
Oh, podcasting 2.0 for December 22 2023, episode 160/4 choice. Well hello Better late than never. Hello, everybody. It's Tim once again for podcasting, the official board meeting of everything going on a podcast today and in the future we are in fact, the only boardroom that has red velvet beanbags after dark. Everything happened at podcast index.org The namespace all the goings on at podcast index dot social. I'm Adam curry here in the heart of the Texas Hill
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you're buzzing you've got you got to chill, man. You're in the boardroom after dark. It's like we got the porn music going. It's like, you know. Challenge Challenge downtown.

I'm so happy right now. I was hoping that you would get some after dark music. I hear bones.

And I see the boardroom is Hello boardroom. That's right. Steven be kicking back. That's right, man. That's right. Want to talk? Way to go?

How hard is it in Australia current is it 1000 degrees.

At this very moment. It's not too bad. We've had a bit of rain coming. So it's I don't know, like high 20. Something like that. Are you wearing? I don't know what that's Fahrenheit.

Are you embrace Vegas or where are you African?

I'm definitely embrace Vegas. Yes. Yeah. So

he is a heatwave there. Yeah, yeah. I

mean, it definitely was feeling a bit it's mostly muggy. It's just the the humidity.

Weird, man. It's like, Christmas must just be messed up.

I've never I've never had a white Christmas or a cold Christmas. I've always been in a I was in Colombia for one of them, which was just motto. Yeah.

Hear about those white Christmases in Colombia? Yeah.

It actually took about four hours from me landing there to me being offered cocaine. So it was a little slow.

You must not have looked the part.

Oh, yeah, that's the thing. Cotton Gin. 20 b 20 degrees C is 68 Fahrenheit. And the screwy thing about about centigrade is that like every point one goes up, like 5000 degrees. So like, when you go from 20 to like, 20.8 year it like, you know, you're boiling water.

It's confusing. I'd like to Kelvin when we're in high school doing

hanging out inside stores. Are you Yes.

This is our year end. Are we going to do one more before before the end of the year? Dave? I mean, we're done. We're not gonna do one next next Friday. What is next Friday.

Good with next?

Why are we doing the specialist thing with chyron right now why are we doing

this? Because Karen's Great. Okay.

Yes, Karen. Karen bore you by by any chance able to watch the V four V Live concert? Down Under?

Yes and no. So I caught the firt the first one the Bitcoin the one where it was where it was just Ainsley. So yeah, definitely was able to participate in that, funnily enough, right at this moment I had organized to chat with so TJ the raffle Oh, sorry, for this exact time. And then you guys message so I was like, oh, TJ Do you mind putting it a day earlier?

Oh, we bought TJ

Day a day earlier so we were actually recording that as a Italy's second one was going on. So no, I didn't. I didn't

catch the so so sir. TJ the raffle is going to be on the mere mortals podcast. Correct? Yeah. Nice. I love that guy. I don't even know what it looks like. I love that whole family. There's a lot of them.

There's so many like

a million doorbells. That's, there's so I got an email from Tom door from like, who is Tom? Like? I know, like Curtis. I know TJ, then you know, what's the what's the dog? What's the kid? The kids name? J dog J dog J dog? Yeah. Well, Dave

Willis always says, when somebody has a whole ton of kids, like, they must think that they're really like, the world needs a lot of them or something. They must think they're really important. Well, they

did a really good, you know, when you list off, like the alphabet alphabet as fast as you can. ABCDEFG. He did that with all the names of his siblings, and it took like, a minute.

Dave, were you able to catch any of the live shows?

Yes, I did not. So the first the first one was that was the one from the meetup Wednesday night. Yeah. Yeah. So the for the first one, we were at the movies with friends. And I had a fired up podcast guru checked in like about, I don't know, about 10 minutes into the movie and looked at it and made sure that I was getting a video stream set must set to 1000 per minute and just set it. Cool. So just want to stream sets. I'm not gonna be able to watch it. But then I saw some of last
night's and it was killer man. It just seemed to be working on all the apps perfectly. I was so happy.

I mean, I was on both of them. There was a back channel telegram group. It was kind of like, like David in the cave with 400 and Algenol. You know, getting ready prepping for the prepping to go to war against King Saul.

lathering up the slings? Yes,

it was. It was an unbelievable show of camaraderie solidarity. Like it took me back to the very first cyber casts I did, which was not even a thing in 1996. And we did the Grammys, and we brought in T one line into the Shrine Auditorium. No one's ever heard of that. Before then, and oh, yeah, T one. Oh, my God, that's fast. That's broadband. One and one megabit,
one megabit per second, but up and down both ways. And it was just the, the amount of collaboration and we had, yeah, we had Davi das in Lithuania, because he was I guess back home, getting his visa sorted out or whatever. He was back. It was He was up all night until seven in the morning, both nights. Sam Sethi was in the UK, Oscar marry. In the UK. We had just it was like iron sharpens iron man, it was so beautiful.
How everybody was participating. And this you know, it's, it was it was so much learning really, just to see how everything fit together. I mean, we had a live wallet, switching the value blocks we're switching which is balanced between Ainsley and
just loud. I'm talking about the second night, you know, so the so they both got SATs for each other show but they you know, the, the percentages different whoever was onstage, and it was let me read because we had a whole portion postmortem today in the same telegram group.

And I feel left out of Philly and they what

was going on? Yeah, well,

I mean, there was links all over the place. Yeah, well, I felt like a blueberry was on site. And, you know, we finally got a picture of blueberry. He's like, you know, this like teenager and vans. So I was rapping. So Julie Costello, Ainsley, his mom. She now she, of course was all over this thing. And I'll read you what what she wrote, I'll skip over some of the numbers stuff but she said, Okay. Thank you all madly, deeply, sincerely, from the bottom of our Costello
hearts. A worldwide team of ragtag developers in both RSS and noster with a touch of friendly competition, made the dreams of one young art have made the dreams of one young artists come true. And maybe just set in motion a music Revolution like we've never seen before. Filled with lots of hustle heart and even a little humility. We all pulled off a Christmas miracle in Minneapolis. I don't have the visibility into jails numbers by no everyone will eagerly be
awaiting some early results. And so she gave us a call She gave us a total over between RSS and noster. And I have I have a lot of thoughts about Nasr after this evening so RSS night one 3,650,868 SATs, but austere 3,000,262 953 SATs, there was a Fiat donation which converted to 443 970. So I just showed up with that night one total 7,357,791 SATs night to RSS
2,000,444 976 noster 1,000,824 775. So for a grand total then she what she did is she, she added the nearly 4000 SATs since Ainsley arrived on the V four v scene in July, she has made $6,742 compared to so that since July, compared to $750 on traditional streaming in over four years. And she says we are incredibly grateful to each and every person that stepped in with their time, treasure and talent to make V for V come to
life. And it it was I get choked up about this stuff, I don't cry a death or anything, but when when there's accomplishment, that's when I get choked up. And when I saw the value block with 11 or 12 splits, everybody was included me Julie made sure that everyone who was who was even though the apps of course have their own, you know, fees or, or percentages that they take on streams and booths, she added everybody in and I was blown
away, like Kuno that video works everywhere. I mean, this what's what is going on video just kind of works. And it was it was it was really so the noster side had tuned sir.io

And yes, which I didn't know was a thing until yesterday.

Now I like to answer.io because it does something that we on the RSS side do very poorly which is it shows a running total of what you know there's apps with a message so it just you know so you're watching the video or you'd be listening but watching the video in this case and you see a very much like a GoFundMe you know how GoFundMe if you go there and you see just people with donation amounts and there's no other interactivity other than someone may be
responding to someone with their with their own zap. And there were people coming in with 100,000 sat booths there are people coming in with in fact at one point let me just grab a little audio here for a second I have they already put it up on the archive Nice. Me go. So she was doing live booster grams. I'll just give an example here. Why are you changing over we had some more booths come through Marty Ben What is this? Is that talking? I'm not sure 50,000
SATs

Okay, is that Buber? Yeah, thoughts on this
76 From NW through fountain saying live love laugh lightning. I need a bell out here. Yeah. Reading this thing is a red flag. Watch yourselves.

Now let me give you the last thing she had several segments. We might we might have an announcement. Yeah, so this was almost that she had one more song. We're gonna do cherry on top and then this happened.
We've had just several I sat here and boosted 50,000 sets for front of house. Thank you. I appreciate you. We had 66 666 from Carolyn saying it's a very exclusive dance party in the kitchen right now. So perfect. Here. There have been so many people who have made this night possible. And again Oh wow. Let me let me count the zeros it goes Oh God. Okay, so 10203040506 zeros six zeros. How big of a boost is that? I think that isn't million

