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Pod Crashing 101 Episode 464 Will Terrestrial Radio Ever Go Free Form Like Podcasting · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: The greatest thing about listening to podcasts. It's not the
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  Speaker 1: on Arrow dot Net. R r oe dot net. Enjoy
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  Speaker 1: your exploration. Hey, what's going on? My name is Arrow,
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  Speaker 1: host of the weekly podcast pod Crashing and pod Crashing
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  Speaker 1: one on one. These episodes connect listeners to podcasts specialists
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  Speaker 1: around the world. See The goal has always been to
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  Speaker 1: inform our podcast community with subjects that deal with everything
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  Speaker 1: and beyond. Podcast hosts are usually very open and always
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  Speaker 1: filled with a spirit that spreads their skills as journalists,
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  Speaker 1: medical specialists, true crime soldiers, gamblers, motivators, spiritualists. We've got
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  Speaker 1: actors in their children. I mean, everybody's got a podcast today.
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  Speaker 1: Podcrashing one on one has been around since March of
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. The original goal was to put focus on
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  Speaker 1: helping up and coming podcasters to have the right information
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  Speaker 1: about hosting as well as surviving. The idea went fifty
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  Speaker 1: four episodes, and then I realized, wait a second, I
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  Speaker 1: am sharing conversations with all of these podcasters. Why am
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  Speaker 1: I not sharing their experiences with you? Right? That's what
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  Speaker 1: this is all about. The purpose of podcrashing one on
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  Speaker 1: one is to help you build your own platform, promote it,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe even earn some money. This is podcrashing one
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  Speaker 1: on one. If terrestrial radio wasn't so heavily controlled by
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  Speaker 1: the US government and Corporate America, would it be as
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  Speaker 1: freeform as podcasting? Who quickly, I'm interrupted? My creative space
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  Speaker 1: is like going, hey, wait a second, American terrestrial radio
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  Speaker 1: is very free, It's just not as free as podcasting.
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  Speaker 1: The longer answer is yes, the FCC, advertisers and Corporate
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  Speaker 1: America their ownership. It stalls terrestrial radios approach to truly
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  Speaker 1: being a platform for freeform thinking and performing. But but, but, but,
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  Speaker 1: but it wouldn't be as out of control as podcasting
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  Speaker 1: has become. If terrestrial radio could be more like podcasting,
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  Speaker 1: we would see format freedom, much fewer rigid clocks and
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  Speaker 1: jocks that wouldn't have to suffer over a twelve second
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  Speaker 1: song intro. We'd also see more outside the safe zone storytelling,
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  Speaker 1: oddball thinkers who usually don't get terrestrial radio jobs, but
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  Speaker 1: they can really bring a change if those doors opened up.
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  Speaker 1: Terrestrial radio knows how to wander away from their formatics,
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  Speaker 1: but are they will to have less science and more
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  Speaker 1: gift to gab if terrestrial radio elected to play like podcasting.
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  Speaker 1: Research clearly shows how on air talent would be more
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  Speaker 1: human and less of a brand which has been stuffed
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  Speaker 1: into a can. Hey, coming up next, what is holding
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  Speaker 1: terrestrial radio back from being more like the podcast format? Hey?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for coming back to podcrashing one on one? What
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  Speaker 1: is holding terrestrial radio back from being more like a
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  Speaker 1: podcast freeform format? Number one Radio has spent fifty plus
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  Speaker 1: years building its limits. Radio has limited frequencies, whereas podcasting
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  Speaker 1: has an infinite shelf. Radio scarcity breeds gatekeepers. Let's add
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  Speaker 1: a twist, live radio itself hits everyone all in one.
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  Speaker 1: Many podcasters don't want to deal with such a time stamping.
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  Speaker 1: Terrestrial radio needs predictable ears and predictable times to sell
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  Speaker 1: the advertisers. That pushes sameness and not experimentalation, which is
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  Speaker 1: why I host twenty different podcasts. I really do twenty
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  Speaker 1: different podcasts. It's about chance taking and experimenting. Now let's
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  Speaker 1: focus in on the legacy and expectations. Radio listeners demand flow,
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  Speaker 1: whereas podcast fans and followers want depth and chaos. They
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  Speaker 1: choose to check in with Joe Rogan Anderson Cooper, the
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  Speaker 1: WWE SmartLess with Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes
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  Speaker 1: because it's intentional chaos. Radio wants to know who will
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  Speaker 1: be offended or how will they tune out, whereas podcasters
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  Speaker 1: are looking at failure, going hmm, that's just a private thing.
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  Speaker 1: Success is organic and anyone can do pretty much what
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  Speaker 1: it is that we're doing. Trial radio was never meant
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  Speaker 1: to be free form podcasting. Whooo, the exact opposite. I'm arrow,
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  Speaker 1: and that's pod crashing one on one