"lets start a podcast" has become the new "lets start a band"

Y'know what, Gabi? You make a lot of good points. You should make a podcast about stuff.

The chime you play when you swear is actually so damn refreshing. Instead of the obnoxious peep that will give you an irreversible tinnitus when you accidentally have your headphones a smidge louder than whispering volume. More ppl should adopt this. I’ve been watching for a few months now and still appreciate the hell out of it!

1:59 The fact I was literally folding my laundry is terrifying

I think that everyone should be a part of at least 3 podcasts

"The Worst Opinions Known to Man" would be a great title for a podcast

Me and my friends started a podcast in 2007, we had no idea what a podcast was or what the format was, so we just prank called people and recorded, which each podcast being a different character with us creating a narrative around the character. All those podcasts are lost media now and i have no idea why apple removed them at some point, but i can't find them anywhere.

let me fold my laundry in peace

This was a weird way to announce your podcast, but you do you, Gabi

One of the reasons I think people are interested in podcasts is because they might feel isolated. Listening to them does help people feel connected with the host or guest through their conversations, so it makes sense.

Gabi using a green screen explosion and leaving the green screen as it is is the humor I'm here for

Ah so glad to know I’m not alone in the anxious insomniac department out here watching/listening to videos till I just knock out

I’m a mailman and my podcast consumption has increased like 1000% since starting this job. So I don’t want less podcasts, i just want more good pods Edit: feel free to give your pod recommendations!

as an anthropologist, people's desire to connect can be boiled down to self preservation. we want to share things with each other because we want to connect because our brains need us to survive in the wild and we are strongest together

before I had treatment for my sleep disorder I would listen to a podcast called "Sleep With Me" where the dude just rambles about random topics in a soothing voice. It was the best.

I was never that into podcasts until I was shown my personal favourite podcast in the world: Hey Riddle Riddle. It's three professional improvisor friends doing riddles together but it quickly devolves into dumb jokes and insane improv scenes. It's genuinely so so funny and really sweet at times, and you can really feel the friendship the hosts have together. Plus the voice actor for Korra from the Legend of Korra is a guest on it all the time. If you're looking for something to make you laugh until you cry, this is it. If anyone has a recommendation for a similarly funny and chaotic podcast, please let me know

I made a podcast because I struggle writing scripts for certain topics and my lizard brain couldn't just let it go so I made a podcast for just talking about those subjects. It takes about 45mins, I cut out the coughs and extended periods of silence and boom. It's done. Also my skills of talking off the cuff have improved and now my inflections on scripted content has improved as well. Sure it doesn't get the views, but I figured it would fun to do and it does.

As I sit here watching this video, procrastinating on folding my laundry for the 6th day in a row, I feel as if I'm being shamed every time Gabi says "FoLdInG lAuNdRy" 😭

The editing and style of this video is so good!!!! So engaging and has fantastic comedic timing. Hoping to see more 😊

I'm actually a huge fan of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. And to your point, they started as just a fun thing the three guys did for their own fantasy league. They were just having fun, making something just for the other 9 people they played with and it grew into one of the biggest podcasts in the genre. I think it's BECAUSE they do it for the love of the art that it became so successful.

I worry that podcasts are another symptom of the loneliness epidemic.* People getting to pretend for a while that they are casually chatting with some friends; A little respite before returning to the despair of our present existence. *Always sounds so bloody melodramatic to say/type, but then humans do have a tendency to fall apart and ultimately die without social interaction so it is appropriate.

My friends and I made a podcast with the main purpose of being able to go back and listen to the D&D campaign we play together. Yeah it's cool to have listeners but we started it for us. We have fun doing it and can always go back years from now and listen to it again.

THANK GOD I FOUND YOU. i was just starting to get bored on youtube but YOU ARE SO FUNNY THANKS THANKS

The editing, jokes, and presentation was all top notch, my eyes were glued to the screen! Great video gabi!

