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In Ep #33 I am covering how AbleKirby and coldacid implement v4v on his show ‘Rare Encounter’. The unique aspect that they bring is their commitment to going live. Creating a live podcast enables them to encourage more supporter contribution, provide instantaneous feedback of boosts and showcase why their show is different in their value for value pitch.
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Only the coolest of the cool go live welcome everyone to another episode of the value for value podcast. My name is Kyrin and host of the mere mortals mere mortals book reviews, go check them out, as well as the host of this show, obviously, where I dive deep into other podcasts. Indeed, it's a meta podcast deal with it, and how they implement the value for value model. So typically, I will try and find something unique that they're doing. Perhaps some things that they're wrong doing can be a little bit of a recommendation system as well. So if you enjoy supporting other shows hate this is the way to find new shows.
And in general, just talk about the value for value model, which is very different from the standard advertising model, and from paywalls. And from things like that. And so if you want to know all about that, go check out season one, but instead, in this season, I am diving deep into particular shows, and today I have a rare encounter. Now there's two hosts of the show, and I'm going to read from their bio, and it says, April Kirby and cold acid Converse on anime, they watch books and manga, they read games they play and all the tech stuff that they come across. So in my own words, I'm gonna say it's nerdy. Now, in Australian culture, I don't think nerdy is particularly an insult. It's just a way to describe people who enjoy anime and manga and things like that. So definitely put me in that category. But perhaps in American culture, I think it can be slightly insulting. So if that's the case, I'm using in the Australian way people. So they definitely do go into all of these things. I'll talk more about that in a second. But first, just the the general schedule is that they've been doing this weekly from July of 2020. And they're up to about 109 episodes and not about they are exactly at 109 episodes as we speak. The length of the show is about an hour's typically and maybe even over an hour and five hour and 10 minutes, but can sometimes dip under. And it's usually just the two of them, although I believe that they have had guests on at least one guest at some point. So usually, it's just going to be the two announcers producers. One is in America, and one is in Canada, and you will hear that accent coming through of both of them for sure. They don't particularly have any announced sections of their show, but it generally goes like this, they'll have the introduction, they'll have a drink each which they open, you hear that pitch of the can or beer opening, whatever it is, and usually it is a beer or a cider or something like that. They'll do their booster Graham section from the last week. And then they'll go into the meat and potatoes of the show, which is the you know, I've been watching narrative, I don't think they don't watch an archetype. But you know, I've been watching this anime and I really enjoyed this this thing was really cool. They'll typically find a bunch of news stories as well. So Florida man does x and you know, kind of comment, laugh on it. There's a lot of laughter and just general joviality in the in the show. They'll then talk about some interesting stories. They'll typically at the end also have a note agenda stream kind of shout out section. So other people who've been doing live podcasts and the Porter is kind of part of the no agenda, Rome, which is where these two guys maybe even met for the first time. I'm not sure how they're particularly connected. Some ISOs and clips and things like that. And then they finish off with the live booster grams.
To give you a taste of what this show sounds like. I'm going to play a section here. So this is from Episode 50. So I was about midway through that podcast, and it is cold, Beavis polls and coitus right from the beginning. is June 23 2021. This is rare encounter encounter number 50. That Hi. It's the podcasting boy of your dreams. I'm evil Kirby. And making love with his own ego. I'm cold acid 50050 right off the top. I gotta crack. Get that one out of the way. Here we go. Nice crack. I got it. Well, thank you. I've been working on it all day. It's a bunch. I've got a Macintosh unfiltered cider. It's called Original Sin.
You got a cider? I actually got a cider this time I've been threatening that for a while. I don't have a cider that did not work right. I guess there we go. I got me hurry toes again. He was I wasn't able to get out to the out to the beer store and get me my cider. Whenever I got myself a mandarin, how Tito's Mandarin hairy toes. Whatever you say hi to those. I always think of that. That Sankara Alito where it was a it was like an MMD joke. Like a like a shitpost meme back at The day where they had the was like a Mexican like a really bad pretty insensitive kind of culturally music video and they had all the vocal characters. Carlito. Who's the boy want to be, amigo, you know, it was that kind of shit. Do you remember that at all? It was wild.
No, I never thought this was cutting that, you know, it, it's, you know, the VOCALOID characters. And also, like, you know, other animate characters would show up, like stalking through the desert with no arrests, no Manyana you know, it's like this really bad music video, but it was just absolutely, absolutely insane. With all the props in it. I picked that clip specifically, because it really highlighted just what the show was about bad humor, drinking be joviality, obscure references and anime, it's pretty much all banged up into just one little package right there. So there you go there you get a taste of the the two hosts April Kirby and cold acid. So I'm going to jump on to their value for value implementation and how they typically run it on their show.
