podcasting

“I've recognized how important it is to control the energy in the room, and as the host, it's totally on you. A lot of people think, oh, you know, I'll just bring in Leah and Tom, and they're gonna be super fun. This is gonna be great. And you are both super fu…”

“I would also say to podcasters, definitely transcribe your stuff, because Google is not friendly to audio, and you want that, like, index stuff right there.”

“I mean, I think it's two hundred and fifty million a year now in like ad revenues, which is like tiny considering how much people talk about podcasting.”

“You need, like, what's, it needs to be about something, but it can't be, the concept can't be too binding, otherwise you're not going to be able to find enough stories to sort of keep it going.”

“You have to start with some, with a vision of what you want to be. And then like you copy that and then eventually you'll find your way to your own voice through copying. But like, if you're just starting out, I'm original, I'm going to do it my way. Like, it'…”

“Like that's, it's like sort of like the startup equivalent is sort of you bet on the founder. I think that's even more the case in podcasting if that's possible”

“So we just try to figure out like, okay, what are we doing? And right now we've, we, and we try to do all of them. Like the big ones can sort of bring storytelling, bring that companionship and bring something that you learn.”

“Metric driven content production that's very professionally done sometimes loses the magic of podcasting.”

“There's been, ah, basically professors that have quit their teaching positions to be full-time podcasters because they quite literally make millions of dollars podcasting.”

“Podcasting, and even, I probably say newsletters, it's one of the last ways to get direct free speech from someone's mind out into the world, and people will say things in a podcast that they couldn't Print or they can do something in a newsletter they couldn'…”