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Poduty and the News is your go-to live news podcast about the world of podcasting, streaming straight from the stage every Saturday morning. Hosted by Jeff Revilla, each week brings fresh industry stories, trends, and plenty of hot takes, featuring a rotating panel of expert guests. Whether you’re tuning in from home or joining us live in Pittsburgh, this show is designed to spark conversation and community among podcasters and enthusiasts.
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Show Recap
This episode we dug into six big stories from the podcasting world—here’s what you missed:
1. The UK Live Podcast Boom
The UK’s live podcast scene is exploding, with duos and fan-favorites filling theaters and turning podcast tours into must-see events. We reviewed a recent “billboard 100”-style listicle, highlighting how podcasts are transcending downloads and forging real, in-person community connections.
2. Conan O’Brien Takes the Stage (and Stream)
Conan brings his podcast live to LA’s Fonda Theater, proving traditional media greats are now leading the way in DIY, self-produced, live podcast experiences—at a fraction of network costs. We discussed the evolving production model and what independent creators can learn as the gap narrows between basement studios and marquee events.
3. YouTube’s New Live Podcasting Tools
YouTube announced major updates for live streaming—including simulcast formats, AI-powered clip generation, and interactive tools—cementing its place as the largest streaming service worldwide. We explored how podcasters can tap these new features for discovery, engagement, and monetization.
4. Dua Lipa’s Book Club Goes Live
Pop icon Dua Lipa recorded a live “Service 95 Book Club” episode at the New York Public Library, blending literary prestige with pop culture for her dedicated fanbase. We loved how celebrities bring new energy to the podcasting space and highlight their passions beyond the stage.
5. Convention Spotlight: Kidalts vs. Nerds Live Podcast
At Nuremberg’s Toy Business Forum, live podcasting took center stage with a session on how adult collectors (kidalts) are remaking toy culture. We talked about industry events hiring podcasters for interactive sessions, giving rise to new voices and experiences at conventions.
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Episode Transcript
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Hey everybody. Welcome to Poduty and the News for Saturday, September
27th. I've got a special guest joining me today, Maria
Daniels, all the way from parts unknown, Ohio. We're
going to cover six stories about live new pod, live news
podcasting. Let's hear that theme,
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Sam.
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The only live news podcast about podcasting live
from the stage. Maria Daniels, welcome in person,
in person. I am happy to be back. I am, I'm super
thrilled to be here at Poduty. The
first, the first guest ever on Poduty and the News last week and then this
week we had some other events scheduled. They didn't pan out, but Maria was still
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in town this weekend and we're able to do this show live. We got a
lot of feedback on last week's show where people were glad it wasn't
just me anymore reading the news. So like I said, we're gonna have a
rotating panel of guests popping in. Whoever's available,
we'll have different people show up and help me carry me through
these six news stories. And we got stories from all over the place.
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Conan o' Brien the UK has a podcast list of the
best podcasts to see live. We got new news from YouTube,
Dua Lipa. We have the toy book convention. And
I like to say our Kansas, the R Kansas traveler
is going to bring us neighbors upstairs. Yeah. So
we have six stories and this is Maria's second time
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to. To Pittsburgh officially. Or. Yeah, Yeah, I think so. I
think, I think that's the only times I've been here, actually. I was trying to
think. Yeah, I think it's only to come here. So you're, you are the destination
Poduty in Pittsburgh. It's the number one reason to come to Pittsburgh. For
podcasters, the.
Any plans or anything exciting while you're in Pittsburgh or anything that ever caught your
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attention about the city? What we do in every city we go
into is basically hit all the coffee shops. We've already been to two today,
so that's true story. It's only 10am so it is only
10am off to a great start. And, and the Vault Coffee
Shop. If you find that, if you're in the area where Maria's from, check it
out. The Vault Coffee Shop. Is that the full name? It's the Vault Cafe. The
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Vault Cafe. Vault Cafe. They. They also have some baking
going on there. You have? Yeah, we've got, we've, we've. They're. They're bacon. They're baking
hardcore this morning, texting me non stop about it. So,
so let's go to that first story. And one of the
reasons we're doing this new show, Coffee with Poduty and the crew is,
is just a hangout. You know, we, we do things all week long. We're going
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to work, we're doing jobs, we're consulting, we're busy.
And sometimes we try to record shows during the weeknights. It's pretty common. But what
do we do on the weekend? We got nothing to do Saturday morning. So, you
know, if you're home watching, if you're here in the theater, pull up your coffee
or your drink from your local coffee shop. If it's the Vault Cafe or down
the street, we have Harvest Moon coffee and chocolates.
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Absolutely. And their coffee is amazing. And I am a coffee snob. I am.
And so if I find a coffee shop that I'm telling you is amazing. Harvest
Amino is great. It's a great shop. Yeah. Side note, Maria walked
through the coffee shop real quick and some of the chairs were out of order.
Yeah. And her management skills kicked in and she was like, she
lined the chairs for the coffee sh. It's hard to get out of that. Right.
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It's just like in your mind automatically. Yeah.
Oh, very good. Thanks to all the viewers watching, either in the theater or at
home. Let's go to that first story
from the UK Podcasters hit the roads from the Radio Times.
And we're kicking off tonight with a look across the pond. Because UK
live podcast scene is absolutely booming in
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2025. From comedy duos like Two Pints,
Podcast Live and Woof and Owl to fan favorite
shows like Help I Sextexted My Boss, the Girls Bathroom,
and Off menu podcasters are packing theaters and turning
live tours into major events. Even
the wittering Whitehalls are hitting the stage, proving that the golden
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age of podcasting isn't just about downloads. It's about building
real connections with audiences in person. The UK
is showing us how podcast tours can become marquee
cultural events. And the thing I liked about this,
this article was almost like a billboard 100 of
podcasts to go see. It's just crazy to see that
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there's that many that we get. We're having list listicles
about going to see live podcasts. Well, and I think we're going to see that
more and more. Even just the last couple of weeks, we've been discussing this. Like
there's, there's shows I didn't, I hadn't even heard of until you put them on
there. Like, what? And then I have them up. I'M like, oh, my gosh. But
one of the things that's, you know, kind of stuck out to me is
this, what like we're doing right now, this, this really, this big push
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on making it a live event, that it's not just, you know, somebody,
you know, that's turned their basement into a studio speaking, which was nothing
wrong with that. Don't come at me. But, you know, it's also becoming a little
bigger. Right. It's becoming like a destination where people are coming and watching. And I
think that's a really cool thing we're starting to see. Yeah. That's why we built
the space. I think that there's a place for podcasters to perform their
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shows live of any level. And we do joke. I joke a lot because I
still record in my basement. Yeah. But what's the. How do I go from my
basement to a large theater or Madison Square Garden?
