Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to a special edition of Access Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Maddie Stout, and this week we're
Speaker 1: gonna do something a little bit different. It's podcast Week
Speaker 1: on my Heart Radio and I want to answer some
Speaker 1: questions people have about podcasting. I get them all the time.
Speaker 1: I think those of us that are in the business
Speaker 1: assume everybody knows about podcasts, and not everybody does. So
Speaker 1: in this episode, I hope to tell you what a
Speaker 1: podcast is, also some ways to get started to listening
Speaker 1: to podcasts. Some great podcast to listen to, And I've
Speaker 1: invited producers e In and Z is gonna ask a
Speaker 1: few questions to me about podcasting and about me and
Speaker 1: why I'm in this world wide podcasting meets so much
Speaker 1: to me. Z. I'm gonna turn the mic over to
Speaker 1: you and I'll let you ask the questions. I am
Speaker 1: in the hot seat this week, and I'm anxious to
Speaker 1: see what kind of questions she put together as a
Speaker 1: as a host. Welcome, you want you want to do
Speaker 1: a little wanna do a little intro for yourself? Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm Ziania Dilvis. I am a content producer here at
Speaker 1: I Heart Media and I'm a legal midget. There you go.
Speaker 1: What do you mean you're a legal midget? Are you
Speaker 1: really that? I guess I haven't noticed. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: a lot of people say that, but I'm very short.
Speaker 1: You are short. If you want to see what Z
Speaker 1: looks like, go to our Facebook page. We put pictures
Speaker 1: up Halloween thing. Oh yeah, we do have we have
Speaker 1: that up. We'll have to put something else up to anyway.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to be on your your show today, ce,
Speaker 1: So what do you want to ask me about podcasting? So,
Speaker 1: because I know you started off in radio and you
Speaker 1: did radio for so long, but then you made this transition.
Speaker 1: What is your history with podcasting? So? I again started
Speaker 1: radio when I was sixteen, and you know, kind of
Speaker 1: worked my way through all these small markets doing country
Speaker 1: and classic rock, and I ended up doing talk radio
Speaker 1: in d C at w JFK. I was a g.
Speaker 1: Gordon Ladies producer, and then we moved up to New
Speaker 1: York and we have FM talk station there. Worked without
Speaker 1: being Anthony and Donna, Mike and if you're a radio
Speaker 1: geek you probably know some of those shows. Finally ending
Speaker 1: up here in San Francisco, and I had an FM
Speaker 1: talk show here at alex Radio. So I love talk radio,
Speaker 1: and ten years ago I saw that radio was changing
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. In fact, it was so
Speaker 1: funny yesterday I listened to an old show from ten
Speaker 1: years ago that we did a W n W and
Speaker 1: I and I listened to and I thought, none of
Speaker 1: this could go on the air today. None of its content,
Speaker 1: just content stuff, you know, we just it's too blue.
Speaker 1: So I wanted, I wanted to do more and and
Speaker 1: you know, and I've been radio my whole life, and
Speaker 1: I really just decided I needed to learn another skill.
Speaker 1: And there was this new startup that I didn't First
Speaker 1: of all, I didn't really understand what a startup was.
Speaker 1: I didn't understand the business model. I didn't understand anything
Speaker 1: other than the fact that it involved talk radio as
Speaker 1: far as I knew. And uh and and I got
Speaker 1: to i'd be able on the ground floor or something.
Speaker 1: So the company was called Stitcher. I there were four
Speaker 1: of us, and I left radio, and everybody kind of
Speaker 1: said that was crazy, you know, to leave radio, especially
Speaker 1: a very successful show. But I thought it was the
Speaker 1: right move at the time. And be honest with you,
Speaker 1: it's not like I had like some epiphany and said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, the future of everything is podcasting. I
Speaker 1: wasn't sure about the medium either. I took the risk
Speaker 1: because I liked I'd like doing talk and I felt
Speaker 1: like this is the medium where we could do any
Speaker 1: kind of talk radio we wanted. So I when I
Speaker 1: got to Stitcher, I got into the world of podcasting.
Speaker 1: And to be honest with you, ten years ago, you know,
Speaker 1: we thought that the podcast breakout was maybe two or
Speaker 1: three or four years away, and it didn't happen that quickly.
