podcasting 2.0 for January 27 2023, episode 119 bola
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it all goes down. I'm Adam curry here in the heart of the Texas
Hill Country and in Alabama running a fever but the show
must go on. Say hello to my friend on the other end ladies
and gentlemen, Mr. Dave Jones. Hello,
barely made it back.
Hello. You said you said pull the cord
and I did and then I pulled the cord and ran to get my lunges,
your laws and how are you doing brother? You're not feeling
good, you know and feel like garbage. It's really not that
it's not that bad. It's all up in my throat. And my throat is
killing me but
when you're a podcaster that's kind of bad. It's not a good
thing. It
is bad and I'm just not getting much sleep. I wake up I go to
sleep and I'm not too bad. And then about two o'clock in the
morning I know I wake up in and I think as I think my mouth
comes up I start breathing through my mouth at night. Oh
while I'm asleep and then that dryer just dries out my already
kind of ragged throat in a wake up and my throat is just like on
fire you know? Yeah. And I just can't and then I have to start
hitting Tylenol and trying to get it all under control. And
then before you know it, it's like four o'clock in the morning
and I'm trying to fall asleep again.
Well, I know this is happening because I'm getting DMS from
around 3:25am Funny thing is I'm replying it for
him texted you like 230 And then I woke up this morning. And it
was like you replied at like 330 What are you doing?
I woke up You know, I was like, honestly,
I didn't wake you up with a Dane. Okay, okay.
I'm still suffering from the opioid poisoning to be honest.
Opiate Oh, the fen. Yeah,
it's well not the fentanyl but the hydrocodone. It was really
messed up my insides and just my I'm off. You know, I'm just off.
I'm hungry, constipated and bloated all at the same time.
Um, like a woman. Sorry, I was really bad.
No, that is bad. That's this terrible thing.
I missed the worst thing I could have said. But I've heard from
women I've lived with including my mom, my sisters. And my wife.
You know, this is like this. If I complain about this year at
home, it's like, Oh, really? Try on a baby. Well, that always
that's always the death row at the end. Like Shut up. Try
having a kid. Okay.
How many hours were you in labor? Adam?
Exactly.
I'm gonna make it though. I'm gonna make okay. I'm
glad you can make the show. I mean, people can barely hear I
know you so I can hear it a little bit. But you're hanging
in there, brother. You're hanging
on the tax professional. I mean, a podcast professional.
Well, have you been to the office? Not you staying at home,
right? No, I'm in the office every day. No, you're kidding
me? Yes, yes. That's you're going to the office and with the
your seething infected airways
real men go to the office. That would be the
ISO if we did one. I'm going to mark that. I'm gonna mark that
just in case I don't know why. I think I might need that.
You know? Strike. Did you say strikes big news today?
I did. There. I thought this was already happening. They're
integrating with clover. Which I How big is clover? They're their
point of sale. Merchant network, I believe right?
Yes, this there like, like the square point of sale terminal
type deal. I think they're a competitor in that whole market.
Yeah, but I mean, like this, it's it's a big deal. The Clover
stuff is all there in a lot of restaurants and stuff is good.
Yeah, this could be a big deal. And they're they made it I guess
the best thing is it's not a strike. They just evidently
built the pathways for it and the back end because you don't
have to use strike to pay. Right. You can use any any
lightning right? In your own note. There's
that part. That's the best part. I liked that a lot. Yeah.
I'm itching to try it. Now. I hope there's somebody local to
me that I can like give this a shot because that would be like
super cool.
So they do full service dining. Almost like I'm gonna go back
you haven't actually looked at this full service dining, quick
service dining, retail stores, personal service, professional
services, home and field services. It doesn't wonder how
big they are just now. I don't know how many they have. It
doesn't matter. It's Fanta it's a three month trial from what I
understand and if every Think goes well, they'll make it
permanent.
Which is cool. I mean, it sounded like maybe I
misunderstood the way they were wording the whole thing but it
sounded like like they were gonna do it regardless they just
wanted some preliminary data about how many you know like how
much traffic they were going to get maybe for maybe for back
like infrastructure sizing or so they would know what channels to
get and says like, at launch estimate, just traditionally
I think strike this is a jack Mahler's company they they were
using more than just lightning right? They were using other
stable coins and
weren't they? Were they using tether something like that now
EUR USD see
maybe I tried to explain some of this to Joe Rogan. I was on your
show earlier this week and not as
anything you want to talk about with that? Well, of course, but
you know by design, I do not listen to anything with you
during the week leading up to the show. I don't wanna be
spoiled. So this is off I haven't had listened to nothing.
Nothing that I've not listened to the Joe Rogan show.
We talked about my teeth of course, you know, I was just
getting just buttering him up let him know. letting him know
how horrible My experience was but just so he could go Oh man.
Oh, that's horrible. I can't believe it. Yeah, Joe I'm a real
man.
You're fishing you're fishing for Oh man. They look great.
Oh no, no, I didn't fish that's it Don't they look great.
Just went straight for it. Of course of course right for sure.
Look at my teeth with a beautiful I was
really trying to just have a I mean we had a great conversation
three and a half hours and it wasn't like any one topic we hit
on so many different things I got to do a lot of he brought up
a Bitcoin FTX and you know, I think I made a lot of the
Bitcoin bros very happy by saying oh no all that other
stuff is just shit coins got to go to zero. I was pretty brazen.
But I did get some I think some real good points in there.
Like Todd at pod fest?
Well, well every time I watch I unfortunately, I haven't been
able to listen to Todd but I will talk about him later for
sure.
Now he said from the podium during this during his like talk
he's said that some about the the day value as Bitcoin not
shit coin. You got a bunch of applause Well, you are in
Florida.
Well, that's exactly what it's very interesting. Because I
learned something. I talked about alignment. This is such a
huge show. I mean, it's got to be one of the biggest audiences
of any certainly in the United States but probably the world is
I mean, what does you have 10 11 million
Yeah, know, it's big. I was about to ask you how many was to
estimate
I think 10 At least well but it's it's big. So anything you
do you get people commenting. So I talked about beef and you know
beef initiative and like you know, just I mean what I do is
the same we do here what I do on every show just talking about
whatever's going on in my life you know, so hey, had the meat
mafia guys over you know, bought bought a third of a cow paid
with Bitcoin all these kinds of things. I would try to bring up
podcasting two point I'd say it from time to time. Yeah, that's
exactly what we're doing with podcasting. 2.0 and Joe would go
boom into another direction. He was he was not interested in
hearing about it. But what was kind of cool about that. Now I
learned something about Twitter. Joe no not not from Joe because
there's so many comments I've gotten yet 2000 more followers
he does the whole thing blows up. And so Tina has you know,
she's really good at this stuff. She's looking at stuff she's
reading stuff to me Oh, look at this, this comment this comment
and like where is that? And as it turns out, you do not get all
your mentions on your timeline at all. You have to go and
search do a search for your name to see everything I did not know
so yeah, they are. We call we'll call it shadow banning or
whatever. And I'm not quite sure what the algo is because Tina
was doing this as well and she would have different things that
would show on her timeline versus mine. And so only only
audio when she did a only when we both do a search for my name
can you really see everything that comes through and I'd say
it's a good 20% that doesn't show up on your on your mentions
timeline, which I found to be a lot and I didn't know that I
can't really find a
I'm actually seeing this now on ours. I just searched for add
podcast index. Org. Yeah. And I'm seeing a whole bunch of
stuff I haven't seen before Exactly.
And I don't it doesn't seem to be related to number of
followers. I just don't know maybe people have a flag or I
you know, but it's it was a little jarring because I had no
idea that that was taking place. I figured, well, I mean, yeah,
sure, some people I may not show up on my regular timeline. But
if you're tagging me at Adam curry, which you think it would
show up? Yeah, so that was a little. And we talked about
Elon, and about what I think he's doing what he's actually
publicly said that he wants to Twitter to be your wallet, you
know, the WeChat. And everything is SOS. So I got some hate. Some
Elon haters are haters on me because I love Elon. But at a
certain point, when we were talking about podcasting, and
Joe says, it's really hard to break into podcasts, so many of
them. I said, well, that number is a little disputed. He said,
What do you mean? I said, I don't want to disparage anyone
you might have a relationship with a business relationship
says, I don't give a shit. I have no relationship to numbers
to Okay. Well anchor which Spotify bought, has created a
bunch of shit. And they put that into Spotify. And they claim
they got over 5 million podcasts. And we sift through
that stuff. And it turns out, there's at least a million a
million a half that can just be disregarded. Yeah. And I was
kind of proud that we got that out. We got that out. It was
kind of cool, though.
Well, the latest happenings at Spotify. Yeah, knowing what's
going on. Yeah, that that just reiterates that anchor has to be
they have to be a goner.
Well, there's, there's a lot more going on. I mean, the whole
industry has problems. And let's just get through it right now,
because I did make some notes about this. And I want to make
it clear that people who say James, that this is the that
this is the stock market, market stock market is doing this, I
need to set you straight.
I have that on my notes I have the James stock market is the
Tokyo
Stock market is not like some ominous thing that controls the
company. No, the stock market is people who own pieces of these
companies. And the more pieces you own, the more you can get on
the board, the more influence you can have. Once you take your
company public, then you live or die by your investors, which are
now many more, and they can punish you in different ways by
selling your stock which really hurts the company. And the main
way that hurts the company is people are given options as part
of their compensation package. And I've run my took my company
public ran it I know all the things that go on all the all
the tips and tricks, even how the stock prices are manipulated
and what it does to a culture inside a company when the stock
price drops. Now this is across the board, I might add that no
all stocks everything has dropped to 60 70% over the past
year or so. But there's something else that needs to be
understood about Spotify. Spotify did not have a
traditional IPO. They didn't go public with an underwriter. They
they were one of the outside of Google but they did this as
well. They did a Dutch auction, where you you just appear you
just you you go public, but without an underwriter and what
that does, it enables everybody who invested early. And when I
say invested a lot of people, you know they raised a billion
dollars here they raised $400 million there. Everybody who had
stock got out immediately at the opening price. That is typically
when you go public. If you're an insider, and you hold stock, you
have to hold on for lockup period, which could be three
months, six months, etc.
As an IPO, you don't have to do that. Well, yeah, well, if you
don't if you don't have those, those contracts, and
it's called the direct listing, and so also not having an
underwriter means it doesn't cost 5% of the money you raise.
So they didn't really raise anything with going public, all
they did was making their investors record companies
making those investors very rich right off the bat. And then they
and they have 00 power over their inventory. They do not
control the pricing of the of the music licensing. And, and
and when you have no control over your cost of goods, you're
always going to be a slave to the people who deliver the goods
which are the, the labels and the publishers. Subsequently,
they also, I think, pay the lowest amount of royalty to two
artists, which is you know, it's kind of a new category of
artists. If you didn't weren't a writer or musician or composer.
