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Pod Crashing 101 Episode 499 Should We Number Things Plus Microphone Talk · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: number 499. Oh, look at me using numbers like that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, do listeners really care about the number of
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  Speaker 1: your podcast? I'm so guilty of doing this for 99.
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  Speaker 1: But who's right here? Those of us that want to
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  Speaker 1: make it easier for a listener's quickly fading memory or
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  Speaker 1: podcast critics who've labeled it a waste of good headline space.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the hardcore truth. Listeners do not think the
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  Speaker 1: podcast episode number is important. They do not. Hmm. Casual
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  Speaker 1: listeners want the title, the guest, and the topic. They
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  Speaker 1: aren't buying into the importance of an episode number. They
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  Speaker 1: feel very late to the party, so the goal for
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  Speaker 1: podcasters is to not use those numbers. The topic is
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  Speaker 1: your lead. Your title should be an identity and vibration.
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  Speaker 1: Your listeners are endlessly asking, is this a conversation for me?
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  Speaker 1: Do I even like this host? Will this podcast make
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  Speaker 1: me feel something? That podcast episode number only becomes interesting
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  Speaker 1: with listeners who are invested in the entire project. See,
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  Speaker 1: the goal is to create something that is absolutely timeless
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  Speaker 1: and available to be discovered at any date later on
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  Speaker 1: in life. Do we need to go back and remove
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  Speaker 1: those podcast numbers? Nah, not really. Just begin a process
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  Speaker 1: where it's not expected. I mean, listeners love their power
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  Speaker 1: of choice, but having that hashtag in there simply says
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  Speaker 1: they're late for the party. Hey, coming up next, microphones
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  Speaker 1: are a hot topic. Does the best microphone give you
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  Speaker 1: the greatest numbers? Hey, thanks for coming back to Podcrashing One-on-One.
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  Speaker 1: Microphones are a very, very hot topic. Does the best
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  Speaker 1: sounding microphone really win you high numbers? This is absolutely
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  Speaker 1: a false subject. Podcast listeners, don't give a crap. Your
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  Speaker 1: mic should fit your voice and if it's a cheap
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  Speaker 1: knockoff from the guitar center used on a drum kick, perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Listeners want clarity, consistency, personality, emotional connection, and absolutely no distractions.
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  Speaker 1: A $ 400 to $ 1, 000 microphone used in Rebecca's kitchen sucks
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the reverb that's caused by the
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  Speaker 1: corners in the wall. So what do we have here?
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  Speaker 1: Someone who's now using a $ 35 to $ 50 USB microphone.
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  Speaker 1: Better equipment does not equal credibility. It can help, but
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  Speaker 1: a fancy-ass microphone isn't going to pull listeners into your episodes.
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  Speaker 1: I personally want listeners to have an open compressed microphone delivery.
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  Speaker 1: The true meaning of this is to move ahead and
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  Speaker 1: sound completely natural. I don't need Drake and the weekend
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  Speaker 1: with auto tune or correction features. Listeners endlessly prove they
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  Speaker 1: are more forgiving about unperfected audio versus a boring conversation.
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  Speaker 1: The listener remembers voices and moments that were created by
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  Speaker 1: sounds in the background, things that took them completely away
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  Speaker 1: from the subject. The microphone I use at movie premieres
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  Speaker 1: is so much different compared to my studio because I
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  Speaker 1: want listeners to feel like they've gone someplace very special.
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  Speaker 1: He's not in a studio. He's actually there. I can
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  Speaker 1: hear it. I can feel it. Oh, look, I can
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  Speaker 1: see it. It's just a podcast. I'm Arrow, and that's
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