3 Clips Podcast by Castos

It’s almost a meme at this point. A group of friends sitting around riffing say “this should be a podcast!.” Often those podcasts don’t work because they lack structure and a clear direction.

Dirt Cheap is NOT one of those podcasts. It’s funny, edgy and off the cuff but still manages to keep a basic structure that makes for an easy, entertaining listen. Husband and wife duo, Amanda Meadows and Geoffrey Golden teamed up with production studio Neon Hum to bring us this unique podcast. The premise is actually pretty simple. Geoffrey reads from a dime store novel called “Murder in the Glass Room” a baffling noir novel from the 1940’s, while Amanda reacts in real time (with plenty of commentary and bantering between the two hosts.) The result is a 22 episode story arc that will leave you laughing.

The pair chat with Evo about the importance of structure within a show, how they take they goofiness seriously, and in general, their creative process for making Dirt Cheap.

LEARN MORE ABOUT CASTOS

3 Clips is a Castos Original Series. Castos provides tools for public and private podcasts and believes podcasters should own their turf to provide the best possible audience experience. Visit castos.com

Inside the Episode

You can listen to all episodes of Dirt Cheap on Neon Hum’s website

You can follow Amanda Meadows on twitter @amandonium

To learn more about Geoffrey, check out his website

This episode was produced and edited by Stuart Barefoot @smallleaguestu

Music is by Tyler Litwin

About the Host 

Evo Terra has the dubious honor of releasing the 40th podcast… ever. Other notable podcasting elements from his past include authoring Podcasting For Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies, launching and running one of the first large podcast networks, building a successful strategic podcast consultancy, and is a celebrated keynote speaker on stages around the world. He’s also done a bunch of really, really weird stuff that Google still shows.

We’re a tad past the halfway point of season 2 so we figured it would be a good time to press pause and review three clips from episodes we featured on season 2…but not clips that were played on 3 Clips.

Evo and producer Stuart review three clips from Nice Try!, Bellwether and How to Start a War.

LEARN MORE ABOUT CASTOS

3 Clips is a Castos Original Series. Castos provides tools for public and private podcasts and believes podcasters should own their turf to provide the best possible audience experience. Visit castos.com

Inside the Episode

The three shows we pulled from clips from are

Nice Try!

Bellwether

How to Start a War

This episode was produced and edited by Stuart Barefoot @smallleaguestu

About the Host 

Evo Terra has the dubious honor of releasing the 40th podcast… ever. Other notable podcasting elements from his past include authoring Podcasting For Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies, launching and running one of the first large podcast networks, building a successful strategic podcast consultancy, and is a celebrated keynote speaker on stages around the world. He’s also done a bunch of really, really weird stuff that Google still shows.

All podcasts, regardless of their format, are a creative endeavor. But some podcasts are just more complex. Enter, Bellwether, the latest offering from award winning podcast and radio producer, Sam Greenspan.

Sam is the founding producer of 99 Percent Invisible and has a number of impressive credits to their name. The City from USA Today, the TED Radio Hour at NPR and Radiotopia’s Spacebridge to name a few. They’ve also lectured and taught radio and podcasting around the world. In November of 2021, Sam was hired as a Senior Producer at Vice Audio.

So when Bellwether was released, the podcasting world took notice. Bellwether was a five year effort from one of the most brilliant minds in podcasting. This five episode narrative weaves together both real world reporting (stories Sam personally covered) and a fictitious Sci-Fi story arc. Described by Sam as a “new podcast of speculative journalism” Bellwether examines what the world is through the lens of what it might become.

LEARN MORE ABOUT CASTOS

3 Clips is a Castos Original Series. Castos provides tools for public and private podcasts and believes podcasters should own their turf to provide the best possible audience experience. Visit castos.com

Inside the Episode

All five episodes of Bellwether can be found online at bellwether.show

Learn more about all the work Sam has done and continues to do at samgreenspan.org

This episode was produced by Stuart Barefoot @smallleaguestu

Music is by Tyler Litwin

About the Host 

Evo Terra has the dubious honor of releasing the 40th podcast… ever. Other notable podcasting elements from his past include authoring Podcasting For Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies, launching and running one of the first large podcast networks, building a successful strategic podcast consultancy, and is a celebrated keynote speaker on stages around the world. He’s also done a bunch of really, really weird stuff that Google still shows.

