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• Be thankful that, thanks to the power of open RSS and the ease of publishing audio to hundreds of millions of people, podcasting continues to grow and succeed.
• If you’re a podcast host, thank Justin Jackson for posting where Transistor’s signups are coming from.
• Be grateful to Californian Governor Gavin Newsom, who gave an official pardon to Earlonne Woods, one of the hosts of Ear Hustle.

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• Be thankful to Audacy, which is to produce a companion podcast to Severance with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott. Expect it in early January.
• Be thankful that you’re not Kim Williams, the Chair of the ABC in Australia, who called Joe Rogan “deeply repulsive” in what might charitably be called a slightly ignorant comment in a televised press conference. Williams, 72, who admitted not having listened to an episode, later went on one of his radio stations to complain about people’s reaction to his comments, which he called a ”huge pile-on”.
• Be grateful that ElevenLabs is launching a thing a bit like Google’s NotebookLM, but isn’t. It’ll help you make a multispeaker podcast from notes, videos or documents.
• Be thankful that, it turns out, Joe Rogan pays his guests the same as you probably pay yours.
• Be grateful that Pacific Content realise there’s more to podcasting than just the US - and the benefits from learning from overseas markets.

Thank you for reading. Happy Thanksgiving to our readers in the US. And Happy Thanksgiving to Canada and Germany last month. And Happy Thanksgiving to Liberia earlier this month, and to Norfolk Island (yesterday). After more than eight years, we appreciate you helping us reach over 32,000 serious podcasters every day, all over the world.

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• Be grateful to Jeremy Enns who posted a video called Bite Sized Podcast Strategy, which is anything but bite-sized at more than an hour long. Lots of tips and tricks in here, though. It’s part of his Scrappy Podcasting newsletter.

Podcast News

• Be thankful that there’s another Kelce getting ready to podcast. Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce drops December 5th, and already is getting a bunch of people excited.


• Be thankful for East London, home of things like the Fountain podcast app, some decent curry houses, and the subject of The Hackney and Newham History Social Club, a new, modern history podcast about the area. "It is more important than ever for people to listen and pay attention to the stories that shape their local history and identity," says the show's host, Sue Elliott-Nicholls.

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