For the last 50 days I’ve been using the same coffee mug in my Instagram stories and reels to raise funds for Hope International.

If you have an Instagram account, you can contribute to the fundraiser through the link in my profile.

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Music: “Loopster” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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I can’t podcast today.

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My favorite spot to sit in my house is a dead man’s recliner.

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I have boomerang kids. Let’s talk about that.

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I’ve been a rideshare driver for five years and I’ve come to see it as a ministry.

When I say that I see it as a ministry I’m not talking about how some people misconstrue Colossians 3:23-24 as a passage about “working for the Lord.”

I mean it in the sense of how Adam in Genesis was placed in The Garden of Eden for the purpose of working and glorifying God through that work.

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A quick, 6-month check-up on how I’m doing with my three words for this year: embrace, cultivate, & simplify.

You can find my electric scooter channel here: Adirondack Electric Scooters

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I decided to stop creating content for a few YouTube channels I’d been maintaining. Listen to hear how much it reduced the noise in my head.

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I’ve been podcasting in one form or another since 2005. When I started podcasting I would sit in my car with either my laptop or a PDA and record my podcast. I had no idea what I was doing or how this new medium would change my life.

Since 2005 I’ve published at least 1,599 episodes. This is the 1600th episode I’ve published (I think). This is a good-faith estimate. There may be more but I’m terrible at keeping track of this kind of stuff.

Here’s a (rough) breakdown of the number of podcast episodes I released each year. Numbers in parentheses are YTD totals.

2005: 2
2006: 50 (52)
2007: 90 (142)
2008: 108 (250)
2009: 50 (300)
2010: 454 (756)
2011: 56 (810)
2012: 40 (850)
2013: 67 (917)
2014: 49 (966)
2015: 66 (1032)
2016: 50 (1082)
2017: 63 (1145)
2018: 104 (1248)
2019: 27 (1275)
2020: 168 (1443)
2021: 75 (1518)
2022: 50 (1568)
2023: 21 (1589)
2024: 10 (1599)

This breaks down to approximately 84 episodes per year. It doesn’t include podcasts where I was a guest or on a panel. No, the number in 2010 is not a typo. I recorded or produced 365 episodes for a daily podcast that year on top of my regular podcasts.

Let’s dig into the numbers!

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I’ve been podcasting for a long time. There’s on podcaster who I consider to my my personal podcast hero: James Kennison. He has persevered through enormous setbacks and managed to create and maintain a successful podcast. You can find his podcasts at nlcast.com.

Note: The prompt used to generate the AI image for this post was “superhero podcasting”.

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I’m creatively burned out and stretched too thin. I’m also frustrated by people making low-effort content. Note: I’m aware of the poor audio quality in this podcast. I’ll do better next time.

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