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Thanks for being here.
Good morning again, podcasting,

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Morning chat.
Thanks so much for being here.

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I am your host, Mark Ronick, and
currently on stage with me we

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have producer Ashley Feller, Dr.
Faye and Nick Nallback.

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And where's everybody?
It's a little quiet in here, not

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just the rest of the team, but
our usual faithful live

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listeners that file in first
thing.

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Where are all of you this?
Is weird.

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This is weird.
I know to our podcast audience,

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it doesn't really mean anything.
They don't see the difference.

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But it is weird being in a
virtual room that feels a

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little, a little quiet, a little
empty.

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But that's OK.
I'm not complaining.

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And I was just stalling to find
my crickets, you know, behind

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the scenes, the sound effects
thing has become a little bit of

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a thorn in our side, as Ashley
knows.

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Because we do run this show
through Offonic, right?

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So Ashley cleans up any,
anything that needs to be

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cleaned up, and then we run it
through Offonic and it takes out

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all of the different sound
effects.

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Like those crickets wouldn't be
heard, but Ashley then has to go

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in and add them back.
So it's a little bit of a pain

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in the butt.
We're trying to figure out that

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solution to that issue.
And by the way, Speaking of

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Ashley, before we get into news,
I want to take a minute to

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discuss yesterday's episode with
James Cridland where we spent at

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least half the time talking
about podcasting. 2 point OA lot

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of us, I felt don't really
understand it or didn't.

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And I knew that James is really
well versed in that area.

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So we had them come on to
explain a lot more of it.

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And I'm curious, I asked Ashley
as our producer how she felt it

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went if she found it valuable.
And Ashley, would you share with

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everybody what you exactly what
you told me or best as you can?

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Good morning y'all.
So I thought it was valuable

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hearing about James's dedication
to doing pod news daily, but to

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be perfectly honest I didn't
completely grasp the whole

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podcasting 2.0.
I understand it's valuable, but

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I don't really understand the
how so much as you know the

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explanation.
And really, looking back on it,

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I wish I had spoken up a little
more and also maybe had prepared

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some questions that were more
about the newsletter.

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Not that I don't find the
Podcasting 2.0 valuable, but as

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a person who writes newsletters,
that would have been something

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good to find out about.
Yeah, that's fair.

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And I'm curious if anybody else
felt that way.

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I know Nick was there for
definitely for the podcasting

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2.0 conversation.
Sid, I know is there for the

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entire duration.
Sid, did you feel similarly?

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Did you feel like or did you
feel like you got a better grasp

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of podcasting 2 point O?
I'd not heard of podcasting 2

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point O before yesterday.
I'm with Ashley.

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I'm not sure that I fully
understand it.

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I mean, it probably would be
good to dive deeper into it.

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I do think this newsletter
conversation was very

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interesting.
How he does it and you know, all

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the automations and stuff that
he put it together is very

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interesting because newsletters
can be a really heavy lift.

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Officially what he's doing to be
really heavy lift, I think would

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be also interesting too.
He comes back to talk about how

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he was able to manage getting so
many sponsors of his newsletter.

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Obviously it's a profit Center
for him because there's tons of

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advertising in that.
There is, yes.

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That's a great point, Sid.
And here's what I learned.

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I appreciate Ashley, your
honesty and Sid, yours as well

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for that matter.
And here's what I gathered.

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And I think, I think I've got
it.

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I think I've got it right.
I think he was emphasizing a lot

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of practical ways that
podcasters can leverage

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podcasting 2 point O.
And there was at one point I

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asked him a question to really
help us understand how to take

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advantage of podcasting 2 point
O.

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And there was something that he
shared.

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He said, really for most of us,
we are already taking advantage

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of podcasting 2 Point O, whether
we know it or not, because most

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of these hosting platforms,
Buzz, Brout, Libsyn, Captivate,

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etcetera, they're the ones that
are actually incorporating

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podcasting 2 Point O features,
right?

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So we're not like James who has
built his own software to do his

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own podcast distribution.
Most of us are going through a

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third party to do that and those
third parties are adopting these

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different features.
That's how, for example, how

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we're getting transcripts
attached to the audio or video

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files, mainly audio files.
If we're talking Buzz Sprout and

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Libsyn, that's how those
transcripts are getting

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attached.
So that when people are

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listening on their favorite
podcast platform, that's how

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they can connect with those
transcripts as an example,

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right?
So back in the day, the only

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things that that were attached
to our podcast episode were

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things like title and
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And then slowly podcast cover
art, episode cover art started

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to become a thing that was a
podcasting 2 point O feature

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that was added to your, to your
podcast hosting platform, right?

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So it's really nothing for us as
podcasters that we have to do

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other than if we really want to
take advantage of all these new

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features, we've got to make sure
that that hosting platform that

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we're choosing has that built
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And it might even help to ask
some questions like are you

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going to be adding in more 2
point O features before we make

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that decision to either switch
or start on a hosting platform.

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So I think that's ultimately why
James was more focused on the

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different features and less
about how to take advantage of

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them because for the most part,
that's up to our hosting

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platform.
Nick, I saw you wanted to jump

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in.
Go ahead.

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I think we have to step back
even further and even if the

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hosting platforms offer these
features like the transcripts or

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James have talked about the the
monetization like the the little

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dollar sign in the pocket cast
app, podcast listening platform

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itself has to be receptive to
most features before podcast

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host in my opinion is going to
include that feature.

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And something like pocket cast.
I feel like there's a little bit

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more open.
I haven't seen the little dollar

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sign like Patreon, buy me a
coffee link in something like

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Spotify or Apple.
And those are the two biggest

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listening platforms.
So I kind of feel like the

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hosting platforms aren't going
to take as much advantage of

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these when majority of listeners
are on platforms that don't

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accept it.
Now where James has had an

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advantage is he's built his own
hosting platform and knows the

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different platforms that do
accept that.

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So he's able to build that into
his RSS feed for those platforms

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that do accept it.
And I don't know, it's, it's

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kind of a, an interesting
conundrum, if you will, just

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because you have these features
exist.

