It takes me about 12 hours of study,
every week to put together the 2 shows.
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Welcome to another episode of About Podcasting.
And in this episode, I talk with Joe Rasiello
from the Sword of the Spirit podcast.
He does this podcast twice a week live in the podcast apps, which is impressive.
We talk about his experience in broadcasting,
why he started this podcast,
and how he prepares for it, which sometimes takes him 12 hours of study,
and what his workflow is.
And, Joy,
what got you into
podcasting and and audio slash broadcasting in the first place?
Well, it's very interesting.
This isn't my first rodeo with podcasting.
Mhmm. Alright? I have tried to do this podcast
under different names, same format, same style, same everything, under different names, at least 3 other times over the over the couple of years over a few years.
And,
just never went anywhere, and I I usually pull the plug on it after about 8 or 10 episodes because there was just no traction whatsoever.
No listening, no listeners, no downloads, nothing, just dead.
And,
I, just I don't know. It was just like some somewhere around April 15th of 22, I I just I don't know. I kinda felt this, like, nudging, like, in the back of the head, you know, saying, hey, we got some work to do. Let's get started.
And I'm like, oh man, I don't want to do this or not, you know, but I did.
I started it off. I was, I was recording.
I had this really
junky, crappy mic
that just picked up every sound. It was,
just terrible, terrible mic. And, I
I sat in a garage,
and I recorded I recorded those first few episodes in a garage.
And,
oh, boy. You can tell it's terrible. Absolutely horrible.
As a matter of fact, I was talking to Claude. We were we were talking Claude, my producer, we we were talking about, going back and revisiting those things and maybe redoing
them just to get rid of the evidence of the of the terrible, terrible quality.
But,
but that's this in in incarnation of the podcast. It started, I wanna say,
back when,
Blog Talk Radio was the place to be on podcasting.
And I had a show on there. It was called Redeeming the Time, and it was myself and a a guy from the church I was attending at the time. And, again, similar similar setup, except there was 2 of us, and we we'd have some banter back and forth and which kinda made it go through, but no following. None whatsoever.
So we pulled the plug on that, and then I tried it again and nothing. And I tried it again and nothing.
And now here we are. Here we
are, 2 years into this 170.
Today will be 100. Today's episode will be 172.
And, you know,
we have over
between all the different host platforms that I've been on since we started to start out with Anchor, which went to Spotify and Spreaker and now with you.
Over all of those, we have we're we're close to about
80, 90,000 downloads,
which which is just unbelievable. It blows me away.
And, and again, there are times where I want to throw it out the window and say, you know what? I still want to do this anymore. I'm tired. You know, it takes a lot of work to to do the Bible studies. You know, it really does.
But, my interest in it really started back in July of 2000
because I got saved. I became a Christian
after listening to a radio broadcast
on an AM station in New York City.
And
I think that's probably the reason why I have such an attraction to this is because that's how I came to know the Lord.
And
and I feel like ever since then, that's something that I wanted to do, some type of ministry like this. And,
you know, just all the all the attempts to do it just wasn't in the Lord's time. It was I was trying to do it on my own, but now I waited for him to do it. And now I'm seeing the benefits of it. I've met some amazing people,
as, as as folks that have been listening to the podcast.
I've, over the years, I've gotten
quite a few emails from folk. There there was one there was one guy, and I'm gonna shout him out. His name is Al.
He sent me an email right at the peak of everything that was going on,
at that point that we talked about earlier.
And, like, I don't know. He just picked up on it. Like, I don't know if the Lord let him know something was going on or gave
him an, maybe a little insight as to what was going on, but he sent me this beautiful email
telling me that, everything you know, just just to just trust in the Lord, everything's gonna work out, whatever it is that you're going through, because I never mentioned it, never told anybody on the show about it, never brought it up.
Because he's like, I can hear it. I can tell. Something's wrong. Something's not right.
You know, just stick with it. Stay faithful, and God will bless you. And you know what? That meant a lot to me. I really did.
And, you know, it's it's been an uphill thing from there, and it's been a blessing. Yeah. We have a good days and bad days, of course. You know, every everybody does.
