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Welcome to podcast answers the show where we help you grow and start your podcast answering

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any questions along the way.

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So guys welcome to a new episode a new edition I we it's been a while since I've done this

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show. And that's because I was really busy last week and I had to take some time off.

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So with that, we are back and we're ready to do this show. So what is today's topic?

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I'm glad you asked today. We are going to be talking about community creating a podcast

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community around your show. And so at the end of this show, I will be actually introducing

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the podcast community for podcast answers. So stick with me. There's a couple of different

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ways that you can do podcast communities and the way that I like to do it, well, several

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different ways. The first one is going to be Facebook groups and Facebook groups are

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great. If you're on Facebook, you can create a group and you can make it private. You can

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make it people answer questions first. You can have moderators. It's great. The one thing

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I don't really particularly like about you can even go live in that podcast group.

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So that's cool because if you want to go live with a live video, you can you can do that.

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The one thing I don't like about podcasting or any community groups on Facebook is that

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you have to be on Facebook.

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That's the problem with any application that you're going to be using to build your community

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around is it has to be a you have to have people use that app.

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So whether you're using Facebook or Discord or Telegram or any other application that

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you can use to create your community around, they have to be on it.

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The thing is, is people are likely going to have a sign up for things like Discord.

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They will sign up for that for Telegram.

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They're less likely if they're against Facebook, they don't want to have a personal Facebook

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page just to join your community.

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So that may not be the best way to actually have a community when it comes to your podcast.

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So another option is Discord.

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And well, actually, let's go back to Facebook real quick.

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The way that Facebook is set up is just like your Facebook and normal Facebook timeline.

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You have timelines, there's one stream of consciousness, people can post and then there's, you can do

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comments and stuff off that.

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You can then have moderators moderate that and I would actually recommend doing that.

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But the one thing that I don't necessarily like about Facebook is just that it's hard

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to organize your thoughts.

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You can't break things down into rooms and things like that.

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There's all going to be kind of one stream of consciousness.

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So the app that I like using for creating communities is Discord.

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So if you've never heard of it, it actually started out as a gaming application and for

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for games, gamers and things like that.

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But what it has turned into is everybody uses it to create communities.

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And so one of the things that I like about it is that you can have different channels,

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what they call them.

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So essentially rooms, you can create a, for instance, I have created a discord for this

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for podcast answers and I would love to have you there but for this one there's

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like an audio room, a video room, a roadcaster room, things like that. It's

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gonna be different topics that we're talking about, different things, different

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subjects that you can go in there and ask about that because hey we may have a

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community member that's really good at let's say video podcasting and so you

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may want to go ask your question to them in there because they're gonna be in

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that channel watching. So that's what I would do for that, because I would have it so that

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way you can have different topics of interest. The cool thing about Discord too is you can

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have audio and video chat in there too. So I could be streaming, I'm not right now, but

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I could be streaming as I'm recording this podcast episode to a room in Discord. And

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you could watch me as I'm doing it. You can have like an open community time with voice

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calls, video calls, back channel type things. The cool thing about Discord is that you have

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permissions in there. So you can have all sorts of permissions. You can say that only

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people who have the role of guest, guests on your show, a guest role in there, can see

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certain rooms in your Discord. And so, and it and go in there and chat. And so you can

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actually block people out based on different things. You can, if they pay for your, you

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know, support, they can have access to extra rooms. It's just kind of a really cool community,

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a way to build community because you're able to go in there and have different rooms based

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on interest and then also based on whatever you want. You can have it set up so that you

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can have it based on the, you know, if they're a member, if they're not a member, if they're

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a guest, you can do different permissions on different channels, whether they can do,

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you know, whether they can chat, whether they cannot chat, whether they can do whatever.

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So I really like, I really like Discord as a community. There's so much in there to get

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to know and to when you become what they call it, it's a Discord server. So it's really

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not, you're not really running your own server per se, but you go to Discord and you sign

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up and you create what they call a server, which is a room, a house if you will.

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So think of the whole thing as a house.

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So my podcast answers Discord is the house.

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It only pertains to me.

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I can only let people in.

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If I want to let them in, I don't have to let just anybody in.

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They can have to have an invite or whatever.

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But then with that, then there's little, the channels think of those as rooms.

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and your bathroom and things like that.

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then your overall server is your house.

