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Many podcasters sacrifice the majority of their
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free time so they can podcast.
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Some of them seem to love that, while others wonder if they're missing
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out on what life has to offer.
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Which are you?
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Hello, and welcome to another Podcast Pontifications with me, Evo Tara.
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In China right now, there's some growing pushback against
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the 996 way of doing business.
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That, 996, is an assumption, and in many cases a compulsion or requirement,
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that workers will work from 9:00 AM until 9:00 PM, six days a week.
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Now, I'm no expert in foreign affairs, but after reading that article,
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I was struck by how similar that sounds, at least to me, to the way
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many podcasters approach their show.
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Quick caveat, this is not a political statement I am making, nor am I trying to
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equate the hellish conditions exploited workers around the globe face every
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day with what we do here in podcasting.
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No.
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But what is similar are those long hours.
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The long hours we podcasters often put into our podcasts.
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Hours made longer for many podcasters who podcast on the side, who work day
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jobs to pay the bills and also to be able to afford the time to podcast.
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Even full-time podcasters, or people who work full-time in podcasting, like myself,
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we're often in a similar situation.
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Long hours.
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My day yesterday began, as most of my days do, at 6:00 AM, and I
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finally called it quits at 9:00 PM.
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That's a lot of hours.
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That's also quite unusual for me, but it may not be all that unusual for you.
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I know lots of podcasters out there who proudly proclaim
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their second shift, if you will.
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And for them, 996?
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Cakewalk.
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They seem to thrive on more like 8-12-7, and judging by some of the
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wee hours of the morning Twitter responses and replies I get from people,
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some of you are more like 10-3-7.
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You know, some of us are fortunate enough to make choices in our lives.
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Everybody's circumstances are their own individual circumstances.
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And I am not going to stand up here or sit up here or do anything else
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up here and try and make a blanket supposition about how you should
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or should not spend your time.
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Whether your options are discretionary or not.
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All I wanted to do with this episode to end the week is tell you that if
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you have a choice, it's okay to take the day off from time to time, or
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bug out early, or just take the night off if that's what you need, or maybe
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take the whole long holiday weekend.
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It's okay.
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Podcast.
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Or if you go on vacation, it's okay.
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If you can take a break from your show and take care of things in the world
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that are not podcasting, once again, everyone's circumstances are different.
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I understand that, but if you want to take a break and you can take a break.
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And take a break, but gassing will be here when you get back.
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I'd much rather have you in this for the long run and then burn
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out early, like so many do let's do some Boostagrams, shall we?
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Now it's time for the boost-the boost-the boost- Boostagram Corner.
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Boostagram Corner.
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I don't know a thing about crypto.
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Fellow long time podcaster.
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Paul Culligan finally went through the agony of adding funds to pod
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friend and sent me 500 sats with the short note of just simply greetings.
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Thank you very much, Paul.
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Now go spread the love to other podcasters.
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I also want to thank Andrew clues of the motoring podcast.
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He's my newest supporting member.
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Woo.
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He used BuyMeACoffee.com/evoterra to send me a recurring coffee
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donation each and every month.
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Thank you very much, Andrew, by the way, I've added your show's logo to
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the supporter section of the website, and it's also in the newsletter.
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I appreciate that.
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Hey, speaking of the newsletter, I'm about to hit 400 newsletter subscribers.
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Woo.
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That's pretty nifty.
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If you're not yet getting the newsletter, why not?
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It's free.
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And it gives you the fully rewritten article.
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Directly in your inbox in a nice, easy-to-read format, go to
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podcastpontifications.com and click the big subscribe button and enter in your
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email address a bonus about having that.
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That makes it really easy to share with a friend when something I
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say really resonates with you.
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Quick forward, and it's all out there.
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Coming up on a holiday weekend here in America so there will be no episode
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of Podcast Pontifications on Monday.
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I'm also traveling back to Phoenix because I'm leaving town for the weekend, and
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so Tuesday's episode is questionable since that's travel time for me.
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I've got a plan to get something prerecorded ahead of time
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after doing this episode.
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Maybe I'm going to do that.
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I have not yet decided.
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But what I do know is that I shall be back next week with
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another Podcast Pontifications.
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Cheers!
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Podcast Pontifications is written and narrated by Evo Terra.
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He's on a mission to make podcasting better.
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Links to everything mentioned in today's episode are in the notes
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A written-to-be-read article based on today's episode is available at
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podcastpontifications.com where you'll also find a video version and a corrected
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transcript, both created by Allie Press.
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