makes any difference.

01:10:33.210 --> 01:10:37.050
If it's not ranking, then you you're asking the wrong question, right?

01:10:37.210 --> 01:10:41.289
So you need to go in and look at the how is it, how is it going today?

01:10:42.170 --> 01:10:45.050
I wouldn't spend a ton of time worrying about SEO at this point.

01:10:45.130 --> 01:10:51.289
I mean, get it short up so it's working well, but AIO is way, I mean, it's coming fast, friends.

01:10:51.530 --> 01:10:57.690
And so, you know, you need to be thinking, how are the how is this for the for the the AI robots?

01:10:57.850 --> 01:10:58.730
How is this set up?

01:10:58.970 --> 01:11:01.850
I'm not saying don't do any SEO because yeah, it's still there.

01:11:02.090 --> 01:11:02.810
It's still there.

01:11:02.970 --> 01:11:07.449
But I I I'm doing something and and Jim, you may laugh at me in the future.

01:11:07.770 --> 01:11:11.449
I'm actually really looking into SEO right now.

01:11:11.690 --> 01:11:12.250
Why?

01:11:12.490 --> 01:11:15.050
Because everybody else is going, oh, what's the point?

01:11:15.210 --> 01:11:19.610
And I'm like, now in the years, I may find out, oh, it's completely worthless.

01:11:19.770 --> 01:11:22.170
But I'm like, everybody else is like, oh, don't even bother there.

01:11:22.490 --> 01:11:26.810
And kind of like Jim said, I'm not saying don't do it, but you know, it's going away.

01:11:26.890 --> 01:11:29.289
So a lot of people are like, well, I'm not even gonna do it if it's gonna work.

01:11:29.369 --> 01:11:32.409
And I'm like, how long is it gonna take for that door to shut?

01:11:32.650 --> 01:11:35.210
And the answer is probably quicker than I want it to.

01:11:35.289 --> 01:11:41.850
But in the meantime, you have to, you can use tools like Answer the Public, there's Href, there's all sorts of tools.

01:11:42.010 --> 01:11:51.930
Because the problem is, and I ran into this at Libson, where there were 87 million golf podcasts, and they wanted to go to Google, type in the word golf podcast, and be number one.

01:11:52.090 --> 01:11:56.970
Well, you're trying to rank for a keyword that's really hard to rank number one for.

01:11:57.130 --> 01:12:06.970
So instead, go find some keywords that are, you know, maybe they still get a fair amount of searches, but there's not that much competition.

01:12:07.130 --> 01:12:22.890
And that's SEO is a moving target, and that's where it is, like Jim says, it's a lot of people are throwing in the towel because I've all I heard is AI, but AI is still kind of looking at Google and Bing and other things in the background.

01:12:23.050 --> 01:12:28.650
I I'm so I'm like, well, if I rank over there, but the bad news is, yeah, great.

01:12:28.810 --> 01:12:31.130
I helped answer the question in Chat GPT.

01:12:31.210 --> 01:12:33.369
They got their answer and they never came to my website.

01:12:33.449 --> 01:12:34.010
That's a thing.

01:12:34.170 --> 01:12:35.610
That's definitely a thing right now.

01:12:35.770 --> 01:12:38.409
So it's gonna be interesting to see where that shakes out.

01:12:38.570 --> 01:12:51.289
But yeah, I would be tempted might be cheaper now with SEO trailing a little bit, yeah, or at least thoughts of it, you uh buying those keywords because that's listen, that's how you rank on Google.

01:12:51.530 --> 01:12:54.170
You're you're you're in most cases.

01:12:54.250 --> 01:12:55.289
I won't say nothing, right?

01:12:55.530 --> 01:13:00.650
In most cases, organically, you're not gonna own those keywords, you've got to buy them.

01:13:00.970 --> 01:13:01.210
Yeah.

01:13:01.530 --> 01:13:06.890
So you're gonna spend some money to to get there, and oftentimes that's a lot of money to get there.

01:13:07.369 --> 01:13:10.250
Yeah, they're most of their front page is now paid.

01:13:10.329 --> 01:13:21.770
It used to be they were like the top two were paid, and then you'd have like seven that were organic, and now it's like nine that are organic, and the very bottom of page one is organic or or whatever.

01:13:21.850 --> 01:13:24.650
So it's paid and then a bunch of paid and then organic.