You are, I would say writer composer, you wouldn't get
anything other than the deal you made with the publisher ie your
record company. So, you know, let's just remind each other or
everybody that this is why Spotify went into podcasting
because they thought, Oh, this is a popular thing. It's all
Audio, we can easily combine that. And well, we can we free
we can grab it, we can grab all the content which, you know,
which they did liberally. Which is fine. I mean, I don't mind a
podcast app having my podcast but not if not if there's
stipulations they can do whatever they want with it. No,
I'll take that back. And I actually had to get messy with
them. So I'm gonna sue you if you don't take the shit off and
never sign anything. I don't want it right now for all my
shows. The so they they were thinking they could control the
price. And then and I met Sam Seth, he had a great analogy
said, this is kind of like, you know, Dawn Ostroff, who
apparently was making $9 million a year. She's the one that set
up the initial big content deals with the Obamas with Kim
Kardashian with Joe Rogan. Yeah, that's a total Hollywood play.
It's at Hollywood player. And it's completely analogous to
Terry Semel, who came in to turn Yahoo from a directory listing,
in essence, to a media company, you know, Yahoo had Yahoo mail
they had, I think Yahoo financial is still pretty
popular. But yeah, sports, yes. But they, they fizzled out. I
mean, it never became the the Hollywood powerhouse that it was
supposed to be. And there was more than Terry Semel, there
were a couple of Wait, Melissa, Marissa Meyer from from Google,
she went in there for $100 million. And whoa, I'll take
care. So it's very hard to do these things, if you have a
Hollywood mindset, or a Hollywood approach. And I put a
number of articles into the so first of all this going direct
and not with an initial public offering, means you have no
underwriter. So there is literally no one to support your
stock. So an underwriters job, part of the fee that they get
is, if the price starts to go down, which makes, you know,
that could result in a lot of people selling and all kinds of
nasty stuff. It is their job to, to prop that up. By buying
stock, people are saying they'll buy, they'll buy in there, hold
the buy and hold.
I mean, it's a whole they buffer, they buffer it
as best they can. But they also help you do secondary raises,
and you know, you need money. And as we know, Spotify has
really not turned a profit. And now they're being punished for
it, as are all these companies. And the main reason is, in order
to get money is just more expensive. We've been down we've
discussed this several times. The gross margins are not there.
I mean, it's not
Disney is my understanding of Spotify has contracts. And
everything are that, that they are structured so that the more
revenue and the more the more premium. The more listeners and
the more revenue they make their their payouts to the record
company to the major record levels levels go up commensurate
with that. So it doesn't make they're not they can't escape
their current profit margin, if they're if they're at 25%.
They'll never get above that correct. It's just always always
goes up in lockstep with whatever they do. And this is
their only escape hatch was to make more money through podcast
advertising, because this just getting more premium subscribers
through podcasts doesn't help you with your main with your
main expense, which is record labels. Because the more because
the more subscribers you have, the higher your fees, go to the
record label. So you, you have to make up the difference. You
have to increase your profit margin, there's only one way and
that's through increased advertising rates. And they
can't they just seem unable own podcasts. I mean, so they they
seem unable to make that happen.
Well, there's a second A second issue is they are pretty much
locked into their subscription price. Because there's so much
competition, people will jump if they because really they need to
raise that by $1 at least probably more just for inflation
alone.
And instantly, you'd have millions of people bail to Apple
Music or something like that, or
whatever, or whatever. They also treat the artists like shit
historically, you know, the record companies, they can just
screw it, I'll just take it off, you know, hey, Taylor Swift made
them pay, you know, there was there was this they have they'd
have no power. And let's just be honest, the podcast industrial
complex does not there's just not enough money in it. And now
we have the perfect storm where advertising is is going down.
But I realized as Joe and I were talking that tick tock which and
it is my opinion that tick tock is is is under attack right now.
Not because they're their American company. They use
Chinese Technology and I'm sure that there's all kinds of stuff
being tracked and I'm sure their algos are unhealthy. Yeah, like
Instagram isn't unhealthy. Or like Facebook isn't it doesn't
have unhealthy algorithms but tick tock has been eating their
advertising lunch. And Tiktok also has a blanket license fee
as a blanket license. They can so they they are now a music app
as well. And Sony has a direct relation to Sony Music has a
direct relationship with them.
Does Sony Music own any of Tik Tok?
I don't think they own any epically. But they have a
partnership, which means they're making a lot of money. If you
look at the music industry, it is tick tock right now, it's not
Spotify, it's not Apple Music. It's not Facebook, even though
all of those players have licenses for streaming and for
streaming music. Every artist and I've I know some but I've
heard them all say I gotta be on Tik. Even Hollywood movies, you
gotta be on tick tock. So all the licensing and everything is
going to tick tock and that is where a lot of the advertising
is going, including podcast advertising, because that's
where the people are. And there was someone sent me a really
interesting metric. Do you know why? We can know that tick tock
is crushing it versus everybody else. And mind you discuss this
on with Joe as well. That Tiktok is also devaluing Google search.
Because people go to Tik Tok to search for stuff. What's a great
restaurant in Austin. And you'll see, instead of getting a list
of links, which are ads, and you know, you have to go to page
three to get some real opinions. You get whatever tick tock spits
out, but it's Hey, look at this great restaurant. Everyone's so
creative. Here we are. That's how people search for stuff
these days. It's no longer, you know, and chat GPT is is kind of
an outgrowth of that problem. But the way you can know that
Tiktok is crushing it is by looking at the layoffs. They've
done. Oh, I'm sorry. None, none that I can find. I'm sure I'm
sure at some point. But even I found a link here. This is from
December last year, so just about two months ago. Where is
it? That's a different one. As meta and this is from CNN, very
trustworthy, by the way, as meta and Twitter's slash staff tick
tock plans to keep hiring to. So that kind of gives credence to
the idea that advertising and look I'm sure, I'm sure there
are lots of brands that want to advertise on podcast. But if, if
you want your product to work, you have to get your product out
there in front of people. Tik Tok is the place to be. And you
can just ask anybody in the advertising industry.
This is this is interesting. There's a really good, that's a
really good. That's a really good metric that you can
measure. Yeah, that's a good metric. Because there's I
haven't heard anything about problems at tick tock, no
financial problems whatsoever. No. They're I mean, at least I
mean, there doesn't mean there's not any but there, you would
think you would think with the hatred of tick tock right now,
if there was some I mean, it that would be no, there would be
news everywhere.
And so my, my thesis is, since it's a meta and Google and now
whoever else they Google spends hundreds of millions of dollars
on on lobbying politicians. So it's not unthinkable that you
know, that politician Oh, yeah, it's China. Gotta get rid China.
The programming people. I mean, okay. Sure.
I've got to clarify, I've got to clarify what I said. Because I
got a long email from Ryan hice.
This past week, why do I know this name? Tell me Ryan Ryan
Heiser?
Yeah, he's done a lot of transcript work. And he does.
Yeah. So, Ron, good, you know, great developer. Good guy. He
sent me this long email.
About he got let go of modify.
No, no, no. That's a different. No, no, that's Nathan. Nathan.
Right. Yeah. So it Ryan got a sent me a long email about how
seeing that I had misunderstood Google's AI stuff. And how
Google had they had a bunch of great AI in the mix and all that
kind of stuff. The understand how you could have taken it that
way. That is not my point. My point was not let in last week
talking about that was not that Google did not have good AI
juice. No UX juice. Yes. The It's got nothing to do with
their AI. I'm sure they've got top notch AI. They cannot, what
their problem is that they're still there their main product
their cash cow. They're certain they're good the google.com I'm
feeling lucky search page is, is, is inadequate. It does not
function right. For today it like it's being left behind.
They're not. And honestly, there's an outside of like it
and the more technical people, I don't see a lot of people using
the Google Search anyway, like going to google.com and doing a
search.
I mean, I've been, I've been using Neva, which is a paid
search engine run by former Google Search guys. And it costs
$5 a month. And they they just added a chat GPT like interface.
I said, Oh, you want that. Okay, and so but they show oh, here's
the force, or the four or five sources this answer came from,
and it spits out an answer in English. And it's like, oh, wow,
that's really exciting. I mean, it's just links, but they
connected it with words. And you know, they've gotten reasonable
AI, they're just quicker to implement it. But it's, it's all
a UX thing. It's not necessarily the technology behind it is I
think that's what you're saying.
Yes, sir. Search is going to search is going to become a
commodity. Like now I'm having a hard time thinking of example, I
mean,
the same way Tik Tok is searched now that it's, you could Yes,
you can push it all you want. But if people are using it,
people are using Tiktok. To search you can jump up and down
and say you're not searching, right. But that's not going to
stop people from using it.
You end up going to Google for searching things like you know,
some topic that's for a book report or you trying to find,
you know, my my iPad, my iPhone, how to how to reboot iPhone,
which button combination, they I mean, things like that. And then
you you find the first page of links is mostly crap and
irrelevant. And it's just, I don't know, it's just the more
it's pushing. Google's crap search is now pushing everybody
in. It's pushing everybody into other areas of, of search surge
in it, they're there if they don't change that. They're
screwed. That I mean, they're there because they don't have
another cat. They don't have another money cow. In the mix at
what you were talking about the Tick Tock I get. I sort of went
down a little bit of a rabbit hole when
you're talking
with David Cohen, from IB, he's evidently co CEO of IB. And
they're like,
I he is an Interactive Advertising Bureau, I think is
what say,
Yes, he does. Right. Yeah. And they do the podcasts, you know,
download
down. Oh, good. I have a clip that'll fit with this. I'm sure
but okay. Really? Yeah.
Yeah, is what does, yeah. So they're, they're the ones that
dropped their fees from like, 50 grand to $12,000. In the first
certifying
every hosting company search or metrics as approved. Yes. Which
is very, it's very complicated compliance, right, very
complicated. And which, of course, is being crushed in a
way by Spurlock's op three, op three, yeah, absolutely.
crushing it. You got a guy who can afford a server? You can
you can, you can crank it up with David Cohen, I be staring
down the barrel. And I think we can talk like a little bit about
clearly what the feelings are at the IB,
several areas of focus. For ALM I think you mentioned before
privacy and addressability.
What's ALM? Do we know what ALM is,
that is the name of their marketing conferences to
advertising.
