Building Attorney Podcast Networks for Targeted Local Search and Client Growth
Episode 513rd June 2025 • Podcasting Tech • Mathew Passy
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Have you ever wondered how attorneys can use podcasts not just to build an audience, but to reach their ideal clients at exactly the right moment? If so, you’re going to love this episode. If you’re in the legal industry or work with a niche professional service, this discussion will reshape how you think about podcasting and digital marketing.

In episode 51 of the PodcastingTech show, we are chatting with Dennis DM Meador, founder and CEO of The Legal Podcast Network, to learn how he’s helping lawyers and legal professionals leverage podcasting and YouTube to amplify their reputation, authority, and discoverability online.

Dennis Meador is a seasoned marketing professional with over 20 years of experience working with attorneys and building successful marketing agencies. He’s passionate about connecting the right clients with the right lawyers by harnessing the power of FAQ-driven, locally optimized podcasts and video content.

Dennis and host Mathew dive deep into how The Legal Podcast Network facilitates cross-industry collaborations, boosting both their reach and the value they bring to both lawyers and listeners. DM shares his unconventional entry into legal marketing, and why he loves working with attorneys, and the importance of searchability, content discoverability, and why he believes video (YouTube) is key for modern legal marketing.

Tune in and discover the common barriers for attorneys starting podcasts (tech pain points!) and how DM’s team makes content creation effortless—even for non-techies.

IN THIS EPISODE, WE COVER:

  • DM’s unconventional journey into legal marketing—from theology major to legal marketing expert—and why he’s passionate about working with attorneys (00:00–05:10)
  • How Q&A-driven YouTube content boosts local SEO, helping attorneys reach high-value clients at the perfect moment (05:35–14:53)
  • The power of The Legal Podcast Network—cross-industry collaborations, attorney directories, and how the platform connects lawyers with the right clients (07:11–09:19)
  • YouTube vs. audio podcasts—why DM’s team prioritizes Google and YouTube for proven legal marketing results (10:20–16:17)
  • Breaking down barriers for attorneys—how DM’s team simplifies podcasting tech so even non-techies can create content effortlessly (23:45–25:44)
  • The future of podcast discoverability—why searchability and connectivity are the next big growth opportunities (21:08–22:44)
  • DM’s take on deep-dive podcasts—how shows like Office Ladies reignite fan engagement and extend content lifespan (26:11–29:19)

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If you want to take your legal practice—and content marketing—to the next level, don’t miss this insightful episode with Dennis DM Meador! Tune in for actionable insights on legal marketing, podcasting, and leveraging video to dominate local search!

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Gonna take you down to Belize as we are chatting with

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Dennis DM Meader. He is the founder and CEO

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of The Legal Podcast Network. You can find more

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about them at the legalpodcastnetwork.com. Dennis or excuse me,

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DM. Thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you. Don't worry. It it

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it's taken some of my family years to get it, so only took you one

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try. So I appreciate it. I I will do my best to stay consistent.

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No guarantees, though. So so you have the podcast

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legal network. I'm curious. How did you get to

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the spot of wanting to help lawyers

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and, you know, publish podcasts on behalf of lawyers into

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this network format? So I have

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a background in marketing. I've done it about thirty years. Basically, my whole

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career, I I went to college for theology

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and ended up on, like, a sales floor, you know, phone sales,

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ended up in advertising phone sales, loved it,

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then got into entrepreneurship. I'd been an entrepreneur as a

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teenager. Couple different things that I did where I that's how I you

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know, I never had, like, a job job. I'd worked at Burger King a little

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while, but I always made money, though. So

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as I got into marketing, then through the

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years, I learned probably about

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probably about eight years into my career, I guess, I learned how much I

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enjoyed working with, lawyers. And

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so although I'd done marketing and to come up with some concepts, I learned

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pretty quickly, like, I like white collar. I like the realtors, the mortgage brokers,

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the insurance agents. And then everyone's like, well, lawyers are tough. And then, you

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know, I'm the kind of person I'm like, you tell me it's tough. They're like,

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they're tough, but they got money. And I'm like, well, I'll try them. And

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so, like, I was like, I started selling them, and I, you know,

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excelled with it. And what I like about attorneys, and I say this a hundred

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times. I say this every time I talk about because they're why attorneys?

