Podcasting is kinda the sh*t, y’all. It’s so fun. I honestly recommend it for everyone. Who cares if anyone listens. You get the benefit of recording it…good discussions about things that you love. That’s just good medicine, ya know?
It’s crazy…I’ve been podcasting for 10 years. It’ll be 10 years this year. It all started with Fresh Produce, which was a music podcast I did weekly covering the underground dance music’s new releases. What a job it was putting that show together. I was so happy doing it, but it was A LOT of work.
Then I stopped podcasting for a while in 2012. The sheer amount of work it took to run that podcast wore me down, and I saw so little in return for it. Well, I suppose that’s not quite true. It wasn’t necessarily the return on the podcast that was the problem, it was the return on my DJing that was. There just wasn’t any money in it, and I was broke AF in early 2012. Broker than I’ve ever been. I had to step away. It was the right choice.
I got back into podcasting three years later with my friend Joe. We did Green Collar Baseball, which was about the Oakland A’s. Loved doing that, but the year was such a bad year to start it. Our team was so bad. We traded all our good players at the trade deadline that year, ensuring a sinking season, and Joe and didn’t do another episode 😂
Then in 2016, Josh and I started recording Two Guys One Trek, which we just wrapped up in the middle of last year. Recording, at least. We still have two full seasons of episodes to release, and that will happen at some point this year. That will be over 100 episodes of content. Evergreen content, since it’s all about discussing what has now become an essentially timeless show.
Now…it’s Film School. Started in 2019. We’re 8 episodes in…and it’s awesome. It’s awesome talking about great movies and storytelling. That is truly my great obsession. Josh and I have both found an outlet for that, and it’s intoxicating in that it allows us to hang out and do what we love doing AND be making a project out of it at the same time.
Josh and I were talking today already about what lies beyond the AFI’s Top 100 films. Already. And it’s because there is SO MUCH to cover in terms of amazing storytelling on film. It’s endless. Truly. We could do this podcast for the rest of our lives and not cover everything. And that is…amazing. It’s invigorating. It gives me hope and purpose: I’ll never run out of good stories. They are endless.
Talking about them on a podcast is icing on top of the cake.
Anywho…we watched Pulp Fiction today, and it’s so, so good. Our second unanimous 5-star movie on the ‘cast, and arguably the most impactful of the movies we’ve watched so far. That movie was just an explosion. It still is. It’s influenced…everyone. Everything. So quotable. So funny. Such incredible-looking photography. Performances are absolutely impeccable and that script…is probably one of the best scripts ever written. It changed dialogue. It changed the craft of suspense. It’s a milestone.
Then Liz and went over to Stephen and Thida’s house for some Hawaii-inspired food. Soooo goooood. Stephen’s such a good cook. There were doggos there. Dixie was a newly-adopted pup found on the streets. She’s very thin, but otherwise seems to be pretty healthy. Soooo sweet. A boxer-mix. Obi was a French bulldog and was a FOOD. HOUND. So funny. And Tommen, of course. Great evening.
Now, it’s time for bed. Gotta get up early and pack.
Night 😉