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Podcasting in a Natural Disaster
Episode 255th November 2024 • Podcast Answers • LehmanCreations
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This episode discusses how to manage your podcast in the event of a natural disaster. The episode provides numerous tips including:

* updating your audience on social media and via email

* how to prepare in advance for natural disasters

* the importance of having a trusted friend in another location who can help manage your podcast in an emergency

* alternative power sources for podcasting equipment

* recording and editing using minimal equipment such as smartphones and tablets

* using scheduling and automation tools for social media and emails

* collaborating with other podcasters

* turning your natural disaster experience into a podcast episode once it's safe to do so

Andy also discusses the importance of having a plan for your podcast in the event of a natural disaster and evaluating the potential risks specific to your location. For example, if you live in an area prone to hurricanes, you may want to have a plan for evacuating and ensuring your podcasting equipment is safe. The host concludes by encouraging listeners to share their experiences of podcasting during a natural disaster.

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Welcome to Podcast Answers, the show where I help you start and grow your podcast, answering

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any podcasting questions along the way. That's right. This episode is no different. We are

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going to be talking tonight a little bit about what happens when you are in a natural disaster

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area. So talking a little bit about things like we've seen tornadoes, we've seen hurricanes

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lately. And so I wanted to chat a little bit about that. And talking about what you should

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do if you are in the hurricane area, because you never know when your podcast may be interrupted

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and you don't want to lose your audience. So that being said, what are the very, very,

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very first thing that I'm going to have you do and I think you should do is you should

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try and update your audience, the cell phone may not work, you may not be able to get to

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your cell phone, your cell phone may not have service, you may not have battery at your

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house. So the very first thing that I think that you should be doing is somehow updating

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your audience. If that means just a quick update via social media, that means a quick

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update via social media. But it may also mean that you are able to send out an actual episode.

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So we'll talk a little bit about that on this episode today. But you may not have service

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at your house to get anything out to them. So one of the good things that you can do

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is listen to the radio or talking to others, you might be able to find some service somewhere.

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I know some people who were in the latest hurricane, and they were able to talk to people

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and they were saying that the radio, the actual radio waves were actually a really good help

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in the hurricane because they were able to, they were able to actually hear where people

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had different things that they had, they were able to say, Okay, this is where you can find

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cell services where you can find internet service. And so they were able to actually

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go about doing that. And so hopefully, you're able to do that talking to other people, you

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might be able to find a glimpse of where there might be an actual good internet service for

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you to be able to go out and update your your listeners. So hopefully, you have an email

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list that you can send emails out to. So if you don't have an email list, email lists

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are super important. They are ways that you can go ahead and, and have your your list,

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you know, your subscribers subscribe. And the great thing is, it doesn't have to be

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just trying to sell something you can say, Hey, remember, we're going live tomorrow.

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And we would love to have you join. And so that that is one way that you can that you

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can, or one good thing about an email list is you can see when people you can have people

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join you can do that. So you have a way to contact your people if all else fails. An

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email is quick, and it can get pretty, it's pretty small. And so it doesn't take a lot

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of internet. So hopefully, you have an email list. If not definitely start one today. But

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send it out an email, send out updates to social media, just some sort of a quick Hey,

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this is what's going on. I'm in the middle of a natural disaster. I have no internet

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right now. So updates are going to be late, you don't want to let your people hang. So

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that's really the key here is you don't want your, your listeners, you don't want them

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to be able to lose track of what you're doing. You don't want them to be just left hanging

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without an episode, especially if it could be two, three weeks. And if you're putting

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out an episode every week, then that could be something where you need to just put out

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your quick episode and say, Hey, I'm going to be out of commission for just a little

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bit because of this natural disaster that's going on. And so you can send out your emails,

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your social medias, let people know what's going on, tell them the details, you know,

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that you may not make some upcoming episodes because of this, you don't know when your

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power is going to come back on, things like that. It could be also good to have a friend

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in another location with access to your social media, slash email slash hosting provider.