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They are typically taught to work off of logic

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versus emotion. And so when you are

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discussing selling to them, whatever, however you wanna

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say it, if you, you know, you don't you don't wanna

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use sales tactics. You don't wanna come at them

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with, you know, you know, if if if you buy you know, if I could

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bring you five clients a month, how would that change your life? And those sort

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of sales tactics that are out there. Sell me this pen. Right? Yeah.

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Exactly. Exactly. So, you know,

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should I send this to the to your house or your yacht? You know, that

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sort of thing. So although with attorneys. Anyway, so

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the so I got into selling him, and what I liked about it

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was I could have a

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discussion without it turning into an argument. So I

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could say, well, I hear what you're saying, but what about this? And, like,

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blue collar guys would be just like, shut up. You don't know what you're talking

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you you don't tell me how to run my business. You know? Whereas with an

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attorney, if you presented them with a piece of logic, they would

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go, And then, like, you could, you know, kinda make it make sense. And

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then if you did, then more often than not, I found that they would

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say, alright. I'll give it a try. They tend to have more finances,

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so I like that about them. So I've worked with attorneys for

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over twenty years. I've done social with them. I've

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done you know? I mean, you run the gamut of what's happened in digital,

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obviously, SEO, PPC, you know,

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all of that kind of stuff, kind of like a legal match sort of

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program. It was a small competitor to legal match. That's actually how I got into

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selling them is a small competitor with legal match back in the day.

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And I was like, I went from selling $50 donations

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to 3 to $500 ads to

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$5,000, you know, a month

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packages to lawyers. And I was just like, why would I go back

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to selling $500 packages when I can sell

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$5,000 packages? And, you know, and

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so that's how I've worked with them for for years. And

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then my last company,

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my partner bought me out. We were it was time to re renew our agreement

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because he had had an exist existing company. He had about

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70 not quite 80 clients, 78 or something like that, doing

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a little under a million a year. I came in and,

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we put together an agreement. It was a five year agreement. And in five

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years, I grew his company where he he had been around nine years at the

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time. I grew his company from, 78

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clients to almost 500, from less than a

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mil to over 5,000,000 a year.

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And he had people in his ear basically saying, why are you paying this guy

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all this money? All he does is is run the team. You could just replace

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him. And so he bought me out for pennies on the dollar because we were

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running under the, you know, contract that we had put together years ago,

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which is fine. You know? I'm an entrepreneur. I have a book of

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ideas. I always tell people, if you're an entrepreneur, take everything

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away from an entrepreneur. Give them a laptop and an Internet connection, and in

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three days, they'll have a new business. And in thirty days, they'll be in the

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same place they were. So that's kinda what happened. I

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just was like, I know I I'm on work with attorneys.

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I understand them. I've been working with them for years, and I love

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podcasting. I had a podcast that I did back in

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Austin, and we can go into that in a little bit. But

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that's kind of how I got into it with attorneys. And, really, for

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me, podcasting for attorneys isn't about

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building an audience. It is about

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reaching their ideal client at the right time.

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And so for them, you know, we do almost all FAQ twenty

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minute podcasts. We provide the host. We come up with the the

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questions, and then the attorney just answers the questions. And then we

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use that to scale Google, use YouTube, all of that. So when

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somebody types in what happens during to a

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to a second home during a divorce, my attorney is the

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one answering it with a YouTube video or an FAQ page

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on his on his website. So we go after question based

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search. Some people call it long it used to be called long tail, then it

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was called, question based search. I guess now they're rebantering

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it rebrand rebranding it as

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answer engine optimization, which is just the same thing. It's

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just basically answering questions instead of showing up for just

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like divorce lawyer Houston. Well, and it's all, how do I

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hack search? Right? How do I get in front of eyeballs when people are trying

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to find me or find what I offer?

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So not only do you help lawyers

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produce podcasts and and put out content, but you have this

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network. And so I I guess that means you've pulled all these

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lawyer shows. Like, are they all from one firm? Are they all in similar industries,

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or is it really just any lawyer with a show is on the

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network and we, you know, all you know, a rising

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tide lifts all ships kind of a thing. It's it's kind of that way,

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I I would say. The other thing that we're able to do is build relationships

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between people. For example, we have kind of our first

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collaborative series of two of our clients that is in production right

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now. One is a IP patent trademark firm,

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and then the other guy because we also we don't just work with lawyers. We

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work with companies who work with lawyers because we have a database of

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200,000 attorneys that we market to. We have an opt in

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daily email for prac law practice marketing and management

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with about 35 to 40,000 attorneys in it that it's about a

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three to five minute read. So we can take, you know,

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a like this like, the two that I'm talking about. He's a he has

