Podcast

You Are A Weirdo with Doug Sofer

This quirky but professionally researched history podcast enjoys a 4.9 star rating on Apple Podcasts and it has cracked the top 5% podcasts worldwide according to ListenNotes.com.1That fact may well be due to the fact that everyone and their uncles’ best friends has at some point taken a stab at making a podcast and then abandoned them. But I’ll take it! You can find my show on all of the major podcast directories.

I created this shiny new podcast for many reasons. One is simply that I love audio entertainment. I lived frugally during grad school, but I would boost my spirits during those stressful years listening to radio shows like Car Talk and This American Life on KUT in Austin, Texas.2If those two shows had a baby who grew up to be a historian, that’s what I want my podcast to be someday. I decided to take a crack at podcasting myself at the end of 2022 as a way of supporting my book project. I’ve enjoyed the challenge of trying to convey academic topics while also attempting what some generous folks might call humor. Getting to learn some of the basics of audio engineering and buying cool gadgets3Not to mention gizmos and possibly some gewgaws. with dials and blinking lights was also part of the appeal. Lastly, I love having some kind of excuse to invent, play, record and screw around with music. I’m just an amateur but playing bass, guitar, and screwing around with midi instruments have been good for my soul.

Thanks for reading this far into my story, and thanks especially for listening!

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    That fact may well be due to the fact that everyone and their uncles’ best friends has at some point taken a stab at making a podcast and then abandoned them. But I’ll take it!
  • 2
    If those two shows had a baby who grew up to be a historian, that’s what I want my podcast to be someday.
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    Not to mention gizmos and possibly some gewgaws.