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So by that, I mean, have a trusted person in in the area. So you know, obviously may

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not be you, or it wouldn't be you, but somebody else may be in a different state that you

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trust that you can say, Hey, john, I really need you to log into my social media, and

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let people know that it's going to be okay, that I'm just going to be out for a little

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bit because I am I'm having a natural disaster in my area. And so I really need you to go

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ahead and contact my, my social media group, my email group, or whatever. And maybe even

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a way to put out a small episode, you could even have a pre recorded episode saying, Hey,

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this is I'm not able to put my this episode out because of the fact that that I've got

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this, this natural disaster going on. And so you can have your trusted friend put those

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things out for you. That way, you can still get your episode out, your people can still

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listen to what they're going to be listening to. And they can still, they can still know

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that you're still alive and that you're not going to be going anywhere and that, you know,

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you're are coming back and things like that. So that's probably the easiest best thing

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is if you can have your trusted friend, again, in another location, another area that has

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the keys to the kingdom, if you will. And again, maybe they're not putting out the whole

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episode, maybe they're not, maybe they're not going to be doing everything for you,

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but they can at least update your social media saying, Hey, this show won't be out for you

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know, an who knows, because we've actually got a natural emergency going on and things

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like that. So another good thing to do is pre plan for your emergency episodes. So you

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can do that in a couple different ways. And the one thing is you can batch record episodes.

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So pre record several episodes to have a backlog that you can release in case an emergency

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arises, upload them to your podcast host platform with schedule, you probably wouldn't want

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to do scheduled release dates now, because you don't know when that's going to happen.

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But you can have it ready to go and uploaded to your media host and then just set as like

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a draft episode. And then in this case, you have an episode ready to go. And then you

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can ask your friend in the other state, no john, hey, go in, release these episodes for

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me because I'm not going to make it and I don't know when I'm going to make it so batch

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recording episodes. And again, this helps really, if you have evergreen content, meaning

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that your content is something that's going to be good no matter when you listen to it

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when you because some some episodes if you're doing like a news episode, that's going to

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get stale pretty quickly because it could could get stale pretty quickly because you

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don't know the news may be going may, you know, the news may be stale news by the time

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you go and actually get your episode place because you're batch recording all these episodes.

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But you can use evergreen content record content that isn't going to be time sensitive. So

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it can be used at any point. So this could some examples like this are q&a sessions,

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like best of highlights or other educational segments that don't have a timeframe on them.

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I like the q&a sessions because those are good. All the time, you can go back and listen

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to those because you're gonna say, Hey, you know, these are some questions that you the

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listeners have, and here we're going to answer them. So some other things that that are just

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good general kind of preparedness to have when you are going to be talking about things

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in an emergency. So having alternative power sources, so I like portable battery banks.

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And if you are not familiar with them, they're just a battery bank that you can plug in your

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phone into invest in a high capacity power bank for your phone and possibly even your

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small recording equipment. I know for me, the roadcaster Pro does allow me to power

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it by a battery bank, it has to be a specific battery bank, and it has to be a specific

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power delivery that it's going to be delivering, but I can actually power the roadcaster on

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on that. And so I would be able to actually record an episode. Now, I wouldn't be able

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to do all of the video and all of the other stuff that I'm doing right now. But I would

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be able to actually get by and do it do an episode, I would be able to actually record

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an episode and possibly even release it. So portable battery banks are key, I would have

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two or three of those around, have them charged up, use them now you're going to want to use

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them because if they just charged up, they will kind of go bad and you don't want to

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do that. So use your power banks, you might have to refresh them every year, get new ones

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every year. So you have these powder power, portable power banks that you can use and

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the charger small things like cell phones, because you can use minimal equipment. And

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we'll talk about that in a little bit. But you can use minimal equipment to record your

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episode and that would include things like your cell phone. And so you can do that with

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your portable battery banks now also invest in a solar charger. They're a great option

