Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, today is a special episode because I want to introduce you to the team that

makes the Council of Trend possible.

Welcome to the podcast, I'm your host, Catholic Answers to the Polygist Trent Horn.

And over the past five years, the podcast has grown a lot.

We've produced over 800 episodes.

Our YouTube videos have been viewed over 10 million times.

We're nearing 100,000 subscribers, and the quality of the podcast has improved.

I try to make each episode now a kind of mini video essay in order to give you the best

information about the faith, but to give it to you in the most efficient way possible.

You've probably noticed there's a lot more research and video clips and work that's

been put into the recent episodes, and I just can't do all that by myself.

So today I'm going to be introducing you to the team that makes the entire Council of

Trend Podcasts possible.

So for every episode, I write the script, I shoot the episode here in my office, and

I do basic editing on my laptop.

I then send a description of the episode to Shane, our graphic designer, who makes the

thumbnails for each episode.

I'm Shane, I do the thumbnails for the show, so I get it at Photoshop, James White, onto

all kinds of things.

Thank you, I hope you enjoy the thumbnails come.

I then send the completed episode to Zach, who masters the audio, color corrects the

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