Podcast Junkies: The Show That Keeps You Coming Back

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Find a podcast about

 

 

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thank you for hitting play.

 

 

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I'm your host, Timothy Kim O'Brien, and I bring my experience with podcasting

 

 

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since 2006 as a listener and a podcaster.

 

 

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I'm here to help you outsmart the algorithm and find your

 

 

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next binge worthy podcast.

 

 

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Here's how the show works.

 

 

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I combed the millions of podcasts currently available

 

 

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for free on various platforms.

 

 

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And then I come back to you with what I've found.

 

 

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Sure, you can use search engines for recommendations from many podcast apps,

 

 

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but I feel that getting a personal recommendation from a real live

 

 

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breathing person is still the best way to find the gems that are out there.

 

 

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The show is broken up into three halves.

 

 

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I'm a huge fan of car talk, so bear with me.

 

 

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The first half is the stats of the show being reviewed.

 

 

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This gives you all the details about where to find the show, how many

 

 

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episodes, who's hosting the show.

 

 

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Basically this is for those who just want the stats.

 

 

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The second half of the show I dig deeper into the show and letting you

 

 

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know how well the host interacts.

 

 

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Talk about their audio quality and let you know what I think the show is about.

 

 

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The third half of the show is where I talk about how, why the show is binge

 

 

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worthy, where to start your journey with the show being reviewed, and I'll

 

 

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be reaching out to the hosts to see if they'd like to discuss their show and

 

 

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talk about their podcasting journey.

 

 

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So let's get going.

 

 

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I remember hearing the show when I first got serious about podcasting back in 2016.

 

 

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And it's been a favorite of mine since then.

 

 

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And I also got a chance to meet Harry at a podcast conference.

 

 

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Unfortunately, I was a bit starstruck at the time and didn't say hello.

 

 

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I did, however, make it a point not to let that happen again, as I'm going to

 

 

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be meeting him at Podcast Movement in D.

 

 

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C.

 

 

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this August, and hopefully we'll have an interview with him for this episode.

 

 

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So why do I love podcast junkies?

 

 

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It's Harry's voice and style.

 

 

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Basically, he has a deep resonant voice that exudes confidence and

 

 

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the way he researches his guests, get them to talk about things

 

 

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outside of podcasting is magical.

 

 

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Now you might ask yourself, how do you know about this, Tim?

 

 

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I've been on his show, so I know the things firsthand

 

 

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that his guests can expect.

 

 

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First and foremost, your time is respected.

 

 

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And he's always ready to get the interview started.

 

 

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Now, I won't be reviewing my episode, which is episode 314, but I do have

 

 

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the episode linked in the show notes if you care to listen more about me.

 

 

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I also subscribe to his newsletter and comment on it every so often,

 

 

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which I also have in the show notes.

 

 

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Now, if you're in the podcasting world as a host or a guest, I highly

 

 

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encourage you not only to listen to the show, but to subscribe to the

 

 

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newsletter and follow Harry's journey.

 

 

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Now, a problem that I'm trying to solve in podcasting is find a

 

 

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good podcast to bench, and Harry helps out with that for sure.

 

 

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And he's inspired the show you are listening to, both the idea and the logo.

 

 

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Now let me be clear, I'm not copying his style.

 

 

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Yes, I have a deep resonant voice, and yes, I sound confident.

 

 

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But Harry has a voice like James Earl Jones and turns up those knobs

 

 

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to 11 each time I listened to him.

 

 

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Now, as far as logo goes, and we don't really talk about this that much on the

 

 

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show, but I took a page out of his style playbook and created my logo to be similar

 

 

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to here, his, now his earlier logo.

 

 

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Was orange and it stood out when you took a look at your

 

 

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podcast listening app of choice.

 

 

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And, In a conference or an interview that I heard him speak at, I heard him say he

 

 

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used the color orange to easily stand out.

 

 

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Now here's where we diverge.

 

 

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Harry is a professional podcaster and entrepreneur.

 

 

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I am a hobbyist podcaster and baby entrepreneur.

 

 

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He has way more experience and time than I have.

 

 

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Maybe not more time.

 

 

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He's a business owner.

