And welcome to the classroom. Or podroom if you will. Yup, I do it all watch sports, eat, sleep and now educating my peers. Fu*king exhausting. But for you, the reader, I will always reach further and faster than the competition. So here we go.
Featured on our Monday Pod Pack was Skeletor's Mouthpiece, a recently established podcast in England. Skeletor's Mouthpiece is run by Dan Scractcher & Adam Roberts.
I was able to ask them some questions about how they got started and advice they have for the future podcasters of the world. So put on your reading glasses, make a little bit of room in that multitasking mind of yours and soak it in.
PodWorld: What gave you the motivation to start a podcast?
Skeletor's Mouthpiece: We've known each other for 16 years and met at school through our mutual friend Nick Wheadon (the guy who keeps falling off his chair in episodes 5 & 6), pretty much straight off the bat we were talking shit and goofing around. As we have gotten older we have tried ways to do something creative together as we live in rural England and creative stimulation is hard to come by, mainly trying to come up with good ideas for film/T.V scripts, Adam even wrote some stand up. Most of these are much like the podcast, heavy amounts of toilet humour. It's quite a big part of the British sense of humour, especially in our age group as we grew up watching a generation of excellent comedians on t.v such as Harry Enfield, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. I figured we had good chemistry as we have been friends for so long so why not give it a try.............plus I thought the world needed to know about how much of a tool Roberts is, mission accomplished I'd say.
PW: Are podcasts becoming as big in England as they are here in the US?
SM: As far as I can see Podcasts are universally becoming more and more popular and it's an exciting and relatively inexpensive new way to get 'material', if you can call what we do material, out to a large audience.
PW: Any advice for future podcasters?
SM: look into hosting sites seriously and take into account the amount of time you are going to spend doing all the stuff that isn't as fun as recording. Also try not to put any undue pressure on yourself like time constraints or the quality of your 'material', the interweb is a large place and if people will listen to us two then there's an audience for everything.
Also, type "how to podcast" into google. There are some great guides out there that make the whole process very easy. Once you have your platform sorted then you can start thinking about content. Or, if you are like us, just switch a mic on and try to let the content develop itself. If you are slightly more ambitious then I'd read up on basic sound recording, Dan and I both have experience with this so have managed to get a decent enough amateur sound using my home studio set-up. There are certain impressions I feel you have to make to be taken seriously and a good sound quality helps to lend an air of legitimacy. Saying that though...you could just record it into an Iphone. That works too.
Well there you have it folks! A nice educational touch to the blog. Yes, I know my NFL picks are very educational in terms of how to lose $. But this one tops it all. Hopefully we will have a few more of these in the coming posts.
Big thanks to Adam & Dan. Don't forget to follow them on twitter:@skeletorspiece
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