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The Eric Metaxas Show
Malachi O'Brien and Eric Went on a Very Fun Run to NJ!
"Talking to my friend malachi O'Brien, malachi, once again, I got to tell my audience, I can't believe we never do this kind of thing, but you finished your 152nd consecutive marathon today, so you're going to go home tomorrow, you're going to do the final one. I had the privilege of doing this with you yesterday. And we had fun because I thought to myself, when you're running at that pace, you can actually talk. And so you and I talked and we just had this wonderful fellowship and we found ourselves, I mean, I don't know if I said this when I was talking to Alban before, but we ran to New Jersey. We ran across the George Washington bridge, which of course was my idea. I'd done this once before on my previous world distance world record personal record run. But the idea that from my house, you could run across the Hudson to New Jersey on the bike path. And that was insane and fun to do with you. We took pictures. But then on the way home, we passed a number of sites central to the story of bahn hoffer. And I was able to point out where he stayed. That's the room where he stayed in 1939 when he made his big decision. And this is riverside church that welcomes Fidel Castro into its pulpit. But in 19 39, when Bond hoffer was here, he went to hear a sermon there, and it would dissolve in my bond hopper, but I was able to tell you the story and then to say, and then that evening, he heard another sermon at this quote unquote, fundamentalist church, a few blocks south on Broadway, and how delighted he was. And so it was just fun running with you. And if you come back to New York, I just want to do more of this with you because there's other fun things that we can do and see. But it really, it just was fun. So I
The Doug Collins Podcast
Neil Thrasher Describes His Sources of Songwriting Inspiration
"An interesting our generation, I mean, we're born in late 60s, came through the 70s, early 80s. We're sort of tagged with a little bit of the 60s. We got a lot of 70s in us, and then we got a lot of 80s in us, you know, especially I've always said that music and when I worked, you know, we worked with a songwriters I've been doing this for a long time with y'all and doing the music modernization act, everything we got for that. And when I started learning y'all's heart more, I've learned it, there's such cyclical nature of songs and songwriting, having similar, you know, of course, you know, outside stories, if you would, but tell me how that influenced your riding, because I mean, you wrote for something with Lee bras, you wrote for Jason. I mean, some of the best songs Jason ever put out. Kenny Chesney's. I mean, these are kind of like, how did that because I know it's an impacted me. And it made my kids talk about it all the time. You know, this is the way I think and everything else. How did that time frame affect you and your song writing? Oh gosh, whenever I'm writing songs, you're talking about where I grew up and how I grew up, you talking about it. Yeah, it's that time frame. The music, everything. Oh, it affected me. I'm always to this day. I'm still, I still go back to that neighborhood. I still go back to where I first learned how to fish, where I learned that all about the outdoors, or just the growing up part, I always go back to a certain street or a certain place or a certain body of water or whatever, down in Alabama when I'm writing songs. My brain goes there automatically. You know, like, for instance, like tattoos, like tattoos on this town, for instance, you know. And afterwards on the town, Jason Alban talk about it. Yeah, well, I mean, I was there. I was back in Alabama when we were writing that song. Rearview town was the same way. Just about all of them.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Joe Silva Tells Us About Legacy Minded Men
"That legacy minded men is about being a resource to men, and you've had some losses in your life recently that blow my mind and break my heart. Why don't you Joe Silva start there to pull us into the bigger conversation? Yeah, well, thanks again, Eric for having me. And I've been on your show several times with Michael with earth skin, our friend her skin, and I got introduced to you really through the NRB and our good friend Joe bataglia, who's another mentor of mine, and I love very much just like a love Joe Pellegrino. And legacy might have managed all about engaging and encouraging and quipping men. And I've been through some major, major losses in my life. I was first introduced to Joe Pellegrino back in 2008, and I've been with legacy Monet since the inception. And since that time since 2008, when I got into the game of really trying to do more for the kingdom, that's when all the attacks started happening. And I lost my job of 25 years was betrayed and hurt by some people I really loved and trusted. Lost my dad, my biggest hero in my life back in 2017. And my biggest supporter was my wife of almost 30 years and back in July of 2021, she suffered a brain aneurysm. And after being on life support for 19 days, she entered into heaven. So what was her greatest day? Was my worst day. I lost my wife. That was the worst day of my life, but yet it was her greatest day. And, you know, she had the opportunity to meet you. She was a big fan, loves the Erica tax show, and we actually she met you at one of your book launchings. Back in 2018 and actually I sent the picture to both Griffin to Alban. I'm not sure we got to see it or not. But we went to the Donald Trump fake news book. We went and got to have time with you at that night and my wife met you and we took a picture together and anyway, so he always enjoyed when I was going to be on your show. So it's been a very difficult time, but through it all. God has been good. And legacy minded men has been there, especially, you know, Joe Pellegrino. I love him. He's like a brother to me.
WTOP
"alban" Discussed on WTOP
"You need every time you listen. It's a 28 traffic and weather on the 8s and when it breaks, back to the traffic center and Jack Taylor. We had an issue this morning in the district coming off a D.C. two 95 south, the ramp to go inbound on the 11th street bridge, a wreck got cleared to the gore area. Then we'd heard word Alban 11th to go south onto I two 95. We'd had a wreck. Now I think at this point you'll find nothing in the roadway, just a little bit of heavy traffic in the area. We're getting a little busier from Virginia, north on three 95 up onto the freeway as you head toward the 12th street expressway in the third street tunnel. So far, nothing to report in your way. New York avenue heavier going inbound, especially as you ride toward that light at bladensburg road. All right, we're still slow in Maryland, top side of the beltway, inner loop, around promote Georgetown road toward Connecticut avenue, topside outer, from New Hampshire to Georgia you're in a delay. Now we've got some slowdowns as you ride on I 97 going southbound as you approach and get onto route three, south, just past 32 and I 97. Sounds like that's where we've got the new crash. Inbound suitland Parkway at Allentown road had an earlier crash. You're gonna find slowdowns in Virginia. Beltway inner loop, Braddock wrote a two 36, little heavy again coming up into and through Tyson's north George Washington Parkway, slows near the overlooks. There's a work zone before one 23. 95, not too bad. We were just a little crowded in woodbridge toward the aka kwon three 95. There was a slight delay around duke headed to seminary road, then again some heavy traffic to cross the 14th street bridge. We're still reporting our issues. Mark trains due to a system wide outage, all Mark train service has been temporarily suspended this morning until further notice. Johns Hopkins cancer care in the greater Washington area, with renowned cancer experts in our community, including its sibley, and suburban hospitals. Find out more at Hopkins cancer, D.C. dot org, Jack Taylor, WTO if you traffic, your blustery forecast now from storm team four's Chad Merrill. Clouds on the increase this morning, the wind's picking up markedly after sunrise. We'll see temperatures in the mid 40s feeling like the 30s. It will gust to 45
The Eric Metaxas Show
Albin Shares His Reaction to Sean Feucht's Film 'Superspreader'
"Talking to my friend Shawn Floyd. Don't try to spell it. Sean, Voight FE. I did it. We're talking about super spreader, the film, which is now available at Salem now, dot com. And I referred earlier to how Alban and I saw it in the theater in Times Square, Alban, would you just say a word or two about your experience? Because people think I'm speaking for you. I'll let you speak for yourself. Well, I know. You speak for me a lot. You're like a ventriloquist that I'm your one never mind. But in the theater itself, when we saw it that night, I had tears in my eyes, and all seriousness. And you're right about Christian movie, sometimes you say, this is so hulky. This was an incredible experience. And then I watched it with my wife and we were both moved to tears. And the ending is so powerful. It's almost like a surprise ending. The last line of the movie is just so cool. I'm not going to give it away. Anyway, you're right. You're absolutely right. And look, that's great filmmaking, Sean. You know,
Live Bitcoin News
Inside LBanks Exquisite Afterparty at DCENTRAL Miami
"6 a.m. Monday, December 5th, 2022. Inside L bank's exquisite afterparty at central Miami. Internet city, Dubai, December 2nd, 2022 L bank, a global crypto exchange, hosted an Alban crypto friends after party alongside the web three conference central Miami. L bank was proud to host more than 200 guests from all layers of the industry. This was Alban's second event in Miami after exhibiting at the Bitcoin 2022 conference earlier. The post inside Al banks exquisite after party at central Miami appeared first on live Bitcoin news.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Eric Tells Us About His Recent Trip to Lynchburg, Virginia
"I was in Lynchburg, Virginia. At Liberty University, for an amazing event, Ryan helfenbein, Ryan is amazing. And he heads up the faith and freedom center at liberty. Ryan put together this conference, Sean Foyt was there, Liz Wheeler was there, Megan basham, my hero, Megan bed she's amazing. We spend time with her. Ralph Reed was, I mean, all these friends and it was amazing and lieutenant governor mark, was it Robinson, North Carolina, who's just a fighter. It was the whole thing was incredible. But I had to leave the next day because now this is the thing. I knew I was going to be in Pittsburgh because I spoke yesterday three times at grace life church pastor pastures book and Amy schaeffer invited me to speak here in Pittsburg because I was in Harrisburg. We met whatever ten days ago when I was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. So they invited me to be here. And then I get a phone call from you, Alvin seda, telling me, hey Eric, Saturday, which was two days ago, when you're going to be in Pittsburgh, guess what's happening in that neck of the Woods. And I said, what's happening, Alban? I've been telling the people what was happening. Well, Doug mass gianno Emmett Oz and president Donald Trump were campaigning and they had a big rally in latrobe PA. Right. So we cooked up a scheme where your identical twin brother, who I believe also had a birthday two days ago. That's right. What a coincidence. That's amazing. He picked me up from the airport. And he looked so much like you that it's kind of disturbing. It's kind of like wait a minute. You're Alvin. No, you're not Alvin. Yes, you're out, but no, you're not Alvin. Who are you?
