Podcasts are something I have never warmed to. I don’t know why, but I just haven’t.
Same goes for internet radio, but that’s another blogpost for another day.
So… podcasts. Why haven’t I warmed to them? After all, they’ve been around for several years, and everyone’s at it. Even MPs are at it. I don’t know why I have failed to embrace them, and I know enough people who swear by them, but they just haven’t ‘done it’ for me. That said, I haven’t really given them the time of day to actually try them out.
Maybe it’s time I actually tried them. Like last week when I gave in and sat down to listen to Michael McIntyre on Youtube. Previously I hated him, but I hadn’t actually given him a chance. I guess I wrote him off as yet another poor southern ‘funny man’ like Harry “I’m Just Not Funny” Hill. The result? I found McIntyre rather funny!
So… I’ve got iTunes loaded up, I’ve clicked on the Podcasts bit and it’s taken me to the store. The first thing I saw was a series of photography-themed podcasts by some guy called Chris Marquardt. I love photography and this is two blokes talking about how cameras interpret different colours of light. Now they’re talking about something called the ‘blue hour’ which is the period of twilight each morning and evening where there is neither full daylight nor complete darkness. The podcasts are short (eight minutes or so) but pretty informative.
Well, that was better than I thought it would be. Apparently there’s 400 of those photography ones by Chris Marquardt.
Next up is Today in the Past by John Hodgman (of The Daily Show fame). One podcast each day, less than a minute long, where John tells us something that happened today in history. He’s talking about a secret world government that planned World Wars 1, 2, 3 and 3.5 (also called ‘The Battle Beyond the Stars’). Odd, but kinda funny.
I just tried another one called MOTD Xtra! and it wasn’t at all funny so I turned it off after a few minutes. Ah well I guess not all podcasts can be funny or informative.
I think I’ll have to do some more listening of the many many podcasts available on iTunes, but it’s looking good.
