Thursday, August 27, 2015

Have you ever tried to create a podcast?  It has been one of the worst experiences of my life.
Well then you ask, why are you doing it?  The answer is because I wanted to be a cool uncle.
Or Grunkle.  Like Grunkle Stan from Gravity Falls.  Except I'm Grunkle Mark.
I don't see the resemblance as I am not a Mason and I can't grow the five o'clock shadow. Maybe a five day shadow.
So at the beach this year, I was talking to my nephew Gunter about soccer, one of his favorite topics, and after he schooled me on all his knowledge on stadia names, top scorers and other various bits of data, I decided that I a podcast might be entertaining and fun.  And since I had been dragging my feet on the Gentlemen of the Road Podcast with my good friend and frequent travel buddy, Mike Wigal, I thought this would be a great time to get off the schnide.  I was extremely wrong.
Let me see if I can adequately explain what I have so far had to do to try and publish this thing.
Record our voice track on Audacity, transfer audio track to i-movie to try to get it on you-tube, then get rejected by you tube because there was no video attached to the audio file, try to then publish the audio file to itunes, then have to create an RSS, and website for the RSS feed to house the file to create the itunes account.  This is horrible.  And I haven't even finished it yet.  Wish me luck.