There's no middle ground. There's no journey to get there. They're not just going to
start plucking people out of their mom's basement and putting them on stage in Madison
Square Garden. We've got to work our way up to performing in front of these
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big audiences. And some of these people who have already established themselves
over the years and years of podcasting, they're doing that.
They're way ahead of us. And they're filling theaters and arenas and, and taking their
shows on tour. I just love that they had a list like, here's the
top 10 ones you got to go see. Absolutely. No. And I think they, I
mean, they intrigued me. I thought they sounded really interesting.
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Let's go to story number two from Inside
Radio. This one is Conan Goes Live Again.
Conan o' Brien is bringing his podcast to the stage with a live
taping at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles on
October 5th. Fans and SiriusXM
subscribers will get to see Conan. Sona
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Movsisane and Matt Gurley sit
down with a surprise guest. Plus a reunion with Conan's old late
night band led by Jimmy Vivino. The live
show will first drop exclusively for serious podcast subscribers
on October 15th, then hit Conan O' Brien radio on
the 22nd before finally rolling out on all podcast feeds
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and YouTube. It's a tiered podcasting event at its
finest. Live laughs now, staggered
releases later. I always a line, always tries to punch it up
at the end there. But, you know, here's Conan, a
huge traditional media person. I mean, he's one of the,
got to be one of the top 10 great late night hosts, talk show hosts
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of all time. And where is he pivoted to? He does a YouTube show, he's
doing a podcast, he's self producing these giant
events by himself. And I think one of the things that hit
the news recently was Stephen Colbert was getting canceled on CBS.
And to do his show takes 200 people
to produce the Late show with Stephen Colbert. And you look at what
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Conan's doing, he probably has a team of five, six people,
maybe some writers, maybe 10 people putting these things
together and producing a quality show on par with
CBS and ABC for what, 1
100th of the. Or 1 50th of the price? Well, and,
and I think, I think you hit the nail on the head because I think
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what Conan's basically doing is resurrecting Late Night, but in a more
tangible way, a more realistic way where you and I. It's something
that, that's reachable. Right. Because, you know, it's something that to be able to
grow something to the point of, you know, hiring five people or 10
people, it seems a lot more tangible than 200 people. Right.
So I think that kind of, it gives us a Runway to
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say, okay, well this is something that, like you said, go from the basement to
kind of that mid ground, you know, is, is tangible. It's a tangible,
realistic, you know, uphill from here for
podcasting. Yeah. If you look at what celebrities and famous people, actors
are doing, they're. They're building what we're building, but in reverse. They've already
established the fame they have, the audience that's following them
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now, they're taking that to places to have these real life connections with
them. So they've already got it and they're working backwards. We're building up to that.
So hopefully we meet at some point in the middle and you see shows like
this popping up everywhere where people can produce like a Tom Green show. Twenty
years ago, Tom Green was probably him and two people in his basement producing a
cable television, which Tom Green. Was hilarious, I do want to note that. But
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no, I mean, I think it's right. And you're actually seeing that. I mean, I
know you're in the marketing world too, so you're seeing that with everything. You're
seeing big brands that are kind of bringing a lot of their commercials and
their all that stuff down to like a realistic, you know,
recorded commercial that. Have you seen the Apple commercial?
Have you seen the Apple commercial with the Apple computer where it's like two guys
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in a dorm room? Have you seen that? One, I have not. Okay, well, it's
a pretty cool commercial and there's two reasons it's cool. Number one, it's funny and
number two, it's, it looks very low key, like
we could record it. And I think you're seeing a lot of big brands do
that with marketing. And I think in the podcasting world you're seeing the same thing
with shows. Like you said, these big people are scaling it back to
this mid ground and that is somewhere that as we can kind of aspire to,
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kind of get to that. Like again, maybe we'll meet in the middle. I think
that's a cool thing. Yeah. When you self produce and at the level that Conan's
doing, there's no middle people, there's no agents, there's no
managers, producers, executives. You've cut out
all that bloat that makes something expensive and you're
bringing a product directly to the public. Like, yeah, who's keeping all
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that money? Conan is. And he can reinvest it into his team and
building and getting to events of this scale and Magnus. And it's more
authentic too. And I think that's what, you know, consumers are asking
for, listeners are asking for, is that authenticity. Let's go
to story number three. And I. This isn't
necessarily a live podcast, but I didn't
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do the show on YouTube last week, but YouTube has made some announcements. And
so this week we are live on YouTube and we will continue to be live
on YouTube because it looks like YouTube's going to push live
a little bit more. And this comes directly from the YouTube blog.
And YouTube just announced some of its biggest updates yet for live streaming,
giving creators more tools to connect and grow. New features include
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the ability to stream in both horizontal and vertical formats
at the same time. AI that automatically turns the best live
moments into shorts and even interactive mini games to keep
audiences engaged. Creators will also get access to Ask
Studio, an AI chatbot that summarizes live chats and delivers
insights for future streams. With deeper community connection,
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new monetization options, and built in discovery, YouTube is
making live streaming more powerful and more profitable
than ever. And you know, we're both in the marketing and we know
that when YouTube says they're doing something, that's probably the thing you
should do at this moment, right? Absolutely. Well, and as
we know, well, I don't know if everybody knows, but as we know, Google owns
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YouTube Now. And so that has obviously put a different focus,
you know, on that brand, I think, as a whole, and how it integrates across
the web. But then, you know, when you're looking at YouTube specific, I really like
the. The part like the Ask Studio, because if
you've ever been on a chat on YouTube, you get
constant spammed, like frog emojis. Just random stuff.
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Right. And so I like the Ask Studio because basically that can be kind of
like a therapist for you now to say, hey, whenever you're, you know, your
viewers were spamming you with frog emojis, this is what they really meant by that.
It gives you a little bit more, you know, insight of what's going on.
Yeah, I heard a stat on. It's Joe
Polizi and Robert Rose's podcast. This old marketing
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and YouTube. 50% of YouTube viewership is now
on big screens. It's not just mobile. People are streaming at home
on their televisions. And I think
just based on those numbers, that makes YouTube the largest streaming
service in the world by far, over Netflix and Hulu
and Disney. And what that means is YouTube is a place
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for creators, and creators have access to this portal that's the
largest streaming service on the planet. This is the
time to strike. If you're thinking about doing a live show, if YouTube's saying, hey,
we're going to push more live shows, why? Well, one, if people are engaged,
guess what? They interrupt your show with. Absolutely. Ads. They're going to play ads
while you're doing live streaming. They're going to cut in the winner up, there's another
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ad. They make a little bit more money. You watch a little bit more, they
make a little bit more money. So pushing live streams with ads back,
it's a good format for. For YouTube to build on. Absolutely.
