A few weeks back, almost on a whim, I announced that I’d be ending my first podcast, Comedy on Vinyl (comedyonvinyl.com), which I started over a decade ago, this November, after 400 or so episodes. A couple of not-so-great interview experiences left a bad taste in my mouth which, to be fair, had happened once before in the podcast’s history but, for a show that is supposed to be about something I love, I didn’t like feeling that way. It seemed like a good time to commit to ending it.
I can’t yet condense what the show means to me, or all of things I have learned by doing the show, or what it has given to me, but suffice it to say, it has been a massive part of my life for a decade, plus.
Simply knowing that there’s an end point has made the interviews I’ve been doing in the interim a little more meaningful. They are part of what I hope to be less of the show’s denouement, and more of the show ending on a high. If I’m honest, that’s why I’ve recorded my final episode already (it was also a scheduling thing) and it will be a high. I’ll keep doing the History of Firesign episodes with Phil Proctor and Taylor Jessen, as well as (I hope) the history of Python with Andre Jacquemin, but those are necessarily limited mini-series.
This is all to say that I hope you’re as excited about what I’m putting together as I am. While I don’t have any episodes like Finding Dick Davy coming, in terms of sheer effort needed to complete them, I have interviews and albums I’ve wanted to cover, and some people just want to come back and shoot the shit, which I love. Takes the pressure off.
- Jason Klamm
