Oh, podcasting 2.0 for January 20 2023 Episode 190 No Molly's
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it's like a little movie this living in a movie today.
You're living in a movie in a movie. Okay, escape
from poop Central.
Is something wrong with the dog
is wrong with my office my day job office. Oh, what do you mean
what are our the IT office? You know, the dungeon? Yeah, the
windows? Of course.
Why would it? Yeah,
it is where three of us reside? It is is Yes. Yesterday
afternoon. Some this lady that works there came down stairs she
she walks you know, see her walk by and then she's, she's like,
Oh my God. And so I was we jumped up and ran out there. And
there is a lake of sewage in the kitchen. Oh, in the break room.
Oh,
and of course it has to fix that as well. I guess right. To clean
up the pump.
Yeah. I made myself scarce
real quick. Oh, just to be broke or what happened?
He was backing up. The toilets. were backing up the maintenance
room was back in anything with a grip. Anything with a floor
drain? Ah, it was just the sewage was just coming back up.
Oh, no. Oh, it was horrible. It was like, you know, effluent or
whatever. And so they were they had to like, send everybody
home. Except,
like a real hazard. It's a hazard. You know, you can't you
can't have people walking around the poop the poop all the time.
That's best. Tell me that everyone didn't go. Oh, man.
This must have been Larry who took a huge crap and blocked
everyone always says like it was that
guy. Yeah, I saw him going in there with a newspaper.
Must've been Larry.
Of course what the way that happens. You say the call goes
out. Okay, building, you can't use the bathrooms in the
building. blockage in the in the thing. Send everybody and
everybody you need to go work from home. So some percentage of
that let's just say, you know, some single digit percentage of
people that are going to work from home decide that this is
the day that they've needed. Oh, hey, I need an extra monitor. So
it's just a stream of people coming by. Hey, Emily, I'm
leaving to go work from home. I forgot to tell you my VPN hasn't
been working. Can you? Can you fix that
real quick? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I need a charger for my laptop.
Charger. Yeah, I've been taking mine home. Can I get an extra?
Yeah. Oh, that was fun. Do they
ever bribed you though they ever tried to bribe you with
something? Just anyone ever do it? Right?
You know, the people who never call you the, in that scenario,
you put them in the front of the line. Right? And I liked you a
lot. Now that you're a repeat customer getting it back
when Tina and I first got together, I taught her a few
tricks about it and how to get excellent support. She always
got excellent support. says treat them like a guy you want
to date high.
That will take you very far.
Even for guys even for guys, it'll work out well. I know I
know.
You made your career out of out of out of being the SIS admins.
What do you want to cut like? Attaboy guy?
Well, I ran a I was Chief Technology Officer for a company
with seven people and eight different offices in five
countries. And I learned real quick how important you in fact,
when we acquired a new company, the first thing I do is get it
in there. Get everybody real happy with laptops and
everything. Email addresses. All of that was tight. Right off the
bat. So you felt like you're a part of the organization?
It badass laptops, everything? Yeah, the whole thing like
yeah, just everyone. Hi. Oh, that's cool. You know? That's,
and then you turn around and say, Okay, now you're our bitch
to do whatever we say.
Give them watch it like Alright guys. 80 hour workweeks.
Let's go. Well, you're not the only company that is working
from home today. Looks like a Google if if you're if you're
not feeling good about the news from Google. You can work from
home today. Did you see that note?
I've got this. I've got it right here on the printer. A difficult
decision to set us up for the future from Sundar Pichai, CEO
of Google and alphabet so they let 12,000 People go
approximately, which means 1414 to 14,000 people. And I just
really liked this at the end to the Googlers, who are leaving
us. Thank you for working so hard to help people and
businesses everywhere. Your contributions have been
invaluable, and we are grateful for them. While this transition
won't be easy, we're going to support employees as they look
for their next opportunity in the US notice us. Check. I'm
sure many of you will have quite this. I'm moving past all the
nitty gritty. I'm sure many of you will have questions and how
we'll move forward. We'll be organizing a town hall on Monday
yet, like I'd really want to be a part of that. Check your
calendar for details. Until Until then, please take good
care of yourselves as you absorb this difficult news. As part of
that, if you're just starting your workday, please feel free
to work from home today. What kind of soy children are working
at Google? Epi I
love that. I know we just fired you. But
feel free to work at home. But even if you just even if you
just triggered by it, you know, I was like, ah, feel free to
stay home. This is a this is a bloodbath, man. It's I think I'm
counting 70,000 tech workers in Silicon Valley, let go in the
past six weeks, I would say
yes, that includes like Amazon, Amazon.
Amazon did a cool thing that while cool, too. They they let
18,000 People go and then they did it again with 18,000 which
is a great trick. Because it might help you no matter how
many times you search you come to you you find 18,000 You'll
never see 36,000
Yeah, it's like Black Rock changing there are black it was
what was that group that changed their name does Z or whatever.
Oh no, that was a Academy THE BLACK BLACK BLACK. That wasn't
but now you've confused Black
Rock. It's like black. It was like the mercenary
black. Then they became Academy they became Zi Zi
unsearchable? Yeah, you just can't You can't search for two
letter letter.
What was the black, black black? I can't remember what it was
now. It was a cat like forced him the black black shoebox
evolved. Homeless like water, black, black water. Rose
bemrose? No, it's because he isn't mercenary. That's how it
works. By the way we are lit. That means the life item tags
activated. You can hopefully you got a bat signal on your pod
verse or maybe a podcast addict. I hear that they've got it all
set up in beta. I don't know if it's in the full release yet.
And of course, you can always listen to us and join in the
chat room on curio caster. So that's three and maybe another
one coming soon. Or another two who knows.
The Google the Google thing. You know, it really thought a lot
about this when I saw the I was already thinking this way
because I was listening to new media show. Right? It was a long
conversation they had and it wasn't really clippable but you
know, the best of their they started off talking about the
Google podcasts shut down.
Yeah, I'm ready to talk all about it when? Whenever
you guys all you guys. Okay. Yeah, I brought a PowerPoint.
But see the Hey, wait
a minute, we need that in the lit tag PowerPoint where you can
how you can render the slides as we as we do this list? Yeah.
That will really bring in the audience.
Live chapters, baby, come on, it can be done.
It's a good idea, isn't it? It's like, okay, you got me. You
know, there's a lot so didn't didn't when this thing hit with
with him laying off these people. It really confirmed what
I was already thinking in this direction. And then this was
like, oh, yeah, total confirmation. The, you know, the
Google podcasts thing is, is most they removed it from their
search, they remove podcasts from their search results, you
know, in the immediate end, understandable thought process
was, well, you know, they're going to well, they're going to
move all their podcasting stuff over to YouTube. You know,
maybe, oh,
let me just tell you no, no,
I don't I don't think so. either. That's what I'm saying
me. I'm like, I'm leaving open the fact that I could be wrong.
I could be wrong that this they may be but my, my gut feeling is
that they, here's what I think is going going on in inside
Google. They have just woken up to the fact that they're about
to get they're about to get passed by. They're in trouble.
And I think they can see it. They they're now you know you
have to as a law. Each company that has a huge market share in
a particular industry, the thing you have to go back to the
Standard Oil example, Standard Oil at any point during, within,
you know, 10 years from the time that they that they went down,
you could say, oh my god, they're in just a dominant
position. But their dominant position was in kerosene. That
was their big product. And they owned that market to the tune of
90 plus percent market share in the kerosene market. But then
gasoline became the thing when cars, when cars began to be
rolled out in mass. They were not prepared to transition. They
they made a, they made a miscalculation, and thought that
gasoline was not going to be as big of a thing. And, of course,
in retrospect, that was the worst possible decision they
could have made. And they went from literally, you know,
historically speaking, adjusted for inflation, JD Rockefeller
was the richest man that's ever lived. That, you know, in the so
called Modern Era, I mean, you know, who knows an all time but
that we can think that we can document to being a company, I
know that we're broken up as a monopoly, but that was that was
on there, or they were already dying. When that process
happened. They got they got rocked by a miscalculation in
the market.
And what would you say, is Google's miscalculation in this
case?
I don't, I'm not. It's aI related. But I'm not going to
say that it's aI itself. I think that it's, it's the it is the
fact that they've, their search is still based on that, you ask
a question, and we give you a bunch of links. They they
missed? Like, let me, let me lay this out real quick. If you if
you think about what's happened over the last 20 years of, you
know, tech disruption, and cloud based software 99% of the
software, that that is, quote, unquote, disrupted the market in
any particular vertical market. Most of that software didn't do
new things. It just what it did was it took like a lot, and a
lot of times the software, the on premise software, it was
replacing the cloud version did way less. It didn't do even a
fraction of what the the entrenched incumbent on prem
software application did. The problem was the earth excuse me,
the way that they sold it and got the disruption was, yeah, it
was cloud based and didn't rely on on on prem expertise, but,
but a lot of it was sort of smoke and mirrors with the UI.
So they would take a complex thing. And they would design the
UI where it was very simplistic. And it was full of charts and
pretty things and that kind of stuff. They removed a lot of the
clutter of old on prem, like Windows based software, it was
just full of menus and radio buttons and clit and sub menus
and preference panes and all this kind of stuff. They took
all that away. And you just had this very simplistic Flat UI
there was like, Okay, I want to do one, I want to do this thing,
click a button, get a report. And that's like all I did. And
it couldn't do 50 of the other things, the entrench software
could. That's really I think, what's at the heart of what's
about to happen here is that Google is still based on this.
