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Welcome to podcast answers the very very very first episode of podcast answers

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that's right guys we are kicking off the new show podcast answers and we are so

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so so glad that you are here with us today and we are actually going back to

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the basics today and we're talking about what is a podcast because for us to talk

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about what a podcast is we have to build on the very basic building blocks of what

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a podcast actually actually is so if you have never ever ever actually seen us or

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heard of us which we are very new so you probably have not what we do and who we

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are is this we our goal is to help people start and grow their podcast by

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answering any podcast questions along the way so we want you to ask us questions

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so that we can answer them on our show and help you grow your podcast to be a

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better podcaster what we do we we are also on youtube at youtube.com slash at

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podcast answers we are also on Facebook and Instagram at podcast answers and

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Twitter we're there too but we have a different handle there it's podcast

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answers one because podcast answers was not available so you can find us there

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and we'd love to hear you have you there I would desperately suggest subscribing

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to obviously listen a podcast app any podcast app is gonna have podcast

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answers in it but also subscribe to our YouTube channel if you would because

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that way we with our YouTube channel we're gonna do a lot of stuff here that

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ends up being ends up being visual in nature and because of that that's because

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we're doing a show that's about podcasting it but we're gonna be talking

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about lots of stuff that's hands-on and the stuff that you're gonna need to see

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so I would suggest joining our YouTube channel because that way you can see

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videos of every one of our episodes and you'll get that hands-on if we're

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talking about a specific software you'll actually be able to see that software

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instead of just hearing us describe it in audio so basics what is a podcast it

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is a audio show or video show that's recorded onto a computer so that's what

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we're doing here we're doing audio and video we're not gonna be delivering this

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necessarily in the traditional sense of in a podcast app but it is in your it is

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in your YouTube if you want to see the video but so it's essentially it's an

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audio show that you can listen to in any podcast app and so once you have your

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audio files you're gonna hook up your microphone you're going to record your

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episode edit your episode and then you're gonna post it somewhere because you

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need to get it to the world so there are several several several different

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podcast hosts but the ones that I recommend are blueberry and captivate

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that's blueberry blubrry.com and captivate C-A-P-T-I-V-A-T-E dot FM and the

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reason that I say that I like them is any podcast hosts you know all they do is

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serve your files you need to have a podcast host well the reason that I

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like them is because they're innovating and coming up using some of the new

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podcasting 2.0 namespace tag features adding some new features of

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podcasting that other podcast hosts are not necessarily adding so I will one of

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the things that you need a podcast for is because when you can't you know you

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may have a website that you have you may have a website for your business or for

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your personal or whatever but if you put your file right on to your web host

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well that file may not be a very large file but if you get one hundred one

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thousand two thousand ten thousand people downloading that file all at once

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your web host is gonna crash whereas a podcast host is set up to handle all of

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that traffic all at once and it's gonna be a better it's gonna do a better job

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at handling those files and not necessarily crash so you need a podcast

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host I suggest blueberry or captivate just based on the fact that they've been

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around for a while and they're innovating they're coming up you know

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they're using the new namespace tags helping advance podcasting even further

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so once you have your file up on a host there's also something called an RSS

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feed and I'm not gonna get super technical here but think of the RSS feed

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as the broadcast tower for a radio station it tells it sends the information

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out it tells your podcast app where to look for you know what tuning you know

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where to tune in to find your podcast so it's essentially just a text file that

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is XML and in there there's tags that explain on the show level what the show

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name is what the show description is and also what the cover art is and and

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things like that and then what it does is it also has an entry for every one of

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your episodes and that has the title of your episode it has the description of

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your episode it has the location of where the file is so when you your podcast

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app looks and takes that XML file it knows exactly where to find that that

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audio file and you're good to go now most podcast hosts will create or actually

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all podcast hosts are gonna create that file for you so if you go to blueberry

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or captivator or any other podcast hosts you upload your file you type in what

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the title is you type in the description and hit publish and then that feed

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updates and that's great you can also do what I do I do a little bit more advanced