01:13:24.810 --> 01:13:54.890
But yeah, I'd be tempted because I could see like putting the podcast on one website and the blog on Shopify, and that's where I I to me I always just think Shopify is a big giant cart, but I'd be tempted to put my blog and my podcast on the website with just a link to the store, and then in the podcast, because you can do this with pod page, I could say, like, hey, if you want to shop for our stuff, go to mywebsite.com slash shop, and that just points people to the Shopify store.

01:13:55.210 --> 01:14:00.409
So that would be, and then all the SEO is on your website via the blog, via the podcast.

01:14:00.570 --> 01:14:16.490
Because the the podcast on the web, even though again, only a small percent listen on the web, what happens is when it comes up because you typed good show notes, people click on it in Google, they go to the website, they click play on the player, and now they're there for 14 minutes.

01:14:16.570 --> 01:14:17.770
And Google goes, that's weird.

01:14:17.850 --> 01:14:21.289
Every time I send somebody over to Jim's site, they're there for like 14 minutes.

01:14:21.369 --> 01:14:22.250
It must be really good.

01:14:22.409 --> 01:14:26.970
So the podcast can boost the SEO just because of the player and people are listening.

01:14:27.130 --> 01:14:33.850
And then the blog, in theory, can bring in because Google, the thing you have to remember, Google loves good words.

01:14:33.930 --> 01:14:45.850
And I always say good words because Chat GPT gives you words that are okay, but they're not like, wow, did you I remember uh it was either Daniel J.

01:14:46.010 --> 01:14:47.210
Lewis or Pat Flynn.

01:14:47.449 --> 01:14:53.930
I think it was Pat Flynn that said he used to write show notes like somebody could use my show notes to take a test on the subject.

01:14:54.250 --> 01:14:56.170
Like they were really detailed.

01:14:57.210 --> 01:14:57.930
Let's see here.

01:14:58.090 --> 01:14:59.850
The Z-Man thanks for the help.

01:15:00.010 --> 01:15:02.010
I have 40 plus topics for my show.

01:15:02.170 --> 01:15:08.090
Is it smart to pick the topic that resonates more with my why or a topic that is current?

01:15:09.850 --> 01:15:11.130
How burnt out are you?

01:15:11.690 --> 01:15:16.570
The closer to your burnout, go with your why, because if you don't get your why, you're gonna burn out.

01:15:16.810 --> 01:15:24.250
But if it's something that's popular, I know mom said don't go play in traffic, but sometimes it helps to go play in traffic.

01:15:24.490 --> 01:15:38.250
And then the other thing that I've heard a few people doing that I'm kind of going, don't, if you're brand new to this or if you're coming back, don't record those 40 episodes without getting feedback on some of them.

01:15:38.490 --> 01:15:42.650
Because I've had I once had a guy do 52 episodes and they were in the wrong format.

01:15:42.810 --> 01:15:44.650
They're in WMA files.

01:15:44.810 --> 01:15:47.449
And I was like, oh, yeah, that doesn't work.

01:15:47.690 --> 01:15:52.329
So get some feedback if you're gonna batch a ton of stuff, because you don't want to.

01:15:52.490 --> 01:15:56.890
I always use the example of a lightning round, you know, and it's like, hey, it's the lightning round.

01:15:57.610 --> 01:15:59.850
And then people go, Yeah, I really hate the lightning round.

01:15:59.930 --> 01:16:00.570
That drives me crazy.

01:16:00.730 --> 01:16:05.210
And you're like, oh, great, I've only got 39 more episodes with a lightning round in them.

01:16:05.289 --> 01:16:06.570
So get some feedback on that.

01:16:06.650 --> 01:16:09.289
Don't just record 40 without getting some feedback.

01:16:09.530 --> 01:16:11.930
Let's see what else is going on in the chat room.

01:16:12.090 --> 01:16:14.090
We love our chat room, of course.

01:16:14.329 --> 01:16:14.970
What is up?

01:16:15.369 --> 01:16:17.289
The roadcasters just greatest child.

01:16:17.610 --> 01:16:22.490
I need a gavel now to press my sound buttons on the roadcaster today.

01:16:23.050 --> 01:16:24.730
Yeah, uh, this would be true.

01:16:24.970 --> 01:16:31.610
Ralph says from the content creators accountant, I heard the other day we're gonna start seeing ads in the AI results.

01:16:31.850 --> 01:16:34.250
Well, everything that's useful.

01:16:34.810 --> 01:16:42.010
Remember when your Amazon show would just show pictures of your kids and nieces and nephews, and now it's nothing but ads.

01:16:42.090 --> 01:16:47.530
And oh, occasionally there's a picture and it's like, oh, look, something you like is on sale.

01:16:47.770 --> 01:16:48.170
Yeah.

