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It's Draft Day! Leading off, as always, "Sinker and Floaters" with the hot and not in the world. In the two hole is a loaded "TCF Sports Minute" with all of the Chicago sports teams in action. In the three hole is an interview with our football expert, Bobby Wilson, of the TNT College Football Podcast. In the clean up spot is a new "Ideas Under the Influence." To wrap things up, as always, in the five hole is the "TCF Top 3: NFL Draft Busts."
NFL (pre)season is here and we have a loaded show to get it started! Leading off, as always, is "Sinkers & Floaters" on the hot and not in the world. In the 2 hole is a jam-packed "TCF Sports Minute" to recap the Bears first game along with every other Chicago team playing right now. Hitting 3rd is the boys early predictions of who will win each AFC division this season. In the clean up spot, is this week's "Media Recommendations." In the 5 hole is the boys "Ideas Under the Influence." To wrap up the show is this week's "TCF Top 3: Backup QB's."
Welcome back to the Typical Chicago Fans podcast! Leading off, as always, we have "Sinkers & Floaters" on the hot and not in the world. In the 2 hole is a fully loaded "TCF Sports Minute." Hitting 3rd is the boys "Ideas Under the Influence." In the clean up spot, in honor of summer officially starting, is "Over/Under" of lawncare chores. To wrap up the show is a new "TCF Top 3" this week of non-Chicago sports logos!
Hello and welcome back to Typical Chicago Fans! Leading off, as always, is "Sinkers & Floaters" with the hot and not in the world. In the 2 hole is a deep dive into the sports with the "TCF Sports Minute." Hitting 3rd is this week's "Media Recommendations." In the clean up spot is "Ideas Under the Influence." To wrap up the show in the 5 hole the boys build their all time NBA All-Star team to wrap up the show.
Hello and welcome to episode 89 of Typical Chicago Fans! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving but we're back to work. We have a loaded show with everything from a Bears-Packers preview to things we're thankful for. Leading off, as always, is "Sinkers & Floaters" with the hot and not in the world. In the 2 hole we have a deep Sports Minute as we prepare for the Bears-Packers game this Sunday. Hitting 3rd the boys give their media recommendations looking ahead for the long winter. In the clean up spot is a return of "Ideas Under the Influence." Hitting 5th is a celebration of the craziest shopping day in "Black Friday Ventures." In the 6 hole and wrapping up the show is a new segment, "Thankful For," on what the boys have to celebrate this holiday season.
Hello and welcome to episode 84 of Typical Chicago Fans! We have a loaded podcast as Halloween week approaches. Leading off, as always, is "Sinker & Floaters" on the hot and not in the world. In the 2 hole is the "Sports Minute" to touch on all of the sports happening around the country. Hitting 3rd is the boy's media recommendations of a movie, TV show, album, or podcast. In the clean up spot we have a new segment, "Presidential Debate" on who the boys would love to see square off in a presidential style debate without politicians. In the 5 hole is an oldie but a goodie, "Ideas Under the Influence (I.U.I's). Hitting 6th is "Over/Unders: Movie Edition." To wrap up the show in the 7 spot is a scary movie edition of the "TCF Top 3."
Introduction Today’s podcast topic is something a little different. Quite a few people have asked me what goes into making a weekly podcast, so today, I am pulling back the curtain! General Organisation I work full time so it’s necessary for me to bulk record podcast episodes during my breaks, otherwise I’d spend a considerable chunk of my weekend on podcasting. Over the past year, this has worked extremely well for me. The only downside is that I can’t react as quickly as I’d like to current topics as I’ve usually got 6 weeks' worth of content already created. But this is a minor disadvantage. I map out my podcast planning in Notion on a Kanban-style board (very similar to Trello’s set up). My main columns are: To be recorded In progress Queued Published Misc I have a virtual assistant, Tilly, who collaborates with me on this board. Ideas Under my ‘To be recorded’ column in Notion, I have a card for each episode (containing the episode number and due date). When I come up with an idea for an episode, I add it to a card as a working title. I flesh out the details later. Pre-recording Bearing in mind I create podcast episodes in bulk (3 to 6 at a time) the planning/writing aspect happens in bulk too. I spend the most time writing episodes, as the notes I create to record from become the show notes. Because of this, they have to follow a certain format and be reasonably error free. I write episode notes in Notion and format them in a particular way. I have a standard checklist which gets copied then pasted into each episode for Tilly and I to follow. That way, nothing gets missed and we have a consistent approach to each episode. Once I’ve written the notes and ensured there is a call to action, I run everything through ProWritingAid. Then it is time to record. Recording and Editing Episodes are recorded fairly quickly with minimal editing. I use the previous episode as a template so my opening and closing elements are already there. This works well because episodes are usually the same length. You can find details of my tech setup here. The audio is published in draft with my hosting company and I download an MP3 version to extract a trailer clip if audio. Then it’s over to Tilly. Post-production Tilly creates social media images for the episode in Canva and adds them to Notion. She also creates the episode artwork. She prepares video clips for social media using an amazing tool called Headliner. She checks and formats the show notes, as per our checklist. Tilly then hops over to the episode on my hosting platform and checks and edits everything over there. Everything remains in draft. She then moves the card in Notion to “Queued” so I know it is ready to go. Publication and Sharing On the day the podcast is due to go live, I publish it with my host and on my blog so the show notes are live. This then gets pushed out to podcast apps like Apple Podcasts etc. I set up a URL redirect so the episode is easy to find. After that, I share the episode to all my social platforms, using the collateral Tilly created. I also schedule a month’s worth of tweets about the episode using Amplifr. I keep a database of pre-written tweets so Tilly can reshare episodes with the relevant images at a later date. And that’s it! Wrap up That’s all from me today, before I go, I have one small ask. Please sign up for my weekly email newsletter, The Teaching Space Extra. It includes access to my free resource library, as well as lots of great reading recommendations and information about productivity, teaching and tech. Hop over to theteachingspace.com/tts-extra to sign up.
Hello and welcome to episode 34 of Typical Chicago Fans presented by The Loop Sports. Big Z and Boomy have everything in the sports world for you this week from the Content Cave with everything from Circle Gate at Wrigley to Ideas Under the Influence. The boy's lead off with sinkers and floaters with the hot and not in the world. Up second is a playoff round-up in the NBA & NHL as they have both reached the conference finals. Hitting thrid is diamond talk as the boy's discuss everything Cubs & Sox as well as touching on Circle Gate & Addison Russell. Batting clean-up is a little Bulls draft chatter as the draft lottery is on Tuesday. To wrap the show up the boy's give their IUI's, ideas under the influence.
Gameboy joins Boomy and Big Z in the content cave for episode 2 of Typical Chicago Fans presented by The Loop Sports. The boys jump right in to some Cubs talk as they have taken 2 of 3 from the White Sox and sit 2.5 games up on the Brewers with a week left. They jump into sinkers and floaters on the hot and not in the world today. Next up is NFL talk as DA BEARS are in first place after a win over the Cardinals while the Packers and Vikings both lose. They wrap it up with a new segment, IUI's or Ideas Under the Influence on their genius ideas they come up under the influence.