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I think it's time for Mike Delve World.

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There it is. And here I am. This

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is Mike, and you're listening to Mike Dell's

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World number four thirty five for November twenty

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ninth twenty twenty five. Happy Saturday. And this

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is the pen I have a ultimate episode

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of NAPOD promo twenty five. I have made

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it twenty nine days. I have no doubt

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I will do another one tomorrow. So we

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will have succeeded in completing the NAPOD promo

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challenge. Also, I'm growing a mustache for Movember

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or I guess it's no shave November, but

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I I decided I didn't wanna go with

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the beard this month, so I've got what

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could be considered a porn stash. I'll I'll

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throw a picture of it on the post

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for, tomorrow's episode before I, shave it off.

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But, yeah, not a not a great look.

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I I I look like a retired airline

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pilot. That's what I always say. But, anyway

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so today, I just wanted to kinda do

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a little naval gazing when it comes to

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podcasting. And, you know, just explain to you

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why podcasting is so special. And you, as

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a avid podcast listener and maybe even a

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podcaster might already know a lot of these

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things, but, you know, podcasting is very, you

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know, well, not very, but it's just unique.

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like it. And, yeah, I think the main

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reason that it is the way it is

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is it's built on an open decentralized technology

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called RSS. I'm not gonna bore you with

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all the gritty details of RSS, but podcasting

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isn't owned by any one company. It's not

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owned by Apple. It's not owned by Spotify.

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It's not owned by YouTube or any of

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the other myriad ways that you can listen

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to a podcast. But because of the RSS,

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anyone can publish, anyone can listen, and anyone

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can build an app or directory that uses

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the podcast feeds. This means there's just no

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gatekeepers approving what gets published. You know, if

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I wanna say a curse word, I'm totally

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able to do that. Now I don't do

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that as much as I used to on

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podcast just because, you know, unless it's really,

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really, you know, gonna add to the content,

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I I'm not gonna do that. But there's

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nothing telling me that I can't, and there's

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nobody telling me I can't. Now you guys

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may not wanna listen to that stuff, but

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that's your choice. That's the freedom of, you

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know, as a podcast listener, there's, you know,

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reportedly about four to five million podcast feeds

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out there. Now active podcast somewhere in the

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three hundred thousand range and, you know, active

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defined by, you know, an episode in within

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the last thirty days, which sometimes this one

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has not been active. But I promise you

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it's gonna be more active because I have

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relearned my love for podcasting. You know, I

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work in the podcast industry, and I've always

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loved the concept, but actually doing one has

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been, you know, an on and off thing

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for me. You know, but I love it.

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But, again, you know, you can choose to

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use whatever app you want as a listener.

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The creators have full control over their content.

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The technology has gotten such that it's a

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lot easier to listen to podcasts. It's a

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lot easier to to, create one. I mean,

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anybody can, and that's pretty rare today. You

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know? It, has another, feature of podcasting is

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it's a much more intimate medium. You know,

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a lot of, podcast listeners will say something

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like, you know, I I really feel like

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my case, I do know a lot of

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hosts of the podcast that I listen to,

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but that's because I can interact with them.

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They're they're they're people just like me. I'm

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a person just like you. You know? You

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can reach out to me anytime you want

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to, and, chances are I will I will

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respond. You know? And another thing that you

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to talking about audio. Technically, podcasting can also

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be video, and you can deliver video just

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like you do audio via RSS. Nothing particularly

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wrong with that. But if I wanna watch

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a video, I'm gonna watch it on my

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big screen on YouTube or Apple Podcasts. You

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know, if it's a, RSS delivered podcast, you

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know, I can watch it on my big

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screen TV. But I I'm talking mainly for

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audio. So, you know, you can, you know,

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you can take your podcast anywhere where you

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drive, walk the dog, you work, or, even

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flying. You know? I've been known to listen

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to podcasts while flying my you know, flying

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the airplane myself. You know? Don't don't do

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it with anybody else in the plane, but,

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you know, sometimes, you know, you can do

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that if you want to. Again, not, not

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necessarily, you know, something that you, you know,

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you have to pay that much attention to.

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while I blow the snow out of the

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driveway or while I mowing the lawn or

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or, you know, just washing dishes, whatever. I

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can listen. I don't have to stare at

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a screen. You know? It's it's definitely a

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better medium for me. You know? I was

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business. A lot of times, I was working

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night shift, and there's nobody else in the

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building. And, you know, I'm just running the

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machine or doing some, you know, doing something

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on the computer, whatever. But I I don't

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have to I didn't have to sit and

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watch anything. I just listened. It was like

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radio. It was better than radio. Because with

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radio, you know, you don't get to pick

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what comes on next. With podcast listening, you

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do. I mean, you don't have to sit

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still to watch the screen. You don't have

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to scroll. You don't even have to look

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at it. You just live your life and

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listen. And it's very accessible. That's the other

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thing. You know, you can launch a podcast,

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and all you need is a microphone, a

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computer, or even just a phone, some place

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to host the files in an RSS feed.

