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By Arielle Nissenblatt, Community Manager at SquadCast.fm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The backstory<\/strong>
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When I got into the podcast space, I didn\u2019t expect to become a creator. I started a newsletter that shared podcast recommendations with listening enthusiasts around the world. I still run that newsletter to this day. I\u2019m a HUGE fan of consuming entertainment through my ears. But, 5.5 years later, in addition to being a curator, I\u2019m also a podcaster. It happened.
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When I started my podcast recommendation podcast (that went along with the newsletter) in 2019, I didn\u2019t really <\/em>know what I was doing. I\u2019d been giving advice to podcasters for about two years at that point but hadn\u2019t walked the walk myself. So I decided that it was time. 
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It started as a solo podcast. Just me talking into the mic every week \u2013 essentially an audio version of the newsletter. But I got bored of that. So, I can only imagine that others did, too. So, I pivoted. I began interviewing my newsletter\u2019s podcast curators. The way the newsletter works is that each week is curated by a different person. They choose a theme and find podcast episodes on that theme. I started chatting with curators about their favorite podcasts, what motivated them to choose that theme, and what they hope listeners get out of their podcast picks.
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Remote from the start<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Never once, when planning out my podcast, did I think that I\u2019d be a studio renter. Honestly, I worked as a podcast studio manager at the time in Los Angeles. It was a ton of fun. I met a lot of people with various recording needs and at different levels and genres. But I knew firsthand how expensive it was. And I learned that it can also be inconvenient. Sure, there *are* benefits. I won\u2019t get into them here but it can definitely be nice to really look into the eyes of the person you\u2019re interviewing. I get that. I do.
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But I was always going to remote remotely.
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And somehow, I knew, innately, that I wouldn\u2019t be using Zoom for my podcast. I\u2019d been a guest on a number of podcasts at the point. Some used Zoom to record entirely. Some used Zoom to connect,<\/em> but had me record my side of the conversation on QuickTime or some other tool. These options usually left sometime to be desired \u2013 they weren\u2019t totally seamless and required a bit of collaging. Even as the guest, I had some work to do once the recording was finished to ensure the file was good to go for the host of the show.
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So I knew that when I started my remote recording, I\u2019d be using a service like SquadCast. I began recording my podcast recommendation podcast\u2019s interviews remotely.
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The counter-programming of it all<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

But this all really<\/em> came together when I started a pandemic distraction-cast with my friend, Shira Moskowitz, in April 2020. I was in Los Angeles at the time and she was in NYC. Our podcast, Counter Programming with Shira and Arielle<\/a>, was a remote podcast right from the start. Even when, later in the run of the show, we lived only two miles from each other, we continued to record on SquadCast. 
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Full disclosure: I loved my recording experience with SquadCast so much that, later in the summer of 2020, I actually applied for a job there and work there now as the community manager!
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Shira and I were obsessed with remote recording so much \u2013 the ease of it, the excitement of it \u2013 that we did unsolicited ads for the concept of it on our show, pretty much every episode.
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Here\u2019s what we liked so much about remote recording:<\/p>\n\n\n\n