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In Ep #27 I am covering how I myself use v4v on my main show Mere Mortals. The unique aspect that myself and my cohost Juan bring are that we really try and increase the quality of our show through the addition of Podcasting 2.0 tags like transcripts, person and chapters. This gives our audience an increased incentive to listen on an app where they can natively support us as well.
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In Ep #27 I am covering how I myself use v4v on my main show Mere Mortals. The unique aspect that myself and my cohost Juan bring are that we really try and increase the quality of our show through the addition of Podcasting 2.0 tags like transcripts, person and chapters. This gives our audience an increased incentive to listen on an app where they can natively support us as well.
Value 4 Value Support:
Boostagram: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/support
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Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/meremortalspods
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Shameless self promotion alert weeoooweeooo. Welcome new listeners to the value for value podcast. My name is Kyrin, I'm the host of obviously the value for value podcast, but also the Mere Mortals, Mere Mortals book reviews, I do this podcast for those who want to explore more about the value for value model. What is it? What are some of its characteristics? How does it distinguish itself? How's it different from the standard advertising model? And I do this by examining a bunch of different shows and really highlighting perhaps what they do uniquely differently. And I suppose an exploration of really how you can incorporate this into perhaps Perhaps not in your own podcasts, but even in your day to day life. Now, as I mentioned, right at the staff, this is going to be a little bit of a shameless self promotion because yes, I'm going to do the mere mortals podcast. So this is my main show. This is the one that I typically do. And I've bumped this kind of up the rankings because I actually want to promote this on fountain. So if you're listening to this on the fountain app itself, kudos to you, I created this episode specifically for you. So you can get an experience of what it is to really live the value for value life coming from not only me as a as a host and diving into other people's podcasts, but also as a as a podcaster really trying to make a lifestyle out of this, I should say. So let's get into the show description. What is the Mere Mortals podcast, me and my co host one we like to describe it as a sort of general fertile type of podcast we're not particularly niching down. The couple of taglines that we've come up with that we think really describe our show a deep conversations with a light hearted touch. So we really try and explore a lot of sort of philosophical aspects and ideas and theories, as you've obviously noticed here, consider him doing the value for value which is definitely tending towards the more philosophical side, but also with a light hearted touch. So we bring in incorporations of our day to day lives, things that we've done wrong things that we find funny.
And the the topics themselves can range from our sort of obsession, I suppose over the last year has been really diving into Bitcoin and the other crypto world web three if you want to use that word, although it is definitely a buzzword, and I'm not a fan of buzzwords, but also general fitness stuff. I'm very much into handstands one is very into CrossFit and philosophy. I'm a bit of a book or file a bibliophile, and hence why I've got a whole podcast that memoirs, book reviews, directly related to that as well, learning languages, meditations and all of these sorts of things. So we go over all of these types of things. Now, how we actually do this is we have a couple of different formats. So there is the one that we do outdoors in the park. So philosophy in the park. This is kind of a little bit unique in the sense that we're actually outdoors somewhere we're we're in a an area here in Brisbane in Southbank, which is very populated, we get lots of people walking by and so you sort of get an atmosphere of that with the random noises, you'll sometimes hear planes in birds chirping, other little snippets of conversation when people walk by us, but the audio quality was is generally pretty good, as you'll hear for yourself in some snippets that are coming up.
And we call these the meandering sections. We also then have the musings which are usually picking a topic in particular, so sometimes it will be related to why is philosophy good. For example, I've got one coming up, snippet, which I'll play off music 2.0 decentralized music, and we really just pick a topic examiner usually we have like a definition of the word if it's something related to a particular word, such as friendliness, or decentralization or even philosophy things like that. And then we also have the monthly goals so that that that previous one the musings we do inside our studio, the monthly goals we also do in our studio, and we do both of those live. And the monthly goals are really just talking about okay, what have we done this last month? How are we trying to improve ourselves? What are we really focusing upon a sort of deep dive into our life, I guess, if you if you want to call it that way, and we really just expose what it is that we're really thinking of? And yeah, those are the main aspects I should say about our show. So how do we actually implement the value for value? I think a little bit of a backstory here might might help as well, which is I found this model through Adam curry about a year ago, a year and a little bit ago. And I was blown away because I have an absolute detestation for advertising not only A just the end product that comes out. So the thought of, you know, banner ads pop up ads, the crap you see on TV, billboards, all of those things I just, I'm not a big fan of it's just the general temperament. And then also into the philosophy behind them as and how it can be, you know, self centering in a way if your income stream is related to not saying bad things about this product, or about these people or et cetera, et cetera, you're going to be influenced one way or another. And I didn't particularly want that. So I found the value for value model in it. And it really spoke to me. So how do we actually implement it? Well, it was uncomfortable at first, really asking your audience to send not only now support you in the in the sense of time, talent and treasure in the across those three different things, but particularly sending through a monetary support of some of some kind. It's a very uncomfortable process when you're when you're first doing it. But over over time, I gradually got better at it and more comfortable at it.