Now, I do want to highlight just at this point here that April Kirby has another show called Tablecraft, which is one that I've actually been listening to from the very start, and which started just gonna say about a year ago, and he has been doing some really cool things there. And I will highlight that podcast on here at some point, related to the music scene and being able to put musics music into a podcast and running music through value for value. Because there's a whole lot of broken shit going on with Spotify and, you know, recording rights and all those sorts of things. So he's well aware, and well on top of podcasting, 2.0, a lot of the tags now, they don't particularly implement a lot of the tags for this show, I'm not sure if they have transcripts, I definitely haven't seen chapter art, there's, there's kind of the they kind of do just what they want to be, to be fair. And so what I have seen them do, though, is the Live section. And so they have been implementing this a fair chunk. And I have already mentioned that they do booster grams right at the beginning, and then also at the end. And the reason they do that at the end is because they get some during the show. So I'm gonna just play a section here, which is not particularly that booster grounds, but how they ask for value for value. And then we can examine that a little bit more. So this is from Episode 107, touched by a muppet nice name, and it's around the 1222 mark, its value for value. So you can listen to the show for free, we don't charge you to listen. And what we all we ask that we do is you just consider if you enjoy it or not, if you have some fun and you think it's worth something to you, you can send some of that value back, you decide what it's worth, we don't eat, we're not even going to try and guess just tell us what you think it's worth, by sending us a little value we take there's Pay Pal you can send in though, our preferred way these days is SATs, which means little pieces of Bitcoin you can send through a multitude of new podcast apps that are out there, you can find them at new podcast apps.com. You can check out our show and then stream them stick them in a boost as Yes, I love it. That's a good we got to get our copy down on this, you know, I've got little notes all over my room so I can remember things. You know, like the things I'm supposed to say.
For example, I have a note on my speaker, which says rare encounter Wednesdays at 7pm. Otherwise, I'd forget when the show was, oh, geez, that's pretty bad. It's been there for two years now. So I'm told, the bottom line is if you go to rare encounter.net You can find our IRC channel and find our old episodes and everything. And you can find contact information again and send us stuff send us stories. A couple of people send us stories sometimes, and we'll play them on the show if they're good enough. They gotta be good, though.
Well, I don't know, I might still play him even if they're bad. I mean, it couldn't be worse than the content I bring every week. You want to you want to start off with some of your content. There's a couple of things to highlight from this pitch, which was mostly done by April Kirby and the first one is they had a pitch it is super, super important to to have a pitch to let people know, hey, this is what the show is about that it depends on your support, because the reason that people do not support shows is because they're not asked. Now, not everyone is going to support obviously, and the general figure, at least Adam curry says around 4% I'd say that's probably kind of similar for my show as well, for the Mere Mortals, and the you need to do the pitch. So you need to have something in there at some point letting people know now whether you do it at the very beginning at the very end, it doesn't particularly matter per se actually I won't say it doesn't particularly matter it because it does matter but it is dependent on your show. And it depends on how it runs with the flow and you need to spend the time thought energy, feeling good So of how you feel it works best, they did that pretty close to the start, I would say of of that one. So around the 12 minute mark of a hour long podcast, I typically do it around the middle of my show of the Mere Mortals where we kind of do our booster grams then, which is once a week for the live. And I'll kind of touch upon this more in the in the unique section that these guys do. But I will also sometimes do it in the kind of pre recording and just highlight Oh, hey, before the actual show starts.
