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Speaker 1: tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. You've heard

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Speaker 1: of the stuff they don't want you to know in

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Speaker 1: this video podcast from how stuff works dot com. Hello there, everybody,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Poette,

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Speaker 1: and I'm the tech editor here at how stuff works

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Speaker 1: be senior writer Johnathan Stripline. Let's turn this mother out, y'all. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: hey there all alright, So today we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: You know why, because if we weren't doing our podcasting works,

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Speaker 1: you know what we would be doing cantennis or tech

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theories to other ones that we keep putting off. Actually,

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Speaker 1: we've had a lot of people ask us things, everything

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Speaker 1: much in this podcast, although we have, like I said,

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Speaker 1: tackled some some fairly timely topics. So if you're if

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Speaker 1: you're not handling, if you're not talking about something that

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Speaker 1: is time sensitive, then you have the luxury of being

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Speaker 1: able to record as many as you like before you

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Speaker 1: start going live. Um, if it is something that's time since,

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Speaker 1: of course that does change things. If you're doing something

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Speaker 1: and you want the episode to go up live the

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Speaker 1: day after the television show airs, you don't have that

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Speaker 1: kind of flexibility. So, I mean, it all will depend

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Speaker 1: on your situation. But I do think that if you can,

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Speaker 1: if you can establish that reliable publication schedule, you will

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Speaker 1: build an audience much faster than otherwise. Yeah, just just

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Speaker 1: as a comment, I sort of envy stuff you missed

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Speaker 1: in history class, because um, you know that's history for us.

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Speaker 1: We have actually recorded stuff and have it, have had

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Speaker 1: it go out of date before it actually goes live

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Speaker 1: because we're doing and then you know, we go oh

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Nothing like saying something like you know, Android

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Speaker 1: phone is never going to go to any other carrier,

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Speaker 1: It's just gonna stay on Team Mobile and then the

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Speaker 1: next week like, well it's on Sprint. Well all right,

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Speaker 1: well you know that, ha ha. We'll just have people.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's on Verizon now we've some of them. We've

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Speaker 1: had to uh have our engineers re edit a couple

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Speaker 1: of the podcasts, like go back into the studio for

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Speaker 1: five minutes and sort of for cord a patch to

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Speaker 1: uh rip out the older Actually, you may have actually

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Speaker 1: noticed a couple of ye, because there's some of those

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Speaker 1: this just in. Yeah, we've done a PostScript where you

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Speaker 1: could tell that we had to go in afterward. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes our our editors are just very good at at

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Speaker 1: cutting out the offending bit and inserting a new bit

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Speaker 1: and you can't even tell thank you, Lizzie, Thank you Lizzie.

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Speaker 1: Um so, do we have any other tips that we

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Speaker 1: want to give, like any other like just general tips

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Speaker 1: about podcasting. Um, I just want to reiterate, don't get

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Speaker 1: hung up on the whole podcasting biz thing, because you

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Speaker 1: can honestly do this with a computer and a microphone.

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Speaker 1: Just make an MP three of your yourself talking and

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Speaker 1: making a podcast. Yeah, it's not it's not rocket surgery.

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Speaker 1: I can't yeah, I can't imagine. I can't imagine what

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Speaker 1: it would be like to do this on my own,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think it to be harder I mean,

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Speaker 1: we have people who record this for us, we have

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Speaker 1: people who edit the podcast, where you have people that

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Speaker 1: publish them two iTunes for us, which is for which

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Speaker 1: we're all extremely grateful. Uh speaking for everyone there, well,

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Speaker 1: even I'm pretty sure, I mean even just thinking about

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Speaker 1: doing it, like without a co host. I then when

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Speaker 1: it's just you and a microphone, that changes the dynamic

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Speaker 1: quite a bit. I would plan. Yeah, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if he meant that he was gonna ditch me or

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Speaker 1: that he was going to uh you know, he wanted

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Speaker 1: to take the show over himself. Yeah, I was. I

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Speaker 1: was totally gonna start a new podcast called Stuff on

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Speaker 1: my Desk, And because that never changes, I don't need

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Speaker 1: to worry about it, like seven episodes and then just

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Speaker 1: rerun them. Yeah, exactly. It's sort of a mini series.

