Kevin Bae: Kevin Bae, this is the podcast idiot podcast where
I talk about the crappy podcasts I'm making. This is episode
eight. Today is may 4 2021. S I've been kind of, on and of
with this. In the meantime, I'v been working on some othe
podcasts, I actually actuall started to just a couple o
episodes in, I started chasin the yield podcast, which cover
it's an amateur investin podcast, covers my own persona
investments, and what I've bee doing with that since I stoppe
working a regular job two year ago. And then I have the othe
one, which is called. That's al I got. That's all I got podcast
It's from my personal blog Kevin Bay calm. And that one i
just random news of the day. M ranting about stuff. Lately
it's been a lot of COVI baloney. But it's just, yo
know, I've been blogging for while. And I just wanted to pu
some audio to it. So just t have have a little fun sip o
coffee. But this one, I starte this one, this podcast in orde
to learn how to podcast. And I' what I'm doing is I'm sel
hosting all these files, all th podcast files, the mp3 i
bhujia, that lightning, mayb it's raining cats and dogs here
I'm in Georgia, north east o Atlanta, and there's a stor
raging right now and it' pouring outside anyway. I a
self hosting. I have account with dreamhost. And right now
am putting the mp3 files there And the reason I'm doing it i
because it's free. I'm alread paying for it. And, you know,
have no idea if anybody's eve listening fees. So yeah, I kno
the bandwidth right now is no an issue. You know, if, if an
of these start to get listene to, you know, I'll probabl
transition over to a traditiona hosting company where I don'
have to worry about craz bandwidth issues. But right now
you know, I got 10 people probably even if I got 10
people listening, which is lik a fantasy won't present an
bandwidth issues from me pushin audio files. So that that's ho
I'm hosting self hosting. An all my blogs are WordPress
WordPress blogs, I try to spi that out. And I use blueberrie
powerpress plugin and it's it' really a really nice plugin. I
makes it very simple to t create a blog post, insert a
audio file in there. And i publish, you just tell it yo
tell it where are your mp3 file located and they they they hav
implemented the chapters tag an the transcript tag fro
podcasting 2.0 from the ne podcast namespace and so I ca
put in chapters and chapte images. I can also easily d
transcripts it's so super simpl to produce a transcript and an
host that file all those file to are hosted on my dream pres
virtual server that I that lease that I rent from the
equipment wise I know I ramble on about it before and I'm goin
to try it again. Equipment wis I record use using a device fro
zoom called a pod track p fou and I chose it. I chose thi
device first because it's small It fits on my desk, I can plu
it in to I can power it via US C it also takes batteries and
can plug it via USB into m computer And that's how I ca
get audio in and out of of m PC. It's also you know, I wante
something that would work sor of like a road a road What d
they call is called a roa podcast. What's it called
What is that road thing called road.com is called set stupid
it's a stupid giant thing that I can't find right now. Where is
it at Road caster road caster pro that thing that's sort of
like you know for somebody a little bit more professional and
a little bit more professional, where you're going to have you
know, multiple audio inputs and be able to livestream and do all
that stuff that also has sound pads where you can add sounds
that are easy to get to just by a touch of a button by the touch
of a button which is what I have here I've got the theme music
for this show. Right there. Button away so I can hit that I
also have a sound board that I use but I'll get to that in a
moment but the podrick before also records I can put four XLR
microphones into here and each one will record a separate track
inside the device. Which is really handy now I haven't done
any interviews or had anybody else on any podcast yet but if I
if I do, I just haven't I just bring another microphone plug
that in and I can have them and not just put it up put out the
sound and recorded but put them on separate tracks that way if
for some reason I need to isolate audio or you know mix it
in some different way. It's very easy. And another reason that I
have the the Patrick before it's a cost it's it's a couple $100 I
was trying to to put everything together that I needed for just
a few 100 where the the road caster Pro is pretty expensive.
How expensive is that thing road caster pro Let me see. b&h
photo, b h Thunder bH photo.com Road road caster road caster pro
okay that thing $600 so that would have blown out my entire
podcast budget plus and that's not what I wanted. So I wanted
to get to be able to it has a lot of the functions that the
road caster pro does. And it's sort of a studio in a pocket.
It's really it's really quite tiny. Where is my tape measure
just not even back of the envelope stuff here at See I
just, it's like six and a half inches long and at its widest
it's like four and a half inches wide and a stands Oh about an
inch and a half tall up off the desk. So it's small, you could
shove this in a bag and you can go anywhere and you can podcast
and I'm not sure what I wanted to do but I wanted maximum
portability because who knows? Who knows and it's it's cheap
$200 for this thing that I paid from and I bought it from b&h
and it's just a nifty little device that does just about
everything you would need it to do, I can you can even add you
can adjust for all the inputs, you can adjust the levels
independently. I can adjust the levels off the sound pad that
contains some of the music tracks. I can turn it down. I
can also you know you can plug in a full set of headphones,
which is what I have right now I've got my headphones, you can
plug up to four different headphones too. So if you have
four guests, you can have four guests, each one of them have
their own headphones, and it's not a problem. Additionally, I
have this plugged into my computer so I can play. I can go
to YouTube and I can play any let's just take a random video.
