What show inspired you to podcast?

[kinkysex]

I thought this would be fun....
What show(s) inspired you to podcast and what shows are your current inspiration?


I guess I should go first..

TWiT and Diggnation. I have a man-crush on Leo Laporte.

Current inspirations: Too numerous to mention. Any of the 'casts on this page: www.kinkysexradio.com/about.htm

Anyone else want to play, "Heroes"?

[monkey_one]

escape pod was my number one inspiration thanks Steve now im going to need therapy

oh and if were counting non-podcast shows I would have to Say Howard Stern

[Marilynfan]

I'm sure everyone will shoot me but for me it was DSC and still is. Sorry :oops:


EDIT: Duh, forgot to add the other very important one for me and that is The Frank Truth. That is what made me decide on the fancast format.

[BillClintonPodshow]

Adam Curry's Daily Source Code is my inspiration. By the way I'm recording my first podcast this weekend. I'll try and upload it somewhere so you can listen to it, maybe Sunday. :)

[BillClintonPodshow]

Marilyn , great minds think alike. :lol:

[roadrageradio]

I thought this would be fun....
What show(s) inspired you to podcast and what shows are your current inspiration?


Inspirations: Spike Jones, Bob and Ray, Jean Shepherd, Larry Josephson, Firesign Theatre, Bill Mercer (Rosko), Alison Steele ...

All radio people from the days when there was some freedom and creativity. These folks could hold an audience with a story, could weave magical words around music, and keep you spellbound, listening to the voices in their heads.

[kinkysex]

Inspirations: Spike Jones,

Hah, I collect Spike Jones & The City Slickers memorabilia. I've got programs, 78's, letters, headshots, copies of his tv show. I love Spike Jones!

[Steve Pinder]

My best friend owns www.podcastmedia.net.
It would have to be The Zany Aguirre Show that made me want to podcast.

But the one that made me want to do a better job was DSC with Curry.

Steve Pinder
www.karatekast.com

[etomorrow]

i wouldn't say it inspired me so much, but the first podcast i listened to was kevin seconds pawdcast (i think that's how he spelled it.) really just an audio blog, but i have been listening to 7 seconds since i was a kid, so listening to the unscripted words of the singer intrigued me. and then i got to looking around for other shows.
then realized i could do it too.

[Wintersheart]

Dawn and Drew was the first I downloaded then I found all the cool SCI-FI podcasts Slice of Sci Fi, Dragons Landing, escape pod these guys inspire me.

I find things that are close to mainstream media boring. If I wanted it I would just turn on the radio and spend 10dollars at the radio shack for a portable radio.

-Lynne

[loganrapp]

My Inspiration: Noticing a total lack of fiction writing podcasts that don't bore me to tears.

But props to the TWITcast (http://twit.tv), I've followed those guys since ZDTV (probably would've followed them earlier, but, well, I would've had to squeeze that in between Bobby's World, my times tables and Gargoyles).

Let's see, Curry's DSC (http://dailysourcecode.com) isn't exactly an inspiration, but when he does talk about podcasting, I do listen and learn.

I have probably taken on a little bit of Red Bar Radio (http://redbarradio.com); I couldn't exactly tell you what influence it's had, since my show is heavily edited, but somehow I know I have.

Gamers With Jobs Radio (http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/taxonomy/term/318) is probably the one that really got me going, since I've played Halo 2 and NFL 2k5 with those guys. Another ex-TechTV guy on there as well.

[alexkillby]

I first listened to TWiT and Diggnation, but I don't think it's them that turned me on to Podcasting. I had read about it, and I discovered teenpodcasters.com, guess it wasn't an actual podcast that inspired my podcast, but a group of them.

[Steve Pinder]

Drew Domkus is my producers brother

Steve Pinder
www.karatekast.com

[cc_chapman]

I don't know which ones were the first, but I know it was a combination of:

- The Bitterst Pill
- Bob & AJ
- Evil Genius Chronicles

All three of which are still some of my favorites

[frankmcma]

Mr. CC Chapman for me...Accident Hash..around Jan.-ish 2005...then Adam Curry pushed me over the edge..around March April 2005....he really got me going after CC...then...hmmm...Dawn and Drew....then..no..turning...back......

must...keep...podcasting.....