Well, and I think, you know, whenever you're talking about, you know, YouTube
themselves are asking you to use their platform like this, that gives you a good
insight on what you should be at least trying to do, because they've obviously put
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time, energy, and money into kind of putting
this focus on things. And so anybody that's using these things that they're trying
to push out there, they're going to get an uptick in, you know, viewability,
you know, automatically just because of that. And so I really like this because, you
know, basically YouTube is telling Twitch to hold my beer, because Twitch has been where
everybody has been streaming to, you know, in the podcasting world.
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Yeah. Now the Facebook deletes your posts 30 days after. Or seven.
Seven or 30 days after. I. I think it is seven days now. Yeah.
So forget it. Facebook. Yeah. You don't want us live streaming in there anyway, so.
Sorry. Yeah, sorry. We're moving to YouTube. Yeah,
we're going to YouTube. One other thing was the,
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I just haven't, I haven't seen the tools yet. The one thing that does worry
me is, is some of these. I mean, AI is baked into everything.
In some cases, AI tends to make more work for you
otherwise. Other times it just gives you like Captain Obvious
answers. So hopefully, hopefully there's a little bit in here that,
that their AI gives us that you're not going to get,
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you know, just from experience. Yeah, well. And as we've seen with a lot of
things that launch out in AI at the beginning, it does
leave a little, a little to be desired. But the more
we use it and the more feedback and information that YouTube gets and
YouTube's AI platform gets, you know, I do think it'll get better and
better. We've seen that with other things. Yeah, yeah. I mean, if they, they,
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if, if, if the last five years that they spent
destroying the definition of the word podcast is any indication of how
much they want podcasters do video. This story and these
updates are part of that journey because they've, they've really decimated
what it means to produce a podcast. Oh, absolutely. It's not just an MP3 file
distributed through an RSS fee to your, your app, your aggregator app.
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YouTube wants podcasts to be video. And they're telling you now,
hey, we're going to kind of give this a little bit of a bump if
you do live shows. Yeah, you get, you get, you get a reward. Yeah,
you get rewarded for getting on video, smiling, talking to people,
showing up at the duty, doing your, you know, your show live. I feel like
that would help people if they just came here and did the show. Just do
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it. Yeah, just come here. Very simple business model. We'll save that for another show.
One of my favorite things is learning about celebrities who read.
And Dua Lipa checks out of the library. This comes to us
from the Spotify newsroom. Pop star Dua Lipa swapped
the stage lights for reading lamps as her service 95
Book Club podcast went live at the New York Public Library.
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Teaming up with Spotify, Dua sat down with Booker
Prize long listed author David
Sally. I'm glad you get to say all these last names that I don't.
For everybody who's ever been mentioned on the show, I do apologize. Last
name pronunciations are not my thing. So
David Salleh to talk about his novel Flesh
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blending pop culture with literary prestige in front of 300
fans, press and book lovers. The conversation was smart,
funny, and deeply engaging, followed by fan submitted questions that
showed her how her book club has become a global community.
The full episode drops in October, proving that duo can headline
a stadium or a library with the same star power.
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I had never heard of Dua Lipa before, ever. No. Because I was like, who
the freak is that? I had to like, Google it, apparently. I don't know, I've
been in my basement too long, I guess. I'm not sure why, but. So I
had like zero, like less than zero knowledge going into this. I didn't even know
who this person was. But I think this is a cool combination
kind of that, that book club meets, you know, live podcast. I think
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that's a cool comic because, I mean, there are. I'm a book lover. I love,
I love reading and love books, and there's a lot of book lovers out there.
And, you know, if you kind of combine those worlds, I think that is a
cool concept. Yeah. She just announced the show a few months ago. I remember.
I think we picked it up on an earlier episode of Duty and the News.
And again, like, if here's a star who has a following,
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she has another passion. Some of her fans who love her music
probably also read. It's a fair assumption, I would say. At least some of them.
So now if you're a fan of Dua Lipa, if you're a fan of the,
you know, what she produces, the books that she likes may also
be in line with your taste. Here's a podcast sharing some other
things outside of music that you can share with a celebrity or a pop
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star. And now she can take that to the New York Public Library, do a
show for 300 people, interview the authors, and
share all that with her community. Yeah, well, and to me, like,
again, I had to, like, study who she was as a whole because I had
never heard of her. But it almost seems like she's just going into her quiet
girl era. You know, she's going to. She's like, you know what? I have done
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all the things and, you know, now I'm just feeling like, let's read, let's talk
about the things we read. Let's do, you know, let's do this on a different
level. And I love that she's able to kind of take that, you know,
fandom and turn that into a little bit of a luxury
time. Right. Let's sit down and let's read, let's talk about this. I mean, I
just love that. Yeah, I'm doing 100 stadiums a year. I need a break. Exactly.
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That's what it speaks to me like. I mean, I was just like, you know
what? Go you. Because I love that. It's. She's going into her.
Her best life ever, her luxury queen era. And she is,
you know, decided to do this whole. Whole book thing, and I love it.
All right, let's go to story
number five. Wait, story number four.
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This one. No, wait, let's go.
That's. How do we count? We're on page three. Two stories
per page. Page three. Story number five. This is one
that we've talked about before on the show. This is Kid Belts versus Nerds
Go Live. This comes to us from the Toy business forum on
toybook.com at next year's Toy Business Forum in
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Nuremberg, live podcasting takes center stage as
Carol Rapp of Spiel essen hosts Kidalts vs.
Nerds. The session promises to dive into how adult collectors and
playful enthusiasts are reshaping the global toy industry,
all in front of a live audience. As part of a week packed with
AI talks, retail insights, and trend forecasts, this
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live recording adds an interactive spark, proving that even in
the business of toys, podcasting has become a powerful way
to connect communities and capture the moment. And we touched
on a different story similar to this last week, where
if you have an interest, there's probably a convention or a
gathering of people of your similar interest. So this is a toy
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podcast. What are these toy conventions doing? They're
hiring podcasters to be part of the entertainment on the main stage and
in this one. Kidalts versus Nerds. I like that. I never
heard the term kiddo. I think that's hilarious. But I mean, to me, when I
read this, the first thing that came to my mind is a bunch of, know,
40 year olds fighting over the limited edition Funko Pops. I had never
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heard of Funko Pops before podcasting before. Dua Lipa. Well,
yeah, before that now. But no, you know, there's several of podcasters that
we know that behind them is just like an entire wall of Funko Pops. And
I had never heard of them before, but, you know, so I mean, maybe they
need to kind of look that show up. They may be like Tim and Jeff.