If you look at the Google search results page, it's a mess. And
it's an it's a nerdy mess. Most people really don't understand
what's going on on 90% of that page. But then you put Chad GPT
in front of them, and Chappie. GPT. is terrible. But it gives
you the experience that's like, I plug this thing in and it
gives me an answer. That right there alone, even if the and I
don't know if you saw this, somebody posted a a back and
forth they had with chat GP tendency this you post with a
plus 10 equals 25. I didn't see that one. Okay, so they said
they said 10 plus 10 equals 25. And championship. GPT
respondents said no, no, it equals 20. And they said no year
in a row. They responded back to chat. GPT said, No, you're
mistaken. 10 plus 10 Does it does equal 25. And Chad GPT
responded said Oh, my apologies. Yes, you're right. 10 plus 10
does equal 25. And then it began to argue with Chad GPT began to
argue with the person trying to prove that it actually does
equal 25. This thing is a complete farce. It's a mess, but
it gives you the experience it gives you A UI experience that
can blow it they can overnight blow some something like Google
out of the water that's why they if you look at this difficult
decision to set us up for the future which is the title of the
memo memo the year that he sent out a the words AI are all over
this. He mentions AI like six times this is
that's just in my mind a byproduct of what's happening.
And I warned for this a year ago. First of all, if you've
noticed, the United States government is out everywhere
saying all Tik Tok is bad tick tock is bad. China's spying on
us. Yeah, okay. Like the only app in the App Store that is
spying on us is tick tock, okay. No, tick tock is eating their
lunch. I look at the numbers and look at all of the advertising.
It's going to tick tock, that's where the audience is gone.
They're also going there for search. So they're not they're
not. And we could talk about chat GPT I don't think it's I
think it's a complete dud. And it's not it's not the core
problem. The core problem is when people are looking for out
I'll give an example of of my little town here,
Fredericksburg, Texas. Instead of going to Google and saying,
what's a great restaurant in Fredericksburg, Texas. They're
going on tick tock and saying what's the great restaurant in
Fredericksburg, Texas and they'll see a tick tock video of
some people go look at this cool phone. It was so great, boom,
boom, boom by Dance, dance. And they'll go to that restaurant.
It is it is in effect, in a way also a decentralization of
Google's search role. People are finding more value in in
recommendations from other people and the finding on Tik
Tok the ad money is going to tick tock so what Google and
meta have done is they have their lobbyists have solicited
the incredible help of several senators and representatives in
in the US government. Hawley is one of them. Marco Rubio, Rubio
was one of them. Of course, he's on the on the security, the
Senate security oversight committee or whatever. So it
sounds real official, nothing could be further from the truth.
There's campaign funds flowing everywhere, get rid of tick tock
so instead of competing, like a real American company, should,
they are getting rid of them this way. And so firstly, the
government couldn't load the TIC tock app, and now the University
of Texas and it's just gonna go on. And so they're all in on it.
And again, they're getting paid off. It's pathetic. So that's
one, two, we are about to go into a five to 10 year. Real,
I'll just call it a recession for technology. And that's
because we kicked the can down the road from 2008 2009. And now
we have coops There we go, interest rates are going up,
they'll go near 5% 6%. The free money is over. This is what I
kept saying last year, the free money is over. So what you saw
with Google podcast, they are evaluating everything. I have
been I just talked about I ran a big company, 700 employees, and
we were public. And if we were going to miss our numbers, you
have to reduce cost, what is the biggest cost and every in every
organization? Number one is top of the list. One is payroll
payroll. Exactly. So they cut payroll. And they also looked at
what business is making money. Well, I guarantee you podcasting
makes no money for them. Because it's a farce. It's never really
been a huge moneymaker. It's a lie. I've kept saying this. It
is just not true. So Oh, yeah. You know, they're just removing.
I think podcasts, Google podcasts YouTube podcast is
going away. They they're not going to mess with it. There's
no money in it. Apple is not going to do an app for Android.
And why anyone in the podcasting industry would say, Come on
Apple, do an android version. Why are you so rude? We have
fantastic apps for Android. Don't be rude. Don't be sucking
these guys off. They've done nothing, nothing for you
nothing. They're not your friends. They don't care. They
just don't care. So we have that the decentralization I think is
an important thing that's taking place peep and it's a little
more nuanced than I'm running humble at home. It truly is.
People are finding different ways to communicate different
ways to Mastodon is a very good example of this and I think Elon
Musk also underestimated what what happened. But what's even
more beautiful than just Mastodon taking place and people
moving away from Twitter to Mastodon is the journal lists
are being shunned. The journal AI there's a really good article
let me just pick it up real quick. journalists want to
recreate Twitter on Mastodon Mastodon is not into it. This
saw this from CJR, which is the, you know, the journalism people.
And you know, so journalists are now realizing, oh, wait a
minute, we have no power. We don't have the power that we had
no, the people are taking back the power, and are using that to
their own benefit. That's why they're not near we don't feel
like we have to be pigeonholed into into Google Search to get
answers. All of this is going away towards the edges. But the
main thing is, there's just no money. So we see the Google
podcast creator program, the bipoc, creator program, all of
these things that was just icing on the cake for a corporation to
score brownie points, it's done. Well, we don't we don't have
that free money anymore. Anything that is not wildly
profitable. Hello, Spotify is in big trouble, big trouble. That's
why you see Spotify come out with the, you know, Apple,
Apple, you're harmful. You're anti competitive, you're ruining
our business. No, you have no business. And, and I'm just
going to finish it up. Why anyone thinks that they're going
to make money. By being on Spotify, you should talk to a
musician once in a while. How's that working out? That's all
corrupt. They're all the record companies that got stuck in
Spotify, they bailed out when it was $300. They sold, they don't
care. They don't care, they get blanket license, that's also
going to change, you're not going to see while they're
probably stuck in some of these big sports streaming deals. But
you're not going to see the big blanket license covering all
music anymore it this because that's how they do it. Why can
you play music and have it on YouTube? Why can you do that on
on tick tock, because they've purchased blanket licenses, all
of the the whole structure is falling apart because of the
free money train being over. And it could be five years, it could
be 10 years, and now is the time now is the time to hunker down,
create some cool shit, and just work as lean and thinly as you
can to get by and I am so happy. And in fact, I'm proud of what
we've done with podcasting 2.0 Because not only do we have an
alternative, where people can develop new places, new
experiences, you know, there can be innovation, which you're not
going to get, you're not going to get innovation from Silicon
Valley in something that isn't wildly profitable. And it's just
not they know it. That's why Apple never really did much.
That's why they're promoting their, their subscriptions,
which, of course, it's a drop in the bucket, but you know, I can
see where it's working for them. And people like getting the
attention that, you know, the Apple iTunes or the Apple
podcast app will give you, you know, oh, we're promoting all of
the things that we make money on, basically. So now is the
time to hunker down and build your community and build your
experiences. And it's going to be a great ride for people who
aren't reliant on just a benefactors and and sugar daddy
showing up. That's all over, I think you're going to see a lot
of things fall apart. Not and I hate to say the companies are
going to fall apart because I think, in general, the podcast
hosting business is, is nicely decentralized, we have a very
nice mix. So we can we can lose one or two. And I don't want
anything to close. But it's going to be skin of the teeth
time, no doubt about it. And I'm very happy that we've built
this. This community outside of Silicon Valley, we don't have to
be begging anybody to do anything for us.
But podcasting. Podcasting is like good podcasting to a
company like Google, in this, I think is more general. It kind
of applies across the board. Podcasting, it took me like
Google is like Google Reader is to a company like Google. Sure.
It's just an add on. There's no There's no, they're never
they're in business. There's no money there. Their
business is search advertising period, right. briary.
Sir, their business is search as search ads. The search market in
general is weakening. You can see that their ad read search ad
revenue is also beginning to get shaky because on the security
side of things, a thing we've been seeing for the past on the
cybersecurity front for the past, not same month or so.
There's been a lot of Talk in the security community about
malicious ads, they're beginning to become more and more common
in Google Search. They're not policing the quality or the
security and safety of the of the search ads. So you can
journey and
suitability and safeties suitability in there.
So you go on any given day, you go and do a Google search for
something like notepad plus plus, or some calm or seven zip,
or saw,
and you get some download that is going to ruin your day.
That used to never happen with Google search. Now, you're you
are, you are some percentage likely only have in any given
day to get a malicious search ad. And the fact that they're
allowing that through, it means that something is shaky. And
that that, again, tells me their focus. Well, here's what here's
what his Mimosa says, we've undertaken a rigorous review
across product areas and functions to ensure that our
people and roles are aligned with our highest priorities as a
company. The roles were eliminating reflected the
outcome of that review, they cut across alphabet product areas,
functions, levels and regions. That this is this is him saying,
we are getting rid of anything that we feel like is not core?
We're not we're not even we don't give we don't care to two
cents about that. Correct. If you think as a if you're a
podcast and industrial complex, you know, participant and youth
and your what your thought process has been is oh, well,
there's gonna be they're just gonna, they're taking Google
podcasts. They're gonna stick it over here, they're gonna move it
over to YouTube, there's gonna be a podcast tab and the YouTube
app, you're gonna be able to go get podcasts like I may eat
these words, but I don't think that will ever happen. I think
what's gonna happen YouTube's podcast quote unquote, strategy
probably comes down to this cherry pick successful shows
like Joe Rogan, when it's possible to get these shows back
did a video based get them back on YouTube? And that's it.
That's naked.
You're absolutely right, you actually look at the page, what
you don't see is a nice page of album art that people have spent
a lot of time on. Because they don't exist for the shows. None
of these are podcasts. A podcast has album art. The album art is
the brand of the show. You expect you go to a podcast page
you're going to see album art of of shows or brands that you
recognize No, no, you're seeing screenshots of Oh, Episode 5000
with the guy with the mouth opened by Samuel with the hair
crazy. That that's what YouTube does. And, and I think you're
going to see YouTube also. I'm not so sure YouTube is wildly
profitable. I'm not so sure about that. It's a very
expensive, very expensive area, what
they're doing very expensive,
the processing the serving, which is also why video has
never really made it in podcasting. And that's not that
it hasn't been possible, I thought always makes me laugh
was that we we've been doing a video on this new media show
podcasts for 1314 years. But if you go to blueberry, you can't
you can't get any package that will allow you to transfer video
because it's too expensive. They can't make money off of it.
