Arroe Collins Pod-Crashing

Pod-Crashing Episode 28: I listen to a lot of podcasts. I study their behavior. Not as in numbers but the way each episode infects or affects my extremely busy day. Being a Broadcaster locked up in a control room can be a lonely place. It’s no different than a banker, movie theater GM, computer programmer and so on. The modern business world has shaped itself into a cluster of several offices with...

Pod-Crashing: Episode 27 The Interview Maybe it’s because I come from a forty year terrestrial radio background or it’s the sound of my father’s voice, “Don’t be a know it all.” Getting guests for your podcast is a wise step in building your community of listeners. But it has to be the right show and episode. I would never bring in a third party on The Choice because the conversation shared is har...

Create The Echo Being on a podcast journey requires one simple digital platform acceptance: The moment you post... It no longer belongs to you. Which is usually how you can tell the difference between a terrestrial radio talent and someone that planted their first seed in the open fields of podcasting. Downloading your episodes is a huge feature because potential advertisers need to know those num...

Pod-Crashing Episode 25: The Seven Truths Of Podcasting This past week I was invited to break out of the studio and sit with future Broadcasters. The subject? Podcasting! The importance of investing your personal time and creative space to what’s quickly becoming a good sized puzzle piece in the world of content connection. Each lecture was four hours long. Oh yeah. When you call me to the stage w...

Heard someone say the other day, “The one thing that should always appear at the top of your podcast list is your ego.” I chuckled. Mainly because it’s the one tool in the box that’s gonna get you in and out of trouble. It’s going to be your biggest cheerleader and top notched judger. Somedays the ego’s not there or it shows up too strong. That’s the area of the ego the person wanted future podcas...

Probably because I’m a Broadcast instructor I see a lot of startups and huge letdowns. Yeah I’m the guy that proudly stands up front looking at all those rows of hardcore dreamers and says, “If you’re here to chase radio get started in the smallest town in your state. The big boys are already full with three million people are sitting impatiently on the waiting list. Or… You can start podcasting a...

Episode 22: When It Finally Sinks In When what finally sinks in? This! Well what is this? Right. Before 2012 I was all out radio. Not against podcasting. I was just radio. I mean a totally sick puppy that spent 12 to 15 hours a day writing and producing commercials while performing physical shows in several different markets. Part of the workday plan was to blog. The goal? Write about everything....

Episode 21: The Bridge I was reminded a few weeks back that podcasting has always been the underground of broadcasting. Meaning those doing it in the early days and somewhat today were and are anti-radio. They wanted no part in the big corporate decision making because most of them were ousted from the center of their dream career. I don’t know about others but from day one of my terrestrial radio...

Episode 20: Where Should I Put My Podcast Where and how you post your shows no longer comes with a huge dark cloud. Put away your fears and out of control wonders cuz the golden age of swapping thoughts in a box has reached a new level. For years I’ve called podcasting the undiscovered next big fad. The only people doing it were angry individuals seeking to be heard, comedians, actors, radio wanna...

Episode 19: Is It Really Podcasting? What is podcasting? When I was first led to its little known source of energy in 2012 it was extremely hard to find someone that listened. They’d heard of it but didn’t own an iPod so they didn’t listen. Today the term podcasting is being thrown all over the place. It’s acting like the new Disco. Hot, fresh, something knew and everybody seems to be doing it. Es...

Episode 18: What’s In The Name I’m extremely guilty of trying to come up with catchy names or titles for my podcasts and episodes. Unplugged and Totally Uncut, The Choice, View from the Writing Instrument and Pod-crashing to name a few. Weird way out there labels but nothing as cool as Marc Maron’s WTF, Discraceland, The Joe Rogan Experience or Crime Junkie. While thumbing through iHeart Radio’s p...

Episode 17: TMI This is gonna sound so 1990’s but in a way with so much change we can kinda still get away with it. How ya diggin the internet and all things connected? In so many ways it’s still making life easier while turning a lot of worlds upside down. Like the way we love, trust, shop and plan for an extremely unpredictable future with AI’s on the horizon. Speaking from the heart, the digita...

