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Episode: 4126
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Title: HPR4126: Podcasting for Newbies
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4126/hpr4126.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 19:53:59
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4126 from Monday the 27th of May 2024.
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Today's show is entitled, Podcasting for Newbies.
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It is the first show by Newhost Mossbliss and is about five minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, all you need to become a podcaster.
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Hi, my name is Mossbliss, I'm a podcaster.
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This is technically my second HPR podcast, but as the first one was unintentional and
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back in 2019, I can start fresh.
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I don't know much of anything.
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I'm a Linux user about the same way most people are Windows users.
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I have gotten more technical over the past few years, largely due to being a regular
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on various Linux podcasts.
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I don't have sufficient education to be hired in computers, although I tried several
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times, and I did spend a few years in radio back in my youth.
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So what do you have to know to become a podcaster?
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Almost nothing, like me.
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Just so long as you have a computer, an internet connection, and a microphone.
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For some shows you may need a webcam.
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I got into podcasting by asking questions.
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I tried for almost two years to get Chris Fisher at Cooperative Broadcasting to co-feature
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me with zero experience on a podcast about using Linux's estops.
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It never happened.
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So when in 2018 Rob Hawkins asked for new hosts to take over Mintcast, I was one of the first
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ten or so people to apply, and one of the six who eventually stuck with it.
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All I had was a computer, an internet connection, and a blue Yeti microphone my little sister
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gave me.
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Within a few months I started another podcast, just a hoppers digest with Tony Hughes.
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And a couple years later I was asked to take over full-circle weekly news, apparently some
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people like my voice.
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Since starting my little miniher and podcasting, I probably have more than doubled what I know
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about Linux.
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I'm not all that scared of the terminal anymore.
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Some microphones are pretty bad, and my blue Yeti was the worst one on the show when I joined
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Mintcast.
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In about a year I found a very inexpensive CAD audio U29 USB mic currently for sale at Amazon
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for under $20, and that worked pretty well.
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Sometime after taking on full-circle weekly news, the magazine bought me a Samsung Q2U,
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which is about 60 bucks on Amazon, which I'm still using.
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I loved this mic as it can be used either as a USB mic or plugged into a sound box for
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even better audio, but the CAD audio U29 was just fine.
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When I started I had a T430 laptop and the Blue Yeti microphone, my listeners and co-hosts
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have made my life better with new and used equipment I could never afford it on my own,
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including laptops for Raspberry Pi's, modems, routers, headphones, and even a sound box.
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My current setup includes a 2016 Lenovo ThinkCenter M600 tiny, which cost me under $200 on eBay.
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A Focusrite Solo sound box, a gift from a friend, a WaveLink ST-336A external goodies
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box, also a gift, and an old Dynex 26-inch TV I use as a monitor, which I paid 15 bucks
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for locally.
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I have a boom arm for my microphone, which is made by Neewer, and cost $15 on Amazon
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complete with a pop filter.
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My keyboard is a fellow's microband natural, which I need as a trained touch typist, and
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I put all this stuff on a little rolling computer desk, which I bought used locally for 25 bucks.
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The only software I use is Audacity, and I didn't need to know any more than the basics.
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If you're part of a team, such as MintCast, you aren't even required to do any audio editing,
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although if you know your way around Audacity, you'll find your skills very welcome.
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If you want to start podcasting, have the equipment, contact Ronnie and do something here
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at HPR, which is a fairly low entry bar, or you might contact long running shows such
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as MintCast.
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Participation and commitment are usually all that is required.
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Okay, so maybe you want to do more than produce an HPR show or join MintCast.
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You have your own idea, and you want to get it out there, your own personal podcast.
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This is where it gets a little more detailed.
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If you already have the information you need, you can stop the podcast here, but first,
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you'll need a website or a blog if you're really broke.
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There are free WordPress sites available at WordPress.com, or you could use the dreaded
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Google blogs, blogger, and blogspot.
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Other than that, you'd have to register a domain name, find a web host, and write a website,
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some of which can be cheap or not.
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Then you have to find a way to stream your podcast.
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Google is a closed-feed printer, but there are some paid places like Red Circle you can
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get for not much bread.
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Those will probably help you stream your podcast to places like Apple Music, Archives.org,
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Spotify, etc.
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But if you want help from me, I'm already lost.
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MintCast is handled by Bill H.
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District Hopper's Digest is handled by DLM, and my full circle weekly news is uploaded
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to running for publication.
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Or maybe you want to do a podcast with a few friends, and they can't cram themselves
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in your bedroom every week to do that.
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In that case, you should explore using Discord, Gitsy, Video Ninja, or Sizzle Preserveus Zoom.
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Some will need to record their own part of the stream, and you'll need someone who knows
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Audacity well enough to edit a few or several streams together.
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Maybe you want to post it on YouTube.
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If you want both a video and audio podcast, someone will have to learn OBS and Audacity.
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And if you want the video podcast to be edited, have fun learning one of the many video editors
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out there.
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You might start with KDE in live.
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For more information on streaming, you'll need to get someone else to make an HPR podcast
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on the subject way over my head.
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I hope this little show has pushed a few of you into wanting to try your hand.
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It doesn't take much, or it takes a whole lot, depending on what you want to do.
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And your future listeners will thank you.
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My listeners certainly have shown me lots of thanks.
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That's it for me this time.
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I hope to see you again soon.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio.
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At Hacker Public Radio does work.
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Today's show was contributed by a HPR listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording a podcast, click on our contribute link to find out how
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easy it really is.
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Posting for HPR has been kindly provided by an onsthost.com, the Internet Archive and
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R-Sync.net.
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On the Sadois status, today's show is released under Creative Commons, Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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