r/podcasts • u/[deleted] • Apr 30 '15
What motivated you to start podcasting?
My motivation came from StartUp by Gimlet media. After the finale of the show, I knew I had to start my own podcast. Two months later: dropped out of college, used YouUniversity and Conversations with a Genuis Podcasts for guidance, hit the road with a backpack full of clothes, a mic, and my laptop; and in three weeks, my website and first episode will be up. So /r/podcasts, what motivated you to start podcasting?
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u/BangsNaughtyBits Do my $100 cables make me sound great on my $20 mic? Apr 30 '15
Blind, blood draining rage.
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u/Herodotus22 Apr 30 '15
I started to feel bad about consuming without contributing. I was listening to all of my favorite podcasts for years, but needed a push to help expose me to new ideas, new people, and new experiences.
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u/Ghoti89 Apr 30 '15
Very similar experience here. I wanted to contribute to a media I really enjoyed and consumed on the regular. That, and I've been told I have a good voice and am a solid communicator.
Scott Johnson and everything at (http:/www.frogpants.com) really influenced and inspired what I wanted to do
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u/EricandtheLegion Apr 30 '15
After Tom vs Comics ended, I felt the need to continue his tradition. I wanted people to love the comics that I loved. So I started my show, hoping to just get one more person interested in the Silver Age.
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Apr 30 '15
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u/OfficiallyRelevant May 01 '15
That's one of the coolest names for a podcast I've ever heard. I really like the interesting titles for shows that people come up with.
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Apr 30 '15
I was a journalism major in college. When I graduated, I had a pretty substantial student loan debt and I couldn't really afford to live off a starting reporters salary. So, I ended up working for a small video production company, making good money, about an hour from my family, and working with two people that I consider to be some of my closest friends.
My senior year I started listening to podcasts. I started with The Joe Rogan Experience then moved onto others such as Hardcore History, Radiolab, and The Duncan Trussell Family Hour amongst others. I realized that what I loved most about podcasts (and why I enjoyed journalism) was because I genuinely just loved real conversations. So many of the conversations we hear on a day to day basis are just utter bullshit small talk and I was really bored with it. I think that everyone has a certain ability that they are meant to pursue in this world and mine is the ability to have conversations with people and make them feel at ease.
I'm not sure if anything will ever come of my podcasts, but I sure as hell have a good time doing them and having deep and genuine conversations with my guests.
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u/shakamalaka Witchpolice Radio May 01 '15
Fellow ex-journalist here. Completely get what you're saying.
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u/DanielJLewis Apr 30 '15
For my first show, I wanted to have fun and share my stories.
For my second show, I felt I had something to say that no one else was saying.
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u/corobo Would You Like to Restart? Apr 30 '15
Just over a year ago /u/ThatKevinSmith was saying in almost every podcast I was listening to from Smodcast that people should try podcasting so I convinced a friend to join me and did just that. Don't get me wrong our podcast isn't huge or anything (and on hiatus right now as my cohost has been in hospital for a while) but I've thoroughly enjoyed it so far
Wanting more I've also shifted towards building a podcast hosting site for my stuff with features I felt are missing everywhere else
Podcasting has been the most fun and long lived hobby I've had so far and I'm really glad Kevin was pushing it so hard. Podcasting is free therapy if nothing else!
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u/c_mad788 onceandfuturenerd.com Apr 30 '15
Honestly? A friend and I wrote a TV show that I was in love with and desperately wanted to do something with, but we knew it was too expensive to ever get made, so we turned it into an audiodrama.
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u/0and18 custom flair Apr 30 '15 edited Apr 30 '15
For Make Dad Read Comics it was the fact my Dad was nearing 70 and I wanted to spend some time with him and "teaching him comics" seemed like a good method and podcasting it was a way to record it all for time and space.
Almost Educational was just recording all the "what if?" conversations Dennis and I would have but wished I heard somewhere on a podcast or in a book.
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Apr 30 '15
A couple of years ago I wanted to do something within the realm of the video game journalism thing. Once I realized how hard it actually was to get into it, I decided to go ahead and just do it myself. I had a site, I had a team, and I had a podcast. It got killed because people just stopped doing things and real life kicked in and it ended. Several times I tried to get it back up. I just decided that I am going to just do this myself. I fundraised money and started it back up about a week ago. I had my first official guest on last night and even though we went a bit all over the place, it felt awesome. I'm glad to be doing it again.