And it started to feel normal. And this was both for me and for my my co host one. So typically, how we do this is we will include our pitch right at the end of the episode. So our episodes, usually 30 to 50 minutes long, I would say is the the general time range. And whilst we might pepper in something at the start, just a reminder, this is value for value, etc. We'll also really put our pitch right at the end. So here's an example of how one will do a pitch. And this was from Episode 303. I have enjoyed this session as well. Okay, I've enjoyed actually being outdoors, it's a beautiful, sunny, I'm enjoying this weather like this sort of the nice weather. But if you have enjoyed listening to us Mere Mortalites, there is a great way that you can support us and that is through through booster gramming. Now, I have talked to many people in the last couple of weeks around the space, podcasting, cryptocurrency, we realized early, right, we realized we are super early and that's okay. So if you want to venture into trying out something new, you want to be in the bleeding edge of something, try and download a podcasting 2.0 app, try and get some money if you don't have it already into cryptocurrency doesn't have to be a whole Bitcoin, it can be legitimately 1000 Satoshis, like just the minimal amount. Teach yourself getting into crypto currencies and what they mean what it means to store it. And then and then as you're listening to us, you can go you know what, because these guys got me into it, and actually were the initial, you know, this is actually getting into it, I'm going to send them a little bit of a booster gram and I'm gonna send them to come and say, Thank you very much. Again, if you want to learn more about it, I actually would recommend just by Googling it, but Valley Valley podcast, I get called out the Valley for value podcast is back back on. But if you want to go and check out all the rest of the valley Valley and understand how you might triple T talent and treasure supporters. So obviously, that's through talent, you could suggest to us like, Hey, there's this thing that you could be doing better or hear something time, obviously, it just like, you know, can you save time and doing a certain thing or try to just sending through a booster gram or obviously sending us through Satoshis by streaming that will always always be appreciated as well. And one's got his pitch down the elevator pitch. Yeah, so there we go. That's an example of how one will do a typical pitch at the end. Usually, it's about a minute or so. And we will highlight different things depending on on what we're feeling like but usually it is an actionable, something that you can do right now go to this place and try out this thing. So in this case, it was check out the value for value podcast, a lot of the times I will talk about new podcast apps.com Choose one of the ones with value. Sometimes I'll even go more direct and say I really enjoy fountain this is what I've been using, then this is how I particularly use it. This is the amount of streaming I set up etc etc. The hardest bit is obviously getting people involved for the very first time because that barrier of getting some bitcoin making sure it's you know, lightning Bitcoin, it can be extremely tedious, it can be extremely hard. And this is why it's amazing that there's apps like fountain now where you can be a just an average, Joe downloaded off the street and you can be earning some yourself by just listening in, you know, absolutely fantastic. And this has been promoted. So you're actually getting those Satoshis directly from me for listening. So you're welcome. And, you know, this is where it's like we hope okay, we were helping to introduce you into this arena into how these things are working. And we would really appreciate if you can send some of that back our way. So that is our standard sort of way and we will usually do this a for the meanderings episodes right at the end. We also highlight how the booster grams that we get and so this is why we have our live ones so we can make sure we do it week by week because the meanderings ones, I typically will do a a fair bit of editing. So there's typically a timer turnaround time of five or six days until that's actually published. And so we go on every Sunday 7pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, and we will do our normal episodes. So this is a themed one where we're really examining a particular topic, and around the Midway walk, usually 2025 30 minutes in, is when we'll take a little bit of a pause, we'll read out any of the comments that we've been getting in the live chat, and then we will focus on the booster grams. And so we'll read them out. I really liked reacting to them as well. So I particularly like it when people send in question type ones, rather than at you know, any booster gram is appreciated, really, but I really love the ones where it's something I can react to a question or a statement, Peter, the slab, who was notorious from these episodes, if you've listened to enough now, he always comes up with something brilliant to, to react to. And yeah, this is the general way that we do it. And then we've also started including some unique things. So let me get onto those. Here's one of the examples of something unique we do. So not only did you get an example there of how one will do a typical episode of how it ends off, but when I get into it, I typically try and make it a little bit more fun a little bit more related directly to what we were talking about.