Every podcast does. You have days where you you don't have anything going on traffic wise, and then you have days where it's like, wow. Where did that come from?
But it's it's been a blessing. It really has. And, one of the things that we're working on with Claude is as I was looking at where we're where we've been heard over the years,
I've realized that we've touched just about every continent on the plane,
but I've also done secular radio.
Back in 2016,
2017,
I had a an Internet radio show with, 3 of my buddies up in New York, and, we had a great time doing it, but it was purely secular. It was,
it was a combination of politics,
whether it was,
national politics or hate that term national, but whether it was national politics or whether it was just local, you know, city state stuff.
We did a whole bunch of different kinds of segments,
you know, try to make people laugh.
People did not wanna be interviewed by us because they didn't know if you were being serious or not.
That was kind of the way we had it set up.
And
it was a it was a lot of fun. We did it for about a year and a half, and then I came to Texas. So we that's when we ended up pulling the plug on it. But it was a lot of fun and probably some of the best feedback we got,
because we were we were,
we were broadcasting it on 3 different
Internet
stations, I guess you'd call them. I don't know what they would call them now, but them used to call them stations. And,
each one had their own little thing. And one of them had a chat group, a live chat group. And it was it was great to read the
the the comments going in the chat group. And I'll never forget there was one because this one guy hit the nail on the head when he the way he described the way the show was for him.
He said that he felt like the the show was,
how do you put it? Just flipped out of my head. He felt like when he was listening to us, he was hanging out in his backyard around the barbecue with a couple of beers
just just shooting the crap of the guys.
And that's exactly what we wanted it to be. And so that was great, and we had a great time doing that. It's a lot of fun. I was the conservative voice on the show, and then my my buddy, Jay, was he was the more far left,
voice of the show. And then we had another Joe,
who he was the the media the moderate guy. He was the
not so much left, not so much right centrist, but more libertarian
than,
you know, Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, anything like that. So he was the voice of reason.
So when when Jay and I would argue, which we would do frequently, but a lot of it was set up, you know, a lot of it was planned.
We would argue and,
Joe would be the voice of moderation between the 2 of us. He needs to settle us both down and all that kind of stuff. There was one it was one show we did. We were talking about,
government funded health care.
And,
Jay was
heavily in favor of that for his own personal reasons because he had some health issues that he needed to have taken care of. He didn't have his own insurance. He couldn't get the insurance because
it was a preexisting condition, so on and so forth. And I remember we got into this argument on the show, and,
the next show, I came in with copies of the constitution of the United States, everybody.
And I was like, here. And I threw it at him. I was like, here. You find where it says in that thing that you're entitled to to to health care and I'll side with you. Until then, shut up.
But
it was all in good fun. After the show was over, we had a great laugh. We sat around, had a meal, and it was always fun. We always had a great time.
Yeah. I think that works well when you have cohosts, especially if you could do that in the same location.
You you can, you know, you can vibe off of each other, and it's much more entertaining for listeners as well than, listening
to one voice.
It's it's just very difficult. People Yeah. Feel like you're part of a conversation.
Yeah. I tend to feel like when you're when you're by yourself, especially for me because,
I don't know. Like, my my pastor said to me one day that,
he goes, you sound like grandpa sitting by the fire telling the kids a story.
I'm like, well, that's great. That's exactly not what I wanted to be like, but okay.
I I appreciate that. And then I had somebody else tell me that my voice can put an insomniac to sleep.
So I'm like, that's
great. Compliment. Yeah.
So if you fall asleep, I'll, you know, we'll I'll wake you up tomorrow.
But,
but, yeah, I mean, it's it's it's much better, I think, and more fun
because the conversation can go in any direction that you maybe not even prepared for, and that's great for a bunch of laughs. I love to laugh. I like to listen to things that are gonna make me laugh and also make me think at the same time. That's why with my show, I try to throw
as much
light humor into it as I can.
It's hard when you're doing it by yourself because, you know, you tell a joke, you want a punch line, you want you're expecting to hear some kind of reaction. So I have I mean, I have audio tracks. I have you know, I could play, like, artificial clapping, but that's kind of cheesy.
You know?
Yeah.