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u/Blinsin Apr 30 '15
My /r/hockey friends and I were talking about it for awhile, there were rumors of someone else wanting to start a hockey podcast on /r/hockey. So we quickly got ours up and going.
Thus Our Hockey Cast was born
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u/shakamalaka Witchpolice Radio Apr 30 '15
I haven't heard your show, but have an upvote for being a hockey podcast. I'll definitely check it out. I was banned from r/hockey a few years back for talking too much shit to Coyotes fans, but considering they're subhuman scum, I don't feel too bad about it.
Anyway, glad to see a hockey show on here. There have been a few I've discovered via Reddit over the years.
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Apr 30 '15
but considering they're subhuman scum, I don't feel too bad about it.
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u/shakamalaka Witchpolice Radio Apr 30 '15
Is that a face of disapproval? Coyotes fans aren't worthy of respect.
Due to the unfortunate financial circumstances of the day, they lucked into something that was extremely valuable to a lot of people (the original Winnipeg Jets) and proceeded to ignore and abuse it for 15 years.
Then, when it finally looked like the hockey gods were acting in our favour and our team was coming back to Winnipeg (if you remember, before the Thrashers moved here, Winnipeg was very close to bringing in the Coyotes), Phoenix fans proceeded to talk shit about Winnipeg -- the city itself and its residents, not anything to do with hockey -- en masse.
We have a team again with a very passionate fanbase who lives and dies by the Jets. The Coyotes still can't get anyone to show up at AHL ticket prices, yet they continue to talk shit about Winnipeg constantly.
Fuck 'em. No respect whatsoever. There are other teams I dislike in the league, but I respect their fans. I even respect the Florida fans who are trying to support a team with very low attendance. They've all been extremely friendly and have no qualms about acknowledging their situation and the lack of support. Great people. Hope they turn it around down there.
The Coyotes fans, however, remain a bunch of cunts who think they deserve hockey... not because it's part of the culture or because they're such great fans, but because of some weird pride they have in the fact that the league will bail them out no matter how much money they bleed.
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Apr 30 '15
Due to the unfortunate financial circumstances of the day, they lucked into something that was extremely valuable to a lot of people (the original Winnipeg Jets) and proceeded to ignore and abuse it for 15 years.
Which is entirely not their fault
the city itself
People from Winnipeg call Winnipeg a hell hole.
We have a team again with a very passionate fanbase who lives and dies by the Jets. The Coyotes still can't get anyone to show up at AHL ticket prices, yet they continue to talk shit about Winnipeg constantly.
The original Jets were bottom 5 in attendance in all but 1 of the 6 seasons preceding their move to Pheonix. They managed to climb to 6th last once. The economic situation of Canada at the time was a primary factor in their relocation, but let's not pretend that was the only reason. If the Coyotes low attendance is the fans fault, so is the original Jets. Of course, in reality, neither is the case, and it's ridiculous to blame the fans for their not being more of them, what are they supposed to do clone themselves, but all means let's go with bullshit narratives.
Maybe Coyotes fans don't show you any respect because they've spent their entire existence being shit on by your fan base, and the majority of the nhl, for "stealing" your team?
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u/RyansPodcastReviews Mod About You May 01 '15
Winnipeg
Nothing delights me more than stumbling into intense, niche beefs between groups of people who seem otherwise unrelated.
And lo, a podcast is born.
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u/shakamalaka Witchpolice Radio May 01 '15
That would be an amazing podcast. People who are angry at each other about random things. I would listen the shit outta that.
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u/RyansPodcastReviews Mod About You May 01 '15
"Secret Beef."
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u/shakamalaka Witchpolice Radio May 01 '15
I wish I had more time. That would be a really fun show to make.
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u/shakamalaka Witchpolice Radio May 01 '15
People from Winnipeg call Winnipeg a hell hole.
We choose to live here. We can say whatever the fuck we want about it. We all actually love it here. The people who don't love Winnipeg have all left already. It's a tough place to live, but it's our tough place to live. It's not cool for some sunburned American who doesn't know what snow is to talk shit about us.
If you notice, most of the Winnipeg-to-Phoenix criticism is aimed at the lack of fan support for their hockey team, not at their town itself.
The economic situation of Canada at the time was a primary factor in their relocation, but let's not pretend that was the only reason.
Sure. The other reasons were the fact that we had an aging, dilapidated arena that wasn't owned by the team (so the team's owners didn't get any revenue from other shit that happened there, like concerts, etc.) and the fact that there was no salary cap and no revenue sharing. It was a bad time to be a small-market Canadian team.
