I’ve had people ask me, “If you don’t make money with Men in Gorilla Suits and Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors, then why do it?” Here are five reasons:
- While I love the solitude that comes with writing novels, it takes a while to complete a book. Podcasting gives me a weekly sense of completion — not one that comes every few years.
- Men in Gorilla Suits is just as much an excuse to hang out with Shawn Kupfer on a regular basis as it is to complete something new every week.
- I like picking any topic I find interesting and running with it. Look at the list of shows we’ve done and you’ll see we’ve forced ourselves to really examine how we feel about much more than a single focus. (Not that there is anything wrong with podcasts with a single focus; in fact, if you asked me what you should do to get a large audience, I’d say, “Focus on one thing and do it really well — not discuss random topics every week like we do!”)
- I like making our weekly images for the site. Seriously — it’s a blast!
- I like when a show takes on a life of its own and I go back and listen and think, “I’m especially proud of that episode!”
But what I like most about podcasting is the people I’ve met along the way!
Podcast Movement
This weekend is Podcast Movement. For a first-time conference, it’s bringing in over 600 people from all around the world.
I’ve already been chatting with a guy who makes short films and shoots video in Canada. One of the people who inspired me to podcast will be up from Austin
. There will be plenty of local podcasters from the Dallas/Fort Worth area whom I see at a monthly podcast meetup. And there will be a lot more people I don’t know and look forward to meeting.
All the sessions look great — Gary, Dan, Mitch, and Jared have done a great job getting presenters for no matter where you are with podcasting and your goals.
Get in Touch
If you bump into me at Podcast Movement and want to get in touch (or even get in touch before the conference), here’s how to do it:
Social Media:
Podcasts:
- Men in Gorilla Suits
- Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors (A humorous coming-of-age story about a family traveling cross country in a possessed station wagon.)
Books:
Oh Yeah…
This week’s Men in Gorilla Suits podcast is about subcultures. There’s a bit about podcasters as subculture from roughly the 9:00 mark to the 11:15 mark, including a bit about James Kinson’s Cash Car Convert, which is really a lot more than just how to save money by buying a cash car.
James is a panelist at the Getting A-List Guests for Your Podcast at Podcast Movement on Sunday. While I plan to attend Darrell Darnell’s Advanced Audio Editing Techniques at that time (we don’t have guests on Men in Gorilla Suits), all the panelists for the session with James look great — check it out!
