Metacast: Behind the scenes: Recent Episodes

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Metacast is a podcast app for podcast aficionados. We are building a powerful tool that helps you get the most out of podcasts. Auto-generated transcripts allow you to quickly skim episodes, search for content, and bookmark segments. Automated playlists, listening history & stats, and much more is coming.

On this podcast, co-founders of Metacast talk about building the company and the product.

Today, we discuss positioning the startup to the outside world in social media and software that we use to build our software. We go into detail of our CI/CD pipeline for the mobile app and our project management practices. As usual, brace yourself for a lot of tangents!

[02:53] Positioning ourselves into the outside world

[23:01] Processes in our startup

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Show notes

https://tramline.app - a CI/CD orchestration tool for mobile app development
https://bitrise.io - a tool for building mobile apps in the cloud

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In this episode, we break down the process of how we wrote The Pragmatic Podcaster book, discuss how writing is similar to programming, talk about tools (Adobe InDesign, Kindle Create), describe the process of getting an e-book and a print version on Amazon, and muse about Google Ads that didn't generate any sales for us.

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Segments:

[02:38] How did the book start

[04:57] "Day 0 - Day 1 - Day 2" framework for creating software and podcasts

[08:00] The process

[12:14] ChatGPT for writing a book??

[13:36] Learnings from writing a book

[16:03] Writing out of coffee shops

[19:34] Walks full of guilt

[23:33] Book writing tools

[30:58] Tools for designing the cover

[33:12] Publishing the book on Amazon and Gumroad

[36:58] Selling the book with Google Ads

[42:18] Podcast recommendations

[50:45] Kid music recommendations & AI music

Show notes

Make It Clear by Patrick Winston: https://amzn.to/3sPKRIz
How To Speak by Patrick Winston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY

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This week, we are discussing The Pragmatic Podcaster book that we’ve just self-published on Kindle and in paperback and hardcover formats on Amazon.

📕 The Pragmatic Podcaster: a step-by-step guide to starting an amazing podcast: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFPMT8WW

📄 Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/033-behind-the-covers-pt-1

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This week we sat down with Corey Quinn, the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group and a big celebrity at the AWS circles. Corey is well known for his sense of humor and unrelenting focus on making some good fun of the cloud providers.

In our interview, we are learning a bit of Corey’s background, how The Duckbill Group got started, and how he runs the media side of his business. As usual, we did talk about bootstrapping and running consulting services while building a product.

Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/032-corey-quinn

👉 The Pragmatic Podcaster e-book (use code "METACAST" to get 30% off): https://book.metacastpodcast.com/l/pragmatic-podcaster

👉 The Pragmatic Podcaster on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFPMT8WW

👉 Metacast merch: https://merch.metacastpodcast.com

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Segments

[00:00] Introductions

[04:23] What does Corey do?

[09:51] Bootstrapping a business

[12:29] The Twitter persona

[16:02] Dealing with the growth in Twitter following

[21:05] Can snarkiness backfire?

[23:54] The state of the business today

[25:11] Psychology of cost savings and cost aversion

[28:35] The psychology of bootstrapped companies

[32:43] Getting first customers for a consultancy

[36:03] Common cost optimization patterns

[37:54] The evolution of Corey's media presence

[47:05] Making money from media

[49:58] Business-y topics

[54:11] How to start a consultancy

[56:03] Google, AWS, Azure topics

[01:04:40] Producing content with ChatGPT

[01:07:31] Book recommendation

[01:11:14] Where to find Corey

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We’re starting season 2! Going forward, most of our episodes will be conversations about how we’re building our business. We’ll keep doing guest episodes as well, mostly with people who we and other entrepreneurs get to learn from. Listen on to follow our journey.

