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Inspired by Wes Fryer's experiment with Jumpcut, I took the time to export my Changing Standards presentation that I shared last week with staff (newbies to Read/Write Web tools) to images uploaded to Flickr (using Flickr Uploadr), then import them into JumpCut. You never saw so much frantic writing...all of the ideas and content were brand new to them. After that, as my son played his game in the background--sound muted--I quickly recorded audio to go with the presentation. Now, this is late at night after a long day's work, after a wonderful dinner, and before going out to the library. Ok, enough disclaimers (well, except for my apologies for picking on Doug Blue Skunk Johnson in the middle of the audio evil smile ). The audio is what it is grin and my apologies if I didn't get it just right. Aside: As I listen (38 minutes!) to this presentation during synching, I realize this presentation is flawed. That's probably because i did throw it together, adapting it from a previous presentation on TEA's Technology Immersion grant project. It's not really about changing standards but the six components of Tech Immersion. Nevertheless, it was worth the time to play and experiment. I offer it here as a flawed work (of course, aren't they all?). My goal was to record audio and match that to the slides. I was destined to be disappointed since that level of fine-grained control isn't evident in Jumpcut. However, it was fun to experiment with a new technology. It was at that point I remembered a comment Steve Dembo (Teach42.com) had left, referring me to MyPlick.com. I went over, and uploaded my presentation (PPT or PDF) and my audio (MP3), created my free account, and started syncing it all. Here's what that looks like: Image Caption: Picture at the beginning of the audio syncing process Image Caption: Syncing audio and slides, 3 slides in. Listen to your audio as you click the UP arrow button to move slides up. Wow, what an easy tool. I may abandon slideshare.net for posting if it's this easy to add the audio. The only issue is sitting through the painful audio recording (unedited, BTW) after recording it. Wait, one more problem. While working in MyPlick.com at the end, the buttons started to stick or not click when I clicked on them. not sure what caused that. I finally had to close the window once I managed to SAVE and PUBLISH. Here's what it looks and sounds like...be gentle in the comments smile : Changing National Standards Tags: mguhlin

Move over, TeacherTube and YouTube! Now, Edublogs.TV is here! It's brand new, boasting a whopping 27 members as of 11:38 PM on Wednesday night... You can... Unfortunately, there's a limit of 20 megs for a video sigh . However, all of my videos--that I use for keynotes--are less than 20 megs. I decided to upload my TILT 2008 animoto video... You can see it here. For fun, I also uploaded audio of the proceedings for TILT Reception without problem! Great! I guess what I couldn't find were the answers to a few questions: How many video/audio files can be stored in an account? How much space? I'm looking for a replacement for Podomatic.com, on which I'm about to reach the 500 meg limit for my podcasts. Does James Farmer really want to share about how drunk he is online? smile Of course, he goes on to explain it away as being drunk on knowledge, and it's worth listening to. Pretty awesome to be able to post audio, too! I remember the TeacherTube folks talked about it but...I haven't been back much. When will Creative Commons integration--great question Derekeb tweeted--be added to this? Can we change My Music to My Podcasts? Could you make the description box a bit bigger? It would be nice to paste in URLs to the text that goes with it. Is it possible to embed images in the podcast description? How about adding recently uploaded audio/podcasts to the front page, in addition to the list of videos there? Well, what are you waiting for? Go get an account! This is awesome! Great Job, James Farmer and crew!

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Occasionally I like to share some useful knowledge I believe I have on how to use the internet in a way that allows you to get information and some degree of satisfication. This vlog entry is about the social networking site facebook; specifically - how to cut right through the crap, once and for all, and make use of the very handy and sometimes rewarding tools the system has (buried) for you. Download Podcast Video

At the recent TEC-SIG 2008 Spring meeting, Sandra Hines (Burleson ISD's Director of Instructional Technology) shared a personal organization (work-related) tip over lunch that caught my attention. Listen to this short audiocast I recorded with Sandra. Listen to a Chat with Sandra Hines Relevant Links: Jott.com Remember the Milk iGoogle.com

