Hello. Welcome to Daily(ish) for, Tuesday, November 14. It's, my seven, feels like minus 15 outside, but this is not a weather podcast, but it is it's it's definitely colder than it that sounds. I can I can tell you that? I went outside to shovel for all of maybe fifteen minutes chatting with a neighbor, and it's it's the wind is cold.
Speaker 1:Okay? Just be careful out there. So it's cold outside. Winter is here. Winter is no longer coming.
Speaker 1:Winter is here, and, we've got snow all over the place. So the snow, I'll say, is the reason why I haven't recorded a podcast in a while. There's excuses and all that stuff. Well, actually, what the real reason is I've been actually putting out other stuff. I've put out a bunch of three, four, now YouTube videos that, over on my Lemon Productions channel, which are sort of where I put dump.
Speaker 1:When I have an idea for, like, wanting to do a tutorial or a thing that would could eventually become a course or part of a course, then I'd throw it on my YouTube channel as a way to just, like, create content there, and maybe somebody will like me there and follow and eventually find their way to my courses and all that kind stuff and buy stuff. So, the previously mentioned courses that I'm sort of getting y'all to vote on which one to do. That still is going on. You can the links are in the show notes, but courses.chrisanns.com is where you can go and you can vote by signing up for whichever of the three. There's Instagram, a WordPress, and a podcasting course that you can sign up for.
Speaker 1:Signing up doesn't mean you're obligated to buy. It just means you'll get a notification email saying, hey. It's out, and here's a coupon code to buy it. The right now, as a I I looked last week, the podcasting course was in the lead. So if that's your baby, whatever, great.
Speaker 1:If not, then, get to all your friends and relatives and family and everybody else to sign up for Instagram or WordPress. I kinda hope that I was hoping the WordPress course was gonna be the one that wins just because it's a little easier to manage than the podcasting one is a bigger kind of beast to get wrap my head around and and put together. But, either way, I will submit to the people's whims on that one. The, videos I put together actually are kinda related to that. So there's a app on the iPhone called Clips, which is great for making little videos.
Speaker 1:There it's square format videos. It's perfect for Instagram, let's say, or Facebook feed videos. It allows you to do automatic transcription somehow magically within the app of whatever you're saying gets transcribed and put on screen and add stickers. And it's kinda like Instagram stories slash Snapchat stories in, Apple way, I guess. And, it's not its own social network on its own.
Speaker 1:It's designed to create stuff in, and then you'd share it out everywhere else. Luckily, Apple has hopefully given up on the idea that they're gonna create yet another social network for everybody to be a part of, like Ping and and things like that. But so it's it's worth checking out. The videos and link it to the videos in the show notes, but the app is definitely worth checking out if if if you got an iPhone and it's free to install and free to use from the App Store, Eclipse is what you'd search for. And then today, I had just published a video on Audio Hijack, is a Mac app.
Speaker 1:So sorry, Windows users and Android phone people. These ones aren't for you, I guess. But, Audio Hijack is an audio editing recording not so much editing, guess, but audio recording app for the Mac that works amazing. You can grab audio from basically anywhere, send it anywhere else, record it, do all sorts of stuff, mix and match your audio. It's how I do a lot of the live podcasting stuff that we do with especially with the YouTube show where we've got, sound boards and people coming in from all over the place talking and recording their audio, making sure it all gets mixed down into one nice little m p three file for the podcast listeners, but also there's a video version that goes out on YouTube.
Speaker 1:Link is in the show notes for that if you wanna check that out. And, and so it but Audio Hijack as I said itself is an app that you can use for a variety of stuff. It's kinda like a toolkit for audio on the Mac and worth checking out that tutorial video if you've never experimented with, Audio Hijack and work with audio on your Mac. And as I was talking with my neighbor, who she also works in sort of creating courses and stuff in a different arena on the web, but and selling that kind of stuff and membership and things that happen to end up living next to somebody who does that kind of work as well. And the trouble with all like, we love doing this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:I love recording the videos, tutorials, and training. And obviously, there also is a need not to get there's not a desire to get rich. There's a need to, like, just pay the bills. Right? And figuring out how to monetize it all and just, like, running the whole business of that is can be kind of exhausting.
