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I took that as a personal
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nod to Kevin, thank you that
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they recognize that all of the
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content they have in there is
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not a podcast that they're like,
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technically, it's not a podcast,
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but it's, you know, like the Joe
0:08
Rogan show is not a podcast
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right now. It's a show. So I
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really appreciate it that
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Spotify is trying to win me over.
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Is it working?
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They're trying. It's a slow burn.
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On this episode of
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Buzzcast Alban is out, so we
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have invited Krystal Proffitt of
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the Proffitt Podcast and the
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Poddy Report back on. Hi,
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Krystal.
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Yeah, I love being
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here. Thank you for inviting me,
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Jordan, and it's good to see
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you, Kevin. Yeah, it's say that
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because I literally was gonna
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say I just saw Jordan. It hasn't
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even been a week. We were
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together like just hanging out
0:51
just a second ago. So yeah, this
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is awesome.
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So how was it? You guys
0:53
were just at Podcast Movement
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Evolutions, right?
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Yes. In Vegas.
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Okay, so that is like a
0:58
conference that I've never been
1:01
to like, which is surprising
1:01
because I've been to most
1:04
podcast conferences, but I've never made it over to evolutions. And I've heard this
1:05
from from people. But I want to
1:08
hear your take on like, what is
1:08
the big difference between
1:11
Podcast Movement Evolutions and
1:11
the regular Podcast Movement, I
1:15
guess, proper, or original
1:15
Podcast Movement that takes
1:18
place every summer.
1:18
So for me specifically,
1:18
this is the first time I've ever
1:22
attended Evolutions, the last
1:22
time I went to a Podcast
1:25
Movement was actually in
1:25
Nashville in 2021. So the
1:28
comparison is like night day,
1:28
because that was like the height
1:32
of Delta and Mark Cuban being
1:32
there. And like all the things
1:35
that happened in Nashville that
1:35
year, but this one definitely
1:39
felt smaller. I had talked to a
1:39
few people that said that they
1:42
were expecting maybe 1500 people
1:42
there. I'm not sure what the
1:46
exact number was, but it just
1:46
felt a lot more intimate. The
1:49
other ones that I've gone to, I
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feel like were just podcasters
1:53
everywhere. And they're like,
1:53
hey, you know, there's just like
1:57
a different kind of energy,
1:57
where everyone just felt like,
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listen to my show. And this is
2:00
what it's about. And this is
2:04
what I'm trying to do. And that
2:04
Creator energy that I just I've
2:07
really felt at Podcast Movement.
2:07
The last time I went was missing
2:11
at this one. This one felt a
2:11
little bit more. I'm trying to
2:15
think of the right word to say
2:15
it because it's not a knock on
2:18
like industry podcast, but it's
2:18
it just felt more like corporate
2:22
in a way that it hasn't felt
2:22
previously at other podcasts
2:25
conferences. Like I felt like
2:25
there was a lot more suits.
2:29
That's the best way to say it.
2:29
Like there are a lot more suits
2:32
running around. Yeah, that I'm
2:32
like, Oh, they must be an
2:36
important person where I'm like,
2:36
Hey, I'm in my workout clothes.
2:40
And I'm just I showed up to
2:40
because this is how I podcast.
2:43
This is how I live my life. And
2:43
that was the biggest thing is I
2:47
felt like so much of it was
2:47
catered to industry
2:50
professionals, or people that
2:50
are looking to make not just a
2:53
business out of their podcast,
2:53
but like, create a brand like
2:57
smart lists. And you know, Joe
2:57
Rogan, and like these, the
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biggest podcast in the world.
3:00
And that was the biggest one.
3:03
But Jordan, I don't know what
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other things you want to add.
3:07
I definitely agree with
3:07
you that it felt a lot more
3:11
corporate, I think there was a
3:11
really heavy focus on branded
3:15
podcasts. There were so many
3:15
talks about that. But it was
3:18
definitely more intimate than
3:18
Podcast Movement. And it was so
3:21
weird because we were in such a
3:21
big space in this casino,
3:26
essentially. And I knew a lot of
3:26
people that were there. And for
3:31
like days, I was just like
3:31
circling the expo hall, like
3:34
hoping to see people. I
3:34
literally would like sometimes
3:38
be in the expo hall for like 40
3:38
minutes waiting for a session
3:40
and like, kind of looking for
3:40
people that I know. And like
3:44
nobody stopped to talk. Like I
3:44
didn't see anyone I knew. It was
3:47
so weird.
3:48
So this is very different
3:48
than what my perceptions had
3:51
been about Evolutions because I
3:51
thought, in my mind, Evolutions
3:54
was a place more for independent
3:54
podcasters and people who were
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like looking to get into
3:57
podcasting, like a place for
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beginners to go. But it sounds
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like that's not either my
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perception was totally off, or
4:03
it's like maybe evolutions is
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shifting a little bit.
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I think back again, I
4:08
don't like the comparison of
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like my previous experience. And
4:11
this one, I would say that there
4:14
were so many more people just
4:14
getting started at the previous
4:18
Podcast Movement that I
4:18
attended, whereas this one,
4:21
there were still some beginners,
4:21
right? They had a beginner
4:23
tract, and they had, you know,
4:23
people that were they just
4:27
recently started in the last few
4:27
months or they were about to get
4:31
started. But I felt like that
4:31
was the exception and not the
4:34
rule. Most people were there
4:34
that were some of them that
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didn't even have a podcast. They
4:39
were agents or they were podcast
4:42
networks, or they were editors
4:42
or managers that were looking
4:45
to, I guess find the next Joe
4:45
Rogan person like I don't know,
4:50
like I don't really know what
4:50
their whole shtick was, but I
4:53
felt like there was a lot more
4:53
of that that I hadn't seen
4:56
previously.
4:57
I think that this
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Podcast Movement was a little
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less attended because it was
5:00
based in Las Vegas. Like I had
5:04
talked to so many people. And I
5:04
was like, Are you coming? Are
5:06
you coming? And they're like,
5:06
No, I don't like, I don't like
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Vegas. I don't want to go to
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Vegas. This was the third time
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I've been there. I really enjoy
5:12
walking around and like seeing
5:15
just all the sights and the
5:15
shows and stuff like that. This
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was a very different experience
5:18
going to a conference there was
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not so great. I mean, it was in
5:22
the casino, right? So like, you
5:27
just walked in, I had to wash my
5:27
clothes when I got home because
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they just kind of smelled like
5:29
cigarettes. The other thing was
5:32
how expensive it was. It was
5:32
never that expensive before. So
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Kevin, they had a Starbucks in
5:37
the hotel. I got to breakfast
5:42
sandwiches and two coffees. What
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do you think that cost me?
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It was expensive? I mean,
5:45
how is Starbucks pricing not
5:48
standardized across, at least
5:48
the US? You would think to
5:52
breakfast sandwiches and two
5:52
coffees that that should be like
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no more than 20 to $23.
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It was $50.
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Yeah, that's crazy.
5:58
That's like more than airports.
6:01
Yeah. Oh, no, it was
6:01
more expensive than the airport
6:04
for sure. For sure.
6:06
So I want to touch on
6:06
the things that I did really
6:08
enjoy from Podcast Movement
6:08
Evolutions. And Kevin, you and
6:13
Alban had talked about how at
6:13
pod fest, like you had people
6:16
like Buzzcast listeners come up.
6:16
And I finally got to experience
6:18
that this time at evolutions.
6:18
And it was really fun. I got to
6:21
see people from the Facebook
6:21
group and get to hug them in
6:25
person. And that was really
6:25
awesome. And then also doing the
6:29
pod News Live show on the stage
6:29
at evolutions was really cool
6:33
moment. For me, that was really
6:33
fun. And it was great, because I
6:37
have always kind of had a little
6:37
bit of an insecurity about how
6:40
much I outline. I feel like I do
6:40
it too much where to the point
6:45
where it's like almost scripted.
6:45
And I was so relieved to see
6:48
that James and Sam actually
6:48
outline the heck out of the
6:52
Podnews Weekly Review. And I was
6:52
just like, yes, I've never been
6:56
so comfortable on stage, as when
6:56
I had that in my hand.
7:00
This is like the number
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one thing that has helped me
7:03
because Jordan, Jordan and I
7:03
will always say like, we're on
7:06
the opposite ends of the spectrum, when it comes to editing, like Jordan knows how
7:08
to masterfully like curate
7:13
something that's just going to
7:13
be like, you know, the most
7:16
sweetest thing that could ever
7:16
hit your ears and me, I'm like,
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I'm gonna record this and I'm,
7:20
unless I make a huge mistake,
7:23
there's gonna be absolutely zero
7:23
editing. And I'm gonna run that
7:26
maybe through magic mastering
7:26
and we're calling it. That is my
7:30
level of editing. But it really
7:30
does help the more that you have
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things scripted out. And even if
7:34
you don't say it verbatim, I
7:38
always tell people like you want
7:38
to be scripted, but not sound
7:42
scripted. And that's where you
7:42
kind of it just comes in
7:45
practice, practice, practice,
7:45
practice, the more that you
7:48
record. And the more that you
7:48
put stuff out there. It just
7:51
really helps you read your
7:51
outlines faster or know like
7:55
those key elements that you want
7:55
to remember or say, or you even
8:00
want to quote yourself, and you
8:00
know, not be all weird about it.
8:03
But say something like, Oh, this
8:03
is the point I want to like,
8:07
reiterate like, say it once and
8:07
then say it again slowly,
8:11
because you're just trying to
8:11
put the emphasis on it. But it
8:13
really does help that script. I
8:13
love it.
8:16
Krystal, you ran a session, right?
8:17
Yeah, it was on the
8:17
beginner track. And it was
8:20
called How to Talk to Yourself.
8:20
And it was lessons learned from
8:25
1000 podcast episodes. So which
8:25
is crazy, crazy, like it is
8:30
bananas 1000 podcast episodes.
8:30
So for you know, anybody that
8:36
that doesn't know. So I didn't
8:36
mention earlier, I have a daily
8:38
podcast. And at this point, that
8:38
Daily Show, which I started in
8:43
2020 has 790 ish episodes that
8:43
we're up to now. So that one
8:50
alone has so many and then my
8:50
profit podcast has, you know,
8:54
400 So we're I mean, we're at
8:54
1100 episodes at this point. And
8:57
so I thought, Well, it'd be
8:57
really fun. I mean, first of
8:59
all, what a name right? Yeah.
8:59
1000 episodes, people are like,
9:02
cool. What in the world? What
9:02
are you talking about? But yeah,
9:05
that was it was so fun, and the
9:05
beginners that showed up there.
