Hey everybody. Welcome to Poduty and the News for Saturday, October 18th.
I've got Phil Better joining us again, The Podcast
Mogul. We're talking south by Southwest, Canada's
economy, heads will roll and we're going to the
library. From Waikiki waves to
French best lights, book lovers gather round for
literary nights. From Main street dreams to
Canada's cubes, we're diving deep into the
week's podC talking. The
chamber's taking a chance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Defected
at the big romance. Now grab your seats.
It's time to choose what turn and feel better
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the only live news podcast about
podcasting from the stage.
The only live news podcast about
podcasting from the stage. Welcome back
two weeks in a row. Phil Better, The Podcast Mogul.
Hello, hello and welcome to Podutyand the News with Phil Better
and Jeff. Jeff, how are you doing? Pretty good,
pretty good. I like that voice. It kind of remind me of. Do you remember
the scene in Spaceballs when the ship was gonna self
destruct and they're like batten down the hatches, close the three ring
circus. Close the three ring circus.
Batten down the hatches. We're going to explode.
Have a nice day. Little known fact, Poduty and
the News is known as the three ring circus of podcasting news.
We've got Poduty and the Crew. Feel better joining us again today.
I did mention last week it was your first time on the show, but what
an error on my part. You were here for the first
episode. We actually did it live during international
or it was a global podcast meetup. You were here on the stage for
episode number one. So this is technically your third
episode. I think I'm in the top three most
appearance on the podcast as of right now. You are the
leader with two and Norm
with one. We've been calling this Poduty and the Crew because
people got tired of just hearing me read news stories. So adding
other perspectives and different points of view has been a
really a blessing. Like having other perspectives, having friends
in the podcast and community that can carry my weight through a 40 minute
show. I truly appreciate it. And having Phil back again
is always a good time. And this Poduty and the Crew,
we've been having its coffee with Poduty and the Crew.
I'm having a dark roast, Guatemalan roast from the harvest moon
right down the street. And Phil might be having some hot chocolate. Yeah, I'm having
Hot chocolate. You know me too well, Jeff, out of my Montreal Canadiens
bug. Hello.
Throw in the French accent. I have some
stuff up in my throat today. It is
not funny. So I apologize if I found. If
I'm always, you know, coughing. Well, fair enough. Because if you listen
to last week's episode, I barely had a voice. You could. I was
struggling to get through the whole episode. I'm like this. I'm like, hey, you got.
Hey, Phil Betters here. Yes, we had Mob
Tony on the show the last week, which was great.
Feel better. The podcast mogul. If people wanted to connect with you, reach out for
you, tell us a little bit about what you do. What I do. So
I have. I do two things. I help my day
job when I'm Bruce, my Bruce Wayne days. I am
helping businesses brands pretty much grow their podcasts
at a very beautiful boutique agency that I'm a part of. I'm
their audience growth specialist. And at night, when I'm Batman and
I come out to help independent podcasters like yourself,
I help you grow and monetize your podcast by showing you
the method methods large companies are doing, similar
to how we had our morning discussion around Introcast.
I have access to all those and more and how to leverage your
podcast so that you can make some money and grow it so you can build
that community that you're always looking for so you can tell your mom that
you actually did it. Hey, Mom, I got ads in my
feed intro. There we go. I'm making the money, ma. Yeah,
check out intracast. We had a nice dialogue back and forth.
It is an interesting concept where they can insert ads into your feed.
Podcast to podcast. So this isn't. You're not going to get better help.
You're not going to get Manscape. You're going to
get another podcast ad. So it's podcast
to podcast, which I'm. If it was just brand brands like
BetterHelp can get access to it, I wouldn't be around it. But it's
podcast. So for me, it's like we're keeping it podcasty podcast.
It works beautifully. Until BetterHelp creates their own podcast.
They already have one. Well, then they can advertise on my show.
Check it out on the live feed. Phil and I, we battle it out over
introcast. It is very interesting technology. Also,
I say, a very slippery slope.
