Hi. This is Timothy Kim O'Brien, and this is Kyle Bondo. And you're listening to Podrect, where we teach you how to survive your podcast. And hey, welcome back for our special episode for international podcast day. You know, folks, this is a a special time. A special time for Kyle and I because we get to reach out to you, our listener here, and we get to reach out to other podcasters and and kind of, you know, do a hand holding Kumbaya and really celebrate the power of podcasting.
Now International Podcast Day was brought to us way back in 20 14 where they were doing 6 hours of continual podcasting. It got bumped up in 20 15 and was made really international 55 count them 55 countries participate in international podcast and this is our contribution to International Podcast Day. What are we gonna be doing this episode? I'm glad you asked. Kyle, I'm glad you asked tonight. Before we What are we gonna be doing, Tim? What is this specialness?
So I came up with a well, it it actually, we we came up with it together, but III was punching Kyle a little bit through Facebook Messenger. And I thought, wouldn't it be great? Wouldn't our listener out there like to know, hey, what stuff do we listen to and why do we listen to it? I mean, I always like to know, you know, who's, you know, the people I'm listening to. I always wanna know what they're listening to, how they get their information. So tonight, we're gonna give you 3 each from us.
That equals math and that equals 6. Podcast. I know math is hard. Math is tough. And we don't know how to count here because when we hit 6 and really it's 10, but we don't really try really hard. We're we're just gonna make it to or professionals, we can do this. Now we're gonna break this down into 3 categories here for us. I know more math. Alright? So our first category is well, of course, podcast about podcasting shows. It's very meta because it's very meta.
Podcasts or podcast shows talking about podcast podcast shows that we watch that we listen to about podcasting. I'm just international podcast day. It's like 10 to the seventh power of podcasting. It never stops. It never stops. So I'm gonna I'm gonna kick us off here with my choice for podcast about podcasting shows. And
this 1, it has changed over the years, and I recently found this in the past, I don't know, year stunned by Chris Curran. It's called the podcast engineering engineering school wall. Now, what I really like about this show, Kyle, is it does go in the weeds. You do geek out with it very much so. For the for the hour that he does, plus he does the blog post, and he does a nice round up at the end of the week for his blog post that he, you know, he's talking about all things audio
tech side of the house. And it goes over people's setup and, you know, what they're talking through, the microphone they're talking to, the cloud lifter, the amps, the whole 10 yards. He goes through it. He it's not 1 of those things where he's talking down to you. He realizes that probably a lot of his audience are not professional sound engineers. But their amateur podcasts independent podcasters
that are just trying to make their podcast that much better. And he's giving you a wealth of information. He's got his own school, his own courses, all that kind of jazz. He does sell that, but it's not 1 of those things that every
other sentence is And if you wanna learn more, go to my website and send up for this class and all that kind of jazz. He actually takes you through it you feel like you get a good value out of it because while you're paying nothing for it, but you're getting some really great advice from this guy, the only grape I have on him, Kyle. Only gripe I have on him. And if I ever see him in person, I'm gonna talk to him about this. Is that the other show?
It's the 3 minutes of him rocking out Now I now Kyle had a fantastic talk at MAPCon, otherwise known as any podcast about keeping your weird and he mentioned the the grunt and the sound great at the end of the show, which I think is, you know, hey, fantastic. Go wild with it. It's his weird. But then 3 minutes of music afterwards, you
know, I I it it it beats in my head. I listened to it at 4 in the morning so that way I don't have to drink a cup of coffee. I can get on my train and get to work and start up my day. But I I again, I like it because it it is it let you know everything that's going on in the setup. Now Kyle, I think you might have an opinion on mister Chris current. Oh, see, Chris Chris is my spirit animal.
When he starts into that singing along with his own theme music that there's something about his laugh and the way he I mean, he'll get serious and he'll get you don't get down into the right into the weeds on on technology. But the guy is just his laugh is infectious. You cannot help but smile when you're talking to Chris. He's he's just a jolly kind of guy. And he kind of he makes technology easy to understand.