9:10
So this is one thing because
9:10
like Jordan, I said, it was very
9:13
intimate. And that wasn't always
9:13
like a bad thing. Like it was a
9:17
really awesome thing. Because I
9:17
felt like if the sessions would
9:21
have been a lot bigger, it
9:21
wouldn't have allowed for such a
9:24
I guess a space where people
9:24
could ask really good questions
9:28
and then like come up later and
9:28
chat with you or ask questions
9:31
like, Hey, let's go out to the
9:31
hall you know, and talk for a
9:34
little bit, which you don't
9:34
really get that if the sessions
9:38
were huge. And so that was that
9:38
was a lot of fun. But it was it
9:42
was great. I loved having
9:42
Jordan. Jordan was like my
9:45
cheerleader and she was like, Oh
9:45
my God! This is great. She
9:48
laughed at all my jokes which is
9:48
I mean to to anybody, like that
9:51
was fantastic.
9:53
And I have like a really
9:53
loud cackle so I'm sure that
9:56
helps. No, I loved that you had
9:56
like an Oprah moment. To have
10:00
like you get a book, you get a book.
10:02
Yes, yes. So I had my
10:02
husband go with me. And that was
10:07
fun too. So Jordan and I both
10:07
had our husbands. And that was,
10:10
that was interesting too,
10:10
because I had never gone with me
10:12
before. And he vaguely he's not
10:12
into podcasting. He's not in a
10:16
digital marketing online
10:16
business space. So he doesn't
10:19
really get to see what I do. And
10:19
so for him to come and help out
10:23
and watch me speak on stage, and
10:23
he handed out copies of my book,
10:27
to people that ask questions, it
10:27
was it was a lot of fun. It was
10:30
really cool.
10:30
It's great. So what were
10:30
what was the size of the rooms?
10:33
Like big rooms, but smaller
10:33
crowds? Or?
10:36
Yeah, I mean, well, I
10:36
would say it was like, the way
10:39
that the beginner room was set
10:39
up was kind of nice, because it
10:42
actually had tables and chairs
10:42
and everything, I would say that
10:45
they probably had them set up
10:45
for anywhere, probably 50 to 75
10:49
people to sit comfortably in
10:49
those rooms. And then I think
10:53
for my talk specifically, there
10:53
might have been around 30 ish, I
10:57
would guess.
10:58
I agree with you. I like
10:58
that session size, though, like
11:00
30, that's a good size. What I
11:00
don't like is when they put you
11:03
in a room that can like see 200
11:03
And then you have 30 people
11:06
Yeah, and it kind of zaps the
11:06
energy. But if you're in the
11:08
right size room for that size
11:08
crowd, then it can feel really
11:12
good, exactly what you said.
11:13
I felt about 50% full
11:13
like it felt like it felt like
11:17
it was just enough. And it was
11:17
again intimate enough and small
11:21
enough and and spatial wise for
11:21
the beginner tract was great
11:25
because it was more of a
11:25
rectangle room or a like
11:28
rectangle as in like wide.
11:28
Whereas some of the other ones
11:31
were very long and narrow. And
11:31
it made it kind of awkward
11:35
because you were super far away
11:35
from the stage. And some people
11:40
again, at a podcast conference
11:40
didn't know how to use their
11:42
microphone, which is really
11:42
funny, because you could tell
11:44
which ones were podcasters and
11:44
which ones weren't. Because you
11:47
could hear people screaming from
11:47
the back, like put the mic to
11:49
your mouth. Come on, like put it
11:49
up there. But it was it was
11:54
great. The size of the rooms
11:54
were awesome. And the intimacy
11:57
of having people tell you about
11:57
their podcast and ask you
12:01
questions was just I mean, it's
12:01
what I live for. And it was it
12:05
made it everything worthwhile to
12:05
go.
12:07
There was something in
12:07
your session that you had talked
12:10
about that really resonated with
12:10
me so much, and I wanted to talk
12:14
to you about it while I have you
12:14
on here. But you chatted about
12:18
how stumbling is necessary. And
12:18
I personally struggle with like
12:23
an intense fear of failure or a
12:23
fear of like judgment from
12:26
others. And so stumbling is not
12:26
something I want to do ever. I
12:31
think that your talk actually
12:31
helped me a lot. And yeah, so I
12:34
just want to talk with you a
12:34
little bit about your points on
12:37
that.
12:37
Yeah, to set up the
12:37
story a little bit, I shared a
12:41
little bit about how it's really
12:41
cool to share the highlight
12:44
reel, right, you're all the cool
12:44
things. I've spoken on stages.
12:48
I've done this, I've done that.
12:48
And that's the Instagram
12:51
highlights that everybody sees,
12:51
you know, everything that's on
12:54
your feed. And people are like,
12:54
Oh, you're so successful, or
12:58
you're so this or that. And I
12:58
love sharing the messy places of
13:02
my story. Because that's when
13:02
people really relate to you and
13:05
say, Oh, you've messed up to
13:05
like, you're not perfect,
13:10
because a lot of people,
13:10
especially podcasters, and
13:13
content creators in general,
13:13
think that so many of us just
13:17
woke up one day, turn on a
13:17
camera, put a microphone in our
13:20
hand, and we're like, oh, I'm a
13:20
YouTuber, I'm a podcaster. And I
13:24
never make mistakes. And I'm
13:24
like, oh, no, actually, I've
13:27
made all the mistakes, which is
13:27
why I can stand here today and
13:31
tell you what not to do. And so
13:31
I shared about, you know, being
13:36
a stay at home mom for several
13:36
years. And I was like, I don't
13:39
Is this do I need to just do
13:39
this with my life forever and
13:42
ever. And then I started
13:42
writing, I started blogging, I
13:45
did that really, really badly. I
13:45
always tell people, I was a
13:48
terrible blogger. And then my
13:48
blogging mentor started a
13:52
podcast and I was like, Oh, well
13:52
she can do this, then I can do
13:56
this. And so that's the
13:56
stumbling phases of me getting
13:59
into podcasting, and then
13:59
eventually figuring out like,
14:04
Oh, I really love this. Like, I
14:04
don't just love creating the
14:07
podcast, but I love helping
14:07
other people make it easier
14:11
because I can explain things
14:11
that aren't technical or that
14:14
aren't super complicated. And so
14:14
if I hadn't have started at that
14:19
point in my journey, I wouldn't
14:19
have stumbled into podcasting,
14:22
which is eventually what I did.
14:22
So you know, for anybody that's
14:25
listening right now, if you're
14:25
in this awkward stage of I don't
14:29
really know what I'm doing. I
14:29
just launched a podcast. I'm
14:32
just getting started. I'm trying
14:32
to figure this out, like kind of
14:36
sit in that awkwardness until
14:36
you can push through it because
14:40
Jordans had it Kevin's had it
14:40
like we've all had it. And you
14:45
don't have to have all the
14:45
answers all the puzzle pieces
14:48
like out on the table fit
14:48
together perfectly. To get to
14:52
that next step. Maybe figuring
14:52
something out is what you know,
14:56
who knows, maybe that's how they
14:56
ended up with chat. GBT. Yes No
15:01
fumbling around with stuff. And
15:01
they're like, Oh, hey, look, we
15:03
got this thing to spit some cool
15:03
stuff back out at us, you know.
15:07
So you just got to keep going.
15:08
Yeah, it's like a macro
15:08
version of trust the process,
15:12
for sure. And when you're a
15:12
perfectionist, it's really hard
15:15
to do that.
15:16
Yes.
15:17
There is this gift that
15:17
we all have when we first start
15:20
out in whatever creative
15:20
endeavor, you're starting out.
15:22
You don't have an audience yet,
15:22
right. And so in the podcasting
15:24
world, not only do you not have
15:24
an audience at the beginning,
15:27
but you might not have an
15:27
audience for a long time, it's
15:29
really hard to grow your
15:29
audience on podcasting. But in
15:32
podcasting, but instead of like
15:32
looking at that as a negative,
15:35
like I'm doing all this work,
15:35
and not a lot of people are
15:38
listening yet, like the other
15:38
side of the coin on that is that
15:41
you have this time to hone your
15:41
craft to get really good. And
15:44
while you're getting good, the
15:44
people who are following you
15:46
along while there might not be
15:46
many, they're cheering you on.
15:49
And they're they're becoming
15:49
these, like super fans of you.
15:51
So like when you get really big,
15:51
like everyone wants to be the
15:54
first fan of whatever bands like
15:54
there's a huge band, they're
15:57
super popular. You're like, oh,
15:57
well, I listened to them back in
15:59
the 80s. Right? Everyone wants
15:59
to be that person. Yeah. And so
16:02
people want to be like that for
16:02
podcasters, too. So they're
16:05
cheering you on, they want to be
16:05
your earliest fan. And they it's
16:08
so great for them to be a part
16:08
of that journey to listen to you
16:11
in the beginning and listen to you stumble, and listen, you stutter and feel awkward and
16:12
find yourself and find your
16:15
voice and build your confidence.
16:15
And then years down the road,
16:18
when you have a larger audience
16:18
or, you know, someone's looking
16:20
for new podcasts. And they can
16:20
recommend you, they can say, Oh,
16:22
I've been listening them for years, and they've been on this great journey. It takes a lot of
16:24
confidence. And for sure, like
16:27
podcasters talk all the time
16:27
about this imposter syndrome
16:30
that we all experience to some
16:30
degree. But like I think what I
16:34
hear you saying and it's very
16:34
encouraging to me, and hopefully
16:37
anybody who's listening, this is
16:37
like, instead of looking at it
16:40
as I have to perform, I have to
16:40
be perfect, like look at it as
16:43
the gift of I don't have to yet
16:43
like this is an opportunity for
16:46
me to figure it out and to get
16:46
better. And the few people that
16:49
are listening, they understand
16:49
that I'm not great. And maybe
16:52
that's what they like about me.
16:52
And so like push into that step
16:54
into that, and you'll get better
16:54
over time, but you got to stick
16:57
with it. You got to keep plugging away. You got to keep showing up every week and you
16:59
got to keep doing it because the only way you're gonna get better
17:01
is by keep doing it.
17:04
Yeah. And I want to
17:04
circle back around to bands are
17:07
being fans from the beginning.
17:07
Because Lance Bass from NSYNC
17:11
was there. We were fangirling.
17:11
Totally.
17:16
I literally got to the
17:16
keynote stage 20 minutes before
17:21
that, and I got a front row
17:21
seat.
17:24
So awesome. I saw her
17:24
up there with her phone. She was
17:26
like snapping pictures, take
17:26
videos. I was like I love it.
17:29
I did! I got a lot of
17:29
videos and I have my phone like
17:33
in front of my face like this.
17:33
And I know at one point like
17:36
Lance locked eyes with me, and I
17:36
know he saw me like with my
17:39
phone up in front of my face.