Speaker 1: It took a while. I feel like now is the
Speaker 1: biggest boom I've ever seen of podcasting. It is this
Speaker 1: is the golden age for us. Right now, there's there's
Speaker 1: money being invested in podcast companies, and the reason is
Speaker 1: there's just good quality content out that we didn't have
Speaker 1: ten years ago. I mean, back then, most podcasts were,
Speaker 1: as I like to say it, you know, two guys
Speaker 1: telling dick jokes for an hour and a half and
Speaker 1: and not produced. Well. You know, the good podcasts that
Speaker 1: we're out, we're radio shows. They were NPR shows that
Speaker 1: were being put out as podcast I mean, there were
Speaker 1: good podcasts back then, but it just wasn't like today,
Speaker 1: where you have so much good content out there in
Speaker 1: so so many ways to listen. So I guess going
Speaker 1: back to basics, what is a podcast for people that
Speaker 1: don't know, well, a podcast is simply and by the way,
Speaker 1: if you if you if you don't know what one
Speaker 1: is and you you found this one, congratulations you might
Speaker 1: have found because what we do is we tweet these
Speaker 1: out and you might be listening to it on player.
Speaker 1: So basically, what a podcast is is recorded audio that
Speaker 1: is sent out to various distribution platforms via an RSS feed.
Speaker 1: RSS feed stands for really simple syndications, so it means
Speaker 1: that you can syndicate your show to millions of people
Speaker 1: and all you have to do is upload it to
Speaker 1: a site. So a podcast, you know, can be uploaded
Speaker 1: to one of these RSS feeder sites and then go
Speaker 1: out to iTunes, to Stitcher, to Google Play and of
Speaker 1: course I heart radio. Uh so you have many ways
Speaker 1: that you can listen to a podcast, but at its heart,
Speaker 1: it's recorded audio meant for on demand listening. Everybody can listen,
Speaker 1: everybody can listen, and everybody can do one which is
Speaker 1: good and bad you know, because yeah, I mean there
Speaker 1: are a lot of bad podcasts out there. There's some
Speaker 1: really good ones. But the great thing about it is
Speaker 1: if you have an interest in anything, anything, there is
Speaker 1: a podcast for you. Well, speaking of that, you ask
Speaker 1: our guests on this on our show all the time,
Speaker 1: like what's the last podcast? They binge? But I want
Speaker 1: to always know what was the podcast that really made
Speaker 1: you fall in love with podcasts? Well, I'll say the
Speaker 1: first show was actually This American Life, and I listened
Speaker 1: to it maybe on the radio a couple of times. Uh,
Speaker 1: And then when it became a podcast that was like
Speaker 1: every week, could not wait. In fact, I did the
Speaker 1: content for Stitcher, so I was the one that made
Speaker 1: sure all the feeds were updated so that feed I
Speaker 1: would sit there and refresh it on the day it
Speaker 1: was supposed to come in, just waiting for it to
Speaker 1: come in. But as far as like pure podcast go,
Speaker 1: I really felt I always liked the how how stuff
Speaker 1: works podcasts when when they came out, those were podcasts
Speaker 1: that I really enjoyed. And there were some radio folks
Speaker 1: who went into podcasting early on. Adam Krola is one
Speaker 1: um I really enjoyed listening to Adam. I think the
Speaker 1: thing I enjoyed most is because I had a little
Speaker 1: background of course, you know, Adam and I worked with
Speaker 1: a lot of the same people in San Francisco and
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and and hearing him very kind of begrudgingly
Speaker 1: become a podcaster because he did not know he wanted
Speaker 1: to do it, you know, it's just he got fired.
Speaker 1: He got fired. So this was just another and it
Speaker 1: came out exactly and a friend said, start a podcast,
Speaker 1: which is something I've suggested to many radio folks, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of folks who start the podcast after
Speaker 1: they lose their gigs in radio. And then he turns
Speaker 1: it into one of the biggest podcast empires in the world,
Speaker 1: you know, literally from his garage and that's where it started,
Speaker 1: in his garage with his friend who pushed him, pushed
Speaker 1: him into it, and the whole time, if you listen
Speaker 1: to the first episodes, Adam is I'm not sure about
Speaker 1: it at all. Yeah, that was in two thousand nine.
