Specific Area of Knowledge Award
Sep 24, 2014, 9:28 AM | Updated: 9:46 am
I’ve never heard Radiolab which I think is a podcasting sin. I’ll confess to some podcasting pope after I send this. Is there a patron saint of podcasting? Anyone know?
I think since I’ve never listened to Radiolab, it gave me more of a desire to listen to Jad on Tuesday’s show because I was just going to be listening to this guy that every other person in the planet adores and I was curious as to why.
Super interesting dude. For reals. Funny and bright to all, and a genius to some.
He tells a story in the interview about how he knew he didn’t fit into the sound composition world like he had originally planned. Time passed, he traveled down new avenues, and found himself actually doing composition again as part of his new gig. It was a super rewarding story for me to hear because that’s how I wound up doing what I’m doing.
I’ve always been a writer. I had a blog before blog was a word. I have several notebooks filled with awful, angsty depressed teenage poetry. I learned to play guitar for the sole reason of writing songs. Writing is just what I’ve always done. I never knew what I really wanted to do with this thing I loved, though. I can write fiction, but I don’t love it. I can write poetry, but I don’t have a clue what differentiates good poetry from bad poetry.
And then I had my kids.
Suddenly I had something to write about. And I have a never ending waterfall of material to draw from in order to entertain and encourage other people out there in the world with my silly mommy misadventures.
It’s funny how you can leave something behind, but in the end, that something will find you at just the right time when you’re at just the right place.
-toni hammer // whitestten@gmail.com // @realtonihammer