The Dan Bongino Show
Make Sure to Support Catalina Lauf for Congress
"Tell us your district Tell us where you're running so the people who are listening in that area in our WLS station over there they know to get out and vote for you tomorrow It's super important Yeah if we're in Illinois 11th district so it encompasses parts of mchenry county with Doc mchenry all the way down to Camden hills Alban Lamont bowling brook Naperville north aurora and everything in between that big line As you know the Democrats gerrymandered this seat However we are feeling very confident because the incumbent close to 20 year incumbent Democrat who's been backed by Mike madigan in the corruption it here on Illinois were ready to retire him tomorrow but we can't do it without the support and help of our people here in this district So if you're in that area please get out to vote take your family and friends because it's going to be it's going to be a great one Catalina lauf with AC Catalina Lao AUM look her up What's your website So people can go to your website and find out about you Catalina for Congress dot com and Catalina lauff on all social media platforms
77WABC Radio
"alban" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"By both watches at 6 o'clock. We have 61° mostly clear skies. Good evening, I'm bob Brown. It was like a scene from a Hollywood movie, but this happened in saint albans queens today when a gunman hijacked an MTA bus, here's 77 WBC's Noam Leighton. That MTA bus driver saw the gun and convinced the gunman to let off all the other passengers. He then at the gunman's request got the bus rolling again and drove for about 30 blocks. The individual got on the bus remained very close to the drive at all times. Directly behind the bus driver. The driver fearing for his life jumped out his side window with the bus still rolling, the bus slammed into a utility pole, the gunman who was still on it was arrested, the driver, he's going to be okay. No one laden W ABC News. New York City has its first ever female fire commissioner. They are Adams appointing acting fire commissioner Laura kavanagh to the post. A style of leadership and commitment. This is just a reflection of what this city has to offer. Yes, this is historic. Kavanaugh has been in charge since February after former commissioner Dan Nigro retired, Adams points out Kavanaugh helped the department's response through the Ebola outbreak and had a big impact on the response to coronavirus and directed a firefighter recruitment program shall oversee a 17,000 member department and a $2 billion budget. Former FDNY commissioner Daniel nigro on the Bernie and sit in the morning program. He was asked about Laura Kavanaugh facing possible flack from a mostly male department nigra responded. Yeah, I think if they tried that, that would be a very bad mistake. Laura won't stand for that and she's a strong woman. And I grow appointed Kavanaugh as his second in command in 2017, he retired in February. I'm Deborah Valentine for 77 WABC news. A new national poll finding 40% of young people plan to vote in the November election, pollsters from the institute of politics at Harvard's Kennedy school say that's on track to match or exceed the 2018 youth vote. The survey of voters between the ages of 19 and 29 showing they favored democratic control of Congress 57 to 31% with 12% undecided. New York City transit is marking the 118th birthday of the subway system. The New York City transit president, Richard Davy, acknowledges the occasion by greeting commuters and employees at stations in three boroughs. Don't mind that. That's just a false alarm fire alarm warning right now. He admitted there are concerns about safety on the subways and they're working to address it. Well, how about rats in the subways? New York City is moving forward with its efforts to combat its rat population by voting on its rad action plan, but New Yorkers don't think the rats are going anywhere. The problem is
WTOP
"alban" Discussed on WTOP
"45 powered by maximus. Moving people and technology forward. 6 45 and here's Brian Alban, false Saturdays don't get much better than this one was in the sports world, but of the more mundane variety the capital scored three second period goals on their way to a three one win over Montreal, it's their first one of the season Darcy Kemper 21 saves in the win TJ oshi, the team's first power play goal of the season. In college football, Maryland improved to 5 and two with a 38 33 win over Indiana, but quarterback to Leah tongue by loa did not finish the game as he was injured midway through the second half. 25th ranked James Madison suffered its first loss as an FBS program falling 45, 38 to Georgia southern Virginia tech and Howard also suffered defeats. There were three matchups between unbeaten teams nationally and 6th ranked Tennessee scored the biggest win of all defeating third ranked Alabama 52 49 on a last second field goal for their first win over the crimson tide since 2006. Number 13 TCU upset 8th ranked Oklahoma state in double overtime and 5th ranked Michigan throttled tenth ranked Penn State 41 17. On the diamond former national Bryce Harper Homer to help the Phillies beat the braves 8 to three, Philly is on to its first NLCS since 2010. The Astros are the first team into the ALCS after a one zero win in 18 innings over Seattle and Cleveland took a two one series lead over the Yankees after Oscar Gonzalez's walk off two run single gave the guardians a 6 5 win. I'm Brian Alban WTO
WTOP
"alban" Discussed on WTOP
"By maximus. Moving people and technology forward. Two 45 with Brian Alban. Fall Saturdays don't get much better than this one was in the sports world, but of the more mundane variety the capital scored three second period goals on their way to a three one win over Montreal, it's their first one of the season Darcy Kemper 21 saves in the win TJ oshi, the team's first power play goal of the season. In college football, Maryland improved to 5 and two with a 38 33 win over Indiana, but quarterback Talia tunga by loa did not finish the game as he was injured midway through the second half. 25th ranked James Madison suffered its first loss as an FBS program falling 45, 38 to Georgia southern Virginia tech and Howard also suffered defeats. There were three matchups between unbeaten teams nationally and 6th ranked Tennessee scored the biggest win of all defeating third ranked Alabama 52 49 on a last second field goal for their first win over the crimson tide since 2006. Number 13 TCU upset 8th ranked Oklahoma state in double overtime and 5th ranked Michigan throttled tenth ranked Penn State 41 17. On the diamond former national Bryce Harper Homer to help the Phillies beat the braves 8 to three, Philly is on to its first NLCS since 2010. The Astros are the first team into the ALCS after a one zero win in 18 innings over Seattle and Cleveland took a two one series lead over the Yankees after Oscar Gonzalez's walk off two run single gave the guardians a 6 5 win. I'm Brian Albin WTO sports. One late baseball playoff game San Diego eliminates the Los Angeles Dodgers from the playoffs with a 5 three
New Media Show
"alban" Discussed on New Media Show
"Kind of it. So I think it's just a constant reminder and education that has to go on around that because I think if I think back to the shows that I did, even in the early days, that was the concept, right? I was trying to get listed in the Seattle times newspaper that gave an update on my coming episode or I mean, you have to reach outside the bounds of just your medium. It's kind of like starting a small business, right? I mean, at the end of the day, you have to reach new people at all times. And how do you do that? So, and that's core to what we're really talking about here. And that's really core to grow on a show. Is that you have to think outside of the little box that podcasting is. And it is a box. And it's an opportunity is what it is. But it's not the total solution. I call this the field of dreams myth. People think if I make it, they will come. Whether or not this is your business or if this is your podcast or whatever it may be, creating it is part of what you're doing. And you actually have to create something good that people, when they see it, they actually like it and they stick around. The next step is getting it in front of people. So for podcasting, I love using these big platforms. They have incredible reach to get your show in front of people. So TikTok and YouTube are once I talk about a lot. A big part of buzz brow ads is us launching this way for people to put promos into thousands of other shows and now you have the exposure and at a minimum you are learning is this even a compelling show is the problem that no one's found it or is the problem also that no one's found it and when they find it, they don't really love it. So we're dealing with two issues at once and my heart goes out to all the content creators who are learning, editing, you're learning, recording, you're learning production and storytelling, and then I hate being the person to pop in at the end and say, and also marketing too. Right. So we're trying to do our best to help their, but my hack goes off to all the independent creators that are actually solving this and figuring it out for themselves because it's not tough, but the benefit is when you hit it, you are in complete control of this versus where you are on YouTube and 5 inch down the line. They say, oh, don't like you no more. Yeah, and we've just decreased your CPM or we've changed the rules or Facebook says, you know, you need to boost your post to get in front of people because you're a business. And all of a sudden you're going, well, why did I put the stupid like us on Facebook stick around my front door, my business for ten years? If you were just going to steal this reach back once it became made sense for you. It goes back to my saying, you can't build your castle and rented land. I think that's a good Bible person. You know? And here's the thing is kind of funny too. I was rob will remember. And part of it was libsyn too. They were not happy with my saying back in the day. But I was ostracized. Oh, you don't need your own dot com. You don't need. You don't need that. What are you talking about? You don't need your own dot com. So for many years, a certain other rob on social had his anytime I talk about needing your own Doc. Oh, you don't need your own. You just need to have, you just need to be on a hosting platform and then you have an RSS feed. That's all you need, you know? And I just like, now, finally, probably the last four or 5 years. No one's saying that anymore. Rob's gone quiet on that one. He has. I'll join rob. Dot com. Okay, whatever. You're wrong. I do think the really the wonderful thing is if it's buzzsprout or it's captivate or transistor, whoever, if they say like, we don't like your content anymore. Yeah, okay. I don't care. I'll just jump over to blueberry real quick. Or a big move. But if you're on your own dot com, you don't even have to just change hosting providers and you're not even you're not affected. It's agnostic at that point. It's a commodity. And it's nice for customers to be able to make that decision right. So rather than for that to be dictated to you by YouTube because YouTube, they don't just take away your hosting. They're taking away your monetization streams and your community and your reach and all your subscribers. Here's the thing, it's the same with Google search. Google search is the same. You know, I had this, I had a certain page on my personal website that did very, very well for a number of years and made me a lot of money. And a logarithm changed, and that traffic went away, and that particular page did not make me as much money. Again, so it's not just so even though you have your own dot com, you still can be affected by the Google God. 800 pound gorilla that can come in and change the Lago and apply a rule on you that you didn't know existed, one of 8000. So it's not necessarily always the easiest as well to do your own thing. Exclusives. If we kind of want to round up the theme out of this show, we kind of close the loop here. I think so. Yeah, so anyway, I've got an appointment. Yeah, we got two. Yeah, we got two minutes. So rob, if you've got to go first, go ahead and give your info and then we'll close out and yeah, it can be found on Twitter at rob greenlee and then you can send me an email if you want to rob G at lips and dot com. Happy to hear from you. And keep podcasting. It's all I like to say. You can reach out to me at Alban Brooke on Twitter. I'd love to hear from anybody. From the new media show listener base. Thanks so much for having me on. And key podcasting as well. I'm Todd at blueberry dot com. News on Twitter and of course, if you haven't already followed the show, please do so at new media show dot com we'll be back with you for an extra episode on Monday and then the normal show next week. So if you've noticed in the feed, there is an extra show that dropped it was our discussion at NAB, which did get some likes and some comments on Twitter, so we do appreciate that. But everyone else, thanks for being here. We'll see you next time on the Indonesia. And I would thanks for coming on. It was great discussion. We'll have to have you back soon and we can continue talk it up. All right, everyone. Thanks for seeing. See you next time. Bye bye..
