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The 3W Podcast: Parker Dodson - Part 1

• Kasie Yokley

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A four-hour coffee can change your career. We sit down with Parker Dodson of PodcastVideos.com to trace the unlikely path from commercial interior design to photography to building a multi-studio production hub designed to make podcasting easier, faster, and far more consistent. Parker opens up about the early scrappy days — phones, GoPros, trial and error—and how those experiments shaped a professional workflow that scales without losing the soul of a conversation.

Beyond gear, we talk about the invisible work that keeps shows alive: editing, delivery timelines, brand consistency, and the cadence that prevents burnout. Parker shares why 80% of podcasts stop after two episodes and what creators can do to beat that stat — think workflow first, not just microphones. If you’ve wondered how to transform a good idea into a durable show, this is a blueprint built on real-world constraints, plenty of mistakes, and smart upgrades.

If this conversation helps you think bigger about your own show, follow the podcast, share it with a friend who’s building something, and leave a quick review so more creators can find it.


SPEAKER_02:

Hey everyone. Welcome to the 3W Podcast. I have a super great friend here with me today. Who are you?

SPEAKER_00:

Parker Dotson with podcastvideos.com.

SPEAKER_02:

But I'm cheing.

SPEAKER_00:

I know.

SPEAKER_02:

We brought it in-house today.

SPEAKER_00:

We did.

SPEAKER_02:

Because I don't know what I'm doing at all. And I love that I sat down with you and I'm like, what are we going to talk about today? And you were like, um, it's your show.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. I mean, it is your show. I mean, we're here to help you execute it. You are the you bring the ideas. But you're the expert. True. But it's better to improvise than plan ahead too far because then it feels too scripted.

SPEAKER_02:

Agree. I do have a script, but it's super personal.

SPEAKER_00:

Bullet pointed, which is good.

SPEAKER_02:

I love bullet points.

SPEAKER_00:

Bullet points is the best way to do it. Don't get too lengthy with a let me read this exact sentence to you. Which I have done on a podcast before. And it feels unless you're quoting something, then it's fine.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, well, I'm not quoting. I don't think before I speak.

SPEAKER_00:

Hey, Casey, tell me about what 3W magazine is. It's like this person's not great at this.

SPEAKER_02:

And I love this magazine, and I've had it for uh working on the 18th issue, and I can't even give you the short version of what the magazine is.

SPEAKER_00:

That's incredible.

SPEAKER_02:

But I still love it and it does great.

SPEAKER_00:

It is.

SPEAKER_02:

It does lots of great things. Yes, the 3W podcast that you all named it.

SPEAKER_00:

We did. Helped you come up with the design of it and kept your base of the little.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, I think you did this as a matter of fact. Yeah. And a cover thing that goes on all the podcast stuff.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, when we were like a team of four. Yes. Which is not the case anymore. But I know we'll get into that. Skeleton crews are fun, aren't they? Yes. Yes. It's a multiple hat situation always.

SPEAKER_02:

Also a janitor. Yes. 100% a janitor. That's my favorite title.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_02:

Parker, how did you get here? Who are you?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh goodness. Um short version. Short version.

SPEAKER_02:

Because you can talk, and I love that about you, because so can I. Yes. Because I remember when I sat down with you a year ago, I was like, how did you get here? And it was like it was not a straight line.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Which we can do. And since we're on a recording, I don't want to go long because then it's really awkward because I have to bill you for your overage time.

SPEAKER_02:

I know. Please don't.

SPEAKER_00:

Which we never have to.

SPEAKER_02:

And then you can see a clock too, which is.

SPEAKER_00:

So I can make sure I'm keeping myself on track. Um, but no, I've been from the River Valley originally, moved up here for school in 2011, um, and have been up here ever since. So normally, you know, would say transplant, but being from the river valley. It kind of counts. Plus, it's the amount of people that have moved here since 2011 and really in the last five years since COVID is like, yeah, you're just a you're a local.

SPEAKER_02:

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, but yeah, love Northwest Arkansas. Um, love calling it home. My family's only an hour away, which is great. Um, but yeah, my professional career started out um doing commercial interior design, which has nothing to do with five.

