So first of all, I should clarify what they all are.  The video and the podcast are the same thing in terms of audio content; only the video has a camera on me while recording the audio.  With a face for radio and no real interest in being a camera talent, I don’t blame people if they prefer a different medium than the video.  We post a lot of shorts and reels from the videos on social media, and the videos are preferred by the fans of that medium, which is great.  The audio content on the video and podcast is NOT a recitation of the written Dividend Cafe – I basically have a few notes from the written version in front of me most of the time (sometimes nothing at all), but it is me more or less just doing a talk without a script on the same subject as the written Dividend Cafe.  We do all three mediums because there are people who prefer each of them.

But the reason I say I prefer the written is that it is what drives the others.  I start by writing a Dividend Cafe, and then I turn that into a video and podcast.  I don’t start with a video/podcast and turn that into a writing.  Now, we have gotten better about taking the charts from the written Dividend Cafe and adding them to the video, but the written Div Cafe always has everything, and the video/podcast will always be abridged relative to the written treatment.  Beyond that, it is just preferential.  My dad was a reader and a writer, I am a reader (and I try to be a writer), and I see a lot of people whose attention span for the written word has declined as the popularity of more digestible mediums like podcast and video have taken off.  Ultimately, all I care about is delivering useful and truthful content, but I do like adding my two cents every week, that, yes, the written format is the original flavor, and will always be my favorite.