so anonymous came in with a million sat boost at the end there. I mean, it was an and this is actually was this. I think this might have been the Minneapolis night I can't remember. I mean the meet up night regardless this this is kind of what it was. And the second night just loud came on was great to see him. He loved every part every bit of the part I expected total cuz, I mean, it's like James Brown and Lenny Kravitz had a kid you know, they had an orgy and out pop this
guy. That was that was really fantastic. So value for value really one because of course, there was a little bit of a, you know, hey, he's, you know, the Nasir guys are there's more coming in from Nasir. There's more from RSS back and forth back and forth. But obviously the whole concept and I think between nostre and the value for value 2.0 teams if you want to put it that way. You know, we both love Bitcoin we both or at least the the mechanism that Bitcoin provides. And of course
we love blue will have value for value. What was I think, really interesting and a lot of learning here. There was a whole post more of the kind of just happened today, as everyone was just reviewing, and then people starting to wake up all over the place. And you know what, what really happened here? And there was this question about how do noster and RSS work together? You know, it's like, Should we be working together? Should we
not be working together? Oscar Mary jumped in with no pointer to his noster nip 32 proposal about connecting zaps to booths and having these translations for the splits in the middle. Which was really interesting. But, and this is, so I kinda want to take the discussion here, because I've been thinking so much about that, and comments and booster grams and all these things that we've been looking at for the past couple of years.
And And considering that nostre right now is basically a social network, although the noster we call it a protocol, or what do we call the protocol is political. Yeah. Okay. Although that can be used for many other things. It's a social network. I mean, that's even in an Oscar Mary's proposal. It's a social, it's a social network. And we've been publishing what's the actual tag called for comments, we call it social interact,
social interact. So we've been publishing social interact. And you know, it's some of the apps show it you can't, you can't actually respond from the apps. And I've also been doing this soul searching and analysis of social media in my life and in general. And so there's two parts to it. One is I saw Twitter from day one, when it started was supposed to be a podcast company. And they launched but they launched as this microblogging site, all the way through what it is today,
with a transfer of ownership. You know, once they got rid of the fail whale, and all that stuff, it became this, you know, the social media. But there's a change of ownership and things have changed. And I've also, you know, six, almost seven years ago, I think I started no agenda social.com, which is a mastodon social media site. And I've come to the conclusion that without an obvious adult in the room, someone with power, who or you know, some rules and regulations, it all becomes
shit. It really does. It becomes toxic. It becomes it's just, it's horrible. And, and no agenda social. This has happened, you know, the I gave up all control. And you know, we have Aaron er, who's running it, he doesn't do anything. And I can't post anything, because people just know, they think it's funny. And whatever. It's all it's all. It's not really nice. And it's the same as any comments. And I kind of
understand Dave Winer. Never wanting to have comments on his blog, it would trigger him.

Yeah, he would, he would always he would do it for a little while, and then turn it off and say go right and go write your own blog post. Right.

And, and Twitter is kind of the same thing. I mean, I, I've gone I've really made a study of Twitter over the power x over the past few days. And I see people killing each other shooting each other. Playing mean jokes, you know, trolling, yelling, it's, it's shit. It's unchecked. It's just shit. And I don't want I've I'm really stepping back from the comments idea. You know, you have to have moderation. There's all these
things that come into play. And I think inherently the app developers feel this and that's why they really haven't taken that extra so we have it all there. It can work. You know, we can blame act we can blame activity pub, but it's not activity pub.

Well, I mean, it's already it's already fully operational own no agenda today. I mean, the pieces are there you I mean, you have this experience that the it's it's not like there's a lot ACC, at all

correct. And so right now noster so the thinking is, well, we Nasir can be the social piece to podcasting 2.0 And I'm just going to say no, nothing should be the social piece. Because right now noster is everyone is kind of like minded. Everyone's in the same vibe. But go ahead and go on there and talk about pod ping built on hive and see what happens. You will less fun. No, you won't last five minutes. So as that grows, that too will become toxic unless they keep it
what it is. And that's very possible that it just remains that but that's not really growth. And then so but what I like is they've got wallets, you know, the and the promotion they were doing for this concert was spectacular. They were promoting eight people were were you know, I don't know what the what you call it there. But they were reposting you know, they were
jacking each other up. And of course, with your nostril login, you could go to tune sur.io And you know, the mechanism flowed right over and people could zap now there's no concept of splits, which I think is a problem. I've looked at I've looked at at Oscars proposal. And its proposal includes a payment verification, which references a payment verification by some semi trusted provider, like podcasts index fountain, lb curio, caster pod verse, wave, Lake, rss.com,
etc. And I will say, No, that's a very bad idea. But I've never really heard of this proposal. So I'm just now diving into it, that you don't want to be a money forwarder at all, from a regulation standpoint, and you don't want to be Juden, you do not want that, when a payment fails, someone's going to blame you. This is not the way to go. noster if they want to do
splits, they should figure out their own splits. What I liked a lot was the experience they showed with with you know, their version of booster grams on a page and man, do I want this for our apps? I really think doing it, what fountain does when you're able to comment on it doesn't really matter to me. But
the idea that under as an episode is playing, right? So right now I've I've kind of hijacked booster grams into chapters, it's 5050 people who are on apps where it shows up as a as in the table of contents when it shouldn't, they're pissed off. They're actually people who see it, you know, switch when they're driving in the car and they get pissed off. But the idea of surfacing boosts booster grams, I think is a very, very powerful idea. I think that that is what the
nostre people showed us how powerful that is. Just like GoFundMe, you know, it's just a little acknowledgement you'd put your little note in there. And it just kind of scrolls off. And I think we should really, and I have ideas about it, but I'll stop talking. I think that was very, very powerful. And as far as nostalgia and and and podcasting 2.0 I think it's great that we can do projects like this together, I think it's
great for value for value. It's great for the artist, if you want to send booster grams, zap your wallet, zap your, your podcast app and send the booster gram, I don't see this, this connection working at all, and I think it's unnecessary. And I personally, I don't want social social comments in my connected to my podcast, I It's all triggering me just thinking about it.

As it was, I think we also need to make a distinction between between things between live things and and podcasts. Yes. And totally, you know, because Because luck live events like this, you will I think a lot of this has been worked out slowly over time. It out in other on other platforms. So, like YouTube, let me like, you know, we can like YouTube or not that it's they've, they've been through a lot of these
things. As far as user experience goes. The the user experience of YouTube, is if you have a live stream, there's there's there's ephemeral chat in the live stream, and I love

chatting, I love chat and no one's implemented it really. Right.

And so then well, that we're, we're gonna do that. And I mean, phase seven is chat is that XMPP

is that because you know, the IRC chat? Yeah, is great and but you know, people need to set up IRC chat for it to work. Yeah, I

mean, I think XMPP is going to be the first class citizen and I agree, like with all this stuff, With all these tags, you know, we try first and foremost to make the tag except future proof. So they accept any protocol. Yeah. The problem with namespaces in the past with with with podcasting is they, they they tied themselves to a specific protocol and a lot of
instances. So we really got to avoid that this, the chat tag has to be just like social Interact has to be flexible enough to when the next big thing comes along, you just rip and replace, you just plug that thing in. And it goes, yeah, so but as far as like, you need that you need a sandbox to start in to prove the things work. And to test and do all that kind of stuff. And XMPP is probably the first class citizen for that it makes most sense to me that, you know,

what I felt about what I felt the chat, because we had an ANZ hash Aynsley live room on the on the IRC server that we that everybody uses. That was very exciting. It was, um, that's a lot of what that Twitch does that that's what your YouTube Live does. And this is this is available. I'm curio caster has it, I believe, as the only one. But I think for live, that is almost a requirement to have that. And I love that
because as you say it's ephemeral. And I don't mind it, when like, when we do no agenda, people are like saying horrible things, but it scrolls away, you know, it's not there forever, it's gone. And that's fine. So I would love I would love to have chat included in, in all of the live stuff. And in the apps themselves. I think that's something that everybody could come together on it.

And it could be nostre too, if the nostril people want care to do. Just like the value tag, the value tag, the social interact, tag, the chat tag, all these tags are if somebody cares enough about their pet protocol, to put it in there and make the proof of concept and show that it works.
Go for it, there's nothing stopping you. Right that the the focus that, you know, Bitcoin, and activity pub and XMPP these sorts of things that we choose to have as proof of concepts out of the gate to show like a sort of the first class citizen stuff. Those are because they're, they're the things that are most, you know, most time tested. They've been through the wringer. And we know they work and there's lots of experience with their development. But and it's stuff that we know as a
community. So that that stuff is, but nothing stops you so like, eventually, over time ever, what's going to win. As far as a protocol, what what becomes the protocol for podcast, ephemeral chat will be whatever the community shifts towards it, whatever the community puts his weight behind, that's what we'll win. And we can't control that mean, you know, it's like diverting for a second, the feeling of hey, it was an interesting feeling watching these live
streams happen. Because, like, I wasn't really involved at all.

Dude, I love this. We had nothing to do with it was all other people that was a win, win, win.

And like, like, it's like we it's like we birth a child in the child lot

like that. I grew up and did some stuff and Training we call

in like, we're like, oh, the you know, and we went and watched the graduation ceremony. It was told but at the same time, it was such a weird experience to have such a monumental event where, where it wasn't a bunch of people, depending on me for like, support and doing all this. It
was a sort of a brain twist. But I loved it at the same time. And that's what if your project and if the project is successful, in all of its different endeavors, and attempts and goals, one of the things we can expect is that things are going to happen and people are going to begin to use these things in ways that we can't, can't

even dream out. We don't want to dictate it at all,

and we can't control it. Yeah, we can't say, you know, this is the protocol you're supposed to use. Because like we can say we can say this is the protocol we use, as far as like me personally my protocol that I that I prefer, but if somebody wants to go off and do something different, I mean, we can't stop them. Open Source.

Here's what it felt like to me. It felt to me like tune sur should have been the video source inside the apps with their with their chat except the chat would it would be a split on the boost button does that make sense?

I think as the I think a falling so if

I hit a boost to Graham so I would be watching this video in an app and then I hit a boost to Graham and the splits fire off and there's an extra split there that hits the tune sur.io system which I don't know if they accept key send or not. So they so because they got nothing to this is the thing. The nos Nasir it's all 100% to the to the artists wallet. Tombstone got nothing out of it, which breaks my heart.

