It was another night staring at my laptop screen, listening to The Specials as I tried to come up with my next blog post. I was checking the stats of my page when I noticed a notification. I clicked it and nothing showed up bar “you updated your site”. But that’s when I saw it [insert your creative blogs followed you]. Amazing! The first person to follow my blog(that I didn’t already know)! Pretty neat. I know this has nothing else to do with the rest of this post(or does it I haven’t chosen what I’ll write about at time of writing] but I thought it was very neat. It will of course all go to my head eventually and it will end with me high off my tits on cocaine before I topple out a 8th story window. A fitting end 🙂
Now onto the actual topic of this blog post. Podcasts!
Podcasts are such a strange idea, you just talk to yourself, record it and plop it on the internet and people give you money. Well that’s the idea at least. And podcasts are class like. I listen to a couple like Proles of the roundtable(r.i.p) The Minyan and Popular Front are the main ones I listen to. And they work so well, I can learn more about the world while doing the washing up. Like i get to do the dishes and you think I’m listening to sick tunes? And surprise! I’m actually learning about the NPA insurgency in the Philippines(which is the worlds longest communist revolution) Expanding my understanding of the world and shit.
And you can learn about so much shite. Like all the conspiracy and true crime podcasts? I’ve never loved murder more in my life. I can see why people like buzzfeed unsolved so much now. Learning about all these serial killers and cults. Imagine getting to record yourself talking about the Zodiac killer and doing that for a job? and going to like panels and selling tshirts and shit. what a class job. Like it seems like hella work with editing and coming up with new topics to talk about but it definitely seems worth it if you have a solid idea like and know how this shit works. All you need is the basic software and a microphone and boom your set to go.
That said this is a pitfall of podcasts. Because every wanker with a microphone and an idea can start a podcast, every wanker with a microphone and an idea can start a podcast. So you obviously have floods of podcasts all differing in quality, some good but most bad.Now luckily I have listened to only good ones. One of the good parts of this tho is that even the not brilliant ones are ok but just listened to a much smaller specific audience. Which is fair like lot’s of podcasts are just done for fun and of course podcasts shouldn’t be judged on popularity but their own separate contents. That said there is a reason that a lot of podcasts are very very small. Not that I could do any better. Unless……. jk jk jk(for now 😉 )
I know this post seems random and has no actual value. That’s because I’ve got podcasts on the brain and I’m discussing these with friends right now. So I thought I’d ramble on for 600 words or so and call it a night. But yeah podcasts are cool, I should start a podcast maybe, we’ll see. In conclusion Shergar is still alive and being held captive by the British government because his disappearance is the only thing holding the peace process together