17:44
He's great. And he
17:44
hasn't aged a bit for anybody
17:47
wondering he hasn't aged a bit.
17:48
Yeah, he looks great.
17:49
What is Lance doing now?
17:49
Is he is he in podcasting.
17:52
He's like a cosmonaut.
17:52
And he's no, yeah, he's got a
17:57
podcast.
17:58
I just remember Guncle
17:58
and I thought that was the
18:00
funniest term ever.
18:01
So yeah, he's really big
18:01
on TikTok, which is Yeah, Guncle
18:06
Lance. So, gay uncle.
18:09
Your gay uncle Lance.
18:09
That was the best term. I'd
18:14
never heard that before. Like,
18:14
oh, my gosh, this is great.
18:16
That was actually really
18:16
great session. Yeah.
18:18
So he is and I don't
18:18
remember the name of their
18:22
organization, but it was for the
18:22
LBGTQ community and what they do
18:28
over on iHeart. So I know that
18:28
that was the thing that they
18:30
were talking about on the main
18:30
stage was the inclusivity and
18:34
like DEI, for just that. I'm
18:34
trying to think of what their
18:39
organization was called. But it
18:39
was it was really interesting to
18:42
hear about just having more
18:42
diverse voices and podcasting,
18:47
so it was a good session.
19:21
Okay, so also, at Podcast
19:21
Movement evolutions, James
19:25
Cridland from Podnews, got up
19:25
and did a session and he went
19:28
through his podnews report card.
19:28
Did you guys attend the session?
19:31
It was great. It was
19:31
really interesting. And he
19:34
started the report card out with
19:34
some context of information he
19:39
had gotten from pod track. And
19:39
this is going to sound a little
19:43
bit stat heavy, but like, bear
19:43
with me, because I know and this
19:47
slide came up, I audibly gasped,
19:47
I was like, This is so cool. So
19:52
the first slide was about the
19:52
audience of the platforms. And
19:56
you know, their share of a full
19:56
audience because they have done
20:00
this over 2 billion global
20:00
downloads in January of 2023. So
20:05
in January, a third of all US
20:05
podcast listeners, were using
20:09
Spotify as a platform. But
20:09
here's the kicker, this is where
20:13
things get interesting. The
20:13
total share of downloads, Apple
20:17
podcasts had 70% of the share of
20:17
downloads, even though they only
20:22
were a quarter of the platform
20:22
usage, which is crazy.
20:25
So when he put these
20:25
up, like it literally took my
20:29
brain a second to be like, Wait,
20:29
this makes zero sense to me.
20:33
Like, I don't understand what's
20:33
happening. Because I'm one,
20:36
you're saying that you know, a
20:36
third of all podcast listeners
20:40
on Spotify. But then you go to
20:40
the next slide. And it's 70% of
20:44
all downloads are coming from
20:44
Apple. And so I just I found
20:49
this to be so interesting. Well,
20:49
first of all, I don't use either
20:52
app for my podcast. Anyway. So
20:52
you don't know. I don't use
20:56
either. What do you use? So I
20:56
use good pods, like I'm a tried
21:00
and true, like, I love good pods
21:00
so much. It's the app that I
21:05
always use. So hopefully, it'll
21:05
be on the list one day, it's not
21:08
even on here. It's not it's in
21:08
the other category at this
21:11
point. But I just thought it was
21:11
so interesting, because I was
21:14
thinking, well, are people just
21:14
really listening to episodes?
21:19
Like, I mean, how is it such a
21:19
stark difference from the amount
21:25
of listeners to the amount of
21:25
downloads? I don't know, what
21:27
are what are your thoughts?
21:29
Right? So I have a theory, but I'm wondering, did James, did James present his own
21:31
theory on this?
21:33
I don't recall that he did.
21:35
I think that he went
21:35
into it. But again, this was
21:38
like, there were like, 1000s of
21:38
charts and this presentation. So
21:44
we want to we want to know your
21:44
theory. Kevin, What's your
21:47
theory?
21:47
All right. So my theory
21:47
is these apps work very
21:49
differently. Apple podcast is
21:49
set up as like a download app.
21:52
So when you follow a show, even
21:52
if you don't listen to the most
21:55
recent episode, that it's
21:55
downloaded, it has it queued up
21:58
in the background for you,
21:58
right. And so it's downloading
22:00
on a regular schedule, whether
22:00
you're listening or not. And as
22:04
long as you have some level of
22:04
interactivity with the
22:07
particular podcasts that you're
22:07
following, it will continue to
22:10
download. And so I think, I
22:10
think it's like, until I think
22:14
by default, until it has like
22:14
three episodes that you haven't
22:17
listened to at all yet, it will
22:17
just keep downloading. So as
22:20
long as you're listening to like
22:20
one out of every three episodes
22:22
that drop for a podcast feed,
22:22
it'll keep downloading them.
22:25
Spotify is very different. I
22:25
think, again, by default, I'm
22:28
not sure if you can get in and configure it to work differently. But out of the box,
22:30
I think it won't download
22:32
anything, like you'll follow
22:32
shows, and it will just have
22:35
queued up so you can tap them to
22:35
listen. But it won't actually
22:38
download anything until you tap
22:38
to listen to the episode. And so
22:42
I wonder if that's where the
22:42
huge discrepancy comes in.
22:45
Yeah, I think you're
22:45
right. And also, I'm remembering
22:49
that Apple podcasts, I think it
22:49
was last year rolled out the
22:52
autoplay feature, where it just
22:52
like, will queue up the next
22:57
podcast episode, and it will
22:57
auto play at the back end of the
23:01
episode that you just finished
23:01
listening to. And similarly,
23:04
Spotify actually just launched
23:04
that same feature where they are
23:09
queuing up for auto play. So I'm
23:09
wondering if next year, we're
23:13
probably going to see Spotify
23:13
taking up a bigger share of the
23:16
downloads if they start
23:16
automatically playing other
23:19
podcast episodes. Another slide
23:19
that came up that I thought was
23:22
really interesting is audience
23:22
share for these platforms. One
23:27
that really stuck out to me is
23:27
that Amazon Music has jumped up
23:31
126% James said that he was
23:31
thinking it was because of them
23:37
rolling out the ad free versions
23:37
of like wondery, podcasts,
23:42
things like that. I forget what
23:42
the brands are. But if you have
23:45
Amazon Prime, then you get
23:45
access to ad free versions of
23:50
podcasts. And so that could have
23:50
helped their share of audience.
23:54
And I have to say like
23:54
I don't like just existing in
23:58
the podcast sphere, if you want
23:58
to call it that. I don't hear a
24:02
lot about Amazon or wondery. But
24:02
I heard so much like there were
24:07
they were very, very present at
24:07
Podcast Movement evolutions. I
24:11
don't know if it was because the
24:11
proximity to La it seems to be
24:14
where most everybody was coming
24:14
from, from one dri. But there
24:18
were so many people there. So I
24:18
feel like I mean, they're
24:21
showing up like they were
24:21
definitely there to talk about
24:26
all the different things. I
24:26
didn't see anybody from Apple,
24:29
Spotify, there were some people
24:29
from I heart. And I want to say,
24:34
Stitcher baby. I don't know if
24:34
there were or not. But I mean,
24:39
there was definitely if you look
24:39
at all the players that are
24:41
here, they definitely showed up
24:41
to like have some skin in the
24:45
game at Podcast Movement
24:45
evolutions, for sure. So I'm
24:49
curious to see what that looks
24:49
like in the future.
24:53
Yeah, it seems like out
24:53
of all of these players. Now, I
24:55
don't want to take anything away from Apple, because you guys know I'm really coming around to
24:57
what Apple is doing in their
24:59
podcasting app. But it does seem
24:59
like Spotify is out of these
25:03
companies that we're talking
25:03
about. So Apple, Spotify,
25:05
Google, Amazon, like Spotify is
25:05
the one that is most
25:08
aggressively trying to improve
25:08
their listening experience like
25:12
in their app, right. And it's
25:12
not an easy task for them
25:16
because they also have to
25:16
balance music, but it seems like
25:19
that's kind of how they got
25:19
their foothold in the world was
25:22
that they had really kind of the
25:22
best music listening experience
25:25
in an app. Like anybody who uses
25:25
Spotify will tell you the
25:29
curation of their music, their
25:29
suggested playlists that they do
25:31
and all that stuff. That's what sets them apart from everyone else. And so it seems like maybe
25:33
that's just part of the DNA of
25:37
that company is that they really
25:37
want to create these amazing
25:40
listening experiences. And so
25:40
when they started off in
25:42
podcasting, it's been easy to
25:42
criticize them and say like,
25:45
it's not that great compared to
25:45
what others have been doing. But
25:48
their approach seems to be, hey,
25:48
we don't have to knock it out of
25:51
the park day one, but we are
25:51
going to continually improve and
25:54
iterate and make this better and
25:54
better and better. And they're
25:56
doing a lot like we're going to
25:56
talk about some of the new stuff
25:59
that are introducing, you know,
25:59
in a second, but their app is
26:01
continually getting better. Now,
26:01
I don't use the app very often,
26:04
but I am constantly checking it
26:04
like two or three times a year,
26:07
because they're making these big announcements of all these things that are doing to improve
26:09
the listening experience.
26:11
That's kind of the thing
26:11
is like, you know, moving on to
26:14
the actual Podnews Report Card,
26:14
where James surveyed a whole
26:18
bunch of podcasters and
26:18
listeners, that's totally
26:21
reflected in the results from
26:21
this with as far as like the
26:25
overall like experience with the
26:25
apps, the insights of the apps
26:29
provided, how the creators feel
26:29
the apps are working for them,
26:33
too. You can see it reflected in
26:33
this year's survey results that
26:38
Apple and Spotify are scoring a
26:38
lot higher than they did the
26:42
previous year. It's definitely
26:42
known throughout the community
26:46
that they're making really big
26:46
improvements.
26:49
Yeah, to contrast that
26:49
we're not seeing that same level
26:52
of improvement with Amazon,
26:52
Google. I mean, we'll see what
26:56
YouTube is doing. But YouTube
26:56
seems like they're just kind of
26:58
like trying to figure out how to
26:58
fit podcasting into their video
27:02
first solution. So I don't know
27:02
that we're gonna see a lot of
27:04
adoption there. Now, it's not
27:04
that doesn't mean that's totally
27:07
bad. Because anytime one of
27:07
these new platforms that has a
27:11
large user base already comes
27:11
onto the scene, it introduces a
27:14
whole new level, or a whole new
27:14
world to podcasting. Right. So
27:18
there are people who probably just live in YouTube and use it a lot, who don't venture out and
27:20
discover podcasts today. So as
27:23
podcasts, enter the YouTube
27:23
ecosystem, new people are gonna
27:26
find out about podcasts. And I think the same thing probably happened with Amazon music.
