Podcasts as far as the eye can see
Podcasts are really not a thing I follow. However, my husband has a list of podcasts that he constantly listens to and follows. Sometimes when we go on out of town trips, he will put a podcast on, typically comedy.
I have grown to like “Comedy Bang Bang” because there’s always a guest who is fictional, which is fun. The one podcast I love is “Star Talk” with Neil De Grasse Tyson and Eugene Merman. It’s part science and space talk with comedy commentary. It’s genius.
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Beyond that, I don’t really have much time to listen to podcasts. I do get the appeal though. You just listen. I know reading is difficult for some, and listening to podcasts can be done simultaneously while doing other tasks. Maybe that’s why my website gets no clicks.
Over the last year, I’ve had the opportunity to be a guest on multiple podcasts that some fellow comedians run, and one run by a very near and dear friend who now lives in California.
The first one I did was with Jason Marshall and it’s called “We Don’t Have Cookies.” I drove out to Jason’s house and talked to him for an hour about comedy, news stories and upcoming events we had to promote.
I was nervous to do this one since it was my first, but it was very professional and everything was set up and ready to go when I got there. After this experience, I realized a podcast is just having a conversation for all to hear and maybe during that conversation, making a couple cool connections or realizations.
The next one I did was with my friend Ranson Karr with his 2 male friends Brock Shank and Dustin Homer. I was caught a little off guard because as a woman I immediately thought, “O three dudes. I’ll get maybe 4 or 5 sentences in the entire hour segment.”
I should’ve known it wouldn’t be like that since Ranson is a stand-up guy who knows that I’m way funnier than his friends. This was a much more laid back podcast where we talked more about comedy and our experiences. Ranson kept plugging my website, which is always helpful. However, still, no one reads anything on the damn thing.
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A couple months ago, I was on a podcast with my good old friend Parker Bowman. It’s called Pool Party Radio, which started as a magazine when he still lived here in Ohio. He now lives in California, so we arranged a time to just gab about whatever.
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Our lame friend Jason Frisbee canceled at the last minute because he had to work, so it was just Parker and me. He said normally the show was only 45 minutes but it might be less without Frisbee. We went for almost 90 minutes.
We talked about comedy, our past friends, our shared journalism experiences, new laws we would enact as president and the fact that my dad has always called Parker Frank and we do not know why.
My latest podcast experience was being on “The Nicolas Cage Movie Review Hour” with Kyle Steele. I have to say I had my reservations going into this venture. The concept is that the group watches a Nicholas Cage movie, and then discusses it for any hour.
It was an amazing time. I kept thinking to myself, “Wow. People get together, watch movies and then discuss it. It was view of what having real friends is probably like. We watched “Peggy Sue Got Married” and I was the only one of the group who was alive when the movie came out. I love sharing ideas with people not like me at all. It keeps me objective.
I get podcasts now, but I’m not sure they are really for a wider audience than the people who make them or are mentioned in them. There are thousands of podcasts now and if you didn’t get in on the podcast hype early, you’re probably not going to get famous doing it.
I had a great time talking about myself because I’m selfish, so I’d probably do it again. I’ll patiently wait for Doug Benson or Marc Maron to give me a call.