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But if Apple and Spotify don't
take those features, they're

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kind of, I'm not going to say
pointless, but they they don't

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serve as much of AA purpose as
some of the other platforms.

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Which Nick, I think maybe goes
back a little bit to something

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you shared last week, which is
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which is to direct people to
your own website.

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Because if you're embedding,
let's say Buzz Sprout is where

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you, where you schedule and
publish your episodes.

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If you're using their embedded
player or embedded codes to, you

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know, to incorporate into your
website, you may then get to

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have more of those features for
your audience to take advantage

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of, right?
I'm not saying in all cases, but

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that might be a one way to be
able to take advantage of it for

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your audience.
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Definitely agree with that and I
think the habit of listeners to

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turn to these apps, especially
when they're listening, not to

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move around the go, it's almost
impossible to break that at this

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point.
Like I feel like Spotify and

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Apple would have to legitimately
disappear off the face of the

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earth to get people to turn
somewhere else in many cases.

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I know there are people that
don't use either platform.

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They have their own apps that
they listen on, but for the vast

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majority, those are the two
platforms they're listening on.

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And yeah, turning to the website
when someone's sitting at their

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computer, maybe stationary might
be a little bit more doable, but

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I feel like an on the go person,
we're called GPR, listening to

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podcast.
That's where it gets a little

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more tricky.
It's an interesting situation.

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Absolutely.
And by the way, hello to Jeff

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and Bez who joined us in the
audience.

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Thanks for keeping U.S. company
this morning.

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We were at the start of the show
wondering, where is everybody?

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It's a weird morning.
And that's OK.

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We're going to keep going
because thankfully, our podcast

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audience continues to grow.
And I know we've got a lot of

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podcast listeners right now
enjoying.

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And I say right now because I'm
talking into the future right

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now, enjoying today's episode.
And Bez in the chat says it's

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summertime with a smile emoji.
And totally agree with you, Bez.

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I do this every summer.
We have these rooms over the

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summer where they're a little
lighter than usual, and I'm

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always questioning, why is that?
And yeah, it's summertime, of

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course, Happens every summer
when we do this.

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OK, so with that, I just
realized now I have to reset my

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board here.
I was going to go right to the

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music, but I refuse to hit the
wrong button.

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So give me a moment.
Here we go.

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It's that music that is music to
Amanda's ears.

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And Amanda Sharp has joined us
this morning.

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Good morning to Amanda.
So let's get into it.

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Let's get into some of the
latest news and headlines around

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the world of podcasting.
And as I like to do, let's start

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with some podcast data.
I have a note here that I need

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to mention something to you, but
we've taken enough time, so I'll

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do that in a little bit.
Podcast data as of yesterday,

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July 15th, the number one Apple
podcast, Devil in the Desert, an

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ABC News production, and we've
been mentioning them at the

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number one slot for several
weeks in a row now.

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And Speaking of mentioning #1
often the Joe Rogan Experience

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is number one on Spotify.
By the way, over the last week,

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184,051 podcasts published at
least one new episode, which is

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slightly down .1%.
And let's go to Dr. for some of

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her top five lists.
Go ahead, Dr. Good morning.

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Good morning, good morning.
OK, so at #5 this is the Spotify

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list at #5 it's the daily at #4
this past weekend with Theo von

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#3, Timpani's OK Crime, jumpy,
jumpy Crime junkie #2 the Tucker

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Carlson zone number one.
I'm shocked the Joe Rogan.

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Experience.
Amazing.

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How fascinating.
It's amazing.

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So now, you know, week after
week, I pick a random chart and

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I try and make that go.
And then I always think, did I

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do that last week?
Maybe it was too soon?

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I don't know.
I don't know if I did this last

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week.
So this time I went to a

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completely different chart with
a completely different category.

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And my kitchen alarm is just
about to go off, so I'm going to

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catch it.
This is from the Apple charts,

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and the category is food.
Food.

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OK Food.
Yeah, so at #5 it's something

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called dish #4 it's in the
kitchen #3 is gastropod #2 is

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things bakers know, the King
Arthur Baking podcast, and #1 is

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walk and talk podcast.
Walk and talk podcast where the

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back of the house stories take
center stage.

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And it's hosted by Carl.
Don't ask me to pronounce his

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last name.
Yeah.

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Fiadini.
OK, thanks.

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Yeah, I'm going to be going to
that chart often now, so yeah.

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And I'm off to the kitchen.
I.

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Was going to say, Speaking of
food, now you're off to the

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Go for it, enjoy.
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going to jump ahead for a moment
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Let me pull this up.
So Mopod and Pod News actually

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just announced a little bit of a
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Mopod charts just delivered a
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Podcasters can now easily track
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Apple ranking.
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back, I had shared with you that
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ranking specifically, and you
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see where the show falls in your
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charitable that went away that a
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that kind of information.
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incorporated Apple, but now
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strategic partnership with Pod
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valuable exposure through
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newsletter integration.
It's definitely a big upgrade

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and of big interest, I think,
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visibility and celebrate their
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platforms.
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how I've been tracking our show
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did the Steve from Blue's Clues
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how to charts.
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thanks to Mopod.
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rankings now they have this
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you know that podcast data
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from Pod News.
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redesigned and renamed podcast
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Mopod.
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underway.
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Mopod, their new charts is that
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regularly.
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happens with your show, with AM
the charts, if you've moved up

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in the charts, down in the
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will be emailed to you.
So you can always check on that.

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So you wanted to let you know
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And also, by the way, we've got
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joining us.
Jonathan and Alex have joined

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us.
Good morning to both of you

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guys.
Good to have you here.