But it's, it's it's I don't know. It's it's
I would love to have somebody to do the show with, and that's that's also a nod that Claude Claude and I are gonna be doing something together very soon.
And we're we're we're still working on that. But I know he's he's overwhelmed. He's not just working with me. He's working with a bunch of other podcasts as well, plus his own projects. So,
so currently, with your show, Disorder of the Spirit podcast,
what is your goal with it?
To reach as many people I can with the truth of the gospel as quickly as I can
and clearly as I can.
You know, that's that's the most important thing right now.
I don't know where you stand, religiously. You know?
I'm not gonna beat you over the head with what I believe or anything like that right now, but I'll do that in another time privately.
When you when you look at that at the Bible,
so I I am of a position where I look at the Word of God, the Bible as the Word of God. That's it. There's no higher authority on this earth than that.
That book has been proven. It has proven itself over and over and over again. And one way I know that that's the word of God is because that book
described me perfectly.
So that book said I'm a sinner. I'm on my way to hell. And I I I've done this. I've done I've I've said things I shouldn't have said. I've I've,
thought things I shouldn't have thought.
Greed,
you name it.
It was in there, and it's in that book. And every time I look at that book, it reminds me of that of who I was
until I met Jesus Christ. And when I say I met Jesus Christ, I don't mean like he came and stood in front of me and said, hey. How are you doing, Joe? You know, it's not that,
you know. I met Jesus Christ through reading his book,
and I believe that that's his book. It was yes. There were 40 different authors spaced out over 15, 1600 years
putting that whole book together. But there's yet a unity that goes from Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 all the way through to Revelation 22.
There is a unity that goes through that thing. And if you read it in its entirety
and not just cherry pick your favorite spots out of it, if you read it through its entirety, you see the theme and the pattern that goes right through it all the way through the end. There is no humanly way possible
that 40 authors
can can put together 66 books
spaced out over 15 to 1600 years of time
that has that type of
continuity to it.
So so I firmly believe that that's his book, and that's how, you know, he he, he revealed himself to me through his word. So I I take it very, very seriously, and I I don't know why where I'm going with this. I just completely lost track of the question that you asked me. I'm sorry.
But,
you know, I
it's so important today that's where I'm going. The it's so important today to get the word of God out there, to get the message of the gospel out there. Because if you read the book and you study the book carefully, you do realize and you look at what's going on around you politically,
it's all in the book.
It's all there every every step of the way, and we are very, very close to those last days. As a matter of fact, I I said it recently in one of the shows, we are in you
know, know, we've been in the last days since since, Christ was crucified. We've been in the last days, but now we are in the last days of the last days.
And it's it's extremely important that that people understand that that Jesus Christ
is God manifest in the flesh.
He
put off his deity,
not entirely, but he put off his deity. He came to Earth, put on the
human flesh,
went to the cross to pay for our sin debt.
And that's the message that I have to get out there, and that's the message that I feel like,
it's probably the most important message
that we have to give today. It's about in in my type of podcast, you know, in my type of bible study,
That is important. We have to get the the gospel message out there. It is so incredibly important. Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh. Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay for your sins. The gospel message is very simply three parts. It's the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the only thing that he asks
is that you put your faith, your full faith, trust and confidence in that work
because he did it for you.
And that's a very powerful message.
And, you know, not everybody receives it, unfortunately, but but those that do, it's life changing. It was for me. I know what I was before I got saved.
Have I lived the perfect life since? No, absolutely not. Nobody can. It's impossible to. You know, I'm still I may be I may be saved. I may be born again,
but that's my spirit's born again.
My flesh is still my flesh. You know, I'm still this is still, you know,
corruptible flesh. This is still this is still
clinging on to worldly things. So it's a battle between
the new creature and the old creature. You know, the new creature wants to do right. The old creature wants to do wrong.
And
which way are you gonna go?
Yeah.
So that's the message that we try to get out there.
And, I think that's it's incredibly important today to get that message out.
So that that's very good,
why that you have there.
What what I find, that is difficult for people, especially when you make lots and lots of content and lots and lots of episodes.
Do you ever do you foresee that you're gonna run out of content?