So this is kind of like on the YouTube section before the bang off time really gets kicks in. Yep, this is value for value. Just a reminder to anyone listening, watching, hey, we ask that you send it back. So super important that you do that, obviously, I think it's also important to highlight your unique aspects or the things that you do really well in there. So he was talking about the the chat room that they have the IRC chat, the fact that they're going live, and they typically go live 7pm Wednesdays Eastern Standard Time. And you'll hear him repeating that a lot during throughout the shows, because that's kind of one of the things that they do they go live and not that many podcasts actually go live. But once again, stay tuned for the next unique section. Because I'll I'll really focus on the live stuff there. And the the other thing is, I suppose just highlighting what your preference preferences are as well. So it talks about how they do have a PayPal if you do want to support that, but you know, they do prefer the booster grams as well. And then they also have Oh yeah, by the way, if you don't want to do either of them, you can send us stories for the show, which would be super helpful, that's less time that they have to do that. And it's also a real good indicator of oh, this is what my audience like they like this type of story. Okay, I'm gonna read this. And, you know, he did say, I might not necessarily read it if it's a crap story. But you know, we might still anyway because we appreciate the support coming back to us. So I think those are a couple of cool things there. I'm going to now go on to the long awaited something unique section. And I'm just going to play a clip here from Episode 108 called license to talk. And this is right near the end. Very, very close to the end. So the one hour 12 mark of a I think it's a one hour 16 One hour 17 minute podcast so here is the two of them. Just talking about how they're kind of going to close out the show. I have a license to torque the worst James Bond movie you want to do booster grams to close this out. We'll we'll kick the rest of this stuff. can wait till next week we already had science topics anyway we don't I don't see any Oh, you don't see any Oh shit. Oh, no booster grams during the show Yanni? No, I don't see nothing. All right. Well, I guess that leaves us with our tail between our legs. Closing the show unless Unless somebody goes boost. Right now boom. Looking at you people in the chat room.
You want to do one more story? Give them a chance. Yeah, let's do one more story. Well, the scanner the month scan of the month came through and they've they've had some stuff we haven't looked at yet. And I'm just going to skip forward here to get to the point I wanted to highlight the scan of the month.com We'll give it to you. Give it to you give it to you give it to you. And And speaking of I think we've delayed long enough that someone has given I heard a pew. Yes. Ah, here we go 200 sites from Carolyn Blaney. And she says, Remember Future Shop? How could I forget future she I remember Future Shop, we are the future either not I think Best Buy actually provides a better service. But they're both filled with like Pimply kids who know nothing, simply kids. So the fun thing here was that they altered their show to encourage more support. And it worked, you know, they got an extra 200 SATs coming in, which is super, super cool. And so this is just being able to highlight the really unique stuff that is going on with the live tag. So this is actually even just the whole process of being live, you don't even necessarily at this very moment be able to implement the live tag because there are so few podcasts doing that. I'll actually give out a little shout out here to a Twitter account called at podcast live. And this will be an automated bot which just shows every time that a show is now going live and you can listen to it on the super technical details. But essentially, you can go on to some of these new podcast apps once such as curio caster and pod verse at the moment. And you can listen to a podcast live on there, which is very cool. And then you know be able to boost through the app and do that. So So think of kind of super chats on YouTube. That's kind of the the idea that's getting going there. But essentially with live there's a couple of things that you can really do. One is Obviously, if you have a chatbot of some sort set up, you can really interact with your audience in that way and have audiences interacting with themselves. So you know, creating the kind of community in there. This is something that we do on the mere mortals where we go live, but we do YouTube, because I am not technically proficient enough to be able to do all of this in my RSS feed at the moment, hopefully, it will be getting easier in the coming weeks, months, years. And the benefit of that is also being able to really highlight your, your booster grams, up until that very moment of time. So one of the things I was noticing, when I would do to pre recorded shows per week is that there would always be this lag, I'd be reading out booster grams from, you know, five days ago, up until five days ago, but it wouldn't be at this very point in time. And people being able to, you know, hear their name being read out, and it just kind of wouldn't be relevant. So the merging of booster grams and live? Well, all I can say is that it forced me basically to start doing at least one of my shows live a week, because I wanted to get it to that very point where it was, okay, can people can listen up into the very moment and hear, okay, yes, there's the booths that I sent in through five days ago, is being read out now. And not the booths that I sent in 12 days ago, that sort of thing. So I think there's a kind of balance to be reached between altering your show to encourage support, but also not, I suppose chasing the moneymoneymoney. And, and, you know, significantly altering your, your creation. And I'm just gonna say the word selling out in a way, in a way, because it can, it can get weird, like there's a, there's definitely a point where you don't want to be changing things too much.