And, yeah, 3 minutes. Of of, you know, if you listen to the whole show and you're there at the end for 3 minutes and you're listening to 3 minutes of it, you're listening to it on purpose.
So the beginning even though it was at the beginning, his his intro music is kind of kind of, you know, it's kind of got a little smaller. He talks during the middle of it. And then he's got he's got some cool, little quirky things in a show too. He definitely doesn't do, especially some of his voice over work that he has, which is fantastic that
they talk to the old high I don't wanna give it away. You gotta really go do his show and listen to what I'm talking about his voice over work because he had his, like, former landlord
that he had, that he recorded all these different snippets from. And then the landlord's voices drops into the show. It's like, hey, let me let me ask about this. And there he is. So definitely in the show. But if you're at the end of 3 minutes, you know, listen. Yeah. I'm I was not on purpose. That's why I love that stuff.
I'm I'm just hoping 1 day that he cuts that out and and and people go, wait, what happened? What happened? You know? And I'm gonna be there that day, and I'm gonna be the first 1 to email him because I'm listening to 4 in the morning. And I and I can be the guy that goes, hey, what happened to this and spread it out throughout the world? That's my goal in life right now. Nothing else, just that. Just that. Kyle, what's your favorite podcast about podcasting?
Oh, so meta. That we're being tonight. Oh, of course, this is this is probably a no brainer. My favorite, of course, is hall of famer. The 1, the only Dave Jackson school of podcasting. Now this is a tie because I also love Asda podcast coach because it's interactive. And oftentimes, I'll ask a question and the question will pop up and they'll talk about it, which is fantastic. But school podcasting by itself
or looking at what? Almost 700 episodes now. I started listening to Dave Jackson back in the 3 hundreds. And now he's at 700, which means I've listened to almost 300 episodes of Dave Jackson talking about podcasting. And then you think, like, can can it get old? Can it, you know, early? Can you can get burned down and stuff?
I don't know. I don't maybe you can, but I haven't. Every time Dave brings up a topic and he starts talking about podcasting, I'm hooked. I wanna know what's going on. A lot of times it's it's validation. I'll hear Dave Jackson talk about a topic that I already know about.
But the way he approaches it, the way his mind works when he's thinking about it and some of the metaphors and analogies he comes up with, I'm like, Oh, man. That clears it up so much. Or I'll be like thinking, you know, I've never done it that way. Why would I ever go do a different way? He'll talk about a different way. I'm like, never now I know that maybe I, you know, I did it the right way the first time and I didn't have to experiment because Dave's, you know, he's he talks about how he's tried out all these different things that failed, and then talks about the failures. Like, hey, I did this. And 1 thing that just to kind of the pimp Dave to even some more,
is the 1 thing I love that he did the best was his microphone shootout. Is I heard him use a whole bunch of microphones that were between 60 bucks and 500 bucks. And he went through them all, and I heard them all. And I had a hard time noticing the difference And when you don't notice the difference between microphones, they're between 60 and a 500 dollars, you have to ask yourself, then why am I buying a 500 dollar microphone? If I don't sound any than the 60 dollar microphone,
that's the kind of thing you get. Or, hey, I didn't know that if I use this podcasting host that, oh, by the way, they're going out of business or if I use this other 1, I can't redirects. These little tiny things you would never know unless you crash and burn by trying to do something you podwreck, by trying some of these things. That's Dave Jackson.