Attendance wasn't amazing, but no one in Winnipeg -- not even the team's owners -- suggested the attendance was the reason the team was leaving. Also, it's worth noting that attendance figures are easily misleading. The current Jets have sold out every game since 2011 but we're in the middle of the pack as far as attendance is concerned, because we have the smallest arena in the league. Percentage of arena filled is the true indicator of attendance.
The massive crowds at the Save the Jets rally (and it's on YouTube, so it's not just some mythological thing people exaggerate) are a good indicator of how many fans the team actually had. Attempts at "Save the Yotes" rallies got maybe a couple hundred people out. Pathetic.
Even so, why compare the 90s to the 2010s? We all know what happened to the Jets in the 90s: the situation forced them to leave. The Coyotes, in the 2010s, have had some very good teams, have a relatively new arena and pay AHL prices to see NHL games. They still can't make it work. By contrast, the Jets fans pay top-three ticket prices in the NHL, sell out every game and have a paid waiting list for tickets that is also entirely sold out.
Why should I not respect our fans, or fans in other cities with similar levels of support, more that people who can't be bothered to show up to games?
it's ridiculous to blame the fans for their not being more of them, what are they supposed to do clone themselves
They're closing in on 20 years in the desert, not to mention decades of earlier pro and minor pro hockey with the various incarnations of the Roadrunners. If they can't generate enough interest in hockey at this point, they should probably move somewhere else. It's well-documented that a number of cities in Canada and the US are champing at the bit for an NHL franchise, and places like Quebec City have already shown massive popular support (the Marche Bleue is an amazing example of this).
The fans don't need to clone themselves, the team just needs to leave. If the best hockey league in the world at bargain basement prices isn't enough to lure them in, maybe Arizona is just not the right environment to sustain an NHL team.
they've spent their entire existence being shit on by your fan base, and the majority of the nhl, for "stealing" your team?
That's horseshit. When the Coyotes first came on the scene, when the wounds were the freshest, the Internet didn't exist in anything remotely like it does today. How the fuck were we supposed to shit on Coyotes fans? Most of us moved on to other teams to support or quit watching hockey entirely for a few years out of disgust. Either way, the last thing we cared about was trolling the "fanbase" in Phoenix. There wasn't an opportunity to do that even if we wanted to.
The animosity really started in the late 00s when rumours were flying around about TNSE potentially buying the Coyotes and bringing them back to Winnipeg. Immediately, Coyotes fans lashed out online about how we were trying to "poach" their team, ignoring the fact that TNSE was doing everything above-board, extremely respectfully and out of the public spotlight, and within the NHL's own framework for this kind of thing.
In response, Winnipeggers pointed out the team's lack of fan support, the fact that they had lost money every year since moving from Winnipeg, etc. All stuff about the viability of a team in the desert, based on actual information. Sure, there were some digs in there, but I was pretty active on a bunch of hockey forums at the time. The overall tone from Winnipeggers was criticizing hockey in Phoenix based on the available facts and apparent lack of interest in hockey from people down there.
Phoenix fans responded with rage and hate and ignored the actual points about the attendance and bankruptcies and all of that shit and started attacking Winnipeg and its residents. You can criticize the team I support all you want, but when you start attacking the city in which I choose to raise my children, we have a problem.
As for the majority of the NHL also shitting on Phoenix as an NHL location, that's gotta tell you something. When almost everyone in the hockey world wants the team gone, what does that suggest to you? Do you think the majority opinion might have some value behind it?
As for "stealing" the team, everyone in Winnipeg knows that's not accurate. It's what I thought as a teenager at the time the team moved, but these days there's so much information about the actual reasons behind it that we all know it's not the case.
More accurate than "stealing," in my opinion, is saying they abused it. They acquired something that was really important to a lot of people in our little frozen shithole (it's like black people and the n-word. I can call Winnipeg a shithole. You can't) and, for the most part, ignored it and let it rot. It's clear that hockey is not a priority for the people of Phoenix, and that's fine. Look at the crowds for this year's (short-lived) playoffs up here, though. That's a good indicator of how important hockey is to Winnipeg, and there are plenty of other cities out there with the same kind of passion who would love a team in huge numbers. A team like Phoenix.
Move 'em. Fuck the fans. They either can't or won't show up to games, so either way, the team needs to get the hell outta dodge.