Potato, potato, potato, potato. Phil, are you ready to get into
this week's stories? I am definitely ready to get into the
news. Awesome. We're going to let you know,
heads will roll. And so did the Indy era. Tonight we're
rewinding back to 2009 when disco met
Distortion and Indy went mainstream. A live
podcast recording in Dublin revisited the yeah yeah yeah's
electrifying album. It's Blitz, the record that traded
guitars for synths and garage grit for glitter.
Host Andrea Cleary's listening party was recorded live
before a sold out crowd of 40 at the big
Romance where fans danced, debated and agreed that this
was more than an album. It was a cultural turning point
with hits like Heads will roll and zero. The yeah Yeah
2000s indie era in a glorious strobe
lit fashion. And you know, I was talking about Phil,
talking with Phil about this story. Just to clarify this, we're not going back
to 2009. When I reread this, I'm like, oh wow, this is a 14 year
old podcast. That's when the album was released. But this was a recent
event. This is a music podcast where they went, they have a
listening party. So this is a looks like Nailer9 is
a, like a music like magazine or online publication
and they have, they're having meetups with their fans who listen to their
or read their magazine, read their online publication
and they're dissecting albums. They're going back in time.
You know, you would typically read a review from a writer, you
know, like, oh yeah, put on this album. I liked it. This track,
solid. But now you're experiencing these articles in real life with
real people and just having a good time. It's a different
way to bring your audience together for a podcast. I think it's
fabulous. Again, it's creating
the community that you want. That's what we are looking for. That's what all
podcasters are looking for. We're looking for the community and bring them inside. Even if
it's 40 people. That's 40 people that is that decided to leave
their house to come to your, the venue you're at to
listen to you talk about the album because they love the album or they love
your podcast. I think this is fabulous. I want to
see like last week we were on, we were talking, there was a lot of
talk about live episodes and live meetups with
podcasters. This is something I would love to see more
podcasters do. You just need to ask your audience if
they're interested in it. You can create a form on your in your
show notes. Make the call to action in your episode
to hey, let us know if you're interested. There's a form
to see if you guys want to Do a live meetup in a city. And
like Jeff, you, you've seen the power of it with your podcast
meetups every month. Yeah. And some people, one of the
feedback I get is my theater holds 40 people. And this is an,
this is a, an event that had 40 people attend.
And if, if you're small or independent in
2025, what you don't realize is how hard it is to
get 40 people out of the house in 2025. It
is one of the most difficult things, the value proposition
to get people to even consider attending a smaller
independent event. It's a hurdle. Most people look at 40 and
they scoff like, oh, I wouldn't do a show for 40 people. I
guarantee you, if you were to have a show, you're not selling 40 tickets
on your first couple at bats. It takes some time to establish
that community. But 40 is, is such a
respectable number for a live podcast. I know national touring
podcasts that go around and sometimes they get 40, 50
tickets. Shows like Doug Loves Movies. Sometimes those 40, 50
tickets, they've done episodes with 10, 12 people in the show.
So go ahead, sorry. And that's a national
established podcast, has been around for probably 15 years.
And that's hard for them to sell 40 tickets. So, you
know, keep that in mind when you hear the sizes of some of these events.
These are, these are the starting points. This is the grassroots foundation
that we're laying down here to build bigger and better events.
Yeah, it's. If you look, one of the. I was at recently
at Empowered Podcasting a few weeks ago, and one of the
talks was market like a band market like a band market like a punk band,
actually. And he was. And it was this former musician who went
into podcasting and he markets the podcast
like an independent band. Would
you. You. You set up your merch, you do unconventional
things. Posters, you know little. He said that he put
business cards for his podcast, like
flyers on, on car windows. Like,
I don't know how. Like that was old school. Like I used to remember when
I was parking downtown, coming to my, my, my car, depending on
what section of the city I was in. And I would have leaflets
on my, my windshield held down by the windshield wipers for
bands playing live events. Like, you can do this if you are
interested. Go old school. 40 people in a, in
a 500 or 500 person place
listening to you talk about your podcast. That's. No one else is doing it.