Because it'll actually make your show crap. Ah, and I think you just need to find what that balance is, these guys were obviously comfortable with extending this show, adding an extra story in for an extra two, three minutes of talk. And, you know, incentivizing someone to send through some, some extra support, hey, that's brilliant. I've kind of done the same, you know, I experimented with live whale ago in the past, and it was kind of like, oh, this is okay, but I prefer doing these outdoor podcasts, which is what I normally do. But, you know, the, it got to the point where I was like, Okay, this makes sense now, to really be able to go live at least once per week to, to encourage that support to keep it up to date. And so that people can, you know, hear the name and get get read out, get the hear their message get read out, so that it's relevant. And there's a feel as kind of a necessity and keeping it relevant with the value for value model, it is, based on your latest piece of work, you know, people are going to, I only want value to come in from my, from my kind of latest episodes, to be honest, like, it's because those are the best ones. And I've, I've been working even harder, you know, I've been refining my pitch, I've been getting better at creating chapter art and images and, you know, just kind of growing as a person, and I hope you do value that the show is getting better, that sort of thing. So there is just something about the going of Live, which, which I think works really, really well with with the value for value model. And yeah, it's it's something I would at least encourage trying out once or twice or even just in doesn't even have to be your full episode and your full show. But perhaps you could add like an extra little section which is like the live thinking of supporters and things like this, you know, it's, it's just something I would recommend to at least look into. So that is something unique that the rare encounter guys do. And I think they do that really well because their whole show was almost built around being live, they just go live once a week 7pm on a Wednesday Eastern Standard Time. So I think I think that's really cool. So with that being said, thanks for checking out the rare encounter show of Abel Kirby and cold acid and I'm now going to go into my very own booster Graham lounge.
Welcome to the value for value gram so we're getting a nice mix of friendly faces and new people which is really cool. I'm just going to read these out in the order that they came in. So if you want to actually get your stuff right out first Hey, you gotta be first on the first on the bandwagon as soon as the episode is released. So we have starting with Cole McCormick through fountain and he says To 833 sets and you might recognize that name because he was the host of America plus, which I reviewed last week, he said could not be happier about your words on my show. And I'm improving every moment so many promises but I am focused and have patience. That is brilliant. Cool. Thank you so much. And thank you for highlighting to me that your your your show is doing value for value and gave me a whole bunch of content. So thanks so much, man. It's just a lots of thanks and happiness all around.
We have Peter the ever ever present Peter, boosting him with a big 18 750 through fountain he says current show is the epitome of visa vie in itself giving back by talking about giving back. I am hoping to create the most meta podcast that ever existed. That is all I'm about. I'm about the head, baby. I'm about the metaverse, you know, you know me. So thank you very much, Peter. i Yeah, look, this is a fun way of of really highlighting other people's shows. And I like I really hope other people are enjoying it as well. And it's not kind of too, too circular. In a way. We've got a very familiar face for people who have seen the mere mortals before and then also even know this because I mentioned his product all the time. So boosting through fountain, the very creator or fountain or one of them it was Oscar Mary with a big 22,500 SATs. Oh, thank you, my friend, very much appreciated. He said love Cole's energy listening to him speak gives me a boost. And I know that he has seen this stuff because we're sending out some stuff on Twitter as well. Mr.
Oscar Mary. So very, very cool. Thank you very much Oscar and your fountain app is excellent. And I do appreciate it. We've got also through fountain news 505068979314292 for any sent 16 sets and he's got actually quite like this one. So it says it's got it's got a basically like a text emoji, which is created through backs, places, ELLs lines, dashes and things like that. And it's a basically a man holding up a banner. So stop being a bitch and by hashtag Bitcoin. Okay, my friend, I will do that. Thank you. And then finally, capping it off, we have 10 sets from this is the future and just says, Let's go, you Let's go. Thank you very much. So thank you everyone for contributing to the value for value show. As I always kind of say this, the show cannot continue without your support.
And every portion, every set that you send through 20% of that goes through to the creators. So in this case, 10% will be going to cold asset 10% will be going to Abel Kirby. And I think that is a really nice way to, you know, spread the love around and to not only support me, but support other people. And, you know, I've taken some great recommendations from this one that I absolutely love this week, this last week was, so it looks a lot who encouraged me to change my cover art. And he did this through a boost. So not only did he provide some monetary support, but he also gave me a fantastic recommendation. So if you look at the chapter of the art for this episode, you will see I created a little border, the saying V for V. Look, I'm not a graphic designer, I know it looks awful, but I probably will change that in the future. But hey, I've I've taken the recommendation, I've implemented it straightaway. So there we go. Thank you very much for that. So it looks a lot. And my just visa vie recommendation for this week is to Yeah, check out going live if you're a podcaster. I think there's some tremendous benefits that be gained from it, and you might not enjoy it. But I would just suggest that it can have some really great benefits, particularly if you find that you're struggling with getting people to support and boost through I think there's, from what I can tell from that Instagram account, that Twitter account that I mentioned podcasts live for the bot, I think there's probably only about six, maybe seven shows that are regularly going live.