And so this is from Episode 305. So just a week after the previous 303. This is how I will talk about and introduce it into the theme of the week or that of that episode, which was a week of opposites. There's been a bit a big conversation, been a couple of little tidbits in there that I think you should jump in. And Bruce has a suggestion, they should do the opposite. So it's a week of opposites, right? They should do the opposite of what they normally do. Now, what do they normally do? Well, I look at the numbers, and most of them don't have Instagram. So a lot of you people watching and they should be Instagramming is few and far between in comparison to the view. So Pete, I'll give you a break for Pete, I can have a break. So there we go, I hijacked that one and took it over for myself. But that's the typical way that I really like to bring it in. And usually it comes spur of the moment because we don't particularly plan what we'll talk about in those meandering ones. And yeah, lots of lots of fun. And it's just I really try and make it a unique sort of thing. So you know, a picture's good and knowing exactly what you're going to say, brilliant, but I really liked that aspect of little bit in the moment, how am I going to create this, how am I going to make this perhaps something funny or interesting, not only for my own sanity, because repeating the same thing over and over isn't so fun, but also for the audience so that they get something a little bit different, maybe something funny, maybe it's something deep or sad, or, or whatever it can be, but I do enjoy doing that. The other thing that we do uniquely is we really try and stay on top as much as we can of of the innovations in the value for value space, which is with podcasting. 2.0. So, if you look at, for example, a bunch of our episodes from I believe 212 was the first time that I found out about it. So almost roughly a year ago, that was when the light bulb clicked and it was like, Okay, I need to become a better podcaster and, you know, if I'm asking for value from people, I really need to bring the value. And so what are some of the ways that I do that? Well, I will create chapter markers for every single podcast that I put out, I refuse to have ones which even even the short episodes which are maybe 1015 minutes long, I always put in chapter markers because I really appreciate that when I see that on other people's and it's a great way of just digging deep and perhaps skipping some stuff that's not useful but also knowing what might be coming up in the episode. I also really like to include chapter images so for almost all of the episodes apart from the live ones, which it can be hard to go back on them and create something but certainly in the meanderings ones I will create funny Photoshopped images usually it's my face on girls bodies seems to rock up quite a lot. But you know if we're talking about a graph of something if we're talking about a different podcast episode I will include the link to that episode. I really take the extra efforts to to do as much as I can now I'm not on top of all of the tags I'm I sort of lagged behind a little bit because it's just technical know how why is a struggle a little bit so getting self hosting for this value for value podcast, for example was extremely hard. But I really do try and connect with other people in the in the value for value space in the podcast in 2.0 world. He's a quick examples This was from Episode 306 which was about decentralized music and I did what was perhaps one of the first decentralized music DJ sets but has been done on a podcast there we go so that was making beans by Abel and the Wolf from their album stay a while and there's a couple of things I really want to highlight to you guys here because if you're weren't checking out the screen if you're not watching this live on YouTube or as a playback on YouTube, I want to just explain what was going on there visually so one they had the the album pop up I went to the album itself click stay a while and then there's a whole bunch of different tracks here I could choose from so making beans Willow brown or like wine stay a while maps of home one Christmas and stay a while reprise I'm not sure he's making beans, you can see that there are different chapter images for all of these. So I have a different song images, artwork for each of these, these songs, which is very cool. So making beans for example has a brownish reddish orangish background with a person who rocking out with a guitar and their their head is a pot of beans. When I clicked on it and played it that was a the the screen itself could pop up.
And as I was playing it through the transcript, which was they've attached as part of it was showing the lyrics that were popping up very cool. So experimenting with different mediums of connecting with people and also trying to do my part in expanding the knowledge that the actual how tos of these sorts of things. So in this case I was describing for those who are visual learners more than anything else, I was doing this live on YouTube and you could see okay, this is how he sends a booster gram and this is how you you know, check what's in your wallet and things like that. So I went through the whole process of what was actually happening and what was going on. And that is quite important for us as well here at the memorials of we we really try to focus more on action rather than just talk now this is hilarious considering that podcaster and talking is what I do a lot of but it's really that focus of okay, it's not enough to just talk about something like your do it got to put it in practice but in reality you have a grounded actually make something happen because there's nothing more I suppose silly than just getting trapped in your own mind of what ifs How could this have been different you know, etc, etc.