YouTube was free video. That's that's their trick. That's
ending. I'm telling you, it's all going to end and this is a
beautiful time for us. It is going to be so fun, so creative.
It's going to be scrappy, like that, like it was any different
but it's going to be scrappy, and there's just the Eve I think
even the we'll see conferences scaled down significantly
because that's another one of those you know, oh yeah, we got
a budget here for the conferences. Well, after you've
cut down people the next thing you do is travel and then you go
to all the extraneous stuff. What are we doing with
conferences? Well we're still spending 30 grand on this
podcast conference 50 grand over here Yeah, cut that out right
away what's the ROI
keep an eye on traditional cut on like a podcast keep an eye on
companies that in the that their name always showed up as a as a
sponsor of of whatever podcast conference and what and see if
see their names disappear on your sponsorship list that that
that will happen that I mean as your rice scrap it's gonna be
scrappy but scrappy in like a in a good way and a good one for
reals way not not in Oh, I happen to just you know, you
know, somebody just fell, you know, tripped over their wallet
and threw a million dollars at me like a scrappy in a way
where, where the money, the funding and that kind of thing
is coming from from it's coming to groups, apps and hosting Post
this stuff like that, that have legitimate products, and it can
change the market. Yeah.
And I think right now is a good time. If you're serious if look,
if you just want a podcast for your group for your community
for your, your boy scout troop for your church, whatever it is,
and it's not a it's not a an income generating thing you're
doing necessarily, which is still the majority of people who
podcast we've gotten into this. You gotta make money gotta grow
the show. No, not necessarily. I don't want to grow the show
bigger than the My community is, you know, it's like, that's very
dependent upon what you're using it for. The the I see all the
reports, you know, and you're responsible for most of the bad
news. Oh, no, oh, my God, no more new shows have been
created. What's happening? We have no more. We're not growing.
We're stagnant. Of course, of course. And this is a great time
to start something. Oh, because people are not there is no
promise anymore of money. It's it really has never been there.
Unless you are minority group because that's what it was the
podcast industrial complex, in in general, was spending money
on minority groups to check a box.
Yeah, as a tool as a totally
as a tool under the guise of there's not enough diverse
voices. Well, the diverse voices are out there, they can start.
It's not hard to start, but I guess we needed to programs for
that. So that's, that's all going by the wayside. The
$200,000, episode, consultants. I see you on LinkedIn. It's
$5,000. Now if that overnight that change, it was a farce, the
whole thing was built on a house of cards, and bullshit. Now the
core of podcasting, it's solid rock solid, we're a part of
that. It's going to be fantastic. If you really are
making a great product that people care about growing your
show is bullshit. You know, discovery is bullshit. All of
that. I'm just gonna say one more thing. It's just bullshit.
Show title. Bullshit. There you go. Let's bring in the guy who I
think is doing a very good job of all of this. He is no
what is it? Oh, gotta go.
I said no, I'm like, Okay. Boot. Where's that boutique? He is. He
is in the United Kingdom. He is known as the developer of the
fountain app. Please. Welcome back to the boardroom. Ladies
and gentlemen, the Honorable Oscar Marais.
Hey guys. How's it going? Hey, Oscar.
Now you're all pumped about podcasting after that opening?
Oh, yeah. More pumped than ever after that.
It's all it's all going down as flaming is in flames. Yeah, that
Led Zeppelin is going over now build an app
when it comes to podcasting 2.0 apps that are value for value,
which of course, it's not a fair comparison, because we have a
number of great apps that do not have streaming sites in their
you have planted has constantly been been on top, usually by
quite a stretch. And, and a lot of innovation. The most
interesting thing to me, I think we talked about it on the last
board meeting is this activity stream that you that you've put
in, this has blown me away. Because I'm I'm looking at this,
I'm like, hey, these guys are commenting on this podcast. And
I see friends of mine, and there's a boost there. I'm now
using this activity stream to find new things to listen to.
It's it's really discovery. It's discovery. It's genius. And
finally, there is a new podcast. I don't want to say that no one
has that has innovation. But this is a very, very nice new
podcasting experience. I open up the app, it doesn't show me what
I haven't listened to or how many podcasts are unlisted,
which is a horrible feeling. Whenever I see that on Oh, man,
I'm so behind. It shows me all this stuff. And I think these
are this is the direction that we need to go in and and I'd
like you to just bring us up to speed on the new version of the
app and what you've done and how it's working out.
Yeah, sure. I'll give an overview. And yeah, great to
hear that. Adam. Is that definitely the intention with
the feature. But yeah, let me just give a quick overview. So
we launched fountain naught point six, a couple of weeks
ago, which included two big features. One is the Fiat on
ramp, and now you can top up your wallet with Apple Pay or
Google Pay, which we think is really If
you can top up with Apple Pay and Google Pay,
yeah, you can talk about with Apple Pay directly in the app.
Wow.
Well, I don't have apple. But you can do that with Google as
well. Yeah. Hmm. Well, I'm on some funky old grass, you know.
So I probably don't count in that regard. I didn't know that.
That's okay. Wow, that's big.
Yeah. So that we think that's really important just for it
means that you can receive your first set into the fountain app
into your wallet without actually having to really leave
the app. Obviously, you pay via Moon pay, right? Through
WebView. But you're still within the app. So you can just buy
your first sets in the app. But yeah, so we're really excited
about that. And I'm happy to talk more about the onboarding,
which I think last time I was on, I mentioned was like the
biggest challenge that I saw, yeah, on the activity stuff.
Essentially, the activity feed now, which is on the homescreen
of the fountain app shows you all of the activity from the
people that you follow on fountain. And this is primarily
drawn from the booths. So for example, if I follow you, Adam,
on fountain, and you send a boost to either an episode or a
show, I will see that in my activity feed along with the
message. And then as well as just and what I'll see
underneath that is the actual episode, content card or the
show content card. So here allows me to actually straight
away just go and play that episode, I can also reply to the
booze or like the boost and send us some stats for that comment.
And then the activity feed is also integrated with our
clipping features. So for example, if you created a clip
of an episode, I would also see that clip in my activity feed.
So it's just a way for you to discover what people you're
following are listening to effectively and what they're
finding valuable. I think, you know, we've been really pleased
with the way it's been working over the past couple of weeks.
Because obviously, it's one thing to come up with this idea,
but it's actually been working and you see somebody send a
boost to a show that you've never heard of before. And you
to be honest, you're probably not going to go and subscribe to
that feed, or you know, add it to your library. But maybe the
episode is interesting enough that you'll go and listen to,
you know, half of it, and then you know about that show, and
then you can recommend it for someone else. So I think yeah,
that that boosts and the Satoshis that go along with it.
Using that as a discovery signal for what content is worth
listening to, I think is is really powerful. And that's what
we've we've tried to surface in the activity feed.
Can I can I pay you to show up in that activity and that
activity feed for everybody?
Yeah, exactly. So we also have our promotions. So as a
podcaster, you can, you don't actually pay while you do you
pay to appear in the activity fee. But the way that promotions
work is you're not paying for impressions. So you're not
actually paying to be in the feed, you only pay out when
people listen to your content. And that's all done with
streaming stats in the opposite direction. So if I wanted to
promote my show, I could just say I want to set max at 5000
for this episode, streams per minute in the other direction
and people can kind of listen there. So yeah, that's that's
how you can promote your show on Phantom.
So I can't go around the system and buy that from you directly.
Yeah, you can stay safe. You can buy by promotion, you can
promote your show from within the fountain app with a credit
card without pay as well. Within Yeah, okay.
Good call on Apple Pay, by the way. Yeah. And Google Pay
because that gets that sort of gets you in the good graces
because they want you to you know, they want you to use Apple
Pay. Because then you don't have to think it tell me if I'm
wrong. I think the way that it works is if you use Apple Pay,
you don't have to do this 30 You don't have to give Apple to 30%
Cut.
Yeah, exactly. We don't have to give them the cut on Apple Pay
we do for our premium subscription, but not for those
one off purchases.
Well, that's a great way to do it. And it gets you in the sort
of good graces of of Apple and Google by going through their
payment system. You know, sort of kinda gets you off their back
a little bit, you know, like gets them off your back.
I wouldn't count on it. Well,
not forever. It's not there's nothing against there's nothing
against the astral rules for having you know, Bitcoin
payments and that kind of thing in there. I mean, that's,
that's, that's not against the rules, but everybody is nervous
about it. And then But then if you integrate with Apple Pay and
that kind of thing, you're, you're doing what they are what
they are, you're going a route that they want you to go, I
guess is what I'm trying to say. Yeah. So that's, that gives you
a little bit of I'm not saying like cover, but it, you're
you're you're being a good citizen of their ecosystem in
their eyes. Is that fair?
Yeah, I think more with the premium subscription using their
in app purchases, I think that covers I saw a lot more than
Apple Pay. I mean, because, you know, essentially, we are, you
know, paying Apple every month 30% of what we make on that. So,
you know, we're, we're providing them with a revenue stream. And
actually, when we first launched that in we, we added the premium
subscription with a terrible set of additional features, just so
that Apple would pay attention to that and approve the app
without the risk of the streaming sites being kind of
looked at and saying why. You pay? Yeah, yeah, we paid the
tax. Yeah.
I mean, are you doing okay, on premium? I mean, how is, uh, do
you have a pretty good base of subscribers now?
Yeah, so we've got a decent amount of subscribers, I think
we need to do a lot better with just, you know, the app features
and the premium features. So the premium features right now are
number one, you can reduce the transaction fees from 4% to 1%.
And those fees are on top of whatever the SAT value is so
that we maintain the numerology. And then you have the option to
remove promotions if you want to. And then you have access to
more advanced clipping features with the transcript. So, yeah,
4% of our users pay for premium, which you know, is it's funny,
that's the same number,
my number, my number, that's my number.