Speaker 1: Had that started? Since you are the podcast king, can
Speaker 1: you give us a little history lesson on podcasting, Well,
Speaker 1: podcasting was started in two thousand four, That's that's the
Speaker 1: date most people agree on. And it was Adam Curry
Speaker 1: who if you don't know, if you're my age. You
Speaker 1: know who Adam Curry is because he was on MTV.
Speaker 1: He was he was a DJ, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people were like, Adam Curry started podcasting. Yeah, he and
Speaker 1: another guy I think Dave Dave Winner is his name,
Speaker 1: invented it. That they're they're credited with that. And then
Speaker 1: the term came around in two thousand four from an
Speaker 1: article in The Guardian calling it podcasting. But when it
Speaker 1: really really really happened two thousand five, Apple added podcast
Speaker 1: to the iTunes store. And that's also the time around
Speaker 1: the time when the first iPods came out. So I
Speaker 1: was actually at the launch of iPod and didn't know it.
Speaker 1: I was I was just moved to San Francisco and
Speaker 1: my friend was like, Hey, I'm gonna take you to
Speaker 1: the thing at Steve Jobs and I really didn't even
Speaker 1: know what I was doing. And it was actually the
Speaker 1: launch of iTunes, and I just remember sitting there. I
Speaker 1: went to meet Seal. Seal was at the event. I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna good Seal. I could care less
Speaker 1: about the event. And after the event, people were like,
Speaker 1: what do you think of this new iTunes And I'm like,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna pay for this. We're just gonna pay for music.
Speaker 1: This is stupid. I got Napster Man. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: got my first iPod. It was you know, this big brick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. I didn't know about that at all that
Speaker 1: you were at the event. I was at the event. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like awful circle now it is crazy. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, and and I'll admit, you know, podcasting
Speaker 1: for me is something that it seemed like a means
Speaker 1: to an end, and now I look at more as
Speaker 1: the beginning of a new medium for for broadcasting. And
Speaker 1: it's where you know, I push a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: we're pushing a lot of our radio stations to to
Speaker 1: do more with podcasting because, uh, everybody likes on demand,
Speaker 1: and if you like on demand, then you like podcasting
Speaker 1: because it is that is what it is. It's Netflix
Speaker 1: for audio, absolutely, And it's also it's nice because well,
Speaker 1: as a millennial, I feel like my generation is really
Speaker 1: visual people. So if we read an article, we're always
Speaker 1: looking for the video component of it. But I've realized
Speaker 1: more and more that not just my friends, but people
Speaker 1: my age, they listen to podcasts more than they go
Speaker 1: on YouTube, you know, like because if you're commuting or
Speaker 1: in the car, in the bus, maybe the video won't work.
Speaker 1: So you're like, oh, you can always have something to
Speaker 1: listen to. And my friends of A and I have
Speaker 1: tried to talk about this, but we don't really get
Speaker 1: why that is, Like, why do you think podcasting has
Speaker 1: hooked millennial? Well, little little number for your thirty three
Speaker 1: percent of all podcasts listening happens with millennials only of
Speaker 1: it happens with jen X, which is my generations. You
Speaker 1: would think that would be the opposite, At least I
Speaker 1: would have thought, because usually when you think of a
Speaker 1: podcast listener, it's it's a middle aged white dude with
Speaker 1: a beard. But that is not the case. A lot
Speaker 1: of millennials are listening, and I think a couple of reasons.
Speaker 1: Like you said, when you're on you know, especially in
Speaker 1: the cities, when you're in public transit, if you look around,
Speaker 1: everyone has headphones on, everyone is consuming audio exactly, everybody's
Speaker 1: consuming audio. So that that's one reason, I think, and
Speaker 1: not the reason is it is a retreat. A podcast
Speaker 1: is a retreat from all the other ship that's going
Speaker 1: on in the world. So when you're listening to the podcast,
Speaker 1: you're in it. You're in it. It's like it's you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of folks don't read books anymore, but it's
Speaker 1: the same mind. It works the same muscle in your head,
Speaker 1: almost like an audiobook essentially, it does, you know, and
Speaker 1: and and I think that when you're constantly looking at
Speaker 1: screens and looking at video and and and and up there,
Speaker 1: it's a job. Certainly. I of like, my phone is
Speaker 1: the job, and I'm I'm you know, I am anchored
Speaker 1: to it. And when I'm listening to a podcast, I
Speaker 1: tend to not do all that other stuff, you know.