👉 The Pragmatic Podcaster e-book (use code "METACAST" to get 30% off): https://book.metacastpodcast.com/l/pragmatic-podcaster

👉 The Pragmatic Podcaster on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFPMT8WW

👉 Metacast merch: https://merch.metacastpodcast.com

Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/031-behind-the-scenes

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Segments

[03:10] Season 2 and the changes we're making to the podcast

[13:22] Rat race

[17:15] Working in-person in Vancouver

[29:08] Long-term vs. short-term thinking in a startup

[33:26] Ilya is starting to code again

[42:58] ChatGPT for social media posts

[46:38] The Pragmatic Podcaster book

[54:51] Teaser of the next episode

A conversation with Startups.com founders about venture capital, bootstrapping, and finding your podcasting voice

👉 Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/030-startup-therapy 👉 Our book about starting a podcast (use code "METACAST" to get 30% off): https://book.metacastpodcast.com/l/pragmatic-podcaster 👉 Metacast merch: https://merch.metacastpodcast.com

Segments:

[01:11] Introduction

[03:42] The Startup Therapy podcast

[06:49] Almost no one knows about venture capital

[10:17] Wil’s and Ryan’s startup journeys

[16:12] Venture backed vs. bootstrapped startups

[22:18] Distractions of fundraising

[29:09] Doing consulting work on a side to fund the business

[36:29] The origin story of startups.com

[48:31] How Startup Therapy podcast is run

[56:52] Bad interview episode experiences and finding your own voice

[01:01:29] Podcast recommendations

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In this episode, we cover the topic we wanted to cover for the last few weeks but always ran out of time. It’s the topic of SaaS subscriptions. As a business that doesn’t yet make any revenue, we pay quite a bit in subscription fees because these days everything is a subscription. Apparently, soon we’ll be paying a subscription to heat our butts in cars — Arnab tells a story of a car manufacturer that will ship cars with all the hardware, but will disable “premium” features unless you pay a monthly fee.

In this episode, we introduce our lovely Chief Dog Officer who often inserts a few soundbites into our podcast. Sometimes he takes a bite too. He’s a star employee and we love him.

We covered a few other topics like how producing TikTok worthy content changes who you are and the crab emoji at Google that can be funny but also passive aggressive.

Segments

[00:38] First annual Metacast all-hands

[02:33] Creating TikTok worthy content

[05:58] Active listening strikes back

[08:05] In-person recording setup

[10:03] Introducing our CDO, Chief Dog Officer

[10:52] Crab emoji at Google

[12:09] Reflection on the Jason Fried episode

[15:45] User research studies for our app

[20:58] The original name for our company

[22:56] The SaaS Subscriptions Pandemic

[33:55] Google vs. Amazon culture

👉 Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/029-saas-subscription-pandemic 👉 Our book about starting a podcast: https://book.metacastpodcast.com/l/pragmatic-podcaster 👉 Metacast merch: https://merch.metacastpodcast.com

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This week, we were lucky to talk to Jason Fried, co-founder and CEO of 37signals (the company behind Basecamp and HEY) and a co-author of Rework, Remote and a few other books.

👉 Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/028-jason-fried 👉 Our book about starting a podcast: https://bit.ly/metacast-book 👉 Metacast merch: https://merch.metacastpodcast.com

Segments

[02:07] Introduction of Jason and 37signals [04:28] Founder role vs. CEO role [07:27] Working with the same co-founder for 20 years [10:00] Disagreements between founders [12:21] Disagree and commit principle [14:04] The business side of things (numbers, accounting, etc.) [17:07] On costs and profitability [19:51] Intentionally keeping the company small [22:51] Managing risk [25:01] Jeff Bezos’ investment [31:24] Working on several products at the same time [32:21] Six-week cycles vs. long-term projects [37:40] Evolution of 37signals [43:35] Keeping products until the end of the Internet [46:18] Calm companies [47:28] Listening to customer feedback [53:15] Jason's email is public. Is this a good idea? [56:57] Employee performance reviews and fixed salaries [58:35] Can the "calm company" mindset work in big companies? [01:04:41] How does one find a calm company to work for? [01:06:36] Publishing books [01:09:28] On being contrarian and no politics at work

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We are starting to share bits of what we’re working on — a podcast app! The main topic of today’s episode is podcast listening apps and the things they suck at. Also in the episode: some backstory of how we decided to work together, golden handcuffs of a big tech, the working backwards approach, and importance of checklists.

👉 Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/027-why-podcast-apps-suck 👉 Our book about starting a podcast: https://bit.ly/metacast-book 👉 Metacast merch: https://merch.metacastpodcast.com

Segments:

[01:34] RSS feeds, the backbone of podcasting

[04:37] Why are we doing a podcast about podcasting?

[06:28] Why are we building yet another podcast app?

