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Speaker 1: Get in touch with technology with tech Stuff from how

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Speaker 1: stuff works dot com. Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer

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Speaker 1: at how Stuff Works in I love all things tech,

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Speaker 1: and recently I did a live stream celebrating the tenth

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Speaker 1: anniversary of tech Stuff. I know I've been talking a

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Speaker 1: lot about that, but to me, it's a really big

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Speaker 1: deal to to be the host of a show that's

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Speaker 1: lasted ten years. And we did some question answer stuff

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Speaker 1: on that episode, and some people were asking me about

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Speaker 1: what it takes to start your own podcast, And so

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Speaker 1: I've talked a little bit about that in previous episodes

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Speaker 1: and kind of covered it in brief, but today I

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Speaker 1: really want to dive into this concept. What does it

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Speaker 1: take to make your own podcast? Let's say that maybe

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Speaker 1: you are interested in launching your own show. What are

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Speaker 1: the things that you need to think about? What are

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Speaker 1: it to produce a show? And as it turns out,

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Speaker 1: the answer to that question is variable on a lot

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Speaker 1: of different factors. But the first thing I would say,

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Speaker 1: you have to do the most important thing by far

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Speaker 1: out of all the stuff you're gonna have to do

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Speaker 1: to make a show is to pick a topic or

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Speaker 1: a subject something that your podcast is about. If you

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Speaker 1: want to do the podcast about nothing, you're gonna find

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Speaker 1: it incredibly challenging to stick to a schedule time and

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Speaker 1: time again. It is just gonna be tough. Plus, you

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Speaker 1: want to have a good focus to give yourself direction

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Speaker 1: for producing the show. You want to make sure that

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Speaker 1: you are able to have a goal in sight. Not

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Speaker 1: only that, but it also helps when you're categorizing your

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Speaker 1: podcast because a lot of people find podcasts by going

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Speaker 1: into their podcatching application of choice to typically, Apple podcasts

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Speaker 1: is the grand daddy of them. That's the biggest one

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Speaker 1: out of all of the directories out there. But whether

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Speaker 1: or any of those things, chances are you're looking at

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Speaker 1: things like categories because you know what your interests are

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Speaker 1: and you want to look for podcasts that serve up

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Speaker 1: if you are able to focus on your show and

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Speaker 1: allow you to categorize your show and make it easier

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Speaker 1: for other people to find it, because ultimately, you want

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Speaker 1: people to listen to your show. Otherwise, why are you

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Speaker 1: So presume presumably you want people to listen to it.

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Speaker 1: So finding a focus something you're passionate about already is

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Speaker 1: really important, and I think being passionate is is incredibly

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Speaker 1: necessary so that you will not lose enthusiasm for the

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Speaker 1: subject of whatever your podcast is, and it doesn't have

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Speaker 1: to be a specific thing. Like there's some great shows

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Speaker 1: and it's hilarious. It does have some structure and it

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Speaker 1: of advice show for the modern era, as they say,

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Speaker 1: tech stuff. We focus on technology and its intersection with culture.

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Speaker 1: The Soundtracks show is all about soundtracks, movie music, and

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Speaker 1: television music and how that's changed and involved in the

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Speaker 1: podcasts that makes the show even better, whether it's a

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Speaker 1: That's very much what tech stuff is. I frequently, if

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Speaker 1: person has already answered it because the tracks aren't lining up.

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Speaker 1: But it is possible to do. I have a little

435
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Speaker 1: bit more I want to talk about with the stuff

436
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Speaker 1: you need if you want to launch a podcast, But

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Speaker 1: before I jump into that, let's take another quick break

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Speaker 1: to thank our sponsor. Alright, so you figured out what

439
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Speaker 1: microphone you want, you also need to figure out what

440
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Speaker 1: sort of recording software and editing software you want to use.