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for extended outages and you don't you never know how long you're going to be at without

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power. It may just be a couple hours, it may be a few days, it may be a few weeks. So solar,

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solar chargers. Now, I'm going to cost you a little bit I know that there are some portable

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power banks that actually have solar chargers in them. I would recommend staying away from

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those because the solar panels that are in those are not going to be high enough capacity

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that it would take you several days if not several weeks to actually charge them back

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up. You can get a larger solar panel and it can be still kind of portable. I have one

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that's like eight and a half by 11 like a sheet of paper but then that folds out into

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like four different five different panels. And it has a USB C on the back of it and I

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can actually just plug my chargers into that and charge my battery banks back up. So that's

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great in combination with the portable power banks because you it allows you to actually

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have that charge those back up once you've depleted them. And it can take a whole day

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to do that. But the whole day, you can have your battery bank plugged in, then at night

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plug your phone in, charge your phone back up. And you're not without power on your phone,

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which is great, not even just for your podcast, because it is good to have be able to use

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those small equipment to put out your podcast. But it's also good to in case you get stuck

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where you can actually still communicate. Now I know some of the newer newer iPhones

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can communicate via satellite. So that's that's also good. But it's those things that will

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help you stay in contact that will help you be able to do this. So the last thing is is

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getting a backup generator. So you can have a gas powered generator, whether that be your

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whole house generator or just a small, you know, gas one that can power things for a

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little while, that'll allow you to at least keep up your keep up your your things like

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your refrigerator and things like that. But it'll also allow you to charge those portable

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power banks. And then you can go ahead and get that your equipment back up and running.

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Now one of the things that is kind of important to note is if your cell phone is if there's

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no service in the area, the best thing you can do is actually go into airplane mode,

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because then you will actually save your battery longer because if you're if you're your cell

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tower is on if it's not in airplane mode, it's going to actually try and go out and

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search for a signal. And if it can't find one, it's going to keep doing that and that

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radio actually uses a lot of power. And so you actually if you're not connected to a

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cell tower, delete it, turn it off, go to airplane mode. So that way you don't end up

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using all of your power for that. And so with you go into airplane mode, your phone can

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actually last for a long time, especially you can do that. And then you'll check again

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in an hour or two hours to see if you have if you have service again, and then you can

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go off of airplane mode. And you'll be able to actually then use your phone. Now I did

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mention recording using minimal equipment. And so you can use your smartphone or your

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tablet to record directly to your phone if you can't access your regular setup. So for

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me, I have a roadcaster Pro that I'm using here with my mic and anyway, it allows me

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to do my music and things like that. But this, you don't have to do that, especially if you're

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putting out an emergency episode where you're just trying to get an update. So for instance,

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for the podcast that I was listening to earlier, where the one co host was without power, she

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was in North Carolina, and, and didn't have power or cell phone signal or whatever, all

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of that, she used her voice memo and was able to get up to the one location in town that

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had a little tiny bit of internet, and was able to upload that over to to their other

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co host that then they could bring that into the show. And so at least that their listeners

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got an update from her where she was at what she was doing and how she she was actually

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surviving and things like that. So you can use your smartphone or your tablet to record

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directly into that. And you can do that simply with using your your your built in mic on

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your on your computer or on your phone, as well as the voice memos app that works really

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well. And so you can you can just use the voice memo app, it can do short episodes or

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updates. You know, many modern smartphones have surprisingly good built in microphones.