Oh real well, it

was that chat appearing in the video it was

underneath. No underneath right underneath right underneath me. Just I mean, just like a GoFundMe you know, and very similar to fountains. Although fountains switches the screen, this is just video right in the middle. And underneath it, you see the zaps coming in? And like that, that is a good, that's a YouTube like experience. That's an experience and people like that. And I saw people zapping and saying something to another person who just just happen to
kind of scrolls off. So that was very chat like, although I don't think he personally I like our chat because people can chat and just say stuff. And then when you hit a boost, then the booster grab the boost bot comes to life and it shows it in the chat. I love that. That to me is the perfect way to do it. It's just all the IRC

experience of what happens on this show is excellent. It just needs to be ported over to think something that's well portable. I mean, like, you know, that's that's that. So I like to finish that thought on YouTube, the YouTube thing evolved into live live videos having a femoral chat, and then non live videos. It's it's comments, right? And we already have comments. But we don't, you don't have to see
them if you don't want to. But they're like the way that I like the sort of ethic that evolves when when Geller May and in the in that crew put comments put activity post comments into the podcast index side, this sort of ethic was there, they're not visible by default, you have to, you have to choose to go into the comments. Right? And that doesn't mean everybody has to do that. Maybe that doesn't fit with your app idea. But it's just that, like, I think I think it sort of blunts some of those
concerns you have, with the comments stuff that I did. You can you can live with this stuff all day long. And, and you never see the comments, mostly until you choose to go there. Right. But then within a femoral chat, like it's, it has a lot of it. It doesn't have the downsides, that long term commenting social networking, Gary agreed. So so it feels more safe in a sense,
when you're doing something like a live stream. That, you know, is the the chat thing to put like the podcast chat tag, is going to have to sort of have that in mind where this is primarily a live stream mechanism. It doesn't it doesn't mean that it has to be exclusively but it's primarily that's where the idea live. So

then there's the second part. And this is unique to podcasting 2.0. And I was very wrong about this. I really, really, really want to surface my booster grams in the app in every app, I really want to surface them. I see that as a huge benefit. I think it's, I've I've been looking at fountain for a long, long time. And this, there's no toxicity, I don't need to you don't I don't need to be able to comment on it. That's okay, I just want people to see the booster grams that
have come in. I want them to be available on all of the podcast apps, which to me, and you know, there's a lot of ideas floating around. I love a boost bot service, you know, and actually it should be, it should be just like chapters or just like transcripts, it should just be yet another tag where there's an external file and whether I pay someone as a service, like hyper catcher, or whether I rip it out of helipad or do something
whatever it is. I would and I I would I think I'm gonna have to propose a tag for that because I freely really enjoy that experience.

Well, do you think it's worth distinguishing between the two different ways of using the podcasting apps as well because the when I first came to podcasting 2.0 And I heard about cross cross AP comments. I was jazz because I thought it would replicate an experience kind of like YouTube and their comments, which I think are really cool. But then I was thinking about it. And you know why you go into the YouTube comments? It's probably because you're, you're slightly bored
with the video. And so you're, you're looking for something to do. And so you see you go down now. And I don't think that's how most people use a podcast app. But, you know, they'll they'll turn it on, and even if it's on, the phone is still on, and they're in their kitchen cooking, which is something that I do. It's not like I'm needing a board and I'm needing to go down to try and find some, whether it'd be more information
or someone else's reaction to it, or anything like that. The live stuff is completely different, obviously and that because that is so active and you're you're wanting to participate you're trying to do something so obviously having you know a live chat something that's really visible but yeah, I'm I've kind of changed my tune on that as well, which is booster grams and people willing to pay money to write something and you notice with the booster grams as well, the very
different than the YouTube Variety Performance very they're not, they're not chasing clout by writing the funniest joke or the wittiest thing to get more up likes or anything like that on it. So yeah, I definitely think that Mr. Graham's are good. What

was interesting was interesting last night, is that people will be sharing screenshots of fountain and fountain had only had a web experience, and it was audio. But people were sharing that screen because it showed you the booster grams coming in, and it showed you the total. You see, there's something there that is different from comments. It's different from chat. It's a third, a third thing, it's something different. And it's unique. It's unique to our apps.
And I I'm gonna have to propose this tag I don't know if when I figured out how to write a proposal

well you know what's interesting with this so I'm I'm part of the reason I livestream best started live streaming video during our show just kind of as a learning experience and also really primarily to help Alex test No no,

I thought it was to pick up chicks not working everybody There's Dave Jones on the live streams look at him ladies. Is he hot? Or what? He's smoking at board room after?

Yeah, and so like to help Alex with test no agenda tube and have that be a sandbox. But then like, as I like doing it I thought sort of started to have like more or less respect for I can we can hear that. And I'm

sorry yeah, I'm sorry. I was killing I was trying to open the the booster grams and curio caster was still running. Sorry.

So like I started with a started to understand sort of the complexities around around all this and have a little bit more respect for how much of a challenge it is, you know, when so and I'm on no agenda tube right now is in their chat room. I have that pulled up in a separate window on the screen. And I'm seeing it is just like IRC. It's the the X there's an XMPP booth spot in the chat room on the agenda tube. Yep. And when somebody booths, it shows up, it's right.
It's It is super chat. It is literally doing the thing that that we want

now it's not connected to the IRC or is that also connected to it? Because you connect that with XMPP, can't you?

Yeah, I think so. But that's like, it's it's being fed, these things are being federated into through Britt, you know, they're being bridged, right. So we, you know, the things that we this experience, okay, so, this is something I was thinking about today too. The other the other thing that I took away from from this whole week was if it was the right, let me say it this way, it was the right decision to slow down the namespace. Amen. It really was because we we ran fast for
like two solid years without any lead up. And then for the last six months or so, or more, really slowed things down and I think that was that was fruitful because they let everybody just concentrate on the thing that they needed to concentrate on catching up and refining like look at what fountain did with their 1.0 release. Yeah, like what podcast Giroux is done with
their value time with their value support. Look at what pod versus done by getting out yeah There's, there's so much that they have now begun to refine, because we slowed down the frantic pace, though think that these all these pieces are there. Now, it's just a matter of the giving the apps time to put these things put the pieces into play. They can, you know,
because that, that takes that takes time. What exactly I thought the Oscar interview on the latest pot news weekly review was really good because he said, even he was like we were frantically adding features. And the interface the UI just got it became a mess. So we had to, we had to, we had to go into basically rewrite the entire UI to make all of this make sense. Because if you're just adding it's like when you know, a house that you just add on to overtime, it looks like a
big, you know, freaky weird thing. You have to you have to renovate and then just kind of start from a fresh template. I think I think that's really important. And what I mean, we will, I think 2024, we need to head into Phase seven and look at some of these things. But I see the face seven tags, like the chat tag. That's real. I think some of these things we're going to be doing next year, are going to be things that are complementary to what's already there. I don't think it's going
to be any more of this frantic pace stuff. I think we can I think we're gonna have time to work these things out in a way where people where the app developers can catch their breath. But like, like say, I'm looking at no agenda today. I'm looking at our see both on the same screen. And they're literally doing the thing we want. Chiron

so it's their current weight weigh in here, Roman.

Yeah. I mean, like, with the social media stuff, I was just gonna say like, I can't add much, because I had none from 2013 to 2019. And then the way I use it is just is just, I use it to, like, advertise post. I'm not I'm not big into to that whole world. But yeah, yeah, I think the live chat and the focusing on that, at least for me, personally as a podcaster
has been really fun. And I'm really enjoying doing that. And it's kind of completely changed how I run my podcast now instead of recording them seven days in advance and, and really trying to clean them up and put them out. Not that I was doing too much editing anyway. But that was that was just due to video, and I've changed my tune on video. So

dig in on that, Karen, because you you've done video for a long time. So you've, you've been in this, you've been in the video world how how do you? Like what if you're going to take I think let me ask this questions for figure out how to ask this. Your video what you expect from video is probably like it is with all of us. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's probably in your head, you just see the YouTube experience. Do you if you were to sort of translate that into what you
would expect the experience to be as a podcaster? Or in an app? What would would it be? What would you see?

I think you just have to realize that different things like if you if you want to be a YouTuber, you sure go for it and go ahead. But it's really hard to be a good youtuber and a good podcaster at the same time. I'm not even sure you can is some people can kind of get away with it, kind of the the LEX Friedman's to the Joe Rogan's, but it's you know, that's, that's really, really hard to do. And it's almost I think, for most people, like you have to kind of pick one of
them, to be honest. And so then if you're doing that, I'm not sure you'd actually want a lot of the YouTube replication in podcasting apps because it is different. So so just for example, like doing a live episode with the with the YouTube, you have to focus on a lot more things like the video can get out of sync with the audio. There's, there's it's got its own separate chat system if you're trying to do it on
YouTube or Twitch or anything like that. And this is where it's just like I would I would kind of say you have so many aspects of video that are great, but they're probably good at just being video. And so when it comes to replicating things of the live chat, for example in a podcasting app, I just don't know if you need as much as as is there I think kind of like you're saying an IRC chat is pretty good and and some booster
grams. That's something that we do really well obviously and that YouTube doesn't have as much you know, they've got the super chats, I guess. But I don't really see that used as as much as, as the podcasting apps Do.

Do. Do I want to hear I do want to hear Tom brought clips of a new media

show. I don't know if you heard it. You know, I was in the car. Driving back. This was this. Can I just let me just wrap this up for one second. I have one more thing to say. Oh, yeah, sure. I have such deep appreciation for Julie Costello. Jim Costello. Of course. Ainsley just loud, his team who I don't know. Thank you. Thank you for trusting us. Thank you for the hours of phone calls with everybody. That's Julie, mainly,
thank you for the 10,000 word emails. Thank you for trusting one of the most precious things you have your daughter to this group of nut jobs. That could have gone horribly wrong in so many ways. Also, thank you to the venue. Thank you to open mic, of Avenue one. Thank you to the nostre people who we're all a part of this, it for me personally, this was a huge, huge thing that we are. This was like Moon guy launch. The I want my V for V is what I was all I could think of the whole time.
It's like I've seen this revolution happened. I've been a part of this than the 80s and now something new is happening. And I am what I'm for one. I'm with you, Dave. I'm like, the kids are off to college. This is great. We're here. You know, when you're out of money and you know you're hungry, we're gonna send you a care package. We're gonna send you some clothes for the winter rent. Okay, money you know, we're here we're here for you. But I think I think everyone's graduated and
congratulations to everybody. And believe me when I say that the this the value block and the splits is that is what keeps us all together. That is what has made this successful. Because even if it's just 1% When I when I saw that, that value block that that Julie was very specific, she wanted to make sure everybody was in there. And and how Dolby Das was popping, boom, switching the value block live, my head was exploding. How beautiful that wasn't that it worked everywhere perfectly. No,
not yet. But we have created something really, it look, MTV sucked in the early days was all kinds of things wrong and all kinds of, you know, black black screens and stuff not starting and I could go into how that why that all happened. It was all basically, you know, Betamax tapes, and the whole thing was was chewing gum and the gaffer tape and we're kind of in that same place. But man, do we have a future and I'm so appreciative. Everybody who worked on this, and and it was
just I was just jumping for joy. I mean, there were tears coming down my face. When I when Ainsley is reading off booster grams, I couldn't believe and the video working everywhere. I mean, who needs What's this bowl crap about video. It works. I don't know how that happened. But all of a sudden video works in my apps. Like, okay, it just is there. It was beautiful.