Franklin

Media Artist Secrets
The Podcast for the Creative Professional
http://www.mediaartist.com/

Also check out my other podcasts:
http://www.maryandkarla.com
http://www.podmodel.com
http://www.creativecow.net

:shock:

[bazookajoeshow]

I knew about podcasting for about six months before I started doing my show. I deliberately avoided learning anything about it because I kknew that because of my slightly obsessive compulsive personality that if I got excited about it that it would suck me in like a black hole.

Months later podcasting was all over Wired, Boing Boing, USAToday, the New York Times, etc that I couldn't avoid it. The day I finally decided to research podcasting was the day I listened to my first podcast. The very next day I launched Small World. And guess what, it sucked me in like a black hole, devourng hours and hours of time.

The two first podcast I listened to was Podcast411 when Rob was interviewing C.C. Chapman. The other podcast was an article about podcasting by the CBC's Todd Maffin. Hearing the diverse range of shows and ideas from those two podcasts really inspired me to do my show.

As far as what influences me on doing Small World, I'd have to say a combination of Studs Terkel's book, "Work", Oprah Winfrey intuitive ability to get people to talk, Jon Stewart's comedic ability and freedom to ask requestions from oblique angles and Terri Gross's scope of interviews.

Bazooka Joe

[TINKOFF RADIO]

Richard Vobes and the highly under rated "Delta Park Project" - and the inspirations for my new show BURNING TWENTY, Scott Smith from Motivation to Move & Pohaku from HUNA TRAINER.

Wow - there are so many amazing inspirational people out there.
- and in some way I think Madge inspires all of us... Love that Lesbian.
- and oh yeah - props to the always amazing and ever thoughtful Bicycle Mark...

Adam

[frankmcma]

this is a good thread....

Franklin

[cinesnob]

Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir. An intellegent discussion of a motion picture genre I enjoy. The podcaster have clear voices and no potty mouth.

[Twilight]

DSC got me inspired so that I knew I could do it on my own. Whorecast http://www.sacredwhore.org/mobwhorelog/index.html got me inspired to talk about my job in the adult biz. (I do phone work)

[kevdo]

DSC and the MacCast, both are still at the top of my "must listen the day they come out" podcasts.

[AaronfromQC]

For me my inspirations were Mr.X and Just Julie and the award winning, Jawbone.

[Barefoot Radio.com]

Hey...

Howard Stern got me to LOVE RADIO!


AND EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE DJ "MIKE D" INSPIRED ME OFF MY *** FINALLY TO DO MY SHOW!


THAT'S RED BAR RADIO FOLKS!!!

NOW, WHO CAN SAY THAT?????

JUST SAY BAREFOOT RADIO.

[Slone]

Whole Wheat Radio . . . An Alaska Podcast that inspired me (short as it is) it was to me like WOW! Podcasting.

Inspirations followed:
- C.C. Chapman - "A Little Video Test" (while searching Google for Video type podcasting)
- Dawn & Drew
- Finally... DSC shortly after...

Man what fun this stuff is...

[womengrow]

More inspiration over at the Pickle: http://www.podcastpickle.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4821

[podcastrant.com]

Gene and Bryan from Hometown Tales.

http://www.hometowntales.com

[kafraco]

Dave Slusher's Evil Genius Chronicles for me.

[jbisjim]

A buddy of mine told of podcasting almost a year ago and introduced me to DSC and Dawn and Drew. D&D was so funny and they kept saying how easy it is to do. DSC said the same thing.

Our topic is Scuba Diving and is pretty specialized. There is one show that was a radio show that just dumped its stuff into podcasting world... Well we thought ours would be better and more fun.

I got a lot of help from other casters who had been established get some of my technical questions Answered. (Thanks Drew) and then i found this place and it helped me with gear.

/end

[mental-escher]

Area 51 was the show that got me jazzed to create my own- too bad those guys have since stopped making new shows :(

[McLean]

The show that got me into podcasting was Mugglecast.

Yes, America, I am a Potterhead.

[mongrel]

I remember hearing about podcasting for the first time, I think it was in Macworld or Wired, and spitting coffee out my nose when I read that Adam Curry had crawled out from under some rock somewhere to be a driving force in it. I mean,
some of the people here weren't even born when he (and his big hair) hit MTV. Then I dl'ed the DSC and was immediately and thoroughly impressed. I think Mr. Curry is in better form now than he was back then.

But I have to admit, it was the Dawn and Drew show that inspired me to try my hand at it. The Mac Cast is a close second. Now I listen to Baby Time and Accident Hash a lot.

[tsidock]

Whole Wheat Radio . . . An Alaska Podcast that inspired me (short as it is) it was to me like WOW! Podcasting.