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And now let me get back to some
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I think that's it for the data.
So let me tell you about some

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events that are coming up.
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play the music.
So first, the London Podcast

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Festival is back for its 10th
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impressive lineup of big shows.
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September 4th through the 14th.
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hosted the podcast show a couple
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the London Podcast Festival this
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We'll share a link in the show
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different things going on there.
Also from Riverside today, July

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16th, 12:00 PM Eastern, they're
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podcasting from setup to
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Again, that link will be in the
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If you are interested, this show
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PM Eastern, so if you're
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And of course, Podcast Movement
2025 starts August 18th in

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Dallas, TX and they've just
dropped the first batch of

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confirmed speakers for their
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And here's some bonus news from
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None other than the pod father
himself, Adam Curry is set to

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return thanks to sound stack.
Adam Curry leading, I think

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being one of the keynote
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And as you may know, he's the Co
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brains behind podcast index and
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He'll take the stage August
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Also, I've shared before radio
days Asia is coming September

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the 1st to Indonesia and podcast
Summit Summit YYC 2025 that's

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September 19th in Canada.
And also of course, the

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empowered podcasting conference.
We've just sent out all of our

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speaker announcements.
So anybody who we've accepted as

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a speaker should be notified by
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Unfortunately, man, I got to
tell you, it is challenging to

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have to send rejection, for lack
of a better term, letters out.

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Because really, honestly, I'd
say just about every application

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was worthy of speaking.
There were some that were very,

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I'll just say it, half assed as
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No effort put into them, but the
vast majority it made it really

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challenging to pick.
Hey Mark, will you give us an

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idea of what they have to send
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For instance, like for next
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sample of what they're going to
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How did you know that?
They were like half assed?

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Yeah.
And so we have a team that goes

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through the applications, picks
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The winners, I was going to say,
but the accepted speakers now.

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So you're asking me Dr. about
the process itself?

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What do they submit in order to?
You know what I'm saying?

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So we want people to really
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I think that this really should
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podcast industry.
Haven't a well constructed

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outline, thought out outline,
something that easily can I

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could look at and say, yeah, I
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going to go, right?
A lot of times we might just get

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a little blurb.
I'd like to talk about how to

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monetize your podcast
effectively, right?

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Like, and that's literally like
about all we would get that that

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would be considered 1/2 assed
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outline something that's going
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journey.
We also ask if and, and we give

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you a spot in the application
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And I think others do as well.
If you've got other work that

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you could point to on online, on
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can go and watch and see some of
your presentations, that's also

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helpful.
It's a bonus.

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It's certainly not a
requirement, but it is really

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helpful.
That's basically how it works.

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Dr. Empowered Podcasting to
September 26th through the 28th

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happening in Charlotte, NC.
That happens to be the weekend

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of International Podcast Day.
Technically, International

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Podcast Day I believe is the
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So we won't actually be there
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weekend.
So we will celebrate that day

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there.
You can go to

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empoweredpodcasting.com to get
your tickets now.

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There's also a link to get your
hotel room, which is discounted

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for anybody attending our
conference, so the link is there

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as well.
Come check us out.

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Let's get into some more news
stories, some actual news

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stories.
No, not events, not data for

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you.
Let's just dive right in, in

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case you missed it.
And I say that because I don't

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know, I don't think I've gotten
to this yet, but I may have last

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week.
But a lot of us in this

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community happened to use Buzz
Sprout.

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So Buzz Sprout added some new AI
features to their Magic audio

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tool that they have, I forget
what they call it, magic

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something, but one of the
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Filler Killer.
This cautiously detects and

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removes filler words like the
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Power Clean for particularly bad
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Power Clean can remove complex
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wind, traffic or echoing AKA
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So if you use buzz Sprout, yes
it is an extra cost to use their

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magic audio feature but I think
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especially because it saves you
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I shared earlier that we use
Authonic to do that audio

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enhancement, and that requires
Ashley to do all of her editing

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and then exporting the file,
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Offonic and then waiting for
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exporting it from Offonic and
then importing it to Spotify for

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Creators.
That's our hosting platform.

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So it's a lot of steps.
Whereas if you're using a a

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hosting platform like Buzz
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edited finished file uploaded
there and say, yes, I want to

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apply this magic audio feature
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You've just saved yourself
multiple importing and exporting

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steps.
So I think it is well worth it.

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But do we know how much more it
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Alex, you've used that feature,
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Isn't it something like 10 bucks
or so a month?

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It depends on what plan you're
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But what's the answer?
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what I used.
We predominantly use it for blog

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writing and episode titles and
stuff like that.

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And I pay $20.00 a month and
that includes, let's forget how

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many hours, like 2 1/2 three
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So I think it's an extra $10
mark.

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Yeah, that sounds about right.
It it really depends on which

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plan and it's between 10 to
$20.00 a month depending on what

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plan you have.
I think, right.

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And just to be clear, for
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add on.
So you'd pay your usual monthly

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fee for Buzz Sprout.
And then if you want to take

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advantage of a feature like
that's how you do it, you pay a

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little extra and then you get
that, that audio enhancement and

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yeah, Co host.
I think you're right, Sid.

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I think that is what they call
all of their different AI

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features, their package of AI
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OK, also let's keep it going.
Rode just yesterday dropped a

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surprise bonus for creators
launching a compact wireless

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microcamera receiver that you
can clip right on your camera

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for dual channel wireless audio.
So as some of you may know who

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who use video and use cameras, a
lot of times these cameras don't

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have a mic built into it or
don't have a good mic built into

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it and don't have a great way of
incorporating a good microphone

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into it.
Well, that's what Rode has done

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is they've created a device that
you can plug into your camera

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and then plug your Rode wireless
micro microphone into it.

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So it works seamlessly with
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And let me keep going here.
It says here on the camera

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receiver that works with up to
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so that's pretty cool.
And it has intuitive gain

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control, plug in power detection
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universal camera compatibility,
and a best in class transmission

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range.
The coolest part is that if you

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already have the wireless micro
microphone, you get this device

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for free.
All you have to do is cover the

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shipping.
If you've already purchased the

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microphone, they will send you
the receiver for free with the

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exception of paying for
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I think that's a really good
deal.

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And if you go, if you don't have
the microphone, you buy it now

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that will automatically come
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So they've done a great job of
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camera and microphones much
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matter.
So kudos to them.

