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Podcasting Wannabe

I've long thought about podcasting. But I have some 'baggages' I need to stow away before I get can started. Wait. That's not right. I can just do it and there is no one to stop me but I hate to fail in anything I do which I admit is ridiculous but haunts me nonetheless.

Here is my laundry list:

  1. I sound 'funny'. - I heard this one from my wife so I am pretty sure there is some validity to this and the best angle I can turn this is that I sound rather 'unique'. No kidding. No one who ever heard me speak ever mistake me for someone else when they hear me on the phone. Annoying yet partly satisfying, I have doubts as to whether my voice is 'consumable' without 'presence'.
  2. I have nothing to talk about. - It's true. When I am by myself, I sink 'into' myself, leaving nothing to output. People tell me I am very funny and that my jokes 'bites' but my humor 'happens' only when I am interacting with others and never in any planned fashion which erases any chance of monologues.
  3. I am too wise. - Huh? By 'too wise', I mean I expect all kinds of things and am rarely surprised which means my responses to world events is rather muted. To say something, I must want to say something which means whatever I want to talk about must be affecting me rather rigorously. But that happen so rarely. It's easier to expect El Capitain to jump up and down.
  4. I don't like replays. - Who likes saying same thing over and over? I sure don't. So who is going to come up with the material? I am sure subscribing to 1000 RSS feeds will do the trick but that feels rather inefficient.
  5. I am a terrible at being objective. - So true. Best I can manage at being objective is not giving a shit about whatever it is.

Anyway, this should be good protection against myself for a while. ;-P

Comments
Dozens of millions of bloggers don't have anything to say either, doesn't stop them...

Besides, anybody who claims objectivity is lying.
Same answer as for writer's block -- lower your standards. Start with armpit farts and frothing rants at government officials. See how it goes.
I don't remember that you sound funny.

But if you do that will be a funny podcast, which is good for sure.

Funny Is Good.
What about a partner? Someone to feed off of and help you carry your thoughts, bring them out of you. Just a thought as I read. FWIW, your voice works, I think it would make for great listening.
AGHHH. You guys are not helping me sooth my the podcasting itch! LOL.

BTW, I've been listening to more podcasting lately and, frankly, too many of them sound like radio jokeys, too smooth and definitely not guy/girl next door voices. Hmm. Maybe I should just be grateful that they are not thunderous preacher voices. Hehe.
I'm a wannabe too, but have been in one group podcast. Based on that vast experience -

1. I do sound funny - northern English, never really realised (got a northern wife) until at a conference a southerner I knew well online said "god, you're very northern...". But I reckon it's a positive thing. A weird bit was that on the podcast my adrenaline was pumping and I thought I was talking way too fast. Listened to it afterwards, I was regular speed. Guess I must normally ttaallkk sslloowwllyy.

2. I didn't have anything to talk about on my own, but prompted by other people I had way too much...

3. I don't get excited by much either, though more through being a miserable git than wisdom. Yeah, deadpan humour without the humour...

4. If you have any pets, talk about them. It may seem like dull replays to other people, but at least you'll keep yourself happy.

5. Objectivity - bleah, stuff that.

I haven't listened to many podcasts, but the radio style you mention is annoying, as is the duller-than-ditchwater-I'd-better-sing-a-song style of one early podcaster.

I still don't think I've heard a good guy/girl next door cast, but the IT Conversations interview stuff works well IMHO.

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