It didn't just work. It was like, crisp, beautiful. Like yes, spotless.

Yes. And the audio Thank you. The audio was killer. You know, just everything was stellar. I can't wait for what everyone's going to do next. And and really the whole, the whole music side of this you guys I love you. I love you so much for for taking this taking this leap of huge faith. And I'm glad that it worked. You know, we all know that. It's Dred Scott, basically, who funded the whole thing. We know how it works. We know you know he was boosting everyone. One

one 100 100k says 1000s 100,000 SATs after another just boom, boom,

boom, boom, boom. And you know, and don't discount those streaming stats. You know, there's more people like Dave Jones sitting in the theater streaming 1000 SATs a minute, you know, this, it's not just about the boost anyway, is

the biggest difference. You think the value for value component is what really differentiates it from a YouTube experience or a twitch experience or hopefully even just a podcasting?

Well, totally because, well, there's it differentiates it from Nasir differentiates from everything. The whole idea that everybody who's participating gets a piece of value sent back directly from the people who are enjoying the content or the value they're receiving. That's it. That's why we're still together

that's why he misses everybody misses not everybody. Many people miss a component of value for value because it's it's it multiple things all at once and ever is a lot of people miss one piece or the other

even Burberry says the lighting designer even got a split.

I see that's the thing is like you that. And that's the part that I won't say the quote noster people because I don't think that's fair. But that's that's on the nostril side of things they haven't they haven't caught the importance of that yet, which is the full stack, everybody gets a cut. Yeah, if you can't do it that way, it doesn't work. It doesn't because people give up. If you can't, the value flow doesn't
always have to be monetary. But that's one clear expression that you can do with because if people just if people are participating, this happens, this happens with everything. People come and go in a project. In open source, you'll have one person that just works their their butt off for months. They don't get anything for it other than the enjoyment of doing it. When the enjoyment fades, they go they fade, they disappear. And then we
get them forgotten.

And they're gonna and then you Yeah, and then you get next cloud or whatever. The but but when you can have the split where everybody can share in the in in the revenue. It changes the game. Now it's no now it's no longer people just doing it simply out of the out of the kindness of their

heart. Oh, and one other thing. I loved how the homegrown hits gals. They come to the live feed during their live show. Oh, that's cool. And yeah, but also the promotion. That and this is this is where a pro like Julie Costello comes in. I heard Bo Cody Christopher with music sidestream podcast. He did a quick interview with Ainsley. There was a shoot of Sam Sethi had Ainsley and just loud on pod news weekly review. I mean, it was it was like a real, that's an industry. Right?
That's an industry. That's how an industry works. That's the podcast industrial complex. That's how an industry works together to promote things to work together. And you know, when when Ainsley is on the sidestream music podcast with Cody, he streaming value, he gets value, she gets value, it's just value flying everywhere. I get up sometimes in the middle of the night. I'll be honest about if I wake up, maybe sometimes I'll wake up at 3am I'm old now. So that happens like

oh, yeah, you gotta pee. Yeah.

And, and I will open up my zap, I think it's zap, well, that changed the name of it, they change it to bit banana, whatever. And I and I use that one because I can bring up the podcast index node. And I will just watch and see one Satoshi at a time streaming in. And it makes me incredibly happy now.

It's like watching a fish. I can just your I can imagine you at three o'clock in the morning, staring a helipad.

It was it was it's like basically helipad. But you know, but I see the whole index. And I don't see, I don't see booster grams or anything. It's just I see the, I just see one set, you know, 20 SATs, because we're just getting a percentage of stuff. And some of its for our for this podcast. So maybe a higher amount. But I and you know, every minute there's 1215 20 Different payments per minute. And I just know that at
that moment. There's people 20 people around the world sending value to podcasters musicians, apps, services, da

didn't give you my slight an early prediction, which was for the pod Newsweekly. And my prediction for 2024 was it's just going to be all about collaboration you because you get so much access to not not need to trust somebody for this payment is gonna go here and then it will get there eventually and and that all that sort of just, I don't know, what was call it wasting of time or just the non
directness of it. And so even when like looking, if you're on like Tiktok or something and someone's got music, and they're dancing, and that that becomes really popular, like the musician gets nothing of that. So it's just yeah, with with everything being connected like that and And then being able to verify it and see it. That's at that's, that's a real game this

morning, as I woke up at six, and I'm still jacked, and and Tina asked some really good question. She says, So how does it really work? The music business? How does it get played when a song is on the radio? And, you know, just running through all that, and you know, and basically the end of the day, after 48 months, you know, a penny drops into your into your piggy bank there. And that's it. And she has and she's went holy crap. And I wish I'd recorded it because I was really
lucid, lucid. And I said, Holy crap, no wonder everyone's so excited to Yes, exactly. And that's the magic that is that is created here. And it's like even even advertising. And this will pivot into I think, what is your clips, Dave? So advertising. And a, an advertiser A brand wants to advertise their product or service, they call their advertising agency, they say we want to do this. Now, you know, what includes some podcasts,
okay? Then the agency has their media plan, or the media planner is going to look around is going to figure out what the best thing is. And then the media planners, because Okay, when they come up with a plan, we have some more meetings, the advertiser signs off on it, they sign off on a budget, then the media buyer goes out. And then the podcast whether the it let's just say its host reads a mix of some host reads and some dynamically inserted ads, of course, creative has to be made.
All of that has to be approved and go through that process are mistakenly, oh, let's just repurpose the radio ads doesn't matter. Then all of the podcast networks or the podcast shows, they have to sign affidavits and say, okay, these these ads were delivered. This was delivered this many times. You know, and this is through the metrics, and here's the proof, it's ay ay b, and then that goes back to the agency. And the agency tallies that all up. It goes into their accounting. And then the
accounting sends a bill to the client net 90. So 90 days later, they're going to pay their agency, the agency takes a fee. There's all these than the network takes a fee. And then finally, somewhere down the line. 456 months later, the podcaster gets a couple of dimes. Yeah, that's literally the process. And then I only have one clip that I'll play
here. And I believe that we are going to see agencies on behalf of their clients going to podcast networks, podcast shows, and they're going to say they want money back or they want make goods because Rob Walsh of Lipson said the quiet part out loud. Literally said this,
if shows have over 300 episodes, they could and should expect to see their total weekly downloads at the end of November be greater than a 25% drop below where their weekly numbers were in early September. Here's the thing, and I want people to remember this. Your audience size did not change those numbers. That was extra downloads that were happening to your back catalogue weren't being listened to. It's just right sizing your downloads your monthly and weekly downloads to
what's more realistic, and what's really happening. Well, thanks

so you overcharged me by 25% for the same amount of people. He literally just said

that is called right

sizing. Oh, right sizing. Okay, there you go.

Yeah, it's not you didn't get ripped off. You got you got wrong size. So that you need to right size that

I mean, that's her rific Well, this

is the same thing that causes in this is the joy that I have right now is to share with you that Todd, Todd's F bomb.

That's the second clip. Okay. Okay,

well, well, let's we can we can tease the F bomb because the Kratt the I'm proud to say that in that we I predicted on the last show that we would that we would wear Todd down. And in that it he would he would indeed adopt the Austrian enclosure because we

didn't take more than 20 hours.

When Todd discuss discussing things with Todd is more is more of a negotiation than anything else we eat when he says no, that doesn't really mean no. it mean it means I'm just not ready yet. Like you can use it means you need to change tactics. And he's and I'm happy to report that the cracks are forming.
While there is there is a little bit of initiative over at podcasting. 2.0 No, it's early on what they're gonna do. And so the
large thing is, yeah, it was thought of you.
But what you know the idea that spin surface that seems to be pretty good is Yeah, sure rock, blueberry supports video podcasting, you want one traditionally you can have one. Okay, if you want one. Number two, if you decide to put your video over at wherever it may be Twitch, Twitter, Spotify, wherever now, YouTube, wherever you're going to close, you can put in the list, okay, whatever. So if you want to put your video
over there, you know you can. But what we're going to do is do the alternate enclosure tag, which I vowed not to support from the main purpose of it, but I can see a use case going forward where we just link to the YouTube video. In the often enclosure, we just basically provide a link to the episode link. So then when they're in the podcast app, they can still get their audio version. Or if they want the video version that served up from YouTube, they can do that as an embed right in the
app. And it still keeps it in a podcast app.

Yeah, so welcome to the party. We love Utah. And this we will see you with full video Ultraman enclosure support in the near future. Good.

