This is Mark Treichel with another episode of With Flying Colors. This is the final episode for 2024. And this is going to be a year in review of With Flying Colors and the other podcasts and things going on here at Mark Treichel's Credit Union Exam Solutions. As we wrap up, I'm recording this the 28th, Sunday. This will go live tomorrow. Monday. We've been doing the podcast now for three years, essentially.
We started middle of January three years ago, so we're coming up on what I guess we would call season number four in January, but we've had a total of 53, 000, 252. Downloads and or listens based on YouTube by the way, which is new a new emphasis this year and based off your podcast your favorite podcast app or based on the emails that I send out with links to my website, but 53, 000 and it grew quite a bit this year. Which I'm happy for.
And as I mentioned, YouTube is becoming a little bit quite a bit bigger review or listening platform. I started mentioning that in my occasional emails to my mailing list, and if you're not on my email, if you're not on my mailing list go to marktreichel. com and sign up for it. And I don't highlight every episode there, but when it's a episode that I think has some examination type information or other hot information, I will send an email out to the mailing list.
And again, so there's the podcast with Flying Colors. We're entering our fourth season. And I started a another podcast, which I don't mention here very often, and I don't mention in my emails. Occasionally, I mention it on LinkedIn called Credit Union Regulatory Guidance. It is a audio book style. Podcast on credit union guidance, CFPB guidance, OCC guidance, or FDIC guidance that I think is relevant to credit unions. It has an AI guest. Her name is Samantha Shares.
Shares as in shares of deposits at a credit union. That's how her name was born. During the year including myself and my team members and my outside guests, we had 18 people on the podcast. From my team, we had Steve Farr, Todd Miller, Vin Vieten. Joe Goldberg, Rick Baum, and myself on the outside guests that we had included John McKechnie, Jeff Bassino, Mike Macchiarola of Olden Lane, Dan Prezioso, Dan might have been on at the end of 2023 Dan Prezioso, Keith Stone talked about his new charter.
Joe Jacoby a unique and different approach to podcast this year. He's a former Olympic gold medalist who now does coaching for optimal performance. Chris Call, a Credit Union CEO that's into the cannabis banking world. Mike Bell, who is, of course, a guru on Credit Union's acquisitions of mergers. Tori Haggerty on Consumer Compliance, Dana Ginsberg on Consumer Compliance and Compliance Tech, Mark Ritter from his CUSO and podcast, the member business loan CUSO, and also Rodney Hood.
I interviewed him right after he left the NCOA board, so he was eligible to be on the podcast. And that was a pretty popular one amongst the listeners as far as the outside guests. As far as the popularity of these specific episodes, I took a look at that. And I'll probably rerun a few of these here coming up early here in 2025. By the way, I started doing a little bit more frequent reruns on Thursdays. I've done some what I call archive episodes of.
of popular topics or evergreen topics that really every year is something that someone could listen to. And I want to make sure that new listeners are aware of these old episodes. But the top five episodes in 2024 on With Flying Colors were an episode I did back in February called Camel Code 3's triple exclamation point question mark exclamation point. That was number one, closely followed by into exam insights and trends.
With my team members, Todd Miller and Steve Farr, that was from August, that one we talked about the things that we'd seen in our discussions with credit unions and our credit union clients over the last year, and it was very popular. Also the NCOA Supervisory Priority Letter podcast from late January of last year. I'm hoping N2A will get their letter to credit unions out in January of 2025 on that same topic, but that was popular. It's always a popular one.
We enjoy doing that, and that usually comes out third week of January. But with the change in the presidency, I'm not sure if it'll be delayed a week or rushed up. So Todd Harper may want to get one out, or he might want to say, hey, we might have a new chairman. So we'll let, we'll wait till. President Trump appoints Kyle Hauptman so that he can drive that letter. We'll have to see which path Todd takes there. Todd, if you're listening, you want to let us know, give us a call.
Also the fifth most popular podcast this year was Why Does NCOA Ask to Meet with the Credit Union Board Without Credit Union Staff Present? That's something that they've been doing. Historically, but there's been an uptick in it.
That's another very popular episode followed by NCOA's liquidate liquidity expectations that I did with Todd Miller from the outside guests the most popular work Chairman Rodney Hood discussion on the Trump election and what that means for your credit union with John McKechnie and Jeff Pacino discussion of the NCOA annual report with Mike Macchiarola of Olden Lane.
