Have you ever been part of a Podcasting duo? Funny you should ask, because yes.
Back in England in 2005 I worked at the same University as Dubber. I was a video technician and I think at that point in time he was pretending to teach radio. He was involved with a research project about online music which I ended up doing the purchasing for. Intrigued by the shopping list – a pile of various MP3 players, Apple Mac’s and other technological delights – I became interested and got involved with the project.
What happened in my days as a nearly-academic-almost-a-researcher is probably worthy of an entirely separate post. It has awesome cool toys, research papers, a book, a trip to Amsterdam and a whole bucket of spending time with some amazingly clever people. For now I will just say that our research led us to think about podcasting and to help us understand it we started a podcast.
The premise for Dubber and Spoons Take the Bus was simple, we got the same bus home everyday and spent most of the journey talking. We started recording our conversations and we put them online.
In the beginning it was all quite techy while we figured out the relationship between the blog, RSS feed, server, podcatcher and device and I don’t think we ever really expected people to listen.
Once we got the talking about podcasting mostly out of our systems the conversation moves from movies and tv to music and buying records to media studies, research and beer. Catch phrases and recurring jokes happened almost organically and the occasional guest podcaster made an appearance.
The humour, HAH, is mostly based on me deliberately misunderstanding Dubber’s New Zealand accent. Best example would be Best Eel Day. Put this episode in your ears:
Buscast 032:Pirate Alley
It has the misunderstanding Dubber right at the beginning but sneakily isn’t on a bus.
For some reason, still possibly unexplained, people did listen. Literally tens of people. Download stats on the files may have indicated listeners, or at least downloads, in the hundreds at various times.
We were featured in The Guardian, see here, on a top 8 list of podcasts that included Ricky Gervais.
The BBC joined us on one of our journeys to interview us for a feature on podcasting (clicky) and a fan from Canadia come all the way to the UK to guest on the show. Click ME
The audio files of the show, which ran for a 36 episode first season and a 9 episode second season (before suddenly stopping), have been sitting on my computer un-used for years now. The original blogger blog had dead links to all the shows so I decided to create an archive.
You can find it here:
http://thebuscast.com/
Most of the shows apart from some early episodes and the end of season 1 are available.
If you are really really bored and have a spare 20-40 mins one day then pick a random show and have a listen. I never understood the appeal myself, but who knows YOU may be one of the nut jobs that would have subscribed to and enjoyed the buscast!
Dubber and Spoons Take the Bus
Have you ever been part of a Podcasting duo? Funny you should ask, because yes.
Back in England in 2005 I worked at the same University as Dubber. I was a video technician and I think at that point in time he was pretending to teach radio. He was involved with a research project about online music which I ended up doing the purchasing for. Intrigued by the shopping list – a pile of various MP3 players, Apple Mac’s and other technological delights – I became interested and got involved with the project.
What happened in my days as a nearly-academic-almost-a-researcher is probably worthy of an entirely separate post. It has awesome cool toys, research papers, a book, a trip to Amsterdam and a whole bucket of spending time with some amazingly clever people. For now I will just say that our research led us to think about podcasting and to help us understand it we started a podcast.
The premise for Dubber and Spoons Take the Bus was simple, we got the same bus home everyday and spent most of the journey talking. We started recording our conversations and we put them online.
In the beginning it was all quite techy while we figured out the relationship between the blog, RSS feed, server, podcatcher and device and I don’t think we ever really expected people to listen.
Once we got the talking about podcasting mostly out of our systems the conversation moves from movies and tv to music and buying records to media studies, research and beer. Catch phrases and recurring jokes happened almost organically and the occasional guest podcaster made an appearance.
The humour, HAH, is mostly based on me deliberately misunderstanding Dubber’s New Zealand accent. Best example would be Best Eel Day. Put this episode in your ears:
Buscast 032:Pirate Alley
It has the misunderstanding Dubber right at the beginning but sneakily isn’t on a bus.
For some reason, still possibly unexplained, people did listen. Literally tens of people. Download stats on the files may have indicated listeners, or at least downloads, in the hundreds at various times.
We were featured in The Guardian, see here, on a top 8 list of podcasts that included Ricky Gervais.
The BBC joined us on one of our journeys to interview us for a feature on podcasting (clicky) and a fan from Canadia come all the way to the UK to guest on the show. Click ME
The audio files of the show, which ran for a 36 episode first season and a 9 episode second season (before suddenly stopping), have been sitting on my computer un-used for years now. The original blogger blog had dead links to all the shows so I decided to create an archive.
You can find it here:
http://thebuscast.com/
Most of the shows apart from some early episodes and the end of season 1 are available.
If you are really really bored and have a spare 20-40 mins one day then pick a random show and have a listen. I never understood the appeal myself, but who knows YOU may be one of the nut jobs that would have subscribed to and enjoyed the buscast!