Which you know, I have experienced parts of my life like that but that's getting into completely unrelated territory. So that was the mere mortals podcast there there's those couple of sections I hope you enjoyed that let's get down to the Bucha Graham lounge for this podcast so back in the value for value land now and I'm going to read out what has been how people have been supporting recently Welcome to the value for value gram so it's been a bit of a dearth of a week this one apart from one mad lad who boosted right after I had finished the publish the episode last week and so this was from number five and see lewd himself Claude you and this was obviously for the code class and the he sent 18,750 SATs through fountain Thank you very much my good sir that is a very generous amount of you when he says I'm emptying the fountain wallet with this boost exclamation pot. Thanks for the review I understand now that I sound like low energy Jeb Bush in most of my episodes lol but also that I have some polishing to do with the show once again thanks for the review and thanks for the perspective you know what made your I think you're too harsh on yourself your your podcast, you're a new podcaster and it's it takes time to develop your voice your what it is you want to show and and and how you want to present yourself and the style you know there's so many just nuances not only equipment wise but what you enjoy doing how you can be consistent with the show. There's so many different things to get over so don't don't be harsh on yourself mate. Your your show was perfectly acceptable for for reviewing and for listening into and you know, as long as you keep plugging away and as long as you keep trying to make it better. An audience will grow. But it does take time and this is where you need To decide about the benefits of trade offs, do I want to continue this thing long term or not? Is it bringing value and joy to my life and also value enjoy to the people who are listening in. So that is it for today, everyone, thank you for tuning in to this episode of the value for value podcast. It was very metal because I'm reviewing my own my own show and yeah, look, that's that's gonna be my value for value pitch for for this week. If you enjoyed this podcast, I highly recommend going over and checking out the one where I put the most effort into where I really go hard into the chapter images into making it the best I can more conversational style with me and my co host one so that is the mere mortals podcast, the link is down below. And yeah, that's that's that's it the you know, it doesn't need to be a super long pitch. It doesn't need to be something unique every week. Sometimes it can be a small little thing. And so that's it. I really do hope you had a fantastic time tuning in listening in and until the next episode, ciao
Shameless self promotion alert weeoooweeooo. Welcome new listeners to the value for value podcast. My name is Kyrin, I'm the host of obviously the value for value podcast, but also the Mere Mortals, Mere Mortals book reviews, I do this podcast for those who want to explore more about the value for value model. What is it? What are some of its characteristics? How does it distinguish itself? How's it different from the standard advertising model? And I do this by examining a bunch of different shows and really highlighting perhaps what they do uniquely differently. And I suppose an exploration of really how you can incorporate this into perhaps Perhaps not in your own podcasts, but even in your day to day life. Now, as I mentioned, right at the staff, this is going to be a little bit of a shameless self promotion because yes, I'm going to do the mere mortals podcast. So this is my main show. This is the one that I typically do. And I've bumped this kind of up the rankings because I actually want to promote this on fountain. So if you're listening to this on the fountain app itself, kudos to you, I created this episode specifically for you. So you can get an experience of what it is to really live the value for value life coming from not only me as a as a host and diving into other people's podcasts, but also as a as a podcaster really trying to make a lifestyle out of this, I should say. So let's get into the show description. What is the Mere Mortals podcast, me and my co host one we like to describe it as a sort of general fertile type of podcast we're not particularly niching down. The couple of taglines that we've come up with that we think really describe our show a deep conversations with a light hearted touch. So we really try and explore a lot of sort of philosophical aspects and ideas and theories, as you've obviously noticed here, consider him doing the value for value which is definitely tending towards the more philosophical side, but also with a light hearted touch. So we bring in incorporations of our day to day lives, things that we've done wrong things that we find funny.