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Dr. You want to take story #4
Are you back from cooking?

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I am back from cooking.
Hold on, let me Scroll down just

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a little bit.
OK #4 Now if you're a podcaster,

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you should absolutely check out
Pocket Casts 3 Partner

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newsletter.
I subscribe to Pocket Cast, so I

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get this newsletter and it's
pretty great.

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It's packed with opportunities
to get your podcast featured,

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insights on how they're at the
largest independent podcast

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platform really works, and some
valuable tips on advertising.

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And it's totally free, so I
highly recommend signing up.

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I personally recommend it.
And we have a link that's going

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to go into the show notes for
you.

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Thank you Dr. And I remembered I
wanted to also to share with

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everybody a new movie called Age
of Audio recently premiered at

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the Oak Cliff Film Festival.
It's directed by Sean Michael

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Collin.
The film follows run Ronald

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young Junior as he chases down
his dreams of creating a hit

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indie podcast.
Along the way, he talks to

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legends like Adam Curry, Ira
Glass, Kara Swisher and Marc

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Maron.
And I'll actually play the

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two-minute trailer for you.
And now, like I said, it is only

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two minutes.
And what I might try to do here,

451
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just because there's a little
bit of visual, I may narrate in

452
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,440
the sense that when they're
there, you're going to hear

453
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,320
different voices and I'll
quietly just tell you who it is

454
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:24,120
as they're talking so you can
follow along a little bit

455
00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:26,600
easier.
So again, this is called Age of

456
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,640
Audio.
It's a movie about an

457
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,400
independent podcaster and his
journey.

458
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:40,400
Let's listen.
You had to be a pretty devoted

459
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,320
fan to listen to a podcast.
First of all, you had to figure

460
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:45,400
out they even.
Existed.

461
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,320
Somebody at some point figured
out, oh, you can.

462
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:55,440
You can put anything inside of
this.

463
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,960
I am known as the Co inventor of
podcasting.

464
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,400
We should record one of these
podcasts.

465
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,360
I remember asking Marc Maron,
the president, you know, are you

466
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,040
nervous?
It just gradually.

467
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:13,240
Grew and grew and grew until.
Podcast audiences larger than

468
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,760
the radio audience.
Throw a blanket over your head

469
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,080
and create a show that would
have a million listeners.

470
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:22,080
Oh my God, we just got. 50,000
people downloading our.

471
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:23,960
Show what the hell just
happened.

472
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,200
I honestly don't know what I'm
going to do if I do not make it,

473
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:31,720
I don't know what I'm going to
do.

474
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,720
The person talking right now is
the person who's the focus of

475
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,040
the movie.
I had never met somebody before

476
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:44,520
who had at least three different
editions of stickers of his own

477
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,960
face.
In 2023, I started a podcast

478
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,360
called Wait for It WEIGHT.
We pitched a bunch of people

479
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:51,840
Wait for it.
A bunch of people passed.

480
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,400
They're going to see that they
made a mistake passing on this

481
00:29:55,400 --> 00:30:02,160
show and the winner is Wait for
It and.

482
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,640
The winner is wait for it.
Is this good?

483
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:09,840
Are people even going to like
it?

484
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,000
But.
I guess I don't have to wonder

485
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,840
anymore.
And the winner is.

486
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:16,920
Yeah, I can't even lie.
This feels good.

487
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,520
But with every award, every new
kind of honor and acclaim, I'm

488
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,520
like, where is the money?
Sometimes it feels like I've

489
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,720
shown up at the party a little
bit more than fashionably late.

490
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:39,240
I'm Ronald Young Junior and this
is age of.

491
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,040
There you go.
Age of Audio and Ronald Young.

492
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:47,760
Yes, you can.
You can tell has had quite a run

493
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,840
as an independent podcaster, and
I think it's cool to that he's

494
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:56,440
put this together and showcasing
his successes, his challenges

495
00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,040
along the way, I think a lot of
us can certainly relate to.

496
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,360
I think Billy has more than one
picture of himself on a sticker,

497
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,160
though.
That might be true.

498
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,280
That might be true, so check
that out.

499
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,640
Age of Audio, we'll put a link
to that trailer.

500
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:18,200
I, I get it that it's probably
better to watch it than listen

501
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,160
to that trailer, but I wanted to
play it for you nonetheless.

502
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,880
And you can check out the whole
thing on YouTube.

503
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,960
Dr. Let's let me hand it back to
you with story #5 take it away.

504
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:30,480
Sure.
Sure.

505
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,960
So if you caught yesterday's
episode with James Cridland, we

506
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:35,680
talked about that at the top of
the show.

507
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,960
He was discussing podcasting 2
point O, and this update will

508
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,320
likely make a lot more sense to
you.

509
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:49,200
NPR has just integrated the
funding tag into all of its

510
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,480
podcasts Podcasting 2 Point O
feature that lets listeners

511
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,440
directly support shows through
RSS feeds.

512
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:02,520
Supporting Cast noted today that
this feature keeps gaining

513
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:08,200
traction and is now supported by
popular apps like Rocket Casts

514
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:13,240
and Podcast Addict and Antenna
Antenna Pod, which I've not

515
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,480
heard that last. 1.
Before me neither.

516
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,160
Things are slowly coming
together for me.

517
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,520
It's like this big jigsaw
puzzle.

518
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,600
I'm talking about podcasting 2
point O.

519
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,520
It's like a gigantic jigsaw
puzzle with pieces missing.

520
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:32,880
But as little things like this
come through, then it's like

521
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,400
finding a piece and putting it
in place.

522
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,160
Oh, I see now, you know, one of
those kind of things.

523
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:40,360
That's where it's at.
Yeah.

524
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,320
But now that we talked to James,
I definitely feel like when I

525
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,840
start hearing some of that talk
around podcasting 2 point O it,

526
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,680
it's a little more clear now.
And again, like I said at the

527
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:53,120
top of the show, the bottom line
is pay attention to the podcast

528
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,880
hosting platform you're using
and see if they're incorporating

529
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,280
these types of features into
their platform.