So yeah, I mean, we were happy with that, considering like,
that we're early still. But obviously, we'd like to push it
up. I mean, I've heard that Spotify. Their conversion is 40%
on premium but I mean, if you listen to Spotify without
premium is so annoying, you know, you can't you can't
shuffle you can't skip the ads. So it's much more of a Yeah,
even if you have premium, the Joe Rogan show I think I
mentioned this is interrupted every 10 minutes, you're
watching video, then all sudden, the video closes. You hear Joe
going, Hey, I love these book pills. And you know, this is
this to add read and then it goes right back into the videos
every 1015 minutes. And I pay for premium. Just ridiculous to
pieces of feedback that I got from people, because of course
for my my testbed is Korean the keeper because these are not
your typical podcast app users not your typical technology.
adopters, you know that I even got a report from from John
Spurlock that show that indeed, on that particular show, now
we're only available podcasting. 2.0 not in the Apple or Spotify
or anything like that. We have a pretty high. So it's actually
like this Safari chrome pod verse. Podcast addict, Firefox
edge, it goes down the list. You know, it's and that's right.
When a show is released, it's mainly on browsers. And then
there's a conversion and the conversion is actually it's
interesting as well. Because we have pod verse 25%, podcast
addicts 16th fountain 11. So they are getting they are
getting to the app and a lot of people of course, we're
struggling. Just trying to figure out how you know how,
what is the Satoshis? I mean, they're starting at the
beginning, obviously. Now that you've added that and we've been
we've been talking about now Okay, now you can now you can
fill up your wallet right in the app is very exciting people.
Okay, I'm doing this. And here's the main thing we get back. I
don't trust this thing called Moon pay. What the hell was
that? Is this a bug? Is this a hacker? And, and I will say at
least one person said I went to the FAQs, saw that that was the
approved partner and so I felt better about it. But the minute
someone has to get because because the onboarding is slick,
there's no driver's license, no, take a picture, move your head
cough three times. It's your social security number, which is
also a thing for Pete like I'm going to give my social security
number to an outfit called Moon peg. So it's just these little
things, but it's getting there and You can be really proud of
how well you're doing with this.
Oh, no, thanks. I appreciate that. And yeah, I definitely
understand that it's not ideal that we have to introduce a
third party. And it's an additional, you know, entity
that you have to ask question, Who are these people? You know,
what are they doing? I think hopefully, at some point, we
will be able to do it all underneath, you know, just kind
of found him brand in the app. But I think for now, the moon
pay flow is it's much better than what we had before you
avoid, you avoid the lightning invoices, you avoid having to
download another lightning, wallet to your phone. So yes,
step in the right direction. But still lots we can do that. And
in
general, I have since we have pod verse now also has a much
easier onboarding process with the with the Alby wallet, they
have Moon pay built right in granted, it is one step outside
of the app. But I'm seeing I'm just seeing the increase. I'm
Dave, you've seen it too. It's an increase a digit daily
increase. What is now of course, I'm also looking at Fiat
dollars. So that has changed a little bit in the in the past is
really transaction count. That's what we're looking at. Yeah, the
transaction count is way up. And it's incredibly exciting to see
I mean, it really enough with all the stuff I'm talking about.
It's just communication, you know, it just communication, UX,
all that kind of stuff. But people are doing it. And I think
this was a huge, huge step forward for podcasting. 2.0 for
the value for value piece, a big, big step forward having
this onboarding inside the apps.
Yeah, you know, as I said this before, that, all of these
things that you have to go through the KYC. And in that
kind of stuff. It's no different than you have to go through with
anything else. I mean, try to go get a bank account. Oh,
it was worse for Cash App. Man, we had the Cash App, you had to
do license and literally take up, take a picture, move your
head left, move your head, right. Yeah, that's
it. The only differences is all at once, like with, you know,
when you go through one of these other ones, like try trying to
get any sort of financial, like account anywhere for anything,
not crit, not crypto related, just normal, everyday stuff.
With fiat currency. It's just as onerous except that it's in slow
motion over time. And so you don't really notice. You don't
really put it all together. It's just slow, sort of small, you
know, 1000 cuts. But when you go through like a crypto quote
unquote onboarding process, it's just sort of like, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, you gotta give give him all your stuff all at
once. And it's like, whoa, this feels intrusive, but it's
really, it's really probably no ultimately less intrusive than
going to even to get some other kind of account. Really.
No, go ahead. No, go ahead.
No, I was I was gonna ask, How do I game your system of ameba
Tron, I want to I want to develop or have found to tell me
how, how can I take a podcast I love and put it to the top of
the charts?
Well, I'm glad you asked. Because there is a way
to get a pin, I've got a pin.
And yeah, so we, you know, we stole the concept of the baller
boost, I'm sure you guys won't mind. But essentially, in your
feed, even if you're not following that person, the ball
of boost from the last three days will show up in everyone's
feet. So if you want to, you know, showcase that episode to
everybody using fountain you gotta use them. Yeah, you gotta
you gotta get to the thought. Ah,
is there a magic number that you can reveal? Or is this delays?
Or is there a discovery process that has to happen for this?
No, it just depends on the top boost about by sat value in the
last three days.
Now, it does not have to be a boost coming it has to be a
boost coming from fountain though right?
Yeah, it does right now. But um, you know, one of the things I
like commit to is that everything that we see in
Fountain right now I want that to work kind of between the
apps. So for example, right now if you if you send a boost from
I think breeze curio caster, not sure about pod verse, but it
will actually show up on the episode page in Fountain how do
you how do you do that? So if we have a split, then we can see
the the value MC total and we can, you know, check to see, you
know, have we created this already. And if not, then we can
create that boost and just set it be from whatever the the
sending app was from
you if you host if you're the one that onboarded the podcast
or so you would have a split there and so you'd be able to
see it.
Yeah, and even if we didn't on on both the podcast, some
podcasters that are running their own node, for example,
just give us a 1% split.
I want to do that that way. I want to do that right away. I
want to I want all my booths to show up on fountain.
Yeah, so you can if you give us a 1% split, we'll create the
booths from curio caster breeze and pod verse. I can't remember
I spoke to Mitch and there was like, one tiny thing that we
needed to change. It might be working now, but maybe someone
can can double check that on a feed that has has a fountain
split.
Okay, so how do so the bot Okay, so baller boosts go into the
into the sort of universal activity feed. But then how does
that relate to the charts? Like the charts that you produce? On
your side? Is that something a different algorithm? Or is that
basically just a conglomeration of the activity phase stuff?
Yeah, it's basically the same. It's all based on the Satoshi
value. So yeah, and the charts right now are just based on
support from fountain within fountain, but we plan to kind of
aggregate any income that we see from other apps as well.
What is the what is the fountain username for the split?
I'll have to send that to you,
man. I'm here ready to fill it in? I'm ready to do.
Yeah, it does require it does. I'll have to look that up. Well,
I mean, one thing that this kind of leads into, which be great to
get your thoughts on is I think there's a GitHub thread about
this on on the podcast, index, GitHub, but you know, the
ability to add a lightning address to the split. Because I
think this would make things a lot easier. Just in situations
like these. Instead of asking for my value block, you can just
ask for my lightning address. And I know, both Albion fountain
have the same key send lookup on that. That kind of is not the ln
URL spec is not in that spec. But we both just went for the
same one. So yeah, I think it'd be great to get into the value
block spec. And then we can just say, Hey, what's your lightning
address? I'll add you to the split.
Okay. Yeah, I mean, I could does it doesn't have to be in this
province, he does have to be named in the spec. Because I
think you can do that now. Right? I mean, the real really,
the question is, are the blocker there is, the service that's
hosting the wallets has to be capable to resolve it. So like,
in the case of something like ln PE, Tim would have to make sure
that LM PE does that look up before? Because he, you could
just put the lining address in there, and then he would have to
do the lookup on the fly. Am I understanding that right?
Yeah, I guess I guess we could. So for example, if we saw, you
know, type equals node and address equals lightning
address, we could choose to interpret that. But ideally, if
we had, for example, you know, a different type or, you know, ln
URL, pay lightning address, because then we can kind of
agree like, fountain adverse Alby curio, Acosta, whoever else
can all agree that okay, this is the way that we're going to do
that lookup.
What should that look like? Should it be in the address
field with a different type? Or should it just be a type still
is lightning but the address that you have, and maybe an
additional attribute, that is something else like key, you
know, I don't know, just some some other zone, some other
named attribute. And it's like, Well, if that thing is present,
do a resolution, ignore that? Ignore the address and resolve
it?
Yeah. So I think the easiest way would just be like, I'm just
looking at the dock now. And we have, you know, podcast value
recipient, type equals node and address equals pub key. And if
we just had a different type, so type equals ln URL, pay and
address equals, you know, adam@fountain.fm, or Dave at get
allday.com. And then we just kind of introduced that new
type, which is this is the lightning address. And every app
or service knows what to do with that lightning address. It just
goes to the lookup format, in the same way that normal
lightning address payments work.
Now did that Linear l guys, did they ever endorsed this or
waste? Are we still doing this on our own?
So from chatting to the guys at Alby, I think the way forward is
for us to just do this, and then go back to the ln URL guys and
just say, Hey, this is working. We're all doing it. Can you
please add it?
Yeah, cuz, because the type the type name, I don't want to call
the type Ellen URL, if it's not Ellen URL, we can call call it,
you know, something else? Because that, you know, they
were so resistant to this simple idea last time that I mean, I
don't want to, I don't want to name this their stuff. So like
it could, you know, whatever we're calling this probably
needs to be you know, I'm I agree, I fully agree. It's as
simple as a simple resolver. And, you know, it gets to the
point where it's, I will I mean, we don't need your permission,
which could do it. So if we do it. I wonder what we call it. I
guess we can hash that out on the, you know, on the thing, but
it makes sense. This makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I'll, I'll look
at doing that. Or if you want to do a PR or something with
suggestion. Yeah.