New Media Show
"alban" Discussed on New Media Show
"They're not, they're not number one or not number two. Really? Yeah. We had a period where Spotify was almost as big as Apple podcasts in our stats. We publish all these on our website for people to see. And since that point, about a year ago, Spotify has stayed steady and dropped a little bit to 25% of the podcasting ecosystem, at least as we measure it. Our customers. A 114,000 shows. So I feel like it's a decent cross section of podcasting. But Apple has really grown, so we see them at 40 about 41% right now. Apple for us and we're not talking about apple podcasts, but the apple ecosphere total over 50 Google podcast for us is runs 13, 15%. But also, I had a head start of 5 years on everybody on getting our shows to actually promote subscribing on Android and being able to be in Android apps. So that's why we've been big on getting podcasters on Android for years where no one was talking about it. So in our little subscribe on Android where those apps just support the one click just like Apple podcast does was gave all our podcasts. There's a big boost from an Android standpoint. So that's why we have such a higher number on Android on Google. In that Google podcast, by Android is a whole so either of you see this new app fathom FM for very familiar with it on being able to send Bitcoin to podcasters. Absolutely value for value. Have you played with the search functionality with it? Like you type in and it's finding clips and podcasts that are related to the answer to your question. I have not actually used the app. I've heard of it but haven't actually used it. There was another app too that was announced in pod news today called fountain. That is linked up with Bitcoin. Oh, maybe I mistaken. Maybe fountain was the Bitcoin one. The spath and do that too? No, fountain is, in my opinion, one of the two best podcast apps for value for value. And you can earn Bitcoin by listening right now on fountain. That's a wonderful app. Fathom FM is a new drama pods, like the podcast discovery app. So it was acquired by Spotify as many of these companies are. But fathom is similar. And what you do is you type in anything. And they will find all these shows that they have gone through and transcribed. Actually people talking about the subject that you have a question about. So I went in and typed, I think the first one was Michelle Obama going to run for president. And instantly I had four or 5 different conversations to listen to where they were like, it was on point. They were discussing the merits of how Michelle Obama do as president. Are they jumping to that segment? Yes. I'm not necessarily paying a bad. I thought it was wonderful for finding I searched all sorts of things. When was the QR code invented? And it found a segment in a podcast where people were talking about the invention of QR codes. It was a very cool experience. I don't know if this, if the use case is there, if enough people want this, but if there's something you want to learn about, you want to learn about Bitcoin or something, you want to go learn about QR codes or political parties, search it. So how are they affording to do all this transcription on all these shows then? I wonder how that's working. I would imagine there's some sort of VC funding behind this. I think they popped up on TechCrunch, which is a good indicator. There's some money behind it. Well, I think Google has been trying to work on this too, but if they've got that nailed, it's interesting. And I guess the question then is when you listen to a segment, is it easy to subscribe to the show? It was very easy to continue listening to the episodes. I didn't start playing with it as an actual podcast player, just to discovery. So I couldn't really answer that. But it felt like of recent memory, one of the most compelling podcast discovery interactions I've had, except for, I don't know if either of you played with the new Spotify where you can kind of listen to shows and just swipe through. That one I thought was pretty good as well. But I love seeing like, this is an example, you know, maybe if the positive side of the open ecosystem, somebody decided, what if this was the way that voice search worked instead of serving up a synthetic AI voice that answers your question, instead you're getting thousands of podcasters answering the question based on little snippets of their show and the team was able to go and start transcribing podcasts to serve up inside of this new app. It is interesting that they have done this, and I guess from a discovery standpoint, it's cool. And if they can gain market share, it's cool, but as I was talking to another app developer today and they were showing some cool things, they were doing, and I'm like, love to help you guys. But do you understand how hard it is to get to 1%? Because of the dominance of these other apps that are already out there. And if an app does this in the listeners love it, then they're going to start gaining market share and become something podcasters are going to talk about. But the problem is, most podcasters will never talk about this app because they'll never cross the radar. They say, hey, listen to Apple podcasts and listen on Spotify and that's where they tell them to go. Because it's easy. But if I guess if you're trying to discover stuff, this is more of a listener app that is a podcaster app, but yeah, it's much more of a listener app. Which all apps should be, but all listing apps should be. So there's always going to be the marketing problem for people who are entering the space. Full part of podcasting is, hey, there's a lot of content that's out there and it's easily digestible by your new app or your service or your new idea. Obviously there has to be two roles inside of a company to make money. You've got to have the something new and exciting, but also there needs to be ways for people to learn about what you built. So you've got to build out those marketing channels as well. But we've seen anchor came onto the scene and kind of ate our lunch for a while where they got millions of new people to come on and start podcasting for the first time by changing the paradigm where they said, hey, why don't you just podcast on your phone? Well, I would say that we didn't see a hit from anchor. Personally, because, you know, maybe a little bit, but I don't think anchor really ate our lunch. I think that a lot of people that wanted to try podcasting did and I decided that they came in and tried. And a certain number of people stayed over there and stock. But with 4 million dead shows of their own announcement because they said they had 4 million shows on their platform and we know that there are 400,000 or 500,000 shows of produced a new episode in the last 60 days. That means maybe they have a hundred and most of them are dead. I.
New Media Show
"alban" Discussed on New Media Show
"You get it turned off. You have to turn it on. Yeah, I think that would remove that option before they. They're Spotify loves all the awesome libsyn and blueberry podcasts that are out there that are in their platform. Right. If all of a sudden, every show on buzz and libsyn and captivate and blueberry everywhere got ripped out of Spotify, will then everybody goes, hey, half of the shows I listened to in this app were gone. I guess I need to go download Apple podcasts and Spotify then it's shot themselves in the foot. I think the product managers there much smarter than to make a mistake like that until, you know, to use your analogy, Todd, they've gotten everybody inside the castle before they close the door. Yeah. So I don't think the door closes any time in the near future. Well, they kind of already did that to all of us. Years ago in the early days of this. Getting podcasting launched on Spotify as Todd will attest was a painful process. Very painful. And they didn't listen to us. We told them what to do. All right, so we have lingering memories of and we have every, okay. So I don't think I'm disclosing anything. I'm not supposed to disclose every feed. The Spotify gets from blueberry. We were required to create a custom feed for them. Right. And it's not public. It's an actual exact duplicate of their regular feed, but in the only way we could get feeds to Spotify is if we created a custom feed for them, custom RSS feed. Now, understand a lot of my podcasts or save their own RSS feeds on their own dot coms. So the issue was for buzzsprout, it's no big deal because all those feeds originate from bus prop. They don't originate off in the Netherlands. My feeds were about 80% on somebody else's dot com 20% on blueberry. So those 80% of those speeds that are out in Netherlands for central dot com, there is a copy of my geek new centro feed in the blueberry platform that feeds Spotify. Because they would not take external external domains as the source feed that we fed them. So in essence, it's a major pain. It really is. We have to run that whole, we have to keep that list updated all the time. It's not a problem for if all your feeds originate on your dot com. But for us, they did not. And that's the only way we could get our customers into Spotify was to agree to that. What was the purpose of that, Todd? Why would they why do they have you creating because they did not want to be pulling from some dot com? They wanted to pull all of those from blueberry. They also won all words coming from content. And yet, and yet, we told them, the best thing you should do is create your own portal and let people submit your shows directly. And they'd say, no, no, no, no, no. We're not going to do that. And after a year, after we implemented this solution that we didn't want to implement, they opened up a portal where people could submit directly their own. So they basically did later what we told them they should have done in the first place. So and we were Spotify's technical support for a long time. It was ridiculous. And then then what did they do? They greased us up. And they ban us over. Right. Constant takedown notices too. And if you published or allowed content to be published into their platform, you got an angry phone call from somebody from Spotify. So that actually happened to me when I was working at spreaker with the Alex Jones podcast. And I'm sure you get the report just like we do every week of the episodes that they have removed for whatever reason. So my experience, those have always been legitimate and have been probably a good way for us to spot people who are trying to sneak by the safeguards we already have in buzzsprout. Ours a lot of people who are trying to rip music or something and trying to get it into Spotify via podcast. And I'm thrilled to see all those bogus accounts get deleted. But we haven't had that issue. It's been content based takedowns. I have had maybe one or two music in the entire time. We've been connected to them. Most of its content related specific titles, some of which were. I mean, maybe some of this is sensitive. So you wouldn't want to share it, but are you telling Alex Jones type content? No, not at all. No, no, no, no, no. Well, I mean, what that certainly could be. But I think what Todd's saying is that there's a lot of other content related issues that they raise flags about. I mean, I've been involved in quite a few music related takedowns. Through them over the years and also in the very early days of working with them, we had to create spreadsheets of shows to be added to their platform because they didn't have a way for us to push our SS feeds over to them. We've seen a specific genre of content that's been targeted. And right, and so we had to actually ask our podcasters to send their RSS feeds to us if you want to be in Spotify. And then we had to manually create spreadsheets, and then we would email them to Spotify to be added. It's down in down in the weeds and way long gone, but what's the genre of content that I'd rather not I'd rather not say to be honest with you? Yeah. I think the only thing we ever see is the music and high, high levels of people who it's almost always legit. And so I more than welcome it because they spot something like unreleased Ariana Grande song. Garbage. I don't think that Todd and I would disagree with you. No. That's been, you know, I mean, it's been pretty legitimate thing. In the early days, it was a lot of music. But then they turned into other stuff. Yeah. About the time COVID kicked off. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, but again, you know, you guys have a high percentage of people. Listen over there. We don't. It's very low on our end. At tops 8% of our entire look, what we look at is being consumed on Spotify. So for us, it's they're not a major player. They're still number three, but they are, but.
