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How to: Podcast · Learn by Listening

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  Speaker 1: Cal Poly is in session. Students swarm through campus and
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  Speaker 1: file in and out of classes.
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  Speaker 2: They're thinking about the chapter of reading they have tonight,
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  Speaker 2: their next class, their new dorm, your senior project, how
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  Speaker 2: to get to the gym, what's for dinner tonight? Where's
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  Speaker 2: the nearest bathroom?
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  Speaker 1: Kate and I know, things can get a bit chaotic
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  Speaker 1: as a student navigating the ins and outs of college life.
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  Speaker 2: At cal Poly. We focus on learning by doing, but
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you don't know what to do well. Emma and
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  Speaker 2: I are here to answer your who, what, when? Where? Why?
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  Speaker 2: An house here on CP one oh one Learned by Listening,
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  Speaker 2: presented by KCPR ninety one point three. Hi mustang, I'm
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  Speaker 2: Kate Lopenski, a graduating journalism student.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm Imma Hughes, a graduating English student here at
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  Speaker 1: cal Poly.
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  Speaker 2: And we're here to share our tell all guide on
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  Speaker 2: how to survive and thrive at cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
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  Speaker 3: So grab a notebook. You may want to write this down.
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  Speaker 2: All right, as you might have caught in the intro.
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  Speaker 2: Emma and I are graduating.
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  Speaker 3: I know, bittersweet, it's so gross.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we hate to say this, but this is our
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  Speaker 2: last episode as the host of CP one Oh one.
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  Speaker 1: I know you all are crying at home right now
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  Speaker 1: listening to this podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's so sad. We're crying with you, so sad.
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  Speaker 2: But don't worry. We're going out with the bang and
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna leave you in good hands.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, to wrap up our podcasting days in a
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  Speaker 1: pretty neat little bow, we wanted to share with you
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  Speaker 1: are hidden secrets on how to actually run a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: So as we all know, we are the experts. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're wanting to start a pod, listen up, because
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  Speaker 1: we got good things to go over.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So just to start off, finding your topic
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  Speaker 2: in your audience are absolutely crucial, and like we know
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  Speaker 2: the podcasts are all about talking, but the most important
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  Speaker 2: thing about having a podcast is at first just having
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  Speaker 2: something to say.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you want to make sure that you're choosing
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  Speaker 1: something that isn't like already being said, Like you want
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  Speaker 1: to have a niche and just stick to it. So
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the first things, first and foremost
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  Speaker 1: is to think about like the tone of your podcast,
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  Speaker 1: Like do you want it to be serious, informative, comedic,
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  Speaker 1: Like what is the end goal for your podcast?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you don't just have to stick to one tone.
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  Speaker 2: You can combine and mix and match like we do.
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  Speaker 2: We're supposed to be an informational podcast, but we also
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  Speaker 2: try to be comedic as well.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and you can get that with different topics too,
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  Speaker 1: Like we've done how to Party, but we've also done
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  Speaker 1: like how to mental health.
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  Speaker 3: Kay?
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  Speaker 1: You did start a podcast before this one, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's not talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: Why because it's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 4: No, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I like deleted it from like all platforms because I
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  Speaker 2: was so embarrassed. But like I mean, the statistic is
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  Speaker 2: that most podcasts don't succeed after three episodes, and I
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  Speaker 2: definitely fit that stat because I didn't have structure. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't have a scheduled recording time, I didn't have any
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  Speaker 2: of the proper equipment, which we will all dive into, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but it was good practice in the end. It definitely
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  Speaker 2: helped me tighten up my speech well.
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  Speaker 1: And it also had a really cute theme that was
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  Speaker 1: like what walking and talking with key? So even if
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  Speaker 1: you weren't confident in your actual podcast, I loved the
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  Speaker 1: theme of it because it was just you and your thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: so just one thing to note with topic like genre
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  Speaker 1: and tone will really speak to then a specific audience,
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  Speaker 1: so kind of goes hand in hand. When you are
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  Speaker 1: crafting your topic, you want to be thinking about who
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  Speaker 1: it is that you're actually talking to, especially because podcast
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  Speaker 1: is all about talking. You're essentially having a conversation, even
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  Speaker 1: though it seems one sided, but you're having a conversation
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  Speaker 1: with your listener. So again, CP one oh one is
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  Speaker 1: a how to podcast all about cow Poly Slow. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: our target audience is primarily cow Poly student.
