Sometime in March I made the decision to go to the Podcast Show in London. It would definitely rupture my travel budget, but as my dad once said, “Budgets are made to be broken”. Also a few people have been encouraging me to go over the last year because of all the global business opportunities and general presentation of the show; including a podcast mentor and my business consultant. I’m glad I went.

What's Below

• Live on the Internet Today

• The Best Thing I Listened to This Week

• Rethinking Cancon

  • Voice Over Work

The Podcast Show was held in a huge hall called Business Design Center. The layout was far superior to other podcast events I have attended that find themselves spread out through hotel hallways. The sight lines and accessibility to Spotify, Amazon, BBC Studios, and everything tech, made it easy to navigate. Speaking of the tech, I wound up making a very expensive purchase for the home studio which I will share in a few weeks once it arrives. Given that I recently disclosed that I bought a new computer, overspent the travel budget and made another studio upgrade, means you will find me in the studio this summer.

Yes I did all the things you are supposed to do in London including, a return visit to the Tower of London (I was last there in 1981), Westminster Abbey, London Bridge, Fish & Chips with mushy peas, stopping in for a curry after a few pints and enjoying a true English breakfast.

Check out my LinkedIn Post to see many of the people I met.

It is tough to plan for an event you have not been to. I attended every meet up I was invited to and enjoyed a number of the sessions dedicated to marketing, and creating better sounding audio. There were LOTS of cameras available for purchase; which dove-tailed brilliantly with all the people telling new creators that they HAVE to do video for their podcast. (That’s untrue by the way) Everyone should be concentrating on making a great audio podcast first and then figure out your video. If you aren’t going to bother with audio, you are a YouTuber, not a podcaster. I’ll steal from this line from my friend Johnny Podcasts who equates video as a pair of socks. Your audio podcast are the shoes - the video are the socks. You don’t need to wear socks, but it’s nice if you do.

If you are looking for that one big podcast event of the year, tickets for the Podcast Show for 2026 are on sale soon.

Live on the Internet Today

Speaking of Johnny, he is a podcast Superfriend and appears with me today on the Podcast Suprerfriends. We have called in Podcast Hall of Famer Rob Greenlee to discuss “What is a Podcast in 2025?”. With so much hype around video and the pressures to create video content, we thought now would be a good time to get everyone’s head around this. Join us today at 5pm Eastern on my You Tube channel.

The Best Thing I Listened to This Week

I was a huge fan of Northern Exposure in the 90’s. I think I fell in love with it during the summer of 1990 when there was nothing else (new) on TV to watch. Most evenings in the Summer of 1990, I would be prepping to go in to do my all night radio show. What I saw was nothing like anything else on TV. The only other TV show I have loved since Northern Exposure has been The Sopranos.

Episode 1 of this podcast was really good. Episode 2 - not so much. It was poorly edited, (not edited at all actually) with a delay on Janine Turner that gave listeners the perception she was interrupting the guest. As a result, the comments section on Spotify was unkind to her. That’s on the producers - not Janine. Episode 3 is out tomorrow and I hope it will be better. While it wasn’t the best sounding show I listened to this week - it remains appointment listening for me.

Rethinking Cancon

On my show, the Sound Off Podcast - Steve Jones is the president of Stingray radio joins me to talk about the regulatory landscape in Canada. He has been posting on Linked In about all the small things about Canadian radio regulations that seem quirky, Canadian and cute.

Things like: Tate McCrae winning Canadian Single of the Year with the song "Exes” But according to the CRTC, the song isn't Canadian at all because it is co-written with two Americans.

Also what do the following songs all have in common? Pat Benatar – Hit Me with Your Best Shot, Lenny Kravitz American Woman, Heart What About Love, Rod Stewart, Rhythem of my Heart and Deuces are Wild From Aerosmith and My Way from Frank Sinatra? They are all considered Canadian songs… none of those artists are from Canada.

Meanwhile various songs by Justin Beiber, Tate McCrae, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams, Michael Bublé, Shawn Mendes, and others that are NOT designated Canadian because those artists collaborated with the best writers in the world.

Overall, we are still using the same methods to do this accounting since the early 1970’s.

These regulations are a lot like 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, the Home of the Prime Minister of Canada. No one has done any updating since Pierre Trudeau was in office – and now it has become inhabitable.

This conversation is not about how bad Canadian Content as public policy. Quite the Opposite. In 2015 Canadian artists made up 7 of the top 10 most popular artists on the Billboard charts for the year – however not all those artists had songs that were considered Canadian. This is about updating the regulations to account for the realities of 2025. What is best for Canadian artists, what is best for indigenous artists, what is best for radio who share a little more listening time with other platforms? And.. what Is best for the listeners? Because without them – there is no radio. Let me just pose the question to everyone. If we had to start this all over again – how could we do it?

Steve has worked in the Cayman Islands and in Boston for Entercom… I have the best conversations with Steve because … and this is hard to say: I think he loves radio and music more than I do. Listen to the FULL episode here.

Voiceover Info Here

I mentioned Up above that I made s big purchase. It is for the voiceover business but it is not a microphone. I bought a Rode NTG 3 back in 2023 at Podcast Movement. I’m not even sure I love it. If you want to buy it from me I’ll sell it to you for $600.