I'm happy to write out an issue for it. Yeah, do that.
Let me switch gears for a second wave Lake launched and very
confusing to me. There's a lot of enthusiasm. I'm cautiously
enthusiastic. Do we know if they are indeed putting out an RSS
feed with a value block that can be ingested with the medium tag?
And And where does that? Where does that leave everybody in
this case? Do we know anything about this?
Yeah, I think as far as I know, they are putting out an RSS feed
with the music medium tag. Okay, could be wrong, though.
Right? I, man. We're, it feels like we're very close. But we're
kind of passing by each other. I mean, that would be maybe just
be my, my interpretation of the situation.
Yeah, I tried to play with it a few times in and get just got
called away every time and I have not finished going through
I created an account and got in there and then just literally
got pulled away. So I think it's this wave like studio is what
this is, it's a studio.wavelight.com. And then
you create an account in which that you can upload your music
and stuff there. Oh, which is good. But I haven't seen a feed.
If somebody can send me a feed, maybe tone record has a feed
that he can send. And that way I can I can look at the feed and
see what's actually in it.
I guess the second question would be, are you going to
support while the two things are? Maybe I should step back?
But are you going to support the the medium tag for music? Have
you thought about that?
And yeah, definitely would would love to support the music medium
tag just kind of waiting for for more.
Can we have 44,000? Feeds with medium tag music, I believe?
Yeah, those are those are hand curated. So there are
Yeah, it's enough to populate a little section.
Yeah, that's what I wanted. That's why we did it. So me,
Alex and I ran that. Ran that Python machine learning
algorithm over over square root slurpy. slurpy. Yeah. Over the
whole thing over the whole index for God, we have four weeks. No,
no, no, like a couple of months. Oh, it took forever. Yeah. And
to just identify, try to get an identification of some level of
let's just say, Okay, well, here, let's try to get maybe
50,000 feeds that are that have music, and we'll go home, we'll
just hand tag them. And then we at least have something that
apps who want to who want to play with music as a as they'll
just have a they'll Yeah, they'll have a corpus of content
there to play with. Now, I think it's, I think it's I think the
whole thing is, is interesting. I just I want to see we also
have this issue. And I think I see are you you're looking at
live too, right?
Yeah, that was my next question.
Yeah, definitely. Definitely live is, you know, the, the
highest priority for us. Yeah. Okay.
What do you need from me on that? Do you do you need me to
give you any support on that from the API or anything else?
I think we're all good. To be honest. It's just been a bit of
a hectic few weeks. So we just need to get around to it really.
But yeah, definitely.
You are the developer. Yeah, seems like seems like it might
have been kind of busy.
Yes. And Nick to a bootcamp, it will be good to go. It'll be
You're being uh ya know, if you need anything, you know, please
tell me, um, because as I'm living in that space right now,
with the live stuff, trying to get it to be trying to get it to
be well represented in the API calls where appropriate, and,
you know, pod, pod ping is there now, so you should be good from
that standpoint. I think as far as like getting up to speed with
live, I think it's a much easier process now than it was a month
ago. You know, two months ago, I think I think the support is
there now to make it doable.
Okay, great. Well, yeah, definitely. Hold hold me to hold
us.
But, uh, no. And that is wick on in. I don't know if you ever
knew this was why I brought up live. But you know, Alex, and
I've been going back and forth on well, you know, what, what do
you do with some of these things like Mitch is bringing up where
he so he says, Well, you know, for long running, let's just
say, you know, jet stream hunters and retro these sort of
24 hour live streams that, that never stop. And what do you do
with those? And so that Alison told me is like, well, you know,
why don't we just come up with a new medium, you know, call it
whatever I mean, you know, radio or whatever, just give it some
name. That indicates that this is a continuous live stream. And
I mean, I like that idea. I think I think having it as a
medium is pretty elegant. Get because medium feels like one of
those things that it it solves it really exists in a space.
Within the within the infrastructure of podcasting. It
has always been needed, but but it was squishy. Because it's
like it's not a category. And it's not a different tag, like
it's not a it's it's not something other than an episode,
or excuse me an item, it's an item. But it's like it never
there's never really a good place to stick this and medium
is so elegant. Because you can say you can do this, okay, well,
this is a different type of thing. So having a long running
24/7 stream, you know, found that less you as, as the app
know, okay, well, here's, here's this unique thing. And here's
how we're going to know how to handle this differently than
then a normal episode, which is a download, or a live stream,
which is a, you know, moment in time. piece of content. That's
that's streaming, though. Okay, well, here's a third. Here's the
third thing. This other thing is something that just never stops.
And so you can tune in and tune out. And as we'll wait, does
that make sense to you? I think it does.
Yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense to separate that out
from the, you know, single Live episode.
Yeah. Well, that, are you. You're probably really not even
looking at medium right now at all. Because you really don't
have a use, you know, you don't have none of your features
require that right.
Yeah, not not right now. But obviously, yeah, I plan to
support that in the future.
Since this is of course, my one of my my, my pet little project
slash peeves. So I someone was kind enough to give me your, the
fountain ID address. So I'm all I already put a 1% split in for
podcasting to point out. The replies I mean, I'm just going
to say it again, another two weeks gone by nothing on cross
app comments. So how do we get replies that are boost replies?
How do we get those across to other apps? Is that even
possible? Have you thought about it? Have you talked to anybody
about it?
Yeah, great question. And it's a big question. I think we
definitely want that to happen. But I think is is as you guys
have talked about over the past week or month, this is the most
difficult
tag and it's the most difficult thing to do. I think there are a
few different options. And I'm kind of just waiting to see what
happens. I think one option that you guys have talked about over
the past few weeks is bridging booths into activity pubs so
essentially, creating, you know, and I'm not that familiar with
activity targets, I might be using the wrong In the
terminology here, but essentially creating a kind of
route, comment inactivity pub for each boost, and then letting
people reply off of that. That's one option. Another option is
Noster, which is obviously, you know, it's a whole different
thing. But I do think it could work. The only thing I think
that's potentially missing there, or who's potentially
missing from all of these options is the ability to kind
of, you know, associate a payment with that message in a
way that isn't just in the text of the message. So yeah, I think
there's a few different options. I just think that it is
unfortunately, just going to take a bit of time. But yeah,
I'm definitely everything that we do in balancing. I'm thinking
about how can we apply this cross app, because ultimately,
we're competing against Apple and Spotify. And thank you, this
is the killer feature that is going to, you know, help all of
the forecasting 2.0 apps take huge market share from Apple and
Spotify, because they're never going to do that. You know?
Yeah. So yeah, I think it will happen. It's just a really
difficult thing to do.
That's a great way to look at it. Yeah.
All of the excitement, for me is really in that. And, you know, I
set up a friend of mine and his wife, they're doing a podcast.
And he immediately said, Oh, I'm building a community on
fountain. I'm like, that's fantastic. No, of course, it's
unfortunate, because it's only one part of his community. The
other ones are just kind of left out. But it's definitely where
there's excitement. And, and I'm just gravitating towards where
things are working. I think you and I talked briefly or maybe it
was a suggestion that. So for podcasting 2.0, we would be able
to make the booths public after we do the live show. Is that
Yeah, have you put that on your list somewhere for us?
Yeah, that's on the list. I haven't done it yet. But
I don't know. Because I stand by it as a podcaster. I've been
doing it for a while. There's nothing more exciting than
adding a split into my value block and that activating a
service. It's just so sexy. Yeah, it's like, I put a split
in to my Git Alby and, and now I have two different I have
contracts, and I have the Saturn stats package is I mean, that's
a huge, huge value that I'm getting, just by adding 1% into
my value block. I mean, this as a podcaster. It clicks, like, I
don't have to integrate with API's, I don't have to
understand any of that. I just need to and thank God for really
thank God for sovereign feeds, where I can just say, Oh, this
is the get Alby address, clickety, click, this is the
fountain address, clickety click, it resolves everything,
don't have to think about it don't have to look up any, any
IDs. I mean, it's getting so beautifully simple, that for a
podcaster this is exactly what you want.
Is there ever been anything like, I'm struggling to think of
an example of something like this, where you simply sit
begins sending somebody a payment, and the service just
activates? I mean, like, like, from the, from the sender side,
you know, like, traditionally, you would, uh, you know, you go
and you register, and you set up a payment from the, from the
provider side, and they're gonna take, they're gonna pull money
from you, or, you know, on a regular basis to pay for the to
pay for your use of the service. I don't, I'm not sure that
there's ever existed a way where I can just from my side, from
the consumer side, I can just begin paying you at random and
the service just becomes available. But I can't think of
any analogy for that.
I don't think so. Obviously, it does something wrong on a
second. Thank you. The only the only analogy is sending an email
somewhere that it's not a payment, but you send an email,
it'll show up in a form in a list or something like that,
that that's pretty much the only the only glitch based
service activation is not something that I think has ever
exists. No, no. That's kind of exciting. I mean, it's, it's
it's kind of exciting because it solves so many issues. security,
privacy, these things. I mean, like you I can't think of
anything else like it. I don't know just just thinking out loud
here.
No, not at all. There's nothing like it. This is why it's so
beautiful.
And I like the, you know, I like this. I liked the idea that, you
know, your podcast and 2.2 apps or as a group are competing. You
know, they're competing really, it's almost not even with Apple
and Spotify in, in
these almost a whole different level playing field.
They're competing with malaise.
malaise? Yes, yes,
they're competing, they're competing with, with near, you
know, just just like, like they're competing with an
entrenched average user listener experience.
Yes, Wallah. That's why I liked the activity lightning timeline
so much. It's every we've got stuck in this inbox model in day
one from day one. I mean, I always like to kind of river of
podcasts, you know, which is your unplayed episodes, which is
works very well, I think almost every app has a version of it
now. But we are all stuck in this, here's your podcasts, you
know, this is the ones you subscribe to or follow, let's,
let's all have that not be the same. I'm looking at you ask
her. And, you know, just something new, something new and
exciting. And that's, that's what I'm seeing. And it shows in
the results.
