{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Paul Truesdell Podcast","title":"Episode 574 - Back in the Day","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":589,"description":"Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF  0:08  \nWell, good morning, good afternoon, or good evening. It is Monday, September the 14th, and it is 2026. So today, I thought I would start reactivating the Paul Truesdell podcast and start doing things a little bit different, kind of telling you what we're doing and why we're doing it, because I think it's important for me to talk to you in a way that we're having a real conversation and talking about things that may you may not know how things have developed over the years, and it's been you know really quite amazing the way things have have occurred. I mean, I did a lot of of conversations called workshops, and we did these workshops at the in Ocala, in in in Zephyr Hills, Dade City, Tampa, San Antonio, and as time has developed, I I've always used technology pretty efficiently and effectively. We used to hand out cassette tapes. Always I handed out cassette tapes, and then I handed out VHS tapes, then CDs. We never did DVDs. I never really quite caught on. And eventually, we would we would provide people online access, and that has been hard. If you go back into what was going on in the 1970s and into the 80s, when you had reel-to-reel tape, like like I have right over here, that was something that was really quite amazing. Cassettes, wow, fantastic! I mean, remember driving my Datsun b2 10 into into college, and I'm going down the road, and I can pretty well just curate my own information. We would take tape recorders into some of our big lecture halls, and I could listen. It was just-it's totally nothing the way it is today. You know, life evolves. There's no doubt about it. But what I want to do is talk to you a little bit about my personal business background when it comes to the fact I've been doing audio and video for a long, long time, many, many years, and don't really need these things. And I have an undergraduate degree in communications. In communications, whether it's audio and video or or reading, you know,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/115-XsjkdwCpJ99xv-8oZ76t6jr8ScWEC5MYSKzL0ig/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MTUx/OWRiNTc0NTk0Y2Nk/M2VjYTliMGVhN2Zm/YTZkZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}