Podcast Ping Special 2 - A Podcast Ping Christmas

A Podcast Ping Christmas

This is a reworking of the Podcast Ping Christmas Calendar from
2009. I took all the poems and music and compiled them together
into a single episode.



Doing this made me realize how much work I put into the Calendar.
Just putting this together took a couple of hours even though I had
everything else already done. The episode runs more than an hour
and a half. I did have to redo the credits which themselves run
about a minute and a half, and that's after compressing them.

I used all the old recordings of the poems instead of re-recording
them. They probably would sound better had I re-recorded them but I
wanted to save some time and effort. Re-recording would likely have
taken a few days to record and edit, and it may not have made that
much difference. The original recordings aren't that bad.

The idea was really to give people the convince of getting all the
songs and poems from the Christmas Calendar in one file. This way
the special can be played as background for a Christmas party. And
I'm sure there's many who will be surprised to hear so many
Christmas songs that they may never have heard before.

Since the Christmas Calendar was twenty-five days long, this
special contains twenty-five songs and poems about Christmas. That
means I've written about twenty-five Christmas poems, although some
are just seasonal poems about winter. It's likely that I wouldn't
have written many of them if I didn't have to do them for the
calendar.

As for further episodes of Podcast Ping, it's going to be a matter
of wait-and-see. I would like to do more but it does take time. But
it's not so much the time it takes, it's more that I've just got so
many other things to work on, and working on Podcast Ping takes
time and effort away from those.

But I never really quit Podcast Ping, I just put it aside. And this
is the second special I've done since the wrap-up show. I did have
an idea for another podcast but I've been unable to get into that.
And it's really hard to get an audience now for a new podcast. The
podcast market is over-saturated and people can find streaming
video very easily. It's hard to justify the work when you're
struggling to get even twenty people to listen.

But if I do more Podcast Ping episodes it will be because I want to
listen to them. And Podcast Ping is sufficiently established that I
could get a decent sized audience. But I will have to spend some
time writing poems and I've been busy with other writing lately so
it could be a while. If I can sit down and crank out a few hundred
poems it won't be hard to put episodes together. And I expect I
will need that much because it would only really be worth doing if
I was doing them weekly; monthly shows would not likely hold a
large enough audience.