27:28
There's a lot of people who use
27:30
Amazon music, and they
27:30
introduced podcasts, and they
27:33
got introduced to podcasting
27:33
through that. But if you really
27:36
want to get people to move from
27:36
one app to another, like if you
27:39
want somebody to stop using
27:39
Apple podcasts as your primary
27:41
listening app and jump over to
27:41
Spotify, or jump over to an
27:44
Amazon music, then you really
27:44
have to provide a compelling
27:47
reason for them to do that. And
27:47
Spotify strategy seems to be, we
27:51
want to create really good
27:51
experiences for people who were
27:54
listening in our app. And it
27:54
seems to be working for them.
27:57
And again, not to say that Apple's not improving because they are their app is getting
27:59
really good. But I just don't
28:02
see that same thing happening.
28:02
And Google podcasts is doing
28:04
nothing. I don't really know
28:04
that Amazon podcast has changed
28:07
much since launch. And they've
28:07
been out for a while now.
28:09
You brought up YouTube.
28:09
And I have to say that video
28:13
podcast is one of the things
28:13
that people kept talking about.
28:16
And it's funny because I think I
28:16
went to almost every session
28:19
about video podcast, and the
28:19
definition of each one was
28:23
different, every single session.
28:23
So I'm curious, Kevin, if you
28:27
had to describe a video podcast,
28:27
what would that look like?
28:32
Oh, boy, I would want to
28:32
understand, like who's asking
28:35
the question, so I could speak
28:35
to them in a way that aligns
28:37
with what they're thinking, like, I'm not really big on-
28:39
I'm a brand new
28:39
podcaster. I've never created an
28:41
audio podcast or video content,
28:41
like, I just want to know,
28:45
should I do a video podcast?
28:45
What would you say to them?
28:50
I would say no, I would
28:50
say no, I wouldn't suggest that
28:52
you do a video podcast. So like
28:52
a true video podcast would be a
28:56
video file that is has an
28:56
associated RSS feed, right. And
29:00
you can do that. You can't do
29:00
that on Buzzsprout. But there
29:03
are ways to do it. It's just not
29:03
very popular, because, well,
29:06
there's a whole lot of work that goes into creating video, first and foremost, hosting that
29:08
yourself or on somebody like
29:12
Buzzsprout, like Libsyn or
29:12
something, it can get expensive,
29:14
because the files are big. And
29:14
so when you're, you're doing
29:17
paid podcast hosting, you're
29:17
going to be paying for all that
29:19
bandwidth and storage. And so
29:19
the easier solution to lower
29:23
barrier to entry solution to
29:23
that has been YouTube. And
29:25
YouTube has come along and said,
29:25
Oh, you can host here for free.
29:28
And we have millions and millions of people who are on our platform looking for video
29:30
content, we've got a really great recommendation engine. So
29:32
if you do something that's
29:34
compelling, we'll try to serve it up to people who might like that kind of stuff, and we'll
29:36
help you grow. And so they've
29:39
dominated that space. Now,
29:39
that's not video podcasting,
29:42
technically. But it pretty much
29:42
has become that because YouTube,
29:46
like owns the online video
29:46
space. And so I would always say
29:49
like, if you really want to get
29:49
into video podcasting, even
29:51
though YouTube technically,
29:51
isn't it, it's a fine solution
29:54
for it. Now, that being said, we
29:54
will see if Spotify has the
29:59
ability to change that. So
29:59
Spotify seems interested in
30:03
competing with YouTube for
30:03
online video stuff, which nobody
30:06
has challenged YouTube in the
30:06
video space for years and years
30:09
and years. So let's see if
30:09
Spotify can actually pull
30:12
something off here and open up
30:12
the video space a little bit.
30:15
Their initial entry into the
30:15
space was just like for Joe
30:18
Rogan and a few other select
30:18
shows. Since then, they've said
30:22
okay, now anybody can push video
30:22
into Spotify, but you have to
30:25
use our publishing tools to do
30:25
that. And now most recently,
30:28
they said we're going to open Add it up so that you can push video and even if you don't use
30:30
our publishing tools, so I'll be
30:33
interested to see, I don't think
30:33
unless you're like someone who
30:36
loves to live on the cutting
30:36
bleeding edge, I don't think
30:39
it's a space that anybody should
30:39
jump into right now, because I
30:42
think you're gonna be doing a lot of work for very little audience. But over the next
30:43
couple of years, if Spotify
30:47
proves out that they can
30:47
actually serve up a reasonable
30:50
sized audience for video,
30:50
podcasting, and it's open,
30:53
meaning that anybody can publish
30:53
from any other platform, then
30:56
maybe my tune will change a
30:56
little bit. I still think for a
31:00
beginning creator who's trying
31:00
to figure out what their voices
31:03
and who their audience is, and all that kind of stuff, I still think video is not a great place
31:05
to start, because the
31:08
equipment's more expensive, the
31:08
editing is harder, the
31:11
requirements that you need in
31:11
terms of computer space and
31:14
bandwidth, and the amount of
31:14
audience that you have available
31:17
to you who have to be actively
31:17
engaged to watch a video versus
31:20
can passively consume your
31:20
content, like when they're
31:22
driving a car or walking a dog
31:22
working out. It's smaller. And
31:26
so it's complicated. And it's a
31:26
long discussion. But I really
31:29
liked the idea of crater
31:29
starting and audio only true
31:32
podcasting, distributing to all
31:32
the platforms, deciding if they
31:35
want to move into video over
31:35
time, and then taking a look at
31:38
the landscape like where it is,
31:38
whenever you happen to step into
31:40
video. If you were doing it
31:40
today, I would say YouTube first
31:43
strategy, but maybe in a couple
31:43
of years from now, maybe it's
31:46
Oh, no, you actually have to
31:46
have your video in both Spotify
31:48
and YouTube. And maybe it also
31:48
includes publishing with an RSS
31:51
feed to anybody.
31:52
I love, like everything
31:52
that you just said about video
31:56
podcast from your perspective,
31:56
because I think that what a lot
32:01
of people forget is that while
32:01
YouTube is great at doing all
32:06
these things, it's taking on the
32:06
burden of the files and the
32:09
storage. And it's such a luxury,
32:09
and they've been doing it for so
32:14
long that we don't take that
32:14
into consideration when we're
32:17
thinking about putting because I
32:17
think about this all the time
32:20
people ask me, Well, why can't I
32:20
just upload my podcast to my
32:23
website, I'm like, well, because
32:23
your website will crash.
32:26
Especially if it's a 4k video,
32:26
like good luck getting anything
32:30
longer than like 15 seconds to
32:30
play on your website without the
32:34
whole thing shutting down
32:34
because it's so heavy. And so I
32:37
think that the way that you're
32:37
thinking about it, in terms of
32:41
video podcasting, on YouTube, on
32:41
Spotify, like whatever places,
32:45
I'm in total agreement that if
32:45
you're just getting started,
32:48
it's not worth the hassle. Like,
32:48
figure out your topic, figure
32:52
out your audience, figure out
32:52
who you really want to speak to
32:54
and your content. And then down
32:54
the road, you can add in video
32:59
and add in those other things.
32:59
But typically, most people
33:03
aren't as comfortable on video
33:03
as they are behind the scenes.
33:07
Like, did you do a lot of
33:07
awkward things with your face?
33:10
Like let's be honest, like
33:10
people do a lot of awkward
33:12
things with their face. And they
33:12
have to sit down and like I I
33:16
learned so much about what not
33:16
to do by recording myself
33:20
watching it and being like, Why
33:20
did I do like, I'm not even
33:22
looking at the camera? What am I
33:22
even looking at? Or what am I
33:26
doing and so, but that came well
33:26
after I had been podcasting for
33:31
a while. So it's too much. It's
33:31
too heavy. To get started with
33:35
video first.
33:40
Speaking of Spotify,
33:40
trying to compete a little bit
33:43
with YouTube, Kevin, what you're
33:43
referencing is their new
33:46
announcements that they've made
33:46
at their stream on event last
33:49
week, they announced a few
33:49
things, the first being that
33:52
some of the features that were
33:52
previously only available to
33:56
anchor podcasters have now been
33:56
made available to any podcaster
34:00
no matter where you host. So
34:00
these features I'm talking about
34:05
are the q&a. That is like a
34:05
question answer, like the
34:10
podcaster can post a question.
34:10
And then in the app, there's
34:12
like a little Reply button for
34:12
the listener to answer that
34:15
question. And kind of give like
34:15
a little bit of feedback, or
34:19
their two cents to maybe talk
34:19
about on a future episode. And
34:22
then the other feature is polls
34:22
where you can actually run a
34:26
poll on an episode and it kind
34:26
of shows up just right on your
34:29
episode description. You'll see
34:29
like a little widget on the
34:34
Spotify app that has these. And
34:34
one of the things that kind of
34:38
struck me was they said to kick
34:38
things off, we added a q&a to
34:45
your most recent episode, if
34:45
your podcast is on Spotify, and
34:48
I went, Oh no. I went to my
34:48
Spotify for podcasters dashboard
34:56
on the dashboard next to like
34:56
the episode audience, stuff like
34:59
that. There's a new tab called
34:59
interact. And when you click on
35:03
that, you can see the q&a and
35:03
the poll for every episode. And
35:09
so I looked and they did in
35:09
fact, post a question on my most
35:13
recent episode, saying what do
35:13
you think about this episode? So
35:18
I clicked on it and I had seven
35:18
responses and my responses-
35:26
Let me ask you, how were
35:26
the quality of those responses.
35:31
To be fair, we have to
35:31
tell the audience, we got to
35:34
read these ahead of time, so we
35:34
know exactly what they are.
35:37
Thank you for setting me
35:37
up on that, because I could
35:40
barely get to this sentence
35:40
without laughing. So the first
35:43
response that I saw just says
35:43
Poop. And the second one says
35:47
iPad, and the third one says
35:47
IDK. And this is the kind of
35:52
thing I kind of expected from
35:52
having a question posted on my
35:56
podcast. So I went ahead and
35:56
disabled this because they have
36:01
automatically enabled these
36:01
questions to be posted for every
36:05
single episode that publishes.
36:05
So next to the little q&a on the
36:10
column, there's a little
36:10
settings cog, and you click that
36:14
and you're able to on toggle
36:14
that, so it doesn't
36:17
automatically, yeah, you can
36:17
turn it off. And it doesn't
36:20
automatically update your
36:20
episodes anymore with these
36:23
questions. So you can delete
36:23
them, you can change the
36:26
questions to be something else,
36:26
you can add the polls from here.