Lying marketer. Let
Liz Williams machines are
several areas of focus. For ALM I think you mentioned before
privacy and addressability is clearly one of them that we're
you know, we're facing down the barrel of five state laws coming
into effect in 2023. National privacy reform made some
progress this year, but we'll probably going to take that up
again in the next Congress. The future of kind of the the
streaming world, both audio and video, we call that kind of
flexibility and fluidity, blurring the lines between
awareness and demand. You know, historically, we've thought
about, you know, lead generation focused activities and brand
focus, we think that there's a blurring of the lines. So
there'll be a track focused on that. We're gonna talk about
trust and transparency and humanity in the digital
ecosystem. We're going to talk about recalibrating measurement
and attribution. So streaming is clearly an area we're also going
to be talking about, kind of where is this industry going?
You know, what? Where does web three? Where do NF T's? Where
does the metaverse AR and VR fit in? And how can we give some
practical and pragmatic suggestions for where marketers
should be putting their money? So there's no doubt as you said,
streaming is, is a key part of that. But one of many things
that we're going to be talking about.
So what do you think when you hear just that this there was
there was no recording by design? They did not let they
did not stream or record the conference this year for the, to
my knowledge for the first time, they did not make it available
for streaming. It was in person only. And he even says, but but
I got a transcript of his keynote speech. He opened it.
Oh, that's
what the it of course, people should know that when Dave sends
me stuff, I don't listen. I don't look if it's a picture and
I did not look but a C colon IAB speech dot txt. Okay, what's in?
Yes. Can we publish this? That's probably illegal.
Well, somebody, somebody put it on a Google Doc. There's a link
to that. We can just link to the google ca. Yeah, I won't be
careful. Yeah, yeah, we should link to the Google Doc. But
anyway, he just said, I think no, I think it was requested. I
think somebody requested it. And the IB sent them the text of the
speech. So I think that's what that Google Doc is.
But the word podcast does not show up in the transcript. No,
it
does not. And I can tell you why. And I think you understand
from the earliest, I think you may agree with me from listening
to that, to his preview of what they're going to be talking
about there. I think they're, they're terrified of regulation.
And they have no idea what to do. Those are my two doesn't
have
to take away what are the what regulation are they terrified
of? Well, he thought this this, this speech was very, very
interesting. He says, I'm going to talk about three big things
this year. And if you remember nothing else, I want you these
to be your major takeaways. And so take away one, extremists are
winning the battle for hearts and minds in Washington, DC and
beyond. We cannot let that happen. Oh, sure. School
Republicans is what he just said. No, no, no, no, he's no,
he's called him. He's calling. He's calling everybody out. He
says, if you ask Assad rums and Ollie, former Red legislative
assistant to democratic California representative Anna
issue, and current Chief of Staff for the White House,
Office of Science and Technology Policy, digital ads are, quote,
a means for misinformation and insightful speech to proliferate
and hurt people. Unquote. Okay, he throws Amy Klobuchar under
the bus to Cruz. He's throwing everybody under the bus that
they get. And he's he goes over here and he also calls out
accountable tech. He says, just look at the venomous accusations
leveled at us by accountable tech, one of the more virulent
anti advertising groups trying to shut down the ad supported
internet. Yeah, they say digital advertising has a toxic business
model that exists to quote exploit users and businesses at
tremendous societal cost. Accountable tech is no organic,
organic grassroots effort, led by concerned citizens it's an
arm of a for profit, multi million billion dollar
Washington lobbying group named Arabella Advisors, a group, The
Atlantic calls, quote, The mothership of progressive dark
money. Okay. Yeah. And so he could I mean, he's like, they're
the half literally half of this speech, if not more, is about
the dangers of legislation that's going to curtail digital
ad tracking.
Well, not just that, I would argue that from day one, just
everyone realizes podcasts. index.org was set up to thwart
any Silicon Valley company that thought that they could own the
index to podcasting and take stuff out whenever they felt
like it. The second part of what we did is the value for value
streaming, streaming payments and the Boosted board, the
booster grams actually grew out of it. That was the that was
part of the beauty of, of the project. But we've always said,
advertising is censorship and what you see continuously with
different so there's also legislation in there not just
for tracking but for hate speech, and for all other
variations of speech suppression. That I think that
it's used as a wedge by groups all over the spectrum, to shut
people up or shut down platforms by by removing their adverts or
taking away their lifeblood, which is advertising. And the
way you do that is say, That guy's a racist, you know, and if
I'll just interrupt for 48 seconds to prove my point. This
is from the World Economic Forum ratioed Edelman Edelman
worldwide is a huge marketing PR firm And here's what he had to
say he's the CEO.
So I think the first thing that because I mostly work with
business that business needs to do is deprive platforms that
spread disinformation of oxygen, stop advertising, pull your
promotion money, make sure that they understand that they have a
consequential impact on society. And the boycott of Twitter for
several months has had a modest, modest impact. But I think the
Facebook one failed. And, but the necessity of getting it
right in the platforms that are probably primary source
information for the third to 40% of people is urgent.
So it's not bashful about it. Yeah, just political means or
whatever reason he has. We're just gonna pull up advertising
to force people into compliance.
Yeah, it's giants. But at the data, like institutionalized
now, oh, yeah. Yeah, so but the one thing that this guy hates
more than anything? Is Apple. Man, this guy hates apple. Why?
I mean, wow.
Oh, because they turn off a whole bunch of tracking things.
Yeah, it's I mean, listen, this. We have to take on the
extremists if we want to survive, but there are also
quote, enemies within and that starts with Apple. After years
of failing to build a significant market for ads and
Apple Music in Apple TV and on the iPhone. Apple has decided
the next best thing is to stop anyone else from making money in
advertising. That's why they are the poison apple. Apple's App
Tracking transparency vaporized an estimated $9.8 billion of
revenues for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and snap, according to
the Financial Times. What's more, I be estimates that Apple
single handedly wiped out another six and a half billion
in revenues for publishers on the open web. Apple has dealt a
cruel blow to the millions of companies created off the
backbone of the open internet, including 1000s of small
businesses, and millions of income owner income earning
creators
that's rich. We add track people anymore, Apple was evil.
Apple is anti advertising and public was sales of iPhones
stagnating privately Apple is pitching as to everybody on
Madison Avenue. True. That's true via Apple's aims to lead
Apple's aims to let them expand their advertising business while
rewriting the rulebook. So the rest of the industry can't
compete. Apple will try smothering the advertising
industry just like they did to the record, meet the recorded
music industry. We can't sit back and watch that happen. I
mean, he just goes on and on. I mean, like he's just he's got
another two paragraphs about Apple.
Yeah, well, they the Apple has a lot of power in this regard. And
again, so now it's backfiring on them. You know, I mean, this
none of none of this is surprising to me. And I think
we've been very clear, certainly on this show over and over
again, this is not the way to this is why we set this up is
not the way to go. There's one other thing I want to bring up
when it comes to advertising. And this is something that I
know about. I I knowingly participated in it. Yeah, by not
I left my own company because of it. We put it that way. And that
is that. Yes. And that is a scam that is advertising based upon
views, downloads, streams, whatever you whatever you want
to count. It's it's called arbitrage. And that it worked
really well, when there was lots of money. Just keep saying it.
And interestingly, and I've avoided even paying much
attention to this whole fractus with Steven Crowder and the
daily wire and how much money that we're gonna make or not
make. And it's it's all in fighting. It's all incredibly
boring and boring. Boring is boring. But Steven Crowder
reminded me of something that happens in companies and he's
gonna he's gonna say it's only what he calls big con, but it's
across the board, all technology companies, all media technology
companies. And that's the following that hurts creators in
the same thing, by the way, we're talking about misleading
practices. With sponsors. There's no problem, right? And
this is all publicly verifiable. I want you guys to audit this,
but there don't have to be as many receipts provided. you
market your channel, right. I think we probably have some ads
running right now, like Spotify. Like yeah, if you'd like to show
tune on Spotify. But there's a big difference. We know that
there's a huge prominent industry of pay to play. Now,
you can do that. That's fine. If you want to know your numbers,
but what does that pay to play means that you can buy views,
right, you can pay to play you can run your video as a pre roll
ad and people see that number, but really, a lot of them are 14
Second views eight seconds, but it's still clicks that counter
close is apples to apples comparison that you could do
right now as you can go out and and take like, let's say not
this controversy because there's cross pollination. Okay, so I'm
just going to cut it
off there. And it's linked to bitter, bitter, bitter, bitter,
but I mean, it gets lost so fast.
So the idea is, you buy ads, or clicks or streams or views or
some bullshit in a game that results in a number of one to
10. Whatever is legal IAB, I think it is, you know, was it
one second one minute, whatever it is, is not the full show is
certainly not going to be all the ads. And that counts as a
view or download a stream. I'm just generalizing, we all know
what we're talking about. And you but you, you buy that
interaction, which is not a real person. I mean, it may be a
person but not doing it because they're interested listening and
will hear ads. You do that for $10 per 1000. CPM. And you turn
around and you sell it yourself to show to advertisers for $22.
CPM. And that arbitrage is getting out of whack. That is
awesome. It's well, it's it's really sad it really and it's
funny, because it's so engrained, my my friend over
there to 100% retro, which is the 24 hour streaming station.
He's now he started off doing this expecting to do ads. And I
and I just helped him bootstrap the streaming payments on top of
it. And so he's now he has investors, this is so typical,
he has investors, and most of it's his own money, but he has a
couple of investors. And he needs to show how things are
going. So what he does, he goes to, you know, these are
legitimate firms, and you will spend 3000 euros to show that
you have X amount of people who are listening. And if you sold
that you would have made this much money. I mean, the whole
thing is circular. Now, it there's a there is a fine line
between advertising your station, and getting people who
maybe have an incentive to click on something or incentive to
download something other than I'm interested in this
programming. That, to me is fraudulent. And it's everywhere.
But now it's falling apart. And I think Spotify. Without
argument, there's a lot of shenanigans with streaming
farms, you've seen him with people a whole wall full of cell
phones that are just streaming the same song from different IP
addresses different user accounts. So the music has
totally been skewed. And it's fake. I would argue that many
firms like maybe I heart or podcast, one, or maybe Spotify
themselves with some of their exclusives are in fact, engaging
in this practice as well. And so it's a house of cards, that once
the cheap money dries up, which is now happening is starting to
collapse.
