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working a regular job two year ago. And then I have the othe one, which is called. That's al I got. That's all I got podcast It's from my personal blog Kevin Bay calm. And that one i just random news of the day. M ranting about stuff. Lately it's been a lot of COVI baloney. But it's just, yo know, I've been blogging for while. And I just wanted to pu some audio to it. So just t have have a little fun sip o coffee. But this one, I starte this one, this podcast in orde

to learn how to podcast. And I' what I'm doing is I'm sel hosting all these files, all th podcast files, the mp3 i bhujia, that lightning, mayb it's raining cats and dogs here I'm in Georgia, north east o Atlanta, and there's a stor raging right now and it' pouring outside anyway. I a self hosting. I have account with dreamhost. And right now am putting the mp3 files there And the reason I'm doing it i because it's free. I'm alread paying for it. And, you know,

have no idea if anybody's eve listening fees. So yeah, I kno the bandwidth right now is no an issue. You know, if, if an of these start to get listene to, you know, I'll probabl transition over to a traditiona hosting company where I don' have to worry about craz bandwidth issues. But right now you know, I got 10 people probably even if I got 10 people listening, which is lik a fantasy won't present an bandwidth issues from me pushin audio files. So that that's ho

I'm hosting self hosting. An all my blogs are WordPress WordPress blogs, I try to spi that out. And I use blueberrie powerpress plugin and it's it' really a really nice plugin. I makes it very simple to t create a blog post, insert a audio file in there. And i publish, you just tell it yo tell it where are your mp3 file located and they they they hav implemented the chapters tag an the transcript tag fro podcasting 2.0 from the ne podcast namespace and so I ca

put in chapters and chapte images. I can also easily d transcripts it's so super simpl to produce a transcript and an host that file all those file to are hosted on my dream pres virtual server that I that lease that I rent from the equipment wise I know I ramble on about it before and I'm goin to try it again. Equipment wis I record use using a device fro

zoom called a pod track p fou and I chose it. I chose thi device first because it's small It fits on my desk, I can plu it in to I can power it via US C it also takes batteries and can plug it via USB into m computer And that's how I ca get audio in and out of of m PC. It's also you know, I wante something that would work sor of like a road a road What d they call is called a roa podcast. What's it called What is that road thing called road.com is called set stupid

it's a stupid giant thing that I can't find right now. Where is it at Road caster road caster pro that thing that's sort of like you know for somebody a little bit more professional and a little bit more professional, where you're going to have you know, multiple audio inputs and be able to livestream and do all that stuff that also has sound pads where you can add sounds that are easy to get to just by a touch of a button by the touch

of a button which is what I have here I've got the theme music for this show. Right there. Button away so I can hit that I also have a sound board that I use but I'll get to that in a moment but the podrick before also records I can put four XLR microphones into here and each one will record a separate track

inside the device. Which is really handy now I haven't done any interviews or had anybody else on any podcast yet but if I if I do, I just haven't I just bring another microphone plug that in and I can have them and not just put it up put out the sound and recorded but put them on separate tracks that way if for some reason I need to isolate audio or you know mix it

in some different way. It's very easy. And another reason that I have the the Patrick before it's a cost it's it's a couple $100 I was trying to to put everything together that I needed for just a few 100 where the the road caster Pro is pretty expensive. How expensive is that thing road caster pro Let me see. b&h photo, b h Thunder bH photo.com Road road caster road caster pro okay that thing $600 so that would have blown out my entire

podcast budget plus and that's not what I wanted. So I wanted to get to be able to it has a lot of the functions that the road caster pro does. And it's sort of a studio in a pocket. It's really it's really quite tiny. Where is my tape measure just not even back of the envelope stuff here at See I just, it's like six and a half inches long and at its widest it's like four and a half inches wide and a stands Oh about an

inch and a half tall up off the desk. So it's small, you could shove this in a bag and you can go anywhere and you can podcast and I'm not sure what I wanted to do but I wanted maximum portability because who knows? Who knows and it's it's cheap $200 for this thing that I paid from and I bought it from b&h and it's just a nifty little device that does just about everything you would need it to do, I can you can even add you can adjust for all the inputs, you can adjust the levels

independently. I can adjust the levels off the sound pad that contains some of the music tracks. I can turn it down. I can also you know you can plug in a full set of headphones, which is what I have right now I've got my headphones, you can plug up to four different headphones too. So if you have four guests, you can have four guests, each one of them have their own headphones, and it's not a problem. Additionally, I

