Arroe Collins Pod-Crashing

Pod-Crashing Episode 53 The Writing Instrument Making your voice last longer than a three hour Capitol building protest. We’ve all seen the 5 o’clock news and saw in the end that decision makers weren’t moved. I posted on Facebook. Sometimes we have to be reminded of how important a Writing Instrument is. We can easily get lost in a sea of protest banners and other people’s loud voices without rea...

Pod-Crashing Episode 52 Programming Let’s lay it on the line. I’m not a Trouble Maker or Firestarter but I’ve always been a walker of my own way. I can openly admit that during the thirty three years I invested in Terrestrial Radio I drove a lot of decision makers and leaders over the edge. I truly love those that took that time weekly if not daily to sit me down in their nicely designed programmi...

Pod-Crashing Episode 51: The Depth Of The Interview First. I’m not a fan of the word interview. Why I chose to hoist it into the title is totally trying to spend less time having to explain what it is I do. I always say, “Let’s have a conversation!” People are like, “OK what about?” “No No No… lets do an interview.” “Ohhhhhhhh” I get in a lot of verbal wrestling matches with friends, family, socia...

Pod-Crashing Episode 50 I once had an Operations Manager that got very upset with the on-air terrestrial radio staff because they wouldn’t take advantage of the wide open space provided by the radio stations webpage. There it was! In plain public view! Do what you do! Create an army of followers with your point of view! Outside of cutting and pasting the personality of the station website laid the...

Pod-Crashing Episode 49 Not Open For Business Here we sit. Week number two of the Great 2020 Coronavirus meltdown. One by one the bigger cities are officially declaring their boundary’s closed. As people are forced to stay inside the President teased us on Monday March 23rd that he was ready to put America back to work by Easter. I felt hope. Like maybe he knew something and within minutes we’d al...

Pod-Crashing Episode 48 Who Do You Support As the Coronavirus continues to increase its presence globally, a lot of speculation and self-designed predictions are making their way to social media. I spent today disconnecting from Jesus Freaks and Political fire starters vowing that the U.S. Government is going to slam us into a wall of Martial Law making this nation a new land ripe for a dictatorsh...

Pod-Crashing Episode 47: I once had a program director that constantly reminded us to deal with Radio Reality. He’d begin every conversation saying, “Hey! This is how it really is!” Mike put so much refocus back into my career that I began watching every level of the Broadcast game. Hey! This is how it really is! Conan O’Brien’s conversation with actor Paul Ruben. The creator of Pee Wee Herman is...

Pod-Crashing Episode 46 The Forecast In a letter to a business requesting information about my podcast, I forecast that by 2022 big companies would have their own podcasting departments. Not for entertainment but for content and connection. A valuable resource to help lift company websites and email blasts. To use the podcast as the tool but done so in a way that doesn’t push people away. That mea...

Pod-Crashing Episode 45: On The Road Taking your podcast out on the road truly is far from being an original concept. NPR mastered that magic trick decades before well edited blogs evolved into a vocal approach. Look at what CBS was doing with Charles Kuralt. Even Stern got into the action with his birthday bash and on the spot reporting that usually featured a huge guest list. We can’t leave out...

Pod-Crashing Episode 44 Who Is Your Audience Throughout my forty one years of terrestrial radio, knowing who your radio listener is has always been a huge part of the connection puzzle. I always saw it as a game of Let’s Pretend. We are reaching our targeted audience of let’s say 25 to 45 year old women. Research shows this is who and how you should be directing every talk break. Do all you can no...

Pod-Crashing Episode 43 Love Stories Today while sharing a conversation with published author Allison Ashley we spent a little time discussing the digital process. With the enormous amount of success murder and suspense podcasts have been experiencing, how far are we from everlasting love stories from becoming podcast seasons and episodes? It doesn’t seem like anything knew right? Books on Tape wa...

Pod-Crashing Episode 42 Knowing The Dirt This could be a touchy subject but I think it needs to be talked about. Since mid-summer 2019 I’ve noticed a very interesting trend. The growing number of promoters and producers tossing their energy into the podcast hat. I call them “Listener Locaters” and “Guitar Center Home Studios Are Us” I’m endlessly flooded with emails and phone calls, “Hey man I can...