Yeah, exactly, exactly. That was exactly the ones that I was speaking of
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because I'd never heard of them before. And you know, I think that, like you
said, that really shows that no matter what your hobby, your interest, whatever, like,
you would be surprised. Like maybe you think you're like the only person, the only
person that loves whatever it is, you're probably not. And there
probably is some type of, like you said, convention meetup, something going
on that's related to that. Yeah. And you see this instead of,
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you know, every convention needs to entertain their guests.
They always have. After parties, there's usually a vendor that sponsors
the party. There's always something happening. But during the convention
now, sometimes there's warm up bands that before the main stage
takes the stage, they'll hire magicians or music
acts, cover bands. What you're seeing now is part of that
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main session is a podcast being recorded. So
these conventions are looking for podcasting entertainment, are looking for new
voices. They're looking for voices who will amplify what they're
producing. So if you go there and record a show and then release it to
your fans, that could be another thousand, two thousand people that
that conference reaches for zero advertising dollars. So you
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look into your industry. What's. What are people producing that's similar to what
you're doing and where can you fit in that? Absolutely. Well, absolutely. And I
think also, you know, really kind of we talked about this last week with a
lot of the conventions and stuff, people are expecting more. Like
there's a lot of competition in that convention, you know, space,
and now people are expecting more. So they keep trying to like one up each
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other. Right. So it's like, well, we've got a magician this year. You know, everybody's
like running to that one. So it's, I think it's a really cool concept because,
you know, if you've gone to conventions, you know how terrible they can be sometimes
and you know, nobody wants to do the trust fall anymore. We're done with that.
No more trust falls. Let's bring on the live podcasting. Very
good. Our last live podcasting story,
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the Upstairs Neighbors bring the laughs and the community
sources the AR Kansas Traveler, Arkansas Traveler.
At the University of Arkansas, a comedy duo behind the Upstairs
Neighbor Neighbors podcast, Maya Umatoto
Gorman and Dom Roberts lit up the Verizon Ballroom
with their signature mix of humor and heart. This live show
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wasn't recorded for the podcast feed. It was all about
the in person experience and crowd work, the
Disneyland debates and even local food recommendations like
Famous Steven Special. Like the Famous Steven Special.
Went to look that one up. I don't even know. Yeah. But beyond the laughs,
Maya and Dom focused on connection, asking students to
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introduce themselves to their neighbors and reminding everyone that sometimes
all it takes is one thing in common to spark community and
a little different from what we talk about is recording these podcasts for,
you know, release at a later date. This was just a fan experience. This was,
hey, we're going to be here on the stage. Let's just talk and hang out.
We don't have to make it a thing. Let's make it special that you're here
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tonight. Yeah, well, and it, you know, it's really that pure,
kind of had to be here energy. And I think that there's a lot
of benefit to that, that, that felt, you know, that fear of fomo. Right,
fomo. People are going to be afraid of missing out on it. So
there is some, you know, some marketing genius to that. So,
you know, I'm sure they'll end up releasing some things, but, you know, to have
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some of them that are just like for the audience only, you know, really starts
to build that momentum. I like that. Yeah, a lot of fun. A great way
to connect with the community without any expectation. Just, hey, let's show
up, let's talk and hang out and let's see if we can make the world
a better place. Go out, introduce yourself to your neighbors. I've lived on my street
for almost 10 years now. I know
(24:52):
two neighbors names, so I. Feel like, I feel like that's a challenge. Like you
need to go around and, and introduce yourself. Hi, Jeff. They're gonna be like, are
you new here? Like, no, I've lived here for 10 years. Yeah.
So I'm gonna take the upstairs neighbor's advice and I'm gonna, I'm gonna introduce some
people, introduce myself to some people. I still want to know what the
Steven Special is now, because I didn't look that up. Now I want to know.
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It's in. In our Kansas. All right, well, so make them look it up
and let us know. See what else we got here tonight. We got
next week, next Saturday, after we record Poduty and the News. In the morning,
we have the Pittsburgh Podcast Meetup, which we're live streaming now. October
4, 2025, 6:00pm if you're in
the city of Pittsburgh, stop in at 6. I feed everybody
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pizza, drinks, all kinds of carbohydrates. And
then we about 7 o' clock, we will go live and we'll broadcast
the live Q, Q and a portion of the Pittsburgh Podcast
Meetup. We've got padoodi shirts, just
10 bucks. I just got them in last week. If you need a shirt or
if you're here in the audience tonight, everybody gets a free shirt to take home
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with them. That's A special when you come to Poduty and the crew. Early
bird shirts, $10. Where do you get a $10 t shirt at
Poduty? Yeah, we got some upcoming shows I want to tell you about.
Anime on the Allegheny. October 3rd, next Friday, brand
new show. It's the first time they're going to run it live in front of
an audience. They're talking anime, all kinds of anime. The only thing I
(26:17):
can never say is Akira or Vampire Hunter D. It's the only two animation
shows that's. That's more. Everybody else is like, I don't know any of them.
Our favorite, a three timer, a three peat. The Crips and Corks are coming back
October 11th for Haunted Pittsburgh Terror,
Laughs and booze. It's an adult show. There was a BYOB ticket.
It's a great store, great podcast. They're going to tell you ghost stories
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from Pittsburgh and they pair those stories with a bottle of
wine. So they'll have a special wine prepared for the episode
and you'll be able to drink, laugh and Yin's won't want to
miss the show. I know. I thought at first I was like, oh, play on
words there. And when I first met them, I couldn't remember their name.
I met them at a Pittsburgh podcast meetup and I called them
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boozy ghosts. And I think boozy ghost might be sticking because
now I saw. I love it. We
got the Bird Cave right across the river from New Ken. They're. They're originally New
Ken. They do a sports show here in Pittsburgh and
they have a. There. So we talk about combining your podcast with
events. Yep. There was a high school reunion next Saturday for
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Valley. They're from Valley. They're coming to town and in the morning
they're going to do a live show as a kind of a pre game
to. To the. To the home or the reunion. Well,
and that becomes memories too, right? You know, because. Because then you're able to record
that. You're able to, you know, you know, touch base with a bunch of people
and you know how it goes at reunions. I can get quite funny.
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Yeah. So apologies to anybody at the real
reunion if a bunch of people show up
who pre gamed a little bit too much. It could happen.
There is a BYOB ticket available for that one. Nailed
it. Motherhood podcast coming up November 8th with Tamara. Met her
at a podcast meetup and we booked a show. Looking forward to this
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one. This is a. I believe it's a season one wrap up or a season
two kickoff. So we're just getting things going. And a
first event, first time on the main stage is going to be a great show.
We have the humorous. This is a 2026. Just a little foreshadowing.
I think they're in like Vermont or New Hampshire. They're
coming down in 20. In March or April.