 

 

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But still, my day job isn't podcasting where his is podcasting.

 

 

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Now Harry's aim is to get you to know the podcaster or the person in the

 

 

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podcasting space that he's interviewing.

 

 

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Where my approach is to get you to know the podcast and then interview

 

 

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the host and get you to know the host.

 

 

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I focus on the technical side, where he gets into more of the squishy

 

 

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stuff and what the host is doing.

 

 

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I don't view him as a competitor in this field, rather as a

 

 

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friend and fellow traveler.

 

 

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And even if he was considered a competitor, it would be a competition

 

 

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to make each other better.

 

 

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Steel sharpens steel.

 

 

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Alright I say all that to get to the stats here.

 

 

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Now Harry started back with this first episode back on April the 10th, 2014.

 

 

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And to date has over about 350 episodes at the time of this recording, average

 

 

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length of up as of an episode is 60 minutes and they come out almost weekly.

 

 

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The description of the show is as follows interested in the world of podcasting and

 

 

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looking to be inspired by those who have demonstrated success with their shows.

 

 

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Since 2014, Harry Durand, founder of the podcast agency, Fullcast, has

 

 

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had hundreds of conversations with some of the most fancy, fascinating

 

 

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podcasters in the pod sphere.

 

 

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His relaxed conversational format allows guests to kick back their heels and

 

 

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share valuable and sometimes personal insights of their podcasting journey.

 

 

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If you're looking to open up your mind and heart to new possibilities,

 

 

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this is the show for you.

 

 

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The genre or the category of the podcast is business, technology,

 

 

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society, and culture and podcasting.

 

 

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Now he does have a Facebook X and Instagram following

 

 

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as well as a newsletter.

 

 

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Again, links are going to be in the show notes for you.

 

 

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ListenNotes rates him in the top 1.

 

 

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5 percent of podcasts listened to on that platform and GoodPods has him rated

 

 

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as number 12 in the top 100 how to all time chart, number 30 in the how to all

 

 

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time, number 46 in the all time IndiePod personal journeys, and number 86 all time

 

 

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in the personal journeys on that platform.

 

 

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I have also included links to his support page and email address in case you'd

 

 

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like to support or reach out to him.

 

 

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And I gotta say, he's very responsive because I've emailed him a bunch

 

 

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of times with his newsletter and he's always replied to me.

 

 

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Are you happy with your podcast app?

 

 

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I know, hard question to answer.

 

 

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But let me ask you this, does your app allow you to rate the

 

 

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podcast you're listening to?

 

 

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Great if it does.

 

 

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But does it allow you to rate every episode that you listen to?

 

 

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Does your app allow you to join a community of other listeners and share

 

 

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and comment on your favorite podcasts?

 

 

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Now if you're a podcaster, does the app your listeners are using give you

 

 

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a tip jar where they can support your show directly instead of paying fees and

 

 

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jumping hoops and trying to do all that?

 

 

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Crazy crypto money kind of stuff.

 

 

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Good pods allows you as a listener and a podcaster to rate and review all

 

 

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episodes of a podcast, as well as joining a community of other podcast enthusiasts

 

 

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to discuss that thing we all love.

 

 

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Give it a shot.

 

 

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You may not go back to your old app, and you might find a community that is engaged

 

 

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and excited about the same thing you are.

 

 

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Grab it on Google Play and the Apple App Store.

 

 

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The first topic I'd like to tackle in this review is sound quality.

 

 

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Now, Harry has been doing this for a long time, since 2014, so there have

 

 

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been improvements in remote recording.

 

 

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And Harry has evolved along with the industry and uses Squadcast

 

 

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for his remote interviews.

 

 

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In fact, he was a consultant for Squadcast and each of his episodes shows

 

 

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the professionalism he puts into them.

 

 

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Now, I use Squadcast as well and it's a great tool that works for me.

 

 

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His earlier episodes when he was starting out do suffer a bit as he

 

 

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was using a camera microphone, if I remember correctly, to record interviews.

 

 

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But if you listen to the last 300 episodes, the quality is there.

 

 

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Now, I do want to bring up an episode where the sound quality wasn't

 

 

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there, but the show had to go on.