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an AI system that he's built for law firms

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to help them run more efficiently to identify their weaknesses. And

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so he has a show on our network, and so now he's got this, like,

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really cool AI thing. And now he's working with the our IP

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patent trademark client, and the two of them together are doing

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a series of shows. And so that's the kind of thing that we're able to

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do. And then we're building this just this database

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of, like, when you land on our home page and we're building

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this out right now. We have our YouTube page, and that's got hundreds of

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videos and thousands of shorts. But on our home

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page, it's podcast for lawyers and podcast for

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clients. And you can actually click and see all the shows for lawyers, but you

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can also click and click and be like, okay. I'm in California,

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and I need a divorce lawyer, and it'll show you all of the divorce

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lawyers and their podcasts in California. And

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then, you know, you could look and be like, oh, okay. The because we do

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them by counties or jurisdictions. So we'll be like, oh, okay. Well, I'm in

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Riverside County. This is the attorney for Riverside County. They click on it. They

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go, and they see all the shows, the podcast that that attorney

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has done. So that's how we're kinda building and kinda

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spidering everything together through our website, through

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YouTube, through Google, and kinda using, like

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you said, the the rising tide lifts all shifts. That's

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interesting. I that's a interesting feature, that ability to

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search for the right attorney for the right thing in the right

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area, and then see all the different places where,

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they've appeared on, you know, various, pieces of content.

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I I imagine that that technology

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to do that, is somewhat proprietary, but I bet you there

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would be lots of people who would be interested in replicating that for their networks.

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I I'm curious with, you know, you being

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multifaceted. Right? You like I said, YouTube and podcasts and

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and search and Google and all this other stuff. There's been this huge

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debate about the YouTube versus the audio only

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podcasting world. As a network, which do you

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find is better for your

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shows and for growth, YouTube

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or or, like, podcast network features? And and what

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are the YouTube features maybe that that really help networks?

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So I would say, certainly, YouTube.

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And it's very simple. I think, you know, you and I were kinda talking about

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this. Everyone says the green room, but it's just before we hit

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record. Right? But we were talking about this in the green

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room. And, you know, with YouTube,

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first of all, it's owned by Google. So by producing

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that content, we're feeding the beast, but

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we're also creating very specialized

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content that what does Google want? It wants local

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relevant content that people are going to consume.

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Well, what is the most consumed content out there?

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Video. So what we do is we

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create a YouTube channel for each of our clients, but then we also

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have our YouTube channel that has all of our clients. And

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so for our client on, you know, in studio, we're going

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in and we're going Riverside County Divorce, Divorce Lawyer, high

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asset divorce, high net worth divorce, blah blah blah in studio.

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And so when somebody in Riverside County is doing a

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search, Google prefers to give people video.

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So if somebody asks a specific question, and that's the the beauty

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about, you know, YouTube, you upload that video, it breaks it down for you, and

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it has all the little question sections. So it literally will just go

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boom right to that question. So I like to use the example if

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I'm a divorce attorney. Would I rather show up for

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divorce lawyer in Riverside County

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where it's just gonna list, like, 20 attorneys, and people are gonna call down the

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list and most likely be like, well, how much does it cost? You know? Because

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when something's a commodity, and that's what Google has done is it's commoditized

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the legal industry. Just in my twenty years of working with

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the industry, I've seen attorneys who literally, like and I do this

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now on purpose just to show them how they no longer can depend on things

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like directories and generic Google and PPC,

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is I'll say to them, I'll be like, oh, so you're a, you know, you're

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a you're a a divorce lawyer in, let's say,

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LA County specializing in, like, the Beverly Hills area. Right?

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And I'll be able to say something like, so you're what? Like,

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700 an hour, seven fifty an hour? And they'll say,

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I wish. About about ten years ago, I was, but with how

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competitive things are, we're now down to about 500 an hour.

