The Podcast Digest

Andy Holloway and Mike Wright, 2/3rds of The Fantasy Footballers are my guest this week! We talk about their amazing ride in the world of podcasting and fantasy football from how it got started, the growth of their website, expanding the show to video, winning multiple awards and so, so much more!  The are great guys who are truly made their passion into their jobs and it comes through in everything they do!  If you're into sports at all, I can't recommend it more!

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Links

The Fantasy Footballers (Website) (Twitter) (YouTube)

Quinn Rose from Aspiring Robot and Solidly Mediocre is my co-host for a recommendations episode!  I talk to Quinn about her recent YouTube success as a Relay FM super fan, her podcast and goals for the future! 

For our discussion topic, we talk the intersection of YouTube and podcasting, the value of each, and what Quinn's feelings are on each. 

And on to our show recommendations! We give you a total of four great shows to check out! 

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Links

Quinn Rose (Website) (Twitter) (YouTube)

Quinn's Relay FM Alphabet Video (YouTube)

Solidly Mediocre (Website)

Show Recommendations 

Someone Knows Something (Website) (Twitter)

Hello Internet (Website) (Twitter)

Code Switch (Website) (Twitter)

Call Your Girlfriend (Website) (Twitter) 

Ben Brock Johnson (host) and Clare Toeniskoetter (producer) from Code Breaker (from Marketplace and Tech Insider) join me to talk about how this super unique show was born and put together over its first season! They talk about finding the stories, creating the codes, selling their colleagues on their different approach to listener engagement and releasing the show "Netflix-style"! Ben and Clare also give us some hints about the upcoming season! You haven't heard something like Code Breaker, I promise, and I fully recommend it to everyone!

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Links

Ben Brock Johnson (Twitter)

Clare Toeniskoetter (Twitter)

Code Breaker (Website, Marketplace Tech Twitter)

Marketplace (Website)

Tech Insider (Website)

Yasmine Evjen joins me for Ep. 101, one-third of "Material" from Relay FM. Yasmine and I talked about her awesome story of being plucked from the Google I/O attendee floor to join the roster of the only Android-centric show on Relay! It's a great origin story!  Yasmine talks about her journey in podcasting, getting to know her co-hosts, the evolution of "Material", diversity in podcasting and so, so much more!  What a great conversation with a wonderful podcaster!

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Links

Yasmine Evjen (Twitter) (Website)

Material (Twitter) (Website)

Yasmine RT'd by the First Lady (Twitter)

App Camp for Girls (Website)

I can't believe this... 100 Episodes.

First off, if you're reading this, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

I decided to make this episode a 'retrospective' of sorts looking back at some of my favorite episodes and interviews and big landmark events for the show!  After that, I then went into what my experience was in Chicago for Podcast Movement 2016!  The sessions, the speakers, my days and nights and 5 interviews from the conference floor with some of the great people I met while there!

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Links (Guest Interviews)

Adela Mizrichi of Podcast Brunch Club (Twitter) (Website)

Dave Lee of International Podcast Day / Waves of Tech (Twitter) (Website)

Paula Allen of Tell Me Stories w/Paula Allen (Twitter) (Website)

Jason Parsons "The Angry Ginger" of 7 Days a Geek / Podcasting 101 (Twitter) (Website)

Elle Martinez from Couple Money Podcast (Twitter) (Website)

The producers of the excellent CBC podcast "Love Me", Mira Burt-Wintonick and Cristal Duhaime joined me to talk about the origin of their careers in radio production and how "Love Me" began! How they found guests, interweave fiction and documentary, finding  the host for the show and prospects for the future are all covered and more!  Cannot recommend this podcast more!

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Links

Love Me (Website)

Mira's article on The Doc Project for CBC 

Mira Burt-Wintonick (Twitter)

Cristal Duhaime (Twitter)

Matt Gourley from I Was There Too, Superego, Pistol Shrimps Radio and more joined me this week to talk his awesome collection of shows, how they began and are put together! And I asked him a really strange question from his Wikipedia page that you'll have to hear to believe!  I Was There Too is one of my all time favorite shows and I can't recommend it to you enough! 

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Links

Matt Gourley (Twitter) (Wikipedia)

I Was There Too (Website) 

Pistol Shrimps Radio (Website)

Superego (Website)

James Bonding (Website)

Nick Quah from Hot Pod joins me to talk about how he created a newsletter that has become "required reading" by anyone in or around the podcasting industry. Nick describes his process each week, feedback as the service has grown, his own editorial voice and so much more!  What a great conversation!  Go and subscribe to Hot Pod now!

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Links:

Hot Pod (Website) (Nieman Lab) 

Nick Quah (Twitter)

Jason Weiser, host and producer of Myths and Legends, joins me to talk about the origin of the show, its growth, and the production process. We talk about Jason's script writing, artwork and the amazing place he started recording the show! Myths and Legends is an absolutely phenomenal show and the story behind it is too!

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Links

Myths and Legends (Website) (Twitter)

Sophie Harper, host and producer of Not By Accident is my guest this week! We take a behind the scenes look at her wonderful audio documentary podcast, how many years she has been working on it, how she has put together all of her audio, her goals for the show and what the reception has been like.  Not By Accident is an eye-opening, ultra personal look into a journey that will have an appeal to many different people and I encourage you to go back to Episode 1 and catch up now!

Links

Not by Accident (Website) (Twitter)