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  Speaker 2: And when you choose what your podcast is about your
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  Speaker 2: overall topic, you're essentially selecting your audience as well, because yeah,
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  Speaker 2: not every topic is for every.
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  Speaker 1: Person exactly, and that's okay, and that's why, like for
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  Speaker 1: us too, when thinking about new episodes or like what
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  Speaker 1: would be most beneficial for cal Poly students.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, another main thing about podcasting we're thinking about is
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  Speaker 2: considering your team and who you want to have on it.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, podcasting can seem super simple, just like a
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  Speaker 2: conversation between two, three, four people, but it's actually quite complicated.
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  Speaker 2: You need to think about the chemistry between you and
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  Speaker 2: your co host or just if you're able to talk
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  Speaker 2: just to yourself who's going to edit it. It's a whole
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  Speaker 2: team that you need to be thinking about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so let's kind of get into it.
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  Speaker 1: So first and foremost, what obviously comes to mind is
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  Speaker 1: just the host, So like, who is the person or
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  Speaker 1: the people that are going to yap on the pod?
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  Speaker 1: This could be one person or multiple people, depending on
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  Speaker 1: your topic, your setup, what's gonna work best for you.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously you're at CP one on one, Kate and I
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  Speaker 1: take the mics and do what we do best, which
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  Speaker 1: is just talking, and yeappen when we had like a
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  Speaker 1: hosting opportunity open up. Kate was one of the first
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  Speaker 1: people I had in mind that I knew you were
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  Speaker 1: interested in podcasting because of your personal podcast. So even
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  Speaker 1: if you don't think it was like, you know, a success,
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  Speaker 1: it definitely opened doors for you, even just coming and
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  Speaker 1: joining CP one on one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I felt so honored when you reached out to me,
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  Speaker 2: and just like I can vividly remember the text that
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  Speaker 2: you sent. You're like, hey, there's an open hosting spot
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  Speaker 2: at CP one on one, and I wanted to ask
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  Speaker 2: you first because I know that you've experienced and I
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  Speaker 2: think I used to go to host with you and
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  Speaker 2: Like that's what I'm most proud of how like this
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  Speaker 2: podcast has grown is because our friendship has grown along
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  Speaker 2: with it. Yeah, like we were so awkward and I know,
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  Speaker 2: botic in the beginning. I don't like going back and
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  Speaker 2: listening to our first episode.
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  Speaker 1: And it's also just weird navigating, Like podcasting in general
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  Speaker 1: is a pretty like intimidating thing to start My first
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  Speaker 1: time ever, Like doing CP one on one, I like
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  Speaker 1: forgot to breathe because I was so worried that like
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  Speaker 1: the mics would pick up my breathing that I literally
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  Speaker 1: was like not like I couldn't even get out any
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  Speaker 1: words because I wasn't breathing. So it definitely is just
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  Speaker 1: like again a learning curve and adjustment. But what makes
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  Speaker 1: it so helpful and beautiful is doing it with a
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  Speaker 1: friend and just being able to sit in a studio
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  Speaker 1: in front of some mics and just have a natural conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So from your team, you pretty much have your
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  Speaker 2: host or like two three hostss. We love working in
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  Speaker 2: like bigger groups Honestly, Like I've tried hosting by myself
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  Speaker 2: before it didn't work out. It's totally up to you.
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  Speaker 2: But then we have an editor Gabby, who we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: hear from soon. She is gonna do a little interview
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  Speaker 2: with us, which is so exciting on the PO. And
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  Speaker 2: then we have our manager, Ben, our fearless leader. He's
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  Speaker 2: in charge of just distributing our podcast, keeping us on track.
