# S2 E2: Bonus: How this podcast comes together.

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2024-04-22
- **Format:** Video · 14 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Community, Productivity
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/s2-e2-bonus-how-this-podcast-comes-together
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYFDbdLgEEo

In this bonus episode, Ravi and I pull back the curtain on how we actually record and host the podcast. I walk through our remote recording setup, the editing process, RSS feeds and where we host the audio file, and how little it all costs to run.

## Key takeaways

- Content matters far more than technical polish — passionate discussion and the rapport between two people is the real value, not pristine audio.
- We record remotely and never in the same room: each person records their own high-quality local track (via QuickTime or similar) and sends it over, while a backup track records the FaceTime call in case something fails.
- Editing is done in Adobe Audition (or free tools like Audacity or GarageBand), and listening back at 1.5x speed saves time while letting you cut mistakes and re-record sections.
- A podcast is just an MP3 plus an RSS feed — you can copy an existing podcast's RSS XML, swap in your details, and host the file yourself.
- Hosting on an Amazon S3 bucket costs almost nothing at small scale (around 12 pence over six months), making free or near-free hosting perfectly viable when starting out.

## Chapters

- 0:20 Why we record a podcast
- 1:10 Content is the most important thing
- 3:35 Our technology setup
- 5:53 Remote recording and backups
- 7:29 Editing and post-processing
- 9:59 RSS feeds and hosting the file
- 12:21 What it actually costs
- 13:27 Get involved and wrap-up

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/s2-e2-bonus-how-this-podcast-comes-together

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