36:29
And so yeah, I definitely turned
36:29
mine off. Because I don't want
36:32
any more comments from my
36:32
listeners.
36:35
One of the things that I
36:35
saw that was nice was that while
36:38
they did give everyone a
36:38
question by default without
36:41
necessarily asking your
36:41
permission to do so, they didn't
36:44
publish the responses by default.
36:45
Yeah, they don't publish
36:45
your responses. So you can go
36:48
into the questions, and you can
36:48
select certain responses to be
36:52
published, so that it will
36:52
actually show on the episode
36:55
page.
36:55
So I guess this is a fine
36:55
way for them to introduce
36:58
something like this. I was
36:58
wondering, Kevin, what's your
37:01
opinion of this? I was trying to
37:01
think through the interview
37:04
myself again, like, what do I
37:04
think about this, and I actually
37:07
don't have a problem with it.
37:07
It's not done in an open way.
37:10
They're not using any sort of
37:10
open specification to be able to
37:13
do this. And so that brushes me
37:13
a little bit wrong, because I
37:16
like the idea of open
37:16
podcasting. So like, why if
37:19
we're going to do polls, if we think polls are good things for podcasts, why can't we do them
37:21
in a way that's open for everybody. But that's not on
37:23
Spotify, that's on the open
37:26
community. So the open community
37:26
hasn't really come up with it
37:28
and propose a solution to that
37:28
yet. And so since that we they
37:31
haven't done that we haven't
37:31
done that, then what's wrong
37:34
with Spotify saying, well, we
37:34
want to do it. And so we're
37:37
gonna do it our own way? And I guess my answer to that is, there's nothing there's nothing
37:38
wrong with them. Like I like the
37:40
idea of having some sort of
37:40
standard spec that the whole
37:43
community builds around and
37:43
supports. And then if any
37:46
company wants to innovate, above
37:46
and beyond that, in their own
37:49
proprietary way, no problem, go
37:49
do that. And so I think that's
37:53
what they've done here. I didn't
37:53
like before how they did it in a
37:56
way that you had to publish
37:56
through their publishing tools
37:58
to use it. But now that they're
37:58
opening it up, I think it's, I
38:00
think it's great. Now the open
38:00
community can respond and say,
38:03
Oh, everyone's loving these
38:03
polls and questions on Spotify,
38:06
we should come up with an open
38:06
way to do that so that others in
38:08
the ecosystem can use it as
38:08
well, fine. But I don't think
38:11
Spotify is necessarily has an
38:11
obligation to participate in the
38:13
open community in terms of like
38:13
bringing their ideas and
38:16
innovations, their first they
38:16
can bring into their app first,
38:18
and then open community can
38:18
respond. So if anyone was
38:21
wondering, to answer my own
38:21
question, I think I'm okay with
38:23
this implementation. And I think
38:23
I'm really okay with the way
38:26
that Spotify is trying to do it
38:26
too. Like, maybe they blundered
38:29
a little bit by saying, Oh, we're gonna give everyone a default question. But I could
38:31
see their their logic and
38:35
reasoning and saying, Well, we
38:35
won't publish any of the
38:37
answers, we'll just let the
38:37
podcaster see them. And then
38:40
they can decide if they want to
38:40
publish them or not. And so I'd
38:43
say that's totally fine. Like,
38:43
maybe not maybe like Jordans,
38:47
like, I'd really didn't like that you guys did that to my podcasts, I know, you have a
38:49
large percentage of your
38:51
audience listening there. But at
38:51
the same time, like, I think
38:54
that kind of trying to walk that
38:54
line between, like, we want to
38:57
push new features, and we want
38:57
to show everyone how they can
38:59
work and give him an opportunity
38:59
to test them instead of waiting
39:02
around and hoping people
39:02
discover them. And at the same
39:05
time, we're not going to publish
39:05
their answers. So we kind of
39:07
give you the control.
39:08
Well, I think to like
39:08
if you think about because I
39:11
love I love this feature. So
39:11
much. Like I know Jordan has
39:14
mixed feelings about it. And of
39:14
course, there's gonna be people
39:17
that put poop on every single
39:17
episode they ever listened to.
39:20
That's just kind of what
39:20
happens. But I love marketing,
39:24
and I specifically love market
39:24
research. And this is a way for
39:27
people to get that immediate
39:27
feedback, because people are
39:30
always asking me, How can I
39:30
understand you know, if my
39:33
episodes any good? And I'm like,
39:33
well, first and foremost, are
39:36
you getting any downloads,
39:36
number one, that's that's like
39:38
the very first, you know, thing
39:38
that you need to take into
39:41
consideration. But having this
39:41
immediate feedback, whether it's
39:44
a star rating, or actual, like
39:44
people giving you that like,
39:49
text based message back to you
39:49
that says, This was great, or I
39:52
didn't love this, or like, all
39:52
of it is really just data, it's
39:57
just sometimes can be hurtful,
39:57
right? Let's just throw that out
40:01
there. Like, you could get stuff
40:01
that's like, Oh, this is
40:03
terrible. I hated this and maybe
40:03
even come at you with like, very
40:07
specific reasons why they don't
40:07
like it and you're like, okay,
40:09
like, we're gonna delete this,
40:09
like, no one's ever gonna see
40:12
that. But I love the idea of
40:12
having that feedback, but also
40:17
having the option on what you
40:17
want to publish what you want to
40:20
put on your show. And it kind of
40:20
helps you build that character
40:25
around what you want your
40:25
podcast to represent. And it
40:28
could be Hang on this. So if you
40:28
all have the information or the
40:31
data, but I think that Spotify
40:31
skews younger, and people that
40:36
have grown up or have had Amazon
40:36
around their entire adult lives
40:41
in their consuming behavior
40:41
habits, like everybody's just
40:44
used to reviewing things like,
40:44
Hey, I listen to this thing, I
40:47
bought this thing, and I
40:47
reviewed it, or people in like,
40:50
kind of the opposite end of the
40:50
spectrum, they're used to
40:53
reading reviews before they
40:53
decide, is this worth my time?
40:58
So this is just another way for
40:58
people to decide, you know,
41:02
episode by episode, like, oh,
41:02
this was a fantastic one, I can
41:05
see from all these comments, I
41:05
should go ahead. Like it's worth
41:08
30 minutes of my time or an hour
41:08
of my time, however long it is.
41:12
So I'm all for it. I just I
41:12
think that there's a way that
41:15
you can do it to be inclusive
41:15
with the Creator on what they
41:20
want to have on their show.
41:21
You know, it's
41:21
interesting, because in the last
41:23
episode, we actually had talked
41:23
about how lonely podcasting can
41:28
feel. It can just feel like
41:28
you're talking into a void
41:31
sometimes. And so I actually
41:31
think that this is a really good
41:34
fix for that having this sort of
41:34
like interactivity in app, it's
41:39
really easy for people to use.
41:39
It's just like, right there. And
41:43
I think like a good use case for
41:43
this for a podcast like mine
41:48
would not be so much like, what
41:48
did you think? Because like, I
41:51
actually don't really care
41:51
personally what people think.
41:53
But what I do care about is what
41:53
do you want to hear in the
41:57
future? Do you have story
41:57
suggestions? Do you have tips
42:01
for something? Like what's a big
42:01
pet peeve that you have, and
42:05
we'll share it on the next
42:05
episode? Like this is definitely
42:08
a tool that can be used for
42:08
something like that, I think.
42:11
Yeah. And maybe the polls
42:11
would work better for a podcast
42:14
like yours, where you could
42:14
select maybe four or five
42:17
stories that you're thinking
42:17
about doing upcoming and then
42:19
let them choose instead of like,
42:19
open ended questions where they
42:22
can write things that are just
42:22
completely random.
42:24
Yeah, yeah. And I
42:24
definitely use polls all the
42:26
time. On my podcast, I'll run
42:26
them on Instagram, or on my
42:30
Patreon, or something like that.
42:30
And so this is another place
42:34
where I can do that and say,
42:34
like, hey, like for our big
42:36
spring episode, what do you
42:36
want? Yeah, that's definitely
42:39
way to do it in a controlled
42:39
environment.
42:41
I was gonna say, I'm
42:41
gonna go check my podcast out
42:44
after this and be like, Oh, do I
42:44
have any poop comments on mine
42:47
or other other colorful things
42:47
that people have said?
42:51
Well, I will say that we
42:51
think, this hasn't been
42:54
confirmed, but we think that
42:54
this is only available for
42:56
people who have claimed their
42:56
podcast on Spotify. So we have a
42:59
couple of different shows, some
42:59
are claimed on Spotify, and some
43:02
aren't. And as far as we can
43:02
tell, like the questions, the
43:05
default questions that they push
43:05
for everyone's podcasts, we're
43:07
only showing up on podcasts that
43:07
we know that there's like a
43:10
claimed Spotify account behind
43:10
it. And so if you're looking at
43:14
your podcast, and Spotify and you don't see that question, that's maybe because you haven't
43:16
set up your Spotify account and linked your podcast to it yet.
43:18
So you can do that. And then you
43:20
can check out polls and
43:20
questions and see a little bit
43:23
more insights into activity like
43:23
demographics and stuff that
43:27
people who are listening to your
43:27
podcasts on Spotify, so it's
43:29
worth doing.
43:30
So a couple of the other
43:30
things that they announced
43:32
Spotify said to stay tuned for
43:32
an update on the video
43:35
podcasting, so I don't, I don't
43:35
think that they have rolled out
43:39
video podcasting for podcasts
43:39
not hosted on their platform,
43:43
but I think that it might be in
43:43
the works down the line. In
43:47
addition to that they have a new
43:47
podcast feed. And what this is,
43:51
is on the homepage of the app,
43:51
if you click the little podcasts
43:55
and shows they have what they
43:55
call a machine learning selected
44:01
clip playing for podcasts that
44:01
they think that you might be
44:04
interested in. It's
44:05
This is just them putting
44:05
a bunch of buzzwords around
44:08
listen, you ripped off the
44:08
TikTok UI, it's TikTok for
44:11
podcasts, or TikTok for music.
44:11
That's all it is. Yeah, they got
44:14
to put like It's like blockchain
44:14
machine learning AI Virtual
44:18
Reality scroll. TikTok.
