Damn this year went by quick. Too quick if you ask me but who is asking? Anyways… Juan and I are back with this year’s 2018 Year End Wrap Up. We met back up in Tudor City to reminisce about past episodes, the launch of Sunday Cigar and what we’ve learned along the way. Happy New York good people!

Show Notes

Show notes coming soon…

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This episode is sponsored by Gorilla Coffee.

Today’s guest on the show is Jeremiah Moss, author of Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul. We met up in Tompkins Square park to talk about the suburbanization of New York, the importance of policy, monoculture, Jane Jacobs, eminent domain, the impact of the High Line, Coney Island, neoliberalism, poor doors, colonial myopia and hyper-gentrification. I think it is safe to say that you should listen to this episode, twice. Enjoy.

Learn More

1. Jeremiah Moss Author of Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul(publisher Harper Collins)
2. Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
3. Paperback coming out on July 24th
4. Vanishing New York Blog by Jeremiah Moss

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Show Notes

• Twitter: @jeremoss
• Facebook
• How did we get here?
• How did NYC lose it Soul?
• What is NY Soul?
• The Secret Movie
• Al Diaz New York Said Episode
• The Museum of the City of New York
• New York is feeling less like New York.
• What do you miss about New York?
• Do you want to be a New Yorker?
• The suburbanization of New York
• Why do you want to change New York?
• Chain stores are not home or soul?
• East Village, Manhattan
• Tompkins Square Park
• Tompkins Square Park riot (1988)
• Streets of New York – North Tompkins- Just another NYU Journalism Projects Sites site
  Tompkins Square Park Riot of 1988
• What is left to love about New York?
• Affordable Rent
• Police State
• Mayor Rudy Giuliani
• Missing the local places
• Random acts of violence
• “Anything can happen…” old New York
• Guardian Angels
• Who is Mad Max?
• African American Migration from Jim Crow South
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration – by Isabel Wilkerson(A TED Talk by the Author)
• Community is absent
• Let’s take care of each other; there is a personal responsibility to each other when you are a New Yorker
• The Sidewalk Experience
• The Importance of Policy
• The city is always changing, let’s evaluate that assumption and not be lazy as to why
• Bushwick, Brooklyn
• The G-word: Gentrification gen·tri·fi·ca·tion (noun)
• 1. the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class  taste.
• 2. the process of making a person or activity more refined or polite.
• The monoculture
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities – by Jane Jacobs
• 5 Things in NYC We Can Blame on Robert Moses by Phillipe Martin Chatelain
• What makes a healthy City?
• Business Improvement Districts (BID)
• Property Owners Spend on Quality of Life (But Is That Fair?) NYTimes Article on BIDs
• What is ‘Eminent Domain’
  Eminent domain is the power the United States government, states and municipalities to take private property for public use, following the payment of just compensation.
• The Iron Triangle ( A documentary)
• Willets Point, Queens (aka The Iron Triangle)
• Atlantic Yards
• State looks to seize properties in the path of Pacific Park
• Brooklyn’s Barclays Center is an Eminent Domain-Created Failure Hit & Run Blog by Anthony Fisher
• The High Line
• 1999 Friends of the High Line is founded by Joshua David and Robert Hammond, residents of the High Line neighborhood, to advocate for the High Line’s preservation and reuse as public open space.
• What are catalysts for hyper-gentrification?
• Air Rights Transfers
• Special West Chelsea Rezoning District
• Columbus Circle
• Sanitized Vertical Suburbia
• “We need cities where difference can co-exist with difference.” Jeremiah Moss Quote
• “You need dirt for things to grow.” Jeremiah Moss Quote
• Manufactured Experience – GMO Experience
• Demolition Man (film)
• Coney Island
• Fred Trump Real Estate Developer
• Horace Bullard Real Estate Developer
• “The mugging of a city, this city is being robbed by greed… at the expense of culture.” Amon Focus
• Nostalgie De La Boue – Yearning for the mud in French
• Why do we seem to like to destroy things in the middle of the night?
• Harlem’s legendary Lenox Lounge is being demolished: The site is rumored to give way to a massive Sephora By Ameena Walker
• Big bank takes little bank
• Progressive
• Neoliberalism
• Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world The Guardian.com by Stephen Metcalf
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Historic Win and the Future of the Democratic Party
  Come November, Ocasio-Cortez is almost certain to become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Will her democratic-socialist identity push the Party to the left? The New Yorker ByDavid Remnick
• The important fight
• Change that needs to happen on a global scale
• What can we do?
• a. Become conscious
• b. Talk to each other and challenge ignorance of issues
• c. Elect politicians that are not taking money from corporations and real estate developers
• d. Support policies like the Small Business Jobs Survival Act
• e. Commercial Rent Control
• f. Affordable housing not tied to big development
• g. Support Vacancy Tax
• What the heck are poor doors? (you don’t even want to know)
• Whenever there is a discussion on Urban Development ask yourself 3 questions:
• 1. Who is it for?
• 2. Who does it attract?
• 3. Who does it displace?
• Trees, bikes, and Wi-Fi
• What is your intention?
• Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
• Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
• Colonial Myopia
• A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and The Search for Authenticity by Japonica Brown-Saracino
• Madison Square Park
• Cultural Capital vs. Financial Capital
• Anywhere USA
• Mon-culture wants to turn everything into itself
• Good place to get a meal in New York:
• 1. Julius Restaurant
• 2. Donohue’s Steak House
• 3. Margon New York