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usually gives you the means to create an

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RSS feed. Of course, I work for Blueberry

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go over to Blueberry. We we we'll get

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you covered. But you can, you know, you

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can do it on the cheap. You know,

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I started this podcast back in two thousand

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five with a a laptop, which was a

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pretty luxury item at the time. You know,

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laptops weren't that, ubiquitous in two thousand five.

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and the stupid little stick microphone that came

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with it. And I was sitting on my

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front porch in Lake Anne, Michigan, and I

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recorded the first episode, of the benzoed report.

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And I'm still looking for that episode, by

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the way. If anybody runs across that, I

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would just love to hear how bad it

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was. But, you know, if you compare it

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to YouTube, you gotta deal with all the

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algorithms over there. You know, you gotta buy

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all the video gear. And if you're gonna

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be successful at all at it, you gotta

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edit a lot and and just you know,

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it's a lot of work and expense, and

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YouTube can just decide one day, I don't

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like you anymore. Poof. You know? They turn

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off your channel. You're done. You know? There's

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no no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

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have that option. You cannot be canceled as

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a podcaster. You know? If you wanted to

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get into broadcasting, you you know, you gotta

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either get a job somewhere, and, of course,

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they're gonna tell you what to say, what

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not to say, when to say it, how

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to say it, what music to play, or

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whatever. You know, some radio stations are more

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free than others as far as that goes,

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but, you know, you still gotta deal with

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all that. Or, you know, if you're gonna

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buy your own transmitter, I mean, that is

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expensive. You know, try to get a a

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a license for broadcasting. It's not easy. Even

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the low power FM, which is supposed to

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be easier. Yeah. They just don't do it.

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in streaming platforms, you know, such as Spotify,

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YouTube, you know, I would consider them streaming

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platform. You get what I mean. Or, you

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know, even Netflix. You know, you're not gonna

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get a show on Netflix, you know, unless

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you're, you know, doing some high quality thing

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that costs lots of money. And then, you

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know, you might get lots of money, but

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there's not anything that, you know, not anything

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in that business that is easy, cheap, free,

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or simple. You know? Podcasting, like I said,

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anybody can do it, and anybody can listen

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to it. Also, you have global reach with

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podcasts. You know, my podcast doesn't stop at

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the US border. My podcast goes worldwide with

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the exception of a couple places, but, you

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know, a podcast we created right here in

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Traverse City can be listened to in Iceland,

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Japan, Germany, truck cab in Ohio, a Cessna

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one seventy two over Wisconsin. It can just

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be anywhere. You know, somebody on a John

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Deere tractor out in Iowa. It's just could

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could be anywhere. You know, chances are my

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show is kinda local, but, you know, you

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it. You know? You know, you can also

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three hours, or you could listen to ten

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whole thing eventually or decide it's not for

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you and and leave. You know? That's the

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beauty of, you know, podcasting. You know? I

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guess, is the right way to put it.

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about video podcasting and big platforms and all

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that. You know what? You can get a

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simple little podcast app over at new podcast

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apps dot com in one of the podcasting

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two point o apps. Subscribe to any RSS

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feed you want. And most podcasters that know

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what they're doing have their RSS feed easily

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accessible, and, you know, they can you you

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subscribe whether or not and subscribe doesn't mean

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pay money. Follow is the new word they're

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trying to use, but I guess it doesn't

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really matter what they call it. But, you

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know, you put that in your podcast app,

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whatever that app is. And whenever a new

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in free of cost. I I mean, you

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guys still gotta pay for your phone plan

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as a listener. And as a podcaster, you

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make it work. But you can have, you

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know, little podcasts about whatever, you know, little

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passions and, you know, I I don't expect

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to set the world on fire with this

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show. You know, I got, you know, got

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a core group of listeners that I hear

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from. I've got, you know, a fair number

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of other listeners that I never hear from.

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and they're all over the world. You know?

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of the year, you know, when, they were

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down in, in Antarctica. And I actually reached

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out to them, you know, said, hey. You

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know? And I didn't know who they were,

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but, I never did hear back. But, anyway

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but you could have a podcast about anything,

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or you can find a podcast about anything.

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podcast apps and you search for a subject,

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and you're more than likely gonna find more

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than one on that subject. Certain subjects have

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a lot more. You know, there's a lot

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of comedy, a lot of true crime, a

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lot of religion, a lot of politics. There's

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there's all the stuff that you can get

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in podcast that you're not gonna get anywhere

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else. And and the other thing, you know,

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podcasters that I know, you know, they're worried

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about competition. You're not competing with other podcasters.