44:21
I think they were trying
44:21
to avoid the term AI because
44:24
it's being used so heavily right
44:24
now. So I but I think the
44:27
machine learning aspect of it is
44:27
actually more geared toward what
44:32
clips they choose, because they
44:32
said that it selects clips that
44:37
you would find the most
44:37
interesting from the podcast. So
44:41
I don't know if it's like going
44:41
through it. I think they might
44:44
be transcribing the episodes
44:44
though, because my podcast, I do
44:47
not have it transcribed. And I
44:47
noticed that it was actually
44:51
playing the transcription while
44:51
my audiogram was playing. But
44:55
yeah, it's very much like
44:55
TikTok. It actually reminds me a
44:58
little bit more of Instagram. So
44:58
like you scroll up and there's
45:02
just like a block of a podcast
45:02
and it has the cover art and it
45:05
has like an audio Graham playing
45:05
and you have the ability to
45:09
follow that podcast right there.
45:09
When the clips done playing, you
45:11
can click to continue listening
45:11
to it. And they also have videos
45:17
showing up. So if you have a
45:17
video podcast on Spotify, then
45:21
you can also have a clip of the
45:21
video playing. It's really funny
45:25
though, because they said that
45:25
there are seven The 1000 video
45:30
podcasts on Spotify. And I
45:30
scrolled for so long yesterday
45:34
and I did not get a single video
45:34
podcast pulling up on that feed.
45:39
Yeah, I had a similar
45:39
experience. I did see one video
45:41
podcast, but it was Joe Rogan
45:41
now and we all know he's been
45:45
doing video on Spotify forever,
45:45
like since he came over. So that
45:48
wasn't shocker.
45:49
I'm scrolling so long,
45:49
and I don't see anything. I told
45:52
them. I was like, Okay, let me
45:52
let me see if I get this feature
45:54
on here. I updated my app. I
45:54
don't have a premium account.
45:58
That's why I was like, well,
45:58
maybe I don't have it. No, I
46:00
just maybe only like people have
46:00
or maybe I'm the only person in
46:04
the world that doesn't have it.
46:04
I don't know. But it's not
46:06
working for me, so I can't even
46:06
see it and test it.
46:08
I was surprised, I didn't
46:08
know how to find it. Jordan
46:10
walked me through how to find it. And then once I did what she said it did work for me. So it
46:12
was go to your home screen. And then you have to, have at the
46:13
top, I think it's called
46:20
podcasts and shows ,which I
46:20
might be the only person in the
46:23
world. He found that interesting
46:23
that it's podcasts and shows
46:26
instead of just podcast. But it
46:26
was almost like a nod to me, I
46:29
took that as a personal nod to
46:29
Kevin, thank you that they
46:32
recognize that all of the
46:32
content they have in there is
46:34
not a podcast that they're like,
46:34
technically, it's not a podcast.
46:37
But you know, like the Joe Rogan
46:37
show is not a podcast right now
46:40
it's a show. So I really
46:40
appreciate it that Spotify is
46:43
trying to win me over.
46:44
Is it working?
46:45
They're trying. It's a slow burn.
46:48
Maybe I will say this,
46:48
I've been a fan of anybody who
46:54
tries to introduce podcasts to
46:54
more people. And like I like
46:58
anytime an app comes out and
46:58
says hey, we're gonna try to get
47:01
more podcasters discovered,
47:01
like, I think this is great. I
47:03
don't necessarily think that
47:03
there's a huge discoverability
47:05
problem in podcasting. But if if
47:05
somebody wants to take on
47:09
marketing on behalf of
47:09
podcasters, like I'm in your
47:11
corner cheering you on. And so I
47:11
really like that they're
47:14
exploring these ideas. What I
47:14
would really like to do though,
47:17
is I would like for this just to
47:17
auto scroll for me. So this
47:21
feels like we've been talking
47:21
about very much like Instagram
47:23
stories or rails, they call them
47:23
or tick tock experience where I
47:27
have to sit there and look at my
47:27
phone and scroll these things.
47:30
So every minute, you know, the
47:30
clip I'm watching is over. And
47:33
then I've got to swipe up to see
47:33
the next one, I want to just
47:35
turn this thing on and put it in
47:35
my pocket, or just drive my car.
47:38
And I'm just basically it's like
47:38
putting your, you know, your old
47:41
school car stereo into scan
47:41
mode, you know, where it's
47:44
scanning stations for a song
47:44
that you'd like. And then as
47:46
soon as you hear a song you'd like you'd like hit the button, it stops and you'd listen that
47:48
song. I want to put Spotify in
47:51
scan mode for podcasts where
47:51
it's just scanning through
47:54
podcasts, and then all of a
47:54
sudden I hear something that's
47:56
interesting, then I'll pull my
47:56
phone out of my pocket, tap a
47:59
button and listen that whole
47:59
episode. What do you guys think?
48:02
Good idea? Bad idea?
48:03
Yeah, I think that's a great idea.
48:04
I keep thinking about
48:04
what you said with you know,
48:07
discoverability and having
48:07
marketing tools for podcasters.
48:10
I think that anything that can
48:10
help people have their shows
48:14
discovered organically without
48:14
having a PhD in SEO and
48:19
keywords. And you know, titling
48:19
things sit like such a specific
48:23
way that it loses all kind of
48:23
meat of the episode, you're
48:26
like, What am I I don't even
48:26
know what I'm listening to.
48:28
Because somebody's just keyword
48:28
stuffed all these things that
48:31
they learned from a video they
48:31
watched from 10 years ago,
48:33
that's not even relevant
48:33
anymore, then I'm, like I'm all
48:36
about it. I'm all about the
48:36
tools that help podcasters just
48:39
make it easier, because that is
48:39
the number one thing that I hear
48:42
from people is it's so awkward
48:42
to talk about my show, it feels
48:46
braggy or it feels like I'm just
48:46
talking about myself. And so
48:51
helping podcasters feel more
48:51
comfortable saying, Hey, you
48:55
could just go to your Spotify
48:55
app, and you know, start liking
48:58
podcasts that are similar to
48:58
this category. And you know, I
49:02
hope that my podcast shows up.
49:02
But you'll also find other shows
49:06
that are out there that we would
49:06
also be interested in.
49:09
That's good. There is
49:09
this tag in the podcast
49:12
namespace called soundbite. And
49:12
there are a lot of apps that
49:14
have kind of built a real a lot
49:14
of really great features around
49:16
the sound bite tag. It would be
49:16
like doing backflips if Spotify
49:20
is like, hey, we develop this
49:20
new feature, this new scrolling
49:22
thing that's similar to tick
49:22
tock but totally different than
49:25
tick tock, right. And it
49:25
introduces podcasts to people.
49:29
And that's a great thing for
49:29
podcasters. I would love it if
49:31
they would look in your RSS feed
49:31
and say, Oh, if there's a
49:34
soundbite tag associated with an
49:34
episode, then that's what we'll
49:37
use as kind of your highlight
49:37
for your podcast. Because then
49:40
it gives the podcaster some
49:40
level of control of, hey, if
49:43
you're going to play a clip from
49:43
this episode for somebody, and
49:46
it's only going to be 30 seconds
49:46
or a minute, here's what the one
49:48
that I would suggest you use
49:48
that I would like you to use as
49:51
the creator. And then if there's
49:51
not that that tag doesn't exist
49:54
Spotify, use your machine AI to
49:54
do whatever you want. Pick
49:58
whichever one you think is best.
49:58
But if that tag is present, like
50:00
why not let the podcast creator
50:00
have some control over this a 45
50:04
minute episode, if you're only
50:04
going to play somebody 30
50:06
seconds of it, you're only going
50:06
to pay 45 seconds of it. This is
50:09
what I would suggest you use or
50:09
I would prefer you use than why
50:12
not use that tag.
50:13
And I've already
50:13
created so many in Buzzsprout
50:16
that you can just go in and grab
50:16
them. They're already- they live
50:21
in there already. Like please go
50:21
grab them and just take them
50:24
with your API and show them to
50:24
whoever you want to because I've
50:27
already taken the time to create
50:27
the thing and put it there.
50:30
Right you've already gone
50:30
through your episode and tagged
50:33
like this episode at this
50:33
timestamp for 45 seconds or 30
50:36
seconds is the highlight reel
50:36
for the episode and like we
50:39
think about these things as
50:39
creators right like it's like I
50:41
want to tease the episode but I
50:41
don't want to like give it away
50:44
like I don't want to. Oh this
50:44
it's a comedy podcast and you
50:47
like totally botched my joke or
50:47
you just came in with my best
50:50
joke, like I want to give a
50:50
teaser joke not the best one,
50:52
whatever. But that should be in
50:52
control the creator, not
50:54
necessarily some machine that is
50:54
smart at Spotify smart was an
50:58
air quotes there. Jordan I was listening to the
51:05
Podnews Weekly Review and they
51:09
do Boostagram Corner.
51:10
Uh huh.
51:11
I was wondering what was going through your head while they played that booster Graham
51:12
corner intro? Were you thinking,
51:15
You guys don't know this, but your audience hates it?
51:22
No, I wasn't thinking
51:22
that. It was really funny
51:26
though, because one of the
51:26
Boostagrams that they got that
51:29
they asked me to read was from
51:29
Genebean and I was like, Oh, I
51:32
know this guy. So it felt very,
51:32
I felt very at home, really.
51:39
Very comfortable.
51:41
Okay, first boost this
51:41
week comes from Dave Jones. He
51:45
said Uga an example of the
51:45
amazing creativity of the
51:48
University of Georgia fans. And
51:48
you know what I'm I'm a gator
51:51
fan myself. And we kind of have
51:51
a bit of a rivalry with Georgia.
51:54
So I will receive that comment
51:54
as complete sarcasm. Personally,
51:58
Georgia fans are not creative at
51:58
all. And I'll get is a silly
52:01
name for a mascot. I totally
52:01
agree. And Alban is not here to
52:04
defend it. So we're gonna go
52:04
with that. Thanks, Dave. Go
52:06
Gators! Gator Nation.
52:07
All right, we have at
52:07
Mere Mortals Podcast. Been a
52:12
while since I heard an update of
52:12
what you're working on in terms
52:15
of P 2.0 tags. Is there any LIT
52:15
or value tags coming? Please and
52:20
thank you. Kevin?
52:23
I'll just say I don't
52:23
know anything about that.
52:28
So value tags you can do
52:28
today on the podcast level, you
52:31
can't do them on an individual
52:31
episode level or splits. But if
52:33
you don't have now, like if you
52:33
don't know, if your podcast is
52:36
on Buzzsprout, and you don't have value for value enabled, and you want it, you just drop
52:38
an email to our support team. And they will walk you through
52:40
that process. We don't have a UI
52:42
for it, but is fully supported
52:42
at the episode level and splits.