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Speaker 1: This is what you're gonna use to actually record those

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Speaker 1: tracks and then manipulate them afterward in case you want

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Speaker 1: to do stuff like take out mistakes or put in

444
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Speaker 1: elements like music or sound effects. Maybe you create a

445
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Speaker 1: standard opener and closer that you want to include with

446
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Speaker 1: every episode, and you don't want to have to record

447
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Speaker 1: it every single time, so you record it once and

448
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 1: then you create a template so that you can just

449
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,679
Speaker 1: plug that right in to your your podcast These are

450
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 1: all things that are pretty standard in podcasts, and they

451
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: could be tricky to learn at first, but all it

452
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 1: really takes is some time and effort to learn a

453
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Speaker 1: software package. And there's lots of different options out there,

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Speaker 1: including a lot of really good free ones. So, for example,

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Speaker 1: Audacity is a free tool. You can just download it,

456
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Speaker 1: use it right out of the right off the download,

457
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Speaker 1: and use it to edit tracks like crazy. It's got

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Speaker 1: tons of built in tools. You can record into it,

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Speaker 1: so it's not just an editing software suite. You can

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Speaker 1: just record directly into Audacity. You can once you've done

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Speaker 1: editing it, you know, you can export things into different

462
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Speaker 1: file formats. It's got tons of different effects and filters

463
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Speaker 1: that you can add to a recording to to change

464
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Speaker 1: the the quality and the effect of that sound, and

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Speaker 1: you can do stuff like it's pretty standard among all

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Speaker 1: editing software. You can do something where you record what

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Speaker 1: is called room tone. Room tone is just the baseline

468
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: recorded sound that your microphone is picking up or even generating,

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Speaker 1: without you saying anything into it. So, um, here at

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Speaker 1: how stuff works. Before I start talking, we record several

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Speaker 1: seconds of room tone because that creates this this baseline

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Speaker 1: signal that then we can scan and use to remove

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Speaker 1: that from the rest of the episode, so that if

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Speaker 1: there is a hiss or a hum, maybe there's a

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Speaker 1: worring noise, something that is low level. It's not it's

476
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Speaker 1: not gonna be able to take out all noise that's

477
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Speaker 1: generated in the background, but anything like that, it can

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Speaker 1: pull that out of the finished recording and you have

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Speaker 1: a much nicer, cleaner sound. Most of these software editing

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Speaker 1: programs i'm gonna talk about can do that, but definitely Audacity.

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Speaker 1: I know because I use it. Audacity is what I

482
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Speaker 1: have used at home in my personal projects. I use

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Speaker 1: Audition here at the office, but that is not a

484
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Speaker 1: free tool. So if you're really wanting to get into

485
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Speaker 1: some serious audio editing, then maybe something like Audition is

486
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Speaker 1: right for you. But Audacity is free. There's other ones.

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Speaker 1: There's osan Audio, O, C E N A U D I. Oh.

488
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Speaker 1: It's slightly less intimidating than Audacity is uh. There are

489
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Speaker 1: fewer bells and whistles, but still incredibly useful. And that

490
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Speaker 1: is a useful editing software suite. There is a program

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Speaker 1: by DVD video Soft called Free Audio Editor. It's important

492
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Speaker 1: for you to know it's from DVD Video Soft, because

493
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Speaker 1: there's actually quite a few programs out there called free

494
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Speaker 1: audio Editor, So the one that I recommend is from

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Speaker 1: DVD video Soft. It's also pretty easy to use, but

496
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Speaker 1: there are lots of others, so you can do some research,

497
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: find out things that are uh that look like you

498
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Speaker 1: could spend some time to learn how to really navigate it,

499
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: and the more you use the stuff, the easier it's

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Speaker 1: going to become. At first, when you're using it, you're

501
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: gonna be doing everything pretty much the hard way, unless

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Speaker 1: you just happen to have someone teaching you all the

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Speaker 1: shortcuts right out of the gate. But as you get better,

504
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: you start to learn shortcuts, You start to learn what

505
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: is and isn't important. You learn quick ways to do

506
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: things like mute a track. Let's say that you're recording

507
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Speaker 1: and interview with someone over Skype and at some point

508
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Speaker 1: you made a noise into the microphone and the person

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Speaker 1: on the other end didn't stop. They kept on going.