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May. Check poduty.com March, April or May. Well, yeah. March, April,
May. And of course, my special guest today, all the way from
parts unknown, Ohio, Maria Daniels. Thank you so much,
Maria. Tell everybody if they want to connect with you, they want to visit your
coffee shop or marketing services. How do they do that? That is
a lot of things. I thought I was throwing it there. You do all the
things. Yeah, he throws that in there and then I panic on what to say.
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Now if you're near the coffee sh. Shop it. We're in the middle of nowhere.
Russellville, Ohio. Feel free to to stop out there. You can connect with me
online @ successfullychaotic.com
dates and deets at
poduty.com P-O-D-U-T-Y.com we have this show
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Every Saturday.
news.poduty.com is where you can find the Poduty and the News podcast.
Otherwise poduty.com all the information
you need there. Let's go back to that theme song.
Hey everybody. Welcome to Poduty and the News for Saturday, September
27th. I've got a special guest joining me today, Maria
Daniels, all the way from parts unknown, Ohio. We're
going to cover six stories about live new pod, live news
podcasting. Let's hear that theme,
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Sam.
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The only live news podcast about podcasting live
from the stage. Maria Daniels, welcome in person,
in person. I am happy to be back. I am, I'm super
thrilled to be here at Poduty. The
first, the first guest ever on Poduty and the News last week and then this
week we had some other events scheduled. They didn't pan out, but Maria was still
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in town this weekend and we're able to do this show live. We got a
lot of feedback on last week's show where people were glad it wasn't
just me anymore reading the news. So like I said, we're gonna have a
rotating panel of guests popping in. Whoever's available,
we'll have different people show up and help me carry me through
these six news stories. And we got stories from all over the place.
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Conan o' Brien the UK has a podcast list of the
best podcasts to see live. We got new news from YouTube,
Dua Lipa. We have the toy book convention. And
I like to say our Kansas, the R Kansas traveler
is going to bring us neighbors upstairs. Yeah. So
we have six stories and this is Maria's second time
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to. To Pittsburgh officially. Or. Yeah, Yeah, I think so. I
think, I think that's the only times I've been here, actually. I was trying to
think. Yeah, I think it's only to come here. So you're, you are the destination
Poduty in Pittsburgh. It's the number one reason to come to Pittsburgh. For
podcasters, the.
Any plans or anything exciting while you're in Pittsburgh or anything that ever caught your
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attention about the city? What we do in every city we go
into is basically hit all the coffee shops. We've already been to two today,
so that's true story. It's only 10am so it is only
10am off to a great start. And, and the Vault Coffee
Shop. If you find that, if you're in the area where Maria's from, check it
out. The Vault Coffee Shop. Is that the full name? It's the Vault Cafe. The
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Vault Cafe. Vault Cafe. They. They also have some baking
going on there. You have? Yeah, we've got, we've, we've. They're. They're bacon. They're baking
hardcore this morning, texting me non stop about it. So,
so let's go to that first story. And one of the
reasons we're doing this new show, Coffee with Poduty and the crew is,
is just a hangout. You know, we, we do things all week long. We're going
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to work, we're doing jobs, we're consulting, we're busy.
And sometimes we try to record shows during the weeknights. It's pretty common. But what
do we do on the weekend? We got nothing to do Saturday morning. So, you
know, if you're home watching, if you're here in the theater, pull up your coffee
or your drink from your local coffee shop. If it's the Vault Cafe or down
the street, we have Harvest Moon coffee and chocolates.
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Absolutely. And their coffee is amazing. And I am a coffee snob. I am.
And so if I find a coffee shop that I'm telling you is amazing. Harvest
Amino is great. It's a great shop. Yeah. Side note, Maria walked
through the coffee shop real quick and some of the chairs were out of order.
Yeah. And her management skills kicked in and she was like, she
lined the chairs for the coffee sh. It's hard to get out of that. Right.
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It's just like in your mind automatically. Yeah.
Oh, very good. Thanks to all the viewers watching, either in the theater or at
home. Let's go to that first story
from the UK Podcasters hit the roads from the Radio Times.
And we're kicking off tonight with a look across the pond. Because UK
live podcast scene is absolutely booming in
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2025. From comedy duos like Two Pints,
Podcast Live and Woof and Owl to fan favorite
shows like Help I Sextexted My Boss, the Girls Bathroom,
and Off menu podcasters are packing theaters and turning
live tours into major events. Even
the wittering Whitehalls are hitting the stage, proving that the golden
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age of podcasting isn't just about downloads. It's about building
real connections with audiences in person. The UK
is showing us how podcast tours can become marquee
cultural events. And the thing I liked about this,
this article was almost like a billboard 100 of
podcasts to go see. It's just crazy to see that
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there's that many that we get. We're having list listicles
about going to see live podcasts. Well, and I think we're going to see that
more and more. Even just the last couple of weeks, we've been discussing this. Like
there's, there's shows I didn't, I hadn't even heard of until you put them on
there. Like, what? And then I have them up. I'M like, oh, my gosh. But
one of the things that's, you know, kind of stuck out to me is
this, what like we're doing right now, this, this really, this big push
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on making it a live event, that it's not just, you know, somebody,
you know, that's turned their basement into a studio speaking, which was nothing
wrong with that. Don't come at me. But, you know, it's also becoming a little
bigger. Right. It's becoming like a destination where people are coming and watching. And I
think that's a really cool thing we're starting to see. Yeah. That's why we built
the space. I think that there's a place for podcasters to perform their
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shows live of any level. And we do joke. I joke a lot because I
still record in my basement. Yeah. But what's the. How do I go from my
basement to a large theater or Madison Square Garden?
There's no middle ground. There's no journey to get there. They're not just going to
start plucking people out of their mom's basement and putting them on stage in Madison
Square Garden. We've got to work our way up to performing in front of these
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big audiences. And some of these people who have already established themselves
over the years and years of podcasting, they're doing that.
They're way ahead of us. And they're filling theaters and arenas and, and taking their
shows on tour. I just love that they had a list like, here's the
top 10 ones you got to go see. Absolutely. No. And I think they, I
mean, they intrigued me. I thought they sounded really interesting.
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Let's go to story number two from Inside
Radio. This one is Conan Goes Live Again.
Conan o' Brien is bringing his podcast to the stage with a live
taping at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles on
October 5th. Fans and SiriusXM
subscribers will get to see Conan. Sona
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Movsisane and Matt Gurley sit
down with a surprise guest. Plus a reunion with Conan's old late
night band led by Jimmy Vivino. The live
show will first drop exclusively for serious podcast subscribers
on October 15th, then hit Conan O' Brien radio on
the 22nd before finally rolling out on all podcast feeds
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and YouTube. It's a tiered podcasting event at its
finest. Live laughs now, staggered
releases later. I always a line, always tries to punch it up
at the end there. But, you know, here's Conan, a
huge traditional media person. I mean, he's one of the,
got to be one of the top 10 great late night hosts, talk show hosts
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of all time. And where is he pivoted to? He does a YouTube show, he's
doing a podcast, he's self producing these giant
events by himself. And I think one of the things that hit
the news recently was Stephen Colbert was getting canceled on CBS.
