Several months ago, I met with a good (tech-savvy) friend I trust, who advised me on how to start my news blog.  I asked him whether I should start a Podcast.  It’s not a decision of yes or no, he told me, you must start a Podcast to complement your news blog.

So I began the journey of looking into the technical aspects, the equipment required to produce a quality Podcast and how to go about the whole process.

I started gathering the equipment slowly at the beginning of 2016, tested everything, working out the technical glitches (there were many) and started posting Podcasts in early February.

My thanks to Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness for agreeing to be my first guest on the LarryInFishers interview Podcast series.  As always, he was a great interview.  The concept of the LarryInFishers Podcasts is to allow local people a relaxed, long form venue to talk about what they are doing in the local community.  So far, it has been very popular

Also in early February, I started a daily Podcast called “One Guy Talks About Taxes.”  Since I have a tax background and still help instruct a tax practitioner institute for Indiana University in the fall, it seemed a perfect fit.  There was only one problem – nobody was listening.  Well, nobody may be a bit strong – let’s say I had a very loyal but very small group listening to that Podcast.  With the amount of work it took to produce that program Monday through Friday, with the small audience pool that wasn’t growing, I had to pull the plug on that project.  But I thank the small group that did listen.

Once the tax series ended, I asked myself what I should do to replace it?  I came up with the Arts&Fishers Podcast.  I did some film reviews years ago, so I attempted to clear out the cobwebs and try my hand at arts reviewing.  I try to review local arts events, but there are not always enough to keep the programs coming.  I expanded the scope to review films and some television programs.

The reason I am writing about my Podcasts now is that I have just surpassed 2,000 plays of my Podcasts.  That means since early February, there have been over 2,000 instances where someone has listened to one of my Podcasts.  For someone working on the local level of Fishers, that is an amazing number.  I never imagined clearing 2,000 plays just 3 months into this Podcasting endeavor.

This news blog started it all.  Allow me to thank each and every one of you reading this blog.  I also thank those listening to my Podcasts.  I may not be making any money on any of this, but I have the satisfaction of knowing people are reading and listening.  That’s a good feeling.