Secret Histories of Podcasting
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2015
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
It turns out there are (at least) three ways to tell the secret history of podcasting: it is a story about technology, it is a story about a business model for audio, and it is also a story about the birth of a new art form. What’s really cool is that the whole thing is sort of a Rashomon narrative – in this special edition to mark the radiotopiaforever campaign your host attempts to tell all three versions using the same people. Visit radiotopia.fm to join the radiotopiaforever campaign.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything. |
| 0:05.0 | At Radiotopia, we now have a select group of amazing supporters that help us make all our shows possible. If you would like to have your company or |
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| 0:21.4 | fm. Thanks. Hey dear listener, it's me Benjamin Walker. I just |
| 0:26.7 | want to say a quick thank you to everyone who's already donated to support Radiotopia |
| 0:32.4 | and this show during our fall fundraiser. |
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| 1:27.0 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker Theory of Everything. |
| 1:31.0 | This installment is called secret histories of podcasting. |
| 1:37.0 | The first time I really heard the word podcasting was on October 5th 2004. This is when my friend radio producer Mary |
| 1:47.2 | McGrath called me up and said if you don't make your radio show a podcast you |
| 1:52.2 | are totally going to miss out on the revolution and you |
| 1:55.2 | will be the biggest loser in the universe. |
| 1:58.5 | Those were the days when we used to talk on the phone every day about the burdens of working in institutional media and how much |
| 2:05.0 | nimble and easier it would be to just kind of work on your own and I saw the |
| 2:10.5 | power of this thing. I know the exact date of this call because after I got off the |
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