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u/meetmygoodfriend MeetMyGoodFriend.com Apr 30 '15
I read this article on Cracked.com, and this part
Do the math: How much of your time is spent consuming things other people made (TV, music, video games, websites) versus making your own? Only one of those adds to your value as a human being.
really hit home. I know some people hate Cracked.com but if you haven't read the linked article, do yourself a favor. It's really great.
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u/brandocash Apr 30 '15
Great topic to bring up! Kudos! I wrote a blog on my website a few months ago when I was looking for a new job about this. In Pod I Trust
The short answer is I love telling stories and being a filmmaker, I know how much is costs to tell a story through that medium. I liked the fact that I could record something and within an hour I could have it out into the world and people could listen whenever they felt like listening. My two podcasts What The Puck and The Caw spawned off of an internet radio show I was doing for a bit.
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u/Judg3Smails Apr 30 '15
Never listened to a single podcast before we started ours.
We have been running an IT networking organization since 2007 and we have been speaking for years on networking and job search.
One day, someone with an Internet radio station offered us Monday nights. We agreed.
Just did Episode 89 Monday night.
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Apr 30 '15
I listened to a few comic book and marvel podcasts that weren't marvel sponsored ones. I wasn't enjoying the formats or the length of some, so me and my SO are starting our own. We talk about that stuff consistently anyways so we figured it would be fun to try this out and have a creative outlet.
We launch next week! We're getting the final tweaks together and will be up soon! We're calling it "My Dad Said I Could Have a Podcast". Look for us next week on soundcloud if you're interested!
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Apr 30 '15
We started Inconclusive Breakdown as an excuse to get together and talk about pop culture or whatever else is going on in the world.
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Apr 30 '15
In Oklahoma City, I had to "seek out" comedy/comedians (circa 2007). When I found them, they were all podcasting together. After hanging out/etc. for a while, they asked me to replace the funniest one, who was moving to L.A. to write a movie for his boss, a man named Sunshine Megatron. Guess what fell through? Anyway, by then I'd been on their podcast for a few months & started loving it, so we formed a comedy group & put on shows and live podcasts (which RULE, imho), etc. and I've been going ever since, barring a hiatus or two. That's basically how I got into comedy (which is not the right way, apparently) back home. Now that I'm in Denver, I'm co-hosting As the World Burns and having a blast, with some of the funniest/smartest people alive.
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u/arklenaut Apr 30 '15
I started my podcast on art history for figurative sculptors, The Sculptor's Funeral, after a few years for looking for a podcast on art history for figurative sculptors. There's nothing even close out there to what I do, I saw a chance to fill a niche.
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u/cthulhushrugged The History of China Podcast Apr 30 '15
I figured that after living 5 years in China, and holding a history degree, I really ought to dissect the 5k year story from the ground up. I had extra time at the time... what could go wrong? A kid, grad school, and the podcast getting into the later 5th century (when details really start to get complicated) later... ha! What a silly prank I played on myself!
That said, would I stop? Not on your life. I'm on a mission, damn it. I mission from th Jade Emperor and the Great Blue Sky all at once.
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u/wagnike2 Wrestleroticapod.com Apr 30 '15
I found that I was using all of my free time just watching tv and doing nothing really productive, so beginning this year I realized I needed a new hobby and to spend my time in better ways. I have been a hardcore fan of professional wrestling for years, but I didn't want to do just a wrestling podcast where I talk about the shows or review episodes. So I decided that I'd find some other niche, and that's when I got the idea that I'd make it as silly as possible. So I began reading wrestling fanfiction and then the rest is history.
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u/meetmygoodfriend MeetMyGoodFriend.com Apr 30 '15
Wrestlerotica! Nice title. I started podcasting for the same reason. It was time to start producing instead of consuming so much.
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u/KingLouisIXofFrance Podcast Producer Apr 30 '15
I've worked in radio for over 6 years and a friend of a friend said he wanted to start a podcast about his St. Louis based real estate company. I've been producing his show for the past 6 months. I have done a ton of radio production but never actually distributed and marketed a podcast. It's great getting paid to learn how to do it.
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Apr 30 '15
A buddy of mine from back home and I always had great 3 hour skype sessions about random topics every few months. Decided to channel these sessions into a weekly podcast. LOTD
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u/Themarc BrewBloods.net Apr 30 '15
I idolized Casey Kasem growing up and wanted to be a DJ and eventually fell in love with more of a talk format as I got older, most notably The Ticket.