I was gonna say I love the show so much. I was on my way back from Austin. I get in the car to drive back. I see the notification. It's only two minutes old. I'm like, Oh, this is great. So I pop it on the on the on the car Bluetooth, and I'm driving and I am just booster grabbing like nuts. I'm like, I'm disowning Rob. Like, they're like, Hey, who's gonna do chapters and said it's very easy to do chapters for your show is just chapter one through 10 Rob shields for YouTube. You know,

this was the greatest episode of new media show I've ever heard. It was so funny. Without a doubt. I mean, and so I mean, in that vein, I mean, we please F bomb it.
We need to we need to put some some brakes on why there's less than one half of 1%
We'll talk why. Why do we need to put brakes,
we quit. We need to, we need to quit. We need to quit pumping it up. There's very few people on podcasting site that has actually switched to video. It's not that big a numbers. It's not. It's not that many as compared to audio folks. We don't have to tell him to stop. But we need to quit hyping it as this new fucking frontier and everyone is gotta be on it's not true. I would say less than 5% less than maybe less than 3% of podcasters currently are doing any video.

So this is this is. This was to me the best part is this discussion between and I've tried to make this. I've tried to make this point before it recently is that this whole? Like, it's become obvious to me that this schism between AD AD research and digital advertising research in the podcast industry. And in the hosting company slash infrastructure. Is
this is a this is destined for for a reckoning here. Yeah, because they're the digital advertising industry is leading Korea's leading podcasters down one path in the hosting companies just like Todd is talking about here is the hosting company see it for what it is, which is BS. But the digital advertising companies they're just dying to get everybody focused on video and YouTube. He talks about that in clip three about the tension between those two. What
I'm saying is what we need to recognize is that this is a unified audience that is I am audio and video had no
doubt that we meet we need to set expectations realistically for the average podcaster on what's going to happen when they go invest and do a whole bunch of work on video. Very
few are pastor pastor figure that out for them so that
we need to okay, if I'm sitting here and saying video, podcasting is the next biggest thing and this is where you need to invest your money. I'm doing a disservice to podcaster I have to send the expectation level of what's going to happen when you do video. If you You're gonna do
have to set a low expectation for what somebody might expect, because
that's what's gonna happen to 99% of people.

I appreciate what Todd is doing here, because this is exactly what happened in 2008. My balls were not as big as his. It was, it was the venture capitalists, we had pod show. And we went so because they were like, look at YouTube, YouTube just launched that's a $2 billion, you know, blah, blah, blah. Look at juice remember juiced? And you know, J O S T?

O, what a terrible name.

Oh, no, you gotta be more like, juiced? Oh, yeah, this was, this was like some video thing. The I mean, I don't think anyone even remembers it. But it was hot for like five days. And we not only went all video, we changed the name to me VO We changed it away from pod from pod show, we did all of that, and failed spectacularly, because it was the wrong thing to do. And if we kept that company going for 10 years, 10
years, $65 million, it'd be we met revenue. But you know, the burn was just eventually the burned, it just overtook the revenue. Because it was just it wasn't there. And the costs were too high of a network, you can't monetize the network for a whole bunch of reasons. And if we had only done just audio, then had them had had gone to a different monetization model. If we had figured out value for value earlier, we might have made it. But now,

now, the whole time during this discussion, Rob, Rob's whole point was based on on this, this research survey, done by sounds profitable. And he just kept saying the research, the research the research, and like an antenna, the top end clip for Todd tall is he's trying to say look, I don't care what your research says. I know what the reality of this is in the research is wrong. And so he keeps He keeps talking trying to convince him and Rob can't see outside this
research thing, which is the thing that is the problem. All
I'm saying is that if we keep hyping video. Alright, let's start hyping video every day you have to do video. Then someone about a year from now is gonna say, Todd Rob, why did you tell me to do video? I've had no success on video. But I've had great success with my audio program.
I didn't tell anybody to do video. Well,
it sounds like you are. Well, this
research is showing that for
a segment of very big shows. Okay,
but if you look at these overall numbers that that Tom shape that
listening to very big shows what where is the distribution amongst smaller shows on YouTube? It's not there. Dave

Jones, I love you for so many reasons. I'm going to tell you why I love first of all, I love you to rob. And don't worry, Todd and Rob will have this conversation next week and the week after and the week after and the week after. That will keep on going and it's

this this one catch the reruns.

And just when I think I'm mad, and I can't listen to it anymore, it gets entertaining. I was planning for my Sunday no agenda show to clip for similar reasons. But you're tying it together beautifully here on the media, which now I understand what what you because it's my hatless. You know where I'm going. Oh, of course. I know where you're going. You're going to the research.

Yep, yep. Yep. And the so the on the media which you this is a thing that you created within me. See, yes, the hate listen. No, Karen, you don't have the joy in Australia of listening to on the media.

No, well, I don't personally have to. Do

you have a hate Listen, though? Ah, no.

There's nothing that I particularly do know. There's there's tons of things where I I'll go to it intentionally because I think it's dumb and want to see like if there's a reason missing now. That's

a hatless. I always wish that I could send boosts to these shows.

Oh, I do too. I

would understand that I would be boosted now. I'd be boosting so big to these people. Like this is stupid. Here's 100,000 SATs I wish I could do that. What

my hate listen then would be this scammy list crypto crap that I can find to see if there's anything like any reason I should be focusing on anything really than Bitcoin. That's not

a current if you don't have a hatless and I highly suggest you go and get it's good for you. It's good for fantastic. It's wonderful on the media is now I mean like it hits my my podcast app and it's Immediate right away. Immediate. And so like the the so on the media this week at the beginning of it is like is the all A's just quoting all of these these these, these surveys that our saying that Trump is beating
Biden in like everything? I mean, like swing states, Israel, conflict, economy, mortar,

anything anything Yeah, boy

y'all are blue, whatever. It's just whether cilantro tastes good.

Everything kale is no good. Yeah. So

then so they bring on they're like, Okay, well let's dig into this let's find out about surveys. Let's let's do this research this a little bit. And the Whoa, this they get this lady from I think she's from the New York Times because they did a joint poll with Siena College. And they they started going over how they do these, these surveys. And this, this ties in with what Rob is basing his thing on, which is surveys. And they start off by talking about how the wording in surveys is crucial. So
let's talk about the way a question is framed because it can mean anything, and it can mean everything. We're there debates about the wording of any questions in these particular polls,
in any poll, but in particular, this poll, we wanted to be very careful and conscientious and how we worded the questions because, you know, we know that the conflict between Israel and Gaza right now is very complicated. And even that choice of words I had now is really complicated, right? We had to really think carefully about when we're saying Gaza, when we're saying Palestinians, when we're saying Israel, when we're saying the Israeli government, each of
those decisions was very, very careful. And with any poll, we spend a lot of time thinking about question wording with sort of two main goals. I

was literally cooking burgers outside when I was I hate listening to this. I'm like, Oh, this is so good. This is so good.

So what do you think the two main goals are?

Well as chyron go higher, and where did I already heard it? Oh,

you already heard it? What are the two when it comes to wording of survey questions. Karen, what are the two main goals you can think of?

Jays that probably want some sort of participation? Like I imagine if you're listening to a poll and you and then you're ambivalent, then it's then it's not good. They want to definite yes, or a definite no. So participation, and then I mean, like they'd have their own bias, right. So they'll probably be leaning at one way or another. It's very hard to be truly neutral. So yeah, turning it to their what they kind of want to hear. Okay,

all right, let's, let's see what she has to say.
The first is that a question feels fair to anybody who's being asked it. We want to represent every single voter in America, no matter their opinion, no matter where they sit on the political spectrum. And so that means that every voter in America should be able to look at these questions and say, I see myself in those answer choices. There is an
answer choice there, that represents how I feel. So that requires a lot of debate on the second thing that we spend a lot of time doing is trying to ensure that the questions are interpreted the same by everybody who's answering them. Oftentimes with polls, we can get something what's called measurement error, where we think we're measuring something but different respondents interpret it different ways. And so we again, spend a lot of time being very careful and very precise. Can you

imagine that meeting? Imagine working there and sitting in that meeting? I

love the I love these words. We it's like they like they say, you know, we call that fill in the blank. And it's always something you expect from instructing? Yeah, you're expecting it to be some really fancy term, but it's the what do they call it measurement error? Yeah, it's like, it's this thing we call being wrong wrong. Just wrong, is not a fancy term. It's
just what it is. But so they go into this discussion about the example of how it's super critical that you have, so that you define the term ceasefire, right, if you're asking about Libya, for Israeli Gaza conflict, and you define Gaza correctly, and you and they give you an example of like, five possible work, questions you should ask in order to encompass all of the different points of view, and all of the political spectrums and all of the nationality and all of the
different backgrounds so that nobody else and genders, genders, genders, yes, everything you have to encompass everything. So that takes at least like five or six different questions, but they does not actually what they did they use the thing called forced choice in clip three. So for
me, as an analyst of polls, I wouldn't know how to interpret that data because everybody's bringing their own perspective to it. So instead, we had a forced choice option, either Israel should stop its campaign in order to protect against civilian casualties, even if not all the hostages are released, or Israel should continue its military campaign until all the hostages are released, even if it means civilian casualties in Gaza might continue. Now, a lot of
people might disagree with those answer choices. And I think it's very reasonable to disagree with those as the only two answer choices. But in doing that, we actually saw that the public is fairly split on that question, which I think is interesting. I think a good survey question does split the public more evenly?

answered? I love this. It's like, do these guys killed those guys baby worse than those guys kill those guys babies worse? Give me your answer.

Everything that they said before about the carefulness of questions and the wording, the criticality, and the pause and the 15 possible different answers you could do? Forget all that. Forget all that. We're just gonna give them two. We're gonna give you two things to choose from, but which of which nobody probably agreed. And you know, and you know, why? Why did they do that? Click for?
Did you consider having more than two choices? We
did, we debated that pretty heavily. And there were times where we got close to having that as options. In the end, it makes it a lot more difficult to analyze the data, the more options that you provide. Oh,

that's because it's hard. That's why they didn't do it. Because it's hard. And it makes it really difficult. Yeah. So when you when you when you're talking about surveys, in research and research from these from these agencies, you're getting, you're getting nothing from them, you're getting absolutely zero

worse, worse, you're getting what they want the answer to be? Yes. forced

choice. Now we know the term forced choice. We did a forced choice question.

