2022 Predictions. How did we do? – PCI 326

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Hey everyone. Welcome to Podcast Insider.

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This is our last edition of the year.

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We are headed into the new
year. Happy New Year, Mike.

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Yeah, happy new Year and, uh, hope,
uh, you had a happy Christmas.

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I know you got home in
time for the blizzard.

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That's right. I, uh,
escaped where I was and, uh,

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at much expense and, uh,
got home and then, yeah,

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enjoyed the minus 24 degree weather,
which was, it's woohoo. It was fun.

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That's always fun. Yes.

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. Yeah. But a nice Christmas
with family and friends, so it,

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it was fantastic. But hey, we got
a great show lined up for you too.

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We're gonna do something
a little bit different.

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I think we're gonna have fun with this.

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Yeah, that's okay.

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Um,

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we're gonna go over what people's
predictions were in 21 and

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see if they happened in 2022.

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We're gonna save 2023 predictions to a
later show. Yeah. Unless we get into it.

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We got some articles to talk
about. We've got, uh, a, uh,

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um, some tips from the, from the Blueberry
production team. From Toby. Yeah.

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And, uh, and then, uh oh, oh,

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this is going through like, oh, wow.
We, we've got some stuff to go through,

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but let's,

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let's kick this off with
one that was a prediction in

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2021,

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where Carolyn Berry from
the Adventures with Grammy

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said her show will double its
listeners in 2022. Don't know,

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Carolyn did it double What? So do
you have some insights on this, Mike?

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I do not. I haven't heard
from Carolyn, but, uh, hey,

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I wish. I hope so. And that's a
really good plug for her show.

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That that was the, the whole
thing is, you know, last year we,

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we reached out this year, we
didn't reach out, so, but, uh.

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I just thought it was a good plug.

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it is a good show. So
check out adventures with Grammy,

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but some things we can
answer. Uh, Maxwell Ivy Jr.

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Uh, folks that went to podcast
conferences, you will know, uh, Maxwell,

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he's vision impaired and he's from the,

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what's Your Excuse Network
in the Blind Blogger.

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He said that I predict even
more people, companies,

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and organizations will launch podcasts.
Why? I think that was a pretty easy one.

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Right? Easy prediction.

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Yeah. We'll call that
a, we'll call that good.

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. We'll call that good. So a
little ding in the background. I, yeah.

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Might wanna turn the volume up.
I barely heard it. He also said,

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I predict Spotify and
others will continue to try.

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The keyword is try to
win the podcasting world.

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Like it's a game of monopolies. I
think they're trying to win. Yeah.

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I I think that one's a winner too. Yeah.

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I think so too. So we'll give that
a, there there's a different vein.

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There we go. .

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And he's predicted more people will be
hosting with Blueberry. Well that's,

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that's definitely a win as well. Yeah.

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For sure. . Hey, I,

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I'm playing with all the
buttons on the roader today.

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So, okay. That's, that's
fun. . Moving on here.

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David Keesen from The Future's
Not Set Podcast did predict

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the option. Open Payment Stream to
podcast will increase so far Paton and,

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and buy me a coffee. Uh,

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sort of fits the start of tipping or
lightning Crypto payments or anything that

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can be done from a handheld
device will become more common.

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This will hopefully happen as a result
of people's frustration when the increase

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of ads into their podcast experience.

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Hopefully this will lead to a more dynamic
podcast where they can be delivered

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with and without ads.

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I think what we've seen
with the Podcasting 2.0
initiative and Value for Value

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and being able to support a
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apps@newpodcastapps.com,

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I think we're seeing this
already as well as with the,

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it's soon to be announcement
by Apple for Apple Premium,

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where podcasters can do very easily,

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can set up their show to have a premium
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describe to on Apple.

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Yeah. And that could be delivered
without the ads that everybody, you know,

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and the ad load on podcasts that do ads

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is increasing. And, you know,

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and I find myself not wanting to listen
to podcasts with a ton of ads in them.

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But, uh, also with the podcast 2.0,
like you said, you know, it's uh,

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it's kind of fun to listen
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especially if they have an audible, uh,
audible thing, you know, and a Right.