And you know, that is a tremendous draw for you to be able to say like, I'm one of the 10 people in the world who are doing live podcasts in this manner. Check this shit out. So I think that's a it can be a tremendous draw for the value of your own show how you provide it and then also, it is very incentivizing for your audience as well because they you get that instantaneous feedback, which I think is very cool. So that is it. I think this has been a bit of a long episode today. So I hope you've tuned in to this point and to the end and until next week, my friends Kyrin out
Only the coolest of the cool go live welcome everyone to another episode of the value for value podcast. My name is Kyrin and host of the mere mortals mere mortals book reviews, go check them out, as well as the host of this show, obviously, where I dive deep into other podcasts. Indeed, it's a meta podcast deal with it, and how they implement the value for value model. So typically, I will try and find something unique that they're doing. Perhaps some things that they're wrong doing can be a little bit of a recommendation system as well. So if you enjoy supporting other shows hate this is the way to find new shows.
And in general, just talk about the value for value model, which is very different from the standard advertising model, and from paywalls. And from things like that. And so if you want to know all about that, go check out season one, but instead, in this season, I am diving deep into particular shows, and today I have a rare encounter. Now there's two hosts of the show, and I'm going to read from their bio, and it says, April Kirby and cold acid Converse on anime, they watch books and manga, they read games they play and all the tech stuff that they come across. So in my own words, I'm gonna say it's nerdy. Now, in Australian culture, I don't think nerdy is particularly an insult. It's just a way to describe people who enjoy anime and manga and things like that. So definitely put me in that category. But perhaps in American culture, I think it can be slightly insulting. So if that's the case, I'm using in the Australian way people. So they definitely do go into all of these things. I'll talk more about that in a second. But first, just the the general schedule is that they've been doing this weekly from July of 2020. And they're up to about 109 episodes and not about they are exactly at 109 episodes as we speak. The length of the show is about an hour's typically and maybe even over an hour and five hour and 10 minutes, but can sometimes dip under. And it's usually just the two of them, although I believe that they have had guests on at least one guest at some point. So usually, it's just going to be the two announcers producers. One is in America, and one is in Canada, and you will hear that accent coming through of both of them for sure. They don't particularly have any announced sections of their show, but it generally goes like this, they'll have the introduction, they'll have a drink each which they open, you hear that pitch of the can or beer opening, whatever it is, and usually it is a beer or a cider or something like that. They'll do their booster Graham section from the last week. And then they'll go into the meat and potatoes of the show, which is the you know, I've been watching narrative, I don't think they don't watch an archetype. But you know, I've been watching this anime and I really enjoyed this this thing was really cool. They'll typically find a bunch of news stories as well. So Florida man does x and you know, kind of comment, laugh on it. There's a lot of laughter and just general joviality in the in the show. They'll then talk about some interesting stories. They'll typically at the end also have a note agenda stream kind of shout out section. So other people who've been doing live podcasts and the Porter is kind of part of the no agenda, Rome, which is where these two guys maybe even met for the first time. I'm not sure how they're particularly connected. Some ISOs and clips and things like that. And then they finish off with the live booster grams.
To give you a taste of what this show sounds like. I'm going to play a section here. So this is from Episode 50. So I was about midway through that podcast, and it is cold, Beavis polls and coitus right from the beginning. is June 23 2021. This is rare encounter encounter number 50. That Hi. It's the podcasting boy of your dreams. I'm evil Kirby. And making love with his own ego. I'm cold acid 50050 right off the top. I gotta crack. Get that one out of the way. Here we go. Nice crack. I got it. Well, thank you. I've been working on it all day. It's a bunch. I've got a Macintosh unfiltered cider. It's called Original Sin.
You got a cider? I actually got a cider this time I've been threatening that for a while. I don't have a cider that did not work right. I guess there we go. I got me hurry toes again. He was I wasn't able to get out to the out to the beer store and get me my cider. Whenever I got myself a mandarin, how Tito's Mandarin hairy toes. Whatever you say hi to those. I always think of that. That Sankara Alito where it was a it was like an MMD joke. Like a like a shitpost meme back at The day where they had the was like a Mexican like a really bad pretty insensitive kind of culturally music video and they had all the vocal characters. Carlito. Who's the boy want to be, amigo, you know, it was that kind of shit. Do you remember that at all? It was wild.
No, I never thought this was cutting that, you know, it, it's, you know, the VOCALOID characters. And also, like, you know, other animate characters would show up, like stalking through the desert with no arrests, no Manyana you know, it's like this really bad music video, but it was just absolutely, absolutely insane. With all the props in it. I picked that clip specifically, because it really highlighted just what the show was about bad humor, drinking be joviality, obscure references and anime, it's pretty much all banged up into just one little package right there. So there you go there you get a taste of the the two hosts April Kirby and cold acid. So I'm going to jump on to their value for value implementation and how they typically run it on their show.