Yes, it may be only 40 people. That's 40 people who chose
to come out and Listen to you get that.
That's 40 people leaving the comfort of their home
when they can listen to you either on their phone or on the,
on the radio or on the Internet coming to see you.
I would, I like when I was at your meetup
last time, it was a small, small group. I was thankful for like one
person showing up. I thought no one was going to show up. And we had
like at least 5, 5 to 10 people in the audience,
which I was like, this is the first time I'm talking to a live audience
on podcasting. This is amazing. So I
40 people. I would be doing backflips if I had a live podcast recording and
I have 40 people. Backflips, backflips. 40
people. You know, it's better than 40 people. 550.
50 people. At the Bright Minds, Bright
Pages and a live podcast. We're going to the Sarasota
Book Festival as it celebrates its fifth year and it's bringing
the written word to life. Literally. Over 50
authors, 30 sessions and hundreds of book lovers are
gathering for readings, panels and one very special
edition, a live podcasting recording by
Discover Saratoga and Bright Sided Media.
The session will be free for all attendees, offering behind the scenes
conversations about storytelling, the power of creative communities.
With its blend of live panels, literary night markets, and
now podcasting in front of a live audience. Saratoga's
proving that books may start on the page, but the stories
keep growing long after the end.
I love the AI jokes. Yes,
the jokes are great. I love this Again
with the rise of AI videos and stuff, people are having a hard time
and will be continually have a hard time telling what's real and what's not. The
only way you can do it is in live events and I think libraries should
be doing more of this, having live podcast recordings,
talking about books because it brings out the community and it's
a great way to, you know, you can ask for donations
for charities at the book fest, right?
You have so many opportunities and people love books and they love
talking about books just like people love talking about podcasts where you're literally talking
about podcasts on a podcast. So like the inception point is
real. I, I, I think we're going to see a lot more of these
popping up because they're showing off how podcast powerful and how
amazing they are at creating connections. I think
I want to see more of these, more book festivals, more music festivals,
having a, a podcast adjacent or even a YouTube
adjacent aspect to it because
you now can have your news if you want the news
showing up by putting it on YouTube, by putting it on podcast, you can get
the radio. You know, leveraging today's technology
to create the past in a new and
better way. Yeah. And some people don't know this, but the library's
business model depends on people coming through the front door. So if you have
an opportunity, an event, here's an event. Connecting authors, which is
a great fit for libraries. But libraries also have media centers.
They also have what a lot of people don't know. They're all interconnected,
and they have digital media. So, like, let's say you don't want to pay
for subscribing services anymore. Your Netflix, because you're
sick and tired of paying all this money to rent movies. Libraries have a whole
network of digital media. So if you want to go there,
get your, you know, get your movie releases, you can get
all that stuff for free. And while you're there, you might want to stick around
and see a show. Libraries have these media rooms. They. They want to
get people in there. The more people that get in there, the more that it
gets usage, the more that they can raise in donations and grant money.
It's important to support your library and. And shows like
this bring people in the door. That's the number one goal of a library,
is we need customers. Not even. It's not customers because
you're not paying for anything. A library. I'm already paying. With your
tat. With your tax dollars, you're paying for libraries.
So if you're not using it, you're wasting your tax money. Yeah.
You already pay for the ticket to get into the library. You already pay
for the right to remove a book, read it, and return it,
or even rent. Some of them even allow you to rent equipment.
So if you're, you're. You need a better camera, a
microphone. They may have the equipment for you, and you can use it at
either their space or be able to take it out and return
it. This. The library is the most powerful
thing. And I love, love
that they're doing more. I think anybody who's
a librarian should be looking into podcasting to create
a podcast for the library where they interview
authors, readers. It would be
frigging insane. Get your library card,
thank your librarian, do some events at your
local library. It'll make your community better and
stronger. Strong as south by Southwest
live from Sydney. We're going
broadcast or bus. This one comes to us from radio Info
at South by Southwest Sydney. Things got a little spicy during
a live podcast taping of Mumbrella cast when
outspoken marketer and Skin Grafica CEO Matt
Baxter declared that traditional media agencies are facing
an extinction level event. Speaking with Tim
Burroughs and the team, Baxter argued that TV missed its chance to unite
against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon and now
it's too late. He warned that AI could cause similar disruption
in advertising and journalism, but said human creativity
and local connections still matter most. The crowd
leaned in as Baxter called radio the last true local
hero of media. It was a fiery,
thought provoking conversation. Exactly what south by
Southwest does best.