Anyone have suggestions on how to respond to this question? It comes from one of my colleagues in Texas. I welcome all brainstorming ideas... We are ready to implement a student portal (with teacher and parent portals to follow) for our 1:1 campuses. We would like for this portal to be a web-based, searchable, pretty container for all of the learning materials that we've purchased and/or created for students, including audio books, legal MP3 music files, clip art, videos and animations, documents, presentations, and such. We have all of these now on a shared server on our Windows network and the students can access them fine. However, it is not easily searchable and does not provide a way to include a description of each resource, along with other pertinent information (thumbnail sketch, Lexile reading level, etc.). We have looked at several document management solutions, but I don't really feel like they are as broad as what we would like to use. We've also looked at Microsoft SharePoint, but are frightened by how expensive it is on both a one-time and a recurring basis. We have a Moodle server already, but this doesn't seem to really fit well there as we are not interested in running classes right now. Since some of these materials are purchased and so have user limits, we would also need for this system to use Active Directory to authenticate our users. What are you using to run your student learning portals? How is it working? How much did you have to spend up front? How much maintenance is required? What advice can you give me as I start down this road? Some thoughts come to mind... 1) Listen to Chris K's podcast. Chris is in Dearborn Schools in Michigan. He combines a series of tools--such as Joomla, Moodle, Mahara, and others--to build a portal for students, parents, and staff. Find links to all the tools here in the podcast show notes. 2) Ok, that's all. What are your ideas?

Downloaded from YouTube Someone recently asked me, You know how singers publish their songs as music videos on YouTube? Yes, I replied...since I'm a complete ignoramus when it comes to music, singers, etc., I asked, Why? How do you get the music without the video? Make it into an MP3 sound file? YouTube, TeacherTube and just about everything else puts out video in FLV format. You know this when you use a utility like Keepvid.com or the Firefox Add-on, UnPlug, to save the file to your desktop. While I'm not sure of the legalities, there are several ways I'm aware of to do this. One is to use VLC Media Player to extract the audio--and VLC Media Player will work on your GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac computer(s). The only problem I've noticed is that it doesn't convert straight to MP3, but you can save as OGG, an open source sound format. I prefer OGG for all my music/audio formats, but OGG won't play in an iPod (although you can get other portable digital audio players that do support OGG natively). So, this isn't the best solution to get straight to MP3. The second is to use ZamZar.com, which allows you to either upload an FLV or point to YouTube web address/URL. This is a pretty easy process to follow, and kudos to ZamZar.com for their hard work to make a simple interface that allows so many different conversions. The third is FLV Extract, a Windows only solution that requires .NET framework. You can download it online (screenshot below). The FLV Extract file is compressed in ZIP format, so you'll have to right-click and extract files on Windows to get access to it easily. Also, be sure to get the .NET framework for x86...you can see that in the screenshot below under the IMPORTANT note. Right-click the image below and choose view image to view it full-size. When you run/execute the program, you'll see the following: Just remove the checkmarks from everything except AUDIO. Then, drag your FLV file onto the words Drop FLV files here. Pretty easy process, and it creates an MP3 file you can use anywhere. Are you a Mac user wishing for an easy solution? Hmm...maybe another blog post. In the meantime, check out... Hanmatsu's Guide

I just downloaded the new video introduction to Twitter from the CommonCraft.com folks! Be sure to check it out online! I enjoy the way Lee has described Twitter as a way to share experiences that take place between blog posts. It's appreciated that Lee has posted these on.... TeacherTube YouTube

Over the last month, I've been a bit frustrated trying to find an SWF to anything else converter. Converting from SWF has been such a pain--since programs like Jing generate SWFs (you know, why couldn't they generate FLVs instead?!?) and when you download videos, they sometimes appear as SWFs rather than FLVs. I'm sure these roadblocks are intentional, designed to get my blood pressure up. Finally, someone suggested the use of the SWF AVI converter. Drag avi window. Then select for each file the conversion profile. You can use default profile or create a new one. You can change output file name if necessary. Unfortunately, swf avi does not convert audio in the current version. Gee, why bother downloading, then? No audio? Isn't that like, critical? Sigh. Any other suggestions?