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A Boost comes in, you know, like yesterday
on New Media show, you guys were,

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were getting some boosts and that
just encourages more interaction

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and Yep. And all this
other stuff on top of that.

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But it's a good way to monetize.
So we'll call that good.

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. And what was cool with
that yesterday was that I had stuff

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coming in via Facebook cuz we were
alive and I had stuff coming in on the

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Boost Stream and people were
sending notes real time to the show,

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which I was able to do feedback on,
which was, which was pretty cool.

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Dave goes on to say there
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like events slash productions,

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clubhouse Fireside Wisdom
are all chasing something.

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The thing Live Interactive audio,

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which can be record and release later
as a podcast maybe is different as radio

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shows are to podcasts, which are
released after the fact as podcast. Well,

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how bounces kind of went down. Yeah.

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You don't hear a lot
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I think the thing it is
live is still growing,

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but I don't think from those platforms.

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So I would say that's a maybe.

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, sorry, uh, have.

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To do that. So that was a good one. Yeah.

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The Check Your Head podcast
prediction for 2022 at at Check Head

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on Twitter is that it will be the biggest
year for podcast growth as more people

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turn a podcast for Safe and enjoy
and free entertainment during

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Pandemic Life. I'm gonna
say that that was a big no.

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As well. Yeah. That's definitely not,
uh, not what's going on here. Let's.

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Try this one. Growth has been,

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growth has growth has been.

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Flat. Yeah. It's, it's
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a lot of people during the,

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the main part of the lockdowns and all
that stuff Yeah. Did listen more. Sure.

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And a lot of them have sustained, so
we really haven't lost a lot. But yeah,

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2022, you know, it was pretty flat
line as far as new listeners, I think.

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So.

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Josh from Tips of the Slung, he said,

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I wouldn't be surprised if some of
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companies and particular shows that
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signing try to break their
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there's been a little of.

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A couple of those. Yeah, I could think
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there's others that have, uh, gone
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with outfits. So we'll call that a maybe.

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Yeah, that's a maybe. Yeah.

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So Daniel Lewis from the
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I expect we'll have another huge
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Maybe Microsoft, Twitter, or LinkedIn.

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Also much bigger adoption of Podcast
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uh, first part I would say not really.

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I mean, not really.

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YouTube is kind of sort of
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Uh, but yeah, I don't, uh, I don't
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That Yeah. From new
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but he does get a ding for much bigger
adoption of podcasting 2.0. Yes.

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, Jim Mallard
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I predict Spotify will close the free
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to only be on Spotify only
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It's kind of a part. Yeah. They
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but they're gonna roll it into
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it's kinda, it hasn't happened
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like you said, gonna rebrand,

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I believe anchored into Spotify
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more exclusive than it was as Anchor, so.

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Yeah, we'll see. But there are
some articles out there, um,

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some predictions, hot Pod
the Verge Predictions has,

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has some predictions toward the bottom
of the article. Yeah. Uh, pod uh,

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Pacific Contents in your
prediction article is out.

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And as well as the kids'
podcast production, um,

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is out as well.

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So I think there's three articles
there if you wanna look at what's, uh,

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some folks are thinking
is gonna happen in, or.

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What did it happen? ?
These are from back at.

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The beginning. These are
what did happen. Yeah. Oh,

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so this is a review to see if people
actually, if their predictions were true.

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Right, right. So Oh yeah. I wanted to
go back and see some of that. And, uh,

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some of 'em are good, some of 'em aren't.
Well, I'll let you guys look at that.

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We'll have the links in the
show notes for sure. But, uh,

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then we had some from our team here at
Blueberry, uh, of course Toby ,

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my favorite one.

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Another plug says there'll be at least
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coming in late February.
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Oh, he, he's writing a book.

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Yeah. He wrote a book. It's
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And I don't know about the
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Toby did put out a book.
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ultimately I say this,

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the industry will be split into
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generating standpoint.

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I don't think paid subscriptions
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prepared to give more
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I e more in-person events and memberships.

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I think that's kind of true.

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I I don't think that the subscription
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Barry can from our team says,

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I think the blockchain will have an impact
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years. And I think in regards to
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a lot of the stuff's being done over
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Yeah. And Pod King as
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So, so I, I think he's right
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I think it's gonna be more about the
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and version control and that kind of
stuff. So I, I think, uh, Barry's right?