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Show Notes

1. Getting to Episode 100: An Informal Podcasting Class – Show Notes Episode 101 – this time it is Juan and Amon sitting down to discuss all things podcasting.
2. Take 3
3. NY Weather
4. What did it take to get to 100 episodes?
5. Press play and get some help
6. Shake Shack
7. Nino Brown Thanksgiving give-back
8. What is RSS?
9. What is a podcast host?
10. Social Media
11. Heavy lifting happens in the beginning
12. I listened to all the podcasts in the top 100 podcasts
13. Fonts are important
14. You want to get it right in the first time
15. Show Notes are really important
16. Pay attention to the details
17. It’s a marathon- Juan Quote
18. Rinse, Wash, & Repeat
19. Be careful when you start messing with your brand
20. Cover art can change but remember it is a brand
21. This American Life New Website and App
22. Parlez-vous American? (An article on the brand redesign of the This American Life Logo done by Erik Jarlsson)
23. Blue Note: 75 years of the coolest visuals in jazz | Music | The Guardian
24. “In advertising people have to understand what you are doing in 15 seconds.” Amon Focus
25. How Drunk will this get me?
26. Blue Note: Album Cover Art Paperback Book – October 1, 2002
27. So You wanna start a podcast…
28. B & H
29. First thing I do is I click the worse reviews, first. Amon Focus
30. Why Do you Want to Do This?
31. Not a lot of stamina?
32. You got to do more than ‘good enough’
33. Episode 1 starts after 5 years unless you are connected to a great network like NPR, Loud Speakers Network, Gimlet Media, Wildfire Radio….or you’ve written a New York Times Best Seller and you are starting from scratch well…
34. You will develop a workflow and a signature (sound) and that usually happens in 1-2 years
35. “Presentation is everything.” Juan Quote
36. You need to know what your show is about and who your audience is
37. NewYorkSaid’s audience is likes to hear stories about the New Yorkers and their stories
38. What was in that sandwich Juan?
39. “Time is the most important commodity you have in your life.” Amon Quote
40. Serial Podcast
41. Scarface Film
42. The Heisman Trophy View
43. The Butterfly Metaphor For Change
44. Giants with running head starts
45. Sundhe Moses Episode 90 (New York Said Episode)
46. Drink Champs (Podcast)
47. Combat Jack Show (Podcast)
48. 2017 Year End Review with Juan Sanchez (New York Said Episode)
49. $150 a month
50. If you want to curse then you need to get familiar with the red “E”
51. The Keys and Reeds of Grammy award-winning artist Casey Benjamin aka DJ Stutzmcgee (New York Said Episode)
52. The Hearst Tower in Manhattan
53. Bob Mankoff of Esquire share his experiences at The New Yorker and being a Cartoonist (New York Said Episode)
54. Jay-Z we’d love to interview you
55. Solocasts (podcasts mentioned in this section about podcast formats)
56. Creative Pep Talk
    LORE
    Halftime Talks
    Sleep With Me
57. Nonfiction Narrative Storytelling
58. Dirty John
    Crimetown
    This American Life
    Serial
59. The majority of podcast listeners come from Apple Podcasts
60. No Chance Music thanks for the illest drop ever J
61. Beyonce uses what mic?
62. SHURE SM58
63. HEIL SOUND PR40
64. What is gain?
65. Fathead amplifiers
66. Zoom H5 Recorder
67. Panasonic Batteries
68. LuxPro Batteries
69. Anker Battery Pack
70. Jays Headphones
71. SanDisk 16G Memory Card
72. Lowepro DSLR Camera Bag