Speaker 1:And also, you have to wear many hats, some of which you're not as good at as others. And so, I'm I'm curious to see where this all leads exactly again. Some of the courses are gonna be stand alone courses that are for sale. Coach, the the with coach.com is the service I use. There'll be a link in the show notes if you wanna check it out because it's affiliate code and but it's a great service, great platform to build on for selling courses, doing any sort of digital training, and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:But, they're also launching memberships a membership tool soon. So that might be a way to sort of tie in some of the the random tutorial videos that I put together like, hey, come sign up for whatever, $5 a month. You can get all the the four, iPhone video tutorials that I put out each month or whatever it might be. And so that could be a waste. Just kind of a way to have all this stuff in one spot instead of it being, you know, YouTube over here, Vimeo over here, a Facebook page maybe, a Twitter account, whatever, everywhere all over and just kinda centralize it all in one spot is what I would like to do.
Speaker 1:But, we'll see what what it looks like when it comes out, and, of course, you'll hear about it here. And, if you're a Patreon supporter, patreon.com/ichris, that'll be, obviously tied into that somehow and rolled into that or whatever. I don't know how that all will play out. We'll see again. Coach hasn't launched anything yet.
Speaker 1:They've just talked about it coming, and, so we'll see where that all leads. And alongside that, we've been having a blast with, I mentioned the YouTube podcast earlier. Kyle and I both have with, Good Stuff have been having a blast doing the live streaming of the podcast when it's possible and where appropriate and, over on Twitch mainly, but it it's kind of just a neat way to interact with listeners and, viewers, I guess, that case of good stuff. We all get a ton at a time, but it still is kind of just this bizarre fun world where whatever we're doing on our computer can be streamed out into the world and someone else can watch. It's kinda just blows my mind each time it happens and it works.
Speaker 1:And with the YouTube one, we actually, last few times I've streamed it out to Twitch, YouTube, and Periscope all at the same time. And Periscope with the YouTube one, there's a huge community of YouTube fans on Periscope because the band or not the band, but, fans would stream concerts footage obviously, live stream it through Periscope, and then, people will be watching. So they're already on that platform in droves, and so there'd be there was, like, I don't know, 400 people that tuned in to watch live when we were recording the show yesterday. Whereas, say, on Twitch or YouTube, and then tweet it out, so Twitter people, YouTube people, and Twitch people, there was, like, a combined of five to 10 people watching. And, so it's just kind of this crazy whole different world for the podcast that can live in one platform really well and not so much in the other.
Speaker 1:So, anyways, just fun. It's, exciting and interesting, and, so I encourage you to check out. There'll be a link in the show notes to our Twitch page. So we like Twitch because it's kind of a healthy mix of the creative fun stuff that you wanna you're involved with, but also a bit of the business tech stuff is supportive there. I mean, they're owned by Amazon, they're not gonna disappear tomorrow first first of all.
Speaker 1:But they're not this massive behemoth that is YouTube. And so and it's a little bit more fun, a little bit more playful. We haven't seen the huge uptick. Like, it still is mainly a gaming platform, but there's a few podcasts that we follow. There are a few different people that are have healthy audiences on Twitch primarily, and, you know, they're kinda like video game adjacent podcasts, I guess.
Speaker 1:Frog Pants would be one of them, Scott's Podcast Network. And so we're not exactly in the video game realm, but, Twitch is just kind of a fun platform that's not YouTube, I guess, is the main reason why, and there's all sorts of fun stuff. But these days, there is kind of a general, like, everybody's evening out, flattening, and like I said, with streaming to multiple platforms, you can kinda just do all of it, I guess, at once. And so pick your poison, I guess, would be the choice. So that old to say, that's just a big rambling thing to say.
Speaker 1:Sorry. I haven't published an episode in a while. I blame the snow. You should blame the snow as well. Find a warm vacation spot to escape to if you can, and, be sure to get a ticket for you too's tour.
Speaker 1:Their tickets are going on sale. The presale is happening right now. General admission sale happens, later this week, I believe. You2.com/tours. We can check out all the cities they're gonna be stopping at on this tour.
Speaker 1:I can obviously, don't know what the tour is gonna have on it. Their new album sounds great to me. And even if you're not a huge YouTube nut like I am, I think the tour, if it's anywhere near you, will be worth checking out, just to experience it, especially if you've never been to YouTube concert in your life. Yeah. I mean, if you hate them, hate them, then don't go.
Speaker 1:Save your money. Go to whatever, ABBA or whoever you go to. But, yeah, if you're at all interested in YouTube, you maybe remember Where the Streets Have No Name or you have, heard that one Vertigo song or whatever and kinda liked it but never really went too deep in it, Start with a concert and check them out there, and then sort of work your way back through the catalog. Alright. On that note, I'm gonna take off.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening. I hope you have a great day. Bye.