I am folding laundry watching this and I feel very called out rn

My first exposure to podcasts was in 2009 when I went into the iTunes Store looking for music from Smosh videos and found the podcast tab where I realized I could just download all of my favorite Smosh videos for FREE. I was so excited to be able to watch them anywhere I wanted on my 1.5” screen

3:57 Gabi has some bones to pick with people who don't fold

“If it’s more work and your plate is full, it’s too much work” damn I doubt you meant for that to be deep but it hit home for sure

My favourite podcasts are the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul Insider Podcasts because they're basically free film school. Like, I learned so much from them. And getting to hear cast and crew, even crew who are in more interesting and unique roles than just the usual "writer, director, producer" stuff and it was also extremely entertaining as well as informative. And they just did it because they thought people would be interested no ads or sponsorships in them either. Just so cool. I'm very sad that they're over though (because obviously both shows ended lol)

Honestly....is kind of nice. I remember the early days of Podcasting in the 2000s and thought the format would die off due to KZfaq taking over, but the explosion of them has really got me back into it. Even dug out my old MP3 player. Far nicer than the constant jumping around from one 10 minute video to the next.

you got me clicking that subscribe button, love the vibe

Not me looking guiltily over my shoulder at my laptop (while cleaning my shower) when Gabi calls out not looking at the screen.

Also, on the terms of doing it for money. If comedians and content creators i enjoy can ensure they get a constant stream of income from a podcast, and then have the funding to make the projects they built an audience off of, i think thats pretty cool too.

I'd totally listen to a Gabi podcast.

i just love your editing and humor, it's honestly insane

You got me with the stop folding your laundry. I was 😂😂

Once upon a time, my old D&D group made an effort to record a podcast for the campaign I was DMing. The many many problems we ran into included: 1) this was haphazardly suggested by a couple people who listened to other D&D podcasts and had dreams of grandeur that we could handle producing our own content, despite none of us ever having tackled such a project before; 2) none of us are a paid production crew who can edit down hours of talking into a digestible format, especially me, since I think I accidentally volunteered to handle that aspect myself due to it being my campaign; 3) we were in the middle of the campaign, which was already a kinda bad one at that point because it was my first stab at it after having a looseish concept of how the game should work, and it was gonna be way, way too much work to summarize stuff that had happened up to that point; 4) there were too many people at that table because I was too nice to limit the players to an amount I could handle, thereby making it hard to distinguish who was who and who was doing what. It started with 5 players of varying degrees of game familiarity which would go on to be 6 and then 7; 5) that first recorded session would've been really boring to listen to, save for the parts where I am clearly challenging one of my players for obviously fudging rolls (I'm convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that he did this all the fucking time before and after this callout, and his bullshit character sheet held so many weird surprises that he'd spring at me out of nowhere, but that's way beyond the point). I think it was a small mercy that the audio file completely fucked up somehow, where every few minutes it would skip over itself and whatever was said was lost in said skips. The file was scrapped and the idea was permanently shelved. I think my view on podcasts - especially D&D ones that I never bothered to listen to before or after this - soured greatly because of this. Anyway thank you for coming to my TedTalk on: "Repressed Memories About That Shitty Campaign I Did."

I pay for KZfaq premium specifically so that I can treat all videos like a podcast. Except I usually miss golden clips like this. 4:58

I do listen to your content as if it's a podcast, but I do end up rewinding and re-watching a few times. Each time has new bits of comedy in it because I'm not consuming it all in one go, which is nice :)

Podcasts are really a ton of work! I’ve had once since the beginning of the pandemic, and me and my cohost are still going strong. It’s not for everyone. It’s not as easy as you think. But if you’re passionate about the subject, it can be very rewarding!

As someone who started a podcast (and ran it for a couple years), the biggest impetus came from COVID locking everyone in their homes with nothing to do but talk to each other for the sake of sanity. Also, nowadays it's incredibly easy to get started. Any standalone mic and a computer is enough to start making podcasts. Editing isn't difficult (or even necessary sometimes) if you're doing audio only, and for $18 a month you can put your audio file onto a website that then posts it to every single podcast app and website in existence. It was/is easy to do and an easy way to talk to friends when we couldn't hang out in person much/at all.

I was just thinking this morning “man, I hope Gabi uploads a new video today” and now here you are. Also I am listening to this video while not looking at the screen. So congratulations, you have a podcast.

the amount of content overwhelms me and adds to my anxiety and as you call it epic fomo. make a video on fomo plece

I've been binging these videos since stumbling on your channel, and I just want to say, there's something incredibly comfy about your video style. Big fan 🪭

I just realized the only difference from a podcast and my mom and sister sitting in the living room watching tv and talking about the day is having mic setup between them 😂🎙️😂

Not gonna lie I wanted to start our podcast because me and my Best Friend no longer live near each other and I just thought we were genuinely funny and even though we are tremendously small and almost none sees us I have fun every week talking to him.