SPEAKER_02:

Which is the funniest thing.

SPEAKER_00:

The only application that it provided me, besides being able to decorate my house and other things like that, is the ability to design these studios out, which was really cool.

SPEAKER_02:

Right, which you a hundred percent did.

SPEAKER_00:

And stressed over. Didn't pay for, but was like, hey, here's a great way for us to spend money. But yes, it was um, I did that for about six years, had built up some, you know, really great clients that I loved. And what I would do is, you know, a vendor or somebody's moving into town, we've got a hundred people per floor. I would come in, work with the architect, help design that space out, furnish it, all that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_02:

Which is a whole niche market.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, a hundred percent. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Right. Somebody um I was talking to a friend a couple months ago. Their daughter went into interior design and graduated from TCU. And everyone just thinks it's like throwing a pillow up on a sofa, but she's doing commercial design, like offices. Uh I want to say build outs because my husband's an engineer across the land, so I always think build out, but yeah, whatever. So she's doing that in Chicago. And I'm like, oh, that makes so much sense. I never thought about that.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, but at all. You have commercial or commercial interior designers, you have residential interior designers. They're very different. Residential is kind of more of your color pillows, fabrics, that type of stuff. Um, whereas commercial is mainly working with some colors, but it's the layout and the feel because but that's a special skill. Oh, it's very interesting. Yeah. There's a lot of cool software out there that can help you design things. It's very, it's a very interesting market. Um, but while doing that, really got into, and actually, this is back during college, but got into photography and videography. Uh, primarily, you know, just like every photographer does, a little bit of wedding stuff, which did you shoot some weddings? I've done, I've probably done photos for probably 10 weddings, and then I've done probably seven or eight wedding videos. Yeah. Because that's a big deal.

SPEAKER_02:

The video's a big deal, but those photos, it I mean, yeah. All legs one basket.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. Yeah, it's I mean, it's a lot of work. And I was doing that in an accessory to what I was doing full time with the commercial design. So um, it was work, you know, eight to five every day during the week. And then if I had a wedding or something that weekend, you're working basically eight to five, well, actually eight to ten those days a lot of times, because you're getting there around lunch, you're leaving whatever time reception essentially. It's a long day. How long that is. It's a long day. And I never I always thought it was crazy when I first got into it. I was like, I'm not gonna charge very much, I've never done one. And then I did my first full one and I was like, I'm exhausted. I get why people do it. And then I realized, oh, I have 5,000 photos that I need to go through.

SPEAKER_01:

So I need to keep working. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it's gonna take me another month to work through this. So um I appreciated a whole new aspect of like people will, you know, would complain, well, it took me forever to get my video or my photos back. And I'm like, you don't realize how much time? I can't even imagine. It's insane. I truly cannot. Um, but did a little bit of that and mainly did a lot of outdoor stuff, so a lot of landscape, lifestyle type of stuff.

SPEAKER_01:

You just posted one.

SPEAKER_00:

I did on LinkedIn, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh like an elk or something. Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, the elk out at the Buffalo River. So I quickly fell in love with the Buffalo River area and would go out there and hike and shoot and just spend the weekend camp, that kind of stuff. It's just, it's such an amazing resource to have, just what an hour and a half from northwest Arkansas. It's incredible. And it's still a fairly well-kept secret. I would be willing to bet there's a large percentage of Northwest Arkansas that's never been there. Absolutely. But they've never been.

SPEAKER_02:

Absolutely. I'm half included in that. Okay. Half. Half. I've been, but I haven't seen that like picturesque bluff thing. Oh, whatever point that everyone talks about. No, I've done that. Oh. But you know, like when you're in the canoe and you look up and it's just like a a sheet of big bluff. Yes, I've not seen that.

SPEAKER_00:

Big bluff is really fun.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh oh, that's literally what it's called.

SPEAKER_00:

It's literally called Big Bluff. It's well, it's the goat trail at Big Bluff, is what it's called.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, I had no idea.