Pod-Crashing Episode 41: Trusting Evolution Every singer songwriter I sit with, we end up getting locked in talk about how music never stops evolving. None of the artists seem to be bothered by it. It’s as if they expect change. This might be the reason why so many fans of music enjoy listening to a live album. The songs we love are there! It’s just performed a little bit differently. The reason w...

Pod-Crashing Episode 39: The Beginning Between 2012 and 2016 I approached the decision makers of Broadcasting Schools and Universities to open their hearts and imaginations to accepting the platform dubbed Podcasting. I was losing the battle on the terrestrial radio side of the performance. Sales people loved it but didn’t know how to sell it and programmers wanted nothing to do with something tha...

Pod-Crashing Episode 38 Guts Students, business leaders and everyday people constantly ask, “What’s the best way to come up with podcast ideas? Is there a place to research what people wanna listen to? Can you show me where to begin?” I don’t mind being approached. I learned in 2012 that it’s all about building a community. Eight years ago I was asking myself, “What kind of gathering? Are there le...

Pod-Crashing Episode 37 Imaging Not to step on any toes but a lot of non-radio people have probably never heard of imaging. They just know they want something kind of fancy to electrify the podcast. You can hear it when you jump into an episode. Woot there it is! A huge 30 to 60 second show open with sweepers layered within the presentation. Imaging can be a great tool or a reason to drop you like...

Pod-Crashing Episode 36 Facing Podcast Burnout How much work is actually required to create a somewhat successful podcast? Just being honest. The work isn’t the biggest challenge. Showing up is. If I can get you to faithfully be on that microphone committed to making great content...the workload doesn’t sting quite as much. Podcast burnout flairs up when you pull off the performance then set it as...

Pod-Crashing Episode 35: The evolution of the podcast question I love questions. It doesn’t mean I locate answers but it opens the gate to explore. Since I began my journey into the digital universe it’s been quite entertaining to see how the podcast questions keep evolving. In 2012 I was bombarded with, “Why am I doing this? Do I really need to do this?” To co-workers and bosses asking, “Are you...

Pod-Crashing Episode 34: Can We Talk Business There’s so many different reasons why people get into podcasting. The love of the laugh, the openness to talk sports, freedom of speech to we’ve got to make some easy money! Yeah? How’s that working for ya? My friend Ron wrote to me the other day physically excited that his podcast had finally started to collect pennies and cents. We’re talking 3 cents...

Pod-Crashing Episode 33: Staying Independent It’s completely natural to wanna build a big bright and beautiful podcast then market the hell out of it. Wait wait. That last part is the ugly shoe in the picture. To market the podcast? You know, to push your stories and creative spirits onto every possible platform known to mankind. Not just this time but every time. To throw yourself into the center...

Pod-Crashing: Episode 32 Building your community. We hear a lot about that. If you’re a podcaster and it’s not your thing. You’ve still gotta get on board. Posting your episodes on the digital platform without using the other tools is like walking into a restaurant just to use their bathroom. You didn’t buy anything. You used their water, paper products and their customer service space. I’m amazed...

Pod-Crashing Episode 31 Controlled Chaos A single snap shot of our present place on the digital platform and barely anybody can figure it out. There’s a lot of guessing going on and you’ve gotta love it. Heard a quote today, “When I jumped onto this there were no forefathers.” Sharing that message was Michael Stevens who’s helped strengthen YouTube’s footprint into something other than free music...

Pod-Crashing Episode 30: Are We There Yet We’ve talked about it multiple times. Podcasting’s history. It’s been trudging along since the late 1980’s. Gained some speed during the birth of the iPod generation and has lightly floated around at an uneven pace without any real race. Podcasting’s always been that nearly next to underground thing comedians, politicians, home studio junkies and maybe a f...

Pod-Crashing Episode 29: Shapes and shades The many shapes and shades of this thing called podcasting. The new age way to blog. No really! That’s how it got started. A ton of words were being tapped into the face of a computer. Everybody was doing it. The postal worker, the sewing machine lady, the ice cream teen. We were communicating! Yeah… maybe a little. There they were! The writer’s thoughts!...