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I got a YouTube comment asking if I’d ever bring back my old podcast about podcasting, Show Me Your Mic. It ran from 2013 to 2020 for about 130 episodes (mostly interviews) and eventually slowed down due to scheduling fatigue, work, and COVID. The show was an open invite for podcasters to talk about their gear, motivations, and whatever was happening in podcasting, and it also let me meet people I otherwise wouldn’t.

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00:00 Dailyish Intro Setup
00:19 Show Me Your Mic Origins
00:51 Why The Show Ended
02:02 Memorable Guests Highlights
04:00 Could It Return
05:09 Interviewing Today Saturdays
05:44 Where To Listen

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Chris
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What is Daily(ish)?

Challenging myself to record a podcast episode a day for my 50th year on this planet.

Chris: Hello, welcome to Dailyish
for Thursday, October 22nd, 2026.

My name is Chris, and I'm recording
an episode every day for this,

my 50th year on the planet.

I'm also using a new webcam this episode.

Not new, old, but different webcam

I wanted to respond to a comment on
YouTube I got from @bballrecordpod

that said, "Hey Chris, random comment.

Show Me Your Mic is still my
favorite podcast about podcasting.

Have you entertained the
idea of bringing it back?"

So back in another lifetime, I had a
show called Show Me Your Mic that was

basically a podcast where I interviewed
other podcasters about their podcast.

And so I think it had,
uh, I wanna say 200?

No, 130 some episodes that I did,
not all of them were interviews.

Most of them, 100 plus would
be interviews, I'm sure.

And I think the last one,
let's, let's see here.

Oh, yeah, October 20th, 2020 is
when, uh, the last one was published

and slowed to a halt because of
just getting tired of scheduling.

I think I got busy with work.

There was COVID a- also, and just
trying to navigate that whole world.

And I'd been doing it for,
I think, two or three years.

Looks like I s- no, no, even longer.

Sorry.

I started the first one way back in 20…

The very first one I did was back in
2013, so a seven-year run of 130 episodes.

So obviously not an episode
a week or even a month.

There's definitely some gaps in there,
but, it's an interesting look back at

the podcasting journey as well as just
the landscape of people who podcast,

period, and how many people used to be
doing it that aren't anymore, and And it

was actually a really fun show other than
the sort of trepidation and nervousness

of talking to someone for the very first
time that I've never talked to and maybe

don't even know from anywhere online.

I kind of had an open call for people
to be on the show, and if you're just a

podcaster of some sort with at least a few
episodes, I was willing to chat with you.

And so we'd chat a bit about, like,
the gear they use and their motivations

for getting into podcasting and I
think just generally conversations

around whatever was going on in
podcasting at the time as well.

One of the really cool things about doing
an interview show is it gives you the

opportunity to talk to people you wouldn't
otherwise have availability to talk to.

So f- just for an example, Paul
Kafasis, who is the, I think the CEO or

founder, I'm not sure what his title is
officially, of Rogue Amoeba, who makes

a bunch of great audio software for Mac.

Audio Hijack, Loopback,
Fission, Ferrago soundboard app.

so I was able to interview him
on the show and chat with him

There's an interesting two-part series
I did back in 2015, uh, in hindsight

now interesting, where I chatted
with someone named Lindsay Patterson.

I'm not sure if they're still out there
but, talk- asking the question of where

the YouTube for podcasts is, and obviously
now we have YouTube doing podcasts.

I even had, uh, Aaron
Mahnke, who if you ever…

I don't know if you've heard of the Lore
podcast that was, uh, I think a biweekly.

I'm not sure if he's even still
running it, but it, it blew up.

I interviewed him like six episodes
in and it hadn't blown up yet, but it

eventually became so popular that he got
a show on Amazon Prime, I believe, and,

and I'm sure is doing really well still

There's, uh, Reagan Kelly and Na- Nate,
uh, from The Short Game, which I know

is a still, a podcast that's running,
a podcast about short video games.

Uh, great show that I, I still
see pop up in my podcast feeds

And apparently I just realized I had,
uh, Tyler Stalman on who has since…

Like, this is back in 2015, but now he's
got a massive YouTube following and,

uh, social media following doing Apple
and photography and video- videography

gear reviews and stuff like that.

I don't even remember talking to him.

That's how long ago this was

There's even a young Justin Jackson
back in 2013 to chat about why you

might want a podcast or perhaps why you
should kill a podcast I'm pretty sure

that's pre, that's way pre-Transistor.fm

And, uh, Lex Fridman back in 2013.

He's since gone on to be quite big and…

Or was, I don't know where
he's at exactly right now.

He does Lex on Tech now, but
he's done a bunch of, uh, work

as a executive in podcasting.

Anyways, back to the original question of
would I consider ever bringing it back?

I, I love the idea.

It was a fun show to do.

I think that it still has potential for
possibly being a good show in 2026, 2027.

it's mainly time, the scheduling
and, and just energy to have

for a guest conversation.

And obviously this year doing this daily
podcast, probably not in the cards.

It's something I always felt like
would be a fun show to do if I was

to ever work for a company what, like
podcasting related or like say Twitch

streaming related or some gear company,
I don't know, like Elgato or somebody.

Like going around and interviewing
people about their gear,

what they do, their workflow.

And you see this kind of stuff now very…

It's fairly common amongst some of the
hardware and, even software companies

making stuff related to podcasting
or live streaming or video production

where they'll have a, a show that, you
know, they bring every so often bring

on somebody who uses their product.

if I was to start up a show like
that again, I would wanna know

that I can have it run for a while.

'Cause especially if you're gonna bring
guests on and you only do five episodes

and then disappear or something like that,
it feels a little bit disingenuous and

not like you're committed really well to
the, to the, to the idea and the project

But as you can hear on this podcast
every Saturday for the next…

I've got two or three now, uh, in the
can, so to speak, that I'm editing

and gonna be publishing in the next
few Saturdays, so with guests and,

uh, I'm enjoying that and, uh, it's,
it's just a fun thing to work that

sort of interview conversation muscle.

I don't like doing interviews per se as
much as it's just a conversation about

ideas and sort of following where the
conversation goes, but still trying to

keep it focused on something interesting.

So it's kind of like a Show Me
Your Mic, but it's more like Show

Me Your Stuff maybe is a better
description of those episodes

But yeah, go check out Show Me Your Mic.

I'll put the link in the show
notes to a few of the past episodes

as well as you can, where you
can subscribe to it, of course.

There was a YouTube version for a
little while, but it, it kind of

got abandoned 'cause just video
was a lot harder to do back then

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saw this on social media with what

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days that you find interesting, or

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Have a great day.

Bye.