Yeah, I think because with podcasting, the fact that in
every single app, you really have to subscribe to a feed or
follow it depending on what language you're using. And that
makes the barrier to listen to the content really high. Whereas
there's so much incredible content out there, that's
probably you're going to find so interesting or entertaining. But
you're never going to subscribe to that feed. And right now,
there's not really a way other than outside of the podcast that
just in, you know, word of mouth to discover that content.
Now, when, okay, so if a new user comes into fountain, the
activity feed is not assumed because it's a glow. It's a
global baller boosts curated feed, that that new users
activity feed is not blank, when they show up, it comes in with
with a lot of stuff there.
Yeah, so along with the, there's, I guess there's four
things that go into the activity feed. The first is activity from
people that you follow, which will be empty, if you're a brand
new user. The second is the $1 boost from the last three days,
which you will always see that'll be in there for a new
user. And then the the third thing is clips that are that
have been liked, you know, a lot in the last, you know, whatever
time period, so you can see clips because we want to
introduce the clipping feature to new users. And then the final
thing is promotions as well. So that's what you'll see. And it
will be jumbled up in the feed.
So that is my next question is Is the activity feed available
in some external way? Like, could I, but I look at the
activity feed is you have there's an API or something that
I can look at that? Or is that still private to the app?
It's still private to the app right now. But yeah, as I said
before, I think, you know, the real power of these features is
if they work between the apps. So the only reason that it's
still private is because we haven't figured out exactly how
we're going to share that data between that. But yeah, at some
point, I envision that, you know, you'll be able to read
that data, you know, for us, because we also have the show
feeds as well. So if you go and find the show, you'll be able to
see the feed for that show. So, you know, if, if another app
wanted to read the show feed from fountain, they could do
that. And hopefully we could read that same show feed from
another app and we just all merged them.
Now that's not a bad idea.
Yeah, cuz that you know, like that. They've been forever
obsessed with trying to get trying to get data about what
shows are being listened to popularity, things like that,
like real real popularity, not, not charts, not not things that
you know, oh, Apple says these are your top podcasts or Spotify
says your top podcasts like real data from actual people
listening to stuff and sharing it, clipping it, boosting it,
whatever the signals are. And you know that If I had a way to
just, if I had a way to, to see, you know, the 100% anonymized
data just like, you know, hey, this show is just really, this
episode is really popular in our app right now, you know, I get,
I don't give two craps about, like, who's boosting it, or
who's sharing it or clipping it from us from an index directory
standpoint, I just want to know what it is, you know, I want to
know what it is. So that I can say, you know, so I can in an
hour, you know, crude ranking, give that higher priority,
because clearly, it may be something people are excited
about whatever this is, in that may be across, you know, five or
six different apps, you know, I would love to just be constantly
polling those, those sort of popularity feeds to say, okay,
these are the shows episodes and feeds that are that people are
listening to the most now, to have a recent list because I'm
not happy with the bias. Every every app has bias, you know,
our directory has bias. Because, you know, we see so much
activity with podcasting 2.0 oriented shows, and Bitcoin
oriented shows and things like that. So, you know, that's not
necessarily representative of what's going on across
across podcast, what is the what is the output you want from
that, Dave?
I want to I want to be able to amalgamate all of those things,
you know, I would love to just have these have these feed
activity, so that then I could produce an in a single endpoint
that people could pull, that would say, Okay, over the last
30 days, or less, seven days or three days, these are the fields
that have been that have had just tons of activity. Okay,
because that's, to me, that's a good, that's a the most organic
discovery mechanism that you can
find. I disagree with that. But okay. Well, I
mean, I guess the most organic is word of mouth. But like, yes,
what I mean is like, when it comes to algorithmic, that's as
close to organic as you can get, is, if you're saying if people
are when people start following, you know, following shows,
listening to episodes, and that kind of thing, is that data
comes back out of the app. And, and I can see it, and then
disseminate that back out to, you know, everybody else.
That's, that is sort of, it evens the bar, it evens out the
bias, it levels it out to where there's there's everybody's
biases are becoming equal, which means you have normalized and
this
is interesting. I personally, I think the app itself has bias
built in. So fountain is clearly an app that has a certain user
group, because of its because of what it's been doing early on.
And I think found pod bursts has, has its own user group,
which is very different. And I'm not so sure that I mean, I
understand what you would want to see it, I just don't know if
I'd be interested in a feed that is from all these apps. And it's
to me, it's more interesting what you're listening to. I want
to know that. I hear you like snap some data, I get it, I get
it. Well,
normalized bias. That's what our MPP That's right, normalized,
normalized bias. That's what I want. I want normalized by the
way that you will see, you know, because I guess you okay, here's
my concern. And this, this leads into a bigger discussion. I put
in this thing today into the stats, a tweak the stats, and
then now has an extra set of data in there. These are the
hourly and daily stat counts, that people are pulling from the
Todd wanted days, and so we've produced them. So this is like
feeds with new episodes every three days, every seven days, 10
days, blah, blah, blah. What's bothered me for a long time is
that anchor skews, these numbers are so hard. They they have so
many junk feeds on a daily basis that it's it's noisy, it's it's
pure noise. So what I've wanted is a way to, to have stats that
exclude that. That is, first of all exclude anchor just because
it skews things too hard. Right now it's a virus in the badass
industrial complex. But then, on a bigger scale, hopefully we can
get the new tag that I've proposed that allows hosting
companies to indicate whether or not a feed is paid for or free.
Yeah, so I would like to produce two different One sets of stats,
essentially, one that's just totals across the board totals
no and no, nope, cherrypicking. But then another set of stats
that says, These are the, these are the feeds that people have
paid for this appears that, you know, they've gone to a hosting
company or they've done something. Basically, there the
feeds that don't, don't have that are not labeled by the
hosting company as a free or trial account, which, in my
opinion, 99.9% of anchor should have that tag within it. These
are all free or trial accounts, essentially. And so that's,
that's what I want. Well, that. That's the bias. That's an
example of the type of bias I'm trying to control for here.
Because when if you take something like fountain, the
understandably, in it for a good reason, and it's beneficial to
be this way. There's a strong bias towards Bitcoin podcasting
there. And that's, that's good. Except that law, I guess, I
think on a long enough time scale, you don't want to be
hamstrung. By that bias, you want to, you want to go above
that bias. And the same thing with POD verse or any of the
other apps, if you if your bias becomes too strong, you end up
limiting your audience because they think a book is going to
get in there all they see at the top is just this one flavor of
show. And I'm not saying that you don't you have that as part
of your as part of your exposed data. But then it would be
really nice if you had this other more normalized set of
data, that you could say, Okay, well, he and you can mix that in
so that it doesn't look like your bias doesn't stand out as
much.
I'm gonna ask this question, and I'm trying to sign sound as kind
as possible. Thanks. No, don't don't do that. Who is the
intended audience for the steps? Because I, there's so much
energy and effort goes into this. But the main users seem to
be Todd, and James, who I'm just trying to understand who is this
really for?
Is it is it's for? It's for everybody. It okay, there's so a
two part answer. Answer number answer. Number one, is, it's for
everyone. Everyone in the podcast industrial complex, to
see what some actual real numbers may look like that are
not, that don't, that are not influenced by somebody's agenda.
Because I really have none. I don't even care that much about
the about stats. So I'm the perfect guy to put stats
together, because I don't care about stats, that the second one
is is for me, because I'm I've just I'm uncomfortable. There's
something the what I see as far as numbers go, bother me on a
consistent basis. Because, you know, it's like, it's like it is
with, with with some? Well, it's like it is with with YouTube,
you can say, Oh, well, you know, we had 20 million hours of video
uploaded every single day. Okay, well, if only if only 1000 hours
of that videos ever watched within the number is bullshit.
And I don't like existing in a place where I think the numbers
are grossly skewed in a way that I can't get my head around
what's actually happening. So it's more as more of a of an
obsession to try to get some idea. I mean, we run an index of
where we're trying to see every every podcast in the whole world
that exists. And if I think that the numbers I'm seeing are just
flat out wrong or in are not indicative of what's really
going on, because, okay, the discussion we had at the
beginning of the show today about Google, Google podcasts
and you know, okay, podcasting is starting to flatten out, you
know, the grow, the hyper growth is not there, blah, blah, blah.
I really would like to see that indicated in the actual numbers.
So again, I, as I stated, I understand why you want it I
just see an enormous amount of energy going into this that is
really only used for a headline in an article I as a podcaster.
I don't I have no benefit. I don't maybe maybe it should
hasn't presented been presented to me in a way that that is
interesting. As a I don't know, if an app developer, I mean, it
seems like hosting companies want this information for
competitive reasons to compare to their own internal numbers.
How are we doing? And journalists? I'm just trying to
understand the actual intended audience besides yourself, which
is completely valid. If you if you just want me
if you just let me give you this cool. Let me give you a
comparison. So here's here's the numbers coming out, right,
coming out of this right now feeds with new episodes, in the
last 90 days 490,960. Fees with new episodes in the last 90
days, the Exclude anchor 359,815. So you're talking about
150,000 Less podcasts that have produced a new episode in the
last 90 days, if you take anchor out of that equation, okay, to
me, that's a logarithmic difference in the number in the
numbers here. So we're talking about, we're talking about big
differences in the numbers. And if people are just looking at,
if they're looking at headline stats, it's sort of like CPR
versus, you know, headline inflation or whatever. Versus
core inflation. Like, I don't I think we all know that, you
know, that 7% Inflation is BS. Like, give me the real No, no,
no, give me the real numbers. Okay. Right.