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Speaker 1: Those are our our tips and just you know, general

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Speaker 1: information of what we do. Uh, if you you're curious

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Speaker 1: about our our process. We pick our topics usually the

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Speaker 1: week before we record, and then the day of the

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Speaker 1: recording is when I've end up doing research. Despite the

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Speaker 1: fact of having an entire week to have looked into it. Um,

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Speaker 1: but we've researched the topics independently, we come together, we

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Speaker 1: have our conversation, and then we sit there and notice

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Speaker 1: that we've been recording for like thirty minutes and then

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Speaker 1: realize that we need to stop and the timer is off. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's because my phone started vibrating because of the Yeah

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Speaker 1: there's there's a kid. Leave your phone out of the studio. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I have my phone set on airplane mode. It's just

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Speaker 1: because the damn schedule thing went off. I'm not telling you.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, don't forget to turn off that stuff. Actually, uh,

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Speaker 1: we're not. We're generally not supposed to have phones in

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Speaker 1: here because they actually cause interference with our equipment, and

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Speaker 1: including phones that are because our studio is actually in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the office, and people whose phones are

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Speaker 1: the people who sit just around there. It can the

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Speaker 1: equipment can actually pick them. Well, that's that's why I

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Speaker 1: have it on airplane mode, so it doesn't I know,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't say I'm stops a tip, stop person cuting me.

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Speaker 1: I pop my p just then. All right, so let's

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Speaker 1: let's wrap this up with a little listener me. We

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Speaker 1: were talking about the old time so much, and I

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Speaker 1: just thought i'd go back to it. This comes from

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Speaker 1: Miles and Miles says in your podcast about the different

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Speaker 1: types of keyboards, you mentioned how you wouldn't want to

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Speaker 1: switch to a divorate keyboard because of the major change

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Speaker 1: from the Quarty standard. This is an example of negative

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Speaker 1: transfer because you're so used to the quirty style. It

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Speaker 1: would actually be harder for you to learn how to

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Speaker 1: type on another type of keyboard than someone just learning

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Speaker 1: how to type uh for the first time. I assume

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Speaker 1: I can't take all the credit for this knowledge. I

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Speaker 1: must give credit to my girlfriend who's studying human factors

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Speaker 1: and ergonomics in graduate school and has knowledge about such things. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to say that I love the show. Keep

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Speaker 1: up the good jobs, sincerely, Miles. You know I've experienced

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Speaker 1: negative transfer a few times, like when I went to

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Speaker 1: the University of Georgia. They and accept all my credits

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Speaker 1: and I had to take classes again, did I. But

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Speaker 1: it's a shame that they can't see the look I'm

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Speaker 1: giving you, right, Yeah, it's pretty much the look of disgusted.

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Speaker 1: Think think Thank you for the info, Miles. Thank your

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Speaker 1: girlfriend for us as well. We we have given her credit.

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Speaker 1: She should see that on the transcript. Next time. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just look for that in the place where we never

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Speaker 1: put it. Yeah, if you would like to learn more

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Speaker 1: about podcasting, we actually have in the article on how

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Speaker 1: stuff works dot com about podcasting. And of course we

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Speaker 1: have tons of amazing podcasts available. I know that we're

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Speaker 1: the best, but we also have some other good ones.

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Speaker 1: There's stuff you should know, stuff in this and history class,

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Speaker 1: stuff from the b sides, high speed stuff, stuff of genius.

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Speaker 1: Uh was the stuff on her coolest stuff on her?

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Speaker 1: If that's the one that I was about to forget?

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Speaker 1: Um and more so check them out. They're great. They're

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Speaker 1: great podcast If you ever want to kind of listen

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Speaker 1: to the different styles, you'll hear how not everyone prepared

549
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Speaker 1: as for their podcasts the same way. You can actually

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Speaker 1: kind of pick that up by listening. And uh, if

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Speaker 1: you want to see what we look like when we

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Speaker 1: are trying to talk about technology, tune in one o'clock

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Speaker 1: pm Eastern time Tuesdays. That's when we do tech stuff Live.

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Speaker 1: And you can find the link to that on the

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Speaker 1: house stuff works dot com blogs. Just go to house

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Speaker 1: stuff works dot com look on the right side. You'll

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Speaker 1: see the links there and Chris and I will talk

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Speaker 1: to you again really soon For more on this and

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