Recently, I made my first podcast. Quite the exciting moment in my life, let me tell you. I tried to make it about a hike in the Rancho San Antonio open space reserve, near where I grew up. For the most part, it sticks pretty close to being about the hike, although I feel I put in a lot of random stuff about the area mostly because I did not know what else to talk about. The experience of making the podcast was actually not particularly interesting for me. Lots of people seem to love the experience of making podcasts, as it allows them to communicate their ideas and themselves in a more efficient and personal manner then, say, blogs. I personally do not have that same urge to share information making the podcast creation process feel a bit unnatural. Once I got started talking, it was fine and I was able to freely ramble on about whatever wandered into my mind (train of though style), but the actual overall experience is not something I would naturally try to seek out and do. The follow up of editing was a bit more fun for me, once I got over listening to myself talk. I really just dropped out the ‘um’s and long awkward pauses, then added some music – mostly because I felt I had to add something shiny to the thing.

Overall, the experience of making the podcast was awkward at first, but once I got started and no one got angry at me, it was fairly straightforward. It is not something I think I’ll try to do again, just because I very rarely have something to say that has not already been said by someone else, in a more clear and eloquent fashion.