Podcast

Discovering podcasts from 14 years ago

Podcasting is a huge business these days, weighing in at $11.07 billion market value in 2020. Expected to grow to $60.50 billion in 2027. WOW! Long before podcasting became huge, back in 2006, I helped to start the Chicago Podcast Meetup group. The great Leigh Hanlon, one of coworker friends at Tribune Media Services, shared …

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Recording children singing in stereo

One of my favorite podcasts is Random Tape. The description reads, “A cabinet of auditory wonders for the 21st century.” An older description captures the podcast better, “Random Tape is a radio show that features bizarre voice messages, rants, poetry, music, found recordings and other Random sounds.” The most recent episode, “Este Mundo“, is a …

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Hyperallergic podcast: episode 1

Hyperallergic’s new podcast is ok

Hyperallergic is one of the art websites that I regularly enjoy; therefore, it’s exciting to hear they are now doing a weekly podcast! To give you a taste of Hyperallergic’s fun stories, here’s some of the most recent articles from the 77 articles that I’ve saved to Evernote over time. A City Where Trees Tweet …

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Chicago podcast meetup, Tue Oct 3, 2006 at Apple store

The Chicago podcast meetup group is having their first meeting at the Michigan Avenue Apple Store on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at 7:00pm. So far, 19 people have RSVP’ed “Yes.” You can sign-up at: http://podcasting.meetup.com/72/events/5061382/ (or you could just show up). Here’s the podcasts of the people who are coming: Nat Kealen podcast homepage: www.evilavatarradio.com …

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Things i get mixed up

Stove, oven To this day, i still have a hard time discerning these two. The “ove” in both words is what probably gets me, plus the fact that the stove and oven are all in one unit. Colorado, Arizona It wasn’t until last week when i finally realized that i think of these two states …

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What type of Chicago Cubs tickets sell out first

Some observations about how the tickets sold. These is based solely on the Chicago Cubs website when they state “Tickets to the following games are no longer available or have scattered single seats.” To make this simple, I’m merely calling this “sold out.” 1. August or September? An odd thing is that August games sell …

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Chicago Cubs not doing good with opening games lately

For the past seven seasons the Chicago Cubs are 1-7 for their season opener game. The one win came in 2003. But in their total history since 1876, they have won 57.3% of their opening day games Longest season opening game winning streak: 8 seasons: 1915-1922 Longest season opening game losing streak: 4 seasons: 1946-1949, …

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!!!exclamation party!!!

One exclamation point said to the other, “HELLO!” Exclamation parties are always loud. The periods always call the cops on them and say, “we want the noise to stop. now.” Commas are like, “well, it can certainly continue some more.” The semicolons say, “I think it can take short pause.” Question marks ask, “when do …

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