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podcasting.
The MacRumors Show
The MacRumors Show is MacRumors' weekly podcast, hosted by Hartley Charlton and Dan Barbera. It has run past its two-hundredth episode and charts in the top 50 of the technology category in the United States, Canada, and across Europe.
Each episode works through the week's most consequential Apple story and asks what it means for the product, for the company's direction, and for the people who buy into the ecosystem.
Hartley co-hosts and co-produces the show. That covers scripting episodes, writing the show notes, and directing the recording itself, from running order through to how a conversation is steered once it is underway.
The show runs simultaneously as audio and as video, which means production decisions have to serve both without compromising either.
The show is regularly joined by leading figures from the press, the industry, and YouTube. Guests have included John Gruber, Mark Gurman, iJustine, Rene Ritchie, Federico Viticci, Mike Bell, Arnold Kim, Jon Prosser, Ross Young, Luke Miani, Quinn Nelson, Brian Tong, Sara Dietschy, Thomas Frank, Jonathan Morrison, Jon Rettinger, Andru Edwards, Matthew Cassinelli, Christopher Lawley, Tyler Stalman, Ben Sullins, Marcus Kane, Ian Zelbo, David Lewis, Frank McShan, Sam Kohl, Eli Hodapp, Jared Nelson, Kevin Nether, Kayci Lacob.
Recorded on site at Apple Park in Cupertino during WWDC, broadcasting from the industry's most closely watched event as it happened.
Also recorded in person in Orlando on numerous occasions and once in Las Vegas. Recording on location is a different proposition from a controlled studio: the room is whatever is available, the schedule belongs to somebody else, and the episode still has to sound like the show.
Other podcast appearances
Guest on independent technology podcasts across the space, including SmartTechCheck, Minus Sixteen, and A+ Report, among others. The brief is much the same as at MacRumors: take the week's most contested Apple story and work out what is actually known, what is inferred, and what is simply repetition.
Voice-over
Voice-over for YouTubers and companies alike, in a distinctive deep English delivery that listeners regularly comment on. The work spans narration, brand reads, and scripted segments.
Reading someone else's script is a different discipline from hosting your own. The job is to sound like the person who wrote it meant every word, which usually means resisting the urge to improve the line.
Production consultancy
Production consultant to independent media on the audio side, drawing on a weekly show that has run for more than two hundred episodes across four years.
The advice covers format and running order, recording setup and room treatment, and the editorial questions that sit underneath both: what a show is actually for, who it is talking to, and which segment can be cut when an episode overruns.
It also covers the part nobody asks about until it is a problem. Most podcasts do not fail because an episode was bad. They fail because the twelfth week arrives and nothing is ready, so the work is as much about building a repeatable production rhythm as it is about the sound of any single recording.
Guest booking is part of it too. Securing figures from the press, the industry, and YouTube depends less on reach than on being a show that guests find worth their time, and on the preparation that makes an hour of someone else's schedule productive.