I'm in agreement with. I believe it Matt
on this. Yeah. Matt Baker. Matt Baker. Matt.
I'm, I'm in full agreement with Matt.
We. As much as I use AI
and I, yes, I realize that there is some ethical
dealings with AI, it just,
it does allow my job I to do a bit easier. The
transcription, the cleaning up, the audio, it's, it's amazing and for the price
point. Right. But I do see the,
the downside with AI voices and the. We, I
think we talked about it last week or you had mentioned it on
one of your episodes about the podcast agency that's just putting out the AI
slope. And for me that's
the fear because right now AI is at the worst it's ever going to be
specifically the audio for voice. For us as podcasters, we're Voice
Video. We see Sora putting out videos that you can
never, you can barely tell if it's legitimate or not.
With AI, yes, you can use AI voices, but if it's all
AI, you start to lose the human connection. And it's going to get better
as they train the models to learn how to speak with intonation and
inflections and all that and make it sound more like a human.
If we as a podcast community or as a radio community, because
radio has more power than podcasting at this point because it's a legacy media.
If they don't come together and put restrictions on what I
can do, we're going to, we
can be crushed with, with just
exactly like.
Sorry. Just like the, the streaming giants
crushed television. Because businesses
are going to look for what's cheap and paying a computer
to spit out a, a podcast
that's 30 minutes long and it only cost them $2 versus having to hire a
whole team to handle that, which was going to cost them $200,000.
Let's say businesses are going to look for the cheap way and it's going to
be with technology. So radio and us independent podcasters
really need to put our foot down. If not, we're going to
be treated like the dinosaurs and kicked out and AI
is going to take away everything. But that's why I'm saying get in person.
In person, you have that ability to know that it's actually
John or, or Jeff and Phil speaking. It's not
this AI slot that's going out because it's in person. I know, I saw them.
They're not a robot. Yes.
The barrier to entry for creating AI content
is low and it's getting lower every day. And
like Phil, I use AI to help me with research. I go through
a thousand articles a week just trying
to find the six best ones. And I get summaries and
as things I would use as a staff, like a support staff.
And I really, I'm getting more bullish on. I need to
disclose that better because the show is all the words I
speak the words Phil speak. It's. It is us and we are
using AI in assistance. But I have a, I have a little different
perspective now. The. The more that I see
how, how low the barrier is to AI and I start
thinking about what are other things that computers have done for us
that became so easy that we just tune it out.
And I started thinking about email and mailing. We used
to, 20 years ago, I would carry a book of stamps in my
pocket because I may have to mail a letter at any time. I
haven't bought a book of stamps in 10 years. Probably
if I do, I go into the post office and I buy one stamp. Yeah.
Because computers have created email. And at first email was a
nice easy way to get back and forth with
people one on one. And then marketers got involved and we got email
campaigns. And now you look at my email box, I have a
hundred thousand unread emails in my Gmail account. The
amount of unsubscribe I do each week is insane.
So that's a service that became
so low for the barrier to entry that as humans we just like, meh,
I'm gonna tune it out. I had another example, but
I think we're going to see the same type of pattern happen.
And AI is not only people I think are going to tune out the
majority of this, but I think AI might be the thing that does in social
media. Because if you watch a video now and you
get to the end and you're not sure if it's AI or not, what's your
initial reaction when you find out that that was AI? You're kind of
angry, right? You get like fudge that,
you know, you're not excited that that was an AI video.