Let's see the Atlanta area CBS 46 Atlanta bring security
employee shot so
Unknown: that's fired outside in Atlanta deli when thieves try to
steal a security teams armored truck. One of the security
guards shot in that attempt CBS
Kevin Bae: so I can do that I can bring in the audio from
there. And there's a separate volume control for that as well.
So if I'm if I've got different video clips or different audio
clips or whatever that I want to include on a podcast, it's not a
problem, it's super simple. And then the other party has audio
in through just a plain old mini plug. And I have my surface go,
I've got the an app called Universal soundboard installed
there and I put in some different audio tracks for the
music cuz I'm thinking I might have a bunch of different clips
they want to go through at some point. So rather than the
Patrick before, while it's, it's good, it only has four different
sound pads. So you can only have four different things lined up
at once, to be able to play at the touch of a button, which is
fine. If I have you know, if I have to do that. It's not so
flexible and easy to to map a sound to those pads, you can do
it and you know, I'll probably use those sound pads for
something else. But if I need to have some clips and and have
them more at the ready soundboard on a PCs is so much
more convenient. So I have my surface go plugged into the pod
track p four via a standard mini plug cable. And from there, I
can hit the same Intro music and it does the same thing.
So that's that that covers the Patrick before and how I
basically have it set up. Now the microphone I'm using is a
Rode pod mic. Again, the reason I chose this is a lot of its
cost. The other thing is is it plugs in very easily to the the
Patrick before and it's a nice looking microphone, I may want
to do some video at some point. So I figured if as long as I
have, if I'm if I plan on doing video, having a microphone that
looks nice, looks professional, even though there's gonna be
nothing professional about what I do, but it just looks cool.
And I wish I could have a boom microphone stand. But I can't
the desk that I operate off of has tapered edges. So there's no
microphone boom, at least that I found so far that will fit this
desk. So instead I just have a plain old desk stand. And what
is that I should actually really should have prepared and pulled
this stuff up. Let me go let me go into my orders here. Let's
see my orders. Where is my stuff? My orders? This is all
off of b&h photo. Okay, it's a it's a road dsx one microphone
desktop stand. And that also was not not expensive? I can't find
it, of course, no, let's see 30 bucks 30 bucks for the stand.
Now it doesn't have like any shock mount or anything like
that. So you can hear pretty much everything when I touch the
stand. But the the road pod mic supposedly has some anti shock.
infrastructure, I guess built into the microphone also has a
pop filter. So if I'm getting too close, I shouldn't be able
to pop my piece. I don't know. You could put something in front
of it that will prevent that from happening as well. But I'm
like, Okay, I've got enough crap on this desk. So I don't know
how you'd mount a pop filter on this if you wanted to. But it's
it's pretty nifty little microphone. It looks nice. It's
only $100. And it sounds pretty good, at least to me. And what I
really wanted was a hardware noise gate because I'm doing
this podcast in my office. And there's nothing soft on the
walls. It's just I can hear the echo in the headphones I'm
wearing right now. So what I do is I record into Audacity. And
after I'm done, I use the noise gates, the software inside to
eliminate all of that, or at least try to eliminate as much
of the echo and background noise as I can to try to quiet it up.
Ideally, you know, you'd want something I guess on the walls
or on the floor to limit some of this echo. But it's the best I
can do. So I've got the the pod mic pod track. I've got my
microphone stand. And let's see. What else did I get with this?
Oh, I got the The headphones I'm wearing right now the
headphones, they're Sony MDR 7506 headphones fairly
comfortable, they were at $9. I don't know if that's expensive
or cheap, they just seem kind of middle of the road. They do the
job they plug easily, they just have a mini mini plug cable. It
also came with the adapter for the larger. I don't know what
that guy did with the larger quarter inch headphone jack if
you need that, it comes with it. Excuse me more coffee. Hopefully
if I drink more coffee, I'll have to clear my throat so much
I always have a frog in my throat perpetually. Alright, so
the other thing that I purchased along with this setup is just an
XLR cable. It's a cheap $20 copel Kapil klp ul studio lead
4000 series XLR male to female microphone cables six feet long.
I don't know if I'll need a six foot long cable, but that's what
I have. So that entire deal, that's 200 300-334-2440 less
than $500 is the entire podcast rig from headphones to
microphone records. I do also record into Audacity. I don't
know if I already mentioned it this time around.
