Soccer was the (American) sport of the future when the Tampa Bay Rowdies won the NASL championship in 1975. And it's been the sport of the future ever since.
I decided to follow the excellent advice from FS Blog linked below and stop reading news. I subscribed to your substack before I swore off and I will keep reading your substack because it is informative and funny and you do a great job of saying what I would say if I was as smart and as clever as you are.
I'm the third subscriber to your YouTube channel. I might be wrong, but this may make me your third biggest fan. I'm the second commenter to this post, so I might be wrong and this may make me your second biggest fan. I'm probably wrong because you have people who subscribe and pay you money for nothing, and I don't. So maybe I'm no better than your N+1st biggest fan where N is the number of subscribers. But I might be wrong about that, too
Anyway since I'm not paying you for content I thought that the least I could do was to give you some valuable feedback on the pods-cast without asking you to pay for it.
My first bit of valuable advice is: link the podcast posts to the original essay.
My second: link the original essay to the podcast.
My third: the Wadsworth Constant (link below) says you can skip the first 1/3 of any video with no loss of value. The amount of skippable content is smaller, but nonzero. I recommend you shorten
I don't know why pods-casters think that they need to start with theme music and an intro telling them who you are and what they're about. I go to podcasts for content, content, not to be serenaded. And I know who they are, or I wouldn't be there.
Some pods-casters start with the audio-equivalent of a pull-quote--a moment from the podcast that's a highlight. I think that's a good idea.
I like your style reading what you've written, but from what I've listened to so far (not that much, but I will listen to more) the written versions are WAY WAY WAY better than the spoken version. But for people who don't have time to sit down and read because they are driving to work or taking their kids to soccer it's better than nothing. I will listen some more and try to make some better suggestions.
I kinda enjoyed the soccer posts but it was def like reading some reality tv show recap about a show I didn't watch or care about. You could have actually made up all of the games.
Damn....the soccer diaries were great. My daughter and I will honestly miss them. Not being sarcastic. Its what got me here. SIGH But I'll stick around for the "other stuff". I do enjoy your writing, and share it.
Sorry -- I loved doing soccer but there are only so many hours in the day and the soccer stuff was less popular. I'll try to fill the void with other crap.
Well I for one will miss the USMNT coverage, but it's not what brought me here and made me pay for a subscription that apparently I didn't need to pay for ;) (kidding!). This is my favorite of the Substacks and now you'll be gladly taking up even more time with a podcast.
There isn't a way to unsubscribe from the audio subsection currently. I can always ignore your emails, but if you want any kind of metric to see what segment of your audience isn't interested, I can't give that to you until I have a way of unsubscribing.
Now if you put "audio" or "podcast" in the subscription early enough for that to be viewable in the inbox, I'll help out by politely not opening the email. Hope that helps.
Might be because I'm not a paying subscriber, but still nothing. Saved a screenshot of the option I get under "Subscribe" (really seeing any other place for it)
Or you might want to check the ID of your legit young person. They may not be legit. I've heard everyone over the age of 21 is a drunk. Or is that 12? I can never remember. Probably from drinking too much.
Okay, for anyone else as clueless as me, here's the solution!
Hit the dropdown at the top of the Substack. Then hit "My Account". You might think this would take you to your Substack account, but that's just the solar radiation getting to you. You're actually directed to a control panel for the imightbewrong Substack which lets you uncheck that box.
(Note this actually is the Substack control panel, as when you click on "My Account" within that page, that lets you switch to any of the 'stack's you are subscribed to, but it just shows them to you one at a time to preserve the illusion that our host knows how to host his own website and that this isn't just Geocities 4.2.)
Soccer was the (American) sport of the future when the Tampa Bay Rowdies won the NASL championship in 1975. And it's been the sport of the future ever since.
I decided to follow the excellent advice from FS Blog linked below and stop reading news. I subscribed to your substack before I swore off and I will keep reading your substack because it is informative and funny and you do a great job of saying what I would say if I was as smart and as clever as you are.