But inflation is something different, because Inflation
affects people. Well, they have a number of the number of
episodes, the number of feeds on Anchor, that are, or the number
of shows with more than a feed with more than it just doesn't
matter to me. And that's what I'm just trying to understand
why I wanted you because you're not a hosting company. So okay,
thank you. There's my answer. At the end, so the intended
audience is hosting companies. And that's okay, that's, that's
that was the question I asked
a nut, not just hosting companies, hosting companies,
into anybody interested in building a product within the
podcast world. If I think I think it's nice to know real
numbers, so that when you start to go into these things, you
don't feel like you're building a service. If you go in, you
say, oh, man, there's a half a million feeds put, you know,
shows posting new episodes every, every 90 days, you're
like, Okay, we're gonna build our, we're gonna build our MVP
of our new product based on these, you know, these big
numbers. If the numbers are far less, if the real numbers are
far less, you may not, you may decide not to even build that
product. Like, I guess what I'm uncomfortable with is people are
starting to take our numbers. I see our numbers everywhere. And
I don't want that to mislead somebody into thinking that the
podcast ecosystem can support a product that they may think
otherwise about. If they had better numbers, okay. Okay.
General, I don't like aggregate anything. But I think I feel
like if this one is going to be out there, and it's going to be
people can download it to a database and look at it. I feel
like we sort of owe it to people to give him the most accurate
statistics
that are completely valid. Okay, cool. Solve now, because I mean,
for me, I like the I like it. I don't like it in a way. I don't
like leaderboards in general. But I'm always happy to see the
fountain top 10 This week, or whatever it is, I love seeing
that, just because there's excitement around it, and and it
excites the podcaster and excites the people who are
listening to those podcasts that that excitement is I really like
seeing that. So whenever I think stats, I think there was an
interesting conversation on I think, the pod news weekly
review, formerly known as what was the thing called again, I
forgot what it used to be called pod lane, pod land, right? You
know about length of time listen, which of course we have
that information too. And there's, you know, there's two
stats packages, I look at an A, it's phenomenal to see where
people are dropping off and where they're coming back in or
at all and where booths happen. That to me is a podcast or
someone who's producing programming. That's the kind of
stuff that that really excites me. So I was just trying to
understand the intended audience totally get it. It's mainly and
I understand why you want it since we're producing stats, you
want to have the best stats, I got it. It makes total sense to
me.
Yeah. How's that coffee? Oscar okay sorry we get we get
distracted with shiny things sometimes
yeah we do we do but it's okay and and I saw the Spurlock page
Pro I think it's from December from Livewire the way he laid
out the stats that you produced That's That's sexy to look at
man. That's really cool. But it but it missed the top was a
called thing was literally called Top podcast hosting COMM
Now that's not it which one was it the stats? Podcast index
statistics visualized.
Yeah, that's the one that that's actually what made me do put
this stuff in there. It didn't really take that long because I
was I saw that I was like, Man that just looks, I feel I have
got this gut feeling that is, this is misleading. Because I
literally I look at I look at if you saw the river of nonsense
coming out of anchor Yeah, you would be like, now, you know,
I've actually thought about just not even including anchor
podcasts at all. Unless they have an iTunes ID associated
with them. It's that bad. It's a river of garbage. How
what is the discrepancy between the value for value page on
podcast index, which shows 10,957 versus the numbers from
December 3 In this live wire, which shows 11,280?
No idea. Okay. I'll have to I will resolve this discrepancy.
Yeah,
I mean, because that I mean, that's the number I look at. And
so I from first from a statistic standpoint, here's here's the
stats, I really am interested in love looking at value blocks,
transcripts, funding tags, chapters, music, medium of music
medium of video. That's the stuff that I would like. I would
just say, when you're doing stats, as a participant, I would
love to see that. That's interesting to me. Those are
really cool. One
thing one thing that would be cool to see as well is you could
have like a shame leaderboard for all the hosting companies
for each tag, so you could rank the hosting companies based on
the percentage of their feeds that implement each tag.
I don't really like shaming people but at least know how you
think Oscar real nice
wash a shame activity feed. Like for all the for all the found
listeners that don't boost Hmm. There you go. This is the guy
that's been at the spin on fountain the longest and has
hasn't been
has been boosted any. Yeah. Huh. Okay. You want to thanks for
people? Yeah, definitely. We've been getting a lot of boosts
coming in during the show. You've probably heard the little
sounds. And that's usually when there's a booster Graham coming
in. Let's see, Martin Linda's Coke is over boosting 1776 We
have kinnexa 12345. Thank you very much. says Hey, Oh, cheers,
Rene. We got Mike dell 54321. Blueberries really close to
launching a bunch of new podcasting 2.0 stuff next week?
Yes. Todd has been talking about this. Do we have a an actual
list of what he's going to be the crack and they're releasing
the crack and we have dreads
Dred Scott. Hello, Dred Scott. 123456
Sakala 20 is blades only Impala
and he just says go podcasting. Thanks. Yeah, thank you so much,
Dr. Martin Linda's cog with a row of ducks. Martin I'm not
gonna read every single time you boost. Eric TP Eric peepee who
has actually been quite helpful in the in the chat today. 33,333
Blueberry with a swing and a row of dicks another 117 1776 Live
chapters he liked that idea. Okay. Martin says I wonder if I
can listen to your podcast at the same time I'm writing the
show notes for episode Okay. I'm going to try and read the ones
that are relevant is another blueberry and Oscar we're very
much looking forward to going live and fountain there's
numerous lit no agenda streams that are coming to chew
bubblegum and kick ass now where's the GM? He says all
right. Contracts was 6969 and we were talking what do we have a
back and forth with them Was it more it's from, from get Alby
about helping them morning onboarding? Yeah, that's that's
very What a cool idea. So the to do list him Yes. So the stat
your stats package would actually help you onboard. And
why not? Doesn't have to be an app doesn't have to be podcast
or wallet can be any kind of service who can onboard? Yeah, I
like that very much. Let me see there's Bumi still showcasing
booster grams with 5000 SATs two times. Five 5000 SATs Thank you
Bhoomi 30,000 from the tone record so much info coming
through in the past week with the medium music tag, trying to
follow RSS feeds from the New Wave leg V four v music site
helped me see how they coded my releases there. We'll be able to
compare that against tone record tracks podcast feed, so I expect
a full report for the board meeting by the next next time we
come together tone wrecker. I'd really like to see it working
across the board. And I have no idea if I mean, the interface
that Brees has is completely different from the from the web,
and we'll have to see. Dobby does 25,000 SATs Thank you very
much. We have lightning maximalists Oh, that's for no
agenda. I'm sorry. 25,000 from bore log, Borlaug thank you for
everything you're doing especially all the teaching
you're doing along the way. Yes, very nice. We have I think that
is Yeah, then I get to the delimiter so that's what's been
boosting live as we've been live for the past one hour and 36
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sitting down we get Farscape Ian Yeah 300,000 says
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fountain Speak of the devil love the show. Y'all may be
interested in a project I've been working on called Sovereign
stack and helps you self hosted Bitcoin only value for value
websites. Check it out sovereign dash stack.org And yeah,
I have seen him show up is very interesting. A lot of people
will dig in the stuff he put together they're so nice. I
haven't seen that nice package.
And lots of package talk today. Mere Mortals podcast 2222 Road
dogs through fountain he says gotta agree with Adam, but put
timestamps in my show notes in parentheses from my podcasts to
satisfy YouTube and Spotify. This was when I first started
off though and was desperate to do anything to make it a better
experience for my non existent audience. Now that is in
reference to our stop molesting your show notes. Ah, yes. Cole
McCormick through fountain is in his 5555 SAS he says mentioning
the fountain charts I saw my show at number 39 For most
supported around New Year's fountain is the way rocket ship
listen to America plus rocket ship. Yes, America plus
to the moon to the moon.
Jean been 2222 through Fontanini says multiple years of uptime on
Adams server is a good use case for the newest Colonel live
patching functionality. Most distributions have. That is a
good point. Oh, very good point. Satchel of Richards from Joe W.
1111. Note. Thank you, Joe. Oh, boy. 54321 through breeze and he
says Check out the new breeze SDK. Ooh,
I didn't know that they have an SDK. Oh. Oh, wait, wait, wait.
Whoa. Oh, we didn't get a moment memo about this. What's
happening?
Yeah. Yeah, he probably said it on telegram. Then I don't open
telegram check out the new breeze SDK and making a note to
go check it out. And add noncustodial lightning payments
to your app. Okay, well,
we oh, here we go. Lightning as a service. Is this the long
awaited Lightning as a service?
I don't know. I'm gonna I'm gonna holler at Roy since you
don't he says he doesn't.
Yeah, please. Do you become a design partner. Oh, okay. Oh,
this is this is it. This is the green light. Crucially, this SDK
is an end to end noncustodial drop in solution powered by
Greenlight hub. Built in LSP, on chain interoperability, third
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It's everything. It's everything you ever wanted. I came for the
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developing this SDK developing keyword. It's the easiest way to
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send and receive p2p Bitcoin payments directly from your app.
Cool.
Yeah. We're gonna let it ROI on the show. No, no,
I'd love to have Roy on the show. Now, Oscar,
you switched some of your back end or maybe all of your back
end to Zebedee. Is that right?
Yeah, that's right. So we are still we still have our own node
on LM pay, which is, you know, it's our own node that we that
we run, but using Allen pays software. But we have switched
some of our back end over to Zebedee.
Okay, so I guess was it was a good choice for you. And, like,
what? What benefits? Are you getting out of that? Like, can
you tell me anything about it?
Yeah, so I guess the main benefit for us as a business as
an entity is the custodial risk. So Zebedee have the, you know,
the licenses, and all of the, you know, legal stuff to, you
know, legally custody people's funds. And so for us, that just
takes a lot of the risk out of what we're doing from a business
perspective, and lets us just focus on, you know, the
podcasting experience for users. And I think that's really
important as we grow, especially with the amount of the volumes
as they go up, you know, that was just something that was
quite, you know, weighing, weighing heavy, obviously, when
you're talking about moving people's money around, so that's
the main benefit. Okay. All right.