have this plugged into my computer so I can play. I can go to YouTube and I can play any let's just take a random video. Let's see the Atlanta area CBS 46 Atlanta bring security employee shot so

in through just a plain old mini plug. And I have my surface go, I've got the an app called Universal soundboard installed there and I put in some different audio tracks for the music cuz I'm thinking I might have a bunch of different clips they want to go through at some point. So rather than the Patrick before, while it's, it's good, it only has four different sound pads. So you can only have four different things lined up at once, to be able to play at the touch of a button, which is

fine. If I have you know, if I have to do that. It's not so flexible and easy to to map a sound to those pads, you can do it and you know, I'll probably use those sound pads for something else. But if I need to have some clips and and have them more at the ready soundboard on a PCs is so much more convenient. So I have my surface go plugged into the pod track p four via a standard mini plug cable. And from there, I can hit the same Intro music and it does the same thing.

So that's that that covers the Patrick before and how I basically have it set up. Now the microphone I'm using is a Rode pod mic. Again, the reason I chose this is a lot of its cost. The other thing is is it plugs in very easily to the the Patrick before and it's a nice looking microphone, I may want

to do some video at some point. So I figured if as long as I have, if I'm if I plan on doing video, having a microphone that looks nice, looks professional, even though there's gonna be nothing professional about what I do, but it just looks cool. And I wish I could have a boom microphone stand. But I can't the desk that I operate off of has tapered edges. So there's no microphone boom, at least that I found so far that will fit this

desk. So instead I just have a plain old desk stand. And what is that I should actually really should have prepared and pulled this stuff up. Let me go let me go into my orders here. Let's see my orders. Where is my stuff? My orders? This is all off of b&h photo. Okay, it's a it's a road dsx one microphone desktop stand. And that also was not not expensive? I can't find it, of course, no, let's see 30 bucks 30 bucks for the stand. Now it doesn't have like any shock mount or anything like

that. So you can hear pretty much everything when I touch the stand. But the the road pod mic supposedly has some anti shock. infrastructure, I guess built into the microphone also has a pop filter. So if I'm getting too close, I shouldn't be able to pop my piece. I don't know. You could put something in front of it that will prevent that from happening as well. But I'm like, Okay, I've got enough crap on this desk. So I don't know how you'd mount a pop filter on this if you wanted to. But it's

it's pretty nifty little microphone. It looks nice. It's only $100. And it sounds pretty good, at least to me. And what I really wanted was a hardware noise gate because I'm doing this podcast in my office. And there's nothing soft on the walls. It's just I can hear the echo in the headphones I'm

wearing right now. So what I do is I record into Audacity. And after I'm done, I use the noise gates, the software inside to eliminate all of that, or at least try to eliminate as much of the echo and background noise as I can to try to quiet it up. Ideally, you know, you'd want something I guess on the walls or on the floor to limit some of this echo. But it's the best I can do. So I've got the the pod mic pod track. I've got my microphone stand. And let's see. What else did I get with this?

Oh, I got the The headphones I'm wearing right now the headphones, they're Sony MDR 7506 headphones fairly comfortable, they were at $9. I don't know if that's expensive or cheap, they just seem kind of middle of the road. They do the job they plug easily, they just have a mini mini plug cable. It also came with the adapter for the larger. I don't know what that guy did with the larger quarter inch headphone jack if

you need that, it comes with it. Excuse me more coffee. Hopefully if I drink more coffee, I'll have to clear my throat so much I always have a frog in my throat perpetually. Alright, so the other thing that I purchased along with this setup is just an XLR cable. It's a cheap $20 copel Kapil klp ul studio lead 4000 series XLR male to female microphone cables six feet long. I don't know if I'll need a six foot long cable, but that's what