01:16:48.409 --> 01:16:56.490
Rich Graham wants to know have either of you looked at putting LLMS.txt files on your site similar to robots.txt?

01:16:56.970 --> 01:16:59.530
I that's about as much as I know about that.

01:16:59.690 --> 01:17:04.650
I know an LLMS.txt file is kind of for AI.

01:17:05.050 --> 01:17:07.530
You can tell it what they can and can't use.

01:17:07.610 --> 01:17:09.530
I have that's as far as I've gotten.

01:17:09.770 --> 01:17:10.329
How about you, Jim?

01:17:10.490 --> 01:17:17.369
Have you nerd it out on your I haven't yet, but I would I would use chat GPT to help me build it for sure.

01:17:17.530 --> 01:17:20.650
Because it's and it's still a new standard for the most part.

01:17:20.890 --> 01:17:31.289
So this is one of those kinds of things you need to create it, put some content in it, measure it, see what, see what's working, see if the robots are even coming by and looking at it.

01:17:31.610 --> 01:17:33.369
You know, some of those pieces.

01:17:33.530 --> 01:17:40.650
I mean, you can always build one, throw it in, throw it on your website if you have that kind of control and see what happens.

01:17:40.730 --> 01:17:56.810
I I don't but I would definitely have I would tell chat GPT, look at my site and build an LLM.txt file that makes the most sense for AIO, you know, robot scans, and it will create one for you.

01:17:57.130 --> 01:17:58.730
That's a good easy way to start.

01:17:59.130 --> 01:17:59.530
For sure.

01:17:59.930 --> 01:18:00.250
Yeah.

01:18:00.490 --> 01:18:06.730
Same thing for privacy, and there's a couple other pages you're supposed to have on your site.

01:18:07.530 --> 01:18:16.170
Again, because it's you know ChatGPT, it's AI, always read it before putting it on your website.

01:18:17.690 --> 01:18:18.329
Let's see.

01:18:18.490 --> 01:18:26.090
The yeah, they were all talking about why did we come up what is oh large language model s dot tx that means?

01:18:26.170 --> 01:18:27.770
I'm like, why is it an oomz?

01:18:28.730 --> 01:18:29.050
Yeah.

01:18:29.210 --> 01:18:29.770
There you go.

01:18:29.850 --> 01:18:35.210
Uh Randy says, this is why I used the soundboard app instead of smart pads on the Rodcaster Duo.

01:18:35.369 --> 01:18:38.409
It's being very finicky today, which is kind of wild.

01:18:38.490 --> 01:18:42.970
Well, hey, let's run over and talk about somebody who's being a crybaby.

01:18:43.050 --> 01:18:43.850
That's always fun.

01:18:44.090 --> 01:18:45.289
Not so much a crybaby.

01:18:45.369 --> 01:18:47.050
That has kind of a negative connotation to it.

01:18:48.970 --> 01:18:50.890
Yeah, let's uh let's try something a little more fun.

01:18:51.050 --> 01:18:52.650
He says, I have a tech podcast.

01:18:52.810 --> 01:18:54.329
Jim, why did you put this on Reddit?

01:18:54.490 --> 01:18:54.650
No.

01:18:54.970 --> 01:18:57.610
Which is really me, shh, don't know anybody.

01:18:58.010 --> 01:19:00.170
Which is starting to pick up audience right now.

01:19:00.329 --> 01:19:01.369
That's a good thing.

01:19:01.610 --> 01:19:06.250
I put a ton of effort on creating good content, researching, recording, and editing.

01:19:06.409 --> 01:19:06.650
Great.

01:19:06.810 --> 01:19:12.650
Now, when it comes to promoting, it seems that many doors on Reddit are shut for small podcasters like myself.

01:19:12.810 --> 01:19:15.690
Well, they're also shut for large podcasters.

01:19:15.930 --> 01:19:16.810
They just, yeah.

01:19:17.050 --> 01:19:28.810
I try to recommend my podcast on tech forums and people look for podcast recommendations, specifically tech stories, but because I recommended my own podcast, my post was deleted.

01:19:29.050 --> 01:19:35.530
From my understanding, I am contributing to the discussion, but recommending my own podcast to people interested in it.

01:19:35.610 --> 01:19:38.570
But should I only recommend other people's podcasts?

01:19:38.810 --> 01:19:42.810
Of course, I could post the recommendation by signing in with another account.

01:19:42.890 --> 01:19:44.090
And how is that any better?

01:19:44.250 --> 01:19:45.369
Well, how is it any better?