Speaker 1: I might like maybe look through a news feed or something,
Speaker 1: but for the most part, I try to just kind
Speaker 1: of chill, relax and listen to the podcast. So I
Speaker 1: think that's it. I think a lot of the students
Speaker 1: that that I teach like podcasting to do it as well,
Speaker 1: because it is such a free medium for them and
Speaker 1: it is something new, you know, where every all of
Speaker 1: you guys do video. You just mentioned you teach students
Speaker 1: at the Academy of our university, our university, and you
Speaker 1: teach a podcasting class, not just a radio class. So
Speaker 1: for your students or for anybody listening, that have always
Speaker 1: had an interest in podcasting. What do you think what
Speaker 1: is the way to start one? Well, I'll say this,
Speaker 1: the first way to start one is to have, first
Speaker 1: of all, listen to podcasts. I can't tell you how
Speaker 1: many people tell me I want to start a podcast,
Speaker 1: and like what's your favorite podcast? And they have Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have no answer. It's like, well, that's the first thing.
Speaker 1: Know the medium that you want to be in, and
Speaker 1: know it well, and and listen to a variety of
Speaker 1: shows so that you have some ideas of like there's
Speaker 1: these kind of shows, and these kind of shows, and
Speaker 1: these kind of shows. There's interview shows, and there's storytelling
Speaker 1: shows and journalism shows. Second of all, have an original idea,
Speaker 1: don't you? And your thoughts are not interesting to very
Speaker 1: many people. Honestly, you could. You could be very funny
Speaker 1: and very interesting, but nobody is going to say I'm
Speaker 1: gonna listen to that podcast because it's got Jimmy's thoughts
Speaker 1: and feelings and Jimmy's talking about you know, things that
Speaker 1: Jimmy sees in the news. I don't know who Jimmy is.
Speaker 1: Those podcasts work if you're a celebrity, because I'm I
Speaker 1: love Anna ferris All. What is Anna ferris All? I
Speaker 1: heard love her. She's so funny. I would listen to
Speaker 1: our podcast exactly. But nobody knows who you are. So
Speaker 1: have an interesting idea. Try to have a unique as
Speaker 1: we say in the marketing business, the USP, a unique
Speaker 1: selling proposition um, and then produce it well. The problem
Speaker 1: with a lot of podcasts is that they're poorly produced.
Speaker 1: You know, it's so easy right now to go buy
Speaker 1: a really good USB microphone, hook it into your computer
Speaker 1: and use Audacity, which is free or audition is what
Speaker 1: I suggest, and and do a quality recording, then add music,
Speaker 1: and then edit, edit, edit, edit. Nobody wants to hear
Speaker 1: all the ums and os and And that's the one
Speaker 1: thing lazy students tell me all the time, which is
Speaker 1: I want to hear my oms and oz because it
Speaker 1: makes me sound more real. Nobody wants to hear that.
Speaker 1: In fact, how many ms and ohs do you have
Speaker 1: to edit out of my show every week? A lot?
Speaker 1: A lot. I'm an omana guy, which is fine, but
Speaker 1: you need to edit that stuff out. And then the
Speaker 1: other thing is to do it, do it, do it,
Speaker 1: do it, do it, do it every day. If you
Speaker 1: do it, once a week. Do it, do it once
Speaker 1: a week. Stay consistent. Don't get into the habit of
Speaker 1: putting one off for a week. That's really bad for
Speaker 1: your listeners. And you have to be patient too. You're
Speaker 1: not going to build an audience up right away. Like
Speaker 1: we have podcasts. We have twenty six podcasts here in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, and we are still the audiences are growing
Speaker 1: because it's new for most of our listeners and it's
Speaker 1: new for the host as well. So we have to
Speaker 1: constantly like be patient. You know, this is a new
Speaker 1: medium and it is growing and it is expanding, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen overnight for any show, for any show.