One of the fun things about TechForum TX 2007 was that there were so many bloggers and podcasters in the audience. It was amazing to look around and see folks twittering, live blogging and podcasting sessions. After my quick chat with Kay, Daryl Ann and Scott, I noticed two ladies sitting on the floor chatting and typing at the same time. So, being curious, I walked over to say Hello! and ask what they were up to. As you can see from the photos embedded in this blog entry, the TechChicks--Anna and Helen--didn't hesitate in grabbing the Olympus WS-100 digital audio recorder and podcasting themselves. This un-edited, impromptu podcast is the result. It's very short, but I hope you'll take a moment to visit the TechChicksTip.net web site to read their notes on the TechForum TX 2007, and, like me, eagerly await the podcast that is sure to be posted soon. In the meantime, I'm grateful to have met these podcasting educators and for the tips they're sharing online. Listen to the TechChicks (604K)

This week Chris and Keith discuss two cool software utilities, Geek Movies, Tech Tips, eBooks, general Geek Speak, and more softwareâ Get the complete show notes at: http://www.DGPodcast.com

This week Greg and I discuss cleaning up a slow computer, rebuilding a TechTV channel, a Wiki for Windows, a Mac OS X User Interface for Windows XP, and much much much more... Call for help is:forsale - Google Video Vista Mistake Free PDF Converter - create high-quality PDF from any printable file type Chris Kite software downloads at SnapFiles.com ProjectForum - Windows Wiki I'M Instant Media - The Leader in Internet TV http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci1206783,00.html?Offer=SUNwit82 (Wininternals Purchase follow up) Download details: Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth

Miguel, asked a university professor responsible for maintaining confidentiality of electronic research records, how do you encrypt your data? Now, using encryption tools to protect research data is an application I had not considered for Windows Privacy Tools. Windows Privacy Tools (WinPT for short) is a free alternative to the commercial Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). You can read an article I wrote about maintaining digital privacy (or listen to this podcast). I like this nice introductory article by Andrew Kantor on the subject. Of course, my interest is not in using commercial tools, but rather, free and open source software to accomplish the same ends. I've been meaning to write up a short tutorial for WinPT for some time, so, here's the bare bones article. I'll be adding detail over time, and welcome your feedback. BENEFITS OF WINDOWS PRIVACY TOOLSThe main benefit of WinPrivacy Tools--aside from the fact that it is free--is that once setup, it is incredibly easy to use to encrypt/decrypt files. Aside from being able to encrypt zip files--or any other file you have, whether zipped or not--is that you can also encrypt the contents of your clipboard. This is helpful when sending confidential information via email to others. Windows Privacy Tools comes with a built-in WIPE tool, the equivalent of a digital paper shredder. This allows you to securely wipe files beyond recovery. If you do not wipe these files using programs like WinPT, others can use Free Undelete tools or PC Inspector File Recovery to resurrect your deleted data. ABOUT THIS TUTORIALThis 5 step tutorial introduces you to encrypting and decrypting a file. You can encrypt ANY file on your computer from text to Office documents to zipped files and executable (EXE) files and more. It also shows you how to encrypt the contents of your clipboard. This is fun for a variety of reasons, which I'll mention further down. Also, other upcoming topics will be added. Step 1: Obtaining and Installing Windows Privacy Tools a) You can download Windows Privacy Tools online at http://www.equipmente.de/gnupt-int.exe b) Save the program to your Desktop so you can easily find the installation file. Note that you can discard the downloaded installation program AFTER successfully installing the program. c) Create a new folder entitled Keys where you will be storing your private and public keys. These keys are important because they allow you to encrypt and decrypt files and content sent to you. You could put it on your desktop, or a USB flash drive (e.g. Pen Drive). Since you'll use these every day, you'll want to make sure that they'll be some place handy but not in the way. I keep my Keys folder on my Data partition, as well as make back-up copies to a my USB flash drive and external drive. It is important that you NOT lose these keys once you've created them. d) Double-click the installer file and you will see the following screen...click YES You'll go through a series of screens that you'll either have to click NEXT on or choose I accept the user agreement. This is pretty standard. You'll need to consider the next screen carefully, however. At this time, you probably don't have any keyrings...although if you did, this is the time you'd point to your folder with keyrings. In this case, you'd probably want to point to that Keys folder you created earlier. After selecting the Keys folder, you'll see this window: Leave the options on this screen as is--without GPG Relay turned on. Click NEXT to pass this screen and then NEXT again (which will move you past the Program Group setting) to this screen: Note that in this window, you can decide if you want to start WinPT when you start Windows. While you can choose to start WinPT manually, I encourage you to choose it to start up when you start Windows. This will allow you to always have it working when you need it, rather than trying to run it for special occasions...which may mean you don't end up using it. When you click NEXT, you'll be notified that everything is ready to go for installation and installation will begin. Let's go ahead and click FINISH and start WinPT. When you do this, you'll see a grey key that will appear in your Task Manager (usually in the bottom right hand corner of your screen). Here's what it should look like (I have a few extra icons such as Zone Alarm, Skype, ClamWin AntiVirus, Windows Update, Scotty the watchdog from top left down to top right): Note the grey key icon represents Windows Privacy Tools. Step 2: Setting Up Your Public and Private Keys a) First, right-click on the WinPT icon that appears in your bottom right hand corner (view picture above). To get started, we'll need to create a set of keys--public and private ones. I'm going to refer to Andrew Kantor's article for a quick explanation of the purpose of the keys; I've made a few modifications and if readability suffers, it's MY fault, not Andrew's. I've put my edits in brackets [ ]. Here's the explanation: When you use...[WinPT], the first thing you do is create two keys: a private or secret key you use to encrypt and decrypt things for your own use, and a mathematically related public key you share with the world that people can use to encrypt messages to you. Together they're known as your key pair. To encrypt files on your computer that is, things you aren't sending to others you only need your private key and the passphrase you create for it; passwords are too short to be safe. But if you want to exchange messages with others, you need to share your public key with them. Some people, myself included, put their public keys on their Web sites...After you install...