Now, I do want to highlight just at this point here that April Kirby has another show called Tablecraft, which is one that I've actually been listening to from the very start, and which started just gonna say about a year ago, and he has been doing some really cool things there. And I will highlight that podcast on here at some point, related to the music scene and being able to put musics music into a podcast and running music through value for value. Because there's a whole lot of broken shit going on with Spotify and, you know, recording rights and all those sorts of things. So he's well aware, and well on top of podcasting, 2.0, a lot of the tags now, they don't particularly implement a lot of the tags for this show, I'm not sure if they have transcripts, I definitely haven't seen chapter art, there's, there's kind of the they kind of do just what they want to be, to be fair. And so what I have seen them do, though, is the Live section. And so they have been implementing this a fair chunk. And I have already mentioned that they do booster grams right at the beginning, and then also at the end. And the reason they do that at the end is because they get some during the show. So I'm gonna just play a section here, which is not particularly that booster grounds, but how they ask for value for value. And then we can examine that a little bit more. So this is from Episode 107, touched by a muppet nice name, and it's around the 1222 mark, its value for value. So you can listen to the show for free, we don't charge you to listen. And what we all we ask that we do is you just consider if you enjoy it or not, if you have some fun and you think it's worth something to you, you can send some of that value back, you decide what it's worth, we don't eat, we're not even going to try and guess just tell us what you think it's worth, by sending us a little value we take there's Pay Pal you can send in though, our preferred way these days is SATs, which means little pieces of Bitcoin you can send through a multitude of new podcast apps that are out there, you can find them at new podcast apps.com. You can check out our show and then stream them stick them in a boost as Yes, I love it. That's a good we got to get our copy down on this, you know, I've got little notes all over my room so I can remember things. You know, like the things I'm supposed to say.
For example, I have a note on my speaker, which says rare encounter Wednesdays at 7pm. Otherwise, I'd forget when the show was, oh, geez, that's pretty bad. It's been there for two years now. So I'm told, the bottom line is if you go to rare encounter.net You can find our IRC channel and find our old episodes and everything. And you can find contact information again and send us stuff send us stories. A couple of people send us stories sometimes, and we'll play them on the show if they're good enough. They gotta be good, though.
Well, I don't know, I might still play him even if they're bad. I mean, it couldn't be worse than the content I bring every week. You want to you want to start off with some of your content. There's a couple of things to highlight from this pitch, which was mostly done by April Kirby and the first one is they had a pitch it is super, super important to to have a pitch to let people know, hey, this is what the show is about that it depends on your support, because the reason that people do not support shows is because they're not asked. Now, not everyone is going to support obviously, and the general figure, at least Adam curry says around 4% I'd say that's probably kind of similar for my show as well, for the Mere Mortals, and the you need to do the pitch. So you need to have something in there at some point letting people know now whether you do it at the very beginning at the very end, it doesn't particularly matter per se actually I won't say it doesn't particularly matter it because it does matter but it is dependent on your show. And it depends on how it runs with the flow and you need to spend the time thought energy, feeling good So of how you feel it works best, they did that pretty close to the start, I would say of of that one. So around the 12 minute mark of a hour long podcast, I typically do it around the middle of my show of the Mere Mortals where we kind of do our booster grams then, which is once a week for the live. And I'll kind of touch upon this more in the in the unique section that these guys do. But I will also sometimes do it in the kind of pre recording and just highlight Oh, hey, before the actual show starts.
So this is kind of like on the YouTube section before the bang off time really gets kicks in. Yep, this is value for value. Just a reminder to anyone listening, watching, hey, we ask that you send it back. So super important that you do that, obviously, I think it's also important to highlight your unique aspects or the things that you do really well in there. So he was talking about the the chat room that they have the IRC chat, the fact that they're going live, and they typically go live 7pm Wednesdays Eastern Standard Time. And you'll hear him repeating that a lot during throughout the shows, because that's kind of one of the things that they do they go live and not that many podcasts actually go live. But once again, stay tuned for the next unique section. Because I'll I'll really focus on the live stuff there. And the the other thing is, I suppose just highlighting what your preference preferences are as well. So it talks about how they do have a PayPal if you do want to support that, but you know, they do prefer the booster grams as well. And then they also have Oh yeah, by the way, if you don't want to do either of them, you can send us stories for the show, which would be super helpful, that's less time that they have to do that. And it's also a real good indicator of oh, this is what my audience like they like this type of story. Okay, I'm gonna read this. And, you know, he did say, I might not necessarily read it if it's a crap story. But you know, we might still anyway because we appreciate the support coming back to us. So I think those are a couple of cool things there. I'm going to now go on to the long awaited something unique section. And I'm just going to play a clip here from Episode 108 called license to talk. And this is right near the end. Very, very close to the end. So the one hour 12 mark of a I think it's a one hour 16 One hour 17 minute podcast so here is the two of them. Just talking about how they're kind of going to close out the show. I have a license to torque the worst James Bond movie you want to do booster grams to close this out. We'll we'll kick the rest of this stuff. can wait till next week we already had science topics anyway we don't I don't see any Oh, you don't see any Oh shit. Oh, no booster grams during the show Yanni? No, I don't see nothing. All right. Well, I guess that leaves us with our tail between our legs. Closing the show unless Unless somebody goes boost. Right now boom. Looking at you people in the chat room.