Well, in the you know, it's it's the this goes back to the stock
market issue. I mean, like because the stock market just
responds to the, the financial, the economic climate of, of what
is going on at the time, if you want to if you want to find a
real a real devil here. The problem is the central bank, the
problem, the central bank's The problem is not the stock market,
when the central banks drop rates to zero, you can't put
your money in a savings account and earning and, and have it
just sit there, you can't it's it's fiduciary irresponsibility
to do that. So you have to you have to do something with that
money in the own. That's where the growth at all costs mindset
comes from? Because you have to have an exit strategy. If within
the absence of you know, in the absence of 0% interest rates,
markets, markets work in a rational way. So like that, you
know,
if they're not phony, which you know, there's some shenanigans
going on they're
building fraud is getting fraud, you know, pure fraud. Like the
the real problem is the you know, is what was the greens,
the famous Greenspan perverted, perverse incentives, but a
irrational exuberance or whatever, like, that's where all
that stuff comes from. It comes from as a response to the
central bank. So then now the central bank has turned the
screws and companies don't know what to do now because they they
still can't park their money in, in in liquid places, because
those interest rates still have not risen. But the interest
rates to get the arbitrage on the amount of free money from
the banking system has has gone up. So you basically there's no
money to be had, but you can't put it anywhere safe, so they
don't know what to do. All they know to do right now is just
trim the fat make cash flow as high as possible, which means
getting rid of their people, and just hunker down and wait for
the next shoe to drop, like Evan readin? What is that? The name
of the book is the technological society by Jacques Ellu. Have
you ever read the Yes, of
course, it's what you want to read right after you read
industrial society and its future.
Because this, this book is dense. And how many pages is fed
maybe about 500 pages, I don't know if you know of top your
head, but it's dense. So I mean, it takes a little while to get
through. But it's kind of blowing my mind over and over
again, he makes this it makes this point about technology. So
he calls individual technologies, he refers to them
as technique. And so he gives that he gives this example, he
says, he's making the point that technique in any particular line
of technique, any particular technological pursuit, a
technique, and that strain is going to go naturally from
through its most simple incarnation through to more and
more complex. So he gives the example of nuclear power. He's
like, you can't, he says, you know, the atomic bomb, was a
necessary step on the road to something better, which would
be, you know, power generation through nuclear power plants or
something like that. Because the atomic bomb blowing shit up is
the is the most simple use case, you break that you split the
atom and stuff blows up. So that's like step one, you know,
it's like, hello, world of nuclear of nuclear, it's the
hello world of nuclear energy is blow is blowing people up. So
you, you, you have to go through that step first, in order to get
to down there many years down the road, you have, you know,
you have things like control, you know, nuclear power, which
is way more complicated, because then you're talking about
perpetual containment of a nuclear nuclear force. So he, so
he's making that exam, he's, and he's also in the middle of that
saying, well, but you have to remember, you know, technique
and technology is, is is a moral, it doesn't care about the
morality of the thing it's doing, right, individual people
may care. But that's sort of irrelevant, because the thing is
going to go on its own course. And I feel like this is the set,
you can make an analogy there. To, to what's going on in the
advertising, in advertising. And the digital advertising in the
internet landscape as a whole, is, you had to go through that
first, the initial sort of raw, simplistic idea that we can put
an ad on a website, somebody will click on it, and then you
get paid. That's sort of the same. That's the Hello World of
Internet advertising. That's, you know, that's blowing shit
up. Well, Z, you know, people begin, Apple. People, you start
using VPNs, people are using ad blockers, legislation starts get
pet, these things begin to evolve. Because people don't
want that in their life. They don't want tracking, they don't
want given up all this stuff. So then these things have to evolve
to take account for Apple's private relay. And these are the
things that are going to make app download tracking
impossible. And attribution impossible the rat race well,
well, you know, you have now you have to evolve if you're the IB
you have to evolve these things to take that out. And that's
what me and Dan Benjamin tried to do by proposing, you know, a
very simple thing that doesn't rely on IP address tracking, to
get you know, to give them some ideas on how to start that
discussion,
and they weren't getting out if you get up on my face you man.
But, but that's like, you know, but what they want they've
they've learned to love the bomb. They just want the bomb.
They don't want they don't want nuclear they don't want a
nuclear submarine they just want their there's like why can't we
just have wars warheads and blow shit up? Yeah, that's what they
want. Because it's simple. It's easy. So they're, well, it's but
you can do this. This is a perfect time to drop the ISO.
This stuff is just supposed to be fun.
This stuff's supposed to be fun. It's not fun. It's not fun. It's
a lot of people now. Of course, there's real money, people
making you know, and I listen to Joe Rogan on Spotify. I'm
getting maybe it's great. I mean, I'm getting local sunglass
company ads in Austin. I'm getting a lot of vitamin add
supplement. And I don't know if though if that's the big big
money. I don't know if those companies have big money. I
truly believe in local are local or is the community of interest
or community of geography based marketing, let's just call it
marketing. I, I 100%, believe in the bridesmaids magazine, where
you make content, and you get wedding venues and DJs and bands
and whatever to advertise specifically for that content,
no different than Fredericksburg, Texas has a
couple of magazines, one is probably the winner over the
other. And you, you write articles about people and about
businesses and the wineries and you charge them for that. You
know, it's, it's the whole thing is marketing. Vogue magazine is
another outstanding example, you know, you go there for the ads,
the ads are the content. So I have no problem with Bitcoin
podcasts having bitcoin wallet, stuff for whatever. But the
solution seems to be subscriptions. And that is so
obviously limited. We're already seeing it in streaming,
television, streaming moved to streaming streaming movies, we
have Netflix competing with Disney complete competing with
Paramount competing with Hulu. And at a certain point, you just
can't have all these subscriptions. The same way at a
certain point, I just can't have all my favorite podcasts
charging me $5 A month is just going to be too much. I love
that the obviously the value for value model, circumvents this to
a degree. But we're going to run into same problem with with
podcasting on subscriptions. And now we see that people are kind
of realizing that, you know, Apple subscriptions really isn't
a podcast. You know, Joe Rogan, I love my brother Joe Rogan is
not a podcast. It's a it's a Spotify show. Yeah. On the
Spotify app, yeah. And I have to pay to watch it and and what
Spotify is learning. And I think what they're all learning is
when something's exclusive, you better have people paying for
it. Because you really need the whole universe of playback the
whole universe of apps or places that can ingest and, and
feedback and RSS feed. And it's just a business miscalculation,
Spotify his case, I believe it was a 100% Hail Mary, what are
we going to do? The record companies got us by the balls.
Hey, look at all this free content. Yeah, it will get Joe
and everyone who want to be on Joe's platform. That's pretty
much what they did. And sadly, for a decade, a lot of the
industry for became the podcast industrial complex kowtow to
these companies. And it still well, you know, we've got to put
the listeners first, if you're listening to me on Spotify. No,
I'm sorry. You can listen to me for free over here. If you don't
want to. Okay, you just then don't it has not hurt me.
You know, think that I think people like Dawn Ostroff, you
know, they, they know the content and they brought in the
content. But then you don't, but then you have to do something
with it, then you have to turn it into money in this step
didn't happen.
And the other thing is the Obamas. You know, I would say
the Obamas left, because they were exclusive. They didn't like
the they don't need money. They got more money than God
possibly. I know that's not true. But you know, as an
expression. And they, and they weren't, they didn't like the
fact that the only really had 30% of the listening market. A
lot of their friends. Well, I use apples. I use Apple, how
come I can't get you on Apple, we gotta get Spotify. Spotify is
a pain in the ass. I don't like the interface, whatever. It's
very personal. You know, a listening app for anything, any
app is personal.
You know, I'm starting to, I'm starting to wonder. I'm starting
to wonder if Joe will leave Spotify. I mean, he's kind of
got them by the balls, if you think about it. Well, I mean,
that means like, because what the next, the only other show
that's, well, we don't know if it's profitable or anything. I
mean, the only other show that's doing anything is that color
daddy show. And who knows what those numbers are?
I cannot speak. I don't know Joe's a friend.
Yeah. Imagine I just think that at some point. I mean, hey, he
may stay at Spotify as well. I mean, because if they lose Joe
Rogan you got a lot of people that are going to leave just
won't renew their subscriptions.
Possibly. I really don't know. I really don't know. I mean, you
can still get Spotify with the ads for basically free if I'm
not mistaken. So I'm not sure that's true. And I pay for
Spotify and I still get ads with Joe Rogan, which is a little
annoying, that's great. Yeah, every 10 minutes, you know, they
just break right in. It's not like it's a we'll be right back
or anything. It's just boom, there you go two ads in a block.
I don't know what I, what I do know, is that Joe was blanketing
the market, delivering much more than I think he's his licensed
to them to make sure that he maintains his position as the
great American conversationalist. So whatever
he does, wherever he goes or stays, he will be the king of
conversation. Ooh, the king of conversation. You go, oh, there
you go. And he is, you know, unfortunately, it Whatever he
does, he'll have to, you know, they censored me. I said some
stuff on there that during my, during my episode, that they had
to bleep
like, just language or,
oh, yeah, it was horrible language. I was giving I was
using words as an example of words that are a problem. Okay.
And it was so hilarious that the words that were a problem, I
could not discuss them as words that are a problem because
they're a problem. And so I learned something else. So this
is right after the show, Joe says, Well, you know, that would
that words can be a problem for X, Y, or Z, like nah. And he
also honestly, he said, Let's not have that be this the center
have our three and a half hour talk. And I said, Oh, yeah, I'm
with you. Just Jamie just bleep it out or whatever. Now
apparently, when they upload to Spotify, a transcript is made
right away. So yeah, I bet it is. Yeah. So whatever, for
whatever reason, they also decided to blur my actual mouth.
So you couldn't even read my lips. And I thought that was
hilarious. I love it. And was exactly what we hoped would
happen. We were like, Why don't you stay? Bombing I'm talking
I'm doing all kinds of stuff. And then Oh, my Oh, well, they
they blinked in what were those words?
Yeah. Now that not everybody has to know what the words were.
Yeah,
it became a I think it's a great bit actually. was,
I think that did Spotify must have a, like a network
operations center. You know, with all the big screens and
everything they have like a J rock, like Joe Rogan operations
centers. Like as soon as that thing comes in, transcript boop,
boop, boop, yeah, video, blur the mouth, move the Telestrator.
You know, they all
they have to do is upload and that's it. They don't and they
don't, I think is even very little interaction. It's funny,
but, but no matter what will be a double bleep. That was great.
But whatever Joe does, it'll work for Joe. I don't think
there's any problem there. Anyway, it that doesn't really
matter. What matters is I think we're on the right track. And we
did the right thing. Now, the one more there's also I can't
get to the full story. But there seems to be issues with Patreon
now.