[10:56] Podcasts vs. YouTube videos

[15:04] Podcasts as a library of content

[17:17] Sharing content from podcasts with friends

[19:11] Taking notes while listening to podcasts

[23:56] Why podcast apps suck

[24:54] Working backwards and prioritization

[29:49] A prophetic screenshot from 4 years ago

[36:20] Golden handcuffs

[39:25] Going back to Amazon (hypothetically)

[40:53] Next episode spoiler

[42:55] The importance of checklists

[44:04] Call for inputs for our product

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We’ve heard feedback that listeners really love our metasodes — the episodes where Arnab and I chat about all things podcasting, careers, books, etc. We also heard feedback loud and clear that our episodes are too long…

On today’s episode, we chat about these changes, producing a video episode in Descript, Conway’s law, our new merch store, our upcoming book, and a few more things.

👉 Book on starting a podcast: https://bit.ly/metacast-book

👉 Metacast merch: https://metacast.creator-spring.com/

👉 Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/026-change-is-the-only-constant

[00:56] We’re slightly tweaking the format

[03:58] Discussing feedback from our listeners

[10:23] Our experience producing the very first video episode

[14:44] Working with Descript’s Studio Sound

[19:54] Our book about starting a podcast

[24:26] Conway’s law

[25:42] Publishing books on Amazon (or not)

[27:23] Book recommendations

[29:44] Improving one thing at a time

[36:37] Send us inputs for our product

[37:24] How to send us a voicemail

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Starting a podcast can feel daunting but it need not be. In this episode, we've put together insights from our interviews with podcasters, creators of tech for podcasters, and radio hosts.

👉 Get our book on podcasting here: https://bit.ly/metacast-book

Segments:

[01:03] Starting a podcast can be daunting

[02:08] Microphones for podcasting

[06:35] Headphones for podcasting and post-production

[08:23] Recording on an iPhone

[09:28] Pop filter

[10:20] Preparing the space for recording a podcast

[12:39] Reverberation and echo

[15:10] Recording with remote guests

[17:22] When to add video

[19:37] The content of your podcast

[23:04] Authenticity

[24:53] Naming your podcast

[26:56] Creating cover art

[28:45] Theme music and sound effects

[30:53] Style of your podcast

[33:46] The sin of using Airpods for recording

[34:38] Narrative episodes

[36:19] Guest episodes

[39:02] Sending cold emails to potential guests

[44:48] Preparing for an interview

[47:53] Pre-interview calls with guests

[49:28] Checklists

[51:36] Recording time!

[57:09] Building rapport with the guest

[58:14] Human-made noises

[59:53] A primer on post-production

[01:11:16] Publishing the episode to the world

[01:12:15] Priming podcast platforms

[01:13:06] Staying consistent

[01:14:10] Marketing your podcast

[01:17:44] Ratings, reviews, comments

[01:19:54] Helping listeners build a habit around your podcast

[01:22:23] Benefits of podcasting

[01:25:37] Taking show notes

[01:26:36] Getting used to your own voice

Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/025-how-to-start-a-podcast-in-2023

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Part 2 of the episode about taking a break from corporate careers to start our own podcast technology company. We’ll soon announce our product, so stay tuned!

[02:10] Arnab’s story: from SDE I to a Principal Engineer at Amazon

[06:35] Getting promoted to your level of incompetence and leaving

[11:44] Google vs. Amazon culture

[23:09] One thing we’d take away from Amazon and Google to our startup

[25:32] Join our alpha program

[25:51] Time for silly questions

[28:21] Working from a Google office

[30:28] Biggest risk Ilya took previously

[35:58] Goals for the next year

[37:32] A pathless career path (answering a question from a subscriber)

Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/024-pt2-non-linear-careers-google-amazon-culture

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We’re taking a short break from our usual programming about podcasting to dive into what’s next for us.

Ilya quit his job at Google on June 1st and Arnab left his job at Amazon last year. On this episode, we’re discussing why we decided to jump ship, how we manage risk, financial planning, etc. We’re also going a bit personal and talking about our approach to career planning.