Inspirations followed:
- C.C. Chapman - "A Little Video Test" (while searching Google for Video type podcasting)
- Dawn & Drew
- Finally... DSC shortly after...

Man what fun this stuff is...

This is interesting...

I have always longed for the old 'Radio Days'
I was searching the internet for 'Pirate Radio', 'Transmitters' etc.
Up came 'Podcasting' and 'DSC', a reference to Wiki-Pedia and I began searching & subscribing.

I felt the call, Adam got me to believe 'I' could do it. Whole Wheat Radio just resonated with me at many levels and it was so much like Norhthern Exposure I was hooked as a listener. Then I found Pk&J Great audio, Good couples interaction, not pretentious, and I knew my wife and I should do a podcast.

That got us going by last June although the journey began 6 months earlier.

Tom

[Steve Pinder]

You guys will laugh at this.

13 months ago, my producer was telling me about an idea he had to create an mp3 show that could be subscribed to and downloaded automatically to iTunes or an iPod. His idea was to sell advertisements for it. They called it "podvertising" and for about a month, they thought they had invented something new, and they were going to keep it hush hush. Until his brother Drew Domkus, Said "Uh,....Allan, it's called Podcasting,...Um, and I have a show..........lmao

Steve Pinder
www.karatekast.com

[mongrel]

I have always longed for the old 'Radio Days'
I was searching the internet for 'Pirate Radio', 'Transmitters' etc.
Up came 'Podcasting' and 'DSC', a reference to Wiki-Pedia and I began searching & subscribing.

And aren't cha' glad you found podcasting instead of serving 5 years and paying a $25,000 fine for pirate broadcasting? :D

[tsidock]

I have always longed for the old 'Radio Days'
I was searching the internet for 'Pirate Radio', 'Transmitters' etc.
Up came 'Podcasting' and 'DSC', a reference to Wiki-Pedia and I began searching & subscribing.

And aren't cha' glad you found podcasting instead of serving 5 years and paying a $25,000 fine for pirate broadcasting? :D

You are right, I was just window shopping, but it was still a thrill to imagine.

I am glad to be a podcaster!

Ok, group, I admit it, "I am Tom Sidock and I am a podcaster"!!

[mongrel]

I can only GUESS how many podcasters have daydreamed about building a low-power rig and wondered what was needed to get a show going. I did after seeing the movie "Pump Up the Volume." And to this day, I think it's a crock what's happening, even to legitimate community radio stations like WAVM (http://web.maynard.ma.us/wavm/radio/).

But that's why we're here.

[WildeGeek]

In September of 2004, my wife and I had just completed a through-hike of the JMT (http://www.pcta.org/about_trail/muir/over.asp). I dreamed, during those three weeks on the trail, of building a short-wave (or satellite) station that could support the narrow niche of wilderness travelers and long-distance hikers. I also realized that the niche was probably too narrow for any mainstream media outlet.

One of the first things I saw on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/) when I got back was an article (http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/15/1414206) about the new technology of podcasting (before it had that name). I can remember listening to Daily Source Code, and to Evil Genius Chronicles, and thinking, "do these guys really think anybody is going to be interested in hearing them rambling-on about nothing in particular?" I thought, "I could do that." I listened to Cody Shin's now defunct Super Smart Radio Whore Sex Show (http://web.archive.org/web/20050208043828/http://www.radiowhore.com/); it reinforced my conviction that sharply on-topic was the way to go. Cody's show was the first one to convince me that if an amateur with no broadcast experience nor production skills could actually produce something that was engaging, then an audio geek like me should be able to. In that way I guess I could say it was inspiring.

I've long been inspired by the public radio aesthetic -- not just NPR but also the BBC and CBC. I'm totally enthralled with the early public radio greats like Robert Krulwich (http://www.transom.org/guests/specialguests/robertkrulwich.html) and Susan Stamberg (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101242). So more of my inspiration came from public radio shows I loved (which are also podcast), such as Living on Earth (http://www.loe.org/) and Pulse of the Planet (http://www.pulseplanet.com/).

I had worked in public radio and television 20 years earlier, and had always wanted to do more of that. But I never had the patience to work my way up through the ranks and "pay my dues" the way other colleagues had done.

I recorded my first show (http://www.wildebeat.net/index.cgi/2005/05/27#E002) in October of 2004. But I didn't release it because I didn't think it held-up to the quality of the professional public radio programming I so admired.

