Yesterday I mentioned having a MULTI-PRONGED plan to become a PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL but did not actually reveal ALL of the aforesaid PRONGS. For LO! I am not just trying to write articles about Doctor Doom or do GIGS about the general gist of my academic research, I am doing Some Other Things as well!
I have previously hinted that ONE of these things involves the marvellous Mr J Dredge, and it is this that I wish to speak of today. For a couple of months now we have been discussing doing some sort of podcast where we talk about old, funny, British comics, and earlier this week we got together to have a go at actually RECORDING one.
Cunningly I had managed to book a room at WORK, which anybody who works where I work will know is something of a TRIUMPH in and of itself. It was a lovely small room, and also a very HOT room - it may not be that hot most days, but here in the middle of a heat wave it very much was!
We sat down, sweated a bit, switched the recorder on, sweated a bit more, checked our notes, and then began approximately 45 minutes of talking about a comics and it was GRATE. John and I have worked on many things together over the years, including trying to write topical comedy gags for Radio 4 Extra, making some short films, and recording a series of EPs but, for my money, the BEST thing we did was meeting up every week for A Bit Of An Old Chat. John is not only EXCELLENT at having A Bit Of An Old Chat but also MOST AMUSING too, so it seemed like a good idea to try and do THAT as an Actual Thing.
This proved to be correct! We started off a little bit nervous, and listening back to the recording I seem to have said "Yeah yeah" every 2 seconds, but otherwise it sounds Dead Good. Obviously this is an EXTREMLY RADICAL concept for a podcast - two middle-aged men who are friends talking about something from their youth, with one of them an expert and the other a comedian - so I don't know if the world is quite ready for it yet, but all we can do is put it out there and see what happens!
There's still stuff to do before we're ready to UNLEASH it on the world - we've got to finalise a name, find a podcast delivery provider, and probably get at least one more episode recorded - but so far it is looking like a pretty good idea. If nothing else it gives me a GRATE excuse to read some old comics and hang around with Mr Dredge, I just hope future episodes aren't so SWEATY!
it's a podcast? edit it. judiciously. tighten it. then tighten it some more.45 minutes of talking should give you about ten minutes of good stuff worth listening to, and that's what you give the world. better yet, get someone else to edit it. posted 1/8/2024 by throw out the bathwater. not the babies.
Is this multi-pronged plan like a pitchfork, a trident, a fork, or a comb? Are the prongs pointing towards or away from you? posted 25/8/2024 by A Literal Reader.