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Speaker 1: Everything was cool, but you don't want that noise to

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Speaker 1: go into the final recording. You can learn things like

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Speaker 1: how to mute that little noise so that it never

513
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Speaker 1: shows up and the audience is none the wiser stuff

514
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Speaker 1: like that. These are all things that these editing software

515
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Speaker 1: suites can easily do, and a lot of them can

516
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Speaker 1: also take in plug ins that can even increase the

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Speaker 1: functionality of the editing software suite. So it could be

518
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Speaker 1: a little intimidating if you've never used it before, but

519
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: it's stuff that if you just take some time, it

520
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Speaker 1: really is uh not that hard. And I say that

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Speaker 1: as someone who has done this myself, I do not

522
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Speaker 1: consider myself an audio engineer by any stretch of the imagination,

523
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Speaker 1: which is intimidating because pretty soon I'll be acting as one.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, it is possible to learn how to do

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Speaker 1: these even if you are someone like me, someone who

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Speaker 1: feels that it's a little outside of your your wheelhouse. Um,

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Speaker 1: once you've got all that down, you've got the you

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Speaker 1: know how the software works, you know how to edit

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Speaker 1: a show. You've edited your first episode, you feel good

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Speaker 1: about it. You've taken out all the ums and uz

531
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: which took you an incredibly long time, And you should

532
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Speaker 1: not do that because again, every time you start adding

533
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Speaker 1: things that you need to do for every episode, you're

534
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Speaker 1: increasing the amount of time it takes to produce one,

535
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: which decreases your incentive to make another one, So don't

536
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: go over overboard with editing. But you've done all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: You've put in music, you put in sound effects, whatever

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Speaker 1: you might have done. Now you need to figure out

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Speaker 1: how to get this out to a world. UM that

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Speaker 1: would involve getting a hosting service. UH. You could host

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Speaker 1: files on a website that you are operating. Let's say

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Speaker 1: that you go and you you register a domain and

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Speaker 1: you've got a website. You're using some sort of web

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Speaker 1: hosting service, maybe it's WordPress or something along those lines,

545
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Speaker 1: and you're storing files directly on there. You could do that,

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Speaker 1: but most often, if you start having a lot of

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Speaker 1: people downloading stuff. Let's say that your podcast gets incredibly popular,

548
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Speaker 1: you're gonna find issues with your host if if there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of traffic going to your site. So most

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Speaker 1: podcasters will use a podcast hosting service, which typically costs

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Speaker 1: a certain amount of money per month, and the amount

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Speaker 1: depends upon which provider you go with and what options

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Speaker 1: you choose. So some popular UH podcast hosting services include

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Speaker 1: stuff like libs in podcast website, pod Bean, spriaker, that

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. They tend to have hosting fees and

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Speaker 1: those fees, like I said, are dependent upon typically how

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Speaker 1: much material you're uploading per month. So there might be

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Speaker 1: a limit saying like we will allow you to upload

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Speaker 1: this many megs of audio per month. Uh, some of

560
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: them might have a limit on how many how much

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Speaker 1: information can be downloaded per month, so you want to

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Speaker 1: pay attention to that. But there are a lot of

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Speaker 1: options out there, and a lot of them also have

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Speaker 1: unlimited options for pretty reasonable amounts like ten bucks a

565
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: month or something like that, And for that you can

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Speaker 1: upload your podcasts to the service. They will host them.

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Speaker 1: Whenever anyone downloads a show, ultimately, it's coming from that

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Speaker 1: source on the Internet. All the podcast directories out there,

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Speaker 1: like Apple Podcasts or Google Play, ultimately all they are

570
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Speaker 1: doing is pointing you toward that RSS feed that exists

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Speaker 1: generated by whatever the podcast hosting service you used happens

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Speaker 1: to be. So once you've got your podcast hosting service,

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00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: the new step is actually getting listed on various podcast

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Speaker 1: directories like Apple Podcasts or Stitcher or Google Play or

575
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Speaker 1: tune in or Spotify. And one thing I recommend you

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Speaker 1: do is once you've created your podcast on one of

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Speaker 1: these podcasts hosting services, typically you have to fill out

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of information the first time. You do

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Speaker 1: this all about your show. Once you do it once,