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We give give him that one.

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. Yeah. All right.

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So sadly we made our own
predictions . Yes.

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So, uh,

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Todd's number one was Facebook
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2022. And,

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and here's my dollar .

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Yes. We had a little bet.

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Going there virtually hand off
to you, Mike, the dollar, so you,

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you'll get your, you'll get your
dollar. I think it was a dollar, right?

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Yep. It was a dollar.

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So it was a dollar. So
when, when I see you next, I gotta,

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I got a crispy here. I got a crispy,
uh, George Washington for you, so Oh,

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right.

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Very good. .

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Very good.

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Number two was more consolidation of
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Eh, there was some this year.

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Yeah. You know, the big ones
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stats companies that got bought
up by Acast, or was it Acast?

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I don't remember one, one of them. Yeah.
But, uh, you know, there wasn't any,

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any huge ones like, uh, we'd
seen in years past. Right.

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So we'll call that a maybe. Yep.

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So there's, uh,

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my other prediction was more advertising
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podcasters. Well, that's a solid Yes. Ooh.

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We, we put that in,

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we didn't even know we were gonna make
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insertion at that point,
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maybe it was in my brain already
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we found the great partner,

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the growth of the podcasting space
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I think it's, uh.

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It's, uh, maybe May.

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Maybe, but it's been pretty
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Uh, more companies will exercise private
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we've picked up a few
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hopefully we'll change that this year
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going for, uh, trade shows.

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Yeah. Anchor will add another million
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Yes, for sure. They have,
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a bunch of them are indeed dead.

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, Facebook, excuse me, uh,

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apple will open an API submission
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you don't submit your show still,

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but you can submit premium episodes
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So that's, guess.

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That's a sort of Yeah,
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Uh, yeah. It's, but it's not for show
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that's, you know, partially
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Okay. So my number one prediction,
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the whole dollar there was that Facebook
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platform by the end of 22. In
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Did they go to maybe.

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April? Maybe three months.

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Anyway. So Winter winner
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SoundCloud will exist even though I've
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and Yep. It does still exist.

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See that was an easy
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feed Burner will continue to barely be
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And I didn't know anything
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I'll get a wild hair and start another
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podcasting. Well, I, I, I attempted
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Joe Rogan will announce he's leaving
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being an independent
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fireside and stuff like that will
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not that I know of. So I guess, see
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he grew a beard, but uh, then he shaped
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and I should have said he will change
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you know, we'll have to do
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we've been having a little fun here
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economy was struggling, we saw a
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side hustle mm-hmm. ,
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if their job is in jeopardy and so forth.
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and those types of inquiries
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the way the economy's gonna
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me struggle, um,

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prices continue to go up for virtually
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so those are on tight margins. We'll,
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we'll see what happens.
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the podcast I think will continue to grow,

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but we do have a blueberry
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We do. So, uh, we're gonna go
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It's from Toby's talking
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audio branding.

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Hi there. It's Toby Goodman here.
If you were around in the nineties,

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you might have heard of a TV show called
Friends where everyone spoke like this.

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Hi, I'm Toby Goodman
Now. Love It or Hate It.

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The first few notes of that theme Tune
are known the world over and speak to

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fans like some sort of cool to prayer.

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participating claps.

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The incidental music between the scenes
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much there by design and is something
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mood for the next scene.
These are powerful audio
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every professional podcast needs
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Catchy music themes are just one example,

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while emotive artwork is another,
but today's tip is about sound.

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We can help you create your own unique
audio signature that shows often

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before a word is heard,

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that your listeners are in the presence
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their podcast. Seriously.

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They're in the presence of someone who
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for them, their listeners.

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So a meditation show with heavy rock
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but it's not gonna set the right mood.
Now all of this is important because it,

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as a podcaster, setting
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with creating feelings in mind is
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most great sound design will create a
sense of belonging for your listeners

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who will,

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if you get it right regularly make space
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that you create for them.

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So this is essential for you if you want
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so that you can, if you'll excuse
the pun, be there for them.