And to do his show takes 200 people
to produce the Late show with Stephen Colbert. And you look at what
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Conan's doing, he probably has a team of five, six people,
maybe some writers, maybe 10 people putting these things
together and producing a quality show on par with
CBS and ABC for what, 1
100th of the. Or 1 50th of the price? Well, and,
and I think, I think you hit the nail on the head because I think
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what Conan's basically doing is resurrecting Late Night, but in a more
tangible way, a more realistic way where you and I. It's something
that, that's reachable. Right. Because, you know, it's something that to be able to
grow something to the point of, you know, hiring five people or 10
people, it seems a lot more tangible than 200 people. Right.
So I think that kind of, it gives us a Runway to
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say, okay, well this is something that, like you said, go from the basement to
kind of that mid ground, you know, is, is tangible. It's a tangible,
realistic, you know, uphill from here for
podcasting. Yeah. If you look at what celebrities and famous people, actors
are doing, they're. They're building what we're building, but in reverse. They've already
established the fame they have, the audience that's following them
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now, they're taking that to places to have these real life connections with
them. So they've already got it and they're working backwards. We're building up to that.
So hopefully we meet at some point in the middle and you see shows like
this popping up everywhere where people can produce like a Tom Green show. Twenty
years ago, Tom Green was probably him and two people in his basement producing a
cable television, which Tom Green. Was hilarious, I do want to note that. But
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no, I mean, I think it's right. And you're actually seeing that. I mean, I
know you're in the marketing world too, so you're seeing that with everything. You're
seeing big brands that are kind of bringing a lot of their commercials and
their all that stuff down to like a realistic, you know,
recorded commercial that. Have you seen the Apple commercial?
Have you seen the Apple commercial with the Apple computer where it's like two guys
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in a dorm room? Have you seen that? One, I have not. Okay, well, it's
a pretty cool commercial and there's two reasons it's cool. Number one, it's funny and
number two, it's, it looks very low key, like
we could record it. And I think you're seeing a lot of big brands do
that with marketing. And I think in the podcasting world you're seeing the same thing
with shows. Like you said, these big people are scaling it back to
this mid ground and that is somewhere that as we can kind of aspire to,
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kind of get to that. Like again, maybe we'll meet in the middle. I think
that's a cool thing. Yeah. When you self produce and at the level that Conan's
doing, there's no middle people, there's no agents, there's no
managers, producers, executives. You've cut out
all that bloat that makes something expensive and you're
bringing a product directly to the public. Like, yeah, who's keeping all
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that money? Conan is. And he can reinvest it into his team and
building and getting to events of this scale and Magnus. And it's more
authentic too. And I think that's what, you know, consumers are asking
for, listeners are asking for, is that authenticity. Let's go
to story number three. And I. This isn't
necessarily a live podcast, but I didn't
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do the show on YouTube last week, but YouTube has made some announcements. And
so this week we are live on YouTube and we will continue to be live
on YouTube because it looks like YouTube's going to push live
a little bit more. And this comes directly from the YouTube blog.
And YouTube just announced some of its biggest updates yet for live streaming,
giving creators more tools to connect and grow. New features include
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the ability to stream in both horizontal and vertical formats
at the same time. AI that automatically turns the best live
moments into shorts and even interactive mini games to keep
audiences engaged. Creators will also get access to Ask
Studio, an AI chatbot that summarizes live chats and delivers
insights for future streams. With deeper community connection,
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new monetization options, and built in discovery, YouTube is
making live streaming more powerful and more profitable
than ever. And you know, we're both in the marketing and we know
that when YouTube says they're doing something, that's probably the thing you
should do at this moment, right? Absolutely. Well, and as
we know, well, I don't know if everybody knows, but as we know, Google owns
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YouTube Now. And so that has obviously put a different focus,
you know, on that brand, I think, as a whole, and how it integrates across
the web. But then, you know, when you're looking at YouTube specific, I really like
the. The part like the Ask Studio, because if
you've ever been on a chat on YouTube, you get
constant spammed, like frog emojis. Just random stuff.
(12:30):
Right. And so I like the Ask Studio because basically that can be kind of
like a therapist for you now to say, hey, whenever you're, you know, your
viewers were spamming you with frog emojis, this is what they really meant by that.
It gives you a little bit more, you know, insight of what's going on.
Yeah, I heard a stat on. It's Joe
Polizi and Robert Rose's podcast. This old marketing
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and YouTube. 50% of YouTube viewership is now
on big screens. It's not just mobile. People are streaming at home
on their televisions. And I think
just based on those numbers, that makes YouTube the largest streaming
service in the world by far, over Netflix and Hulu
and Disney. And what that means is YouTube is a place
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for creators, and creators have access to this portal that's the
largest streaming service on the planet. This is the
time to strike. If you're thinking about doing a live show, if YouTube's saying, hey,
we're going to push more live shows, why? Well, one, if people are engaged,
guess what? They interrupt your show with. Absolutely. Ads. They're going to play ads
while you're doing live streaming. They're going to cut in the winner up, there's another
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ad. They make a little bit more money. You watch a little bit more, they
make a little bit more money. So pushing live streams with ads back,
it's a good format for. For YouTube to build on. Absolutely.
Well, and I think, you know, whenever you're talking about, you know, YouTube
themselves are asking you to use their platform like this, that gives you a good
insight on what you should be at least trying to do, because they've obviously put
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time, energy, and money into kind of putting
this focus on things. And so anybody that's using these things that they're trying
to push out there, they're going to get an uptick in, you know, viewability,
you know, automatically just because of that. And so I really like this because, you
know, basically YouTube is telling Twitch to hold my beer, because Twitch has been where
everybody has been streaming to, you know, in the podcasting world.
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Yeah. Now the Facebook deletes your posts 30 days after. Or seven.
Seven or 30 days after. I. I think it is seven days now. Yeah.
So forget it. Facebook. Yeah. You don't want us live streaming in there anyway, so.
Sorry. Yeah, sorry. We're moving to YouTube. Yeah,
we're going to YouTube. One other thing was the,
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I just haven't, I haven't seen the tools yet. The one thing that does worry
me is, is some of these. I mean, AI is baked into everything.