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And so you can even get that or a compact USB mic that you can plug into and you know,

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still do slightly better quality than just your cell phone mic. Although again, modern

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cell phones have really good mics in them. So you can do a decent episode. Now again,

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I wouldn't do this for your whole production. I wouldn't continually do this. But if you

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are going to be doing this for an emergency episode, that will actually get by you can

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actually use the cell phone and it's not that big of a deal. You can also use things like

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zoom to like an app like zoom, you can record your audio in it, you can go right into a

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meeting, you can record your audio to it and have that from from zoom and it gets pretty

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decent quality. It's going to do a lot of the background noise removal and you're going

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to be okay there. So the other thing you can do is also use an app called like ferrite

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f e r r ite. And that app is something that I'm using on my iPad, I have it on my iPad

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and my phone actually. And you can not only record in it, but you can actually produce

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an episode you can edit your episode right down to it, you can you can export it as an

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mp3, you can tag it, you can put your cover art on it and everything and then you can

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actually if depending on how you're doing it, you can actually upload that to your podcast

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host if you have internet access. So ferrite is a great, great alternative if you can't

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get to your normal podcast equipment to do the recording. And then what if you haven't

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checked it, I did an episode a while back and I'll link to it in the show notes about

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like doing it on the road doing an episode on the road. And so that that in that case,

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I was actually I think I called the episode out in the field. And so in that episode,

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I was actually at the state or the county fair and I was recording an episode and editing

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it all on my phone and uploading it and I did that. There are some pitfalls and things

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to watch out for that. So there are two episodes that I did if you want to go back and check

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those out. Those will be in the show notes just a swipe or tap away. And you can you

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can go ahead and test those out. The other thing you can do is using like scheduling

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an automation tool. So if you are able to pre schedule, you're able to do that with

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like emails, you can pre schedule emails and social media posts, they can go live even

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if you don't have power. And the key to this is again, now you are going to be able to

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maybe not have a lot of time to do this, you are not going to be able to know that you're

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going to be without power probably because you don't know when a natural disaster is

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going to hit. But let's say you're able to quickly record a few episodes, a few thoughts

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down you can do that on your cell phone, you can do that on whatever equipment you have.

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And then let's say you do find a place that does have power, you can go back and schedule

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all of your emails, your social media posts, you even your your your feed to drop your

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episode. So you can do things pretty easily like that scheduling ahead of time. So let's

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say you get a bunch of them. Maybe you go to town and you upload three or four episodes

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at once. Because you don't know when you're going to come back online. And then let's

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say you do come back online, you have three weeks of content, but you come back after

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two weeks, you can go ahead and and delete those, they don't go out. But if you're not

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online, then you can actually have those go out automatically. Now I use for my scheduling

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of social media posts, I just use business dot facebook.com, which allows me to schedule

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my Instagram and my Facebook posts. And then twitter.com. If you go to twitter.com, if

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you're on Twitter, you can schedule the post right there on that. And so you're able to

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kind of pre do your media stuff and free pre do that. So at least you're still having that

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contact with your audience that you're, you can still post to your audience. Now, another

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thing you can do in an emergency is you can collaborate with other podcasters. So if you're

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unable to publish an episode, reach out to fellow podcasters who might be willing to

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share a quick update or even host an episode for you on your on your behalf. So you know,

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there's definitely you know, at least in most industries, there are other podcasters who

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are doing shows similar to yours. I've got other podcasters in my industry with a podcasting

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industry that that do shows about podcasting, I could reach out to those people, I could

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ask them if they'd be willing to do an episode for me, or or whatever. So they could record

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on my behalf. And then again, either send it to me, and I can get that out to one of,

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you know, maybe I can get up to the local place that actually still has internet. Or

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I can go, you know, contact my friend, the one I talked about in the beginning of this

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episode and say, Hey, here's this file, it's on this drive, will you post this for me because

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I'm not able to make it to, I'm not able to get out there and post this and you know,

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the person XYZ podcaster in my industry is did an episode for me, can you post this for

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me? So again, it's always helpful to have more than just you know, your podcast production

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flow. So that way you can actually do this. Also consider, you know, you can you can have,

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you can have even guest host, maybe where you can appear on other people's podcasts

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as an update for your audience. So again, maybe you have several different podcasts

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in your industry, you know, there's, you know, for this case, there's a, you know, in podcasting,

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there's pod news, there's podcasting 2.0, there's future of podcasting, there's a bunch

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of other shows out there that talk about podcasting. And I could reach out to one of them and say,

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Hey, here's a quick voice memo update, can you update my audience on your feed and say,

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I'm around this is what's going on. Like, here's how I'll be back shortly or whatever.