[WinPT], to secure a file on your hard drive you simply tell the software encrypt this file (the methods are different for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh machines; with Windows you can simply right-click and select...WinPT, then Encrypt. It's that easy. You can also choose to wipe the original file, which is a good idea.)To send a message to anyone else, you first need their public key. Have your friends send them to you they're not secret. They'll be in the form of simple text files, which you tell PGP or GnuPG to import; that's known as adding them to your keyring. Once added, you can encrypt a message so only the recipient can open it. In this tutorial, we'll only be worried about encrypting files (such as Excel spreadsheets or any kind of document or file on your computer. You aren't limited by the file type when encrypting. In fact, if you have a whole folder to encrypt, I would recommend you zip the folder, then encrypt the zipped file to keep it simple). b) Since you now have a general understanding of what private/public keys are, let's move forward to creating some you can use. Right click on WinPT icon in your task manager, then choose Key Manager. c) Once you're in the Key Manager, all you need to do is click on KEY, choose NEW, then EXPERT (you'll finish faster). Here are the values you might want to choose, however, the main difference will be that your keys should be set to NEVER expire: Click START after changing the Expiration to NEVER. You'll be asked if you really want to use such a large key. The purpose is to have strong encryption, and this may be over-kill, but hey, why not (comments invited!)? Once you START, you'll be asked to enter a PassPhrase. For your passphrase, I recommend typing in a sentence that you will remember. For goodness sake, make sure it's something you WILL remember. Lots of folks forget their passphrases and then are stuck because they have lost access to their files. For fun, I typed in protectyourdigitalprivacy! without quotes. Once this is done, you'll be asked to retype your passphrase. On clicking OK, you'll be given a blank key generation progress dialog: You can pretty much move your mouse around, do other stuff on your computer, and you'll eventually get a GnuPG Status window. You'll be asked if you want to backup your keyrings. Go ahead and say NO. You can always make a backup copy of the Keys folder later. This will return you to the KEY MANAGER, which will look like this: (right-click and VIEW IMAGE to see large size) Step 3: Encrypting a File with WinPT a) To begin encrypting a file, go to your grey key ( ) and right-click, then choose FILE MANAGER. b) I've decided to encrypt a war-time photo of my father. Click-n-drag the file into the FILE MANAGER window. Right-click on the file in the FILE MANAGER window, then click ENCRYPT. c) Click on the people you would like to encrypt this file to. If this file is only going to be for you, then just click your own name, as shown in the example. By the way, I've smudged the other people in my list of keys to protect their privacy. Note that there is a checkmark next to the account I made for myself. Also note that I have selected text output and to wipe the original file. This is your choice, but I recommend both since you can easily send encrypted text files over the Internet (without fear of being detected as spam or a virus). Wiping the original file securely removes the file from your hard drive so that it can't be recovered. c) Once the process is complete--which can take some time, so don't be surprised if nothing appears to happen--you'll revert back to File Manager and should see something like the following: Note that the file to the left of the File MANAGER is encrypted file...and that the original file is nowhere to be found. If we were to look at the file, it would look like this but a lot longer (I'm only showing an excerpt): -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32)Comment: GnuPT 2.7.6 hQIMAybQ07spln0SAQ/+MBpeTwwqcQIentc2pKTUaUxgoxgjL8UpQhqHVZxHRXC6 t1yqB+JwXdy72WjEviypDEV772b5cr1gGkJf9zDb0wdvi9h8PqBSEsaYwfu5uMJO Step 4: Decrypting a File with WinPT Once you have encrypted a file, you can do whatever you want with it. To decrypt it, you can do so in two ways: a) Double-click on an encrypted file and you'll see this screen: and the file will be decrypted and appear in the same place. b) Another approach is to use WinPT's FILE MANAGER. You can drag the encrypted file into the FILE MANAGER, right-click on it, and choose decrypt...you'll see a screen like the one shown above. Step 5: Encrypting Email One of the things I like doing is encrypting software serial #s. Over time, as Chief Technologist for my household working for my 6 year old son, a champion gamer, I've made a sizeable investment in a variety of games. I always worried about saving these serial #s online--say in my web-based email account--because others might hack my email and get access to the serial #s. However, I decided to type up all the numbers in a text document (using Notepad on Windows), and selected ALL the text and copied it to the clipboard. Then, I told WinPT to CLIPBOARD - ENCRYPT option. Once the clipboard is encrypted, I paste the contents into an email. Here's how I did it: 1) Type something up. For example, I'm going to encrypt this sentence: Hardware without software is just junk, but software without teaching is just noise. I've highlighted and copied this info into my clipboard. Now, I'm going to choose WinPT in my Task Manager ( ), choose CLIPBOARD then ENCRYPT (as shown above). I'm pasting