When’s the last time you listened to a madcap comedy podcast following the adventures of gallant scientists as they battle evil in Gilded Age New York? Welcome to the Land Whale Murders where things. Get. STRANGE.

The Land Whale Murders is a fast paced alternate history comedy in the spirit of Mel Brooks and Monty Python; a true delight for history nerds, science geeks, and anyone who ever wanted to stand up for what was right even when they were very bad at doing it. And in today’s discussion, Evo chats with Jonathan A. Goldberg about the challenges of adapting live theatre performances into permanent recordings.

Jonathan has written several podcast including Fall of the House of Sunshine and Radio Free Mushroom America. He also co-wrote Margaret’s Garden with Pacific Obadiah and wrote the first season of A Simple Herstory. He is also an internationally produced playwright with work seen across the country. Some works include: The Jew and the Demon (Rita and Burton Goldberg Prize), How to Shoot a Bull Moose (Israel Baron Award), Real Dead Ghosts (Jeffrey Mackey Award finalist), Sousepaw (Best of SF Fringe). He won the L Magazine Pocket Fiction Contest and has far too many cats. MFA Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.

LEARN MORE ABOUT CASTOS

3 Clips is a Castos Original Series. Castos provides tools for public and private podcasts and believes podcasters should own their turf to provide the best possible audience experience. Visit castos.com

Inside the Episode

The Land Whale Murders can be found at their website, https://www.landwhalepod.com/ or anywhere you get podcasts

You can learn more about Jonathan’s work at http://jonathanagoldberg.org/

This episode was produced by Stuart Barefoot and edited by Jude Brewer

Music was created by Jude Brewer

About the Host 

Evo Terra has the dubious honor of releasing the 40th podcast… ever. Other notable podcasting elements from his past include authoring Podcasting For Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies, launching and running one of the first large podcast networks, building a successful strategic podcast consultancy, and is a celebrated keynote speaker on stages around the world. He’s also done a bunch of really, really weird stuff that Google still shows.

Here’s a common story. The 2020 pandemic come along and it seriously altered someone’s plans. Here’s a less common story. A theater actor and producer can’t put on live shows any longer so she teams up with a playwright to create a one of a kind podcast experience. Well, that’s exactly what Jocelyn Kuritsky did. The result? A Simple Herstory

A Simple Herstory is described as a “a theatrical and high concept podcast series about the women who have run for President of the United States.” And it is quite theatrical indeed. 23 different actors (all women, by the way) connected via clean feed to create this comedy infused piece of audio drama based on real events.

Jocelyn produced the podcast through her company, The Muse Project and for this episode of 3 Clips, she joined Evo to discuss what it’s like to bring in an existing creative skillset into a different medium.

LEARN MORE ABOUT CASTOS

3 Clips is a Castos Original Series. Castos provides tools for public and private podcasts and believes podcasters should own their turf to provide the best possible audience experience. Visit castos.com

Inside the Episode

A Simple Herstory can be found at their website, asimplehersotry.com or anywhere you get podcasts

You can learn more about Jocelyn’s work at her website, jocelynkuritsky.com

This episode was produced by Stuart Barefoot @smallleaguestu

Music was created by Tyler Litwin

About the Host 

Evo Terra has the dubious honor of releasing the 40th podcast… ever. Other notable podcasting elements from his past include authoring Podcasting For Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies, launching and running one of the first large podcast networks, building a successful strategic podcast consultancy, and is a celebrated keynote speaker on stages around the world. He’s also done a bunch of really, really weird stuff that Google still shows.

It took Michael Trapani six years to make How to Start a War. From meticulous research, immersive sound design, impeccable narration and poignant story writing, Michael masterfully leveraged the audio medium for this series.

How to Start a War is a podcast about WW2. Most of us know how that story ended and that the Nazis lost. But the details of how it started, like the granular details, the conversations, the lies, betrayals…those aren’t as well known.

Michael recreates this story from the point of view from the Nazis (with the clear stipulation that they are on the shortlist for the worst people who ever lived.) Using transcripts he re-enacts conversations. With sound design he creates atmosphere. And with narration, he guides us through a complex story that as it turns out, is quite poignant in our current time.

