So once upon a time there was a podcast. (Not naming names.) It was just getting started up; only the first episode was live. It was on a subject that I’m a fan of. However, after listening to the first five minutes of the first episode of the podcast, I stopped and haven’t gone back.
What popped out in my journal this morning, the last thing before I wrapped up:
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The sign that the [name] podcast was going nowhere was that they didn’t get down to the meat of the matter. They talked about themselves — they talked about how and why they were doing this — they avoided the ballsy move, which was to talk about the topic itself — which is contentious — right off the bat. They did their Academy Awards speech before they made the movie — not because they were arrogant, I think, but because they were afraid.
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If you liked this entry, please check out Angela Carter’s Wise Children on audio. It sounds like Helen Mirren with a cockney accent reading a bawdy, rambling story about families, twins, theater, and Shakespeare.