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If, you know, if I'm interested in flying,

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I subscribe to many podcasts about flying. You

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know? There there's some that I favor more

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than others. But, again, you know, I subscribe

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to those, and I usually listen to most

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of them that I subscribe to. You know?

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got, you know, just all kinds of podcasts

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on there, and I'm, you know, I'm an

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avid listener. I don't have as much time

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to listen as I would like, but, you

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know, going into this winter season, I'm gonna

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be spending a lot of time on the

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tractor, and and I got my, Bose noise

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canceling headphones that I wear and, you know,

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when I'm on the tractor. And and I

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that's what I'm listening to. I'm listening to

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podcasts. I got a playlist, and it just

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blah blah blah blah blah. You know? And

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and, you know, and and it's an intimate

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experience. Again, you know, if you're listening to

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me on earbuds, I'm right in your head.

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that with, you know, listening to the radio

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sitting over on the workbench while you're doing

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something in, you know, it's right there. Or

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if you wanna listen to it on the

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big, you know, speaker in the in the

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workbench in the garage, that's, you know, again,

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your choice. Well, you know, where you don't

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get the choice of that. You know, when

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you're watching TV, you gotta stare at the

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TV, and you gotta watch all the stupid

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commercials. I I don't watch a lot of

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local TV or any TV, really, a normal

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TV because I can't stand the commercials. I

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you know, now some of them are kind

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of funny and, you know, I do watch

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a little bit of the local news from

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time to time, you know, that kind of

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thing. But, you know, the commercial load on

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TV is just insane. And, you know, and

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some podcasts. You know, there are a lot

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of podcasts out there that overdo the the

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ads and stuff. YouTube too. You know, if

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you're not paying YouTube for a premium subscription,

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you're gonna get all kinds of commercials. And

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even if you pay for the YouTube premium,

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you know, they have, host read endorsements. And,

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you know, that's fine. You know, the YouTubers

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need to make some money, and and that's

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that's okay. But you as a listener of

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a podcast can choose, you know, hey. This

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has got too many commercials in it. I'm

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not gonna listen. You know? But most of

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the time, the the podcasters, you know, they

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have a little commercial here or there, maybe

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a pre roll or a post roll, something

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like that that, isn't true too intrusive. You

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watch YouTube without having premium. They cut right

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in the middle of somebody's sentence. It's just

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ridiculous. You know, and same same thing with

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radio. You listen to talk radio. You get

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ten minutes of the program and four minutes

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of commercials or something similar to that. I

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don't know. I haven't listened to it enough

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lately. Since Rush Limbaugh died, I haven't really

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listened to a lot of talk radio. I

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do listen to Ron Jolly in the morning.

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him periodically in the morning, and and, you

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know, there there there's quite a bit of

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commercials, but that's alright. It's, you know, good

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information. So, you know, you choose what you

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wanna put up with. So, anyway, I'm just

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you know, I wanted to do an episode

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here for National Podcast Posting Month, Naypod Pomo.

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Go check it out over at naypod pomo

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dot o r g, I think. Is it

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I think it's an org. Naypod pomo dot

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org. Yes. I am correct. Oh, maybe not.

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Hang on. Nay pod pomo dot org? Oh,

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maybe they got a problem. Oh, don't go

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there now. Nope. Account has been suspended. Uh-oh.

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I don't know what happened. They're probably really

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busy this month and ran out of, bandwidth,

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but it is napod pomo dot org. Go

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go look on Facebook. There's a, napod pomo

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Facebook group that, that is active. So, yeah,

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that's crazy. It must have just went down.

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I'm recording it a day early, by the

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time you hear this, maybe she'll have it

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back up and running. It's, Jennifer. I never

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can mess I I always mess up her

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name, Navarante or something close to that. Sorry,

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Jen. Anyway, you know, she listens sometimes. But,

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yeah. So, you know, in in honor of

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that, I and, just I'm just happy I

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actually made it all the way through. And

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and this year, I I have to say

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it was easy because I got my setup

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here to where, literally, I open up one

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program, hit a couple of buttons, hit the

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record button, lean back in my desk chair

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here, and talk into the microphone. And when

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I'm done, I save the file. I run

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it through a couple of processes, post it

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on my website. You know? I you know,

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do a half hour podcast takes me about

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forty minutes. You know? Well, it depends on

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how much I prep for it. It because

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a lot of times I just flip the

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mic on and start talking as you can

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tell, but, not always. You know? Sometimes I

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do prep a little bit. But, you know,

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for the most part, it's a, you know,

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ten minutes on either end and and it's

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done. It's published. It's out there. The world

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can get to it, and it's just something

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that's sort of special. So with that, I'll

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leave you till tomorrow. And tomorrow, I do

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have a bit of an announcement and a

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few, other little things to tidy up before

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the end of the month, and I will