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Okay, what's up everybody?

Patflin here and welcome to episode 564 of Ask Pat.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Okay, here's today's question from Travis.

Hey Pat, this is Travis over at drone smiter.com. I'm looking at launching a podcast with about

10 episodes in the queue. I want to do the WordPress self-hosted along with SoundCloud for actually

hosting the media files. Curious how you actually go about scheduling them out so you can

upload them all today and have them maybe go

out over the next 10 weeks or so and adding more kind of in the hopper down the road.

So appreciate your response and have a great day, Pat. Thanks. Bye.

Travis, what's up, man? Thank you so much for the question. Today, love the sound of your voice.

I am curious to know what kind of mic you use, but whatever it is, your podcast listeners,

thank you because you have a great sounding voice and you got all the right equipment.

So you're off to a great start.

In terms of how many episodes to start with, there's a lot of conversation about this.

Here's what I would do.

And then I'm going to talk about your SoundCloud and upload release

later kind of thing. But the big thing is having episodes in the can when you first start out

is a great idea. Obviously, it's good to do a bunch and batch record a bunch of episodes just so you

have them in the hopper, you said ready to fire but when you

actually launch launch when you go live on iTunes for example you'll want at least three episodes

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