In some cases, AI tends to make more work for you
otherwise. Other times it just gives you like Captain Obvious
answers. So hopefully, hopefully there's a little bit in here that,
that their AI gives us that you're not going to get,
(15:03):
you know, just from experience. Yeah, well. And as we've seen with a lot of
things that launch out in AI at the beginning, it does
leave a little, a little to be desired. But the more
we use it and the more feedback and information that YouTube gets and
YouTube's AI platform gets, you know, I do think it'll get better and
better. We've seen that with other things. Yeah, yeah. I mean, if they, they,
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if, if, if the last five years that they spent
destroying the definition of the word podcast is any indication of how
much they want podcasters do video. This story and these
updates are part of that journey because they've, they've really decimated
what it means to produce a podcast. Oh, absolutely. It's not just an MP3 file
distributed through an RSS fee to your, your app, your aggregator app.
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YouTube wants podcasts to be video. And they're telling you now,
hey, we're going to kind of give this a little bit of a bump if
you do live shows. Yeah, you get, you get, you get a reward. Yeah,
you get rewarded for getting on video, smiling, talking to people,
showing up at the duty, doing your, you know, your show live. I feel like
that would help people if they just came here and did the show. Just do
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it. Yeah, just come here. Very simple business model. We'll save that for another show.
One of my favorite things is learning about celebrities who read.
And Dua Lipa checks out of the library. This comes to us
from the Spotify newsroom. Pop star Dua Lipa swapped
the stage lights for reading lamps as her service 95
Book Club podcast went live at the New York Public Library.
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Teaming up with Spotify, Dua sat down with Booker
Prize long listed author David
Sally. I'm glad you get to say all these last names that I don't.
For everybody who's ever been mentioned on the show, I do apologize. Last
name pronunciations are not my thing. So
David Salleh to talk about his novel Flesh
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blending pop culture with literary prestige in front of 300
fans, press and book lovers. The conversation was smart,
funny, and deeply engaging, followed by fan submitted questions that
showed her how her book club has become a global community.
The full episode drops in October, proving that duo can headline
a stadium or a library with the same star power.
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I had never heard of Dua Lipa before, ever. No. Because I was like, who
the freak is that? I had to like, Google it, apparently. I don't know, I've
been in my basement too long, I guess. I'm not sure why, but. So I
had like zero, like less than zero knowledge going into this. I didn't even know
who this person was. But I think this is a cool combination
kind of that, that book club meets, you know, live podcast. I think
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that's a cool comic because, I mean, there are. I'm a book lover. I love,
I love reading and love books, and there's a lot of book lovers out there.
And, you know, if you kind of combine those worlds, I think that is a
cool concept. Yeah. She just announced the show a few months ago. I remember.
I think we picked it up on an earlier episode of Duty and the News.
And again, like, if here's a star who has a following,
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she has another passion. Some of her fans who love her music
probably also read. It's a fair assumption, I would say. At least some of them.
So now if you're a fan of Dua Lipa, if you're a fan of the,
you know, what she produces, the books that she likes may also
be in line with your taste. Here's a podcast sharing some other
things outside of music that you can share with a celebrity or a pop
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star. And now she can take that to the New York Public Library, do a
show for 300 people, interview the authors, and
share all that with her community. Yeah, well, and to me, like,
again, I had to, like, study who she was as a whole because I had
never heard of her. But it almost seems like she's just going into her quiet
girl era. You know, she's going to. She's like, you know what? I have done
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all the things and, you know, now I'm just feeling like, let's read, let's talk
about the things we read. Let's do, you know, let's do this on a different
level. And I love that she's able to kind of take that, you know,
fandom and turn that into a little bit of a luxury
time. Right. Let's sit down and let's read, let's talk about this. I mean, I
just love that. Yeah, I'm doing 100 stadiums a year. I need a break. Exactly.
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That's what it speaks to me like. I mean, I was just like, you know
what? Go you. Because I love that. It's. She's going into her.
Her best life ever, her luxury queen era. And she is,
you know, decided to do this whole. Whole book thing, and I love it.
All right, let's go to story
number five. Wait, story number four.
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This one. No, wait, let's go.
That's. How do we count? We're on page three. Two stories
per page. Page three. Story number five. This is one
that we've talked about before on the show. This is Kid Belts versus Nerds
Go Live. This comes to us from the Toy business forum on
toybook.com at next year's Toy Business Forum in
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Nuremberg, live podcasting takes center stage as
Carol Rapp of Spiel essen hosts Kidalts vs.
Nerds. The session promises to dive into how adult collectors and
playful enthusiasts are reshaping the global toy industry,
all in front of a live audience. As part of a week packed with
AI talks, retail insights, and trend forecasts, this
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live recording adds an interactive spark, proving that even in
the business of toys, podcasting has become a powerful way
to connect communities and capture the moment. And we touched
on a different story similar to this last week, where
if you have an interest, there's probably a convention or a
gathering of people of your similar interest. So this is a toy
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podcast. What are these toy conventions doing? They're
hiring podcasters to be part of the entertainment on the main stage and
in this one. Kidalts versus Nerds. I like that. I never
heard the term kiddo. I think that's hilarious. But I mean, to me, when I
read this, the first thing that came to my mind is a bunch of, know,
40 year olds fighting over the limited edition Funko Pops. I had never
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heard of Funko Pops before podcasting before. Dua Lipa. Well,
yeah, before that now. But no, you know, there's several of podcasters that
we know that behind them is just like an entire wall of Funko Pops. And
I had never heard of them before, but, you know, so I mean, maybe they
need to kind of look that show up. They may be like Tim and Jeff.
Yeah, exactly, exactly. That was exactly the ones that I was speaking of
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because I'd never heard of them before. And you know, I think that, like you
said, that really shows that no matter what your hobby, your interest, whatever, like,
you would be surprised. Like maybe you think you're like the only person, the only
person that loves whatever it is, you're probably not. And there
probably is some type of, like you said, convention meetup, something going
on that's related to that. Yeah. And you see this instead of,
(21:38):
you know, every convention needs to entertain their guests.
They always have. After parties, there's usually a vendor that sponsors
the party. There's always something happening. But during the convention
now, sometimes there's warm up bands that before the main stage
takes the stage, they'll hire magicians or music
acts, cover bands. What you're seeing now is part of that
(22:00):
main session is a podcast being recorded. So
these conventions are looking for podcasting entertainment, are looking for new
voices. They're looking for voices who will amplify what they're
producing. So if you go there and record a show and then release it to
your fans, that could be another thousand, two thousand people that
that conference reaches for zero advertising dollars. So you
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look into your industry. What's. What are people producing that's similar to what
you're doing and where can you fit in that? Absolutely. Well, absolutely. And I
think also, you know, really kind of we talked about this last week with a
lot of the conventions and stuff, people are expecting more. Like
there's a lot of competition in that convention, you know, space,
and now people are expecting more. So they keep trying to like one up each
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other. Right. So it's like, well, we've got a magician this year. You know, everybody's
like running to that one. So it's, I think it's a really cool concept because,
you know, if you've gone to conventions, you know how terrible they can be sometimes
and you know, nobody wants to do the trust fall anymore. We're done with that.
