Table of Contents

• The 7-Minute Rule

• 5 Random Questions with Danny Brown

• Brittany Grunig is on the Sound Off Podcast

• Best Thing I Listened To This Week

• Voice Over Work

The 7-Minute Rule

I recently bought a big-screen TV north of 75 inches. For a while, it did exactly what it was supposed to do — filled the room, made sports feel cinematic, and justified every square inch of wall space it occupies.

Then the Buffalo Bills had their annual “can’t believe it ended like that” game against the Broncos.

Since then, I’ve been scrolling. Searching. Hunting for something — anything — worth committing an evening to.

Before I sound like I’m overreacting, there have been bright spots.
Miracle: The Boys of ’80 was excellent. Elway delivered. I’m giving Turning Point: The Vietnam War a real chance. And I binged The Studio last week, which was outstanding — and made the news about Catherine O’Hara hit that much harder.

“But I just watched her last night.”

Still, the ratio is off. Too much time scrolling past mediocre acting, algorithm bait, and content that feels engineered for 12-second attention spans on Instagram and TikTok rather than actual viewing.

So I installed a household rule:

If I can’t find something to watch within seven minutes, I switch to a podcast.

Not the Netflix-style “podcasts” that are really just TV shows with microphones. If you’re watching those, you’ve reached the last page of Netflix and started clicking out of desperation.

I mean actual listening.

I read — or more likely heard — a line recently that stuck:
“I’d rather make the best podcast than the worst TV show.”

It’s now written on the whiteboard in my office.

Yes, video versions of many podcasts exist. And yes, you can watch them.
But try listening instead.

You’ll focus more. You’ll imagine more.
And odds are, you’ll come away happier than after 40 minutes of scrolling for something “good enough” to watch.

5 Random Questions with Danny Brown

I was a guest on 5 Random Questions with Danny Brown. I’ve always been worried that one day I would asked on this show. You can’t prepare for random questions. I won’t spoil it for anyone, but I did say I would not quit my job if I had $10 million dollars; and I still have trips to Asia and Africa on my bucketlist.

Brittany Grunig is on the Sound Off Podcast

Brittany Grunig, whose journey through Canadian country radio perfectly illustrates why one should bel bullish on radio’s future. Brittany shares how growing up in small-town Nova Scotia, studying marketing at Holland College, and stumbling into a radio internship led to gigs at Ocean 100, K-Rock, and CFCY, before a chance interview booking helped her leap to New Country 94 in Ottawa.

We talk about her rapid evolution from on-air host to Music Director and eventually Regional Program Director at Bell, navigating competitive markets, the infamous hit/non-hit regulations in Ottawa, and how she used creativity, artist relationships, and a passion for Canadian country to build compelling stations and shows.

Brittany then explains why she moved on from corporate radio, how motherhood reshaped her priorities, and why she’s now energized by working with My Broadcast Corporation in Kingston. Her optimism about fiercely local, community-first radio will make you rethink what’s possible for the next 10 years of audio.

Best Thing I Listened To This Week

Yes there are times I am listening to shows in advance of interviewing the host. Kristi Lee is the host of Canadian True Crime and just released her 200th episode. You will hear the full story about how she got started in podcast and what it took to make the show her full time job. I decided to listen to her coverage of the Jacob Hoggard rape trial from a few years back. Holy hell what an assh0le!! FTG!!! It’s enraging. I regret not being in radio long enough to have hit DELETE on all his music in a radio scheduling computer.

I completely understand if you want to pass this episode over because of the subject matter - but I am linking to all of Kristi’s episodes. Give one a try if you love true crime.

Don’t forget, I also host the Podcast Superfriends with my pals Jag in Detroit, Johnny Podcasts, Catherine O, and David Yas. This week we had Steve Stewart on the show to talk Podcast Editing.

Voiceover Info Here

I did some start up voice work for a station in the USA that has no completed their format flip - so I won’t go into detail about it. So if you are driving through Kentucky and you hear me - that’s me.