73. think Tank Camera Bag
74. Make sure you look like you got your ish together if you are doing mobile recordings.
75. Adobe Audition – This is what Amon uses for audio editing and is highly recommended
76. Audacity
77. ProTools
78. GarageBand Audio Editing Video
79. Reaper
80. Treat your practice guests like you would if you were interviewing Oprah
81. Record multi tracks
82. Diego talks Homelessness, K2, Evil Books, Opioids, Crack and Heroin (New York Said Episode)
83. Keisha “TK” Dutes shares the Secret to Podcasting, Radio and Building an Audience (New York Said Episode)
84. Make sure you push record.
85. Cey Adams talks Def Jam, Logos, Album Covers, Giving Back, Paintings and Murals (New York Said Episode)
86. “I can make someone sound like Martin Luther King, Jr.” Amon Quote
87. How much you care comes through in the edit.
88. Like, you know what I mean, gum sounds, long pauses, coughing, etc. – Edit that out!
89. What is a Wav file and how does it differ from an MP3 file?
90. What the heck is audio sweetening?
91. WAV founds are not meant to be streamed.
92. Exporting in a 192 kbps MP3
93. You need to know where to get your royalty free music because if it is top 40 you will get flagged.
94. Radiojungle
95. Musicbed
96. Audio teasers are good things when promoting and the audio teasers gives guests insight that it is about to be lit
97. How I Built This with Guy Raz (Podcast)
98. Auphonic (good for audio leveling)
99. Mental Health, Fasting, Philosophy and Spiritual Practice with Conscious
100. Every guest should have a project file
101. Getting Guest on the Show – start with your friends and family
102. Concise cold emails.
103. Website must look professional.
104. When you are respected to get the “no”.
105. Understanding connections when it comes to guests.
106. Alexandra Estevez on Ink + Character + Survival + Eats & Music
107. TAKI 183 talks the History of Graffiti Culture, Classic Cars and the Future of Street Art
108. The spider web
109. Libsyn is who we use to host our podcasting
110. Show Notes are very important.
111. Yoast SEO
112. It pays to be popular.
113. The Tim Ferriss Show
114. Drink Champs The Brilliant Idiots Podcast (Charlamagne)
115. Bill Burr Monday Morning Podcast
116. Be consistent.
117. Get provocative and controversial.
118. Timothy Roquemore (Shoe Collection website)
119. Ink48
120. Gorilla Coffee
121. Relationships matter.
122. What book is Amon talking about?
123. Word of Mouth matters
124. WordPress
125. Dropbox
126. Just don’t look at stats in the beginning
127. 10 is the magic number
128. Juan is a good guy!
129. A Conversation about Podcasts, Books and Music (Juan and Amon Kicking It)
130. Cigars, Jumping Ramps, TAKI 183 with Juan Sanchez Juan’s First New York Said Podcast Episode
131. There are many New York Said episodes mentioned in this show visit www.newyorksaid.com for episodes mentioned.
132. 1400 pixels by 1400 pixels  or 3000 pixels or 3000 pixels– Cover Art
133. This is the giving episode

12 Basic Steps to Publishing your First Podcast Episode

• Get some Microphones and an Audio Recorder
• Figure out what You want to Talk About
• Find a Podcast Host
• Make the cover art for your show
• Record an Episode
• Edit the Episode
• Upload the edited episode to the Podcast Host
• Submit your RSS Feed (Real Simple Syndications) to Apple Podcasts
• Create the Show Notes for the Episode
• Publish it
• Share it
• Rinse, Wash, Repeat