And the the topics themselves can range from our sort of obsession, I suppose over the last year has been really diving into Bitcoin and the other crypto world web three if you want to use that word, although it is definitely a buzzword, and I'm not a fan of buzzwords, but also general fitness stuff. I'm very much into handstands one is very into CrossFit and philosophy. I'm a bit of a book or file a bibliophile, and hence why I've got a whole podcast that memoirs, book reviews, directly related to that as well, learning languages, meditations and all of these sorts of things. So we go over all of these types of things. Now, how we actually do this is we have a couple of different formats. So there is the one that we do outdoors in the park. So philosophy in the park. This is kind of a little bit unique in the sense that we're actually outdoors somewhere we're we're in a an area here in Brisbane in Southbank, which is very populated, we get lots of people walking by and so you sort of get an atmosphere of that with the random noises, you'll sometimes hear planes in birds chirping, other little snippets of conversation when people walk by us, but the audio quality was is generally pretty good, as you'll hear for yourself in some snippets that are coming up.
And we call these the meandering sections. We also then have the musings which are usually picking a topic in particular, so sometimes it will be related to why is philosophy good. For example, I've got one coming up, snippet, which I'll play off music 2.0 decentralized music, and we really just pick a topic examiner usually we have like a definition of the word if it's something related to a particular word, such as friendliness, or decentralization or even philosophy things like that. And then we also have the monthly goals so that that that previous one the musings we do inside our studio, the monthly goals we also do in our studio, and we do both of those live. And the monthly goals are really just talking about okay, what have we done this last month? How are we trying to improve ourselves? What are we really focusing upon a sort of deep dive into our life, I guess, if you if you want to call it that way, and we really just expose what it is that we're really thinking of? And yeah, those are the main aspects I should say about our show. So how do we actually implement the value for value? I think a little bit of a backstory here might might help as well, which is I found this model through Adam curry about a year ago, a year and a little bit ago. And I was blown away because I have an absolute detestation for advertising not only A just the end product that comes out. So the thought of, you know, banner ads pop up ads, the crap you see on TV, billboards, all of those things I just, I'm not a big fan of it's just the general temperament. And then also into the philosophy behind them as and how it can be, you know, self centering in a way if your income stream is related to not saying bad things about this product, or about these people or et cetera, et cetera, you're going to be influenced one way or another. And I didn't particularly want that. So I found the value for value model in it. And it really spoke to me. So how do we actually implement it? Well, it was uncomfortable at first, really asking your audience to send not only now support you in the in the sense of time, talent and treasure in the across those three different things, but particularly sending through a monetary support of some of some kind. It's a very uncomfortable process when you're when you're first doing it. But over over time, I gradually got better at it and more comfortable at it.
And it started to feel normal. And this was both for me and for my my co host one. So typically, how we do this is we will include our pitch right at the end of the episode. So our episodes, usually 30 to 50 minutes long, I would say is the the general time range. And whilst we might pepper in something at the start, just a reminder, this is value for value, etc. We'll also really put our pitch right at the end. So here's an example of how one will do a pitch. And this was from Episode 303. I have enjoyed this session as well. Okay, I've enjoyed actually being outdoors, it's a beautiful, sunny, I'm enjoying this weather like this sort of the nice weather. But if you have enjoyed listening to us Mere Mortalites, there is a great way that you can support us and that is through through booster gramming. Now, I have talked to many people in the last couple of weeks around the space, podcasting, cryptocurrency, we realized early, right, we realized we are super early and that's okay. So if you want to venture into trying out something new, you want to be in the bleeding edge of something, try and download a podcasting 2.0 app, try and get some money if you don't have it already into cryptocurrency doesn't have to be a whole Bitcoin, it can be legitimately 1000 Satoshis, like just the minimal amount. Teach yourself getting into crypto currencies and what they mean what it means to store it. And then and then as you're listening to us, you can go you know what, because these guys got me into it, and actually were the initial, you know, this is actually getting into it, I'm going to send them a little bit of a booster gram and I'm gonna send them to come and say, Thank you very much. Again, if you want to learn more about it, I actually would recommend just by Googling it, but Valley Valley podcast, I get called out the Valley for value podcast is back back on. But if you want to go and check out all the rest of the valley Valley and understand how you might triple T talent and treasure supporters. So obviously, that's through talent, you could suggest to us like, Hey, there's this thing that you could be doing better or hear something time, obviously, it just like, you know, can you save time and doing a certain thing or try to just sending through a booster gram or obviously sending us through Satoshis by