It feels great to have episode one of the WP Mainline podcast recorded and published to the masses. In this episode, I provide insight into what WP Mainline is, why I started it, and what I hope to create with it. We didn’t talk about the news per se but we did discuss the Coronavirus and the impacts it’s having on WordPress conferences. We plan to record new episodes live every Friday at 4 PM Eastern.

By the way, Google Hangouts and On-Air Hangouts have officially been retired by Google meaning the only way to live stream is to use encoding software like OBS. I don’t have the upload speed in order to stream 30FPS to a service. We ended up using Zoom for this episode but I’m curious if you know of any other options that are similar to Zoom or Google Hangouts where we can record live with an audience. Let me know in the comments.

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— Speaker 1 00:00:21 Welcome to episode one of WP mainline for Friday, March 6th, 2020.I’m your host engineer. I should say Jeff Chanler joined by my lovely looking conductor JohnJames Jacoby signing off baby. Yes, we areSpeaker 2 00:00:42 Harassing me on episode one, right out of the right out of the gate, rightout of the train leave right out of the station, right out of theSpeaker 1 00:00:49 Station, right out of the station.Speaker 2 00:00:52 All of a sudden one, it feels good to be back. What doSpeaker 1 00:00:54 You think? Uh, I I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous. I was thinkingabout this, but, uh, the more I thought about it, the more I’m like, man, I just need to get the firstepisode out. I need to get the train rolling. We need to roll out of the station, get that momentumgoing and everything will fall into place. So here we are. And it’s b