SPEAKER_00:

So you can either float it or you can actually hike from um, I think it's the Compton Head Trail above Ponka. You can actually hike it and then it spits you out, I believe, like 475 feet up, and there's a trail, probably I would say at its narrowest, maybe four to five feet wide. And then it's just straight down and straight above you, too.

SPEAKER_02:

Love that for outdoors AP. It's very I love that.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, but fell in love with that. So I started doing that a lot, work with a few marketing companies. It was really fun, and I didn't want to ever make it a career because it was my passion. Yeah, it could suck the joy out of it exactly. If I'm now required to do these things, then it's going to kind of suck my joy from me. So um continued to do that, just working along. Um, had just gotten married to my wife, Claire, um, and was just plugging away normal life. And then a gentleman named Eric Howerton called me, who you know well, called me up one day. I'd never met the man before in my life, called me, I answered the phone.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, this wasn't a connection like through relationship building.

SPEAKER_00:

No. I think you left that part out of the story a year ago.

SPEAKER_02:

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00:

So he knew somebody introduced him to me, but not like a direct type of thing. Um, he called me and introduced himself and just kind of explained who he was and said, Hey, we'd love to grab coffee sometime. And I'm like, Yeah, sure, would love to. Um, and you knowing Eric and myself now, that was about a four and a half hour cup of coffee.

SPEAKER_02:

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Because we were just talking and talking and talking. Um and so, yeah, we talked about this vision of an outdoors company that we were, you know, he was wanting to do. Um, being Eric, he has a hundred ideas at any one time. Um, and so, but he had found my name through that kind of outdoorsy photography that I did because he needed somebody to help capture the content that we were wanting to do. Um, so that's how we kind of got connected. And it was just a little freelance gig, no big deal, fun and easy. Um, didn't hear anything from a while. So about a month later, I gave him a call and which is like, hey, was just interested if you're wanting to do this still. Um, and he said, give me a call. And he started asking me all these strange questions, like talking about podcasts and audio and video.

SPEAKER_02:

And I was like, Because what is this three years ago?

SPEAKER_00:

This um this phone call would have happened probably May, April, actually April of 2022. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, right, because it's the podcasting, while wildly popular, it just wasn't as accessible. Yes, I would say. Yes. It was just massive formats.

SPEAKER_00:

And you have, well, I mean, COVID really pushed that along because people weren't interacting with people anymore. And it just continued to grow and grow and grow. And then it, you know, as time has progressed, it's easier to go buy a microphone and get content out there.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

So a lot of people would do it from home. Um, but the talk of us working together was never really the podcast side of things. Um, he just asked me those questions, which I thought was strange. Um, but he at offered me a full-time position. I kind of, you know, had to make a pros and cons list, still didn't know him that well. Had a very comfortable career with what I was doing. Uh, but it was one of those where it's like, I don't have any kids yet. If I'm gonna take a chance, like now's the time to do it. Um, so it's like, hey, give me eight weeks. I wanted to give it a little bit extra time because eight weeks?

SPEAKER_01:

I knew that is that what you gave?

SPEAKER_00:

I knew the team that I was career was like they were gonna be blindsided. Right. Um, and so I wanted to make sure we had plenty of time there to like give them a heads up. I don't know if I told them fully eight weeks in advance. Um, I think I might have been closer to six that I actually told them because had to work up a curve.

SPEAKER_02:

It's amazing. Oh, it's so scary. Isn't that?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I just that was kind of my like first real job out of college, and it's a very was a smaller team kind of.

SPEAKER_02:

And you feel loyalty.

SPEAKER_00:

You're very much a loyalty, you're kind of like a family, you know, you've gone to on, you know, maybe be a convention or whatever together, and you just build like that friendship um and that kind of family atmosphere. So um, yeah, it was it was interesting. Yeah. Um, but gave that and then um yeah, started up in June of 2022, started working.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay. And I met you at Mercy.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes.

SPEAKER_02:

So how new podcast was it the catfish corndog? Yes, at the catfish corndoge, which was which I'm probably butchering that, which I shouldn't be on the board, but I just can never remember.