Speaker 1: We're trying to grow this show right now, and and
Speaker 1: it's and some days I look at the numbers and
Speaker 1: I go, what are we doing wrong? So we're doing
Speaker 1: anything wrong, it's just it's just not happened yet. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing that happens with most shows. There will
Speaker 1: be an episode, somebody will share it, other people will
Speaker 1: get into it, and then that's what it starts. And
Speaker 1: then they go back and listen to what episodes, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you've went from a few hundred
Speaker 1: people listening to an episode to a few thousand. It
Speaker 1: happens that fast, but you have to be patient. I
Speaker 1: like that, and I mean going back to producing it. Well,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of my generation, and I mean
Speaker 1: I think podcast listeners are more are they hear better
Speaker 1: quality now? They don't just like put something on it
Speaker 1: like okay, it's whatever. Because I can't tell you how
Speaker 1: many times I've started a new podcast and I've heard
Speaker 1: lytches in the audio and stuff that they haven't fixed,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, I don't want to listen to
Speaker 1: this anymore because I want to feel like they care
Speaker 1: about the podcast enough to put it out and make
Speaker 1: me want to care about it. Yeah. I mean this
Speaker 1: is there is a lot of money being put into
Speaker 1: podcasting right now, so there was a lot of high
Speaker 1: quality podcast so if you expect to uh compete with them,
Speaker 1: you have to be high quality. That don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: If you're just doing a podcast that about your passion,
Speaker 1: you know, your passion is is Purple Teddy Bears and
Speaker 1: you just want to talk about purple Teddy Bears and
Speaker 1: find other people that like Purple Teddy Bears, you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's a very niche thing. And you you know,
Speaker 1: that's the different story. But even that, do the best
Speaker 1: you can. Yeah, that's what it is, Do the best
Speaker 1: you can. What are your three favorite podcast at the moment? Okay,
Speaker 1: the first one I want to start with is one
Speaker 1: that almost every guest that has been on this show,
Speaker 1: all five of them have said when we've asked them,
Speaker 1: what what was the last podcast you binged? And it
Speaker 1: was s Town now as Town came together a result
Speaker 1: of a message from an Alabama resident uh to a
Speaker 1: producer for Cereal. Also, those are all the same guys
Speaker 1: serial of This American Life. They all came out of
Speaker 1: the same camp. And this guy despises his town and
Speaker 1: wants to do something about it and wants to investigate
Speaker 1: this wealthy family who's been bragging about getting away with murder.
Speaker 1: That's what you think you're getting into when you start
Speaker 1: the podcast. Where it goes from There is not anything
Speaker 1: where it starts. Um, this is just a beautifully well
Speaker 1: done podcast. It's well done because you care about the
Speaker 1: people in it. They tell a really good story and
Speaker 1: and it's always it's always I almost I almost get
Speaker 1: choked up thinking about it because it is It is
Speaker 1: an emotional journey. And when we do good podcasts, we
Speaker 1: create empathy, and we paint pictures and we take you somewhere.
Speaker 1: And this is what this podcast does. Yeah. I remember
Speaker 1: when s Town came out. I sat on my couch,
Speaker 1: I listened to all of the episodes at once. I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever cried over a podcast as much
Speaker 1: as said, like you talking about it now makes me
Speaker 1: think of the episodes and his voice and everything, and
Speaker 1: it makes me choked up. And it was beautiful. Here's
Speaker 1: a little taste, but I suggest go back listen to
Speaker 1: the first one. But here you go, something's happened. Something
Speaker 1: has absolutely happened in this town. There's just too much
Speaker 1: little crap for something not to have happened. And I'm
Speaker 1: about had enough ship Town and things that goes on gorgeous.
Speaker 1: I mean, his voice gets me every time. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: go listen to that. That like, finish this one, then
Speaker 1: go listen to that. Okay, I got another podcast for you,
Speaker 1: a little more on the fun side. This is one
Speaker 1: that's been around for a long time. It's WTF with
Speaker 1: Mark Maron. Now. Mark Marin was as a comedian and actor.