And as they become better you're going to lose that trust in
that feed and that algorithm that's just pushing this mindless content
at you. And I think if people can
break the addiction of their cell phone and social media that they're going to
pull away because they're not going to know what they trust.
We're already kind of seeing it with Gen Alpha
a distancing on, on, on social media
and a distrust because they're not sure what's real in that. So you're
seeing that. I think it just
like how Facebook kind of went into the boomer mode with more
boomers using it with and less. And less younger people using it because
of the restrict the less
restrictions on certain news and certain content being pushed. The they're
seeing how, and we're seeing the studies now and how dangerous social media
is. Like it's programmed to keep you on it.
Right. It's not supposed to show you happy go lucky things. It's supposed to
show you the stuff that will keep you flipping through doom scrolling and that's why
it's called doom scrolling because you're all. You're scrolling through nothing but doom. So
that's why I kind of, I, I mess with my algorithm. I always look for.
There's a, a specific person.
I look for his. He's called Beard Daddy. Not Beard Daddy Beard
Bearded Cards. He's a Pokemon
dude who sells cards and he has all these wonderful things with kids and I
just like every single one. So it, it cleans up my algorithm every once in
a while if I'm doom strolling too much on
some of the crazy stuff. But yeah, I'm, I'm seeing that if we
don't regulate AI it's people are going to get off of social
media. Look, Facebook and Google are trying to get you off
your phone by using Google glasses with worry
bands and it has everything inside your phone. And I saw a Tic Tac.
Well someone tried it and they were like
disconnected from the world completely and making
you even more individual individualized. So I'm thinking
looking at that that's their goals. Yeah, I'm
going to build a community where you can connect with people so that you can
stay connected to the rest of the world so that you know what's going on.
But yeah, AI probably not for the
betterment of humanity. Yeah, there's a great. Casey
Neistat came out with a video maybe two weeks ago now about
Sora and one of the questions he proposes
is whenever this barrier gets so low,
you know, let's say he wanted to see John Wick on the moon.
And you just go to Netflix, you type John Wick on the
moon and you get a story delivered to you, a two
hour movie delivered to you that's created in that time.
I think, I don't think that's impossible
five years, six years from now. But what's the value
of that? Like if you could just, if you can just pull up anything you
want. Movies become chocolate bars or they
become just like junk food. Like we have in America. We
have all these things that are just disposable.
And I think that's what entertainment becomes. When you're just
asking for what you want to see and you get it there. Is there any
value in that? And that's why I think
theaters, actual theater, like actor, like
stage production, you're going to see a resurgent in that. If,
if we come to a place where
major streaming companies, I can literally go, I have this idea
for a movie. I want John Wick on the moon. I want these actors this,
that, and then some, and some points like I can give it an actual
idea and it can create the movie for me. Two hours and it's
nearly realistic looking. Right?
Cool. Because sometimes, you know, they're like, there are some actors
that are problematic or have been canceled or held accountable
for their despicable actions. And you want to watch a movie, but you don't want
to support that actor. Right. Because they may get residuals or whatever.
So you're like, hey, redo this movie, remove
this actor, but replace them with this actor. You know,
that's a possibility. Yeah, that's going to be cool. But if I want
actual entertainment to see people, I can see theater being much
having a great rise. Especially if they're
lowering the prices. The ticket prices are reasonable.
Obviously it won't be able to compete with streaming because streaming is going to be
like 20 bucks a month, whereas theater tickets are probably going to be 20 bucks
a seat. But I feel that theater and in
person, because we want that human connection, we don't want that soulless AI
And I don't think I will ever get to a point where it won't be
soulless. So I would love to see a resurgence in
live theater because of the AI and Sora
type video. The things coming out replace actors. I want to see Back
to the Future with Eric Stoltz, not Michael J. Fox.
Let's go to our next story, Main Street
Goes Big with Tim Tebow and a live podcast Downtown
Columbia, Missouri is about to turn into entrepreneur
Palooza as the Main street summit returns
November 4 through 6. And this year it's putting small
business right in the spotlight. The three day event features over
120 speakers including NFL legend and
motivated powerhouse Tim Tebow, who will share insights on
leadership and purpose. But the big news for us podcast fans,
the hit show Founders Podcast will record a live
episode on stage featuring Ramp CEO Eric
Lyman and host David Senra. With
venues scattered throughout, coffee shops, theaters and co working
spaces, it's a small town summit with big league vibes.