SPEAKER_00:

Catfish, corndog, and corn.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes, that's where I met you.

SPEAKER_00:

So that was and that was 2022.

SPEAKER_02:

If you say so.

SPEAKER_00:

I think, and yeah, that believe that event's August, correct? July. End of July. June, June, June. June? June. So it might have been the first time that I met you, might have been 2023.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay. Yeah. I haven't been to catfish in two years. Okay, yeah. Ironically.

SPEAKER_00:

So so it would have been yeah, probably that. Okay. Because that'd be two years ago. 23 would have been a week. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Okay. Um so yeah, started working. The company was Get Outfitters, um, where I worked out of as being the only employee in this company that existed, was White Spider, which was Eric's company, had a little podcast studio just over by kind of the bonefish and grubs area. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Have I told you the story on that space? Okay. So um I have an 11-year-old. Was I pregnant? No, different kid. Um I would say 12 to 15 years ago, if not longer, somewhere in there. We were looking for office space. That was one of our office space office.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_02:

And the only reason we didn't sign it is because you had to walk outside and into the other building to use a restroom. That was the only reason we never signed it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yep.

SPEAKER_02:

So when I went to record a podcast with Brooke, ironically, uh, for mercy, again, um, I had the address and I'm like, this is weird.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And I went in and I was like, oh my gosh, I know this space upside and down.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Yep. And so that was what I worked out of because they had a little makeshift studio that they were doing there. They were doing kind of a podcast for one, it was a little bit for fun, but two, it was kind of client education of, hey, Walmart just said this. This is what it means to your product, this is what we're gonna do. Um, so that's where I worked out of, but I spent 14 of the first 15 days on the water, either wake surfing, fishing, floating, whatever. Just building all this content. Yeah, my wife was like, so what do you do? Because you're on the lake, you've you've been you've worked there for three weeks, you've been on the lake 14 of those days, and you're just kind of hanging out taking photos all day, and nobody works with you. And I'm like, if they don't have cashes, is hey, as long as I'm getting paid, it's fine. Um, but it very kind of quickly became Eric, as anyone who knows Eric traditionally does, is like, hey, I have this idea, which was he had the domain podcast videos.com. He's like, I want to take what we're doing with White Spider and offer this to other people. Um, so I spent from you know, really still June at that time um through to February of that next month. I spent kind of six months there really just helping White Spider do their stuff, um, very word of mouth, talking about who we are, what we did, anybody that came in to Eric sent in, I would help do their recording and really start establishing that process. How do we edit? How do we do all this kind of stuff that you would need to do for more clients?

SPEAKER_02:

Did your photography video background help? It did soon.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes.

SPEAKER_02:

So you knew what you were doing-ish.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. So the first thing I did was kind of revamp the studio they had. They were like recording with cell phones and it was this acoustic curtains. And Eric had built this like WWE cage type of thing on the table that had the lights, and I'm like, we got to work on this. So kind of redesigned the space that we had there, repositioned the table, had the TV at the end, redid the curtains that were around it for sound. Because, as you know, in that space, it's literally walk in, there's a loft midway through with a space and a space. And the studio was downstairs, we set upstairs. Um, so redid that, got some new cameras in. And so there was a lot of trial and error there of like we went from cell phones to GoPros because I was just familiar with them and we were still one person. Let's not spend insane amounts of money to like buy all this new stuff. Um, let's kind of work our way through it. So we had GoPros, and that's kind of what we use, and we just did recordings very, you know, if I had three or four recordings a week, it was like stress and chaos because I was having to record, edit, shit. Okay, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, so we managed that for about six months, got it to a good point. Uh, and then we brought Nathan on board, who's actually still with us, one of the OGs. Um, he came in as a web dev guy because I can I can make the site look really pretty and very engaging. Uh, but from an SEO coding standpoint, I have no earthly idea what's going on. I feel like whenever I'm trying to help my parents with something, whenever he's talking to me about a computer, and I'm like, I don't know what that long list of numbers and dashes and letters that you have on your screen mean absolutely nothing to me.

