After 4 weeks and 4 podcast episodes, the Bugle has hit 1000 downloads, which is surprisingly good for a new podcast. The numbers do seem a bit low seeing as we are professional journalists, but still it would seem that podcast has been received with much fan fair.

We primarily use Fountain for the podcasting 2.0 features and have had 37 individuals support us with boosts, equaling close to 200,000 sats in donations or about a carton and a half of cigarettes.

The feedback we have gotten from our listeners is that primarily tune into to listen to our advertisements for our sponsors PODCONF, US Army, the Anti Toxicity League, and others. This may make our podcast the first one that people seem drawn to for ads, instead of the others which people skip the ads.

@rodpalmer and myself started the podcast because we were concerned that:

1. There weren't enough Bitcoin podccasts
2. The PODCONF industrial complex was taking over

We wanted to solve these two issues, and so far it appears like it's working out pretty well. With the bull run beginning, we expect our numbers to shoot up, as well as donations, meaning that all the costs that go into making the podcast (The amount of cigarettes smoked while recording and planning) will likely be covered, allowing the Bugle to expand.

Thank if you have supported us. We will try to find more creative ways to extract satoshis from you going forward.