Have you seen that recent meme of a it was a guy wearing like an hour long earphone or air pod or something like that? And he's been trying to some months? I think it's on a college university campus or something like that. And a guy's trying to force him to answer one of the questions and he's just refusing like blatantly to, to answer it. And then it was there was something related to

that was Palestine. It was real. I

think it was. Yeah, yeah. And it's, that's exactly that. No,

I can't answer. I can't speak about Palestine. I can't speak about Hamas. No, I can't talk about that.

Yeah, like that. So your quit your, whenever it comes to research, you're getting the forced choice of, because she said, it's just like bedding, you know, the bed. They always say that the bedding lines are created in order to get even money on both sides of the bed. Yeah. Like, and so it's just it's the same thing with this. She said, she said we did
a forced choice question so that we could get an even split. This is all useless people come on, like and what Todd is cutting through all of that Gordian knot, and saying, I don't care what the research says, I know what reality is. And reality is if a bunch of podcasters go off and try to do video, they're going to fail, and they're going to be pissed. Yeah.

I can attest to some of the video stuff, which was when the I think like, one of the reasons people are like, what what are the reasons that podcasters are being suggested to go to video? And it's, it's typically because you feel like you're talking into the void, you're not getting any like reaction, you don't you don't know what's happening, you see download numbers, and then they reduced by 25%. And then you realize, oh, wait, people weren't even, like they weren't
real anyway. And so video is, I think, being kind of touted as that because you can see, you have to stop playing the game of algorithms, of course, but and virality but you can look into it, in essence, and this is where I was like, you know, I did video of yours and I was half kind of like half half doing audio half half video in terms of where my focus was. And when you do it like that, you're not going to succeed because you need to be a YouTuber. So you need to think about your
thumbnails more how you're going to title things. The first 30 seconds needs to be super snappy, so you get retention and and all of these sorts of things. And so then that ultimately gets through like well, if you if you go in there to try and get that has Some sort of audience petition participation, what's linked to that, you know, then then that's probably related to the whole advertising and, and how you
make money from that as well. And that's just why I felt like visa vie captured me, which was just it just cuts through all that bullshit. And solves those super easy, but not super the problems that I was having was like, What how do I know that anyone's even listening? And, you know, getting a boost in and a message just just cut through all of that.

That's what was interesting because yeah,

what other things have you learned? Because you have mere mortals Of course. And the value for value is have you done two seasons the value for value podcast?

Three now? It's

fine. So what have you What have you learned? I mean, you you have been in the midst of it you've talked to value for value people non value for value people, you know, you doing views on video? Do you have just pure audio? I mean, tell me what what you really learned when what will you be focusing on for 2024?

It's great. You asked that because the the latest episode was was pretty much just covering all that. And so I can give you the highlights. There's, I still notice that with book reviews, for example, they tend to that there's definitely an audience more on YouTube for that I think then interested then slowly the audio so for that one, I'm kind of optimizing for the video. And going. Still, it's still because I don't like the virality chasing spending all my time on
thumbnail sort of thing. Like it's I don't know, I could still be swayed from that. But I am doing a lot more live, which makes things a lot easier. Why

do you think that books book reviews work better? Or in video? Or specifically YouTube?

I have no idea. Yeah, this is the this is just like the weird things where it's just perhaps because maybe a bit more timeless in terms of being people would would willing to look up like a stoic book written from the early BCS? And maybe it's a bit more. Yeah. Evergreen in that how

are you measuring this? Are you measuring it by views versus views,

but also just like even the booster grabs for example, they don't really come into the the book reviews. And I've kind of talked about that as much as I have on across my other shows. So that's one thing leaning into the audience and
where they're actually already at. So if you heard on the pod news, weekly review this last one, they got a couple more booster grams in from from people that have never heard of before, which was ironic considering the week before they were saying how they it's all just the same, the same people showing up and one of those guys was was I boosted him just before it was the late bloomer actor. And he was saying, you know, I'm doing this I'm doing VP on my show, but no one's
boosting in or, or commenting or anything like that. And so I went over to it, and I just said, like, Hey, by the way, you probably need to go where the people already know about this stuff is so yes, it helps if you have a Bitcoin show because and
you see that in the fountain charts, for example. Because they kind of already know it and that that experience is big bitcoins hard to get it takes a long time to kind of be convinced by it or use it but as these things get easier, I definitely see leaning more into using true fans using fountain using the clipping on pod verse of the interactive features that all these things have. Going going to where people are already starting to use stuff you know, it's it's pretty,
pretty obvious but it also bears repeating. So going on to the podcast index website, and and to the mastodon as well and interacting there. So those are the kind of big ones and yeah, just with video, it's very much it's, I just want to reiterate just how completely different it is from podcasting. And it's, it's worth not trying to even with just just putting a pretty
big distinction between the two. If you think you can just start a video podcast and your your workflow, the end product is going to be similar to the audio it's it's not it's going to be it's going to be completely different. And so you just have to take the consequences of that. So if you want to be a YouTuber, you know, go for it. Go ahead, but that's that's pretty hard game some and takes a lot of time.

Yeah, that that's the, the video thing. But I think that it took me a little bit to sort of get used to, to
get used to it now. Now I don't like, I have a workflow and it just doesn't, it doesn't really bother me anymore because I know, I know that I don't have to think about it 99% of the time, until the only time I ever even think about the fact that I'm doing video on this stream for for no agenda tube is when it when it gets towards the end, I have to do the donations and I used to have to go and make sure I had my screens email up and that kind of

thing. You don't want to show all the spreadsheet in the email. Yeah,

yeah, there's the email, you know, like everybody has a nice to see my email and stuff. So but but like, now with the stream deck, it's even easier because there's a button and my admin screen. So it's like, I don't even really, I don't even think about that the fact that there's video until like an hour and a half into the show. So it's fine but that but that learning, but at the beginning that's just all you're thinking about your split brain.

Yeah, but you're like you're not trying to grow your video are you? Yeah, like yeah, you're not No, no, no, it's you get and

in some weeks I don't even do it. I mean, I'm tired or something. Yeah.

And then also your monetization even though I hate that word is not linked to how many views you get on YouTube whereas then that's what a lot of people are like, Oh, have I got my 4000 hours for the year have I got my 1000 subscribers? Car video, the ad payouts better you know, all that sort of thing.

You're my my brother in law in Italy. My sister has lived there now for 28 years, I think. And he is a quite well known comedian. He's He's my age, like couple years younger and he was very famous for in Italy you work for either check a gory or used to be Berlusconi, of course, it's still the Berlusconi organization even though he's dead in check, a glorious kind of they're both they're both gangsters. You
worked for this gangs, he worked for that gangster. And so he worked for the Czech gory gangster and he did a movie, Pinocchio, but it was kind of like a, an r slash almost X rated version, you can imagine when the nose grows, and it was, it was kind of like, a cult hit. Like every young guy in Italy, like, oh, yeah, I remember that one, you know, kind of like faces

of death, the most Italian thing ever.

But he's done. You know, he's on many, many small features and things and he hit all of a sudden, he hit really big on YouTube. And he would just do like, like a joke a day or something. And it just and you know, he got the whole, you know, the plaque, the little the YouTube award thing and everything. And, and now, you know, he of course, he got busy. So he had no gigs and he's going to gigs and then his numbers really dropped off really quickly. And Willow, my my
sister, who just got her her degree. She's a professor of psychology, specifically online media. So she did a whole dissertation on social media video and on Tik Tok and YouTube, she taught me a lot about this stuff. And of course, she had Italian numbers. And she had good in with the Italian YouTube, which is very specific, you know, so it's kind of a segregated market. So you can, you can strip out a lot of stuff that isn't important because it's not an Italian. And what
she learned was a you have to feed the algo. But she also learned that if he the title of his video, if it was something like his joke was the broken umbrella. And he would title it the broken umbrella, the views would go through the roof, and she went to an analyze, and it's because people are on Google looking for a broken umbrella. How to fix a broken umbrella. And then they wind up at his video and that was the nut that's the number one driver is is Google Search dries views to
video of course people then click on it. Oh, that's a funny joke. But that's, that's really ovo

place. Yes. It's a Google SEO juice. This is also gross.

Not as gross as this baby. Come on. Let's talk about it for a moment. You want to see my Pinocchio video? Just tried to wait.

Wait. That's just that's just like so good. We don't we don't want podcasting to be that. No,

of course not. Of course they won't be it won't be.

We're smart.

We're smart. We're intelligence over here. We're intelligent,

man. So I've been I'm going to have to post this code publicly. Because I'm beating my head against the wall. TRY TO GET HTTP soon signatures working in activitypub

is for the edifying of the index? Yes,

I admit it, I am, I am almost close to defeat on this. I cannot figure it out. I'm at the point where I've been looking at it for too long. And I can't see my own mistakes at this point of that I've got I'm comparing. I'm comparing my rust code to John Spurlock's mini pub code. And I cannot see what I'm doing different. And like his his in JavaScript mods and Russ, I'm having to do some translation there. But it's a, it's a fairly straightforward thing. You hash the body of the
request. And when so this, so here's where I'm at. The database is the database is mostly there, it's functional. I can accept follow requests. That's been fine for a long time. But then when I tried to accept the follow request, that involves sending an accept message back to the originating server, in order to make that function, there has to be an HTTP signature, which there has to be for a lot of interactions. But this is the first interaction that's needing it.
So I'm doing that part. Now. When I send back the acknowledgement to show that, yes, the follow is okay, you're now following properly, the HTTP request has to be signed, which means it just needs a signature header. The signature header can consist of hashing the body of the request, with SHA 256, base 64, encoding it, then including it in the digest header, then taking the digest header, and including that with some other headers, and hashing all of that with SHA 256 And then signing it
with the private key. That's, and then inserting that as what's as the signature header. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, because I

can't Oh, I know, I know what you're doing wrong. All of it, what all of it. Okay, you should make love to your wife do something else.
Stop this is Christmas.