SPEAKER_02:

Like trying to silence my watch before we went on air.

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly right. Nobody knows how it's rocket science. Um, but yeah, so we got him on board and then we brought another salesman on our salesman on board at that time. So I was still doing essentially everything else the marketing, the recording, the editing, all that stuff. Um, and then we realized about halfway through 2023, probably around that catfish corn dog time, that we needed a bigger space. You know, we had the one little room, it was very limited. It really had a capacity lid on it for what we could do.

SPEAKER_02:

We were podcastvideos.com at that point in time. Yes, right? Okay. Because I remember there being some gray between white spider and podcasts. Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

We had nothing, I don't believe we had any branding at that point in time. Um, we actually I went to like Academy that day to buy a pop-up tent because it's 98 degrees and sunny, and I can't film in that, you know. Oh, it's funny. So yeah, that was kind of our first, you know, we went out there and we were able to kind of talk to people about who we were. Um, but then we like we need a better space. Wanted to stay in this area because there's just so many businesses and things to do here. How do we make it accessible?

SPEAKER_02:

It's accessible to the highway and both counties and accessibility.

SPEAKER_00:

It's kind of a good middle ground. It is. It's a little bit of a drive from Fayetteville, but overall, you know, Rogers, Bentonville, Springdale were just a very short hop and skip over. So um we found the space that we're in right now, it was just empty gravel um inside the building that was already completed. Um for people that don't know, we're next to Heroes Coffee here in one-uptown. Rogers one-uptown. Um just to the left of the main staircase there. So we found this, was gravel, went ahead and tapped into my resources that I had of a previous education, and so took a piece of grid paper out and just kind of drew out like, hey, these are some initial studio design concepts um of what this space could look like. And so um sent it over to the architect and they just started building. So it was that was a stressful moment. Um, you know, I'm sure it mainly was for Eric because he was fully trusting me to have these weird ideas, like everything is controlled from the front. There's nobody in the room with you while you're recording, and then all the equipment and all the wiring has to get into that room somehow to run all these cameras and microphones. So the wiring and everything actually runs up through the ceiling, down a pipe, down the front, and then into a control center. So um there were a lot of ideas that were like, I think this will work. Let's try it.

SPEAKER_02:

And so that's what you have to do with all your business.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely. We were supposed to be in November of 23. Okay. Um, and then quickly started getting the hey, we're having a little bit of delays getting permits, yada, yada, yada. Um, for me, I was really, really excited about a November because my first child.

SPEAKER_02:

I was like, You were having a baby.

SPEAKER_00:

You were literally giving birth to this. And Claire was giving birth to your baby. Yes, absolutely. So, like January 4th um was is my wife's birthday, but was also his due date. Um, and so I'm like, okay, that's fine. I'll give me a couple months to work these kinks out and then have a baby, and then I can help. And so billing delays, building delays, and then he came early. Um, so I actually was in the um, I'll never forget it because I was in the hospital the day after he was born. Um, and I got a text from the contractor that was like, hey, y'all can start moving in.

SPEAKER_02:

And I thought that is so great.

SPEAKER_00:

Cool.

SPEAKER_02:

This is great.

SPEAKER_00:

And we'd already bought all the equipment, so it was all sitting at the old space. Um, so took a week, stayed at home with the family, you know, helped as much as I could there. Um, and then just came, had uh Nathan and Chris, who was with us at the time, Nathan still is, had them running the recordings that we had going at the old space. So I just came up here every day for about four weeks um and started one transferring everything over, but hanging every sound panel on the wall, mounting all these TVs, running the lights, hanging the lights, mounting the cameras, all this type of stuff. So I would work hard, take a little 15-minute nap on a sound panel because I hadn't slept that night or slept in two and a half hour increments that go. Um and then we had our grand openings February 22nd of 23, um, at sorry, 24 at this location. So um in a you know, short four or five months, we'll be coming up on our two years here. Which is crazy. It's wild.

SPEAKER_02:

It feels like yesterday, but it also feels like five years at the same time.