530
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,640
That's the way you take
advantage of podcasting. 2 point

531
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,840
O, by the way, and I'm going to
hand this back to Dr. in a

532
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,400
second, but I'll just set it up
for her.

533
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:16,000
Has anybody seen the recent Time
magazine 100 Most Influential

534
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,760
Creators list that came out
probably a couple weeks ago?

535
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:24,240
Why are you giggling over there,
Dr. Where do we get to the list?

536
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,760
So what is interesting that I
haven't seen talked about until

537
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:35,960
very recently, and I think this
was part of pod news, podcast

538
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:42,000
hosts are dominating this list
with almost 50% of the list.

539
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,840
It's podcasters.
The surge highlights the massive

540
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,400
cultural power of the medium
with creators across genres from

541
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,840
business deep dives to comedic
banter, captivating audiences

542
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,080
worldwide.
So Dr. do you want to share a

543
00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:00,560
little bit from this list?
And, and this is just ten of

544
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:04,280
the, I think it's 48 that are
podcasters.

545
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,000
And in true form, we're going to
go from bottom to top.

546
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:11,679
OK, OK.
So Alex Earl hot Mess is number

547
00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:14,840
10.
Madeline, is that how you

548
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,679
pronounce it?
It's from Pretty Lonesome.

549
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,520
Now, Mark, help me out here
because I see the name, I see

550
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,960
Pretty Lonesome, and then in in
parentheses I see entertainers.

551
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:30,800
I think that's, I think that's
kind of the the category within

552
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:35,080
the 100.
Yeah #8 is Theo Von for his past

553
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,679
weekend with Theo Von and he's
in leaders.

554
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,400
He's not an entertain, he's a
stand up comedian, but he's in a

555
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,080
category called leaders Mel
Robbins.

556
00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:49,840
Mel Robbins podcast is #7 under
leaders J Shetty.

557
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,719
I always have to stop and say
his name correctly little.

558
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:56,480
More carefully, with the wrong
vowel, you might get us an

559
00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:00,600
explicit tag.
That's right on purpose.

560
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,960
He's under the leaders.
Stephen Bartlett is number 5.

561
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,560
The diary of the CEO #4 is Sean
Evans.

562
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:14,680
He's the hot ones guy #3 it's
been a long time since he was #3

563
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,920
it's Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan
experience.

564
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,840
And we should say this isn't
actually a top ten list.

565
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,240
Like this isn't, it's not that
he's #3 on the list.

566
00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:27,840
He's just #3 on our list we've
compiled.

567
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:29,960
Does that make sense?
Or this isn't actually the

568
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,000
ranking of these?
Oh.

569
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,280
OK, I did not realize that.
OK, so it's our curation.

570
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:43,280
So our curation has Alex Cooper
at #2 for call her Daddy and #1

571
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,280
our curation.
I just threw up a little bit in

572
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:47,160
my mouth.
I'm so sorry.

573
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:52,840
OK, Number one is Hayley Welsh.
You know where you love her?

574
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,360
The hawk to a girl.
Yes, the hawk to a girl.

575
00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:00,360
We had some great discussions
around her when she announced

576
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,560
her podcast coming.
Yeah.

577
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,480
And she's on that list, which I
found a little surprising just

578
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:11,120
because of, if nothing more, the
controversy around her and the

579
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:15,080
alleged scam that she was
pulling, even though I think it

580
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,680
turns out that she really didn't
know what was going on.

581
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,720
It was the people around her
still her responsibility.

582
00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:24,840
But, you know, I, I give her a
little bit of a pass, I suppose.

583
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:29,480
But yeah, a little surprising to
see her on the top 100 list of

584
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:33,840
creators from Time magazine that
I just don't know I can get on

585
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,320
board with.
I don't know if we should be

586
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:41,080
surprised, though, because Time
magazine has put some pretty,

587
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,640
some questionable people on the
cover of their Person of the

588
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,720
Year.
Yes, so so maybe they do this.

589
00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:52,160
For effect, just to get
attention.

590
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:57,160
I think at one time they had
Osama bin Laden on the cover and

591
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:02,200
I think their reasoning was it
has Who has made the biggest

592
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:08,320
impact, good or bad, on the
world in the past year?

593
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,960
I think that was their excuse.
Oh, did I sound snide on that

594
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:12,240
one?
On.

595
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:18,280
Friday.
So the creators list shouldn't

596
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:23,080
come as a big surprise so.
Thank you, Dr. I'm going to hand

597
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:28,280
the mic to Nick to cover a
couple of AI stories that may be

598
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,960
of interest to content creators.
So with that, Nick, take it

599
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,600
away.
All right.

600
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:36,920
First up, I got 2 for you guys
here today.

601
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,960
First up, Microsoft Copilot.
Anybody who is taking advantage

602
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:47,120
of that, they are introducing
early access to a new feature

603
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:52,760
that allows the AI to view your
open windows on your computer.

604
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,840
And obviously this doesn't
pertain to Mac users as much as

605
00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:01,360
it probably does for Windows,
but probably.

606
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:03,480
Wow, that.
Was an.

607
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:09,440
Amazing laugh, yeah.
So a while back when Windows

608
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:13,200
started introducing their
Copilot button on all of their

609
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:17,120
computers and started releasing
their Copilot computers, they

610
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:21,560
had teased a feature called
Recall, which essentially

611
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:27,000
allowed the computer, or Copilot
I guess, to take screen grabs of

612
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,400
your computer as you're using it
throughout the day.

613
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:35,120
And basically you could go back
to any moment in your day and

614
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,000
recall what you were doing or
what you're working on,

615
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,520
etcetera, etcetera.
That caught a lot of backlash

616
00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:45,960
because obviously it's AI
literally spying on you 24/7

617
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,920
while you're on your computer.
So they came up with this

618
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:53,960
compromise with Copilot Vision,
which Gemini has a feature like

619
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:58,320
this already if you use their AI
studio, but now it is going to

620
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,600
be baked into the Windows
system.