What am I doing? I've got I'm just gonna have to post publicly and have somebody look and say, Hey, idiot, you're, you're missing a newline character here or something like that. Like, I think bracket,

bracket, there's got to be a bracket. It's something

like it's something simple because like, it's just not, I can't figure it out. So I'm going to do that. This weekend, I'm going to post it. And then I'm appealing for help. Because if I can get this, this has been owning me for a week now to every bit every bit of every bit of coding time that I get. I'm going back to this. So I built a whole a built a new
project with just that with with just the signing code in it. And then I've compiled you know, so I can compile it and rapid, rapidly just iterate on just that where I'm taking Okay, here's a J here's a JSON body. And here's my private key. I just want to do this. And it just gives me the weird

result. Have you tried Chad GPT

have not tried yet to be chatty. Why not kick on

the free chat. Okay,

I'm not giving them a phone number. I need a local LLM Well,

I got one I got an LLM. Can you ask that question for me? If you if you send me the question, I can sure

just take the transcript of this show.

Okay, somebody says all right, minds rather slow but yes, I will.

So that if I can get past this then like, then everything will fall into place because the the activity pub bridge is going to is is going to be important. I had a long conversation with my buddy Tim the other day about about this a bit. We're talking about nostre and activity pub and all kinds of things. And I just think that activity Pub is WordPress is is got the new activity pub plugin. I feel like activity Pub is I'm about to blow up. As far as adoption goes, it

sure seems that way.

It's coiling is about to coil load. Yeah. Yeah. So I really think this is important for people to be able to natively interact with podcasts, you know, stuff over activity pub, so I'll post it, and then everybody can tell me where I'm doing it.

Shall we thank a few people. Oh, yeah, sure.

Let's thanks for people.

And we've got we've been getting some live booths during this boardroom after dark. Now can code has showed up and I you know, I have my helipad open all day long. And he's a hayver. So he's got a lot of a lot of boosts and I'm not quite sure exactly. Hive tube. What exactly is hive tube?

Yeah, that's hive tube is the fork of a peer to two with with all of Alex's stuff in it.

And does it do is it does it work on hive, or does it work on? Enlightened not?

I don't think it's high specific. I

think it's just called hive tube.

thinks of it. Well, okay, I may be wrong. Well, he

has a lot to say. 1000 SATs from ENCODE cast dot garden. A podcast host powered by hype tube pushes the p2p live streaming cross app comments and syndication hardcore. Now the 1000s that to look forward to way less ads or more boosts and hive rewards. Okay, so that's definitely hot. There's definitely likes and tips. Oh, that's how I get to and podcasters then we have three five to one from Renee caneta.
Hello, Renee says woke up to walk our new puppy at 330 in the morning he's in Holland, sleeping on the couch to keep her company great to hear you guys live.

Get a hate Listen, it's easier.

It's better. It's better than that. 12345 from hard hat Merry Christmas. Thank you hard fat. Sup Yo sup? Short Row ducks. He gave to karma pluses to blueberry with 2222 Salty Crayon 1976. Love the hotspot. Love the hot namespace talk in these hours get offended. I'm saying Merry
Christmas. I love what Adobe does. I love Adobe does has accomplished in the V for V Live Concert I'm loyal to building with those IT structure I love what we are building I'm all in five by five Ford support your local independent party independent artists go podcasts. And various Dred Scott like he hasn't supported the entire industry enough. He comes in with 60,000 SATs super boost, he says we get 11,111 from blueberry. There's so much that's been running through my
mind over the last week. It's an experience that will close hold closely for a long, long time. And to finish what I started on the next before the schemes, I will be reading off every single boost that came through. In the words of Alex Jones. I have to do it all.

Is that did Alex say that I

guess? More like I have to do it. Eric peepee 33,333 No, nope. Thank you. We have Chad F with 1000 SATs pod verse has IRC chat. But on mobile if you switch apps for too long you get kicked out of the chat room ah yes this is another thing that we've seen the iOS seems to be really crappy with stuff going in the background that's for sure.

really crappy dot dot dot now.

Let's see herbivore band. 300 SATs Thank you anonymous podcast guru user 2222 says go chyron as 6000 SATs when kind of courses in our our value block today. 6000 SATs from Dred Scott cleaning Why Boost cannons after the last two days of V For me music boosting Oh, he just cleans his cannon and it's 6000 SATs that's how it goes. Sometimes it just squirts out. Tone record 5150 scraping together some support SATs after last night's Minneapolis music streams was a great night props
to the builders who made it possible. The I had to reload my my wallet a couple times to was fun.

I loaded I loaded it up with about 50 bucks on

Yeah, it was fun to load load load. Let's see Dobby lost 20,000 SATs. I won't be able to listen live will be busy sleeping I bet. But Merry Christmas Adam Dave and Karen Thank you brother for your Christmas. And I think yeah, that's that's where we are with the live boosts.

Okay, well, Marco Arma gave us $500 through PayPal 20 is Blaze on him. Paula,

thank you Marco. We so appreciate that you support us brother.

Thank you, Monica. That's appreciate that and Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thank you for all support every month forever. Appreciate that. We've got Some boosts we've got. Oh, Chris from Jupiter broadcasting Chris last. Do fountain 68,848 booths nice

thank you.

He says Dave checkout bit focus, bit focus to go with that stream deck on Linux. We use it to control OBS soundboard, our da W and run scripts via SSH connections. That focus is worth the 15 minutes to try with the stream deck on Linux. Happy Holidays, guys. You sent me a screenshot of this. Yes,

if right after some helipad? Yeah, exactly. Because I'm like, Oh, this is what instead of Dave going off to build a Windows box and like this one nightstand,

which I did build a Windows box. And then I and then you sent me a screenshot of this that night after I had already built it. So I said, Oh, screw it. I'll try this. As what I'm using right now. I'm using bit focus on you. Right, it's awesome. Cool. Cool. What? Do what,

what booths number was that? 6868 848 848 Because they do um, zip code boosts over

there. They do cool stuff like that. I like the zip code boost. That is cool.

See what zip code 68/8 Lincoln,

Nebraska. Nebraska.

He's in Washington. Maybe coincidence?

The stream deck should I get one just to have it in my house? I mean, is the dog is a cool? Is it something I just need in my life? The stream deck? Yeah. From not streaming.

What I mean? It's it does so much like it's killer because it doesn't just do it's basically an outboard macro. Macro runner. Yeah. So you can you can make it do it. You can make it do automation stuff. So you can have it turn on wall outlets. You can have it send SSH commands to servers. Oh, nice. Oh, it dude, it's badass. It is so cool. It's fairly yeah,
I've barely scratched the surface with it. But it as long as you have the right so so the software runs as a daemon on the computer and then you in the new habit connect to like a web socket, or something like that. So OBS as a web socket, and then the day the daemon connects to OBS through that and then
monitors the connection. So then you can have it connect to other daemons that do other things so you can have at launch software on your computer trigger sounds it could be a MIDI control it he's like do everything Wow. Yeah, it's it was it was yeah, it's badass. Thanks, Chris. Appreciate that. We get Sir Brian of London 21 940 Super Israeli is 21 948 through cast ematic he says I think I'm lucky here in Israel. I get rockets
from Hamas. Sure, but I have a bomb shelter. No ads. Meantime, I get no ads and news Ah

well, there's that there's no ads in newsagent. But yeah, there's rockets you know, it's mine. Yeah, that's

a trade off

I love how there's no reporting on the rockets because the rockets just keep coming. I

mean, like every few hours Yeah, I think I hear where they're supposed to run but straight back to the show. VPN to Israel for that ad free experience. Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah was over now.

Or as we say in the south Chaka Chaka y'all. Up in 1984 4000. SAS through family says I apologize for apologizing. lol Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas. It's okay. Apology accepted. Yes. Both of

them. Mark Lundgren, essentially Richard 1111 through 1000. He says boot. Didn't have a boot. Oh, I did have a boot last week.

I went silent. Where's my booze? Is it? Oh, somewhere.

There's I got a slew of ISOs. I

know I already have. I want to know. Thank you. I have one queued up. I haven't even heard it, but I think it's good.

Okay, Mary Oscar, also known as Oscar marrieds. 10,000 SATs do fountain Thank you, Mary Oscar. He says resolving the case. And address is really not that big of a lift. In my opinion. Apps can cache the results just like they already cache lots of other information about the podcast episode feed. But another note fountain point 1.0 live next week. Yeah, it's

killer. All the new versions of the apps are killer. They're just all great. Like you said earlier like we've we've grown up our children have grown up. Oh, yes, yes. Blonde

Jr. They they've all crossed the threshold. into being very stable, reliable, fast apps fast.

Yeah, fast and just easy to navigate. Things are working. It's beautiful. It's beautiful.

I wish I'd taken more screenshots of the of the apps just to be able to look back and you know, two years ago what it looked like, just like when sometimes on Macedon, I'll go back and see, you know, Adam, you talked about having 58,000 SATs throwing flowing through the podcast index per day.

Oh, that's great. Yeah. 50,000 a day ladies and gentlemen, can you believe how long ago was that three years ago? to

two years?

That's fantastic.

Let's see we've got over the last seven days I'm looking at my dentist

sent me before and after my teeth that was scary. Hey, oh yeah,

you probably want to just burn now. I

totally I'm not posting it over

the last seven days 18,004,632 says

Wow, wow. Wow. So

it's about it's a little it's it's a little over $1,000 A day going through? Gene been 1337 through cast Matic he says Adam for what it's worth Chris Fisher at Jupiter broadcasting has been talking about the podcast winter for quite a long time now. I mentioned this simply to say it's not just you that sees it. Did it

does he call it the podcast winter though the actual podcast winter that's interesting. No,

ad apocalypse or something like that. Okay, well,

same. But podcast Winters is a is a bigger flows from the ad pocalypse and from Spotify is failure and be just bad news all around. No bad news. Meanwhile, it's not bad news. The bad this is a great time to be a podcast and especially to be have music in your podcast. Oh, what an exciting time.