SPEAKER_00:

It's weird. Um, it was a great grand opening. Did you come to the grand opening yes?

SPEAKER_02:

It was a great opening.

SPEAKER_00:

We had weather for February. I know that was the biggest fear was it's like we started talking about it and then we realized there's gonna be probably 300 people coming here. And if you've been here, there's a lot of great space. There's not a space for 300 common area to hang out in um because we wanted to fit as many recording studios as we could into one spot.

SPEAKER_02:

That's a good question. How many studios? What's the because you have you offer a lot of studio options, I feel like. Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Yep. So we have our conference room, which you and I are in. Um we can do it with just two people, or whenever we have four, you know, there's five cameras on the walls in here. So you have the ability to bring in two more chairs and microphones, and then we can do up to four people. We've even done up to six people in here before. Not recommended, but it is possible. Possible. Um, so you have the conference room. I would say this is still probably our most popular because it's more of that traditional podcast style that people are, you know, Rogan and all those guys sit across a table and have conversations. Um, and then directly across the hall from us, we have our solo studio, which is what I would probably call our most versatile. Um, that one is a camera and a teleprompter built into the wall so that you can, if you're doing a remote podcast, we can do up to seven people anywhere in the world into one studio. Which is so wild. Really cool. So it looks and feels kind of like a Google Meet or a Zoom, but it's a specialized software that allows us to actually record all the content on the back end. Because whenever you're on a Zoom or a Google meet with somebody, it doesn't always seem the best quality. Right. And it's not typically because of your camera on your laptop, it's because it'll sacrifice the quality to make sure there's no skipping going on or anything.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

So what the software does is it gives that same interface, but it's actually recording the full HD on the back end and uploading it to the system as you talk.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

So it ends up with a higher quality product overall. Plus, if you know, we've had people that had somebody in New York, somebody was in England, somebody was in California, all in one call. And if somebody's dog starts marking or whatever, we can cut that audio out, and you would never know with all the other people.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, stop it. You can cut that out?

SPEAKER_00:

Because we have all the individual video and audio tracks for each user. So I can remove anything. If somebody's phone started ringing, we can remove any of that. Awesome. It's really fun. Wow. Um and then we also have people that come in and they'll use that for job interviews. Like if I've got a remote job interview, they'll come in and use it. Um that's creative. Yeah. That was somebody came in.

SPEAKER_01:

Who thought to do that?

SPEAKER_00:

We were at the coffee shop um having coffee and uh started talking with a lady there, and she's like, I actually have a job interview for a company out of California. I was like, oh, come use this solo studio, it'll be great. And she was like, this was perfect because now you don't have to like do it at home and have a blurred background. It's like I'm in a professional setting, they hear you through the microphone, they see you through the camera, and you have a really nice, clean background. It's like, oh, they took the extra step to really put a lot into this interview, which means a lot to an employer. Um, so we made that a standard offering. If people are gonna be a guest, like asked to be a guest on our podcast, it's not anywhere near here, they can come and actually use it as just guest, we call it just studio time. So there's no recording. Oh, okay. We just get you into the call into the whichever platform that that uh host uses.

SPEAKER_02:

So if call or daddy calls, you could easily go.

SPEAKER_00:

We can easily go do that over here. So great. Yep, so great. Um, so that is the solo, and then we've done, we just recorded our first audio book in there a couple months ago. So it's it's great.

SPEAKER_02:

It's not just podcasting.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02:

Which we will dive into in this video.

SPEAKER_00:

We'll definitely dive into. Oh my gosh. But then you have the news that studio, which you've been in, and I've done that one too.

SPEAKER_02:

Lounge studio is what the four and I do the lounge one a lot.

SPEAKER_00:

Yep, the four leather armchairs, and so um, we're continually making upgrades to all the cameras and everything to make it even more um high-end. But the biggest thing is just the efficiency of all of it, getting things in quickly, but looking the right way, and there's a consistency built there. So whenever somebody tunes into the 3W podcast, maybe a different room, maybe a different guest.