And I I know Tim, you you're a you're a fan boy of Dave Jackson as well just like I am. I mean, you you you probably had a hard time picking 1 in this category, didn't you? Well, I I've evolved. When when I first started listening to podcasts about podcasts, I listened to the audacity to podcasts that would down to Lewis. Yep. And and I really liked him. Voice was good. Just just he was a really nice guy. Then, you
know, that kinda went away. He's on hiatus. I don't know what he's doing. I I think he's like Bruce Lee, he's been frozen. He's not dead. He's been frozen until the financial collapse happens, and then he'll be thawed out and he'll rescue America and podcasting for the world. I thought he was walking on the earth like Jane from Kung Fu and, like, you know, He's doing it for mass while frozen. He's doing it while frozen. While frozen. He's a kung fu in Latin America.
Exactly. Got it. So I I went from him, and then I I went to Dave, and initially, there was something about Dave's voice that just graded on me for a minute. And then I and I'm a picky guy like that. I will admit it. If somebody's voice grates on me, I'm probably not gonna listen to him, but then I I was listening to the podcast radio show, and I was listening to school of podcasting. And as the podcast coach, I was listening to all 3 of those same time. And I'm like, okay. I'm gonna
feast in on Dave. And then, of course, I met him at DC Pod Fest. 3 year well, it'll be 3 years ago now with my infamous collar and being on Vikinin and I have in my neck surgery. And the guy was just the nicest person on the face of the planet. I didn't know me from spit took an interest in what I was doing. Was like, hey, listen, you don't need to speak. Your voice is screwed up right now. You just had surgery. Don't talk. Don't ruin your vocal cords. I got you.
And really nice guy. He's been on this show, obviously. And we've both been on his his podcast rodeo show. And just a wealth of information, but I I gotta go with Chris Curran. I just even though that last 3 minutes of his show irritates me. I'm still listening to it just like I listened to Dave and his voice initially irritated me. So I've gone through the evolution of that. What's weird is is in my stack of hundreds of odd podcasts,
I bounce around. I'll listen to, you know, I listen to Chris for a while. You know, I always listen to Dave. And then I there's a couple others in there that I listen to. And you start to you start to, like, you ebb and flow because you only have so many hours in the day. I mean, my commute is is horrible, but my commute is ends. And I only have to do actually to go, you know, my math work, I have to do some work. So sometimes I can listen to some stuff. Sometimes I can't depends on what I'm doing. I'm writing, you know, I have to write something. I have to really be really intellectual. I can't sit and listen to stuff like this. Usually, it's what I'm doing, like, I'm on the mountain bike, I'm on the trail, I'm in the car, you know, doing yard work or I'm I'm or I'm doing design work. Am I doing any kind of graphic design work? I can usually listen to someone talking while doing gravity design work. I can't do it while I'm writing. Mhmm.
So and so I have to pick. Yep. Sometimes, you you which which depends on what you know? Some some days you want tacos, you know, some days you want donuts. So so, some days you want Chris Cranes, some days you want Dave Jackson. I get it. That's 1 of those kind of things. Picking 3 is hard. This is the hardest thing you've ever challenged me to do with him. So III mean, Dave Jackson, and I I went through I went, you know, picking my my my fantasy football team, my fantasy podcast team.
Dave's gotta be on my team. Alright. I'm I I had to put a gun to Kyle's head here, folks. Just just to let you know, I had to deal with that because he will go through
all 80 podcasts on his podcast. I will. Yeah. He will. He will go that he he got it all folded out and everything. I got it. If you're a Patreon subscriber, if you go become a Patreon subscriber, if you go to a 5 dollar or 10 dollar tier Patreon subscriber, I will go through my entire podcast list for you. I will do that. If you go there, I will do that. I promise. If you're having a little issue with doing that with the supply in the 5 bucks, I will give you the 5 bucks
go ahead to Patreon and and check that out. Just to make me do it. Just to make him do it because he's done it to me and I wanna see him do it to somebody else. But Kyle, we we're gonna move on here. We're gonna move on. Okay. So our second 1 is personal development. This is a wide, wide variety of shows that it is in personal development. But Kyle, I'm gonna let you go first here. Give me your personal development show.