621
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:07,160
So you can basically open up a
screen, share with Copilot and

622
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,960
ask you questions, get advice,
have it analyze information that

623
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,600
it's seen on the screen, and
ultimately use it as kind of

624
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:19,440
like a a copilot, if you will.
And this isn't this Internet

625
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,160
windows, right?
Like this is any window you have

626
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:23,880
open on your screen, is that
right?

627
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,560
Correct, Yeah, It can be web
browsers or it could be other

628
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,400
applications that you have open
on your screen, which is new.

629
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,680
It's kind of interesting.
I, I like that now I I've used

630
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,280
the Gemini 1 and I've had mixed
feelings about it.

631
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,280
Usually when I try to go ask it
something a little bit more

632
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:45,040
complex, it kind of talks itself
in circles and doesn't quite

633
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:48,400
give me what I'm looking for.
I am interested to see what this

634
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:52,760
Copilot vision can do because
it's a little bit more aligned

635
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,760
with ChatGPT and what Open AI is
doing.

636
00:39:56,240 --> 00:39:59,720
Like I said, it's in an early
access stage right now.

637
00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:03,920
So depending on how you are in
the Copilot ecosystem, you may

638
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,920
have access to that or you might
have to sign up for that, but

639
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:08,840
I'm looking forward to seeing
that one.

640
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:13,320
Now the next one.
So we've touched on this, I've

641
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:17,360
talked about this very briefly.
In the past when it was kind of

642
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:22,440
becoming more mainstream and
revisiting it, Claude, the

643
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:26,360
company that created Claude
Anthropic, they have created

644
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,520
what they're calling MCP.
It allows you to turn Claude

645
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:34,880
into more of an AI agent as
opposed to just a chat bot.

646
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,600
And if you are a paid Claude
user, you should have access to

647
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,880
this right now.
And what I mean by turning it

648
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,840
into an AI agent, you
essentially go into the

649
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,760
settings, you turn on MCP and
you can connect Claude to the

650
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:54,320
various applications tools that
can be on the web as well.

651
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,600
And it can actually take action
for you.

652
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,800
So you can talk to Claude, tell
it you want it to access a

653
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,600
specific application if it's
connected.

654
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,200
And it can actually go do things
for you.

655
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,720
Some of the different things
like you can actually connect it

656
00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:10,640
to your file system on your
computer.

657
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,560
So where you have all your
documents and files, you could

658
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:17,400
tell it that you want it to go
into your downloads folder and

659
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,800
go analyze or give you a summary
of APDF that you have sitting in

660
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,880
there.
Or you could have it move files

661
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,960
from one folder to another
that's locally on your computer.

662
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:31,440
Then since it can connect to
other applications, you could

663
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:35,640
tell it to, I don't know, go to
your Gmail or more recently

664
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,640
where this where I wanted to
bring this back up is it can now

665
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,560
connect to Canva.
And this is different than Canva

666
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:47,080
connecting to ChatGPT.
There's like the little GPT

667
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,400
where you can ask it to design
stuff and usually get a 1/2

668
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,720
baked template that you can open
in Canva.

669
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,480
This is directly connected into
Canva.

670
00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:00,640
So when you talk to Claude, it
will legitimately be designing

671
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:07,480
your graphic, whatever it is, on
Canva itself, which is pretty

672
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,000
impressive.
And if you have access, if you

673
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,160
have a paid camera account, if
you have a paid cloud account,

674
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,080
you should be able to just go
turn this on at this point from

675
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,240
what I understand.
Could this eliminate like

676
00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:22,480
notion, maybe not notion, but
like you know how you're doing

677
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:26,160
your AI brief, Could this
eliminate some of the steps?

678
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,960
100% the way I'm kind of
envisioning this, I haven't

679
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,960
played with MCPII, don't have a
paid cloud account.

680
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,480
When there are other ways around
it, there's a little bit more

681
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,560
technical.
It's very similar to your own

682
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,840
custom version of Zapier or
make.com.

683
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,040
That's what I was thinking.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was

684
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:45,720
thinking.
That's pretty amazing.

685
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:47,840
Yeah.
The only difference is that you

686
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,840
get to choose the applications
that are connected to it.

687
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,080
So Zapier comes preloaded, they
have access to all these

688
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,640
different applications.
And usually since they are

689
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:01,000
connected in the API, there's
limitations as to what Zapier

690
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,720
can actually do on the platform.
Here, being connected directly

691
00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:06,880
in the cloud when you connect
your apps, I think you have a

692
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:10,160
little bit more freedom because
it's AI kind of taking control

693
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,080
of that instead of just what's
kind of built out for you.

694
00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:16,280
This is going to be, I'm making
a bold statement here.

695
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:21,680
This is going to be the future
of AI in working with AI.

696
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,960
And I would highly recommend
some of the stuff gets

697
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,920
technical, I'm not going to lie.
But I would highly recommend

698
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:33,280
start looking into this, do some
research on Claude MCP, dig into

699
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:37,560
how it works, how you can start
playing with it, because I, I

700
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:41,080
think this is that next step.
If you can start getting this

701
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,600
down now before the vast
majority can figure it out, I

702
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:47,320
feel like you're going to be
miles ahead of other creators

703
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,400
and other people in the business
industry.

704
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,320
I'll say business isn't an
industry, but in business in

705
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,640
general, this is just going to
keep evolving.

706
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,040
It's going to be getting better
and better.

707
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:00,920
And pretty soon, yeah, AI is
going to be able to take control

708
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:04,600
of the vast majority of your
your tedious tasks on its own.

709
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:06,920
Thank you, Nick.
That's really cool.

710
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,360
And I see Janae is on stage.
Janae, I'm going to hand you the

711
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,960
mic and I'm going to, this isn't
really directed at you.

712
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:17,840
If this would be to anybody who
wants to add on to what Nick's

713
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,640
sharing is, let's remember that.
Let's not get too technical

714
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,880
because I think people, it'll
start to really confuse people.