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  Speaker 2: Every week we have just a Tuesday check in where
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  Speaker 2: he'll ask us to pitch our next episode, and one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent of the time he just says, great, that's
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  Speaker 2: so fun. Yeah, so excited.
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  Speaker 1: He's just like the best support system for us, like
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  Speaker 1: he is if we're not our own hype man, he's
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  Speaker 1: definitely our hype.
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  Speaker 2: Man, absolutely. And then from there we like, now that
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  Speaker 2: we have our team, we can divide up tasks. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, Ben distributes the podcast, Gabby edits. We
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  Speaker 2: are in charge of hosting and also writing our script.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so hate to burst your bubble, but we do
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  Speaker 1: script some of our podcasts. For most of our CP
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  Speaker 1: one on one episodes, it's just Kate and I kind
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  Speaker 1: of breaking down what we want to talk about and
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  Speaker 1: adding like bullet points. So we do brainstorm. We choose
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  Speaker 1: topics like today we're talking you know, overall theme is
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  Speaker 1: how to podcast, but we're talking about like the setup
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  Speaker 1: your team, common pitfalls, having an interview, looking at marketing
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  Speaker 1: things like that. So we make little like subtopics that
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  Speaker 1: we want to go into, and then we kind of
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  Speaker 1: just we've gotten into a groove of adding bullets instead
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  Speaker 1: of like actually scripting word for word, like from Beata
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  Speaker 1: and when we want.
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  Speaker 2: To script the entire episode. But I do recommend doing
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  Speaker 2: a quick search on Google about how to script a
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  Speaker 2: podcast episode because it's a different format, Like instead of
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  Speaker 2: using commas, we use the lease so we can tell
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  Speaker 2: when we're supposed to take a break in our speech,
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  Speaker 2: because coms are just so tiny and so hidden.
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  Speaker 1: The like written aspect of scripting a podcast is way
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  Speaker 1: more directive than like typical writing because you're on the
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  Speaker 1: spot in front of a microphone and you need to
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  Speaker 1: be able to see like, oh, remember when I said
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't breathe, or like I stopped breathing. The ellipses
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  Speaker 1: are like, girl, take a breath, Like that's where you
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  Speaker 1: need to be breathing.
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  Speaker 2: So, now that we've talked about the team and just
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  Speaker 2: different tasks that we do, let's get into how we
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  Speaker 2: actually set up our equipment. So I have been lucky
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  Speaker 2: enough to actually get a really good understanding of how
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  Speaker 2: it all works. I really do enjoy the audio side
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  Speaker 2: of things and just the studio setup, So like, I
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  Speaker 2: do not mind coming in here a little bit early
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  Speaker 2: and making sure all the mics are working.
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  Speaker 1: It's also helpful that I, well, it's not helpful that
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  Speaker 1: I show up late, but it's helpful that Kate comes
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  Speaker 1: early because I don't know how to set up and
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  Speaker 1: I am constantly late.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm sorry, Kate, No.
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  Speaker 2: You're fine. I like having on my AirPods and just
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  Speaker 2: getting into the zone. It's how like I kind of
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  Speaker 2: collect myself before we record.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just because.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we walk into the studio, like we record on
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  Speaker 2: Fridays in the night before is college Thursdays downtown.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, as you know from our how to Barcrawl episode,
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  Speaker 1: we frequently come in Friday mornings a little bit over.
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  Speaker 2: By the time that this episode comes out, we will
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  Speaker 2: both be twenty two, so yeah, we are of age,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah we'll come in after like five hours of
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  Speaker 2: sleep just not feeling ourselves. So like, honestly, setting up
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  Speaker 2: just really gets me into the zone. But first thing
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  Speaker 2: that I recommend is testing your audio right away. We
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  Speaker 2: just we have an SD card that we record everything
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  Speaker 2: onto and this cool thing called a roadcaster that I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna talk about a little bit later. But I just
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  Speaker 2: plug in the SD card, the micro SD card into
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  Speaker 2: my computer, pull up the audio file, and just make
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  Speaker 2: sure that the audio levels are correct. We do like
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  Speaker 2: we just do like a check check test thing.