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And, obviously, that could be, you know, 400, and now they're at $3.25

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or whatever the number is. And so because there's so much commoditization

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in in this knowledge industry, what we do is we

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try to rise that back up to thought leadership, authoritative

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positioning so that they can get people that fit their ideal client

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profile so that they can charge what they should be charging for who

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they are, the experience they have, and the talent that they have. But

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when an attorney is judged solely on the price,

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how how do you raise your prices? You can't. You can only

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lower. Just like the high tide raises, guess what happens

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when, you know, 30% of the of of the

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people I call are gonna tell me that their rate is $2.25 an hour. Then

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I call somebody who's $4.50 an hour, I'm gonna be like, holy cow. He's twice

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as much because I'm not seeing him as a I'm not seeing the value

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there. So when we use question based search at its

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core, so we create FAQ, pages for their

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website from the transcripts. We actually download the transcript, and then we

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edit it in the FAQ format. We put the videos

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on their website. We create the YouTube channels. And so

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the advantage with the with YouTube is

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now when I do a specific search, which is a more

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educated person with a specialized issue like

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what happens to a second home during a divorce. Well, now

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the first one could be somebody who's trying to get a $500

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mutual, let's just get rid we have no assets. Let's just get out of each

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other's lives quickie divorce. The second one is probably

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somebody with some assets. There's probably gonna be some fighting. You

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know, you could custody issues. So the

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attorney can target that second client who has the second

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home versus just generically casting a net.

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He's now able to take that specialty lure that

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goes after that one kind of fish and put it out into the

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water to capture that fish. And that's what we're providing through

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YouTube. So is it is it

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are the podcast really just a separate

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distribution channel for video content, or are you actually producing

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audio only content as well?

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We are we we do everything streaming just like this. Right? So you and

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I and so all of ours we do everything streaming. We produce a

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YouTube show. We create shorts or reels are shorts. We

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create audiograms, but we also upload and create their own

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channels through Podbean on, like, twenty twenty two different

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networks. Everything from Apple, Spotify,

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Audible, which is Amazon's, Odysee, you know, all of

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those channels that are on Podbean. So for the people that want

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to consume the the content as a

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podcast, it's there. So if I'm a podcaster

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and that's how I get my information, and most people who learn through

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podcasting, they learn everything. You know? That's their digital

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language. I have met more people, and especially on this island,

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where there's like, oh, I just listen to podcasts. Because I'm like, oh, what shows

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do you watch? Like, I just listen to podcasts. So

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if I can help somebody who's, like, you know,

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in LA, look, you know, LA Divorce Attorney,

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now my show my my client's show pops up. And so then they

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can look at the episodes or, again, those same

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results in Google. So I will say that our

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audio is probably more of a cache means to

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an end, but that doesn't mean it doesn't provide value,

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and it's evergreen, and it's a growing medium. So

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it's like, we know that our clients are coming

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to us because they're being told they need a podcast, but what we're really

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giving them is a holistic marketing solution that allows them to go

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after their ideal clients.

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The other thing I really appreciate about what you're doing with YouTube

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and something that I've always been very passionate and curious about is that

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local targeting. Right? That's just not

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really a function or something that you can do effectively

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with podcasting right now. And so, you know, this huge

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debate about is YouTube podcast or podcast YouTube, who

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cares? But the fact that YouTube makes it

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easy to really hyper target your

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content to the right audience, I think it's something that more

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network providers and just more show creators should be thinking about, in

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the long run. Well and I think I

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think podcasts are gonna be like how the Internet was. I remember back,

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like, in the early aughts. I like to say that. My wife says I sound

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old when I say that. But in the early two thousands, right, I

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remember I used to tell people, the smaller the Internet gets,

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the bigger it will be. And the smaller podcasting

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gets, the bigger it will be. Because we

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have to understand that people go to these different

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just for general education and whatever. But, really, when they're searching and, you

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know, they they need their fears assuaged, they need clarity on an

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issue, they want to know that what they're reading

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because there's such a plethora of material out there and content out

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there. You know, content curation is a bigger

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skill than content creation, really, if you think about it.

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So the more that we're able to provide content

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on a local level, that that benefits our

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clients, I tell them, I'm like, listen. Would you rather have a

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show that got 50,000 downloads and views, but they're

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all in, you know, Thailand and Mississippi and

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Canada and California and you're in

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Michigan? Or would you rather have a show

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that gets 50 views, but you get 10 people that

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call you and six of them hire you because they see you

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as an expert? Which one provides you more value?

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And I've other unless they're just one of those jerk of a person that's like,

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I'll take the 50. No. You won't. No. I I'll take the

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50,000. You know what I mean? It's like, no. You won't. You'll take the six

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clients who give you a $10,000 retainer and pay you

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$350 an hour, and you end up making 15 to

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$20,000 off of them. The the return on investment

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is infinitely higher, and that's the other thing. Like, attorneys will say, well, how are

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you gonna help me go viral? And I'm like, I don't want you to

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go viral. And they're like, well, why not? And I'm like, well, listen. If you

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wanna learn how to unicycle while juggling law books and

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then write off the end of a pier, and we'll video it, and we'll get

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millions of views, and you'll get laughs, and then you get a $2,000 check from

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YouTube for the views. Or

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or how about we just reflect who you are

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offline, online, your knowledge, the the fact that you've been doing these all these years.