52:46
It's something that we continue
52:46
to discuss and figure out if
52:49
that's something that enough
52:49
people need for us to actually
52:51
build a UI around or how we're
52:51
going to support it. And LIT is
52:53
in that same boat. It's more
52:53
like we love the technology. But
52:57
we have to prioritize and build
52:57
things that a lot of people are
53:00
going to use. And so like just
53:00
this week, like we're rolling
53:03
out the text tag, which isn't
53:03
super exciting, but it's another
53:05
Podcasting 2.0 tag that we're
53:05
rolling out or podcast namespace
53:08
tag that we're rolling out. So
53:08
it stuff's always on our
53:11
priority list. And it's just
53:11
kind of us shuffling around what
53:14
the majority of people are
53:14
asking for and looking for. So I
53:17
love it. Like it's cool, and
53:17
it's fun. But there are so few
53:20
podcasters out there that can
53:20
actually take advantage of it.
53:22
So if you don't know what it is,
53:22
it sounds for live item tag. And
53:25
it's like if you want to do a
53:25
live podcast. And so why would
53:28
you ever want to do a live podcast? Well, it gives you an opportunity to interact with
53:30
live audience. So if you have
53:32
like a chat room going, or I
53:32
don't know how well it's maybe
53:36
some you figure out some way for
53:36
people to like hop into your
53:39
Skype call your zoom call or
53:39
whatever. And you can interact-
53:41
It's like Clubhouse, like that's what I keep thinking.
53:43
Yeah, like a Clubhouse kind of thing. Right. So you could do live podcast, the
53:45
reason to do it would be to
53:47
interact with your audience. And
53:47
so I keep coming back to if
53:51
we're going to support the live
53:51
item tag. How can we do in such
53:54
a way that we also give people
53:54
the tools to be able to interact
53:56
live with their audience. And so
53:56
that's where our thinking is on
53:59
that. But yeah, we're staying up
53:59
to date and always looking at
54:02
all the new innovations that are
54:02
happening around the podcast
54:04
namespace.
54:05
And then Krystal, do you
54:05
want to read Genebean's since I
54:08
got to read Genebean's on Podnews Live?
54:10
Yes. Okay. So Genebean
54:10
says, I was really glad to hear
54:14
y'all say that you are
54:14
investigating how to facilitate
54:17
getting our episodes into
54:17
YouTube. I don't have the time
54:20
or energy right now to make a
54:20
video version of volunteer
54:23
technologist. But I'm interested
54:23
in expanding my reach to the
54:27
audience. The hesitations I have
54:27
are pretty much what you all
54:31
said, stats would only be there.
54:31
It's us only and only in YouTube
54:36
music. Oh my gosh, I have so
54:36
many thoughts on this too. So
54:41
you know, we're talking about
54:41
video podcasts and what that
54:45
looks like and what that really
54:45
is. And when I think back to all
54:49
the different experiences I've
54:49
had, because I create on audio
54:53
only for a podcast, and YouTube
54:53
video only. And mine have never
54:58
been the same. It's never been
54:58
having video and then stripping
55:01
the audio. And that's my
55:01
podcast. I've never done that
55:04
from the beginning. But I think
55:04
that having your content in some
55:08
way on YouTube, even if it's
55:08
just YouTube shorts, could
55:13
actually be a great way for you
55:13
to get discovered by another
55:16
audience on YouTube and it would
55:16
be less work than having all the
55:21
editing done for videos or
55:21
making sure everything looks
55:24
great or doing something in
55:24
Canva or putting B roll on like
55:27
there's just like Kevin said
55:27
earlier, there's a lot of
55:30
complexities that come into
55:30
video. And because it's not
55:33
something that is, you know,
55:33
supported by every single
55:37
podcasting app, whether it's
55:37
your host site, or it's the
55:41
actual app that you're playing
55:41
in, we're just we're not there
55:44
yet. But I do think that having
55:44
a presence on YouTube is a way
55:49
for you to gain organic traffic
55:49
and have someone discover your
55:53
podcast, and then have them move
55:53
over to a podcast player that
55:57
they already know and love, like
55:57
Apple, Spotify, or wherever
56:01
they're listening.
56:02
Yeah, I totally agree.
56:02
And I think YouTube is great for
56:06
exactly what you said. But I
56:06
would also say like other social
56:09
channels can also work in that
56:09
same way. So if you happen to be
56:12
a big fan of YouTube, and you
56:12
engage with it there and you
56:14
like, then maybe that's the
56:14
place for you. But if that place
56:17
for you is tick tock or
56:17
Instagram or Facebook or Twitter
56:20
or Mastodon, or whatever, like
56:20
any of those channels, can you
56:23
can invest in them the same way
56:23
the pitfall might be like
56:25
spreading yourself too thin and
56:25
trying to do all of them. And so
56:28
if you love YouTube, and you
56:28
love Instagram, like go for
56:30
those two, or if you're only in
56:30
one, just like go for one, but
56:33
don't try to be everywhere, at
56:33
least initially. Like that's too
56:36
much for any one person.
56:37
We also have a tweet
56:37
from Sarah Rossett. She said, I
56:41
agree podcasting can feel
56:41
lonely. But I think it's
56:43
probably similar to the world of
56:43
books where readers of different
56:47
genres have different behaviors.
56:47
So she said that the best ways
56:51
we found to connect with our
56:51
podcast audience are through
56:54
surveys, meetups for meals or
56:54
drinks at writing conferences
56:57
announced on the podcast before
56:57
the event and Buzzsprout
57:00
subscriptions. I totally agree
57:00
with this, Sara, these are
57:03
absolutely the best ways that
57:03
I've also found to connect with
57:07
the audience, especially like I
57:07
preach surveys all the time. I
57:11
love surveys so much. But
57:11
meetups are such a huge deal to
57:15
especially if you live in a big
57:15
city where maybe your listeners
57:18
are close by you can do that.
57:20
Yeah, it's so powerful
57:20
when you get in person with
57:23
people. I mean, like I said,
57:23
Jordan and I were just in person
57:26
together. And we haven't seen
57:26
each other in person for a year
57:29
and a half. And it's just it's
57:29
there's something so special.
57:32
And to know that you share this
57:32
collective will in our case,
57:36
it's this collective nerdiness
57:36
bond about podcasting. Like we
57:39
love it so much. And we can just
57:39
geek out and talk about it. So
57:43
being in the presence of, you
57:43
know, people that have that
57:46
shared experience or that shared
57:46
interest, it just gives you this
57:50
energy that you can't replicate
57:50
in a digital space. So
57:54
definitely anytime you can get
57:54
in person with people, it just
57:57
it makes it a lot of fun.
57:58
I love this idea for like
57:58
niche podcasts, like a Disney
58:00
That's a great thought. Sharing
58:00
that same sentiment we have
58:01
podcast or something. You
58:01
probably go to Disney all the
58:04
time. And a lot of people listen
58:04
to your podcast probably go to
58:06
Disney all the time. So maybe
58:06
people are already doing this.
58:09
But if not like Why aren't you
58:09
saying hey, when I go to Disney,
58:11
I'm going to have lunch at this
58:11
restaurant from 12 to one, and I
58:14
would love to meet you. And like
58:14
here's what I'll be wearing. And
58:16
this is the right time to
58:16
approach me and say hi and get a
58:18
picture and let me talk to you
58:18
about my podcast. So you're like
58:20
inviting your audience to interact with you that way. There's a lot of people who do
58:22
sports podcasts, I might be going to this game and watching
58:24
this and here's my tickets are
58:27
in this section, or I'm gonna
58:27
stand outside this hotdog stand
58:29
outside the venue for an hour
58:29
after the game. And if you want
58:32
to talk, I'd love to meet you
58:32
there. Like maybe you don't live
58:34
in a big town. But maybe you go
58:34
places where you might bump into
58:37
podcasters I do a travel
58:37
podcast, I'm doing this trip at
58:40
this time with my family and
58:40
it's a family trip. But I'm
58:43
gonna go to this attraction and
58:43
I'll be there at this time for
58:46
an hour. If you guys want to
58:46
plan a trip. That's a great
58:48
place to go. And I'd love to bump into a meet you there. Whatever like like make it your
58:50
own, figure out how it could
58:52
work for your podcast for us.
58:52
Since we talked about
58:54
podcasting. We always say we're
58:54
going to these conferences and
58:57
if you're there we'd love to
58:57
talk with you. But it might be
58:59
able to apply to lots of
58:59
different things. So just think
59:02
about that. Maybe you can use it. David John Clark saying really
59:07
connects with your thoughts on a
59:10
lack of listener engagement with
59:10
podcasts. Funny, I was out
59:13
hiking when you talked about not
59:13
being able to interact while on
59:15
the go. I tried to remember for
59:15
later such as now to interact.
59:19
And then he said I tried to rate
59:19
and review shows and individual
59:22
episodes via pod chaser. I liken
59:22
it to the IMDB of podcasts,
59:26
which podcasts are now on IMDb
59:26
too, much easier than logging
59:30
into individual platforms such
59:30
as Apple or Spotify. I feel
59:33
though many podcasters don't see
59:33
the pod chaser reviews yet. I
59:37
agree. I think a lot of people
59:37
miss that too.
59:39
Jordan might see them but she
59:39
just hates reviews. So she won't
59:41
read them.
59:42
Yeah. I don't see reviews.
59:45
I think it's, well, I
59:45
think it's great when you can
59:48
have so if you're in Jordan's
59:48
case where you you don't like to
59:52
look at that, like have someone
59:52
that you love and trust and that
59:56
loves you and is supportive of
59:56
your journey to look over those
1:00:00
for you and maybe pull out the
1:00:00
ones that you know would be a
1:00:03
confidence boost, like on a hard
1:00:03
day. Because I mean, we've all
1:00:07
been podcasting for a long time.
1:00:07
We know that sometimes it just
1:00:10
sucks like maybe you don't have
1:00:10
the energy to record or you're
1:00:13
really you have 1000 Other
1:00:13
things personally going on in
1:00:16
your life or professionally and
1:00:16
you're like I just don't feel
1:00:19
like recording today. But having
1:00:19
one of those that you can pull
1:00:22
up and it's that confidence
1:00:22
boost that I know I need as a
1:00:26
podcaster when somebody says
1:00:26
this one episode like really
1:00:30
helped me get through a hard
1:00:30
time or going back to, you know,
1:00:33
after my podcast movement, talk
1:00:33
somebody, you know, DM me on
1:00:36
Instagram and said Your talk was
1:00:36
exactly what I needed to hear
1:00:39
today. And that will get me
1:00:39
through those times when it's a
1:00:43
little bit harder. So I love
1:00:43
reviews, find someone that can
1:00:47
read them for you. If you're
1:00:47
like Jordan, who doesn't want to
1:00:49
see him and then these are your
1:00:49
top three best reviews, look at
1:00:52
these and remind yourself,
1:00:52
you're on the right track.