01:19:45.530 --> 01:19:46.890
It doesn't get deleted.

01:19:47.130 --> 01:19:51.770
Or B, have your audience go over and tell people how great it is.

01:19:51.930 --> 01:19:55.530
And if you can't get your audience to do that, you got another problem.

01:19:55.770 --> 01:20:04.090
I know these forms should not be used for self-promotion, but so wait a minute, you can't when you add but that that kind of negates that.

01:20:04.329 --> 01:20:12.810
If I generally think to have what another user is looking for, what I what should I be hindered to share this info?

01:20:12.970 --> 01:20:14.570
It basically is like, is this wrong?

01:20:14.730 --> 01:20:27.449
One of the things I've done, because I've I heard somebody say, if your podcast answers a specific question, then yes, you're self-promoting, but you're also answering a question.

01:20:27.610 --> 01:20:32.170
So there are times I've only done it twice because I don't want to get kicked out of my Reddit group.

01:20:32.409 --> 01:20:43.050
But I will say, if somebody says, hey, you know, yada yada yada, I will say, I did an episode on this, and I will put mods, meaning moderators.

01:20:43.289 --> 01:20:46.090
This episode answers this specific question.

01:20:46.329 --> 01:20:50.010
And so far I haven't been pulled down, but I've only done it twice.

01:20:50.170 --> 01:20:53.530
So and holy cow, look what Ralph went and did.

01:20:53.690 --> 01:20:58.170
In the immortal words of Taylor Swift, look what you made me do.

01:20:58.329 --> 01:20:59.610
I listened to that this morning.

01:20:59.690 --> 01:21:01.530
I'm I'm I will say that in public.

01:21:01.850 --> 01:21:06.170
I I like that song and it's very Taylor Swift-y, but the the the there it is.

01:21:06.329 --> 01:21:08.090
I was gonna say the the button's not working.

01:21:08.250 --> 01:21:10.970
My my big splash of money throwing everywhere.

01:21:11.130 --> 01:21:11.850
So thank you, Mr.

01:21:11.930 --> 01:21:13.770
Ralph, for uh the super chat.

01:21:14.090 --> 01:21:18.490
Wanted to give you a boost to a new year of great content to us.

01:21:18.650 --> 01:21:18.970
Thank you.

01:21:19.050 --> 01:21:20.010
I appreciate each of you.

01:21:20.090 --> 01:21:21.050
Thank you so much for that.

01:21:21.289 --> 01:21:25.610
So yeah, it's so this is one where I see people a lot.

01:21:25.770 --> 01:21:26.650
I uh here's the thing.

01:21:26.730 --> 01:21:28.090
Let's go the opposite way.

01:21:28.250 --> 01:21:40.890
There are Facebook groups where you can just go in and say, episode 17 is out of the dry rot podcast, you know, and it's just never ending scrolling of new episodes.

01:21:41.050 --> 01:21:45.130
Today we're talking about fluffy pink stuff, you know, and you're just like, what?

01:21:45.610 --> 01:21:49.130
And it's just, I always go, well, is your audience over there?

01:21:49.289 --> 01:21:52.650
Now, in his case, he's in a tech group trying to promote a tech.

01:21:53.289 --> 01:21:56.490
Podcast, but I'm I'm just here to say I've seen self-promote.

01:21:56.730 --> 01:22:02.409
There's a guy in the pod page Facebook group right now that's right on the edge.

01:22:02.570 --> 01:22:06.490
He keeps looking like, I'm so proud that I got this happened to me.

01:22:06.570 --> 01:22:10.650
And I'm like, okay, how does how does that help everybody else?

01:22:10.810 --> 01:22:12.650
Like, I'm yay, yay, you.

01:22:13.050 --> 01:22:20.090
But but the one he put a link to his website, and I was like, this close to like, okay, that's that's strike one and a half.

01:22:20.250 --> 01:22:22.090
So if he does it again, he'll get kicked out.

01:22:22.170 --> 01:22:35.289
But I've just seen forums get like not podcast movement, not podfest, but there was another one that at one point had like 20,000 podcasters in it, and they quit moderating it, and it's absolutely worthless now.

01:22:35.530 --> 01:22:37.449
People are live streaming into it.

01:22:37.690 --> 01:22:43.289
So Jim, any any thoughts on how to because the other thing is there are other ways to promote your show.

01:22:44.810 --> 01:22:45.610
Yeah, yeah.

01:22:45.770 --> 01:22:56.250
I mean, you've got you've got to listen, we're we're in an era of podcasting where it's definitely popular, right?