[02:21] Ilya’s left Google to work on a podcasting company with Arnab [03:23] What did Ilya do at Google? [04:54] Google’s “defragging” of Google Reader [09:48] Getting tired of a corporate job [16:07] Wantepreneurs vs. entrepreneurs [22:35] Realizing I can’t do it anymore and conquering fears [25:53] Preparing finances to jump corporate ship [33:48] Indie development model [37:06] Preparing the family for leaving your job [43:12] Health Insurance

Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/024-pt1-leaving-jobs-at-google-and-amazon

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It’s official — we are creating a company together and in this episode we’re starting to talk a bit about that. Going forward, we’ll use our metasodes to provide an update on how the business and product development is going, so, if you’re interested in our entrepreneurial journey, subscribe/follow our show!

Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/023-radio-aint-dead-starting-company-little-kids

Chapters:

[00:39] Arnab’s computer possessed by ghosts

[03:36] Quick recap of the last episode with TechTalkRadio

[10:19] Working together for 30 years on radio and in music

[12:59] Is radio dead yet?

[15:19] Analytics and ratings in radio

[18:31] Starting a company with little kids

[28:16] Ilya leaving his job at Google and we’re starting a company

[31:09] Bitching about radio buttons and other UX elements in cars

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We sat down with TechTalkRadio's hosts Andy Taylor, Justin Lemme and Shawn DeWeerd to talk about all things radio.

Topics in this episode:

Story of one of the very first podcasts out there
What are AM and FM radio stations anyway?
Role of AM radio in emergencies
Syndication in the world of radio
Audience measurement and ratings
Live reporting for television using a satellite truck
Sticking to producing a show and not giving up
Segments about tech products on TV
Taking phone calls on live radio
Recording gear: Arrakis, Comrex, etc.
Going with the flow
Funny moments on a radio show
Advice to aspiring podcasters
A special section for Jennie
Metacast T-shirts
Podcast recommendations

Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/022-techtalkradio

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Arnab and Ilya talk about:

Cookie-cutter, pre-recorded intros/outros (meh, we don't like those)
Using GitHub to manage our podcast workflow
What happens when podcasts change hosts
Our inability to stick to a topic. It needed a meme, so we made one up!
Tangents: video codecs, Back to the Future, music (Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Judas Priest), Tony Fadell's book "Build," and thermostats.

Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/021-all-things-tangential-memesode

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Justin Jackson, co-founder of Transistor.fm, shares his views on decentralization in podcasting, the unrealized hype created by Spotify investing $1B into podcasting, and the benefits of friction in leaving comments.

Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/020-justin-jackson-transistorfm

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In this episode, we shared how we promote our podcast on social networks, what worked and what didn’t so far. Obviously, we have a limited sample, but we found some success on LinkedIn and Reddit and pretty much no success on Twitter and Instagram.

Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/019-promoting-podcast-on-social-networks

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We sat down with Christian and Antoine, co-founders of a podcast insights platform Podder (https://www.podderapp.com), and discussed why podcast analytics is such a pain. We talked a bit about technical complexities of the distributed podcasting ecosystem and how Podder aggregates data across multiple platforms and data sources to provide podcasters with cross-platform insights.

Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/018-podcast-analytics-with-podder

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We sat down with our dear friend and ex-colleague Jennie Buechner to reflect on how her career took a sharp turn after a bootcamp at Ada Developers Academy.

Full show notes with links: https://metacastpodcast.com/p/017-from-teacher-to-software-engineer-amazon

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An Interview with Women Who Code's Communications Team - Kimberly Jacobs and JL Lewitin.

Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/016-women-who-code-and-record-podcasts

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We recorded this episode when Ilya was visiting Arnab in Vancouver. This is the first time we did it in person and boy did it make a difference. Enjoy the sparkle of a wonderful human connection!

Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/015-in-person-metasode

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A conversation about early days of Winamp, Justin's time at AOL, creation of Reaper and questions from our listeners!

Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/014-justin-frankel-creator-winamp-reaper

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The video we never published, hugging guitars and missing the office.

Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/013-the-slowsode-metasode

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In this episode we sat down with hosts of the Software Misadventures podcast Ronak Nathani and Guang Yang to chat about podcasting, careers and remote work.

Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/012-podcasting-misadventures

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A reflection on the previous episode with the hosts of the Hearts in Taiwan podcast and a random chatter about everything (as usual).

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A conversation with hosts of the Hearts in Taiwan podcast, Angela Yu and Annie Wang, about culture, identity and running a podcast that touches on sensitive topics

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In this metasode (meta-episode about creating Metacast, our podcast about podcasting), Arnab and I go back to the topic we brought up in the very first episode. We talk about the importance of checklists that we ourselves consistently failed to use for our podcast. This has caused us to forgot to ask people’s names, forgot to mention where to find them, etc., etc.