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You specialize in working with high net worth individuals. And so when they

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hire you, they're gonna give you $20. And so you're gonna make a hundred and

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20,000, but you have a fraction of the actual

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views or, you know, people consuming your content.

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And when you that mind shift hits, they're like, oh, and this

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again, why I like attorneys. You're right. Okay.

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So that that's our focus. Yeah. I think that's something that a lot

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more podcasters and and, honestly, just content creators in general should be focusing on

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is a hundred thousand views, listens, you

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know, whatever of not your target

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market is nowhere near as effective as a hundred of the people

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who are going to sign up for your services, buy your product,

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you know, follow your show, blah blah blah. So I think that's some really good

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advice and something anybody who's thinking about NetWorker. Again, just somebody who's looking

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at their content creation and feels like they're spinning their wheels should absolutely take

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to heart. As a reminder, we are chatting with Dennis DM Meador. He's

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founder and CEO of the legal podcast network. DM, before I

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let you go, there's a few questions I'd like to ask everybody, and I'm

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gonna be very curious because of your experience and and, you know, all these

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other places that you've mastered. I'll be curious

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to kinda hear what you think of of our little cute quaint podcasting

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space. You know, is there something where in podcasting you would

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like to see improvement, whether it's from the production

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side, distribution, listening, consumption, discoverability?

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Like, is there just something in podcast where you're like, god, I wish we did

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this better? I think you I think you nailed it earlier.

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It's the ability to to

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search within the podcasts. The the fact that

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you have to hear about a podcast, like,

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there's just not a way that that they've really mastered

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making podcasting podcasts accessible. It's

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almost like you gotta know someone who knows someone. You know what I mean? And

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it's like, whereas Google is just like, oh, and even

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social media, they're always just like, oh, what do you think of this? How about

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this? And you said you like this. So what about this? Podcasting's

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like this. Well, is that it?

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Well, ask me a different way, please. Oh, okay. How about

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this? That. It you know what I mean? It's just very rigid, and

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it's very almost just like in old school,

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if if if that makes sense. Because the rest of the Internet is just like,

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you know, it's just this, like, infinite, like, connectivity and and

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touch points. It's like podcast stands alone off to the side, and it's just

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like, we're smarter. We don't have to be a part of your group. We've got

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our own thing going on. Like, that's the vibe

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of podcasting to me. And maybe I'm wrong and those who are listening who love

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podcasting. I'm not saying I don't love podcasting, but you asked me what I would

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improve. I would improve the connectivity of podcasting to

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everything else. I I would agree that we certainly have

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a discoverability problem. I never thought of it in that connectivity problem,

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but it's funny you say that. I've been recently trying to find a a

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podcast to listen to. You know, one of them starting to get boring or have

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a little bit more time. And trying to

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search for one to appease my checklist

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is so difficult. And usually when you search, what you normally

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get are just here are the articles that people wrote about podcasting, and they're all

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promoting the same five, ten, 20, 50, hundred. Right? It's it's all the

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same ones that are in the top rankings, and and it's hard to get outside

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of that circle. And it really does feel like luck

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if you meet someone or, you know, someone points you in

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the direction of a show that you wouldn't have other house otherwise have found. So

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that's a that's a really good point. What about on the tech side? I mean,

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is there anything on your wish list as far as something that

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either is out there that you wanna buy yourself or something that you're like, god,

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I wish somebody would make this, and that would make everyone's lives easier.

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I wish that the good products were as easy to use as the

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bad products,

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I e, the Blue Yeti. Now I don't hate the Blue

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Yeti. I use the Blue Yeti for a minute.

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But plug and play real easy, but it's not a great

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product. So here I have

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this Shure microphone, and, yeah, it's plug and play, but, you know,

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I had to do a little more to it. I had to make sure I

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have to make sure it's placed right. And, like, I work with

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attorneys, you know, and and and to help other

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people, podcast is the biggest challenge. When you

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have somebody on your podcast remote that is not a

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podcaster, they think they can just show up with their iPhone

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and just like you know? And it's so I wish there was a

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you know, it's almost just like an easy way to make sure that

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people who are podcasting and I I honestly, we're trying to find a way to

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do this ourselves where we're just like, if you are gonna you

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know, this is what you have to buy in order to just even work with

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us. But it's all plug and play, but it works the way it needs to,

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the right camera, the right microphone, and even think

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about this, you and I. We're I mean, I'm not tech savvy in

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that. Like, I've been in IT or anything like that, but I've been using

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computers since I was in college, and I'm 47. You know?

