Podcast Study

Podcast One: Slate- The Cultural Gapfest

I found this podcast show rather serendipitously. In my search to find an Political Podcast that suited my taste, I stumbled upon this very intellectual pop culture show. One of the topics of the most recently released episodes discussed the Mad Men season primer. I'm a huge fan of the show, not because it has great drama plot lines and breath taking 50's era costumes. My favorite thing about the show which is discussed in detail in this podcast is the very real way the creators of the Mad Men showcase what culturally is going on in America at the time. In past seasons women's rights, gay rights and sexuality have all been in the for front and in the back drop of the 50's makes these very modern issues seem even more interesting and powerful to today's viewers. Many critics of the show have stated that Mad Men hasn't discussed African American civil rights issues, but with the show finally getting to the mid to late 60's and the civil rights movement finally in full swing, the show is now posed to tackle this historic period of time in American history. The podcast is very straight forward fitting the medium, there was very brief clips of the Prerimer on key moments but it wasn't to styled or heavily edited. In the beginning the host of the show's cell phone goes off which shows that even though very dense topics was discuses, this podcast is mostly about pop culture so I figured Slate and the host of the show wanted it be rather relaxed. 

Podcast 2: Real Men Real Style- History of Menswear
http://www.realmenrealstyle.com/history-and-menswear/

This rather no-frills podcast hosted by online blogger and marketer Antonio Centeno talked about the history of mens wear in this particular episode. Mr Centeno has made a career out of disusing men style and what is discussed most in this history lesson was the origins of many "rules" that men follow today when dressing themselves. Mr. Centeno and his guess are former military and they go on a great deal about how most staples of men's clothing are direct decedents from the military uniform. Citing the trench coat, racing stripes, and even the modern day suit it self as all decedents from the military uniform. I love how something as so mundane as the history of mens fashion, was full verbalized in a hour long audio show. The style of the podcast is a basic interview but you fell that Mr. Centeno and his guests really vibes off each other in shared experiences to showcase this very interesting history.


Podcast 3: Duck Tape Marketing: Interview with Gary Vaynerchuck
http://hw.libsyn.com/p/3/5/2/35256172edd723d0/DTM_GaryVaynerchuk.mp3?sid=3b32ea9fa1c9f884a40015d471055513&l_sid=18353&l_eid=&l_mid=1548966&expiration=1333034346&hwt=d6d1a0d89fd92861a9f59e9034601041

This rather popular Small Business blog/podcast in August 2009, featured one of my favorite business gurus Gary Vaynerchuck, The beginning of the podcast had a very professionally sounding introduction with the simple theme music. But from the start it hard not to notice the poor sound quality coming from Gary's microphone. The interview was very insightful in the careers of both men. But almost like a political stump speak the rhetoric was heard before, expectantly on the part of Mr. Vaynerchuck. All in all the interview was successful in portraying very cutting edge ideas going in Marketing i.e social media. But it was all heard before and there wasn't much changeling from the interviewer on these ideas.