Sometimes I feel like I do. Like, I I get I get what I call preacher's block
from time to time. You know, you have writer's block. I get preacher's block sometimes, and I'll struggle a little bit, and I'll try to find, you know, something. And
the one thing I don't like to do is I don't like to reach into the files, if if if you know what I mean. It's a it's a maybe it's a preacher thing. I don't know. But when I went to bible school,
one of my Bible instructors basically said that, you know, if if
if you constantly have to go into old material,
then you shouldn't be at the pulpit.
Yeah. Because you're not doing something right.
You need to reevaluate how you're approaching the scripture. You need to reevaluate how you're approaching your ministry. So you should always be looking for something new and fresh.
Now, confession, of course, I've gone into the file. I've done it.
I did it a couple of weeks ago and I let folks know and and basically what it was. It was the message I did on the the 5 dark valleys of life.
And, I was going through some old stuff that I had sitting here in in in some boxes from when I moved down and
I was looking at some things, and I was like,
man, I I'll never preach this again. This is like this is just not my style anymore. You know? I don't do this anymore. I don't I don't I don't teach like this anymore. So I'm throwing things away, and and I came across that one message, you know, the 5 dark valleys. And and,
the Lord kind of just, like, nudged me a little bit. Hey. Let's take a look at this one again.
I'm like, really?
I don't I don't teach like this.
And, and the reason why I say that is because I I I I put that message together when I was very early on in my Christian walk. I've been saved about 23 years,
24 years. And,
I started teaching Bible very early. Like, I I jumped right into it. And,
this was a message that I had put together
very early on in my in my in my ministry,
and It's loaded
loaded with illustrations, which is very common for a young preacher. You know, you find a text and you just get a whole bunch of illustrations to try to paint the picture of the text instead of just dealing with the text as it is.
And there's nothing wrong with that. It's just but that's just like a that's just a mark of a young preacher, you know, someone who who's still learning the way to do it.
And not that I'm any professional expert on this. I'm not by far, but
but I looked at that message and I was like, okay, well, let's let's try to let's try to work on this. And I was going through one of those periods where I just was a little dry on things. I was coming to the end of the Thursday night series because what I do is on Thursday nights, I have a series that I do like a like a Bible study series.
And then on Sunday, it's just like a topical message, something
just relevant to the day or some particular lesson that that Lord kind of led me to just to bring out.
So
I was coming to the end of the series that I was doing, and I was stuck. I was like, I don't know where I'm going. I have, like, 3 different ideas to do that.
And for the Thursday night, and then I said, oh, man,
it's Friday.
I have nothing ready for Sunday.
So
I said, oh, okay. I guess I'll I'll I'll dip into the file. And that's when I came across that one and said, alright. Well, I'll try it. But,
but, yeah, there there is that that concern sometimes where, you know, what am I gonna do next? Yeah.
Can I don't think you can ever really run out of material
in with with the scripture because every time you look at the scripture,
you might see something you could read it a hundred times, and you might see something different each time you read it? You might catch a little something.
You know?
I think that God does that with his with his word. I think that, if you're if you're not ready to receive
something,
he's gonna kinda blind you to it. You're not gonna see it until he's ready to reveal it to you.
And,
and I think that's what it was. You know, that's I think that's what happens.
I'll I'll when I get a text that I'm gonna be preaching, I'll I'll read that text sometimes 30, 40 times before I even
sit down and try to build an outline for it, you know, because I don't know exactly how God's gonna have me,
develop it, You know? And there have been times too where I've I've put together an outline, and and I've looked it over, and I'm like, okay. Let's let's put some meat on the bones here.
And,
God just said, nah. Let's do something different. So I just lord, I just I just spent
2 hours. You know?
Let's do something different.
Yeah. You know? So it's just Okay. So that's yeah. There's lots of material
and
new insights, new interpretations that can give you material,
or new new episodes. That's great.
And so maybe we can go through how you actually do it because you do actually,
something that not a lot of podcasters do, which is a live podcast, live in the podcast apps. So with audio
right there.
The how do you do that? And and
what
what goes next? So what is your workflow kinda?
Well,
I I I I like the idea of doing a live podcast because it it's
keeps me disciplined.