Cool. I love that you had done that. Yeah.
I love seeing the name Zebedee show up in my Bible. I didn't
know it was a cool name.
First, second, Zebedee.
Yeah, but no, no, I've been reading news and Bible study.
And I keep saying, Oh, well, this got this name for that
product from this and like, all these different names that I
see, like, I'm sure people like, Hey, man, we need to see if we
can find the domain name. Let's check the Bible.
Z Candela these eco wallet is a wallet. Oh, okay, Roy. Yeah,
well, well, I'll holler at you, Roy. Very cool, man. Very cool.
Dave Jackson. 10,000 SATs. Automatic. He says just got paid
today. Got me a pocketful of change. Go podcasting. Yo, yo,
yo. Let me ZZ Top reference from de Jepsen. Yeah. Todd from
Northern Virginia. 33 333 through breeze and he says, if
he's up for it, would love to hear Xavier on the show about
his plans for podcast addict and podcasting. 2.0 Yeah, I've
reached out to Xavier before and he very politely declined. said
that he's just not a he's just not the kind of guy that wants
to go. Oh, that's
cool. So we love what he's doing though. I love what he's doing.
Yeah, if you ever change your mind is a good place anytime.
Anytime. Anonymous 10,000 We get that two times a mere mortals
podcast long row of ducks Big O humongous duck 2222 is like
mountain it's
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nuts with the ducks. Crazy ducks Disco Duck.
Really appreciate your firm stance of not accepting
sponsorships or outside money really does highlight how
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listen. Yo whoa boost boost boost anonymous 10,000 sasco
podcasting go podcast
you know the anonymous I'm convinced that most of those are
pod verse because oh really yeah I think we've been with an
update somewhere I became anonymous to I sent like some
monster booster gram to new media show like 50,000 Another
50,000 as like anonymous 50,000 Anonymous. Oh I want my name
jacked
is may see 36,969 SATs from a citizen pod verse nice. And the
note is need to reassure the listeners that Richard Stallman
will not break into your home to break wind. Although he does cry
every time a user logs themselves into a proprietary
ecosystem
does anyone still know the Richard Stallman legend at this
point? I mean, he's getting up there in the years.
PS I apologize to anyone who gets offended at some of my
clips on pod verse. I just wanted to spread the
inspirational quotes that have given me hope. If I keep working
and boosting hard, perhaps I too will be able to obtain wood when
I'm Adams. Ah.
Wow man that's like
like this sloppiest backhanded compliment I've ever seen.
I'm not sure it is a compliment, but
nice. Okay. Yeah. Richard Stallman, man, the the epic
story of of his Is it his contract when he does a speaking
gig? You can Google that and find it online. Like when if he
agrees to speak you have to you know his speaking contract? The
stuff that's in it is quite humorous.
Oh, yeah. Oh, totally. Yeah, there's all kinds of thing and
he doesn't want a hotel room. He has to stay with somebody. I
mean, he
got special food for his parrot. Yeah, that he brings those
right.
I gotta give him props. He's very consistent about that. I'm
very high, high level appreciation for that.
Follow up from a citizen 6969 through pod verse. He says I
didn't forget to boost last show, but I was bamboozled. I'm
still on Team pod verse But sometimes the confetti is a lie.
Regarding the episode splits are not supported on pod verse
discussion. I take it to mean that boosting the lid doesn't
respect the episode split.
So Mitch did clarify this. That pod verse as long as it's in the
RSS feed then it does respect the splits yet yes. Right. Okay.
So wishes of always the always the source of truth.
prospectus. Respect the split.
Do I like that?
C dubs one a one a one binary boosts through boosts CLI and
he's doing it old school. Boost bot is now on noster and he
gives a long nostril address noster does ch slash blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Oh, cool.
I actually so so what does that mean? So I don't know. Oh, yeah,
of course. You know what
I mean? Oh, here it is. Yes, it okay. Yeah, these put pumping
out the boost the boost bot through noster Ah, yes. The
emmalin let me see if I can find that. That's kind of
interesting.
I clicked the link in it shows me all the boosts Ah, yeah.
Alright. Anonymous 5000 SATs through pod version. He says
send bitcoin boosts to your favorite podcasters with POD
verse plus lb hashtag FOSS. Nice. Blueberry scheduler
Richards 1111 through the boost CLI and he says testing
Attention, please. Paging Dr. C. Dubs. Okay. All righty. 10,000
SATs from the market surfer through pod verse. He says my
first boost. Easy guys. It's my first time thanks to the entire
community and especially Sir Alex and Mitch, go podcasting.
Yo Yo Yo yo yo.
5000 SATs from anonymous again, and we got 20,000 SATs from Sir
dug on. Own a fountain. He says thanks for the tip on loading up
fountain using a debit card. There you go.
It's a good tip. Oh, okay, Martin. Linda's code just just
came into top everybody. Well, oh, not exactly what he did
while he did what he did. He did throw out a 123456 you get a
baller for 20 is Blaze. Only him Paola.
You got it. I got it.
Boom, he gave us three three batches of 5000 says thank you,
Martin. Let us go by the way. Yes, boom. Boom, he says us
showcase things booster grams. I guess he's demoing something.
And then he gave two more Is this still showcasing booster
grams? Okay.
I don't think we're seeing any curio caster boosts today for
some reason.
Martin I wonder what Martin post what did he boost from
pod verse a lot most this is pod verse, some fountain and the
boost CLI. But not to know I know that people are sending him
but it's not coming through for some reason. Maybe it's not
coming through. I'm just on my note anything. Anything's
possible. It's amazing. The shit works at all. It is what I keep
telling my wife. She's like, you know, if someone had a problem,
it's amazing. She works at all. I don't know what to say. Sorry.
Yeah.
Be be in 2222 He says working on chapters from my podcasts past
episodes was the best tool to build and deploy chapters. Well,
I would say HyperCard
like hyper capturing. Yeah, that's I love the cloud. The
cloud chapters. I love that drab does this for all of all the
shows I do and certainly for podcasting 2.0 Yeah, for which
he receives a handsome split. across areas very, very, very
handsome, split.
lavish. 12345 through fountain, he says, You like space? Ball
against him? Yes. All right. Yeah, sure. The delimiter
chemistry blogger 30 3015 sets do fountain and he says, Dave,
Adam, the open source nature of your discourse is the most
refreshing main course for the informed podcast listeners you
have amassed with this fine product for dessert, perhaps
listen to AI dot cooking, which contains a selection of curated
news items about artificial intelligence. CSB prepares the
selection, whilst uniquely erudite glyph serves it up with
a Plone yo,
yo and thank you commerce, your blogger, the man who had never
donated to any of my shows for almost 15 years and then all of
a sudden boom he's on every single show. It's very much
appreciated man love it.
He's becoming an he's becoming a quite adept writer of the
English language. By the way, these booths are getting better
every week.
There's Dred Scott 1234570 Pete Martin's boots
on am Paula.
Boost battle commence.
Yeah,
I like it. We have monthlies. Yeah, we do. I had to grab them
off of the table here, monthlies Tim's Tima Hudgins $25. My
buddy, Paul Erskine $11.14. David would find $3 Jeremy
gerdts $5 And that's our group for today.
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We really are because it has never anything there.
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I don't run that. I don't know who who set that up. Let me see
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It is HTTPS compliant. Yes. So you can hit it with you can
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And tell your friends about it, please. I get oh, there's curio
caster. Okay. Boo snaps Oh, Fatone record 403 SATs I guess?
I don't want to wonder why that is I wonder if it's just not
coming through on my node? That's possible. Maybe? Who
knows? Ah, Oscar. Are you still awake? Yeah, still here. Okay,
good. Really appreciate you coming, especially staying up
late and then coming through the coming to the board meeting with
us today. Is there anything else we can do for you? Is there any
support you need? You know, can we send you some hookers and
blow? I mean, you just tell us what, you
know, I think all good. I think my only one request to everyone
listening would be you know, now that we've got the on ramp with
Apple Pay, and with Google Pay, you know, now's a good time to
go and grab one of your friends or family members or colleagues,
and just show them you know, podcasting 2.0 You know, it's
much easier than it was a couple of weeks ago to get started on
fountain. So yeah, go and grab a friend. Grab a family member or
co worker or something and just, you know, onboard them.
Take Take your mom out to lunch a long lunch, and and show her
how to use sound and get her on board.
Yeah, exactly.
Alright, Dave. Yeah. What can I do for you, brother? I've been
doing the help desk because that's another week of help.
Don't have it?
Yes. You have. And it's been it's been fantastic. It keeps
the wolves at bay. And then it gives me it gives me time to
take care of their problems. Never heard back from that from
that takedown guy?
No, you asked him to explain himself and he did not know
I just said could you please tell me what your company name
is? And just you know, show me that you are indeed you
represent Fox News. And curious why you didn't do a the process
that is published of a DMCA takedown.
I wonder if he ever actually sin. I wonder if he ever
actually hit Martin because he was referencing pod a pod friend
URL? Yeah,
he was telling us to remove this account. Okay. Yeah. All right.
Well, have
you gotten any take? Have you gotten any takedown stuff?
Oscar? Do you get pestered with those?
No, no haven't received any?
No, you're living the dream brother. How do I get signed up
for whatever you're doing?
All right, gentlemen, perfectly under the wire one hour 57
minutes. This has been a very very invigorating board meeting
Oscar congratulations on all this success. And you know I
will be back next week with with more to discuss what what are we
been missing? There's a lot of stuff I know we're missing. DAVE
What are we not what are we not hit on today? So I can write it
down?
Oh, I mean, like, I mean, I'll have to scan my notes and send
it to you. I mean, every week we only make it halfway through my
page. Which is on the long list
on the long list. All right, everybody in the chat. Thank you
very much for being with us lit and live podcasting. 2.0 will
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