the encrypted clipboard content below: -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) - WinPT 0.11.12 Comment: GnuPT 2.7.6 hQIMAybQ07spln0SARAAuinkg6OfSWt5Yrj1K0FlVcTCAyvFXSNqRcSM4zekNgbD skJ263v7mgHoTbgnyZmIKMucoWAU+ljp0PwO7tglrUyf11SCtLFdrbvIw42MPMvI H0FeECEsTzwOtnn0xkPHxvuzSJCq5wP7TQkbkMeS2A3vRKk5hFmob2cmiCz/zi5K swHMHybIytql5egmpaWNgpQaRL3jyu2YyiOPbb/FxVvBBMLA3J+zdNKm6kRdANPQ ASEZo6+BL0y+chyA/PGUQu4NFy10OrjSrnLmjF3BBmLZRtsjNm9oGZRZlyJKfXE2 9kjQj+3D0AqBRhV5cVwPa9Xvx/GPktb6kr4k7O9IKA17CZlZRKkrGCR35vkuB7PN jswp8jZ/Kes55Z8ImPiT/k5B1hyXYjF9HghdWEde6q+jZBMZ5TxzU/KsDRunNLrB AtADuJ+50PY1iYjHYrEZxIjHuASOw419lj4tQui5khwqqVvBbkEl3ruScWadipSq iTf8j+XvkFbpDm/wWoiGB91qSB4hO9TuohXiRsAXaYJdmfyZIXG3Pxx26d0rRSP1 LEutENyXpSoiVIF/v46/WlzQ7ZiPUUPsAmwuFRf3O2Cpk8r5Rty5+mpznYDdBo6V BLvXiRLv5wyN7aAninaTsmNEmYk+6nGNScc8owwdhn8L7Mh/bUeoa3hJh8k8uRDS cwFGvKU6/2XUkwhCxpq9SFq7evzYh0quV7546aXqGUTLt6o9gKesyuMlU5OJUi4T NCUX4XG/hstgNWKeps2wUtv6U4Xgf8O2xhQXm8Zbf/G7+OixVr4hFNwCSUBJtUgR kEsM7JoEqca/ohSQcMNW7dZk8rU= =L7O/ -----END PGP MESSAGE----- 2) I simply paste this encrypted content into the body of an email, then send it on to myself, as well as anyone else I may have encrypted it to. Since this was just for me, I'm the only who can decrypt the file. To do so, I copy the text above, then choose CLIPBOARD - DECRYPT/VERIFY. It looks like this: And, this is what I get back: Hardware without software is just junk, but software without teaching is just noise. What's neat is that this happens quickly and your data is secure, even in transit. I That's pretty much all there is to email privacy or encrypting critical information that can be copied into other places. 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The following will be published for TechLearning.com's TechTips column. Subscribe now or scroll down to subscribe via iTunes. Subscribe to the RSS feed for the TechTips Podcasts. If you have ever reformatted a computer, reloaded it with software by loading the programs one by one, you know it can be a time-consuming process. As a matter of fact, I recall spending many an hour loading software with a book in hand (pleasure reading, not a manual!) just clicking NEXT at the appropriate moments. Of course, this was before I knew about creating an image of your hard drive. Now, with an image, the process can take as little as 20 minutes (unattended by me) to be up and going. This is a time-saver for me. An image of your hard drive is essentially a digital copy of everything on the hard drive. This is important to have because the more we use a computer, the worse the registry on the computer can get. Most folks don't have software programs like Raxco's PerfectDisk ($40) to defragment the hard drive or Macecraft's RegistrySupreme ($12 but works for 30 days just fine in case you don't want to buy it or just want to try before you buy) to clean up the computer's registry. I would recommend using both these programs PRIOR to creating a backup image, after installing everything you want on your hard drive. Without these programs to clean up your hard drive prior to backup, you can have problems develop as programs are installed, removed (sometimes improperly), eventually degrading the speed of your system. Sometimes, the problem is not just the standard slowness of a system that results from installing/uninstalling programs. Problems may develop after a spyware/malware or virus infestation, causing problems that even reinstalling your operating system can't fix. When you reach that sad state of affairs, and you've tried reinstalling your operating system to no avail, you have 2 options: 1) Reformat your computer, and reload all software. Yuck! 2) Using a previously saved image of the hard drive, re-image your computer. This podcast explores how you can accomplish option #2. Listen to Podcast Show Notes: Part 1 of Backing Up Your Hard Drive with PartImage Part 2 of Backing Up Your Hard Drive with PartImage More about Partition Image Download a copy of the System Rescue CD Download a copy of BurnCDCC (Windows users) to create a CD of the ISO file Get the evaluation copy of Macecraft's RegistrySupreme (you don't need the Pro version) Consider buying Raxco's PerfectDisk for $40 or try the 30 day evaluation. Darik's Boot-n-Nuke Brief Guide to Getting Started with UbuntuLinux Buy a large capacity USB External Hard Drive ( Maxtor 300gig for $129 | Seagate 160gig Drive $89.99 | Fantom 120gig for $85 | Cavalry 160gig for $85.99) Steps to mount your USB external drive and start PartImage: Steps to follow: Boot up off your System Rescue CD. To accomplish this, you may have to press a function key. In my example, on a Dell Computer, I pressed F12 at startup, then selected boot from CD/DVD. Press ENTER until you get to the command line. Lots of stuff will flash across your screen, but you can pass this up until you see the command line. Plug your USB external drive into a USB port of your computer. Note that this hard drive should be FAT32 formatted already. If not, you may need to format it on your Windows computer. Most external drives come formatted already as FAT32 (a.k.a. vfat ) Turn on your USB external drive if it's not already on. When the computer detects the USB external hard drive, it may flash some information on the screen. Just press ENTER to get past it and back to the command line. Type in the following: root: % cd /mntroot:/mnt% mkdir usbroot:/mnt% mount -a -t vfat /dev/uba1 /mnt/usbroot:/mnt% cd usbroot:/mnt/usb% partimage What the commands have done above is to run a program. From this point, you should be able to follow the instructions shared in the podcast.