1:00:54
You know, what's so
1:00:54
funny is that I actually also
1:00:58
implement the review buddy
1:00:58
system. So my husband was always
1:01:01
the one that would like, look at
1:01:01
the reviews. And then if I had a
1:01:04
really good one, he'd screenshot
1:01:04
it, send it to me, right? I
1:01:06
think I need to fire him because
1:01:06
he slacked off a little bit on
1:01:11
the gatekeeping of the bad
1:01:11
reviews. So now it's like he'll
1:01:14
walk by the office and be like,
1:01:14
do you see that jerk that left
1:01:17
you one star? I'm just like, No,
1:01:17
no, no, no, don't tell me. He's
1:01:22
fired. Just completely forgot
1:01:22
why he was hired for that in the
1:01:26
first place.
1:01:27
Fired. He's fired.
1:01:30
All right. Well, I think
1:01:30
that's the show. So thank you
1:01:33
for listening and keep podcasting.
1:01:34
Got my kids. I threw
1:01:34
them outside. They're playing
1:01:41
basketball right now on all my
1:01:41
only charge to them was Don't
1:01:44
scream outside. Like why do we
1:01:44
have to repeat like Don't
1:01:48
scream. Why is that a thing?
1:01:48
They're 13, 10, and 7.
1:01:53
Does it work?
1:01:53
No, they're screaming outside. Still.
1:01:55
I heard a couple times
1:01:55
while you're recording. Like,
1:01:58
BLAAAAH!
1:01:59
I was like, I need a I
1:01:59
need a mute it then I was like
1:02:02
Jordan, she can work her magic
1:02:02
editing and mute my whole track.
1:02:07
Any of your kids have
1:02:07
like the friend that is the low?
1:02:11
Yes, yes. Yes. And you know,
1:02:11
when this kid is coming over
1:02:14
your house, and you're just
1:02:14
like, I can take it or I can't
1:02:17
today. And I just my prayer is
1:02:17
that, like, my kid isn't the
1:02:21
loud kid for somebody else.
1:02:23
Well, how many kids do
1:02:23
you have again, Kevin?
1:02:25
I have three
1:02:25
You have three. Okay, that's what I was saying. So I have three, too, and there's
1:02:27
always one. I feel like there's
1:02:29
one in the bunch that I'm like,
1:02:29
when he goes over to somebody
1:02:32
else's house. I'm pretty sure
1:02:32
that he's taking all the snacks
1:02:37
screaming very loudly and
1:02:37
hopefully using his manners but
1:02:42
not 100% sure. And so it's kind
1:02:42
of like that gentle reminder
1:02:46
when they're out the door. Like,
1:02:46
just be a decent human, please.
1:02:49
Thank you. Like
1:02:52
That's my youngest, too.
1:02:52
She's, before we went to Podcast
1:02:56
Movement, I told my mom I was
1:02:56
like, okay, she will eat all the
1:02:59
snacks like you have to limit
1:02:59
her. She will. We just stocked
1:03:03
up the pantry. Everything
1:03:03
stocked is ready to go. But do
1:03:06
not let her eat snacks all day.
1:03:06
And I came back and I don't have
1:03:10
any chips left. So I think she
1:03:10
went through like three bags of
1:03:12
chips.
1:03:15
No, I've heard of people that put like those latches at the top of their
1:03:17
pantry because they're the kids
1:03:21
can't reach it. I'm like, Oh my
1:03:21
gosh, this is genius. This is so
1:03:24
smart.
1:03:26
Kids will get through
1:03:26
that really quick. Don't, if you
1:03:32
can prevent your kids from
1:03:32
eating snacks by just putting a
1:03:34
latch up high like, there's
1:03:34
something off. Like they're
1:03:37
getting, they're getting snacks a different way that you don't know about.
1:03:40
Go look under their bed
1:03:40
and you're like, What is this?
1:03:43
They have a stockpile
1:03:43
somewhere. Kids are, they don't
1:03:46
give up that easily.
1:03:47
Oh my gosh, I found out
1:03:47
that my daughter's stockpile is
1:03:50
in my room.
1:03:52
She hides it in your room?
1:03:53
It's in my room. She's
1:03:53
so good that she hid the food in
1:03:58
my room. And I didn't find it
1:03:58
until later I foun, oh my gosh,
1:04:02
I moved I have this like rolling
1:04:02
hamper thing. And it has like
1:04:06
removable bags. So I never moved
1:04:06
the hamper itself, which she
1:04:10
must have known. And so I moved
1:04:10
it out when I was vacuuming and
1:04:15
I found a banana. A sucker.
1:04:21
Kind of random.
1:04:22
And the banana was like
1:04:22
black and hard and I was just
1:04:25
like, how long has this been here? No!
1:04:28
Petrified banana.
1:04:29
Oh my gosh, I was so mad
1:04:29
when I found this like,
1:04:33
disgusting banana in my bedroom.
1:04:33
I was just like, you've got to
1:04:37
be kidding me. Little turd.
1:04:39
Oh my gosh, that's great.
1:04:41
All right. Well, let me
1:04:41
tell you. I hesitate. Because
1:04:43
this is another sports story.
1:04:43
Jordan and I apologize crystal
1:04:46
you're in sports at all?
1:04:47
It depends. Yes, maybe.
1:04:47
Go for it.
1:04:50
I don't think Jordan gets
1:04:50
this story, because I posted it
1:04:52
to our like, company Basecamp
1:04:52
thing and she didn't she didn't
1:04:54
give me a boost. Everyone else
1:04:54
give me a boost. This last
1:04:58
weekend, our kids had their swim
1:04:58
meet. They go to swim meets all
1:05:01
the time. Well, this was a pretty big meet in the state of Florida and Katie Ledecky, who's
1:05:02
like the greatest women's
1:05:06
swimmer of all time, I shouldn't even say women's, she's like she's the greatest distance
1:05:08
swimmer of all time doesn't
1:05:10
matter what your gender is.
1:05:10
She's amazing. She was swimming
1:05:13
there. And she was swimming the
1:05:13
mile, which that's a normal
1:05:16
event for her and so everyone's like, Oh, it's great. Like we're gonna get to see her swim. But
1:05:18
what we did not expect was that
1:05:22
she set a new American record
1:05:22
for the mile which was like it
1:05:26
really is a world record I guess
1:05:26
call it American record because
1:05:29
only the US swims the mile. It's
1:05:29
like only a US event. But I got
1:05:33
to see a person swim the fastest
1:05:33
mile swim in the women's
1:05:37
division, like, in real time,
1:05:37
like watching the GOAT swim.
1:05:41
Amazing. Absolutely amazing. I
1:05:41
was crazy, like nobody expects.
1:05:46
And so she jumps in, they go off
1:05:46
and like in the first 50 She has
1:05:50
already like a half a body
1:05:50
length the head of the next
1:05:52
closest person. By halfway
1:05:52
through the race. She'd already
1:05:54
lapped everybody. And then by
1:05:54
like three quarters of the way
1:05:57
through the race, everyone else is slowing down. And she's going faster. And so she's like,
1:05:59
already lapped everybody. So
1:06:01
she's like more than 100 yards
1:06:01
ahead of the next closest
1:06:04
person. Well, and people are
1:06:04
watching the times, and we're
1:06:08
all like she's swimming this
1:06:08
really fast and like she always
1:06:10
seems really fast. So we're not
1:06:10
sure like what's going to happen
1:06:13
and she starts coming down that
1:06:13
last 25 And she's like two
1:06:16
seconds ahead of the world
1:06:16
record time and she touches the
1:06:19
wall. I'm not like as into
1:06:19
swimming as everyone else who's
1:06:21
there because it's just my kids.
1:06:21
Like I was never a swimmer. But
1:06:24
she touches the wall the place
1:06:24
erupts like she's you know,
1:06:28
she's done this seven times. Now
1:06:28
she's beat her time seven times.
1:06:31
But she's excited. Everyone's
1:06:31
going crazy. Like no one
1:06:33
expected the small little meet
1:06:33
in Florida just like a regional
1:06:36
thing. And she set a new world
1:06:36
record. I cannot believe it.
1:06:39
Did they have it, like because I'm thinking of like when you watch them on the
1:06:40
Olympics, like Did they have the
1:06:43
time on their of like what the
1:06:43
record is, that's how I was
1:06:46
like, Oh my gosh.
1:06:48
This was just like a
1:06:48
regular, like a bunch of high
1:06:50
school kids. She was swimming
1:06:50
next to high school kids while
1:06:53
she did this. They have these
1:06:53
open events where like high
1:06:55
school kids can swim, and
1:06:55
college kids, and professionals,
1:06:58
to anybody who wants to get a
1:06:58
time can just go jump in these
1:07:00
open events. And I guess she was
1:07:00
feeling like I've been training
1:07:03
and I'm gonna good place and
1:07:03
maybe I can better my time. And
1:07:05
so she just jumped in and swam
1:07:05
it and I cannot but I've never
1:07:09
seen something that like
1:07:09
historic happen real time in
1:07:11
real person. Like in life, it was amazing.
1:07:13
And that also would just
1:07:13
be wild to see someone you know,
1:07:16
who's just like Superhuman by in
1:07:16
swimming. Like just, I mean, I
1:07:20
can't even imagine how like how
1:07:20
fast she must have been going.
1:07:23
That's crazy. It was crazy. So
1:07:23
cool.
1:07:28
She's amazing. And then
1:07:28
she hops out, cools down for
1:07:30
like five minutes and they will
1:07:30
cool down pool and then gets out
1:07:33
and like takes pictures with all
1:07:33
the kids who were there and like
1:07:35
super nice to everybody. And
1:07:35
it's just amazing. She's an
1:07:38
amazing person. So whether
1:07:38
you're into swimming or not like
1:07:41
we've got this amazing athlete,
1:07:41
that's just like crushing it the
1:07:44
best of all time in women's
1:07:44
swimming, distance swimming, and
1:07:47
she represents the US and I got
1:07:47
to see her in person. I was
1:07:49
totally beyond myself. It was amazing.
1:07:51
Did you get a selfie
1:07:51
with her? Kevin, be honest.
1:07:53
I didn't. I stood back and let the kids get all the pictures.
1:07:55
You're just like pushing them out of the way.
1:07:57
You're in the
1:07:57
background. You're like, you
1:08:00
know, like, Hey, I'm the dad of
1:08:00
the back. I got my job. Here. I
1:08:04
got all the dad jokes. I'll be here.
1:08:07
It's amazing, though. I think you experience it differently. Like I think the
1:08:08
kids thought it was pretty neat
1:08:11
and stuff but like as an adult,
1:08:11
recognizing that you're actually
1:08:13
in the presence of like the
1:08:13
greatest person to ever do this
1:08:16
ever. Like it's it just hits a
1:08:16
little differently. Like yeah,
1:08:19
that's awesome.
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