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"alban" Discussed on New Media Show
"Going to work. If I'm the podcaster and I've given blueberry my key to publish to a public show to Apple podcast and we push that episode via API and it updates instantly over there, and then yet Apple says the RSS feed is still going to be ground zero. It will be the, it will be the master of the information. Well, okay, but I've sent the source of the information over in an API push. So I'm going, huh? Okay, is the RSS feed? How is ground? Why does there need to be a ground truth in my head playing doubles advocate, I say, is what's the difference? And I've had that internal conversation a few times with team members here. So. I don't want to build an API for everybody. I don't want to. But if I have to, I'm going to serve content creators. Now, I'm RSS. Type of thing. But we'll see where this goes. But you know, if you look at the podcast two initiative, if I was Adam and crew over there, they need to get ahead of this. I think the RSS is going to be here in 20 years. And I would imagine that it's going to be one of these baseline technologies that does not go away. It will need to improve in a ball, which is why I love what Dave, Dave Jones, and Adam curry are doing with podcasting two and everybody who's involved in that. But what we've had with the web is a series of protocols that do not go away. Email, we have pop. We have imap. That's how we're still delivering email. The clients change and the services improve, but we're still going to use those protocols deep down below. And HTML and CSS and HTTP, those are all still the frameworks for the web. And RSS is still going to be the framework for podcasting. And the reason I think that that's the case, unless and I think the only way this doesn't happen is if Spotify truly can't product, take the entire industry and turn it into a platform, which I now think is unlikely. The reason that we'll continue to work is because there's all this great content that's out there now, millions of great shows. And they're all available in an open ecosystem. And so what we keep seeing all these different companies come sniffing around, they go, wow, this podcast stuff is pretty cool. Let's put it into Spotify. Let's put this into Facebook. Let's add a new button inside a Twitter now. Let's put it into YouTube. Let's put it into Amazon. And every single time that happens, what's they're actually doing is they're saying this content is what's important and we want to bootstrap our content library off of this open RSS. And so they're making it more and more likely that it continues to be smart to push to RSS and make it available everywhere rather than putting it in one individual wall silo. In the end though, Tom Webster made a comment on the show last week. Listeners don't give beep beep about RSS, okay? So in the end, they don't. They just want to consume content. They don't know. We don't care that they know. Only us here that are delivering shows via RSS care about this. But listeners, all they care about is click play and it plays wherever they may be. So we've been evolving away from our assess for many years now, actually. I mean, there was a time when I think Todd and I laughed about it this when we talked about is, you know, listeners are cutting and pasting. For all sorts of purposes, most of that's kind of dissipated. Right. I'm not sure that people are doing that as much. No, they're not they're not creating our playlist. Guess what? It's nerdy. It's geeky. Right. Tom Webster, but I also think nobody gives a shit about the underlying protocols of email either. Well, that's true. Yeah, yeah, it's true. It's true. It's really, I think what I'm raising is more. It's not the RSS and RSS linked with podcasting is I agree with the island. I don't think it's ever going to completely go away. But I do think that there's definitely an evolutionary path that I have felt over many years of us evolving into removing the prominence of RSS from being a fabric of podcasting. And that's not to say that there isn't always going to be a faction of podcasting that's going to be our assess base. My concern is, is that over time is there going to be kind of a replacement of that, right? Where it's almost like the coronavirus, right? So there's different variants. That grow and then the other ones decline. Over time, but so that's correct. So let's do a hypothetical. All right, here's a hypothetical and play devil's advocate. Google sends all of us an email tomorrow. And it says we are transitioning away from RSS. And the only way that podcasts can be updated in Google podcast and in Google is if you submit each episode via API to our platform. That's the only way we're going to take podcasts and we're not going to take RSS anymore. Are you going to say no? Yeah, I think that we would probably do that. Right. Okay, see, okay. I think you're proposing a hypothetical that I think is unlikely to happen. Because the only one who right now has a strong incentive to move off of RSS is Spotify. Right. I agree. We could control this and we will shape it away from RSS because that's the only way for it to be controlled. I'm waiting for that shoe to drop. I'm waiting for Spotify to send us an email saying we are no longer taking updates for shows via RSS. I predict that is coming. I think that will be quite a bit further out than when they turn off RSS feeds for anchor. Well, they did already. They turned them off and you have.
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"alban" Discussed on New Media Show
"You to go much deeper. But it's interesting is I don't have any mainstream TV anymore. I have no YouTube TV and nothing I don't have. I can't even get local news. And. What I watch YouTube on is mostly 20 to 30 minute content. I don't subscribe to channels that are three minutes. No interest to me. So I have probably, and maybe I'm maybe I'm the outlier. You know, I probably have a hundred channels that I subscribe to on YouTube. And not a single one of them have a podcast. So for me, I don't go to those channels. I don't want to hear the podcast. I want to see what they're doing. In their video and the video have no desire to listen, matter of fact, some of the YouTube channels that they don't even talk. It's like one guy up in Canada is building a building, basically a bug out place. And it's not like that, but that's where he lives. And he doesn't even talk during his YouTube. So there would be nothing to listen to, but I guess boring podcast. Some sailing shows and stuff like that. So maybe it really depends on the type of content you're listening to. And I do a tech show, so I have really no interest in going to listen to other tech shows because I already do. Two and a half hours of tech every week on my own. So I think it also depends on what you're listening to. But I don't know. It's still, to me, is when I think about the average podcaster, if you build a successful YouTube channel, you're making money, you're doing very well, but only half a percent of YouTube channels, maybe a little less .3 or .2, actually monetize on YouTube, and there's millions and millions of hours being uploaded every day, stuff that will probably never get seen, like this channel on YouTube, very rarely gets seen. We've been on this thing for many, many years. We've never qualified for monetization. But yet we have people watch the live stream. So I have no chance of monetizing through YouTube at all. Zero, whereas the podcast is essentially my text shows falling monetized. But it's a different perspective for me. So I guess maybe I'm having a hard time getting on board. Thinking that for most podcasters, YouTube is a viable medium to build an audience. I maybe for discovery, but I just show me an average podcaster that has huge number of YouTube views and I might change my mind. Someone that has this district taking their podcast audio and putting it up as YouTube without video, just taking the audio and putting up this video. I don't think that works. Now, if you're doing video production, I expect it to work. But if you're just taking audio and putting it up there because that's what everybody says you should do, show me one of those shows that have 10,000 plays. Exactly. Taking the audio only and sticking that on YouTube is a terrible YouTube. But that's what people are being told to do. Well, I would tell people not to do that. I actually said that to Kai chuck and Charlie and everybody at YouTube. Yeah, I think that that's a very bad experience and if YouTube decides at some point to launch a audio only experience or audio first experience, that's when podcasting gets very interesting on YouTube. But at least what I'm kind of hearing, I don't want us to come across as like Spotify's bad because it's a platform. YouTube's bad because it's a platform. I don't see average podcasters doing well on these other places. I really want to pose the question what is the positive view the positive future for podcasting that's open, but what can we do? We have three different hosting platforms. Actually, blueberry buzzsprout or both recently talked about new monetization options. I know rob with advertised cast has been doing this for a long time. What's the positive monetization? That future that we are telling that's better than the YouTube setup or the Spotify option. Well, you know, from our perspective, any podcaster that wants monetization is going to be able to get it. Now, they may not know. Well, broader distribution. Yeah. But I think, too, is there's some reality that has to be put in place as well. So while I say any content creator will be able to monetize, well, you may end up with pay your hosting bill money. You may end up with take someone to dinner money, you may earn, pay your car, payment money. But again, it all depends, again, one purely on show size. So we have to realize that while we are going to give folks the opportunity to be able to monetize, which they most have not been able to monetize for many, many years, will give them the opportunity to end those that want to will, and then we'll see how successful that is in regards to how many take the mantra and enable it. But I think that in the end, the majority of podcasters make sure all three of us hear this every single day, how do I grow my show, how to grow my show, how to make our own my show. We're purely focused on helping content creators, information to help them grow their show. So that they can be successful and they can make a lot of money and maybe have a great YouTube channel and all those things that we all want them to have. So I think the positive thing about podcasting is and what has been since the inception is it's open and I can listen to podcasts nearly anywhere that I want and the more importantly my listeners can listen where they choose to, whether it be Spotify, whether it be Amazon, Google, I Apple, wherever they want to listen. Or they want to listen to my website, they can listen there too. I don't care what they listen as long as they listen. Yeah, I always say there's three questions that we get from content creators. They want to know how to start. They want to know how to grow and they want to know how to monetize and the last few weeks I'm sure you've seen, we are trying to start tackling those second two questions for the first time at buzz brow. How are we going to help podcasters grow and monetize? So we've launched ads to help do that. I think when we talk about YouTube and Spotify, the thing they have that we all want are listeners. And they have these positive network effects by having all the listeners and having a lot of shows. And they have advertisers and all together. And podcasting because it is decentralized. That's really wonderful for lots of reasons. The downside is it actually makes recommend recommendations and discovery harder. And so that's one of the things we've been trying to tackle with bus spread ads is how can we use the power of the podcasting ecosystem to help grow itself. So that's a big part of why we are helping podcasters run promos inside of other shows. So that we can actually start getting some of these platform dynamics without actually buying in on something like a YouTube or a Spotify completely. But as a podcaster, I don't want to allow anyone to advertise on my show. I want to have the ability to approve who's going to advertise on my show. From that perspective. Now ads is.