And add in NASCAR star Carl Edwards
and a showcase of Missouri made food and talent and you've got a
celebration where Main street truly takes the
center stage. I love this. This is great.
This is something. Jeff, you are kind of somewhat putting it on with
your, your winter Winterpalooza
showcasing all the small little businesses in Trenton. This is a
great blueprint for any
small, small town business.
Commerce center. I don't know what you guys call it. I'm throwing out a lot
of buzzwords right now. But the, the Commerce center, the city Commerce
center or whatever the council, whatever it's called,
where all the small businesses in the town get, can commit, meet and
discuss and whatever, this is something that they should be looking at doing
because one like you're going into mini, you're going into
coffee shops, you know, theaters, restaurants,
books, whatever you want and you're putting on these little
summits inside. You're drawing people into a local
business. There's an opportunity for them to purchase stuff to be a part
like increase the value of the, the restaurant or the
coffee shop. And you're also you know,
having like Tim Tebow. I'm pretty sure Tim Tebow and Carl
Edwards won't be in the coffee shops but more likely in the theaters
that they're putting on or the co working spaces. But this is a great opportunity
again to highlight how important small businesses
are to the community. And by integrating
both a summit and promoting small businesses inside,
putting them together, it's I only see win, win, win.
Yeah, this one checks all the boxes on everything. You've heard me talk about, you
know, DIY supporting small business. They could have went to a
hotel and booked out five ballrooms and had an event
there and showcased everybody. But they said we're going
to spread this out on Main street, on the side
streets through coffee shops and theaters and, and
I don't know, maybe a pastry shop for me. I mean I'll go I'll put
my show in the donut shop. And these events now
are going to be in the community immersed in local business and
they're talking about local business and they're supporting local business
all around. A great structure and just a great way
to put something together in a small town. And probably the cost
to run this, like you mentioned, they could have done it at a hotel or
center and they would have been paying like 10, 20,
30, $40,000 just to rent it. That money now can go
into advertising because they're not, they're probably paying a fraction of a price
at the theater, at the coffee shop. They're probably paying nothing at
a coffee shop. Right. Because the coffee's like, this is great,
great deal for us, you know, like we're getting people inside. It's amazing.
So for me, I'm looking at it as, oh, this is. They're probably saving
a ton of money that they can then put into
marketing to make it even bigger or even getting bigger names like Tim Tebow
and Carl Edwards to come up because you know they're paying, there is a paid,
they have speaking fees. So for me, I'm like,
they now have the ability, instead of using the money on renting a place, they
can use it for getting bigger names in IT marketing. This is
genius blueprinting for any small per small
town to look at making a huge thing. Yeah.
Imagine you're the person putting this on in your small town and you just
became your small town superhero. Everybody will
know your name. Everybody will be so thankful for what you're doing. You
will not be able to go grocery shopping or do anything
without someone waving at you or thanking you for what you did for the community.
This is one of the best ways to give back to your
local town, to your small businesses is by just putting an event on that
showcases them. You'll be a hometown hero. Yeah,
I love it. Love it. Well, hey, we're going to go to your
hometown here. We're going to Mississauga. Not too, I don't think, too far from
you. It's a few hours, but it's in Canadian terms. It's next door,
I guess, where I go to get my ricker's red. Yep,
Canada's economy goes live podcast style.
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is the source on this one. And they just wrapped
up their 2025 AGM and convention in
Mississauga. A two day power summit packed with policy
debates, keynote speeches and you guessed it, a live
podcast recording hosted by Marwa Abdou
from the Business Data Lab and Canada's Economy Explained.
Podcast brought data to life on stage, diving
into how collaboration and innovation can shape
Canada's future. With special guest Carla Kongson of
Agentive, the conversation explored how big
ideas happen when business, tech and government collide.