No more trust falls. Let's bring on the live podcasting. Very
good. Our last live podcasting story,
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the Upstairs Neighbors bring the laughs and the community
sources the AR Kansas Traveler, Arkansas Traveler.
At the University of Arkansas, a comedy duo behind the Upstairs
Neighbor Neighbors podcast, Maya Umatoto
Gorman and Dom Roberts lit up the Verizon Ballroom
with their signature mix of humor and heart. This live show
(23:26):
wasn't recorded for the podcast feed. It was all about
the in person experience and crowd work, the
Disneyland debates and even local food recommendations like
Famous Steven Special. Like the Famous Steven Special.
Went to look that one up. I don't even know. Yeah. But beyond the laughs,
Maya and Dom focused on connection, asking students to
(23:48):
introduce themselves to their neighbors and reminding everyone that sometimes
all it takes is one thing in common to spark community and
a little different from what we talk about is recording these podcasts for,
you know, release at a later date. This was just a fan experience. This was,
hey, we're going to be here on the stage. Let's just talk and hang out.
We don't have to make it a thing. Let's make it special that you're here
(24:10):
tonight. Yeah, well, and it, you know, it's really that pure,
kind of had to be here energy. And I think that there's a lot
of benefit to that, that, that felt, you know, that fear of fomo. Right,
fomo. People are going to be afraid of missing out on it. So
there is some, you know, some marketing genius to that. So,
you know, I'm sure they'll end up releasing some things, but, you know, to have
(24:32):
some of them that are just like for the audience only, you know, really starts
to build that momentum. I like that. Yeah, a lot of fun. A great way
to connect with the community without any expectation. Just, hey, let's show
up, let's talk and hang out and let's see if we can make the world
a better place. Go out, introduce yourself to your neighbors. I've lived on my street
for almost 10 years now. I know
(24:52):
two neighbors names, so I. Feel like, I feel like that's a challenge. Like you
need to go around and, and introduce yourself. Hi, Jeff. They're gonna be like, are
you new here? Like, no, I've lived here for 10 years. Yeah.
So I'm gonna take the upstairs neighbor's advice and I'm gonna, I'm gonna introduce some
people, introduce myself to some people. I still want to know what the
Steven Special is now, because I didn't look that up. Now I want to know.
(25:13):
It's in. In our Kansas. All right, well, so make them look it up
and let us know. See what else we got here tonight. We got
next week, next Saturday, after we record Poduty and the News. In the morning,
we have the Pittsburgh Podcast Meetup, which we're live streaming now. October
4, 2025, 6:00pm if you're in
the city of Pittsburgh, stop in at 6. I feed everybody
(25:35):
pizza, drinks, all kinds of carbohydrates. And
then we about 7 o' clock, we will go live and we'll broadcast
the live Q, Q and a portion of the Pittsburgh Podcast
Meetup. We've got padoodi shirts, just
10 bucks. I just got them in last week. If you need a shirt or
if you're here in the audience tonight, everybody gets a free shirt to take home
(25:56):
with them. That's A special when you come to Poduty and the crew. Early
bird shirts, $10. Where do you get a $10 t shirt at
Poduty? Yeah, we got some upcoming shows I want to tell you about.
Anime on the Allegheny. October 3rd, next Friday, brand
new show. It's the first time they're going to run it live in front of
an audience. They're talking anime, all kinds of anime. The only thing I
(26:17):
can never say is Akira or Vampire Hunter D. It's the only two animation
shows that's. That's more. Everybody else is like, I don't know any of them.
Our favorite, a three timer, a three peat. The Crips and Corks are coming back
October 11th for Haunted Pittsburgh Terror,
Laughs and booze. It's an adult show. There was a BYOB ticket.
It's a great store, great podcast. They're going to tell you ghost stories
(26:40):
from Pittsburgh and they pair those stories with a bottle of
wine. So they'll have a special wine prepared for the episode
and you'll be able to drink, laugh and Yin's won't want to
miss the show. I know. I thought at first I was like, oh, play on
words there. And when I first met them, I couldn't remember their name.
I met them at a Pittsburgh podcast meetup and I called them
(27:01):
boozy ghosts. And I think boozy ghost might be sticking because
now I saw. I love it. We
got the Bird Cave right across the river from New Ken. They're. They're originally New
Ken. They do a sports show here in Pittsburgh and
they have a. There. So we talk about combining your podcast with
events. Yep. There was a high school reunion next Saturday for
(27:24):
Valley. They're from Valley. They're coming to town and in the morning
they're going to do a live show as a kind of a pre game
to. To the. To the home or the reunion. Well,
and that becomes memories too, right? You know, because. Because then you're able to record
that. You're able to, you know, you know, touch base with a bunch of people
and you know how it goes at reunions. I can get quite funny.
(27:46):
Yeah. So apologies to anybody at the real
reunion if a bunch of people show up
who pre gamed a little bit too much. It could happen.
There is a BYOB ticket available for that one. Nailed
it. Motherhood podcast coming up November 8th with Tamara. Met her
at a podcast meetup and we booked a show. Looking forward to this
(28:07):
one. This is a. I believe it's a season one wrap up or a season
two kickoff. So we're just getting things going. And a
first event, first time on the main stage is going to be a great show.
We have the humorous. This is a 2026. Just a little foreshadowing.
I think they're in like Vermont or New Hampshire. They're
coming down in 20. In March or April.
(28:30):
May. Check poduty.com March, April or May. Well, yeah. March, April,
May. And of course, my special guest today, all the way from
parts unknown, Ohio, Maria Daniels. Thank you so much,
Maria. Tell everybody if they want to connect with you, they want to visit your
coffee shop or marketing services. How do they do that? That is
a lot of things. I thought I was throwing it there. You do all the
things. Yeah, he throws that in there and then I panic on what to say.
(28:52):
Now if you're near the coffee sh. Shop it. We're in the middle of nowhere.
Russellville, Ohio. Feel free to to stop out there. You can connect with me
online @ successfullychaotic.com
dates and deets at
poduty.com P-O-D-U-T-Y.com we have this show
every Saturday morning. Now, different guests from around the world are gonna be
(29:12):
joining me on stage. We won't always have Maria Daniels in the
studio, but when we do. I'm not driving to Pittsburgh every weekend, though.
Every Saturday.
news.poduty.com is where you can find the Poduty and the News podcast.
Otherwise poduty.com all the information
you need there. Let's go back to that theme song.
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