Speaker 1: Uh and not a lot of people know if you
Speaker 1: didn't listen to Air America. He was the host of
Speaker 1: the morning show on Air America. Now Are America Blew Up?
Speaker 1: And Mark started this podcast again about the same time
Speaker 1: ten years ago when we were starting Stitcher. So I
Speaker 1: remember Mark came in and I did a podcast kind
Speaker 1: of like this one for Stitcher, and and we did
Speaker 1: an interview. And the one thing that Mark did that
Speaker 1: I think a lot of podcasters have learned from him
Speaker 1: is Mark will go on every podcast he can. When,
Speaker 1: especially when he was starting, he'd go on any podcast
Speaker 1: he could as a guest because he's a great guest,
Speaker 1: and then he would people would say he's very funny. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go listen to his podcast. So there's another
Speaker 1: tip for you podcasters. Go on as many shows as
Speaker 1: you can so people find out about your podcast. Um.
Speaker 1: Mark is a great interviewer and I love I think
Speaker 1: Howard Stern is the best interviewer in the world. If
Speaker 1: you don't think that's the truth, and I don't know
Speaker 1: what's wrong with you, but Mark's really up there too.
Speaker 1: He he might be a close second. And he gets interviews.
Speaker 1: And the thing is this is a podcast, and he
Speaker 1: gets interviews with everybody, including President Barack Obama while he
Speaker 1: was president. I have to listen to that. Check it
Speaker 1: out here this well, you used to live around here?
Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, I was explaining to folks, pass it in,
Speaker 1: these are my old haunts. Man. And and you how
Speaker 1: close is that in your memory? Does it come right back? Absolutely? Yeah,
Speaker 1: through somewhat of a haze. I mean it was college.
Speaker 1: So how old are you like twenty right, and you
Speaker 1: went right down the street. I've been down and it's
Speaker 1: how far away from you are you from that guy? Now?
Speaker 1: I mean, do you can you lock into that? Can
Speaker 1: you find that in yourself? Truth? I'm an entrepreneur. I
Speaker 1: am fascinated by, you know, business building. We talked to
Speaker 1: Andy Holloway from Fantasy Footballer's last week and he you
Speaker 1: know the same thing. I think a lot of folks.
Speaker 1: You know, if you didn't listen last week, it's a
Speaker 1: really good interview. But you know, a podcast is a startup.
Speaker 1: It's a startup. It's a business. You know, if you
Speaker 1: want to make money. It is. So Alex starts with
Speaker 1: his pitch, how he pitched investors. It is and because
Speaker 1: of him, I started a little company. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my God, I have an idea for I have
Speaker 1: a brain of content company. I was like, oh, let's
Speaker 1: start that. Um. The rest of the seasons are great.
Speaker 1: They talked about different kinds of people in startup faces,
Speaker 1: but that first season is brilliant. That's going on my list,
Speaker 1: so check it out. Are you meeting someone with money?
Speaker 1: This is my wife, nazanin early one morning a couple
Speaker 1: of months ago, stopping me as I was on my
Speaker 1: way out the door to do something I'd never done before.
Speaker 1: Meet a guy who works at a venture capital firm
Speaker 1: and try to get him to give me money to
Speaker 1: invest in my business, a podcast business. There you go.
Speaker 1: There's there's my starting point. But here's what I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you. If you have an interest, go to
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio or your podcast provider, and there's curated lists.
Speaker 1: Go look at those lists. Those lists are done by
Speaker 1: people who want you to find certain parts. They want
Speaker 1: you to find good ones because I want you to
Speaker 1: keep listening to podcasts at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: That's one of the other things I love about this
Speaker 1: business is we all support each other. We just want
Speaker 1: people to listen to podcasts. That's why no matter what
Speaker 1: company you work I work for I Heart Radio, but
Speaker 1: we're on iTunes, We're on Stitcher, we're on Google Play.
Speaker 1: You know. We just want people to listen to podcasts. Um,
Speaker 1: So go to those curated lists and see and see
Speaker 1: what's what's on there, what's recommended, find something that you like.
Speaker 1: If you have a local radio station that you love,
Speaker 1: go check out their website, see if they have a podcast.