01:22:56.329 --> 01:23:04.490
I mean, the big podcasts are doing well, and you know, for whether it be Rogan or New Heights or some of those, right?

01:23:04.570 --> 01:23:10.010
But they have giant money and giant machines behind them promoting those things.

01:23:10.170 --> 01:23:15.210
You know, Jason and and and Travis played in the NFL.

01:23:15.289 --> 01:23:19.610
They were they self-advertised themselves every Sunday, right?

01:23:19.690 --> 01:23:21.610
I mean, they now they have a machine, right?

01:23:21.690 --> 01:23:22.970
You don't have that.

01:23:23.210 --> 01:23:33.530
And so it's listen, it's it's never been harder for to start a podcast and not be someone who's already has a marketing machine behind you.

01:23:34.090 --> 01:23:36.650
Everyone in Hollywood, they have a marketing machine behind them.

01:23:36.810 --> 01:23:39.130
Everyone on radio, they have a marketing machine.

01:23:39.289 --> 01:23:45.130
You know, if if who's the who's the guy from LA, who's the DJ, the he's real popular.

01:23:45.289 --> 01:23:47.130
He would he just did Dick Clark's.

01:23:48.329 --> 01:23:49.210
Oh, Ryan Seacrest?

01:23:50.250 --> 01:23:54.170
If Ryan Secrest decided to do something, he has a marketing machine behind him.

01:23:54.329 --> 01:23:56.970
Friends, I'm sorry to say you don't.

01:23:57.530 --> 01:23:58.970
You just you don't.

01:23:59.210 --> 01:24:05.690
You you don't have a lot of great ways to you to get out there and quickly have it explode.

01:24:06.329 --> 01:24:15.530
The one you do have is to make great content and and and have your, like you say, have your audience begin to promote you in those spaces.

01:24:15.770 --> 01:24:19.610
If it's really good and it catches on and you get some of that stuff, yeah.

01:24:19.770 --> 01:24:31.930
I mean, you you've got that's you're gonna have to you're gonna have to have an amazing ground game to do everything that you can to get as much exposure as you can in in any way possible.

01:24:32.250 --> 01:24:35.770
Whatever that whatever kind of influence you have, you're gonna have to take advantage of it.

01:24:35.850 --> 01:24:41.210
I've seen folks try and get on local television, I've seen folks try to be a a local expert.

01:24:41.449 --> 01:24:49.770
You can build your reputation through YouTube of being an influencer on YouTube and build some of those things up to get folks to come over and listen to you.

01:24:50.010 --> 01:24:54.250
But it's a it's a work, it is a grind, flat out work.

01:24:54.570 --> 01:25:04.490
So, you know, I think sometimes folks are a little bit like, oh, I put it out there and nobody's yeah, like welcome to the real world.

01:25:04.570 --> 01:25:14.650
Like if you you know, you set up a lemonade stand in on your front porch and you don't put any signs out, nobody's gonna come and you know, it's it's work.

01:25:15.130 --> 01:25:18.409
So I hate I hate to be that way to these folks.

01:25:18.490 --> 01:25:23.210
They're just trying, and yeah, it's listen, continue to do it if it's a voice for you.

01:25:23.610 --> 01:25:28.170
But it's at the end of the day, it's it's harder today than it's ever been.

01:25:28.329 --> 01:25:36.409
One, because there's so many of them out there, but two, there's a machine behind these now, and nobody says what's a podcast anymore.

01:25:36.810 --> 01:25:40.490
Like the world knows what podcasting is.

01:25:41.050 --> 01:25:42.890
So that that cat's out of the bag.

01:25:42.970 --> 01:25:44.329
You're not cool anymore.

01:25:44.490 --> 01:25:55.610
I was just thinking about this the other day when even Dave, 10 or 12 years ago when we started this thing, we were doing some things that nobody was doing, or very few people are doing, and it had kind of a cool factor to it.

01:25:56.329 --> 01:25:57.289
I do know this.

01:25:57.449 --> 01:26:04.329
We continue to get 30 or 40 in our in live in our chat room every Saturday because we're consistent, right?

01:26:04.810 --> 01:26:09.289
You work the podcast space more than anybody that I know.

01:26:09.449 --> 01:26:15.690
You work it, you're faithful to post, you respond to people, you you've drawn people to this podcast.

01:26:15.930 --> 01:26:18.170
Just just at the end of the day, it's just work.

01:26:18.329 --> 01:26:20.090
Get out there and start hustling.

01:26:20.329 --> 01:26:20.490
Yeah.