Stuff to Think About Before You Start

• This is not to discourage but there is nothing easy about podcasting.
• Even the most basic of podcast take a lot of work especially if you don’t have a team to assist.
• Why do you want to do this? Do you really want to do this?
• Can you commit to about 2 Years? Your 1st real day of podcasting starts after 5 years. If you’re really looking for show notoriety.
• Who is your audience?
• What is your purpose?
• What do you want your impact to be?
• Why should people listen to your show?
• Are you going solo, co-costed, round table?
• Do you have time for this?
• Are you good at problem solving?
• Business or Pleasure?
• Where will you record?
• Do you have the personality for it?
• Know that you’re competing against big money and big media
• What will you talk about?
• How long will each episode be?
• Will it just be you?
• Will you being interviewing people?
• Will you have a co-host or round table style? Frequency: Will it come out, once week, twice a week, daily?
• Do you have audio recording experience?
• Do you know how to edit?
• Will your show be indoors or outdoors?
• Do you have have a extra $150 (Approx.) a month for hosting & software?
• Do you know photoshop or graphics software?
• Can you write?
• Are you web savvy? Build a site? Customize a site? Update a site?
• Are you up for being ignored a lot? Are you easily discouraged?
• Do you have a space to record? Is it quiet?
• Do you have decent photography skills? IG, Facebook, Twitter, & Facebook?
• What is your personal life like?
• Will you cuss?
• Will this be in person or over Skype?
• Choose a Category: Arts, Business, Comedy, Education, Games & Hobbies, Health, Music, Society & Culture, Technology

Podcast Formats

• Podcast Formats Interview shows – Combat Jack, Tim Ferris
• Conversational show (Round Table) – Joe Budden, NYS Year in Review
• Educational shows – (Teach you something) How I Built This
• Solo-casts – (Just you.) Lore, Creative Pep Talk, Half Time Talks, Hardcore History, Sleep With Me
• Nonfiction Narrative Story-Telling – Serial, The Daily, Dirty John, Crimetown, This American Life

Gear

• Shure SM58 Handheld Dynamic Vocal Microphone ($100) – Windscreen ($8)
• Heil Sound PR 40 Dynamic Cardioid Studio Microphone ($310) – Windscreen ($13)
• Sennheiser MKH-416 – Short Shotgun Interference Tube Microphone ($1,000)
• Mogami Gold Studio XLR Male to XLR Female Studio Mic Cable – (6′) Feet ($45)
• TRITON AUDIO FetHead In-Line Microphone Preamp ($90)
• Zoom H5 Handy Recorder with Interchangeable Microphone System ($270) H6 ($350)
• Panasonic Eneloop Pro Rechargeable AA Ni-MH Batteries with Charger ($27)
• Anker PowerCore 10000, External Batteries ($30)
• Jays a-JAYS One Professional In-Ear Earphones ($42) Tangle Free
• Auray TT-6220 Telescoping Tabletop Microphone Stand ($12)
• Long Arm and a Large spring clamp – Dinkum ($37) – Wimberley ($45)
• Lowepro DSLR Video Fastpack 250 AW (Black) ($80)
• Think Tank Photo Airport Advantage Roller Sized Carry-On (Black) ($250)
• SanDisk 16GB Extreme UHS-I SDHC Memory Card ($11)

Audio Editing Software

• Adobe Audition
• Audacity (Free)
• Garageband (Free)
• Logic Pro X
• Pro Tools
• Reaper

Recording and Editing Tips

• Practice with Friends and Family before you start reaching out to notable people
• Record a track for each person on the show
• Monitor your Levels (wear headphones)
• Make Sure You Pushed Record
• Take mental notes of parts of the interview you like
• Watch your battery life
• Be patient with guest
• Editing takes a long time depending on how you much you care
• Know how to import, cut, and export the correct file
• Record WAV but Export MP3

Editing Your Show

• Create Intro (Music: Audio Jungle, Music Bed)
• Interruptions or false starts
• Extra long pauses or filler words
• Loud background noises
• Pre-show rambling
• Edits to your tracks and move the pieces around
• Create new projects and record audio files
• Import existing audio files into your project
• Balancing Audio
• Plugins or effects to enhance your audio
• Edit out these common mistakes

Background Noises to be Aware Of

• Air conditioner
• Fans
• Appliances
• TV
• Music
• Washer Machine and Dish Washer
• Kids
• Cellphones
• Pets