LEARN MORE ABOUT CASTOS

3 Clips is a Castos Original Series. Castos provides tools for public and private podcasts and believes podcasters should own their turf to provide the best possible audience experience. Visit http://castos.com 

Inside the episode

How to Start a War can be found at howtostartawar.com

For behind the scenes information, pictures and more follow Michael on instagram at @howtostartwarpod

This episode was produced by Stuart Barefoot

Music is by Tyler Littwin

About the Host

Evo Terra has the dubious honor of releasing the 40th podcast… ever. Other notable podcasting elements from his past include authoring Podcasting For Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies, launching and running one of the first large podcast networks, building a successful strategic podcast consultancy, and is a celebrated keynote speaker on stages around the world. He’s also done a bunch of really, really weird stuff that Google still shows.

The new season of 3 Clips is here. Join Castos and Evo Terra as they explore what podcasting is and can be. This season features guests such as Avery Trufleman, Jonathan Goldberg and more.

The first episode is dropping on January 10

Radio theatre is defined as a dramatized performance — no visual, only dialogue and sounds to manifest images in the listeners’ minds, resulting in a uniquely psychological experience. This mode of storytelling began in the 1920s, flourishing by the 1940s, then evolving in the 21st century in the form of podcasts. And while Jude Brewer’s podcast Storybound falls into the category of radio theatre, it doesn’t quite sound like the rest of them.

Inside today’s episode, Jay and Jude discuss the collaboration between voice and music. Over the past four seasons, Storybound listeners have been treated to their favorite authors reading some of their most powerful writing, designed with immersive sound environments and experimental cross-genre music compositions handcrafted and arranged by creator and host Jude Brewer.

Jude is a writer, actor, and musician. He’s also the editor and sound designer for his own show Storybound. Most recently, Jude won First Place in the KCRW Radio Race, for which his piece “BUZZY” received critical acclaim. His weekly newsletter, How Long Must I Belong To This? is currently being developed into a show.

EXPLORE THE SHOW

Visit https://3clipspodcast.com for all episodes of the show. 

LEARN MORE ABOUT 3 CLIPS HOST JAY ACUNZO

Subscribe to his newsletter, explore his course for podcasters, or watch and listen to all of Jay’s shows and projects at http://jayacunzo.com 

LEARN MORE ABOUT CASTOS

3 Clips is a Castos Original Series. Castos provides tools for public and private podcasts and believes podcasters should own their turf to provide the best possible audience experience. Visit http://castos.com 

INSIDE THIS EPISODE: 

Storybound can be found at: https://thepodglomerate.com/shows/storybound/

Tweet at host Jude Brewer here: https://twitter.com/judebrewery

Follow 3 Clips host Jay Acunzo on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/jayacunzo/

This episode was produced by Jude Brewer. Learn more: www.judebrewer.com

Music provided by Tyler Littwin

Premise is everything when it comes to shaping a strong show. It allows the audience to understand immediately where they’re headed, which brings us to 2 Pages with MBS, a podcast where brilliant people read the best two pages of a favorite book…a book that has shaped them and changed them. Host Michael Bungay Stanier chats with authors, leaders, activists, academics, entrepreneurs, change agents, and celebrities as they dig into the ideas that matter the most.

Inside today’s episode, as timely as ever, Jay and MBS discuss tackling interviews from unconventional angles, challenging their guests to speak from the heart, and how to get straight to “the personal” as well as captivating ideas.

MBS has written books that have sold about a million copies all told, including The Coaching Habit, a self-published book that’s become the best-selling book on coaching this century. He founded a training and development company, Box of Crayons, that has taught coaching skills to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. And he’s been been named #1 Thought Leader in Coaching and a Coaching Guru.

EXPLORE THE SHOW

Visit https://3clipspodcast.com for all episodes of the show. 

LEARN MORE ABOUT 3 CLIPS HOST JAY ACUNZO

Subscribe to his newsletter, explore his course for podcasters, or watch and listen to all of Jay’s shows and projects at http://jayacunzo.com 

LEARN MORE ABOUT CASTOS

3 Clips is a Castos Original Series. Castos provides tools for public and private podcasts and believes podcasters should own their turf to provide the best possible audience experience. Visit http://castos.com 

INSIDE THIS EPISODE: 

2 Pages with MBS can be found at: https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast/

Tweet at host MBS here: https://twitter.com/mbs_works

Follow 3 Clips host Jay Acunzo on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/jayacunzo/

This episode was produced by Jude Brewer. Learn more: www.judebrewer.com

Music provided by Tyler Littwin