Okay. So this was again another 1 because I've been I guess you say for the past year or so, I've been kind of doing this personal development thing where I had a hard time. I was doing too many things at once. I was running a race company. I was trying to do podcast stuff. I'm a full time IT guy. Family guy or the whole 9 yards, and I had to
limit my scope. It was just too big. And so I I started doing and I and I I thought about picking Michael Hyatt, who does 1 called, like, love, shoot to lean to win or something like that. And because I'm doing his best year ever course in doing that kind of thing. Right? However, I had to pick a favorite So it couldn't be Gary V. It couldn't be Michael Hyatt. It it was in in Seth Code and those were all, like, tied for the second. Right? Number 1, however, is the Ray Edwards Show.
Ray Edwards is this gentleman from I believe you're from Spokane, Washington, and he has a show where He gets a little he gets he gets some he gets some you know, there's some Jesus in there. There's a little bit a lot of business stuff. He and his son run a coffee shop out of Spokane, Washington. And he has Parkinson's disease, which is something that he, at 1 time,
was handicapped by. And now he's kinda gone he's kinda gone gone past that. My grandfather passed away from Parkinson's disease, so I'm a little kinship there with mister Ray Edwards. But he takes his podcast and he takes his business concepts and his personal development and he breaks it down into a way that you can apply to your own life. Imply to your business, you apply to a master class, you apply to learning a course, whatever it is. And he's a copywriter. So he talks totally about
how to frame things and talk about how do you sell products in a way that people actually will buy them. That's kind of where his bread and butter is. But his podcast tends to be all sorts of things. In fact, you never really know kind of what you're gonna get or kind of personal development thing he might provide you.
Until you until you until you turn it on. I mean, sometimes he's there with his intern, and they talk, sometimes he's there with his son, or his brother, I think, was on a show once and a couple other guests have been on the show. He's interviewed people. He's kind of this, like like, variety show in a way. It's not all business. It's not all spiritual growth or professional growth. And he talks about his personal life a lot is challenges. I mean, Parkinson's and sucks.
If you know anybody at Parkinson's or experience it yourself, you know, that's that's the tough thing. I had a friend here locally who had was items parkinson. It his whole life was, like, blown up for a year because he he had changed everything he did because go, medicine, all kind of things. So you imagine being hit with that kind of that kind of news and yet having the perseverance to go through it, he literally believes that he can beat this disease. That is really inspirational
to think that there's this guy who's got Parkinson's, like, okay. That's it. I guess I was gonna wait to die. No. Not not rad words. Their rad words is like, Nah. Screw it. I'm not dying. I'm gonna beat this thing. I know there's this cure out there somewhere. I'm gonna find it or I'm gonna find here. I figure out a way to do my life better. So that this thing doesn't have any impact on me. That's freaking awesome. And on top of that, he's like, oh, and by the way, I also have all these great business lessons. And spiritual lessons to teach you along the way. That's why I like him. Because I never know what I may get and every time I get something, it's always a nook and I ain't applied to my life.
So, Tim, what is so and that's a that's a that's a big that's a big thing to follow. But hit me with with I I already know your answer is because I love this show too, but hit us with what you think. Is your favorite podcast about personal development? Well, Ray Edward sounds like a very manly man. I I will say that. He is a very manly man, but I I'm gonna go with the art of manliness.
And I I need to point out to our our our listeners of the female persuasion that art of gentleness is not necessarily just for men. It's a podcast that well, it's a podcast website. It's a whole whole rigmarole thing. He talks about, you know, weightlifting. He talks about philosophy. He talks about ancient Greek philosophy. He talks about handwriting. He talks about calligraphy. He talked about how to make a book clock.