 

 

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If you are new to this show, this is your first time listening.

 

 

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I'm not always sounding like I'm recording in a nook in the corner of my house,

 

 

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which is what I'm doing this week.

 

 

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I'm usually in my studio, With my nice mic and my nice environment, but this

 

 

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has been a pretty challenging week in terms of having visitors over and

 

 

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having to deal with a update to the internet where we're at right now.

 

 

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So that combo is the reason why I'm recording here.

 

 

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And rather than trying to wait for the perfect environment, I think because.

 

 

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I always feel because this is a show about podcasting and where I share the

 

 

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ins and outs of what's happening as a normal podcaster, not someone who's

 

 

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recording in a city studio, then there's stuff that happens and it's stuff that

 

 

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I think you can relate to as well.

 

 

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Now, as you can hear life happened, he wasn't able to get into a

 

 

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studio to record the interview and he let his audience know what happened.

 

 

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This really endears me to him because he is open with what's going on in his life.

 

 

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I always feel like I'm listening to a good friend, having a

 

 

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conversation with another good friend.

 

 

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Now, as the interview starts, listen in and you'll be able to hear how

 

 

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he was actually able to fix this interview and make it sound fantastic.

 

 

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This is round two, so it's more casual, so it's more free flowing.

 

 

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It's interesting that you do a round two like that.

 

 

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I actually call mine the round two polycast.

 

 

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I was actually, it was going to be something like, It's like fights,

 

 

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round two, ding, boom, like fight.

 

 

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And so instead of having a long form interview, I would just do

 

 

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a 30 minute Hey, let's catch up.

 

 

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What's new with you?

 

 

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That kind of thing.

 

 

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I think what's been alive for me recently is just going with

 

 

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the flow and just where I'm at.

 

 

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And like a lot of, we connect, we're engaging on Twitter.

 

 

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And for me, it's been interesting to see, that's been like top of mind.

 

 

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If I'm feeling something or read something or I got to go through quotes of books

 

 

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I've read and highlighted before, I'm like, Oh, that's alive for me.

 

 

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So I just post it.

 

 

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It could probably do a better job of being more consistent with an actual like plan

 

 

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for content and growing the following.

 

 

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And I, it's on my list.

 

 

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We can talk about that.

 

 

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Yeah.

 

 

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Now that's the sound quality I'm used to with Harry.

 

 

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It makes me feel good that somebody as accomplished as he is, can have an off

 

 

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day and be able to fix the sound quality.

 

 

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Now, I'm not cheering on bad days for Harry.

 

 

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I'm cheering his ability to fix the situation.

 

 

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Now, some people would say, Why didn't you just, ditch the

 

 

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first clip and re record it?

 

 

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And I think the answer to that is, Harry likes the interviews to feel spontaneous.

 

 

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And he likes to peel the curtain back so we can all listen and

 

 

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feel part of the conversation.

 

 

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His level of production shows me How much he values his audience.

 

 

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Now, allow me a minute, just to tell you about a time I was at a

 

 

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conference with Harry, he was at the mid Atlantic podcast conference with

 

 

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Joe Pardo, super Joe Pardo, and I was talking about interviewing guests.

 

 

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Now, I used Harry as an example, and one of my main points was talking

 

 

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about how Harry and his use of open ended questions is really effective.

 

 

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Now, let's listen to this clip.

 

 

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Even Chartable raised, was able to raise 1.

 

 

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5 million recently, and all they're doing is providing podcast stats.

 

 

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Can you talk a little bit about your thoughts on that?

 

 

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And any discussions you've had with your co founder?

 

 

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Now, this was part of an interview with Cole Raven of Podchaser.

 

 

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And I do use Podchaser in my reviews, and I've been a happy

 

 

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customer for a few years now.

 

 

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And what the interview was, it was Cole Raven's thoughts on

 

 

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Charitable, also I'm a consumer of their information on my podcast.

 

 

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Now, the way Harry leaves the question open allows his guest to

 

 

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fully answer the question and also provides value and strings of thought

 

 

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that might lead to another question.

 

 

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Alright, let's get to the format of the show.

