It keeps cutting out on me. Something about being unable to access the stream. Anyway, I made it half-way through. My impressions so far are: - It seems like the guys really like each other. - The podcast is comedy in the same way that talk radio sometimes labels itself as comedy - It's really unfocused and sprawling, which is great for conversations among friends - I like it when the topic is actually addressed, but the dudes are having too much fun with each other to address it for more than several seconds before going off on long-ass tangents about stuff that didn't happen to potential listeners outside of their social circle. - I think if they dropped the "comedy" angle and instead focused on their topic, it would be much more interesting for the listener. If they really are funny guys, that will come through. For me, as it is now, it's not coming through. I think that if they let the topic breathe, the jokes that they did make or witticisms or whatever, would stand out a lot more instead of getting lost in the tangle of voices that are currently competing for attention.
This is all really good advice based on what I heard. I listened for maybe 10 minutes. There's very rarely a time in my day when I have an hour to dedicate to a podcast, I will if it catches me and enthralls me, but otherwise I find it hard to believe that many people will dedicate that type of time. You're right, funny will come through but when it's forced through... it's painful. I guess what I do is less of this type of podcast and is heavily edited and constructed. Maybe mine could use more "interview, round-table" qualities infused in it? Food for thought. I'm excited to hear your podcast _refugee_ what style are you thinking it will be?
OK, so my podcast! thenewgreen and humanodon thanks to this post and discussion I had a little bit of a breakthrough today. I was thinking about what kind of podcast I'd like to do, which I had really been struggling with because frankly I'm not so in love with myself that I can just babble into a mike for an hour on a given topic. Can't even buy the idea of it. And humanodon had mentioned some of the potential flaws in this podcast I linked to today, which I think are clear and accurate. I started to think about all of my friends who are active in the local arts community, of whom there are several; on top of those I have some sort of extended network of artists I can tap into. So I think I wanna do an interview show with artists, "art" as a very loose term, writing or musicing or drawing or what-have-you. Comicing. I want a loose interpretation of artists. I figure I'll mostly showcase local artists but don't want to limit myself. I have a big enough network that I think I could find enough people just from the local area to do 3months worth of podcasts if I publish biweekly. I'm pretty excited! I have a work certification I'm studying for til November so I won't get anything off the ground this month. I'm also going to have to figure out recording, hosting, all that jazz. It's a lot. But I think I could have a lot of fun and maybe even increase upon my artistic network, plus I would be able to talk about stuff like "Is creating masturbatory?" and "What is writing?" (The latter half of the podcast has a recurring sort of theme, "Are we writing?" The latter half of the podcast might be better. I'm not sure. You still may have trouble getting into it. Up to you! But I do read a poem that you guys haven't seen during the break. You could fastforward and just listen to that ;) )
Yeah, I got a bit shut out of the conversation at first. They're all old friends. I don't disagree with your criticism at all. I think the guy showrunning this podcast is going for an extremely informal feel, modeling off of certain other podcasts he listens to, but I think depending on what you're looking for you can definitely find it alienating.