Yeah, what was a source something about how now I mean,
now I'm trying to remember what it was,
well, it would pod news had it and Okay, Patreon growth has
ground to a halt. You don't say the number of creators I got a
real problem with I we needed, how let's just say you know,
like create hatred. It used to be patrons just come patrons and
patronize errs. In the, in the SIR on the site with one or more
patrons rose are they go less than 2% last year compared
compared to nearly 40% in 2020. Please note, that Patreon rose
raised over $100 million and these are investors. And the
evaluation was $4 billion valuation. So, you know, it's
all ending for them to and now, you know, the CEO is like, you
know, there's a rumor of sexual harassment and whatever else is
going on me I literally read the article stripe
stripe with a P. They're also looking shaky. You know, there's
an article came out this this last week, that was from the day
information that's talking about stripe, and evidently they're
having they're having some financial trouble, because
payment processors demand high fees. Yep. And they're just not
seeing they're not seeing enough traffic. It's a very, it's very
similar to the Spotify as you I mean, the whole the whole thing
is beginning to I don't want to say implode, I think that's
sensationalist. But but it's beginning to retract to a
certain point where these things look, you know, as a as a
developer, you just automatically think, Oh, if I
need to take payments, Stripe, that's what I'm doing a Keep it
simple API has been around for a while. They seem they're good.
They're stable. They seem to have you know, no, there's no
problem. I'm not going to wake up tomorrow and Stripe will be
gone. Well,
well may not be tomorrow.
But once you start reading stories like this, Patreon
stripe, these companies, your story start thinking, woman, but
maybe it's not as sure of a thing as I thought it was. And
then it's like, well, then you need a fallback. That's why I
kind of lead out with that story about strike and clover and that
kind of stuff. Because you're, you know, those those fall
backs, those peer to peer direct decentralized payment fallbacks,
those could become crucial add to as crucial as an escape hatch
out of all of this system, not not, not that you like they, you
know, to have a dual strategy is just prudent. And we have, have
sure continue to sell your ads, if you can get them in your
show, if that's what you want. And then also be have a value
from a supported him, like, as far as do value for value at the
same time. It doesn't have, it doesn't have to be that you just
totally, you can only have one model or another we look at look
at Kota radio and Jupiter broadcasting, guys. I mean, they
have memberships, they do ads, and they do vary from, you know,
they're covered, man. And they got they have lots of
strategies, lots of fallback options in case one of those
things goes belly up. It's just a good idea. I mean, you don't
put your eggs all in one basket, just because, you know, you can
see that when the economy begins to turn sour like it has in a
weird way, by the way. I mean, this is a slow motion meltdown
that's unlike anything
for people who have no idea what's coming. They have no idea
what's happening here.
And I think the critical part of that, is that even the people in
charge who
have no idea, I have no idea. So imagine my delight, when we have
old time old school elder of the podcasting, business, Todd, take
blueberry 100% value for value for every single one of their
clients, their customers, and go out and promote it like like a
crazy man. I know Todd was around way back in the day. And
he was an interesting kind of guy, you know, and you basically
had Libsyn that I don't remember why but for some reason, Lipson
and I never got along. I don't know what the rub was. Maybe I
was just a dick as totally possible. I don't know. But I
get that feeling with a lot of people that I think there's
there's always been this sort of, you've got you've got people
who love Lipson or hate them, there's no in between, well, I
don't hate anybody, but I could never I could never get along.
And I think they're a little brash, like, this is the way to
go. We're doing what you need us. You know, maybe it was that
or I felt that it may not be true. And Todd was always kind
of blueberry. Raw voice initially, I think was a raw
voice and then blueberry I don't remember was, you know, like,
kind of a scrappy little, little company has just, you know,
huffing and puffing and am doing stuff and but very committed and
very dedicated and, and also a podcaster it's really important.
know, when you're running, you know, don don OS, what was the
name? Mr. Ostroff? Where's her podcast? What does she know
about podcasting? Where's your podcast lady? Yeah, you know,
I'm saying, you hear me now. So, that kind of stuff is like hmm,
and I mean, that for some reason, this is a tipping point
for me. I'm not I can't explain exactly why. I think Albie is a
very important player. Now, I do want to say and I love the lb
guys, but you know, we also have to provide off ramps for people
who want to be decentralized because you know, now there's
three maybe four different hosting companies all relying on
Alby right and that's great. I use it for the statistics and I
to me it's a service I love having get Alby get I'll be
address and I send 1% to them from all of my shows that I'm
that I have control over so that I can get the contracts and the
and the Saturn statistics, which is great. And it's value for
value right there out of the box. I don't rely 100% on an
Aldi for you to put all my money. Yeah, i i What a great
benefit is receiving 1% from different shows and then
connecting the pod verse app to it. So I know I'm never going to
run out of SATs.
Now we need to, we need Bre we need.
We need the greenlight stuff to come in.
Yeah, as a second one, because you'd love to see at least two
to LSPs in the space rock and have that distribution and not
be all rely on one person. I'm not
sure we can call our be an LSP, per se.
Yeah, I just don't know what else to call them. Yeah, and I
hear you.
And again, I love them. This is not a slam against Albie at all
or anybody, everyone who's participating, I love you.
And I think that they would be I think they would be, you know,
conscious enough to say that that's probably a good idea to I
mean, like,
or at least be able to, you know, to do? Well, in essence,
you can't, I was just thinking about this today, because my, my
own role, which runs on that stupid laptop, was down for a
couple hours. And I don't know exactly what was going on. But
it took me it took me a bit to get it up. So maybe it was
offline for 10 hours, I might have lost a boost, which would
be a boost for the heli pad that I read people's boosts on here.
That, you know, I really need to put that on on a better machine.
And you know, what my choices are? I change value blocks
everywhere I can in the splits or I set up a new machine and
then I have to restore the I guess I have to get my lightning
channels and my lightning node and and bring that as a backup.
I mean, it's not a it's not a simple solution. Right? Whereas
I believe the green light solution would breezes working
on is explicitly you can you can take that away from their
infrastructure and just use it yourself without their back end
or, or cloud watchtower, whatever it is. I'm
paraphrasing. We need to have I forgotten his name. Roy. He
hasn't talked to me anymore. We need to have Roy on to explain
what he's ready when he's ready. And we'll have the blueberry
guys on you know, next week.
Let's see. Yes, blueberry and blue group. It goes on next
week, and then I'm working on getting another guest for the
week, the two weeks and that I cannot reveal.
That's okay. That's alright. Congratulations, a podcast
addict. I've been talking about them on. So now I'm able to say
hey, pod verse, podcast addict, curio caster, they've got lit.
And is that still in beta and puking?
I don't know if I'm saying like, it may still be in beta. But I'm
getting people saying it works. It's great. I got a I got a
notification. I'm tuning into the show. So I'm very, I mean,
that's moving forward. We got three. Now curio caster, I have
a feeling Steven B is maybe learning how to do a proper app.
But he also seems to be working on the music side. And that is
probably a topic we should discuss as well. Yes. No. So now
we have wave lake. And but we don't do we have any wave Lake
feed in the index?
Yes, I think there is one or two now. They've just kind of
started to trickle in a little bit.
Because we're in this I saw a thread. I was Stephen B. And
we're in this horrible chicken and egg thing. All of a sudden,
were wave lake as well until there's an app that you know,
that really presents music properly. We don't really want
to do that. It's like what is the whole point is you need to
create the content. Hey, there's a lot of stuff. They all are the
content. Yeah, you're the content if you're not going to
put it out there. And so I'm just thinking, please consider
what you're doing. The don't become a Spotify.
Yeah, I don't think do you just I don't I've got a yeah, I've
gotten an email thread going with with Michael over there.
And we're going to we're going to have like a call and just
kind of hammer out just so we make sure that he you know, like
I think he just wants to understand what's going on
what's going on. Let me because I think he's just been observing
this from you know, from the edges. He's trying to do this
correctly in a think you know, according to spec and
everything. So I think we're just going to try to put our
heads together and make sure that we're I love this.
This is why there's two of us. So I get all heated and like
wow, what's going on and then you're like, hey, we're just
gonna have a little chat. So at all that's not
getting the email. I know
your your emails do sound that like that. They really do. I'm
not kidding.
Gonna have a little chat like, oh, I don't want
an update like hey, it's just having a little chat.
Yeah, exactly. I bet taking my little my little
you know, and hunker maybe, maybe it won't work at all. I
don't know. I did have a revelation. Someone pointed
something out. up to me, because, you know, I'm still
doing my cross app comments through the social interact tag
for no agenda, which of course, the big one. And so what I was
always doing is after I publish everything, and I created a post
for people to, you know, a route post, or no agenda social.com
And someone said, hey, you know, that's really interesting. Why
don't you Why do you use you send out cuz I always through
the Freedom controller, I send out a tweet and a toot. Am in
the reason, okay, send out a tweet, it's after I've done
after I've filled out everything I've published through sovereign
feeds, everything's out. And as you know, I was always want the
RSS people to get to get it first, then I'll tweet and
shoot. And someone said, Hey, I really liked this, you have this
common thread that you're starting, but why isn't it the
actual tooth that you said when the show was, is published? Like
that's a very interesting question. And I'm even
considering doing you know, when when we go lit, to make that
look just like you do to make that the the actual comments
read so it can be probably can even be I'm not quite sure if
that would work. I don't know. But somehow it made sense to not
have that all separated and, and that came organically. And so I
have a little glimmer of hope, a little glimmer of hope.
Let me boost your glimmer of hope by saying that I begin
created created the project for the community the boost activity
pub, yeah. Bridge. Started Ellis night, crank that up. And from
your sick bed, I might add it from es muy Thetis drips of
sweat, feverish, forehead, dripping on the keyboard. And
realizing that Apple silicone is still a completely horrible
product product for trying to do any sort of compiled software
outside of Swift and expo really so promptly switched to a real
computer and started and finished, you know, finish
setting everything out there. But we're so it feels good to
get back into some rust code. And this this will be good. I
think so what it'll
be amount of times I've said hi. Feels really good to get in some
rust code again, I'm just feeling dynamite about myself.
Yeah,
you DM me that morning.
Feels good about the rust.
The so it'll just you know it'll watch and watch for boosts
coming in match up the episode. I'm hoping it'll just be a very
simplistic thing. Match up the episode that you give it a
mastodon you know, API to talk to and sort of match up the
episode go pull the social interact tag URL out of there
for that episode for that podcast. And then, you know,
it's polling. His polling l&d To get your to get your to get
those histograms pulls out, you know, pulls out the episode ID
and all that kind of stuff just matches everything out to find
the social and online interact tag, and then just cross posted
over to as a reply to that. I think it makes I mean, sounds,
I love it. I love it forward. I love it.
It's something you can just run as a daemon, you know, on a
server somewhere. Because I think that would be good for
like, hosts that have integrations that they want to
do and that kind of thing. Just anybody really. It's sort of
agnostic, you just give it your lnd node. And then you give it
the your activity or Mastodon URL, Mastodon API credentials,
and just let it do its job.
I'm looking for the where's that? Where's the stats page? We
should probably look at this not this has launched a stats page
that for what for a blog puts together which is the there was
like the December three. You know, Where has our stats for
which are better than what's on the website? How many value for
value podcasts? You know, how many transcript being used?
