You Can Talk Back, You Know - November 03, 2026

You know what I just realized? I haven’t shared how you can talk back at me. All right, so if you have anything to say, if you have any feedback, if you have a comment, if you just want to talk back at something I said, or whatever—questions—you can email hello@elsieescobar.com . And if you want to leave me voice feedback, you can use SpeakPipe . I’m not sure how many of y’all know about SpeakPipe. You can leave voicemails, basically, online. There are little widgets you can put on your website and all that stuff. A little while ago, it was really one of the only ways you could get voice feedback back to podcasts. I started using this tool, goodness gracious, a long time ago, and it’s still there. You can pay for Pro, but there’s a free version. Actually, I’m going to have y’all check this out. Head over to speakpipe.com/elsie . So, E-L-S-I-E. I’m not going to update anything on that page right now, because that’s the point here, y’all. You are going to see a little avatar of an image I took—I cannot even remember how long ago. It must have been like 2010? Gosh. I really liked this microphone from Blue Microphones, the maker of the Blue Yeti, okay? They made this microphone called the Nessie , like the Loch Ness Monster. I bought that microphone strictly because of the way it looked. That literally was it. It had a really cool design. It’s one of those mics that, if you saw it, you immediately would think, “What in the heck? What is this?” It was so cool. The design of the thing is so cool. I love things that are different, and I tend to gravitate toward using things that really stand out or are unusual for a variety of different reasons. So I bought this microphone because of what it looked like, and it really was not very good at all. At all. It was a desk microphone that had a little thing underneath it—I’m saying felt, but I don’t think it was felt. It had a base and then a big long stem, and the actual microphone capsule on the top was round. Very reminiscent of round microphones from the 1950s and things like that. It was very cool. Anyway, it had a really cool shape. If you had it on a desk, it looked great, but it wasn’t so good when you were trying to record in a noisy environment. I believe it might have been a—no, it wasn’t a dynamic microphone. I’d have to do some research. But anyway, it was so cool. I really loved that mic. The image on my SpeakPipe page is this old-school image of mine that I made. I had these hashtags on there: #iPodcast , with an “i” at the front, and #PodcastLover . Then it’s got my old @—I guess, I don’t know what you call it, moniker? Right now, I’ve been going with @theelsieescobar for such a long time, but this was @yogeek. And my biography, or my little intro thing there, says: “New media strategist, dynamic living specialist, podcaster, yoga mentor, Mac girl, full-time mama. Creating brilliant media solutions for remarkable people.” Oh man, I love her. She was so sparkly. What happened? No, anyway, that’s how you can contact me. You can leave me a message. And hey, listen, if I start to get super fancy, I might just put together an episode and have voice feedback in it as well. That’s it. I’m trying to keep it low-key. I’m trying to keep it super simple. Although I do feel I’m going to be doing some post-production on this one because I forgot that my wa