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So if you have people coming over to your house as a guest, normally in your physical

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house, you can shut your room to your, let's say your bedroom because you don't want people

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to go in there. You can lock them if you have a physical lock on it. You can do the same

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thing in Discord. You can say, "I don't want you into this channel because either you're

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not paying for it or it's a special thing." For me, I think no matter what kind of podcast

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community you're creating, whether it be in Discord or in Facebook or in Telegram or any

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other number of different kind of apps that you can create a community in, I think it's

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important to have moderators too because, well, you can, if you're just starting out, you can

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moderate all the chat you want. You can go in there and tell people, "No, I don't want you to

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say bad words. I don't want you to be talking about this." You can do that. But when your

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community becomes so large, it becomes almost impossible to moderate by yourself.

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have them, they can go in there, they get extra.

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delete people, ban people, things like that.

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And again, like I said, there's a lot of other different kinds of places that you can create

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community, but it's important that you create a community for your podcast.

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It's not necessary.

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Like I don't think that you 100% have to have it, but what the community allows you to do

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is it allows your people who are your fans to come in and talk about the show.

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You can have a post each post and you create a new show.

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And then comments about that post.

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If someone has a question, a comment,

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they can go into that post and they can ask it.

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A foster is a community because when you have a community,

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it feels like a family.

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It feels like you're part of something

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and people wanna be part of something.

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So they don't just wanna listen to a show,

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but they want to chance to chat with the hosts.

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They want to chat with other people who listen to the show,

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other people who watch the show.

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let's say, you know, way back in the day,

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you were watching the TV show "Lost."

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There were podcasts that were created about that

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because they kind of created an extra community.

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so that people could chat with other listeners of the,

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or watchers of the show "Lost."

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You can do that same very thing with your own show.

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You can create a community around your show

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and then people get to know you more.

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going to take a trip down to Texas

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and you just make a call out in your show

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and in your community, "Hey, I'm gonna be in Texas

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"for a week, let's do a meetup."

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meet you there.

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It's really, really cool, guys.

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I would, I would.

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Invite you to check it out now for, for me, I would suggest only doing one

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community place per podcast.

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So I didn't necessarily follow this, my own advice on this when I created the

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community for the dudes and dads podcast.

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That's my other podcast that I host, but I, I didn't necessarily follow my own

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advice on that show.

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I created a Facebook channel, a Facebook group.

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I created a Facebook page, which isn't necessarily for growing community, but it's for getting

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information out there.

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You don't necessarily have the cohesive community.

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You can do a fragmented community like that.

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It's not as big of a deal, but you just have to, it's more work for you because you have

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to post things in both places.

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If you're trying to do prompts to keep people talking, because again, creating a community

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is great, but you have to have some engagement.

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So you as the creator of the community, the creator of the content, you need to go back

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in there and you need to maybe say a post like, "Hey, what does everybody use as their

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audio mixing board?

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Do you use an audio mixing board?

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Do you just go right directly into your computer?

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If so, how?"

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You have to ask those questions so that way people, you're engaging people and they talk

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they don't necessarily know people right away and chat.

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you as the community manager, as the person who started the community or the moderator,

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you have to go in there and you have to start conversation. It is your job to start conversation.

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So again, in two places, if you have two different communities, if you have two different places

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where you're going to be posting and creating this community, you need to make sure that

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you're in both of those places and engaging the people because nothing is worse than having

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a community and having it dead, having not many people there to make the engagement,

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to have not many people when people come in, they're going to turn right around and leave

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because who wants to go to a party when the party is, whenever it was just standing there

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looking at their phones and not chatting?

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You need to get in there, make some posts, engagement, and things like that.

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the Ecamm channels.

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What Ecamm is, if you don't know, it's just the video software that I use to create this

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I stream this show live and I do video.

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for doing live stuff.

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do in their Discord is after a show is done, or on some specific shows, the hosts will

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go stop the stream, stop the recording, because again, that's all if you're streaming live,

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so people are watching you as you're recording.

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People are there and just kind of talking, whether it's about the show or just hanging

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so that's that's really cool is you kind of get the sense of

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If you want to join us, please please please come and go to podcast answers comm

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Community that I'm starting for this and again. It's it's on discord

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It's not on Facebook, but it's it allows me to do different rooms different topics

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Because there's different types different questions different topics for podcasting so again guys

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Cod and that will get you to our discord server

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You have to have this for the app, but you can sign up right there as as you as you go to that webpage

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It's free. It doesn't cost you anything, but I want you to be part of this community

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I want you to come in and I want you to that's another way to answer

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For us to answer questions for you podcasting if you have podcasting questions, we can answer those in

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comm slash contact. I'd love to see you there guys next week. We're gonna be actually talking about

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All week next week and so I won't be in my studio and so

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I'm gonna be trying to record an episode and I'm gonna explain to you how I'm doing that episode all

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And maybe my iPad but all from my mobile phone it again

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That you're you'll have to wait and see so next Thursday

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We will be talking about how to record a mobile e from your phone

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