Getting Guests on the Show

• Start with your Friends and Family
• Email
• DM
• FB Messenger
• Referrals (Ask people you know to make the connection)
• In Person
• Attending events (Art Basel, Scope, Films, Guest Lectures)
• It helps if prospective guests know a few people you’ve had on the show already
• Write their team or PR person
• Contact them through their website

Where to Host your Podcast

• Libsyn
• Buzzsprout
• Blubrry
• Podbean
• Spreaker
• Soundcloud
• Simplecast

Distribute your Podcast Everywhere

• First on you Podcast Host (Libsyn, Soundcloud, etc.)
• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• Subscribe to Android
• iHeart Radio
• Mixcloud
• TuneIn
• Stitcher
• PodBean
• PlayerFM
• Google Play
• Amazon Alexa Skills
• New Places that Pop-Up

Marketing & Promoting Show

• Writing good titles for your show, using good graphics, and understanding the value of networking today.
• SEO, analytics and marketing
• Show Notes for SEO, Links, and Sharing
• WordPress Plugins: SEO
• Repurpose Episode, IG and Youtube
• Appear on other podcast
• Seek interviews
• Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.
• Feature Guests With an Audience
• Email Lists and Newsletter
• Pay for initial advertising: on Google Adwords, Reddit Ads, Facebook Ads, and Stumbleupon Ads and Spotify
• Every now and again ask your social media audiences to subscribe in Apple’s Podcasts app
• Do something big, somewhere else. Write popular book, create a song, viral video… etc. Tim Ferris, Malcom Gladwell, NORE, Charlamagne tha God, Joe Budden all leveraged their audience from other mediums.
• Be consistent.
• List your podcast in content discovery apps.
• Cliffhangers: Shine Episode
• Invite guest hosts.
• Do live streams. (QueensFlip)
• Reward loyal fans with exclusive content.
• Give things away for free. (Stickers, Prints)
• Publish a “greatest hits” episode.
• Get controversial or Provocative
• Brand Partnerships (Gorilla Coffee, Suffolk Arms, Timothy Roquemore, Ink48 Hotel)
• Word of Mouth (I tell everyone about my show)

Web Hosting

• Buy Hosting and Domain (Dreamhost or GoDaddy)
• WordPress (Theme Forest for Themes)
• Square Space
• Wix

Other Podcast Tools

• Auphonic
• Levelator (free verson of *Auphonic)
• DropBox or Google Drive
• Asana, Slack, Base Camp, Trello (Project Management)
• Mail Chimp

Tips

• Don’t Look at the Stat in the Beginning
• When you launch, have 10 completed episodes. 4 to publish and 6 in the reserve
• Always have a reserve of shows, as many as earthly possible. even if you just record them and edit them latter
• Be Consistent, Oh my God Be Consistent (The goal is to become a ritual to your audience, like every Tuesday I listen to NYS)
• Try to record as many episodes as possible because LIFE
• Don’t Take it Personal
• Talk to your audience
• Set It and Forget
• Be yourself
• Stay focused, you will want to quit at some point DON’T GIVE UP
• Be early
• Eat
• Hygiene (Nose Hairs, Clothing, Breath)
• Don’t Stop Experimenting: Record outside, the homeless, sounds of New York, switch up your recording style
• Rest
• Be present
• Do your research
• Test Your Gear and Review Packed Bag
• Easy on the Drinking
• Water
• Be Flexible (Problem Solving)
• Be Patient (Guests)
• Reach Out to Anyone Mentioned in Your Show
• Follow-up
• Your Cover Art should be 1,400 × 1,400 pixels (maximum 3,000 × 3,000)
• Have a press kit.
• Have a decent summary for your podcast.
• Listen to other podcasts.
• Be Patient with getting Guest

Podcast Shows to Study

• New York Said
• TK in The AM
• The Combat Jack Show
• Tim Ferris
• Drink Champs – NORE
• This American Life
• Serial
• The Read – Kid Fury and Crissle
• Design Matters with Debbie Millman
• Joe Rogan Experience
• Lore
• Malcolm Gladwell – Revisionist History
• Ear Hustle
• 99% Invisible
• WTF with Marc Maron
• The Bowery Boys
• What’s Good with Stretch and Bobbito
• Longform
• How I Built this – Guy Raz
• Sleep with Me
• 2 Dope Queens – Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams
• Fresh Air – Terry Gross
• TED Radio Hour

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