May 21, 2026 - B

May 21, 2026 - B

From The Paul Truesdell Podcast by Paul Grant Truesdell, JD., AIF, CLU, ChFC

May 21, 2026 · 29 min

About this episode

Paul Truesdell discusses the challenges and realities of podcasting based on his experiences.

Why most podcasting efforts are a waste of time. PODCAST NOTES — WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT PODCASTING By Paul Truesdell A LITTLE BACKGROUND Let me give you some background on what I've learned about this whole podcasting business. When I started, we had dialup. That's right — dialup. The internet sounded like a fax machine having a nervous breakdown, and I was running a program called Icecast. I-C-E-C-A-S-T. Phenomenal piece of software. Still around, by the way. We did everything live. I shut it down. Why? My business partner had a peculiar habit — he was late, unprepared, and apparently allergic to a clock. I tried it again later with a few other folks. Same story, different cast. And I don't cotton to that. That's one of my phrases. I don't cotton to certain things, and chronic unreliability sits right at the top of the list. Here in little old sleepy Ocala — and I mean truly sleepy, the kind of sleepy where the town rolls up the sidewalks at sundown — we had built that show up to fifteen hundred, two thousand listeners. In the early days of the internet, that wasn't small potatoes. That was a whole bushel. I've always been one of the first ones on a platform. Not all of them —…

People in this episode

Host: Paul Truesdell

Topics covered

  • podcasting
  • business
  • reliability
  • internet history
  • audience growth

Keywords

  • podcasting
  • Icecast
  • reliability
  • audience
  • internet

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Icecast

Places: Ocala

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