Hey 3.5 readers.
I tried to do a podcast once. Alas, The Bookshelf Battlecast was thankfully short lived. Actually, it never really lived. It was dead on arrival.
I enjoyed using the software to cut sound clips together and it’s funny how you never really learn how to do something until you try to do it. It all seemed very confusing at first but before I knew it, I was mixing sound and fading in background music, the whole shebang.
Sadly, I, BQB was the weak link in the BQB cast. I have a face for radio, a voice for print, and a writing style for unpaid blogs that any schmuck with a computer can start. On the mic, I was about as exciting as listening to paint dry and I realized I was better off not on air at all.
The fun byproduct is that I hired various celebrity impersonators to do intros for the podcast. With their talent, they brought scripts I wrote for them to life and a few of them even told me that they had a lot of fun performing what I wrote. I’m like 50 percent sure they weren’t just saying that.
Anyway, here’s a clip of a talented Arnie impersonator doing a bit I wrote:
Bookshelf Battle 
😀 😀 Well… now I wonder if the podcast was really that bad.
It was. I didn’t have the performing talent. I can write funny words but other people need to do the performing, and he added nice touches like the background music.
I hear you there. My friend, Matt, recorded audio clips of my serial story on his blog. I didn’t even think to have music or story-appropriate background noise.