I have. So that entire deal, that's 200 300-334-2440 less than $500 is the entire podcast rig from headphones to microphone records. I do also record into Audacity. I don't know if I already mentioned it this time around. But the pod track goes into my computer and the audacity which is a free piece of software that probably everybody knows about. records that so this way, if something goofy happens on one end of the other, it's recording it as as it's being put out of

the pod rack. So is that recording separate tracks right now, but because I have the separate tracks already in the device, so that's not really necessary. Most of the time that I've been practicing this, I just record into Audacity. And when I'm done, I do some minor editing for the noise gate stuff and clipping off the ends. So I'm just with the intro and

outro music at the end. And that's it, I'm done. I processed it into an mp3 and I put it up. I'm not trying to take out any of my coughing or hacking or any of the the arms or the ads that I keep saying that bother me but they're there. Or so I say so a million times. I'm just getting I'm getting used to talking on the microphone. And here's there's the word and I do it. It's like some kind of a verbal crutch, whatever. It's it's kind

of funny to say verbal crutch. And then you follow that up with and throw clear. So the, let's see, what else did I want to cover? at all that equipment. I guess I could talk about the other podcast that I have launched. Right now I've got I've got three I've got this one, which this is the ninth episode. And hopefully as I improve it, I'll continue. The other one is chasing the yield. And that's at chasing the yield calm. And in that podcast and blog, I will cover my entire

portfolio. Not in dollars, but in percentages. I'm not really comfortable putting dollars to it right now. And the goal of that podcast is to just talk about what my what my investing

goals are and how I'm going about doing that. I'm an absolute amateur investor trying to invest for income and it's a little dangerous right now in this in this current stock market climate because the stock market just continues to go up which makes me nervous because that that means that at some point the bubbles gonna pop and it's gonna it's gonna fall down I just hope it's not that hard. Excuse me. I can hear every swallow this is too sensitive. Maybe I should hit the button

and silence that but too bad. I'll try to get more professional on the actual podcast that cover content other than podcasting and the other one is that's all I got. And I don't even though why I came up with that name but you can go to that's all I got calm or Kevin Bae calm it takes you to the

same place. Kevin Bae calm is where a blog about just news of the day things that kind of pissed me off just random rants that, you know, normally I would, I would say to people here in the house or to family or whatever, but right now it's just me and my wife. We've been empty nesters for quite some time my kids are adults in their guns, there's nobody to Yammer

on to complain to except for my wife. And she doesn't really care about that stuff anyway, even though we do talk about that stuff from time to time, but ultimately, she doesn't really care. So I I posted up there. I've got a small readership for that blog. Hopefully, I can, you know, put together a podcast based on that blog that maybe is more entertaining than what I write. You know, it's just, it's just kind of clipping news of the day and putting in a sarcastic

comment or something like that. Just baloney blogs that everybody's used to saying. The last one that I are, the next one that I plan on putting together is, I've been running a food blog for a couple of years now. It's called keto cooking,

keto and cooking spelled with a K. So it's keto cooking calm. I have an Instagram account there, that's that handle is at Quito cooking, underscore calm, because somebody else had keto cooking, and I couldn't get it. And I just, I cover their food that I eat basically, it's nothing special other than the actual food that I eat. Because over the last few decades, actually, I, I haven't been low carb for several decades, but I have been eating

basically one meal a day for that long. And you may call the date that I've been eating low carb. Anyway, it wasn't it definitely wasn't high in carbs, it didn't concentrate on it, it mostly concentrated on meat. But I'm half Korean. So I rice are used to, I used to eat a lot of rice. And it was basically with every meal. And then I ran into the term intermittent fasting, and just was reading about it. It's like, Hey, this is the way

I've been living for decades. And I just kind of fell into that and researching it and found out there's all these people that are living the way I've been living. And all I tried to do after that is that that's how I got into the keto diet, or at least a keto friendly diet. The doctors that I follow intermittent fasting quite often also doubles up with keto friendly food keto friendly diet, for people to maintain weight or lose weight, whatever it is that like, I'm, I've never

been morbidly obese or anything like that. But I figured that the food that I eat on a daily basis, I don't make anything special. You know, I never really adhered to a diet, per se. What I do is, most most everything is based around protein and just you know, whatever meat that I'm eating, and then you know, you add on things around the side vegetables and things like that, instead of now and just instead of eating, adding up potatoes or rice, I just add on other

vegetables that are that are not high in carbohydrates. But anyway, I've been running that for a couple of years. And again, I get maybe 1500 followers on Instagram. And maybe I'm going to try to grow that by producing a podcast, wherein I can use pictures. It's gonna be like a podcast slash YouTube channel. without me being centered on the YouTube channel. Instead, I'll be talking, and then I can include

the pictures or maybe even some videos on YouTube. I include some video clips, and I hope we get to do that in podcasting at some point. But in podcasting, at least I can provide chapters and chapter images that can go along with whatever it is that I'm cooking for the day for that week. Depending on on what it is, I'm going to experiment with that and for that experiment, I bought a lab recorder it's called the zoom f two field

