We need a podcast.
Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 7:14 pm
I know, old Aunti is overusing the Grecian Formula, and it must have soaked into his brain, but hear me out.
First, how many of you still listen to radio in your car? I haven't for a couple of years now. The last thing I was using was satellite radio, and that gets pretty old. You old timers probably still do. I'm doubting that half of the under 30's still use the radio. My favorite in the car music program is Pandora, over 3g, anytime I'm in a metro area, playing on an Android smart phone. But more likely I'm listening to technology podcasts, using that same 3g to download them. I usually have 8 hours of them qued up.
The last car I had didn't have an Ipod/MP3player port was made in 2002. Nearly anything newer has a port somewhere, even if us old folks don't know what it is. The newer cars won't just take an analog signal and play it, but will talk to your smartphone or Ipod Touch via Bluetooth or USB, and then if you want download and index you music, and store it on the car's hard drive. My point about this is people, especially younger people, roll their own entertainment, and listen to what they want when they want and are far less likely to go with traditional format, and far more likely to try to find exactly what they want to hear. The world is changing, and traditional media geared to serve even a small niche of the population isn't going to to be able to serve a user base of millions of individuals in control of their own programming.
There are gun show podcasts, but they are all right wing fwapathons and really not too well done. They aren't too much help for a beginning shooter, have an intolerant and political message and camo overtones, and pretty much give oral satisfaction to any gun/equipment/tacticool seller or maker. There's nothing there for the younger crowd. Which is good, as that makes fashioning something better easy.
We have a lot of material here on the LGC, but even if it was just a bunch of guys talking about whatever comes into their heads I think we could put together something interesting. For those of you who aren't familiar with KV's efforts at DailyKOS, there is a longstanding fight going on over Liberal values, and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, I'd bet that alone would be 6-8 shows as there is a lot of nuances that would take a good hour to get into thoroughly.
But really, I'm thinking gun safety should be huge, lots and lots of beginner stuff - buying, shooting, reloading, hunting, you could do CCW interviews on both sides, why and why not. Frankly it's an area served by a lot of magazines and cable channels, but the podcasts suck and I think there is an opportunity.
It might also raise a few eyebrows in the right wing camp, and we might find (as we do here every week) people who had no idea there were other left leaning gun shooters out there.
So here's a place to discuss or just cuss. Have at it.
First, how many of you still listen to radio in your car? I haven't for a couple of years now. The last thing I was using was satellite radio, and that gets pretty old. You old timers probably still do. I'm doubting that half of the under 30's still use the radio. My favorite in the car music program is Pandora, over 3g, anytime I'm in a metro area, playing on an Android smart phone. But more likely I'm listening to technology podcasts, using that same 3g to download them. I usually have 8 hours of them qued up.
The last car I had didn't have an Ipod/MP3player port was made in 2002. Nearly anything newer has a port somewhere, even if us old folks don't know what it is. The newer cars won't just take an analog signal and play it, but will talk to your smartphone or Ipod Touch via Bluetooth or USB, and then if you want download and index you music, and store it on the car's hard drive. My point about this is people, especially younger people, roll their own entertainment, and listen to what they want when they want and are far less likely to go with traditional format, and far more likely to try to find exactly what they want to hear. The world is changing, and traditional media geared to serve even a small niche of the population isn't going to to be able to serve a user base of millions of individuals in control of their own programming.
There are gun show podcasts, but they are all right wing fwapathons and really not too well done. They aren't too much help for a beginning shooter, have an intolerant and political message and camo overtones, and pretty much give oral satisfaction to any gun/equipment/tacticool seller or maker. There's nothing there for the younger crowd. Which is good, as that makes fashioning something better easy.
We have a lot of material here on the LGC, but even if it was just a bunch of guys talking about whatever comes into their heads I think we could put together something interesting. For those of you who aren't familiar with KV's efforts at DailyKOS, there is a longstanding fight going on over Liberal values, and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, I'd bet that alone would be 6-8 shows as there is a lot of nuances that would take a good hour to get into thoroughly.
But really, I'm thinking gun safety should be huge, lots and lots of beginner stuff - buying, shooting, reloading, hunting, you could do CCW interviews on both sides, why and why not. Frankly it's an area served by a lot of magazines and cable channels, but the podcasts suck and I think there is an opportunity.
It might also raise a few eyebrows in the right wing camp, and we might find (as we do here every week) people who had no idea there were other left leaning gun shooters out there.
So here's a place to discuss or just cuss. Have at it.