I started a podcast once. I found out pretty far in that I'd rather be a producer for one behind the scenes. They're definitely good if you want to get better at interviewing.

i feel like every single person should have a podcast, i will never not love listening to people sharing fun little stories from their lives

I'm going to be a running start student in a month (highschool+college enrollment) and one of my first college classes in my entire life is going to be a podcasting class. like for stories y'know. Very exciting honestly.

I've always been interested in starting a podcast because when I hyperfixate on things I enjoy, it leads me to learning everything about those topics. And I want to share the fun stuff I learn but I also don't want to just annoy my friends, so the idea of me rambling into the void and having strangers go "yeah I want more of this" sounds very validating

just found your video from it auto playing while i was drawing ...... your so good at articulating the story so strongly i don't need to look at your face for more information i mean that in the best way possible.

I liked the clip of the horses. I also liked the way that thinking about narcissism led straight into asking a question on Instagram 😆

I def treat your vids as a podcast sometimes, I like to listen to your funny rants while I’m working 😂

Happy Friday Gabi! Thanks for the entertainment and work you put into all of this. You've been such a light in my life lately.

You always make me laugh but this intro has me cracking up. Love seeing you on your game 😂😂

Love this! So many KZfaq channels are also podcasts and I'm gonna Oregon trail it and say I want them separate in platform listening life. Some content I want to see and hear and some I want to just listen to while driving or vacuuming

nice to see a mainstream youtuber giving good advice on what microphones to buy.

9:35 i love how almost all the hearts have texts like "i'm yours" or "i love you" and then there's one heart with groom on it

1:59 I was actually taking laundry out of the dryer when you said that. Well played~

I started an audio fiction podcast in part because it removes the pressure to add a video element that's present with talk podcasts. Plus, while that space is *crowded* it's not as ridiculously *overcrowded* as the talk podcast space. The low barrier of entry you mentioned for talk podcasts is present there, too; if I wanted to produce my scripts as a film or TV series - even a web series on KZfaq - I'd have to either sell it to a studio or produce it myself, which is stupidly expensive in comparison; you can legit do an audio fiction piece for free (though I don't do it that way), you cannot do that with a self-produced film/tv/web series. (also yes yes yes there are SO MANY good mics out there that there's no reason to overpay for a Yeti my goodness)

I met this guy once and found out through his instagram that about two years before then he had a podcast. It was awful lmao. It's not that he had bad opinions, it's that he obviously never prepared anything, barely edited, and wasn't good at articulating his thoughts. It was incomprehensible. So imagine a lot of new podcasts are like that.

I love podcasts and have an idea for a relatively short historical podcast, why haven't I started it? 1. Self conscious about my voice. I know everyone says that but it's still bad. 2. I don't have someone I'm comfortable with talking to for an hour about an extremely niche topic, or anyone in general. 3. The research. I'm well versed in history but this podcast would require a lot of in depth research and essay writing. 4. Recording and editing.

This is an amazing video but also I am obsessed with this shirt and I must know where you got it!

Podcasts can be amazing educational tools. A friend of mine works in educational research and they have the students create podcasts about a variety of themes. Not only does this make them research and produce, it also develops a sense of authorship in them that many kids from poorer communities lack.

A girl I was best friends with in elementary school just started a podcast… I never thought it would hit so close to home

Gabi's mind will really be blown when she discovers audio dramas. 😏🤭🤯

I remember when podcasts were small. Almost no one had heard of them. It faded into obscurity until 2015.

a friend and I wanted to start a podcast not to gain any fame but to keep up with each other after we just graduated from college. We were both art history majors and loved the discussions we had in class, so we planned some scripts and are probably going to make a podcast! idk just a fun little project to stay connected to each other and topics we might not get to focus on at work :) i do agree its oversaturated but i think it could be a great tool to just chat about your interests if your interests aren't misogynisitic!!

When you said “hey look here stop folding your laundry” I was actually waking around and folding laundry, I feel so called out

the algorithm sent me here! Pleased to meet you but it's all chaos now! Great Gretzky shirt tuck btw!