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I have my own website and I recommend you have your own website because if

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anything happens whatever you people are gonna be able to come back to you to

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your website you can do more like put on you know deals write blogs you can sell

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things from your website where you can't do that with the website or a that

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that the podcast host is gonna give you so most of them won't give you just a

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simple website for the podcast but I suggest having your own website but for

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me I actually use my website to create my RSS feed I host on blueberry are not

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honest not blueberry I host on a different podcast host but I I then use

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that link and just create my own RSS feed now what you may be thinking is do I

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need to upload all of these things to like Spotify or or Apple podcast like

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once I have my my file do I need to upload or tell those podcast apps where

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that's at you do not need to load each episode up to each podcast app you know

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whether it be Spotify or Apple podcast what you do is you take your RSS feed

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and you submit it to them so that it's a directory you say hey Apple here is where

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my RSS feed is at and then you take Spotify and you upload it to them so

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that way when you're in the app you don't need to know where each location is

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for you know the website which you may so think of it like your own you know your

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favorite website you you know let's say you're gonna go to local cookie shop

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calm and you could just type that in but instead of just typing that in because

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you may not know what their website is what their web address is we use

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something called a search engine and think of the directories kind of like a

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search engine Apple has their own directory Spotify has their own directory

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podcast index is a directory there's different directories that you can

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basically tell you submit your podcast to them and and then tell it so that way

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when I go to that directory like I look an Apple podcast I just search for

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podcast answers and my my podcast app will be able to come up and know exactly

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where it's at so just like kind of think of it like Google it does that now what

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one of the things that you got you've just submit to a lot of different places

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but a lot of apps are gonna either use one of two places so you know there's

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lots of different podcast apps that you can you can listen to podcast on but a

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lot of podcasts are gonna be pulling their directory from either Apple

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podcast directory or podcast index so one of those two places is where it's

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they're gonna pull from so you really you don't need to like submit to every

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little app out there you can submit to a lot of the major directories and then

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you will find it now in in one of the other important things about creating

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your own podcast is having it really good audio quality I would suggest going

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out and getting a simple mic you don't need anything super expensive you don't

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need a big mixer board you can get something like a Samsung Q2 you and

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then that plugs directly into your computer that or a sure MV7 microphone

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those plug right into your computer the sure is one is gonna be a little more

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expensive than the Samsung but you can start out with just that you record

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into something like audacity audacity is a free program that you can edit into

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you can record right into if you want to and record right into those podcast

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apps and then I would say that's you know if you're gonna be in a large room

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with lots of noise don't do that one of the best things that you can really do

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is go into your closet especially if you're not doing video you can go into

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your closet and record there amongst your clothes because that will help damp

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dampen the sound so that's one of the best things that you can do so we've

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covered here some of the basics of podcast look what a podcast is we're

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gonna be building on top of this with lots of different advanced topics and

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we are going to have we're going to be covering things that you ask about and

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so we suggest that you would go ahead and put if you have any questions that

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you want us to answer on the podcast we would suggest that you go to podcast

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answers dot com slash contact because that will allow us to that will allow us

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to answer your questions and be able to take care of any other questions that

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you have for this podcast so with that guys one other thing that I want to tell

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you is if you want to get you can this podcast is value for value enabled which

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is a new something new that the podcast index is starting up which is allowing

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you to write in your podcast app send small amounts of Bitcoin and so this

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podcast is pot is value for value enabled and we're reading out some of the

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people's boosted they're called boostograms if you boost us we'll be

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reading out those donations and what you put in in in there so if you aren't

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donation to us to help support this show help us get new either equipment and or

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services to test out to help you become a better podcasters if you've enjoyed this

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podcast please go ahead and do that and we are planning on we're planning on

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releasing a new episode every week probably on Thursdays so if you look

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for the new episode in your podcast app you will find it on Thursdays so without

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that with guys we we appreciate you we hope to help you grow your podcast and

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make your show a better sounding show so guys we look forward to seeing you next

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week have a great week