Sad realization about the Super Bowl

I have not watched football much the last 7 or 8 years. I finally got excited about the game this year for a couple of reasons. First is the fact that Peyton Manning played for Tennessee when we lived there, so it is a familiar name. He has also always struck me as a nice man. Though, I really know nothing about him.

But the second, and more important, reason is that I am excited about the commercials for the first time in several years. Even though I have not watched much ball, I have taped the Super Bowl for several years just to watch the commercials. There has not been the buzz surrounding the commercials the last few years like there was in the late 90s. Particularly I am interested in tech commercials.

But, alas, the commercials are replaced by Mexican commercials. This makes sense, but robs me of why I was interested in watching the game.

I guess I will just have to catch them on YouTube later tonight or tomorrow.

A fun audio clip: mate

In one of my recent Missionary Talks episodes we spoke with Elisabeth Carney. She mentioned that when she was a young girl growing up in Argentina, she would go to her friend’s house and drink a tea called mate (pronounced with a ma-tey with a short a sound). Here is a mash up of my show with an episode of Phedippidations where Adam Tinkoff (of Burning 20) was talking about mate. Enjoy the clip.

Missionary Talks
Phedippidations
Burning Twenty

Just click the play button below to listen to the clip. It is about 4 minutes long.

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Missionary Talks 15: David Peach

Here it is. What the world has been clamoring for…an interview with myself! (Ok, only three people have asked).

In this episode my wife plays host and I play guest. She did a fine job as host, but I must admit, I did a great job as guest. It was like I knew what the intended audience was and what questions would be asked. I am going to have to play as guest more often.

Actually, though I had written out the questions for her, she threw a few in on her own and mixed them up a bit. I had written a potential list of questions about 4 hours before we recorded. If you know me, that means that I had totally forgotten what the questions were by the time we got to the mic. So it came off as “fresh” I think.

I am working on a few new places/countries to get missionaries from. Early on in the show I did not have trouble working out recording times with people because they were mostly missionaries who are close friends or who live nearby. But now I have emails out to 3 missionaries that I wanted to get on the show this week. Out of the three only one has written back to tell me he cannot record for another month or so. Still waiting to hear from the other two. I have a ton of missionaries here locally I can get, but I want to spread them out so we don’t have all the shows from just right here.

The show is doing well. I appreciate all the votes so far this month. I have stayed in the top 10 at Podcast Alley in my category. Of course we are only a couple days into the month, so those numbers will change. I ended the last 2 months in the mid-30th position.

Enjoy the show!

Endurance Planet. SOLD!

I mentioned before that Tim at Endurance Planet wanted to sell his show. I heard last week that he did so. The details of the sale have not been released, but he said it was (paraphrase) “for no small amount.”

Jason mentions today some interesting thoughts about the sale of a podcast. Here is an excerpt. Be sure to check out his site to get the full details.

There are several things that give an established podcast worth. Here are the assets that you might have that have interest to a prospective buyer.

1. An audience that have expressed interest in a niche topic
2. A relationship with that audience (some of which can be transferred to the new host/owner if you play things right)
3. A community (the relationships that exist amongst your audience/users)
4. A back catalog of content
5. Established traffic sources in the form of search engine ranking, inbound links, etc.
6. A recognized brand name (a known source of quality information/entertainment)