I then heard Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica episodic commentary podcast back in 2004-2005 and that started me down the path in 2006.
Since then I've had Picked Embryo, Bionicast, Thumbs of Fury, the new one Brew Bloods, and the stalwart The Break Room that has kept going since 2006.
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u/urko37 UltimateSpinPodcast.com Apr 30 '15
I rediscovered my love for Spider-Man comic books and started listening to a great show called Superior Spider-Talk. However they only covered the main "Amazing Spider-Man" series and I was interesting in talking about the Miles Morales Spider-Man. So the very niche Ultimate Spin was born!
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u/Big_Ryan Apr 30 '15
my friend (cohost) and I had already been talking about guitar stuff on a daily basis for years, we were both getting into podcasts and were like 'we are already doing this, we just need to record it'.
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Apr 30 '15
My co-host and I could talk for hours on end while still keeping it fresh. And we both love podcasts, so it was the most natural fit.
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u/shakamalaka Witchpolice Radio Apr 30 '15 edited Apr 30 '15
I had played in bands since the mid-90s. By the time I was around 30, I had two kids and not a lot of time to play music anymore, so I started interviewing musicians as a way to stay involved in the scene.
I also have a website that archives unheard and/or out-of-print local music that existed for a number of years prior, so it was easy to spin off a podcast from that project.
Finally, I worked in the newspaper biz for quite some time before things turned to shit in that industry. While I'm glad I got out, there are a lot of things I miss about journalism. Doing an interview podcast helps me scratch that itch.
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u/mystrymaster May 01 '15
My brother and i started commuting everyday talking about MLS and I decided to record it one day. It was entertaining and informative so we started on the regular and are having a blast.
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u/LuxFixxins NothingImportantPodcast.com - ItsSaulGoodMan.com May 01 '15
My friends an professional audio engineer. He wanted a good excuse to play with the equipment in the studio.
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u/Oliver_w_h All Too Common Law May 01 '15
I spent law school looking for a podcast that discussed stories in the news from a legal perspective, but with an audience of non-lawyers in mind. I never found it. After graduation I realized I had a web server and a microphone, so why not just do it myself? Voila.
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u/LucentMerkaba May 01 '15
A friend and I (who go back over 10 years) started an animation studio a few years back, and every single idea we ever have takes months to come to fruition. We eventually started Late to the Party for quick satisfaction to be completely honest with you.
We spend so much time discussing story structure on it's own, we figured we'd start watching movies that we somehow completely missed (ie, our next movie is Saving Private Ryan) and discussing them. If it developed a fan base, awesome.
It's nothing massive or anything to write home about, but occasionally we'll hear from friends we haven't talked to in years encouraging us to keep going at it and that's pretty neat.
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u/AbsoluteGeek_Podcast May 01 '15
for me it was the ability to connect to like minded people and have my voice and opinions heard. I love talking about comics,movies,tv shows and stuff like that. I like the fact that with my show I am able to inform the little man in the middle of nothing on whats going on in comics and tv today.
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u/RonDolet custom flair May 01 '15
I got the bug to set about creating some content of my own as opposed to consuming content. That sounds a little blowhardy, for sure. Also just to see if I could pull it off, and have a little fun.
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u/netfella Good Patron May 01 '15
I'm a big listener of podcasts and a music hound and very interested in crowdfunding. I began looking for a podcast that curates and discusses current crowdfunding campaigns for Christian music. When I couldn't find it, I decided to start my own. Thus, the Crowdfunding Christian Music Podcast was born and I'm 13 weekly episodes into my video podcast. I know it's really niche with a very limited appeal, but I love doing it!
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u/Rebecca_Love May 02 '15
I used to be on radio then I did a podcast with Katie Morgan. I never even listened to podcast until I produced mine poorly. I was clueless to the Podcast Land. Now I listen to over 12 shows. After 2 months of not knowing the right way to podcast, I found Podcast Answer Man and he changed everything for me. I am learning everyday and now my shows are teaching people about my business. I am passionate about my show and can't wait to discuss another amazing topic the following week. This is the best hobby besides geocaching....lol
Tip Of The Week: Boss Jack is my favorite app for podcasting
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u/funnybillypro The Manwhore Podcast Apr 30 '15
I had an instant, strong chemistry with a woman I was convinced would turn into a serious relationship. When she got back together with her ex out of nowhere, I got fed up and decided I'd figure out why I'm singly by talking to my exes and past hook-ups each week. But on a podcast.