 

 

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Now, when you first listen you hear the guest's voice and that's

 

 

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the first thing that you hear.

 

 

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Harry takes a snippet of the interview and draws the listeners in without context

 

 

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and plays the short, about 30 second clip.

 

 

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The next thing is Harry's introduction to the show,

 

 

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welcoming newcomers specifically.

 

 

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Now he's letting us know what the show is all about.

 

 

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Then he goes into a recap of the previous episode.

 

 

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Let's listen to him do this in this clip.

 

 

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Last episode, I had a really long awaited conversation with

 

 

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Dave Jones, host of podcasting 2.

 

 

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0 and the co founder of Podcast Index.

 

 

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He, along with Adam Curry of MTV fame.

 

 

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Yes, for you eighties kids like me, you'll know who Adam is.

 

 

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And we talked about all the wonderful things they're doing at podcasting 2.

 

 

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0 and podcast index.

 

 

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It's an indexing service for podcasters that ensures that they

 

 

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don't rely just on Apple as being the one source of truth for everything.

 

 

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So this is really interesting to see.

 

 

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It's almost like an open source initiative.

 

 

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It is an open source initiative that's built by the community.

 

 

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So there's so much to learn in that conversation in terms of Dave's

 

 

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extensive background building software, but also just What

 

 

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inspired them to get this started?

 

 

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We talk about the role of cryptocurrency plays and then why they wanted to design

 

 

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it from day one to be decentralized.

 

 

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So please check that out.

 

 

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Episode two 90 with Dave Jones.

 

 

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Now I like these recaps because it does a few things.

 

 

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It gives us a teaser of a previous episode that we may want to

 

 

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explore after the current episode.

 

 

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And it reinforces the description of the concept of the show and that we know.

 

 

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Harry's going to be interviewing somebody in the podcasting space.

 

 

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Now, this aspect of the show is something that is good.

 

 

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If you have an extensive backlog back catalog as Harry does, and it helps

 

 

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listeners know who are new to the show, who may not fall in love with the guests

 

 

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that they're currently listening to.

 

 

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But it gives Harry a second chance to capture the listener's attention with a

 

 

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topic that they'd be interested in more.

 

 

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Continuing on with the format, I really enjoyed the way Harry introduces his

 

 

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guest and does not do the dreaded double introduction or the dreaded question.

 

 

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So tell me about yourself.

 

 

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I know when I first started podcasting, I would do a double the dreaded

 

 

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double intro, but now I make sure to give the details of the guest

 

 

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and why they're on the show first before my first question pops up.

 

 

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I learned this from Dave Jackson of the School of Podcasting,

 

 

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who has appeared on this show.

 

 

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And it seems that Harry has mastered this skill as well.

 

 

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While we're talking about intros, let's listen to Harry doing his

 

 

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typical intro to the show in this clip.

 

 

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Podcast Junkies episode 197.

 

 

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Welcome back.

 

 

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I'm your host, Harry Duren.

 

 

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If you're new to the show, this is the one where I get to speak to some

 

 

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of the most amazing and interesting folks in the world of podcasting.

 

 

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Podcasting, the majority of times it's actual podcast hosts.

 

 

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And every once in a while, like this week, it's going to be someone

 

 

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interesting in the podcasting community.

 

 

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Now, this typical intro comes in at just under 30 seconds

 

 

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and lets you know, all you need to know about what you're getting into,

 

 

Timothy:
00:15:47

and this is a time saver for me as a listener, because then I can decide.

 

 

Timothy:
00:15:51

Do I have time to listen?

 

 

Timothy:
00:15:52

Do I have an interest in what's being talked about?

 

 

Timothy:
00:15:55

Do I want to hear a conversation or would I rather listen to something else?

 

 

Timothy:
00:15:59

Harry respects his listeners time and attention, as we all have so

 

 

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00:16:03

many things pulling us in different directions and competing for

 

 

Timothy:
00:16:07

our eyeball space and headspace.

 

 

Timothy:
00:16:14

If you like what you heard so far, then I'd like to ask you to reach out.

 

 

Timothy:
00:16:18

You can email me directly, timothy at findapodcastabout.

