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My nerd may be showing, but I would greatly appreciate an episode on how podcasts handle advertising! Is it one-size-fits-all? Do you hire an umbrella company? Does each podcasts set its own parameters? Why are some personally recorded and others generic? Danke!

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Same! I am a marketer and this shit is fascinating. Tell us everything!

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Also super curious I was hoping more would be shared on the revenue report q and a

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Wait so we're just going to gloss over the fact that you were listening to your own podcast? I have many questions. Is this a quality assurance best practice so you can identify problems with the episode (as you did in fact identify this time)? How are you able to stand the sound of your own recorded voice?

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And, just another reason for everyone who is able to subscribe to Incognito Mode!!! No ads - huzzah!🙌

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I’m also interested! I have been wondering this for a while—during your Diamond episode, I heard a diamond advertisement!

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This is triggering my title drama with the California DMV! In California, your title doesn’t get sent to you, it sets sent to the headquarters in the Bay (they don’t tell you this). If you have ANYTHING against you in their system (parking ticket unpaid, registration not renewed, etc) they will block your title from being sent to you, while simultaneously not telling you what your strike is against you. Then the title gets sent back to the credit union, who also doesn’t tell you this happened. This happened to me in Covid so I couldn’t go in person, and it took me actual years to get the title. To the car. Throat I bought.

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I like these investigative type of episodes the best. In the rest of the world (i think) we only have the bureaucracy of our government but in the US, every state is an individual bureaucracy underneath the government bureaucracy. it must be a real impediment to new country wide businesses.

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... a royal purple <what>?

I replayed it three times and still couldn't figure it out. :P

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Fleece. I think.

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I would love to know more about your advertising! Do you cringe when you have to read ad-approved copy when you would never say those things that that particular way? Or do you always have the freedom to write your own scripts advertising a product?

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Don’t sweat it! Appreciate the transparency and most of all the great content. This is my favorite podcast, by far.

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All good, PJ! I appreciate you getting out ahead of this.

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