It wasn't just numbers and charts. It was insight, storytelling and
energy in motion. This live taping was a highlight
of. A highlight of a convention that proved the
future of Canada's economy. Sounds pretty good in
podcast form. As a Canadian, I'm
happy to see that they're actually bringing it into a government
event. I think this is great.
Again, it's showing the power of podcasting because they're having a live podcast, they brought
podcasts, they're realizing that podcasting is in the future and they're not
going against it. This, I, I
have only great words for this. Like, this is again another proof of
concept that if a big bit, not only big business, government,
a major government is looking in using podcasting.
It's only showing you that and cementing that that podcasting
is here to stay. It's not going anywhere.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I'm probably going to check out the live episode
to see what it sounds like, how they did it and how well it went.
Again, yay Canada for doing it. I want to see it
because it is growing. We are do. I think we doubled
podcast listeners or at least listening percentage
and knowledge of podcasting over the last year. So we're still in those
growth. We're going to be stabling off soon because you can't
sustain that type of growth long term. But yeah, I'm, I'm all
for it. Yeah. You have a captive audience who's concerned about the future
of Canada. You're having a podcast about the future of Canada. You couldn't
blend two better audiences and content together
than having a live show. And imagine you're an
attendee. You know, these attendees at these conferences are starting to
get excited when they see it. You know, 3pm we're going to have a live
podcast called, you know, Canada's Economy Explained. And it's.
That's probably some of the thought leaders in that area. It's people
that people look up to who are attending that event and they're going to hear
how they think and speak in real time and how they're
addressing some of the future problems that Canada may face
or some of the growth ideas. Yeah,
I love it. Nice. Well, let's do one
more story. The podcast the Rama takes over Fringe
Fest. This Comes to us from food about town. It was
podcast pandemonium at the 2025 Rochester
Fringe Festival where Paulie
Amo Guglielmo Guglielamo,
you did it better than me. The Paulie Guglielma show hosted a podcast,
a Rama live in front of a buzzing audience. The hour long
mashup brought together the luchador podcast network's best
voices including Matt Austin and Chris Lindstrom,
Emily Hennessy lynch from It's a Lot and Mike
Huntone from Punches and Popcorn. The crew dove into
hilarious rankings debates and behind the scenes stories that had the crowd
laughing from start to finish. From martial art
movies madness to foodie fun, this live recording
showed exactly why Rochester podcast scene is thriving.
Full of creativity, community and a whole lot of personality.
Now these are the, the types of events I go crazy for.
It's, you know, there's the reason I, there's no
rules when you get into an event like this. There's a live event
happening. You bring it in a food podcast or they're talking
chaos and it's just, you can have one of the best nights of your
life when these couple things come together like this.
I love it. You're, you're bringing food, which, let's be honest, who doesn't
love food? You're bringing community together,
people having fun together and you're bringing podcasting together all together.
Listen again. It's proving that live events are important
for podcasters. We're moving towards that. More and more people are going to be part
of that live. Everybody wants to be part of a live audience. You see it
with Kimball, you see it with all the late night talk shows and even
shows that allow a live audience. You know, back when we were growing up,
MTV had those like IRL and, and stuff like
that with a live audience. Live audiences are where it's at. So the
more you do things like this, proving podcasting is so
important to these events, the more you're going to see. So if you're a
podcaster that has a niche that you think will work with an
upcoming event, Community, community event or
a food about town or something like that that your, your city puts on,
reach out and see if there's a possibility that you can collaborate with them. I
know Just for Laughs, a huge thing in Montreal every year
they do have, because Netflix has their
comedic shows that they put on. They do film
some live episodes with podcasters in the
audience or with. And live podcasts as well during the Just for Laughs.
So it's coming. You just need to reach out and do the legwork.
