Five by Five (Original Podcast)
In the distant early days of podcasting (that is, 2005) I took advantage of the new medium’s complete lack of rules by making up my own. My new rules were very finicky and slightly absurd.
- Record myself talking for exactly five minutes. (To the thousandth of a second!)
- Leave the mistakes in.
- Mix it, according to a predefined structure, with four previous episodes.
- Repeat.
These rules, along with my mixing structure, guaranteed that everything I said would eventually come to the foreground of the mix, although I could never predict the context.
I continued making new episodes until 2008. Actually, I made a few after that, but they weren’t any good. Here are the first 58 episodes of the original podcast, now sorted first-to-last. Good speakers or headphones are recommended.
- Order at Key West, 2 Mar 2005
Order at Key West, What I Would Have Said, Hollywood Rewrites, Skin Cancer, Podcasting
- Truth in Fiction, 3 Mar 2005
Truth in Fiction, Order at Key West, What I Would Have Said, Hollywood Rewrites, Skin Cancer
- Pessoa on Having Slept Badly, 6 Mar 2005
Pessoa on Having Slept Badly, Truth in Fiction, Order at Key West, What I Would Have Said, Hollywood Rewrites
- Poincaré on Inertia, 7 Mar 2005
Poincaré on Inertia, Pessoa on Having Slept Badly, Truth in Fiction, Order at Key West, What I Would Have Said
- On Postponing the Big Reveal, 24 Apr 2005
On Postponing the Big Reveal, Poincaré on Inertia, Pessoa on Having Slept Badly, Truth in Fiction, Order at Key West