I know that I have it. I have to be ready at a certain time on a certain day
and have everything I need, all my ducks in a row,
and have everything set up because I know that there are people waiting.
You know, there there are folks that have been listening to the show for a long time,
since since the early early days when I first started it.
And,
you know, I I in a lot of ways, I feel like I need to make sure that, you know, if I'm telling you that I'm gonna be on the air at a certain time, then I'm gonna be there.
So it keeps me disciplined in in managing my time. It also keeps me disciplined in my study
because
I feel like when when I'm recording something, I I can get lazy. You know? That's that's that's, you know, just honestly,
oh, okay. I I I can I can wait a little bit? You know? No rush. And, you know, I I can even if I upload it late Thursday, and it's fine. You know? It's whatever. As long as it gets out, you know, whatever.
That doesn't work for me because that's what happens. And I start getting lazy, and before I know it, you know,
it it just doesn't flow right.
And and then when I'm actually recording it,
you may not pick it up when you listen to the show live because they're you know, I make a lot of mistakes. You know, I'm not not perfect. But
when I'm recording it,
I have to I I get the opportunity to stop it and start it again if it's not too far into it or market. So, okay, I'll just cut this out or cut that out. Man, when you're live,
you gotta be quick. If you make a mistake, you gotta be able to pick up the piece and go on.
You need to you need to be able to think quick, you know, because there have been plenty of times where I've said some things that, you know, oh, you
know, and you gotta back it up really quick and you gotta be thinking quick. You gotta you gotta it keeps you sharp. It keeps you disciplined. And,
it keeps us also, I think, authentic.
You know,
a lot of times you listen to some of these,
recorded podcasts
and it just sounds so
sterile You
know, I don't know if that's the right word or not, but it just to me, that's what it sounds like. It sounds sterile. It sounds like it's been like filtered and and processed, and it it everything is just perfect. And there's not one,
there's not one breath. There's not one pause, you know, for like, oh, man. I just pressed something I shouldn't have pressed. You know? It's none of that.
And I think,
I don't like it. You know, I really don't.
But,
so for me,
I like to do I like to do it live. And and like I said, it keeps me disciplined. It keeps you on point with my studies. It keeps me on a time schedule.
And,
You know it it it's I also think that in a lot of ways, it's kind of an attraction to some folks when you talk to them, you know Like I have I have a bunch of these little cards I don't have one in front of me But, I have the bunch of little cards just has the name of the show on at the website
little barcode thing or, the QR code in the back so you can scan and take them right to the player page on the website.
And I tell them, hey. You know what?
If you're interested, I you know, I have a I I do a live podcast, 2 days a week, Sundays Thursdays. This time this time this time, why don't you check it out?
Really? You do live? Where do you do it from?
Well, I have a studio at my house. Really? Wow. That's pretty interesting. So and they'll take it, and I may get a listen or 2 out of it. You know? I don't know. And I noticed too, like, one of your recent,
interviews that you did,
he was talking about why we have to, you know, why do a lot of podcasters,
like, imitate radio? It's like like secular like regular radio shows. And I thought about that. It's like, yeah. You know what? He's right because a lot of the stuff that I do is very similar to what I'd be doing if I was on a radio show. Why am I doing that? Why am I doing so? That kind of has been making me since I've heard since I listened to the episode that you did.
I've been really thinking about reformatting how I'm doing it.
And so we'll see. We'll see. But, and that's a testament to what you're doing, too. I mean, you do some great podcast, Barry. I really do. And I love the about podcasting series that you've been doing. That's that's been great.
The improving barrier, you gotta do some more of those, brother.
Yeah. Maybe
if I can find time.
I'm really now on on this kickoff about podcasting. So talk to podcasters like you and people that create podcast tools,
because I find that very interesting,
workflows, wise,
goals, all that type of stuff. Well, I know you asked about my workflow. So,
I have,
basically, what what I do is
I work mostly on the Thursday night stuff. Like, I'll start working on my Thursday night shows,
Mondays.
So I have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
to read,
read,
and read,
and then
write an outline
and then, get everything put together. And I'm usually
I'm usually I'm about
like, right now, I'm I'm
3 weeks ahead of myself
for my Thursday nights.