Pod-Crashing Episode 16: Know Why You Want To Do It Shaking hands with the future without getting a good look at who it is I’ve just met. That’s how I describe this lifestyle. If you aren’t prepared to let it consume your every thought and time schedule it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to start. I recently had this conversation with a well-known and highly respected movie critic who wasted no t...

Episode 15: Posting Times With so much attention being spent on delivering weekly episodes, podcasting has taken its first true step toward scheduled programming. Legendary talkers and performers might disagree saying they’ve been doing it for years. Which I won’t argue with until we bring in today’s newer shapes and shades of podcast listeners. It’s not about leaping over to iTunes to lap up a fe...

Episode 14: It Sounds Like A Podcast So many different types of people have dominated the presence of terrestrial radio. The two most common are the sound perfectionists and those who bring the performance no matter how messy the background. Podcasting’s totally rewritten the rules on what is or isn’t broadcast quality. I love it when Conan O’Brien sits in the back of an airplane and pulls off a l...

Episode 13: Podcast Stigmas Bill Burr was one of Conan O’Brian’s early guests on this newfangled thing called Podcasting. Conan was extremely interested in why Bill’s never put heavy duty focus on having guests on the show. Without a blink in the moment the reply was heard, “I don’t want to deal with people that call you up at the last minute asking to move the show to a different day.” Oh, I’ve b...

Episode 12: What Makes You Original On The Over Saturated Stage? You know what’s fun about doing this Pod-Crashing thing? It’s about being real. Having a generic attitude of community rather than burying yourself inside the four walls of a major conglomeration trying to dominate a ratings war. I’ve been there. Oh the stress. The endless amount of meetings that normally went nowhere except to agree...

Episode 11: When Will The Newness Wear Off? With iHeart Radio claiming to have 250,000 podcasts and Spotify announcing they want to be the Netflix of podcasting. The one time hidden away not always talked about rap sessions are quickly becoming a global fashion. When you talk to those labeled pioneers, they’ll tell you that even I was amazingly late getting into the groove. That was 2012. Back whe...

Episode Nine: How Real Is Too Real? I find myself laughing at how sterilized radio and television people continue to be inside this world of reality this and Big Brother that. Incredibly entertaining was Game of Thrones getting busted twice this season for not properly clearing the set of modern day water bottles and more. Some have said that was done on purpose because when the masters of the cra...

Does anybody really know what time it is? No matter how focused you feel as a writer, voice over talent, radio personality or every day average Joe, is there such a thing as Time within the scattered limits of a podcast? Time is a huge subject. In more ways than one! The time it takes to prep a show, to the time the PR department demands as to when the show will hit the air. What about the time re...

Ten Reasons Why People Stop Podcasting Four times a year I’m blessed with the opportunity to spend two weeks lecturing on the importance of not only creating but maintaining a solid podcast vision. Seems pretty easy right. Latch onto a USB microphone or four. Hook it up to lap top. Tap into Adobe Audition, Garage Band or utilize the free recording systems on Anchor.fm and Spreaker. Invite the frie...

Who Owns Your Podcast? The more popular podcasting gets and the more money that’s generated ownership of the show or shows is going to become a bigger issue. Not only on the digital server circuit but radio and television companies that are enforcing talent to begin a journey through this ever changing atmosphere of free talk. Which should be a serious eye opener for the talent. All of that planni...

I call it The Unlucky Seven Dark Spot… Seven seems to be the magical number that newcomer podcasters reach before they move onto something a little less time consuming. The first few shows everybody’s checking out your brand new vibe. The analytics are popping which makes you feel great about you create. By the time you get the gang back together for show number 8, someone’s got a new reason to sp...

I’m quite anxious about the future of podcasting as we grow closer to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. The majority of today’s Broadcast outlets are owned and operated by huge corporations controlling the world of news. Yeah, I said it. Radio and television are connected to ratings and those making the decisions and or consulting do all they can to keep the line of content communication focuse...

The one thing I’ve noticed since the inception of Podcast is the amazing amount of egos that drive this digital ship. Now I see why radio and television finally decided to hire program directors and consultants. When it comes to podcasting, everybody has their point of direction. I get that lets not rip down the house we’re trying to build by throwing people under the bus. The best way to get into...