Where's that?
Oh, I've got I've got the right let me give it to the signal.
Thank you. I thought I've saved that someone bookmark. Okay,
okay, let me see. Here we go. Oh, this is your version. Okay.
Yeah, so we have Where's value for value needs value
blocks about seven from the bottom eight, maybe 11 tiles.
410. Okay.
That's up a bit. I don't I don't know how much up it is from the
last time I checked.
Yeah, I don't know why the site doesn't match. knew. I mean
Newsflash, I don't know why our website does half the stuff it
does. Because I didn't build any newsflash sort of a bizarre,
it's no thing that I've never had to deal with before. Yeah,
where I'm where I'm responsible for running something that I
haven't did that don't know even what it does.
The value of the podcast index.org shows 11,083 So that's
off by a couple 100
Yeah. Why did why? I don't know. Oh, whatever. I mean, like, so
the, the episodes with. So here's the deal with feeds with
music. Medium. There's this deal. This shows 44,510. And so,
Steven D was like, you know, a lot of those things. I'm saying,
you know, a lot, by the way,
you're not feeling well.
I'm not. Feeds was medium music encompasses what's actually in
the feed. And what Alex and I have been compiling, based on
machine learning algorithm that we're running on. On the Steven
didn't seem too happy with that Stephen was mad at me. So, you
know, and I, I understand his I understand his frustration it
was it was well explained and legitimate. And I think there
should probably be some sort of flag or something on that
endpoint where you can say, Okay, show me everything, or
just show me organic. When that'd be a good solution. Yeah,
I mean, do you got to ask Stephen B. I mean, I'm all for
it.
Well, he said he's furious. But anyways, he hates me with
sickness. I'm sorry, I'm at fault for my own illness. I
mean, I was just thinking, you know, because we're probably I
see value. I see clearly, I see value in being able to some sort
of running some sort of machine language model to find things
that are going on in the audio, because there's just going to be
tons of music out there that doesn't. That's not going to get
tagged. But then again, I mean, like, if you're, you know, he
had good points. He's like, hey, early adopters, you know, you're
you're just burying the people
that are actually that actually. Give it a try. That's for sure.
Yeah.
It makes sense. Yeah. I feel you have a door. Yes. I think that's
an easy thing to do. was Steven, does that work for you? Tell me
if it does. If it doesn't, we'll we'll figure something else out.
All right. What else do you have on your list? Because we've just
been yapping and yapping and yapping.
Oh, yeah, we had been going for a while. I'm let me I got other
stuff.
You're going off mic? Yo, yo
had to reach down and get my pad. Has Nate Oh, yeah. The
namespace phase six. Starting to get back into that a little bit.
But I think we need to start looking at it. Yeah.
In quite a while.
Yes, I'm thinking remote item and clearly is
remote item something that should wait until we have some
music in there. Because it's really for playlists, and I
don't see how it's going to be used that much before then.
Maybe it's just me.
No, I think I mean, I think it can be used for I think can be
can be used for lots of things. I mean, playlist of videos too.
And there's 7251 feeds in there with video. And those are
organic. Those are organic. The none of those have been
modelled.
I also have no way to find them in any app as far as I know.
Yeah. But yeah, it's
there was a is there an endpoint where I can say show video only?
Or main idea. Okay.
I'm still I'm still trying to work out this stuff with videos.
Some of these endpoints get funky. That's it. So that's
another topic there. He does, like live, my first thought was,
Okay, put live. We're gonna I'm going to modify the endpoint for
episodes by feed ID and make it returned both regular podcast
items and live items. That way, it's one call for the for the
app and they get both if they want it, right. That still feels
okay. I mean, it's it feels alright. But then I start
thinking, you know, maybe, maybe that just needs to be a
different thing altogether. Maybe instead of episodes by
feed ID. Maybe it needs to be live by feed ID. I'm just trying
to figure out for efficiency sake.
I think you know how to do a poll mastered on pole. A pole.
Yes, seems to be a great way to determine what we want to do.
Yeah, yes. Yeah, I'll just pull an Elan and say, Should I shut
down the API today? And you know, yes or no, exactly. No, I
think. I don't know. I don't think there's any right answers
for this. Because for the end, for one thing, it makes people
coming in and grabbing stuff out of the, out of that endpoint for
the feet podcast, or excuse me for episodes by feed ID. It
gives them back alive items. It gives them live out his back,
and they're like, Oh, what's this? You know, which is what I
would say to myself, if I got that back. I would, as a
developer, I would say, Oh, what's this? Right? It's, I was
expecting episodes. And now I have this thing called Live
episodes in here. Which is cool. So maybe I should put that in my
app.
Okay. It's so rich, it's such a rich API you've built our day,
you're really gonna be really proud of what you've built here.
I'm trying to keep it from becoming an unwieldy monster.
That's what's really going on here. I want you have to
maintain some structure and something that makes sense
otherwise you just end up with a big mess. And so I'm trying to
keep as we add more and more things, I don't want it to just
become a like bowl of noodles. You know,
there's the title Thank you took me a while but bowl of noodles
that's you know, that's that's always the that's always the
fear there. Because you start everybody's every web developer
knows this. You start out with your like, your you create your
new project, you add your CSS, your stylesheet and then you're
like, Man, this time this project I'm going to keep
everything
is coming so beautifully. Yeah, it's gonna be fine. No worries,
we got got recovered in three
months into it, you can't find anything in that thing. And it's
a complete mess and you're ready to burn it to the ground.
I have that all the time with my rush projects
that you did. Very easy to do.
So we thank a couple people. This does take more than a
couple of listening. Yeah, we do have quite a few. Quite a few to
thank, I believe Let me see. 1000 staffs and above for the
for the for the lit booths that have been coming in metus 9999
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or nine and that's right 7777 From tone wrecker. Like that I
late to the live stream today but it wasn't active week with
Wave Lake launching many new features appeared in carrying
the music tag which can be observed and compare options and
functionality. appreciate everyone working on this. Well,
what are those?
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endpoint return, but they're all buried in Stevens Point there.
You
got it. Okay. Chad F 3333. Todd Cochran needs some live booths
for a live demo he's doing check his latest toot and that's on
podcast index dot social that's very cool man. Chimp comes in
with 22,126 Real men boost lips says chamber knowing got 69,420
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you, Adam and Dave for all the hard work you do for the P 2.0.
Community also shout out to all the trolls in the audience.
Follow me on defend the network lit DTN lit on no agenda tube to
keep up with Oh yes. Wow. You could you could do that away
from the mic. I mean, it literally got wet when you do
that.
away from the mic. I just got a man sighs nose.
Thank you. E sigh Tony 33,333 from Eric peepee health karma
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there's Todd Cochran with 50,000 SATs. He says presenting 2.0 to
over 500 podcasters at pod fest education is key of 500 in the
audience, only five knew about podcasting. 2.0 We need to
spread the word boost boost and you're doing just that Todd
Thank you, brother. Good, good job. There 6969 from our
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premises. This is of course, Martin Linda's koge Lyceum on
podcast index dot social. Thank you, brother. Very nice. Thank
you very much, Martin. Rasta Calavera 4343 on the 43rd day
there was much rejoicing. What am I missing there? What am I
missing there?
I don't know. I don't know, either.
You see, and I think that was what we got for the live booths
yet. At least that's what I have. If I miss you. I'm sorry.
We'll though there's one more that just came in 25,000 from
bore log. b o r e l o g, the two of you are gifted the industry.
I appreciate all of your work.
I don't know about that.
Industry may disagree, but
they have a different opinion.
What do we have? That came in previously? Dave?
We have. We have three top notch special pay bills right now. We
have a Marco with $500.
He's got at bolo.
Sakala 20 is Blaze on am Paula actually forgot
to thank him on a chat F pointed out to me and thanking everyone
who was who has supported us in a big way the hosting companies
and omitted Marco apologies for that. Because it's very much
appreciated this every month, right? Every month is every
month, $6,000 a year. And think about that.
And I'll just instil no not even a 2.0 Not any 2.0 support yet in
in overcast and see still I mean he's supporting us just based on
the Bino the principle of the thing the ideology that that
means a lot I mean like he's not even really he's basically
supporting the idea in the in the principles and the platform.
And you know with what you know, one day he'll he'll do live and
these other things I'm sure but the main it's nice to see that
it's like somebody's like yes, I'll just support you and
support you in principle even if I'm not there yet.
And I fully appreciate I love that you said ideology because
I'm sure we have different ideology in general maybe
political thinking or or whatever and that that is
enhanced across the border brother that is so cool.
Yeah, yeah. See Mike 500 month 500 A month is a Tennessee child
support payment No. It is. It is Alabama wins see
Mike I think has 11 kids actually,
though he wouldn't know those stats Yeah. Buzzsprout are boys
boys over Buzzsprout Kevin and Tom and Alvin in the gang if
$500 every
20 blades on the Impala
yeah thank you guys it's end of the month we get the ballers the
ballers dropping big balls at the end of the month here.
Yeah, when they've got they got a new subscription product,
which looks kind of cool. But drop nothing. Yeah, I was
looking at that. And yeah, we've been looking for a PayPal
subscription replacement.
And they said, Tom said Did you know they wrote they rolled it
out sort of as is and then it's, you know, when we get when we
get something in place to do open, you know, open
subscriptions, which is sort of a background thing we've been
working on over the months, when we get something finalized on
that, you know, they can pivot and incorporate that as well.
You know, support support both. Just I like that kind of stuff.
Like if so, you know, you build a thing and you're like okay,
well you know, we'll build it now because we heard we want it
for our business potential. As soon as the open and open thing
comes along we'll add that into because like it's Fiat right?
For net Yes. For now it is but they did the value for value
thing. So that
they could make it it could be value for about the only the
only promise of payment amount you want. Yeah, I'm gonna have
to sell the 15% fee to DeVore act is gonna be hard.
Oh, okay. Oh, yeah.
He hates PayPal for what did they take? 4% they say? Yeah,
yeah. Well, I can try it. That's why if it's if it's if it's
Satoshis I can probably hide it. He won't know. I think I think I
can hide it from dad.
Fountain $200 Speaking hide from dead. Wow.
Thank you very much.
20 blades on the Impala.
Appreciate appreciate Oscars fun having him on the show. That was
great. Wow. Yeah, cool. Oh yeah, we got some boosts we got some
normal boosts 12345 from drips got mountain in his messages RMS
bass dash RF space four slash asterisk. drab. You're trying to
wipe my machine. Thanks a lot, man. Thank you. He's trying to
hack our node.
Dred Scott who does? He does? Chapters for pretty much every
podcast I've ever heard of. He is an extractor machine. He is a
chapter machine and we put them in for 5% All these podcasts.