So the lesson that I'll be teaching tonight, I actually prepared about
3 weeks ago.
And now I already have
the next one is already ready to go.
And then the following Thursday, like, I'm the series is gonna be about 7 weeks, so I have about 4 of the 7 weeks already ready to go.
Sundays are a little bit different. Sundays, like, usually,
because I put so much time into the Thursday night
show. Sundays usually it's kind of like a rush deal. I'll get to work on that. Usually Thursday night, right after I finish
the Thursday night show, I start outlining
Sunday.
But I'm thinking all week long about what I'm talking about, what I'm gonna be doing.
You know, even though I have my shows already my notes are already ready for the Thursday stuff, I'm still thinking about, well, what can I do different? How can I fix it? How could I change this? Does that sound right? Am I gonna is gonna be clear enough? And I'm always working on editing it.
It takes me about it takes me about 12 hours of study,
every week to put together the 2 shows, which I don't know if that's average for most podcasters doing their shows. I plan them out. I try to do it as butt as much as I possibly can, but then, of course, life gets in the way. I work a regular job. I I I work in, a nursing home. I I am the I'm the director for maintenance and life safety for a nursing home here in Texas.
And it's,
that's pretty demanding because you're on call 247.
You know, it it takes a lot of time out of your day. Like, I have I like I wanna get back into,
like, with Claude. I wanna do something like I was doing back in New York, that that type of,
you know, anything and everything type type podcast. And,
you know, so I wanna kinda branch out just a little bit. But,
you know, it's it's all on the lord's timing. It's whatever he wants me to do. And here I am. So that's my workflow. I I put a lot of time and a lot of study into this. And like I said, it takes about 12 hours of study every week just just to do the the the two shows that I do.
And,
so after you record your live, right, you do the prep, you do the
live, then what happens?
I cry and sleep and molest them.
I get that on my knees and I just say, praise the Lord. It's over. No kidding.
Honestly, as soon as it's done and
and, and, again, because it's live, I don't really edit anything. So that's pretty much what I do.
Okay. And and then you mentioned already Claude, which is your editor. Right? Yeah. He's my producer. Yep. Your producer?
Does he then, take that file and, upload it to Pod Home and and do all the the things, like chapters and stuff? No. No. Actually, I do that.
But,
I'll do all that, you know, as soon as it's uploaded as soon as it's done going, I'll upload it into Podholme, and I'll I'll review the chapters and stuff, and I'll make sure that the, I'll make sure the, the transcript is is is good because I noticed that,
sometimes it takes pod home dot f m, and it splits it.
And it doesn't say and it doesn't say pod home. It says, pot home.
So,
so I gotta fix that. I don't want people to think that here's this preacher out here pushing pot. You know?
You know? But,
but, yeah, like, if you do that, there's nothing wrong with it. You know? It's up to you. It's up you know, it's between you and the Lord. But,
so I I look for those little little things
and then, I just do the final the the finishing touches to it and send it on its way and sit back and watch the notifications because I I do I do look to see where it's it's uploading to to make sure that it's get actually getting out there. So I have I have little, like, little accounts on pretty much all the Yeah. Podcasting apps. So I just watch the phone go ding ding ding ding ding. It's okay. Good. It's there. It's there. It's there. It's there. It's good. We're good to go.
And that's it. And then I'll I'll I'll probably
9 out of 10 times, I'll listen to it myself, like,
later that day or or that night or maybe the next day.
Yeah. And then I'm I'm very critical of myself. Like, I'll listen to it. I'll be like, oh my god. What? No. Why'd you say that? Oh, oh, oh, you can hear this. Oh, you can hear that stupid fan in the background.
Yeah. You know? And then I start playing around with the with the thing you know because I've been sending you I've been sending you audio.
So I'm messing with this and
but, but, yeah, that's that's pretty much how I how I go about it. It takes up a lot of time and it but it's a blessing. I I love it. I wouldn't I I don't think I wouldn't wanna do anything else.
From a technical standpoint, that's a nice and clean
workflow. Right? Pretty easy, technically.
