 I'm frequently asked about which microphone I recommend for typical stuff like this, Zoom calls, Facebook lives, videos, maybe podcasts as well. I just, FYI, I record, this is the exact same, I used the exact same mic for all of my Zoom calls, Facebook live videos, YouTube videos, and podcast, the same exact mic. And I wanna show you, I wanna show you how to get this mic. And I wanna show you where not to get this mic. Okay, so go to apple.com and then search. Okay, go to apple.com and search ear buds. I think it's called ear pods, ear pods. Okay, doesn't matter which one is either ear pods or ear pods with lightning connector is the same thing. The way my computer works, I need this particular connection, but the one with a night lightning connector works as well. But here's the key, it's $20. It's directly from apple.com. Okay, do not, I repeat, do not buy it from Amazon. Whoops, apple, ear pods, ear buds. Okay, let's search this. You're gonna find a bunch of them that are not from Apple. And they might even charge the same amount of money. And this one is also not from Apple. This one is not, oh, visit the Apple store. This might be from Apple, but I'm like, if it's the same price, I would rather go directly from apple.com because I have purchased things that look exactly like this from Amazon. And it broke after like a month or the mic was clearly not as good quality as the ones that I keep using from apple.com. These are the ones that also come, they used to come with iPhone and iPad. I think by nowadays they come, they might come with the wireless ones. Every time I hear people use the wireless ones, it just doesn't sound as good as this one. I mean, look, again, this mic, why is this mic so good? Well, number one is from apple.com and they just had a really high quality mic in here. It's only 20 bucks. Number two, it's close to my mouth. And that people don't understand that mics sound better when it's optimal distance from the mouth. It can't be too close. Too close is, you know, doesn't sound, it's maybe too loud or too distorted or something. But there's an optimal, you know, distance from the mouth. So it's like a microphone, you put a microphone here, you bring a, buy an expensive $100 microphone, which is not expensive for mics, I'll show you next. It doesn't, it doesn't sound good because your mouth is too far away from the mic. Got to be close to the mic, but not too close, right? So if you are not, so I have tried, I have tried five, six different mics, headsets, right? So headsets, headsets, I've tried a bunch of these. Now I haven't tried this one, but I've tried headsets like this that are between $20 and $50 ones. I've tried a bunch of them from Amazon. And still after testing all the sound and mic, this $20 one from Apple.com still wins. Still is the best sound, right? And don't you agree? This is a pretty good sound, right? I don't know, no one, no one's ever complained about my sound before. And this thing lasts, I maybe, cause I never unplug it, plug it back in. I just, cause I just keep my laptop here and this thing always plugged in. So maybe because of that, this lasts for years, this 20 things last for years, I never unplug it, you know, the upgrade though, if I were going to an even more advanced sound, better sound, more warmer sound, if I were finally going to go pro, I haven't gone pro for 13 years. I have a, not to brag, but I have a very good business and I, you know, doing this exact thing. And I still use a $20 mic cause I found it's the best. But if I were to go, if I were to have what's called gear acquisitions syndrome, which is like, I got to get the right gear so I can finally get out there, you know, just be careful. That's a real thing, gear acquisition syndrome. Got to get the right gear so I can feel confident getting out there. Be careful cause you'll spend hundreds or thousands of dollars getting the right gear and then you still might never get out there. So, but anyway, if I wanted to upgrade, I would go with something like a sure, sure mic. Sure is a well-known brand for mics. And I would just go on Amazon, search sure mic and I would probably go with something like this too. It's going to be $2 to $500, $2 to $400 probably for a one that actually literally sounds better than this $20 thing from Apple. So I honestly, I would, this is a weird gap cause I have tried Blue Yeti, I've done really clear. I have tried, I have not tried, I own one in my closet right now that I don't use. I've tried multiple times. I'm like, why is this one so popular? This is the one that my brother bought me. Okay, it's been quite upgraded. He bought one for me 10 years ago, but it was $100 10 years ago. So it's probably the same. They just made it look differently now. Let me see if I can find the exact one I had. Well, now they all look different cause but mine was silver and it has this, it looked exactly like this except it was silver and it was $100. Okay, 10 years ago it was $100. And I tested this several times with different settings on the Blue Yeti plugged into my computer. This one $20 thing, it still sounds better. Or at least it sounded the same. I could not tell the difference cause I was listening to my earphones. Like, okay, that was Blue Yeti. This is the Apple mic. And sometimes the Apple mic sounded better. So I'm like, what is going on people? So there's some weird gap between this $20 Apple microphone and a sure mic that's 250 or 225 plus. So that's really, I wanted you to be careful about that because that's anyway, that's my experience after all these years of testing all these different things. So if you have any other thoughts, comment below. So one thing I have to say, you might spend $150 like on a buyer, might be YER or whatever. But it's like, all right, if you do the recording side by side, one with a $150 mic and one with this mic and then you put it out to your audience with a blind test, can they tell which one is noticeably better? Is it noticeably better? Or is it just barely better that they can barely tell? If it's like, why spend 150? Now you might say, well, why spend 150? Cause it looks more professional with a mic in your face. That's true. It looks more professional. It doesn't look as professional for me using these cheap looking things. People don't know this is the best, right? So again, I would say either this or the sure mics which are the professional studio ones or 225 plus is what I would go with. And it looks cool too. And then if you buy a sure mic, you probably buy a stand. I don't know, I haven't looked into the stuff cause I don't know what comes with a stand but the people I see who do it have like this like stand that they can move out of the way. And that thing probably costs what at least a couple of dozen dollars, right? So now you're looking at $300 investment for something that's like properly usable. Now to clarify the ear pods that are wireless wireless is always worse sound than wired. I mean, of course, because, you know that doesn't transmit it as direct real time as this, you know, a cable does. So I every time I've heard that the Apple ear pods wireless Bluetooth ones, it's just sounds noticeably worse than the ones that are wired. So hope this helps.