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Hi, I'm Vince Quinn, and I'm here to tell you how to use pilots to build a better show.

And when you think about the landscape today when it comes to any type of media production that you might do, one of the biggest problems today is output.

Output is a massive problem. And Vince, what do you mean by that? Well,

I'm talking about a couple of things. One, the push to be instant, right? You see so many things on

social media and it's always reacting in the moment, being present, being constant in the feed.

You're putting up stories and tweets and everything else.

You want to be constantly in people's faces.

There's a real pressure that comes with that.

And as a result, you feel that need to be constant yourself with your content, right?

You constantly are putting up new episodes.

If something major happens and you're in a certain

kind of category where there is news to react to that more instant news. What happens?

Emergency pods, right? We're doing, we're stopping whatever we're doing to record an episode

and get it out. It's that same feeling of having to be constant. And another problem here is you do that because why? Well,

you're competing against everyone. You're competing against not just different brands and

businesses and fellow influencers. You're talking about, I don't know, dogs that have their

own accounts and like anything else, right?

It's just how do you get out there all the time and grab attention when literally almost anything that exists has an account that you're also competing against?

So you want to get the output.

And because of all of that, as a podcaster, I think one of the biggest problems is that a podcast feels disposable at times, right?

A certain episode, you might just be, oh, I'm tired, oh, we're behind, we just need to get this out.

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