 

 

Timothy:
00:16:22

xyz Or leave me a voicemail at the website, find a podcast about dot X, Y, Z.

 

 

Timothy:
00:16:28

I want to help you find your next binge worthy podcast.

 

 

Timothy:
00:16:32

And if you want me to find a podcast in any category that

 

 

Timothy:
00:16:36

you're interested in, let me know.

 

 

Timothy:
00:16:38

Now, if you're a podcaster and feel that your podcast would be

 

 

Timothy:
00:16:42

served by appearing on the show, I want to talk to you as well.

 

 

Timothy:
00:16:45

Use the same methods for reaching out.

 

 

Timothy:
00:16:48

I'm on Twitter at find a podcast, Instagram and Facebook

 

 

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at find a podcast about.

 

 

Timothy:
00:16:55

Another thing I'd like to ask is if you found value in this

 

 

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podcast, pass it along to a friend.

 

 

Timothy:
00:17:01

Lastly, doing this podcast is a labor of love, but love ain't cheap.

 

 

Timothy:
00:17:06

So consider donating to my, buy me a coffee fund.

 

 

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00:17:09

You can go to the website.

 

 

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00:17:11

And click on support or you can go to buy me a coffee.

 

 

Timothy:
00:17:14

com slash find a podcast about.

 

 

Timothy:
00:17:17

Each episode takes about 5 to 7 hours of research and about 2

 

 

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00:17:20

to 3 hours of production time.

 

 

Timothy:
00:17:22

That's 10 hours for each episode.

 

 

Timothy:
00:17:25

And that's a lot of coffee.

 

 

Timothy:
00:17:26

And right now, I'm out of coffee.

 

 

Timothy:
00:17:29

Like I said earlier, the best recommendation comes from a real person.

 

 

Timothy:
00:17:34

Outsmart that algorithm.

 

 

Timothy:
00:17:39

So right now, my goal is to turn you from a listener of this show

 

 

Timothy:
00:17:44

into a binger of podcast junkies.

 

 

Timothy:
00:17:46

I have other podcasts that I enjoy that talk about the industry as a whole.

 

 

Timothy:
00:17:57

Or that provide me with tips and tricks on how to make a better podcast.

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:01

But when I want to learn more about the voices behind the

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:04

mic, I go to Podcast Junkies.

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:07

This is an interview show at its core.

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:10

But it's an interview show that I come back to time and time again.

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:14

And luckily for me and many of the guests are people I have met and

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:18

communicate with in the podcast space.

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:20

And some of them are pretty big names.

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:23

Now, Harry's style and approach to interviewing makes the

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:26

setting more intimate, and I do feel like a third person in the

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:30

room when I'm listening to it.

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:32

When I was on the show, I felt like the second person in the room.

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:36

Now Harry even makes it a point to point this out.

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:38

His questions are insightful and allow us to learn more about the people

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:43

that we may have already met, but never knew certain things about them.

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:48

So let me set up this next clip a little bit for you.

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:52

Harry is interviewing Matthew Pasey, who has been on this show and with

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:56

a podcast that he used to run.

 

 

Timothy:
00:18:58

Now, I know, and I've sat down with Matthew Pasey from the Mid

 

 

Timothy:
00:19:01

Atlantic Podcast Conference and other podcast conferences, and I've

 

 

Timothy:
00:19:05

actually hired him in the past as a consultant for my other show.

 

 

Timothy:
00:19:09

I had started to listen to the show while mowing the lawn, and my ankle turned

 

 

Timothy:
00:19:13

as I accidentally stepped into a hole that one of my kids dug in the yard.

 

 

Timothy:
00:19:18

My ankle turned so hard that I thought I might have broken it, so I went

 

 

Timothy:
00:19:21

to our local emergency care clinic.

 

 

Timothy:
00:19:23

And while I was waiting to be seen.

 

 

Timothy:
00:19:25

I was listening to the show, even in the pain that I was in.

 

 

Timothy:
00:19:30

I was very calm with Harry and Matthew talking in the background and I was

 

 

Timothy:
00:19:35

learning new things from Matthew.

