Thanks to those of you who wrote me about a name for our new Podcast, broadcasting in early April. Special thanks to Anitra Demirjian. (You can our trial broadcast at the end of this blog post below.)

She wrote this message: “I realized from listening to your podcast that I really do enjoy radio, reminds me of when my grandmother listened to her huge wood-cased radio in her living room. Even though you and Maria are not exactly like Burns and Allen, you could call the podcast something after the old  radio shows, like “Katz and Wulf!”

Maria and I loved that idea, and so did Chris Archibee, our wizardly and creative digital marketing consultant. So we’ve got our podcast title: “Katz and Wulf on Bedlam Farm.”

Thank you Anitra.

The name works for us.

We’ll be working with Mannix Marketing, my blog partner since the beginning. The podcast will be recorded weekly in 20 minute sessions. We probably will start with some music.

A podcast button will be inserted in every one of Maria’s blog posts and mine.  You will be able to access it any time, we will register it, of course, so people can find it. I’m not sure where it will be hosted, Mannix will figure that out.

The blog will focus on our lives on Bedlam Farm each week – our writing about art,  dogs and animals and spirituality and life, nature, goddesses,  the farm, and of course, us.

As so many of you kindly pointed out from the trial we put up yesterday, and below today  (a lot of rave reviews thanks), Maria and I have no trouble talking to one another.

We have plenty to talk about each day, let alone each week. A week is a thousand stories around here, and we will also talk about our connection to one another, creatively and personally.

I am wary of new projects – so many fail – but listening to our first test effort yesterday, we both began to get excited. I think this just might work. The podcast will be free, we hope to attract a few advertisers – podcasts are red-hot right now – and donations will be welcome.

The podcast will be registered so people can find it. At the moment, there will be no call-ins – that takes a lot of new equipment. We’ll try to work up to it. Details to come.

A number of you are asking me if this means the end of the radio show, and the honest answer is that I just don’t know. I don’t expect we can operate there forever, but the show is clicking now. Living in the now.

The fate of WBTMAM is not in my hands in any way. The station is struggling  and has no resources or functioning staff beyond Thomas.  It doesn’t have an FM transmitter and much of the equipment is older than I am.

It is a wonderful place for me to learn how to do this kind of broadcast, I love community radio. Thomas is killing himself to make it work.

Getting “Talking To Animals” broadcast has been a Herculean effort on the part of Thomas and me.  There is absolutely nothing supporting it but the blog.

I’m enjoying it and working hard at it, but I think the podcast will end up being my broadcasting future. Podcasts are easier to access than many radio stations, and simpler to create, although not simple. I will be forthright about what is happening on both ends.

I will be on the air on WBTNAM1370 Wednesday, March 27, one to 2:30 p.m. and for Wednesdays beyond.  Please call or e-mail me your questions: [email protected].

 

Audio: Maria and I Testing “Katz And Wulf On Bedlam Farm.” Here it is. Come and listen.