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So the other thing too, is let's the last thing I would say to one of the last things

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is, is go ahead and create an emergency plan for the future. So evaluate potential risks

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to your specific location. Is it hurricanes? Is it earthquakes, etc. You know, I know I

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live in the Midwest. And tornadoes come quite a bit here, or at least there's the potential.

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But depending on the season, and so for me, that means that maybe I need to prepare for

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when the power might be out because a bad storms coming through. Luckily, we haven't

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actually had that happen a lot in our area where the power has been out for an extended

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amount of time. But if it is, what would I do? What would I do for this episode? What

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would I do for this show? Well, good news for me, my, my work actually has a whole building

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generator that runs on natural gas. And so in the event of the actual power just being

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out, I could still probably produce my episodes there. If I had to take my gear there and

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do an episode I could. Now maybe the internet might not be there, but I could still produce

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my episode there if I needed to. Again, it that is if the if the building is still there,

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but I need to evaluate the potential risks. And again, in my area, storms and power outages

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due to tornadoes, maybe or is is a threat. Again, luckily, I haven't had that haven't

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had to deal with that in a while. But they are a threat. The other thing to do is store

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backup equipment. So like maybe a handheld recorder or spare batteries specifically for

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emergency use. So handheld recorders are great. You can get lots of different kinds of handheld

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recorders. Roland makes a handheld recorder. It's a adderall r2. It's an older device,

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but it works well for this. It also, you know, just it has a couple mics on it and it has

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an SD card that you can just record directly onto it. Your episodes are going to be raw.

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They're not going to have a whole lot of production content to them. But you can if you store

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that, put that in a case, keep the batteries separate, never put your batteries together

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in the devices because they will corrode. But store extra batteries, store extra things

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like that that you can have on hand. So that way you can you can things like a handheld

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recorder again, so that you can create your episode in case you need it. Also, backup

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your important audio files and project files on a cloud service like Google Drive or Dropbox

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for easy access from any devices. If you have to relocate temporarily, you know, for me,

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the good thing is, is I bare bones, I have my laptop, which has all my stuff on it that

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I can quickly grab and move and take out here with me. I could easily unplug my roadcast

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or if I needed to and take it with me. I wouldn't have everything like my teleprompter and my

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monitors in front of me my stream decks, but I could easily take it and relocate if I needed

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to. But sometimes I might need it's a good thing to have all of those audio files backed

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up. Now I mentioned that that software called ferrite. That's a great software. And the

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cool thing about it is you can actually put all of your audio files in it. So, you know,

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for instance, I have this as my beginning, you know, kind of music file for this podcast,

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I can put that in ferrite app. So it's easy for me to drop in. So even if I just record

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quickly on the iPad, or my phone, I have those, those those media files with me, so that I

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can kind of create a polished episode if I need to. Again, it's great. And then that

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also works well, if you have something like a Google Drive, where you can give access

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to that for somebody else. So let's say you do make an episode somehow, how are you going

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to get that to to Johnny over in Texas? Think about those things. Johnny not even not only

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needs to know how to get into your show and post it, maybe you need to create an account

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for him on your media server. But you also have to give him access to your Google Drive,

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or whatever, so that he has access to those digital assets that he can go ahead and make

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the episode for you or post the episode for you. But how are you going to get those files

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from place to place again, having all that stuff in Google Drive is is handy, because

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it allows you to then go and actually send those to people and and do what you need to

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do or have them with you if you need to go to a quickly quickly to a different computer.

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So also use the expertise as content or the experience, sorry, not the expertise, the

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experience as content. Once it's safe and feasible, consider turning your experience

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into an episode. document how you adapted what you learn how your listeners might prepare

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sharing real life resilient stories, and and deepen your audience connection. So that's

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really what I what I took. And actually, that's where I got the idea for this episode from.