01:26:20.650 --> 01:26:24.570
And if you don't like if you don't like doing that work, that's a problem.

01:26:24.810 --> 01:26:25.050
Yeah.

01:26:25.210 --> 01:26:27.770
I did want to, I meant to mention this sooner.

01:26:27.930 --> 01:26:37.449
It's uh uh interesting question and it's a serious topic, which is not normal for me, but I was like, I anytime I see somebody do this, I go, don't do this.

01:26:37.690 --> 01:26:40.170
But this is from Chicago.

01:26:40.650 --> 01:26:53.610
A woman accused of live streaming herself on TikTok while driving as she struck and killed a man walking in the Northside suburbs has now been released from custody after she was initially ordered to remain detained.

01:26:53.770 --> 01:26:56.890
But bottom line is she killed somebody live streaming.

01:26:56.970 --> 01:27:00.730
And when I see people like, what's the best setup so I can podcast from my car?

01:27:00.890 --> 01:27:05.449
I go, that is the definition of you know distracted driving.

01:27:05.690 --> 01:27:06.810
Don't do that.

01:27:07.369 --> 01:27:09.210
So yeah, she killed somebody.

01:27:09.289 --> 01:27:13.289
So that's a whole and I'm not well, I'll do this, but it's not right.

01:27:13.449 --> 01:27:15.530
That's a whole different type of true crime.

01:27:15.850 --> 01:27:33.050
Okay, so yeah, it's a true crime podcast, but she'll somebody will probably do a true crime podcast about her trial where the podcaster killed somebody because you know she's on TikTok, and that's a podcast, as is my uh kitchen timer right here.

01:27:33.130 --> 01:27:34.090
That's a podcast.

01:27:34.250 --> 01:27:39.050
And my this measuring tape right here, look, it goes all the way up to 7.5 meters.

01:27:39.130 --> 01:27:40.170
It's a podcast.

01:27:40.409 --> 01:27:41.530
So, Jim.

01:27:41.850 --> 01:27:42.170
Okay.

01:27:42.570 --> 01:27:45.770
First of all, thank you to the world's greatest chat.

01:27:46.490 --> 01:27:50.650
What is uh coming up on uh you know the old before we do that?

01:27:50.810 --> 01:27:51.690
Can we recognize John?

01:27:51.930 --> 01:27:54.490
He he dropped a super holy cow, John.

01:27:55.130 --> 01:27:56.409
Look at you, my friend.

01:27:56.570 --> 01:27:57.610
Thank you so much.

01:27:57.850 --> 01:28:00.570
Thank you so much for both a fun, informative hope.

01:28:00.730 --> 01:28:02.810
Hope 2026 is awesome for everyone.

01:28:02.970 --> 01:28:03.610
Me too.

01:28:03.770 --> 01:28:05.130
I got a lot of things planned.

01:28:05.210 --> 01:28:09.210
I got things planned that are like I can't talk about kind of plans.

01:28:09.369 --> 01:28:11.369
Those are gonna be fun when they come out.

01:28:11.530 --> 01:28:16.090
So keep your ears to the ground around uh pod uh what's the thing, Podfest.

01:28:16.329 --> 01:28:17.690
There are gonna be some things coming out.

01:28:17.770 --> 01:28:25.530
I also know secrets that I can't talk about that I'm like, oh, that you probably are you trying to kill Todd's shoes here?

01:28:25.770 --> 01:28:30.329
I am I shouldn't talk about this, but it rhymes with Rico Soft.

01:28:30.409 --> 01:28:30.730
Yeah.

01:28:30.970 --> 01:28:32.490
So I miss Todd.

01:28:32.650 --> 01:28:35.850
Just for that, just for the old, you know, the old NBA.

01:28:36.010 --> 01:28:37.050
The old the old NBA.

01:28:37.210 --> 01:28:37.770
Yeah, okay.

01:28:37.930 --> 01:28:40.170
Jim, can you go four minutes over?

01:28:40.329 --> 01:28:40.570
Yeah.

01:28:40.730 --> 01:28:42.409
We we got a bonus question.

01:28:42.570 --> 01:28:49.449
It's a bonus qu would love to hear both of you what are the best promotional tools to use that are consistently that work.

01:28:49.850 --> 01:28:51.130
Jim just said it.

01:28:51.610 --> 01:28:56.730
Make a show that isn't just good, because just good isn't gonna get it there anymore.

01:28:56.970 --> 01:29:04.490
Good is great, you don't want to go below good, but good is make it remarkable and then ask your audience to share.

