Hey so this is The People's Podcast, an actual podcast we're creating on the discord self organized from this community at large, here's the first trial run we did for an episode!
Edit to add:
If you have any interest in working on the podcast, speaking on it, helping to organize or whatever else, dm me for a link to the planning server! (and we'll probably look into making a community for it on here in future!)
Episodes will be self organized by whatever folks are passionate about that subject, just like this one was, however the final podcast will have 2 parts: one, like this one, with prepared hosts and topics and ideas used to springboard to organic discussions, and a second part (which I call the anarchy segment) where everyone who was listening to the recording gets unmuted and the whole thing becomes a public forum, about the episode, further discussion, dumb bits, whatever. It’ll be like the old episode megathreads but its actually the podcast. This section will be recorded over 2-3 hours and edited down to about 45 minutes or an hour, so times where everyone is talking over each other or what have you can be cut out and we can elevate the gems of the discussion (and we want to figure out how to have the community make these decisions rather than the behind the scenes team having too much control over the final edit)
In episode 0 here, it was initially just a dry run for the comrades who spoke to practice, and for us on the backend to see what the logistics and tech/ editing would be like, but it turned out so well we wanted to share it! That’s why it’s episode 0 and not 1 :)
I want this to be the essence of our community, which I hope can be left unity and solidarity <3
I hope this explanation makes sense haha, happy to answer further questions :)
We should have upload to or have our own peertube instance for stuff like this. Also this is great and I'd love to see more.
I like that, but don't put it exclusively on peertube. That is just a great way to limit reach.
Maybe a little niche, but would love an RSS feed too! RSS + Podcast Republic android app = easy to stay in the loop with podcasts on the go.
We even have a comrade who made a very pretty rss feed, it just needs to be curated a bit and made official
Thanks! This is awesome! I meant an RSS for the People's Podcast though. If you link up a podcast using RSS you'll get new episodes downloaded automatically as they're released. Very convenient!
So feedback so far, great sound quality, needs introduction from host and guests. I don't know who is speaking or who else I'm going to hear from. Looking forward to listening to it all once I have some time.
I think we're going to try to avoid any and all introductions, its the people's podcast, we want to try to keep away from clout chasing too :)
If you want to just make up a new name each time that's cool, it's just about being able to picture 3(+?) people in a room from the start. Otherwise when a new person joins the conversation it's a bit unexpected, someone just teleported into the room I was picturing and it throws me off for a moment.
Ahh I get that :)
For the full podcast we plan for it to be anywhere from 3-10 hosts in the first half, and then literally as many people as show up in the second half, like how it is on the discord voice chat :D
I was involved in something like that, it gets a bit messy with more than 4 people. Without cues of when to speak people end up cross talking a lot or not at all. But you might have a better system. :)
If they keep doing it via video (also upload these to Peertube I guess), then having a name of the speaker pop up on the video as they speak may be a good way to do it. Obviously using not real names but yknow
If they really want it to be no names, just have people pick out avatars and have them highlight in a video while they're speaking and darken when they're not. Might be software tools for that already considering that's how "choir" cover videos of Vocaloid songs are usually done.
Video editor here, I'm planning to give each speaker a unique color and their own line on the audio visualizer for any future episodes. It's not perfect but it's the easiest way to visually distinguish between the different people involved without attaching names to them. Avatars might be cool too.
The audio visualizer idea sounds dope
Since we're recording though discord we could honestly just screen record the sidebar where users icons are as they already light up when they speak :)
That could work but we'd have to have someone screencapturing it for each recording and then sync that up with the Craig files, plus it gives less room for anonymity in case someone is easily identified by their avatar. It actually might even just be easier to just get all the pngs of their profile pictures and have them highlight with audio activity in post if we wanted to go down that route.
Zencastr has some really severe limitations if you don't pay, like a limit of two guests, a limit on how many hours you can record each month, and no access to the lossless tracks. We're using Discord right now for accessibility. If we went to a different software though, we're planning on Mumble because it's fully free-and-open-source through the whole stack (so we can self-host it and not have to worry about pricing), and because it offers a tons of different options to configure it for prioritizing either latency or quality. Plus it can do multitrack recording for everyone in the call, so score. I'd love to test it and compare the quality to Discord, but at the moment, accessibility is enough of a priority that I doubt we'll switch.
Is the podcast with people with a range of tendencies? Or kind of people who roughly agree? Just wondering if there is any discussion or varied takes before I listen. Thanks!
Episodes will be self organized by whatever folks are passionate about that subject, just like this one was, however the final podcast will have 2 parts: one, like this one, with prepared hosts and topics and ideas used to springboard to organic discussions, and a second part (which I call the anarchy segment) where everyone who was listening to the recording gets unmuted and the whole thing becomes a public forum, about the episode, further discussion, dumb bits, whatever. It'll be like the old episode megathreads but its actually the podcast. This section will be recorded over 2-3 hours and edited down to about 45 minutes or an hour, so times where everyone is talking over each other or what have you can be cut out and we can elevate the gems of the discussion (and we want to figure out how to have the community make these decisions rather than the behind the scenes team having too much control over the final edit)
In episode 0 here, it was initially just a dry run for the comrades who spoke to practice, and for us on the backend to see what the logistics and tech/ editing would be like, but it turned out so well we wanted to share it! That's why it's episode 0 and not 1 :)
Specifically to your tendency question, that's the hope. I want this to be the essence of our community, which I hope can be left unity and solidarity <3
I hope this explanation makes sense haha, happy to answer further questions :)
Are there plans for when the proper episode 1 will happen and/or how often episodes will be recorded going forward? Also where would the recording times be announced?
The recording times would be announced though the CTH discord most likely (though we'll definitely post about it here too), and episode 1 will happen soon, can't really be more specific than that :)
What is an RSS thingy?
Once the podcast becomes established we'll try our best to get it on every platform we can for free :)
Ill put this request into the Planning group of the podcast. If not i can probably make it happen on a speed binge <3
Finally got around to listening to this. Good stuff, loved the somewhat scrappy production. Strong voices there
Car Seat Headrest - Lowbrow: https://ifthereishellbelow.bandcamp.com/track/lowbrow
