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Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates

July 25, 2025 – What If I Just Talked To You?

Time for another episode of my occasional podcast, Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates!  This episode, another car-cast, was recorded directly into my Pixel 9A phone, and… I’m on-camera! Don’t worry; I wasn’t driving and filming.

These episodes, just like episodes of my previous podcast, Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, have been uploaded to YouTube all along, but all audio-only. Why get on camera now? Doesn’t that run counter to my goal of turning on a mic, talking, and taking the path of least resistance toward getting it out to you?

It doesn’t have to.

I talk about it in the episode.

I also touch on my professional and creative burn-out, and hint that I’ve begun to take steps to gradually and — this is important — intentionally pull myself out of it. The details of those steps will be in future episodes. My hope is that what I’m figuring out will help you, too.

Episode Naming

I’ve had second thoughts about how to name each episode. When you’ve only released three episodes in five months, there’s room to play around.

As you’ve heard (or maybe saw) this episode, I’m maybe-probably making the YouTube edition of this podcast on-camera. Which means treating it in a way that’s YouTube-friendly. Which means assigning a more meaningful title than simply the date.

So! The new naming convention will be the date, a dash, and something pithy to describe the episode. The file name will be mwsc_###_###.mp3, with the first three digits being the episode number and the second three digits being the in-total number representing all of the podcasts I’ve recorded and released.  And the URL slug will be similar, but with dashes instead of underscores.

I’m putting this down here for the real sticklers, and so I have a place to check in case I don’t remember when next episode rolls around.

This episode was recorded on July 25, 2025.

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Thanks to the Patron Members of the Multiversalists Community

Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin.

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Podcast Production and Hosting

Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates is usually recorded using an Aurycle a460 large diaphragm studio condenser microphone through a Behringer U-Phoria UMC202HD (audio interface for directly connecting microphones and musical instruments to a computer). Outdoor / remote episodes are often recorded using my  omnidirectional condenser lavalier mic. The show is edited and produced in Cakewalk by Bandlab or Audacity. The episode files are hosted and delivered by Amazon Lightsail; the website is hosted by Dreamhost.

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