It's Andy Fish!

I’ve been told I should do a podcast which certainly means it’s no longer in style. I’ll be honest with you– and I’ve asked literally dozens of people who I either 1- know very well 2- know they listen to podcasts or 3- have their own podcasts — what exactly is a podcast and how is it ANY different from Talk Radio which was a thing in the mid 80s when I first started working the exciting but lonely life as a freelancer. I had two things in my first studio besides art supplies- a radio and a police scanner and I would tune in to each throughout the day to have some background noise.

No one, not ONE person, can really tell me what the point of or even how a podcast is any different than Talk Radio– even though EVERY response starts with “Oh it’s completely different–“

So back in the day I listened to David Brudnoy on WBZ Radio. I found him very interesting. I liked IMUS IN THE MORNING for a while but his show devolved more and more into a Howard Stern kind of nonsense.

And that’s what I find most podcasts to be. I have several very good friends who put on very professional podcasts but I’ve tried to listen and I might make it through one episode, but seldom more than that. I just can’t bring myself to care about listening in on someone’s conversation. Probably the same reason I despise Facebook ™ and even YOUTUBE ™ gets on my nerves.

I still fall back on streaming movies and TV in my current studio, seldom music, but i find myself fooling around with playlists more than enjoying them making them defeat the purpose of having it in the first place.

And that is good enough for me.