
I am the Head Disruptor at Caloroga Shark Media and the mayor of Audio Island Some thoughts about the podcasting and radio industries that might differ from the usual groupthink....but this substack has no rules so I might write about Star Trek.
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Boy, David Letterman returning to The Late Show on Thursday night was EVERYTHING. Even a return to throwing things off a 5 story tower* (I am not sure the Ed Sullivan theater is 5 stories but close enough).
I have barely watched any episo...
Strike Force Five (Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon) reunited to do a 13th episode to commemorate the end of The Late Show.
It sounds like garbage.
I did a 4:30am airport run this morning, and liste...
Greetings from Audio Island, where the pool is open for the summer. I will spare you the image and quote from Godfather III but man the Podcasts About Podcasting are all talking about video again.
I was listening to the always excellent Po...
Hey see that ship? That’s the MV Hondius. You may know it as the Hantavirus Ship In The News.
I took that photo on the Great Southern Ocean while standing onboard the MV Plancius. I often think about my trip to Antarctica, and one of these...
I have nicely settled into Doing My Own Thing (audio) and not worrying about all the discussions around The V Word.
I don’t have any pontifications about the industry this week.
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Never worked in FM radio. I've worked in AM, Satellite, Podcasting and co-own a podcast company. I teach college courses on media. I'm probably going to make someone mad with this.
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