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I have just been listening (or at leat trying to listen) to First Crack 30. More Washboard, Less Cowbell, a podcast from Garrick Van Buren. I’m afraid I gave up.

I’d normally be the last one to complain about “production values", but this was recorded while driving, in a noisy vehicle, with the car stereo on in the background. The external noise really is intrusive. If ever there was a case for a noise-cancelling mic setup, this is it. Unfortunately, the content didn’t seem to offer any hooks to keep me interested either. The accompanying post seemed to promise some hilbilly washboard playing, but none was in evidence in the bit I listened to, just a somewhat choppy edit of repeated sections from some sort of anecdote.

Back when there were only a very small number of podcasts available, I might have soldiered on, but not this time.

Sorry Garrick.