😂😂 youre so funny. Love your content. New sub

I think for many comedians and KZfaqrs, a big draw is the consistency. When you're at home by yourself and you're in a creative drought, you don't want to make a video because you worry it's not gonna be good. A podcast is something where you just gotta get up in the morning, go to the studio, make some jokes about material that your producer prepared for you ahead of time, and then it gets published no matter how funny you were. It's sustainable.

I really like kurtis Conner’s podcast as well as the voice chat podcast I like listening to them while I draw

I am new subscriber and your humour is so funny 😂 you have an positive energy watching you my all stress is gone ❤

Nailed it, the whole content tree of video to podcast to video to little videos is such a churn.

We need the gabi belle podcast

I remember this being a point on itunes way back in like 2008 or sumtin people were like “too many podcasts ! “ while making the 18th harry potter lore podcast created that month, so imagine how bad it really could be now

Honestly as someone who has been around a lot of song writers lately that was a great comparison. It's interesting with some writers you can tell they just try to do it for the money and most of those people never seem to go far but the people that are actually passionate about the craft still help make great music. One person might have the great voice and the other person might just be great at the writing aspect so overall if its a real passion project between people can be great but money always seems to muddy things up.

Love this! my wife and I started one to talk about horror movies and figured why not record it 😅

I use a Blue Yeti, but I also run my audio through Audition. Seems to be pretty good after that. I think if you know what you're doing in Audition, you can make some of the sh!!tiest vocals sound decent and of course you might need some extra filters bought through Waves. Which is something you might need regardless because they can be useful for non-vocals too. You might not be able to fix everything but you should be able to fix most so long as the audio came from something like those wired earbuds from Apple that had a mic on the line.

I don’t know if it’s just me but recently I have to have something playing in the background of whatever I’m doing. Like if I’m cleaning, FOLDING LAUNDRY, or studying I must have something playing. Whether it’s music, a podcast, or a KZfaq video. Not sure if it’s just because I want entertainment or if I’m starting to get a short attention span

My Blue Yeti mic with a few filter add-ons in OBS is fire! 🔥 I have no clue what you're talking about when you say it's a bad mic lol. Love your channel by the way

this wee KZfaqr is so adorable! love your stuff Gabi

There is this one guy that I follow on Twitter who runs 3 different podcasts about movies. He is very engaging, his co-hosts are different, and the movies he covers are vastly different on each podcast so each podcast does feel like it's own thing but that is a lot of podcasts to run on a weekly basis. It does seem like being a professional podcaster is his passion because the current 3 are not the only podcasts he has ever run in the many many years he has been doing this.

Good day when Gabi posts. :DD

I think we started our podcast because I feel like a lot of people could relate to our kind of conversations and the way our mind works. And editing is just so so much fun and it really has been such a fun experience 🩷🩷

Gabi these vids with green screen give me Clarissa explains it all vibes and i love it sm

I think it's because people realized most people don't always sit down and watch videos, they are just happy to have something they can listen to while going about daily life. Podcasts are much lower effort and easier to put out, most of the time.

new gabi video, guess I have a reason to live again hahahaha

me and a friend once started a podcast and my reason for it was just that i really enjoy talking about something specific or following a theme and i really enjoyed talking to him and sharing opinions for an hour or so

The amount of times I’ve watched your videos while folding laundry 😂 I feel attacked 😅

11:18 I felt that one too :(

Watching your confidence flourish over the years with your videos and comedy is so beautiful to see! ❤️

i love how gabi’s outfits get progressively better and cuter every video

Watching while folding my laundry was funny on a new level 😂

I started a podcast on comic books in 2018 with a friend. Expected to do it for a few months and then give up due to nobody really listening. Today, we still do it every week. Despite averaging a couple hundred listeners each week it’s nice to have a small community that tunes in to us and the podcast has become more of a hobby then anything else. We really enjoy just coming together each week to chat comics for an hour and a half

The first comments on videos are so brain dead😭💀

Hahahah this is art. I love it. I'm gonna start a podcast now with some boring info that I explain in a calming voice to help people fall asleep

It would be really cool if you had a podcast where you read people's deranged dm's they sent you!

If there are intelligent aliens out there, observing us.. they would say one of our biggest issues is narcissism. Want to be careful, have to question myself every day about not being too narcissistic in my ways of thinking.