Dana Ginsberg's discussion on fair lending tips from Compliance Tech and another another one with Mike Macchiarola of Walden Lane on assisted mergers rounds out. The top 5 podcast episodes from myself and from my team and the top 5 from external guests. I did more of a focus on my team and myself podcasts over the 2nd, half of the year with some travel that I had going on, but we'll we've many of the same guests in 2025.
And potentially some new folks that you haven't yet heard from here on With Flying Colors, the With Flying Colors podcast. On the Credit Union Regulatory Guidance podcast. Again, I don't advertise that one much, I may weave it into my, my emails a little bit more and it actually, when you compare the YouTube.
podcast downloads versus the other platforms the Credit Union Regulatory Guidance has a little bit better presence there on YouTube than they do when I compare it to with Flying Colors, which is.
More popular than the Credit Union Regulatory Guidance podcast, but the top episodes this past year from the Credit Union Regulatory Guidance podcast with Samantha Shares were the OCC Semi Annual Risk Perspective, NCOA's 2024 Examination Priority Letter to Credit Unions, so that was on the top of both podcasts. Evaluating Third Party Relationships, a letter that was 11 years old.
It came out in 2013 that I highlighted early on in the in the introduction of Credit Union Regulatory Guidance Podcast. Then there was a speech that Chairman Todd Harper did on the Brookings Institute where they talk, he talked a lot about shareover drafts and said some things that that Cut the attentions of the media. I did advertise that 1 a little bit, which is why it had a little bit better download. And then into his.
Liquidity risk management advisory that had came come out early in the year. So that podcast is more of a labor of love. I don't really highlight it. In my advertising, as I've said probably way too many times here so far. But I like to get these audio book style of important issuances that come out. For those of you who like that niche. It will be out there again this year. And again, it's growing pretty well on YouTube. Stay tuned for what's coming there.
I would imagine that the letter to credit unions again, I'll get that one out at the end of January or early February. Thank you. All right what else is coming up in 2025? I've got scheduled a podcast with Joe Goldberg of my team to talk about insuase overdraft guidance. We will have a podcast outlining the requirements of the new succession planning rule while it doesn't go into effect until the end of the year.
It's something that a lot of people are interested, particularly smaller credit unions. We'll have the priority letter to credit unions when that comes out. We probably will do a follow up on the transition to Trump as we know more there once Kyle Houtman gets on and starts speaking to his priorities versus a Democratic led board by Chairman Harper. And again, when he, when I say gets on, when he's made chairman, which is inevitable because they'll want.
Chairman of the agency to be the same as the party of the White House. Plan on a podcast on mergers coming up. Stay tuned on that. And possibly one on the process of converting from a federal credit union or into a federal credit union, which is something that comes up on occasion. There are more podcasts that we did that are in the evergreen variety in 2024. Some of those are the most popular ones I just mentioned.
So you can see some potential reruns of those on Thursdays, or when I'm traveling a little bit more, sometimes I'll run that on the first edition of the week. And the other item I plan on doing is I've moved around, I try to stay consistent when the new episodes come out, but most recently I've had a Monday episode for With Flying Colors followed by a Tuesday episode for Credit Union Regulatory Guidance, and I'm going to move that forward.
The with flying colors back to Tuesday, which is where it had been earlier on in the earlier seasons and still trying to decide what I'm going to do with credit union regulatory guidance other than, time sensitive things that do come out will come out within 24 hours of when it's released. But that will either be a Wednesday or Thursday release point moving forward here. So stay tuned on that. I have a big presence on LinkedIn.
If you haven't seen me on LinkedIn and you're not on LinkedIn or we're not connected on LinkedIn, please connect there. You'll see us doing more and more on YouTube and I've been really enjoying doing that as well here as part of both of these shows. You Oh, and by the way, as far as what's most popular on YouTube, the top episodes there there's some correlation, the Trump the Trump, what you can expect and what, how credit unions are impacted by the Trump administration was big.
Corporate governance was big and board packages was also a big hot topic. So that's it. We're wrapping up the year. I appreciate you listening. And the 53, 252 downloads are supplemented by other listens. So it's really hard to get a total number. But if you had told me three years ago when I started this, that I'd 50, 000 listens. I don't think I would have believed you, but it's a lot of fun. I appreciate the good feedback I get on it on this.
If there are things that you'd like us to talk about in 2025, send me a message on LinkedIn, email me at info at marktreichel. com or comment on the YouTube video of your choice. That's it. Happy new year. Be safe. Mark Treichel signing off with flying colors.