01:29:04.570 --> 01:29:07.690
And if you're lucky, three percent of them will.

01:29:08.329 --> 01:29:13.369
But if it's if it's 10 this week, 3% means next week we'll have 13.

01:29:13.930 --> 01:29:24.170
And then if we can get another remarkable 3% of 13 is math that I can't do in my head, but let's say it's you know another f four people, so now I'm up to 17.

01:29:24.570 --> 01:29:27.369
You know, well, it's it's just it's a slow grind.

01:29:27.530 --> 01:29:29.050
That's why you gotta love, I don't know, Jim.

01:29:29.130 --> 01:29:31.289
Any other being on other people's shows?

01:29:31.610 --> 01:29:32.890
Yep, yep, yep.

01:29:33.210 --> 01:29:41.050
YouTube, talking with other influencers, you know, uh building a community around your community, some of those kinds of things.

01:29:41.210 --> 01:29:42.329
It kind of depends, right?

01:29:42.409 --> 01:29:51.530
I mean, with everything, it kind of depends on what works best for what you're doing, who you know, who you're connected to, who who what what kind of things you can take advantage of.

01:29:51.930 --> 01:29:58.170
You you've got to kind of do a self-assessment and say, how would I how would I be best in this, you know?

01:29:58.329 --> 01:30:00.409
So it uh it's gonna take a little bit of work.

01:30:00.730 --> 01:30:02.250
Did you see what we got?

01:30:02.490 --> 01:30:02.810
I know.

01:30:04.090 --> 01:30:05.050
We said his names, man.

01:30:05.210 --> 01:30:05.610
He appeared.

01:30:05.690 --> 01:30:06.890
He's like Beetlejuice.

01:30:07.130 --> 01:30:08.010
We have a mole.

01:30:08.170 --> 01:30:08.810
We have a mole.

01:30:09.050 --> 01:30:14.250
Someone knows how to contact Bangs as soon as he gets mentioned, somebody sent him an email.

01:30:14.409 --> 01:30:19.930
Certainly, Bangs would not just come over and listen to us every Saturday to wait for his name to get invoked.

01:30:20.329 --> 01:30:21.289
But well, I would love to.

01:30:21.449 --> 01:30:22.490
It's like Joe Henry.

01:30:22.570 --> 01:30:24.570
W you say his name and as he appears.

01:30:24.730 --> 01:30:32.250
Yeah, other things like do you have links on your website to follow the show?

01:30:32.490 --> 01:30:33.449
Make that easy.

01:30:33.530 --> 01:30:34.570
That's a pod page thing.

01:30:34.650 --> 01:30:38.890
If you go to ask the podcastcoach.com slash follow, you can follow in whatever your app.

01:30:38.970 --> 01:30:42.090
And please quit saying find me wherever you find your podcast.

01:30:42.409 --> 01:30:46.730
Because if you don't believe it, go search for your show, and one of two things is gonna happen.

01:30:46.970 --> 01:30:47.770
Both are not good.

01:30:47.930 --> 01:30:56.810
One, you won't find your show, or B, it'll show up twice in Apple Podcasts, because when you move from one host to the other, you resubmitted it.

01:30:57.050 --> 01:30:58.490
So here you go.

01:30:58.730 --> 01:31:04.570
Randy says, I'm gonna I'm gonna start dropping Bangs naughty bets every week to test the theory.

01:31:04.650 --> 01:31:07.850
So but but listen, Bangs, he put two bucks in.

01:31:08.010 --> 01:31:09.610
Like he he that's it.

01:31:09.770 --> 01:31:15.130
He he put his money where his mouth is, and he did more than the 26 other people did.

01:31:15.210 --> 01:31:19.690
Well, I should say 24, because we had two others do super chat as well here.

01:31:19.770 --> 01:31:24.409
So but Bangs, always great to see you, and thanks for the amazing mod job that you do.

01:31:24.890 --> 01:31:26.490
He does at that that Reddit.

01:31:26.730 --> 01:31:31.210
I still I still hate Reddit, but at that Reddit group for podcasting.

01:31:31.449 --> 01:31:33.449
I forget what he said this morning.

01:31:34.010 --> 01:31:37.210
Oh, because I read so many Reddits, but it was so good.

01:31:37.289 --> 01:31:42.970
All I said was just amen, preach on Bruce Bangs, because it was just it was just the truth.

01:31:43.210 --> 01:31:45.050
We don't know who Bangs is.

01:31:45.289 --> 01:31:46.650
His name is Bangs.