 

 

Timothy:
00:19:37

Listen to this clip where Harry asks about radio voice.

 

 

Harry:
00:19:42

They would have this voice like this and it's Hey, is that something

 

 

Harry:
00:19:46

that was like cultivated or I don't know, encourage or taught even back then.

 

 

Mathew:
00:19:51

It's interesting.

 

 

Mathew:
00:19:51

You bring that up because I was always told I had a voice for radio.

 

 

Mathew:
00:19:54

And when I got into radio, when I got to the journal, One of my bosses there

 

 

Mathew:
00:19:58

was like, you can't be on the radio.

 

 

Mathew:
00:20:00

You don't have a voice where I'm like, really?

 

 

Mathew:
00:20:02

It was very discouraging.

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:04

We all have our own unique voices and something that I hear a lot of

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:08

people say is that, Oh, I hate my voice.

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:10

I hate my voice.

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:12

And a lot of people think that, they can't do what I do and what Harry does because

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:17

no one's going to like their voice.

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:19

Many times I tell podcast guests that if no one has told you to shut up

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:23

because they absolutely hate your voice.

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:25

Then you're doing good.

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:27

And this usually brings a chuckle, but back to the clip and it's meaning to me.

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:31

I never knew that Matthew was denied opportunities because he didn't have

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:34

the quote unquote radio voice that never would occur, to me, to ask

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:39

him something like that, but that's something that Harry got out of Matthew.

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:44

And I have never heard anyone ask the same question to Matthew.

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:48

These are the types of things you can expect when you listen

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:50

to an episode of Podcast Junkies.

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:54

Now, where should you start your journey with Podcast Junkies?

 

 

Timothy:
00:20:57

If you're new to the world behind the mic and want to hear some great

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:00

interviews, I think you would do well in listening to interviews about people

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:04

who you may have heard about in the podcasting space that intrigue you.

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:08

Now, another way you could do is you can listen to the interviews

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:11

From the clips that I pulled, if they piqued your interest.

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:14

Another strategy you could use be looking podcast junkies up in pod

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:18

chaser or good pods and pulling from the top 10 episodes on those platforms.

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:23

Lastly, you could do the old fashioned way and started episode one and go from

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:27

there and be impressed with Harry's insight and his evolution as a host.

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:33

Whichever way or whichever method you use to get into Harry's Podcast Junkies,

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:39

I don't think he's going to mind.

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:41

Now let's look at reviews of his podcast.

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:44

He's averaging almost 5 stars for ratings on Podcast Junkies.

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:48

Now he's doing something right to get people to take

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:50

the time and review the show.

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:52

And yes, just to let you know, I gave him a 5 star rating on Good Pods for the show.

 

 

Timothy:
00:21:57

Rate him on your podcast app or you can go over to RateThisPodcast.

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:03

com slash podcast junkies, which yes, I have rated Harry way back on December 24th

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:11

of 2019 on Podchaser using that website, and it will be in the show notes for you.

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:23

So that's the episode.

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:24

I want to thank you again for taking a listen.

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:26

And if you want to outsmart the algorithm.

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:28

And have me review a podcast.

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:31

Email me Timothy at find a podcast about dot X, Y, Z, or go over to the

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:36

website, find a podcast about dot X, Y, Z, where you can listen to all the

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:41

other episodes and leave me a voicemail.

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:44

I'm here to help you find your next binge worthy podcast.

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:48

I run another podcast called create art podcast.

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:52

Where I help my listeners tame their inner critic and create more than they consume.

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:56

You can find it at createartpodcast.

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:58

com.

 

 

Timothy:
00:22:59

Now, if you have that inner twitch of becoming a creator or artist and don't

 

 

Timothy:
00:23:03

know where to start, head on over to Create Art Podcast and let me help you

 

 

Timothy:
00:23:08

create something for somebody you love.

 

 

Timothy:
00:23:10

Yourself.

 

 

Timothy:
00:23:13

Thank you for listening to find a podcast about which is a production

 

 

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00:23:16

of TKB studios, where we lead through the noise and provide our customers

 

 

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00:23:21

with the best podcast experience from idea to publishing TKB studios,

 

 

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00:23:27

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