It happened again: you bossy people started axing about when new episodes of my fabulous podcast will be ready.

When I say "my fabulous podcast," I'm taking much more credit than I deserve. As I've said before around here, had it just been me, and me alone, then the thing would have been a bare, raw thing. It was Carl Franklin who took my voice and edited the holy sweet bejesus out of it. When that happened, and not before, the podcast became fabulous.

As a matter of fact, because of how extensively the thing's edited, I can listen to it as though I had nothing to do with it. It doesn't feel like I wrote the anecdotes. It's interesting for me because that makes me an outsider in some ways, and I actually laughed at my own jokes. Given my prodigious quantity of ego, that might sound disingenuous, but it isn't. I genuinely enjoy the damn thing myself, and not just because I wrote and read the content.

I listened to a few episodes while driving down to Portland this week (as I've moved back, and I'm the happiest of campers - also the busiest of campers, which is why I haven't been writing), and the show is really good. Granted, I'm just a touch biased, but... the show is really good.

To answer the question, then: soon. I'm going down to the studio with Felix on Sunday. There, he'll plant me inside an isolation booth so that we can get a clean recording. I would have been recording for the past few months, but the closest thing to an isolation booth that I have access to is my closet. My closet is terrible for recording because it's big, and the echo is intolerable. I tried recording in there once and lost my patience. I came right out of the closet and never looked back.

I'm going to try to record at least eight new episodes, which ought to last a couple months. After that, I'm going to promote the shit out of it. I wouldn't have felt right doing that before, but with the facilities to record new episodes on a regular basis available to me, I'll consider the test run over.

If you've never listened, then I command, order, urge, suggest, mention in passing, ask, or beg that you give it a shot. Carl's a smart one, and he'll find a way to monetize it if it gets popular enough. This would be good because anything I can get will allow me to write longer.

You have two ways of getting to the podcast:

1. Heading over to www.thesmartestman.com

2. Open iTunes, select the iTunes Store, and then searching for "Rory Blyth" - the podcast is called "Rory Blyth: The Smartest Man in the World"

My favorite episodes so far are:

1. The Reptoids are Coming

2. Leaving Microsoft: My Resume

3. Neopoleon County Blue Laws: Effective Immediately

You can only get to the first two through the show's site. They dropped off the iTunes list for some reason. I don't have anything to do with furnishing the iTunes library, so I don't know why that happened.

Also, if you don't know what blue laws are, then you probably won't enjoy the show about blue laws. It was fun to write, but probably only serves a limited audience.

Yep.

There are currently twenty-three episodes. Jason Olson told me once that the podcast is the way to experience Neopoleon. I don't agree, but I can see why he'd like it.

Those of you who don't like reading the longer posts should especially enjoy it, as you can just sit back and listen as I do all the hard reading work for you.

So... soon.

Soon, soon, soon.

Tah for the weekend :)