My stuff was some of the better imaging I have done… BUT no one besides friends and acquaintances have ever heard it. I’m not sure AC or anyone at Podshow ever actually downloaded the final product and gave it a listen. So, because I was asked to meet an unbelievable 24 hour deadline… I got skipped over. One might wonder why I, one guy at home with a mic and a computer, was ever asked… Methinks maybe my gullibility and lack of independent business acumen (read ‘shark ability’) might have been showing.

I saw the writing on the wall… even Jan Polet dumped me when his popularity and elbow rubbing with AC got him inroads with a certain famous NY announcer who replaced me on the hit test. Mind you, I’m not insulted! (And I have no hard feelings towards Jan.) The man’s work/voice is clearly better than mine… My point is, I saw early on that podcasting was going to go the way of terrestrial broadcasting… Get slick, be all about the ad money and leave everyone except well connected, industry savvy people behind.

So… I did the only sensible thing there was to do. I went immediately back to terrestrial radio… doing weather and spots while tending three automated satellite FM radio stations. It was a steady paycheck and my bank account thanked me.

But you know what, P-Dub?!! I had fun with you and Jan… my fifteen minutes of internet fame. (I would run into people elsewhere on the net and get “You’re THAT Kevin… the Announcer Guy?!!!”) I never did get any recognition for producing the $16 mil airplane piece he ran for four and a half years as his show opener. (Did you ever know I did that one?) BUT that $500 check from Podshow for my work they never used cashed just fine at the bank.

Oh well… had fun and made a few bucks… what more can you ask for?

Three cheers and a beer, P-Dub. But as someone much wiser than I once said… “Follow your bliss!”

That said, if we ever meet, I’ll gladly buy you a beer. Or two.

Do what’s right for PDub.

Took me a while to get most extended family and friends trained to do one of two things:
1) Check it out on snopes.com before forwarding it to anyone.
2) Not forward it to *me* under any circumstances.

There were a few stragglers, and I finally had to specifically filter them out of my email. One particular “friend” changed email addresses when she moved back East – only reason I knew that is because I started getting BS forwards from her again after many months of blissful silence. So I edited the filter, and my inbox is once again relatively idiot-free.

Cracks me up though, sometimes, when someone says “random” and I’ll interject “you mean ‘arbitrary’”… and they just stare at me blankly because they don’t know what “arbitrary” means… even less than their misunderstanding of what “random” means.

Great show, P-Dub!

Oh, and “aka” means “Also Known As”… but what you might mean above is “i.e.”, abbreviated Latin for something akin to “that is”. The “K”nown implies something other than ignorance, which is a little ironic (yet entertaining) in this case.