Hey there sports fans, happy to see you. Hope you are doing well, or as well as you can anyway. I wanted to pop in and share some news and a new project with you all. I…uh…started a podcast. Or rather, I have recorded the first episode of a podcast.

I know what you may be thinking, and before you say anything I’m going to pull an Eminem in 8 Mile and do it for you. The world needs another random guy talking into a microphone like it needs- Well, literally anything else. But I hope I can create some interesting content along the way.

I’m in the process of lining up a few guests, and I hope to have episodes out as regularly as I can. Of course, I picked a hell of a time to start a podcast about the people that I photograph when it’s not safe to be around other people, but that’s just something that we’ll get through together.

I may have to do some wiggling with how and when episodes are released since it may be a while until I can responsibly photograph anyone properly.

So go ahead and give it a listen below and stay tuned for more interesting content coming soon.

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I’ve only done one recording session and I’ve already learned a lot about this whole process. Compared to some of my other podcasting experiences, its a lot harder to talk about yourself to yourself than it is to talk with another person.

I spent a few hours just trying to stumble through my outline without screaming into the void and how self-serving I sounded. I have a lot more respect for the hosts of the various shows I subscribe to each week. I hope that as I stretch these muscles it all gets easier.

So here is where I’m going to talk all of the behind the scenes nerdy parts for a quick second, just for record-keeping purposes.

The main portion of this episode was recorded using a Røde NT-USB Mini microphone (that took almost 6 weeks to get here…thanks COVID) directly wired into my iPad Pro running Garage Band. In the future, I hope to use a program like Discord and the Craig Bot to do the recording and then just assemble in GB. Not that there was anything wrong with doing it the way I did, in fact after a brief learning curve I found it pretty easy to edit out stray mouth sounds and extra “Um” and “Uh” sounds.

Right now I’m using Anchor.fm as my host. I probably could leverage some of the built-in audio tools from Squarespace, but for now, Anchor isn’t terrible. The app took an update a few days ago and is running a bit clunky, and their website didn’t want to believe that this website existed, but these are things that can be worked around and updated.

It’s probably too soon to think about monetization, but would ya’ll hate me if I did that? I’m not opposed to being a corporate shill for a product if its one that I believe in. And certainly, a few extra dollars here and there wouldn’t hurt the overall goals of what I am doing.

Let me know what you all think, give me your suggestions, tips, and tricks. And most important of all-

LET ME TAKE YOUR PICTURE