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Podcasting adoption runs on the power of the microphone

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works is, you know, it's not marketing really, it's just using the power of the microphone, which is inherent in podcasting.

Episode 224: Fata Morgana (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:19:19 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Podcasting 2.0 spread without real marketing. Hosts just kept mentioning things on air: try a 2.0 app, we have transcripts, we have chapters. Dave cites the saying 'never argue with the man with the microphone'. The microphone is inherently powerful, and podcasting relies on that power.

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  1. Episode 211: Podcast Plumbing (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:04:45 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

    just not who we are as, as people. And the number two, it's not necessary because I had a grand total of about three conversations with Ted Hossman in the last two years about the podcast TXT record

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  2. Episode 224: Fata Morgana (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:19:56 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

    The, the, it's basically like, don't, don't challenge the professor in class because he's always going to win because he's got the power of the microphone in front of him.

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