streaming that will always always be appreciated as well. And one's got his pitch down the elevator pitch. Yeah, so there we go. That's an example of how one will do a typical pitch at the end. Usually, it's about a minute or so. And we will highlight different things depending on on what we're feeling like but usually it is an actionable, something that you can do right now go to this place and try out this thing. So in this case, it was check out the value for value podcast, a lot of the times I will talk about new podcast apps.com Choose one of the ones with value. Sometimes I'll even go more direct and say I really enjoy fountain this is what I've been using, then this is how I particularly use it. This is the amount of streaming I set up etc etc. The hardest bit is obviously getting people involved for the very first time because that barrier of getting some bitcoin making sure it's you know, lightning Bitcoin, it can be extremely tedious, it can be extremely hard. And this is why it's amazing that there's apps like fountain now where you can be a just an average, Joe downloaded off the street and you can be earning some yourself by just listening in, you know, absolutely fantastic. And this has been promoted. So you're actually getting those Satoshis directly from me for listening. So you're welcome. And, you know, this is where it's like we hope okay, we were helping to introduce you into this arena into how these things are working. And we would really appreciate if you can send some of that back our way. So that is our standard sort of way and we will usually do this a for the meanderings episodes right at the end. We also highlight how the booster grams that we get and so this is why we have our live ones so we can make sure we do it week by week because the meanderings ones, I typically will do a a fair bit of editing. So there's typically a timer turnaround time of five or six days until that's actually published. And so we go on every Sunday 7pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, and we will do our normal episodes. So this is a themed one where we're really examining a particular topic, and around the Midway walk, usually 2025 30 minutes in, is when we'll take a little bit of a pause, we'll read out any of the comments that we've been getting in the live chat, and then we will focus on the booster grams. And so we'll read them out. I really liked reacting to them as well. So I particularly like it when people send in question type ones, rather than at you know, any booster gram is appreciated, really, but I really love the ones where it's something I can react to a question or a statement, Peter, the slab, who was notorious from these episodes, if you've listened to enough now, he always comes up with something brilliant to, to react to. And yeah, this is the general way that we do it. And then we've also started including some unique things. So let me get onto those. Here's one of the examples of something unique we do. So not only did you get an example there of how one will do a typical episode of how it ends off, but when I get into it, I typically try and make it a little bit more fun a little bit more related directly to what we were talking about.
And so this is from Episode 305. So just a week after the previous 303. This is how I will talk about and introduce it into the theme of the week or that of that episode, which was a week of opposites. There's been a bit a big conversation, been a couple of little tidbits in there that I think you should jump in. And Bruce has a suggestion, they should do the opposite. So it's a week of opposites, right? They should do the opposite of what they normally do. Now, what do they normally do? Well, I look at the numbers, and most of them don't have Instagram. So a lot of you people watching and they should be Instagramming is few and far between in comparison to the view. So Pete, I'll give you a break for Pete, I can have a break. So there we go, I hijacked that one and took it over for myself. But that's the typical way that I really like to bring it in. And usually it comes spur of the moment because we don't particularly plan what we'll talk about in those meandering ones. And yeah, lots of lots of fun. And it's just I really try and make it a unique sort of thing. So you know, a picture's good and knowing exactly what you're going to say, brilliant, but I really liked that aspect of little bit in the moment, how am I going to create this, how am I going to make this perhaps something funny or interesting, not only for my own sanity, because repeating the same thing over and over isn't so fun, but also for the audience so that they get something a little bit different, maybe something funny, maybe it's something deep or sad, or, or whatever it can be, but I do enjoy doing that. The other thing that we do uniquely is we really try and stay on top as much as we can of of the innovations in the value for value space, which is with podcasting. 2.0. So, if you look at, for example, a bunch of our episodes from I believe 212 was the first time that I found out about it. So almost roughly a year ago, that was when the light bulb clicked and it was like, Okay, I need to become a better podcaster and, you know, if I'm asking for value from people, I really need to bring the value. And so what are some of the ways that I do that? Well, I will create chapter markers for every single podcast that I put out, I refuse to have ones which even even the short episodes which are maybe 1015 minutes long, I always put in chapter markers because I really appreciate that when I see that on other people's and it's a great way of just digging deep and perhaps skipping some stuff that's not useful but also knowing what might be coming up in the episode. I also really like to include chapter images so for almost all of the episodes apart from the live ones, which it can be hard to go back on them and create something but certainly in the meanderings ones I will