I'm gonna pull my shows. That was baffling value for value music because like the intros and pre live stream echoes livestream.

Excellent.

It's a podcast winner but it's a music summer. Ellen see Paul 2000 sets the fountain he says spot on the music analogy is very appropriate. And it's the same thing that happened in the music industry. Individuality was squashed in an effort to make masses follow along.

I think Alan C. Paul, I think I've met him at the SPARC media conference.

Oh, interesting. Yeah, I was I don't recognize that name. He's a new booster. Yes.

He sent us a he sent Tina and I send us a a 21 day devotional for creatives, which is pretty interesting. Just been following. Yeah. I think that's I think that's alizee Paul. Yeah. Oh, man.

Cole McCormick 7777. Through fountain striper boost. He says if you want to continue the discussion of the alternate enclosure and what hosting companies can do better at check out episode 101 of America plus the creator of pot home Barry spoke with me about his vision and plan for the company. He's legit go podcasting. I

heard that interview. I listened to that interview. It was great. It was it was also deep about about Barry himself and his background and, you know, mushrooms and Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That was an interesting conversation. That's a pretty fun podcast. Listen to Oh, okay,

podcast, hosting and shrooms. Alright? We need to get baryons here.

We do. Yeah. Yeah.

Gene Everett 3333 through fat and he says boost the dude. Okay. whooshed Kevin Bay. Oh, baller bass 122523 through pod verse.

Whoa. Whoa, nice. Thank you.

Thank you, Kevin. He says Christmas boost. Merry Christmas, gentlemen.
Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas.

Yeah. Thanks, Kevin. Appreciate that. Kevin has been around forever. He's a longtime John. See if we got some from John as JC 2233 through pod verse says Merry Christmas guys. By the way, Adam, how is Texas slim doing is he's still around.

Oh, good question. Texas. Slim was in Thailand for several months. And, you know, he had intended to retire there before he got dragged into into saving American children by getting to eat American beef, grass fed grain finished beef. And he was basically doing a tour through northern Thailand on motorcycle. If he's badass. Okay, yeah, yes. But I think he's he may maybe he might have come back today or two days ago. So I think you'll see Texas limb start to crank up some stuff again.

I rode a motorcycle for many years. And I like as like every day to work and back. And I wrote a Add a BMW 650

GS. Oh, was this with a cylinder sticking out on the side? No, that's

the 1200 job I loved I had 650 this thing got set up over 70 miles to the gallon. That's why That's why I wrote it. But it was it was a cross country just like the 1200 gs like it could go anywhere. Yeah, but but the guy that bought it from me. And when I finally sold it at the guy that bought it from me he was he worse up in the defense in the defense area up in north Alabama. So he would work for I don't know what I think he's the Texas them stuff reminded me this he would work
for like three years, and then build up enough cash. And then he would him and his dad would go and buy motorcycles and like, spend a year going across some continent and wow. And then they would come back and he would just do it all over again. He just did this cycle. Like it. Yeah, it's crazy, man. It's like he was going he was buying my motorcycle to ride across West Africa

was so like Texas slim. No wife. No kids. Pretty much. Uh huh. There's a correlation there for something. Yes, there is.

J Moon 5033 says the podcast index he says Merry Christmas, gentlemen, to you and your families. Thank you. Thank you, Jay moon. Dobby does do 20,000 SATs through fountain he says it won't be able to listen to live. We'll be busy. So you already got that stream?

Not that one.

Did you get homewrecker?

I think I got tone wrecker. What a tone records

scraping together some support sas after last night's Minneapolis music stream. Yes.

Yeah, we got that one. Okay. All right. To a couple new ones that came in Cook 2112 Hey 21 told that's a rush, rush boost. But this is from Getty is God.

Oh, I don't know if he's God. But he's, he's really good at the base.

And it's from the from the podcasts index. The no Eddie node pub key and custom data in the RSS feed value split is the cache. If it sucks, if it succeeds, that's what they call a cache hit and everything is golden. If it fails, then you fetch from the key send value. Does that make any sense to you, Dave?

It does. Yeah, yeah, he's saying try a saint. Try that first, then fall back to resolving the address if it doesn't work. Got it. It makes sense. And

Jeff, Jeff, Ron, see 777 Merry Christmas. Thank you. And Jeanne Everett, boost boost boost my first time catching it live. And there you go. Those are those alive boosts. Thank you very much, Angie. Thank you.

And we got some monthlies. We get zener Trevor Zeno are $5 He's from Down Under Thank you, Trevor. Charles current $5 Michael Gagan $5 Christopher Raymer $10 Shawn McCune $20 Thank you. Shawn Cohen glotzbach $5 James Sullivan $10. And we got a new monthly subscriber Michael Hall. $5.50 Thank you, Michael. Thank you Michael. And we got an in Kevin Bay also sent us $3.54 From the Parkinson's endowment fund. Thank you, Kevin.

Thank you. That's truly isn't Donald let me check the tally coin real quick. You know, we just do it because this is where I say that you can support us value for value
supporting the whole index the whole project. It all goes into the project nothing in the tally coin but if you want to go look at nothing on the tally coin, you can go to podcast index.org down at the bottom two red donate buttons one for your Fiat fun coupons through Pay Pal which we appreciate the other one for your on chain Bitcoin. Everyone told us I'll be sending
you I'll be sending you full coin. Okay. And of course what we really want is for you to get a modern podcast that podcast apps.com and grab one there, they're mature, they're good they rock they you can integrate now with all kinds of different payment systems strikes seems to be working well for people cash app still a way to to get money in and working. It gets as Karen said earlier, it's getting easier and easier. And we really appreciate that as a way for you to send us value for the value
that the show and the whole project provides. Thank you again for supporting podcasting. 2.0. Kira,

we have we got a we got to talk next week. Next next week. We got to get into more of a get started talking about 2024 And what we're going to focus on.

Yes, well, you're going to tell us you're the pod sage. You're going to tell us what we're going to focus on which you will We'll probably be this serializing, your HTTP s signature for the fediverse whatever that whatever the thing is that you need done, that'll be that that'll be the first thing that needs to be done.

Yes,

we've got to fix that. chyron Any closing words, my friend?

Oh, I just wanted to thank you guys so much for everything that you do like it, it needs no repeating. But it's, you've completely changed my life in terms of like the podcasting and the direction I wanted to focus on and go down. So yeah, just coming across. What both of you have done is just was spearheaded along with everyone else, of course, as has been truly, truly amazing. So an early Christmas for me, definitely appearing on the show as well. I have one question I
did want to ask was the Bitcoin meet up? Meet Up Bitcoin event in July? Has there any news on that as you still got a slot on the stage? What's What's the guy with that?

Well, they reached out to me, and it was a very weird conversation. They said, you know, we'd love to have you on stage. Okay, here's the idea. I'm happy to do like a, you know, a speech, a keynote, you know, whatever. And then I'd like to do is, we'd like you to do panels at Great. I'll do a panel. And I'd like to have a musician or podcasts or app developer, and they said, great, and we want to have a politician and a nasty guy. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no, I says
podcasting. 2.0 Well, but you know, the draw of someone like Tucker Carlson like, no, no, I don't want Tucker Carlson onstage. I don't know. It's like, well, you know, we want the PR values like, Oh, okay. And, um, that was the last I heard from them. So I am, I have to say, Dave, you're going right? Do you have tickets? They've you get tickets?

No, I don't have tickets. Because I've been trying to. I've been waiting to see if we even needed them. Because I just don't know what, I don't know what's happening. Man, I plan on going because it's so close to my house. I mean, it's only two hours away, right? It's in Nashville, and I'm in Birmingham. And so I plan on going but I'm like, Well, I don't know if any tickets because I don't know if we're actually going to do a presentation or anything.

I'll reach out to I mean, I think there's enough people are going to be going chyron that it's it's always fun to meet up with people.

That was my plan, no matter what. Yeah. And the

fact that if you're coming, and I'm sure Oscar is going to be there. Dave if you're there, I mean, you know, I'm not quite sure what days it is. Because, you know, like producing stuff on the road. Because I have to keep kind of my day job going. But you

know, I'd stay through Saturday is of course, the horse

couldn't be any worse. Yeah. So um, I'm not sure but I will get an answer from those guys. Because I think it'd be fun to do that. I think we could, you know, with we could we could we could do the V for V LIVE I'd like and I was telling was like, we have all this cool stuff. And we can have booster grams that show up on the screens. We can have QR codes for people to participate in the audience. It was like yeah, and Tucker Carlson. Ah

this is such a weird thing. Very weird.

Well, you know, because we need it. We need a big names. Like, what do you want? You want to have a conference that is, informs people and show something that's some stuff good stuff that's going on? Or

did you tell them currents coming?

There you? And I just said Hey, baby, we're gonna have a nice little sesh on stage. Parents come in. That's right. We got the pod sage on the stage. Yeah, baby.

Please don't ever say sesh against like, says no. This role.

Thank you very much. boardroom. Thank you, everybody who showed up at this late hour. Thank you. For those who are tuning in late from overseas, baby. Yeah, you made it so extra special tonight. Kyron Are you will? It's lunchtime for you.

It's just past it. But yeah, yeah. Okay.

Well enjoy your enjoy your lunch day. My brother. Do you have yourself a great weekend?

You too, man. And Christmas. Yeah. Oh, that's

right. Merry Christmas, everybody.

Merry Christmas. Right. We

said Merry Christmas. And that'll do it for podcasting. 2.0 for our pre Christmas Show.
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