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  Speaker 1: Typically involve singing yea and into the mic and I
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  Speaker 1: will harmonize, so.
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  Speaker 3: It's really pretty Yeah, we're like great singers.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we just want to make sure that because Emma
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  Speaker 2: speaks louder than I do, so we adjust our audio
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  Speaker 2: so that it fits that so Gabby's not having to
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  Speaker 2: do anything crazy. And then also I know it just
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  Speaker 2: sounds so stupid. Just make sure that everything's on, because
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  Speaker 2: we've had it's happened a couple of times before where
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  Speaker 2: we have fully recorded like half an episode it didn't
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  Speaker 2: pick up at all, and then you just go back
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  Speaker 2: and your episode just isn't as real as it could
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  Speaker 2: have been because you're having to repeat everything and.
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to like recreate the moments that were so
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  Speaker 1: candid and like so like natural the first time, and
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  Speaker 1: then they just came out silted and weird, and you're
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  Speaker 1: like dang, I really wish that first one recorded.
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  Speaker 2: No, even now, you can just see my head just
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  Speaker 2: like I know, we're constantly looking like we trauma from it.
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  Speaker 3: Not working out.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean I feel like that pretty much
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  Speaker 2: covers it. Just making sure that everything is on, that
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  Speaker 2: your mic levels are good, that you have an SD card.
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  Speaker 1: I will also say, in terms of setting up, make
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  Speaker 1: sure that you come in knowing like what your vibe
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  Speaker 1: is for the day, because there's times where Kate and I,
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  Speaker 1: especially because of college Thursdays, we come in and our
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  Speaker 1: energy is so low and we don't want that for
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  Speaker 1: a podcast. So you do want to kind of check
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  Speaker 1: in with yourself before getting behind the microphone, just to
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  Speaker 1: know like what type of energy are you going to
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  Speaker 1: be bringing to the pod. What can you and your
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  Speaker 1: co host maybe do to bring that energy up. Make
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  Speaker 1: sure that the tone is fitting the vibe of the episode.
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  Speaker 2: So now let's record an episode. So first question that
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  Speaker 2: you need to ask yourself is what equipment do you
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  Speaker 2: have accessible to you. This can be as elaborate or
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  Speaker 2: as chill as you want. We use a road caster
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  Speaker 2: and then we plug in microphones into that. We also
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  Speaker 2: have headphones. We've stopped using them because we don't like
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  Speaker 2: hearing ourselves talk. Yeah, and it's just more real when
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  Speaker 2: we don't wear headphones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because when you wear the headphones, you're so like
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  Speaker 1: critical of your voice and like any other sound that
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  Speaker 1: like the microphones are picking up on. Versus like not
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  Speaker 1: wearing them. You kind of just relax and like ease
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  Speaker 1: into your role of like, let's just talk again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: big promoters of just having a conversation and just.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure that you're recording an quiet space without an echo.
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  Speaker 2: That's also very important. Now we have a special guest.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, this is our lovely editor Gabby. She's finally behind
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  Speaker 1: the mic.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so we've referenced you a few times obviously, but
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  Speaker 2: why don't you just introduce yourself for anyone new listening.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Gabriella, also known as Gab.
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  Speaker 5: I do the editing for CP one oh one for
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  Speaker 5: this year at least, And yeah, I'm kind of the
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  Speaker 5: behind the scenes voice that you guys never hear.
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  Speaker 4: But now I'm on a mic, which is weird.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, how does it feel?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Definitely weird.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I did.
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  Speaker 5: I was on the mic for a podcasting class I
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  Speaker 5: took with Kate back in.
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, that was junior year, Like, it was probably
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  Speaker 2: about a year ago.
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  Speaker 5: It's been a while, but I'm excited, you know. I
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  Speaker 5: love to hear myself talk, so really great.
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  Speaker 1: And we're excited to have you on the pod. It's
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  Speaker 1: so special.