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"alban" Discussed on New Media Show
"I think for those that do, there's huge opportunities for those that don't, I'm not, I don't know if I agree with that because you know for a big show maybe, but again, you know, are people just listening only to big shows? I don't think so. Well, I would differentiate between the podcast industry. We could talk about two ways. We talk about the number of shows and what number of shows are on YouTube and that percentage is very low. But what percentage of all the plays they're having in the pocket happening in the podcast industry? What percentage are those plays? Is there a video component? And I think that percentage is way larger. Some of the very biggest podcasts, especially interview shows, are doing video. Of course. I'm not teaching the YouTube or the buzz pro podcasters. Hey, you've got to be on YouTube because they're already figuring out content. And they're trying to figure out how to record into a microphone correctly. And they've gotten nothing to play right now. Setting up a video is a whole nother thing. Trying to figure out a market and monetize their shows. But for a, if you got a production team and you're trying to learn how to get distribution for your show, YouTube has been highly successful. And I think podcasts like Joe Rogan or pod save America, H three have shown this can be a really good way to grow a podcast and get a really large audience and then turn that audience from just a video only audience to they're also listening to my RSS feed where I have a much more direct connection to them. We found though that over the years it's been very, very, very tiny percentage of podcasts that have had either a successful YouTube channel and a successful podcast. It's been a very, very tiny, tiny percentage. And I don't represent a tiny percentage. I represent 97% of the podcasters that are independent podcasters that are growing their shows that don't have teams. They're a team of one, they're GM. They're the producer. They're the talent. They're the editor. Everyone's getting wrapped around the axle about all of these high end shows. To be honest with you, that's not people. I'm worried about. I'm worried about the individual content creators. That's in his closet, trying to create a great podcast. I don't doubt YouTube is good for some people. But I think it's very, very. Hard. For an average podcaster to break out. Maybe for discovery, maybe they'll get discovered over there. But think about the work they have to do to have a successful podcast on YouTube. I think it's, I think it's very, very challenging. And again, there's not a lot of YouTubers that have successfully made the transition to having successful podcasts. It's a very small small percentage. I would push back on that a little bit. And this may be selection bias because we do much more marketing on YouTube that we get a lot of podcasters that sign up with BuzzFeed that I end up going like, oh, I've seen that YouTube channel. Well, that's different. That's a marketing vehicle. We're talking about average podcasters that are creating content. They're getting started. We're not talking about a company that has a budget to create podcast and do production on YouTube. We're talking about it. We're talking about independent content creators that are trying to build audience. So again, if you have time and you have good production, I think you can be very successful on YouTube. But again, I don't think that fits the mold for 97% of podcasters are out there. And I think that there's another part of this too, is I've been, as you guys both know, I mean, I've been around the medium on time and both of you guys have as well. But I've become a pretty heavy YouTube consumer over the last year or so. That's where I get most of my content now and what I find is really interesting the more I think about it is that there are channels that I follow on a regular basis that I watch now the algorithm feeds my consumption habit to some degree. It's probably more significant than I'm willing to give credit to it. But I tend to want to watch those shows, even though they have an audio podcast because I'm sitting in front of that big screen television, I'm in a lean back consumption experience, right? Podcasting is a little bit more lean forward. You got to control your device and all this stuff where YouTube is a little bit more automated and a little easier, you know, to actually manage, just plays in my living room. I don't have to put on headphones and do all this stuff to prepare for listening to an audio show. So I'm just wondering, and I have had some people that I've worked with in the past that have really focused on video, you know, and produced quality, whether it be mainly short form video content that is compatible or comparable to their long form audio content. And I've built successful channels on that model where the content that's made in the video is a little shorter than the content that's put out as an audio podcast. And they kind of compliment each other to some degree, but I just think it's fascinating that I've contacted some YouTubers out there that are very successful at what they're doing in their primarily all spoken word. Most of them. And they have no interest in putting out their audio as a as an audio podcast because they find it as kind of a distraction from what they're doing. And I think it's fascinating. Album, do you find that to be the case too? So if you ever talk to a successful YouTuber that they don't even think about putting it out, their audio out is a video podcast because they're so focused on the video production. Yeah, that's what I was kind of alluding to earlier when I said that Todd that we see a lot of people who are successful on YouTube as YouTubers. I love this medium for one thing and that's these quick edit very intense videos. But I want to be able to have longer conversations where people are sticking around for 45 minutes, not three minutes. And then they look at podcasting. So we see a lot of people move that way. There's this problem with repurposing content. We see this everywhere. I think every conference I go to. Someone's trying to teach repurposing content. They're like, do it one time, and then put this on LinkedIn and put it everywhere. Put it on a TikTok. And now you've got 12 pieces of content. Well, you have 12 pieces of crap. Like they weren't made for any of those places. And so I really think there's a thing that works on YouTube and it's these types of videos. And they're heavily edited and they're really clean. Podcasts can be much more long form, intricate discussions, a little bit more nuance, TikTok. There's a formula there LinkedIn. There's a formula. And so I do tell people quite often. I like repurposing, but repurposing ends up needing to be something like I've thought through this and I've written a script. And now that script, I'm going to use that as the basis for my TikTok video and for my YouTube channel and for my podcast discussion. So I don't love the idea of just taking YouTube videos and ripping the audio for a podcast. Instead, I look at someone like Sean cannell and think media, they have a YouTube channel where they do in depth gear reviews and they teach video and then they have a podcast on buzzsprout where they're talking in depth about here's what was going into these videos and what went into these decisions. So if you're the super fan who really loves the channel, but maybe you want to listen during your commute, now there's a podcast.
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"alban" Discussed on New Media Show
"I mean, I'm not saying that he didn't make the right choice. Right. I'm just saying purely from a distribution and audience perspective. Did he make the right choice? I don't think it matters when they write a $200 million check. From our perspective. If the industry is moving towards exclusives, right? We're a podcaster decides, well, I'm going to be a Spotify podcaster, right? I'm not going to be a podcaster. I'm going to be a Spotify podcaster. That changes the whole dynamic of whether or not that show can scale based on a, on an open distribution strategy, I guess the question is, is being on Apple, being on Spotify, being on all of the smaller apps, going to get you better scale than being just on one. Here's a my prediction. With them having opened up the ability for a WordPress user to send a blog post to Spotify and as a podcast, and with them opening up and allowing anyone to create a show on Spotify, directly. I'm happy I'm not part of that monitoring team that's having to deal with spammers. Scam artists, all the stuff that comes from the vultures are going to go. Wow, you mean, oh man. Okay. Go ahead. Have fun. And we'll see how much junk. Now someone wants to really start a cool podcast, they need to go out there and start looking at someone that's going to be New Zealand right now, probably it's limited to New Zealand. Go there and look and find what kind of who's used a VPN to say they're in New Zealand to create a show that is going to be in some combined 49, 95. You can get rich quick series and I'm just a little, I don't know how they're going to do it with content moderation. It's going to be a big job. Well, I think they've been refining that content moderation for a few years now. So we know that's true. I don't know what's your thoughts on all that. I think that the thing I want to think about is what are we doing to pitch a more exciting future for podcasting as an open space than what's Spotify is doing Spotify has I mean, they've told us the game plan since the beginning. They say RSS is outdated. We're going to need to move beyond this. We have so many exciting features that could never be part of it. And as somebody who's creating video right now, YouTube is the place to go. No one's I know there's some people, and I know this show is on a video podcast at times, but video podcasting is nowhere near as big as YouTube, and they've made so much more attractive than video podcasting. And so I want to think about and maybe we could talk about what can we say about podcasting that's more exciting than Why is the walled garden not as nice as being truly open and free? And my answer to that is, I mean, look at how the largest shows on Spotify who went exclusive, like Joe Rogan, like a lot the ringer shows and all the there's just tons of shows that they've made exclusives that they got big by doing things like experimenting with YouTube and building their own world outside of podcasting where they were free to try things out. And when something worked, they kept the rewards of all their hard work. I look a lot of times at the platforms as a content creator, I think what's scary about the platforms is they dictate the entire terms of the relationship. Right. And so if I ever get this thing to work, if my dream for this podcast actually takes off, well, do I get to monetize this? Or do I end up like one of those people who has a million followers on a Facebook page? And it doesn't do anything for me. Nothing. Because I can't reach them unless I'm boosting my own posts. Did that this morning? $250 for 5 days. Yep. You should start a podcast on. Call it boost. So you're correct. And you look at the number. So this streaming right now, live on YouTube. And we've streamed this show for ten years on a variety of different we're not a, how should we say an edited, we don't follow the format of a successful YouTube channel where there's lots of transitions. And almost a storyline, quick cuts and back and forth. We're two guys and not today, three guys just on camera and why they watch online on YouTube. I don't know, but not many do. More listen to the video podcast than we'll ever tune into YouTube and it's kind of weird because we'll get several thousand views on the video portion of this podcast where the YouTube video might get 30. So it's not that we've never spent time promoting or building the YouTube channel because we're talking to podcasters. Number one. So we know where our audience consumes the content. So it's a little different. My tech show even is on YouTube. And it doesn't get hardly any views. But again, it's not my favorite. I would not watch me on YouTube. I wouldn't. Well, what's interesting is what was announced by a YouTube staff member just this week is upload your show up to up to YouTube directly and create a playlist for your podcast. Yeah. So, I mean, YouTube is clearly coming, right? For podcasting. Not that they haven't been involved for many years. I know I remember talking to the YouTube team when I was working for podcast one back in 2014. They had a couple of people on the YouTube team that were focused on aggregating podcast content into the platform. So it's not like this is something new for YouTube. It's just what we may be seeing is something a new expansion of what they are interested in doing with podcasting. But I think this concept of uploading audio directly to them and then creating a playlist is kind of a hack on their current infrastructure. It's not really trying to embrace podcasting, per se. It's because whatever they have planned to do isn't ready yet or something like that. So I'm not sure exactly what the total game plan is and what they're trying to do over there. But YouTube clearly, just like what you said album, YouTube has a significant play that's growing. And it's been growing for many years. So like Todd said we've been on YouTube for, I don't know how many years. So, but he's right, we don't get a lot of watches on this on YouTube, but we do get quite a few downloads of our video podcast. So we've been a little contrary in maybe we're a couple of dinosaurs in this. And not seeing what the future looks like. I don't know what your perspective on that are things changing where the video podcast is going to on the old definition. Is it going to grow or are we going to see YouTube come in and squash video podcasting finally or not? But Apple still supports video podcasting. So we're going to keep doing it. Yeah, my take on YouTube is YouTube is one of our largest marketing channels for buzz brow. We put up tons of video content. We've been doing that for three or four years. I love YouTube. It's a great way to learn almost anything you want to learn. There's done tons for creators. They've tried to make monetization as good as possible..
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"alban" Discussed on New Media Show
"Sticker package back. So it's the garden question podcast with Craig, McManus. So thanks for sending your sticker to the show and your self address stamp envelope for the return. So we'll make sure we get that back to here directly. But yeah, that's great. So I saw the news today, and actually it popped last night, someone in a select channel said, hey, look at what Spotify is doing now. So I thought it would be an interesting to lead the conversation off about the podcasting space. We were ready to go hot and heavy on it last week, but I guess this kind of adds the pile on Spotify is announced, select podcasters in the United States and a number of them, everyone in New Zealand can now publish a podcast directly on SoundCloud. They don't have to use that boat anger. So they just go and they just go on Spotify and post their podcasts. So I thought, um. The first vision that came into my mind was this big wall, like a moat, maybe moats the better thing. They dug them out. And they put their castle in the middle of the moat and they lowered the drawbridge and they welcomed a whole bunch of people on. They said, well, now it's time to raise the drawbridge and keep them all inside. So they think they're going to have a million new podcasters, podcasting directly on Spotify. But is it really then ever truly going to be a podcast anymore? I guess the devil's in the details, but I find it very, very curious. Well, I think we've been talking about this for a while, Todd, about the pursuit of exclusives, right, is really at the core of this. And I think this is a little bit of an example of, you know, a fear that I've had for a long time of the direction of the industry is that we're going to move towards each of these big listening platforms, wanting to get content, uploaded to them directly, right? Which isn't a huge surprise thinking about how many of the listening platforms have acquired hosting platforms, right? Like anchor with Spotify is a good example of that. I don't know, so what's your thought on this album? I know Todd and I have shared our thoughts exhaustively on this topic. So we would love to hear your thoughts on this trajectory that appears to be emerging around exclusives. So I mean, there's at least two conversations I'd want to have. One is the exclusive side, but the other is the attempt by Spotify to turn podcasting into a platform that they control. Right. Whenever you see people raising incredible amounts of money, it's because they think there's incredible amounts of money to be made. And the only way really that ends up making sense for Spotify is if Spotify becomes the de facto place where people go to listen to podcasts. And a lot of the biggest, right? Is that what you're saying? I would argue that the only way this makes sense is if they imagine they could become the platform for podcasting. So they want to be there's Vimeo out there and I'm sure there's other video hosting sites, but it's YouTube. And the goal I think of so many companies is they want to be the platform because what you do is once you have all the audience and you've got all the creators and you've got the advertisers and they all come to you and whether you're Google in the middle of search or you're YouTube in the middle of video or one of the social media giants, you get to skim off a healthy amount of profit for yourself and you get to dominate an industry. And I think at some point probably around 2016, Spotify looked around and said, you know, Apple has never really made a play for this podcasting thing. Maybe that fits really nice and our business model. And so we've seen it for now 6 years. Steady move towards, can we own this? And obviously, not just for business purpose, but also for my love of the podcasting genre, I really hope that it stays this free a little bit wild protocol that has been around since 2001. And we're all have this really wonderful diverse ecosystem because it isn't controlled by anybody and everybody has tons of options. So these types of things on the web have disappeared for a long time. Everybody wants to centralize. Podcasting is right now. It's one of the three, I think places where you can be on your own and we really should not give these up unless we have a very good reason and I don't think right now what Spotify is offering is a good enough reason to throw away this protocol that we have. So I'm curious what were the other two? I would argue the three things that you can control yourself are this is going to be no surprise to mister own your own domain. You're on website. Right. Email and podcasting. Oh, that's interesting. I think I would agree, but email, yeah, you can control it, but it still snooped on. Because most people, newsletters, right? Being able to capture people's email addresses outside of any proprietary platform. Right. Yeah. And I would agree that I keep saying podcasting is the last bastion of free speech. And an openness and no controls. And we've talked about this by Jillian times on this show, literally. And so it comes as no surprise to this audience. But I just wonder how many pungent creators oh, this is cool. I can create a show on Spotify and that's a place to be and they just have nary a clue. What they're locking themselves into, and then later on, they're going to go, oh. Oh, look at all these other places that I'm not at. Maybe they'll, I don't know. I doubt Spotify is going to give these folks an RSS feed. To be able to share on other networks, maybe they will. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't know. To me, it just kind of makes me go, oh, here we go. This has been well, the only way this works is if Spotify can capture a majority of the listeners out there, right? But that rob a lot of content creators, they don't do research now. They just jump. And do stuff. Right. I agree. I agree though, but if and this is kind of a much bigger discussion, but we've talked about on the show before, but you look at somebody like a Joe Rogan, was Joe Rogan better off from an audience perspective moving to Spotify or staying as an independent RSS base show. Could he have made more money, I guess, is what I'm saying and built a much more influential and sizable audience by staying as an open RSS based podcast versus doing an exclusive deal with one platform. Robin, someone comes to you with a $200 million check..
