BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO “PODCASTS”
& HOW TO SUBSCRIBE


The Self-Defense Show Podcast - Hosted by Professor Charles Hepburn II and his wife Christie. This is a podcast about personal protection, safety, violence survival, counter-crime measures, security, and self-defense. Although we talk about dark subjects, we try and inject some humor into the show to lighten things up. This is NOT karate or martial arts... this is HIGHLY EFFECTIVE and realistic self-defense advice and information to save you from crime and violence. A new episode is released every Sunday or Monday night (usually).

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A Podcast is like a radio show (that most anyone can make with a standard computer) that's aired or published to the Internet. Each episode of the show is contained in an .mp3 (audio) file that you can download off the person's website (whom ever is doing the podcast). Additionally, you can "subscribe" to a podcast much the same as you can subscribe to a magazine. Then, anytime a new episode is released, it will automatically download to your computer and be ready to listen to. (Side note: there are also video podcasts as well, but we will keep it simple for now)

Here is the wikipedia (good online encyclopedia) page explaining podcasts.

To do all this is very easy. All you need is a "pod catcher" (my term). It's a piece of software that let's you download, subscribe, and browse the many thousands of available podcasts. By far the most popular software for this is Apple's iTunes. It is totally free, works on both PC and Mac computers, and is super easy! (Side note: If you don’t want to use iTunes, good alternatives are Newsfire for Mac, or FeedDemon for Windows. Both of which are free.)

IF YOU ARE USING ITUNES, ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS…
1) Go to: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ and download the free iTunes software.
2) Install iTunes on your computer (follow the instructions on-screen… very easy).
3) Open the iTunes program and click on the ADVANCED menu.
4) Click the SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST menu item.
5) Type the following into the URL box… http://vitalsd.libsyn.com/rss

Blam! You’re done! You are subscribed to the show. iTunes always organizes all your podcast episodes that have been downloaded into its "Podcast" section; it's the purple icon on the left most pane of the iTunes screen. You will see that you can download more episodes of that specific podcast by clicking the "Get" button besides each line of listing under the podcast name. If you want to download older episodes CLICK HERE.

If you would like to see what other podcasts our out there (there's at least 5 on any given subject in the world)... in iTunes, make sure you are in the "Podcast" section, and click the "Podcast Directory" link at the bottom of the window. This will take you to iTunes Store Podcast listings, where you can search for podcasts.

The very best part of this whole thing is that everything is FREE! Nothing to buy, no strings attached. You can really find a lot of amazing podcasts out there; put out by normal everyday people, and by big commercial broadcasters too (like ABC, NBC, ESPN, etc.)

Let me know if you have any questions, and I hope this helped :-) Welcome to the wonderful world of podcasts :-)

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Podcast RSS Feed Address
(copy this into any RSS / news reader program)
http://vitalsd.libsyn.com/rss