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Speaker 1: you're pretty much good. But it's important because these different

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Speaker 1: directories will pull information from your RSS feed to populate

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Speaker 1: their directory, and without that information, you may not get

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Speaker 1: listed in those directories, like Apple Podcasts in particular. If

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Speaker 1: there's information missing, you'll get an error message if you

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Speaker 1: submit it to Apple and they'll say, no, I'm sorry,

586
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Speaker 1: you don't have these fields filled in. You've got to

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Speaker 1: fix that. So most of these podcast hosting services have

588
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: that stuff built into their system and you just have

589
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: to take the time to fill it all out. Once

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Speaker 1: you do that, you can use a tool like cast

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Speaker 1: feed value a data dot com which will look at

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Speaker 1: your RSS feed. You just feed in the u r

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Speaker 1: L to your RSS feed into the service and it

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Speaker 1: will tell you if you have fulfilled the requirements for

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Speaker 1: various types of podcast directories, and then you need to

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00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: submit to the actual directories. Some podcast hosting services make

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Speaker 1: this easy, like Libson. If you wanted to submit directly

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Speaker 1: to Google Play, there's a way of doing that from

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00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: Libson's dashboard. So once you create your show, you can

600
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: use the dashboard to submit it to Google Play and

601
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: it takes care of the rest. Others, like Apple Podcasts,

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00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: typically you have to actually create UH an Apple log in.

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Speaker 1: You have to go to iTunes, go into the podcast area,

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Speaker 1: and you have to submit your podcast through there um

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Speaker 1: and again you submit it by copying UH the R S,

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Speaker 1: s U r L, pasting it into Apple Podcasts, and

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00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: then within a few days, Apple will review your submission

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Speaker 1: and tell you they or not you've been accepted into

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00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: the podcast directory. I really recommend that if you if

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Speaker 1: you only have to pick one podcast directory out there,

611
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: if you just you don't have it in you to

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Speaker 1: do this for the various outlets that are there, definitely

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Speaker 1: go with Apple podcasts because it is by far the

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Speaker 1: most popular way to get podcasts in general. Oddly enough,

615
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: not for tech stuff tex stuff. The best numbers tend

616
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Speaker 1: to come from outside of Apple Podcasts, but for most podcasts,

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Speaker 1: Apple is the way to go. With us it's through

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00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: all the other means are actually more popular once you

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Speaker 1: look at it, things like Android, you know, using Google

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Speaker 1: Play or Stitcher, Spotify or something like that, But most

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Speaker 1: of the time, Apple podcasts the way to go. When

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Speaker 1: you do this by the way. You will also have

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Speaker 1: to do things like create good album art so that

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Speaker 1: people can see it when they are browsing through the

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Speaker 1: different shows. You want something that's really eye catching and

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00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: uh engaging that the the album art represents the show

627
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: well and is fun and and attractive, so that people

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Speaker 1: want to find out what the heck is this show

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Speaker 1: that's connected to this logo. Same thing with the name.

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Speaker 1: You want the name of your show to be really

631
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Speaker 1: catchy and ideally somewhat related to whatever the show is about,

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Speaker 1: so that people kind of have an idea of what

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Speaker 1: they're getting into. It also doesn't hurt to record what

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Speaker 1: we call trailer episodes, which are just like a minute,

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Speaker 1: a half or two minute long episode that gives a

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Speaker 1: quick rundown on what the show is all about. This

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00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: tends to be called like an episode zero or preview episode,

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00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 1: so that people can just record the rundown, giving listeners

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Speaker 1: an idea of what to expect if they start to

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Speaker 1: listen to or subscribe to a show. And that is

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Speaker 1: in a nutshell, my guide to getting started with podcasting. Now,

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Speaker 1: there's a whole lot more we could talk about. There's

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00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,280
Speaker 1: more advanced stuff that you have to start looking into.

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Speaker 1: For example, it's a good idea to launch a companion

645
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: website to support a podcast, especially if you want to

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00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: do stuff like show notes or links. Maybe you want

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Speaker 1: to do merchandise, that's another issue entirely. There's the whole

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