That's that's where I got some of my ideas from my art podcast is is from the art of manliness. It it's about how to be a man or or and not man in the macho sense. How to be masculine? How to live your life. And it's not 1 of those things that you have to do. This this this, you have to have this kind of a mustache, you have to bench press 400 pounds. It's about finding kind of your own path and your own definition. Of what a man is, but making sure that you are defining
what a man is in your eyes. And he's giving his definition of what he feels a man is, but he's open to whatever your definition is. I've I've heard him talk a lot of a lot of ancient Greek philosophy, psychology, stuff that he may not necessarily agree with, but he brings in on his show to give that viewpoint, to give that to give that thing a, you know, to to roll it on out there, to let you make your own decision on that. But that's that's where I really appreciate
on him. He's he's giving his viewpoint, but then he's, you know, saying, hey, listen. Define it yourself, but at least have a definition for it. And this is how you can, you know, learn how to critically think and make that definition and make those right choices.
So for me, art of manliness is is the top 1. You said Seth Golden. Of course, you had to bring up Seth Golden, the bald guy. It's tough. I mean, this is the Another tough category. I've got, you know, there's, like, a lot of lot stuck for tied for for second place. Art of Manliness is 1 of those too. Sometimes that show is so awesome that you're, like,
dang, I need to, like, turn this off and go, like, change some stuff in my life. That's how much the art of manliness is. Yeah. So It well, that and Kimba, which is the Seth Golden thing, I'm -- Yeah. -- that one's certainly sending my stepson. He's 18. I'm constantly sending him those episodes. I'm constantly sending my wife a a Kimbel episodes, and and she's
she's a beginner podcast listener, and that's and that's a good thing. But she loves that kind of stuff when I toss it over to her. And and that's something that we can share. And that's why this is the perfect topic for International Podcast Day. Is because we want to share these with you.
We want you to discover them. And then we want you to come back to us and let us know what you're listening to in these 3 categories. We're gonna get to the third category in just a moment here. But how do you do that, Kyle? How can they share their list with us? Well, that's easy. You're gonna go to potwrecht
at gmail dot com and send that to us and let us know what you think of of the podcast that we've talked about and whether or not they're your favorite shows, and then let it share it with us. What is it that you what is your top 3? Based on these categories, What's your favorite podcast about podcasting? What is your favorite podcast for personal development? And of course, Number 3, drum roll. Number 3, the guilty pleasure. That's right. This is the podcast.
That you don't really like to tell your friends that you listen to or maybe that you listen to all the way too many times or you listen to it more than once you've gone through it more than once. This is that podcast that that really is it's kinda your ultra favorites but maybe what they what they hear about the the the the thing that they the shirt that you have in your closet that you wear around the house, but you would never wear it outside to a restaurant or to a gathering. You know,
all us guys have a lovelage or some people think that's really cool. I mean, I've got a couple shirts in my closet that that
that scream nerd. I think I have 1 that's got Boba Fett's head on it. And it's a polo shirt. So it looks like like the little alligator on there. But if you look closely, it's both of its face. You're like, what? Oh, yeah. That's that's the nerd cred right there. You wear that 1 around. The engineers will all be like, yeah, we know where you are. Yeah. But, Tim, I'm gonna let you go. This 1, I'd really want you to to kinda to wrap up our international podcast day
top 3 list with what is your favorite podcast, your favorite guilty pleasure podcast? Well, see, I'll just talk about shirts. And I I'm I'm trying to show you my shirt here, Kyle. It's from a gas station out in Iowa called Kum and Go, KUM and Go. It's a real gas station, and I found them back in 19 99 when I was doing the lights for the Des Moines Metro Opera.
And for you, people up for for you listening to the show right now, his shirt is is quite elegant. There's a lot of a lot of work in there, a lot of lot of latest work. It's got good topography and something. But, man, it is it's a
it seemed better. Double entendre. If you know what? If you don't know what double entendre is, please go Google that and you will definitely understand what what I'm talking about with this shirt is. But it's it's well made. I like your shirt. Hey, yeah, that's not something you would wear to don't know. Church. Probably not somebody wears a boy scout gathering. Nope. Not that holiday. No. Girls got cookies? Nope. It would do it. Definitely. No playgrounds. Yeah. Probably like you get school.