01:31:46.970 --> 01:31:59.930
He's used to be a much more regular listener, and he would my favorite thing was Bangs would come in and he's really knowledgeable about kind of conspiracy theory stuff, and he loved to bring it up on a show about podcasting.

01:32:00.250 --> 01:32:15.130
And there was one when I was like, he he just he'd gone a little too tangent, skirted the edge, he skirted the edge, which is ironic because that's what he tries to prevent in the in the Reddit group that he mods as people being on the edge.

01:32:15.289 --> 01:32:22.730
But here he was always on the edge of things, he would see how much he could squeak in, you know, knowing we were gonna moderate him.

01:32:22.970 --> 01:32:24.570
Yeah, that was the whole play.

01:32:24.730 --> 01:32:32.409
So Ralph you gotta go back five years, maybe, yeah, to for the Bangs, the Bangs era, as I'm gonna call it.

01:32:34.409 --> 01:32:38.090
And and we're still friends, so it's uh he occasionally shows up.

01:32:38.409 --> 01:32:42.010
We it was never personal, it was just like, yeah, that's kind of off topic.

01:32:42.329 --> 01:32:46.170
But yeah, it much more better for the no agenda show or something like that.

01:32:46.329 --> 01:32:47.369
So yeah, right on.

01:32:47.530 --> 01:32:49.289
But anyway, always great to see you, Bangs.

01:32:49.449 --> 01:32:50.170
Always great to see you.

01:32:50.409 --> 01:32:51.130
Thank you, sir.

01:32:51.289 --> 01:32:54.490
And uh, Jim, what is coming up on Home Gadget Geeks?

01:32:54.810 --> 01:32:57.130
I'm on a long extended break, which is awesome.

01:32:57.210 --> 01:33:02.090
I'm not I won't come back till mid-January, but the last podcast, Jay Franzi joins me.

01:33:02.250 --> 01:33:07.530
We create a new theme song for Home Gadget Geeks uh on the show.

01:33:07.610 --> 01:33:11.050
So if you want to see how we did that with AI, you can check it out today.

01:33:11.210 --> 01:33:12.490
It's available for you.

01:33:12.570 --> 01:33:14.570
Uh HomeGadgetGeeks.com.

01:33:14.730 --> 01:33:16.409
And I'll put the link in the show notes.

01:33:16.650 --> 01:33:17.130
Excellent.

01:33:17.289 --> 01:33:26.090
And on the School of Podcasting, I haven't done one of these in a while, and I it needs a little update, and that is it is for the beginners.

01:33:26.250 --> 01:33:33.530
Like if you are like, hey, I've already got it launched and I'm trying to figure out how to promote this thing, this one's probably not for you.

01:33:33.690 --> 01:33:37.050
It's it's how to launch a podcast, how to start a podcast.

01:33:37.210 --> 01:33:39.289
So the who, what, why, when, where.

01:33:39.449 --> 01:33:50.090
And the reason I'm doing this one again, instead of pointing people to the one I did, I think four years ago, is this one I'm talking about video, and I will be talking about do you need to do video?

01:33:50.250 --> 01:33:51.130
No, you don't.

01:33:51.289 --> 01:33:53.210
Uh, but if you want to, you can.

01:33:53.289 --> 01:33:56.409
Uh, but I'm also gonna talk about what it costs and what it does.

01:33:56.570 --> 01:34:01.850
So, but I want to do that without just being 40 minutes of Dave ranting about how video is not a podcast.

01:34:01.930 --> 01:34:05.050
But it's not gonna be that because I just did that like two weeks ago.

01:34:05.210 --> 01:34:10.170
But it is gonna talk about the things that people don't think about, like, you know, can you do this?

01:34:10.329 --> 01:34:16.970
Uh, pick your schedule after you record your first episode, get some feedback from that thing before you launch it.

01:34:17.130 --> 01:34:19.530
All that's gonna be on the School of Podcasting.

01:34:19.690 --> 01:34:25.289
So thanks to all the awesome super chats from uh Ralph from uh askral.com.

01:34:25.449 --> 01:34:27.770
Uh John, I don't know what your website is.

01:34:28.010 --> 01:34:29.770
Uh otherwise I would do that.

01:34:29.850 --> 01:34:37.530
And of course, uh the the podcasting Reddit is where Bangs is uh uh I was gonna say Redditing, but he's uh what is that?

01:34:37.690 --> 01:34:47.610
When you uh and of course uh Dan at based on a true storypodcast.com and uh Mark over at podcastbranding.co.

01:34:48.010 --> 01:34:51.770
We'll see you next week with another episode of Ask the Podcast Coach.