Hello. Welcome to Daily(ish) for, April 6. It's Thursday, missed missed Wednesday. Missed Wednesday by a day. Apologies to new Wednesday fans.
Speaker 1:I don't know what I did yesterday. Why didn't I oh, I went worked worked at a Starbucks locally here and, so it wasn't wasn't in front of my, recording devices as easily or as readily and then just busy night. So anyways, it's Thursday. Thank you for listening. Thank you for being a Patreon supporter.
Speaker 1:If you are patreon.com/i Chris is the folks who help bring this show to life along with good stuff that FM the rest of the network. And, some of those folks, one of those folks, Tassula who's a Patreon supporter and fellow at youtube.com staff slash podcast host and well YouTube fan obviously I guess. You know, become a staff and podcast co host on a YouTube fan site without being a YouTube fan I guess. Anyways, in our stuffy Slack which Patreon folks get access to, it's kind of like a private, chat room, I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 1:That sounds weird. Maybe, private group chat, private, thing that you talk with other nerds and interesting folks on the Internet, I guess, who are all Patreon supporters of various shows on good stuff. Still working on the Good Stuff Patreon global campaign, but, that's another day. That's something for another day. Anyway, she asked me in there, in in the Daily's channel what tell us what inspired you to become a podcaster or did a specific podcast make you wanna do it?
Speaker 1:Just curious. And I feel like I probably have answered this as I was prepping for this. Was like, I'm pretty sure I recorded an episode, but I don't think it was Daily(ish). I think it was Show Me Your Mic, the podcast show about podcasting that day, which you know, kinda makes me a little more sense. I think I had somebody else interview me on the show and so that's where it's buried somewhere.
Speaker 1:I couldn't find the arc the episode exactly but there'll be a link in the show notes to the good stuff dot fm/smym is where you can find that podcast. But in answering the question, I'll just put it here too because why not? I've always been fascinated with radio going back to like even as a kid I had a tape player with a recorder on it and a little microphone I think or maybe it's just a built in mic into the tape player thing that I used to do like practice intro and outros to songs and make up little radio shows and record music from the radio off the radio back when you that's how you could actually keep a copy of the of the songs. And, you know, like coming up next, we got Careless Whisper by Wham and after that, like a virgin from Madonna, whatever a virgin is. That's what I knew back then anyways.
Speaker 1:So fast forward from this is a big fast forward, whatever that was, '85 something or other to 2005 and, Leo Laporte, in around there anyways, Leo Laporte launches twit.tv, which is a podcast network still going today of tech focused shows, and and I was kinda hooked on the idea that just the thoughts and the the idea that you could record a conversation with friends about stuff that you are interested in and then other people in the world would listen was like kind of blowing my mind. And and particularly the the live aspect, phone call. Just a second. Nothing like a phone call during a segment on the live aspect of podcasting that intrigued me live streaming and stuff like that, which again to this day is kind of a the thing that, that kind of intrigues me about it as much as the actual putting out of the podcast and stuff as the folks behind the, at you too podcast will know I keep subjecting them to experimentations with new tech, new software, new gear, all that kind of stuff in an effort to just get cool interesting stuff out there. So the tech that was behind it to send the audio and video into the world both live or or whatever.
Speaker 1:RSS was happening at that time. It was a real it's called Real Simple Syndication. It's tech that allows, you know, blogs and stuff to be subscribed to and automatically sent out. And that was kind of the basis for, yeah, like I said, blogs and and I was familiar with that from messing around with movable type and WordPress blogs, but it was just really the thing that allowed podcasting take off in a huge way. And so, but it wasn't really until 2009, when Dan Benjamin launched five by five dot TV, another primarily tech focused podcast network that I really sort of got the idea that I could do something with podcasting because Leo Laporte came came at it from a television background.
Speaker 1:He was a not like a star, but he had a couple TV shows on a popular tech network at the time. When Dan Benjamin did it, he I mean he's popular in the sort of tech world online but not by any means from some sort of TV you know infrastructure background. And so it kind of opened my eyes to the fact that hey, is a thing that regular folks can do and, and there have been plenty of other podcasters along the way that have inspired me in different ways but certainly, Leo Laporte and and Dan Benjamin are by far the two biggest in terms of just inspiration, motivating me to actually do this thing instead of just enjoying listening to them. Dan actually had a podcast with, another guy, Anthony Stauffer, that was kind of about gear and audio and, and the name escapes me right now. Hopefully, Anthony isn't listening to this.
Speaker 1:Anthony and I since had, you know, have been friends and and, he does an awesome guitar instruction, business online that he he does, all all around sort of the blues and Stevie Ray Vaughan licks and stuff. But they had a show, I think it was only like 10 episodes long, maybe 15. There's a bit of a video component to it explaining just some of the stuff that Dan uses to put out his shows into the world. That got me hooked and then I shortly after started putting, you know, keeping like a spreadsheet of like here's what I could buy for how much and what this real light medium and and full blown models of of what I'd like to buy and do and get into this hobby in a big way because I'd I'd experimented with doing a podcast with my wife on the Survivor Podcast. It was one of our first things that we did.
Speaker 1:I subjected her to, being involved with it. I sort of felt the need to get some more gear as hobbies often do and, the rest is kind of history. That's another podcast I guess is the what happened after that maybe but and where good stuff came from and ssktn.com and all that kind of stuff in in between. But, yeah, Leigh LaPorte, Dan Benjamin would be the two that sort of inspired me to do it and they're still go both going today, in different ways. I don't listen as much to all the shows at the time when it first kind of came out and I was kind of just consuming everything, listening to anything and everything they did for the most part.
Speaker 1:I mean, Leigh Laporte puts out a ton of shows like hour and a half long weekly podcasts on tech, each topic sort of niche or whatever. And I don't listen to his stuff anymore really just because it's he's kinda got a shtick that's, I don't know, for me where wore a little thin after a while but, by no means I think I mean, can't begrudge the success he's had with with podcasting and with, what he does. But yeah, dan Benjamin five by five dot tv and he's been a lot of help over the years to answering questions and things like that and hope that answers your question to Sula, and if anybody else has any questions like that, feel free to if you're a Patreon subscriber, supporter, throw it in the stuffy Slack or tweet at me. I'm I Chris on Twitter or, Chris at good stuff that I have is where you can email me as well. You can discuss this episode in our subreddit and the links, and like I said, there'll be a link to the Show Me Your Mic podcast.
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