But the pod track goes into my computer and the audacity which
is a free piece of software that probably everybody knows about.
records that so this way, if something goofy happens on one
end of the other, it's recording it as as it's being put out of
the pod rack. So is that recording separate tracks right
now, but because I have the separate tracks already in the
device, so that's not really necessary. Most of the time that
I've been practicing this, I just record into Audacity. And
when I'm done, I do some minor editing for the noise gate stuff
and clipping off the ends. So I'm just with the intro and
outro music at the end. And that's it, I'm done. I processed
it into an mp3 and I put it up. I'm not trying to take out any
of my coughing or hacking or any of the the arms or the ads that
I keep saying that bother me but they're there. Or so I say so a
million times. I'm just getting I'm getting used to talking on
the microphone. And here's there's the word and I do it.
It's like some kind of a verbal crutch, whatever. It's it's kind
of funny to say verbal crutch. And then you follow that up with
and throw clear. So the, let's see, what else did I want to
cover? at all that equipment. I guess I could talk about the
other podcast that I have launched. Right now I've got
I've got three I've got this one, which this is the ninth
episode. And hopefully as I improve it, I'll continue. The
other one is chasing the yield. And that's at chasing the yield
calm. And in that podcast and blog, I will cover my entire
portfolio. Not in dollars, but in percentages. I'm not really
comfortable putting dollars to it right now. And the goal of
that podcast is to just talk about what my what my investing
goals are and how I'm going about doing that. I'm an
absolute amateur investor trying to invest for income and it's a
little dangerous right now in this in this current stock
market climate because the stock market just continues to go up
which makes me nervous because that that means that at some
point the bubbles gonna pop and it's gonna it's gonna fall down
I just hope it's not that hard. Excuse me. I can hear every
swallow this is too sensitive. Maybe I should hit the button
and silence that but too bad. I'll try to get more
professional on the actual podcast that cover content other
than podcasting and the other one is that's all I got. And I
don't even though why I came up with that name but you can go to
that's all I got calm or Kevin Bae calm it takes you to the
same place. Kevin Bae calm is where a blog about just news of
the day things that kind of pissed me off just random rants
that, you know, normally I would, I would say to people
here in the house or to family or whatever, but right now it's
just me and my wife. We've been empty nesters for quite some
time my kids are adults in their guns, there's nobody to Yammer
on to complain to except for my wife. And she doesn't really
care about that stuff anyway, even though we do talk about
that stuff from time to time, but ultimately, she doesn't
really care. So I I posted up there. I've got a small
readership for that blog. Hopefully, I can, you know, put
together a podcast based on that blog that maybe is more
entertaining than what I write. You know, it's just, it's just
kind of clipping news of the day and putting in a sarcastic
comment or something like that. Just baloney blogs that
everybody's used to saying. The last one that I are, the next
one that I plan on putting together is, I've been running a
food blog for a couple of years now. It's called keto cooking,
keto and cooking spelled with a K. So it's keto cooking calm. I
have an Instagram account there, that's that handle is at Quito
cooking, underscore calm, because somebody else had keto
cooking, and I couldn't get it. And I just, I cover their food
that I eat basically, it's nothing special other than the
actual food that I eat.
Because over the last few decades, actually, I, I haven't
been low carb for several decades, but I have been eating
basically one meal a day for that long. And you may call the
date that I've been eating low carb. Anyway, it wasn't it
definitely wasn't high in carbs, it didn't concentrate on it, it
mostly concentrated on meat. But I'm half Korean. So I rice are
used to, I used to eat a lot of rice. And it was basically with
every meal. And then I ran into the term intermittent fasting,
and just was reading about it. It's like, Hey, this is the way
I've been living for decades. And I just kind of fell into
that and researching it and found out there's all these
people that are living the way I've been living. And all I
tried to do after that is that that's how I got into the keto
diet, or at least a keto friendly diet. The doctors that
I follow intermittent fasting quite often also doubles up with
keto friendly food keto friendly diet, for people to maintain
weight or lose weight, whatever it is that like, I'm, I've never
been morbidly obese or anything like that. But I figured that
the food that I eat on a daily basis, I don't make anything
special. You know, I never really adhered to a diet, per
se. What I do is, most most everything is based around
protein and just you know, whatever meat that I'm eating,
and then you know, you add on things around the side
vegetables and things like that, instead of now and just instead
of eating, adding up potatoes or rice, I just add on other
vegetables that are that are not high in carbohydrates. But
anyway, I've been running that for a couple of years. And
again, I get maybe 1500 followers on Instagram. And
maybe I'm going to try to grow that by producing a podcast,
wherein I can use pictures. It's gonna be like a podcast slash
YouTube channel. without me being centered on the YouTube
channel. Instead, I'll be talking, and then I can include
the pictures or maybe even some videos on YouTube. I include
some video clips, and I hope we get to do that in podcasting at
some point. But in podcasting, at least I can provide chapters
and chapter images that can go along with whatever it is that
I'm cooking for the day for that week. Depending on on what it
is, I'm going to experiment with that and for that experiment, I
bought a lab recorder it's called the zoom f two field
recorder. And this is another tiny advice. Advice. Tiny device
by zoom that has a little lav microphone and it takes an SD
card and it takes a couple of batteries. I think it's double A
batteries in here. Nope, they're triple A's, triple A batteries.