No one's going to come ask you to be bring your podcast on to
their show. You need to go out and reach out and talk to them. And
I think this is another example where you can do it. Yeah. And
if you haven't done it, get those reps in. It's okay to say, hey,
I love what you're doing. I want to be a part of it somehow. Maybe
you're a volunteer this year, but next year you get your show on, or
maybe there's events in between that you can work together with those hosts
of those events. There is opportunity for your podcast
to be a part of the community, to be a part of local events, especially
events in your niche. But you got to take the first step. You got to
do the legwork. You got to start getting that in motion. And
you'll just, you will see the benefits of going live. When you're
podcasting, it's. It's a whole different game. And
it's 10 times more rewarding. Oh, yeah, it's a hundred
times more rewarding going live because you get to actually connect and talk
with your audience. You have the ability to, you
know, they're able to say, hey, I love this episode. And
you actually can get feedback from live humans afterwards. You
know, like, hey, what do you like about the show? What do you, what would
you like to see improved? How can I make the show better for you? You
have. Your audience is right there. But also you're providing
value to the event because you're bringing people in. Because
you already have an audience to
intermingle with this event, you're potentially finding new audience members as
well. I do shows for high fives. Let's go to piduti.com p
o d u t y. We've got t shirts, $10.
Get your pdutty shirts, four colors, five sizes. While
they're available. We have some upcoming shows. We got the
Pittsburgh podcast meetup November 1st. We are now live streaming the
Q and A portion. So how does this work? If you're in Pittsburgh, go to
Padooti.com get your in theater ticket totally free.
I'm buying sandwiches, sodas. We got snacks. We're going to
hang out from 6 to 7, network with other podcasters in the
Pittsburgh area. We're going to exchange business cards, contact
information, and then at 7 o', clock, we're going to go through your most
pressing podcast questions. So if you have just
something that's been challenging you, you have, you just can't get over
this one hurdle. You'll get my perspective. But you also get other
audience members perspectives of how to handle that problem. So you
can watch that with the virtual ticket@paduti.com
it's totally free as well. From 7 to 8 we live stream the Q and
A portion. You can watch it from anywhere. You can even ask your questions. We'd
love to hear how you're doing in your neck of the woods.
I remember they're great. The one I was at was fun,
very intimate, a lot of fun. Make sure you show up because you go.
I learned stuff as well. So I was giving a talk and I
learned stuff. So you guys can learn so much if you come and I highly
suggest you guys do go to it. Agreed. I learn
something every week and if I don't. If we don't get your answer, we will
find it by the time for the next event.
We have Tamara coming in in a couple weeks now. It's coming
up close. Almost her goal. This is her first time ever. Her goal
was 10 tickets. She has hit her goal already. She
is first time ever on stage. She's wrapping up season one, getting into
season two. November 8th, 6pm it's going to be a lot of
fun. Nailed it. The Motherhood Podcast. It's a live event. It's
going to be a good time. And Phil alluded to this
earlier, the Tarentum Holiday Spectacular. We're doing something similar here for
tarantum businesses. We got some signups coming in already. If
you're in the Tarentum area and a small business and want to be on stage
for 10 minutes, we're going to live stream your business exclusively.
We'll talk about what you do, what you sell, where you're at. We'll play video,
photos, whatever you want to do which you're 10 minutes on stage. There's no cost
to Tarentum businesses. We're also looking for sponsors and volunteers.
Head over to the website to get those to
sign up. There's a sign up form on there. And the humorous podcast. Still teasing
this one. This is a 2026 show that we booked coming up
in the end of March. I believe. I always promised I'd put the date
on there and I wouldn't be
remiss. Is that the right word? Without.
Without reintroducing our co host. Two weeks in a row. Phil
Better. Now the most attended Poduty and the News.
Co host Phil I'll let you send it off.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening to Poduty and the News. With Jeff
Rivella and Phil Better. I hope you've enjoyed this
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No, so. So I have Darth Vader. Yeah. So
this one, this is Luke Skywalker that I got in
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to this. Then we have Darth Vader showing the Lego of
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My office is very, very business oriented, as you can tell.
Yeah, that's right. All business. Let's go back to that theme.
So.
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Returning Phil Better on the loose.
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