As I write this, there's a tropical depression somewhere in the Caribbean that all the spaghetti models -- those maps that show where storms are headed, based on various standards -- show as likely to hang a right turn, become a hurricane, and hit South Florida in the middle of the week, which happens to be when we were planning to go away for some sorely needed vacation.

Needless to say, we're not going after all.

I will be off work anyway, because even if I'm not going to be heading to Undisclosed Location, USA as planned, I need the break, and not just from work. I'm also vowing to stay away from social media, away from the news, away from everything that causes stress, other than hurricanes. If it raises blood pressure, I'm not going to engage with it.

Yeah, that's gonna happen.

What does your station's brand mean to your market? It's been part of radio's plan for years, the idea that as listening migrates to digital platforms, all you'll have to do is be available that way -- podcasts, streaming, smart speakers -- and you'll be set. The ...

Please stop calling it "quiet quitting." It's not quitting if you do exactly what you're being paid to do and not more. It's not quitting if you're disengaged from a job that doesn't engage you. What you're seeing called "quiet quitting" in countless news articles right ...

Here's some unsolicited advice: Get out of here. No, really, get out. Get out of the studio. I've written a lot throughout the pandemic about remote work, and a lot of you did your shows from your homes in that time. Podcasters mostly record at home. That is not what ...

I'm writing this in Dallas as Podcast Movement is wrapping up, and one of the thoughts I'm taking away from this event is that too many decisions are made without any real consideration of the kinds of questions you need to be asking before you do practically anything. ...

Let's say for the sake of argument that it all goes away tomorrow. Let's say for the sake of argument that the "radio is dead" people are even more correct than they think they are. Let's imagine that, suddenly, AM and FM are abruptly shut down, the spectrum returned ...

It's okay to admit that you don't know what the future will be for this business. Nobody does. (William Goldman's Hollywood aphorism "Nobody knows anything" applies.) Today's "future of audio" could be tomorrow's Quadrophonic, today's next big thing might turn into ...

What's it worth to be on a podcast? A lot, apparently, judging by the numbers thrown around in a widely-disseminated article this week by Bloomberg's Ashley Carman that examined how some podcasters are making a lot -- one is said to have earned $50,000 -- in appearance ...

At this writing, the Mega Millions jackpot is at something like a zillion dollars, and, naturally, despite the fact that you have practically zero chance at winning, you're thinking about what you'd do with the money. And, equally naturally, I saw some posts on social ...

Would people pay to see you work? I'll wait until you stop laughing. And then I'll point out that for years, some podcasters have been able to accomplish exactly that. They book theaters or clubs and do the show in front of their listeners. Some are successful ...