For today’s #selfie, a reminder to drink water before, during, and after you attempt to record a podcast. Don’t want to get dry, raspy throat sounds. Unless you’re doing a dry, raspy throaty podcast I guess.

Selfie a day for a year, day 9, Aug 26, 2025 edition.

A man with glasses is drinking from a glass in a cozy room with a microphone nearby.

Look I get why it might be attractive to have all your #podcasting eggs in one basket like this, but I really strongly advise against it based on past history of tech companies trying to be “the one”, only to have investors decide they need “the cash” more than they want to be “the one”.

Screenshot of a Riverside.fm splash advert reading “Host and publish your podcast directly in Riverside&10;No extra tools to manage (and pay for) downloads and uploads. Every paid plan includes hosting with an RSS feed, analytics, and publishing to Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and more. For now, hosting is available only for new podcasts that aren’t already hosted elsewhere, but stay tuned for more updates!”

Look out podcast video editors! AI is coming for your job!

AI generated image of a talking head with the caption “audio version wherever” and in the background there’s a claymation style image with the word PODCAST over top of a misspelling of the word SUBSCRIBE spelled subseribe

I decided to split off my random #Fortnite gaming into it’s own YouTube channel instead of confusing ppl looking for podcasting tutorials on my main one. So subscribe to @GamingWithALemon on YT. (Nothing changing on Twitch)

The ShopTalk Show Discord gave me an idea for a new podcast based on the premise that people—developers in this case—need to meet more actual mediocre white guys in order to boost their own confidence, and realize how little some people know who keep getting promoted. 😆

artwork for a fictional podcast called "Meeting a Mediocre White Guy" featuring an overconfident looking white male with lots of crypto logos and graphics, a poster of Joe Rogan in the background, and at least 10 microphones

I’m sure it’s a coincidence that Riverside tries to tack on podcast hosting to their services the same week that a client has a recording be the most out of sync (video to audio) that I’ve seen in years… but it’s sure not building a lot of confidence for me with their app.

I’ve posted about this before, but I did a quick video version of how easy it is to enable Bluesky comment replies on your podcast episode pages with Transistor podcast hosting.

New blog post: Adding Video Streaming to Your Podcast with HLS

A client recently revived a show that’s been on hiatus for 2.5 years and it’s nice how comforting it is to hear their familiar voices in my ear again. It will be interesting to see how many folks maintained their podcast subscription over that time period when the new episode goes out.

Podcast / Notion idea for someone to build: Monitor the podcast’s RSS feed and when the episode comes out matching the title in Notion, adjust the status to “published”.

I’m not sure what I was going to put here, but I kind of wish I would’ve finished this disgusting ring tone product on my Gumroad account way back when. 😆

If you’re seeing this, I’m live now on Twitch demoing recording and editing a podcast using Riverside with tim.

If you’re curious how it works to record and edit a podcast using a tool like Riverside, today I’m going to demo it… live on stream? Seems like a bad idea.

Join Tim and I in just under an hour on Twitch or YouTube to see how it goes.

Every time I think I should start a new #podcast, I just watch this video.

I’ve never listened to a full episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast. But he somehow got 3 hours of Bono’s time so now I might have to?. 😂

I agree with Justin’s post about YouTube’s eventual need to degrade the podcasting experience to extract value from it. Silos and walled gardens are not in podcasting’s best interest. And IMHO this includes podcast apps trying to be all things to the podcaster.

New blog post: The Necessary Conversation Podcast

I dig how simply and clearly Ray Ortega demonstrates the benefits of Elgato’s new Voice Focus feature works. I’m definitely tempted to upgrade my old Scarlett 18i8 with a simple Wave XLR. #podcasting

🔔 Tim and I are going to be chatting about something… podcast editing, websites, taxes, something? - Join us in an hour 1:45pm / 3:45pm EST on Twitch.

Here’s the YouTube edit of my conversation with Tim yesterday about pricing services like podcast edits or web projects. It’s been fun to talk and recognize the 15+ (?!) years of experience I’ve had working with clients, always learning new things with each one.