recorder. And this is another tiny advice. Advice. Tiny device by zoom that has a little lav microphone and it takes an SD card and it takes a couple of batteries. I think it's double A batteries in here. Nope, they're triple A's, triple A batteries. And it records you can you can have a set of headphones if you want plugged into this. I'm not gonna use that. I'm just gonna See how it sounds but you can that this device is like smaller than a than a packet and Chiclets. It's made, let me get

the tape measure. It is about two and a quarter inches wide by, oh, an engine, six eighths. tall, and about a half an inch, half an inch thick. And this can clip on your belt fit in your pocket, whatever and then the lav mic, you know, screws into the top, and you can record it has a little SD card micro SD card inside, so you can record on that. And so what I plan on doing is recording while I'm cooking using that microphone, and then I'll use my phone to take a little bit of video and

some pictures of whatever it is I'm doing. And I can use that on the blog, in photo, like a photo gallery or just pictures as I go. But on the podcast because of the new podcast namespace, I can use chapters and images. So as I'm talking about what I'm making, I can actually show the picture of what it is that I'm doing at the time that I'm doing it. That'd be great if video can be added to that at some point. So the video would actually play as I'm, as I'm doing it.

I'm not sure how far they are out on something like that. I haven't heard about it. But that that's the intent there. And that's going to be on keto cooking.com. There's a YouTube channel too, for keto cooking, and that link is that blog. I have an idea for another podcast after that. But that'll be at a later time. I'm still trying to develop the logo and the website

for that. But I think that'll that'll keep me pretty busy. You know if I can produce these every week, which is my intention to to at least do. Record one episode a week day for each of these different podcasts. I've got four right now. So I can do you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, whatever, I'll probably do the financial one on Saturday, because that I can actually do just like a recap of what happened during the week from the blog. And just give a

recap, and then do the recap, a monthly recap. At the beginning of each month, I just had to decide now, what days I'm going to record each one. And then what that content is going to be I haven't figured all of this stuff out, I'm still very much throwing it together as I go. I'm fairly I don't like editing I hate editing. As a matter of fact, I don't like editing video, I don't like editing audio. I don't even like editing

photos, but photos now is so easy to do. And in some basic apps, or even you know, I do use Lightroom and I use Photoshop to a certain extent. But I do it in a way where it's just very non non invasive, because I just don't have the attention span, especially for video editing. So whatever I put together for YouTube channel, I'm trying to figure out the best way where I can just throw it together. Shove it out there and and and put it out there just it's just for my own amusement, if

anything comes of it fine. If it doesn't, this is just what I'm doing because I feel like it so we'll see and so that's why everything that I've purchased and the kind of setup that I'm working with right now it's all based on my lazy production and my lack of attention span and poor production skills. I can do all these things. I just don't do them well because I I never been one to concentrate on them. This is this is a one man a one man band one man show all of this stuff is stuff I'm just

going to do on my own. So that's pretty much what I wanted to cover today. This is like the longest podcast I put together so far. I met the 30 minute mark and I don't think I've talked that long by myself ever. So I've reached the milestone I'm over the 1620 minute mark whatever the other one that I've that I've done but I think I'll end it there just with you other thing that's I'm not gonna end it there yet. I've got one other thing that to talk about that I feel weird about. And I hear

every other podcast do it. They and everybody asks for don't Because this does cost money, obviously the equipment costs money, it costs money to to have my websites and to run it all. Not only that, you know, I am sort of semi retired, I like to say because I am working just not. I'm not working full time or doing a normal job. So, you know, I would like to ask for donations, but it feels really weird. And maybe other podcasters run into that. You know, I don't, I don't want to

do advertising. I don't think anything I do would be advertising friendly anyway. But you never know. So, I do have a link on each website for donations. And obviously, I'm willing to accept anything anybody wants to give. So if you feel like it if you liked anything that I said or if any of the information that I'm providing is any good you please, you know, do the weird thing and donate. Other than that, think about think that's it, so maybe I'll pass the 10

the 10 episode milestone at some point. Hopefully next week. Any comments? Send us a mail ma Ei l at Kevin made calm. I wish I could remember what my email addresses for chasing the yield or podcast idiot have to look it up. They can't remember too many email addresses to go through. Any questions? Comments, advice? take anything. Thanks for listening. The podcast next week later