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I mean, luckily, I've never had to do this. I've never had to adapt my podcast, I've never

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had to do an emergency service for my podcast. But LC Escobar from the feed did. And she

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the one thing I appreciated is so again, she used her voice memos app on her phone. She

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sent that to her co host Rob. He dropped it into the episode. And then the next episode

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where she was back and everything was okay. She went over it. She said this is what happened.

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And for her one of the things that she found to be helpful, or she found out in this case

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is that when everybody's out of the internet, how do you get that data to and from like,

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how do you not just like your podcast data, but information on what's going on information

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on how do you how do you how do you get that information? How do you figure out where you

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can maybe find the internet? How do you do that? In her case, she found out that the

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radio, the FM radio was the local radio station was a huge content for information. Because

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people were just calling in and saying, Hey, this is the this is the experience that I'm

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experiencing. This is this is the you know, this is what I need this down here at this

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corner of this place. I need this I have this if you need it. It was a great exchange for

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information. But she also said, you know what I'm going to do in in after this, I'm going

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to become a ham radio operator. Because in this case, ham radio would have been just

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as helpful because ham radio would have still worked. So she used her experience as content

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for the next show that she was on. And you can do that too. So again, to go over and

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kind of recap what I've been talking about in this episode, because again, natural disasters

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happen is, first and foremost, contact your listeners once you're okay. And say, Hey,

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guys, I'm going to be without power for I don't know how long you may not see an episode

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from me, but I am okay. That way, when they all of a sudden don't hear from you, if they're

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used to hearing from you every week or every other week or whatever, they're still able

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to get that information. They're still doesn't know what's going on. And also pre plan for

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emergency episodes have some emergency episodes on hand. Think about your alternative power

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sources. How are you going to power some equipment? And again, I know probably your first and

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foremost thought is not going to be podcast equipment, but probably your refrigerator

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and things like that. But how are you going to be able to get that information out? How

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are you going to be able to power your cell phone? Because even if you don't have service,

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your cell phone is super handy. And you're probably going to find yourself taking notes

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and recording things because that's where Yeah, you're that's about all you have to

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do. Have your alternative power sources, whether that be a power bank, a solar charger, a backup

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generator. And then also, you know, using minimal equipment to get your podcast episodes

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out. Again, it may just be the notes app on your on your phone to get some information

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out to whoever it needs to get out. Maybe you even have something like a Discord server

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that you can update and things like that. Remember, you use scheduling and automation,

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have have have all that set up and ready to go if you can batch record your episodes if

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you're going to be down for a while and then again, create your plan for the future, have

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it ready to go have some things ready to go in case of emergency. And then also use the

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experience as content. That way your listeners, you can let your listeners know on an update,

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it may not have anything to do again, your your podcast may not have anything to do about

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podcasting and that but your content, you can still use that content in real life. So

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guys, what are your thoughts? Have you had to go through a through a natural disaster?

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Have you had to go through a natural disaster? Contact me I'd love to hear it. You can go

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to podcastanswers.com slash contact and leave me a message and and let me know what you've

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had to do in a natural disaster. What how do you have you got your podcast? Have you

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used How have you survived this show? And and then also, if you want help starting your

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podcast, that's a great place or even producing your podcast, I help people produce podcasts,

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I can be that trusted friend in the other state. If you want me to produce your podcast

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for you when you're out, I can be your emergency contact, I can be your emergency emergency

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person that produces your show for you while you're out. You give me the content again

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that you can contact me at podcastanswers.com slash contact. I would love to hear that I

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would love to be that for you. So contact me and we can we can definitely do that. Thanks

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again, guys. If you have any questions that you would love covered on this show, again,

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I'm gonna say it one more time. podcastanswers.com slash contact will get you to that place where

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you can you can contact me and let me know what you want me to cover on this show, guys

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until next time, keep podcasting and stay safe.

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