The Dirty Truth About Podcasting
Sir Underbelly
Now that is a New Year, The Podcast Place is going to go into full force. And before I get started with this rant, I will point out the I know I haven’t posted in weeks and, after reading this, I might seem a little hypocritical. I will defend myself in saying that this site is new and I’m still working on the overall concept. Now that the new year as begun, I will follow my own advice.
I woke and before I even got my coffee brewing, decided to review a movie podcast. I found a podcast on itunes called “The Movie Misfits” and started the download and left to grind the coffee beans.
Once I had a cup of joe, I began to listen and write my review Within ten minutes, I knew this was going to be my first bad review. It was then I noticed something odd. I had been thinking that this show was done on September 26, 2008 but I was wrong, it was done in 2006! And the irony is that episode was called, “The Return of the Misfits” because it had been a few week since their last podcast. Now it’s been a few years!
And that, my friends, it what this article is going to be all about, lame podcasters who start something and quit. It’s not bad enough that they just give up but they leave there old stuff on itunes.
Oh, there are hundreds of them. You get a couple of friends that think it would be a great idea to do a weekly show and they do a few and then you know what happens? They find out it’s work! And that is the dirty truth. It’s work! Doing a good, or even a mediocre podcast takes work. Do you know why people like Howard Stern makes so much money? It is because they can talk for hours a day and be entertaining. Not many people can.
Next time you at a restaurant, stop talking to listen to the table next to you. If there talking about movies or TV, that’s what a lame podcast sounds like.
It’s no different that blogs. Blogs seem like a good idea at the time until they figure out it’s hard to come up with something to write about daily. The internet it littered with half-ass blogs that having not been updated in months or years. I was on one the other day that the last post was six months ago and it was a post about how he was going to start posting more often! Too funny.
Itunes is getting the same way, filled with dead podcasts. I imaging those friends constantly get together with their Old MIlwaukee Beer and say, “We should get back to our podcast” but they never do. Hey guys or gals, get you shit off itunes. You just making it hard for us that actually want to find something of interest!
To get successful at podcasting as well as blogging takes a real commitment. You can’t do it only when you feel like it if you ever hope to gain a audience. It won’t happen. It is work and the work is more than research and idea’s, but its the diligence to do it every week, or bi-week, or even monthly. That may be the hardest part of it all.