create funny Photoshopped images usually it's my face on girls bodies seems to rock up quite a lot. But you know if we're talking about a graph of something if we're talking about a different podcast episode I will include the link to that episode. I really take the extra efforts to to do as much as I can now I'm not on top of all of the tags I'm I sort of lagged behind a little bit because it's just technical know how why is a struggle a little bit so getting self hosting for this value for value podcast, for example was extremely hard. But I really do try and connect with other people in the in the value for value space in the podcast in 2.0 world. He's a quick examples This was from Episode 306 which was about decentralized music and I did what was perhaps one of the first decentralized music DJ sets but has been done on a podcast there we go so that was making beans by Abel and the Wolf from their album stay a while and there's a couple of things I really want to highlight to you guys here because if you're weren't checking out the screen if you're not watching this live on YouTube or as a playback on YouTube, I want to just explain what was going on there visually so one they had the the album pop up I went to the album itself click stay a while and then there's a whole bunch of different tracks here I could choose from so making beans Willow brown or like wine stay a while maps of home one Christmas and stay a while reprise I'm not sure he's making beans, you can see that there are different chapter images for all of these. So I have a different song images, artwork for each of these, these songs, which is very cool. So making beans for example has a brownish reddish orangish background with a person who rocking out with a guitar and their their head is a pot of beans. When I clicked on it and played it that was a the the screen itself could pop up.
And as I was playing it through the transcript, which was they've attached as part of it was showing the lyrics that were popping up very cool. So experimenting with different mediums of connecting with people and also trying to do my part in expanding the knowledge that the actual how tos of these sorts of things. So in this case I was describing for those who are visual learners more than anything else, I was doing this live on YouTube and you could see okay, this is how he sends a booster gram and this is how you you know, check what's in your wallet and things like that. So I went through the whole process of what was actually happening and what was going on. And that is quite important for us as well here at the memorials of we we really try to focus more on action rather than just talk now this is hilarious considering that podcaster and talking is what I do a lot of but it's really that focus of okay, it's not enough to just talk about something like your do it got to put it in practice but in reality you have a grounded actually make something happen because there's nothing more I suppose silly than just getting trapped in your own mind of what ifs How could this have been different you know, etc, etc.
Which you know, I have experienced parts of my life like that but that's getting into completely unrelated territory. So that was the mere mortals podcast there there's those couple of sections I hope you enjoyed that let's get down to the Bucha Graham lounge for this podcast so back in the value for value land now and I'm going to read out what has been how people have been supporting recently Welcome to the value for value gram so it's been a bit of a dearth of a week this one apart from one mad lad who boosted right after I had finished the publish the episode last week and so this was from number five and see lewd himself Claude you and this was obviously for the code class and the he sent 18,750 SATs through fountain Thank you very much my good sir that is a very generous amount of you when he says I'm emptying the fountain wallet with this boost exclamation pot. Thanks for the review I understand now that I sound like low energy Jeb Bush in most of my episodes lol but also that I have some polishing to do with the show once again thanks for the review and thanks for the perspective you know what made your I think you're too harsh on yourself your your podcast, you're a new podcaster and it's it takes time to develop your voice your what it is you want to show and and and how you want to present yourself and the style you know there's so many just nuances not only equipment wise but what you enjoy doing how you can be consistent with the show. There's so many different things to get over so don't don't be harsh on yourself mate. Your your show was perfectly acceptable for for reviewing and for listening into and you know, as long as you keep plugging away and as long as you keep trying to make it better. An audience will grow. But it does take time and this is where you need To decide about the benefits of trade offs, do I want to continue this thing long term or not? Is it bringing value and joy to my life and also value enjoy to the people who are listening in. So that is it for today, everyone, thank you for tuning in to this episode of the value for value podcast. It was very metal because I'm reviewing my own my own show and yeah, look, that's that's gonna be my value for value pitch for for this week. If you enjoyed this podcast, I highly recommend going over and checking out the one where I put the most effort into where I really go hard into the chapter images into making it the best I can more conversational style with me and my co host one so that is the mere mortals podcast, the link is down below. And yeah, that's that's that's it the you know, it doesn't need to be a super long pitch. It doesn't need to be something unique every week. Sometimes it can be a small little thing. And so that's it. I really do hope you had a fantastic time tuning in listening in and until the next episode, ciao
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