Reminder To Myself: I Love Creating Podcasts and Videos

Hello. Welcome to Daily(ish) for Friday, April 20. It is currently, holy crap, 18 degrees outside. I was outside a little while ago and didn't feel like 18. The wind was a little chillier, but according to the weathernetwork.com, which never lies, it's 18 degrees.

Podcast is brought to you by Patreon supporters at patreon.com/ichris who are donate donating, done airing at least, I don't know, 1 or $2 more or more per month to, help me fulfill my dreams of, sitting in a basement all year round and talking into a computer microphone. That's that's what I think. I that's the my goal. That's my Patreon goal. I need to redo my video, not just because my son is now, I think, three or four years older than he is in the video, which you should go check out if you've never seen it.

It's it's it's a funny video, I think, of my son asking me questions about Patreon, us talking about Patreon. But, he's just older now, so he'd probably just punch me now if I tried to do that video with him. But, maybe we will. We'll reenact it someday. At any rate, it's not just my goal to, make talking to the computer into a microphone.

It's also I I have real I was gonna not record The Daily yesterday because I thought I had a good excuse. I said I had recorded a video that's going up on my YouTube channel. Next, it's gonna be published on Monday, and I thought, oh, I'll give that to the Patreon folks early. They can have a preview of it. So if you're a Patreon person person, you should be you should have gotten by now, an email with a link to that video that's unlisted, and then it'll go live on Monday when I change it to being not unlisted.

And, and I thought that's good enough. That's checking off the box. But then I thought, no. You know what? It's it's not because on my things of list of things to do is record daily ish at Friday after 2PM.

And so here I am at 04:30, a little late for work, sorry, recording Daily(ish). And part of what, got me wanting to record Daily(ish) is because I realized just how much, creating stuff that is I guess it's like it's mine, but also just creating stuff in general, whether it's the video I recorded, which is a it's just like a a walkthrough tutorial video on using an app for, doing transcriptions of podcasts. And this in particular now, you can do, transcriptions of a podcast that has multiple, multiple authors, I was gonna say, multiple hosts, multiple speakers, and it'll transcribe each person's audio file, separately. So you can, you know, very easily figure out who is talking, and it'll mark who's like, name, and then you can have a full, transcription of the episode. And it does it with computer, whatever, machine learning, AI, I don't know, one of those things.

And then you can go back go through and correct it and fix it and stuff like that, any errors it makes. So for the I did I uploaded an hour long episode of a podcast I edit just as a test and with two speakers and two voices on it, and it did really good, to be honest, like for a quick what was I think it took about half hour pass, where it uploads the file, does some transcriptions of it, sends you back the transcript, and it's all timed stamped to the audio. So you're as you're going through, you're listening and then you hit pause and then the cursor is right where it thinks the words are in the transcription, and then you can update it with the right trans words if you need to. And so it's like 90 there, and in the 5% of the space, it doesn't get it right and it kind of fumbles the words, then the other 5%, it gets it horribly wrong where you it's probably good if somebody's relying on that that transcription to know what the video or the audio that you've published is talking about, you should definitely fix that.

But if it's a transcription for, of like a jokey podcast, like maybe this one, then probably not quite as important, but still it's in the name of accessibility for folks who can't hear but can read, and also for SEO for, the computers that can't hear but can read. It potentially could also help your websites, your podcast, your video, whatever you happen to be publishing out into the world. So that video will go live on Monday. It's Descript is the, is the app, and I'll put a link in the show notes so can check it out. Nothing secret about that, but just the video is not gonna be published publicly until Monday.

But, yeah, more than anything I do else I do, publishing and creating stuff, podcasts, videos, and putting it out onto the web into the into the world, just gives me so much energy and life. And so it's really hard in the job that I have with, which is why the calendar and the schedule is good and helpful, but even still, I find myself straying from it at at times. And, in the job I have, it's hard not to just do that all the time because I would given enough support on Patreon or and or, you know, even editing clients. It feels like with the podcast editing, it's almost a bit of like a I have a bit of creative control in a sense. Not like that I'm, obviously, the the shows go back to the to the the client or the and they listen and they they approve stuff or whatever.

If I'm doing anything that's sort of different than the structured norm of the show, then I'm running it past them and things like that. So they're still very much my bosses, but it feels like I'm part of a team creating a podcast and putting it out in the world. And so I have it just it helps me flex that creative muscle. And so, yeah, I would just do that all day, eight hours plus a day if I give them the choice. And, earlier this week, it was hard though because I I looked at miss I made the mistake of looking at stats on just even this show Daily(ish) and saw, I think, one episode had 70 downloads or something.

And there's, like, something in the neighborhood of anywhere from 50 to 200 and some that are, people that subscribe to the show and or download episodes. And so your brain always, you know, when you're thinking you're cool beans, you you just remember the 200 and some. And so it like, 200 and some people listening is a bigger number than obviously, say, 60 some. And even still, if there were 60 folks sitting in my office listening to what I was saying about and just babbling on into a microphone, that would be pretty cool. And so it's it's important to remember that.

But, yeah, it just kinda got me down for a bit. I was like, oh, I'm not doing as well as I think I am. I shouldn't I'm not it's not growing as fast as it should. You know, all those thoughts that kinda just hit you when you're, like, trying to grow a thing and get kinda buried under the idea of, it's not getting anywhere, you're not getting anywhere faster. And here I am, you know, x months later from whenever the last time I was consumed with those kinds of thoughts, and it hasn't changed a whole lot.

But that's where I realized, like, this kind of stuff, putting this out, creating, recording with people, solo stuff, working with the crew at Good Stuff, doing my YouTube channel, all that stuff fires me up, gives me life, makes me excited about just life in general. And so that's why I could do the little Patreon pitch, but I'm not a hard sell. I don't know how to do mister sales guy thing. And, Kyle and I still have it's Kyle's on a trip right now. I was on a trip.

We do still have the plans to do, a Patreon for good stuff just because I think that would I still believe that that would be a helpful thing and, for people just to support the network instead of, like, supporting me in a direct way, which I appreciate, but I also want people to have the opportunity just to support the network. Even though it kinda goes towards the same kind of bills and all that kind of stuff, I understand it's a little bit different. So, anyways, that's still coming. But, in the meantime, I appreciate your support in listening to this episode, listening to this podcast, sharing it, watching the videos I do, supporting me on Patreon, and, faving my tweets. All those things feed that ego, I guess, of, hey, you're you're a creative person and you're not completely stupid, which sometimes hits me.

Anyways, I hope you have a good Friday wherever you happen to be in the world, and, I'll talk to you again Monday morning on Daily ish. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Bye.