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Tony Palermo's avatar

Soccer was the (American) sport of the future when the Tampa Bay Rowdies won the NASL championship in 1975. And it's been the sport of the future ever since.

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Michael Wolf's avatar

I decided to follow the excellent advice from FS Blog linked below and stop reading news. I subscribed to your substack before I swore off and I will keep reading your substack because it is informative and funny and you do a great job of saying what I would say if I was as smart and as clever as you are.

I'm the third subscriber to your YouTube channel. I might be wrong, but this may make me your third biggest fan. I'm the second commenter to this post, so I might be wrong and this may make me your second biggest fan. I'm probably wrong because you have people who subscribe and pay you money for nothing, and I don't. So maybe I'm no better than your N+1st biggest fan where N is the number of subscribers. But I might be wrong about that, too

Anyway since I'm not paying you for content I thought that the least I could do was to give you some valuable feedback on the pods-cast without asking you to pay for it.

My first bit of valuable advice is: link the podcast posts to the original essay.

My second: link the original essay to the podcast.

My third: the Wadsworth Constant (link below) says you can skip the first 1/3 of any video with no loss of value. The amount of skippable content is smaller, but nonzero. I recommend you shorten

I don't know why pods-casters think that they need to start with theme music and an intro telling them who you are and what they're about. I go to podcasts for content, content, not to be serenaded. And I know who they are, or I wouldn't be there.

Some pods-casters start with the audio-equivalent of a pull-quote--a moment from the podcast that's a highlight. I think that's a good idea.

I like your style reading what you've written, but from what I've listened to so far (not that much, but I will listen to more) the written versions are WAY WAY WAY better than the spoken version. But for people who don't have time to sit down and read because they are driving to work or taking their kids to soccer it's better than nothing. I will listen some more and try to make some better suggestions.

https://fs.blog/stop-reading-news/

https://www.dictionary.com/e/pop-culture/the-wadsworth-constant/

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