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  Speaker 4: I've been waiting for this one.
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  Speaker 2: But anyways, so Gabby's really good at making us sound good.
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  Speaker 2: So just first of all, how did you learn how
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  Speaker 2: to edit?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so the same podcast class I took with you
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  Speaker 5: was kind of my first introduction to editing.
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  Speaker 4: I use Adobe Audition.
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  Speaker 5: You could do Premiere Pro too, but there's video components
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  Speaker 5: and that's really hard to deal with.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, fair enough.
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  Speaker 1: So with the editing that you are so fabulous at,
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  Speaker 1: we're just curious about how long it takes because obviously
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  Speaker 1: we are here in the studio, can and I clock in,
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  Speaker 1: clock out. You know, takes us an hour two hours
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  Speaker 1: to come in here and just yap at you. But
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  Speaker 1: what is the timeline behind the scenes, because we know
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot more intense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, laughing through the.
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  Speaker 5: I would say per week, I'm probably spending around three
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  Speaker 5: to four hours editing an episode, because it's usually about
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  Speaker 5: an episode a week.
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  Speaker 4: That depends on how long the episode is.
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  Speaker 5: It depends on how many errors or bloopers are kind
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  Speaker 5: of in it. You know, professionally, you don't want to
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  Speaker 5: hear a lot of umps and uhs and uh likes
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  Speaker 5: and all of that, those kind of like filler words
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  Speaker 5: that you use. If we're on an episode where you
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  Speaker 5: know every other word uh uh, that it's.
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  Speaker 4: Gonna take me a lot longer to edit out each of.
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  Speaker 5: Those individual things. It just depends on kind of how
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  Speaker 5: much needs to be cut. But yeah, I usually take
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  Speaker 5: about two days to do it.
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  Speaker 4: I'll start on I don't know, earlier in the week.
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  Speaker 5: I'll get my first cuts kind of in there and
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  Speaker 5: just listen to it one time over kind of get
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  Speaker 5: an idea of what we're working with, and then once
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  Speaker 5: I know kind of the key points of the episode
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  Speaker 5: and what I want to focus on, I kind of
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  Speaker 5: cut the not so interesting part. So i'd say the
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  Speaker 5: whole process is like three fourish hours totally.
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  Speaker 3: So, are you, like so sick of our voices or what?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 5: No, Actually, I really appreciate the way that this podcast
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  Speaker 5: is formatted, in the way that you guys have a
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  Speaker 5: different topic every time you're talking, So rather than like
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  Speaker 5: kind of spewing on about the same stuff over and
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  Speaker 5: over again, We're talking about something new and interesting, and
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  Speaker 5: it also helps that you have a little bit of personality.
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  Speaker 5: It's fine, there's something we try.
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  Speaker 2: We try. We think we're comedians every year. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of sad. I second that I actually we're funny.
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  Speaker 2: And then kind of tying into all of this, what
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  Speaker 2: are the easiest and hardest parts about editing our episodes?
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  Speaker 2: Because I know you kind of said that the filler
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  Speaker 2: words are difficult to edit out, but our formats make
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  Speaker 2: it easier. So just more along those lines for anyone
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  Speaker 2: who wants to start their own podcast.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: There are rules on how loud your audio can be
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: on published forms of journalism, and that rule is it
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: cannot exceed twelve decipels. Basically, in essence, you don't want
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: your volume pitch to reach a certain level, and so
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: that volume pitch is reached when your mic volumes aren't
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: adjusted correctly. When you know you're have plosive p's, which
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: is when you can hear that.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Like breath popping, Yeah, that popping sound in the.
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: Mic, which if you're headphone user and you're listening to
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: our podcast that is like a migraine waiting to happen.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: We just cussed one.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, stuff like that.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: And just like audio spikes, where like the audio is
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: going above what it can be, just individually, like bringing
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: down those levels is a bit of a pain, especially
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: because it's such a quick little thing that will happen,
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: like it'll be mid word, not even like or mid sound,
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: where you'll just hear that little spike in audio.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: So I would say that that is probably one of
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: the harder parts of my job. For sure. It takes
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: the most time. What was the other part of the
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: question the easiest is.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Do we do anything that makes your life easy?