Being lousy doesn’t feel good...

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A conversation with Zach Moreno and Rock Felder about their journey of creating podcast recording software SquadCast.

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Back in December 2022, Arnab and Ilya sat down to record episode 7, a metasode about podcasting. But we started talking about The Sandman and Dune and got carried away so far into the sci-fi land that we didn’t talk about podcasting at all. On the other hand, I got to show off my terrible guitar playing skills completely butchering Enter Sandman!

We got to talk about all of our favorite sci-fi authors, books, and movies. We discuss Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comic series, its Audible version, and the Netflix interpretation. Then we go into Isaac Asimov and finally end with Dav Pilkey’s Dogman.

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In this metasode (meta-episode where we talk about our own podcasting experience), Arnab and Ilya discuss how the previous recording went, how to deal with initial awkwardness, and how to fix audio quality.We go through a few most important audio repair effects in the iZotope RX software and cover things like removing echo, breaths, mouth clicks (yuck!), hums, noises, and other unwanted artifacts that make you sound like a rookie.It wouldn’t have been a good metasode if we didn’t go on tangents… Do you know what the Canadians call a couch? Chesterfield. Do you know what the Russians call photocopiers? Xerox. We also had a little back and forth on whether “iZotope” has a “zee” or a “zed” in it. Zed’s dead bady, zed’s dead. So it’s a “zee.”Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/007-fix-audio-quality-izotope-rx-metasodeWe’re always happy to hear back from our listeners, so don’t hesitate to drop us a note! Email: hello@metacastpodcast.com Ilya’s Instagram: @podcasthacks Arnab’s Twitter: @or9obSubscribe to our newsletter where we announce new episodes, publish key takeaways, and ramble about interesting stuff at https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com.

This week we interviewed Steph Colbourn, the CEO of editaud.io, a full-suite podcast production company that produces one of our favorite shows about business and technology — The Postlight Podcast. They also produce The Stack Overflow Podcast, radio shows for Google, and bunch of other shows enjoyed by people all over the world, including their own originals!

Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/006-podcasting-hacks-steph-colbourn

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Arnab and Ilya react to Jonathan Courtney's (the guest of our previous episode!) new podcast "The Unscheduled CEO" and ramble about the usual podcasting stuff like multi-track recording, NSA dropping in to give us a 5-star review, and dog farts.

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We sat down with Jake Knapp and Jonathan Courtney, the hosts of the Jake and Jonathan (f.k.a. Product Breakfast Club) podcast where they used to ramble about all things product design, Lord of the Rings, toilets, and other important things.

Jake Knapp is a former Google designer, an investor, and a New York Times best-selling author of books "Sprint" and "Make Time". Jonathan is the CEO of the product design company AJ&Smart.

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In this inaugural metasode, we chat about our first and second episodes, checklists, Napster, bootstrapping a podcast in listening apps, internet porn, and room tone. Sounds like a pretty random list but the conversation flowed so well, so believe it or not, it’s actually a cohesive set of topics.

We also discussed Arnab’s reflections on being a first-time podcast host and how both of us made a mistake of trying to get feedback from our families.

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For our second episode (and the very first one with a guest!), we sat down with Brian McCullough, creator of the Internet History Podcast, one of Ilya’s all-time favorite podcasts. Brian’s current podcast is Techmeme Ride Home, a popular daily summary of tech news that has over a million downloads every month. Brian is also an investor running the Ride Home Fund and a resident at TED (check out Brian’s talk).

Brian is on Twitter as @brianmcc (https://twitter.com/brianmcc).

Full show notes with links: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/002-brian-mccullough-internet-history

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In this inaugural episode, Arnab interviews his Metacast co-host Ilya on his experience starting a podcast. We talk about inspiring stuff like how to get used to the sound of your voice, the boring stuff like gear, tools and software, and random stuff like how Ilya lost all of his gear when his car was broken into on a road trip in California.

Full show notes with links to gear and tools is here: https://newsletter.metacastpodcast.com/p/001-dirty-secrets-of-clean-sound (sorry folks, there’s so much stuff it doesn’t fit into the allotted space!)

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