Episode #021

• Dave helps us understand why creating hundreds of episodes and millions of minutes of audio is the secret to becoming better at podcasting.

• We discuss strategies for surviving that “Big Oops” after you hit publish on an episode.

• We tell you what happens when you overwrite your audio file versus reposting your fixed episode.

Special Guest

• Friend of the Show (and Hall of Fame Podcaster) Dave Jackson stops by

Where to find Dave Jackson

• School of Podcasting

• Power of Podcasting

• Ask the Podcast Coach

What did we learn?

• There are a lot of ways to help you mitigate the damage of those mistakes.

• You CAN recover from a bad episode.

• Publishing an episode that did not include your voice.

• Publishing an episode that only plays one of two voices on the recording.

• Interviews - Didn’t hit record.

• Interviewee that fell asleep.

• Cut and Paste from an old episode and publish the wrong one.

• Don’t listen with the ears of a podcaster but with the ears of a listener.

• You can go overkill on recording gear.

• You can go overkill on the number of audio file version saves.

• Hoarding audio files for “just in case” is a real thing that all podcasters do.

• The bare minimum for podcasting gear should be enough for a new podcaster to “get by” — this means settling for a $60 microphone instead of going out and buying the AKG C-24 that was used in Pitch Perfect 3. (Pro Tip: The AKG C-24 is a collectors microphone for the low low price of $9K).

• Some gear is just weird (with 10 feet of cable) and we just have to live with it.

• Be careful when you name your podcast the same as a podwrecked podcast.

• Subscribe to your show with Apple Podcasts/Overcast (on iPhone), and PocketCasts/Castbox (on Android) to know when your episode goes live.

• Google Play Music is NOT Google Podcasts - they are two separate things! Not many people will want you to remove content from an interview (or remove a snippet).

• Always ask in an interview “Is there anything in this interview you don’t want out in the world?”

• A single episode marked “Explicit” will drop you out of a lot of other countries unless you’re not interested in having an audience in those countries.

• When it comes to audio obsessions, remember that some folks in your audience are listening in the shower.

• Kyle thinks that Dave will one day soon create a podcast devoted to his Crazy Morning Zoo Crew Binky and the Wiz! This is a group of characters Dave introduced in School of Podcasting (SOP) Episode #400 and then resurfaced again in SOP Episode #600.

• If you want to hear a special promo Dave did exclusively for Podwrecked, please listen to the very end of the episode!

• PLEASE contact Dave and tell hi