You know, I have warnings. But you know, Kyle, I wear this shirt every time I listen to, Are you ready for it? Are you ready? Here we go. It'll be pleasure. Of the dude. Alright. So what now this 1 I don't know. What is Virgil the Duke? That sounds really this has to be a guilty pleasure because of this is this okay. What what is this? This is weird. I can't even tell you how I found this podcast. I don't know.
I'm going back through emails. I'm listening to, you know, all the kinds of podcasts. I'm going through my browser history. Trying to figure out how I found this bad boy. So it's the guy that runs it, his name is Lance Anderson, and he's out in Los Angeles. And he was in, like, the first wave of podcasters in the mid 2 thousands, 2005, 2006, 2007, he was running the LA podcasters group out there. And what it is is he's at the Zane Gray
I had to look Zane Gray up. I was like, is that a writer? He's at the Zane Gray estate's way out there on the West Coast. Famous writer. Kyle, you should know Zane Craig. He's a West Coast guy. So Yeah. Yeah. I don't ever been in goes. Exactly. Hey. That's cool. Yeah. I've seen it at the meetings. It's cool. I'm a Chicago guy. They're like, hey, you know my cousin, Vinnie. I'm like, Yeah. He owes me 20 bucks. He said you're gonna pay it. Come on.
So what the show is about is it's set up like a he's leaving a voice mail message for his buddy, and he's telling him the weird stuff that happened that day what he's writing, having memories of his podcast days back in the mid 2 thousands. And just It's like you're a voyeur.
You got the voice mail, but you weren't supposed to get the voice mail. It says buddy that's supposed to get the voice mail. But you're listening to this guy ramble on. About all this weird stuff in in his life and, you know, the girls that he's used to see and people that he's known that have died, and drugs that he's taken,
and how the podcast movement has come up, and his old podcast was fantastic, and then it went down. And it it's I guess the best way I can describe it is it's a beatnik kind of literary thing in the podcast, a cloak of darkness.
And he needs to steal that from me. I hope he does. And I'm gonna email them and say, dude, listen to this episode. That's how you should market your podcast. But he's, you know, he's got a little tiny website. He's on lips and doesn't do a whole lot of social media that I can find, and it's just him. Now he did bring a girl on a couple of episodes ago, And that's the first time I've heard anyone else on his show, but it's just him.
And the the the sound of it sounds like he's actually, you know, leaving a message on an old answering machine. And I just I just love it. I just it's hard to describe and I don't ever want it to become super popular, and I want all the hip kids to get in it in on it, like, you know, Nightmail. Nightmail is fantastic. It's a guilty pleasure, but too many people are involved in it. And I want virtue to do to kind of remain underground.
And I think he wants to keep it underground too. I don't know. But it's just It's 1 of those that you listen to it and you're like, how the hell did I find that 1? Now you know, you will listen to this episode. You listen to this episode. Today, September the thirtieth 20 19, you found virtue of the dude. No. No. Don't talk to anybody. Okay? That's they'll just be between you, me, and Kyle. Okay? Very good. That's awesome. That's very awesome.
Alright. So the version of the dude, it almost sounds like it sounds a little bit of like some a movie. The name of Jeff Bridges in a movie where he played something called, like, the dude. The dude. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. The big lebowski. The big lebowski. Yeah. It sounds like guys that kind of like sound to the the title, but Yes. Interesting. Okay. So that's your guilty pleasure. Yeah. Now My GILBIA Pleasure is probably not 1 you expect.
And people who know me and know my my interests are might not know that I like this podcast probably more than just about any other podcast. Now, little history here is I didn't know this podcast existed until I went to the Chris Crispos Pod Fest beat multimedia expo in Orlando 2 years ago. And I went to a small panel discussion
on audio dramas. Kinda I wanted I was interested in audio dramas. I wanted to know how they were put together. I had some ideas for audio dramas, and I wanted to know how do audio dramas get made? And I showed up there, and 1 of the per people on the panel was a woman named Sarah Warner. And Sarah Warner was a producer, a writer, a director, and she had a bunch of friends up there that were all time on audio dramas.