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It's critical to understand as podcasters,

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we are all in the business
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When you create the right feelings,

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you'll create a bond with your listeners
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And when you get that right,
they will share your podcast.

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And maybe if you are a
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ultimately get in touch to invest in
your products or services as you'd expect

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our sound design team are standing by
to work closely with you to ensure the

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tone of music and sound is
matched perfectly To the tone of

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your podcast for a helping hand,

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we've got everything you need to help
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Come and say hi over@blueberrypro.com.

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Awesome. I think he's right on
center on all that information.

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For sure. And you know, we do a little
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Normally this week, probably
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pro team is on vacation. And, uh,
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so to speak. Uhhuh here,
Uhhuh . So, but
that's good. Thanks Toby.

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And, uh, yeah, we don't have a
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we're just gonna make
this one a short one. So,

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but if you got a question you'd
like us to answer on the show,

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just drop me an email, mike
blueberry.com. You can, uh, send audio,

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text, video or whatever and, uh,
we'll try to use it on the show.

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Or you can even leave a question in the
Blueberry Podcasting Facebook group,

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which there's a link in the show notes.

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the best place for support with Blueberry
and the team is our ticket system at

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blueberry.com/support.

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Tickets give the entire team access
rather than direct emails or calls.

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So don't email mike direct,
go to blueberry.com/support.

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Especially during the holidays. Uh,
yeah, my email box gets so full of stuff.

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we're coming to you this week from the
new Media Production Studio in Coldwater,

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Michigan, and Mike Dell's World Studio
here in Traverse City, uh, let's see,

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produced by the pro production
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And we wanna know about you, who you
are, where you are, what you're doing,

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how you're listening to shows.

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So fill out our listener survey
surveys.blueberry.com/podcast

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insider.

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That's surveys.blueberry.com/podcast
insider.

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Okay.

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You can always schedule a one-on-one
with myself hosting customers only email

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todd blueberry.com, that's
blueberry without the ease.

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Yep. And you can schedule, uh,
a tech checkup with me. I'm,

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I'm not the strategy guy, but
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it's mike@blueberry.com.

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And you can always send us your podcast
sticker and a self address stamped

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envelope and we will send
you a Blueberry Care package.

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Our mailing address is@podcastinsider.com
within the show notes.

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Please check that out. But again, if
you're with us, uh, as a customer,

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we wanna thank you for your business
in 2022 and we want to thank you for

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your continued business and success
of your show as we head into 2023.

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Remember the first 15 days,

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actually from December 15th to January
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audience acquisition because people are
looking for new shows to listen to and

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also looking for content that
kind of surrounds the new year.

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So don't be afraid to spin your
content a little bit to attract

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new listeners to your show, right.

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And keep on podcasting all the way
through the, uh, the continued holiday.

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But again, be safe out there, uh,
on what I term as amateurs night.

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Yeah, for sure. And, uh,

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on New Year's Eve and have a
good time and be safe and, uh,

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we'll be back with you. Any
final words from you, Mike,

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before we bounce outta here?

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No. Uh, next week we'll have a, uh,

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mystery guest host as Todd
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CES show out in Las Vegas, I believe.

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if you wanna watch our live
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where, uh, we talk to a new
vendor every 10 minutes, uh,

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we're basically from morning to night.
Yeah, that's a grind. Get over. Yeah,

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you go over to tech podcast.com,

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we're geek to central.com and watch the
livestream over there. But anyway, uh,

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again, we'll be Pacific time probably
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Pacific and going into the five
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afternoon. So I'll.

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Have a link to that also in this, uh,
post for this show. So, uh, all right.

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Awesome. You can, uh, go
over and watch tpn. Uh,

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I've participated in that in years past
and it's a lot of fun, but it's a grind.

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. It is a grind. I will
be coming, matter of fact,

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I get back from Vegas on the
ninth and I'm on federal jury duty

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the rest of the month minus the
two or three days from Pod Fest.

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So who knows what's gonna happen to
my, if I'm gonna get called up or what,

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but yeah. Anyway, we'll see. We'll
see, we'll see. Hopefully not, uh,

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keep our fingers crossed.
All right. Anyway, thanks.

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See you in 2023.

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That's right everyone. Take
care. See you next time. Bye-Bye.