Editing The Pen Addict 176/transcript (section)

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'''Myke Hurley:''' From RelayFM, this is The Pen Addict, episode 176. Today's show is brought to you by Squarespace, build it beautiful, Pen Chalet, great deals on high quality pens of a 100% satisfaction guarantee, and Harry's, an exceptional shave at a fraction of the price. My name is Myke Hurley and I'm joined as always by Mr. Brad Dowdy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Hey, what's up hard-working iMike? How are you?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm good, how are you?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Good, you're a hard-working man. Oh yeah? Yeah, yeah, man, you're just, you're like recording podcasts, and now all of a sudden you're like delivering apps, like on the App Store, like there's this whole RelayFM app, and there's new shows coming out. You are going to town, sir. Can't stop, won't stop. Yeah, so tell us about this RelayFM app. I've got to get you up front on this, because I knew it was coming. I wasn't even a beta tester, thanks for nothing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All you needed to do was look out for the app channel on the Slack where we put the beta like weeks ago. Just saying.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm an overcast beta tester, but you know, RelayFM, yeah, I wasn't paying that much attention. But it looks sweet. So how did this, I knew it was coming down the pipe, so tell us all about it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So this is a collaboration with our friends over at TapJets. They're a company previously under the name of Glide, and they have built this incredible system that allows people to build apps mainly with Dropbox files. So the majority of stuff that you see in our app is actually built with text files in a Dropbox folder. It's kind of magic, the way that it works. Which is why, like, so if you have had the app downloaded, and I'll get in a moment talking a little bit more about what the app is for, but you will have noticed today that we've added a new page in the app called Shows, where you see a list of all the shows, and you can easily go in and turn your notifications on and off, and it also has a schedule in there, which tells you when the next episode is streaming live of a specific show. So that's all in there, which is really good, actually. We don't even have data that good on our website currently. It's just all in one time zone. So this is much, much better, because it localizes to your time zone. So this Tapjet system is really, really cool, and it's very, very interesting, and we've been working with these guys on this app for a little while now. We actually previewed the, we kind of announced that we were making an app at the Atlanta Pen Show. So when we were at the Pen Show was when we announced that we were working with Tapjet on this. But it's taken us some time to get it exactly the way that we want it to be, and that's kind of what it is now. So the RelayFM app is not intended to replace the app that you listen to the podcast in. It's not intended to replace the podcast app, or Overcast, or Pocketcast, or however it is that you listen to the Pen Addict. I would like you to remain doing that, and we've taken great lengths to try and make it easy for people to subscribe to shows that they find in the RelayFM app in their podcast app of choice. What the RelayFM app is for is kind of twofold at the moment. It is for live listening. So we record this show live every Monday usually, although we're recording Tuesday this week. And you can go onto the RelayFM app. You can select to be notified about the Pen Addict, and you'll get a push notification when me and Brad go live, and then you can open the app and start listening. So that's what it's primarily for. And then also we have some other stuff in there, like you can kind of taste the shows. You know, they're all in there, right? All of our most recent episodes are in there. All of our list of shows are in there. So you can go in and you can stream only. We don't have any downloading. You can just stream some shows, you know, that maybe you haven't listened to before, just to see if there's anything that you want to find out about or want to check about. And then we're going to, over time, kind of add more information into it. So we have a support section, which has links to like the RelayFM store. And over time, like what we're hoping is that our app becomes like another place that you can find what's new and what's kind of going on with RelayFM. And then we have some features that we're going to be implementing, hopefully in the not too distant future. Like one of the most important ones for us is the chat room. We want to be able to put the chat room in the app. Because currently, yeah, if you want to access the chat room, you still either have to go to our website or use an app that's dedicated for IRC chat. But we're looking into how, we were hoping we could launch with this, but it turns out that this is actually quite a difficult problem to solve, to integrate with the IRC room. So we're still looking at ways to do that, but that is going to be in a future update will be the chat room. So at the moment, you can still listen live, but the chat room is a lot of fun. And we would love it if you would still kind of join the chat room, maybe download an app for that if you're on your iOS device or access the RelayFM website when we stream live. But that's kind of a future thing. But it is mainly about live streaming. And I wanted to kind of go in detail with it. We won't talk about it this much in future episodes, obviously. But I just want to make sure that everybody that listens to the show knows that it's there. Because I know that we talk about the live thing. I know people ask us about how they can stream live and stuff like that. And this is actually, this is the best way to listen to our shows live now. It's much, much better. It's a much, much nicer experience than listening on the website. If you're on an iOS device, it's far, far better.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, the notifications in itself are huge. Yeah, exactly. Because, you know, that's, I mean, we're not always exactly on time. And, you know, it's nice to be able to get that notification, you know, when you're waiting there, you know, 10 or 15 minutes, you know, if we're running a little bit behind. And then, boom, here comes the notification. You know we're good to go. And I love that. So, yeah, I've enjoyed playing around with it. It looks just awesome. And good job by you guys.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Thank you, buddy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Go team.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Go team. All right, what else do we have here today? We've got an action-packed show.