He's probably driving a Corvette by now.
saving up for Lambo. Lambo.
Lambo, a Lambo emblem yes okay a jacket
his jacket and Nomad Joe 1000 SATs through fountain he says
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see Mike said 4% is only what Pay Pal takes in terms of money
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another drips got 33 333 Three pod versus his chapters for
episode 118 have been published enjoy boosting from pod verse to
see if the boost appears in Fountain boost. Yeah,
so I put this I did what Oscar told me to do. Yeah. To put my
own wallet in for 1%. And he had to change something because he
saw that only showed up here or there. I'm not quite sure. But
if something's working and he's working on it, so it should it
should, it should work. So booths from other. It's kind of
fun. I didn't realize that. Basically I'm sending a 1% to
myself in the fountain Yeah, in the fountain wallet. I'd be
happy to just send send the 1% to them, but it's very friendly.
So you add yourself for 1% in the split for your own fountain
address. And then apparently any any other booths from any other
app will also show up in the fountain lightning boost
comments.
Let's Oh my buddy Tim from the GG diary podcast I was like well
now because we talked to Oscar net last week and now I know how
to game the system. So now I can boost you to the top of the
chart whenever at will ya Yes yes. And it's important to know
how to manipulate the alga
what's interesting is you know, I put pastor Jimmy and Damon net
that got their their show up and running, which is about a half
an hour every week living up in a down world and and they've
created a community on fountain and I didn't say anything, you
know, just kind of happened in the because he was using
fountain and so now they you know they talk about their
community on fountain. I mean that that was like whoa, I'm not
gonna say don't do that. I'm just gonna see how that plays
out and hopefully people will boost him from other apps. Like
I'm
like I'm Parfitt says pay you know Pay Pal takes 4% and the
occasional 2500 When you say something they don't like
details matters detail cost of doing business.
Jean Everett 10,000 SATs through fountain says boost
boost boost boost boost boost Thank you g
another gene ever 1000 says this is Oscar love you friend but wow
fountain is bugging me for now what's up? Oh,
shit happens. Come on. It's amazing. any of this stuff works
at all.
Yep, find a software with no bugs. They don't this is not
many.
Yeah, like try the FAA. Yes.
I still do deleted a file
yet right? I'll never forget when I started flying
helicopters. I was flying the Eurocopter. The Eurocopter there
was a 1:20am and the first time I got in you boot everything up
you turn on all the avionics and it was windows 3.1 I'm like holy
crap I do not want to fly let me out good at all. Like it's fine.
It's always works.
You'd feel better you would have felt better if it said MS DOS
six probably have Windows three.
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dive the a boost system is being rewritten but I'll do some ad
hoc boosting in the meantime, using fountain today for this
episode, obviously. Thank you, Brian.
Very much. Bombs Hill.
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There you go. There you go.
He says perhaps activity feed should be part of the pie
Standard.
Oh, oh,
like the fountain activity feed.
Well from what I understand that super secret Sam set the project
pod fans is also going to have some version of an activity feed
and I know that he's talked to Oscar about it there's stuff
going on we the children are playing without us Dave I have
no idea what they're doing but something's going on with them.
That's not not a bad idea.
Yeah, that mean like that once you see a sharp couple of things
work and you can then you can know what to what to work
towards standardize and watch the community and see what's
bubbling up to the top
that's a very interesting idea
Thank you Roy. Yeah, and
then you mean that can be baked on top of activity pub or
something like that. Oh man. Yeah, that's it. That's it. I
like that idea. My mind is spinning.
We need to get we'll go into that when we have money show.
Oh, look who it is. No, it's no it's Dave Jackson the legendary
podcast the Hall of Fame podcaster don't want an only
Yeah 20,000 says their cast dramatic he says anchors river
have garbage the sage indeed.
Thank you, Dave Jackson everybody.
Sir Spencer 33 333 through curio caster and he says can I help
parse these 44,000 Music feeds down somewhere last time I was
on and looking through music feeds there are not many I saw
that were truly music it will craft has aired its last episode
and I'm looking to get more involved in whatever the future
of music medium tag will look like. Yeah, they will start
working on that sir Spencer Good Good, good
guy. I love seeing this
anonymous 2222 It was it was a good tribe and
I want to say something I got a note from someone I can't
remember who it was. And they tried to put their music on
anchor
and they you get rejected immediately kicked
off immediately. This is not when even if it's your own music
even that's the email said even if you've licensed it yourself
is oh your own stuff. No, no, no. And that of course is is
very interesting because it's their business competing inside
their own business.
Spotify, it is the strangest company in this regard, in in
the way that they want you to be a customer but never use the
service.
They're the ABA of podcast companies. Oops.
It's like it's like, please sign up for our service but don't
actually listen to any music.
I got to play some ABA now. When should we play what ABA we play?
Are you familiar with any ABA?
Only I don't know the titles I only know the known when I hear
him. Like I can't name them all I remember is like hazy glowy
videos. Yeah, all the women had feathered hair. This is
okay. Oh my goodness clean. Yeah, of course. Dancing Queen
is too easy people now you got to do something like deep cut. I
was not a deep cut but I mean, I grew up with ABA and believe it
or not, and here's what I would play this is this is their their
prayer for the day. Ladies and gentlemen, Spotify says Money
money money or this one? Yes, yes. Let me say get the chorus
was in a Spotify we're sorry.
That's it. That's the hook that you know every DJ can just do
wonders with you could throw Yeah,
you can do it forever. I can go on forever with that song
Absolutely.
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next time I see Dubs. 7777 striper boost, yo yo podcast
index web page, and he says boost bought now has 777 Angel
boost. Yes. Oh, nice. Another seed up. 7777 say the boost CLI
and he says now with Angel boost. I don't know what this
angel boost thing is 7777
That's an angel boost.
Okay, that's okay. So
we talked about riper, but okay. It's fine. You can do an angel.
Yeah, there's
different different tribes. See Dubs. 1111. Essential of
Richard's to the boost CLI. Mere Mortals podcast roadex 2222
through fountain and he says boosting to fund Dave's stats
Addiction Rehab. We'll have to wean him off Excel sheets over a
year can't just go cold turkey on that. Just kidding Dave. love
you man.
Anthony Bryan Bryan was an I sent me an actual satchel of
Richard's which is a bag of gummies that have a ace Richard
like look
okay, and I
could I could with my with my teeth and everything I could
have one maybe a day, you know because I'd have to go clean it
all out Colima
yeah get them out of the crevice and
then I had to and then all of a sudden Tina had eaten the whole
satchel Richards she felt really bad about it. She just I
couldn't help it. I'm like, do you Did you see what you're
eating?
Pringles you can't get you can't have just one.
That's right. You can't just have one, Richard.
No, no, I mean, once you go down that path, you're all chyron
again for the minerals podcast podcast 43 to tin the curio
caster and he says shamelessly Self plugging and suggesting
that if anyone wants to hear more in depth about fountain
they check out the mere mortals for the Convo I just had with
Oscar Ronica listen to some of these through curio caster he
is very ironic. I was pretty good I listened to probably 40
minutes of it and that was an interesting conversation. Karen
is a good interviewer it when clearly between us having the
Oscar Ron and Kira and Kira is much better much better at the
interview
yeah yeah we so kinda speak for yourself Richard Jean been 22 to
22 through founded and he says listen to this episode in an app
other than fountain just didn't feel right had to switch over
when Oscar came into the boardroom
yeah there you go
Jean been leaked loose 1337 And he says no idea why Adam was
setting up a MoonPie and fountain I had to do the photo
of my license and the selfie pictures where I had to move my
head left and right as part of their to se ha
and where's he? What country is you? Don't know that's
interesting because I didn't have to do it. Tina didn't have
to do it. Other people I know didn't have to do it.
Clearly he's on a no like a no no fly list. Yeah, yeah. No set
list. Did you see where the no fly list leaked? Somebody stuck
it up on a Yep, seems on an open s3 bucket seems
to me that you know if our national security
infrastructures handing out Excel sheets to airlines and
that is the that is the no fly list. No wonder it's impossible
to get off that thing. I mean, who's in charge of replacing it
on the s3 bucket? I mean, seriously, people what is going
on with this?
Somebody set the read only flag on the phone. They just nobody's
ever know. Figure out turn it off. So you just can't get off
of this.
Oh, maybe that's why s3 decided to change some things.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. That may be why Yeah. Could be gene been 22 to
22 through fountain and he says I'm so glad to hear Oscar say
that the competition is against Apple and Spotify not pod verse
or caste ematic or other people know apps. Yeah, that was good.
That was a good comment.
That was a great comment. Absolutely. And he's right. He's
right. 100 100% 100%
Nicholas B 58 3000. Says through fountain he says laugh out loud.
And now. I have now over 250 podcasts I have not listened to.
I'm about four months behind. Whatever probably I have to
bench them. breedings from Nicholas. He's got 250 podcasts,
but he somehow managed to listen to ours. I feel honored.
I had that happen the other day. My phone ran out of space and I
guess all the podcasts I got well, I got podcasts automatic
downloading on fountain on pod verse. Same ones. Yeah. Oh,
yeah. Cuz I have the same I import the my OPML list to each
of them. Oh, there doesn't seem to be an easy way in any of
these apps to nuke all downloads, that with one swift
stroke of my read.
That would be a nice feature.
The great feature
is like unsticky all the items in the river. Which
just work yes, no. Sometimes it works. Most of the time it
works.
Be mozzie Brian 125,000 sets
Sakala 20 blades on the Impala
and he says boost for Oscar. Yeah, loosed. Thank you, Brian.
Appreciate another brown mozzie 5000 Do fountaining says based
on Adams comments on the functionality of phones activity
stream. I think podcasting Tufano should unblocked
fountain.fm visible boosts lightning comments.
Now we were going to get it's all going to work out.
It's going to work because you get an awarding set up now.
It's gonna work out we got that set up and then you're going to
have the integration part with the bridge and we were going to
Oscar said he would work on something that we could on
uncloak them after we've published, which may or may not
be necessary. Carry with what you're building. I don't know.
Yes, you're right.
We're gonna figure it out. We're gonna figure it out for sure.
Mr. Mr. Gray band sent us 12345 Mr. Marissa, who was the good
bass player that was Mr. Big you remember Mr. Big
Mr. Big Winger was also a bass player winger
yeah but yeah she's only 70 Yeah not not Winger. Mr. Big I can't
remember their bass players name but he was really good that
Mister Mister what was their hit
Kiri islands home bro broken wings so take these broken when
we fly away
fly live so free
Dave You I gotta get some reverb on you brother. I'll have that
set for the next show. You got a good voice you're good singer.
