How to Start a Podcast, With Abu Zafar

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Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ever dreamed of making a podcast of your own? Of being the next Teri Gross or Joe Rogan? This week we’re learning how with the help of Lifehacker’s own video producer Abu Zafar. Abu recently produced a 3-part video series for Lifehacker called How to Start a Podcast and he joins us this week to talk about some of the podcasting basics he’s learned from experts like Josh Clarke (Stuff You Should Know), Misha Euceph (Tell Them I Am), and Roman Mars (99% Invisible). When Abu isn’t busy crafting snappy how-to videos for Lifehacker he moonlights as a host and producer of his very own podcast network, Lore Party.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.
0:19.7	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker,
0:22.7	and Alice is out sick today, so I'm joined by LifeHacker staff writer Nick Douglas.
0:27.4	Hey, Nick.
0:28.2	Hi, Melissa.
0:29.4	Thank you for being here in Alice's absence.
0:31.5	Gladly.
0:32.1	So today we're talking about how to start a podcast.
0:34.9	That's right.
0:35.3	We're talking about how you can create your very own
0:37.9	downloadable audio show and make just crazy piles of money like we have here.
0:43.9	That's how we padded the room. Exactly. It was bare walls, bare floor. There was too much echo,
0:48.9	so we made a ton of money. Uh-huh. And covered the room in it. It looks beautiful. And listen to
0:53.1	to us now. Right.
1:03.6	Melissa, did you know that according to the 2019 Infinite Dial Report, over half the U.S. population, over 12, have listened to a podcast?
1:06.6	That's about 144 million people.
1:07.9	That's a lot of people.
1:08.5	Yeah. And according to that same report, there are 90 million monthly podcast listeners in the U.S.
1:14.8	That is staggering, Nick.
1:17.6	Did you know that according to the 2018 podcast revenue report, which I'm sure you've at least glanced through?
1:24.4	Every morning, I read a chapter.
1:27.2	Sure.
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