Not Another D&D Podcast
"alban" Discussed on Not Another D&D Podcast
"There are no threat to us. I'll watch her, I'll make sure the guard goes to protest, ma goblin holds her hand up, so you seem to know more about this than I do, but I will say. This were up to me. I would say girl stays here. She eats with us. We leave her with a guard. She stays here. But can we keep her here? And then but still send food back to her friends. Oh, there's an idea. You have a little more time with her, get to know her. You, Lizzie, get a couple nice night's rest in a comfy bag. I really should be getting back to my siblings. Okay. They'll be scared if people show up and I'm not there. I'm going to use word of the spirit to speak in the minds of Alban and Calder and Callie. I think I can only do it one at a time, but I'll kind of just like whisper a bit and say, something's up here, but I can't turn her away. We have to watch her, but we might need to follow her back too. I really obviously mouth back, I'm with you. I just say out loud totally. What? All right. Okay. We will vouch for the girl. All right. You've done a lot for us. I've saved you a couple times. You've saved me a couple times, but you have just gotten us a ship. So we owe you one. If you can vouch for this girl, then we trust you. All right. Can you do something for us though? We have a spell scroll that's going to summon the people that really cool formation team. The douchebags? Don't give them an even cooler name. Another D name. Jesus. Can you keep it safe? Make sure it's not summoned because we don't want it accidentally falling into the wrong hands and getting some other summoning scroll. Anyway for the douchebags? Yes. See she starts salivating. Oh, you could summon them ready to like the latrines. We could just pop them up and just absolutely absolutely light them up. I fucking absolutely.
WTOP
"alban" Discussed on WTOP
"Tennessee For me man I had to try to leave all you know pick up where I left off You know just like I said it comes out aggressive You know I want to try to get this we gotta turn this around We gotta turn our momentum around We gotta get our juices back We gotta work cut out but you know this is definitely a good momentum game to be able to build up a with the win the wizards will head into a new calendar year above 500 for the first time since 2018 later tonight at 7 30 the capitals with a chance to enter 2022 in first place in the metropolitan division if they can get a point against the red wings in Detroit I'm Brian Alban WTP sports Coming up after traffic and weather the vacation option that is being heavily discouraged right now It's 1117 Hi I'm Patrick Bengals owner and new lacombe design New look is changing the way homeowners get a new roof Why Because they always stinks You call a few roofers some call you back but most don't You get a few estimates and some will make sense but most won't Then you pick someone to do a great job cross your fingers and you just hope but guess what Nope And new look we're different First of all scheduling an estimate is easy We offer same day onsite or virtual appointments and we have TPT Total price transparency We give you line by line easy to understand pricing And it's all backed by a 13 point project management process So you know exactly what's happening It's out with the old way and in with the new look way Right now say 50% on all roofing materials and qualify for interest rate financing Call 802 7 9 5300 That's 802 7 9 5300 Nula Khan design dot com It's still roofing but it's easy You waited.
WTOP
"alban" Discussed on WTOP
"15 and 45 powered by Red River technology decisions aren't black and white Think red 9 15 over to Brian Alban And Nick the wizards are headed into the new year in style after a one ten 93 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers last night at gallery place Bradley Beal made his return from the health and safety protocols after a three game absence with a double double of 29 points and ten assists the wizards will start 22 at 18 and 17 overall and an 8th place in the Eastern Conference The capitals will try to end 2021 in similar fashion tonight when they visit the red wings in Detroit at 7 30 the caps come into the night tide for the metropolitan division lead The college football playoffs semifinals take center stage this New Year's Eve starting in Dallas at three 30 the defending champion and top ranked Alabama crimson tide take on undefeated Cincinnati then at 7 30 in Miami second ranked Michigan will make its playoff debut against the third ranked Georgia bulldogs On Sunday the Washington football team will try to keep its slim playoff hopes alive against Philadelphia and despite his recent struggles rob wood fork says on the D.C. sports huddle podcast that quarterback titler is D.C.'s breakout athlete of the year He's been a compelling story We all know by now going from his sister's couch to being an NFL starter So regardless of how he played in the most recent game he has been a very compelling story and certainly a guy that is a household name at least in the Washington D.C. area almost overnight Sunday's game is a.
The Running for Real Podcast
"alban" Discussed on The Running for Real Podcast
"What do you see? The middle in front, what do you see over there? Again, try and pick details. Small things. Especially if you have done this run many times before. You're trying to pick something new. And to the right. It's gonna look around to the right, but you can see. Okay. And that's reflect. Would you see that was different? Can I have unfortunately? Now we're coming to the busy part and get off the main road.
WTOP
"alban" Discussed on WTOP
"Schools in Maryland Terry Alban is on administrative leave as of today the change comes after the school district reaches settlement following a Justice Department investigation into the mistreatment of disabled students One week after the Department of Justice made public its findings and the resulting settlement into quote pervasive misuse of seclusion and restraint practices against students with disabilities doctor Terry Alban is on administrative leave Doctor Eric lures Phillips with Frederick county school says the decision comes after the board of education held a closed session Tuesday evening but he says the board did not expressly link the change to the superintendent status to the DoJ investigation Doctor Alban is served as superintendent for 11 years Doctor Mike Marko is stepping into the superintendent role on an acting basis It's unclear how long Alban will be on administrative leave her contract is scheduled to expire in 2023 Meghan clarity OP news Fort belvoir elementary school didn't have substitute teachers at the start of the school year but you know what happened A military spouse stepped up and helped recruit a bunch more Ashley solace moved to the area in March she runs a photography business but was so impressed with her kids elementary school she asked if there was anything she could help out with They begged her to become a substitute teacher My first day I was like wow am I super popular All the teachers came up and turns out they all wanted to sub She then posted to a military spouse Facebook group trying to recruit even more subs There's such a need for subs right now Teachers can't take off She was able to recruit 5 more Salah says her most impactful moment came when she was helping a special need student jump rope during gym class Just to see her feel like she was doing exactly what everybody else was doing And that was one of the best moments I've had with her in the school Luke Luger to beauty opinions Up ahead the latest developments in two high profile trials 5.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Andy Erwin on His New Film 'American Underdog'
"Andy, you've got another film out. This is particularly exciting. I don't know where to start, except to say welcome to the program. Eric, it's good to be with you, man. And I tried to get my delinquent brother to come along, but he doesn't listen to me anymore. I know. You know what? He's dead to all of us. Alban, just for ease on that list now, no more enough. Enough is enough. Look, you guys are famous for having done many, many films, but there's something about this new film that I found particularly exciting and usually what I would do is just sum it up and not give an opportunity to talk. But I'm trying to change. So tell my audience, what is this film? Really, this is so exciting. I'm just tempted to tell my audience about this film and when it first of all when it opens. Yeah, man, I can listen to you talk all day long Eric. So you can wax eloquent anytime. Thank you. But yeah, American underdog. The Kurt Warner story. And you know, my brother and I started out at sports camera and back in the day. And so I remember being on the sidelines of the Super Bowl in 2002 watching Kurt Warner on the field and there was just something so amazing about his story. You know, this guy that was, you know, went from being working in a supermarket trying to support his family out of football for 5 years. And then finally got his chance to play for the rams and made it all the way to the Super Bowl and ended up being the MVP of the NFL in the year. He was the lowest paid athlete in the NFL. And so it's just, I mean, it is the underdog story of all underdog stories, amazing story about family. And it opens on Christmas.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Lawyer Jenna Ellis on the Role and Responsibility of a Prosecutor
"Gentlemen, welcome back to the Eric metaxas show. I am Alton sadar, one of two producers of the show, and I'm sitting in for Eric today. And of course, my guest is the lovely Jenna Ellis and it looks like she's somewhere in Italy, I think I mentioned before. But then she straightened me out and told me this whole wonderful story about Disney World. So back to Jenna Ellis at Disney World. It's always great to have the background of the Disney Rivera. I mean, what a wonderful way to wake up and be here in Florida. I mean, my hair is definitely much more curly in Florida than it is anywhere else, but that's the only thing that you have to deal with. That's happened to me too, I curly her hair when I'm in full you feel me, yep, totally. So we were talking about the cow written house trial. And so we might as well continue on with that strain of thought. Yeah, so we're still at this point we mentioned we are recording this show. So as of now, the verdict has not been reached. But I also want to talk about just generally, the role in responsibility of a prosecutor because what I found really fascinating Alban about this case was how the prosecution clearly lost control of the trial. They were not expecting the witnesses that they called to testify actually in really in defense of Kyle's self defense affirmative defense here. And so I think that even though the prosecution sometimes, I don't know how much background they did, how much they prepared for this trial, but it seemed that they were frustrated with their own witnesses. Yeah, it seemed like they were surprised that they actually told the truth on the story. Right, which, you know, which is really unfortunate for a prosecutor because let's remember that in our adversarial system when it comes to criminal justice. This is not let's say me suing you Alban. And so, you know, I have an interest. You have an interest. And we both have private counsel in court. That's not what happens in the criminal justice courtroom. What happens is that the state is prosecuting Kyle rittenhouse. And so the state has to continue on with the interests of justice and do whatsoever justice requires. That's actually the higher calling and the ethical role in responsibility of a prosecutor. And so here, when the prosecutor is basically making a lot of these arguments trying to justify and make these alleged victims into angelic figures, the prosecutor to me went over the line between advocating just for justice going where the facts lead making the best case that he can to actually becoming defense counsel for the alleged victims. And that's where I think he watched
The Eric Metaxas Show
Jenna Ellis Shares One of Her Favorite Eric Stories
"Jenna Ellis welcome to the Eric metaxas show and thanks for being my guest today. So great to join you Alban. And you know it's so much fun about this is that Eric isn't here, so we can talk about him. And I think that, you know, that would be just an entirely fun hour to just talk about everything Eric. And I am actually in the Italian Riviera, but the Disney World version of that. And I have to tell you one of my favorite stories about Eric really quick because oh yeah, totally. Ish. Yeah, so we were at a conference in Orlando last year and maybe it was earlier this year. I don't even remember. You know, the time this year is flown by so fast. But we were at a conference speaking together in Orlando. We were meeting some of our good friends from Liberty University, shout out to Brian health and vine. Malachi and some of the guys. And so I'm going out to meet them. And of course we're going to Disney springs to get food because that's like one of the best places in Orlando. So Eric is texting me like, hey, what are you guys doing? We want to get food and I was like, yeah, come downstairs, maybe just in the lobby. He had no idea where we were going. So he comes down to the lobby thinking we're just all like hanging out at the hotel. And I'm like, get in the Uber and he's like, where are we going? So I'm trying to describe to him the amazing magical experience that is Disney springs in this Uber on the way. And he tells this story now where he's like, we went on this death march. It was like 5 miles into the wilderness of this mall. And he just goes on and he's a much better storyteller than me. But the bottom line is I took Eric metaxas to Disney springs. We had a very happy magical time. Did not get a picture with Mickey ears, but that's my goal for next time. And that was one of my favorite stories from America because he talks about hiking through Disney springs with me having no idea where he's going. We had a
The Eric Metaxas Show
It's Launch Day for Eric's New Book 'Is Atheism Dead?'