But then in May of 2005 I ran across Slacker Astronomy (http://www.slackerastronomy.org/). This narrow, niche show, amateurish in production and presentation but professional in on-topic content, hit near the top of the newly established iTunes Top 100. Their show made me realize that what I had was probably good enough, and so I got over my inertia and started posting shows.

Currently, I have to say I'm more inspired by the stories I'm trying to tell than by anybody else's work. I'm more inspired by my mission to teach people how to safely explore the backcountry and wilderness than I am by finding content to add to my already overflowing and embarrassingly backlogged unplayed podcast (http://www.podcastalley.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=31555&highlight=#31555) queue.

[theperfectsong]

Well, KSR, I'm glad you started what's turned out to be a long and instructive thread. I first learned about podcasting when Adam Curry was featured in Wired Magazine last year. The idea intrigued me but I didn't make any progress on creating a podcast until a young alumnus of our university said one night, "Wouldn't it be cool if Mansfield University had a podcast?"
That question/statement stayed with me through the spring and summer as I worked on a concept for our show podcast.mansfield.edu which launched in September.
I will say that Curry has been a daily habit since last year. He's so ****ed committed and passionate. He also has a talent for jumping from entrepreneur to mischievous boy-guy to husband-father to car geek, often on one show.
Again, thanks for throwing out the question which has created a fascinating thread of people sharing their experiences and thoughts.

[tabulator32]

I can only GUESS how many podcasters have daydreamed about building a low-power rig and wondered what was needed to get a show going. I did after seeing the movie "Pump Up the Volume." And to this day, I think it's a crock what's happening, even to legitimate community radio stations like WAVM (http://web.maynard.ma.us/wavm/radio/).

But that's why we're here.

I loved "Pump up the Volume" when it came out.

The WAVM thing sucks! I didn't gather from the news clips I saw whether the decision had come down yet. Is it too late to write the FCC?

[tsidock]

I can only GUESS how many podcasters have daydreamed about building a low-power rig and wondered what was needed to get a show going. I did after seeing the movie "Pump Up the Volume." And to this day, I think it's a crock what's happening, even to legitimate community radio stations like WAVM (http://web.maynard.ma.us/wavm/radio/).

But that's why we're here.

I watch Pump Up the Volume whenever I need to rejuvinate a bit. Awesome! A long time fav to throw in the DVD player!

Tom

[rileyb]

TWiT inspired me to do my podcast.

[ExtraLife]

my old show from 99, and seeing there was a new REAL way to get the thing out there.

[thekongshow]

Dawn and Drew all the way baby. I listened to them all summer, got excited about podcasting, then got my friends excited about it and thus, The Kong Show was born.

[monkey_one]

chim chim from speed racer
rodney mcdowall
coco the gorilla
of course grape ape
and mustafa from the lion king he sure is wise
elton john
and that dude from the eighties tv show what was his name ....max headroom ya I think he was the original vidcaster

[Steve Pinder]

LOL

Monkey_one, I just listened to your show 109.
Great show, good sound quality. I thought it kicked ***.

Steve Pinder
www.karatekast.com

[monkey_one]

bla bla bla

[monkey_one]

LOL

Monkey_one, I just listened to your show 109.
Great show, good sound quality. I thought it kicked ***.

Steve Pinder
www.karatekast.com
Thank you sensei
very much you are very kind
I also like and have subscribed to your podcast
I am a non practicing at the moment martial artist
its good to sort of keep in touch with the atrs
with your podcast thankyou
I like what you were saying about traditional and non traditional philosophy
and with out people thinking out of the box like Bruce Lee alot of us would never have the opurtunity to learn

[Far From Subtle]

Tiki Bar, hands down. My fellow Canadian filmmakers have broken into the medium with a bang.

[conradslater]

Norm Augustinus
Wanda Wisdom
Madge Weinstein
Simulacrum
and Roger Smalls

all the played an importanr role in gettting me up and running. I will always be grateful for their inspiration and support they gave without even knowing it.

[GilPodcast]

Monkey_one, I just listened to your show 109.
Great show, good sound quality. I thought it kicked ***.

Steve Pinder
www.karatekast.com



Thank you sensei
I also like and have subscribed to your podcast

A monkey listening to a podcast about karate. Now that is priceless humor. :lol: Thanks for the laugh. :D

[monkey_one]

havnt ya heard of the drunkn monkey style

[podcastingpixels.com]

I was inspired by D&D. My show helps me keep in touch with my friends from around the world.