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: I would say probably the intro and outro, just because
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: we already have it recorded and so that's yeah, yeah,
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: I would yeah. I think my tip with that is
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: pre record your intro and outro. And that doesn't mean
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: that you can't tweak it as you go, but it
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: just makes the editing process so much easier when you
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: could just copy and paste that bad boy in and
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: then deal with the actual content totally.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I also think, and this is not in terms of
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: like us editing at all, but there's things that Kate
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: and I can do at times to help you, like
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: if we mess up, we are very clear about Gabby
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: take it out, Yes, even when Gabby's not here. For hosts,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: if you're wanting to be a host, just think about
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: your editor, especially if it's you yourself. Make a note
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: of what you want to cut and just say it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Because whoever it is that is going to be editing,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: we'll be listening back and they'll hear it and they'll
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: be like, oh, okay, we were curious about any tips
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: for someone who's just getting started with like podcasting, specifically
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: with editing.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Okay, Well, if you're at cal Poly, take the podcasting
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: class through the Journalism department with Patti Pieburn because that
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: was one of the best classes I've ever taken in
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: my life.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Shout out Patty.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: I agree, Yeah, I definitely found my passion for podcasting
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: through that because she'll walk you through all of the
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: platforms and all of the editing, your volume levels, all
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: of the legal stuff, so she really gives you a
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: good understanding of editing in that way. But if that
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: doesn't sound appealing to you, I would say go onto YouTube. Honestly,
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: YouTube is like my best friend. When in doubt, google it.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Out and just look up like anything you want to
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: know about it. I would say, start with Adobe Audition.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: That's a good audio editing platform. Then go to YouTube
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: and say how do I mess with this? And how
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: do I edit my levels? And how do I change this?
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: And there's tutorials for everything and anything out there, and
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: I would say, just practice makes perfect with anything else,
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: you know, start recording random stuff, Start editing random audio
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: files that you have that you know, maybe they're just
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: too loud or you want to cut up certain things.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: But yeah, I say, just get started. I think it's
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: a really daunting task. Just start and like just ask
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: for help when you need it, and you just you learn.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: Like I don't even know how I learned, honestly, it
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: just kind of happens. Like I think, as you do it,
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: you don't even realize that you're picking up these skills.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: They just kind of come with and then you're like,
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: oh my gosh, I'm editing a full podcast now.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: So inspiring. Yeah, thank you so much, Gabby. Appreciate you,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: and we're happy that you finally got to get behind
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: the mic with us.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: And we've asked Gabby before and let's just like tell
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: you the reaction has been like no, if I have to,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: like if you guys need me, so it's so much easier.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Editing other people's voices. I don't know why.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: You just don't hear the same thing in That's the
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: other thing is like once you hear yourself back, like,
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: don't be disgusted by your own voice.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: That's like a very common thing. Like no one likes
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: to hear themselves talk.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: But except for us, because we're perfect every.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Single okay, but we have stopped wearing headphones because we
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: don't like hearing our own voice. So there's caveats, all right, Well,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: is there anything else you would like to share about
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: editing in general or your your work here at CP
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: one one?
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, yes, actually is there?
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Yes, if you're an editor, please take a break when
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: you need to, because I will get to a point
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: where I'm like physically crashing out because I've listened to
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: the same ten second audio bye over sixty times and
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: like my hands will physically start shaking and like I
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: could feel a headache coming on. So please, like take
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: the time to get up and walk away. And that
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: doesn't even have to be podcasting life in general. Take
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: the time for yourself when you need it, and if
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: you're interested in podcasting, just take the jump and do it.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Like you're not gonna.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Be super duper successful when you first start, but that's
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: like the glory of the process. You know, you just
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: gotta kind of stick with it, and then when you
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: do see success, it just means so much more.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So learn by doing.
