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b'Today\\u2019s episode is all about new podcast apps + podcast 2.0.\\xa0\\nIt\\u2019s a big topic, and a bleeding edge one for most of us, suffice to say this one episode wouldn\\u2019t do the whole of it justice. However, if there\\u2019s one thing I leave you with, it\\u2019s that you\\u2019re encouraged, as podcast creators, to go out and explore.\\xa0 If you\\u2019ve been hearing more and more about this from other shows you listen to but are still left scratching your head, well, allow me to illustrate it for you.\\xa0\\nTo do that, lets start with a quote from friend of the show Evo Terra:\\n\\n\\u201cApple Podcasts has been fumbling the ball since April of 2021. Treat their non-stop stumbling as a gift. Anchor/Spotify is now making RSS feeds optional for all new podcasters that join their platform. Again, take that as a gift.\\nThey\\u2019re distracted. They\\u2019re doing their own things which may not align with the larger podcasting ecosystem. It\\u2019s up to you, to me, and to and the companies we pay to host our podcasting content to take advantage of these gifts and push podcasting to the next level. Podcasting 2.0, even.\\nAs I\\u2019ve said for years on this program, please spread this idea with other podcasters and get them as excited about the future as you are. \\u201c\\n\\nThe podcast industry\\u2019s perfect storm\\n\\u201cTreat their (Apple\\u2019s) non-stop stumbling as a gift.\\u201d That\\u2019s a thing I\\u2019ve been thinking about a lot lately.\\xa0\\nLet\\u2019s face it, Apple\\u2019s backing of podcasting in the early days helped make podcasting more mainstream. Lots of us wouldn\\u2019t have jobs if _Steve Jobs_ didn\\u2019t take the stage showcasing the pod fathers first show.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nWatch Steve Jobs demo podcasting in iTunes for the first time\\n\\n\\xa0But the Trillion dollar brand has meandered along the last decade barely giving us a working portal to submit our shows, let alone advance the industry. A feeling which has compounded during their updates to the platform earlier in the year where podcasters were left scratching their heads:\\xa0\\n\\u201cWhere is my show?\\u201d\\xa0\\n\\u201cWhy are my episodes disappearing?\\u201d\\xa0\\n\\u201cWhy can\\u2019t I submit a new podcast?\\u201d\\xa0\\nQuestions which still don\\u2019t have answers.\\xa0\\nI know this because I see our support desk at Castos, and Apple\\u2019s lack of effort with transparency costs us time, money, and in some c'