"Thank you. Alvin is a producer on this program. And he has a comedy career in his own right. He interviews people, and I thought Alban, yeah, I can't interview myself about my book. No. But you had suggested maybe you wanted to interview me about the book and since I get to decide, you know, the programming. I thought I could say yes. I could say yes to that. Really? And you could interview me about the book, but I got to be honest with you. It makes me very nervous to be on this side of the table. I should be. So to speak. Yeah, because you're on the same side. You're always on. Of course. But well, I guess we have to announce today is the official launch day for the book. Yeah. Now we're going to re air this, but today is the first time. So this is great. This is the first day of the rest of the life of this book. That's true. Think about that. Wow. Just do the math on that one. Yeah. Now the crazy 1497 price I did find out, you thought I was lying or blowing smoke, which is a kind of lying. I did find out that that is not going to last forever. I think it's going to go away in a week. If you go to Eric metaxas dot com and you click on those links, you get a scroll down, but there's a few links where the book is 1497. That's 45% off. Yes. That I was told yesterday is, in fact, as I feared, a limited offer. Oh. So if you want the book, you've pretty much got a few days to get it at that price. And I keep saying, you know, why not why not get a hundred copies for
Rush Limbaugh
Georgia to conduct full by-hand count of presidential race ballots, secretary of state says
"Process started. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Rapids. Berger says he wants a recount of presidential ballots in his State to begin before the end of the week, and it will involve a hand count of every single vote with President Donald Trump and President elect Joe Biden, separated by just over 14,000 votes out of a total of five million cast Rapids, Berger says, recounting a random sample of ballots just wouldn't work if we pulled out 10,000 votes. Alban suddenly could say, Well, this is the person that one we pull out, 100,000 says. This person want to pull out a million this person wants, and that's why mathematically you actually have to do a full hand by hand recount of all the recount must be completed by Georgia statewide certification deadline on November 20 in Atlanta. Jonathan Serrie Fox News. Well, We don't have a
WTMJ Nights
No charges against Wisconsin officer who fatally shot teen
"Charges will be filed against WalMart tells the police officer Joseph MENSA for the fatal shooting of Alvin Cole outside Mayfair Mall last February. Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisum says men says use of deadly force was necessary and that he would not be able to disprove self defense calls Family attorney Kimberly Motley, speaking afterwards that they will continue to fight for a conviction, saying that the shooting was justified. And that's really important because normally for these things if he believes that he will say that Motley also points out an independent investigation into Mensah's three past officer involved shootings should be enough to get him fired. MENSA currently on suspension, protesters were able to get onto the interstate system around the market interchange this evening following word of the MENSA decision W. T. M. J's Alex Crow, frustration and anger, those two emotions shown most by protesters. After finding out that what we toast the police officer Joseph Menzah would not face charges for the shooting death of Alban Cole. Those protesters immediately started marching towards the interstates in a clash with police occurring on the on ramp police arresting several protesters before they got onto the on ramp. Even more protesters on the interstate law enforcement officers on scene, including Milwaukee County Sheriff's Deputies end Milwaukee police officers
Phil Valentine
California - Auburn Mayor to step down after comparing Trump supporters to KKK
"The mayor of Auburn California resigns after insinuating that trump supporters are KKK members it was a live stream meeting of the Auburn California city council mayor William Kirby announced his resignation due to the backlash she prompted when he posted a tweet insinuating that many supporters of Donald Trump or also KKK members the since deleted post mirroring trump's supporters featured a picture of a hooded Klansman Albans mayor announced plans to step down and he she shared the photo with the caption good news for trump supporters is that most of them already have
Women In The Loop
New York: Assisted Living Facility Worker Accused Of Striking 92-Year-Old Woman
"A queens woman employed as a healthcare worker allegedly punched an elderly woman in the face at a Long Island assisted living facility Paul the Castro reports it happened early Monday morning in east Garden City detective say forty eight year old Andrea Richard struck the ninety two year old victim with her hand causing the victim substantial pain and a black guy Richards was arrested at our home in St Albans on Tuesday night she is facing several charges including assault and endangering an incompetent person police think it is possible there may be other
FT World Weekly
The fraying transatlantic alliance
"Hello and welcome to this edition of weld weekly from the financial times. I am answer venture Johnny the world news editor and this week, we're looking at transatlantic relations as the Trump administration appears to turn its back on its traditional European allies in a sign of Washington's shifting allegiances, the US president on Monday, welcomed Hungary's, illiberal leader, Victoria, Alban to the White House days, after his secretary of state abruptly cancelled a meeting with Germany's Angela Merkel joining me on the line from Washington DC is Dmitri, Sevastopol, oh, the F, Washington bureau chief and from Belene guy. Chaz on our between VERA chief my first question goes to you Dimitri. Donald Trump was fool of praises for Victoria ban on Monday. He congratulated him for his quote block up against refugees from Syria, and he's work to protect the Christian communities. Can you give us a bit of details and explain why this visit is so important and telling we'll, I think one of the things that we've learned about Donald Trump over the last two years. This is one of the things that many Europeans have concerns about is, he seems to want to solve up to leaders who are far -tarian strongmen, you know, very hard line. You know, there's a long list, whether it's early on in Turkey or on in Hungary Kim Jong on North Korea, who Donald Trump said he fell in love with or Vladimir Putin in Russia Trump when he meets these leaders at least publicly doesn't criticize them for some of the things that they're doing their own countries to threaten democracy on the other hand, he seems willing to criticize Anglo Myrtle, or Theresa May or president McConnell, France. So there's a kind of cost me come seems to like something to these strong, tough solitary leaders. And yet, he at the same time he seems to be dismissing some of the concern. Means pushing away, European allies of America who have helped maintain the kind of peace across the trans Atlantic now for seventy years. As you said, the relationship has fuss deteriorated since Donald Trump kimchi office. The US needs key. European is have diverge on a number of issues. Can you list them for us? I mean, it's really wide from climate change trade, Iran. Well, I mean, from the very beginning, it's a long list, one of the things that President Trump today early in his presence. He was he withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords which sent ripples across Europe and the rest of the world later on in his tenure, he withdrew America from the around nuclear deal that America and some of its European allies had signed with Tehran in twenty fifteen on that has led to convert more bellicose stomps on Iran. He also has been incredibly critical of NATO now in criticizing NATO. He's not the first president, President Obama and President Bush frequently said that NATO allies needed to pay more for their defense. I remember travelling to your puts on rump sell the Robert Gates and they were constantly sending this message of Europeans. But Donald Trump has done it in a much more aggressive way. And I think one of the most heading examples was last summer in Brussels out of NATO summit, he was very critical. Angela Merkel both in public meetings and in private meetings and he's shocked many of the leaders who were in the -tendance. So I mean, there are other issues there as well to do with hallway and five G telecom networks and other things. But I think there's some of the main ones that have really created a false lines in the transit onto relationship guy intending to, you know, defense. Secretary of state. Mike Pompeo cancelled a meeting with medical less tweak invoking rising tensions in the Middle East. What was the reaction in betting? I think those zoo Hora that it was seen very much as a snub, it was supposed to be his first trip to Berlin, since he became secretary of state, and it was very hotly awaited. And he just didn't turn up. And I think there was shock that he then went on to Britain. And even so they all Tricia Canterbury. So, you know, even just in Welby was more important to him as a priority. Angela Merkel those real dismay, lots of Coventry in the German press, basically saying that the US German relationship is now, basically in TATA's on, what are we going to do about this, this feeling of crisis really in a relationship, which has been one of the main pillars of Germany's post-war identity really for seventy years now. Why do you think that Mr. Trump targeted Gemini, in particular among its European on is what's your assessment of that? Well, they're personal reasons as well as political reasons. The chemistry between Angela Merkel and Donald Trump has never really worked. You know, she really comes across as associate professor, and he's like the naughty boy who didn't do his homework, he doesn't like being lectured, and Michael does have a tendency to lecture, one of the first thing she did when he was elected president. She sent him a message saying will look forward to working with you, but very much on the basis of our shed values of respect for human rights, and democracy, and so on that was perceived. As a real slight to Donald Trump. Basically a smackdown saying you're going to have to behave need didn't take Hymie to that. But there are other aspects. It's not just the chemistry America is very antagonist very exercise by Germany's failure to meet its commitment, which gave in two thousand fourteen to spend two percent of its GDP on defense. It's nowhere near that target and in fact recently published its budget estimates for the coming years, and it looks like it's actually going to go down as a percentage of GDP is spending on the military. So that was seen as a real red rag to Donald Trump's bull. And he's also, I mean, there's a very famous interview he did with playboy magazine from the ninety s where he complained about how many German cars that were on Fifth Avenue in New York, and he's had Macedo and BMW in his science for many, many years. So it didn't surprise the Germans a tool that he started talking about imposing. Import tariffs on European cars, and he's been complaining for longtime about the size of the German, current account surplus, which, of course, a lot of Germany's allies in Europe of also join attention to over the years. What do you think all the far reaching consequences for Germany? What are the Germans, what kind of lesson? They're drink from this facility longer term. Do you think there's a realization that Germany, and Europe must be more independent from a defense point of view, or, you know, foreign policy point of view? What is your sense? Absolutely. I was at a conference, whether we're talking about this and one speaker said Germany's success is built on