SPEAKER_02:

But this is always here.

SPEAKER_00:

But the get the lights, the the TV.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, yeah, because I have blue lights and yeah, you themed everything. Think about things I don't think about.

SPEAKER_00:

And that's how you have to customize it when you're having, you know, kind of a to the masses type of product that we have here is I have to find a way to make it look a bit different for each person. Um, we've played with the ideas of doing backdrops and all these different kinds of props and stuff, but we don't want to have a place to store a lot of them. And you just get into a weird thing of how we're gonna do the lighting if we have a backdrop. And then it just so it's not the best, you know, it's not everyone's favorite look and feel, um, which is why we do custom studio buildouts for people. But at the same time, it just gives us that ability to give you that consistent look every time.

SPEAKER_02:

But that's why you use podcastvideos.com. That is because you all are a one-stop shop.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_02:

That's why you don't just go buy yourself a little microphone and a GoPro and you do it professionally here.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, ma'am. And that the podcast side of things is, as we kind of mentioned, it's such a big market. But 80% of podcasts fail after the first two episodes.

SPEAKER_02:

I can see that.

SPEAKER_00:

Because one, people think, oh, I just want to do this, it'll be fun. A lot of times they're doing it on their own. So they've spent maybe a thousand dollars, and a lot of times people will just get a microphone, which is fine. Right. Um, but then they record and they're like, okay, well, I also need to edit it. And then how do I get it out there to people?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00:

So they're like, I don't have time to do all this.

SPEAKER_02:

It's hard. It is. You will talk to me and we'll talk about that in the next one. But I'm like, you will just rattle off a bunch of information and I just kind of glaze over because I don't understand what it means and I don't know. So I just I told I've told you a million times, and I will admit to anybody that knows me, I know where my skill set lies. And you at podcast are not part of my skill set. Talking and hunging are part of my skill set, not HD, 4K, X, Y, Z.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

None of that is that's why we have you.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_02:

That's why you all have a job. Yes, that's why you all have a business, that's why you have cameras and all the fancy things.

SPEAKER_00:

That's right.

SPEAKER_02:

So that's a good place to stop.

SPEAKER_00:

I like it.

SPEAKER_02:

I like that.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, that was organic. That was organic.

SPEAKER_02:

I know. Yay, us.

SPEAKER_00:

Is this the first time you've ever split an episode now? We can remove all this, by the way. Um is this the first time you've ever split an episode now?

SPEAKER_02:

No, I've been trying to do that, but I did have one recently. It woke way over and I was like, oh crap, I didn't mean to do that.

SPEAKER_00:

So you haven't ever split. Have you ever done a be sure to join us for a part two segment to it?

SPEAKER_02:

I think so. Um yes, yes. Oh, okay. Yeah. I'm like, because I'm like, join us for part two.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, gotcha. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

So now I gotta say all that.

SPEAKER_00:

Now that we've removed it, you can then come in and say, hey, I think we'll stop right there for now. Be sure to tune back in for a part two.

SPEAKER_02:

That could I love you for this. Okay.

unknown:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm sorry if y'all are laughing because, or I'm laughing because Parker makes me laugh, but that's a good place to stop. Thank you for suggesting that.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02:

Join us for part two. We are going to dive into all things podcast videos. Two things left to say. Don't forget to stop by your local Walmart and pick up your Hershey salty snacks. Skinny Pop.

SPEAKER_00:

I can't believe you didn't bring me any.

SPEAKER_02:

I know. I'm so lame. I keep all the product at my office and in my car.

SPEAKER_00:

The only reason I said yes because I was like, I know who our sponsors are.

SPEAKER_02:

He's gonna bring me the Dots pretzels. And I didn't get it. I didn't.

SPEAKER_00:

Now we gotta wait for Halloween tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02:

The worst. You're gonna have to edit that out now. Or actually, we'll just keep it in because it's who we are. It's fine. But yes, go get your skinny pop, your dots homestyle pretzels, cinnamon sugars where it's at, and your pirate spoodie. Okay, keep inspiring a culture of giving. See y'all.