You want to do one more story? Give them a chance. Yeah, let's do one more story. Well, the scanner the month scan of the month came through and they've they've had some stuff we haven't looked at yet. And I'm just going to skip forward here to get to the point I wanted to highlight the scan of the month.com We'll give it to you. Give it to you give it to you give it to you. And And speaking of I think we've delayed long enough that someone has given I heard a pew. Yes. Ah, here we go 200 sites from Carolyn Blaney. And she says, Remember Future Shop? How could I forget future she I remember Future Shop, we are the future either not I think Best Buy actually provides a better service. But they're both filled with like Pimply kids who know nothing, simply kids. So the fun thing here was that they altered their show to encourage more support. And it worked, you know, they got an extra 200 SATs coming in, which is super, super cool. And so this is just being able to highlight the really unique stuff that is going on with the live tag. So this is actually even just the whole process of being live, you don't even necessarily at this very moment be able to implement the live tag because there are so few podcasts doing that. I'll actually give out a little shout out here to a Twitter account called at podcast live. And this will be an automated bot which just shows every time that a show is now going live and you can listen to it on the super technical details. But essentially, you can go on to some of these new podcast apps once such as curio caster and pod verse at the moment. And you can listen to a podcast live on there, which is very cool. And then you know be able to boost through the app and do that. So So think of kind of super chats on YouTube. That's kind of the the idea that's getting going there. But essentially with live there's a couple of things that you can really do. One is Obviously, if you have a chatbot of some sort set up, you can really interact with your audience in that way and have audiences interacting with themselves. So you know, creating the kind of community in there. This is something that we do on the mere mortals where we go live, but we do YouTube, because I am not technically proficient enough to be able to do all of this in my RSS feed at the moment, hopefully, it will be getting easier in the coming weeks, months, years. And the benefit of that is also being able to really highlight your, your booster grams, up until that very moment of time. So one of the things I was noticing, when I would do to pre recorded shows per week is that there would always be this lag, I'd be reading out booster grams from, you know, five days ago, up until five days ago, but it wouldn't be at this very point in time. And people being able to, you know, hear their name being read out, and it just kind of wouldn't be relevant. So the merging of booster grams and live? Well, all I can say is that it forced me basically to start doing at least one of my shows live a week, because I wanted to get it to that very point where it was, okay, can people can listen up into the very moment and hear, okay, yes, there's the booths that I sent in through five days ago, is being read out now. And not the booths that I sent in 12 days ago, that sort of thing. So I think there's a kind of balance to be reached between altering your show to encourage support, but also not, I suppose chasing the moneymoneymoney. And, and, you know, significantly altering your, your creation. And I'm just gonna say the word selling out in a way, in a way, because it can, it can get weird, like there's a, there's definitely a point where you don't want to be changing things too much.
Because it'll actually make your show crap. Ah, and I think you just need to find what that balance is, these guys were obviously comfortable with extending this show, adding an extra story in for an extra two, three minutes of talk. And, you know, incentivizing someone to send through some, some extra support, hey, that's brilliant. I've kind of done the same, you know, I experimented with live whale ago in the past, and it was kind of like, oh, this is okay, but I prefer doing these outdoor podcasts, which is what I normally do. But, you know, the, it got to the point where I was like, Okay, this makes sense now, to really be able to go live at least once per week to, to encourage that support to keep it up to date. And so that people can, you know, hear the name and get get read out, get the hear their message get read out, so that it's relevant. And there's a feel as kind of a necessity and keeping it relevant with the value for value model, it is, based on your latest piece of work, you know, people are going to, I only want value to come in from my, from my kind of latest episodes, to be honest, like, it's because those are the best ones. And I've, I've been working even harder, you know, I've been refining my pitch, I've been getting better at creating chapter art and images and, you know, just kind of growing as a person, and I hope you do value that the show is getting better, that sort of thing. So there is just something about the going of Live, which, which I think works really, really well with with the value for value model. And yeah, it's it's something I would at least encourage trying out once or twice or even just in doesn't even have to be your full episode and your full show. But perhaps you could add like an extra little section which is like the live thinking of supporters and things like this, you know, it's, it's just something I would recommend to at least look into. So that is something unique that the rare encounter guys do. And I think they do that really well because their whole show was almost built around being live, they just go live once a week 7pm on a Wednesday Eastern Standard Time. So I think I think that's really cool. So with that being said, thanks for checking out the rare encounter show of Abel Kirby and cold acid and I'm now going to go into my very own booster Graham lounge.