Speaker 1: If they have a podcast, go check it out and
Speaker 1: see and see what it's like. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Yeah. I actually have two of my
Speaker 1: own okay suggests, actually three, Okay, so my first one
Speaker 1: is pod Save America, which is by Crocket Media, and
Speaker 1: it's four guys from that used to work for the
Speaker 1: Obama administration. There were speech writers and like spokespeople for
Speaker 1: him and for someone that maybe not isn't like fully
Speaker 1: into politics, but I want to know about what's going
Speaker 1: on in politics, especially now. This is the greatest one.
Speaker 1: They add much to it. They bring in um, congressmen
Speaker 1: and people running for office and just tell you how
Speaker 1: to get involved. And I think, um, what you if
Speaker 1: you're not agreeing with the current administration, or even if
Speaker 1: you are, this is such a great podcast to just
Speaker 1: dive into and get involved and do something to help
Speaker 1: your country. I see you and every other UH person
Speaker 1: that works in our department tweeting about this show, and
Speaker 1: I've not listened to it, so I'm exus to hear
Speaker 1: his taste of it. This morning. Donald Trump's former campaign
Speaker 1: chairman Paul Manafort and his partner and former Trump advisor
Speaker 1: Rick Gates were each indicted on one count of conspiracy
Speaker 1: against the United States, one kund of conspiracy to under
Speaker 1: money one kind of acting is an unregistered agent of
Speaker 1: a foreign principle, two counts of making false statements, and
Speaker 1: four counts of failing to report foreign bank accounts. Manafort
Speaker 1: turned himself into. Forgot is also one count of but
Speaker 1: what about the uranium? Alright, So that's pots of American.
Speaker 1: My next one is called ear Hustle and there by Radiotopia.
Speaker 1: It's actually super interesting. I heard about it through a
Speaker 1: friend and it's with two inmates from the San Quentin
Speaker 1: State Prison and um barrier artists. Her name is Nigel Poor.
Speaker 1: So the two guys are Irlan and Antoine and they're
Speaker 1: serving like thirty years to life for fifteen years, and
Speaker 1: everything is done in the prison. They only have a
Speaker 1: few hours of the day. They have a media lab,
Speaker 1: they sound designed, they edit. Everything has to be done
Speaker 1: in the prison. And not only that they have before
Speaker 1: they put out the episode, it has to be approved
Speaker 1: by the information officer at the prison. And your hustle
Speaker 1: in prison talk means eavesdropping. And so it's just all
Speaker 1: these different fun um interviews and what prison life is like,
Speaker 1: what having a cellmate is like, or getting a date
Speaker 1: to get out of prison, and everybody always they always say,
Speaker 1: like people think that they know because of TV shows
Speaker 1: what it's like to be in prison, and you never do.
Speaker 1: So this is really great if you ever wanted to know.
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated. There's only three ways off the Shoe debrief Parole,
Speaker 1: our pine box me I accepted the fact that I
Speaker 1: was going to get out of there in a pine box.
Speaker 1: We're going to be hearing a lot about the shoe
Speaker 1: on this episode, so maybe we should first explain what
Speaker 1: the shoe is. The shoe is an acronym that stands
Speaker 1: for the security housing unit. It's the whole, the box,
Speaker 1: the dungeon, and in some states it's called solitary confinement.
Speaker 1: All right, And my last one is another shout out
Speaker 1: to a show that we do in San Francisco. Oh yeah, heart.
Speaker 1: So it's Two Girls One podcast with Carolyn mccartell and
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Speaker 1: come in and I listened to it. If there's a
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Speaker 1: But I know that there are people that get that
Speaker 1: have been on Tender and things happen. Dude, my friend
Speaker 1: got married from from Tinder, which didn't Tinder used to
Speaker 1: be only like it was an unspoken rule that Tinder
Speaker 1: was only for hookups, right, and now people are getting married.
Speaker 1: It's like match dot com. What's next, plenty of fish?
Speaker 1: Who knows. I'm sure it's out there. I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: and they have a kid now, my friend, Um, so
Speaker 1: it can't. There are exceptions to every rule that shows
Speaker 1: good for guys too. I listen, I laughed. I listened
Speaker 1: every of course, I listen. I love it. I listened
Speaker 1: every week. Well those are good, So those are starts
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