And she talked about her audio drama where everyone thinks it's full production, giant studios, voice over actors, thousands of dollars production, and she started talking about how she bought a microphone. I think it was even a blue yeti. She slid it on the table with her laptop and just started recording about a story that she came up with in her own head. And from there, it turned into another episode with a story that she brought in to, I guess, her husband, her friends,
or people she knew, and it started to grow, and it started to grow, and started to grow. And to this day, there's really only been like 13 episodes. And that podcast is called Girl and Space. Girl and Space is an audio drama that started in
in Sarah's, I guess, her kitchen table where she just started recording about a girl in space. I mean, it's really I mean, you're gonna think about it as, like, the title kinda says at all, what's the podcast about? About a girl in space, about this girl who's on spaceship, and then things start happening. And as things start happening, things start the the plot gets thicker and more complex, and more involved, and new characters arrive, and things start happening, and all chaos ensues. In fact, it's been a year, year and a half or so, maybe in 2 years of her putting this plot together where she just released episode 13 just a couple weeks ago.
So now we're at the Conclusion of season 1, total cliff hangers. And now you're like, oh my gosh. I need more. That's my guilty pleasure. Girlin space is my guilty pleasure. And no 1 who ever knew me or knows me would ever say, that's her that's her, really? Yes. That is there's something about it. It's it's so it's simple and nice and innocent yet complex and has depth and is interesting that you really enjoy it. And that that is my guilty pleasure.
Yes. And see if I would have known that I might not have gotten in the car with you 3 years ago to go to DC podcast. But 1 of these days, I'll get you to listen to it because it's fantastic. What are you doing with November first and second, Kyle? Well, that's, of course, I'm gonna be a DC podcast. That's Well, there we go. And then if you wanna you should be too. Yeah. If you wanna go to DC podcast, which is probably 1 of the best podcast
in the fall. In the deep deep deep fall because no you know, November's like, I guess, we're almost, like, wintertime. Though it's kind of a last podcasting conferences of the year. It's the good it's the it's the the footnote or not the footnote. The the in cap, I guess, you can call it. Right? If you have to -- Mhmm. -- get the very the very beginning 1 that you have to go to, of course, is a podcast Expo.
That's the 1 down Orlando. And then you get the kind of the 1 in the middle or towards the end of them, which is Matt Con, which is now the independent podcasting conference, which is like that end of summer kind of feel to it. Oh, yeah. Kinda like you get to go. You get, like, 1 little more weekend of summer vacation. That's what that's what that's like. And then right when DC starts to get wet and cold,
that's when DC Podcast comes comes around. And it's and usually, it's like it's like a reunion. All your friends are there. You get to learn a bunch of stuff. It's a whole lot of fun. It's intimate, some breakout rooms, but to me a blast. And Tim and I are going to be there. Tim and I are not gonna be there. We're gonna be on experts' alley. That's right. Nice.
Alley. That's right. We'll be representing Gaggle pod on an escrow expert alley where if you have a question, if you are stuck, I'm like, oh, I do not know what to do next. Come the DC podcast. Where Tim and I will definitely answer that question. And if we don't have an answer for you, we know someone who does. Mhmm. Absolutely. Absolutely. Alright, Tim. So that's our 3. That's our 3 weird
international podcast day lists. We'll have the show notes. Where if you can go find the links to these podcasts, you wanna listen to them too, we'd love to hear what your lists are. And, Tim, what's our final thoughts for this? So, Karl, our final thoughts is this podcasting. You know, III talk about this a lot on this show. And and and you talk about it a lot on the show too.
