Podcasting on the road: trials and tribulations | Coffee Break Ep106 | 5-18-26
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Blogging on the road is pretty easy, but podcasting from the road is a different story. In this episode, we'll talk about how.
(01:12) - Internet issues
(05:39) - Microphone issues
(14:27) - Improvised laptop stands
(19:38) - Lighting issues (dark hotel rooms, cars, etc.)
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.1 | Today's coffee break, podcasting on the road, trials and tribulations. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to Frequent Milers coffee break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles |
| 0:21.0 | and points. |
| 0:22.0 | Each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less or your money back. |
| 0:28.3 | For years, I was a blogger, not a podcaster, and same for Nick. |
| 0:33.9 | And people often think that life for a blogger is great. |
| 0:39.7 | You could go sit out on the beach with your laptop and, you know, bang out a poster too. |
| 0:45.2 | But reality isn't that easy because you have basically sunshining in your eyes. |
| 0:51.3 | You can't see the laptop at all. |
| 0:52.6 | There's a lot of things get in the way |
| 0:54.2 | with that. So that said, blogging on the road isn't that difficult. We can get it done, just might |
| 1:00.0 | have to stay in our hotel room to do some of the work instead of being out at the pool or at the beach. |
| 1:05.5 | However, podcasting can be a challenge on on the road. So we're going to talk about some of the things that we've had to overcome while podcasting while on the road. Yeah. And remember, wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like this video. Give us a thumbs up. Leave us a comment. We appreciate that. All right. Let's dive into this. Internet issues. First of all, we've had internet issues sometimes. So if some of that |
| 1:29.8 | has been, sometimes it's just a poor signal, it depends on the hotel Wi-Fi if we're on the road. |
| 1:34.8 | For me, even when I'm at home every now and then I'll have internet issues. So some of the old |
| 1:40.4 | podcasting tools that we used to use didn't work so well, right? |
| 1:51.3 | Yeah. So, you know, there are tools designed to help with internet issues where what they do is they record locally on both sides. And that way, even if it's a really bad internet connection, |
| 1:58.8 | it stitches the two sides together, and then you |
| 2:03.2 | should have, like, perfect audio for your podcast. We, when we started the podcast in, I think, |
| 2:10.2 | 2019, we tried some of these tools, and it was kind of a technical disaster. We would record whole episodes and not be able to, |
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