• 21:39
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• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Hey, thank you, Gab, Thank you Gabby Woo. As you
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: know by now, we're experts. We're perfect in every single way,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: but I mean we have to admit that we do
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: make mistakes, sometimes only very.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Minimally, yeah, like so minimally.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but let's talk about some of the mistakes that we.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: May gus, I guess we can talk about our faults.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so as we talked about with Gab, just those plosives,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: those massive piece that closives elosives, Yeah, those are like
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: unpleasant to the ear.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And like I remember, I didn't know, like I
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: never heard the word plosive before. I was like, I
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: don't know what you guys are talking about. And one
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: thing that is super helpful was just angling the microphone,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: like so you're not talking directly into it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: So even if you do. What is this angle? Like,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: it's like forty five free angle.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's what we do just because I mean,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: plosives are inevitable, but if it is angled, the mic
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: won't pick up on it as much, and it will
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: make it a little bit easier for editing purposes. Another
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: thing that I think is super like common and this
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: isn't necessarily a mistake, but it is totally a challenge.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: It's just being nervous, Like it takes a lot to
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: get over the hump of you know, being an in
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: front of the mic, especially if you are wearing those headphones,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: you're hearing your voice and a new capacity, like in
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: a way that you haven't probably ever heard it before.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: So just kind of being comfortable with yourself enough to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: like talk on or like into a microphone and then
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: hear it back later.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because people want to listen to your podcast because
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: you're a human being and they find what you're saying
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: is interesting and that you're fun to listen to. And honestly,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the more nervous you are, like, the more it's going
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: to reflect through your voice and it's just not as
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: fun to listen to. And then another thing to note
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: that we've already kind of talked about already. Is just
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: audio levels and voice levels. So like we said, Emma's
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: voice is louder than mine, we have to turn up
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: my mic and then we leave hers kind of at
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: normal level.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Another thing to think about, which is something Yeah, this is.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Like twisting the night.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: I know this might be Kate and I like this
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: might just be us.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: But like we have lost SD cards that have had
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: our episodes on them before.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: We've put it on like online.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so like this is so easy to avoid.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, Like we have like been in communication with each
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: other and like with our managers and all that, and
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: we thought we figured out like Okay, I'm gonna leave
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the SD card here so that you can come by
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the studio and grab it so you can edit with
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: it whatever, and then it just poof vanishes, disappears, never
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: to be seen again. Yeah, and all that work, that
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: whole episode is just gone.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: But the way to avoid this is just to make
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: sure that your editor has their own SD card and
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: they just have it. Like for example, today, like I
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: she's not here anymore right now, she had to go,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: she's busy, but I'm gonna be taking home the SD
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: card and uploading it as soon as I walk through
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: the door. Yes, just that we don't lose anything, because
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: it's a constant fear. Yeah.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Well, even in our last podcast that we recorded, the
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: audio like did not transfer, no, and like we were
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: freaking out and we like, we're so sure we recorded,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: we had it and then it just disappeared. So just
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: be aware of where you are placing SD cards, how
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: you're working with the audio and things like that.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: And then lastly just stumbling over our words. But again
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: this is an easy fix. If you don't like what
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: you said, just be like, just communicate to your editor
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: while you're recording. You'd literally just say, gab cut this.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but it happens. You get excited when
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: you're behind the mic. But like Tricia Paya's style, just
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: talking super fast.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Well, then some words too, are just tricky, Like I know,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: we've had to look up pronunciation sometimes to be like
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: are we even saying this correctly?
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Like curous? How is that how you say it? For
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: the bar Cross episode, I don't even remember. I just
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: remember we saw that. We're like what yeah, so yeah,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: just do your research and it's okay if you make
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: a mistake. Just tell your editor.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Well, that's all the time we have for today. One
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: last piece of advice don't be afraid to go out
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: and start a podcast and stay consistent. Whether or not
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: you stick with podcasting, you should at least be consistent
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: with your passions. That's a final, little last lesson. Kate
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and I want to leave.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: You with anyways, We'll be back with more tips and
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: tricks and new hosts next time on CP one oh
• 26:21
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• 26:26
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• 26:45
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