three elements integration with the EU the transatlantic security guarantee on Germany's access to open Mockus worldwide and Trump threatens all of those three things. So there's a sense, here that there's, it's kind of existential threat posed by Trump's America first ideology tool. All those things that have made Germany, such a huge success over the last few decades. So that definitely is a feeling that they have to respond in some way. I mean it's very tentative at the moment, though, I mean, for example, that talking about developing much more of a kind of foreign policy. Competence in the EU and more of a sort of independent defense posture, and, you know, maybe getting rid of unanimity, and you decisions on foreign policy, so that they can have more qualified majority voting not come thing, but it's all relative tentative. And even when they do talk about building up their defense capabilities that gets them in hot water with the Americans. We wrote the story saying, how America was criticizing the latest initiatives for military cooperation between EU countries, the Pescara the permanent structured cooperation initiative, and EDF the European defence fund because they feel that it's not really compatible with NATO that it produces. Much duplication and diversion of scarce defense resources and it sets up a necessary competition between NATO in the EU. And so the sense of frustration in Europe over this is light. You tell us we need to do more far defense, and then we try and do it you complain. So the relationship has Radi scrunchy at the moment as we can see on the number of different fronts. Exactly. So they have this quantity move from the US. Do you want to jump in Dmitri? It's true that every time Europe speaks about more independence on the security from the US gets angry and gets a letter warning. But on the other hand, you know, you get a sense that the US is kind of retreating from Europe. What's your interpretation? Well stuffing element of Donald Trump getting a little bit of taste of his own medicine, sometimes when the European say that they want to their own defense capabilities. But I think it's also important to stress that this issue between the US and Europe on defense spending it really isn't just Donald Trump issue. And he is the one who is addressing it in a much more assertive, much more aggressive on some people would say overly aggressive way. But it's something that has stretched back now for more than a decade in the US the US than constantly saying to the European countries, particularly Germany because it is the biggest economy in Europe that they need to spend more. So I think it's an issue that's not going to go away, even if Donald Trump loses the election in twenty twenty I think a democratic president will be much friendlier to traditional US allies and I was just in New Hampshire on the campaign trail with Cory Booker and Beethoven, Joe Biden on all of them were talking about the need to rebuild on to strengthen American alliances with Europe. But notwithstanding that I still think. Whoever's president after twenty twenty is still going to put pressure on Europe to spend more money on defense, and if Germany and some of the other countries who haven't miss this two percent target haven't reached it, then I think you're still going to have tensions on that issue just to go back to one thing that guy said, I really do think the car issue is critical. I mean Donald Trump has how the being his bonnet about cars for a long time at the end of this week. He's going to potentially decide whether to put tariffs on imports of European cars. So this really is something that's a trade relationship is something that really gets him. And also when he was in Europe last year. Another thing that he criticized glimmer pool for is the Nord Stream two pipeline that will bring Russian gas into Europe and Donald Trump and some of his team are saying you want us to spend money to defend you against Russia, and yet, you're buying Russian gas on the other hand, the European say, hold on a second. You're the president who has criticized by the Putin, for orchestrating a campaign to interfere in the American elections. So there's a lot of things crossing the Atlantic and. It's very hard to see how any of this gets any better while Donald Trump is in office tensions, are escalating in the Middle East over Iran, with rising threat of war, and some echoes of cheese than three when the US in some European countries disagreed, on whether to war with Iraq. Dictates us Adam Hussain to meet you what all the broader security ramifications of this poor transatlantic relations. Are we entering a new testing phase? Well, the big question that's emerged in the last few days in Washington is are we returning to the early years of the Bush administration where it appears that there was a constant drum beat among Iran hawks for the US to take military action against Iran. Now, we know that on both in the national security advisor has asked the Pentagon to dust off its war plan for Iran. Not the caveat there is at the Pentagon has funds for everything, and there periodically dusting them off. But when a story comes out that they're dusting them off, Iran at a time when Mike Pompeo secretary of state. John Bolton and others are being very aggressive in the rhetoric towards around it raises questions as to whether the US is contemplating taking most reaction, and I think, not something that would be a huge divide across the transatlantic. I mean as much tension as two walls, when George W Bush invaded Iraq. You remember relations then between George W Bush Gertrude or Germany were extra very odd because since the war in Germany. But I think we would see something that will be exponentially worse. If the US did take any kind of military action in Iran. So people are watching very closely right now to see whether this is just on both in on the hawks making bellicose noises. Just too scary round or whether there's actually something fundamentally happening behind the scenes. My thanks to Dmitri and guy that was really fascinating. And that's it for this week till next week goodbye.
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"Today's episode is brought to you by listerine ready tabs small discrete tabs, the transform from a solid to a liquid just to switch and swallow no sink required to get that just brushed clean feeling, and they pack a huge punch up to four hours of fresh breath, and the confidence that goes with it on the go wherever life takes you to a surprise meeting a date you want to freshen up for or just from one event to another try listen ready tabs today. Find them near the mouthwash. Welcome to brain stuff from how stuff works. Hey, brain Steph, Lauren vocal bomb here. Have you ever heard of a group of ferrets called a business of ferrets or a collection of jellyfish referred to as a smack of jellyfish? What about shrewdness of apes? We use collective nouns also known as nouns of assemblage to describe all sorts of groups hosts of angels bands of men and shocks of corn. Are commonly heard these days, but the nouns associated with particular groupings of animals can get weird fast because words in their uses are invented by people when we see a bunch of specific construction, you can bet on it being the result of a language fad and sure enough five hundred years ago, nouns of semblage were all the rage. We spoke via Email with Magdalen Jacobs a PHD candidate in the Vanderbilt University department of hearing and speech sciences. She said these are generally terms that came about from upper class hunting culture in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. They're called terms of Venneri, and they're linked to north. And culture and influence into the idea of proper hunting language over one hundred and sixty terms of Venneri are listed in book of Saint Albans, a wildly popular at the time manners guide published in fourteen eighty six the coached the medieval gentlemen through having conversations about hunting falconry fishing sports in heraldry without embarrassing himself at dinner parties. These collective nouns are found in a chapter entitled the companies of beasts and fowls though, some of the terms referred to people rather than animals a bit of a joke. The book Saint Alban's not only described a sleuth of bears and a skulk of FOX's, but also linked women to geese in the collective consciousness by labeling collections of both Gakhal's. According to Jacobs, this is partially because there is a direct linguistic link from the word gaggle to the middle English word for cackle, a collection of wives was labeled and impatience a group of writers on the other hand was called a worship if language tells us how to think about the world we conceive fifteenth. Century European gentleman's social priorities, though. Of course because you can't keep the kids for making up slaying. Once the construction was introduced in the book of Saint Albans, people started coining their own nouns of semblage. Although a lot of these terms slipped into obscurity in the sixteenth century like much of the lingo, we generate on a continual basis. Some of them were adopted into common speech these days. We don't often have occasion to talk about a sneer of butlers or misbelief of portrait painters, but whoever came up with a staff of employee's a congregation of churchgoers or a panel of judges should congratulate themselves on a job well done linguistically. Speaking. A much of the time that correct term for a group of anything. Let us know our collective views on the disposition of whatever we're naming some of the most evocative terms of veteran can be found in birds the book of Saint Albans lists and unkindness of ravens and a murder of crows, definitely creepy negatives. But a charm finches adorable, whoever I referred to a college of cardinals was probably suggesting they thought the group of little red birds looked like a meeting of academics. But why a group of storks is called a mustering is a little less clear. See us Lewis coined the term parliament of als in children's book series, the chronicles of narnia a nod to chaucer's poem, a parliament of fowls. The term is now recognized in dictionaries is being the correct term for a group of AL's. There are meanwhile, few nouns of assemblage for insects mentioned in the book of Saint Albans, we still refer to a swarm of bees which was recorded in the book, but we don't talk as much about a business of flies or a flock of lice. If you've ever heard of a kindle of kittens that comes in the middle English word kindling, which meant to give birth or produce a litter which was originally used only for puppies. But is now commonly used for all kinds baby animals, a group of adult cats might be a glaring or a pounce, but crowd of feral cats is a distraction anyone concerned about the decline of migrating songbirds can understand why that might be. Dogs, which were as much a man's best friend in the middle ages. As today got a lot of play in the book of Saint Albans, hunting hounds alone got several group titles. A cry a mute a pack and a kennel. Some of the most inventive terms of entry are plied to wild animals Jacobs said because they began as hunting terms, the original names from the book of Saint Albans reflected a specific societal disposition towards the animal being hunted. A pride of lions is a good example others that came later such as a wisdom of wombats may be inaccurate. As wombats are rather solitary and don't spend time in groups, others likely referred to qualities of the animals themselves, a business affairs came from a business affair, it's which makes more sense than business. If you've spent any time at all watching ferrets. These days folks continue to make up new nouns of assemblage and bring back old ones. Thus we can talk about April of hedgehogs an obstinacy of buffalo a bloat of hippos and a game of Wales regardless of whether we're planning on hunting them or not. 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