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Like, I was the only person in my dorm with a computer.

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And, you know, this was, like, 9095.

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'19 fall of nineteen ninety five. So I

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know my and and we had to spend five minutes to get my easy plug

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and play with our easy Riverside plug and play

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to get my microphone working right. Well, if I had a

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58 year old attorney who sometimes has to have his, you know

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or 68 year old attorney who sometimes has to have his,

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administrator come in and turn on his computer for him. If I had him on

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the other end, he would just forget it. We'll just do this another time. So

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I really wish that we could just make it as easy as

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we do the cell phone, because now even grandma's carrying around a cell

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phone. But grandma's not podcasting because it's not as easy.

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It's true. It is very true. And lastly, are there podcasts

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on your listening list that you have to consume when they come out that

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you will never let an episode get past you?

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The office lady's favorite. I don't know if you've talked about

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it a lot or whatever, but it's, Jenna Fischer

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and, Angela Kinsey. And they have

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been doing it for a few, I wanna say, three, maybe four

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years now, episode by episode. And what's really

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interesting about the office ladies is they deep

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dive. And the thing about people that listen or do you

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do you watch The Office? I I watched a lot of it when it was

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first started off, and then I I trailed off after, you know, a few seasons.

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But, I mean, I respect the show and the comedy, and and they're great.

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So it was the most streamed show during the pandemic. So,

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like, Gen z caught on to it. Millennials love it. So it kinda

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re upped. And because it's kinda tongue in cheek and it's so inappropriate in so

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many ways, and it's so, you know, like, they could not the

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office couldn't exist in the way that it did back then now

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just because they'd have picketing outside every every day.

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But now people kinda like, they still laugh at it.

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But they like so

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people who watch The Office, the question is not, have you

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watched The Office? The question is, do you watch

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The Office? Because people who watch The Office, I've

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seen it beginning to end on purpose seven times.

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I've watched countless one off episodes. I have three, four, five of

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my favorite episodes that I could just, like, right now walk out of here. I

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could go watch, Dinner Party. That's one of my favorite ones. If I if

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I know I wanna laugh and have ridiculous, I could you know, just

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whatever. Like, I could just go and like, as soon as an episode goes, I

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can go in my head. I know everything is gonna happen. I laugh before it

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even happens. And so what the office ladies

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podcast did or does is they deep dive. I mean, one time they

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had, like, the guy who manned their snack cart, but they'll they've

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had, like, they've had, like, Steve Carell and, you know, all

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the major people. But, like, one episode, they're like, you know, he just had

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the greatest snacks and sandwiches, and then he, like, was sharing, like, his secret

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sandwich, you know, sauce recipe and, like, it just stuff like

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that where you're it just brings the episode alive. Or they'll be

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like, oh, oh, okay. So in this scene right here,

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what you'll notice is so and so turns their head.

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The reason they turn their head is they broke, and they're actually

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dying laughing. And if you watch their side, you could see them

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actually moving up and down laughing. And so I'll rewatch

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the episodes, and I'll notice all these little things

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that I had never I would have never known had I not had

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two ladies who were there and producers who were there,

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whoever's on with them at the time, the writers, the producers, the, you

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know, just everybody just coming back and reminiscing,

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you know, what they got at from, you know, the show as a

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Christmas swag gift. And just all this little stuff that opens

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up the show for me in so many ways where I can experience

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it again in a new way. And when you love something,

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that's always wonderful. Yeah. You know, I I love the idea

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of having the folks who aren't always on podcast. Right? You said Steve Carell. I'm

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sure he's done a bunch of podcasts and has answered the same questions over and

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over again. So I love that concept of going to, you know, the

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behind the scenes players, the folks nobody would think to interview and and bringing them

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on. And I also appreciate the fact that for the

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office, right, this content has now created another reason for

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you to go back and watch it again. And so something for for

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people to consider in, you know, movie and and television and film production.

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So that's a that's a great, great point. So once again, it's

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been Dennis DM Meader, founder and CEO of the Legal Podcast

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Network. You can find more at the

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legalpodcastnetwork.com. DM, thank you for

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joining me. Thank you, Matthew.

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