Podcasts work because of you, the audience, the people that are listening to it, the people that are sharing it with your friends, We hope we've introduced you to some stuff that you may have not heard before and you'll give it a shot. We both think that our picks are definitely worth your time and with your attention.
Because let let's face it in this world. You know, we're looking at our cell phones half the day. Looking at computer screens for the other half of the day. We've got tablets. We've got all this media tossed at us. And a lot of it is just crap. It just you know, it's just stuff that doesn't bring any joy, any direction, or any or any wisdom to your life. And I think all 6 of these podcasts bring that to you. They bring joy with, you know, our our our our our guilty pleasures,
the stuff that we want you to listen to, but don't tell a whole lot of people about it. But, you know, hey, if they got a Patriot account, give them a lot of money, give them a lot of money, give them all your money. The the the self improvement, the personal development stuff, we all can do better. And it's nice to have somebody to list you that you trust to help you guide you through the the other things in your life. Here at PodRact, we handle your podcast.
If you got a personal problem with your spouse, you're gonna need to see somebody else. Or if you got a personal problem with your finances, That'll be a different podcast on a different night. And then, of course, we'll we'll try. We could we'll give it a shout out to somebody. And, Tim and I know a lot of people. We might help somebody. Well, we know a lot of podcasters, so there you go. And then our first category just gonna work at us backwardsers podcast about podcast.
You know, we don't learn about this in high school too much, but there are high school classes being started. Thanks to Jeff Bradbury over at the teacher cast. It's beginning to happen, but I know when I was in high school, it wasn't 2004 when podcasting first started. I was in high school a little bit a little bit before that. And and, you know, it's
this stuff can be difficult, can be daunting, that's why we're here to help you. We're here to help you survive your podcast, and that's what we'd like to do with you every week find different ways to help you survive it. And this is 1 way that we can contribute to the international podcast podcasters out there and celebrate international podcast day is by giving you this information, giving you our personal favorites.
Yeah. We've had a good time. Yeah. We've had a lot of good laughs, but we definitely wanna hear from you. Give us your 3 favorites with those categories, podrick at gmail dot com. Love to hear from you. And go ahead and send that on in. May even read it on the ear and you don't have some comments on the pics that you have. There'll be nice comments. There'll be constructive comments, but there'll be comments. And that's all I have for you this week. Can't wait to see you next episode.
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Thank you so much for listening to this special edition of Pod Rec, where we're celebrating International Podcast Day. And for listening to the shows we kinda like, now we know that 3 is hard to fix. In fact, 3 is really hard to pick. You looked at my pocket cast. Look at Tim's pocket cast. Jeez. It's 75, 85, a hundred podcasts we have in there. Why? Because we are professional listeners. We love listener podcast, and we know that you love listener podcast too. What are your 3 Tell us what your 3 favorites are. International podcast day could really be International podcast week. International podcast month. Maybe the whole month of October. Why not? Let's just make it a the unofficial official
month of podcast and let us know. Find this at hotwrecht at gmail dot com and tell us what your top 3 We'd like to know because, you know, Tim and I like to find new stuff too, so give us some ideas of things that you like, podcasts you enjoy that you want to tell us about, that'd be great. And of course, you can find this show and other shows like it at pod rack dot com. The final or other podcast episodes that we'd have out there, we'd love for you to be a subscriber.
And also, hey, go on iTunes. Give us 5 stars. Tell us what you think. We'd love your feedback. Again, at pod rack at gmail dot com, we not only wanna hear what 3 you like, tells what you like about the show, hey, maybe even if you have a question and idea, we'd make a whole episode out of your question if you really want it to answer. That's right. We have the power to do that. Because at PodRact, we're here to help you survive
your podcast. Thank you very much for listening, and we'll see you next time on PodRact. It's the pre show, lollipop. It's a grand show, lollipop. Doctor Ties Parkley. This podcast is part of the Gagapod network. Find more podcasts like this at gagapod dot com.