We better than I used to Mr. 12345 through Felty says
longtime listener. First time feature requesting I have an RSS
feed from anchor No. A habit of edited via podcast index.org add
a tab success. Adding the same feed again it comes back with
dupe Thiede. Oh yes, yes, true. Desire behavior, return the time
of less scraping and add a button to re scrape like a
torrent index. H capture is already there super useful
feature for updates corrections to the feed to be pushed out pre
cached ASAP. But you get my drift here. I'm confused what
caches? What caches where and when? Yeah, well, I think yeah,
that's possible. I mean, to have like a button to do repol
can we know people are gonna be hitting that like maniacs?
I think he's trying I think he's trying to say that you would
have to put it on a CAPTCHA. Yeah, better protect it
somewhat. But
a timeout you know. It's not what pod ping is for?
Yes. Send pod ping. Do puppy working
more for can they find out more? Right. Have just have a pile of
ping go from anchor. Oh, I'm sorry.
I mean, you can you can do? Oh, I don't know how to think about
this. I have to think about this because people know if you make
anything easy, it'll be abused. Yeah, there needs to be some
sort of entrance fee. In the entrance fee is
100,000 sense.
No, I was thinking more like learn how to program.
I liked the idea here. You want to reboot? Not this is not a bad
idea. I mean, I'd say it kind of jokingly but why is that? Why
not yell sad. There you go. We'll charge an LSAT to refresh
your feet.
I can. I can feel Alex bristling. Every hair stood up
on the back of his neck.
He just unfollowed me No, I'm kidding.
Busy brain 5000 SATs through fountain. He says showing more
set love to you fellas from reading Bitcoin podcast. Oh,
well, thank you. Thank you haven't listened but I'll give
it a whirl. Oh, Todd Cochran. 50,000 SATs through family says
Adam and Dave showing off booths at pod fest. Okay, so we just
did that one. I
think that's No, no, no, that was a
different Mr. Grant. For one different wording. Yes. Wow.
Well, thank you, Todd.
I just I just love the that Todd is walking around showing people
him boosting is all coming to this show.
I think it was illegal in a couple of states. Do more of
that. Walking around, boasting
guess what Louie CK got in trouble for the tone record.
5000 SATs, firing this boosts off into space in the name of
discovery and conquering fear of the unknown. Just a box and
podcast index.org asking for some sets. Whoever finds this
bottle in the ocean know that all appears will in the value
for value land. Oh, Mr. Gray. Thank you Spoken like a true
lyricist and musician. Sean McCune 5000 sets through the
podcast and this website. Boosting through C boosting from
your website without B just to try it out. It worked. It
worked. Thank you. Orange bat 2999 through breeze podcast
index.org is the note whatever that is a
true means whatever that means. Thank you
correct is true. Danby 2000 says Good show with Oscar I like to
fountain is not like that fountain is a nice easy way to
get into lightning payments at a moon pay account and having to
give driver's license passport to them feels a little like a
barrier still. Is it possible to give SATs or opportunity to earn
extra SATs in return for being a premium member through an apple
subscription?
That he asked her question I'm not quite sure. Yeah,
maybe Oscar Well, I don't know. I don't know. Who has 25,031
SATs through fountain he says prime boost
Oh Oh, wow, what was the number again?
25 Oh 31
Ah, nice. Prime boost.
Yeah, he's getting he's getting geared up to create a public
private key pair. Chaos. 99 5000 SATs the fountaining says
another great episode. I love it when a plan comes together said
every podcasting 2.0 app ever delivered to their post? Yeah, I
think we read that one. Okay, maybe I'm at the end of the day.
Oh, Alwyn from contracts. Yeah, I think we got 69. No note.
Okay, I think we're at the end there. It threw me off because
we had the delimiter in his 50,000 this time is Oh, yes.
Yes. Yes. What comic strip blogger has changed from 33,015.
To only one week only he was very clear about this.
Oh, okay. Well, well, what do we have to do to be so grateful for
this? He says,
How do you Dave and Adam, just that. Thank you Bigley Adam for
tackling AI singularity during your fifth visit as Joe Rogan.
Yeah.
He sent me a note. I don't know if it was, I think it was a
post. He said, You know, he's what I would call a TJ. I
talked. I talked to Joe about this. I saw Jackie. No, I said
that. I am not he's not entirely a TJ but I said to Joe, I made
the mistake of saying, you know, I'm gonna show I'm gonna go on
Rogen. And when you get all these people tell Joe tell Joe,
tell Joe to have this guy and tell that guy Joe Joe needs to
be the arm fell dead and tell Joe tell Joe. That's funny. T
J's. And comics are bloggers like tell Joe to talk about the
AI singularity how we're all gonna die. And I actually kind
of brought that up. Hey, yes, we got a nice boost. Thank you CSV,
CSV here. Yes.
You're not You're not dissuading the tgase. When you do that,
when when one of them were if one of them works, they'll do it
again.
If they want to send 50,000 SATs, I mean, I'm purchasable.
That's true. Okay. We have prices.
That was a that was
get some monthlies. You'll get some monthlies. James over pod
news $50 Thank you, James. Appreciate that. And I think
that's a big bowl
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Mondo SATs baby. Yemen Shawn McCune $20 Michael Gagan $5
Charles current $5 can glotzbach $5 Christopher Raymer $10 James
Sullivan $10 Jordan Dunnville $10 Lesley Martin $2 dribs got
$15 and Michael Kimmerer $5.33
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particularly the Satoshis. But we cannot discount those big
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we have two today.
I think Eric peepee does it just to be I think he's he's wanting
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They you know, I think my voice is done but we we ended up we
didn't talk a lot. We didn't do a lot of technical deep dive
stuff today. Because it just felt like a week where the
podcasts industry were just like observing the podcast industrial
complex needed some discussion motion meltdown. Yeah.
They did need a little bit of a discussion. Yeah, so not that we
wish anybody ill will at all
No, I hate it. I hate this when people that we know and and
love. Like Nathan lose lose their gig. I mean, it sucks.
I'm not just that I don't like predicting the demise of a
business model that many People have grown accustomed to and
that people base their careers on I mean, they just go and look
at LinkedIn, how many podcasts consultants there are? That's a
funny Tina that I tell you this when when Tina and I started
doing curling the keeper, she put podcast professional on her
LinkedIn profile as as a joke. And
she gets hit up by does she get dinged all the time, but people
she
gets hit up by? Yes, by podcast consultants, I can help you make
money and moderate drives grow your body drives?
Is she getting less of that today that she was I think
considerably
less. Yeah, Oscar. That's a good question. Okay, well, she's
always kind of creepy.
But that's that's all. You know, the good thing about this is
that these the companies with great with great business models
with that did just sell a good product for a good price and
provide value to their customers. They have nothing to
worry about. They're going to be around. Yeah, I agree. And you
know, those guys are going to remain strong. And there's
plenty of those inside the podcasting ecosystem. It's the
it's the Silicon Valley creepers that come in and those guys for
good reason. They're, they're not going to last.
I used to be a Silicon Valley creeper. I got out. Got out just
in time. I mean, did
I read before? Yeah, read before you split your soul into this
piece. It was
very close. It was very close. I left my own company four years
ago. I can't do this. I can't do this anymore. And that was 2009.
I think has it been that long? Wow. That has been a long time.
Yeah.
Not as long as current mixer blogger has been a part of my
life. Apparently he was he was sending in bits, the daily
source code, I think 2006.
Good grief.
And I love that Christopher Eisen found that old piece of
content.
Oh, that was the I put them both in the in the clips. What both
what do we have both? Both of the things that that podcast
default welcome. And
bought. I don't see default. Oh, what is this? What? Should I
play this? Yeah. Hi, I'm Adam curry. Welcome to the iPod
platform. Hearing this. Hi, Hamid. Douchebag Hi, I'm Adam
curry. You'll find me in a session live Richards. Hi, I'm
Adam curry. Welcome to the iPod platform. Great hearing this
message means you have successfully installed iPod or
on your computer and you should see a new playlist on your mp3
player titled iPod or test channel containing this file. I
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services. We really hope you enjoy receiving and creating
your podcast and please remember this stuff supposed to be fun.
So enjoy. Oh, it was me who said this. But this toughest? Yeah, I
didn't even realize that was me.
You didn't recognize your own voice. I
did not know I didn't. I didn't. Oh, wow. It's so against. Ah,
well, I was gonna use it for the end of the show.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's interesting. Because BH podcast,
it would this is like, oh, like history repeats itself. So I
Potter was that the welcome to i Potter said, yeah, that was the
first app. I didn't build it. I think that was someone else
built that app. And maybe it was maybe iPod or was the first
Apple script. I can't remember. But I made those for different
apps, and said Oh, yeah, so that would be like a default when you
when you when you install the software. That would be a
default welcome message.
Yeah, like, like a, like a pre built OPML whatever. You know,
the exact download that Yeah,
exactly. This, because I heard this. This is Christopher zine
found this and I saw a whole bunch of other historical stuff
pop up from 2005. This was just WGBH versus KQED. In San
Francisco. In the in it three tags was both NPR was NPR and
WGBH Tony Khan. He really paid a lot of attention to podcasting.
I think he was the first one to put NPR programming on the
podcasting and unsung hero, I might add, let's listen to a
little bit of this, but not many people
have put that much music into their players. That means just
about everyone's got room for something else. Interesting how
that was, you know, people are using pod iPods for music, and
we were trying to get podcasting and now people are using
podcasts. We're trying to get music in it. upside down world
is crazy and more and more iPod owners are filling the space
with audio content created by an unpredictable assortment of
print losers. It's called podcasting. And its strongest
proponent is former MTV host Adam curry. This
must be real audio. I think we're listening to
like eight bit array
like the world's technology correspondent Clark Boyd reports
from Guilford, England, Guilford.
Perry has only two things on his mind these days chicks and
cheese and they're not the top two spots and the mtb top 20
video can not fly you know, instead curry is obsessed with
coffee ups and high speed internet connections. I'm over
caffeinated and underserved on bandwidth, curries mad as hell,
but in a friendly way. He's just moved his wife, two kids in a
sort of toolkit.
I have two kids. I've only had one kid but okay, if you're out
there and you're my kid sent me a boost.
Yes, Castle in Belgium to a cottage in Guilford about 30
miles from London. Since the move he's been trying to get a
high speed internet connection at home.
Oh, that's hilarious. I'll put that in the show notes.
Please, my other child sent me a booster to grab so I know that
you're alive
and doing well. Oh man, Dave, I hope you feel better brother. Do
it really? Sucks. And yeah, there you go. I'd put an accent
on it, Willie. Oh, I'm so sick. Have a healthy better weekend.
Dave. Appreciate it. I'm gonna kick it. I'm gonna get over it.
Of course she will. And thank you all very much there in the
chat room for checking us out while we've been lips. And
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