And it records you can you can have a set of headphones if you
want plugged into this. I'm not gonna use that. I'm just gonna
See how it sounds but you can that this device is like smaller
than a than a packet and Chiclets. It's made, let me get
the tape measure. It is about two and a quarter inches wide
by, oh, an engine, six eighths. tall, and about a half an inch,
half an inch thick. And this can clip on your belt fit in your
pocket, whatever and then the lav mic, you know, screws into
the top, and you can record it has a little SD card micro SD
card inside, so you can record on that. And so what I plan on
doing is recording while I'm cooking using that microphone,
and then I'll use my phone to take a little bit of video and
some pictures of whatever it is I'm doing. And I can use that on
the blog, in photo, like a photo gallery or just pictures as I
go. But on the podcast because of the new podcast namespace, I
can use chapters and images. So as I'm talking about what I'm
making, I can actually show the picture of what it is that I'm
doing at the time that I'm doing it. That'd be great if video can
be added to that at some point. So the video would actually play
as I'm, as I'm doing it.
I'm not sure how far they are out on something like that. I
haven't heard about it. But that that's the intent there. And
that's going to be on keto cooking.com. There's a YouTube
channel too, for keto cooking, and that link is that blog. I
have an idea for another podcast after that. But that'll be at a
later time. I'm still trying to develop the logo and the website
for that. But I think that'll that'll keep me pretty busy. You
know if I can produce these every week, which is my
intention to to at least do. Record one episode a week day
for each of these different podcasts. I've got four right
now. So I can do you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, whatever, I'll probably do the financial one on
Saturday, because that I can actually do just like a recap of
what happened during the week from the blog. And just give a
recap, and then do the recap, a monthly recap. At the beginning
of each month, I just had to decide now, what days I'm going
to record each one. And then what that content is going to be
I haven't figured all of this stuff out, I'm still very much
throwing it together as I go. I'm fairly I don't like editing
I hate editing. As a matter of fact, I don't like editing
video, I don't like editing audio. I don't even like editing
photos, but photos now is so easy to do. And in some basic
apps, or even you know, I do use Lightroom and I use Photoshop to
a certain extent. But I do it in a way where it's just very non
non invasive, because I just don't have the attention span,
especially for video editing. So whatever I put together for
YouTube channel, I'm trying to figure out the best way where I
can just throw it together. Shove it out there and and and
put it out there just it's just for my own amusement, if
anything comes of it fine. If it doesn't, this is just what I'm
doing because I feel like it so we'll see and so that's why
everything that I've purchased and the kind of setup that I'm
working with right now it's all based on my lazy production and
my lack of attention span and poor production skills. I can do
all these things. I just don't do them well because I I never
been one to concentrate on them. This is this is a one man a one
man band one man show all of this stuff is stuff I'm just
going to do on my own. So that's pretty much what I wanted to
cover today. This is like the longest podcast I put together
so far. I met the 30 minute mark and I don't think I've talked
that long by myself ever. So I've reached the milestone I'm
over the 1620 minute mark whatever the other one that I've
that I've done but I think I'll end it there just with you other
thing that's I'm not gonna end it there yet. I've got one other
thing that to talk about that I feel weird about. And I hear
every other podcast do it. They and everybody asks for don't
Because this does cost money, obviously the equipment costs
money, it costs money to to have my websites and to run it all.
Not only that, you know, I am sort of semi retired, I like to
say because I am working just not. I'm not working full time
or doing a normal job. So, you know, I would like to ask for
donations, but it feels really weird. And maybe other
podcasters run into that. You know, I don't, I don't want to
do advertising. I don't think anything I do would be
advertising friendly anyway. But you never know. So, I do have a
link on each website for donations. And obviously, I'm
willing to accept anything anybody wants to give. So if you
feel like it if you liked anything that I said or if any
of the information that I'm providing is any good you
please, you know, do the weird thing and donate. Other than
that, think about think that's it, so maybe I'll pass the 10
the 10 episode milestone at some point. Hopefully next week.
Any comments? Send us a mail ma Ei l at Kevin made calm.
I wish I could remember what my email addresses for chasing the
yield or podcast idiot have to look it up. They can't remember
too many email addresses to go through. Any questions?
Comments, advice? take anything.
Thanks for listening. The podcast next week later