I'm the third subscriber to your YouTube channel. I might be wrong, but this may make me your third biggest fan. I'm the second commenter to this post, so I might be wrong and this may make me your second biggest fan. I'm probably wrong because you have people who subscribe and pay you money for nothing, and I don't. So maybe I'm no better than your N+1st biggest fan where N is the number of subscribers. But I might be wrong about that, too
Anyway since I'm not paying you for content I thought that the least I could do was to give you some valuable feedback on the pods-cast without asking you to pay for it.
My first bit of valuable advice is: link the podcast posts to the original essay.
My second: link the original essay to the podcast.
My third: the Wadsworth Constant (link below) says you can skip the first 1/3 of any video with no loss of value. The amount of skippable content is smaller, but nonzero. I recommend you shorten
I don't know why pods-casters think that they need to start with theme music and an intro telling them who you are and what they're about. I go to podcasts for content, content, not to be serenaded. And I know who they are, or I wouldn't be there.
Some pods-casters start with the audio-equivalent of a pull-quote--a moment from the podcast that's a highlight. I think that's a good idea.
I like your style reading what you've written, but from what I've listened to so far (not that much, but I will listen to more) the written versions are WAY WAY WAY better than the spoken version. But for people who don't have time to sit down and read because they are driving to work or taking their kids to soccer it's better than nothing. I will listen some more and try to make some better suggestions.
https://fs.blog/stop-reading-news/
https://www.dictionary.com/e/pop-culture/the-wadsworth-constant/
Thanks for the advice! The podcast is very new and I'm definitely still figuring out the best way to do it, so I'll keep these tips in mind.
So you start your blogging career with a devoted soccer audience and then drop both of us when you become famous? Diva!
I kinda enjoyed the soccer posts but it was def like reading some reality tv show recap about a show I didn't watch or care about. You could have actually made up all of the games.
I made up the one against Curacao. There's no such thing as Curacao.
Damn....the soccer diaries were great. My daughter and I will honestly miss them. Not being sarcastic. Its what got me here. SIGH But I'll stick around for the "other stuff". I do enjoy your writing, and share it.
Sorry -- I loved doing soccer but there are only so many hours in the day and the soccer stuff was less popular. I'll try to fill the void with other crap.
Well I for one will miss the USMNT coverage, but it's not what brought me here and made me pay for a subscription that apparently I didn't need to pay for ;) (kidding!). This is my favorite of the Substacks and now you'll be gladly taking up even more time with a podcast.
Well thanks! And thanks very much for paying -- it might get you something some day!
Jeff, I can't get yer "pods-casts" on PocketCast. Could you please make that happen? ty
There isn't a way to unsubscribe from the audio subsection currently. I can always ignore your emails, but if you want any kind of metric to see what segment of your audience isn't interested, I can't give that to you until I have a way of unsubscribing.
Now if you put "audio" or "podcast" in the subscription early enough for that to be viewable in the inbox, I'll help out by politely not opening the email. Hope that helps.
I'm working on that -- maybe try again, you might have done it literally right as I was hitting "create".
Sorry about the ironing-the-bugs-out phase. I have hired a legit young person to help me with this stuff and we'll get there eventually.
Might be because I'm not a paying subscriber, but still nothing. Saved a screenshot of the option I get under "Subscribe" (really seeing any other place for it)
https://ibb.co/XkQ8cCr
Or you might want to check the ID of your legit young person. They may not be legit. I've heard everyone over the age of 21 is a drunk. Or is that 12? I can never remember. Probably from drinking too much.
Okay, for anyone else as clueless as me, here's the solution!
Hit the dropdown at the top of the Substack. Then hit "My Account". You might think this would take you to your Substack account, but that's just the solar radiation getting to you. You're actually directed to a control panel for the imightbewrong Substack which lets you uncheck that box.
(Note this actually is the Substack control panel, as when you click on "My Account" within that page, that lets you switch to any of the 'stack's you are subscribed to, but it just shows them to you one at a time to preserve the illusion that our host knows how to host his own website and that this isn't just Geocities 4.2.)