Andew T knows something about dinosaurs
Good Morning Angels,
We should start a podcast.
Yeah, seriously: You and me should get together some time to record one. It’s not hard, really. All we gotta do is lay down some audio tracks, pick a couple of songs to spice it up, and then share it with the world. We can make it Sumo-themed, if that’ll make it easier. You and I can pretend we’re warring sumo wrestlers, and we can call the podcast Dohyo; that’s what they call the ring they fight in. Look, I’ve done all the heavy lifting. All you have to do is show up.
I’m starting to turn pretty heavily into podcasting…a podcaster? It may come as a shock to some of you that I’ve been hosting a radio program called Andrew T and the Dynamo Elite for just about three years now. It may come as more of a shock that after three years, this show will no longer be gracing the airwaves of Guelph’s own CFRU 93.3fm. I’ll be done. Kaput. Finito. Ended. Finished. Terminated. Over. Stopped. Other words that mean all of that.
To break it down, that’s just about 156 episodes and probably a little over 300 hours of radio. And now it’s suddenly going to be gone. So like a gorilla mother who adopts a gorilla shaped doll after a terrible poaching incident where she loses her baby, I am going to take up podcasting to fill the radio-less gap.
To do this, I’m going to be using Garage Band. On the one hand, it’s the free software that came with my laptop, and I’m getting pretty familiar with it. On the other hand, if I started a band, it’d be a garage band. Actually, it’d be a no-fi surf rock/60’s girl group inspired type of thing, but they don’t make software about that. There’s other free software, like the ever-popular Audacity, but I’m sticking with Garage Band. Yes sir, it’s the platform of choice for recording any and all audio projects that I do.
The great thing about podcasts is that they can happen on your schedule. Kind of like how you can order pizza at almost any time in some cities (right?) I can wake up at 4am and record some Sleepy-Time audio. Or, it could be the ‘Join Andrew at the Beach’ edition of the show. If I can take my laptop there and record some audio, then that’s where a podcast can happen.
Some might argue that something special is missing from podcasting that you can get on the radio. Like, one of the things that everybody loves about SNL is the feeling that anything can happen at any moment. It’s live, and anything can go wrong! That’s kind of what it’s like being on the radio. With podcasting, however, nothing can go wrong and everything can go right. You have as many tries as you want to make the perfect bit of radio-styled entertainment. This American Life and Radiolab are highly produced and some of the most perfect bits of audio I’ve ever listened to. You Look Nice Today improvise most of their jokes, but they can cut out the fat. Even something like Stuff You Should Know, which is mostly just reading lots of facts, can be re-jigged to make the lesson funnier or more engaging. Not to say that these possibilities aren’t available on live radio, but there’s really no excuse for it to not happen in a podcast. You have a chance to do it right. Just like Zac Effron in 17 Again. Did you see that movie? What’s wrong with you? I would never watch that!
What I’m asking you to do here is come over to my house, or Skype in with me, and let’s record some podcasts. Oh, and if you want, listen to Andrew T and the Dynamo Elite on May 4th, 2010, from 10pm-12am for the last little bit of a dynasty. It’s bittersweet, like a bowl full of rhubarb and sugar. Bam! My analogies are on fire today!
I actually eat rhubarb and sugar. My girlfriend makes fun of me for it. Is that mean, or am I actually weird?
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