Welcome to the value for value gram so we're getting a nice mix of friendly faces and new people which is really cool. I'm just going to read these out in the order that they came in. So if you want to actually get your stuff right out first Hey, you gotta be first on the first on the bandwagon as soon as the episode is released. So we have starting with Cole McCormick through fountain and he says To 833 sets and you might recognize that name because he was the host of America plus, which I reviewed last week, he said could not be happier about your words on my show. And I'm improving every moment so many promises but I am focused and have patience. That is brilliant. Cool. Thank you so much. And thank you for highlighting to me that your your your show is doing value for value and gave me a whole bunch of content. So thanks so much, man. It's just a lots of thanks and happiness all around.
We have Peter the ever ever present Peter, boosting him with a big 18 750 through fountain he says current show is the epitome of visa vie in itself giving back by talking about giving back. I am hoping to create the most meta podcast that ever existed. That is all I'm about. I'm about the head, baby. I'm about the metaverse, you know, you know me. So thank you very much, Peter. i Yeah, look, this is a fun way of of really highlighting other people's shows. And I like I really hope other people are enjoying it as well. And it's not kind of too, too circular. In a way. We've got a very familiar face for people who have seen the mere mortals before and then also even know this because I mentioned his product all the time. So boosting through fountain, the very creator or fountain or one of them it was Oscar Mary with a big 22,500 SATs. Oh, thank you, my friend, very much appreciated. He said love Cole's energy listening to him speak gives me a boost. And I know that he has seen this stuff because we're sending out some stuff on Twitter as well. Mr.
Oscar Mary. So very, very cool. Thank you very much Oscar and your fountain app is excellent. And I do appreciate it. We've got also through fountain news 505068979314292 for any sent 16 sets and he's got actually quite like this one. So it says it's got it's got a basically like a text emoji, which is created through backs, places, ELLs lines, dashes and things like that. And it's a basically a man holding up a banner. So stop being a bitch and by hashtag Bitcoin. Okay, my friend, I will do that. Thank you. And then finally, capping it off, we have 10 sets from this is the future and just says, Let's go, you Let's go. Thank you very much. So thank you everyone for contributing to the value for value show. As I always kind of say this, the show cannot continue without your support.
And every portion, every set that you send through 20% of that goes through to the creators. So in this case, 10% will be going to cold asset 10% will be going to Abel Kirby. And I think that is a really nice way to, you know, spread the love around and to not only support me, but support other people. And, you know, I've taken some great recommendations from this one that I absolutely love this week, this last week was, so it looks a lot who encouraged me to change my cover art. And he did this through a boost. So not only did he provide some monetary support, but he also gave me a fantastic recommendation. So if you look at the chapter of the art for this episode, you will see I created a little border, the saying V for V. Look, I'm not a graphic designer, I know it looks awful, but I probably will change that in the future. But hey, I've I've taken the recommendation, I've implemented it straightaway. So there we go. Thank you very much for that. So it looks a lot. And my just visa vie recommendation for this week is to Yeah, check out going live if you're a podcaster. I think there's some tremendous benefits that be gained from it, and you might not enjoy it. But I would just suggest that it can have some really great benefits, particularly if you find that you're struggling with getting people to support and boost through I think there's, from what I can tell from that Instagram account, that Twitter account that I mentioned podcasts live for the bot, I think there's probably only about six, maybe seven shows that are regularly going live.
And you know, that is a tremendous draw for you to be able to say like, I'm one of the 10 people in the world who are doing live podcasts in this manner. Check this shit out. So I think that's a it can be a tremendous draw for the value of your own show how you provide it and then also, it is very incentivizing for your audience as well because they you get that instantaneous feedback, which I think is very cool. So that is it. I think this has been a bit of a long episode today. So I hope you've tuned in to this point and to the end and until next week, my friends Kyrin out