715
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,880
And I think we're like crossing
the line or at least we're

716
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,520
hovering around the line.
So I want to make sure that this

717
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:35,040
is digestible.
So with that, Janae, go for it.

718
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,080
Good morning, Sir.
Amen.

719
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,920
Good morning, everybody.
Claude has launched this MCP.

720
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:44,000
It's basically called model
context protocol.

721
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,360
So remember back in the days we
actually use this every single

722
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:52,160
day HTTP, right?
That's the hypertext protocol

723
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:57,880
for servers to serve up web
pages to us or FTPZ file

724
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,000
transport protocol.
So again, this is a language or

725
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,360
a model of how large language
models communicate with other

726
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:09,640
services.
So when first LLM started, we

727
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:13,000
could just talk to them simply,
but it couldn't do anything for

728
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:14,120
us.
It's just a chat.

729
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:19,640
But then we started seeing these
custom GPTS where people are

730
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,440
like, hey, you can do all of
these other things to another

731
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:26,800
version.
So back in October of 2024, the

732
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:30,520
AI chat race was going so fast
and Claude was like, you know,

733
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,960
we're just going to work on this
technology, this protocol so

734
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:38,960
that we can give more powers to
our large language models.

735
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:43,800
So everybody kept going Claude
and tropics that, you know,

736
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,720
we're just going to hang back,
work on this platform.

737
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,400
And when they launched it in
November, everybody was like,

738
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:54,520
holy smokes, this is amazing.
So now literally all the other

739
00:45:54,520 --> 00:46:00,200
companies from Microsoft to Open
AI to Llama, like you name it,

740
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:06,200
everybody's using MCP as the
communication language, what

741
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:10,880
have you to then, you know,
build these MCP servers as

742
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:18,360
actually MCP servers for you to
play inside Minecraft.

743
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,120
So you're running a Minecraft
server or a game on your

744
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:26,480
computer, and you can then talk
to Minecraft or talk to Claude

745
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:32,200
and say, hey, build this image
for me inside Minecraft.

746
00:46:32,240 --> 00:46:35,600
You can just drop an image to it
and it'll basically take control

747
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:39,120
of your character in Minecraft
and build this out with the

748
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:40,560
blocks.
Well, that's no fun.

749
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,480
It is.
Then I mean, I'm not a Minecraft

750
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,360
player, but I know it from when
my kid used to play it.

751
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:51,640
And I mean, the whole point is
to, you know, be creative and

752
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:54,840
build your own stuff.
Exactly exactly.

753
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,640
But it just speeds up the
process.

754
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:02,200
There's also ways there's also
an MCP server for Blender.

755
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:05,720
Blender is a open source 3D
application, so you can

756
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:11,440
literally create a new character
in 3D that you can then interact

757
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,640
with.
I just dropped a list of MCP

758
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:17,120
servers that are already out
there that you can integrate

759
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:19,640
with clod that's running on your
desktop.

760
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:24,920
Again, this is they have a ton
of, you know, document Ashley,

761
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:29,080
you know, dropped a few links if
you are interested in learning

762
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,360
more about how this technology
works.

763
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:33,520
Yeah.
Thank you, Janae.

764
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,880
Appreciate that and appreciate
you tying it together with

765
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:37,640
something relatable like
Minecraft.

766
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,520
I think we can that gives us a
good sense of how it all works.

767
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,800
Thank you, Sid.
I see has something.

768
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,880
Go for it, Sid.
I just wanted to take a moment

769
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,400
to acknowledge Jonathan and
congratulate Jonathan on the

770
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,240
launch of his podcast.
This week, if you.

771
00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:55,800
Have not gone and listened to
it.

772
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,480
I've been to listen to it.
Jonathan, I love the content.

773
00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:03,880
I love to hear your story.
I love that these are 10 minute

774
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,040
episodes packed with amazing
value.

775
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:10,040
So before we let today go by, I
just wanted to congratulate

776
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:13,880
Jonathan on a successful launch
of his solo podcast.

777
00:48:14,720 --> 00:48:16,280
Absolutely.
And thank you for bringing that

778
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:17,840
up, Sid.
I appreciate that.

779
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,640
And yeah, congratulations.
Jonathan.

780
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:22,160
You want to share the name of
the podcast and anything about

781
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,320
it that we should know?
Well, thank you.

782
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,480
Thank you, Sid for listening and
everybody.

783
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:31,120
For you know.
The nice props I will drop the

784
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,320
link in the chat.
It is the Story Lab podcast and

785
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,680
it's about helping people share
their story and understand the

786
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,720
importance and power of the
story.

787
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:44,240
So it's definitely.
I also love that it's 10 minute

788
00:48:44,240 --> 00:48:47,280
episodes because.
Keeps me moving on in those.

789
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:51,920
I try to pack those episodes
full of useful information so

790
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:55,760
you can Share your story, reach
more people and, you know, do

791
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:57,840
what?
Do what a story does, which is,

792
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:01,320
you know, change people's minds,
impact the world in a positive

793
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,760
way.
And one more time, the name, the

794
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:05,280
story lab.
Awesome.

795
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:06,800
The story lab.
Go check that out.

796
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:08,000
And we have it in the show
notes.

797
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,840
Sid, did you want to add on?
I just had a question for

798
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:16,040
Jonathan and a comment.
Jonathan and episode #1 Were the

799
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,200
pauses planned or were they
natural?

800
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:22,040
Were the pauses planned?
They were natural and I actually

801
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:25,240
ran it through.
Riverside AI first.

802
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:27,080
And I had to go add them back
in.

803
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:29,880
Because it took them out.
Because I want to just

804
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:36,400
compliment you on listening to
episode #1 gives you the impact

805
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:40,280
and the power of the pause
because it was extremely

806
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,920
impactful and I had chills
listening to it.

807
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:46,520
And when you pause and you can
feel the emotion coming up, it

808
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:47,600
was really good.
Friend.

809
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:49,240
I'm really proud of you and
excited for you.

