I think I'm goin' back to the things I learned so well in my youth
So a big challenge has been getting inspired again about the podcast...I knew it would happen if I just did a time-out, and I think I worked out what the problem was.
In October 2020 I split the podcast into two, as a response to new mashup people who had NO idea about the old guard. In a huff about the lack of knowledge I did special mashup podcasts, kind of back to where I started, alternating with non-mashup podcasts.
I quickly found that people were waiting for me to 'go back to mashups' but that the audience was very fickle — people would support the podcasts they were featured on, and then never be seen for dust for the rest.
I got quite depressed about the whole thing, because it was obvious that it was tumbleweed for the other podcasts, and bursty — but not really a long term audience — for the others. So I stopped doing them in January — that podcast as sitting on my hard drive for 2 WEEKS before I edited it, that's how excited I was to get it out. Never happened before. Warning Klaxon!
So finally there are some songs and things I want to play, including mashups. I am now intending to reunify the two parts of the podcast...
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