The wait is in the in the preparation and actually doing the thing. That's what I what I'm saying is. Yeah. So that that's good. That's good if we at least help from a Pothome standpoint to make it easy. Well, I'll tell you, coming over to Pothome from my previous,
host platforms has been just
seamless. It's been easy.
And and any any small technical thing, you've been great with helping get it getting it cleared up right away. And you've been a great resource because because again, put a put the bible in front of me, put a few texts in front of me, and I I'll figure that whole thing out. But when it comes to some of the technical stuff,
I'm I'm I'm just not
up to speed completely.
And you've been great, and I appreciate everything that you've been doing, especially with with the platform itself and and all the changes you've been making. And and and it's just such a seamless flow,
and, I appreciate that. It made it so easy to make the trans the transition over. And then, of course, you know, having Claude too helps because he takes care of a lot of the little technical things and,
you know, he'll reach out to different platforms and say, hey, what's going on with this and going on with that?
So it's it's a team effort.
Yeah. I couldn't agree more. I'm very happy that,
now there is something that enables podcasts
like yours and many others to reach lots of people. Right? They catch the the episodes in their podcast apps, and then they can enjoy them, whenever they want. This is great.
Facilitation.
Why don't we,
pivot to maybe you can
tell podcasters or aspiring podcasters
some tips about
how they can succeed in whatever their goals is for their
podcast.
What are the things, the most important things that you've learned over the years?
Not much.
No. I'm kidding.
Consistency.
I I think consistency is key. You you you need if if you're gonna if you're gonna promote that your show is gonna be available at this time, at this date,
Make it sure make sure it's there that time and that date.
Always look to improve
the quality of the product that you're putting out.
Sometimes it could just be
changing a mic. Sometimes it could be upgrading your your your mixer board. It it could be
as simply it could be as simple as as who you have on the show with you.
Always look to improve. Always look to to to stay
focused on what your mission is. Don't
don't get so antsy and stray.
Stay true to what you have. Stay true to what you believe, and stay true to the direction that you you see your your show going.
And, again, consistency. I think that's the main thing.
You have a show going on at 7 o'clock or you're uploading a show at 7 o'clock on a certain day, upload the show at 7 o'clock on a certain day because you don't know how many people are actually waiting for it.
You know?
So that much I've learned.
Okay. I think consistency
is also very important because,
podcasts are figures that fit into people's lives. Right? So,
for instance, every,
Friday evening, I know there's a podcasting 2 point o,
live going on. I usually don't catch it live, but I do download it on Saturday morning. And when it isn't there, then I'm missing that from my life. I'm really
it's a gap because, I want it. I wanna listen to it. Yeah. For sure. For sure. I'm like that too. There's there's so many podcasts that I like to listen to that, that if they're live, I I if I can't catch a live, I make sure that I have it ready.
Usually, my Saturday mornings when I'm having my morning coffee, I'll I'll listen to there's a couple of podcasts that I specifically go to on a Saturday morning.
Like podcasting 2.0 is one I listen to, and I'll I'll catch up on, no agenda,
you know, when I'm from from Thursday. You know? And if I if I don't get it, if I don't see it, like, if if it's not there, then I'm disappointed. I'm like, oh, man. What am I gonna do for the next hour?
You know? And it's just and it happens
regularly, then you're like, alright. Forget it. I'll find something new. Yeah. That's Yeah. That's true. Okay.
So,
where can people go to find out more about your show and you?
Well, we have our website. You can go to, sword of the spirit podcast.com.
I would love to have a shorter name for the website, but, unfortunately, there there are so many Sword of the Spirits out there that I can't find one shorter than that.
But, definitely swordofthespiritpodcast.com.
Email me info at swordofthespiritpodcast.com.
Also, when we do our live shows, you can get them on all of the modern podcasting apps that are out there,
like Fountain and True Fans and Podcast Guru. You know, just off the top of my head, the the the the 3 that
just popped in my head right off the bat.
So we're all over the place. You could you could find us very easily. And I'll add that
so that, people can, easily find that and,
go listen to your show live. And also after the fact, of course, you can just find it in your podcast apps as well.
Alright. Thank you very much, sir. Hey. Thanks, Barry. I appreciate this. This is great. I look forward to doing it again.
Alright.
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