810
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,240
That's awesome.
Thank you so much, Sid.

811
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:55,760
Yeah, thank you, Sid, and thank
you for teasing it properly

812
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,440
because now I'm even more
interested to go listen.

813
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:01,560
I would have anyway.
And now I'm very intrigued to

814
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:05,280
hear what Sid is referring to.
Thank you, Sid, and thanks

815
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:06,760
Jonathan.
Appreciate it.

816
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:10,560
And hey, I thank you to Nick who
had to jet for bringing some of

817
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,800
those AI stories.
I also wanted to get to an at

818
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:17,000
least one more and this is about
Instagram and Google.

819
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:23,040
So as of July 10th, just about a
week ago, Instagram expanded its

820
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:27,440
indexing of public business and
creator account posts.

821
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:32,040
So that includes photos, reels,
carousels, captions, alternative

822
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,920
text across worldwide.
This means that these posts can

823
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:39,240
now appear in Google and Bing
search results, offering

824
00:50:39,240 --> 00:50:42,440
creators and businesses a new
Discovery Channel beyond

825
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,480
Instagram.
It's essential to optimize your

826
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:51,680
captions, the alt text, the
hashtags, Although we do know

827
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:55,480
we've heard it from Instagram
that hashtags not really a big

828
00:50:55,480 --> 00:51:00,720
factor on Instagram, but may be
a factor, I suppose on Google

829
00:51:01,240 --> 00:51:05,200
and also Geo tags by the way, to
enhance search visibility and

830
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:09,920
treat your Instagram content
like Evergreen SEO assets.

831
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:14,480
I wish actually, we still had
Nick here, but Janae as a tech

832
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:18,640
guy, if you want to add anything
about why this is advantageous

833
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:21,720
to us as podcasters.
But I think it, it's certainly

834
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:25,760
should be relatively clear to
most of us in the sense that,

835
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:30,280
yeah, now any of that content
we've been posting to Instagram

836
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:34,520
is now going to be fed into
Google, which could help people

837
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:39,480
find our content more easily and
find us more easily.

838
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:43,400
So pay attention now when
you're, if you weren't already

839
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,280
when you're posting content to
Instagram to make sure that

840
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:50,720
you're using a lot of rich
keywords in those captions in

841
00:51:50,720 --> 00:51:53,000
your transcripts.
Well, in the words that you're

842
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,440
saying if you're making a video
or even on the graphics that

843
00:51:56,440 --> 00:52:00,600
text their algorithms, the
different algorithms reads texts

844
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:04,960
on the screens now too.
So everything counts.

845
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:10,360
Also, by the way, Headliner has
added integration into the

846
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:15,640
social media platform Blue Sky
for its automatic audio grams.

847
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:20,080
So lots of Blue Sky continues to
be a great platform for these

848
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:23,720
types of integrations.
Check them out if you haven't

849
00:52:23,720 --> 00:52:26,280
already.
Mark, I have a question for

850
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,600
Janae.
Going back to the whole AI

851
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:33,680
thing, could at this point could
what you were talking about with

852
00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:40,680
all these triggers, like for
instance if an event happens.

853
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,640
In the world like the flood did
that just.

854
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,640
Happened in near us.
New York, New Jersey.

855
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:48,720
Yeah, New York, New Jersey.
Sorry, I keep forgetting.

856
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:52,280
Can it like monitor the news and
know that there was something

857
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,680
that happened and you could have
a trigger on place to

858
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,320
automatically do like social
media posts?

859
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:00,240
I know eventually it might do
that, but are we at that point

860
00:53:00,240 --> 00:53:02,640
yet?
Something that kind of crazy?

861
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,160
Janae, do you know so can, can
you set something up like that?

862
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,960
Can you basically?
Yeah, you can absolutely set

863
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:13,400
something up.
It's just like Google has had

864
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:16,360
these alerts set up for, you
know, ages.

865
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:20,600
You can easily go and set up
alerts that says, hey, if

866
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:22,600
something happens, send me an
e-mail.

867
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:26,840
And then you could probably have
some kind of action or watcher

868
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:29,280
on your e-mail.
Hey, if this kind of alert comes

869
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:32,520
in, go create a post again.
You want to make sure that it's

870
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:36,040
viable.
And we already see that Facebook

871
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,920
provides something like that.
Hey, these people are reporting

872
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:43,360
that they are safe in this area.
What's going on?

873
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,480
So if you look at that, but
yeah, I mean it sounds like

874
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:47,400
between.
Yeah.

875
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,680
What what you're sharing, what
Nick has shared and some of the

876
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:54,080
other tech that's involved with
AI, you could theoretically

877
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:59,640
right now have it send alerts to
you and then it knows to pull

878
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:02,960
those alerts and then create
those social media posts.

879
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:07,120
I would probably say at this
phase, the best kind of posts

880
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,480
are going to be text posts.
I wouldn't.

881
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,880
I don't know that I would trust
it to actually create the design

882
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,920
in Canva with the text post and
publish it.

883
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:19,480
I'd want to be able to look at
that before it goes out 'cause

884
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:21,000
you never know what it's going
to spit out.

885
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:23,520
But yeah, that's cool.
Good question, Alex, thank you.

886
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:26,240
All right, listen, we are just
at the top of the hour.

887
00:54:26,240 --> 00:54:29,640
We are back tomorrow.
We've got some mailbag questions

888
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:32,280
to answer and if you have
questions to answer, bring them

889
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:33,360
tomorrow.
Thank you.

890
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,560
By the way, to those of you who
have showed up in the live

891
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,480
audience, appreciate you being
here.

892
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:41,240
Nice to see the audience fill up
a little bit.

893
00:54:41,240 --> 00:54:44,040
Took a took a minute today and
that's OK.

894
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:47,240
Glad to have you here.
Thanks for making some time with

895
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:49,640
us.
So we're back tomorrow, 7:00 AM

896
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,920
Eastern Time.
Please come join us then.

897
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:55,160
And until then, make it a great
day.

898
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:56,320
Everybody, take care.